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Farr’s Hardy Chrysanthemums 
In the late autumn days, when most all flowers have succumbed to the approaching 
winter, how cheering it is to see one flower that is a blaze of glorious bloom. My 
Chrysanthemums bloom in late summer and early fall, and some of the more 
hardy varieties bloom: until snow falls. 
At that time of the year the trees have lost their foliage and fruits; the once green 
grass is now a faded, lifeless gray, but wherever you find a bed of Farr’s Chrysanthe- 
mums you will see a riot of lively colors. Rich purples, deep reds, golden yellows 
and clear whites produce an effect which seems to prolong the joyous days of 
summer and to make the winter seem shorter. 
As Chrysanthemums planted now will make strong, blooming plants this fall, I am 
offering to readers of Garden Magazine and their friends, an opportunity to get 
some of these fine plants, so they may have a blooming garden this fall. The 
prices are low and you will be pleased with either collection given below. 
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Alma. Very large, beautiful soft pink. Ladysmith. Medium sized; light pink. y 
Amelia. Golden yellow, tipped garnet. L’Argentuillais. Deep chestnut. 
Bohemia. Deep golden yellow. Lilian Dotty. Beautiful shell-pink 
Dinzulu. Very large flowers of clear pink. Lodi. Large flowers; citron-yellow. 
Elva. Large; white and shaded blush. Lyndhurst. Pleasing scarlet-bronze. 
Excelsior. Large-flowering, yellow. Myers Perfection. Large; sulphur white 
Gladys. Flesh white and yellow. and yellow. Z 
Irene. Very early flowering; white and Nio. Small flowers of white and salmon. 
flesh. Paterson. Old-gold with darker shading. D 
Kadar. Delightful bronze-red. St. Croats. Creamy white and shaded pink. Z 
Klondyke. Very deep yellow. Zenobia. Very early; golden yellow. Z 
I will send you this entire collection of 
Twenty Varieties for $2.50 
If you would like to have me select a collection for you I will send you 25 Hardy 
Chrysanthemums of my selection for $2.50. If you take advantage of this 
bargain you get five more plants than in the other offer. 
Farr’s Hardy Plant Specialties 
If you do not have a copy of the 1915-16 Edition of this useful book, send for one. You will 
find it very helpful in planning your hardy garden. It is illustrated with 24 full-page engrav- 
ings, 12 in natural color. All desirable hardy plants are listed—Irises, Chrysanthemums, 
Phlox, Delphiniums, and the world’s largest collection of Peonies in over 500 varieties. My 
book gives valuable information for every lover of beautiful growing things and many helpful 
hints for planting your garden. Send for a free copy. 
BERTRAND H. FARR 
WYOMISSING NURSERIES 
104 GARFIELD AVENUE 
WYOMISSING, PENNA. 
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The Readers’ Service gives information about real estate 
Protecting With Cheesecloth 
HAVE just read the article in the Janu- 
ary magazine by Ethel A. S. Peckham about 
cloches, etc., in which she lays emphasis on 
cheesecloth protection. I also use cheesecloth, 
but in a way she has not suggested. 
I live on a sandy plain 20 feet above tide- 
water and 200 feet from it, in the little end 
of a big funnel where the wind always blows — 
and there are no windbreaks, and yet I have 
a garden! In early spring I can start almost 
any plant, but after June 15, though there is 
plenty of moisture in the ground, I find the 
top two inches of soil just. a fine, dry, hot 
dust, and it is impossible to give sufficient 
water to last from sunrise to sunset. No seed 
will come up.unless it can be planted two 
inches deep, yet winter beets and many other 
small seeds must be planted during late June 
or July. Any ordinary screen will blow down. 
When we built I saved all the shingle binders. 
I take four of these and make a frame, nail- 
ing two on top of the other two. Then I cover 
the frame thus made with tightly stretched 
cheesecloth. This brings the surface of the 
cloth about two and one-half inches above the 
seed bed. Being so low the wind rarely moves 
them. Each night I wet the soil to the depth 
of an inch without removing the frames. As 
soon as the plants begin to show I go out 
after supper with a sharp, light pitchfork and, 
backing down the “neutral” ground between the 
rows, I remove the frames, placing them on the 
ath. Then I gently sprinkle the ground. I 
eave the frames off all night unless there is 
indication of wind. In the morning, if neces- 
sary, I cover the plants from eight until ten 
o’clock. Each day I give an increased ex- 
posure and in two weeks or so the little roots 
have reached down the two perilous inches to 
the moist ground below and my frames are 
used elsewhere. This scheme enables me to 
start my own perennials from seed, and has 
given me much [| could ill afford to buy. 
Massachusetts. ALICE B. FULLER. 
How Many Berries From One 
Bush? 
AM in the small fruit growing business on 
a five-acre tract and have had some experi- 
ence in that line, and consequently had to 
smile at the statement in an article on 
“Bramble Berries,” by J. R. Mattern, in the 
January, 1916, issue of THE GARDEN MAGAZINE, 
in which he says “ten blackberry plants, yield- 
ing about 50 quarts,” etc. One would do well 
indeed to get a yield of one quart per plant 
with proper fertilization and cultivation. 
Illinois. M. H. VEsrat. 
-—Undoubtedly you are thinking in terms of 
commercial berry planting, where the same 
field is rarely kept in blackberries so long that 
the plants get the size required to bear four or 
five quarts. In my article I was thinking in 
terms of the home fruit garden, where the 
blackberries likely will be along the fence or 
on trellises, and will be more or less perma- 
nent fixtures, getting big and sprawling. In a 
field of commercial blackberries the bushes are 
about two feet high, rarely three feet, with 
two to four canes to a bush. In a home fruit 
garden the bushes will not be like this in two 
or three years. They will be high—just as 
high as the fruit can be picked from con- 
veniently. With the increase in height will be 
a corresponding increase in spread, and a four- 
fold increase in the amount of bearing cane 
or wood. 
Maryland. J. R. MATTERN. 
