In the Garden
"Hardening off," one of the special duties at the time for gardeners who have any glass, is an especially needful practice growing out-of-door tomatoes. The tomato is not a tropical pla but it is tender, and needs progressive training, if it is to end our weather and to ripen its fruit. Some experts suggest that t final transplantation should not be made till the first flower appe Anyway, June is not too late a date ; but it is important with t tomato (as especially with sweet corn), to select early varieties the out-of-door crop, to give each plant its place in the sun, to stop further growth when a fair number of first-formed bl have set. In the flower garden this year's experience is justify the view that lilies do well when planted among heaths which ke their roots cool, and admit the sun to their upper parts.
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