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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1915 



P fJ?te 



No. 4— Planet Jr Combined Hill and Drill 

 Seeder. Wheel Hoe, Cultivator, and Plow 



Soon pays for itself in the family garden as well as in 

 larger acreage. Sows all garden seeds (in drills or in 

 hills), plows, opens furrows and covers them, hoes and 

 cultivates quickly and easily all through the season. 



Planet Jr. quality tools are the great- 

 est time-, labor-, and money-savers ever 

 invented for the farm and garden. They 

 pay for themselves in a single season in 

 bigger, better crops. 



Built so well they last a lifetime. 

 Designed by a practical farmer and man- 

 ufacturer with over 40 years' experience. 

 Fully guaranteed. 



No. 1 1— Planet Jr Double Wheel Hoe. 

 Cultivator, Plow and Rake 



A single and double wheel-hoe in one. Straddles 

 crops till 20 inches high, then works between. The 

 plows open furrows and cover them. The cultivator 

 teeth work deep or shallow. The hoes are wonderful 

 weed-killers. The rakes do fine cultivation and gather 

 up trash Unbreakable steel frame. The greatest hand- 

 cultivating tool in the world. 



No, 8— Planet Jr Horse Hoe and 

 Cultivator 



Stronger, better-made, and capable of a greater vari- 

 ety of work than any other cultivator made. Non- 

 clogging steel wheel. Depth-regulator and extra-long 

 frame make it run steady. Adjustable for both depth 

 and width. 



New 72-page Catalog, free 



Contains 168 illustrations and describes over 55 

 tools for every farm and garden need, including Seeders, 

 Wheel Hoes, Horse Hoes, Harrows, Orchard- and 

 Beet-Cultivators. Write postal for it now! 



S L Allen & Co 



Box 1108S Philadelphia Pa 



Money in Peaches 



WE HAVE two acres about seven miles from a 

 large city and, among other things, fell heir 

 to twenty peach trees when we bought the place. 

 The first year they bore only a few small peaches 

 and we decided they needed expert attention. Find- 

 ing an old gardener in the neighborhood who under- 

 stood pruning and spraying, we had him put the 

 trees in good shape for us. He pruned them thor- 

 oughly and sprayed with lime and sulphur before 

 the leaves were out. His charges were $7.50. That 

 year we had all the peaches we wanted to eat, pre- 

 served three bushels and sold $13.00 worth to a city 

 grocer. We also gave away five bushels. The 

 following year the gardener's charges were the same 

 and the results as follows: 595 bushels sold to city 

 grocers, $85.70; 12 bushels given away to friends; 

 6 bushels canned; and as many peaches as we could 

 eat at three meals a day! We have a small auto- 

 mobile and when I took my husband to town in the 

 mornings, I would deliver my load, taking back 

 enough baskets for the next delivery. The peaches 

 are Smock of a good flavor and fairly large. They 

 are picked and delivered so soon afterward that 

 there are no spoiled ones. We are putting in twenty 

 new trees now, to be ready for the time when the 

 old stock ceases to bear. Good varieties can be 

 purchased for twenty-five cents apiece, so that the 

 initial outlay is small. 

 Cleveland, Ohio. Kate B. Burton. 



A Home Made Peach Picker 



I HAVE a home-made picker for ripe peaches 

 that serves me better than all the patent wire- 

 contrivances and bag-pickers on the market. The 

 usual device knocks off as much fruit— of the best 

 dead-ripe fruit, anyway — as it gathers; and the 

 better the sort of peach and the riper and choicer 

 the specimen, the surer it is to fall and break when 

 the wire scoop goes floundering among the branches. 



Two strawberry baskets set inside each other to 

 give firmness, a very light slender pine rod, and a 

 bit of cigarbox nailed across the end of the pine 

 pole. Three long carpet tacks nailed through the 

 bottom of the strawberry boxes so as to fasten 

 them firmly to this wooden brace. Behold! A 

 light, capacious picker which can be operated di- 

 rectly underneath a bough, instead of at an angle 

 as the wire scoop or bag-picker has to be used. If 

 the strawberry-box picker knocks a peach from its 

 stem, the fruit rolls safely into the wide basket. 



On my home trees I have found the device to save 

 twenty to thirty per cent, of the crop that usually 

 went to destruction in the wastes of gathering. 



Penna. E. S. Johnson. 



Where to Plant Carolina Poplars 



OUR city's costly experience with Carolina pop- 

 lars leads me to sound a note of warning to 

 people who may contemplate planting them along 

 walks for quick shade. They proved such a nui- 

 sance because of the roots interfering with sewer 

 pipes, upheaving cement walks, etc., that the city 

 government ordered their removal; consequently, 

 some of our streets will be without shade for several 

 years to come. Those who planted them in their 

 yards have difficulty making anything else grow in 

 their vicinity, for the roots spread so that they sap 

 the nourishment and moisture from a large area of 

 ground and crowd everything else out. The proper 

 place for this tree seems to be along country roads 

 etc., to serve as a windbreak. 

 Traverse City, Mich. Mary Rutner. 



Coal Ashes for Dahlias 



DAHLIAS are one of the most difficult plants 

 to raise successfully, especially the finer varie- 

 ties. They often "run to leaf" as the old saying is, 

 and the flowers are scarce and inferior. 



When fires are in use, dump some of the 

 coal ashes in a corner of the garden, level the place 

 in the spring, and in it plant your dahlia tubers. 

 When the stalks grow, remove the weaker ones, 

 leaving one strong and vigorous stem, for your future 

 plant. When they begin to bud apply fertilizer 

 generously. The plants will be fine and the flowers 

 large, perfect and numerous. 



Massachusetts. Florence Spring. 



You can save your shrubbery, fruit trees, plants, crops, 

 from dangerous insects — blights. You can make every 

 tree, vine, plant produce greatest yield of finest .. 

 quality crops. And all this at a saving of time, I 

 money and labor over ordinary methods. Make | 

 up your mind to 

 Make Shrubs — Plants — Trees- 

 Grow Better— Yield Bigger Crops 



this year. Write for this Free Spraying Guide at once! It will 

 give you the tested ways of spraying. It will tell you just how 

 and when and what to spray. More than 300.000 U. S. and 

 State Agricultural Experiment Stations, farmers, orchard 

 ists, gardeners, florists and home owners who use and re. 

 commend 



have found this Spraying Guide wonderfully helpful. So 

 will you. Send for your copy. 



Brown's Auto-Sprays — made in 40 styles and sizes — hand 

 and power machines — from 50c to $300.00. See our line at 

 your dealer's Three styles here shown. Top photo snows 

 Style No. 24 — Barrel Sprayer for Orchards and F ield Crops. 

 Left half of bottom photo shows our famous style No. I — 4 

 gal. capacity — the correct size for 5 acre field crops and 1 

 acre of trees. 



Right half of bottom photo shows our 

 new style No. 37. Extremely handy. 

 Low priced. 1 qt. and 1 half- 

 gal, sizes. Sprays straight 

 or on angle. 



Write for catalog and val- 

 uable Spraying Guide — both 

 Free. Do so now — before you 

 lay this paper aside. 



THOROUGH PAYING SPRAYING 



Use our two-hose, four-nozzle *'Poniona" Sprayer and 

 you're sure of healthy trees and bigger crops. Uni- 

 form pressure: solid bronze wearing; parts: outside 

 packed plungers — no leather packings. Fits 

 any barrel. Ask your dealer to show you 



The Readers' Service will give suggestions for the care of live-stock 



