CALENDAR fer 
The garden calendar at Ivy 
Hill Forest is long-range. Even 
of then, time goes so fast each year 
Ph. seems like a month, each month 
JANUARY 
Dream over your Perkie Plant handbook. 
Take good care of those Christmas Perkie Plants. 
Shake snow off your evergreens so that it can’t 
break and twist them. 
Move big deciduous trees with a frozen ball of 
soil. 
FEBRUARY 
Push back into the ground any plants that may 
be heaved out by frost. 
Bring branches of forsythia, crab and other 
shrubs indoors for forcing. 
Order Perkie Plants in ample time for proper 
planting season. 
MARCH 
Clean up the debris of winter. Do not burn leaves. 
Sow hardy annuals outdoors, such as candytuft, 
larkspur, poppies and sweet peas. 
Start gloxinias and tuberous begonias indoors. 
Remove mulches gradually. 
Fertilize the lawn; reseed bare spots. 
Prune rose bushes. 
Give dormant spray to ornamentals. 
Move such thin-barked trees as birch, redbud, 
magnolia, oak and hawthorn. 
Plant dormant trees and shrubs, mecluding roses. 
APRIL 
Sow indoors for later transplanting outdoors such 
annuals as zinnia, asters, ageratum, scabiosa, 
salvia, annual phlox, petunia and snapdragons. 
Reset perennials that were not replanted last fall. 
Fertilize trees, flower borders and roses. 
Clip evergreen hedges. 
MAY 
Sow annuals outdoors. 
Set out annual and perennial plants. 
Plant gladiolus, dahlias and other summer- 
flowering bulbs. 
Divide clumps of asters and chrysanthemums 
that have grown too large. 
Start spraying roses; continue regularly. 
Tie up tall perennials and lilies as they grow. 
Bend bulb foliage over as it yellows but do not 
Cub tof. 
JUNE 
Spray and dust as needed through the summer. 
Sow perennials and biennials for bloom next year. 
Prune shrubs just after they bloom. 
Move tuberous begonias outdoors. 
Watch for crabgrass in the Iawn and get rid of 
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to landscaping. Cut off foliage of spring-flowering bulbs after it 
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position to form waterfalls 
