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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1907 



No. 4. Single Strap Harness with Curved Breast Collar. 

 Price, complete. $11.25. As good as sells for $5.00 more. 



34 Years Selling Direct 



Our Vehicles and Harness have been sold direct from our 

 factory to user for a third of a century. We ship for ex- 

 amination and approval, and guarantee safe delivery. 

 You're out nothing if not satisfied as to style, quality 

 and price. 



We Are the Largest Manufacturers in the World 



selling to the consumer exclusively. We make 200 

 styles of Vehicles, 65 styles of Harness. Send for large 

 free catalogue' 



ELKHART CARRIAGE & HARNESS MFG. CO. 



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No. 654. Top Buggv with Late Automobile Style Seat, Bike 

 Gear and Vs in. Guaranteed Rubber Tires. Price, complete, 

 $68.00. As good as sells for #25. 00 to $30.00 more. 



Northern 

 Grown 

 Seeds 



are full of Northern life and vitality and mature earlier, 

 better and bigger crops. "D & B's Earliest Of all 

 Wax," the earliest, best, most prolific wax bean that 

 grows. Good Seller. Moneymaker. Send 12c stamps 

 for a big packet, our new 1 50-page catalog of quick 

 growing Northern Seeds and our big cash 

 Club Offer. Catalog alone, free, 



DARLING & BEAHAN, 

 506 Michigan St., Petoskey, Mich. 



We Design, Lay Out and Plant Properties 



THE CELEBRATED 



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Started in pots and ready to be planted out to bloom at once. 

 50c, 75c. and $1.00, according: to size and age. 



BEAUTIFUL ROSE COLLECTIONS 



EVERGREENS, TREES, SHRUBS AND 

 HARDY PERENNIALS 



THE BRONX ARBORETUM and ROSARIUM 

 Office and Show Grounds, 967 E. 166th St., N. Y. 



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are made by 



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It is also recorded at what time in the 

 summer different parts of the border have 

 enough sun for the perfect flowering of plants 

 growing there ; for instance, gladioli bloomed 

 in full sun, but by the first of September, 

 the lengthening shadows did not permit the 

 free blooming of asters in the same part of the 

 border. 



The date is marked when different kinds of 

 insects arrive, and the methods used to pre- 

 vent or exterminate them, and the results. 



Things which may be forgotten at the 

 proper time, as the spraying of roses, the 

 applying of fertilizer to chrysanthemums, 

 are set down weeks ahead of time, at the 

 right date on the calendar. 



I have also a garden plan laid out on square 

 sectioned paper, where changes in the lo- 

 cation of plants are noted at any time they 

 occur to me, during the summer. The trans- 

 planting is done in the fall and the plan then 

 shows where everything may be expected to 

 come up in the spring, and what greater de- 

 light than to be able to identify each little 

 green blade that pushes its way through the 

 earth ? 



This systematic method of classifying and 

 making use of information from many 

 sources, has produced very satisfactory re- 

 sults in the work of an entirely inexperienced 

 gardener. There are over thirty different 

 kinds of perennial plants and vines well 

 started, and the little house, which less than 

 three years ago stood upon a bare and sandy 

 lot, already nestles in its garden setting as 

 if it had grown there. 



Chicago, 111. Mary R. Wilkerson. 



Naturalizing Bulbs 



BY THE end of March one should begin 

 to inquire where the best collection of 

 daffodils may be seen — where most daffodils 

 are naturalized in your vicinity. The natur- 

 alizing of bulbs is, perhaps, the best large 

 idea introduced into floriculture during the 

 last quarter of a century, and it is just be- 

 ginning to make rapid progress in the United 

 States. The cheapest bulb for naturalizing 

 is the poet's narcissus, shown on this month's 

 cover, a white flower about two inches across, 

 which blooms in May, and has a saucer-like 

 centre with a reddish rim, from which it 

 gets the name of "pheasant's eye." 



These bulbs never require any care after 

 planting until they have multiplied to such 

 an extent that the bulbs crowd in bunches 

 to the surface of the ground, when they 

 ought to be taken up and divided. They 

 can be put in any orchard and meadow, or 

 on the bank of a stream, or wherever the 

 grass is not cut until haying time. The 

 foliage of the daffodil dies down about the 

 middle of June, and the bulbs are usually 

 ripened before the hay is cut. The poet's 

 narcissus costs only about five dollars a 

 thousand. The trumpet daffodils are much 

 more expensive. They bloom from two to 

 four weeks earlier. 



The picture shown on the cover was taken 

 on the estate of Prof. Charles Sprague Sar- 

 gent at Brookline, Mass., where the poet's 

 narcissus has been naturalized many years 

 in low, moist ground by the lakeside. 



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Novelties in Flowers 



Last year we sent out a large number of our 

 collections "Grandmother's Flower Garden." We 

 sold them at less than cost but we gained many 

 new customers. This year we are anxious to hear 

 from still more. Our "Novelty Collection" is 

 composed of 10 full sized packets of valuable nov- 

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 than 10 cents. 



OUR OFFER 



Send us 20 cents (cash or 2 cent stamps) and we 

 will mail you the full collection and our 72 page 

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 Send at same time, names of 3 flower loving friends 

 and we will include a packet of our "Japanese 

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MonadnocK Greenhouses 



KEENE, N. H. 



J3p*We are prepared to furnish penny packets for school 

 and mission work. Write us. 



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