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March 
Nearly all pruning and spraying for bark insects 
should be done now. Prune your rose bushes the latter 
part of the month. Remove all weak and dead wood 
and cut back the strong shoots to four or five eyes. 
Sow in hotbeds all the vegetables mentioned in 
Planting Calender on third cover. Take care that 
your young eggplants are never stunted; give them 
air on fine days and keep the soil moist. Start a 
few sweet peas in paper pots to set out in April, and 
you will get some very early blooms. Be sure to sow 
your early cabbage, lettuce, onions, eggplants, pep- 
pers, and tomatoes this month at the very latest. 
If you do not have a hotbed, these seeds may be 
sown in coldframes. Most of the annual flower seeds, 
except those that cannot be transplanted, can be 
sown in the coldframe for early flowering. Make an- 
other sowing of them outdoors in May. Sow sweet 
peas outdoors as soon as the ground is ready. Follow 
directions on page 52. 
Reseed, top dress, fertilize and roll the lawn as 
soon as the frost is out of the ground. (See pages 3 
and 93.) 
April 
April is the important month in the garden, as 
most of the work will have to be done now. Consult 
carefully the planting calendar on the back cover of 
this catalog for varieties of vegetables to be sown 
outdoors. If you have not already done so, give your 
lawn a top dressing of bone-meal or sheep manure. 
Sow grass seed in bare and thin spots and roll your 
lawn thoroughly. New lawns are best made in the 
early part of the month, when the soil is moist and 
cool. (See page 3.) Remove all the winter cov- 
ering from rose and strawberry beds. If you have 
used salt hay on your strawberry beds, just 
uncover the plants and leave the mulch between 
the rows — it will keep the soil moist and the 
berries clean. Asparagus beds should be forked 
over lightly; some manure should be dug in. 
Manure and lime your garden where needed. Sow 
your garden peas and sweet peas just as soon as the 
frost leaves the ground. Read carefully what we 
say on page 27. 
Try our Long-Season Collection and follow 
directions carefully. It is the only way you can have 
peas continuously through the summer. Sow beets, 
carrots, spinach, radishes and all the hardy vege- 
tables in the early part of the month, and make 
successive plantings at intervals of two to three 
weeks. Full directions are given under each 
heading in this catalog. Kitchen herbs, such as 
parsley, sage, thyme, marjoram, and chives, etc., 
give zest and relish to dishes that have little indi- 
vidual flavor of their own. Plan an herb border. 
(See page 19.) 
Plant potatoes and set out plants of cabbage, 
cauliflower, early lettuce, and onion. Plant onion sets 
and also all the hardy flowers. Rose bushes, fruit 
trees, berry-bushes, and all nursery stock are best 
planted in April. Pansies forget-me-nots, and 
English daisies can now be bedded out. The 
first gladiolus bulbs should be set out the latter 
part of the month, and later plantings should be 
made every two to three weeks, until July, in 
order to have flowers until frost. In jthe cold- 
frame, transplant all seedlings where necessary lo 
get stocky plants. Sow there seeds of all your favor- 
ite annual flowers. In the orchard and on the lawn, 
loosen the soil around the trees and shrubs and 
dig in some fertilizer. Wood ashes are excellent for 
either fruit or shade trees. (See page 93.) 
May 
Consult our planting calendar for this month on 
back of cover. Sow string beans and beans for bak- 
ing, sweet corn, cucumbers, melons, squashes in early 
May, and make successive sowings at intervals. 
Make other sowings of crops planted in April; thin 
out plants as they get large enough to allow for proper 
development. Start a few lima beans in pots or cold- 
frame in early May. Set out tomato, pepper and egg- 
plants as soon as all danger of frost is past. Plant 
lima beans when the ground is dry and warm, in- 
serting seed edgewise, with the eye down. Give 
support to peas and sweet peas as soon as they are 
from 3 to 4 inches high. 
An application of Nitro-Fertile at this time will 
assure good growth and largest flowers. It is the 
quickest stimulant we have. Watch carefully for 
insects on all plants. Prevent the cutworm from 
eating your young plants by the use of Cutworm 
Food. Dust cabbage and cauliflower with Slug Shot 
for the cabbage worm. Spray with Bordeaux for 
blight. Dust Hellebore powder on currants and 
gooseberries. Spray fruit trees with Bordo Lead as 
the blossoms fall. 
May is the month for sowing all the annual flowers 
outdoors. Do not forget to include hunnemannia and 
our new hybrid poppies, the flowers of which will last 
a week in water, when cut. (See pages 45 and 49.) 
Transplant all seedlings of flowers raised in hotbeds, 
coldframes, and greenhouses and set out geranium 
and other bedding plants. Plant dahlia, lily, gladiolus, 
and all the best summer-flowering bulbs. (See 
pages 69-79.) 
Cultivate regularly and occasionally apply ferti- 
lizer as a top dressing in between rows and hoe in. 
(See page 80.) Seed of late cabbage, cauliflower, 
brussels sprouts, kale, rutabaga, and fall turnips 
should be sown at the end of the month for fall and 
winter crops. 
June 
Make successive sowings of sweet corn, beans, car- 
rots, beets, and other vegetables mentioned in plant- 
ing calendar for June. (See back cover.) Continue 
planting out seedlings of annual flowers; plant more 
gladioli and dahlias. Make every spot in your garden 
produce two crops. Replant as soon as one crop is 
over. Set out celery plants for fall use. Cultivate 
rose-beds and spray with Black-Leaf 40 to destroy 
the aphis. Spray potatoes, squash, cucumbers, 
melons, etc., with Bordo Lead. (Sec page 92.) 
Sow seed of all the hardy flowers this month, and 
you will be certain of large plants which will stand 
the winter and bloom profusely next season. Culti- 
vate thoroughly. 
July 
Sow sweet corn for late crop; Golden Bantam can 
be sown up to July 10, for use in late September and 
October. Make successive sowings of bush beans, 
carrots, beets, etc. (See planting calendar for July 
on third page of cover.) Set out celery, kale, cabbage, 
cauliflower, brussels sprouts, and rutabaga plants 
for fall and winter use. 
Old, wornout strawberry beds should be dug up 
and new plants set out. Use pot-grown plants which 
will bear a full crop next season; we have them in 
the best varieties. 
Cease cutting asparagus and allow the plants to 
grow so as to strengthen the crowns. Keep the beds 
free from weeds. Cultivate the garden religious 1 }'. 
Sow seed of all hardy flowers for next year's blooming. 
