46 
House & Garden 
July 
THE GARDENER’S KALENDAR 
The oftener 
you cut the 
lawn grass 
the better it 
will grow 
and appear 
Hand weed¬ 
ing is the 
t h in g for 
the flower 
border: Put 
the weeds in 
a basket 
Seventh Month 
T rimming 
shears keep 
the grass 
neat about 
trees 
A scuffle hoe can be 
worjced around the 
plants to kill weeds 
All superfluous groxoth 
should be cut away from 
the trained tomato plants 
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Dominion Day in 
Canada. 
1. Pole beans of all 
kinds must be kept tied 
up to prevent damage. 
Tomatoes should be sup¬ 
ported in some manner. 
Light stakes for peppers 
and egg-plants will save 
them in a severe storm. 
Pres. Gardcld shot, 
1881. 
2. The very first 
runners from the straw¬ 
berries should be potted 
up for forcing inside, or 
for planting out later in 
the garden. If they are 
not to be saved, they 
should be kept removed. 
Battle of Santiago, 1898. 
3. Immediately after 
they have finished flow¬ 
ering is the time to 
prune spring flowering 
shrubs such as lilac, 
spirea, viburnum, sy- 
ringa, deutzia, etc. Re¬ 
move old wood at the 
ground line. 
Independence Day. 
4. Sweet peas must 
not suffer for -want of 
plant food or water. 
Liquid feeding is the 
best, and after a thor¬ 
ough soaking the ground 
should be mulched with 
grass or litter to save 
the moisture. 
5. Mildew is very 
likely to be troublesome 
at this season of the 
year on gooseberries, 
roses, grapes and other 
soft foliage plants. 
Spray them with sul¬ 
phide of potassium, us¬ 
ing a spoonful to a pail 
of water. 
John Paul Jones born, 
1747. 
6. What provision 
have you made to fight 
dry weather? A 
sprinkling system is 
best and hose is always 
a necessity. W h e n 
watering anything, soak 
the ground thoroughly. 
7. Artificial watering 
is troublesome. To re¬ 
duce it to a minimum, 
save every bit of mois¬ 
ture; cultivate the 
ground constantly to es¬ 
tablish a dust mulch, or 
cover the earth with lit¬ 
ter where you can’t 
cultivate. 
8. Successional sow¬ 
ings are again in order 
in vegetable garden; 
lettuce, corn, beans, cu¬ 
cumber, radish, beets 
and carrots. In the 
flower garden sow 
asters, ealliopsis, candy¬ 
tuft, annual gypsophila 
and poppy. 
9. Get your flower 
gathering down to some 
system. Cut the flowers 
early in the day before 
the sun gets strong and 
use scissors that will cut 
the stem without loos¬ 
ening the roots. Plunge 
the flowers in water, in 
a cool dark place. 
10. Fruit trees that 
have reached the fruit¬ 
ing stage should be 
pruned now. Remove 
all thin, weak interior 
branches and stop the 
leading shoots. This ap¬ 
plies to fruits that bear 
on old wood such as 
apples, pears and plums. 
11. The proper time 
to pick vegetables is 
when they- are young 
and tender—beets about 
the size of walnut, car¬ 
rots about 4" long, peas 
when they are green, 
spinach before it runs 
to seed. Thus will you 
get the sweetest crops. 
12. Keep the grass 
cut on your lawn. A 
top dressing now with a 
mixture of bone meal 
and wood ashes in 
equal quantities will be 
very beneficial and will 
check the growth of 
summer grass. Regular 
cutting helps the lawn. 
Berlin Treaty, 1878. 
13. Late crops of 
cabbage, cauliflower, 
celery, broccoli, Brus¬ 
sels sprouts and kale 
should be planted out. 
Use plenty of manure 
and keep the plants 
watered until they have 
started root action. 
French Revolution be¬ 
gan, 1789. 
14. Lettuce runs to 
seed during the warm 
summer weather. Mois¬ 
ture at the roots and 
some artificial shade 
(not too dense, how¬ 
ever) will prevent this 
considerably. Cheese¬ 
cloth will answer. 
St. Swithin’s Day. 
15. Root crops dur¬ 
ing winter are always 
acceptable. Put them 
in a trench out-of-doors 
and cover with litter; 
or a dry, cool cellar will 
do. Beets, carrots, ruta¬ 
baga and winter radish 
can be sown. 
Santiago Surrender, 
1898. 
16. Go over your 
trees occasionally, espe¬ 
cially fruit trees, and 
keep a sharp lookout 
for borers. Use a fine 
wire to kill the borer 
and plug the opening 
with grafting wax. 
