344 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
dJ Ww it, ve 1916 
Something You Ought To Have 
GREATEST TIME, LABOR AND MONEY SAVER 
EVER INVENTED FOR GARDEN LOVERS 
Besides doing four things at one time, and making your garden labor easier, it eliminates 
the mussiness of the ordinary fertilizers, spraying machines, cumbersome hand pumps, etc. 
The Kirke System makes it possible to destroy insects, spray 
and fertilize at the same time you are watering your garden. 
This ingenious device invented by Mr. Kirkegaard of this company combines in one 
operation several others which heretofore have made so unpleasant t the work of fertilizing 
and spraying. The Kirke System is now in practical use, and hasn’t a single experimental 
feature. It has been used at our own testing grounds and among gardeners for the past 
year so that we are certain it will do all that is promised for it. It received a certificate 
of award at both the recent Philadelphia and New York Flower Shows. It will work as 
well for you as for the thousands all over the country who now enjoy its benefits. 
It Will Last a Lifetime and Only 
Costs $3.00 
THE KIRKE SYSTEM comprises.a cylindrical nickle 
plated metal cartridge holder connected either at the 
faucet or the nozzle end of your hose and in which is in- 
serted a cartridge of fertilizer, insecticide or fungicide. 
It is built to hold one cartridge. There is nothing to 
get out of order and there is no complicated or intricate 
machinery. In fact it is so simple a child can handle it. 
The Kirke cartridges to be placed in the Kirke holder 
are of four types — fertilizer, insecticide, fungicide, and 
germicide. Eleven different preparations as priced be- 
low. _ The flow of water through the chamber is gradual, 
insuring an even solution of the preparation which is 
thus evenly distributed over the lawn, garden, shrub- 
bery. The preparations are of the highest grade of concentrated and ex- 
tremely active chemicals. They are of sufficient hardness to prevent wasting. 
If Your Dealer Can’t Supply You 
Send Your Order Direct to Us 
The “KIRKE SYSTEM” PRICES FG ¥, Doz a ae WEIGHTS 
a 2 OL Ze 
Sprinkling Can Plant Food Kirke Cartridge Container (mail wt. rb.) 5 
3 5 Kirke Fertilizer Cartridge i 1.60 n| 3% Ibs. 
is a product especially prepared for those who do Kirke Tobacco Nicotine Insecticide fs EeD Be ne Cb 
not necessarily require the use of a garden hose, Kirke Hot-Iouse Special Hi 2.75 
but still have small plots that should be watered. Kirke Arsenate of Lead 2.30 
It will be found very serviceable and highly bene- Kirke Bordeaux Cartridges 1.60 
irke Angle Worm y' ie 
ficial for piazza plants, greenhouse plants, plants Kirke Red Ant Destroyer : eK 
grown in pots and in cemeteries, etc. Kirke Black Ant Destroyer 2 1.60 
There are twelve tablets in a box, each tablet Kirke Fly Maggots Destroyer af 1.60 
is sufficient for eight gallons of water and dis- Kirke Sulphur Compound — 9 1.60 
solves gradually and with an even distribution. Kirke Salt Cartridges +55 
“KIRKE SYSTEM" Sprinkling-Can Plant Food,is KIRKE SPRINKLING-CAN PLANT FOOD 
a scientifically prepared product, properly proportioned 30 Cents per Box (12 Tablets) 
(see analysis) to make the correct plant ration*which $1.60 per Carton of Six Boxes (72 Tablets) 
most efficiently promotes and sustains vigorous health $3.00 per Carton of Twelye Boxes (144 Tablets) 
Aiea pone and abundant and richly colored Prices subject to market price of chemicals 
Write for booklet containing further description, planting tables, etc. 
KIRKE CHEMICAL COMPANY, Inc., 250 Robinson Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
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Theor: 
etical and practical instruc- 
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Special courses in poultry, 
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® [Elizabeth L. Lee £@ 
Director, box 105 f 
HE most complete stock of 
hardy plants in America. Illus- 
trated catalog of hardy plants, shrubs, 
trees and bulbs sent free on request. 
are always grown on their own 
Dingee Rose roots. 65 years’ experience. No 
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STURDY AS OAKS 5 Dingee ‘‘Guide to Rose Culture.’’ 
