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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



August, 1917 



Let us turn, for the moment, to that 

 side of gardening appealing to the mind 

 rather than to the more material senses. 

 The response to our previous appeals for 

 more and bigger and better vegetable 

 gardens has been gratifying. But, so 

 long as there are gardens, so long will 

 we have flower beds that help brighten 

 the world and cheer our lives. So, this 

 month, let us call attention to 



Flower Seeds 



for Present Planting 



August is the 

 month of the year 

 to start Peren- 

 nials from seeds. 

 Perennials are 

 those flowers that 

 are perfectly har- 

 dy and come 

 again year after 

 year. You wilj 

 find two pages 

 full of them de- 

 scribed in our 

 Mid-Summer 

 Catalogue, offered 



S. & W. (Vs. Giant Pansies 



Sown during August, will live through the winter 

 with but slight protection. Wintered over in a cold 

 frame they will begin to bloom early in March. Out- 

 doors in beds, they begin to favor us with glorious flow- 

 ers, z\ to 3 inches in diameter, from early in May until 

 real hot weather. Try these: 

 Giant Winter Mixed, for early flowers in frames. 



PH. 25c. 

 World's Best Mixture, finest we know. Pkt. 2$c. 

 Masterpiece, grand strain with frilled flowers. Pkt. 2$c. 



Bulbs to Plant 

 NOW! 



For August planting in pots, for house culture and 

 Christmas tiowers, try: 

 Freesia, Purity, the delightfully fragrant favorite, 



mammoth size, Doz. 60c; £3.50 per IOO. Plant six 



to twelve bulbs in a 6 inch pan. 

 Roman riyacintns, the earliest of all to bloom and 



easiest to grow. White. £1.25 per doz.., £8.00 per 



IOO. 



Narcissus, Giant Paper-White, fine for growing in 

 water, with pebbles to support bulbs. Large Bulbs, 

 $c. each; 50c. per doz.; 32.75 per 100. Jumbo 

 tiulbs, 10c. each.; 75c per doz., $3.50 per IOO. 

 For planting direct into the garden: 



Madonna Lilies (LUium candidum), choice, northern 

 grown bulbs, sure to thrive and hardy as oaks, mam- 

 moth bulbs, 15c. each; gl.50 per doz., $10.00 per 100. 

 All prices postpaid. 



Seasonable Suggestions for 

 the Vegetable Garden 



August brings the eleventh hour opportunity to pro- 

 vide root crops for winter storage. Extra Early Sorts 

 of Beets, Carrots, Kohlrabi and Turnips will still reach 

 good size from seeds before frost injures them. Our 

 stock of all of them is complete. We also offer late 

 Cabbage, Cauliflower and Celery Plants. By setting 

 out S. & W. Co's sturdy potgrown strawberry plants 

 this month, you gain a year's time. To familiarize 

 yourself with August garden possibilities, write to-day 

 for our 



|-)*L^ Y* t* Midsummer Catalogue 



* ***-^*-^ Interesting, instructive, prac- 



tical. Tells what to plant at this time of the year and 

 how to do it. Offers timely accessories and implements 

 which the home gardener needs most right now. We 

 also have ready for mailing our new "Advance Bulb 

 Catalogue" of Dutch, French, Japanese and American 

 grown Bulbs. Write for both books to-day or just 

 say "put my name on your mailing list." We will 

 understand. 



"Stumpp& Walter Co 3 .' 



30-32 Barclay Street — 

 NEW YORK 



Spraying Kills Young Squash Bugs 



I V HE common squash bug, sometimes 

 -*• called the black squash bug to dis- 

 tinguish it from the striped squash or melon 

 bug, is a serious pest in gardens, at times. 

 A farmer recently related to me his experi- 

 ences in attempting to grow not only squashes 

 but melons and other cucurbits. He claimed 

 that these bugs utterly destroyed his crop 

 for him so that after several attempts he 

 had given up growing these particular vege- 

 tables. 



