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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



October, 1915 



KING ALFRED DAFFODIL— the re- 

 gal aristocrat of the trumpet flowered 

 Narcissi is the most notable variety 

 ever offered to American growers. 



Bu/As 



If you have not yet received the new Carter Catalog of 

 Bulbs which portrays King Alfred and many other distin- 

 guished varieties write for a complimentary copy at once. 

 This handsomely illustrated Bulb Book has only a limited 

 issue. 



OUR SPECIAL OFFER— To be able to purchase King 

 Albert and Sir Francis Drake Narcissi at the prices noted 

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 for 30 days from date of this issue. King Alfred and Sir 

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 trumpet flowers of a rich golden yellow. 



Prices— Each, $.40; per doz., $4.00; per 100, $28.00 



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To Spring Flower Lovers 



ytS A LOVER of Spring flowers, I want you to 

 r\ confidently feel when you read my Ads, that 

 Vanderbeek's Imperial Quality Bulbs are so 

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 With this in mind, let me make you this 



SPECIAL OFFER 



While they last, I will gladly send 

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 10 choice named varieties, care- 

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 Names of each variety furnished 

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 100 Single Early Tulips $1.00 



100 May Flowering Tulips $1.50 



100 Darwin Tulips $2.00 



100 Crocuses (4 varieties) $1.00 



100 Hyacinths (Bedding size) $3.00 

 100 Narcissus $1.50 



If the entire 6oo bulbs are ordered at 

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1 72 Broadway 

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Plant Your Trees And 

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Save a full season by setting flowering shrubs, 1 

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Principles of Fruit Growing. By L. H. BAILEY. Mac- 

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This, the twentieth edition of Professor Bailey's 

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Productive Orcharding. By Fred C. SEARS J. B. Lip- 

 pincott Co., Philadelphia, Pa. Illustrated; price.S 2.00. 



Everything worth knowing about growing fruit 

 is contained in this volume, one of Lippincott's 

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 by the amateur. 



Wild Flower Preservation. BY May CoLEY and C. A. 

 Weatherby. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York. 

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To the flower lover and student, what can be more 

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 classify, and study American wild flowers. It 

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Plant Breeding. By L. H. Bailey. The Macmillan 

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Professor Arthur W. Gilbert, professor of Plant 

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 as extensive laboratory exercises and a bibliography. 



Practical Tree Repair. By Elbert Peets. McBride, 

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We are gradually realizing the inconsistency of 

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 and fascinating. 



Success with Hens. By Robert Joos. Forbes & Co., 

 Chicago. Price, $1.00 net. 



Rightly managed and kept in their respective 

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 profit. Mr. Joos's book is full of hints and sug- 

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 of the poultry end of this dual proposition. 



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