180 ieee A OU MIELD (CHIN IDIDIN, NEAGAZ INE Remi, 1908 
A GREENHOUSE ESPECIALLY 
FOR GARDEN READERS 
Large enough for most of your needs; small enough 
not to be a care. It is built with the curved eaves, 
wide glass spacing and glistening aluminum interior 
finish. We can show you why it will grow more 
and better flowers than any other construction and 
This decorative style of flower is the most popu- 
lar type. Can be had five inches across 
re qa tr e. Nelssri ema So 8 61 ae ne and where it will be partially shaded and 
protected from the north wind in some way, 
U-B AR GREENHOUSES if only by a 12-inch board placed on edge. 
: Let the soil be as rich as possible. Last 
season, I found that my bed required only 
| SO PIERSON U-BAR CO. fifty cents’ worth of liquid and commercial 
f : ‘ fertilizer. When the second set of leaves 
Designers and Builders 1 Madison Ave., New York appears, transplant to this bed, placing the 
plants about two inches apart each way. 
Do not neglect to keep the soil well watered. 
A slight frost will not harm the plants, but 
should a heavy frost threaten, protect them 
with some old newspapers. If not too much 
trouble, transplant again in about ten days. 
I have always obtained my best blooms from 
plants that were moved three times. 
Set the plants from ten to fifteen inches 
apart each way, and as mine grow I carefully 
trim off all the side shoots, leaving but six 
oreight. Keep the ground constantly stirred 
about the roots until the plants are about a 
foot high. In this way I obtain very beauti - 
ful specimens. 
A few wheelbarrow loads of old horse 
manure scattered about three inches deep 
all around the plants will enrich the ground 
considerably. If this cannot be conve- 
niently obtained, clippings from the lawn 
will answer the purpose. By the middle 
of July some of your plants will be so large 
as to require staking. Put the stakes in the 
side of the bed away from the street, so that 
the plants will screen them from the passersby. 
Do not tie with string as it will cut the plants, 
FOR 1908 
Lara We a but use pieces of cloth for the purpose. 
HC UARRRE oe eee z In some localities asters are very much 
tera Ces aes Nitrate of Soda troubled by flies, bugs, and caterpillars. 
9) gi OSES, | ee ; Cover the bottom of a shallow pan about 
Sucles “even yitinung peels Wace ay fifteen inches in diameter with water, to 
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mannan eee: 1 1 id. the pan beneath the plants, and 
° The Nitrate Agencies Ses a with a piece of shingle. 
You need it. Company This causes the bugs to fall into the pan, 
It is free to all send- | where they yuickly die. Do this frequently. 
ing me their address 64 Stone Street, New York I have found it to be the most effective and, 
in fact, the only reliable method of controlling 
these pests. The best time to do it is at dusk. 
Michigan. M. H. WESTBROOK. 
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