The squash bug is a menace from the time 

 the plant appears above ground until the 

 crop is harvested. The newly started plant 

 is attacked by the adults which have win- 

 tered over. The damage done by the squash 

 bug is this: they are sucking insects extract- 

 ing the plants' juices for subsistence, and 

 wherever the bug punctures a leaf to feed, it 

 injects a little fluid supposed to be saliva 

 which is poisonous to the plant, killing the 

 leaf about the puncture. For this reason it 

 is more serious on young plants than on old 

 ones because of the fewer leaves. It is not 

 uncommon to find young plants killed by 

 a few punctures. 



The squash bug is a hard insect to fight. 

 Poisons will not do the work because it does 

 not chew. The adult beetles are almost 

 impossible to reach by spraying, handpick- 

 ing and trapping them being about the only 

 methods of destroying them. I have always 

 managed to prevent serious damage by laying 

 shingles about the garden where the squash 

 bug is working. They will gather on the 

 under side, particularly on cool fall nights, 

 and if the garden is visited early in the morn- 

 ing they can be scraped off into a pail having 

 kerosene in it. Destroying vines after the 

 fruit is gathered is also a very material help 

 in keeping down the pest. 



The young can be killed by spraying the 

 vines with kerosene emulsion, diluting the 

 stock solution with eight to ten parts of water. 

 The time when the yoUng are present varies 

 with the latitude. The adult appears in 

 this latitude late in June and commences 

 to lay eggs very shortly. It takes the eggs 

 from eight to thirteen days to hatch, so that 

 the young appear early in July. As soon as 

 they appear spraying should be resorted to. 



Where this squash bug bothers melons or 

 cucumbers, a trap crop of early squashes 

 planted alongside of the melons will prove 

 far more attractive to the bug, so that little 

 or no damage is done to the melons. 



Repellants are sometimes used and with 

 success. Land plaster or gypsum saturated 

 with kerosene or turpentine makes a com- 

 bination that the squash bug does not care 

 to associate with. 



Penna. H. Clarke. 



Where radishes, mustard, cress^, cabbage, 

 or other plants of the mustard family have 

 been growing early in the season or last season 

 use carrots, beets, celery, or some other crop of 

 a different plant family. The mustard family 

 is subject to a disease called club which lives 

 in the soil and often does serious damage 

 when plants of the family follow each other 

 closely. 



"How to 

 Grow Roses" 



A delightful handbook for 

 rose lovers. Tells how to 

 plant, prune, spray, etc 

 Editor Barron of the Garden 

 Magazine, says: "The book 



f is a very thorough round-up of what the 

 amateur wants to know about roses." Library 



edition, 121 pages— 16 in natural colors. 



Sent postpaid for $1. Contains coupon 



worth $1 with $5 order for plants. Order now. 



f ONARD Box ROSES 



^&JonesCo. 24 West Grove, Pa. 

 Rob't Pyle, Pres. A. Wintzer, Vice-Pres 



Rose Specialists 

 Backed by 50 years' experience 



Arthur T. 



Boddington Co., Inc. 



Dept. G. 



128 Chambers St., N. Y. 



Just a little 

 "patch" will yield 

 these luscious 

 berries allsummer 



Strawberry plants set out this 

 summer will bear abundantly 

 next year. Complete cultural 

 directions are given in our 



Midsummer Garden Guide 



— also valuable information 

 about Seasonable Seeds, 

 Bulbs for fall planting, insecti- 

 cides, implements etc. Write 

 for a copy, to-day 



A Charming Birdbath 



of Artificial Stone 

 fifteen inches square, three 

 inches thick, hollowed out 

 round two and one half 

 inches deep in centre sloping 

 to three-eighths at edge. Inexpensive, Practical. Artistic. 



Price $2.00. Three for $5.50, f. o. b. Verona 

 W. H. BAYlLES Verona, New Jersey 



INGEE POSFS 



Sturdy as Oaks MWSK/ljhJ 



Dingee roses are always grown on their own roots 

 — and are absolutely the best for the amateur planter. 

 Send to-day for our 



"New Guide to Rose Culture" for 1917 



— it's free. It isn't a catalog"— it's a practical work on rose 



growing. Profusely illustrated. Describes over iooo varieties 



of roses and other flowers, and tells how to grow them. Safe 



delivery guaranteed. Established 1850. 70 greenhouses. 



5THE DINGEE & CONARD CO., Box 837, West Grove, Pa. 



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