The Cook County herald., 1905-05-06

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Points on Making Lawns, Planting
Trees, and Sowing Seeds Il
-. in the House.
AS the days Nlengthen and the sun
strengthens the first signs, of spring
fever return. OF course it is too early
to DO any actual gardening out OF
doors, but what a delightful oppor.
tunlty we have to make our gardens
on paper in the house, we who are
quite familiar with gardening in all
It's forms, out Of doors and in doors,
gardening for pleasure and gardening
for profit. Our greatest pleasures
come from gardening for profit, and
our greatest profit comes when we
garden for pleasure.
This is catalogue north and don't
know any pleasure for the time being
equal to that we derive from the many
beautiful catalogues issued by the
seedsmen from Maine to California
Truly, to-day these catalogues are,
with their splendid illustrations,
their fine presswork, and their flow
ing descriptions, marvels of informa
ton and almost unbounded funds o:
enjoyment.
How marvelously has this cata
logue making grown since thirty
years. At that time there was scarce
ly a:catalogue that had more than hall
dozen illustrations, and they were
as rule, wood cuts so crudely done
asfto be almost unrecognizable, unless
they were labeled-and as to colors
they were scarcely thought Of. To.
day many of the catalogues contain
more sound information than many
books which have been written on
the same subjects but few years
since. They are virtually text books
in gardening. AS rule, the informa.
tionE.is condensed and so boiled down
as to be readily understood. And all
these catalogues may be had for. the
asking. A postal card is all that is
necessary in most cases to obtain
them. Write now for them, get them
and read them from cover to cover
Be careful to read and note down
what is said about the new flowers.
the new vegetables, and the new
fruits.
The enthusiastic gardeners, if wo
men, are as anxious to read about
the novelties for the garden as they
are of the Paris fashions for Easter
bonnets. If men, they are just as
anxious as the lovers of horses ars
ds to which will be next years Derby
winner. Perhaps some persons will.
say: 20, yes, I know, but what has
become of all the hundreds of these
novelties that have appeared?" Well
as bonnets don't last forever, and as
all horses are not Derby winners, W;
are not disheartened.
In a future article in this depart
ment will appear a review of the nov
elites of the season commenting or
those which are believed to possess
merit. A carefully condensed list also
will be presented of all the best ane
most suitable. kind of flowers ant
vegetables for amateurs who have no.
the services of professional gard
ener.
Within a week or two opportunitie:
will occur to repair the lawn, but l.
must not be done until the frost j.
entirely out of the ground and thu
whole of the surface is freed from the
winters snow. mean when all thu
old snow has disappeared. But prep
arations should be made at once, 81
as to have everything ready when tht
time comes.
The material required is suf1icien,
quantity of the best mixed law
grass (don't use any cheap >mixturel
to cover the ground just half as thicl
as if it was a new lawn you were
about to MAKE, instead of making re
pairs: It takes for a new lawn :
pound of seed for each 225 square fee
or thereabouts if we figure will
liberality one pound will be enough
for 400 square feet.
Will ILLS, pIOV1O0 lOf every 4Ui
square feet five pounds of the high
est grade lawn fertilizer. The bes
is that composed of blood. bone an,
potash. Don't use any cheap grade
Have everything ready and the da!
the snow comes mix together the seet
and the fertilizer and sprinkle tn,
whole evenly over the surface.
This can also be done if there i.
an even steady rain falling, and tn.
ground is thawed out. Don't = y
when the surface is frozen, IL, i
you do the seed swims into pil.s ant
leaves the space bare where it is tn,
most desirable to cover. One of thu
reasons for advising sowing on thu
snow is that the material is more cas-
lily seen and thus can be more evenl,
distributed. This is one Of the read
lest and best methods of renovatins
lawns, as neither raking ror sweep
ing is necessarv.-Chicago Tribune.
Apples for English Market.
In 1903 the enormous amount o.