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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1906 



CUCUMBERS IN MARCH 



The garden at its best is only four months of possibilities — the greenhouse is an all year round proposition. 

 You spend endless effort and money in the four garden months, while the remaining eight are dreary 

 ■wastes. In truth the greenhouse simply multiplies the garden's possibilities, giving you tomato, cauli- 

 flower, egg plants, celery plants, etc, of the choicest, stockiest growth, with a goodly start ready to plant 

 out early in the spring. These plants have twice the vigor of the usual market ones and come to fruit 

 a full two or three weeks before the others. 



Tomatoes planted in the greenhouse now, will yield delicious delicately flavored fruit in March, when 

 prices of Southern grown are away up and quality is away down. Along with tomatoes come beans, beets, 

 melons, and that crispy, appetizing delicacy, the much maligned cucumber. Of course lettuce, spinach, 

 parsley, radishes and cress you can always count on having in the greenhouse. So much for vegetables, 

 and nothing said about the violets, roses, carnations, azaleas, Easter lilies, and so on through the endless 

 flower possibles adding the beautiful to the practical side of owning your own greenhouse. 



A lean-to house at $500.00 ; one with a single apartment and potting shed like the illustration ; then 

 the two-compartment house for growing plants requiring different temperatures : three kinds of houses 

 we would like to send you information about. Write for collection of cuts — U-A. 



BURNHAM-HITCHINGS-PIERSON COMPANY 



Greenhouse Designers and Manufacturers 

 1133 Broadway, Corner 26th Street, New York Boston Branch, 8J9 Tremont Building 



SPRAYING INDOOR PLANTS 



For spraying plants indoors and out, the LENOX 

 IMPROVED SPRAYER is the most serviceable for 

 the house and garden. House plants generally suffer 

 from lack of moisture, such as rain or the morning 

 dew give them. This produces a misty shower that 

 supplies the plant most naturally and completely, as 

 absolutely necessary to real success with house plants. 



Spraying for insects and dust, it reaches every part of the plant over and ttndtr the leaves, where insects breed. 

 Spraying with tobacco water will surely kill these enemies. Had we the space, we could tell you many 

 things about your plants, how essential it is to spray them while in the house, on the under side of the leaves. 



HELP THE PLANTS 



SPRAYING UNDER 

 THE LEAVES 



How much 

 Mother would 

 like one, for 

 her plants I 



Sent complete, with a. cake of tobacco soap free. 

 Make a suds and spray. Your plants will surprise you. 



THE LENOX MFG. CO., 1292 Broadway, New York 



50 



cts. 



Post- 

 paid 



remedy to use is one-half teaspoonful of 

 paris green well mixed in a quart of flour. 

 This dusted over the bushes wherever the 

 worms are at work will destroy them at once. 



The crop from one bush after the first year was one 

 pecK of luscious berries. Is it not worth the trouble? 



However, it is well to keep close watch and 

 repeat the dose if necessary, for the chances 

 are that some will be overlooked. As the 

 worms appear while the bushes are in flower, 

 all trace of the poison is washed off by rains 

 before the fruit is ready to gather. 

 New Hampshire. Helen R. Albee. 



Corn Transplanted When Twenty 

 Inches High 



ON June 14th we transplanted some corn 

 from sowings made May 8th and 

 May 20th. This was done more to thin the 

 rows and get it out of the way than with any 

 hope of satisfactory results. Although nearly 



These corn plants were saved when thinning-out 

 time came and replanted in the garden when twenty 

 inches high. They bore good crops of ears 



two feet tall, when set out it flourished amaz- 

 ingly and yielded a better crop than any one 

 of four other plantings, giving us over a 

 hundred ears from sixteen hills, more than 

 six ears to a hill. The bearing season lasted 

 from August 4th to 21st. Doubtless the 

 experiment would have been a failure had 

 we not taken precautions. We waited for a 

 rain, and two days later, when the soil was 

 dry enough to form a clump when lifted, we 

 moved the roots with great care. The plants 

 were covered with peach baskets for protec- 

 tion from the sun until the roots had taken 

 hold of their new surroundings. 



New York. I. M. A. 



