. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. ings, Mississippi;for Superintendent of Floriculture andLandscape Gardening, James D. ,Kiyerside, Illinois; for Superintendent ofPomology, G. B. Brackett, Denmark, Iowa;for Superintendent of Nursery and Fores-try products George B. Thomas, WestChester, Pennsylvania; for Superintendentof Seeds and Vegetable Department, J. , Chicago, Illinois. for they will not answer in the wintermonths. The best plan for using the tent is to havethe plants set out where they are to be
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. ings, Mississippi;for Superintendent of Floriculture andLandscape Gardening, James D. ,Kiyerside, Illinois; for Superintendent ofPomology, G. B. Brackett, Denmark, Iowa;for Superintendent of Nursery and Fores-try products George B. Thomas, WestChester, Pennsylvania; for Superintendentof Seeds and Vegetable Department, J. , Chicago, Illinois. for they will not answer in the wintermonths. The best plan for using the tent is to havethe plants set out where they are to becovered by it at a distance of about 20 inchesapart each way, if set out in spring ; if setout in July or August, they should be setcloser, say Vi inches apart, but at whateverseason they are planted, if before the middleof August, small, healthy plants will growenough to fill up the space. When thisprovision has not been made beforehand,plants can be lifted from the garden andplanted under the protection of the tent, orplants grown in pots or boxes can be placedunder it. The date for covering the plants. On Protecting Out-door Chrys-anthemums. CONTRIBUTED BY TItE LATE PETER HENDERSON, A PEW WEEKS BEFORE HIS DEATH AND NOT BEFORE PUBLISHED. A cheap and simple plan now ex-tensively used to protect Chrysanthe-mums from the slight frosts that weusually have in the north—which indifferent sections come from the 2Uthof October to the 20th of Novem-ber—is to use the greenhouse protect-ing cloth in the form of a tent, as shownby the cut. This tent may be (if 10 feet inwidth) four feet high at the front and sevenfeet high at the apex; or if 20 feet wide, fourfeet high at the front and lo to U feet highat the apex ; if 10 feet wide, the walk (twofeet in width) should be in the centre, asshown in End Elevation ; if 20 feet, thereshould be two walks (each two feet wide),which would leave the front beds four feetwide and the centre bed eight feet. The tent may be of any length desired,a
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