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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



September, 1917 



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The Queenly 

 Festiva Maxima 

 in all its glory 



A Quarter 

 Million 

 Roots. Over a 

 Million Flowers 

 in one field 



Beauty Beyond Compare 



Without attempting to tax your imagination, we ask you, 

 readers, to think with us, of fields about ten times the size of that 

 shown above. We ask you to forget all about the old-fashioned "pineys" and 

 learn to think of visions of floral loveliness, combining exquisite colors, well- 

 shaped flowers of great size, with delicate fragrance — and you will understand 

 why we are "peony-mad." One cannot see Peonies as we see them every 

 spring and not fall in love with them. But you may get a glimpse of what we 

 see, if you plant 



G ZiialT Triumph Collection 



12 Superb Peonies $9 



Every one of them a "triumph" of the modern hybridizer's skill; every one a 

 peerless masterpiece fit to adorn the gardens of those in quest of the proven best. 



81— Adolphe Rousseau $1.00 



12— Albert Crousse 1.00 



170— Auguste Villaume 1.00 



279— Baroness Schroeder 1.00 



194— Eugene Bigot 1.00 



380— George Washington 1.00 



9— Gigantea $1.00 



80— Grandiflora 1.00 



18— Mile. Rousseau 1.00 



8— Mireille 1.00 



158— Modeste Guerin 1.00 



2 10— Welcome Guest 1.00 



P" £ is as unique a brochure as it is beautiful. 



eOnieS rOI pleasingly "different" ' 



Total $12.00 



Order by number if you choose and note this 



Special Offer: — Any 6 for $5; the complete assortment 

 of 12 for $9, delivered anywhere in the United States. 



You will find it a 

 piece of advertising literature because 



Plo^cnrp"' the total absence of "commercialism." It relates how, 

 IcaSUlc guided simply by the love for Peonies, our Mr. Good sur- 

 rounded himself, in less than a decade, with the greatest collection of Quality 

 kinds and the largest stocks of these varieties in the world! With this book in 

 your hands, you will not find it hard to imagine the pleasure in store for you if 

 you invest in Good & Reese perfect Peonies. Nor need it cost you much to 

 materialize your dreams and wishes. Our immense supply of roots enables us 



to sell at moderate prices. Let us prove this to you by 



Springfield, Ohio writing for above Free Book TO-DAY. 



THE 

 FLORAL CENTER 

 OF THE WORLD 



20 Million Plants Sold 

 Each Year. Seven Mil- 

 lion of which are Roses 



■fl fl J O T\ C* Rose and Peony 



1 he bood & Keese Lo. specialists 



Box 90, Springfield, Ohio 





Alphano 



and The Making of Lawns 



Lawns are heavy and quick feeders. They need large quan- 

 tities of readily available plant food. Spotted or thin lawns 

 are generally starved lawns. Don't dig them up but save 

 them with Alphano. Use Alphano in making your new 

 lawns. The newly sprouting grass is more delicate than 

 most young vegetable seedlings. It needs a large amount of 

 plant food and moisture. Alphano provides maximum 

 quantities of plant food and holds moisture well. 



Renovating 



Old Lawns 



Alphano gives old lawns a new lease of 

 life. It builds up the soil beneath them, 

 while invigorating the grass at the same 

 time. For poor soil, use 5 bags for every 

 IOOO (25 x 40) square feet of lawn, while 

 on fairly good soil, 2 bags suffice. Rake 

 or disk harrow' every square foot thor- 

 oughly, after which spread on Alphano 

 to a uniform depth. Rake or harrow in 

 well. Then sow 3 pounds of lawn grass 

 mixture to .each IOOO square feet. A 

 healthy, vigorous, drought resisting lawn 

 will result. 



Making New 

 and Better Lawns 



After spading 'the ground a foot deep, 

 spread Alphano at the rate of 100 to 400 

 pounds to every 1000 square feet and 

 rake it thoroughly into the soil. Sow 

 your seeds, rake them into the surface 

 and roll. Around newly built homes, 

 where the grading is done with sub- 

 soil, follow up above treatment six 

 weeks later along these lines: — Make 

 a mixture of two-thirds soil and one- 

 third Alphano and spread at the rate 

 of 300 to 500 pounds to every icxx> 

 square feet. 



What Alphano Really is — 



Alphano differs from all other humus materials on the market. It 

 is a rich soil humus, concentrated and mixed ^with additional avail- 

 able plant foods containing Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potash, and 

 fully charged with all the clover and other legume bacteria, to- 

 gether with the independent soil organisms so essential to fertility. 

 It has the good qualities of manure and chemisal fertilizer, with the 

 bad features such as stench, weed seeds and burning action left out. 

 The innoculation feature alone is worth all you pay for the material, 

 and we know of nothing on the market to-day, giving so much 

 humus and plant food value for so little money. 



RnnL-liif PRFF Whether you garden on a large or small scale. 



12 Years on the 

 Market 



Half a Million 

 Tons Sold 



f\lpIl<lIlU UUUIilCl 1 IVLJU you should use Alphano and know what it will 

 do. It grows everything — vegetables, fruits, flowers. It is a complete organic ferti- §|^ 

 lizer, the use of which cannot be overdone. So far as we know, it is the only com- ^_ 

 plete organic fertilizer sold with a guarantee, and complying with the fertilizer laws 

 of the various states in which it is offered. It should not be confused with any other 

 so-called humus products on the market. Alphano is a complete organic fertilizer >§§§! 

 and soil builder. A free book shows how to use it and what its use does. Ask for it §§|: 

 or better still, order some Alphano to-day. ||s| 



5-100 lb. bags $5 #12. a ton in bags by carload « 



#15. a ton in bags #10. a ton in bulk by carload 



F. 0. B. Alphano, N. J. it 



ALPHANO HUMUS COMPANY 



17-C Battery Place New York ■ 



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