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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1916 



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A 

 iTall, 

 Real 

 Red, 

 Annual 

 Sunflower 



WE grew this Red Sunflower in our trial grounds dur- 

 ing the Summer of igis, and it is all that Mr. Love- 

 less claims in the May Garden Magazine. It is also 

 remarkably floriferous and lasts well when cut, in water. It 

 can hardly be called a novelty, but strange to say, it has 

 only been grown in one or two places to our knowledge. In 

 Europe, like the Cosmos, it is usually cut down by early 

 frosts, while here, where the Cosmos grows and flowers, it 

 will be found a fine addition to the Fall-flowering annuals. 

 We have been able to secure a fair quantity of seed, so can 

 offer it at a popular price, viz.: Pkt. 25c, 5 for $1.00. 



Our 1916 BIJOU catalogue fully describes this remarkable plant 

 and over ioo pages of up to date seeds, bulbs and plants, besides 

 Chatty Talk for "The Busy Lady" and "The Busy Man." Free 

 upon application. Send a postcard for one today. 



If You Love the Gladiolus 



You Will Love 



"The Modern Gladiolus Grower" 



T^HIS interesting magazine is written, 

 -*- published and read by people like your- 

 self, enthusiastic growers of this charming 

 "Orchid of the Garden." 



If Each month its pages contain illustrated 

 news of new introductions, advice and sug- 

 gestions on culture, breeding, reports of 

 The Gladiolus Society, letters from fellow 

 enthusiasts citing experiences, Mrs. Aus- 

 tin's Talk to Amateurs, etc., — a veritable 

 gold mine of information. All readers are 

 invited to write their experiences for pub- 

 lication. 



H Written for both amateurs and profes- 

 sionals it yet appealstotheamateurbecause 

 of its conciseness, enthusiasm and authority. 



^f If you want to have better gladiolus you 

 will want this monthly magazine. 



The subscription price is 50c. a year, three 

 years for $1.00. Sample copy free if you 

 mention The Garden Magazine in your letter 



THE MODERN GLADIOLUS GROWER 

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/O-^ COMING EVENTS-^-, Q 



V^LUB ^SOCIETY NEW0 



3. New Bedford, Mass., Horticultural Society, meeting. 



4. School of Horticulture for Women, Ambler, Penna. : 



visitors' day. 



6. Marshfield, Mass., Garden Club: meeting. 



7. Pasadena, Cal., Horticultural Society: meeting. 



8. Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Horticultural Association: meeting. 



10. Park Garden Club, Flushing, L. I.: meeting. 

 Rochester, N. Y., Florists Association: meeting 

 New York Florists' Club, N. Y. City: meeting. 

 Garden Club of New Rochelle, N. Y.: meeting. 



11. School of Horticulture for Women, Ambler, Penna.: 



lecture, "Home Economics," Mrs. Jane K. Foulke. 



12. Nassau County Horticultural Society, Glen Cove, N. Y.: 



meeting. 

 Shedowa Garden Club, Garden City, N. Y.: "American 

 Gardens" (illustrated), by Leonard Barron. 



13. Short Hills, N. J., Garden Club: annual meeting. 



14. Connecticut Horticultural Society, New Haven, Conn.: 



meeting. 



18. Lake Geneva, Wis., Gardeners' & Foremen's Associa- 



tion: meeting 



19. Tarrytown, N. Y., Horticultural Society: meeting. 



20. Marshfield, Mass., Garden Club: meeting. 



21. Pasadena, Cal., Horticultural Society: meeting. 



22. Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Horticultural Association: meeting. 

 24. Park Garden Club, Flushing, L. I., meeting. 



28. Connecticut Horticultural Society, New Haven, Conn.: 

 meeting. 



$1,000 Rose Prize Awarded 



THE thousand dollar trophy, offered in the hor- 

 ticultural division of the Pan-American Ex- 

 position at San Francisco for the best new rose, has 

 been awarded to Hugh Dickson & Sons, of Ireland, 

 who have thus added one more to their series of 

 rose triumphs. The prize winning rose is a Hybrid 

 Tea, as yet unnamed, and will be introduced to 

 America in due course by the Dicksons' American 

 agent, C. H. Totty. 



Awards to Five New Roses 



ONE of the features at the Flower Show held in 

 Cleveland, Ohio, November ioth to 14th, was 

 the display of new Roses in the competition held 

 under the auspices of the American Rose Society 

 when awards were made as follows: 



Tipperary, of the E. G. Hill Co., 74 points. 



Red Radiance, A. N. Pierson Co., 81 points. 



