THE PLANTER’S GUIDE 
Containing a monthly caiendar of operations and some useful tables, arranged to help the gardener or 
farmer in sowing seeds or setting out of plants from February to October in the lat:tude of Washington. 
FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL a MAY “i 
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Sow in Hotbed Sow Sete Sow in Hotbed panichOre 
Early Beans | war!) Beets | Cucumber Beans, Bush 
Broccoli Baecels Beeplang and Runnin 
Early Cabbage| ~ sprouts Melon Beets = 
Forcing Carrot Early Cabbage Pepper Brussels 
Early Celery Forcing Carrot WOES Sprouts 
Gocue Cauliflower Open Ground | Carrot 
Early Lettuce aan Asparagus Cae 
Parsley Kent Rabi English Beans Sweet Corn 
Pepper Lettuce Beets Cress 
Radish Parsley Brussels Cucumber 
Tomato Pepper Sprouts Kohl Rabi 
Retich Early Cabbage | Leek 
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Recon Carrot Lettuce 
Pl Perea canuitowes 4 Melon 
p elery nion 
TRY OUR Beans, B. Cress Parsley 
Windsor Kohl Rabi Parsnip 
STONE Beets Pet tce peas 
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romaTo [fet | Gren, | Potatoes 
FOR Onion Parsnip Radish 
Peas Peas Salsify 
CANNING Potatoes yore toes Spinach 
Spinach adie Early Turnip 
Early Turnip 
Spinach 
Early Turnip 
JUNE JULY AUGUST |SEPTEMBER 
Open Ground | Open Ground Open Ground | Open Ground 
Beans, Lima &| Beans Beans, Bush |Cabbage for 
all other sorts] Beets Tuberous Coldframes 
Beets c Chervil Cauliflower for 
Broccoli arrot Corn Salad Tul 4frames 
Brussels Sweet Corn Cucumber Tuberous 
Sprouts ‘Corn Salad Endive Chervil 
Late Cabbage Giese Lettuce Corn Salad 
Carrot nC Welsh Oni Cress 
Cauliflower | Cucumber en 5 0” \Siberian Kale 
Sweet Corn Gherkin Early Peas |ettuce 
ences a Kale Radish Mustard 
ucumbe : a - 
Endive KohieRabi Spinach Synth Radish 
Kale Lettuce Turnip Turnip 
Kohl Rabi , Rutabaga Sweet Peas 
Lettuce Nasturtium 
Melon : = 
Nasturtium Okra 
Okra Early Peas 
Early Peas P ki WE SUGGFST 
Botatoes Schur A TRIAL OF OUR 
Pumpkin Radish 
Radish : CHINESE CABBAGE 
Salsify Spinach 
Spinach Squash AND 
paueen SWISS CHARD 
| White Turnip 
SPRAY CALENDAR AND FORMULAS 
BITING INSECTS.—Such as Asparagus Beetles, Bean Leaf 
Beetles, Spring Canker Worms, Caterpillar Codling, Moth, 
Curculio, Cherry Fruit Fly, Currant Worms, Locusts, Grass- 
hoppers, are best controlled by spraying with either Arsen- 
ate of Lead at rate of 1 lb. to 50 gallons of water, or dust 
with Bug Death. We also recommend Tuber Tonic for the 
destruction of DPotato Bugs and Tomato Worms. Paris 
Green in mixture with dry Arsenate of Lead or with Hy- 
drated Lime is also an effective remedy for Potato Bugs 
and Tomato Worms. 
SUCKING INSECTS—Fish Oil Soap sprayed 20 to 25 parts 
water is effective on Aphis, some Scale Insects, Cabbage 
Flea Beetles, Chinch Bugs, Bark Lice. Lemon Oil Insecti- 
cide is also effective used on flower plants. 
ANTS—Make holes by driving a stake down 6 inches 
deep, then pour in about a tablespoonful of Bisulphide of 
Carbon. Ants on rose bushes and chrysanthemums are not 
doing any harm to the plant. They are usually going after 
Aphis, which they milk. The Aphis should be destroyed. 
We also recommend Ant-I-Cide for destroying ants on lawns 
and walks. 
APPLE—San Jose Scale, Oyster Shell Scale—Use Lime- 
Sulphur Solution, 1 gallon to 10 gallons of water, in the 
fall or winter, preferably in the fall; if badly infested, 
apply twice. Apple Scab, Bud Moth, Curculio and Canker 
Worm—Spray with Lime-Sulphur, 1 gallon to 40 gallons of 
water, and add 2 to 3 pounds of Arsenate of Lead to each 
50 gallons. Apply when the color shows in the bloom, but 
before the bloom opens. For Codling Moth spray just after 
the bloom has fallen with Lime-Sulphur, 1 gallon to 40 
gallons of water, and add 2 pounds of Arsenate of Lead to 
each 50 gallons. The worms enter the apple at the blos- 
som end and each cup must be filled with spray. Do the 
work thoroughly. Spray again in 40 to 50 days for the sec- 
ond brood of Codling Moths, which appear at this time. If 
Bitter Rot or Black Rot should show in the orchard, spray 
with Lime-Sulphur, 1 pound in 50 gallons of water. 
