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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



September, 1905 



Plant Peonies Now 



Th€ Garden Magazine. 



FALL is the best time to plant them 

 and the earlier it is done the better. 

 You will then have a good display of 

 flowers next spring. 



There is no other flower that will give 

 you such an attractive display and supply 

 of flowers for cutting. When once planted 

 they practically take care of themselves 

 and are well adapted planted in the border 

 bed or in solid beds. 



The cultivation of these grand plants is 

 one of our leading specialties and we grow 

 the choicest varieties in large quantities. 

 Write at once for our illustrated and de- 

 scriptive booklet of Peonies and other 

 choice hardyplants and shrubs that should 

 be planted in the fall for best results. 



Don't wait until spring to plant if you 

 want plenty of flowers and good effects 

 next year. 



Department B 



Wagner Park Conservatories 

 SIDNEY, OHIO 



GEORGE T. POWELL 



Consulting Horticulturist 



Equitable Building, 120 Broadway, New York 

 Examinations made of land and locations for country 

 homes. Information and instruction in Gardening 

 Ornamental and Fruit tree planting, Lawn making 

 and Poultry raising. 



SUN-DIALS 



with or without PEDESTALS 



Send jor illustrated Price List H 



Hartmann Bros. Mfg. Co. 



New York Office, J 123 Broadway 



Mt. Vernon, N. Y. 



Pedigree Strawberry Plants 



Pot Grown 



OUR PLANTS are grown with 

 the greatest care, and the 

 healthy, strong condition they are in 

 when shipped by us will give a full 

 crop by next year if plants are set 

 out any time up to Sept. 15th. 



VERY EARLY VARIETIES: Fairfield, Success, Lady 

 Thompson, Climax. 



MID-SEASON VARIETIES: Wm. Belt, McKinley, 

 New York, Oom Paul, Nick Ohmer, Glen Mary, 

 Sample, Marshall, Bismarck, Senator Dunlop, 

 Warfield, Clyde, Burbach. 



LATE VARIETIES: Gandy. Lester Lovett, Arline, 

 Aroma, Joe, Late Champion. 



Price per dozen, 75 cents; per 100, $3.50 

 per 1,000, $25.00 



Catalogue and Cultural directions mailed free 



STUMP & WALTER CO., 50 BARCLAY ST., NEW YORK 



There were about 450 seedlings from five 

 packages of seed, and the surplus was left 

 in the bed until spring, for we had not made 

 room for so many plants. 



On October 21st we covered the open 

 beds with about four inches of straw and 

 brush trimmed from the flower beds. It is 

 essential to get some covering that will not 

 exclude the air from the plants, or else the 

 tops will decay. 



The sashes of the coldframe were left open 

 for some days after the plants were set that 

 they might be hardened. During the winter 

 these plants had no other covering than the 

 glass window fitted in firmly and the blanket 

 of snow that was tucked about the frame 

 most of the time. During an open winter 

 a straw mat should be laid over the glass. 



LETTING IN THE SPRING AIR 



In the warm middays of early spring the 

 glass windows were raised an inch or more. 

 By the middle of March we were picking 

 pansies every day from the coldframe. At 

 Easter time the bed was a mass of bloom. 

 As the plants grew we had to raise the glass. 

 By the time the sashes could be removed 

 the plants were a foot high. 



The open beds were uncovered the latter 

 part of April. The seedlings, which had 

 not been transplanted, began to grow so fast 

 that we were bothered to find room for them. 

 The marigold bed was bordered with deep 

 purple pansies. The purple and gold made 

 a royal show in July and August. Black 

 pansies were set beside the mignonette. We 

 had pansies in every nook of the garden 

 and dozens of plants to spare. 



A THOUSAND BLOOMS A DAY 



The plants in the coldframe bloomed 

 from the middle of March through July. 

 Then they were trimmed back to get a 

 fresh start for fall blooming. 



The next plants to bloom were those set 

 in the open bed in the fall. They bloomed 

 from the end of May and continued all 

 through August. 



The plants that were transplanted in the 

 spring were slower in starting, and they 

 did not bloom any longer. It would seem 

 from our experience that the young plants 

 should be moved in the fall to their per- 

 manent positions. 



We spent fifty cents for seed. We raised 

 450 plants. A few plants were lost during 

 the summer by attacks from stem borers. 

 These would not number a dozen. About 

 three times during the season the plants 

 were sprayed with suds made from tobacco 

 soap. From June through midsummer we 

 picked an average of 3,000 blooms every 

 third day. Keeping the flowers picked was 

 the never-ending attention the plants de- 

 manded of us. We tried a few experiments 

 in color grouping, and are now firmly con- 

 vinced that the different varieties should be 

 grown separately — each color a solid mass, 

 and graded from dark to light. Promiscuous 

 mixing is not so pleasing. The best named 

 strains of seed should always be bought; 

 they give larger flowers and better colors. 



Pennsylvania. Flora Lewis Marble. 



