The gardenette

Front matter

MDWICH SYSTE'

Class

Book

Preface To Third Edition

The favor with which The Gardenette has been received has exhausted the first and second editions.

It has been thought best to enlarge and improve this edition in accordance with the wishes and advice of many readers.

Therefore, much of that part of the book which relates to vegetable growing has been rewritten, some new and very successful methods have been added, together with some useful tables of reference. This part of the volume is styled "The Vegetable Garden."

As there is an urgent and increasing demand that the culture of flowering plants should receive more attention, we have prepared a complete department which is called "The Flower Garden."

New illustrations have been added, and the presswork and binding have been greatly improved.

The author desires to express his gratitude for the many kind and appreciative words from readers.

To the author, the work has been a labor of love, and he will feel well repaid for his efforts, if this humble volume is found helpful in the laudable work of "making desert places to blossom like the rose," for few things in life are more

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conducive to health and real happiness than a successful garden, which is the direct result of our own labor and planning.

The Authok.

Covington, Ohio, January, 1915.

ILLUSTRATIONS

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Frontispiece

Celery and Blanching Tubes, Sandwich Beds 16

Truck Patch, Willow Brook Farm 17

Plant Incubator, Out-of-doors — Cover Removed .... 26

Eockyford Cantaloupes at Willow Brook Farm 27

Details of Plant Forcer or Booster 36

Plant Booster 37

A Single Hill of Squashes— Post Hole Method 44

Swiss Chard Lucullus 45

Lima Beans 54

Gradus Peas and Early Cabbage 55

Onions from Seed — Pickler Onions 64

Early Ohio Potatoes 65

Field's Early June Tomatoes 74

Cantaloupes, Staked Tomatoes, and Sugar Corn, Willow

Brook Farm 75

Evergreen Sugar Corn. Golden Bantam Sugar Corn. Rice

Pop Corn 84

Cauliflower and Baby Golden Pop Corn 85

Field's Early June Tomatoes. Staked Tomatoes .... 02

Livingston's Globe Tomatoes. Willow Brook Farm ... 93

Flower Garden, Home of the Gardenette, Willow Brook Farm 98

Nasturtiums. Home of the Gardenette 99

Plan of Flower Garden, Sundial in Center. Hydrangea Ar-

borescence Grandiflora. "Hills of Snow" 102

Flowers on Sandwich Beds 103

Clematis Paniculata. Twin Lilies 108

Flowers in Shady Corner. Foxglove 109

Types of Gladioli 114

Flowers in Variety. Early Plants in Cold Frame . . . .115

Pansies from The Gardenette 118

Dorothy Perkins Climbing Rose 119

ILLUSTRATIONS

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Ricinus 15 feet high, Willow Brook Farm. Cannas and

Dahlias. Sandwich Beds 124

Fragrant Flowers. Lily of the Valley. Honeysuckle . . 125

Flowers at Home of Gardenette. Native Flowers, Harebells

and Wild Ferns 128

Formal Plan of Flower Garden. Border of Annuals . . .129