142 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
APRIL, 1916 
Some Worth While 
Helping Hand Planting Helps 
F COURSE, if we could sit down with you and have an unhurried 
talk about just what you particularly want in Hardy Flowers, 
Shrubs or Trees, then what an easy matter it would be to make sug- 
gestions and tell you exactly what the cost would be. 
Or if you would come to the Nursery and go about with us, and pick out j 
just what you want. 
But if neither of us can do either of these things, then the next best way 
to help you most, is to assume certain needs that mayhap may happen to 
be just your needs; and right here suggest ways to meet them. 
If any of these do not cover your requirements, then be so good as to 
write us, and we will gladly make further suggestions. Everything offered 
here is absolutely high grade stock. Complete descriptive list of any col- 
lections sent on request. 
Happy Home Selections 
Number 1. 5 Items for $35 
jas is for a lot 50 feet wide. 2 
Norway Maples 12’ to 14’ high, 
12” to 2” Caliper. For street front 
walk. Ample hardy privet for 100 
foot hedge across front and part 
down sides. 1 American Linden, 10 
feet high, to shade house. 50 as- 
sorted Shrubs for planting around 
foundations and hedge corners. 5 
Vines for the porch. 
Number 2. 10 Items for $60 
FoR a lot with 100 feet frontage. 3 Nor- 
way Maples for the Street front 12° to 14” 
high and 12” to 2’ in Caliper. Enough Jap- 
anese Barberry for hedge across front, 2 
Pines, 5 feet high, for entrance sentinels, 50 
Assorted Shrubs for foundation and stoop 
step planting. 20 tall Shrubs for boundary 
planting. 1 Linden Tree, 10 feet high. 1 
Horse Chestnut Tree, 8 feet high. 5 Lom- 
bary Poplars for quick growing screen to 
shut out neighbors, back yard or as laundry 
line screen. 25 Hardy Flowers, 5 each of 5 
varieties. 5 Clematis Vines for the stoop. 
5 Lilac Bushes for the back yard. 
Driveway Planting 
5 Items for $70 
E WILL suppose 
the part of your 
drive most needing plant- 
ing, is 100 feetlong. For 
archway trees nothing can 
equal Elms. You will need 
5 with 8 fine, 5 foot, quick 
growing Pines for planting 
Winter Cheer Planting 
15 Shrubs for $5 
WHEN winds are cold and the ground is 
covered with snow, you will get a good 
bit of cheer from seeing the red of the Bar- 
berries and Black Alder; and the red and yel- 
low barks of the Osier and Dogwood. All 
of them fill an equally important place in 
their Summer clothes of greenery. 
between. At least 100 
4 shrubs of varying sizes and 
<| kinds and 10 Rhododen- 
“4 drons to intersperse near 
the house. 50 plants of 5 
kinds of Iris to plant in 
clusters, here and 
there. 
Cheerful Monday Screen 
O SCREEN from view the flapping wash 
on your neighbor’s Monday line, or to 
shield your own from view, Lombardy Pop- 
lars are the quickest to grow. Wehavesplen- 
did specimens 8 to 10 feet high. 5 cost $4— 
10 cost $7. For an all year round screen, 
dense, symmetrical, Pyramidal Arbor Vitae 
is the thing but their growth is somewhat 
slow. 10 Trees 6 feet high, cost $25. 
Snug-Up Porch Planting 
10 Shrubs for $4 
O TAKE that Daddy- 
Long-Legs look from 
we will send you for $4, 
should plant a space about 
your stoop and_ steps; 
plant varying sized Shrubs 
against the foundations 
and inthe step corner. 10 
of the good husky shrubs 
8 to 10 feet long, in triple 
row. 20 would cost $7, 
and 30 $9. The assort- 
ment contains only the 
desirable varieties. 
Trowel and Sunbonnet Collection 
40 Plants for $5 
4 each of 10 kinds 
"THESE are the delightful old 
timey Hardy Flowers that 
we associate so lovingly with 
our grandmothers. 
Happily for us all they are 
very much in fashion these days. 
Or 100Plantsfor$10 
10 Plants of 10 kinds 
The prices given are in all 
cases for the goods carefully 
packed and delivered to the 
carriers. State whether you 
wish the goods shipped freight 
or express. 