Franco-Prussian War, 
1870. 
17. Chrysanthemums 
in the greenhouse are 
growing fast and re- 
quire abundance of 
feed. Liquid manures 
are excellent. Black fly 
must be checked with 
sprays or fumigation. 
18. Just as soon as 
the climbing roses are 
through flowering the 
dead flowers should be 
cut down entirely to 
make room for younger 
and more productive 
wood which will bear 
another season. 
19. There is no cure 
for blight, but there are 
preventatives. Spray 
about every ten days 
with Bordeaux mixture 
or copper solution. 
Vegetables that are sus¬ 
ceptible to it are cu¬ 
cumbers, melons, celery, 
tomatoes, etc. 
Pope Leo XIII died , 
_ 1903. 
20. Keep the space 
between the muskmelon 
plants well cultivated, 
and when the young 
melons are formed place 
them on small boards or 
flower pots to keep them 
from getting bedded in 
the dirt. 
Battle of Bull Run, 
1861. 
21. Dahlias must be 
attended to if you want 
good flowers. The lat¬ 
eral growths must be 
kept reduced; pinching 
out about one-half of 
such growth will result 
in finer and larger 
flowers. 
22. String beans, let¬ 
tuce, cucumbers, endive, 
turnips, kohl rabi, rad¬ 
ish and spinach should 
be sown now. Also 
make one .more sowing 
of corn, using the early, 
quick-maturing varieties 
for this purpose. Golden 
Bantam is- good. 
Austrian Ultimatum to 
Servia, 1914. 
23. It is again time 
to think of a cover crop 
for your orchard; by 
sowing now you get a 
good stand to carry over 
the winter. Rye, crim¬ 
son clover and the 
vetches are good. 
24. Strawberry 
plants should now be 
set out if you want good 
fruit next season. Be 
■liberal w i t h manure 
when preparing the new 
bed — remember you 
can't get any more out 
of the ground than you 
put into it. 
25. Cucumber beetle 
and squash bug are like¬ 
ly to be troublesome at 
this season of the year. 
Spray the plants w i th 
kerosene emulsion, us¬ 
ing plenty of force so 
the spray will penetrate 
well among the leaves. 
26. Make a thorough 
cleanup of all weed 
growth in the garden. 
Get in all the corners 
and various places that 
are often neglected, be¬ 
fore the weeds drop 
their seeds. Now is the 
logical time, for this 
work. 
Wireless communication 
between Japan and 
U. S., 1915. 
27. If you have cold- 
frames to carry plants 
over the winter, this is 
an excellent time to 
start a number of peren¬ 
nials from seed such as 
delphinium, coreopsis, 
campanula, etc. 
28. Seed sowing in 
t h e greenhouse should 
receive some attention. 
Mignonette, cineraria, 
calceolaria, stocks, to¬ 
matoes, etc., should be 
started now, and snap¬ 
dragons, if, you haven’t 
any in pots for forcing. 
All these will be wel¬ 
come later on. 
29. Hot days and 
damp nights are the 
cause of mildew in the 
greenhouse. Roses, car¬ 
nations, grapes and 
other crops are affected. 
A little fire heat and 
painting the pipes with 
flowers of Sulphur will 
prevent it. 
30. This is a good 
time to move ever- 
greens. Use plenty, of 
water when transplant¬ 
ing; in fact, “puddling” 
the plant is preferable. 
Spray the tops morning 
and evening until root 
action has started and 
the tree is established. 
Russia declared war on 
Austria, 1914. 
’31. After the cane 
fruits such as raspber¬ 
ries, blackberries, etc., 
have finished fruiting, 
the old fruiting canes 
should be removed at 
the .ground line and the 
new shoots tied in place. 
The smoke ascends 
In a rosy-and-gOlden 
haze. The spires 
Shine and are changed. 
In the valley 
Shadozvs rise. The lark 
sings on. The sun. 
Closing his benediction. 
Sinks, and the darken¬ 
ing air 
Thrills with a sense of 
the triumphing night — 
Night with her train, of 
stars 
And her great gift of 
sleep. 
—H enley 
This Kalendar of the 
gardener’s labors is 
aimed as a reminder 
for undertaking 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 re¬ 
membered 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 op¬ 
erations. The dates 
given are, of course, 
for an average season. 
The soil 
around new¬ 
ly planted 
trees should 
be kept well 
stirred 
As soon as 
the climbing 
roses stop 
b l o o m ing 
they should 
be pruned 
Pick your 
vegetables 
while they 
are still 
young and 
tender 
The cos let¬ 
tuce should 
be tied up 
when the 
plants are 
entirely dry 
