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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 1906 



FOR EARLY 

 MAY PLANTING 



Evergreens 



You have wanted evergreens and here is the best opportunity to get them. These 

 are the kinds that will thrive on dry hills, cover land too poor for grass, and cheaper 

 than mowing. They are beautiful, make quick growth, make efficient windbreaks, 

 screens, hedges. They are low in price, abundant, easy to make grow, hardy. Plant the 

 smaller evergreens in beds, mulch to keep down weeds and they grow at minimum 

 expense. Plant some among the shrubs and on the lawn. Larger evergreens for imme- 

 diate effect in quantity which we move by the best method. 





PRtCES 



Prices 



White Pine 



IO 



100 



Densif lora Pine 10 100 



■ 2", 1 yr. seedlings, 





.50 



4-6". 2 yr. transpl. 1.00 8.00 



3-5 '.= V- 





1. 00 



1-1%" 1.80 15.00 



2 yr. transpl. 



•So 



4.00 



Bhotan Pine 



Pitch Pine 







2", 1 yr. seedlings, 3.00 



6-14", 2 yr. seedlings 





.90 



White Spruce 



6-14", 2 yr. transpl. 



.40 



3-5° 



1-3", 1 yr. seedlings, 3.00 



Scotch Pine 







4-8", 2 yr., seedlings .80 7.00 



6-14", 2 yr. seedlings, 



1.00 



Norway Spruce 



6-14", 2 yr.Jtranspl. 



.50 



4.00 



1-1%" 1.40 12.00 



1-1^". 1 



•So 



12.00 



I%-2" 2.25 20.00 



Austrian Pine 







Colorado Spruce 



2-4", i-yr. seedlings 





2.50 



2-5'', 2 yr. transpl. 1.50 10.00 ! 



4-8", 2-yr transpl. 1 



.00 



8.00 



Engleman's Spruce 



6-12", 



•90 



10.00 



3-6", 2-yr. transpl. 1.50 10.00 



PACKING AT COST 



General Nursery Stock Old Fashioned Flowers 



Shade and Evergreen Trees up to 30 ft. high shipped by the carload 



Send for Catalogue, " Trees for Long Island," and price list 



12 Tree-movers for various types of trees and soil, carrying trees up to 2 ft. diam., 60 ft. high by 45 ft. wide, with the fiill natural root system 

 spreading 30-40 feet. The permanently successful method. 



ISAAC HICKS AND SON Nvirserymerv and Scientific Tree-movers 

 Telephone 76W WESTBUBY STATION, LO.VG ISLAN D, Ti. T. 



Massed Rhododends jns on a New England Estate 



WE CAN SAVE YOU 

 MONEY 



on 



Rhododendron Maximum and Kalmia Latifolia 



Write us for prices on hundred, thou- 

 sand or carload lots. We guarantee the 

 quality of the plants to be the finest ob- 

 tainable. 



Our nurseries of over IOO acres con- 

 tain a stock of Shrubs, Trees and Ever- 

 greens which cannot be surpassed. Send 

 us your list of wants. 



Neiv descriptive catalogue on application. 



THADDEUS N. YATES & CO. 



Mount Airy Nurseries, Philadelphia, Pa. 



RIFE ffiffiSJffltj RAM 



(Water pumped by eater power) 

 No Attention No Expense Runs Continuously 



COUNTRY HOMES . FORMAL GARDENS 



FARMS .TOWN PLANTS 



RAILROAD TAHKS IRRIGATION 



DAIRIES, ETC. 



5000 IN OPERATION 

 80% efficiency developed 

 Catalog: and estimate free. 



RIFE ENGINE CO. 



2 1 09 Trinity Building, New York City. 



iimm hose 



■ "THE. KIND THAT LASTS" 



This is the kind that you get when you buy hose 

 =■*>» bearing our name and brand. 



You can make a positive saving of 50 per 

 cent or more in cost of Lawn Hose by buying 

 the genuine 



BULL FROG BRAND 



SEAMLESS TUBE. 



