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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1906 



Shrubs for Continuous Bloom 



THE usual shrubbery border is without flowers from June until the advent of the charming 

 Hydrangea in September. 

 We can tell you how to have your grounds gay with flowers from April through to 

 November. We can make you a plan of carefully selected shrubs that massed on the 

 lawn or border will give you exquisite masses of color all season through, culminating in 

 Autumn with brilliant foliage and berry effects. There will be no gaps in mid-summer when 



you want to enjoy your 

 garden most. 



Moreover, we can tell 

 you the best shrubs for 

 special situations ; e. g., the 

 plants that make the best 

 hedges ; shrubs for cov- 

 ering steep banks ; for 

 rocky places ; for damp 

 spots ; for wind-swept lo- 

 cations, and red-berried 

 shrubs that will make 

 your garden cosy and at- 

 tractive all winter. 



Is it not better to have 

 such expert suggestion? 

 For example, what gar- 

 den do you know that 

 has flowers in March ? 

 We can suggest for such early bloom a perfect shrub that is covered with beautiful starry white 

 flowers three inches across, toward the end of March — Magnolia stellata, totally unlike the 

 common Magnolias, because of its exquisite star-like flowers. And do you know that rare and 

 interesting shrub, the Purple Callicarpa, which has brilliant flowers in August and September ? 

 It will be a pleasure for our landscape department to assist you, without charge, in suggest- 

 ing effective landscape arrangements, and help you solve any difficult problems you may have. 

 With a nursery complete in every particular we can supply every variety of Shrubs, choice Blue 

 Spruce, Evergreens and Conifers, Ornamental Shade and Weeping Trees, Hedge Plants, Native 

 Rhododendrons and English Hybrids. Roses, Hardy Vines, Hardy Ferns and Grasses, Old 

 Fashioned Hardy Flowers, Trained and Other Fruit Trees, Small Fruits, etc. 



These are all described in our New Illustrated Catalogue which we shall be glad to send to serious inquirers.* 

 Our Landscape Department will be pleased to correspond with parties intending to lay out or improve 

 their grounds. The general supervision of private estates, and old-fashioned gardens a specialty. 

 Visitors to our Nurseries are always welcome. 



Altheas (Rose of Sharon) planted as a hedge. A shrub that flowers all Summer. 



BOBBINK & ATKINS, 



Nurserymen, Florists and Landscape Gardeners, 



RUTHERFORD, N. J. 



T>REER'S s ™V£&Zxit %OSES 



for Garden Culture 



All carefully selected 2-year-old field-grown stock 

 that will produce a full crop of flowers this year. 

 In our Garden Book we offer over 150 of the 

 choicest Hybrid Perpetual, Hybrid Tea, Tea, 

 Moss, Sweet Brier, Climbing and other Roses. 

 We especially recommend our collections as under: 

 TWELVE BEST HYBRID PERPETUALS 



Anna de Diesbach, Baron de Bonstettin, Baroness 

 Rothschild, Gen. Jacqueminot, Gloire Lyonnaise, 

 Magna Charta, Margaret Dickson, Mrs. Crawford, 

 Mrs. Laing, Paul Neyron, Prince Camille de 

 Rohan, Ulrich Brunner. Price $4.00 per doz., 

 strong 2-year-old. 



TWELVE BEST HYBRID TEAS 



Killarney, Belle Siebrecht, Bessie Brown, Cap. 

 Christy, Caroline Testout, Ideal, Kaiserin Augusta 

 Victoria, La France, Souv. de Wootten, Gruss an 

 Teplitz, Helen Gould, Viscountess Folkestone. 

 Price $5.00 per doz., strong 2-year-old. 



All are fully described in our Garden Book, 

 which is acknowledged to be the finest and most complete catalogue of Seeds, Plants and 

 Bulbs published. A copy will be sent FREE to those who mention this magazine. 



HENRY A. DR.EER., 714 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



A Record-Breaking Nasturtium 



I HAD an unusually large plant of dwarf 

 nasturtium last season. It was so large 

 that it crowded out all the other plants in 

 its vicinity. 



On the twelfth of May I put ten seeds of a 

 dwarf nasturtium in a row in the garden 

 between two rows of vegetables which were 

 four feet apart. The seeds were one foot 

 apart in the row. 



The soil and the exposed location seemed 

 just suited to their needs, for they thrived 

 from their first appearance above ground. 

 The one which proved such a wonder was 

 extra large and thrifty from the start, and 

 especially attractive, as the foliage was a 

 delicate apple green. Before long the plants 

 on either side began to be crowded by the 

 growth of this one, so I pulled them 

 out ; two or three weeks later it became neces- 

 sary to dispose of the next pair of plants; 

 then the vegetables on either side fell before 

 the onslaught. Drought had no effect in 

 checking the spread ; for when small bushes 

 near it withered and died during a hot spell 

 when I was away and no one took sufficient 

 interest in them to water them, this one 

 seemed undisturbed and devoted its energies 

 to covering ground. 



On the second of October when the photo- 



The dwarf nasturtium (Tropaeolum minus) is one of 

 the best hardy annuals for quick results. This one 

 grew 22 inches high and six feet in diameter 



graph was taken, the plant was twenty-two 

 inches high and five feet across. There were 

 at that time but few blossoms, all the energy 

 had apparently gone into leaves, but it was 

 full of buds. By the twentieth of the month 

 it was a mass of bloom and had increased 

 to six feet in diameter. A week later it was 

 killed by the frost, but had shown no signs of 

 diminished ardor. A whole flower bed eigh- 

 teen feet around is a large one, and when 

 one thinks of a single plant occupying so 

 much space it seems incredible. 



The bush shown in the photograph, imme- 

 diately by the side of the big one, is six feet in 

 circumference and is unusually large for a 

 dwarf nasturtium, but seems a veritable pigmy 

 in comparison with its huge neighbor. 



No unusual attention was paid to this 

 plant, except on the first of August I dug up 

 the ground about it and piled the earth 

 firmly about the roots; after that it was left 

 alone and it has no water except the 

 rain. No fertilizer was applied except the 

 regular top dressing that had been scattered 

 over the entire garden in the spring; so the 

 bush is not the outcome of a forcing process. 



Long Island. Grace L. Weeks. 



