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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1906 





An Orchard in a Small Garden 



THINK of having half a dozen kinds of orchard fruit in the compass of your small garden ! This is possible 

 by planting dwarf trained and pyramidal fruit trees. Grown along the border of the garden against a wall 

 or a trellis they do not take up any considerable space, and even a small city plot will contain a dozen 

 without sacrificing anything else. And you will not have to wait years for the trees to come into bearing as in 

 ]he case of ordinary orchard trees. We can supply bearing trees that should fruit the first year. 



Not only do these r'warf trained fruit trees save time and space, but they are far easier to spray, prune 



and care for, since you have everything 

 within reach. Moreover, the fruit is 

 borne profusely, it ripens much better, 

 it is greatly superior in quality to that 

 of ordinary fruit trees, and has a finer 

 flavor. 



By planting a number of dwarf trees 

 of different varieties on a small plot you 

 can supply your table with a succession 

 of extra quality fruit all summer. 



We have made a specialty of dwarf 

 fruit trees and have a fine stock of 

 Apples, Pears, Peaches, Plums, Cher- 

 ries, Apricots, Nectarines, etc. 



The prices range from $2.00 each up, 

 according to the form and variety. Send 

 for our special price list of these trained 

 fruit trees and English pot-grown grape 

 vines. 



We have the finest collection of ROSES 



in the country, comprising 150,000 two-year-old plants for Spring delivery. They represent the choicest grown 

 and imported by us from all parts of the world, consisting of Hybrid Perpetual, Tea, Climbing, Bourbon, 

 Noisette, Wichuraiana, Lord Penzance Sweet Briar, and others. White and Pink Cochet, White and Pink 

 Kaiserin, Baby Rambler, Frau Karl Druschki, and Mrs. R. G. Sharman Crawford are superb novelties. 



We offer, these at special prices for immediate acceptance, $2.00 per dozen, $15 per hundred. Rare varie" 

 ties, $3 00 to i>6.oo per dozen. Send for special detailed price sheets. 



We have also an extensive stock of choice 

 Evergreens and Conifers Hardy Old Fashioned Flowers 



Shade Trees and Flowering Shrubs Bay Trees, Boxwood and Blue Spruce 



English Hardy and Maximum Rhododendrons 



Send for our new illustrated general catalogue. 



BOBBINK & ATKINS, Nurserymen and Florists, Rutherford, N. J. 



JAMES ' Bf TsgNSV 



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AND FLORAL GUI DE F 



Contains many new Premium Offers. You should know- 

 about Vick's Violet King and Mikado Asters, 

 now offered for the first time. Send ten cents and re- 

 ceive a packet of Vick's Branching Aster, in Six 

 Colors, and coupon good for 10 cents on purchase of 

 $1.00 or over from 1906 Guide. Send for the Catalogue 

 anyway, it's free. 



JAMES VICK'S SONS, 

 362 Main St. Rochester, Iff. Y. 



Dwarf Trained Fruit Trees 



all sizes and forms 



Hot House Grape Vines 



Strong 2 and 3 year old canes 

 75 cents to $2.00 each 



Send for catalogue 



ROSE HILL NURSERIES 



Siebrecht & Son Co. 5th Ave. and 38th St., New York 



Nurseries: New Rochelle, N. Y. 





The Bay State Nurseries 



'"•'i3Et*J<&^& 



North Abington, Mass. 



Owners of many large Estates are buying their Shade 

 Trees, Shrubs, Roses, Herbaceous Perennials etc., 

 direct from our nurseries. We have no agents. We 

 make a specialty of growing high grade nursery stock, 



selling it at reasonable rates. We have unsurpassed facil- 

 'ties for the proper handling of orders, and are so located 

 that quick delivery is assured. Upon request we wil 

 place in your hands one of the finest illustrated Nursery 

 Rooks published. Write for it to-day. 



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Rollers Made from Drain-pipes 



THERE are six of us suburbanites — 

 "town farmers" the people around 

 here call us. We all had lawn mowers, but 

 not one owned a roller. Rollers are heavy 

 things and very difficult to get out from town, 

 so we went without them and the lawns 

 suffered. 



A simple, cheap and effective lawn roller which 

 can be made from a piece of drain tile. 



I looked out one morning and saw my 

 neighbor pushing a big roller up and down 

 his front lawn. It wasn't long before I went 

 over to see him, or rather his roller. I found 

 he had constructed about as serviceable a 

 thing as one needed. 



Fasten together two pieces of wood at the same 

 distance as the length of your pipe. In the centre of 

 each bore a hole; running through these a broom 

 handle, which becomes the axle of the roller. 



When his well had been dug, two or three 

 of the big terra-cotta pipes with which it was 

 lined had been left over. He had taken one 

 of these — it was two feet in diameter and 

 about eighteen inches long — and fitted it up 

 as a roller. 



"Why, it's simplicity itself!" I exclaimed, 

 as I looked it over. "All great inventions 

 are," he replied, grandly. "Now you fel- 

 lows go and copy it, and don't come borrow- 

 ing mine." 



I did copy it, and now I possess a roller. 

 This is how it's made: 



