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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



December, 1915 



How'd You Like 

 Strawberries in October? 



The New Everbearing Strawberry — Fruits Until Frost 

 Set Plants This Spring — Get Heavy Crop Same Year 



You can have fresh, ripe strawberries on your table from June to 

 November — and lots of them. The new Everbearing Progressive 

 Strawberry fruits in the spring with the standard varieties, and then 

 continues to bear all summer. Blossoms, green berries, ripe fruit at 

 the same time clear up to freezing weather. The Everbearing bear the 

 same year they are planted. Order your plants. now for spring planting 

 and you will pick all the berries your folks can eat this coming summer 

 and fall. A proved success everywhere. Read full facts in catalog. 



Choicest Fruits for Home Planting 



Our new Free Book lists a number of 

 able fruits, berries, shrubs, roses, etc , 

 Write for it today. 



Delicious Apple— Of wondrous flavor — crisp, 

 juicy, good keeper— the national dessert apple. 

 Served at metropolitan hotels at 25c to 50c 

 each. Thrives from New England toCalifornia. 



J. H. Hale Peach — Ripens a week before 

 Elberta. Immense in size, beautiful color, 

 better quality, round in shape, splendid keeper. 

 Sold for $2 to $2. 50 per basket this summer 

 during greatest peach crop in history. 

 Early Rose Peach — Highest quality, best 

 colored, best flavored early peach. Offered by 

 us to fruit-growers for the first time this season. 

 Sold at highest prices of any peach for over 

 two weeks in New York. 



Endicott Plum — Large, juicy, superb quality, 

 hardy. Wonderfully promising new plum — 

 very productive — being planted by the 

 thousands. 



unusually high-quality, tested, depend- 

 you should have in your home garden. 



St. Regis Everbearing Raspberry— Only 

 successful everbearing raspberry. Brilliant 

 crimson, juicy, highest quality. Very produc- 

 tive, bears all season. 



McDonald Blackberry — A cross between 

 blackberry and dewberry. Earliest of all black- 

 berries, enormously productive, large berries, 

 fine quality — vigorous, hardy, drought resist- 

 ant. Has yielded 300 to 500 crates per acre. 



Reading Giant Asparagus — Large, tender, 

 highest quality spears. Every hill a produc- 

 tive yielder. Selected by U. S. Government 

 above all others for rust-resistant qualities. 

 Best of all asparagus. 



Decorative Shrubs — Full assortment, orna- 

 mental trees, hardy roses, climbing vines, 

 hedges, etc. 



Send for 160 Page Book FREE ! 



Fully illustrated. All about best fruits and berries, their ripening season, 

 habits of growth, etc. Also how to lay out and plan ornamental and decor- 

 ative planting about the house and lawn to get beautiful effects at moderate 

 cost, how and when to prune shrubs and plants. Lowest, direct-from- 

 nursery prices; all trees and plants doubly guaranteed true to name. We 

 ship everywhere and guarantee safe arrival. Clip the coupon today. 



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 Trees and 

 Plants 



William P. Stark Nurseries 



Box 768 STARK CITY, MO. 



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Garden City New York 



She Is Just One in a Conquering Army 

 Will YOU Help Win the Fight? 



If YOU help — and you means 

 everyone — the fight can be won 

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he Tuberculosis Death 

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