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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1916 



LuckxBerries 





Promote Good Health and Happiness 



They Succeed Where Others Fail 



Joy 



The best and biggest Blackberry. 



The best Straw- 



Van Fleet Hybrids - 



berries. 



Jumbo and Brilliant - 



berries. 



The Best Rasp- 



Caco and Ideal — The best Grapes. 



Everybody's Currant — Best for every- 

 body. 



Carrie and Oregon — The best Goose- 

 berries. 



My Catalog No. 1, an illustrated book of 64 pages, tells all about them and describes 

 with prices all " the good old varieties " of Small Fruits as well. It gives instructions for 

 planting and culture and tells about the beautiful new Rose I am giving away. The 

 catalog also describes the best Hardy Roses, Hardy Perennials, Shrubs and Vines, Ever- 

 green Trees, Shade and Nut Trees, Hedge Plants and Garden Roots. It is free. 



Large plants for quick results a special 



feature. 200 acres. 



Tsth yZT J. T. LOVETT, Box 125, Little Silver, N. J. 



RHODES DOUBLE CUT 



PRUNING SHEAR 



RHODES MFG. CO 



Cuts from both 

 sides of limb and 

 does not bruise the 

 bark. 



We pay express 

 charges'on all orders. 



Write for cir- 

 cular and prices. 



527 S. Division Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Captivator, Wapanuka 



and other choice grapes of Munson Origin 

 General Nursery Catalog free on request to 



TV. MUNSON & SON, Denison, Texas 



Do You Love 



Flowers? 



FREE, my handsome 1016 Flower List. 

 Send a dime and addresses of 3 flower growers 

 and I will include art study of 



ROSES IN NATURAL COLORS 



for framing, a full packet of my lovely new Peachblows 

 Aster and coupon good for 10c on a 50c order. My methods 

 are to your advantage. Try me. 



MISS EMMA V. WHITE, Seedswoman, 

 3014 Aldrieh Ave., So. Minneapolis, Minn. 



Hardy Northern Budded Pecan 



And English Walnut Trees 



Bear young, Thin Shell, Large Size, Splendid Quality. 



Special Nut Catalog on request. 



Cherry Trees and General Line of other Nursery Stock. 



VINCENNES NURSERIES 

 Box 299 VINCENNES, IND. 



With sunken path 

 2% ft. deep 



Let Your Garden Live 

 Wake It Up! 



All you have to do is to equip it with[hot- 



beds, cold-frames or a small Greenhouse 



covered with 



With side walls 1% ft. high 

 ready for roof and side sash 



SUNLIGHT DOUBLE GLASS SASHES 



Sunlights are the standard sash with many thousands of the best gardeners. It has two 

 layers of glass, enclosing an air space that affords far better protection than mats and shutters 

 and does away with their use. Think of the cost and hard labor thus saved! 



Sunlights give the plants all the light all the time and make them healthy, early and 

 stocky. They are the original double-glazed sash, invented, tested, perfected, introduced and 

 now sold throughout the country by a practical market gardener. They grew up in a garden 

 and they will make any garden equipped with them pay the cost in extra profits the first year. 

 They last a lifetime. 



Let Your Garden Live! Treat it to a cold-frame, a hot-bed, or Joy! a small, inexpensive 

 Sunlight Greenhouse. It is covered top and sides with the Sunlight Sashes and they are 

 removable for use on cold-frames or hot-beds if so needed. Wherever you live or whatever 

 your garden is asked to do the Sunlight equipment will give the best results. 



Get our free catalogue. You need it. If you want Prof. Massey's booklet on Hot-bed 

 and Greenhouse Gardening, enclose 4 cents in stamps. 



Sunlight Double Glass Sash Co. 



Louisville, Ky. 



ind toi" fra b rn d es 927 E. Broadway 



sheet of fragrant white brings a note into the garden 

 that nothing else can duplicate. The vine takes 

 most kindly to a southerly exposure. Rich mellow 

 soil is what it needs. The vines should be cut to the 

 ground each fall and the dead herbage will afford 

 all the protection the roots need when covered 

 therewith. 



