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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



October, 1905 





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Jfall planting 



Before ordering: your stock look at 

 our offer and send for our FALL list. 

 You will find 



Good Stock and 

 Reasonable Prices 



We name a few 



HYACINTHS, for glasses in the house or planting outdoors 



Ex'ra large bulbs, named sorts in separate colors, white, rose, red, bli 

 or yellow ........ 



First size bulbs in separate colors 



TULIPS, single or double, in separate colors, white, 



rose, yellow, striped, red, etc. .... 

 Mixed NARCISSUS Varieties, for Xmas forcing 



Chinese Sacred, force beautifully in water 

 TRUMPETS, Large golden yellow . 



Empress. Emperor ...... 



Trumpet Major ....... 



CROCUS, in separate colors, white, yellow, blue, purple and striped 



Per doz 



25c. 

 zoc. 



Inch 



Per doz. Per 100 



$1.50 $10. OO 



75C. 5.00 



Per 100 Per 1,000 



$1.25 $IO.OO 



I. OO 8.00 



Per doz. Per 100 



$I.OO $6.00 



5C. 



rer do 



6c. 



cAIl other kinds of tinier and spring flowering bulbs. SEND FOR OUR PRICE LIST 



Are you interested in the beautiful 



FLORA of Japan 



We are the OLDEST Import House from Japan in the U. S. (Established 

 1878), and can tell you all about the flowers, trees and shrubs growing in 

 Japan. We can furnish 



IRIS KAEMPFERI PAEONIAS, HERBACEOUS and TREE SORTS 



ALL SORTS MAPLES FLOWERING SHRUBS 



ALL LILY BULBS GROWING IN JAPAN 



ALL HARDY 



Send for our Price List and Catalogue before buying or ordering elsewhere. 



NOTICE— Out " SUPERB DOLLAR COLLECTION " offered in September number 

 holds good for OCTOBER. 



H. H. BERGER & CO., 47 Barclay st., new york city 



Narcissus or Daffodils 



LARGE SELECTED BULBS 

 AT ATTRACTIVE PRICES 



If these bulbs are planted outside in October, 

 they bloom profusely in Spring and will multiply 

 rapidly. 



SINGLE VARIETIES 



PER DOZ. TOO 



Princeps, yellow . . . $0.25 $1.25 



Trumpet Major, yellow . .30 1.50 



Golden Spur, yellow, large .50 3.00 



Poeticus, white 20 .70 



DOUBLE VARIETIES 



PER DOZ. IOO 



Van S ion, yellow . . .$0.30 $2.co 



Incomparabilis, yellow . .25 1.25 

 Orange Phoenix, Yellow 



and white 35 2.25 



Alba Plena Odorata, white .25 1.50 



Write for FREE ILLUSTRATED Catalogue of Tulips, 

 Hyacinths, Crocuses, Snounhvps and other bulbs 



W. E. MARSHALL & CO., 146 W. 23rd Street, New York 



To Vanquish Catalpa Worms 



Q. How can we get rid of the worms on 

 catalpa? They are about two inches long, 

 striped black and yellow, and they ruin the 

 foliage. Last year we tried bisulphide of car- 

 bon, which was effective early in the season, 

 but did not prevent the worms from coming 

 later. 



A. The worm on the catalpa trees is un- 

 doubtedly what is known as the catalpa sphinx, 

 a Southern species which produces three or 

 four generations annually and is remarkable 

 among its allies because of its depositing 

 numerous eggs in large masses on the under 

 side of the foliage. The larvae are gregarious 

 when young, and on account of their voracious 

 appetites rapidly defoliate infested trees. 

 This species is also more or less local in habit. 

 It, like other leaf feeders, can be readily con- 

 trolled by thorough spraying with an arsenical 

 poison, and in this case there is nothing better 

 than an arsenate of lead in the prepared paste 

 form, using the amounts recommended by the 

 manufacturer. A thorough application at 

 the time the first brood of larva? appear, which 

 is about the middle of June, should protect the 

 trees throughout the season. 



The poison recommended above is much 

 better for this purpose than the more com- 

 monly employed London purple or Paris 

 green, since it adheres to the foliage for a long 

 time and protects the trees from attack during 

 the remainder of the season, something of 

 considerable importance when brood follows 

 brood. The nearly full-grown caterpillars 

 can also be dislodged from the trees by sud- 

 den jarring. This would have to be supple- 

 mented by collecting and destroying the pests, 

 or else putting some bands around the trees so 

 that they could not ascend and continue their 

 destructive work. Ordinarily the arsenical 

 spray is much to be preferred. 



E. P. Felt, 

 New York State Entomologist. 



RECEIPTS FOR GRAFTING WAX 



Q. After reading Professor Fletcher's ar- 

 ticles I want to try my hand at grafting. 

 There are some wild plums and cherries on 

 my place that might as well be working at 

 something better. How do you make graft- 

 ing wax? A. R. L. 



A. One of the best formulas is: Resin, 

 four parts by weight ; beeswax, two parts ; tal- 

 low one part. Melt together and pour into 

 a pail of cold water. Then grease the hands 

 and pull the wax until it is nearly white. 