Gorgeous, C. H. Totty, 83 points. 



Mrs. W. R. Hearst, A. N. Pierson Co., 87" points. 



Mrs. Bayard Thayer, Waban Rose Conserva- 

 tories, go points. 



Silver medals are awarded to Mrs. Bayard Thayer 

 and Mrs. W. R. Hearst and certificates of merit to 

 Gorgeous and Red Radiance. 



The National Flower Show 



WHEN the National Flower Show Committee 

 took a lease of Convention Hall in Phila- 

 delphia, the building in which the National Flower 

 Show is to be held March 25th to April 2d, they 

 had some misgivings as to whether the Show could 

 occupy the tremendous amount of floor space pre- 

 sented. Subsequent preparations, however, have 

 shown that instead of being too big, the hall is 

 really too small; consequently, the floor plan as 

 originally arranged has had to be altered to accom- 

 modate the pressure already felt upon the space. 

 The space set apart for the trade exhibits has been 

 minimized, and every available inch has been 

 relegated to the area required for the competitive 

 exhibits. The National Flower Show Committee 

 advance the idea of "Show first," therefore other 

 interests must give way. Those who took space 

 at an early date in the trade section acted wisely. 



The International Flower Show 



IN recognition of the public interest attaching 

 to New York's big flower show, the Park De- 

 partment of the City of New York, through Com- 

 missioner Cabot Ward, has communicated to 

 Secretary John Young, its intention of staging an 

 exhibit at the forthcoming International Flower 

 Show to be held April 5th to 12th, which shall at 

 least equal the magnificent display made at last 

 spring's show. An exhibit of this character is 

 greatly appreciated by the management, because 

 it reflects in a large measure the interest taken in 

 floriculture by our civic government, whose efforts 

 to promote the love of flowers and plants among 

 its citizens need no exploitation. It goes without 



saying that Park Superintendent J. H. Beatty will 

 seek to eclipse his former staging by making the 

 "people's exhibit" one of the most noteworthy in 

 the exhibition. Space in the trade section is being 

 taken up readily, and this section of the show bids 

 fair to be larger than in former years. 



The Rose Garden display will be most notable 

 in the purely artistic classes. Considerable interest 

 also attaches to the rock garden class. During the 

 fall planting season, growers intending to compete 

 in this class were busy over the problem of what to 

 grow, and it is safe to say that we shall see many 

 plants strange to American flower shows. 



Two New Cannas 



THE Society of American Florists and Ornamen- 

 tal Horticulturists has registered the following 

 new cannas for the Conard & Jones Co. of West 

 Grove, Pa. 



Lafayette, in some respects resembling the 

 famous Meteor Canna, but the flowers are a more 

 intense scarlet. The heads of bloom are carried 

 erect above the healthy, green foliage, producing a 

 brilliant effect in mass planting. 



The Windmar, a Canna rather dwarf in habit. 

 The flowers are medium in size, fine rounded petals; 

 color, clear distinct orange, broadly margined with 

 canary-yellow. An early and free bloomer, self 

 cleaning, erect trusses carried well above the foliage 

 which is a marine shade of green. Parentage, 

 Buttercup seedling. 



Outwitting the Pestiferous Fly 



THE adjective used in the above line is exactly 

 descriptive, for the common "house" fly as 

 formerly, but "typhoid" fly as recently, called is 

 indeed a pest carrier. Unfortunately, the garden 

 must be adjudged guilty in some degree of helping 

 harbor the fly, or rather providing a breeding place. 

 Manure, which is an essential to good gardens, 

 offers great attractions to the fly; hence the con- 

 flict of facts! But this fondness may be used to 



A trap for killing the larvae of house flies: A, manure; B, wire 

 mesh; C, oil and water 



the fly's undoing. Take two half barrels and in the 

 lower place some water with oil floating on top, or 

 some kerosene. Insert in this the other half with 

 bottom replaced by a wire screen supporting an 

 inch or two of manure. The flies will deposit eggs 

 here; the larvae will wriggle their way downward 

 and falling through the wire mesh are killed in the 

 oil below. This method is practical and simple. 



Index to Volume XXII 



THE present number completes Volume XXII 

 of The Garden Magazine and following the 

 usual custom we have prepared a Title Page and 

 Index to Contents for the convenience of subscribers 

 who bind their back numbers. This index (or any 

 preceeding) is gladly sent free to any one on request. 

 Bound volumes are also to be had. Our new readers 

 will find a wealth of practical information in back 

 volumes that can not be repeated in current years. 



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