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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1907 



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Could you tvish for anything more pleasing 

 in its perfect fitness for this garden position? 



What a Greenhouse Would 

 Mean to you, Now 



OUPPOSE you had 

 ^ c arried out that 

 U-Bar greenhouse 

 dream of yours, and 

 UBflB erected it last fall— just 

 think of the pleasure you would 

 be having now — the fun of 

 picking things in your winter 

 garden! You might have to- 

 matoes, cucumbers or egg 

 plant; for a couple of months 

 fine, luscious strawberries, a 

 quart from every six or seven 

 plants ; or if you like flowers 

 best, you could haveplanted the 

 whole garden out in roses (now 

 in full bloom) along with a few 

 of your bay window favorites. 

 But listen : the same state of 

 affairs will exist next year if you 

 don't build that dream house 

 this year. 



The U-Bar greenhouse is 

 constructed differently from 

 other greenhouses — it's lighter, 

 cheerier, and things grow bet- 

 ter. You will find them regular 

 "Sunshine Shops" — just the 

 kind of house for you. 



Send for our new book catalog. 

 It tells all the particulars in an 

 interesting, to-the-point way. 



PIERSON U-BAR COMPANY 



Designers and Builders 



U-BAR GREENHOUSES 



Metropolitan Building, 4th Ave. and 23d St. 

 NEW YORK 



Wild Flowers Worth Improving 

 i. The Hepatica 



THE hepatica (H . triloba) is one of the 

 most interesting American wild flowers, 

 because it is the first flower that blooms in 

 the spring. Technically, the skunk cabbage 

 is the first, but that is not popularly consid- 

 ered a flower. Occasionally other flowers 

 will bloom before the hepatica, but as a rule 



A wild hepatica with sixty flowers— an extraordi- 

 nary number 



the hepatica is first. It usually appears in 

 March. 



The great faults of the hepatica, from the 

 garden point of view, are (i) the blossoms 

 are short-lived and (2) the plant must be 

 grown in partial shade during most of the 

 year. Somebody ought to get the purest 

 pink, white and blue varieties that can be 

 found and breed them for size, color and 

 doubleness. It is very probable that double- 

 ness will not detract at all from the beauty 

 of the hepatica (since the flower is not highly 

 distinctive in form, as the violet is), and this 

 would make the flower last longer. It is 

 almost certain that a sun-loving race of 



3&O0e<s 



THE fellow tliat has the biggest ad. does not always 

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" I5H N. Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 8, 1906. 



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" 144 Ruthven St., Roxbury, Mass., March 1, ioo6. 

 " Thank you many times for your charming 'Little Book 

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GEORGE H. BETERSON 



ROSE AND PEONY SPECIALIST 



Box 50 FAIR LAWN, N. J. 



New York Office, J 123 Broadway 



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