It is worth some trouble to bring the large purple 

 flowers of Jackman's Clematis (Clematis Jack- 

 manni) into the garden. Even the blight that may 

 destroy the plant at times should not deter one from 

 planting this vine. The root will generally prove 

 hardy underneath a thick covering of leaves and 

 strawy manure. It is well used where shrubbery 

 fronts a wall so that it may peer through an open 

 space in the group. Thus it will not be missed so 

 badly when it fails or will still be sightly when it 

 comes up scrawny of foliage and poor of flowers. 



North Dakota C. L. Meller. 



Green Backgrounds for Brilliant 

 Blooms— Roses for Hedges 



IT WOULD seem scarcely necessary to suggest 

 to readers of The Garoen Magazine that a 

 dark green living background will throw out in 

 jewel-like relief the blooms placed before it, but 

 journeys up and down the country have forced 

 me to believe that many amateurs who can and do 

 raise splendid flowers do not know that when they 

 are adrift in mid-garden, with their color swimming 

 in space, so to speak, they have lost much of their 

 brilliancy, their individuality and their artistic 

 value. Such flowers as Delphiniums, Liatris, Glad- 

 iolus, and many others, throw their spikes of bloom 

 high above their own foliage. Place them away 

 from a contrasting background and the blues and 

 lilacs, especially, seem to retreat and fade away, 

 and the effect is gone. 



All gardens, except cutting gardens, should be 

 arranged as a composition, a picture; and we have 

 only to view Nature with a half-open eye to see how 

 she does the trick. She cunningly places the White 

 Birch, the "Lady of the Forest," to stand in slender 

 relief before the hemlock; her low fringe of wild 

 Aster and Goldenrod and Sumac have all the Sep- 

 tember woods as a painted background. 



In small gardens, if you are fortunate enough to 

 have a wall, cover it with Ampelopsis Veitchii, and 

 then see, glowing against the polished green leaves, 

 Tulips and Iris and Lilies. Along a board fence 

 drape Virginia Creeper and let the Columbine sway 

 before that green curtain with a grace and delicacy 

 it never had before. Oriental Poppies, in the soft 

 pinks and yellows of Marie Studholme and Mrs. 

 Perry, will enchant you with their tissue-paper 

 texture before a tall wire netting covered with the 

 tender young growth of Clematis paniculata. 



When it comes to the more formal backgrounds 

 afforded by hedges, the variety is very great. In 

 the Colonial gardens the parterres of flowers were 

 always placed within enclosures of tall clipped box. 

 To-day, when we cannot wait for box to grow, we 

 imitate it with sheared privet. But strange to say, 

 the gardens as a rule which display the trimmed 

 Privet are singularly bare of perennials. In my 

 own small garden, in addition to the vine-clad walls, 

 Japanese Barberry, Lonicera Morrowi, Rosa 

 rugosa, and Altheas form the principal backgrounds. 

 It is all very simple and informal, but the effects 

 are out of all proportion with the expenditure. 



Just a word about the tribe of Ramblers. Can- 

 not all the crimson variety, at least, be discarded 

 and truly good climbing roses take their places? 

 Many gardeners have already cast them out, along 

 with Golden Glow and the Keizerskroon Tulip, but 

 the month of June still sees far too many of them 

 with their heavy massive clusters of strong color 

 draping porch and pergola, and July and August 

 shows the foliage whitened with the characteristic 

 mildew fungus. There are now such beautiful 

 and satisfactory climbing Roses that no one need 

 plant a poor variety. For those who like red, al- 

 ways a difficult color to manage in a small garden, 

 there is Ards, Rover, and in addition to the fine pinks 

 already so well known in Tausenschon and Lady 

 Gay, there is Dr. Van Fleet, with large double pink 

 roses, while Gardenia, a rich creamy yellow, is dis- 

 tinctive and unusual. 



Pennsylvania Helen M. Sharpe. 



