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House & Garden 
The GARDENER’S CALENDAR for JUNE 
Liberty H. Bailey 
No other Ameri¬ 
can has written 
or taught more 
extensively, or for 
the greater good, of 
gardening in this 
country than the 
editor of the Cyclo¬ 
pedia of Horticulture 
Mrs. Francis King 
Having great affec¬ 
tion for her sub¬ 
ject, Mrs. K i n g 
finds herself on in¬ 
timate terms with 
all the affairs of gar¬ 
dening, and writes 
simply and grace¬ 
fully about them 
SUNDAY 
MONDAY 
TUESDAY 
WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 
FRIDAY 
SATURDAY 
O, June, 0 June, that tee 
desired so. 
Wilt thou not make us happy 
on this dap? 
Across the river thy soft 
breezes blow 
Sweet icitli the scent of 
breezes far away. 
Above our heads rustle the 
aspens grey. 
Calm is the sky with harm¬ 
less clouds beset. 
William Morris. 
This Calendar of the gardener’s labors is 
aimed as a reminder for undertaking all 
his tasks in season. It is fitted to the lati¬ 
tude of the Middle States, but its service 
should be available for the whole country 
if it be remembered 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 operations. 
The dates given are for an average season. 
1. It is ad¬ 
visable at this 
time to take 
large quantities 
of chrysanthe¬ 
mum cuttings. 
These if rooted 
now will make 
fine plants for 
6" or 7" pots, 
or when bed¬ 
ded out will 
make stems 
about 3’ long 
with good sized 
flowers. 
2. Lettuce 
will frequently 
run to seed at 
this season of 
the year. 
Boards or other 
covering ma¬ 
terial placed 
over the plants 
will tend to re¬ 
duce the loss 
from this 
source. Re¬ 
move all such 
covering dur¬ 
ing wet snells. 
3. Thinning 
out all the 
crops in the 
garden is ad¬ 
visable. This 
should be done 
when the plants 
are small and 
before the roots 
are interlocked, 
or numerous 
desirable 
plants will be 
removed . 
Water well be¬ 
forelifting. 
4. A top 
dressing ai>- 
plied to the 
lawn now will 
encouiage root 
action that will 
help the grass 
to resist the dry 
weather sure to 
come later in 
the season. 
Sheep manure, 
bone meal or 
wood ashes are 
excellent ma¬ 
terials to use. 
5. T o in a - 
toes, cucum- 
b ers and 
melons, as well 
as other garden 
products that 
are subject to 
blight, should 
be sprayed at 
bi-weekly peri¬ 
ods with Bor¬ 
deaux mixture. 
Leaves that are 
affected should 
be removed at 
once. 
6. Now is 
the time to 
stop using the 
asparagus, as 
there are other 
vegetables 
available now 
to take its 
place. Keep the 
asparagus 
dusted during 
the summer 
with a poison 
to destroy the 
asparagus 
beetle. 
7. It is good 
practice to go 
over the bed- 
ding plants, 
pinching the 
tips of their 
growth fre¬ 
quently. This 
will cause them 
to become more 
sturdy and to 
develop more 
quickly and in 
better form. 
Only the tips 
need removal. 
8. If they 
have finished 
flowering, the 
early spring 
shrubs such as 
forsythia, dcut- 
zia, etc., should 
be pruned. The 
best method is 
to cut out en¬ 
tirely several of 
the very old 
branches. By 
pruning now no 
flowers will be 
sacrificed. 
9. Before ap¬ 
plying a mulch 
to the straw¬ 
berries to pro¬ 
tect the fruit 
from dirt it is a 
good practice 
to give the 
plants an ap¬ 
plication of 
strong liquid 
food. This will 
greatly increase 
the size of the 
maturing bei- 
ries. 
10. Do not 
neglect to work 
the garden soil 
deeply and 
often. This not 
only keeps the 
w r eeds in check, 
but preserves 
the soil mois¬ 
ture for the use 
of the plants. 
