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i. © All Fools' Day. 
Start cannas, dahlias 
and gladioli for early 
flowers. Gather young 
dandelion plants for 
salad; serve with French 
dressing. Delicious! 
2. © Thomas Jefferson 
born 1743. 
Do not prune any of 
the early or midsummer 
flowering shrubs until 
they have blossomed. 
The winter buds carry 
flowers as well as leaves. 
3. 31 First quar. 2h. 
42m. P. M. 
Sow heliotrope, asters, 
petunias and other an¬ 
nuals desired in hotbed. 
Plow or spade as soon 
as ground is dry enough. 
4. 3 ^ Stars and Stripes 
adopted 1818. 
Sow cucumber, melon, 
eggplant, tomato and 
pepper in hotbed, if this 
has not been done. Sow 
early peas in garden. 
5. Palm Sunday. 
Lawns should be seed¬ 
ed now in preference to 
later. Pruning dormant 
fruit trees is said to pro¬ 
mote wood growth; 
prune after leafing to in¬ 
duce fruit. 
6. 31 Peary at North 
Pole, 1909. 
Remove mulch gener¬ 
ally, but keep it at hand 
in case of sudden cold. 
Apply nitrate of soda to 
rhubarb and asparagus, 
x oz. to the square yard, 
and rake in. 
7. J) Cut all old wood 
out of currant and goose¬ 
berry bushes; prune rasp¬ 
berries and blackberries; 
cut back strong roses 
one-third, medium grow¬ 
ers one-half, and weak 
growers two-thirds. 
8. Apply potash to 
all woody fruits at rate 
of 125 lbs. actual potash 
per acre. This will re¬ 
quire 250 lbs. muriate of 
potash to supply, or i,oco 
lbs. unleached wood 
ashes. 
9. J) Actual potash 
needed per plant — esti¬ 
mated : Currant, goose¬ 
berry, raspberry, 2 oz.; 
blackberry, 3 oz.; grape, 
8 oz.; cherry, plum, 
peach, apricot, 2 lbs.; 
apple, 3P2 to 5 lbs. 
12. © Easter Sunday. 
Take a look around 
for the insects that are 
now rousing from their 
dormancy to aggressive 
crawling and eating. 
13. © Tent caterpillars 
strip wild cherry first, 
then go to apples as their 
leaves open. Spray as 
buds open with lead ar¬ 
senate and Bordeaux 
mixed, as manufactur¬ 
ers direct. 
14. © Lincoln shot, 
1865; S. S. Titanic lost, 
1912. 
If the ground is drying 
nicely roll lawns, to 
smooth out the furrows 
and hummocks made by 
frost. Always go over 
them in two directions. 
15 © Lincoln’s first 
call for volunteers, 1861. 
Take up and divide 
roots of perennials that 
have been three years in 
one place, except such as 
are better undisturbed 
for indefinite periods. 
19. © Low Sunday, or 
Little Easter. Patriots’ 
Day; battle of Lexing¬ 
ton and Concord, 1775. 
Look up on spraying 
once more and prepare 
for first spraying “in 
the blossom.” 
20. (§j Sun enters Tau¬ 
rus oh. 3m. A. M. 
Set out bulbs of Easter 
plants, either in perma¬ 
nent garden quarters or 
where they can ripen un¬ 
disturbed. Be careful 
not to injure leaves or 
roots. 
21. (§j Set out new 
strawberry plants, rhu¬ 
barb roots and sea kale. 
Rhubarb that has been 
forced is about ready to 
cut. Set new asparagus 
beds now. 
10. © Full moon, 8h. 
28m. A. M. Good Fri¬ 
day; the day of the 
Crucifixion. 
New shrubs and trees 
may be set out now if 
the ground is dry. Never 
work it when its not. 
11. © Apply all fer¬ 
tilizers to the ground 
from the tips of branches 
in towards the tree or 
shrub, stopping when 
within 2 to 5 feet from 
the bole or main 
branches of the tree. 
16. © Rub off adven¬ 
titious buds from trees 
and shrubs, rather than 
cut branches away later. 
Never allow anything to 
start unless you intend 
to let it grow; this con¬ 
serves every bit of a 
plant’s vitality. 
17. (gj Last quar. 2h. 
52m. A. M. 
Pansies that have win¬ 
tered in the cold-frame 
may go out in their per¬ 
manent places now, also 
violets; vegetable plants 
may begin to go into the 
garden, too. 
18. (§) Watch hotbeds 
and cold-frames more 
carefully than ever ; give 
plenty of air; head off 
aphids and white fly the 
instant they appear with 
soapsuds, tobacco dust or 
kerosene emulsion. 
22. All plowing and 
spading and preparing 
of the soil should be 
done by now, unless the 
season is unusually wet. 
Be patient if it is; it 
ruins soil to work it 
when wet. 
2 3 - C Shakespeare 
born, 1564. 
Do not relax attention 
to the birds. They no 
longer need suet, but 
their bathing and drink¬ 
ing basin should be 
ready. Beguile them in 
every way possible. 
26. © Look up unfa¬ 
miliar vegetables and 
try some of them. Sorrel 
is one of the most de¬ 
licious; mallows are 
toothsome, and the “or¬ 
namental” gourds are 
eaten by those who know 
their qualities. 
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27. © General U. S. 
Grant born, 1822. 
Sow last of hardy an¬ 
nuals in garden, thinning 
out to proper distances 
apart instead of trans¬ 
planting. 
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28. © Apply second 
ration of nitrate of soda 
to asparagus and rhu¬ 
barb, using same amount 
as before. Final spray¬ 
ing for scale; also spray 
for fungi, curculio, cod¬ 
ling moth and psylla. 
29. © All planting of 
new shrubs, trees, etc., 
should be finished by 
now, and all garden work 
well under way. 
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30. @ Washington in- 
augurated first President, 
1789. J 
Watch for cutworms, ^ 
root maggots, etc. Be- 5 a 
gin weeding in the gar- 
den as soon as the first su 
weed appears. 
24 - C Provide shelters 
for toads in the garden, 
and then provide the 
toads! A space 6 ins. 
deep and wide covered 
with a board under 
which they can crawl 
pleases them. They de¬ 
vour cutworms. 
25. © New moon 6h. 
22m. A. M. 
A sowing day. Beans, 
beets, carrots, lettuce, 
peas, spinach — every¬ 
thing indeed may go in 
now. Some will be sec¬ 
ond sowings, of course. 
“Whanne that Aprile with her showres sote, the 
droughts of March hath perced to the rote.” 
‘‘A cherry year, a merry year; a plum year, a dumb year; 
Stormy around the sixth and twentieth, 
tbe second week generally a fair month. 
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"A windy year, an apple year; a rainy Easter, a cheese year.’ 
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