186 
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
APRIL, 1916 
greens 
’ Beautify 
Homes 
Our sure growing evergreens lend a finished 
touch toany home. For 56 years we have been 
furnishing choice, hardy evergreens to people 
all over America. We offer you the choice of 
the greatest evergreen stock in the world—over 
50,000,000 evergreens on hand. 
We give expert advice free—furnish sugges- 
tions on tree arrangement. Write for Hand- 
somely Illustrated Evergreen Book—trees shown 
in true-to-life colors — Free! Get the book. 
Don’t risk failure with evergreens of uncertain 
quality. Get the book and get posted. 
D. HILL NURSERY CO. 
Evergreen Specialists 
BOX 1066 DUNDEE, ILL. 
AHLIAS 
THAT BLOSSOM 
Alexander’s Up-to-Date Dahlias Lead 
the World, because they are beautiful in | 
color, perfect in type and shape, and most 
important of all—Free Flowering. 
The Dahlia of to-day is of unsurpassed 
beauty as a single flower, exquisite for 
= Private gardens, charming in masses,and 
“THE DAHLIA KING” ideal for planting against shrubbery. 
Our many customers are satisfied; they receive good stock; 
true to name, and best of all—Guaranteed to Grow. 
All Flower Lovers are invited to send to the ‘“Dahlia King”’ for 
his latest Free Illustrated Catalogue, which contains helpful 
descriptions and valuable cultural hints on Dahlias, Gladiolus,Roses, 
Cannas, Peonies, Phlox, Iris, Hardy Plants for the Old-fashioned 
Garden, and a general line of Ornamental and Flowering Shrubs. 
J. K. ALEXANDER 
27-29 Central Street, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts 
Photography, Good Sport 
but the results are not always 
satisfactory. Ask practical help 
from the photo-man with 
THE READERS’ SERVICE 
——Our Spring List 
Dahlias, Gladioli, Lilies, 
Phlox, Iris 
and other summer-flowering bulbs and hardy 
perennials is now ready. Send for it, and we 
will also send later our Fall Catalogue of the 
Best Dutch Bulbs 
procurable in this country 
Franken Brothers 
Deerfield, Illinois 
er or shears one and one half to two 
imeches from the neck, leaving a stubby end 
of leaf stalks on top of each root. Use a 
sharp instrument and make a clean cut, not 
tearing any parts of the remaining leaf ends, 
as it is from here where the second sprouts will 
emerge. After the leaves are removed, each 
root is shortened to exactly eight inches, by 
trimming off as much of the spindly lower end 
as required so as to bring the entire length to 
the size desired. Side shoots or growths of any 
kind are promptly clipped off; then the roots 
are lea upright in the trenches, the clipped 
lower end touching the bottom of the trench. 
They are planted one and one half inches apart 
and the space between them is filled out with 
good top soil well incorporated with fine rotted 
manure. This soil must be prepared before- 
hand and placed within the reach of the planter. 
With the left hand a root is put and held in 
position and with the right a handful of pre- 
pared soil is gathered, to fill out the interme- 
diate space evenly as the planting proceeds. 
Three to four roots will occupy the width of the 
trenches. After all are planted the top space 
of the trench, above the root heads, which is 
eight inches now, is filled in with rich, loose 
top soil to the level ground. 
In order to force a second sprouting or 
growth of new leaves out of the buried roots, 
heat in some form has to be employed. Fresh 
horse manure on the bottom of the trenches 
will induce a sprouting and growing of blanched 
leaves, but of the wrong kind! The endive will 
grow open, like a half mature rose and is use- 
less for the purpose wanted. The correct fore- 
ing is as follows: 
Steaming hot horse manure, fresh from the 
stables, not less than two feet high and in very 
cold weather as much as three feet, is piled up 
directly above the trenches. This slow but 
steady heat draws the sprouts toward the sur- 
face and induces a close, compact growth of 
blanched leaves, forming a white oval head, 
somewhat resembling the heart of well blanched 
lettuce. After the heating material is placed 
no further attention is required until the forc- 
ing is finished, which is in from four to five 
weeks. The trenches should be marked with 
stakes at both ends, before the manure is piled 
over them, so that they can be easily located, 
if the manure is removed in cold weather, or if 
snow is on the ground, without any unneces- 
sary exposure, and dug up quickly with a 
trowel. When cutting the heads from the roots 
about one quarter inch of the neck of the root 
is cut off and left on the head. This will keep 
the compact formation intact. Endive, when 
forced and ready to be taken up, will rot if left 
too long, after maturing, in the ground. It is 
a good plan to force only a part of the supply 
at once and cover the balance with sufficient 
hay or straw to guard against freezing until 
ready to force. In this way an abundant sup- 
ply_of endive can be had all winter. 
