Januar y , 1908 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



What is a fair rental jor a given 

 property? Ask the Readers' Service 



301 



Out of Si£ht After the Wash 



Fold it up, put it away. No 

 Disfiguring clothes posts to mar 

 the lawn. Holds 1 50 ft. of line. 

 The sensible clothes dryer for 

 particular people — at prices 

 within reach of all. Write for 

 Catalog 39. Do it now. 



HILL DRYER CO. 



359 Park Ave., Worcester. Mass. i 



Also Balcony Dryers. 



mMhm 



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Tlfea*^ 



Standard Steel Fence Posts 



are to be driven. One-third cheaper 

 than wood posts; will last forever. 

 Posts made for all purposes; lawn, 

 farm and field fencing. Plain, 

 barbed or woven wire fencing can be 

 used with the Standard Posts. 10,000 

 in use on one job in N. Y. State; 

 7,000 in use on another job in Mis- 

 souri. Factory near Pittsburg, Pa. 

 Write for catalogue and prices to 

 J. H. DOWNS, 



299 Broadway, New York City 



Horsf orcPs Hardy Plants 



FOR COl.D CLIMATES 



Catalogue ready early in the new year. 



Nearly every plant he offers lias stood the test of many Vermont 

 winters. Save yourself much vexation of spirit and precious time 

 by planting 1 things that don't kill back the first hard winter and 

 have to be replaced. If you have room that may be filled, use a 

 quarter or half as much on the outside of your home as within and 

 see what it will do for it in two or three years. 



Customers of last two years will receive catalog without asking. 

 FREDERICK H. HOR8FOKI), Charlotte, Vermont. 



GET THIS BOOK! 



Fifteen colored designs for decorating every room in your house. 

 Tells how you can get the same effects, or any others you desire. 

 The Alabastine Book tells all about Alabastine, the Sanitary Wall 

 Coating — What it is — How applied — and the many advantages it 

 has over all other wall coatings. Also shows how little it costs to 

 decorate your home artistically with this most durable, healthful 

 and beautiful of wall coatings. Send 10 cents and receive this 

 book by return mail. 



ALABASTINE COMPANY, 



924 Grandville Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Eastern Otfice, Dept. T, 105 Water St., New York City. 



110 VARIETIES 



STRAWBERRIES 



If you want Strawberry Plant a 



the best, strongest, most -vigor- 

 ous and most prolific that can be 

 grown in a good, favored 

 strawberry elimntc, I am sell- 

 ing that kind at reasonable 

 prices. Millions of them packed 

 to carry anywhere. Also other 

 small fruit plants and special 

 seeds. My Free Catalogue tells 

 about them and gives the price. 

 If Interested, write for it today. 

 Address 



W. F. ALLEN 

 39 Market St. Salisbury. Md. 



warn. 



Orchid Growing as a Money-Maker 



IN two previous talks we have tried to show you some of the possibilities of the 

 greeenhouse as a dividend payer. In the first talk cut flower growing was taken 

 up, and last month it was vegetables, now a word about orchids. At once the questions 

 will come to you — Is the first cost prohibitory for a man of moderate means to attempt 

 their growing ? Are they difficult to grow ? Is there a ready market ? 



So much mystic lore has been written about the orchid's first cost, and the fabulous 

 prices obtained for rare specimens, that the real facts have been lost sight of. 



The most popular of all, the Cattleyas, can be bought as low as $2.00 apiece, in their 

 dry state just as they are shipped from South America. In six months after starting 

 they will be in bloom, and it is a mighty poor market indeed, that does not bring the 

 florist $1.00 to $1.50 per bloom. See what that means on three or four hundred plants 

 if each one yields only three blooms the first year. A plant is good for four or five 

 years of blooming, and each year should about double the number produced. As yet 

 the demand is far beyond the supply, but like everything else that yields a goodly 

 profit, their growing takes a certain skill, but you don't necessarily need to possess 

 that yourself at the start. Get hold of a good orchid grower for your foreman, and 

 absorb your lessons from him. Go visit some of the larger growers ; talk it over with 

 them. We can give you the names of several — one in particular, who is but half an 

 hour from the City Hall, New York. He has model iron-frame houses but recently 

 erected. They are equipped with galvanized iron-frame benches, having tile 

 bottoms. 



But when you decide to start, build right — don't try a cheap wooden house, for the 

 conditions of excessive moisture essential for successful results are so destructive to 

 the wooden houses that repairs will come so thick and fast that you will be completely 

 discouraged. Our Sectional Iron Frame House is good to stand for half a century or 

 more, with scarcely any repairs save the painting. 



Come to any of our offices and talk it over with us, or let us take it up with you by 

 correspondence. 



LORD & BURNHAM COMPANY 



Greenhouse Designers and Manufacturers 



PHILADELPHIA NE W YORK OFFICE BOSTON 



1215 Filbert Street 1 133 Broadway, corner 26th St. 819 Tremont Bldg. 



Superintendent-Gardener 

 Wanted 



Capable of managing a country place or 

 about fifty acres, mostly woodland, but 

 with lawns, drives, kitchen garden, flower 

 garden and small greenhouse. Must un- 

 derstand the management of workmen 

 and the proper distribution of work. From 

 six to fifteen workmen employed. Reply 



X Y Z, Care Garden Magazine 

 and Farming 



MAKE YOUR. dJO S£\ 

 OWN GATE FOR*P&»*J\r 



We furnish patent galvanized attachments with which 

 you can make a slide and swing gate that does not bind, 

 sag or have to be carried. Can be operated as easily as a 

 door. No strain on post. Does away entirely with extra 

 walkgate. Endorsed by hundreds of farmers and railroads 



We also make full line of complete eates in GALVANIZED steel 

 or wood. 30 DA y S ' FREE TRIAL 



Special prices and freight paid on large lots. Write today for 

 catalogue and full information. 



WESTON GATE COMPANY 



Box 47, North Dover, Ohio 



