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40 THE GARDEN 
MAGAZINE 
FEBRUARY, 1908 
is the title of Our New Catalogue for 1908—the most 
beautiful and instructive horticultural publication of the 
day—190 pages—700 engravings—I2 superb colored 
and duotone plates of vegetables and flowers. 
To give this catalogue the largest possible distribution, we make 
the following liberal offer : 
Every Empty Envelope 
Counts as Cash 
To every one who will state where this advertisement was seen and 
who encloses Ten Cents (in stamps), we will mail this catalogue, 
AND ALSO SEND FREE OF CHARGE 
Our famous 50 cent “‘HENDERSON”’ COLLECTION OF SEEDS 
containing one packet each of Gzant Mixed Sweet Peas; Giant Fancy 
Pansies, mixed; Giant Victoria Asters, mixed; Henderson's All Seasons 
Lettuce; Early Ruby Tomato; and Henderson's Electric Beet, in a cou= 
pon envelope, which, when emptied and returned will be accepted as a 
25-cent cash payment on any order amounting to $1.00 and upward. 
BERRY PLANTS 
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If you want Strawberry Plants, the best that 
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desirable kinds of Raspberries, 
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Y We invite correspondence. Catalog free. 
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A Mess at all seasons 
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“% Growing Tomatoes for Quality, 
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is the name of the best booklet ever issued on the subject of tomato culture. It 
contains 30 pages and illustrations fully describing the Potter method of raising 
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fruit by systematic cultivation and pruning. This book is invaluable to every 
gardener, whether he grows one dozen or one thousand vines. The subjects cover- 
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The Potter Method; Plants and Planting; Home-Grown Plants; Preparing the 
Ground; Setting the Plants; Cultivation; Pruning and Staking the Vines; Picking 
the Fruit; Ripe Tomatoes at Christmas; 40 Tomato Recipes; Best Tomato Seeds. 
The information is condensed and to the point—just what every grower wants. 
The cut herewith shows one of a large number of vines in my garden this 
season. Notice that each stalk is loaded with large, perfect fruit from top to 
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m DEPT.O T. F. POTTER, Tomato Specialist, DOWNERS GROYE, Ill. 
February Lessons for Northern 
Gardeners 
O YOU realize that you can grow figs 
in your back yard and that you can 
get a little fig tree sent to you by mail for 
only twenty-five cents? No matter where 
you live in the United States, this experi- 
ment is worth trying, because figs are raised 
even in Canada by putting them near a 
sunny wall. At the approach of winter, 
you can pull over your fig tree, lay it down, 
cover it with earth and thus keep it for many 
years. 
Think of having orange trees in every 
home yard in Washington, D. C., Baltimore, 
Cincinnati, Louisville, and St. Louis! Blessed 
be the hardy orange (Citrus trifoliata) 
which makes such a delightful vision pos- 
sible. Nowadays all the citrous fruits are 
grafted upon it, so that anyone in the latitude 
of these cities who has half a dollar to spare 
may have a real grape-fruit tree growing in 
the open ground (not merely in a tub), or a 
lemon tree, or one of those fascinating little 
kumquats, the fruit of which is eaten whole— 
rind and all. 
How far north do you suppose the pecan is 
hardy? It is worth planting even in Iowa 
and Indiana. A good tree four to five feet 
high and budded with one of the improved 
varieties costs about $2.50, inciuding the 
express from Georgia or Florida. 
If you have a winter home in the Carolinas 
or anywhere in the South, the proper thing 
to do is to plant the things that Northerners 
can never hope to have outdoors, e. g., 
oleanders, pomegranates, gardenias, crape 
myrtles, camellias, Indian azaleas, Magnolia 
grandiflora, live oaks, English holly, tea 
olive, and the other precious Southern flowers 
that are famed in song and story. Remem- 
ber, the Southern planting season ends by 
the middle of March. Better plant what 
you want in February instead of losing a 
year. 
The unique plants of the Southern Alle- 
ghanies are hardy even in New England. 
Seed-Beds vs. Broadcasting 
fe first time a man makes a garden, 
he spades and rakes his ground and 
scatters his seed broadcast, thinking that if the 
plants are too crowded, he will thin them out, 
but when the time comes for thinning he 
invariably lacks the courage to thin them as 
rigorously as he should, because it seems such 
a waste to destroy so many promising little 
plants. The result is that the flower bed 
contains fewer and smaller flowers than if 
each plant were given all the space it could 
possibly cover. 
The better way is to make a little seed-bed 
and transplant from that just what plants 
you need and no more. Then you are sure 
of having the best plants and of having them 
just the right distance apart. I doubt if 
there is any more backache in one system 
than in the other, and I am sure it is better 
to have a reserve garden, to which you can 
go at any time during the summer, in order 
to get plants to fill gaps. 
New Jersey. Tuomas McApam. 
