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TH E GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1907 



Highest Quality 

 LAWN GRASS 



Has made the lawns of America famous 



To have success with your lawn start 

 right, and sow the Highest Quality Lawn 

 Seed, which will produce a lawn in a short 

 time, and will last for many years. If your 

 ground is Low, Sandy, Shady, or at the 

 Seaside, we know just what is needed for 

 each situation, we have made experi- 

 ments and studied all conditions and soils. 



It is to Your Advantage to Sow the Best When 

 Making a Lawn 



Price of seed in bulk at Purchaser's ex- 

 pense for transportation, $1.50 per Peck; 

 $5.00 per Bushel of 20 lbs. Special prices 

 in large quantities. 



The quantity required for making new Lawns 5 Bushels 

 per Acre. For renovating old Lawns, use about half above 

 quantity. 



W. F. McCORD CO., Seedsmen & Nurserymen, 



Tarrytown-on-Hudson, New Yogk. 



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Fences ? 



rHIS is one of the many 

 beautiful Lawn Fences 

 we make — strong, beauti- 

 'ful, durable and very inexpen- 

 sive considering the quality. 1 

 ' Made of heavy woven netting, with \ 

 ' the patented Anchor Post Construc- 

 f (ion— a patented and galvanized Post\ 

 ' that keeps the fence in perfect align- 

 lent forever, and fully protects 

 ' against rust. 

 We also make and erect — on one contract — al' 

 'kinds of Iron and Wire Railings, Fences and' 

 Gates, for Lawns, Gardens and Farms. Original! 

 Designs and Estimates free. If you really want the ' 

 highest possible quality, write for Catalc g No. 30A. 



Anchor Post Iron Works 

 40 Park Row, N. Y. 





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^SCALECIDE 



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will positively destroy all soft bodied, sucking 

 insects, including all forms of San Jose scale. 

 It is simple,- cheap, easily applied and wonderfully 

 effective. Endorsed by government experiment 

 stations, agricultural schools and thousands of fruit growers 



Tbo above pictures are m.de from photographs taken at Sound Bench. Conn.. In June, IM16. They were In a like condlllon the year before. The right hand tree wall 

 •prayed with Scaleclde and saved. The other tree was left unsprayed nod has beeo killed by scale. For further information address DEPARTMENT I. 



B. G. PRATT CO., Mfg. chemists, 1 1 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 



and the soil should be made firm with the 

 feet or a hoe. It should be kept constantly 

 cultivated to supply all the moisture possible. 

 A situation that is shaded during the hottest 

 part of the day is desirable to insure success. 

 The best varieties for summer and fall use 

 are Chartier, Stuggart and White Summer 

 Turnip. 



Winter 'radishes are of a much slower 

 growth than the preceding ones and may be 

 had for use all winter. Sow the seed from 

 July 15th to August 15th in drills twelve 

 to fifteen inches apart, moderately thick, 

 thinning out about two inches apart. Grow 

 as rapidly as possible, so as to have well- 

 matured roots before freezing weather sets 

 in. Store in the cellar, covered with moist 

 sand or soil, as described for turnips. 



Cardoon. — A good winter vegetable but 

 little known in this country, and one that 

 ought to be grown extensively is the cardoon. 

 It is cooked and served like asparagus. It 

 is of the earliest culture, and of similar ap- 

 pearance to the globe artichoke. Sow seeds 

 in the open ground or border about April 

 15th in drills one inch deep and one foot 

 apart. As soon as they have made their 

 first set of rough leaves, transplant to a 

 specially prepared trench, which has been dug 

 one foot wide and ten inches deep, putting 

 in four inches of thoroughly rotted manure 

 and on this two inches of soil to plant in. 



Set the plants two feet apart and select a 

 cloudy day, if possible, to do the work. 

 Water thoroughly after transplanting. They 

 need an abundant supply of moisture, in 

 order to make a strong rapid growth. 



When the leaves are nearly full grown, 

 draw them together and tie at the top with 

 straw or similar tying material that will 

 not cut the leaves, and work the soil up to 

 them to blanch them. Select a dry day for 

 this operation. When danger of frost ap- 

 proaches, bank up the plants with soil and 

 cover the sides of the trench with leaves and 

 short litter so as to protect them securely 

 from severe cold. George Standen. 



Three Summer-blooming Green- 

 house Plants 



T3EFORE the beginning of April is the 

 *-* best time to sow seeds, or start the tubers 

 of gloxinia, begonia and achimenes. The 

 two first may as well be raised from seeds; 

 that is the way to get a good quantity of the 

 plants for a little cost. Bulbs of these may 

 be started just as well a month later. The 

 achimenes are the most attractive greenhouse 

 plants for summer flowers, and grown in 

 baskets, will give a greater floral display than 

 anything else. The flowers are tubular, but 

 expand into a flattened nasturtium-like flower 

 one to two inches across. The colors are red 

 to purple and white. The tubers are 

 scaly and really look like the flowers of a 

 birch tree. These scales may be- sown just 

 like seeds in a light, sandy seed soil. 



Heights of Vines — Correction 



READERS will please note that on the 

 last table at bottom of page 155 the 

 figures given under the heading "height " sig- 

 nify feet and not inches as might be inferred. 



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