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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1907 



Now is the Time 



to appreciate the mistake of not having some- 

 thing evergreen in the garden to relieve the 

 landscape in the cold, dark, dreary days of 

 winter. 



In these winter days you can tell just where 

 the perennial cheer of evergreen life in the 

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Rhododendrons give a touch of life to the landscape in the 

 dreary lointer days. 



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Chimneys for Hyacinths 



SOME varieties of single hyacinths and 

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 leaves appear. If each bulb be provided 

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 flower's effort to reach the light that gives the 

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Michigan. Carroll Watson Rankin. 



The Cost of Planting Small Lots 



THE problem of planting the various 

 plots as suggested by Mr. Lieble in his 

 article on page 13, may be easily solved. For 

 a small, 25 x 100 foot, plot, when the expense 

 of fifty dollars is devoted to plants, the cost of 

 planting need not be more than five dollars — 

 say two men for one day. Twenty-five 

 dollars' worth of plants could be handled 

 by one man in a day for, say three dollars, 

 and on the intermediate-sized plot, fifty dollars 

 worth of plants could be handled by two men 

 in one day, and the cheapest allowance of 

 fifteen dollars would not take a good man 

 more than a day. For handling one hundred 

 dollars' worth, two men for two days would 

 be necessary, one expert at three dollars and 

 the other at two dollars, or a total of ten 

 dollars for two days' labor. 



In all cases, if only one man is used, by all 

 means get an expert gardener; if he needs 

 assistance, an ordinary day-laborer can be 

 provided, but do not turn over valuable plants 

 to the tender mercy of an ignorant laborer. 

 Many valuable plants have been ruined 

 or lost and the owners hopes and ambitions 

 crushed by the incompetence of the ordinary 

 day laborer. He has no conception of what 

 a plant is or how it should be handled. 



