250 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
DECEMBER, 1906 
' PRUNING SHEARS 
That gives you an idea of the strength and quality of the pruner. Wiss Pruning Shears 
will outlast a dozen ordinary ones. They will cut tissue paper. That shows how 
nicely they. are adjusted. i 
Nurserymen and growers of fine trees use them in preference to all other shears—they 
will cut clean the thickest twigs or the most delicate tendrils without tearing: a 
Wi ill 1! f f charge any shears returned defective or unsatisfactory. parts are inter- 
Gh eeper pete are (as the blade) Becomes worn, it can be replaced, thus making the shears as good as 
new at a slight cost. ; : ; 
Made in three sizes—9-inch, $2.25; 10-inch, $2.50 No. 3B (73-inch) for light pruning, $1.75 
Extra blades, 50 cents each. For sale by all dealers. 
J. WISS & SONS CO., 15-33 Littleton Avenue. Newark, N. J. 
O plants are quite so fine for household decoration as Ferns. We have bought an im- 
mense stock of the three best kinds — Boston or Sword Fern, the amateur’s favorite , 
Ostrich Plume. luxuriant in beauty and grace; and the new Nephrolepsis Piersonii 
Elegantissima, most beautiful of all—which we will sell direct to subscribers for /loral Life 
at wholesale prices—less than half ordinary retail figures. You may have one plant each of the 
3 FERNS FOR 15 CENTS 
if at the same time you send us ro cents for //ora/ Life four months on trial—25 cents in all. 
We prepay postage and guarantee satisfaction. /~oral Life tells all about howto grow 
flowers inthe home; when, how and what to plant, prune and water ; how to give winter 
protection ; how to destroy insects; soil and fertilizers which give best results. This great 
magazine is a complete and practical guide to home floriculture ; beautifully illustrated. 
THE YOUNG & BENNETT COMPANY 
Publishers 
Box 225, Springfield, Ohio. ‘‘Where the Flowers Grow.” 
OXGLOVES and old-fashioned gardens! The one sug- 
gests the other. But aside from that subtle associa- 
tion there is an individuality and charm about the 
foxglove that attaches to no other of our hardy herbaceous 
perennials. It is at home in shady nooks, among shrubbery, 
or in the open border; massed or in single clumps, its grace- 
ful yet substantial spikes of flowers, towering sometimes up 
to six feet—in early summer give an unusually rich quality 
to the smallest garden. When out of flower, the plant itself 
is a rosette of handsome downy foliage. ; 
For filling a narrow strip of bed near the house, or as ‘a 
border, to give stately dignity to the walk down the garden ; 
and again dispersed in irregular clumps in the shrubbery, we 
know of no flower that wiil give greater satisfaction. The 
wild plants are uniformly of a delicate pink color. We have 
them, too, and also a rich collection of deep red, pure white, 
and mauve, and lilac in many shades ; also beautifully spotted 
and mottled flowers. We offer the following kinds: 
Ambigua (brown) D. Stberica (cream) 
Orientalis (yellow) D. Thapsi( purple) 
Gloxinacflora (white to pink) D.Purpurea(CommonFoxglove) 
All $1.50 per dozen, $10.00 per 100 
T.et us send /ou our beautiful Fall Booklet, ‘“Old Fashioned 
Flowers and the Newest Varieties.’’ 
J. B. KELLER SONS, Rochester, N.Y. 
Specialists in Hardy Perennials 
in the box, and requires much planning and 
cutting down to bring out the right effect of 
perspective and relative proportion. Then 
insert in the moss the roots of the dwarf trees, 
giving them plenty of room to spread out, 
since they cannot grow down. Next, place 
tiny ferns or small orchids (nurseymen haye 
the Goodyera for sale) in the nooks and 
crannies of miniature hills, and spread white 
sand evenly over the paths and level places. 
Finally, a gate made from a wooden cigar 
box may be set in, while a flag of the Rising 
Sun on a match stick will proclaim the whole 
to be a garden of Japan. 
And all that is needed is some moss, a few 
seedlings, bird-sand, and a square box; and 
after it is completed, if you will spray it well 
once a day, your garden will flourish 
till the trees eventually outgrow the neigh- 
borhood. 
New York. M. K. FaRRranp. 
Tying up the Christmas Presents 
NV EEX sending plants to your friends 
be very careful how you pack them. 
Plants like azaleas and Jerusalem cherries 
should be first tied in. Put a string around 
the outside of the plant and draw the branches 
in toward the centre. 
To wrap them, first cover the top of the 
plant with tissue or oiled paper, which is held 
in place by string or pins. Then lay the 
plant down on a table and roll it up in a 
single or double sheet of cotton batting. Out- 
side of this comes the wrapping paper. Unless 
the plant is going a very short distance and 
the weather is very mild the wrapping should 
consist of three to six thicknesses of news- 
papers and an outside wrapping of clean 
manila paper to give the package a neat 
appearance. When doing up the plant 
always include the pots in the wrappings. 
Never have any strings passing over the top 
of the package. The errand boy would be 
lable to use it for carrying the bundle and 
if he did the wrappings are more than liable 
to come off and the plant will get frozen. 
The only way to carry a plant is by the pot. 
If you are sending cut flowers it is better 
to use a wooden box. Line the inside of the 
box with a half dozen thicknesses of news- 
papers and arrange the sheets so that they will 
overlap one another at the top when closing 
the package. Inside the newspapers place 
a sheet or two of cotton batting and then a 
thickness of oiled paper. Have the box 
small enough so that the flowers will have 
to be crowded in, for loosely packed flowers 
are much more easily damaged by hand- 
ling than closely packed ones. With a 
watering can or hand syringe give the con- 
tents of the box a dash of water and close 
up. I have packed flowers so closely that 
it took considerable pressure to get the 
cover down where it could be nailed, but 
after three or four days’ knocking around by 
neglect of the carrier to deliver them they 
came out looking as fresh as could be. If 
they had been loosely packed, they would 
have been utterly spoiled. 
In extremely cold weather I have found it 
a good practice to put in the boxes with 
the flowers tightly corked bottles of hot water. 
New York. PHINEAS NOLTE. 
