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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1907 



These charming, reedy things, along -with our exquisite native pond lilies, 

 are growing in a 6 foot long aquatic pool. 



An Interesting 

 Outcome 



At the time when you were all enthusiastic over the so-called nature-study craze, the 

 old "gray-beards" shook their heads and declared "the fad could not last" — and they were 

 right; the fad did run itself out of breath, but the many who were interested in a healthy, red- 

 blooded way are still revelling in the joys and charms of nature, and will continue to do so. 



Along with this ever-growing interest, comes the desire for flowers in the dull gray months, 

 and you are no longer content with the brief pleasures of the outdoor garden — you must have 

 them all the year through; that is just the reason we have macta our greenhouses such attractive, 

 workable sort of places— actual bits of garden land where, amidst most delightful surroundings 

 and just the right growing conditions, you can experiment with seedlings, turn completely 

 around the blooming or fruiting time — have your roses in December as well as June; go straw- 

 berrying at Christmas, picking a quart from every six or eight plants. 



Then there are the vegetables — tomatoes and string beans growing side by side. Melons 

 and cucumbers clambering up their trellises. With it all comes not alone the actual pleasure 

 of having things out of season but the genuine enjoyment of helping things to grow — that zest 

 that only comes with doing things. Send tor our "Two P's" booklet. It shows four of just 

 the kind of greenhouses that will bring all this to you. 



LORD & BURNHAM, GREENHOUSE DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, 



1133 BROADWAY, CORNER 26TH STREET, NEW YORK 



BOSTON BRANCH: 819 TREMONT BUILDING 



ILLUSTRATED HOLIDAY EDITION Kipling's " THEY " 



Prepared under the author's special supervision (#1.65, postpaid). 



DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY, 133-137 East 16th Street, New York City 



Plant for Immediate Effect 



Not for Future Generations 



Start with the largest stock that can be secured ! It takes over twenty years 



to grow such Trees and Shrubs as we offer. 



We do the long waiting — thus enabling you to secure trees and shrubs that give an 

 immediate effect. Send for illustrated list. 



ANDORRA NURSERIES VF^Lwk. pa. 



WM. WARNER HARPER, PROPRIETOR 



wide by seven feet long, at the back of the 

 enclosed porch, was given to the old-fashioned 

 pole beans, as was a strip eighteen inches by 

 nine feet at the front of the coal shed and 

 another eighteen inches wide by ten feet 

 long at the end of the shed. 



Outside the driveway was a plot nine feet 

 in width, running the full depth of the yard. 

 This was divided into three 15-foot spaces, 

 in which sweet corn was planted. In the 

 "V" of the rear walk, a bed for head lettuce 

 was made, French radishes being sowed be- 

 tween the rows of lettuce. At the end of the 

 shed, between the space given up to beans 

 and the driveway, was a plot ten feet long 

 by four feet wide ; this was utilized for spring 

 onions and early beets. 



The purely decorative gardening was con- 

 fined to a strip a foot wide and ten feet long, 

 beside the driveway, wherein was made a 

 trench for sweet peas. A double trench for 

 the same flowers gave two 20-foot rows to- 

 ward the front of the yard and outside the 



Seventeen dozen ears of corn were produced from 

 a narrow strip on one side of the yard 



driveway; climbing nasturtiums were planted 

 beside the back steps and at the south end of 

 the enclosed porch, and a small bed of old- 

 fashioned flowering plants was made beside 

 the walk leading around the house. One 

 plot of corn was planted with Golden Bantam 

 for first crop, while in the other plots, two 

 plantings of Stowell's Evergreen were made 

 a month apart. 



For the climbing beans, small stakes were 

 driven deeply into the ground at the ends of 

 the trenches, and strong wire was run across 

 from one stake to the other. Then stout 

 twine, such as is used in tying heavy parcels, 

 was strung from the wires to the walls — the 

 walls being, in one case, the lattice of the 

 enclosed porch, and in the other the front 

 and end of the shed. The strings were 

 placed three or four inches apart and were 

 run up about seven feet. 



For the support of the tomato vines a 

 trellis, English fashion, was planned, the 

 intention being to hold the plants well up 

 from the earth so that the air might circulate 

 freely under and through them and the fruits 



