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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
APRIL, 1908 
How “HighStandard” /*~ 
Paint Saves Painter’s Time 
OU can’t figure that zizs-much White Lead, 
and ~¢hat-much Linseed-Oil, make a gallon 
Of daznt. You’ve got to figure-in the Paint- 
er’s 2zme—the mixing— 
And a good Painter’s time is worth from 40c to 70c 
Or more an hour. 
_Now, the Painter mixes by-rule-of-thumb, by 
judgment, by guess—he thins and he.thickens until he 
ee it’s right—but he never getstwo batches guzte 
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And he mixes by kanxd—that’s necessarily slow— 
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There'll be drops of ozZ and particles of sigment 
that haven’t wzted. 
The result is a mixture that won’t work right 
under the brush—runs heavy here and light there— 
It takes the Painter longer to put-on that kind 
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The English Walnut in Iowa 
|B euee the above caption on page 44 
of the February number of THE 
GARDEN MacazinrE, Prof. A. T. Erwin 
answers an Jowa correspondent and advises 
against planting the English walnut in 
that state, on the ground that the tree will 
not thrive. Mr. Erwin is quite right in 
making the general statement, and the 
planting of English walnuts would lead to 
much disappointment unless particular care 
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northern locality. 
The best American types of the English 
walnut that I have seen grow in the triangle 
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City, some of them very aged, and I know 
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close to the sea at Sound Beach, about 
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to every wind that blows. Its limbs are all 
intact, but it is dying at the butt. This 
does not appear to be a weather injury. 
These four trees are the only ones that are 
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that I have examined about New York. 
It is probable that selected types will do 
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grafted trees, most of them being seedlings. 
Before looking into the matter I would 
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