HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1915 
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THE MORRIS NURSERY COMPANY 
WESTCHESTER, CHESTER COUNTY 
PENNSYLVANIA 
My Suburban Garden 
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ripened for the table. The strawberries 
were something phenomenal, but there 
were only enough for picking three times 
a week. For a family of five, at least two 
hundred plants are needed, and three hun¬ 
dred is better for a surplus for winter pre¬ 
serving. The robins gave us a good deal 
of trouble and ate at least half of our 
berries. Either lines of rag scares or else 
some of those French garden windmills 
with looking-glass flashers on their arms 
are needed to scare off birds. We had a 
family of cats, but they did not seem to be 
on their job. 
I had two canoes and a motor boat to 
paint and put into the lake, and a swim in 
the ocean to take every day, so that, aside 
from fighting weeds occasionally, garden 
operations in July were not very irksome. 
The hot frame glasses were stored away 
and the frame itself planted with young 
bush melon plants. With heat above and 
below, they throve mightily and set a lot 
of fruit, but neither here nor in the main 
garden did the melons „do well. They 
rotted on the under side, while the whole 
fruit was still yet unripe. Next year I 
tried a patch of excelsior under each fruit, 
with good results. 
July also brought a horde of plant lice 
on rose bushes, pear trees and grapes. 
These are a regular institution, as are 
black fleas and bugs on the potatoes, so 
we got after them with a brass sprayer 
loaded with kerosene emulsion and whale- 
oil soap. Also Bordeaux mixture for the 
fruit trees, following the regular spraying 
tables. It does not do to neglect these 
things nor to bewail your fate if the in¬ 
sects chew up your leaves, suck out the 
sap and create general havoc and desola¬ 
tion. A thorough spraying in a small gar¬ 
den like this one takes but an hour, and 
should be done every two weeks. The in¬ 
sects will tell you if it is not done often or 
thoroughly enough. 
I11 August we had early corn, lima beans, 
plenty of little, tender carrots, young 
beets, turnips, stringless beans, peas and 
the last of the spinach. New planting's 
were always going on of lettuce, radishes, 
peas and stringless beans, of which I made 
a long, 75-foot border on the rear traverse 
path over the drain. This border yielded 
plenty of beans, but was a nuisance from 
the tendency of the bean plants to fall over 
into the path. It will not be repeated. 
Another border, of nasturtiums on each 
side of the main path, was a bowling suc¬ 
cess. “Partner” put it in and drew from 
it an endless succession of nasturtium 
blooms until late December. Indeed, our 
floral display was beginning to attract no¬ 
tice. The wall of dahlias had done their 
duty right manfully, and were now fill¬ 
ing the gaps betwen the peach trees, with 
a topping of wonderfully variegated 
blooms — scarlets, maroons, lavenders, 
whites, yellows — a sight to behold! The 
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