116 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1907 



$13.00 Value for $5.00 



Sent Without Money 



HOUSE AND GARDEN, 

 Year's subscription 



$3.00 



AMERICAN COUNTRY HOMES 

 AND THEIR GARDENS 

 A magnificent work, equivalent to 



any book sold at $10.00 



Total value, $13.00 



Just write us as follows : 



The John C. Winston Co., 1004 Arch St., Philadelphia : 



Send me, prepaid, one copy "American Country Homes 

 and Their Gardens" and "House and Garden" for one year. 

 When the book and magazine arrive, I will either remit 

 $5.00 within 5 days or return book at your expense. This 

 is as per your offer in Country Life in America. 



Your name 



A ddress 



American Country Homes and Their Gardens 



THE BOOK— Equal to any book sold at $10.00 



~~k €|A magnificent new subscription work, edited 

 by John Cordis Baker, with introduction by Donn 

 Barber. Four hundred and twenty superb pho- 

 tographic illustrations (many full page) of the 

 most attractive estates in the country, both large 

 and small — houses, interiors and gardens. These 

 have been selected from all parts of the United 

 States, and are the masterpieces of the foremost 

 architects and landscape gardeners. For those 

 about to build, or lay out their grounds, this 

 book is a veritable mine of practical suggestions ; 

 and it is just as invaluable to those who desire 

 to redecorate their homes and improve their gar- 

 dens. It is a sumptuous ornament for any library. 

 <fl Bound in handsome cloth with gold and ink stamping. 226 pages, frontispiece in colors. 

 This book weighs over four pounds and costs 35 cents to mail. It was made to be worth 

 $10.00, and even at this price it is the best book of its kind ever published. 



House and Garden 



For home lovers 

 is the most beautifully illustrated and printed monthly magazine in America 



(^ Brimful of practical ideas for both house and garden. Archi- 

 tects' and landscape gardeners' plans are reproduced and made 

 available for the general reader. Every phase of artistic interior 

 decoration is shown by photographic reproductions. If you are 

 building a house, decorating a room, or fixing up your garden or 

 lawn, " House and Garden " will instruct you how to make 

 one dollar do the work of two. It will earn its subscription price 

 many times over, no matter into what home it goes. 



Special Offer : 



On receipt of letter written as explained at 

 beginning of this advertisement, we will 

 immediately ship you '"American Country Homes and Their Gar- 

 dens" and a copy of current issue of "House and Garden." If the 

 book and magazine are satisfactory remit $5.00 within 5 days, or return 

 book at our expense. 



THE MAGAZINE 

 Issued monthly, $3.00 a year 



THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO., 1005 Arch Street, Philadelphia 



UNHAM 



Field, Lawn, Golf, and Garden 



ROLLERS 



Send for 1907 catalogue 



Stock carried in New York City 



J. W. DUNHAM «S SON, Berea, O. 



THE BURBANK ROSE 



A. O. H., New York — The Burbank rose is more satis- 

 factory as a garden rose than as a pot plant. It has been 

 on the market for at least ten years and is offered by 

 many florists. 



THE MUSK PLANT 



A. O. H., New York — It is not probable that seeds of 

 any other plant are being sold under the name of musk 

 plant (Mimulus moschatus). It is such a common plant 

 and so easily grown that there ought not to be any diffi- 

 culty in securing the true sort, with all its odor, from any 

 seedsman. 



STANDARD WISTARIAS 



A. O. H., New York — It is doubtful if standard plants 

 of wistaria can be purchased in the United States, but 

 they may be procured through any nurseryman doing 

 an import business. Plants with stems six to seven feet 

 high, ready to form a crown, can usually be imported so 

 as to be sold for $3.00 or $4.00 each. These plants will 

 require five or six years after planting before they will 

 make a good display. 



WOOD ASHES FOR LAWNS 



W. E. O., West Va. — Wood ashes is an excellent fertilizer 

 for the lawn. They need no preparation, being used pure. 

 The only care necessary is that they do not become wet 

 before use, as that would destroy their chief fertilizing value, 

 it would be leached out. Wood ashes may be scattered 

 broadcast on the lawn. Hard-wood ashes are to be pre- 

 ferred to soft-wood ashes, as the latter are hardly worth the 

 bother of hauling. Do not use the ashes at all if they are 

 from creosoted timber. 



WHERE THE LAVENDER GROWS 



E. P. N., Ky. — The lavender is Lavendula vera, although 

 another species known as Lavendula spica is grown also 

 to some extent for its oil. Whether lavender is hardy or 

 not in your part of the country, I am unable to say. It 

 grows easily throughout Europe and is largely raised as a 

 commercial crop near London, England, but winter kills 

 badly in the neighborhood of New York. Possibly it will 

 thrive farther south. A better quality of oil is developed 

 on rather dry and stony land than on low, damp or rich 

 land. It is doubtful if the pungent and characteristic odor 

 can be strongly developed in a warm climate. 



WHAT DOES "MULCH" MEAN? 



"I hope you won't tell your husband," whispered a lady 

 on the train to the wife of one of the editors of The Garden 

 Magazine, "but the truth is, that there are a great many 

 faithful readers of The Garden Magazine who are so 

 ignorant of horticultural terms, that, although constantly 

 used in the paper, the readers have no idea of what they 

 mean. Would it be asking too much to ask that he print 

 in some obscure corner a glossary of such words as 'mulch' 

 (in all its mysterious forms), 'humus,' 'cion,' 'leach,' and 

 'dioecious.' And does 'fertilizers' always mean manure?" 



We can sympathize with this good lady, because we never 

 acquired the dictionary habit, as children are forced to do 

 in the schools to-day. True, we have worn a little runway 

 on the floor from our desk to the modest, two-dollar, 

 abridged dictionary of the English language, in which, by 

 the way, all the hard words mentioned above are ex- 

 plained, but it is unreasonable that adults should be 

 expected to form a new habit (although we shall take this 

 lesson to heart, and try to reform) and therefore we append 

 a glossary of the above terms: 



Cion. — A cutting from a tree containing several buds of 

 the improved variety, which you insert into the old tree, in 

 order to make it bear a better kind of fruit. 



Mulch. — Any kind of litter which you put on your bulb 

 beds, or hardy border, or strawberry beds in the fall. You 

 put it thick upon lilies to keep the frost out of the ground; 

 you put it on thin over others to prevent alternate freezing 

 and thawing; also, when you rake your garden in summer, 

 you make a "dust mulch" which prevents the sun from 

 evaporating all the moisture out of the ground. 



Humus. — Decayed vegetable matter in the soil. It 

 makes things comfortable for nitrifying bacteria, and 

 enables your soil to hold more moisture. 



Leach. — To run away. This is what your nitrogen does 

 when you leave the manure pile uncovered, or scatter nitrate 

 of soda on the soil just before a heavy rain. 



Diacious. — Having staminate and pistillate flowers on 

 separate plants, as the willow. 



Fertilizer, as applied in garden practice, never means 

 manure, but some form of chemical plant food. 





