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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 19 19 



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No steel too good, no skill too 

 expert, no care too great 

 to <Sp into the makincf of the 

 long-liVed "PENNSYLVANIA 

 Qyalihj Lawn Mowers. 



At all , 

 Hardware Dealers 

 and Seedsmen 



4 GRAND GLADIOLI, 35c 



Peace — Best white dozen, $ .60 



War— Brilliant red " 1.50 



Pendleton — Beautiful pink " .80 



Schwaben— Best yellow " 1.00 

 One bulb of each, 35c 3 of each, $1.00 



Post Prepaid, Catalogue Free 



Brookland Gardens, Woburn, Mass. 



FREE LECTURES 



Garden Clubs, Civic Associations, Schools, Churches: — write 

 for details concerning our illustrated lectures on "Your Home 

 More Fruitful," "Your Home More Beautiful," and "How to 

 Succeed With What You Plant." 



Nurserymen's National Service Bureau 



F . F. Rockwell. Manaagcr 



220 West 42nd Street New York City 





Kunderd's Wonderful § 

 New Ruffled Gladioli % 



Gladioli are the most popular of all summer jj 

 flowering bulbs. Easy to grow, and very lasting 

 as cut flowers. Kunderd's New Strains of both 

 Ruffled and Plain petaled are far the finest in 

 the world. No others are like them. None so jj 

 beautiful. 



Our well illustrated catalogue of 52 pages de- 

 scribes almost 300 varieties, all are our own pro- 

 ductions, and most of them obtainable only from 

 us. Our catalogue is free; you ought to have a 

 copy, as it contains the most complete and relia- 

 ble cultural information ever published. 



May we send you a copy? 



Address the originator of the Ruffled Gladioli 



A. E. KUNDERD 



GOSHEN, INDIANA, U. S. A. 



As Others See It 



Box Edgings. — Even in the old world they have 

 trouble with the Box when used as an edging. 

 It isn't all easy going and according to the Garden 

 "is also nearly as bad as Privet for drying and 

 exhausting the adjacent soil." Much as most 

 of us like Box we cannot shut our eyes to its short- 

 comings; and the climatic conditions in America 

 are naturally more trying to an Evergreen than 

 they are in England. Small wonder then that 

 every once in a while we have complaints about 

 Box dying out. Our English contemporary 

 makes other charges against it — "it makes too 

 cozy a home for snails and other pests." The 

 Box emits "a strong odor especially in hot sun- 

 shine so that used in a Rose garden it entirely 

 overwhelms the fragrance of the Roses." "Though 

 few edgings of the kind look well when well kept, 

 they are on the whole, a mistake in most gardens; 

 difficult to plant, involve a great deal of labor, 

 and shearing, and many gardeners haven't the 

 knack of doing the work well." — Ed. 



A Cure for "Damping Off." — Among all the 

 gardeners who have ever raised plants under glass, 

 there are probably very few who have not learned 

 to know, fear, and hate the trouble known as 

 "damping off." Just what causes it, why it de- 

 velops, and other technical details may not be 

 widely known, but its effect, like that of thou- 

 sands of tiny, invisible hands grasping the seed-< 

 ling stems at the surface of the ground and strang- 

 ling them until they flop over and die, has long 

 been a familiar, dreaded sight in greenhouses 

 everywhere. An immense chorus of welcome 

 and gratitude should, therefore, greet the publica- 

 tion, in the Florists' Exchange of February 22nd, 

 of a method of preventing damping off, a method 

 which, on excellent authority, is said to be one 

 hundred per cent, efficient, and safe and simple 

 into the bargain. It consists merely of disin- 

 fecting the soil by wetting it thoroughly with a 

 solution of formaldehyde of a strength of one 

 fluid ounce to the quart of water, turning and 

 mixing it as if making concrete, then leaving it 

 to dry out before putting it in the flats, pots, or 

 seed pans. Since it has been found that the 

 damping off fungus often starts from the edge of 

 a receptacle and works inward through the soil, 

 it is advised that the containers and labels, unless 

 new, be soaked in a similar solution. It is also 

 advised that soil so treated and not needed im- 

 mediately, be kept in a tightly covered box where 

 "even a cat cannot walk over it," so that new 

 germs and fungus spores will not be introduced 

 into the sterilized earth, which having been freed 

 of its former bacterial flora, provides an unex- 

 celled place for a new crop of organisms to get 

 a start in. If the gardener uses sand to cover his 

 newly sown seeds, this, too, should be treated. 



Two Vegetable "Novelties" to Look Out For. — 

 The Department of Agriculture is warning garden 

 makers to be on their guard against the latest 

 fake seed proposition, one or more of which us- 

 ually mark every planting season. The plants 

 concerned, to which advertisements accord the 

 most remarkable virtues are offered as the Gigan- 

 tic New Guinea Butter Bean, and the Guada 

 Bean respectively. As a matter of fact the for- 

 mer is really the Cucutza or sweet gourd, while 

 the latter is merely the Snake or Solomon Island 

 Gourd, camouflaged under a new title. Both 



Elants are well known to old time gardeners as 

 earers of edible gourds resembling summer 

 squashes, but neither has anything to justify its 

 preference over the different varieties of squash 

 already listed under their rightful names. Be- 

 cause of their relatively slight practical worth 



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