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House & Garden 
Annuals for Southern Gardens 
( Continued, from page 126) 
colors, Kochia, or use salmon pink and 
red tones of the zinnias instead of the 
yellow and add to the fall flowering 
masses Celosia. Mix the seed well and 
then plant as if it were lawn grass seed. 
Rake in carefully and then take a few 
weeks off. The seedlings will have 
covered the earth. Let them crowd 
enough to kill out the weeds. 
Such a planting can also be well 
made on the home grounds if there are 
large open spaces available. The above 
mixture is for a flowering season from 
early summer to late fall. In the au¬ 
tumn another mixture can be sown that 
will insure blossom from the earliest 
spring and once planted the whole thing 
THE OUT-DOOR 
A FTER the early-vegetable enthusi¬ 
ast has taken care of the seeds 
which need to be started in the window 
forcing box of the hotbed he should turn 
his attention to the possibilities of the 
portable container. This is usually 
considered as a place in which to winter 
over lettuce or perennials, but it may 
be used with very satisfactory results 
for peas, corn, string beans, beets, car¬ 
rots, etc., producing crops at least ten 
days ahead of the usual early yield. A 
convenient size is 6' x 12', covered 
with four 3' x 6' sashes, and one may 
have as many of these as the size of his 
household demands. 
This frame calls for three 12' planks 
12" wide and 1" thick; 42' of 1" x 2" 
strips; four 2" T hinges; eight J4" 
screw eyes, and four iron pins or old 
bolts. Two of the planks form the 
sides, the third cut in 2' 10" lengths, 
the ends, the two inches being taken off 
to allow for the overlap of the sashes. 
These planks are joined at opposite cor¬ 
ners on the inside by a hinge top and 
bottom which makes it possible to fold 
an end and a side together when stored 
away. The other two corners should 
be furnished with two sets of overlap¬ 
ping eyes through which the bolt or pin 
is to be dropped when the frame is set 
up. It would be well to guard against 
the possibility of warping by reinforcing 
the ends of the planks with narrow 
strips screwed from the outside. Join 
all corners so that the outside measure¬ 
ments will tally with those of the sashes. 
To brace the frame, and also to fa¬ 
cilitate the handling of the sash, 
counter-sink three 1" x 2" strips from 
front to back 3' apart so they will come 
under the joining of the sashes, and 
attach them to the frame with screws, 
which may be readily removed. The 
upper edges of the ends and back should 
also have 1" x 2" strips screwed on the 
outside, extending 1" above the frame 
to avoid unnecessary draughts and cold. 
Leave the front plain in order to slide 
the sashes back and forth more easily. 
One or even two coats of paint will 
more than repay the cost by greatly 
prolonging the life of the frame. 
When placing the frame for use, slant 
it just enough toward the front to allow 
the rain to run off. Three or four inches 
drop will be quite sufficient. The ideal 
location is under the southeast wall of 
some building against late cold winds 
but will also reflect a good deal of heat 
during the day. 
The soil should be well drained and 
heavily enriched. Unless already well 
supplied with humus, seed it to rye in 
October, put the frames and glasses in 
will seed itself. Just as soon as the 
stronger vigorous plants have finished 
blooming take them out. Then the 
weaker ones will come right along and 
the harvest will be continuous. If 
such a planting happens to be along an 
automobile highway it will be a won¬ 
derful asset and advertisement to a 
town, for the rich returns of beauty will 
bring joy not only to those who 
achieved it but pleasure to all who 
pass that way. 
Southern gardeners wishing help can 
have their problems solved by address¬ 
ing the author of this article, care 
House & Garden. 
Julia Lester Dillon 
FORCING FRAME 
place about the middle of March, and 
as soon as the ground is thawed out 
cover with well rotted manure and 
spade it all under. 
Seed may be sown as soon as the 
ground is warm, according to the sea¬ 
son, and varied to suit the preference 
of the gardener. A suggested planting 
is one sash of three lengthwise rows of 
early French forcing carrots 1' apart; 
another of three rows of one of the 
extra early string beans; another of 
three rows of early beets; and the fourth 
will accommodate three rows of Golden 
Bantam corn. Before planting the car¬ 
rots and beets tramp the soil down 
hard with the back of the rake, form¬ 
ing a narrow trench in which the seed 
will naturally fall into straight lines. 
After these are covered with the usual 
/4" or J4"> firm the soil again so that 
the fine roots will encounter no air 
spaces when they first start. Failure to 
do this probably accounts for the ap¬ 
parently poor germination of many of 
the smaller seeds. Set the beans 2" 
apart and thin to 4" as soon as the 
plants are large enough to show which 
are the strongest. The beets should be 
thinned to 3", the carrots to 2". Plant 
the corn in trenches 4" or 5" deep after 
the seed is covered, and hill up with 
outside soil as necessary. The plants 
should stand about 8" apart in the row. 
Such close planting means of course 
very careful and very constant cultiva¬ 
tion, also a generous supply of liquid 
food and stimulant. The frequency of 
these applications will depend upon the 
amount of nourishment in the soil, but 
under any conditions it will be well to 
water every two weeks after the fourth 
or fifth leaves are out with a solution 
of nitrate of soda, teaspoonful to 
five gallons of water. If anything shows 
signs of lack of food, apply manure 
water a little darker than an English 
walnut shell on the alternate week. 
This is easily made by steeping a little 
fresh manure in a pail of hot water and 
diluting it to the desired strength. In 
making both of these applications re¬ 
move the rose from the watering-pot, 
as there is no use wasting good root 
food on the foliage. 
Care must be taken to give plenty of 
fresh air. Raise the sashes every pos¬ 
sible day as high as weather conditions 
permit. Short pieces of 2' x 4' are very 
convenient for the purpose, as they give 
three different heights by their three 
dimensions. During a warm spring rain 
the sashes should be lifted entirely from 
the frames, and as the days grow mild 
and settled the whole protection should 
be removed. Mary Nelms 
