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PIEDMONT 
\ From Factory to Home 
Vou need a Piedmont Red Cedar Chest to protect your 
furs, woolens and fine clothing from moths, dust and damp- 
ness. We sell them at low factory prices, prepay freight and 
allow them to be returned at our expense if they do not 
wholly satisfy. Isn’t that fair? 
Made in several sizes of genuine Southern Red Cedar—no 
veneering—and handsomely trimmed. Impart an exquisite 
fragrance perpetually. 
Why not banish moth-balls, or do away with storage bills ? 
Buy a Piedmont and discover the protection, convenience 
and satisfaction it affords. 
A Piedmont Chest will pay for itself in what it saves. 
Appropriate Gift for Xmas, Birthday or Weddings. 
Shipped direct from factory, charges prepaid. 
Write for Free Booklet and low factory prices. 
PIEDMONT FURNITURE CO., Dept. G. Statesville, N. C. 
We also make a beautiful Box Couch of Solid Southern Red Cedar, 
handsomely upholstered, Send for booklet and prices, 
6 to 8 times 
this size 
51-2x8 
For Christmas Gifts 
Awarded Four Gold Medals. 
Beware of inferior imitations. 
The PERRY 
PICTURES 
Reproductions of the World’s 
Great Paintings. 
One Cent Each fr25 "more: 
120 for $1.00. 
Send 25 cents for 5 Art Subjects 
or 25 Madonnas or $1.00 for 
Christmas Set 120 Art Subjects, 
or 50 cents for 11 Extra Size, 
Io x 12. Order to-day. Catalogue 
of 1.000 illustrations for 2-cent 
stamps. 
The Perry Pictures Co. 
Box 1460 Malden, Mass, 
2,000 
Subjects 
MUSHROOM 3 ‘butions’. wt. 25 ounces. 
Now is the time to put in 
beds fora winter crop. Get spawn while the manure 
is being prepared. We have seven varieties. Our 
literature tells you about them, and tells you how to 
grow mushrooms. It’s yours on request. 
Pure Culture Spawn Co., 609 W. Fourth St., Cincinnati, O, 
Factory : Pacific, Mo. 
POTASH 
in the soil puts corn on the stalk and 
money in the bank. 
The natural process of plant growth is simply 
one of chemical conversion. Potash, the raw ma- 
terial, is cheap; but when converted by nature into 
corn, it is valuable. The use of Potash is not an 
expense, but an investment. 
Write to-day for our free booklet ‘‘ Plant Food.’’ 
GERIMAN KALI WORKS 
93 Nassau Street, New York 
[It is the earnest desire of the editors of the GARDEN Mac- 
AZINE that its readers call upon them when in need of help 
in solving garden problems. Wall all those who write for 
information, be careful to attach their name and full address 
so that they may receive an immediate answer through the 
mails when the season renders it necessary? The magazine 
is made up so far in advance of publication that it is not 
possible to give immediate attention through its columns.] 
CAULIFLOWER UNDER GLASS 
G. S. H., New York—Sow seeds in December and as 
soon as the plants have made a true leaf transplant into 
3-inch pots. As soon as the pot is well filled with roots 
plant out on benches in a good rich, heavy, well-drained 
soil. Plant fifteen inches apart each way. Give a temper- 
ature of 45° at night. Early Snowball and Gilt Edge are 
good varieties for greenhouse culture. 
STORING CHRYSANTHEMUMS 
H. G. T., New York—The best treatment to give Chrys- 
anthemums after flowering, is to plant them in a coldframe 
in ordinary soil (it is not at all a bad practice to allow 
them to freeze, but not too hard, during January and Feb- 
ruary) and keep them covered with mats and shutters. 
Cuttings from plants that have had a thorough rest do 
better than from those that have not rested. 
TEMPERATURE FOR FUCHSIAS 
P. S., Vr.--Fuchsias need a night temperature of about 
55°. With these, as everything else, the temperature is 
allowed to rise 10° on cloudy days and more when the sun 
shines. Blooming plants may be grown from seed in one 
year, but they are usually grown from green (but nearly 
ripened) wood cuttings taken in December or January. 
