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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March,1906 



IMPLEMENTS 



For any information concerning the purchase or use 

 of any garden or farm implement, etc., address 



IMPLEMENT DEPARTMENT, THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 

 NOS. 133-137 EAST SIXTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK CITY 



The Dollars that Grow 

 in the Garden 



The time has passed when old-fashioned methods of garden planting and 

 cultivation can be made to pay. Planting by hand and cultivation by hoe is 

 too slow and too expensive to be possible with profit. 



Get our New Iron Age Book and see what wonderful economy in time, 

 labor, seed and fertilizer is accomplished by the Iron Age Farm and Garden 

 Implements. Think what a change it must be from the tire- 

 some labor of old-fashioned garden planting by hand, to 

 be able to open the ground, plant and cover seed at 

 any desirable depth or spacing at a 

 single operation and at an 

 easy walking gait. Yet this 

 is just what is made possi- 

 ble by the 



IRON AGE 



implements 



The same tool, the No. 6 

 , Combined, has interchange- 

 able parts that will weed, 

 hoe, plow, rake, level or 

 cultivate with half the work and twice the speed of hand methods. 



The No. 1 and No. 20 Wheel Hoes, which are forms of the No. 6 and No. 

 15 Combined tools, may be equipped with fertilizer attachment for sowing in 

 furrow or applying as side dressing to growing crops. 



The No. 1 Combined Harrow and the No. 6 Horse Hoe shown have a range 

 of adjustment and adaptability that make them earn their cost r time-and again in 

 the garden, field or truck farm. 



Get our New Iron Age Book, which fully describes these and other 

 labor-saving tools. Also a full line of Potato Machin- 

 ery, consisting of Planters, Sprayers, Cultivators 

 and Diggers. FREE on application. 



No. 1 

 Iron Age 

 <>->mbliied 

 Harrow and 

 Cultivator. 



BATEMAN MFG. CO., 



Box 0, 



Grenicch. N. J. 



The Problem of Spraying 



QEND for Leggetfs Spray Calendar, illustrated, a free booklet to those interested, showing the 

 ^ whole subject at a glance : what to apply and when to do it. This concise information will be 

 of the greatest value to any grower. A postal card will bring yon tlte booklet. The 



DUST SPRAYERS 



are the most effective, easiest and swiftest for all vegetables and fruits. Two acres of potatoes per 

 hour; no barrel of water to haul; does the work of a power machine; dusts two rows as fast as a man 

 can walk; adjustable. Will not get out of order and will last for years. 



LEGGETT & BRO., 303 Pearl Street, New York City 



Champion J)?tster 



A Reading Course on Pruning 



Don't let your shrubs be ruined by alleged 

 "experts" who treat all things alike. 



Study the subject yourself. It is fascinat- 

 ing. You cannot read the articles men- 

 tioned below without wanting to buy a pair 

 of pruning shears. You are missing one of 

 the keenest pleasures in gardening if you let 

 anyone else do your pruning. 



March is the great pruning month. You 

 can cut out dead limbs any time of the year, 

 but that is not pruning. Pruning is the re- 

 moval of live wood, and the ideal time to do 

 most of it is just before the sap rises, because 

 the wounds will heal more quickly then. 



Now is the appointed time for pruning 

 fruit trees and grapes. 



For fruit trees, see Vol. I., pages 64 to 66. 

 For grapes, see Vol. I., pages 18,19. 



The proper time for pruning berry bushes 

 is directly after their fruiting season. There 

 will be a long article on this subject before 

 August in The Garden Magazine. Unless 

 you have a good fruit book, or .the advice of 

 an experienced grower, you would better not 

 touch your currant and gooseberry bushes 

 now if they have been neglected. 



However, if your brier patches are over- 

 grown it is perfectly safe to trim and train 

 them anyway at all, so that you can get 

 through without tearing your clothes. Bet- 

 ter still, cut out all the canes that are three 

 years old or more. You can easily distin- 

 guish the one-, two- and three-year-old wood. 



For the training of berry bushes, see Vol. 

 I., page 88. 



Don't prune your flowering shrubs before 

 June unless you have read Vol I., pages 225, 

 226. Otherwise you are likely to cut off a 

 lot of lilac and other flower buds that were 

 formed last fall. For the pruning of roses, 

 see Vol. I., pages 84 and 126. 



" Nothing Venture Nothing 

 Have " 



The very first day you can find a patch of 

 ground 5 x 20 feet that is fit to work sow 

 extra early peas and Golden Bantam corn. 

 This can often be done in the latitude of 

 New York by March 15th. 



In this way you may gain three or four 

 weeks over your neighbors, who usually sow 

 peas on April 15th and corn on May 1st. 



Be prepared to cover the young plants on 

 frosty nights with old newspapers. The 

 Fullertons have beaten their neighbors for 

 five years without having to cover a single 

 plant. 



Total loss if you fail — ten cents. 



