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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Februaby, 1919 



Harris Seeds 



Label on every Lot 

 Tells how many 



Like Golden Bantam, but larger, sweeter and better. Ears 8 inches 

 long and the color of June butter. Hence the name " Buttercup." 

 This corn is deliciously sweet and tender. There is no other corn 

 quite equal to it. 



Cabbage That Is a Real Luxury 



The Stanley cabbage is a really delicious vegetable, As superior to common cabbage 

 as sweet corn is to field corn. It is as tender and delicate as Brusseis Sprouts and cauli- 

 flower and far more easily raised. 



You can get fine results from all Harris Pedigree Seed because every lot is tested and the 

 percentage that will grow is marked on the label. So you know just how thick to 

 plant. 



Send for our free catalogue and learn about our new strains of Peas, Beans, Beets Corn 

 Cauliflower, Tomatoes, Melons, etc. See why our method of selecting the Seed from the 

 best individual plant enables you to produce better sized and more delicious vegetables 

 in greater quantities. 



Write for the free Catalogue to-day — it shows how to have a truly successful garden and 

 enables you to buy direct from the actual grower at wholesale prices. 



JOSEPH HARRIS COMPANY, Box 51, Coldwater, N. Y. 



A Garden of 

 Water Lilies 



is one of the most unique 

 and charming gardens that 

 you can have. Most varie- 

 ties grow readily in a tub or pool, giving a 

 magnificent display of blooms. Some of 

 these plants should be included in even the smallest 

 garden. 



Write me to-day for full information about growing 

 Water Lilies; ask what varieties are best adapted 

 for outdoor growing. 



WILLIAM TRICKER, Water Lily Specialist 



Box E, Arlington, N. J. 



Largest establishment in America devoted exclusively 

 to Water Lilies and zvater plants. 



Exquisite tints of orange, salmon, ecru, 

 white, cream, with scarlet and maroon 

 veinings and markings, will be found 

 in this collection of 



Primulinus 

 Hybrid Gladioli 



1 he flowers are medium size, carried on long 

 straight spikes that are superb for cutting. 

 The bulbs are grown at Meadowvale 

 Farms, and are of blooming size only. 



One Hundred Bulbs in 

 Many Varieties for $15 



A box of these bulbs will make splendid 

 presents for your garden-loving friends. 



My Price List for 1919 



will be mailed to you or your friends, if 

 you will send me the correct name and 

 address. Bulbs should be ordered soon — 

 so it will be well to send for the booklet 

 to-day. 



ARTHUR COWEE 



Meadowvale Farms 



Box 3 Berlin, New York 



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Working a Garden for Profit 



MY_ DAUGHTER has been a cripple 

 since birth, can use only one leg and 

 one arm but that did not prevent her 

 from doing her bit with a War Garden 

 last summer, proving where there is a will there 

 is a way. 



This year she had a strawberry bed 15 x 48 ft., 

 from which she gathered fifty-nine quarts of 

 large sweet strawberries; three rows of raspber- 

 ries, from which she gathered forty-three quarts; 

 twenty-five quarts of currants from twelve 

 bushes; and four market baskets of grapes from 

 three vines. Even her small cherry trees yielded 

 a small amount. She also has a vegetable garden 

 45 x 114 ft. And raised: two bushels of onions, 

 fifteen pounds of navy beans, nineteen quarts of 

 wax beans, thirteen quarts of peas, fifteen heads 

 of cauliflower, ten stalks of celery, two pecks of 

 pickles, two bushels of carrots, three bushels of 

 tomatoes, enough radishes, lettuce, Swiss chard, 

 and peppers for table use all summer. In an- 

 other part of the yard she had three rows in 

 ft. long from which she raised enough cabbage 

 to make four gallons of sauerkraut. 



As early as the ground could be worked she 

 planted an ounce of Yellow Danvers onion seed, 

 next to these she planted early peas, then early 

 beans. As soon as the onion seedlings were big 

 enough to handle, they were transplanted be- 

 tween the pea and bean rows. When the peas 

 and beans were through yielding they were 

 pulled up which gave room to the onions. About 

 the middle of August when the onions were ripe 

 they were dug up and in their place she planted 

 one row of celery, one row of late beets, two 

 rows of lettuce, and two rows of radishes; thus 

 getting three crops from one piece of ground. 

 Between the tomato plants she planted mid- 

 summer peas. By the time the tomatoes needed 

 the space the peas were ready to be pulled up. 

 She also planted tomato plants between the 

 cucumbers and where a vine ran under a tomato 

 plant there is where the nicest pickles grew. The 

 cucumber vines would have given a much better 

 yield if we had had rain; but as the season was 

 very dry the cucumbers' careers were short. 



This spring she had two hotbeds and sold 

 $17 worth of cabbage and tomato plants. She 

 saves some of her own seed and does all the work 

 herself so the expenses are small. She says her 

 success is due entirely to help and encourage- 

 ment she gets from The Garden Magazine. 

 The following data will give some idea of her 

 actual profits: Sold: Cabbage and tomato 

 plants, $17.00; nine qts. of strawberries at 20 

 cents qt. $1.80; twenty-one qts. raspberries at 

 30 cents $6.30; twenty-three qts. currants at 

 12 cents $2.76; one-half bushel tomatoes at $1 

 per bushel 50 cents; seven dozen peppers at 10 

 cents doz. 70 cents. Total sold: $29.06. Bought: 

 one package, beet seed, 5 cents; two packages 

 cabbage seed, 10 cents; one ounce onion seed, 

 40 cents; three packages radish seed, 15 cents; 

 three packages pea seed, 30 cents; one package 

 Swiss chard seed, 5 cents. Total bought; $1.10. 

 Used: fifty qts. strawberries at 20 cents, $10.00; 

 twenty-two qts. raspberries, at 30 cents, $6.60; 

 two qts. currants at 12 cents, $.24; two and one- 

 half bushels tomatoes at $1 per bushel, $2.50; 

 four baskets of grapes at 75 cents, $3.00; two 

 bushels onions at #2.50, $5.00; fifteen lbs. navy 

 beans at 14 cents, $2.10; nineteen qts. wax beans 

 at 14 cents, $2.57; thirteen qts. peas at 15 cents, 

 #1.95; fifteen heads cauliflower at 15 cents, $2.25; 

 ten stalks celery at 10 cents, $1.00; two pecks 

 pickles at $1. 50^3. 00; two bushels carrots at$i. 50, 

 $3.00 Total sold: #29.16 plus total used, $43.21 

 equals $72.37 minus total bought $1.10 gives a 

 profit of $7 1. 27 counting the work as pleasure and 

 gain in health. — Mrs. Anna Seibel, Mokena, III. 



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