Because "BULL FROG" BRAND costs no more and lasts over 

 twice as long as the old style lapped tube kind. Nine-tenths 

 of all hose trou ble is because of faulty seams. (See Cuts. ) 



SPECIAL OFFER:— To widely distribute "BULL-FROG" 

 BRAND. We will, if your dealer does not handle it, ship 

 you, upon receipt of price on 30 Days' Froo Trial, 50-ft. 

 %-in. 3-ply with brass couplings and nozzle complete for 

 87.50, express prepaid Bast of the Mississippi River and North 

 of the Tennessee line; equalized beyond. Money back if not 



Satisfied. FREE! Upon reouest valuable book on "Lawns, 



their making anil care." Dealers should write and learn 



how they c 



their Lawn Hose business. . 



The Toledo Rubber Co 



Reference any bank in Toledo. 



This is the kind you i 

 doubt havo bought t 

 the past. 



i BummltSt. 

 ▼TOLEDO, 0. 



Arizona Petrified Wood 



Sections of logs and small specimens, unpolished, very cheap. 



FOR GARDEN ORNAMENTS, ROCKERIES 



AND FOUNTAINS 



Closing Out Entire Stock 



DRAKE CO., Drake Block, St. Paul, Minn. 



SUN-DIALS 



with or without PEDESTALS 



Send for Illustrated Price List H 



Hartmann Bros. Mfg. Co. 



New York Office, JJ23 Broadway 



Mt. Ver.-.on, N. Y. 



WSS&L 



How to Get Any Plant You Want 



EVERY flower lover who has tried to get 

 a complete collection of any one group 

 of plants, as lilies, peonies, columbines, cam- 

 panulas, etc., has found that the rarer kinds 

 must be imported from Europe. Nearly 

 everyone who has imported hardy perennial 

 plants in small quantities has had a costly 

 and discouraging experience. The young 

 plants are generally weakened beyond re- 

 covery, because they have not had special care 

 on the steamer, and they lie around in the cus- 

 toms while the man wanting them is unable to 

 get them. Often go per cent, is lost. 



This unhappy state of affairs has held 

 back the scientific side of floriculture in 

 America, because the skilled amateur cannot 

 afford to import complete collections, such 

 as are required for the "Little Monographs" 

 series in The Garden Magazine. 



The hardship has been also felt by ama- 

 teurs who wish to get only one plant at a time 

 — particularly of novelties. There are half 

 a dozen European catalogues of hardy per- 

 ennials containing two or three times as 

 many entries as the largest American cat- 

 alogue. It is tantalizing to read of some 

 bell flower, pyrethrum, gentian, larkspur, or 

 peony that is said to have larger flowers than 

 any hitherto known. After you have spent 

 three evenings searching American catalogues 

 for it in vain, you are in a mood to appeal to 

 the President of the United States. 



As a matter of fact, most of the "rare 

 plants " that amateurs " can't find anywhere " 

 could be found by some such simple device 

 as getting a packet of postal cards, and ask- 

 ing all the nurserymen and seedsmen who 

 advertise in The Garden Magazine for 

 catalogues, or if they have the plant. 



Anyone who has tried this and failed is wel- 

 come to write to The Garden Magazine 

 for further assistance, as we are in touch 

 with many unusual sources of supply, and 

 can often help our readers. 



The Brugmansia as a Houseplant 



THE Brugmansia will thrive in any good 

 garden soil with ordinary care, and I 

 don't know of a better subject of the like 

 habit for a house plant ; it is a welcome change 

 from rubbers, ferns and palms. By the mid- 

 dle of February or earlier the plant always 

 shows indications of being in need of a well- 

 earned rest ; one by one the leaves turn yellow 

 and drop off. It is then watered sparingly 

 until it starts into life again, late in April, and 

 puts on a new lot of leaves. 



Michigan Hugo Erichson. 



