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Directions as to time given in these columns apply generally to the latitude of New York as a standard. Except where spe- 
cifically otherwise mentioned allow a difference of about a week earlier or later for each hundred miles south or north, as the case may be 
'EVER before have 
June-made gardens 
held such alluring 
promises of being 
highly profitable. Never be- 
fore have late comers among 
home gardeners been confronted by such possi- 
bilities as this year. And, perhaps, never again 
will gardens mean as much to this nation, col- 
lectively, or to the individual, as the gardens 
created in June, 1917. Gardens that were 
started weeks ago can still be made to yield 
bigger crops by cultivating them with higher 
ideals and greater enthusiasm. 
Putting the June Garden on a War Basis 
June gardening efforts are of two kinds: 
(1) The work to be done in the newly started 
garden. (2) Plans for the utilization of garden 
space so that every row bears two or three 
crops where only one grew before. 
Nearly all vegetables that were sown or 
planted in April or May can equally well be 
planted also in June with the assurance that 
they will bear crops before frost. Exceptions 
are the very early short season crops, such as 
peas among which there are no varieties adapt- 
able to the hot, dry months of the year. This 
does not mean that you could not grow peas 
during July or August. But they cannot 
be considered a profitable crop then. 
Induce quick germination of seeds by every 
known method. Specific recommendation 
of this is made, later on, wherever practical. 
But always remember that, where seeds are 
“coaxed” to sprout quickly by abnormal 
methods, special care must be taken to plant 
them in a well prepared seed-bed so that the 
baby plants may thrive without any set back. 
Getting Uninterrupted Supplies 
Make repeated sowings of such vegetables 
as you particularly like. Classes and kinds 
that will do well during the hot, dry summer 
month and will mature before frost from seeds 
sown throughout June are: 
Beans. 1 wo fifteen foot rows per week 
of such early sorts as Bountiful, Stringless and 
Full Measure among the green podded; 
New Kidney, Wax, Brittle Wax and Sure 
Crop Wax among the yellow podded sorts 
will provide enough young beans for a family 
of five between August 1st and the middle of 
September. 
Beets. Make repeated sowings of large, 
late sorts for winter storage. 
Carrots. Handle in the same manner as 
beets. 
Corn. Sow 2-fifteen foot rows of early sorts 
like Peep O’Day, Early Mayflower, Poca- 
hontas, Golden Bantam, every week up to July 
4th, when the last sowings should be made. 
Lettuce. Sow midseason Butterhead, like 
All Seasons and Crisphead Iceberg throughout 
this month. 
Radishes. Select summer sorts like Long 
White Vienna, Chartiers and White Delicious. 
Keeping the Garden Busy All Summer 
The June garden holds a two-fold duty for 
the early starter: (1) To provide fall crops by 
They Also Serve: 
l]J Who plant or cause to be 
planted garden crops to build 
up the world’s food supply. 
Ifl Who spray an orchard tree 
and thereby save its fruit crop. 
If Who turn to practical use, 
unplanted and therefore 
wasted acres and so help to 
feed the hungry world. 
<J Who will, with their own 
hands, plant, care for, and har- 
vest the crops of the garden 
and field, releasing others 
who are needed elsewhere to 
serve their country’s cause. 
tfl Who save from waste, day- 
by-day in canning left-overs 
from the table, as well as dry- 
ing and canning fresh crops. 
replanting rows of extra early vegetables 
now on the decline. (2) To make repeated 
sowings of those vegetables which are essen- 
tial for a table supply of fresh vegetables 
throughout summer and fall. 
Rows that may be exhausted and thus 
be ready for replanting to second crop may 
be early beets, lettuce, onions from sets, 
radishes and spinach, also possibly smooth- 
seeded peas. In mapping out a programme 
how to use these rows from now on, keep in 
mind not to follow one crop with another crop 
of similar nature. 
Do not follow beets with 
radishes or carrots, nor vice- 
versa. But plant 
Midsummer lettuce or endive 
to follow early beets. 
Bush beans to follow radishes. 
Beets or celery to follow let- 
tuce. 
Lettuce or beans to follow onions. 
Kale, kohlrabi or cucumbers to follow peas. 
By choosing extra early kinds of the follow- 
up crop, the rows frequently become available 
for a third crop early in August. This is the 
highest efficiency in the garden, and greatly 
increases the value of the product. 
Next Winter’s Vegetables That Don’t Have to 
Be Stored 
fJERE are a few vegetables that are very 
"*■ profitable to grow for winter use, be- 
cause they do not have to be stored. Parsnips 
and salsify planted now in good soil will make 
roots of good size before freezing weather, 
can be left out all winter, and will be much bet- 
ter in the spring than if they had been sown 
six weeks earlier. Brussels sprouts do not 
produce a big yield in proportion to the space 
occupied, but if you sow a packet of seed now, 
you can transplant the plants later, sticking 
them in wherever there is space, and they will 
weather it until Christmas with no protection 
whatever, giving a delicious vegetable after 
the garden is frozen up. And don’t forget 
kale; start the plants now, transplant later, 
and you can go out and cut “greens” from 
under the snow next winter. 
Root Crops for big Values 
you can grow three rows of carrots or 
beets, and two of winter turnips or 
rutabagas, where you can one of potatoes. 
Moreover, you can get a crop of summer 
vegetables off the ground first. All of these 
things can be used to take the place of potatoes 
next winter to a very large extent. 
Begin now, and plant all the space you can 
spare for the next two weeks to carrots — 
twelve to fifteen inches is enough to allow for 
each row. For the two weeks following, plant 
beets, the same way — a row at a time, wher- 
ever you can find room. Follow the beets 
with turnips or rutabagas in July. This 
will make not only the work of planting, but 
that of thinning and first weeding, be spread 
out so that you can attend to it much better 
than if it all came in a bunch, from one big 
planting. And next winter you will have a 
supply of “roots” that will make you smile 
when you think how few potatoes you would 
have been able to get off the same piece of 
ground. 
