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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
June, 1915 
more easily handled than hills The rows should be from three to four feet 
apart according to variety and the plants should be thinned out to from eight 
to twelve inches apart. 
K EEP sweet peas picked clean. Don’t allow any of the flowers to form seed 
pods or the vines will stop producing. Sweet peas must not be allowed 
to suffer for water. If the vines begin to turn yellow there is no hope for them. 
Finish all bedding out as soon as possible; keep a few plants in reserve to 
fill in blanks that may occur. 
Flower Keep the water running on the iris bed. A mulch of good manure 
Garden kept soaked will supply quantities of valuable food to the plants 
and certainly produce better quality flowers. 
Keep plenty of stakes on hand for all tall flowers. Don’t wait until they 
blow over but stake them up when small. Stakes can be purchased from any 
supply house. 
Just as soon as your achillea has finished flowering cut it to the ground so as 
to have a second crop later on. 
Keep all dead flowers picked off plants. They not only look unsightly, but 
check the growth of the plants 
L Keep coreopsis cut close and it will continue flowering throughout the summer. 
If you contemplate any changes in your garden get some labels and name each 
plant carefully when it is in flower. 
S EVERAL sowings can be made of all flowers which are commonly styled 
“croppers.” That is, the plant produces one crop of flowers. 
It is not too late to start a flower garden. There are a number of flowers 
which, sown at this time and properly cared for, will produce freely between 
now and frost. Some flowers that may be sown now are: antir- 
Sow These rhinum, aster, annual gaillardia, clarkia, larkspur, lupin, 
Flowers poppy, alyssum, amaranthus, arctotis, balsam, calendula, 
calliopsis, candytuft, cornflowers, centaureas, cleome, globe 
amaranthus, annual gypsophila, annual sunflower, straw flower, marigold, 
mignonette, nicotiana nasturtium, pansies, annual phlox, salpiglossis, stocks, 
verbenas, and zinnias. 
A LITTLE liquid feed applied to the roses will work wonders. Liquid cow 
manure is the best to produce long stems and big healthy flowers. It 
must not be overdone, however, as it causes a soft growth when used too often. 
About once a week is sufficient. 
Keep the rose bugs picked off the rose plants. You can’t kill this 
Roses pest with sprays, but hold a small can filled with kerosene under the 
plant and jar the bush so that the bugs fall off into the can. 
D ON’T neglect to thin the fruit on trees that are carrying too large a crop, 
or in fact on all trees where real quality fruit is desired. Remember that 
a tree is capable of producing only a given number of pounds of fruit and if you 
want quality you must prune. 
Spray fruit trees with Bordeaux mixture a couple of times this 
Orchard month. You can’t raise good fruit without spraying so get the 
habit now! 
Keep a sharp look out for borers and if you see any cut them out at once. If 
they have become established a flexible wire run up the opening will kill them. 
Keep a sharp look out for “yellows” in the peach orchard and cut down and 
burn any infected trees. This disease spreads quickly. 
Apply a mulch on all cane fruits for the hot, dry weather because they are 
very shallow rooters. Also thin out the young shoots, leaving a few of the 
strongest on each plant for next season’s supply of fruit. 
Cut out the old woody shoots on the currants and gooseberries immediately 
after picking the fruit. This relieves the rush of spring pruning. 
Watch out for all kinds of caterpillars. They will quickly defoliate a tree, 
but are easily destroyed if attacked in time. 
Keep the grapes tied up; and if you are troubled with insects or if you desire 
the highest quality fruit, cover the bunches with bags. 
This is a good time to sow 
some buckwheat in the orchard 
for plowing in later on. If you 
haven’t put down any cover crop 
this is your last chance. 
Use the lawn clippings to mulch plants in the 
border. It will help greatly in dry weather 
S PRAY your elms again with 
arsenate of lead early in the 
month; it is not effective after the 
larvae begin to come down. 
If you want a 
Around the good hedge this 
Grounds year, clip it 
often. All kinds 
of plants that are being trained 
should be clipped now. Neglect 
always causes disfiguration. 
Any large trees recently trans- 
planted must not be allowed to 
suffer for lack of water. Apply 
a heavy mulch after a good 
thorough soaking. 
Keep the young shoots on the 
climbing roses tied up, and after 
the flowering period is over al- 
ways remove one or two of the 
oldest of the stems, replacing 
them with newly trained young shoots. In this way you will always 
have a good supply of young thrifty wood. 