New Jersey. S. L. DE Fapry. 
Grow Chicory (Endive) Salad in 
Your Cellar 
Y FAITH in seed catalogues has been re- 
established; I have found a plant that 
really does what is claimed for it! 
When sending in my order for seeds I always 
try some new vegetables, led on by the glowing 
accounts in the particular catalogue I fancy. 
The Mammoth and All Season wonders never 
have materialized, but I succumb to new temp- 
tations each year just the same. 
The salad listed as Witloof chicory and French 
endive had caught my eye several times, but it 
was not until last year that I ordered a pack- 
age of seed. Of course we have all eaten the 
indive salad at restaurants and at our rich 
friends’ dinners; and some of us have bought 
it for our tables at about fifty cents a pound. 
It is the best salad grown; a luscious, slim 
white head of tightly folded leaves, with a 
slightly bitter tang. I, for one, had always 
believed the stories about its being imported at 
great expense; now | know it must be grown 
right here in America, for if I can raise it in 
my own back yard I am sure the market gar- 
deners can—and have been doing it for years. 
The directions on the package said to sow the 
seeds in the open ground, lift roots in the 
Evergreens and Shrubs 
for all Suburban Homes 
In our nurseries you can find Evergreens for 
every purpose—single trees, groups, hedges, or 
windbreaks. Here, too, are all standard vari- 
eties of Shade Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Roses 
and Perennial Plants. It is not our policy to 
grow large quantities of stock, but rather to give 
extra care to the trees, shrubs and plants that we 
do produce, and to ship only such specimens as we 
ourselves would plant on our own ground. 
Our New Catalogue 
is ready for mailing. The catalogue contains val- 
uable hints on planning and planting, suggests 
trees and shrubs for different places and soils, lists 
all varieties that appeal to the discriminating 
planter. A copy willbe sent promptly on request 
to readers of the Garden Magazine. 
© 00000000000000000000000000 
THE NEW 
M 
Medium late bearing, unequalled 
flavor, most wonderful keeper, 
vigorous grower and fruiter, meat- 
jest melon ever originated. Order 
one packet and start your seed 
patch this year. Almost round 
(8,to ro in.) in form, though longer 
than it is deep, smooth greenish 
yellow rind, tough and firm, 
though very thin. Meat is deep 
emerald green and very sweet. 
The Honey Dew is the meatiest, juiciest, sweetest of its kind 
and honestly honey flavored. No other name good enough or 
exact enough to describe it. Price per dozen seeds, 50 cts. 
GALLOWAY BROS. & CO., Sole Distributors 
Westfield Ave., Waterloo, lowa 
Would You 
Have Accepted Daniel? 
gq “T thought that while I’m down here on the 
spot I might as well conclude the matter. I 
can spare so little time away from my business. 
And to court you by correspondence—well, I am 
certainly too much of a gentleman to send type- 
written letters, dictated to my stenographer, to a 
lady, especially one so refined as you are and one 
whom I want to make my wife. And to write 
out letters myself, that’s something I have 
neither time nor inclination for.” 
q Margaret was goaded by two driving cireum- 
J stances to accept Daniel, though in her con- 
science she knew she was taking an easy way out 
—which was anything but easy in the end. 
Her Husband’s Purse 
Another Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch 
By Helen R. Martin 
Author of ““Barnabetta,’’ (Dramatized as “Erstwhile 
Susan,’’) ““Martha of the Mennonite Country, ’’ etc. 
Net $1.35 
Four Illustrations 
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. 
Garden City, New York 
The latest books on travel and biography may be obtained through the Readers’ Service 