BLACKBERRIES—Anthracnose and Rust. Cut out and 
burn any diseased canes. Spray with Lime-Sulphur, 1 to 
40, or with Insecto (Bordeaux-Arsenate). 
CHERRY—Forbes or Cherry Scale—Spray with Lime-Sul- 
phur in the fall and winter. For Brown Rot spray with 
Lime-Sulphur, 1 gallon to 40 gallons of water, and add 2 to 
3 pounds of Arsenate of Lead to poison the Curculios. Spray 
again about 10 days after the fruit has set. Slugs often eat 
the surface of the leaves early in June; spray the trees with 
Black Leaf Forty or Arsenate of Lead. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM—Aphis—Use Tobacco Dust or spray 
with Black Leaf Forty. For Blight use Bordeaux. 
CURRANT—Leaf-blight—Apply Sulphate of Copper Solu- 
tion when injury first appears. After fruit is harvested ap- 
ply Bordeaux Mixture. Green Current Worm—Use Arsenate 
of Lead. Borers—Cut out and burn infested stems early in 
the spring. 
GOOSEBERRY—Mildew—Before buds break, Bordeaux 
Mixture. For Worms, dust with Arsenate of Lead or Bug 
Death. 
GRAPES—In the spring gather and burn all dead wood 
and dried fruit of the previous season. Spray with Bor- 
deaux Mixture as the buds are swelling. About 10 days 
later spray with Bordeaux. Spray again after the fruit has 
set and every two weeks until fruit is nearly full grown. 
MAPLE—Caterpillars—Collect and burn egg rings in fall 
and winter. If practical, spray Arsenate of Lead after first 
leaves appear. Borers—Insert wire in hole and kill, or in- 
ject Bisulphide of Carbon in the hole and close with putty 
or sticky clay. Band the trees with Tree Tanglefoot. 
HARDY SHRUBS—Where affected with Blight, use Bor- 
deaux Mixture two or three times in the spring. For 
Leaf-eating insects, Bordeaux Lead. Scale—Lime-Sulphur 
Solution in fall or winter. 
ONION--Maggot—Destroy the young plants affected as 
soon as noticed, digging up maggots with the roots. Use 
Fish Oil Soap in dilution over plants. 
PEACH, APRICOT AND PLUM—For Peach-leaf Curl 
spray in the spring before the buds open with Lime-Sul- 
phur 1 gallon to 15 gallons of water. For Brown Rot and 
Peach Scab spray with 1 gallon of Lime-Sulphur to 75 gal- 
lons. Spray before bloom opens and again about 10 days 
after it has fallen. Spray again 30 days with the Lime- 
Sulphur 1 to 75. 
PEAR BLIGHT—Cut out and burn all affected branches 6 
inches below blighted part. For Pear Scab and Codling 
Moth spray as recommended for the apple. 
QUINCE—If twigs blight, cut out and burn all those af- 
fected. Spray with Lime-Sulphur and Arsenate of Lead as 
for apple after bloom has fallen. 
ROSES-—Leaf-curl and Blight—Bordo Lead, apply twice. 
For Green-fly or Aphis, Arsenate of Lead: before the buds 
form; afterward, Lemon Oil Insecticide or Black Leaf 
Forty. For Slugs, Arsenate of Lead. 
STRAWBERRIES—Leaf-blight. Mildew—When growth 
begins in spring, Bordo Lead. When first fruits are-set, 
repeat. After fruit is harvested, repeat every two weeks. 
TOMATO—Leaf-blight—As soon as disease is discovered, 
Insecto; repeat every week: or 10 days. Rot—Train the 
vines, giving as much sunlight as possible. Sow seed at 
different times, so as to have two or three plantings. Pick 
infected fruit. 
SAN JOSE SCALE—They ‘can be controlled by spraying 
Lime-Sulphur Solution in the fall, winter and early spring 
months while the tree is dormant, 1 gallon to 10 gallons 
water, and it is best to spray twice. In the summer this 
strong solution cannot be used on account of the injury to 
foliage and fruit, but even weaker’solution, 1 gallon to 30 
or 40 gallons of water, seems to have’ beneficial effect. 
SHADE TREES—For Scale Insects spray in fall or win- 
ter with Lime-Sulphur and Bordeaux-Arsenate. For leaf- 
eating caterpillars use Arsenate of Lead. For Borers use a 
wire and pole through burrows, or pour Bisulphide of Car- 
bon in the hole and stop up with mud or putty to keep in 
the fumes. 
