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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
May, 1915 
A t o f 
BJr8SiMp5g Red 
The gorgeous Tritomas, 
flashing like fire, light the 
shrub border and make the 
garden brilliant with scarlet, 
yellow, orange and gold. 
My splendid col- 
lection of these 
novel plants i s 
illustrated and 
described i n the 
new edition of 
FARR’S 
Hardy Plant 
Specialties 
* A book of inspiration and help for those 
who want a garden that need not be renew- 
ed each year. Over 500 varieties of Peonies, 
scores of Irises, Phloxes, Delphiniums, and 
other favorites are included; twelve plates in the 
colors of nature, and many one-color illustrations, 
show these splendid plants. A list of new and rare 
Dahlias is one of the features of this splendid book. 
Send for a copy before you make your garden plans this 
spring. 
Bertrand H. Farr 
Wyomissing Nurseries 
104 Garfield Ave. Wyomissing, Pa. 
CALIFORNIA ROSES 
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THE READERS’ SERVICE gives 
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Write for circular 
border perennials which may be in coldframes. 
Remove with as much soil as possible. 
If chrysanthemum clumps are too thick, divide 
now and plant elsewhere. Put a few in pots for 
fall blooming in the house, especially the late and 
less hardy varieties. These can be pinched back, 
leaving only one main stem. 
Prune all shrubs immediately after flowering, 
removing part of flowering wood. Look out for 
scale on lilacs and oleanders and spray with bor- 
deaux. 
Keep borders in walks free from weeds. Cut 
grass frequently and leave clippings on the lawn 
as a mulch. If the cutting is a heavy yield, put 
clippings around sweet peas and rhododendrons. 
Grapes and currants and all small fruit and 
orchard fruits should have constant attention. If 
the limbs are crowding each other, remove them 
and cut off suckers at base of trees. One careful, 
thorough spraying as advised in April number of 
The Garden Magazine is sufficient; but if there is 
doubt about its thoroughness, follow with two 
others. The first one comes in the ten days after 
the blossoms form, the second after formation of 
fruit, and when hanging down; and the third when 
the fruit turns up. Grapes should be sprayed soon 
after blooming, and are greatly protected from pests 
by bagging each bunch of grapes, tying over them 
paper bags. Use hellebore for the currant worms. 
Arsenate of lead should be mixed with a weaker 
solution of bordeaux mixture when spraying the 
orchard trees at this time against the codling 
moths on apples and pears, and the curculio on 
peaches and plums. It is advisable to plant plums 
in a chicken yard and occasionally shake the tree 
gently. The curculios fall to the ground and are 
eaten by the chickens. The soil of a chicken yard 
is considered too rich for peaches. 
Strawberries should be fertilized according to 
the April number of The Garden Magazine up 
to the fruiting time, which is about the tenth of 
May. 
Transplant into open ground tomatoes, peppers, 
and eggplant by May ioth,butas frost often comes 
as late as the twentieth, have ready and near each 
plant a large flower-pot to turn over them at nights; 
or else protect with bagging hung on a stick at the 
side of each plant. 
If melons and tomatoes were started in flower 
pots in early spring and sunk in a coldframe, they 
will be stocky plants now and get no set back when 
placed in holes prepared for them in the open ground. 
The little frames covered with glass or cheese cloth 
which were recommended being made during the 
bad days of winter, should be placed over the melon 
hills; they will come to fruition earlier and will be 
protected from the beetles. If these frames were 
not made; then plant with the melons a few seeds 
of radishes as a catch crop for the beetles; or you 
can buy the “cloches” now on the market. Place 
in each hill also as an extra precaution a few moth 
balls. 
Be careful to spray potatoes and melons, cucum- 
bers and squash with bordeaux mixture as soon as 
the leaves appear above ground. Mix with the bor- 
deaux some arsenate of lead — the former is for 
blight, the latter for beetles. 
In planting out tomatoes and cabbages put around 
each plant a paper collar as protection against cut- 
worms. It should extend an inch below and an 
inch above ground; also put out bait for cutworms. 
Balls of meal mixed with molasses and a little Paris 
green will be effectual. However, this method is 
dangerous if there are chickens; the cutworms can 
be caught by placing chips around the plants under 
which they are found in the mornings and can be 
killed. 
Cut asparagus early in the morning and plunge 
in cool water. It should be used the same day as 
gathered, and also canned for winter use immedi- 
ately after gathering. Keep the hills from baking 
by an occasional raking. Sprinkle coarse salt over 
the beds just before rain; it keeps down weeds and is 
otherwise good for asparagus. 
Sow in coldframes celery, fall cabbage, cauliflower 
and Brussels sprouts and endive. Sowings of let- 
tuce, beets, snap beans and peas should be kept up 
at intervals of two weeks. First plantings of beans, 
lima beans and corn take place at apple blossom 
time and every two weeks thereafter until July 
first. 
Virginia. J- M. Patterson. 
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