If this is not 
done the mois¬ 
ture from the 
soil will quick¬ 
ly evaporate. 
11. Carna¬ 
tion s in the 
field which are 
intended for 
planting out in 
greenhouses for 
bloom next 
winter should 
be sprayed oc¬ 
casionally with 
Bordeaux mix¬ 
ture if there is 
any indication 
of rust. Tiiis 
will make much 
difference later. 
12. Tall 
flowers such as 
hollyhocks, del¬ 
phiniums, heli- 
anthus, etc., 
should be sui>- 
ported before 
any damage is 
done by storms 
and heavy 
w'iiids. Proper 
stakes should 
be put in and 
the plants can 
be tied in to 
them. 
13. All the 
hedge cutting 
should be done 
now. Fi equent 
trimming is re¬ 
quired in order 
to avoid mak¬ 
ing a number 
of unsightly 
voids. Hedges 
that have been 
neglected for 
some time may 
be improved by 
tying in shape 
before cutting. 
1L Azaleas, 
genistas, aca- 
c i a s , etc., 
should be 
plunged in beds 
out of doors, 
where they can 
be well pro- 
vid e d with 
water and 
sprayed. These 
plants will be 
making growth 
at this time and 
forming next 
year’s buds. 
15. Do not 
neglect to spray 
the fruit trees 
when they are 
in flower, using 
a combination 
of Bordeaux 
mixture and ar¬ 
senate of lead. 
Spray thor¬ 
oughly from 
different 
angles. This 
will destroy the 
many harmful 
insects. 
16. Fruit 
trees that have 
reached the 
producing 
stage should be 
sprayed regu¬ 
larly with Bor¬ 
deaux mixture. 
This protects 
the fruit from 
the parasites 
and fungi. Suc¬ 
cessive genera¬ 
tions must be 
destroyed as 
they hatch. 
17. Care 
should be 
taken with all 
newly planted 
hardy stock 
that it be not 
allowed to suf¬ 
fer for lack of 
water. Thor¬ 
ough soaking 
of the ground 
—not a mere 
sprinkling — 
followed by a 
heavy mulch is 
needed. 
18. The climb¬ 
ing roses should 
be looked over 
carefully and 
any heavy, ro- 
b u s t new 
growth should 
be tied into 
proper posi¬ 
tion. Pruning 
should be de¬ 
ferred until 
they have fin¬ 
ished flowering, 
when the old 
wood is cut. 
19. Sow now 
kale, Brussels 
sprouts, cab- 
b a g e , celery 
and cauliflow¬ 
er. These when 
large enough to 
handle should 
be transplanted 
into other beds 
and set about 
4” apart. From 
here they can 
be moved into 
the garden 
later. 
20. Keep a 
sharp lookout 
for aphis of all 
kinds if the 
weather is at 
all dry. If the 
plants are in- 
tested spray 
them for three 
successive 
evenings with 
a reliable to¬ 
bacco solution. 
Be sure the 
spray reaches 
the under sides. 
21. The flow¬ 
er garden 
should be 
looked over 
and any dry 
stalks should 
be removed. 
Plants that 
bloom through¬ 
out the entire 
season should 
be top-dressed 
occa s i o n a 11 y 
with some good 
fertilizer to 
maintain vigor. 
22. It is a 
good plan to go 
over the 
tomato plants, 
reducing the 
quantity of un- 
productive 
vines and sup¬ 
porting those 
left to carry 
the crop. It 
matters little 
what system is 
employed to 
keep the fruit 
supported. 
23. Do not 
omit spraying 
the potatoes 
with arsenate 
of lead at the 
first appear- 
ance of the 
potato beetle. 
Hilling the 
potatoes when 
they are in 
flower is advis¬ 
able. At this 
stage the young 
tubers are 
forming. 
