THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Mahch, 1907 



Contains all the money-making points of dairying. Among the subjects treated you will 

 find How to Feed, What to Feed, When to Feed, What Foods Produce Most Milk, How 

 to Take Care of Milk-Producing Foods, How to Feed Silage, the Care of the Milch Cow 

 and many other profitable and practical suggestions that help swell the profits of the 

 dairyman. With the book we will send additional information 

 telling you how and why you can get the most out of your milk 

 by using the 



Sharpies Tubular 

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We guarantee that with a Tubular you can get 50 per cent. 

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 the cream and the Tubular is the easiest running, easiest cared for, 

 and easiest kept clean. There is just one tiny piece in the bowl, 

 the milk can is low and handy, the bearings are self oiling. Write 

 for the "Business Dairying" at once stating number of cows you 

 keep. Ask for booklet D 215. 



Mr. S. L. Boyer, Venetia, Pa., says "The Tubular makes me #255.00 yearly." 



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 My 1907 supply of Peas, Iieans, Watermelon, rantdoupe, 

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are set eighteen inches apart in open ground, 

 after a generous quantity of well-rotted 

 manure has been worked into the soil, for the 

 begonias are great feeders. A great addition 

 to the appearance of the bed may be made 

 by giving it a top dressing of black earth. 

 The foliage and bloom will be brought out 

 in strong relief against the dark background. 



Some of the taller plants will require 

 staking, as the blossoms make them top- 

 heavy. I go over the bed daily, removing 

 the fading blooms and discolored leaves, but 

 find the plants remarkably free from the 

 diseases to which other plants are subject. 

 The green aphis and other insects do not 

 appear to trouble them. 



A good position for begonias is a half shade ; 

 give them, if possible, the morning sun. Last 

 season I had 140 plants in the bed in front 

 of my house where they had the morning 

 sun, and from June 1st until frost they were 

 a mass of bloom. 



When the blooms appear, if it is found 

 that a plant is not in the desired position, 

 do not fear to transplant it, for by watering 

 well before and after the growth will not be 

 retarded in the least. In this way, I have 

 transplanted a plant as often as four times 

 in a season without ill effect. 



The same bulbs may be used for many 

 years. One of my friends has a bulb which 

 is eight years old and measures six and one- 

 half inches across and is five inches thick. 

 Last season, the plant from it took first 

 prize at our autumn exhibition. 



In the autumn, after the plants have been 

 touched with frost, the bulbs are taken up, 

 the foliage cut off, and the bulbs allowed to 

 dry for four days and then packed in dry 

 sand in boxes. This keeps them from 

 shriveling up. They will be as firm next 

 March as when taken from the ground. 



Montreal, Can. John Millen. 



Siiiiis 





A Combination Worth Trying 



TPWO seasons ago my attention was called 

 ■*- to a very pretty and satisfactory effect 

 had by planting two or more rows of sweet 

 peas in a wide bed and allowing them to 

 run at will over the ground. Seeds of the 

 climbing nasturtium were also thinly planted 

 in the rows at the same time. The sweet 

 peas flowered very freely during the early 

 summer, while the nasturtiums made a 

 gorgeous display during the fall. Since 

 then we have practised planting both sweet 

 peas and the climbing nasturtiums together 

 along the fences covered with poultry net- 

 ting. The effect of this combination has 

 been most satisfactory as the nasturtiums 

 cover the fence when the sweet peas die. 

 Pennsylvania. E. D. Darlington. 



