NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
HORTICULTURE 
And Kindred Interests 
(Department managed by a North Shore Gardener) 
PLANS FOR IQ14. 
Do not plan too much. A moder- 
ate amount well done is better than 
a large plan only half carried out. 
There is a certain day for sowing 
seed. One week later or even three 
days will not give the same results. 
Too early is as bad as too late, In- 
sects must be destroyed as soon as 
they appear or steps taken to prevent 
their appearance. One cannot ex- 
pect the best returns from plants rid- 
dled by insects. Have your spray- 
ing materials on hand before the in- 
sects or plant diseases appear—every 
kind you are likely to need. It is 
better to buy and not use than to be 
unable to get the’ materials soon 
enough after the pests are noticed. 
If he whose vocation is with the 
soil will hunt out some work and 
drive it now perhaps he will be less 
driven by the many things he wants 
to do on time when events in the 
vegetable world are passing rapidly 
beneath late spring sunshine. And 
to him who employs the man with 
the hoe would we say, “Make your 
plans far ahead in the fall or now. 
Have all the extra work possible 
done in the dormant season that your 
tiller of the soil may be as little bur- 
dened with extra work as possible 
in the busy spring season. How can 
an employee be expected to keep up 
interest in his vocation 1f he is hand- 
icapped by an insurmountable moun- 
tan of work holding him back from 
doing things on time, resulting in 
less than ‘best results as harvest time 
and weeds as high as the crops them- 
selves, 
A man who is behind his schedule 
is working to a disadvantage, as weeds 
a foot high take much more time to 
renove than if cut down when an 
inch high. 
Good rose bushes planted early in 
spring will bloom the same year, but 
if planting is delayed ‘because of too 
much work, the sane roses winn be 
a disappointment. 
Success is a stimulus to further 
ambition. Impossible burdens breed 
discontent and indifference. Fruit 
trees do better if planted in April. 
Order your trees and shrubs ship- 
ped as soon as the frost is out of the 
ground and get them planted early. 
They will succeed better if May finds 
them \planted and making root than 
if still in the nurserymen’s storage 
place breaking into leaf or drying up. 
CARRYING PLANTS OVER WINTER. 
Besides protection given plants 
during winter there are other factors 
that help plants to withstand the 
rigors of winter. One thing is drain- 
age. Standing water is death to such 
plants as pansies, strawberries, etc. 
We believe that with good drainage 
and proper protection Campanulas, 
Japanese Anemones, etc., will winter 
as well in the open with undisturbed 
root systems as if lifted and put into 
a frame, 
To freeze up with insufficient 
moisture at the roots is not help- 
ful to evergreens. 
Spruce trees grow everywhere in 
Maine, but only in swampy places in 
eastern Massachusetts. The Magno- 
lia, for which the North Shore is 
famous, is not generally found as 
far north. 
These instances illustrate the fact 
that in certain situations certain spe- 
cimens of plants may continue to 
survive or even thrive while the spe- 
cles does not generally succeed in 
that locality. 
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