April, 
1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
3 2 7 
ing, care, injury and repair of shade trees, 
parasites and their control, insecticides, 
fungicides and spraying, spraying machin¬ 
ery and pruning are all covered in a de¬ 
tailed and authoritative way. The second 
part of the work takes up the identification 
of trees, and is profusely illustrated with 
excellent photographs showing habit of 
growth, bark, twigs, etc., of each of the 
scores of trees described. A glossary, ex¬ 
planation of terms, and a key to genera 
and species add to the value of this part, 
and there is a thorough index covering the 
whole. It is an indispensable book for any 
person interested in our native trees and 
their care. 
Garden Suggestions and Queries 
(Continued from page 294) 
it. I f a very cold day should come it will 
not hurt them to be kept dark. Sash cov¬ 
ered with “plant cloth” are very useful 
for this purpose, and cost little. 
While you are hardening off your cab¬ 
bages be careful not to chill and stunt 
vour tomatoes and eggplants. These are 
warm-weather things, and likely to re¬ 
quire all the warmth you can give them 
at night in a frame, and up to 70, or 
even 80, degrees in the day. But don't 
neglect giving enough ventilation to keep 
them strong and healthy. If there is no 
“heat” in the frame, keep the glass cov¬ 
ered at nights with mats or shutters. 
Double-glass sash are especially good for 
the tenderer vegetables and flowers. They 
are a great boon to the gardener who has 
to get along without a green-house. 
Two to four weeks before it is safe to 
plant such tender things as cucumbers, 
melons, lima beans and sweet corn, or 
such bulbs as cannas, dahlias, tuberous 
begonias or calidiums, you may gain a 
great deal by starting them in the square 
paper pots, which may now be bought so 
cheaply. They come “flat." and you can 
make up a few dozen over the block of 
wood that accompanies them in ten min¬ 
utes. Simply fill the pots, packed close 
together, with rich compost, and plant the 
seeds or bulbs. (Lima beans, remember, 
go eye down, edgeways, and rot very 
easily if you water them too much before 
they sprout.) Don’t Jet the pots dry out. 
Don't set them in the open until all 
danger of frost is over, and harden them 
off well first. 
Pruning. —If your roses have not 
already been pruned, attend to them at 
once. Cut back to good live wood, no 
matter if there’s nothing left but a stump. 
The more severe the pruning, the big¬ 
ger and better the flowers, but there 
won't be so many of them. This doesn’t 
apply to climbers and Rugosas. Always 
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grow to an open centre. Besides roses, 
some of the flowering shrubs may be 
pruned now — those which bloom afte: 
mid-summer and in fall, as a general 
rule. The others flower on last year’s 
wood, and cannot be cut back now with¬ 
out sacrificing flower-buds already formed. 
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