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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1907 



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Blooming in Your 

 Own Yard 



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^~ from May to October — for the price of one florist's bouquet. 

 You can easily grow American Beauties or any other 

 variety of roses you wish — and grow them successfully — 

 by our methods in your own garden. You can have cut 

 flowers all summer at the cost of a very light expense— 

 and a little pleasurable and healthful work. 



Our new free Catalog— ■" Rose Leaves" contains in 

 a condensed form most valuable information for the amateur rose growers and gardeners. It lists — 

 besides our American Beauties, |Q5 Other Varieties of RoSeS 

 including some entirely new ones, among which is the wonderful new 



R^a-mbler R^ose, La.dy Gay 



also some beautiful new kinds sold exclusively by us. 



Tliis book explains to those who have never tried to grow roses before — or who have failed growing them — how they 

 can make success sure by using the Heller mature two and three year old bushes. It gives new ideas on rose culture — com- 

 plete directions as to planting, watering and cultivation — as well as the location of rose beds— and directions for use of roses 

 in landscape gardening. 



If you have already grown roses in your garden — you will find listed new varieties well worth consideration— and some 

 varieties you can't secure from anyone else. 



Don't miss sending for "Rose Leaves." It's free, hit too valuable for any amateur garde?ier to be without. 



HELLER. BROTHERS, 963 S. Ma^in St., NEW CASTLE, INDIANA. 









HPHERE is only one way to be sure of a full 

 *- crop of smooth, good sized, mealy po- 

 tatoes. Nine per cent, of Potash in the fer- 

 tilizer is necessary. 



Stable manure alone makes scaly, coarse 

 and irregular shaped potatoes — mix it with 

 POTASH, a larger yield of a better quality is a 

 sure result. 



How to apply Potash, the reasons for ap- 

 plying it, and other vital points of successful 

 potato growing, are all discussed in our book- 

 let — sent free for the asking. 



GERMAN KALI WORKS 



93 Nassau Street, New York 



Fruit and Ornamental. 



Evergreens, Shrubs, 

 Roses, Hardy Plants | 



All the Best and Hardiest Varieties 



ELLWANGER & BARRY 



Nurserymen— Horticulturists 

 MOUNT HOPE NURSERIES 

 ROCHESTER Established 1840 NEW YORK 

 Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue (144 pages), also Descrip- 

 tive List ot Novelties and .Specialties, with beautiful colored 

 plate of the New Hardy White Kose SNOW UUEEN (Frau 

 Karl Druschki), mailed FEEE on request. ; 









EDWARD N. FREYLING 



LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT 



Plans drawn for private grounds, 

 public parks and Landscape Ceme- 

 teries. Civil engineering. 

 Correspondence invited. 



GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 



891 Wealthy Avenue 





RHODODENDRONS, 

 AZALEAS, ETC. 



Rhododendrons, Hybrids, choice varieties, 1J to 

 3 feet. Rhododendron Maximum, choice varieties, 



2 to 8 feet, carload lots. Kalmia Latifolia, 1 to 4 

 feet, fine plants. Azalea Mollis, 1 to 1| feet. 

 California Privet Hedge, 2 and 3 years old, 2 to 3 

 feet. California Privet Hedge, 3 and 4 years old, 



3 to 4 feet. 



A full line Choice Trees and Plants. Catalogue and Price Lists 

 mailed upon request. Correspondence solicited. 



P. A. KEENE, Vice-Pres. 

 The Morris Nursery Co., 1 Madison Ave., New York 



Protect Your Home 



by inclosing your grounds with the strongest, most or- 

 namental and durable fence on the market. This illus- 

 tration can give you but a faint idea of the beauties of 



ROSSMAN 



STEEL & IRON 



WIRE FENCE 



It has all the advantages of any other form of fence 

 without their disadvantages, and is made in several 

 sizes and styles to meet all requirements. Complete 

 illustrated catalogue mailed on request. Kindly ask 

 for Catalogue C. 



SLEETH-BROOK & SEAMAN CO. 



253 BROADWAY NEW YORK CITY 



The Southern man has no use for manual 

 labor that he can avoid. He expects the 

 Negro to do this, and as the Negro knows- 

 nothing of floriculture or horticulture, noth- 

 ing is done in this line. 



No effort is made to teach the children 

 love of these occupations or amusements 

 in the schools and they grow up ignorant of 

 even the names of the commonest trees and 

 flowers and plants. 



The best and most interesting writer on 

 horticulture we ever had in the South was 

 Professor Massey of the North Carolina 

 Agriculture College, now editor of the 

 Practical Farmer, Philadelphia. 



Regretting that I cannot help you further 

 and that apparently we shall not be able 

 to do so until a new generation arises among 

 which, now that the Negro won't work and 

 is also leaving us, there may be some amateurs 

 produced." 



Nothing would make us happier than to 

 be able to disprove this pessimistic view. 

 It is not difficult to write for The Garden 

 Magazine if you have had a delightful 

 gardening experience and have the pictures 

 and facts to prove it. We shall gladly pay 

 for acceptable contributions. Address: The 

 Garden Magazine, 133 East 16th Street, 

 New York, N. Y. 



Country Improvement that Costs 

 Absolutely Nothing 



THE sole thing that redeems the house 

 shown in the accompanying picture from 

 ugliness is a grapevine. It is worth having 

 the wild grape simply for its shade and 

 beauty, and also for the fragrance of its 

 flowers. The wild grape costs nothing but 

 the digging. 



If one desires fruit it means work, for an 

 arbor must be provided and the vines pruned, 

 but even in that case the actual outlay of 

 cash may be nothing, for the posts should be 

 produced by the farm and a few grapevines 

 may be had in exchange. 



A picturesaue arbor made by training a wild grape- 

 vine over a trellis 



The reasons why the village improvement 

 idea does not spread so rapidly are two; 

 it usually involves expense which poor people 

 cannot stand, and it generally calls for cooper- 

 ation, which is often difficult to secure. 



Pennsylvania. W. E. Pendleton. 



