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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1906 



Plan your garden now; take plenty of tim- 

 for it ; enjoy it ; and have your vege- 

 tables early and better than you can buy. 

 You can't get the best results unless you 

 select the latest and best varieties. 



When you plant sugar corn let your first 

 planting be our 



New White Mexican 



SUGAR CORN 



It has the same remarkable sweetness and 

 delicious flavor that characterized the old- 

 time well-known Black Mexican. It is very 

 early, good size and delicious. 



10c pkt.; 25c pt.; 40c qt. 

 Other choice vegetables and flowers described in our 



GARDEN AND FARM 



MANUAL— FREE 



with actual photographs of what you can raise from our 

 thoroughbred tested seeds. 

 iohmcom x. ctoi/cc 217-219 Market St. , 



JOHNSON & STOKES, PhiladeIphia . 



Gillett's Ferns and Flowers F °\ ^ ark 



Shady rlaces 



^~-_ While we grow many thousands of the hardy garden flowers 

 which require open sunlight for their growth, like Phloxes, Cam- 

 panulas, Peonies, Digitalis, etc., there is a demand for something to 

 grow in dark shady places where the hardy garden plants will not 

 thrive. We find just such a class of plants in the HARDY WILD 

 FERN AND FLOWERS of New England. These we have been 

 studying^ and growing for 25 years, and can help you in your selec- 

 tions. They are adapted for a great many places, and selections can 

 be made for beautifying the dark corner by the porch, the shaded 

 wall of hedge, shady hillsides, wet places in both open sun, deep 

 shade, dry woods and rocky places. Brilliant lobelias for planting 

 in small brooks; dainty gentians for planting by brookside. Before 

 purchasing send for my illustrated descriptive catalogue of over 50 

 pages, which tell about this class of plants. 



EDW. GILLETT, Southwick, Mass. 



ASTER 



Giant Flowering 



THE KING 

 all ASTERS 



Grand and mag- 

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 No flower can ap- 

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NORTHERN GROWN SEEDS 



which contains all Good Things, worth growing to date, 

 at the right prices. 3 two-cent stamps will bring this bar- 

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bedding 



Seven Delights of March 



Planting sweet peas. 



Eating asparagus that has been forced 

 outdoors under a barrel. Put a barrel over 

 a couple of hills in February. Fresh manure, 

 heaped outside, supplies the heat. 



Ditto rhubarb. 



Parsley from a potted plant in the cellar 

 window. 



Ditto mint, to go with lamb. 



Corn salad, sown last October and win- 

 tered outdoors under some litter. 



Gloating over the first flowers: snow- 

 drops, crocuses, hepaticas, the blue Anemone 

 blanda, glory-of-the-snow (Chinodoxa), win- 

 ter aconite, Christmas rose, and the harbin- 

 ger of spring (Erigenia bullosa). 



Watching for the first green tips that pierce 

 the soil in the beds of tulip, narcissus, and 

 other bulbs. 



Important Indoor Jobs 



Start flower seeds in "flats" on the kitchen 

 window sill or, better still, make a plant table. 



Make two cold storage rooms in your cellar, 

 one for fruit and one for vegetables. You 

 still ought to have apples, pears and plenty 

 of pickles, preserves and jellies. 



Look over the vegetable roots. If you have 

 managed well you should have potatoes, sweet 

 potatoes, celery, onions, oyster plant, horse- 

 radish, beets, carrots, parsnips, cabbage, 

 pumpkin, squash and turnip. 



Inspect your flowering roots and bulbs: 

 cannas, dahlias, gladioli, poker plants, cin- 

 namon vine, tuberose and elephant's ear. 

 The last needs a warmer place than the others. 



Clean and sharpen the tools and fix a neat 

 place for them in which you can take pride. 



The Californian's Reminder 



March is the best month for lawn-making, 

 unless the spring is late, when you should 

 wait until April. 



Sow artichoke, corn, melon, pumpkin and 

 squash. Also those mentioned in February if 

 you have not done so already. 



Propagate ageratum, alternanthera, coleus, 

 salvias and bedding plants in general. 



Propagate violets. 



Plant second lot of gladioli, also tuberous 

 begonias and tigridias. 



In light, warm soils plant dahlia roots. 



Plant carnations. 



Cultivate and water old clumps of chrys- 

 anthemums to get new growth for April and 

 May propagation from cuttings. 



Divide clumps of larkspur, golden rod, 

 sunflower, phlox and rudbeckia. 



Plant more gladioli and some tritonias. 



Prune bignonias and bougainvilleas. 



The New Century Lawn Sprinkler 



Revolves freely with any pressure. Equal spray 

 over circle from three to fifty feet in diameter. 



"" Wheels 

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Your money back if not entirely satisfactory. Sent 

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THE YOST ELECTRIC MFG. CO., 



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1840 



1906 



Old 

 Colony Nurseries 



Hardy Shrubs, 

 'Trees, Vines, 

 Evergreens 



and 

 Perennials 



A large and fine stock of well-rooted plants, 

 grown in sandy loam. Good plants; best sizes for 

 planting; very cheap. Priced catalogue free on 

 application. 



T. R. WATSON, Plymouth, Mass. 



DHODODENDRON MAXIMUM, Kal- 

 ^=- mias, Wild Azaleas, and Hemlocks — Native 

 grown plants, in carload lots. 



C. G. CURTIS, 



Callicoon Depot, Sullivan County, N. Y. 



LAWN FENCE 



Many designs. Cheap as wood. 

 32 page Catalogue free. Special 

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SEEDS Me PLANT 

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Many photographic reproductions and cultural 



directions. 



VAN WAGENEN, SEEDSMAN. FULTON. N 



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GARDEN AND FLORAL GUIDI 



Ten cents brings you one packet Vick's 

 Branching Aster mixed, our 1906 Catalogue, 

 and a coupon good for 10 cents on first order 

 of $1.00. Vick Quality stands out in our new 

 Violet King and Mikado Asters, both offered 

 for the first time. Send for the Guide anyway. 

 It's free. 



JAMES VICK'S SONS, 



363 Main St. Rochester, N. Y. 



