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(The purpose of this Department of THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 1s to take notice of new accessories or sundries that are offered to tempt 
the garden lover. 
In thus bringing before its readers’ notice what the inventors and manufacturers are placing upon the market, THE GARDEN 
MaGaAZzine does not necessarily endorse or recommend the general application of any tool, accessory or appliance; only time and the test of 
actual use can finally answer the question of their suitability for each individual.) 
Ideal Vacuum Flower Box 
HIS is constructed of metal and has double 
walls so as to allow a ventilating air space 
to protect the contents of the box from excessive 
heat. Water can be applied at either end of the 
top of the box. A channel runs the entire length 
of the box in the centre. This system tends to 
keep the roots in the centre. Over-watering plants 
is as detrimental as not watering enough. The 
Ventilation 
Watering 
Irrigation 
Overflow 
Ideal Vacuum Flower Box has a method of drainage 
which prevents giving the plants an over-supply. 
On each end of the box is a trough one inch high. 
Holes are punched in the end of the box inside of 
this trough, and all surplus water runs out. The 
soil becomes soggy when it has too much water and 
the plant becomes sick—so a layer of gravel, broken 
flower pots or moss is put in the bottom of the box 
to prevent over-watering. 
Fertilize and Spray While Watering 
N INGENIOUS scheme for combining two 
operations into one is developed by the Kirke 
System. Everybody uses a hose in his garden— 
that, indeed, is universally looked upon as one of 
the lesser evils of garden work because the dire 
results of an inadequate water supply are quickly 
noticed. This System takes advantage of the 
watering act to distribute fertilizer, insecticide or 
fungicide at the same time. A special hose nozzle, 
having a large, cylindrical chamber, is supplied in 
place of the regular hose attachment. This is the 
cartridge container. There are ten different cart- 
ridges which may be used in the container. The 
water, passing through the chamber, dissolves the 
contents of the cartridge which is thus distributed 
in solution. The various cartridges are uniform 
ee but each preparation has a distinguishing 
color. 
Improved Gro-Quik Forcers 
HE standard form of the Continuous Seed and 
Plant Forcer of the Cloche Company has been 
improved upon in some minor details in fitting cer- 
tain types of the appliance to special purposes. The 
form of wire holder, affording a more convenient 
loop for lifting from seedling rows, is one of these, 
as shown in the upper one of the accompanying 
illustrations. This would be specially handy in 
tending small delicate seedlings on the greenhouse 
bench, for example, or anywhere else where frequent 
removal of the cover for examination of the seedlings 
was desirable. The lower cut shows what is prac- 
tically a miniature glass house with wood corner 
posts, all firmly braced together. This is specially 
designed as a forcer or protector for alpine plants 
such as need shelter from the trying changes of our 
uncertain spring climate. Many little delicate 
early-flowering bulbs, for example, might be grown 
under such a shelter. 
Pull-Easy Garden Cultivator 
H ERE is a new kind of garden rake that is actu- 
ally adjustable to the width of space to be 
worked over! The full width, when the tool as- 
sumes the line of an ordinary garden rake, is eighteen 
inches; but by folding forward the two halves of the 
rake, which are pivoted on the handle socket, they 
may be contracted to seven inches spread, and to 
any intermediate distance. The shape of the teeth 
and the way they are attached to the steel side 
bars makes the cultivator entirely different from an 
ordinary rake, as the teeth penetrate the ground, 
stirring it up and pulverizing it thoroughly without 
the operator’s having to exert any downward pres- 
sure on the handle. The width of the cultivator 
is adjusted by simply loosening two wing nuts and 
tightening them up again. The middle tooth can 
be instantly removed so that the cultivator will 
straddle a row of small plants and thus cultivate 
two rows at the same time. It has that perfect 
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balance or “hang’ 
which is so necessary 
to any tool and which 
enables one to use it 
for a long time with- 
out tiring the arms. 
The handle is four and 
a half feet long, of 
tough, smooth, 
straight-grained white 
ash. Teeth are oftone 
piece cold pressed steel 
and are unbreakable. 
Hodges’ Vegetable 
Garden Chart 
HIS is a scheme 
to put modern 
efficiency methods into 
the backyard veget- 
able garden. The 
chart consists of a 
piece of board with 
horizontal grooves cut 
at equal distances and 
numbered. These re- 
present the rows in 
the garden. The per- 
pendicular columns are ruled for the months of 
the growing season and are of width proportion- 
ate to the activities of the respective months. 
Card strips cut into lengths to correspond with the 
period of time that the crop will occupy the ground 
have the crops’ names written upon them and are 
inserted along the row grooves. By this means the 
gardener can see at a giance just what space will be 
available in the garden at any given date according 
to the plantings then in the rows. Taken in con- 
nection with the various planting tables in THE 
GARDEN MAGAZzInE (such as that on page 86 of the 
March, 1916, issue), the beginner would be better 
able to visualize the development of his garden plot 
and plow ahead for successions, the only requisite 
facts are to be found in various planting tables. 
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