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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



This is little Elizabeth Brock of Macon, Mo. raised on Mellin's Food from 

 birth and noted everywhere for her sunny disposition and perfect health. 



Mellin's Food will make milk agree with your baby, and he will keep 

 perfectly -well all Summer long. 



You can even travel with your baby, if you want to, and change the 

 milk supply without risk, if you use Mellin's Food to prepare the milk. 



SEND TO-DAY FOR A FREE SAMPLE OF MELLIN'S FOOD AND TRY IT. 



MELLIN'S FOOD COMPANY, ' BOSTON, MASS. 



BURPEE'S 



SEEDS 

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Handsome catalog - , containing" beautiful colored prints, directly 



photographed from nature, mailed FltKE on request. 



W. ATLEE BURPEE, Seed Growers, Philadelphia, Pa. 



JAPANESE GARDENS 



and plants. Extensive nurseries in Japan and America. 

 Send Jor Catalogtte. 

 HINODE FLORIST COMPANY, Whitestone, Long Island 



IRON RAILINGS, 

 WIRE FENCES 



WRITE for catalogue No. 29, illustrat- 

 ing arbors for vines and fruit trees, 

 garden arches, plant supporters, tree guards 

 and nuire fences for all purposes, also show- 

 ing a great variety of iron railings and 

 entrance gates for country places. 



ANCHOR POST IRON WORKS 



J 5 CORTLANDT ST., NEW YORK CITY 



returning to their usual vigor when neglected. 

 Upon their being dug up a few years after- 

 ward, to make room for a new building, it 

 was found that the tap root had rotted away 

 for probably more than a foot and had 

 subsequently healed. Whoever plants dra- 

 casnas would do well to bear this in mind. 



The dracsena is occasionally used for 

 street alignment, but certainly is unfitted for 

 such purpose. It does not grow large 

 enough, in a score of years, to look well 

 along a street of moderate width, but the 

 greatest objection to its use as a plant to set 

 in a row lies in the unequal growth, especially 

 as regards height. Each dracaena seems to 

 be a law unto itself. One will grow twice 

 as fast as its neighbor that is but a few feet 

 distant and is under precisely the same 

 treatment. The flowers seem to be terminal, 

 and when the first flower spike grows the 

 main stem sends out lateral branches, but 

 continues its upward terminal growth no 

 farther. Some reach this stage at four feet 

 in height, others not until they have reached 

 to ten feet. Some flower at five years of age, 

 others not until the tenth year. 



The effect is demoralizing to formal planta- 

 tions, and the only remedy known is to break 

 out or cut off the terminal at the desired 

 height or at the height at which the first 

 plant blossoms. Sometimes a new "offset" 

 terminal will push up and no lateral branches 

 appear. This new terminal must also be 

 broken out and then the plants will branch. 

 With this treatment all may be kept at nearly 

 the same height and with a sufficient simi- 

 larity of appearance. Ernest Braunton. 



Los Angeles Co. 



How to Have Plenty of Flowers 

 in August 



TF you have a tree hydrangea, water it more 

 -■■ thoroughly than anything on the place, 

 and you will be rewarded by a grand show of 

 huge flower trusses. 



Water freely all growing plants. Do the 

 work in the evening by preference. It is less 

 wasteful, and not as trying to the gardener. 



Collect seeds of spring wild flowers and 

 start a wild garden from seed instead of 

 ravishing the woods. You will enjoy the 

 life histories of the wild flowers far more in 

 this way. Collect trillium bulbs if you must, 

 but you ought to buy them. You will find 

 a lot of interesting Western trilliums in the 

 bulb catalogues. 



Pick young pods daily and you will have 

 more flowers. Let nothing go to seed. Pinch 

 off suckers from fruit and ornamental trees. 



If flowers are few scatter some nitrate of 

 soda and a little bone meal on the ground, 

 rake it in and you will notice a big change 

 three days after the first rainfall or arti- 

 ficial watering. 



Divide plants in the hardy border which 

 have bloomed. Rearrange as necessary, and 

 get some big masses. 



Mulch trees and the hardy border with 

 lawn clippings, hay or anything to keep the 

 moisture in the ground. 



During August plant bulbs of Lilium can- 

 didum for flowers next summer. The sooner 

 the better. 



