. American homes and gardens. ereshould be set out this month in rich, well-drained soil NSECT pests must beguarded against. Cut-worms are particularly hurt-ful at this time and you mustwatch the tender youngplants carefully. Berrybushes and fruit trees shouldhave a couple of June spray-ings. But even the insectenemies of plants are notmore damaging than weedswhen allowed to grow andchoke the gardens. By be-ginning the weeding early,and by consistently keeping itup the growing plants willhave a fair fighting chanceto reach unstunted this day-by-day weedingthe labor attendant on kee
. American homes and gardens. ereshould be set out this month in rich, well-drained soil NSECT pests must beguarded against. Cut-worms are particularly hurt-ful at this time and you mustwatch the tender youngplants carefully. Berrybushes and fruit trees shouldhave a couple of June spray-ings. But even the insectenemies of plants are notmore damaging than weedswhen allowed to grow andchoke the gardens. By be-ginning the weeding early,and by consistently keeping itup the growing plants willhave a fair fighting chanceto reach unstunted this day-by-day weedingthe labor attendant on keep-ing the flower beds and vege-table beds in condition willbe greatly lessened and thepleasure in gardening in-tensified. Look into thetrimming of Privet hedgesat this time and put outGladioli and the former some ofthe best varieties are Ceres(pure white), Charles Mar-tel (rose) and Brenchley-ensis (scarlet-vermilion).The seedsmen offer a finearray of Dahlias for choice. June, 1913 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 227. HELPS TO THEHOUSEWIFE TABLE AND HOUSEHOLD SUGGESTIONS OF INTER-EST TO EVERY HOUSEKEEPER AND HOUSEWIFE
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