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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
May, 1916 
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Mathews Garden Craft 
Make a cozy and comfortable nook 
in some part of your garden with 
Mathews Garden Craft Furniture. 
There is nothing more inviting than 
an outdoor living-room on the lawn. 
Besides both porch and lawn furniture, 
our free catalogue shows summer-houses, 
arbors, pergolas, trellises and lattice work. 
Send for it today. There’s no obligation. 
THE MATHEWS MANUFACTURING CO. 
940 Williamson Bldg., Cleveland, Ohio 
Pasadena, Cal., Branch, Colorado and Los Robles Streets 
GARDEN LECTURERS 
MR. ROBERT PYLE —the well known Garden Lecturer and 
Rosarian invites correspondence from garden lovers and societies. 
Subject — “The American Rose Garden,” illustrated with finely 
colored lantern slides. Address: West Grove, Penn. 
INSECTICIDES AND FUNGICIDES 
HAMMOND’S SLUG-SHOT—thoroughly reliable in killing Cur- 
rant Worms, Potato Bugs, Cabbage Worms, etc. Sold by Seeds 
Dealers. Circular free. Benjamin Hammond, Beacon, N. Y. 
PLANTS AND NURSERY STOCK 
DOUBLE HOLLYHOCKS, Rockmont strain, white, blush, pink, 
red, yellow and black, separate colors, 85 cents per dozen; double 
mixed, 75 cents per dozen; Rainbow mixture, single hollyhocks, 24 
for $1.00; all prepaid. Ask hundred rates. 40-page catalogue of 
trees, shrubs and flowers, including Colorado native plants. Rock- 
mont Nursery, Boulder, Colorado. 
PLANTS. ROCKY MT. WILD FLOWERS. Wewill send twelve 
beautiful varieties, postpaid, for one dollar. Fernwood Nursery 
Co., Ovando, Mont. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS. Special offer Pompon, and Large Flower- 
ing early sorts, in upwards of 75 varieties. We will supply 15 plants 
in distinct sorts for $1.00. Descriptive price list free on application. 
Scott Bros., Elmsford, N. Y. 
NATIVE EVERGREENS—Balsam Fir, Arbor Vitae, American 
Spruce, White Pine and Hemlock, 6 to 12 inches, $5.50 per 1000. 
5000 for $25. Also transplanted evergreens. Write for price list. 
‘The James A. Root Nurseries, Skaneateles, N. Y. 
Cut down your living expenses. 
ished how easy it is to save time, labor and money, 
and get bigger and better crops when you use 
single wheel hoe in one. 
then works between rows with one or two wheels. 
No. 4 Planet Jr Combined Hill and Drill Seeder, Wheel 
Hoe, Cultivator and Plow sows all garden seeds (in drills or 
hills), plows, opens furrows and covers them, hoes and culti- 
vates easily and thoroughly all through the season. 
other styles of seeders and wheel hoes—various prices. 
72-page Catalog (184 illustrations) free! 
Describes over 70 tools, including 12 entirely new ones, and 
improvements to our Seeders, Wheel Hoes, Horse Hoes, Har- 
rows, Orchard-, Beet- and Pivot-wheel Riding Cultivators. 
Write for it today! 
S L Allen & Co Box 1108S Philadelphia 
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You’ll be aston- 
Planet Jr 
Garden Tools 
No. 11 Planet Jr (Shown here in action)—A double and 
Straddles crops till 20 inches high, 
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Your garden this summer will be the most 
inviting spot in the world if Jou make it a 
eater: Garden.”’ Placea curved benc 
in one corner, an arbor seat in another, and 
perhaps a tea table and chairs within its shel- 
ter—and you will have an outdoor living- 
room of comfort and charm. Our Old 
English garden furniture graces the finest es- 
tates in America. end for our Illustrated 
Catalog, which will help you to make the 
most of Your garden and lawn. 
NORTH SHORE FERNERIES CO. 
BEVERLY, MASS. 
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Flag Poles, Clothes Posts 
Tennis Posts and Fence Posts 
These are made of high 
carbon galvanized steel 
tubing filled with concrete. 
The separate heavy 
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B as the ground saving the trouble 
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i és with perishable wooden posts 
Bas 6 when these indestructible re- 
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o: ee. Write for catalogue A or 
RA 8% ask your dealer. 
MILWAUKEE STEEL POST CO. Milwaukee, Wis. 
Classified Card Advertising Department 
ROSES 
SEEDS AND BULBS 
Beats. ASTERS, separate colors ge maxed beet, lettuce, alys- 
sum. 4 doz. 25c, 109 45c, Looo $2.75. oin prefered: I: 
Tshudy, Smokrtown, Pa. ae a Be 
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POPULAR PRICED DAHLIA COLLECTION Geisha (Peony) 
40C; Golden Gate (Cactus) 50c; Queen of Hearts (Cactus) 25c; Perle 
D’Lyon (Decorative 25c; Delice (Decorative) 25c; Koerner’s White 
(Single-Century) 25c; Perle De La Tete D’or (Decorative) 15¢; 
Yellow Duke (Decorative) 15c; Frank L. Bassett (Decorative) roc. 
The above 9 postpaid for $2. Catalog free. If you prefer I will send 
you 12 varieties, my selection for $1. J. R. Benjamin, Calverton, 
Long Island, N. Y. 
GIANT EXHIBITION DAHLIAS and gorgeous ornamental 
cannas, most distinctive in form and color. Dahlias in collections, 
steel 
your own choice of varieties $1.50 to $5.00 per dozen postpaid. _ 
Cannas of your own selection $1.50 per dozen, $9.00 per hundred 
prepaid. All strong vigorous stock. Send for descriptive list. A. 
