The Lamar register., 1905-10-11

The joyous season of bulb planting
is at hand, and it is high time to sent
for catalogues. but there are many
delightful things TO do in the garder
now besides the planting of tulips
hyacinths, crocuses and daffodils.
Frost always comes too soon! Sc
does the inevitable storm that whirls
the autumn leaves to the ground
after which We are likely to have a
month of heavenly weather, when we
might be enjoying the gorgeous au
tumn colors Many's the year l have
seen cannas. dahllas and all the ten
de= bedding plants burned to crisp,
/ or at least badly singed and disffgur'
| ed. by premature frost, after which
our misfortune was Knocked by long
| succession of warm. cloudless, sunny
Indian Summer" weather.
1t is SO easy to avoid such catas-
trophe that | am astonished that more
| people are not on their guard. You
cannot always be absolutely sure that
frost will come during any particular
night. but it is easy to take precau-
tions at dusk on a suspiciously cool
evening Cover the flowers you want
to protect with long strips of cheese
cloth, or with empty dry goods boxes,
or even newspapers. Or you can turn
the hose on flower bed, using a fine
/ spray and soaking every plant until
/ it drips. Frost always comes on
cloudless nights and usually after a
sunny day that has followed a cold
rainstorm. One hours work on crit
tna1 taIs I'd foil fnf
| gay flowers for two or three weeks,
when those OF your neighbors will be
laid waste.
Every garden ought to have a hedge
! of arboryitae or hemlock on the side
from which the prevailing winter
wind comes. which is usually the
northwest. When such a hedge gets
six or eight feet high it may make an
| appreciable saving in the coal bill,
and it is morally certain that you
can have earlier vegetables and flow
ers than your neighbors, because you
can work the ground and sow the
seeds a month earlier than on a bare
wind-swept plot.
You can get fifty young hemlocks,
eight to fifteen inches high, for about
$3.50, and they should be planted
foot and a half or two feet apart.
While you are at It, you might as well
order few more young evergreens,
in order to hide the outbuildings in
your back yard Every unsightly OBJ
ject that cannot be moved should be
screened by lattice work, or ever.
greens.
II you want Towering hedge, or
any Towering shrubs and vines, such
as lilac. weigela. mock orange. hyd-
rangea. honeysuckle and the big pur-
ple-fiowered elematis. for the porch,
you can plant them any time in Oc-
tober. If the vines die back to the
ground in the winter, it is no matter.
as they will come up with renewed
vigor from the root next spring.
Have you ever planted sweet peas
in the apgnn? Do so this fall and
you may have the first blossoms in
town. II is not always an advantage,
however. Some seasons you will gain
nothing at all. But this year a gentle
man in Cincinnati got sweet peas on
May A. Think of it-nearly two
months earlier than most people. Are
You willing to risk a nickel this fall
on the chance?
There are other flower seeds that
can be sown in the fall to advantage
The grea, trouble with ANNALS. such
as bachelors buttons, marigolds.
morning glories, etc, on which most
people put their main reliance, is that
we do not plant them until late April
and May and they do not bloom until
month or two after that, so that
most gardens. at the very time when
life and color would be appreciated
the most in the garden, are an ex-
panse OF bare dirt, punctuated at wide
intervals by tender shoots of grow
ing things, only an inch or two high
There are three ways in which you
can fill your garden with life and col.
or in March and April, when most of
your neighbors' gardens will be all
premise and no reality. One is to
plant bulbs this fall Another is to
plant hardy perennial flowers. such as
the. Spanish, English and Siberian
iris. These are the good old standard
ways. and the third way is to SOW
seeds OF a few early blooming flowers
this very autumn.
would not advise a beginner to
spend much money on this last
scheme, but if you can get seeds for
the gathering from your own garden,
or your neighbor's. you would find it
an experiment to make this fall. You
will have better chance with large
seeds than small ones, especially If
you soak them for twenty-four hours.
If you SOW the seeds late in the fall
they will lie dormant all winter, but
even then they may start enough ear
lier in spring to gain week or so in
blossoming
But the best plan is to sow them
early enough in the autumn. so that
they will sprout and grow two or
three inches high-high enough to
survive the winter. when covered five
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