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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1906 



Duy any seeds for your garden until you 

 get a copy of 



Johnson & Stokes Garden 

 and Farm Manual==Free 



and see the actual photographs of choice 



vegetables and flowers you can raise from 



our tested thoroughbred seeds 



June Pink Tomato 



(photograph above) is one of our newest varieties. 

 A fleshy, heavy, bright, dainty pink tomato of medium size. 

 Smooth and well shaped: — no cracks or green core — and ripens 

 as early as the celebrated Sparks' Earliana. 



Has no tendency to blight, yields clusters of six to ten toma- 

 toes both at crown and forks of branches, and bears until frost. 



i pkt. (4oseeds) 20c, 3 pkts. 50c, 7 pkts. $1. 

 Many other equally good novelties in vegetables and flowers. 



JOHNSON & STOKES 



217-214 Market Street, Philadelphia 



Getting Rid of Ants 



A FEW years ago the ants took possession 

 -**- of my yard and built mounds or 

 "ant hills" all over it. I tried all kinds of 

 remedies, among them Paris green, London 

 purple, corrosive sublimate, white hellebore, 

 borax, tobacco, kerosene (or rather gasolene) 

 and chloroform. With exception of the last 

 two, all were used as solutions or mixtures in 

 water. The solutions were gradually in- 

 creased in strength till they killed plant life 

 with which they came in contact — but they 

 didn't kill the ants. Chloroform gave them 

 a brief vacation only, while gasolene killed 

 not only the ants but all the plants near by 

 whose roots were affected in the least degree, 

 seemingly, by the oil. 



Finally I found a cure for the pest in a 

 mixture of Persian insect powder in water — 

 one-quarter pound in a gallon of water. 

 The mixture does not injure plants, though 

 one thorough application destroys the ant 

 nest. Use pure powder, for much of the 

 powder sold is badly adulterated, and hence 

 of little value. Use freshly made powder, 

 for unless kept dry and in air-tight containers 

 after being made it loses gradually its insec- 

 ticidal powers. 



Put a quarter of a pound of good powder 

 into a watering can (or other vessel with 

 spout, from which a small stream can be 

 poured) and add a little water; stir till 

 powder is thoroughly wet and then add the 

 balance of the gallon of water. 



Keep stirring the mixture while using, and 

 pour the mixture slowly into the tunnels of 

 the ant hill till they are all filled. In my ex- 

 perience one application destroys the colony. 



Dayton, Ohio. H. S. Jewett, M.D. 



Quinces Worth Growing 

 1LTUMBLE though its services may be, 

 *■ ■* the quince is capable of yielding 

 as much pleasure at the table or profit 

 in the market, for the care bestowed upon 

 it, as either of its more fortunate relatives, 

 the apple and pear. Moreover, when well 

 grown, it is far more beautiful in flower, 

 foliage and fruit than the apple or pear, and 

 may be made a thing of beauty as well as 

 of utility on the home grounds. Most people 

 do not give it fair play, and these sugges- 

 tions have been offered in its defence. 



The Best A 1 ew Years Gift 



Wt>t Simple Cite Calcntiar 



The 



Simple 



Life 



Calendar 



Selections from the works of 

 the Rev. Charles Wagner, 

 by permission of Messrs. 

 Dodd, Mead & Co., etc. 



Twelve leaves in color, from designs by C. r B. 

 Falls. (9J{ x 13 in.) Boxed, $1.00. 



A. WESSELS CO. 



43 East 19th Street, New York. 



Iron Railings, Wire 

 Fences, Entrance Gates 



WE MAKE and erect Iron and Wire Fences of all kinds for 

 lawns, gardens, stock paddocks, dog kennels, Arbors for vines 

 and fruit trees, Garden Arches, Plant Supporters, Tree Guards, 

 Unclimable Netting Fences, etc., also Wrought Iron Railings and 

 Gates of all kinds for country places. Write for catalogue No. 29. 



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JAPANESE GARDENS 



and plants. Extensive nurseries in Japan and America. 

 Send /or Catalogue . 

 HINODE FLORIST COMPANY, Whitestone, Long Island 



Arlington Tested Seeds 



Our 1905 catalogue tells all about them. IT'S FREE. 



W. W. RAWSON & CO., Boston, Mass. 



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Rhodes Double Cut .g 



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Pruning ^— ~ -.„ ^-^^^t>^ 



1 limb and does 

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the bark. 



We pay Ex- 



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press charges 





SMtate on all orders. 



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