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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 1906 



WATER 



A supply of water for country residences, hotels, 

 schools, etc., being a necessity rather than a luxury, 

 the importance of having the supply constant as 

 well as easily procured, is self-evident. Before the 

 invention of the 



Rider and Ericsson Engines 



this question of water supply was a vexed one, and not often satisfactorily solved. Since the invention 

 of these engines many thousand residences, schools, hotels, stock farms, etc., have had a constant daily 

 supply of water without danger, complication or material expense. Many of the largest colleges, such 

 as Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, University of Michigan, and many others have the engines in their 

 mechanical laboratories as being the standard machine for illustrating to their students. Thousands of 

 the most prominent citizens of this country, as well as other countries, use them; many of the rulers of 

 other countries, including King Edward VII and the Khedive of Egypt, have the engines in their palaces. 

 The heads of the greatest engineering establishments in this country, such as the Baldwin Locomotive 

 Works, Westinghouse Machine Works and Allis-Chalmers Company, pump the water at their country 

 places with Rider or Ericsson engines. Almost every public school in New York City has one or more 

 of the engines supplying water for the use of the students. Many of the most prominent stock farms in 

 this country pump all of the water for their fine cattle with Rider or Ericsson engines. These facts may 

 not be conclusive, but to the average mind are important. Such people do not buy inferior machines if 

 better ones are in existence. The celebrated Captain Ericsson, of Monitor fame, the inventor of the 

 Ericsson Hot Air Pumps, considered the Ericsson pump the most important, from a utilitarian standpoint, 

 of all his inventions. A boy who can build a fire in an ordinary stove is competent to take entire charge 

 of a Rider or Ericsson Pump, and the cost of running them, with any kind of fuel, is practically nothing. 

 Their absolute safety under all circumstances is not an unimportant consideration. Owing to the recent 

 reduction in the price of many materials we are able to make a discount of 10 per cent, from our present 

 list prices without in any way affecting the quality of the engines. In writing to any of our stores for 

 information delay will be saved by stating the conditions under which a pump would have to work. 

 Catalogue U free on application to nearest store. 



Raider-Ericsson Engine Co. 



55 Warren Street; New York 40 Dearborn Street, Chicago 



259 Franklin Street, Boston 40 North 7th Street. Philadelphia. 



254 Craig St. West. Montreal, P. Q. 22 Pitt St., Sydney. N. S. W. 



Teniente-R-ey 71, Havana, Cuba 



G. H. PETERSON 



ROSE AND PEONY SPECIALIST 



{Catalogue on application) 



FAIR LAWN NEW JERSEY 



OVERLOOKING SAUGATUCK VALLEY 

 AND LONG ISLAND SOUND 



90-acre Farm on gentle sloping hill, beautiful views — an ideal 

 site for country home. Good farm buildings. Only 1 l /z 

 hours from New York. An exceptional opportunity in 

 rapidly improving locality. Address 



J. N. NICKERSON, REDDING, CONN, 

 or Edward Deacon, Bridgeport, Conn. 



A Surplus Stock Native Rhododendrons 



(Rhododendron Maximum) 

 The best broad leaved evergreen and the most satisfactory 

 plant grown for massing. I have a surplus of about 20,000 

 plants, well budded, bushy, thrifty and strong, in sizes from 2 to 

 10 feet in height. Tell me how many you could use and I will 

 send prices that will please you. The month of May is the right 

 time to plant Rhododendrons. 



C. E. PERSONS 



Westfield, N. Y. 



Stock of 



.L/ 3, L g C S L complete 



Hardy Plants in America 



Catalogues on Application 

 ELLIOTT NURSERY CO., Pittsburg, Pa. 



TREES AND SHRUBS FOR CALIFORNIA 



Q. Will the flowering magnolia, the com- 

 mon barberry, the purple barberry, and 

 Schwedler's maple do well in Southern Cali- 

 fornia ? 



A . Our climate is generally too dry for any 

 of these plants, although in a few cases they 

 do fairly well. High altitudes or near the 

 sea shore will suit them best. If planted in- 

 land they should be wholly or partially in 

 the shade of tall trees or buildings. Low 

 damp lawns, where stagnant water is present 

 at times, does not seem to disagree with them. 



California Ernest Braunton 



KEEPING BULBS AND ROOTS 



Q. What is the best way to keep over win- 

 ter these roots and bulbs : Japanese iris (Iris 

 IcBvigata, known in the trade as I. Kamp- 

 jeri.), St. Bernard's Lily (Anthericum Lili- 

 ago), Japanese anemone, and tuberous be- 

 gonias? They are expected to arrive from 

 Holland too early for spring planting and too 

 late for fall. 



London, Canada M. F. H. 



A . Begonia tubers should be kept in a dry 

 place at a temperature of 40 without any 

 covering. The others can be loosely packed 

 in damp moss at a temperature of 3 5 1040° 

 or else covered with earth and placed in a 

 fairlv dry cellar at a temperature of 30 to 35 . 



New York City W. E. M. 



PLANT BREEDING AS A BUSINESS 



Q. Would you advise me to go into plant 

 breeding as a business ? 



Decarur, III. A. R. W. 



A. No, sir. You'd starve to death. Get 

 your living some other way and make plant 

 breeding a back-yard hobby outside of office 

 hours. 



PRUNING SHADE TREES 



Q. When is the best time to prune shade 

 trees that were planted last fall ? 



Jamaica, N. Y. R. S. T. 



A. The trees should have been pruned 

 when planted and if it was properly done 

 at that time they will not need further 

 attention for three or four years. But if, 

 before then, limbs are found rubbing against 

 one another, injuring the bark, cut ou.. one 

 of them. In young trees the head should 

 be kept long and narrow rather than short 

 and broad. Pruning had best be done in 

 March before the sap runs as then the 

 wound will heal quicker except in the maples 

 which should be pruned in summer after sap 

 stops flowing. 



New York Citv P. B. T. 



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