Blooming plants may be had in five months from cut- 
tings. Make the cuttings two joints long. 
GETTING RID OF STUMPS 
E. F. L., New Jersey—An easy method of disposing of 
stumps is to bore a hole in the stump, in the fall, one or 
two inches in diameter and eighteen or twenty inches deep, 
and into it put a couple of ounces of saltpetre and fill with 
water. Now drive a wooden plug into the hole. The 
following spring remove the plug, fill the hole with kero- 
sene and apply a match. This will make a smouldering fire 
which will burn clear to the ends of the roots, leaving 
nothing but ashes. ‘ 
WHY HOLLIES FAIL.TO FRUIT 
R. A. K., New York—All the ilexes are dicecious—the 
staminate and pistillate flowers are borne on different 
individuals. It is therefore very important to secure both 
forms of the plant when buying, or transplanting from the 
wild; otherwise fruit will not be borne. This is probably 
the reason why the plants of the black alder (I/ex ver- 
ticillata), failed to bear its beautiful red berries in the 
shrubbery after it had been transplanted from the woods. 
This is why the holly so often fails to fruit. For further 
information on the hollies see the article ‘All the Hollies 
Worth Growing” on page 234. 
DRAINED GROUND EARLIER 
H. J. B., Mass.—It will be to your advantage to 
tile drain the land. Land which is drained suffers less 
from drought than that which is undrained. Well drained 
soil will become mellow, mealy, and absorbent as it dries 
and will absorb the slightest precipitation; it will even 
absorb the dewfall. Undrained soil dries slowly, and 
shrinks and cracks while drying, allowing the sun and 
air to penetrate it, and it also holds the frost much 
longer. In well drained soil, the surface of which is kept 
cultivated, the roots go deep, finding sufficient moisture for 
the plants, though no rain fall for a long season. 
MENNENS 
BROeRy Avime mee, TA Loom 
ce en oo. ee 3 
s 
Any Child 
who has enjoyed the benefit of ¥ 
Mennen’s Borated Talcum Toli- 
let Powder daily since birth is 
free from the painful chappin £ 
and chafing which comes wit. 
winter weather. 
Mennen’s 
soothes and heals,and if used dat- 
ly, enables the most tender skin to 
resist the ill effects of changing 
conditions of weather. 
Put upin non-refillable boxes, 
for your protection. If Mennen’s 
face is on the cover, it’s genuine, 
that’s a poate of a 
Delightful after shaving da 
m everywhere, or by mail 25 cents. 
Sample Free. } 
’ Gerhard Mennen Co., Newark, N. J. 
Try Mennen’ BUAIen Ee orten), : 
Taleum Powder. It has thi 
scent of fresh cut Violets. 
U A LITY SEEDS, BULBS, 
PLANTS 
Send for Catalogue. 
ARTHUR T. BODDINGTON 
342 West i4th St., New York. 
ORCHIDS 
Largest importers and growers of 
OrcuIps in the United States 
LAGER & HURRELL 
Orchid Growers and Importers SUMMIT, N. J. 
AN D if E GO Souther California’s ideal 
» home city 
, offers unrivaled 
opportunity for profitable investment. Write immedi- 
ately for illustrated booklet telling how monthly payments 
of $5 to $1o will secure fine level lots with splendid mountain 
view, within two blocks of new car line, in the most rapidly 
growing section. Investment perfectly safe. Bank refer- 
ences. Invest now, and the next few months will make you a 
handsome profit. These terms apply for limited time only. 
RALSTON REALTY CO., San Diego, California 
ORDER “ BONORA” 
for your winter plants. It will give 
a profuse growth and beautiful 
flowers. Write for endorsements, &c. 
BoNoRA CHEMICAL Co., 584 Broadway,N.Y. 
ROSEDALE NURSERIES 
Our Catalogue will make plain why our customers are so enthu- 
siastic as to say to their friends : 
“‘There is only one place to buy roses’’ 
S. G. HARRIS, ‘Tarrytown, N. Y. 
G. H. PETERSON 
Rose and Peony Specialist 
FAIR LAWN, N. J. 
