220 THE GARDEN MAGAZINES _ May, 1916 
The KIRKE System 
Fertilizes While Watering, Destroys Insects 
It is an ingenious, scientific method of combining in one opera- 
tion the several others formerly attendant upon Fertilizers and 
Insecticides for Lawns, Gardens, Shrubbery and Foliage. 
It is the only clean, odorless, posi- It abolishes the use of cumbersome 
tively active, easily handled, practic- hand-pumps, hand sprayers, carts and 
able, economical and eficient method of wagons, etc., for distributing Insecti- 
destroying Insects or Fertilizing,requir- cides and Fertilizers. 
ing no additional labor or experience. 
Growing Cauliflower in a Young 
Orchard 
Cae is usually raised as a garden 
vegetable, and is considered somewhat dif- 
It is without an experimental 
It abolishes the use of unsanitary sta- feature—it will work as well for 
ble manure, so objectionable, because you as for the thousands all over 
of its disagreeable odors and the great the country who already enjoy its 
abundance of weed-seeds it contains. benefits. ficult of cultivation. It is very hardy, will bear 
considerable frost, and comes to its greatest per- 
“Kirke System’ ’"—Once eee Always) Used fection late in the season—~in fact, it matures 
better in cold weather than in warm. In this lati- 
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Kirke eae or cine: ooo Dez. Dox. ? tude, where heavy frosts may be expected in late 
re Per er aviinless ay ED eee Nore a seed sped ee planted anor the 
irke Tobacco Insecticide : : : ast of May. An ounce of seed, costing about $1.75. 
Peake Hide House Special a Bue mis be at wholesale, should give about 3,000 plants. A 
Kirke Bordeaux Cartridges 30 1.60 3.00 packet of 200 seeds may be bought for twenty-five 
Kirke Angle Worm Destroyer re cents. We have tried it as a field crop in a young 
Weeks NAC HAr Oba tous Be ae aan pear orchard, on a farm in the Hudson River Valley 
some fifty miles north of New York, and found it to 
bea profitable crop. Three rules might be followed 
for success: fertilize heavily, cultivate contin- 
ually, sell in local markets. 
We planted seeds of the Snowball variety on May 
3ist in fairly rich soil. The ground between the 
rows was kept loose and free from weeds by fre- 
quent hoeings. On July 15th the plants measured — 
eighteen inches high by about twelve wide, as they 
stood in the row. They were then ready for trans- 
planting to the orchard. 
The soil there was a clay loam, from which a heavy 
crop of potatoes had been taken the year before. 
To renew the vitality of the soil oats had been 
planted on April 26th. On the 21st of June they 
were about eighteen inches high and were plowed 
under; the lot was then harrowed with a disc wheel 
cutaway harrow, twice the length of the lot and 
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uggesti ons Mawhen ectine plants in large numbers I always 
e 6 99 use a planting machine. One man can operate it 
f Eff t Pl t and carry a basket of plants slung across his shoul- 
or ec lve an Ing der; though, where it is desirable to save time, two 
persons should work, one to carry the plants and 
drop them down the tube of the planter, and the 
other to operate the planter. By this method the 
@ Acatalog in which botanical arrangement is 
dlealf : ac plants can be set as fast as the men can walk. In 
superse ed for your greater convenience by list- mellow ground, the weight of the instrument loaded 
ing in groups, those plants best adapted to | | with liquid fertilizer makes holes sufficiently large 
. ° for the plants. 
varied uses on the quiet country place, sub- A small number of the plants were taken at a 
Kirke Fly Destroyer 40 2.30 4.50 | 
Kirke Sulphur Compound Cartridges .30 1.60 3.00 | 
Kirke SYSTEM, Sprinkling Can, Plant Food 
Especially Useful for Piazza Plants, 30 Cents per Box (12 Tablets). $1.60 per 2 
House Plants, Cemetery Plots and Carton of Six Boxes (72 Tablets): $3.00 
Small Gardens per Carton of Twelve Boxes (144 Tablets). 
For Sale by all Leading SEED HOUSES; if 
Your Dealer Cannot Supply You, Notify Us 
Kirke Chemical Company, Inc. 
250 Robinson Street Brooklyn, N. Y. 
urban grounds or for architectural effects. This time from the garden row with a trowel and care- 
book ST fully separated. Each plant was trimmed, the 
ooklet will be sent only at your request. tops bunched together, cut off with a pair of grass 
shears to within an inch and a half of the crown, 
and the lower leaves removed. This trimming re- 
duced the plant to a proper size to fit the three 
Rhododend rons ) Ev er 2 reens b) inch drop tube of the planter and also served to 
force the sap into the heart leaves of the plant. 
Trees, Shrub S and Hardy Plan {s The liquid fertilizer is a saturated solution of any 
strong commercial fertilizer, and the tank in the 
machine will hold enough for about too plants. 
The jaws of the planter have flanges on the side so 
arranged that by twisting the machine they scrape 
the soil from the sides of the hole over the roots of 
the plant. This, with the liquid fertilizer, which is 
released by a slight pressure of the thumb on the 
@ “Andorra Grown” plants are of the highest 
quality, in wide variety of species and sizes. 
Large Trees and Evergreens for immediate effect 
area specialty. horizontal bar of the planter, forms a clot of mud 
around the roots, which goes far toward aiding their 
recovery. We set the plants one good pace apart 
ANDORRA NURSERIES in rows three and a half feet apart. A taut line 
Wm. Warner Harper, Proprietor of garden cord stretched across the field keeps the 
2 3 5 rows straight. 
Box G, Chestnut Hill Philadelphia, Pa. Two weeks after setting, on July 20th, the ground 
had dried out to form a crust, so the whole field was 
gone over with a one-horse cultivator and a week 
later the plants received a thorough hoeing. This 
cultivation was repeated after every rain, it being 
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