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The Garden Magazine, March, 1920 
KEEP THE WEEDS OUT 
and Your Garden Growing 
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CAROLINA HEMLOCK 
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The Most Beautiful and Rare American Evergreen 
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HARLAN P. KELSEY - - SALEM, MASS. 
HARDY AMERICAN PLANTS 
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climate where nothing starts until the weather is 
settled. 
I hear someone ask: “Do you have all the 
usual pests?” 
Yes, pretty much all of them, if the exact 
truth be told. No place this side of Labrador is 
free from them, and the only reason that is 
exempt is that fruit trees do not flourish there. 
We do not have San Jose scale nor the gypsy 
moth. But it is no great hardship to play a 
hand sprayer on trees. One must have a legiti- 
mate excuse for pottering about out of doors, 
and pests afford a healthy exercise without hard 
work. 
The best part of an orchard is that it is self- 
supporting to a large degree. Once planted, 
occasionally plowed and harrowed, and ferti- 
lized from time to time, trees take care of them- 
selves most of the year. They do not have to be 
bedded down at night, fed three times a day, and 
carried over six idle months of the year on an 
expensive diet. They represent a summer crop 
that leaves you free the remainder of the year 
after it has been marketed within a few miles of 
where the fruit farm lies. In our immediate 
vicinity there are perhaps forty families whose 
summer homes range in value from $2,500 to 
$50,000; yet all their fruit is shipped up from 
Boston markets, and sold at prohibitive prices; 
and it is largely so all over the State. It is time 
that the far North began to raise its own fruit, 
especially peaches; for no fruit suffers so much 
when picked before it is ripe, and mellowed, not 
ripened, en route. 
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A Word About Watering 
O NE of the vexing problems that the gardener 
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Should the applications be small and frequent, or 
copious and at considerable intervals? While 
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with the wisdom of watering plants in the 
garden. 
I believe I have tried every kind of irrigation 
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of weather. It would be useless to go over 
the various experiments. But the conclusions 
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the summer unless the plants show by their foliage 
that they are sorely in need. . . . Remem- 
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powdered surface, however dry, is preferred to a 
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Frequent sprinkling invariably inclined the 
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