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Gardeners and Florists’ Annual for J9J8 
The Southern Vegetable and Fruit Garden 
By W. C. Cook 
January 
Plant Onion sets. 
Get frames ready; sow Let- 
tuces, Radishes. 
Plant Potatoes for early crop; 
also Strawberries. 
Rhubarb and Asparagus should 
be given a good topdressing of 
rotted manure. 
Prune and spray fruit trees, 
Grape-vines. 
Plant the smooth varieties of 
Peas. 
Plant Cabbage - plants every 
month. 
February 
Prune hedges. 
Plant Asparagus, Rhubarb, 
Horse Radish, and more Potatoes. 
Sow Peas for second crop, and 
Beets for table use for first crop; 
also Spinach, Kale, Clover and 
grass seeds. 
Sow Tomatoes, Peppers, Egg- 
plants and Lettuce for early 
planting in frames. 
Continue pruning and spraying 
against San Jos6 scale. 
Prune Roses in open ground. 
Spray with Schnaar’s Insecti- 
cide for white fly. 
Plant Red Clover and Alsike 
for next year’s use. 
Kale can be sowed every month 
from now to September. 
Plant fruit trees, hedge plants, 
small fruits. 
Sow Kohl-Rabi in frames. 
March 
Transplant such plants as are 
ready for early planting outside. 
Paper pots should be used. 
Lettuce, Tomato, Egg and Pep- 
per plants can be sown in open 
ground the latter part of this 
month, using muslin sash for 
covering on cold nights. 
Wrinkled and other Peas can 
now be sown in open ground. 
Sow Radishes, Spinach, Mus- 
tard. 
Prepare beds for Spring bed- 
ding plants. 
Finish spraying and pruning. 
Sow table Beets for succession, 
also Radishes. 
April 
Plant out of frames Tomatoes, 
Peppers and Eggplants. 
Sow Sugar Beets, Corn, garden 
and field Cucumbers, ' Parsley, 
Parsnips, Salsify, Spinach for 
succession. 
Plant Kohl-Rabi plants, Onions 
for large tubers, Alfalfa, Pota- 
toes. 
Sow Onion seed for sets and 
Okra. 
May 
Keep ground well cultivated. 
Sow Beans of all kinds. Water- 
melons, Canteloupes, Cucumbers, 
Okra, Radish, Mustard for suc- 
cession. 
Sow Turnips, Pumpkin, Cow 
Peas, Spring Squash. 
Set out Sweet Potato plants. 
Use insecticides on all plants 
showing any sign of bugs. 
Stake Tomatoes planted last 
month; mulch around roots. 
If any signs of greenfly, spray 
with nicotine solution. 
Earth up Potatoes. 
Transplant Celery for first crop. 
June 
Sow for succession Radish, Tur- 
nips, table Beets, Corn, Cucum- 
bers, Kale, Beans (last crop). 
