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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1913 



The Greening 



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Planting Outdoors 



CONTINUE to plant outdoors all kinds of 

 annuals. 



It is a good plan to try to interest the children in 

 gardening and poultry raising. If every town 

 would make up a fund and offer money prizes for 

 the best flowers and vegetables grown by children, 

 and have a show, something like the poultry shows, 

 this would tend to interest them. 



Every farmer should have his name placed on his 

 State Experiment Station's mailing list so as to 

 receive all its free bulletins. Remember the 

 station is of no benefit to you unless you receive and 

 read its bulletins. 



Transplant sweet potatoes now. Use plants 

 with long roots and put them deep in the soil, pre- 

 viously made fine and loose, most especially if it is a 

 red clay soil, which is best suited for sweet potatoes. 

 Remember, also, that sweet potatoes require a fer- 

 tilizer rich in potash. 



Late in the month is a good time to thin early 

 fruit, where it is necessary to thin in order to get 

 larger specimens. 



Plant watermelons for the main crop during the 

 month. Look out for the black squash bug on 

 early melons. 



Remember that frequent cultivation promotes 

 rapid growth and will make all vegetable and flower 

 crops earlier. 



Keep the pods picked off the garden pea vines; 

 if they are allowed to make seed their fruiting period 

 will be a short one. The same can be said of many 

 flowers, and especially sweet peas, pansies, and 

 nasturtiums. 



Another planting of sweet peas should be made 

 now and one of nasturtiums later in the month. 

 Pansy plants may be set out now, but it is almost 

 too late to sow the seed. 



Georgia. Thomas J. Steed. 



The Persimmon in Our Fruit 

 Gardens 



WE SHOULD not be content with ennobling 

 our gardens from the importations of the 

 Department of Agriculture. A little cooperation 

 will enable us to find in our native woods a good 

 many things worthy of development. A few years 

 ago, after tasting the persimmons of Missouri, I 

 undertook their culture in New York State, and 

 with the help of Mr. Lyon of the Missouri Horti- 

 cultural Society I found it not difficult to make a 

 selection of the best sorts that were perfectly hardy 

 as far north as Canada. The native persimmon is 

 a good garden tree, deserving and filling a place 

 wherever the plum will grow. It is hardier and 

 cleaner than the Japanese sorts, and if the fruit is 

 not as large, it is richer, and the tree bears abun- 

 dantly. Among my first cions I was fortunate in 

 securing a variety that is now known- as Josephine, 

 and the Josephine grafts give me annually great 

 loads of golden fruits, ripe all the way from October 

 i st to midwinter. 



The Josephine persimmon is about two inches in 

 diameter, not over seedy, but more so than some 

 other varieties that I have tested. It is very ad- 

 hesive to the tree, and after two or three heavy freez- 

 ings, can still be picked in December or January, 

 and will still be found to be delicious eating. Per- 

 simmon leaves drop early, and the fruit will show 

 its superb color even after the snow is on the 

 ground. However, I would pick the fruit after a 



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