First Month 
Morning Star, Venus 
JANUARY, 1914 
Thirty-one Days 
Evening Star, Saturn 
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T HIS Calendar 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 perform¬ 
ing garden operations. 
i. © 6627th year of 
Julian Period, 1914th 
year of Christian Era. 
Try some radish seed, 
for fun, in a cold-frame 
well protected with straw 
or mats. 
2. © Write to best 
nurseries and seedsmen 
for catalogues; look up 
horticultural lectures, 
etc., and attend ; consider 
forming a Garden Club. 
Put out suet and water 
for the birds daily. 
3. © Earth nearest the 
Sun. 
Measure up your en¬ 
tire place and make a 
plan of it to scale, show¬ 
ing all planting done and 
indicate all to be done 
this year. 
4. 31 First quar. 8b. 
9m. A. M. 
Make up a list of gar¬ 
den books to be studied; 
order at once and master 
the problems of fertiliz¬ 
ing, spraying and prun¬ 
ing as well as general 
culture. 
11. Inspect spraying 
apparatus, tools, fertiliz¬ 
ers and insecticides on 
hand ; make a list of all 
requirements, repairs to 
be made, etc., and hang 
it in sight where each 
thing may be checked off 
as done. 
18. (§j Last quar. 7I1. 
30m. P. M. 
The nearer the time of 
the Moon’s change to 
mid night the fairer the 
weather for the next 
seven days. 
Bring lilies to be forced 
for Easter into warmth and 
light. 
25. (gj Collect plenty of 
manure and arrange to 
have a sheltered place 
for this so as to keep it 
on hand; it is always 
needed, and is more 
readily obtained now than 
later when everyone is 
ready for it. 
5. 31 Mars becomes 
evening star also. 
Look around outdoors; 
note trees and shrubs 
needed to improve win¬ 
ter effects; make a list 
and locate them on plan 
you have made, to be 
planted later. 
12. © Full moon I2h. 
9m. A. M. 
Sow lettuce in frame 
and protect; sow pansy, 
verbena, carnation, helio¬ 
trope, marguerites, for¬ 
get-me-nots and mignon¬ 
ette in flats. 
19- Order new tools, 
labels, stakes, etc.; all 
necessary supplies; 
sprays and containers 
for same, etc. Keep suet 
where birds can get it. 
26. 1© New Moon ill. 
34m. A. M. 
The nearer the time 
of the Moon’s change to 
midc/ay the more foul 
and wet the weather for 
the next seven days. 
6. J) Twelfth Night — 
The visit of the Wise 
Men, guided by the Star 
in the East; Epiphany. 
Build hotbed frames or 
look old frames over and 
repair; get sash ready, 
etc. 
13. © Make a planting 
plan of vegetable garden 
to scale, with successive 
crops and plantings indi¬ 
cated ; mount on heavy 
cardboard or cloth for 
“field service.” 
20. Put tool house or 
room in order; provide a 
place for everything, even 
to twine, nails, scissors 
and the smallest trifles; 
make a cupboard zmt:h 
lock for all sprays, pois¬ 
ons, etc. 
27. @ Order seeds and 
plants for spring ship¬ 
ment ; the choice varieties 
are early exhausted, and 
the early orders stand the 
best chance, naturally. 
7. © “Old Christmas 
Day.” 
Sow a few seeds of 
peas and spinach in 
frames and protect with 
straw or mats. 
14. © Spray everything 
of woody growth with 
lime-sulphur wash for 
San Jose and other scale ; 
peach, plum, cherrV, pear 
and apple are attacked in 
order named ; also small 
fruits, roses and shrubs. 
21. (§j Stain old stakes 
green if this has never 
been done; paint a space 
for the plant name white, 
and write the names with 
waterproof ink when 
stakes are used. 
28. © Prune peach 
trees and anything that 
may be still left over 
from earlier pruning; do 
not prune early flowering 
shrubs, however, for this 
will sacrifice their bloom. 
8. © Make new flats if 
needed and prepare ne¬ 
cessary space for them; 
12" x 15" x 2 y 2 " is the 
most convenient size. 
15. © Order sheep ma¬ 
nure, allowing from 10 
to 15 lbs. for every ico 
sq. ft. of lawn surface. 
First locomotive used 
in the U. S. 1831. 
22. Prune and tie 
up grapes; make a spe¬ 
cial study of their fruit¬ 
ing system, however, be¬ 
fore you do any cutting. 
29. © Complete the 
spraying of all woody 
plants for scale; do this 
work very thoroughly, as 
the spray nuist reach 
every branch and twig to 
be effective. 
Wm. McKinley born, 
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9. JD Prune, as they 
may need it, shade and 
fruit trees, small fruits 
and fall blooming shrubs ; 
paint all wounds larger 
than a quarter of a dollar 
with Bordeaux Mixture 
to prevent infection. 
16. © Paint all tools, 
etc., that may need it; do 
not wait for a thing to 
look shabby before doing 
this; everything lasts bet¬ 
ter for being kept in 
good condition. 
23. Prune currants 
and gooseberries; always 
plan to keep the center 
of a bush open to the 
light and air; and always 
know which the bearing 
wood is before pruning 
anything. 
30. © Top dress lawns 
with the pulverized sheep 
manure; do not use any 
common manure here, for 
it will introduce weeds 
and ruin the turf; omit 
manure entirely if you 
cannot get the sheep ma¬ 
nure. 
10. Prepare one or 
two flats with fine soil; 
water these to make 
them ready for sowing 
day after to-morrow. 
17. © Look over all 
evergreens carefully for 
insects or signs of other 
trouble; pines are sub¬ 
ject to a very destructive 
rust; cut and burn af¬ 
fected trees as soon as 
discovered. 
24. Save coal ash 
siftings and mix with the 
soil on heavy stiff spots 
in the garden or any¬ 
where ; study the theory 
of fertilizing and soil 
manipulation to know 
what your garden needs. 
31. © Start hydran¬ 
geas, spireas, ixias and 
freesias, to be ready for 
Easter, by bringing into 
warmth and light now; 
the lilies are, of course, 
well under way 
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‘Who loves a Garden, loves a greenhouse, too."—Cowper “A winter’s fog will freeze a dog!” Weather very unsettled at the beginning and end of the month 
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