60 ROBSON QUALITY SEED, HALL, NEW YORK 

HOW TO MAKE A GARDEN 
GARDENS: A good garden is always a thing of pride. Vegetables from your own garden always taste better and flowers that you grow 
yourself always smell sweeter. As for your garden, remember this: The more care you give it, the more joy and profit it will give back to 
you. 
LOCATION: Pick the best spot you can get which is handy. One that is open to the sun, away from large trees, and that has reasonably 
good drainage. Loose, mellow, loamy soil is best but use what you have. You must have a garden in 1948. 
FERTILIZER: Before plowing apply a good coat of rotted stable manure together with 2 lbs. of Superphosphate per 100 square feet. 
If manure is not available, use a good, high-grade, complete, commercial fertilizer. Before plowing or spading apply this fertilizer at the 
rate of from 1 to 2 lbs. per 100 square feet depending on the natural fertility of the soil. Apply 1 or 2 lbs. more fertilizer after plowing, 
working it well into the soil. This is the latest approved method of fertilization and gives better results than when applied after plowing 
except on very sandy soil. 
FITTING THE SOIL: Plow deeply, seven or eight inches is not too much. Work until you have plenty of loose, mellow fine soil on top. 
If spaded by hand be sure to pulverize each fork or spadeful as it is turned over. Level and work the spaded ground with a rake. 
PLANTING: Don’t start to plant until you know where each vegetable and flower is to be placed. Draw a plan of your garden. Tall 
growing vegetables such as sweet corn and staked tomatoes should be planted on the north or west side so they will not shade lower growing 
vegetables. Vine crops such as pumpkins and squash should be planted where they will not run over small vegetables and smother them. 
The distance between rows will depend on the method of cultivation you use. If hand tools are used, 12 to 15 inches is enough for 
beets, carrots, lettuce, onions, radish and spinach. Corn, beans, peas, potatoes and staked tomatoes need from 30 to 36 inches between 
rows. Melons, cucumbers and summer squash should be allowed 4 feet between hills and hills of pumpkins and winter squash should 
never be planted closer than 6 to 8 feet. P 7 
Don’t plant too much of some things and too little of others. A five foot row of parsley is usually enough and lettuce and radishes 
do not keep in edible condition for very long. On the other hand, surplus beans, peas, carrots and beets can be canned for winter use. 
Unless your garden has to be on a steep slope it does not make much difference which way the rows run. On such a slope the rows 
had better run cross-ways. ‘ 
Plant spinach, lettuce, onion and radish seeds and onion sets just as soon as the soil can be worked in Spring; late frosts will not hurt 
them. They like the cool, moist weather. Other seeds and plants may be put in as soon as all danger of frost is over. 
SOWING SEED: Do not sow too thickly. Watch the germination as stated on the seed package. This is placed there for your guidance. 
Do not sow too deeply. Remember the plant must depend on the food in the seed until it gets out of the ground. Small seeds should be 
only lightly covered with fine soil. Beans, corn, peas should be planted about 1 inch deep. 
FALL CROPS AND SECOND PLANTINGS: Your garden should be planted to make every foot produce all through the season. As 
vegetables mature and are used, new plantings should be made. It is safe to plant beans and early sweet corn anytime before July 15th. 
Turnips, endive, radishes, lettuce and Fall spinach may be sowed in New York State up until the last of July. f 
Before making these second sowings clean up all rubbish from the first crop. Work up two or three inches of nice, loose soil for the 
new seed bed. 
OLD GARDENERS know a lot of ‘‘stunts’’. One of them is this: If your soil is very dry sow your seed and then lay over the rows some 
old boards or papers weighted down with stones. This will hold the moisture and heat and make for quicker germination. Remove these 
covers as soon as seedlings begin to poke through the ground. 
POLE BEANS AND SQUASHES: If you do not have a convenient fence on which pole beans can climb, you may plant them in your 
corn and let them run up the corn stalks. 
Your grandfather probably planted pumpkins in his corn field. You can do the same with winter squash or pie pumpkins. 
CULTIVATION: Weeds are very impolite; they wait for nothing and nobody. If you do not get the start of them (and keep it), they 
will get the start of you. ‘‘Elbow grease’ and the good, old hoe are their worst enemies. Cultivate shallow but often until the weeds 
are under control. A good time to begin cultivating is right after you have finished. 
TOOLS: You don't need many. A spade or spading fork, a rake and a hoe are quite necessary. A small, hand weeder and a trowel will 
be handy. Maby you can get a wheel hoe but, if not, the hand hoe will do the whole trick. Keep it good and sharp with a file or on 
the grindstone. This makes it work more easily. 
DON’T BE AFRAID to ask questions of other gardeners. This is a good way to find things out without making mistakes—and we all 
make these. It is also a good way to get any king of education—and gardening is an education, 
The various State Colleges of Agriculture and Agricultural Experiment Stations have available bulletins on gardening. Write to your 
Agricultural Experiment Station for these. They are usually free to residents of your State. 
FREEDOM GARDEN SEED COLLECTION 
Before the war we offered a collection of seeds suitable 
for the average size garden. During the war years 
some seed varieties were in short supply and the col- 
lection was discontinued. We have lately had a num- 
ber of inquiries for such a collection and are offering the 
following at a real saving to the customer. 









Varieties Will Plant _HALL ONTARIO COUNTY - NEW York 
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Crosby Beet i wns ine eu eae eee 20 ft. row oe 
Nantes Carrotée cea ct an ea ere rae 25 ft. row 
Seneca Dawn Sweet Corn.............. 200 ft. row 
Seneca Golden Sweet Corn............ 250 ft. row 
Golden Cross Sweet Corn.............. 300 ft. row 
Ae Gs CUCU DEY 2 nee eee 15 hills ;SEETEMBER. 
Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce......... 50 ft. row : = 
Seneca Delicious Muskmelon.......... 20 hills s oS a : ay 
Ebenezer Onion Sets.................. 75 ft. row 9:18 19 20 21 22 3 24/22 23 24 25 26 27 28/19 20 21 3 
Little Marvel|Peast--- teen ee 50 ft. row Fe 8 a 8 2 SONI 30. 27 28.2930 
Morse’s:Market Peas<= 2va.c2 se ene 50 ft. row » ote t . IE ACART UF AKES 
Long Standing Spinach............... 100 ft. row 4 See ST a _ 
RubyiSwissiChard ees eee eee 15 ft. row | 12345 6 
MixediRadishs: cose eee ee OD. (ea Low, 
Yankee Hybrid Summer Squash....... 10 hills 
Buttercup Squasha. ee ee 6 hills 
Honey Cream Watermelon............. 10 hills 
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Enough of each of the above to plant the amount indi postal card telling us how many of our 1948 calendars you need or 
cated—a $3.55 value for only $3.25 prepaid. make a note on your seed order. 

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