Remove the seed pods from all kinds of flowering evergreens, such as rhodo- 
dendrons, andromeda, etc., they are an unnecessary tax on the plant. 
Prune all flowering shrubs immediately after they have finished flower- 
ing. Always make a point to remove the oldest wood which will be 
replaced with young vigorous shoots that will start up immediately. 
L OOK out for mildew in the rose house. Keep the plants hardy by thorough 
ventilation and well sprayed in order to hold red spider in check. 
Don’t neglect the carnations out in the field or indoors if you are growing 
them inside. They should be kept pinched as needed, and well cultivated. 
It is still time to put in another patch of chrysanthemum 
In the cuttings. These can be finished in 6-inch pots and make very 
Greenhouse decorative plants and you can get a very good quality of 
bloom by growing them to single stem. The chrysanthemum 
cuttings started earlier should now be ready for the final potting. Make a 
good rich mixture as you can’t overfeed this plant. Keep the plants free from 
black fly. Frequent spraying with tobacco or kerosene preparation will hold 
them in check. 
Crotons should be making plenty of growth now and should be kept pinched 
in shape. Don’t do any cutting; simply pinch out the end of the shoot that 
you desire to stop. 
Keep the ferns growing while they are in the humor; a little liquid food will 
keep up this good work. 
Plunge all your large palms outside under a tree to harden them. It is 
thought by some people that this causes them to lose their color; but what 
is really the cause of that is that they are allowed to dry out too much. 
Rose Fete at Willowmere 
T HE famous rose gardens of Willowmere, Admiral Aaron Ward’s home at 
Roslyn, L. I., will be opened to the public on June 8th from three to 
seven o’clock, for the benefit of the American Ambulance Hospital at Neuilly, 
France; admission, one dollar. The fete will be under the direction of Mrs. 
R. Bacon, wife of the former Ambassador. Admiral Ward’s example in help- 
ing the cause of humanity might be copied by others whose gardens have 
features of special interest to the public. 
A “Report” and its Significance 
S OME little time ago there appeared a press bulletin from the U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, purporting to show, according to its title, “Where 
Strawberries Come From.” It stated that by a government investigation it had 
been found that the eight most important commercial strawberry districts are 
Central California, Tennessee, Maryland, Delaware, Southern Louisiana, North 
and South Carolina, Virginia and the Ozarks. But, it goes on to explain, the 
survey by which these facts were established took into consideration only carload 
lots. This explanation, of course, saves the report from being a misstatement of 
fact, but it leaves it at best only a partial statement of the truth. For it takes 
no account whatever of the immense quantities of berries shipped by express, in 
small broken lots, by truck, and in other ways delivered more or less directly by 
producer to consumer. Just what this factor may amount to is indicated by 
another comparison of strawberry producing districts, using the U. S. Census 
figures for production in quarts, as a basis. In this way we find that in 1910, 
the heaviest strawberry producing section comprised the South Atlantic States 
with 63,124,937 quarts. This accounts for the prominence of Delaware, Mary- 
land, Virginia and the Carolinas in the above list. Second place goes to the 
Middle Atlantic States, with 43,747,240 quarts, although no commonwealth from 
this group was recognized in the recent survey. The third group was the 
East North Central Division with 39,698,906, again without representation in 
the press report; and then follows, 
with only 28,700,140 quarts, the 
Pacific Division including Cali- 
fornia, now placed as the most 
important section of all. More- 
over, this district is closely 
pressed by the Western North 
Central States with 26,308,339 
quarts, after which another wide 
gap separates this from the West- 
ern South Central group (includ- 
ing Louisiana), with 19,701,936 
quarts. The Eastern South Cen- 
tral Division with Tennessee as 
its representative in the carload 
lot list follows and is followed 
by the remaining, New England 
and Mountain Divisions. 
Comparing these figures the 
question suggests itself, why go 
to the trouble and expense of mak- 
ing a survey that so incompletely 
views the subject? Why make a 
basis of the carload lot when such 
a tremendous proportion of the 
crop is marketed otherwise? In 
short, why attempt to give out 
any information at all if that 
which can be obtained is but frag- Trowel cultivation around the plant without 
mentary and unrepresentative? disturbing the roots will counteract drought 
