THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1907 



STURDY TREES AND SHRUBS /GroverIs 



l TREES 



Are the Only Kind to Plant for \ GROW 



Beauty or Profit. v • 



Our collection of Fmit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses, Vines, 

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Grown under the most advanced and skillful methods — acquired by an ex- 

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 climate, soil andlocation, our stock is hardy, vigorous, healthy, free from scale, 

 and is graded up to the highest standards. 



LANDSCAPE WORK A SPECIALTY. 



We will prepare, without cost to customers, plans and sketches for proper 

 planting large or small grounds, gardens or parks. Intending planters should 

 write for plans, catalog and estimates. Remember, you can buy direct from the 

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GROVER NURSERY CO., 94 Trust Bldg., Rochester, N.Yj 



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The above cut represents our 

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Our illustrated catalogue sent free to those 



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Vines, and also Fruits. 



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The Elizabeth Nursery Co. 



Elizabeth, N. J. 



TREES arc 

 usually bought 

 by height alone 



The crooked, knotty 

 one pictured here might 

 be offered to you as 10- 

 12 ft. in height at $1.00. 

 We do offer the straight 

 bushy one at $1.75. 



If you would buy the 

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nakefield Terrace, Horrisville, Pa. 



Philadelphia Office, 21 S. 12th St. 



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ARTHUR J. COLLINS. Box N^ . MOORESTOWN, N. J. Q 



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; y Prepare for 

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We offer a choice 

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Barrytown, Dutchess Co., New York 



Why BUCKBEE'S Are Better 



For fine quality, choice variety and large yield, 

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Seed and Plant Guide 



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Another Case Where the Small 

 Greenhouse Wins 



TN THE January 1906 Garden Maga- 

 *- znsrE we showed the big advantage the 

 owner of a small greenhouse has over the 

 gardener who has hotbeds only. 



Here are four more instances of the things 

 you can do with a small greenhouse that will 

 make your professional hotbed man an ad- 

 miring friend or an envious Casca. 



Item 1. You can have the finest beds of 

 verbenas and petunias in town by starting 

 the seeds indoors in February — a month 

 earlier than usual. Thus you will have a 

 solid mass of bloom in your flower beds in 

 May instead of a mere scatterment. This 

 is a whole month gained, because both these 

 species will bloom until the autumn frost. 

 And more important still, you can arrange 

 your colors so that you will never be arrested 

 for disturbing the peace. You never can 

 tell how they will turn out — nightmares or 

 pleasant dreams — until you see them in 

 blossom. 



Item 2. If you want perfectly gigantic 

 castor oil plants — the kind that will make 

 farmers sit up and stare — start them in 

 February, too. But be very careful when 

 transplanting them to take plenty of soil 

 with the roots, otherwise they may not keep 

 up their lead. 



Item 3. Of all the tender flowering plants 

 for porch and window decoration in mid- 

 summer gloxinias are at once the most 

 gorgeous and the most refined. This is 

 the time their tubers begin to stir with new 

 life, and if you have some repot them. 

 Tuberous rooted begonias need the same 

 attention. 



Item 4. Ordinarily most people forget all 

 about their dahlias during the winter 

 until April, when they go down cellar and 

 find the roots of all their choice varieties 

 shrivelled beyond recognition or reduced to a 

 sodden, decadent mass. In February, how- 

 ever, they are likely to be sound and happy, 

 and if you can bring them into a small 

 greenhouse you can propagate them in com- 

 fort while your friend across the way is risk- 

 ing tonsillitis and quinsy in his effort to 

 ventilate his hotbeds according to the vagaries 

 of a sunny day in winter when small cloud 

 masses fleet across the sky. 



Start your dahlia roots in a gentle bottom 

 heat and you will be able to take off a big 

 crop of cuttings of some one dwarf variety 

 that needs no staking and that will make a 

 bedding effect with fifty plants which will 

 delight your heart from the middle of June 

 until frost. 



