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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



August, 1907 



Sousa's Band 

 On your porch 



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No other talking machine has the 

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VICTOR 



is the best. It costs no more, and your 

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 the Victor on the easy payment 

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is a good gas or gasoline engine and 

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We have different types and sizes and can help you 

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FRUITS FOR WINE 



R. B. H., Mass. — The manufacture of wine from garden 

 fruits has been so little practised in this country that no one 

 can say what varieties are best for the purpose. As a 

 general rule, of course, select those varieties which contain 

 the highest percentage of sugar. Inasmuch as chemical 

 analyses of those varieties are not available one would be 

 obliged to guess at this point even. Such a guess could be 

 made with a certain degree cf safety if based upon the 

 sweetness of the fruit. It is a very easy matter, of course, 

 to add sugar to the juice of any variety after it is expressed. 

 It seems much more likely that the selection of varieties 

 for growing with the idea cf making wine would be deter- 

 mined on totally different grounds, such as productivity, 

 disease resistance, etc. With these considerations in view 

 I would recommend the following fruits: Currants: 

 Wilder, Fay, Cherry. Black Currant: Black Naples. Goose- 

 berry: Downing, Smith. Blackberry: Ancient Briton, 

 Kictatinny, Taylor, Agawam. F. A. W. 



FIGHTING BERMUDA GRASS 



B., Cal. — Outside cf Lippia re pens, which is not a grass, 

 no lawn cover can combat Bermuda grass so effectively 

 as white clover, and even this needs the assistance of man 

 in order to wage a successful warfare. When a blue grass 

 lawn is so hopelessly overrun that it will not pay to weed 

 out the Bermuda grass, proceed as follows: Cut the grass 

 close, rake the ground with steel garden rake, cut off the 

 "runners" which you rake up, with the lawn mower, and 

 repeat until no more will catch the rake. Sow the clover 

 seed and rake it in lightly. The clover soon grows, check- 

 ing the growth of Bermuda grass, so that you will have 

 practically a clover lawn. It. may be necessary to rake 

 and cut at least once a year, but no other scheme will so 

 effectually hide any presence of the grass, especially during 

 winter when clover will grow and Bermuda grass will not. 

 Another treatment is as follows: Bermuda grass cannot 

 stand either the cold weather or the amount of water that 

 blue grass will endure. In the winter the Bermuda grass 

 does not grow and water will kill it out somewhat while 

 the blue grass continues to grow. The scheme then is 

 to keep the lawn flooded with water as much as possible. 

 This is more effective during the winter. E. B. 



HOW TO SET PRIVET HEDGES 



E. F. E.,New York. — It is not necessary to hire an experi- 

 enced gardeher to plant privet. All that is needed is just 

 careful handling. The work can be done in the spring just 

 as well as in the fall. Do it as soon as the ground has be- 

 come dry enough to work and the nurseryman can deliver 

 the plants. The results of spring planting will be as good, 

 and possibly better than fall planting. Have a trench 

 ready when the plants arrive so that you can plant at once. 

 After having dug the trench to the required depth, pick 

 up the bottom. This makes a union between the remain- 

 ing bottom and the soil that is to be filled in about the roots. 

 Set the plants six inches deeper than they were in the 

 nursery. This is done in order to get a bottom to the 

 hedge. Set the plants in the trench at the height they are 

 to stand; throw in the soil, filling the trench half full; then 

 grasp the plant with the hand and lift it half an inch and 

 allow it to drop back, this works the soil in among the roots. 

 Next firm the soil by tramping, then water copiously. To 

 finish, work the soil among the roots and then fill the trench 

 full, tramping as the work progresses. It is very necessary 

 that each root is in contact with the soil. Delay pruning 

 until after the plants have been set. Then stretch a line 

 along the hedge and prune to it. Thus the hedge will 

 be started evenly. After planting, a 2- or 3-inch 

 mulch of strawy manure may be an advantage but it is not 

 necessary, so if it is not convenient it may be omitted. 



Native Perennials for the Wild Garden 



JAPANESE IRISES, 



ROSES AND HERBACEOUS PLANTS 



FOR FALL PLANTING 



Orders should be sent in early. 1 



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and Cabbage Plants, 4,000,000 stocky plants, taken up 

 with forks to preserve all the roots on each plant. A 

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 Seed), White Plume, Winter Queen, Giant Pascal, Golden 

 Heart, $1.20 per 1000; 5000, $5.00; 500, 80c. Cabbage Plants- 

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The Illinois Self Watering 

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Need attention only once in every three weeks. Made of 



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For Windows, Porches and Hanging Baskets. For 



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ILLETT'S 



Hardy Ferns and Flowers 



For Dark, Shady Places 



Send for my descriptive catalogue of over 50 pages, 

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KILL PLANT BUGS and DOG FLEAS 



with Lemon Oil Insecticide, adding 30 parts water. No odor, no 

 poison — advantages over Fish oil or Tobacco products. Used 

 everywhere. If not sold by your seedsmen, write WEATHERBY 

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-lrequemly 18 and 20 tons, buclt uondtrlul records are possible , 

 because our Gem Full Circle Steel Baler has a 30 inch feed 

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