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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1919 



Micbells $1 Vegetable Garden 



HEKRY F. MICHELL 

 518 MARKET ST. PHLLA. 



Grow your own vegetables, pick 

 them fresh when needed — it pays 

 best if you use Michell's fresh tested 

 seeds. To induce you to make the 

 trial, we will send for a dollar, a 

 liberal sized package of each of these 



12 Most Profitable Varieties 



1. Swiss Chard, Giant Lucullus. 



2. Peas, Michell's Harvester. 



3. Onion, Michell's Winter Keeper. 



4. Corn, Golden Bantam. 



5. Beans, Fordhood Bush Lima. 



6. Beans, Michell's Improved Strain String- 



less Green Pod. 



7. Lettuce, Michell's Allright. 



8. Beet, Michell's Ideal. 



9. Radish, Cardinal Globe Improved 



Strain. 



10. Carrot, Michell's Orange Beauty. 



11. Tomato, Michell's Crackerjack. 



12. Beans, Boston Navy, (for winter). 



Postpaid anywhere in LT. S. Safe delivery 

 guaranteed. 



Michell's Seed Book 



contains 160 pages, profusely illustrated. 

 Tells what, when and how to plant. Lists 

 dependable seeds, plants, implements and 

 garden aids of all sorts. Write to-day for 

 your copy — FREE. 



HENRY F. MICHELL CO., 520 Market Street, Philadelphia 



wberries 



(The Wonderful Everbearing and 

 All Other Fruit Plants) 



We are headquarters for all kinds of Strawberry 

 Plants, including the Fall or Everbearing, which 

 fruit in August, September, October and November 

 as well as in June and July. Also Raspberry, 

 Blackberry. Gooseberry, Elderberry, Currant and 

 Grape Plants, Fruit Trees, Roses, Ornamental 

 Trees. Shrubs. Vines. Seed Potatoes, Vegetable 

 Plants. Eggs for Hatching. Crates. Baskets, etc. Large Stock. Lou- 

 Prices. 35 years' experience. Catalogue free. 



L. J. FARMER, Box 829, Pulaski, N. Y. 



A GUARANTEED 

 IAWN for$IOO 



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Three lbs. of Scott's Lawn Seed for th is special 

 price, postage paid east of the Mississippi. 



Why we guarantee it to grow, guarantee it to go 

 25% farther than most Lawn Seed and to be any 

 amount freer from weed seeds, is all explained in our 

 booklet. It also tells How to Know Good Seed, How 

 to Get Rid of Weeds, How to Treat an Old Lawn and 

 Build a New One, etc. It alone is worth the dollar 

 asked for the seed but is free. Send for it and price 

 of seed in large quantities. 



SCOTT'S LAWN SEED 



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: O. M. SCOTT & SONS CO. 13 SUth St, Marysville, 0. : 



*' % ;i -Destroy Tree PestH. Kill San Jose Scale, Apple Scab, 

 Fungi, lice, bugs and other enemies of vegetation by 

 spraying with 



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I I\I_,L, Diseases. Write for it to-day. 

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OLy^Y gladioli are enthusiastically known 

 CvdX from Maine to Melbourne. I have 

 been growing and selling them for over 15 years 

 and taken premiums at State and County fairs 

 with my. flowers. I have some fine new sorts, 

 such as Prince of Wales, Goliath, Red Emperor, 

 Schwaben, Pendleton, etc. For One Dollar I 

 will send, postpaid, 50 blooming bulbs, nearly 

 all named sorts, and my new catalogue. 



Something about Potato Seed, too. 

 In writing we the box address 

 GEORGE S. WOODRUFF 



INDEPENDENCE IOWA 



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Round About the Home Plot 



Continued 



Important Honey Plants 



When deciding whether or not to keep bees in 

 an extensive way it is well to consider how 

 abundant the leading honey-plants are in the 

 neighborhood; that is, an area of say, three miles' 

 radius from the apiary. Among the plants 

 which furnish either nectar and pollen, the fol- 

 lowing are of special importance in the eastern 

 part of the United States, and at about the times 

 mentioned. 



Skunk-cabbage, Willow and Elm trees in 

 March and April, give plenty of early pollen 

 but little nectar. Maples in April give plenty 

 of both. Dandelion gives abundance of pollen 

 and some nectar about the first of May. 



Fruit trees in the middle of May "give both 

 in abundance and when weather conditions are 

 favorable, often a surplus of honey for home use, 

 or even for sale. Wild raspberry and black- 

 berry follow about the first of June with pollen 

 and under favorable conditions nectar, which 

 makes a specially fine table honey and usually 

 in good quantity. Locust blooms in May and 

 June and yields a heavy crop of light colored 

 fine flavored honey. 



Clovers bloom in June and part of July and 

 are about the very best of honey plants. White, 

 red, alsike and crimson are of the leading kinds 

 important to cultivated honey bees. White 

 and alsike are by far the most important and some 

 years produce the best quantities of the finest 

 quality honey, recognized by its light golden color 

 and delicate flavor. While red clover secretes 

 abundant nectar, the flower tubes are so long 

 that honey bees cannot get the nectar, except 

 in dry seasons when the tubes are shortened in 

 the second growth. They then sometimes work 

 on it extensively. 



Sweet clover or melilot begins to bloom in 

 June and continues until frost. It is a common 

 weed in many parts of the country but not until 

 recently has it been grown by farmers for hay or 

 for cover crop purposes. It is a wonderful honey 

 producer, the honey being light-colored, spicy, 

 with delicious flavor. On waste limy soil, it 

 might be sown and allowed to take care of itself. 



Basswood or Linden blooms in July. Where it 

 is abundant, it is an important source of honey, 

 the quality of which rivals that of the clover. 

 Sumac also blooms during July and yields a 

 light honey of fine flavor. 



Buckwheat of various sowings may bloom 

 during August or September, earlier in some 

 cases. Its dark color and peculiar rather strong 

 flavor is relished by some people, but disliked by 

 others. Goldenrod which blossoms during Sep- 

 tember and October produces a light honey of 

 good flavor when well ripened. 



Wild Aster starts blossoming in October or 

 late September and continues until frost, its 

 honey is light and of good flavor but granulates 

 quickly. Granulated honey may be made 

 liquid again by being gently warmed, either in a 

 warm room or in water about blood temperature, 

 granulation is a proof of purity, not of adultera- 

 tion. 



What a Waste. — Bee specialists say that the 

 flowers of New York state produce not less 

 than 45, coo pounds of nectar annually for every 

 10 square miles of territory and that this is 

 equivalent to 10,000 pounds of honey. But to 

 get this honey, they say, it will take fifty times as 

 many bees as are now kept. This means 1,000 

 pounds of honey to the square mile but the 

 collection of only 20 pounds on an average. If 

 this is so what an opportunity for beekeeping! 



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