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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1913 



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Plan of J. W. Reed's suburban home garden. Some fruit trees to be removed 



each tree, and the least desirable will 

 be removed. 



Many of the later set peach trees are 

 seedlings, grown from pits planted in the 

 garden, which were transplanted when one 

 year old and bore fruit the second year 

 after transplanting. 



As for quality, some of these seedling 

 trees bear the finest and highest flavored 

 fruit, superior in the opinion of many to 

 some widely known varieties. 



A hotbed has been in use each year, 

 sometimes of two sash and again of but a 

 single sash. The box or frame is of wood, 

 but some day we hope to have a masonry 

 bed, in which it will be possible to grow 

 some winter vegetables. 



All pruning is done very early in the 

 spring, before vegetation starts, but after 

 the hard frosts are over. The spraying 

 for scale is also done while the trees are 

 dormant. 



The grapes are summer pruned by cut- 

 ting off the tips of running canes; and 

 spraying is kept up through the spring and 

 early summer. 



All vegetables are planted in straight 

 rows by the aid of a line; and, so far as 

 possible, no vegetable is grown two succeed- 

 ing years in the same location. 



Vegetables which mature early, as peas 

 and string beans, are removed in time to 

 allow late tomato plants to take the place 

 they occupied. The strawberry bed is 

 turned under and the ground set to winter 

 cabbage; and as late as July io, every 

 vacant spot is planted to some variety of 

 extra early sweet corn. 



Experiments in varieties and in treat- 

 ment are continually being tried. In fact, 

 the garden is an experiment station on 

 a small scale. 



LAST SEASON'S WORK 



All spraying for scale and all pruning 

 was finished in February and March, while 

 vegetation was dormant. 



The hotbed was put in shape on February 

 22, and on March 4, seeds of radishes, 

 lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and 

 summer cabbage were sown. 



The radishes and lettuce from the bed 

 were large enough for use on April 15. 

 The radishes did not last long but there 

 was lettuce enough to last until June, 

 when lettuce sown in the open ground was 

 ready. 



The plants from the bed were trans- 

 planted after the middle of May. 



Frost lingered late in the ground, and it 

 was March 24, before any spading was 

 attempted. Peas were sown on March 29, 

 and the first for the table were picked the 

 second week in June. 



On April 6, early potatoes were planted, 

 and the first for use were dug July 15. 



Other garden vegetables were sown from 

 time to time as the season developed, 

 always having in view the object of secur- 

 ing a variety of the best vegetables as early 

 as possible in the season, and a succession 

 of peas, sweet corn, string beans, etc. 

 There were several failures of seed to grow 



