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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



GARDENERS, 



ATTENTION ! 



let us repair your 

 trees and do your 

 spraying. We have 

 the men that will 

 climb high. 



Why risk your lives 



climbing high when 

 we will furnish men 

 who do it the year 

 round and conse- 

 quently become al- 

 most like squirrels 

 in a tree ? 



Send for our Free Leaf- 

 let explaining' our methods. 



JOHN T. WITHERS, Inc. 



1 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N. J. 



Alphano Humus 



If the leaves under your 



drop each year and 

 remain undisturbed for 

 200or 250 years, three 

 feet would have (alien, 

 mjkins three inches of 



Nature's Soil-Builder 



It is a fertilizer, stimulant, 

 plant-food, and lasting soil- 

 builder, combined. It is 

 five times stronger and lasts 

 ten times longer than barn- 

 yard manures. 



It is neither a flashy, short-hved, chemical prep- 

 aration, nor a high-priced, dried manurial product; 

 but simply nature's own make, rich in all the ten 

 elements essential for plant life. 



Nitrogen, the vital element of all life, it possesses 

 in high degree. 



When used freely it will make even barren, sandy 

 soil lastingly productive. 



It is odorless, making it unobjectionable to 

 handle, and permitting its use on your own lawn in 

 quantities at any time of the year. It does away 

 entirely with the litter of manures, and attracts no 

 flies. Needs no rakmg off. 



Being in powdered form it is easily and quickly 

 applied, and is at once available to the roots. 



For shrubbery, trees and gardens, landscape 

 architects say it has no equal. Order some. Use 

 it freely. 



Send for booklet which 

 tells in plain words just 

 what Humus is and why 

 it is the best soil-builder. 



PRICES 



F. O. B. Alphano. N. .) 

 Five Bags .... 

 Per Ton .... 



By the carload or ba 



eload. 



■ite fo 



$5.00 



12.00 



BARN- 

 YAHD 



MANUI 



and lasts ten limes 

 longerthan the richest 

 barnyard manure. 



Alphano Humus Co, 



1 9 Battery Place, New York 



When a color scheme is to 

 FLOWER be carefully carried out the 



PUNCHES. novelty loving hostess can use 



flower punches or ices. 



An appetizing nasturtium punch is made by chojiping 

 fine the fifty freshly gathered nasturtium blossoms rul3becl 

 to a paste with four tablespoon fuls of sugar. Boil for 

 five minutes a pound of sugar and a quart of water; take 

 from the fire and add the juice of one lemon and two 

 oranges, the grated rinds of the orange and the nastur- 

 tium paste. Let the mixture get cold, freeze and pack 

 away for at least two hours, serve in sherbet glasses gar- 

 nished with a nasturtium blossom and the glass set in a 

 bed of leaves and tendrils. 



Fresh violets may be used in the same way, adding the 

 juice of two lemons and oinitting the oranges. Just be- 

 fore freezing stir in a pint of purple grape juice, and 

 when frozen stir in a meringue made from the well- 

 beaten white of two eggs and a talilespoonful of pow- 

 dered sugar. Stand three hours to ripen and garnish 



with candied violets. If _\ou cannot get the fresh violets, 

 color with grape juice only. 



For rose ice, wa.sh carefully a pint of freshly culled pink 

 or red rose petals and pound them to a paste with two 

 ounces of granulated sugar. Add a quart of water and 

 pound of sugar, boil ten minutes and cool without strain- 

 ing, when the juice of half a dozen oranges is added. 

 Freeze and serve in sherbet glasses, the stems twined 

 with rose leaves and the ice garnished with candied rose 

 petal and a mat made of petals and foliage on the plate. 



For a green punch chop tender nasturtium leaves and 

 tendrils — enough to weigh half a pound — and rub to a 

 paste with two ounces of granulated sugar. Boil for five 

 minutes a pound of sugar and quart of water; add juice 

 of two lemons and two oranges and the leaf pa.ste. When 

 cold, freeze and let stand three hours. This may be 

 served with a green liqueur ]xnired around it. 



A mint ice may be made in the same way, using sixteen 

 large .stalks of mint. Serve with crcme de menthe poured 

 over the ice. 



