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HOUSE & GARDEN 
YOUR ALL-YEAR GARDEN 
Intelligent Ordering for This Season’s Crops—Quantities and Varieties of the Best Vegetables, 
Fruits and Shrubs—New Sorts and What They Will Do 
F. F. ROCKWELL 
T HE most important work for February is 
to get your ordering done. This may not 
seem at first glance like a very big job. 
A great many people, in fact, think it of so little 
importance that they put it off until returning 
bluebirds remind them that spring is imminent. 
Careful ordering is not only the first, but one 
of the most important steps, in making your 
garden successful. If you stop to give the vari¬ 
ous things in which you are interested some 
thought and attention, just as you would a new 
gown or a new car, instead of being merely 
satisfied with repeating your last year’s order, 
you will find that this job of ordering is not so 
simple after all—and is tremendously more in¬ 
teresting than you thought it could be. 
Intelligent ordering depends upon careful plan¬ 
ning. There is no royal road to garden success ex¬ 
cept the Midas touch that means a private gar¬ 
dener—and then the successes are his, not yours. 
The whole matter is largely psychological; the 
thing to do is to change your attitude towards 
this end of your garden work, if at first it is a 
lazy or an evasive one. Plan with the spirit of 
the artist or of the sculptor—then in a degree 
you elevate the task of planning to the realm 
of inspiration whether it be a sunken garden cov¬ 
ering a half an acre, or a 2' border around the 
veranda. 
The Amount to Order 
If you followed up the suggestions in last 
month’s Department and tested your seeds, you 
know by this time what kind of things you have 
to get this year, and your plans, when made, 
will show you the amount of space to be planted 
with each—vegetables, flowers, shrubs, small 
fruits, as the case may be,—and how much of 
each will be needed for a 
given purpose. 
Let us take the vegetables 
first. We may take the 
planting unit as a 50' row. 
To plant that length of row 
the following amounts, ap¬ 
proximately, of the various 
vegetables will be required: 
Beets, 1 oz.; cabbage, Y\ oz.; 
cauliflower, % oz.; carrot, 
p 2 oz.; endive, *4 oz.; kohl¬ 
rabi. oz. ; lettuce, Y\ oz.; 
leek, *4 oz.; onion, }4 oz.; 
parsnip, *4 oz. i peas, 1 pt.; 
potatoes, ^4 pk.; radishes, }4 
lb.; salsify, J4 oz.; Swiss 
chard, 24 oz. ! turnip, kt oz. 
If you are going to make 
two bites of a cherry and 
order the early things first 
and the late things later on, 
get those now. But it is far 
better to order everything at 
once. Of the late or tender crops, for the same 
unit of planting, get beans, 1 pt.; lima beans, 
1 pt.; pole beans, kt pt.; Brussels sprouts, kt 
oz.; late cabbage, kt oz.; corn, (4 pt.; cucumbers, 
kj oz.; melons, k+ oz.; pumpkins, y. oz. i squash, 
kt oz. 
The following are very seldom planted directly 
in the row where they are to grow, but - are 
started under glass or outdoors and later trans¬ 
planted: Cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, 
egg-plants, peppers, tomatoes. The cabbage group 
is sometimes sown where it is to be grown and 
thinned out. Farther south, the last three may 
be grown the same way. When sown for trans¬ 
planting or in hills to be thinned where they are 
to grow, a package of each will be sufficient for 
a 50' row or more. 
Flower Seeds, Fruits and Shrubs 
In ordering flower seeds, a packet will in most 
instances be sufficient where they are to be 
started in heat and transplanted later. Those 
that are wanted in quantity for bedding or edg¬ 
ing, such as ageratum, alyssum, asters, petunias, 
English daisies, candytuft, celosias, coleus, lo¬ 
belias, marigolds, nasturtiums, pansies, phlox, 
poppies, portulacas, salvias, sweet peas, verbenas, 
and zinnias, it is better to purchase by the ounce, 
according to your requirements. Sunflowers, cas¬ 
tor oil beans, nasturtiums, sweet peas, cannas 
(which can be started perfectly well from seed 
if the latter are notched or filed through the hard 
outer shell), and morning glories, are all quite 
large seeds, and, unless only a few plants are 
wanted, a packet will hardly be sufficient. All 
of these things are much cheaper by the ounce 
than by the packet, and many seeds not used this 
season will be good next. Most of them will 
retain their vitality for several years if kept in 
a good place. 
To determine the number of fruits or small 
fruits you will want, allow about the following 
distances between each. Where only one figure 
is given it indicates the difference between speci¬ 
mens each way; the distances, being only ap¬ 
proximate, can be varied 10% or 20% either way 
to make things fit in, or in the case of extra 
small or extra large varieties. Standard apples, 
35'; dwarf, 10'; half dwarf, Doucin stock, 18'; 
pears, 25'; dwarf pears, 12'; plums, 18'; peaches, 
18'; cherries, 20'; quinces, 12'; grapes, 10’; cur¬ 
rants and gooseberries, 4'-5'; raspberries, 3'x6'; 
blackberries, 4' or 5'x7'; strawberries, 1' or 
\ l / 2 ' x 3' or 4'. 
Practically all shrubs and ornaments can be 
planted in the spring as well as in the fall if 
you can be sure of being able to take time to get 
them in early; otherwise, leave them for fall 
planting. Shrubs in a solid shrubbery border 
should be set quite close—3' to 4' apart for the 
small and medium sized varieties, and 5' or 6' 
for the large ones. 
