Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-19
THE COUNTRY CALENDAR
Practical Hints About Things to Do at This Season in Garden
and Greenhouse, the Orchard and the Poultry Yard.

| ~ OiiAF " III - " Dldiil6 bul AllN man
who bred her and owns her? That
man never studied the meaning of
COW, never looked into her physiology
and makeup, and very likely he COM
plains he is making no money, and
| the revenues of the whole State are
set back because he refused to
sanctify labor with knowledge
Clean the asparagus patch and fer
tilize it by applications of manure
Store the cabbage for winter use,
taking those which have just ma
tured over-ripe ones will not keep so
well. They can be kept by hanging
them up by the stump in the cellar.
or by burying them in barrels, or in
leaf or hoy-lined holes in the ground.
! Keep frost away from them
| the cabbage plant started last
month should be picked out into the
frames. They can be set close-6O0
TO the sash.
Chicory for winter salads should be
dug and stored in damp sand in the
! cellar.
Blanch the endive by tying the
! Celery must be housed during the
| latter part of October
Lift a few plants of parsley and
plant in boxes for growing in the win
dow garden.
Rhubarb can be planted as late as
October. Give the plants a good
mulch of manure to protect them over
winter. Also mulch old roots; the
manure will feed them next spring.
Dig up and store a few roots in soil
in half barrels for forcing in the
cellar.
Asparagus can also be planted at
this season and some people like to
put in few onion sets.
In the flower garden 1t is not too
late to plant peonies, but new planta-
lions should be made at once. Plants
which are too large to flower we'll
should he dug up and separated. If
this work is done now, they will
flower next year.
Dig up dahlia bulbs, dry them off
and store them after the frost comes. |
Be sure to mark carefully all the
varieties, so that there will be no diff
ficulty in identifying them next
spring. 4t
Lemon verbenas can be kept over
winter in the greenhouse or window
garden, but they will give better sat
isfaction next year If allowed to re-
main dormant in a cool place, such as
the cellar.
Gladiolus and tuberose bulbs must
also be housed. After digging the |
bulbs, let them lie a day or two until |
dry; then remove the tops and store
the bulbs in q cool but frostproof
place. 't
Seeds of other hardy annual plants
can be sown. The opium poppy Is
the most common for fall sowing.
Flowers from these will be two weeks
earlier than from spring sown seed.
Gamma bulbs must be brought in
before they are injured by frost Store
them where it is cool, and where they
will not be forced into growth in
early spring. -
In the greenhouse plant bulbs for
this winters and next springs flow-
ers. The earlier they are started the
better root-growth they will be en-
abled to make.
Plant the bulbs the earlier in oc-
tober the better They need every
possible day In which to make good
root growth before the ground freezes.
Sow sweet peas outdoors for flow
ers next spring. Earlier flowers VIII
result.
Begonia Gloire de Lorraine should
now be making growth fast. DO not
syringe the plants. Give them llght
shade from the suns rays, but the
place in which they are grown must
be light and airy. Train the plants
by stalking to be as shapely as pos
sible.
The poinsettia, that desirable
Christmas plant. must be kept from
drawing by being grown close to
the glass. When the bracts begin to
appear increase the temperature.
Poinsettias like a warm place. Man
ure water should also be given occa-
slonally.
Do not try TO eoonomize in the
small greenhouse by neglecting to
have a fire in the boiler. On dun
days it is much better to have the
ventilators open than to have no fire
and no ventilation, which may mean
the loss of the crop.
The lilies for midwinter Towering
should have a temperature of sixty
degrees at night from now on Fu-
migate freely to keep down plant
lice.
Roman hyacinths and the paper
white narcissi that were planted early
can now be brought into heat for
early flowers.
Callas do best in a temperature OF
about fifty degrees at night To in
sure success, feed them literally
with cow-manure water.
Mignonette is an excellent wiater-
/ Towering plant. Sow few seed in
two-inch pot, and shift TO larger
sizes as necessary. After growth has
started, a cool temperature is best
forty-five to forty-eight degrees at
night.
/ BouVardias should have tempera-
! ture of sixty-eight to seventy de-
grees at night.
Buy, or dig up and store, few
rhododendrons, mollis and Client
azaleas, lilacs, Deutzia gracilis and
! forsythias for forcing; they will re-
pay you for the trouble. Pot as soon
as they are received.
Even roses can be dug up at this
season, and boxed or potted for fore
ing: and they will give good results,
but not quite so good as plants boxed
in the spring.
In giving different temperatures in
which plants do best the amateur
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