| In Northern United States and Canada | | | | pruning is needed to Spring-flowering trees and |
| There is still time to plant evergreens. As long as you | | | | shrubs as soon as they are through flowering. |
| do this before the new growth is excessively far | | | | Poinsettias should now be brought out of storage |
| advanced, and as long as they have a good root ball | | | | and started into growth. Continue to feed both |
| and are mulched and well watered after planting, | | | | greenhouse plants and house plants which have filled |
| they will live and prosper. May is a good time to | | | | their containers with healthy roots. |
| transplant Magnolias and Tulip trees. Continue to | | | | In the South |
| make sowings of hardy annuals and vegetables. As | | | | Fertilize Roses to stimulate new vigorous growth that |
| soon as the weather is settled and the ground | | | | will bear a second flush of flowers in early Summer. |
| reasonably warm, make sowings of Corn, | | | | Mow lawns regularly and fertilize them lightly when |
| Cucumbers, Melons, Squash, Snap Beans and Lima | | | | the grass is dry. Water copiously if long spells of dry |
| Beans. | | | | weather occur. |
| When danger of cool nights has passed, set out | | | | Fertilize annuals that seem not to be growing rapidly |
| Tomatoes, Peppers, Eggplants and green Dahlia | | | | enough. Cut back Petunias and Sweet Alyssum that |
| plants. Geraniums, Heliotropes, Lantanas, Coleus, | | | | are becoming straggly to induce bushiness and fresh |
| Cannas, Caladiums and Begonias may be planted | | | | crops of flowers. Make successional sowings of |
| outdoors late this month or early in June. Make | | | | hot-weather annuals. Dwarf Dahlias sown outdoors |
| successional plantings of Gladioli, Montbretias and | | | | now will make a fine display of bloom later. |
| Tuberoses. Don't cut off the foliage of | | | | In the vegetable plot sow Soy Beans, Okra, Melons, |
| Spring-flowering bulbs until it has died completely. | | | | Watermelons, Corn, Snap Beans and Lima Beans, |
| If dry weather prevails, Peas, Sweet Peas and many | | | | Squash and Field Peas. Sow Tomatoes for late |
| other garden plants will benefit from copious | | | | cropping. Stake Tomatoes, Peppers and Eggplants |
| watering. Remember especially regularly to water | | | | before they become so tall that there is danger of |
| trees, shrubs and evergreens planted this Spring. | | | | damage by storms. Apply a side dressing of fertilizer |
| Chrysanthemums, Summer Phlox and some other | | | | to these and to Cucumbers, Corn, Beans and other |
| perennials that tend to grow excessively tall and | | | | vegetables in need of extra nutrition. |
| lanky may be induced to bush out if the tips of their | | | | On the West Coast |
| growing shoots are pinched out. | | | | Don't allow Fuchsias or Begonias to suffer from lack |
| Peony flowers will be larger and more perfect if you | | | | of moisture. Specimens that have filled their |
| disbud them by taking off the side buds when they | | | | containers with healthy roots benefit from feeding |
| are the size of small peas. Don't delay the staking | | | | regularly with dilute liquid fertilizer also try to know |
| and tying of perennials. Toward the end of the | | | | how to root lantana. Plants of Tuberous Begonias set |
| month is a good time to sow seeds of perennials and | | | | out in May bloom freely from mid-July on. Remove |
| biennials in a coldframe or sheltered seed bed | | | | old plants of Cinerarias, Primulas and others that |
| outdoors. After they have bloomed is a good time to | | | | made such a brave show earlier and which are kinds |
| propagate by division Creeping Phlox, Arabis, | | | | that are discarded after flowering. Replace them with |
| Polyanthus Primroses and many other rock garden | | | | such kinds as Tuberous Begonias, Impatiens and |
| plants. | | | | Fuchsias where the location is shaded, with |
| Thin out young plants of vegetables and annuals that | | | | Ageratums, Petunias, Zinnias, Dwarf Dahlias, |
| are crowding each other, and keep the hoe and | | | | Snapdragons and the like in sunny locations. |
| cultivator busy stirring the surface soil. Do whatever | | | | |