THE GARDEN MAGAZINE OctToBER, 1906 
indow Gardens 
with ventilating apparatus and all the growing essentials of a 
greenhouse. Owing toa large demand for a mechanically prac- 
tical window garden we have just designed this window garden 
which is really a miniature conservatory! 
Do you know that with a window garden of this kind you can 
supply your house with cut flowers all winter? You can have 
flowers ina score of varieties from Christmas to Easter. Think 
of having Tulips, Hyacinths, Datfodils, Azaleas, Cyclamen, Cin- 
erarias, Primroses, Hydrangeas, Oranges. clambering vines such 
as Smilax and Nasturtiums, and other plants in a riot of bloom. 
In winter and early spring flower and vegetable seeds can be 
started as in a greenhouse, which, when planted out will give you 
results weeks earlier than if you waited to sow seed in the 
open ground. You can also revive in it your dying plants that 
ray: 
are doing service in your living room. A stove is not even 
necessary for heating as the heat of the house is sufficient in | 
ordinary weather, and in severe weather a small lamp provides 
the necessary warmth. 
will give distinction and uniqueness to your home. 
This window garden is, in effect, a small conservatory, and 
It is portable 
and can be attached to or removed from a rented house. 
The regular stock size we have made measures 5 feet long, 2 
feet 6 inches wide, 6 feet 6 inches high, and will fitany standard 
window. 
The above price includes weather strips, supporting brackets, and is complete in every detail for erecting. 
shape and can be easily attached by your local carpenter or any handy man. 
Illustrated pamphlet with detailed description sent for the asking. 
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shipped in “knock-down 
special sizes for large windows sent on request. 
PRICE $42.50 
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WHITE OAKS FROM SEEDS 
D. C., New York.—The seeds of the white oak should 
be sown as soon as ripe in October. 
WINTERING ENDIVE 
I. A. C., Mass.—Store the endive the same as celery in 
a cool cellar or frost proof trench setting the roots in damp 
sand or earth. 
SOW PEONY SEED IN THE FALL 
H. G. T., Conn.—Peony seed should be sown in a cold- 
frame as soon as it ripens. It will not grow, however, until 
the following spring. 
RIDGE THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 
H. M. T., Penn.—You will find that it is an advantage 
to your garden if you fall plow, or throw your soil into ridges. 
This gives the weather a better chance to work on the soil 
and it also kills many insect pests. 
GOOD EARLY STRAWBERRIES 
R. P. I., N. H.—Try Michel’s Early, Johnson’s Early or 
Climax strawberries. These do not have so much acid as 
does Excelsior. See Mr. Wood’s article on strawberries in 
June, 1905, GarpEN MaGazine, pp. 218-221. 
SCURFY SCALE ON ROSES 
H. M. J., Va.—The scurfy scale on your roses can be 
gotten rid of very easily if you spray them with whale-oil 
soap—one pound to a gallon of water—this fall after the 
leaves drop; repeat it in the spring before growth starts. 
SOFT COAL SOOT FOR PLANTS 
J. B. P., New Jersey—Soft coal soot has a distinctly 
beneficial effect on certain soils, but unless it is very easily 
procured it is not worth while bothering with it. Gardeners 
frequently use it because it gives the foliage of plants a 
beautiful deep green color. 
MULCHING ROSES 
O. G. M., Vt.—Your roses will come through the winter 
in much better shape if you give them a heavy mulching 
of manure. Put on enough so that when it has settled there 
will be a 6-inch mulch. Do not apply the mulch until 
the cold weather has come—the middle or last of October. 
HARDY HYDRANGEA FROM CUTTINGS 
E. C. A., New Jersey—Nurserymen usually propagate 
Hydrangea paniculata var. grandiflora by half ripened 
wood under glass in late summer, but if cuttings six inches 
long are made in September or October, after the leaves 
have fallen, and planted in the ground at once with only 
one bud above the soil a large percentage will make roots 
the following spring. 
PRUNING RASPBERRIES 
J. H. B., Tenn.—Raspberries fruit on the canes that 
were made the previous year while blackberries fruit on this 
year’s wood, but the pruning is the same. Cut out the canes 
that have borne fruit this year leaving enough space for the 
new growths that spring up from the base. Read Prof. 
Fletcher’s article in the July, 1906, GARDEN MacazinE, 
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