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hedge and Must grow In full sun suni sunlight light to ou out the tho color As Ii a Icedo plant It II frequent to keep it II I t Is IN not hardy hard hardIn In tine tile northern There ate afe few ns so 80 small cannot be grown In thorn them to Apple pear anti other fruit trees caul be planted In the tho 1 birder 1101 or of ortho tho garden uden and they may not do doso so 0 well us its In III tilled orchards tho recruits RIO aro sa 01 a back a k or IL a walk one R a 10 row IV or two of oC cur curt I t utts gooseberries o 01 or hc may make n t Of grape If Ie there hele I is III it hick yard 11 50 feet wide av there is 18 ro meta m In hr three borders for fol six to eight fruit trees with bush fruits between without encroaching too much o on l the ilio lawn Where space Is more dwarf tees UCes may be grown gro 11 The apple 10 Is Iff dwarfed hy by grafting upon small slow PREPARED DY BY U R C IRISH 01 the Missouri botanical Gardens Carden St Louis for the National of 01 growing l o t f am ela trees such II as the lId ducks tocks rho latter Is the better I a stronger tree Thu rho pent pem Is darrell by growing on the laut of n quince DW rC apple and pear tr trees s ho bo liB as tWill neat neatus us ns 10 fe rl 11 apart each war sway A d or pear tree should he nt at the height of 10 or 01 1 f feet et and should not nOl attain this stature In less les than R 10 or Ol 12 guars ra A dwarf tree Inv III full fult bearing train two wo peck to n It bushel or of first quality tipples apples Buy your our trees from Crom reliable dealers first class elas stork stock It does doel not Pay puy to save at atthe the sacrifice of quality HR are arc natty to grow but Inex gardners often orten fall In their first crop b by the tho seed eed before till thu ground has hils become worm warm and dr dry No vegetable seed will decay more Inore thaW than the bean Delay In wait bug for fot the th soil to dry out nut In the tho spring HI he be more than made up by the file rapidity or growth when whon the beans bean planted correctly Beans will grow In almost an any soil hu but the tho best hest results ore lire obtained by ha haIng rich well worl d ground The Tho beans heans may bo be In drills one In Inch h clasp doell lie tho seeds to 10 lie three inches apart Cover Cmel with soil and firm with the back ot of Il a hoe Far FOI bush varieties nilow 15 to 21 Inches between drills J For OI the dwarf limns limes two and n a halt half foot Is better LImas should not lie be planted until the weather Is warm Polo Pole limas arc usually planted In lulls hills two o 01 three feet apart In the tho rows Dwarf limas may bo be sown thinly Inn In drills drill Numerous varieties of both the thc green and the wax are aro used need for fol eating with the pod tender The various strains ot of the binck wo wax lire ate the tho most profitable string Man bean The old fash fashioned tra or horticultural type Is probably the hest shell bean hut but the trouble or Of poling It mattes malles it II unpopular Both the tho dwarf warf liras and the pole poi require a sensor to mature than the hush bush varieties II and lid only one onn Is fa usually made The rho bush varieties may be planted at In Intervals until August 10 Each planting I I II they bs h on occupied b by Bomb carl early maturing crop erOll n SOB iIi II TH Tim The hibIscus Is or such easy culture that every OVery garden should one or 01 kinds The rose ros or of Charon ilia Iho co common III 11 rose rORe or IL Ole old favorites Several are of country and nIl as orna ornamental mental plant plante single or hI mase they urn UIO striking When hen spree limits the tho garden to one varlet variety tho ilia golden bowl should have first choice It Is n a halt annual Young plants plante should ho be set Ret out early In June When It blooms its lemon yellow flowers attract funned late bate attention In good colt It attains n a heIght of seven Reen feet teet or over and 1 this In two months after atter the tho plants lirA set sel out It likes best 1 a rIch moist with plenty ot of sun lIun HibIscus la quite hary but not nol perfectly so of New rew York there lire are named varieties slit sin Kle gla and double null of colors from purple to lavender and dl deep ep pink to utmost pure white Itt 11 flowers from Crom to tall fait not do well wellIn In dry soils sollA and shoed h tie mulched 1 about aboul the roots In summer to prevent evaporation and also 0 in III the tho tall fall with well roU Trotted 11 mature 11 If tine tho soil noli la Is poor pM dig In III the mulch around the plant then thell put pUl on top tOIl Among Amon the ho plants with the hibiscus and especially worth orth of trial Is a very free Creo now Haws Crill ering 1 lit pink and while blossoms which ate line fine for tor ate small native plants with showy or r red flowers C con narnia is the best known having large huge crimson flowers dwarf and ond spreading In habit It lowers all |