Reliable Varieties 
It is a good deal of a job to keep up with the 
new varieties of vegetables, flowers, shrubs and 
fruits that are introduced from year to year. It 
would be a considerable task even if one could 
Poor seeds are a false economy. Only 
the best selected seeds from reliable 
dealers will produce really satisfactory 
results like these 
believe everything that is said in the catalogues 
as to the merits of the ‘‘novelties’’—a task re¬ 
quiring a great deal more time than the average 
gardener lias. For the busy or inexperienced 
gardener much more satisfaction, with the least 
waste of time, can be had when ’ordering by 
selecting some of the follovdng “tried and true” 
things. There are many varieties as good but 
very few, if any, better than any of the follow¬ 
ing, of its particular type or in its particular 
class: 
Asparagus—Palmetto; beans, string with green 
pod—Bountiful; wax—Brittle Wax and Golden 
Wax; beans, pole—Old Homestead and Golden 
Cluster (wax); dwarf limas—Burpee Improved; 
pole limas—Early Leviathan, Giant Podded; 
beets—Eclipse, Early Model and Detroit Dark 
Red (maturing in the order named) ; cabbage— 
Copenhagen Market, All-head Early and Succes¬ 
sion and Drumhead Savoy ; carrots—Chantenay, 
Coreless; cauliflower—Snowball, Dry Weather; 
celery—Golden Self Blanching and Winter Queen 
(Emperor is a splendid new sort which I tried 
for the first time this year and feel perfectly 
safe in recommending) ; Swdss chard—Giant Lu- 
cullus; sweet corn—Golden Bantam and Country 
Gentleman; cucumbers—Everbearing (for “little 
pickles”) and Davis Perfect; egg-plant—Black 
Beauty; lettuce—Grand Rapids (loose leaved), 
Big Boston (head) for spring and fall, and Dea¬ 
con for summer; melons—Henderson’s Bush for 
small gardens, and Netted Gem, Rockyford, 
(green fleshed), Fordhook (salmon fleshed) ; wa¬ 
termelons—Fordhook Early, and Halbert Honey; 
okra—Perkins Long Pod ; onions—Silver King 
(white), Prize Taker (yellow) ; peas, dwarf, 
Laxtonian, or Blue Bantam, Little Marvel; 
British Wonder (late) ; tall early, Early Morn, 
or Gradus (Prosperity), Boston Unrivalled 
(American Champion) an improved Telephone; 
peppers—Early Neapolitan and Chinese Giant; 
potatoes—Irish Cobbler (early), Gold Coin; 
radishes—Crimson Giant Globe, Early White 
Turnip, for winter; spinach—Victoria, New Zea¬ 
land—for continuous cuttings; squash—Fordhook 
Bush for small gardens, white scalloped and Giant 
Crooknecked for summer, Delicata and Delicious 
for winter; tomato—Bonny Best for early, 
Matchless for main crop, Dwarf Stone where 
plants are not to be supported; turnip—early, 
White Milan and Petrowsky (ydlow) ; late, 
Golden Ball, Amber Globe and White Egg. 
Fruits to Order 
The varieties of fruits are mentioned in the 
order of their ripening, usually two of each 
class, such as early, second early, mid-season and 
late. No dwarf varieties are mentioned because 
they are the same kinds grown on different stock 
as the standard sorts. Among the to-be-depended- 
upon apples are Astrachan and Liveland Rasp¬ 
berry, Graven stein and Mackintosh Red, Hub- 
bardson and Fall Pippin, Delicious and Roxbury 
Russet. In pears we have 
Clapp and Bartlett, Seckel 
and Flemish Beauty, Bose 
Sheldon, Anjou and Winter 
Nelis. Of peaches, Carman, 
Mayflower, Greensboro and 
Champion (or Ray for the 
northern States), and J. H. 
Hale, Crawford’s Late and 
Iron Mountain, Crosby and 
Crother’s Late. Cherries, 
sweet—Montmorency, King, 
Yellow Spanish, Black Tar¬ 
tarian, Dykesman; sour — 
May Duke, Olivet, Royal 
Duke, English Morello and 
Green Hortense. Plum, Euro¬ 
pean sorts—Bradshaw, Reine 
Claude and Damson; Japan¬ 
ese sorts — Abundance, Red 
June, Burbank and Hale; 
American varieties—W i 1 d 
Goose, America, Late Goose, 
De Soto and October Purple. 
Unless your garden is well supplied with the 
various small fruits be sure to let some out this 
spring. With the new fall fruiting varieties of 
strawberries and raspberries it is possible to get 
results this season from plants set out in April 
or early May. If your small fruits are beginning 
to run out, try some of the fine varieties below, 
which are comparatively recent introductions but 
which have thoroughly “made good.” 
Strawberries—Early Ozark, Fendall, Chesa¬ 
peake and Edmund Wilson; these are all extra 
fine—the last is the strongest growing strawberry 
that I have ever tried. Raspberries—St. Regis 
Everbearing (Ranere) is probably the most val¬ 
uable raspberry recently introduced, particularly 
for home gardens, as it not only ripens extra 
early and bears a big crop, but it is also an 
especially strong grower and fruits again in the 
autumn; Welsh is a superior mid-season variety; 
King, Cuthbert, and Mumbert (black) are stand¬ 
ard favorites. Blackberry—The Joy, a new sort 
which combines hardiness, yield and high quality, 
should be tried in every' home garden; another 
new sort sort which is distinctive in its habit of 
growth, as it climbs almost like a grape vine, 
is the Star, or Wonder, blackberry'. It needs lots 
of room but the yield is tremendous, as it has a 
record of seventy'-five quarts in a season from 
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