312 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
THE HOT =AIR PUMP 
LASTS A LIFETIME 
POTOMAC, FREDERICKSBURG & PIEDMONT RAILROAD CO. 
GENERAL MANAGER’S OFFICE 
W. H. Richards, Treas. & Gen’l Mg’r. 
FREDERICKSBURG, VA., December 17, 1904. 
Rider-Ericsson Engine Co,, New York. 
Dear Sirs :—Send us, please, one of your catalogues from which we can 
designate the parts of Pump, etc., when ordering same. We now need some 
parts for a Rider No. 1240 Pump bought some 20 years since (still doing good 
service). Respectfully, W. H. Ricuarps 
The ordinary pump soon wears out. The HOT-AIR PUMP is a 
permanent investment. Write to nearest office for catalogue U. 
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Sweet, Fragrant Lily of the Valley 
Do you wish a succession of these delicious blossoms for your 
home through bleak winter? Plantthe pips in pots or boxes—12 to 
5 inch pot—using good soil, leaving crowns half exposed. Place 
out doors or in cool cellar. Hard frost does not injure them. Bring 
in as needed and place in warm spot; never allow to get dry; flowers 
appear 4-5 weeks. We offer, delivery free, doz. ,40c; 25,75c; 100,$2.75. 
Paper- White Narcissus 
Great, glistening bunches of pure satiny-white flowers—raised in water same as Chinese Naicissus. Place 
6 or 8 bulbs in a bowl, supporting them with pebbles or gravel; keepin dark place till roots form and tops 
appear; bring to light and sun; flowers in 5 to 6 weeks. Succession of bloom by planting some bulbs 
every week. Per doz., 50c; 25, $1.00; 100, $3.00. Detivery FREE. 
IXIAS 
are natives of the Cape. Too little known, as their exquisite, delicate beauty 
deserves. A riot of color, all shades, from white, rose, scarlet, red, yellow, pur- 
ple, violet. Beautiful for window garden. To introduce them we offer as 
premiums, free, 
Each 50c order, 12 Ixias, all colors. 
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Catalogue. 
hott. BERGER & CO: 
ESTABLISHED 1878 
47 Barclay Street New York 
SEEDS THAT GROW! ws. BEST SEEDS geycx., 
—as proved by thousands of tests at the Largest 
Trial Grounds in America, you should read 
Burpee’s Farm Annual for 1907,— 
“The Leading American Seed Catalog”’ 
A handsome book of 200 pages with beautiful half-tone illustrations from photographs, it tells the 
plain truth! Among other important Novelties for 1907, six pages are devoted to two unique ““NEw 
CREATIONS,’ in which nature has surpassed herself. ‘These are the most wonderful advances over 
existing types that have ever been known in any vegetable. ‘Their discovery will be worth many 
thousands of dollars annually to American gardeners. 
has-If you can appreciate Quality in Seeds and are willing to pay a fair price, write 
to-day (a postal card will do) and you will receive our Complete Catalog by return mail. 
W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., Seed Growers, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
JANUARY, 1907 
PROPAGATING ASPARAGUS 
H. H.S., Mass.—As paragus S prengeriis easily propagated 
by seeds which ripen about mid-winter. If sown at once 
they germinate quickly. Old plants may be divided. 4. 
plumosus and smilax (A. medeoloides, known in the 
trade as myrsiphyllum asparagoides), are grown from 
seeds sown in February. 
PROPAGATING ARAUCARIAS 
P. T. N., Penn.—The araucarias may be grown from seeds 
or from cuttings. Sow the seeds in December. Top cut- 
tings are the only ones to use. If cuttings are made from 
the branches the plants willbe one-sided. To get sufficient 
top cuttings, after the leader has been taken out and the new 
shoots used, girdle the trunk just above the second whorl of 
branches from the top. This will cause a lot of new shoots 
to start. Cuttings will root in a cool house, if they have 
bottom heat, in eight to ten weeks. 
STORING CALADIUMS 
F. A. B., Iowa—Fancy-leaved caladiums (C. bicolor) 
are dried off gradually until the bulbs are thoroughly 
ripened. They are left in the pots in which they grew 
during the summer and stored in a temperature between 
50° and 60°. The common elephant’s ear (Colocasia anti- 
quorum, var. esculenta known in the trade as Caladium 
esculentum), 1s taken out of the ground as soon as frost 
has touched its leaves, the leaves trimmed off, and stored 
in the cellar or under greenhouse benches where it will be 
dry and away from frost. 
CARE OF FALL SOWN SWEET PEAS 
G. W. D., Ohio.—Sweet peas sown late in September will 
start to grow immediately and will have made an appreciable 
growth before hard frost comes. To protect the young 
plants over winter give a mulch three or four inches deep 
of salt hay, loose litter, or other coarse material. The 
young plants cannot stand too deep a cover over winter. 
It is not the cold of winter which injures them but the 
thawing and freezing of the early spring which does the 
damage, so increase the mulch in March. Asan additional 
protection put up a wind break—a 1o- or 12-inch board 
set on edge on the north side of the row. 
PROLONGING LIFEIN OLD TREES 
W.P. F., Penn.—To preserve the old oak trees, the 
decayed and dead branches should be carefully pruned 
back to the trunk or main side limbs. In many cases a 
live growth may be encouraged by heading back the living 
branches two or three feet, as the case may be, to a strong- 
appearing side branch, which will thereby make a new 
growth, to take the place of the part cut away. Paint all 
wounds made by the cutting off of branches, to prevent 
further decay, and encourage the bark to heal over the 
wound. A good paint for this purpose is made from one 
part finely powdered charcoal and three parts fresh slaked 
lime mixed with linseed oil to the consistency of thick 
paint. To encourage a new root action a top dressing 
of good loam may be put over the ground in the spring 
to a depth of from six to twelve inches, as the surroundings 
will permit, and if a liberal quantity of good manure is 
added (mixed with the loam) the results will be better. 
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TRANSPLANTING TREES 
W. J. B., Penn.—The best time to move your pin oak 
(Quercus palustris) and flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) 
will be in the spring. Even small trees of the dogwood 
cannot be moved in the fall; small pin oaks can be but only 
with considerable risk, so you had better delay moving 
until spring. ‘To insure success root-prune trees. Dig a 
trench about the tree as far from the trunk as the branches 
extend—four feet will be plenty for your trees as they are 
only five years old—and two feet or more deep. The 
idea is to make the large roots throw out a mass of 
fibrous roots. In the spring be careful not to injure 
these mew roots, and when you have taken the ball 
of earth and roots out of the soil cover it with damp sacking 
to keep the roots from drying. Better success will be had 
with these trees if the ground is prepared this fall. Dig 
a hole four feet square and two and a half or three feet 
deep where the tree is to stand. When removing the soil 
throw the stones in a pile by themselves. The bottom of 
the hole should be picked loose. Put the stones in the 
bottom of the hole for drainage and then fill the hole with 
good soil. The best way to do this is to have piles of peat 
and manure beside the hole. Throw in a 3 or 4-inch 
layer of soil, then one of manure, and one of peat and mix 
them inthe hole. Repeat this until the hole is full. Round 
the top to allow for settling. Put a stake in the centre of 
this trenched ground so that next spring you will know 
just where to plant the tree. 
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