SATURDAY FRIDAY THURSDAY WEDNESDAY TUESDAY MONDAY SUNDAY 
November, 1916 
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The Gardeners Calendar 
(NeVenth Month 
Star: Venus 
.This Kalendar of the gar¬ 
dener’s labors is aimed 
as a reminder for under¬ 
taking all his tasks in 
season. It is fitted to the 
latitude of the Middle 
States, but its service 
should be available for 
the whole country if it 
be remembered that for 
every one hundred miles 
north or south there is 
a difference of from five 
to seven days later or 
earlier in performing 
garden operations. 
5. 20th Sunday after 
Trinitjr. 
All ground under cul¬ 
tivation should receive 
its fall application of 
lime. Scratch it in with 
an iron rake or tooth 
cultivator and let it re¬ 
main all winter. 
12. Before mulching 
perennial plantings it is 
a good plan to put a 
shovelful of sand or 
ashes over late starters 
such as balloon flowers, 
rudbeckia, etc. This will 
prevent i n j ury from 
spring digging. 
19. 22nd Sunday af¬ 
ter Trinity. 
French globe arti¬ 
chokes must be protected 
over the winter. They 
can be lifted and stored 
in a cool, dry cellar, or 
covered with leaves or 
litter and left outside. 
26. 23rd Sunday after 
Trinity. 
Look out for gypsy 
mot h, and also the 
brown tail moth. This 
is a good time to go 
over the trees and search 
for egg masses. Paint 
with creosote. 
6. Finish all fall 
planting of deciduous 
trees and shrubs as soon 
as possible. Newly set 
plants should be well 
mulched to keep the 
frost in the roots and 
tree-trunks covered with 
straw. 
13. Onions, spinach, 
and turnips may be sown 
now and protected over 
the winter with a cover¬ 
ing of salt hay. These 
vegetables will have a 
very early start in the 
spring if they are shield¬ 
ed from the frost now. 
20. Tidal wave at Ja¬ 
maica, 1912. 
Cane fruits are all 
very shallow rooters and 
should be well mulched 
with good quality ma¬ 
nure. Do not prune 
them now, as the wood 
kills back during winter. 
27. Tender climbing 
roses and tender vines 
should be taken down 
and buried. Where this 
cannot be done they 
should be strawed in or 
covered with evergreen 
boughs. 
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7. Fall is an excellent 
time to set out aspara¬ 
gus. Take the precau¬ 
tion to thoroughly mulch 
the plants. This will re¬ 
lieve the spring rush and 
give the plants a very 
early start. Do not post¬ 
pone the work longer. 
14. Beets, carrots, 
parsnips, radish, salsify 
and other root vegetables 
should be lifted and 
stored in trenches for 
winter. Mound up well 
with earth as the trench 
must be kept dry. 
21. Look over your 
deciduous trees and 
shrubs as soon as they 
have dropped their 
leaves, for scale; espe¬ 
cially fruit trees, euony- 
mus, Japan quince, 
thorns and similar types. 
Spray those infested. 
28. Protect your roses 
well. Mulching with 
manure should always 
be practiced. Tender 
varieties should have 
the soil drawn up around 
the shoots. Strawing in 
is very good, as is a deep 
covering with leaves. 
1. All Saints’ Day. 
Sun rises 6:30 A. M. 
Sun sets 4:57 P. M. 
All tender bulbs must 
be lifted at once, else 
you will lose your can- 
nas, dahlias, caladiums, 
gladioli, etc. 
8. If you want really 
high quality sweet peas 
for next season's bloom, 
they should be sown 
now, outdoors, and pro¬ 
tected with board frames 
with sash covers, or 
with plain boards. 
15. Trenching the gar¬ 
den every few years is 
a good practice. It 
helps destroy pests and 
improves the garden. 
Make the trenches about 
2' deep and as close to¬ 
gether as possible. 
22. St. Cecelia. 
Celery should be stored 
now for winter use. 
Lift the plants and store 
in trenches, mound up 
well with earth to shed 
water, cover later with 
leaves or litter. 
29. Standard roses, 
tender hydrangeas and 
other semi-hardy plants 
should be buried to win¬ 
ter them properly. Loos¬ 
en up the-soil around the 
roots and lay them over, 
then cover well with 
earth. 
2. All Souls’ Day. 
Last chance to plant 
forcing bulbs for the 
greenhouse. Tulips, 
narcissus, hyacinth, al¬ 
liums, etc., are all valu¬ 
able for this purpose. 
For details see October 
issue. 
9. Lawns should be 
top dressed with soil 
and mulched with ma¬ 
nure later, and bad spots 
should have grass seed 
scratched in and covered 
with sash covers, or 
with plain boards. 
16. Cabbage should be 
stored for winter use by 
setting in a trench, head 
down and mounding up 
thoroughly with soil. 
Leave the roots and cov¬ 
er with leaves to prevent 
freezing. 
23. St. Clement. 
Lettuce can be kept 
outside for some time 
yet. If you have any 
well headed plants keep 
them covered with salt 
hay or leaves. This 
must be removed on 
fine days. 
30. Thanksgiving Day. 
Sun rises 7 :05. Sun sets 
4:34. 
Gardens of all kinds, 
vegetable, perennial, for¬ 
mal, cutting, rose, rock, 
etc., should have a thor¬ 
ough cleaning, removing 
all dead stems. 
3. All changes in per¬ 
ennial borders should be 
made at once, and all 
borders should be 
mulched thoroughly with 
well-rotted manure, care 
being taken to keep the 
crowns of the plants 
clear. 
10. Any new flower 
or vegetable gardens, 
shrubbery, borders, rose 
beds, etc., contemplated 
should be dug now and 
the earth allowed to lie 
raw over the winter. 
This will help to destroy 
other growth. 
17. Suez Canal opened, 
1869. 
Don’t forget to mulch 
your strawberries with 
good manure. A little 
later the tops can be 
covered with salt hay or 
rye straw for protection 
during the winter. 
24. Don’t burn the 
leaves on your place; 
rake them into the bor¬ 
ders where you have 
rhododendrons, laurel, 
bulbs, etc. The balance 
should be stacked up 
somewheres and allowed 
to rot into leaf mould. 
The warm sun is fail¬ 
ing, the bleak wind is 
wailing, 
The bare boughs are 
sighing, the pale 
flowers are dying, 
And the year 
On the earth her death¬ 
bed, in a shroud of 
leaves dead, 
Is lying. 
Shelley. 
4. The rhubarb should 
receive a coating of lime 
stirred in the ground 
and a good mulch of 
manure; the old plants 
should be lifted and di¬ 
vided and replanted in 
good, rich, well trenched 
ground. 
11. Hardy hard 
wooded plants for green¬ 
house forcing, such as 
lilac, wistaria, climbing 
roses, deutzia, etc., grow¬ 
ing in borders, should 
be lifted now and potted, 
and then plunged out-of- 
doors until forcing time. 
18. Newly set out 
boxwood edging should 
be protected with salt 
hay or rye straw held in 
place with a few sticks. 
Two boards nailed to¬ 
gether V-shaped over the 
row make a neater and 
equally effective shield. 
25. British evacuated 
New York, 1783. 
Evergreens should be 
protected by pine boughs 
placed around the roots. 
Small plants may be 
strawed in or covered 
with burlap to prevent 
direct contact with snow. 
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