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The Garden Magazine, April, 1921 
It's Getting Late! 
This Ten-Ten Book Will 
Save You Time and Money 
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It saves time to order all ten. Many 
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shrub should stand alone. If the Hydrangeas! 
are backed by shrubbery, the best effect is 
obtained by leaving the tallest canes at the rear 
and graduating toward the front. When doing 
this spring trimming, the final effect desired! 
must be kept in mind. The fertilizer placed! 
around the shrub in the fall is now worked into 
the ground lightly, so that the roots are not dis-i 
turbed. Collars of wire netting are put around 
each bush to protect the young growth, which is 
of the tenderest nature, from dogs — or the care- 
lessness of the man behind the lawn mower. 
This new growth I watch with great care, and 
rub off buds starting where they have no chance 
of developing bloom, that no effort of growth 
shall be needlessly expended. When the growth 
is from three to four feet high, 1 nip off the ends 
of the outside canes, forcing the plant to send out ! 
two terminals where there was but one. This 
somewhat decreases the size of the panicles of 
bloom, but has the advantage of distributing 
weight and increasing the number. If specimen 
blooms are desired, 1 do no disbudding, and take 
great care of the canes, giving them all the sup- 
port needed. The foliage is heavy and if the 
growth is rank, the canes need support before the 
bloom appears. 
When the buds look like tiny grapes the ground 
is again stirred and a dressing of manure is put 
on. The new impetus given by this last feeding 
goes to the development of the bloom — with 
results sure and wonderful. 
After six years of this method of pruning, my 
Hydrangea trunks — some three to five inches in 
diameter — looked like scarred veterans and I 
dared a “major operation.” March twentieth 
I gave the order that all the Hydrangeas were 
to be sawed off to the level of the ground. It was 
done! A heavy dressing was given them. The 
following September this photograph was taken. 
— Mrs. George A. Heywood, Arden, North Caro- - 
lina. 
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IRISH POTATOES— TWO CROPS 
IN ONE SEASON 
F OR several years past I have had new grown 
potatoes on my table ten days to two weeks 
earlier than any of my neighbors. 
To grow extra early potatoes I take the seed 
about two weeks before time to plant them, 
put them in a box, and place in a warm corner I 
in the cellar or near a stove. They soon put 
out sprouts. When 1 am ready to plant they are 
cut to the proper size, leaving a healthy sprout 
on each piece. These are dropped about eighteen 
inches apart in rows three feet apart and covered 
shallow so the warm sunshine will penetrate the 
soil and start them growing. When they begin 
to break through the soil, a furrow is thrown over 
them so as to cover the young plants completely. | 
They soon break through the soil, and if there is < 
danger of frost they are again covered in the 
same manner. It does not hurt the young plants y 
to cover them as they soon break through 
again, but it ruins them to get bitten down by | 
frost. 
I have had nice, new, eating potatoes on my I 
table the last Sunday in April, grown by this j 
method. 
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