Show BACK YARD FARMER Interesting Pointers on Gardening Gardening Garden Garden- ing for the City Man or Suburbanite I WHAT TO PLANT AND WHEN I Advice by an Expert on Agricultural Matters Garden Matters Garden and Plant Pests Dwarf Tomatoes Tomatoes Flower Flower FlowerBed Bed Notes TOy rBy y PROF JOHN WILLARD BOLTE I Practically an of ot the domestic garden garden garden gar- gar den den pests can be lIed J without dif dlf- by the proper treatment Yet Taw few people seem to realize this and andr r everywhere every where we see plants and house flowers bowers struggling for tor existence and supporting a host of parasites when Just a 3 little intelligent treatment would turn these plants from sickly weaklings Into hardy producers Some of ot the commonest comm pests together with the proper proper treatment to eliminate them follow tollow Aphis or green lice nee is a parasite about one half the size of the head of a a pin pin green green In color an and shows but little activity They are found partie particularly on the that is the 1 vines of ot the cucumber family and on all sorts of house plants If It ants aro are present on your outside plants lookout look lookout lookout out for these green lice They are sometimes called cows ants for the ants seem to tend them stroking them with their feelers when the Aphis gives out a sweet secretion secretions of ot which the ants are fond The treatment for green lice Is ts tobacco tea which is readily mado made by bo boiling tobacco stems in water Spray the plants with a aspray aspray aspray spray gun three or four lour times at two or three day dy Intervals Red Spider The The red spider is a little lit lit- tle tIo red bug It moves rapidly over the plants Merely a spraying with tobacco tea or plain clear water waiter will get rid of ot this pest Its size is about the same as the tho green lice Striped The Beetle The striped beetle Js Is one one eighth eighth of ot aninch long and the fact that it can fly makes it a danger 1 to any garden Barden Jt lIt It is found in the soil son sonI I at the base of ot the stems of ot the cu cu- cu- cu It kills the young vines But after the vines begin to send off runners runners runners run- run ners they are safe from this pest Tho The treatment is powdered white scattered around the hillsand hillsand hills hillsand and on the plants or the plants can be sprayed with water and the tho th hellebore hellebore helle hello bore dusted on or a a. a suspension solution solution solution tion may be made and the plants sprayed prayed Another treatment is air- air slacked lime in suspension solution or cow ow manure plastered over the gr ground und near the vines Cut Worms may ay att attack ck any plant in inthe inthe the garden cutting It off oft under the ground They have a special liking for Cor peas and b beans ans If young t tinder tender plants die quickly or you find that the plants from seed are not appearing above ground look out for cut worms Nix Kix one pound of bran with enough nough m water ter to make a a dough add a tablespoonful tablespoonful table- table spoonful of some and another tablespoonful of white arsenic mix well ivell and scatter a 3 little about the plants The cut worms will eat this and die Potato Bugs This Bugs This familiar pest can be quickly gotten rid of by spraying spraying spray- spray ing the potato plants with a suspension suspension suspension sion solution of Paris green Spray two or three times to kill the young Paris green contains arsenic and in using this or the white arsenic care should be used as It Is exceedingly poisonous Tomato Worms It If If you find your tomato plants are losing their leaves look hook out for these hese worms They are anywhere from three to six inches in length and as large as three-fourths three of an inch in diameter It is seldom that more than two or three appear in the garden gard m at one time and they are quickly killed by hand For Cabbage Worms dust the plants with powdered hellebore before the heads beads form Later dust the hellebore ion the outside leaves as the worms appear A little attention to getting rid of garden Karden pests will well repay In the increased production of the the garden t- t this humble gardener had pot not lt preserved pro pre ro- ro served his remarkable plant the world would be bo without a race of commercial tomatoes that bids fair to put the larger sorts sorts' out of or business business business busi busi- ness so far as the tho large grower Is la concerned We have long been familiar familiar famil famil- lar with tomatoes which are are dwarf dwart as asto asto asto to the size of the fruit and they need not be considered seriously The new dwarf has sized full fruit of the very best best quality and while each plant bears fewer tomatoes the dwarf will produce a great many more tomatoes from a given area than will the larger bushes because It spreads less Jess and ma may be planted closer together Where the large varieties will go about 2700 to tho the acre planted four feet Jeet apart and will yield about bushels bushels' of or good fruit the Giant Dwarf may be planted 2 by 34 3 feet apart nearly plants to the tho acre and has frequently yielded yield yield- ed bushels Even Eim If it this were to be overlooked entirely the fact tact that the dwarf tomato tomato to to- mato nato plant does not have to to tobo be bo tied or staked up makes it much better for both the small garden and the market garden The fruit Is natural naturally y kept off the tho ground and ripens without without with with- out rotting in the attempt Handle them hem Just as s you have handled the large varieties and plant plan t them closer together and forget about the stakes The Giant Dwarf is the tho most common common com mon d dwarf ar variety in this country and we advise you OU to try a few plants this year year or next Thorough cultivation cultivation tion Is IB necessary as with any other tomato and you yoU must break up the surface after after every rain Another excellent excellent ex ex- ex forcing plan is to sink a bot bottomless tin can ean in the ground by each plant and pour liquid fertilizer or 01 even plain water into It twice weekly Laying Out Flower Beds Why do people plant flowers In beds Everyone does it and there there-is hardly one in a hundred that knows why they plant them In beds instead of singly and scattered or some other way They do it because everybody else does it it Planting flowers is a good deal like growing whiskers whisker in some ways Right after the Ci Civil v 11 war every man grew a full beard because so many of ot the returning heroes had beards through necessity that they made whiskers fashionable That's why we plant flowers in beds Because the other fellow did and still does But fortunately there are mighty good underlying reasons for so doing whether we understand them or not In Inthe the first place the l herbaceous or soft stemmed plants usually look bet be better better bet bet- ter in masses lines or other groups A large or continuous mass of color makes a strong impression upon the observer observer observer ob- ob server where a few scattered blooms bloom would be ignored A single single- soldier single soldier is unnoticed but the marching of a regiment regiment regiment reg reg- thrills the very soul So it is with flowers and this cumulative of- of ef 1 feet is the the biggest biggest reason for massing them together Perhaps t the ie only other immediate alternative alternative alternative al- al would be to scatter them about over the lawn as they occur in nature a nature a group of ot blue here a single pink there etc tc This TIlis Is all very w well 11 for the yard that Is kept in a wild state but it will never do for the finIshed finished finished fin fin- city or suburban lot It makes a fair smooth lawn laYn impossible and the combination of natural flower arrangements arrangements ar ar- ar- ar rang ments and polished gardening accessories accessorIes accessories ac ac- spoils the effect of ot each one Ole As far as possible the beds should be kept at the outer edges of the lawn Ito to avoid avoid cut cutting ng It up and making it look small The old old fashioned fashioned formal beds round beds round square star-shaped star diamond diamond diamond dia dia- mond or crescent crescent are are not in good taste now now and the lines of ot the beds should be irregular although clearly defined This applies to every walk borders to a lesser degree although we personally like a straight lined bed near a straight lined walk If It it iUs itis Is necessary necessary to place small beds out in the lawn the round or ox oval bed bedis bedis is probably the best In form and It should contain low flowers so as notto not notto to hide the landscape back of it I Beds should should be du dug deep thoroughly thorough thorough- ly fertilized and pulverized and the edges cut clean and smooth with an an edging tool The earth should be gently gently gently gen gen- cro crowned ned from the edges to the center center center cen cen- ter to provide drainage Do not plant the flowers so close to the grass as to interfere with clipping the grass at atthe atthe atthe the edge of ot the lawn about th the bed |