If you would care to send us a rough sketch of your grounds, showing boundaries and loca- 
tion of your buildings, we will gladly suggest a planting best suited to its particular needs. 
ramingham Nurseries 
W.B.WHITTIER & CO.- FRAMINGHAM,MASS, 
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Bees for the Fruit Grower 
O THE fruit grower, bees are an almost in- 
dispensable adjunct to the garden. The 
Northern Spy, among other apple varieties, needs 
pollenizing, and among the pears the Anjou, one 
of the grandest of all, is quite dependent upon the 
bees. In the vineyard the Brighton grape will be 
almost barren if left alone, while the Herbert 
and Lindley are nearly as helpless. Plant good 
pollenizers together with poor, and the bees will 
do the rest. All berries need the bees. 
When laying out a garden in Clinton, N. Y., I 
planted a basswood grove near the centre of the 
fruit garden, and I did it specifically for the bees. I 
wanted these basswoods to become blossoming 
trees by the time that my fruit trees had begun to 
bear; with the intent that they should furnish a 
large part of the honey, while the hives were as 
close as possible to the raspberry garden and to the 
vineyard, as well as to the pear orchard and apple 
orchard. The result was very favorable, not only 
for the amount of honey that was secured, but for 
the codperation of the bees at times unfavorable 
for fruit blossoms to pollenize. 
Start with at least two or three hives. In the 
course of five years, or while a young orchard is 
growing and the vineyard coming to bearing, these 
ought to multiply into ten. A fruit farm of fifteen 
acres does not need more than twenty hives, and 
less than that will serve fairly well. I am accus- 
tomed to taking up from six to eight hundred pounds 
of honey from a dozen hives, and were I a skilled 
apiarist I believe I could double the quantity. But 
in estimating the income from a small fruit farm, 
we have to take into account, not a maximum yield 
at one point, but a thoroughly good yield all around. 
When we add two or three hundred dollars worth, 
or half that to the raspberries and currants and 
pears and plums and cherries and apples, we are 
doing very well indeed. 
For special bee feed there is nothing better than 
this general fruit gardening; but by all means add 
to it a plenty of basswood trees, and on the lawn 
there might well be planted a few mountain ash, 
which is kin to the apple. The basswood, however, 
is the one great bee tree of America. It is not only 
a beautiful shade tree for the lawn, but in June the 
bees will work all day and every day im its delicious 
flowers. 
Provisions are easily obtained for handling bees 
with safety—shields for the head and gloves for 
the hands and arms—but go to work very quietly 
and with a decision that does not fret theswarm. It 
will generally hold on for an hour or two after light- 
ing; but if disturbed is liable to go back to the hive, 
and on its second start, will sometimes drive 
straight for its selected home in the woods. 
Be always ready to secure the earliest swarms. 
These are likely to appear during the latter half 
of May, but a June swarm is in time for summer 
work. If you double up the late swarms you 
can make strong colonies of them, able to go 
through the winter and start out in the spring 
for good work. 
Be sure that your hive is thoroughly clean, and 
no smell of moths about it. Scrape it with an old 
knife, and have it opened to the sun for several 
days before using. Three or four hives should 
always be ready ahead of time, for if one is rejected 
by a swarm another must be tried. The bee is a 
tidy housekeeper, and would rather go to the woods 
and live in a hollow tree than stay with you in a 
musty hive. F 
The winter care of bees is a very simple matter, 
and one need rarely lose a hive. Before the cold 
weather sets in double up the weaker swarms, and 
if you have what are called chaff hives, put in the 
cushions, shut down the top, and your work is done. 
Care must be taken not to close the entrances 
during warm winter days. At the same time do not 
let the hives set where a warm sun may heat them, 
and start the bees out for untimely exercise. Still 
more important is it to have the hives out of severe 
winds, and by no means in damp or wet places. 
Feeding weak swarms, when for some reason the 
food supply is short, is a bit of experience that will 
come to any one. It greatly helps to put comb 
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starters in your section boxes, to save the bees 
Nee York. E. P. Powe Lt. 