Dingee & Conard Co., Box 737, Wezt Grove, Pa. 
ELLIOTT NURSERY COMPANY 
326 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
C. G. van Tubergen, Jr. 
Haarlem, Holland 
Grower of Choice Bulbs 
E. J. KRUG, Sole Agent 
114 Broad St., New York 
Formerly represented by C. C. Abel & Co. 
Bulbs imported direct from Holland 
for customers. No supply kept here. 
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Snider, Meteor, 
Marechal Niel. 
Damask and Provence Roses: Maiden’s Blush, 
Oeillet Flamand, Tuscany, Cabbage. 
Wichuraiana: Excelsa, Lady (ee, White inks 
othy Perkins, Gardenia. 
Moss Roses: Blanche Moreau, Salet. 
North Carolina. C. J. Haven. 
Gruss an Teplitz, Malmaison, 
ete the Sora 
CON cultivation in the garden is neces- 
sary to make the vegetables mature, to keep 
down weeds, and conserve moisture during the 
heated term. Use the hand cultivator where the 
distance between rows is narrow. Deep cultiva- 
tion is to be avoided when the vegetables are near- 
ing maturity, but the soil could be stirred on top 
to make a dry mulch. 
A mulching of leaves, strawy old cow manure 
around the newly planted evergreens, the Rhodo- 
dendrons, Roses and Sweet Peas keeps them moist 
and cool through the long hot summer. Water 
one part of garden thoroughly once or twice a week, 
rather than slight sprinkling over the whole garden. 
Be watchful of disease and insects on the melon 
vines. Cut away all affected parts, use bordeaux 
for disease and slug shot for insects. 
Grape vines should be sprayed with bordeaux for 
grape rot almost to ripening time. Prune vines to 
let in sunlight. The latter part of the month trans- 
plant the celery plants from the coldirame to the 
open ground. See directions in THE GARDEN 
MacazineE, July, t915. __ 
Make constant use of liquid manure on the vege- 
tables as well as the flowers. Set out the sweet po- 
tato plants and put in the winter crop of Irish 
potatoes. The Green Mountain is a good keeper. 
A successional planting of corn, lima beans, and 
beets and snap-beans and a late planting of black- 
eyed peas, navy beans, cucumbers for pickling, and 
late tomato plants the first of this month. The 
latter part of the month sow spinach in rows and 
Witloof chicory thinly in rows to be thinned out 
later. 
Keep the asparagus bed free of weeds and broad- 
cast much coarse salt. 
Sow in the coldframes late cabbage seed, Brussels 
sprouts and cauliflower, and shade from the sun 
with slatted frames. Water thoroughly in the 
evenings. 
The winter onions should be dug and laid in the 
shade to dry out, and later stored in a cool barn for 
winter use. 
All plots in the garden not in use sow in crimson 
clover to-be turned under in the spring as a green 
manure. ; 
In the flower garden keep the soil constantly 
stirred between the flowers wherever possible. Sow 
at the end of the month or in early August in cold- 
frames perennials for next spring’s planting. They 
should be shaded from the sun and watered care- 
fully and thoroughly every evening. Such things 
as Hollyhocks, Wallflower, Delphinium, Pyrethrum, 
Campanula, Pansies and English Daisies should be 
sowed now. 
Do the summer pruning of the early flowering 
shrubs, cutting out the dead wood and such limbs 
as make it unsightly in shape, such as Forsythia, 
Lilacs, and Pyrus Japonica. 
Look over the orchard thoroughly, cut out all 
affected limbs and those that crowd each other, and 
if the trees are heavy with fruit, thin out a great 
number so that those that remain will be larger and 
more perfect. 
Virginia J. M. Parrerson. 
Estimating very generally it may be said that from 
three to five bushels of white potatoes from a plot 
20 X 25 ft. would be a very satisfactory yield. In 
extensive potato growing 300 bushels per acre is ex- 
cellent. By making use of garden methods this 
rate should be increased 75 per cent. 
