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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1913 



Letters to Unknown Friends 



By Lyman Abbott 



Author of "The Great Companion" "Christian 

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What Southern Gardeners 

 Should Do Now 



PLANT nasturtiums or other annuals in the 

 bulb beds. 



Continue to sow collard seeds; get the improved 

 short stem white heading sort. 



White potatoes may be planted after oats, sweet 

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Continue to plant pumpkins and winter squash. 



Very fine carinas, dahlias, and chrysanthemums 

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This is the month for budding fruit trees. On 

 page 24, Volume VI., The Garden Magazine, 

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Early melons will begin to ripen during this 

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 or five feet high, will usually frighten them away. 

 Melons for late crop may be planted now. 



Keep the flowers picked off the plants so as to 

 insure a continuous display during the summer. 



Plant more gladiolus; by planting once a month 

 until August they can be had in flower until frost. 



It is important that the garden be frequently 

 cultivated during June and July so that weeds and 

 grass will not become established in places where 

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Lilies and peonies should be through flowering 

 now; marigold seed may be sown among them. 



Georgia. Thomas J. Steed. 



New Rose Bushes From Slips 



I HAVE read and heard much about sand afford- 

 ing the best conditions for starting rose slips, 

 and in The Garden Magazine I have also read 

 that roses like a clayey soil. I had always wanted 

 to try an experiment with rose slips, so two years 

 ago as sand was not available, I selected a semi- 

 shaded place in my garden, where there was more 

 clay than anything else, north of the baseboard of 

 an east and west chicken wire fence. 



On the 17th of June, after a rainy day, I cut slips 

 from an American Beauty, Pink Killarney and 

 Baltimore Belle climbing roses. I selected flower- 

 ing stalks that had three or four leaves or side 

 branches. I made a clean cut at the top above a 

 leaf bud, left one bud at about the middle of the 

 stalk, and then made another clean cut just below 

 a third bud at the bottom. (On taking up some of 

 the sprouted roses the following May, I found the 

 rootlets had sprung from the bud place at the 

 bottom.) I trimmed off all the leaves and side 

 branches leaving one green leaf at the very top. 

 As long as this remained green, there was hope of 

 rootlets and new leaf buds sprouting. 



Some of these slips I grouped by twos or threes 

 when I stuck them into the ground about four 

 inches north of that baseboard, which kept the 

 stalks in the cool shadow of the board while the 

 rootlets got the warmth of the soil through the 

 ground on my neighbor's side of the garden. All 

 this was done in June, some time after the old 

 roses' blossomed. The plants had an occasional 

 stirring of the top soil about them, enough water 

 to quench their thirst, and mulching in July and 

 August. 



I did not move the new rose bushes until the 

 following year, some in May and some in September, 

 according to the places I could get ready for them. 

 The first winter's protection consisted of manure 

 just about the base of the bushes; then on each 

 side of the short row I placed brush so that it reached 

 above the top of the roses. On top of all that I 

 . put a good sized piece of old Brussels carpet. I 

 found that the brush afforded a good circulation 

 of air all winter, and the carpet shed the excess 

 moisture, and also the following spring was a pro- 

 tection from the hot rays of the sun until about 

 the middle of April, when it was safe to remove the 

 carpet without any danger to the young plants. 



In removing the brush there was not the danger 

 of breaking the spring growth as when straw is 

 heaped about the roses. 



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