M. Buckenham, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. 
BURT’S SUPERB DAHLIAS. 20 named kinds $r. 
bring full particulars. Mention Garden Magazine. 
Rehoboth, Mass. 
Postal will 
H. F. Burt, 
DAHLIAS; all standards and novelties, 5c up postpaid. Special 
surplus offers, 3 roots at dozen rates. Collection, r5 for$1. Catalog. 
. S. Griffing, Cutchogue, N. Y. : 
THE BROCKTON DAHLIA FARM has the largest and finest 
Dahlias in the United States, all new roots, tagged, and true toname 
Catalogue free. W.P. Lathrop, Prop., East Bridgewater, Mass. 
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See our display in New York at the 
Garden Gateway, 31 East 48th St. 
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CLASSIFIED CARD ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT 
PLANTS AND NURSERY STOCK—Continued 
ASTER PLANTS, Micado Rochester, white, pink, violet. Aster- 
mums, white, pink, lavender. Royal Stripe. Ruby Stripe. Crego 
pink, rose, lavender. Autumn Glory. Enchantress Pink. Rose, 
violet, pink, and crimson King. . Vick’s Branching, white, lavender, 
pink (Semple’s), carmine, purple. Lady Roosevelt. Lavender Gem. 
Royal purple. Queen of the Market, mixed, (ready May 20) per 
100, $1.25. Hardy asters, white, pink, blue, per dozen, $1.00. The 
following plants in 2 inch paper pots, Zinnias, (Benary’s Giants) 
mixed, Sweet William, mixed, 4 o’clocks, mixed. Little Gem Sweet 
Alyssum. Cosmos, Lady Lenox, white, pink, per dozen, 50c. The 
following Gladioli in 3 inch pots. Peace, War, Pendleton, Prince- 
PIRES Glory, per dozen, $2.00. America, Augusta, Hulot, King, 
anama, per dozen, $1.50. The following plants in 4 inch pots. 
Cannas, King Humbert, Florence Vaughn, per dozen, $2.00. Dah- 
lias, Livoni, Lyndhurst, Douzon, per dozen, $1.50. Hollyhocks; 
double rose, white, black, yellow, maroon, pink, red and Alleghany 
fringed, per dozen, $1.00. Oldbrick Farms, Orwell, Ashtabula 
County, Ohio. 
MONADNOCK NURSERY, Established 1909, East Jaffrey, New 
Hampshire. Specialty, Hardiest Northern Grown Japanese Iris, 
large 7 year clumps, $3.00; strong clumps, 25 cents each. Hardy 
Northern Mosses and Ferns, 10 cents each. Hybrid Perpetual 
Roses, 15 cents. Plain Pricelist of Evergreens, Shrubs, Perennials, 
etc., on request. 
THE GREAT WALLACE CANNA. Gigantic yellow flowers, won- 
derful bloomer. Your garden needs this gem. Strong plants rsc. 
2 for 25¢c, postpaid. Limited stock. Ordernow. H. S. Tillotson, 
5904 Ellsworth St., Phila., Pa. 
PANSIES, The Big Giant Flowering kind $3.00 per tooo, in bud 
and bloom $5.00 per rooo. A trial order will convince you of the 
superior plants and fine strain. Cash please. James Moss, Whole- 
sale Grower, Johnsville, Pa. 
IS PINK YOUR FAVORITE COLOR? A garden of beautiful 
pink gladioli from palest pink to deep rose, lovely and tasteful. 
Five each of choicest eight varieties; America, palest pink; Taconic, 
silvery pink; Mrs. Pendleton, blush pink; Pink Perfection, apple 
blossom; Pink Beauty, peach pink; Panama, rose pink; Indepen=- 
dence, rose pink; Halley, salmon pink. All for $1.00 and artistic 
booklet included free. H. E. Meader, Gladiolus Specialist, 
Dover, N. H. : 
DERBY GARDENS GLADIOLI, acclimated stock, Augusta, Col- — 
umbia, Independence. Buchanan, Mrs C. Beal, Maize, Beecher, 
Pendleton. Other varieties and blues. Also Primulinus and 
Channel Island Seedlings. Send for list. John H. Umpleby, 
Lake View, N. Y. 
GLADIOLUS BULBS, thirty cents dozen; one dollar hundred— 
best stocks—fine mixture. Five rose bushes, one dollar. 15 dahlias, 
one dollar. Send five-dollar bill and see what I send, worth double. 
M. S. Perkins, Danvers, Mass. 
PANSIES—“Kenwood Beauties.”? Giant flowering, beautifully 
colored. Fall sown, field culture, blossoms just starting. Forty 
cents per dozen, three dozen $1.00. Postpaid. Satisfaction guar- 
anteed. Henry W. Kennon, “Kenwood,” Saco, Maine. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
FLORIST POTS, Hanging Baskets, Lawn Vases, Porch Pots and 
Moss Aztec ware. Try our line. Ask for catalogue. The Peters 
& Reed Pottery Co., South Zanesville, Ohio. ; 
GARDEN DECORATIONS in reinforced cast stone: Send for 
catalogue. J. C. Kraus Cast Stone Works, 155 West 32d Street, 
New York City. 
BEES. Strong colonies of Italian honey bees in Langstroth hives. 
Thoroughbred stock, hustlers, $6.00 per colony. C. W. Abbott, 
Upper Montclair, N. J. 
BOOKS FOR THE GARDEN ENTHUSIAST 
“HOW TO GROW ROSES’’—an instructive booklet of 10 delight- 
ful chapters, describing ror prize winners. Price roc. The Conard 
& Jones Co., Box 24, West Grove, Pa. , 
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