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THE 
Clematis and Roses 
for Spring Planting 
Large Flowered Clematis 
The most gorgeous flowering vine for porch and trellis, or running 
over rock work. It will festoon the veranda with sheets of 
white, red and purple flowers. 
Our 2 year strong field grown roots will blossom first season. 
Varieties: Henryi (white); Madam Andre (red); Jackmanii 
(purple), 50c. each, $5.00 per doz. 
Dwarf Baby Rambler Rose 
The Crimson Rambler in dwarf form. Flowers borne in clusters 
frequently 25 or 30 inacluster. Flowers perpetually from June 
until November. 
$100.00 was awarded us last June as frst prize for the pro- 
duction of best 100 plants of this variety. Order now some of 
these premium plants. 
XXX field grown plants 50c. each, $5.00 per doz., No. 1 field 
grown plants 35c. each, $3.50 per doz., $25.00 per 100. 
Catalogue of Trees, Plants, etc., with colored 
plates of Clematis and Rose free. 
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Gillett’s Ferns and Flowers 
For Dark, Shady Places 
There is no corner so shady but that certain ferns and plants will thrive 
there. There is no soilso light and sandy but that some of our hardy wild 
ferns will beautify it. For 25 years we have been growing these hardy ferns 
and flowers and know what is suited to each condition. Wecan supply 
ferns for the dark corner by the porch, or ferns and flowers, including our 
native orchids, in quantity, to make beautiful country estates. Wet and 
swampy spots, rocky hillsides, dry woods, each may be made beautiful by 
plants especially adapted to them. Nothing adds greater charm to the 
home grounds than clumps of thrifty ferns. We also grow the hardy 
flowers which require open sunlight — primroses, campanulas, digitalis, 
violets, etc, 
Write for my descriptive catalogue. Ittells about this class of plants. 
EDWARD GILLETT, Southwick, Mass. 
GARDEN MAGAZINE 
of all kinds can be madea source of 
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complain, they are too cold; if they spread 
out, evidently trying to get away from each 
other, they are too warm; if they spread out 
flat but close together under the hover, the 
temperature is about right. Some brooders, 
like incubators, are made with self-regu- 
lating devices, but these are more ex- 
pensive. 
It is better to fill and trim the lamps toward 
night rather than in the morning. Always 
inspect the brooders an hour or two after- 
ward. My practice is to look them over, 
especially the lamps, the last thing before 
going to bed, and, in case of change of 
weather or severe storm, I often get up in 
the night to be sure that all is well. 
Thirty-six to forty-eight hours after hatch- 
ing, remove the chicks to the brooder and 
give the first feed. Never put more than 
fifty chicks togethcr, forty isa better number, 
and twenty-five still better. Remember, you 
are trying to see how many chicks you can 
raise, and not how many you can crowd 
into one brooder. 
New Jersey. F. H. VALENTINE. 
Setting and Cultivating Cabbage 
Wye setting cabbage plants directly 
from seed-bed to field, I prefer 
lifting the plant direct and watering imme- 
diately it is set into its new place in the field. 
Unless compelled to do so, I never set plantsin 
the “dust,” or during extremely dry weather. 
The loss of plants is not only great, but those 
that live receive a stunt that they recover 
from slowly, if at all. A rainy or cloudy 
day, when the soil is moist, is the time, 
at any season, to set plants. For a number 
of years, I have made it a practice to pull 
my plants a day or more before the time 
of setting, placing them in a dark cel- 
lar, and covering the roots with pieces of 
old carpet or gunny sacks well moistened. 
This produces a fibrous growth of the lateral 
roots such as the plant must make in the 
field before it can begin to absorb moisture 
and plant food. This scheme aids the 
plant considerably in making a start in its 
new surroundings. The preparation of 
the field to receive the cabbage plant must 
be thorough and complete. Where a disc 
is not available (although no farmer or gar- 
dener should be without one) the field 
must be cross-plowed. Where the disc 
is used it should be repeatedly run over the 
field until the soil is finely broken up to the 
full depth of the furrow and is as mellow 
and as thoroughly pulverized as the surface, 
