Periodical Our garden journal [an illustrated quarterly conducted and controlled by amateur flower gardeners] Volume 1
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Image 1 of Volume 1- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 4 of Volume 1- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
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Image 7 of Volume 1 V Ow? Garden Journal tAn Ulustrated Oaarterlr Conducted and Controlwd Devoted ^Exclusively To e eArt oF Flower Gardening For the Amateur Garden ero iM.FS. Herbert Hard Editor. TO AVOID CONFUSION WITH OTHER...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 8 of Volume 1- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 10 of Volume 1 I have always hoped that some day I would write a preface, or an introduction or a prelude, or what- L^fcl choose to call it, to a book on garden- jIp Ever...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 11 of Volume 1 I recently heard a well-known English gardener re- mark, I have found that it is from the amateur that we specialists often receive most valuable hints, and what this specialist has said...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 12 of Volume 1 1 OUR GAR]DE T It was dawn when 1 entered our garden. Where the dewdrops sparkling so bright^ Made me feel that the spirit of beauty Had adorned it during the night...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 13 of Volume 1 IN THE ROSE GARDEN t has been said, Amateur Gardeners, that I assumed that every woman who had a garden worked in it. No, I do not assume that— but I do...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 14 of Volume 1 ^^^ligcntly understand garden work, so^ ^^P^ that they may know the right and wrong f method of the work. 1 When women do know the right and wrong method of gardening, I...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 15 of Volume 1 ^at Ambler, Pennsylvania, The Horticultural School for Women every year graduates many women gardeners. Again I say, fortunately there are through- out the United States members of garden clubs who are studying...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 16 of Volume 1 ^^^^been disbudding since eight o clock, stopping at twelve for his noon hour and f resuming work just before the visiting garden club entered the rose garden. I said he had been...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 17 of Volume 1 ■^-I^ important reason, why this lovely garden was looked upon only as a source of supply. The garden was too far away from the house. One could not even gain a glimpse...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 18 of Volume 1 two varieties of hybrid perpetuals. The reason why I exclude the hybrid per- petuals is because they are not perpetuals at all the name is a misnomer as I find they bloom...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 19 of Volume 1 9^ ftgf^ to a depth of more than eighteen or twenty inches, and I have seen wonder- fully beautiful and successful rose gardens where, because of existing conditions, it was not practical...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 20 of Volume 1 and uniformly spread. The next ^4^ W step is to incorporate bone meal, lime and 1 Scotch soot, that is, one quart to the square yard— the mixture to be six parts...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 21 of Volume 1 root left on the plant will eventually rot, and it frequently damages the rest of the plant. 1 Should any of the stock be shriveled, I cau- tion you not to plant...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 22 of Volume 1 to every two gallons of water. Of course, we have thoroughly mixed this solution before dipping. After our roses have been treated to this bath we place them (that is the roots)...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 23 of Volume 1 PLANTING I do not recommend setting roses more than eighteen inches apart or less than fifteen inches. Standards three feet. I usually plant my roses not more than fifteen inches apart, with...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 24 of Volume 1 to soak into the soil— then put a little mound of dry soil in the center of the hole to serve as a cushion for the central base of the plant to...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 25 of Volume 1 Remember to tie your standard^ roses to the stake, and not the stake to the standard. We have previously tied a piece of white tape two inches above the bud as a...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 26 of Volume 1 5^^ be done so as to make a saucer-like depression around the plant. Fill this saucer-like depression with water— as the water is gradually absorbed by the earth, fill it up again....- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 27 of Volume 1 Tie the plant as closely to the stake as possible {not the stake to the plant), about three inches from the level of the bed, also at the middle and at the...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 28 of Volume 1 watering, naturally the roots will come up for the moisture they can t find below resulting in surface -rooters, few blooms and poor, ill-shaped blooms. The water- ing must be thorough, or...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 29 of Volume 1 trench drawn back into the trench. Then cultivate and mulch the bed, and the moisture will be conserved, even in a drouth for a week or ten days. MULCHING If after the...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 30 of Volume 1 will never have a weed go to seed and multiply. Nor will dry weather worry you, because the surface powdering of the soil, that is so beautifying and practical, will conserve all...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 31 of Volume 1 surface soil for three inches has _ been kept stirred and powdered (this cultivation is most important and is very quickly done)— then another liberal feeding should be given, in the same...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 32 of Volume 1 and one part Scotch soot. A grea many of the roses we see in gardens are really being starved. Then the soil should be deeply ruffled by the use of a Dutch...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 33 of Volume 1 followed, because, as is frequently the case, one side only of the plant is de- veloped. Therefore we must prune to a bud, pointing in the right direction, whether it be out-...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 34 of Volume 1 ends or tips of the longest which -^i^^Q should be lightly pruned. I think a safe rule for the amateur to follow in pruning is to prune too little rather than too...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 35 of Volume 1 menced to worry, and look for the Wir^ enemies to appear. And at their first appearance I was almost ready to abandon my roses to their fate— it seemed hopeless to fight...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 36 of Volume 1 night in a pail full of hot water. In l^i^ the morning it is of the consistency of fe^ soft soap. The two eight-ounce cakes of the sulpho-tobacco soap form the basis...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 37 of Volume 1 ^If aphis, etc., are already present^ when the first spraying is done, repeat it the following day to destroy those that may have escaped. Then a week later spray again, then it...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 38 of Volume 1 treated with imported Scotch soot, well worked into the soil. Scotch soot in connection with flour of bone is an excellent fertilizer. I want to caution you now not to accept any...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 39 of Volume 1 ^^^^and purify the soil, and lime will give an impetus, an exhilaration to all root action in a sweet soil and added root stimu- lus— resulting in better and more blooms. I...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917
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Image 40 of Volume 1 leached out. In the formation of clay, for instance, the water merely washes out the base, potash, leaving the feldspar residue, clay, which contains no large amount of base. Many chemists ridicule...- Contributor: Harde, Elinore
- Date: 1917