24. Onion 
maggots are 
very destruct¬ 
ive at this sea¬ 
son of the year. 
It is good prac¬ 
tice to top dress 
the soil thor- 
oughly with 
soot to keep 
them in check. 
Thorough at¬ 
tention in this 
matter will be 
well repaid by 
a better crop. 
25. Don’t 
neglect to soak 
the soil thor¬ 
oughly when it 
is necessary to 
resort to arti¬ 
ficial watering. 
Evenings or 
early mornings 
are the best 
time for this 
work. Cultiva¬ 
tion should fol¬ 
low so as to re¬ 
establish the 
dust mulch. 
26. Look out 
for rose bugs. 
Go over the 
plants each day 
with a small 
can of kerosene, 
shaking the 
flowers over 
the can and 
causing the in¬ 
sects to fall into 
the kerosene. 
This will de- 
stroy them 
quickly and ef¬ 
fectively. 
27. One of 
the essentials 
in producing 
good fruit is 
the proper 
thinning of the 
crop. The trees 
should be gone 
over carefully 
now, reducing 
the quantity of 
the fruit by 
about one-half. 
Larger and bet¬ 
ter fruit will be 
the result. 
28. Don’t 
neglect to keep 
up the sowings 
in the vege¬ 
table garden. 
Corn, beans 
and cucumbers 
should be sown 
twice this 
month. Inter¬ 
cropping may 
be resorted to 
in many cases 
with the pur¬ 
pose of increas¬ 
ing the yield. 
29. Be sure 
you keep the 
lima beans and 
peas properly 
supported; the 
peas by staking 
and the limas 
by tying in to 
their poles. 
Bush limas 
should be sup¬ 
ported by small 
pea brush 
placed in the 
row. Such at¬ 
tention repays. 
30. Crops 
such as pota¬ 
toes, celery, 
tomatoes, etc., 
will be im¬ 
proved by mild 
applications of 
fertilizer. Scat¬ 
ter the fertil- 
izer on the 
ground around 
the stems of 
the plants, 
working it well 
into the soil 
with a hoe. 
The men and women pictured on this page, with their chief interests for the most part widely varied, have come upon common 
ground in that all of them have produced notable garden literature. Miss Jekyll, an unequaled designer in plant arrangement, has 
written books on garden color, on the various types of gardens, and on garden ornament. Mrs. King, one of our most enthusiastic 
amateur horticulturists, has written delightfully on gardens and designed them. Dr. Bailey, a teacher, has written enough to more 
than fill a five-foot shelf icith volumes that keep many an amateur, as well as prof css tonal, from floundering. Mrs. Wharton, a 
novelist, has done one of the best books on Italian gardens in existence. Mr. Cluiicn-Brock, whose portrait here, by the way, was 
drawn by his friend William Rothenstein, writes on almost any subject under the sun, but on none of them more entertainingly or 
sensibly then gardening; while Mr. Finck steps outside music criticism to write on gardening with the same wide knowledge that 
he brings to music and with the same affection for poppies and pansies which he has for the works of Edvard Grieg. 
A. Clutton-Brock 
This brilliant En¬ 
glish essayist writes 
on music, morals, 
pictures and poems, 
then with equal 
fluency, in “Studies 
in Garde nin g,” 
treats of flowers 
and garden design 
Mrs. Edith Wharton 
In “Italian Villas 
and Their Gardens” 
the author of 
“Ethan Frome” has 
written one of the 
finest books on the 
s u bject — sympathe¬ 
tic, intelligent, and 
extremely interesting 
Henry T. Finck 
The dean of New York 
music critics, the author, 
also, of “Gardening With 
Brains,” will cover this 
s u m m e r his fifty-first 
annual gardening festival 
Miss Gertrude Jekyll 
This portrait of the dis¬ 
tinguished garden author 
and designer was painted 
by William Nicholson and 
is reproduced by courtesy 
of Country Life (London) 
