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T HE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1919 



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Where Water Lilies Bloom 

 Garden Visitors Gather 



A pool of blooming Lilies is the garden's focal 

 point. Other plants may arouse a moment's interest, but 

 the Water Lily's dainty blooms never lose their charm. 



And, best of all, you can grow them just as 



successfully in a tub or pool as in a large pond. AH you 



need is water, sunshine, and a little soil. The plants may 



be few in number, but the pleasure they will give is not 



to be measured by mere quantity. 



Let me tell you how and where 

 to grow these Beautiful Blooms 



I will be glad to advise you how to start, 



. and the varieties that are best adapted for general 

 planting and free blooming. Tell me, please, whether 

 you must use a tub or pool; if the latter, give size and the 

 source of water supply. 



My booklet on Water Lilies and Water Plants 



will be sent to those who ask for it; the edition is limited, 

 so it may be well to write at once. 



WILLIAM TRICKER, Box E, Arlington, New Jersey 



Garden Pottery and Furniture 



of unusual attractiveness including bird baths, benches, 

 ornamental flower pots and boxes and sundials made 

 in the Italian old Ivory Tint to harmonize with any 

 surroundings, and guaranteed weatherproof. We will 

 deliver free of charge on all purchases of $5.00 or 

 over anywhere in the United States. Send at once for 

 our illustrated catalogue so as to have it when you make 

 your Spring plans for the garden and grounds. 



WHEATLEY POTTERY COMPANY 



Established 1879 



2426 Fseading Road Cincinnati, O. 



Retail Shops are incited to write for our items. 



Choice New Hardy Water Lilies 



Nymphaea Escarboucle: 

 Most brilliant red of all. 

 Each $6.00. 



N. Somptuosa: Very 

 double, pink, crimson centre. 

 Each S6.00. 



N. Conqueror: Large 

 violet-rose. Each $5.00. 

 N. Masaniello: Pink dot- 

 ted with carmine. Each $5.00. 



N. Mrs. Richmond: 

 Glowing violet rose-pink, 

 shading to white at the outer 

 edge. Of exquisite beauty. 

 Each $10.00. 



N. Virginalis: The larg- 

 est and finest white of this 

 class ever introduced: Flow- 

 ers 8 or 10 inches across. 

 Each $20.00. 



I have the largest and most complete collection of aquatics 



in the West. I l:ive had 47 years' experience (East and West) 



with water lilies and lotus. 



Price List sent on application. 



EDMUND D. STURTEVANT 



5406 Franklin Ave. Hollywood, Los Angeles, Cal. 



SUNDIALS 



Real Bronze Colonial Designs 

 From $3.50 Up 



Also Bird Baths, Garden Benches, Fountain 

 Sprays and other garden requisites. 

 Manufactured by 

 The M. D. JONES CO. 



Concord, Mass. 

 Send for illustrated Price-List 



Japanese Gardening 



Gardens and rockeries planned and 

 developed in perfect harmony, in 

 surprisingly short time. Suitably 

 adapted to most of U. S. and Can- 

 ada. My specialty for thirty years. 

 Gardens are a necessary part of world 

 reconstruction. 



T. R. OTSUKA 



300 South Michigan Ave., Chicago, III. 



Are You a Lover of Flowers? 

 Try DAHLIAS 



Let me send you ten distinct, 

 named varieties, all properly la- 

 belled and guaranteed for 

 $1.00 postpaid 



Send for my free 

 Illustrated Catalogue m DMia King 



It will afford you a chance to get posted on 

 Dahlias before planting time knocks at the door. 

 You can't afford to be without some of my favorites 

 in your 1919 garden. 



J. K. ALEXANDER, "The Daklia King" 



27-29 Central St., East Bridgewater, Mass. 



By PETER B. KYNE 



The Valley of the Giants 



A tale of big lumbering and love. Of both 

 of these subjects Kyne is master. Net, $1.50. 



DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 



Eggplants as They Ought to Be 

 Grown 



"TTIIS crop in our New York State home 

 -*• gardens should be given a little more 

 consideration. I think it unfair to hoard a little 

 useful information which covers a wide range 

 of successful experience with this particular 

 crop. Eggplants are a long season crop and 

 very sensitive to frost, as this is really a 

 subtropical plant, a little harder to grow than 

 the average garden crop but the novice is well 

 rewarded if he follows the following directions. 



To grow this crop in New York State it is 

 necessary to get young plants started either in 

 the greenhouse or hotbed about March first 

 or not later than the fifteenth. They require 

 a little more care than peppers or tomatoes, 

 as the seeds are slow germinators, and require 

 a temperature of at least 70 degrees. 



Sow your seed in 

 flats, using soil that 

 has been composted 

 or fairly good garden 

 soil; screen with \ 

 inch mesh, use a half 

 inch to inch of rot- 

 ted, screened man- 

 ure in bottom of 

 flat, do not cover 

 very deep, keep seed 

 fairly moist. They 

 do best when trans- 

 planted and spaced 

 2x2 inches in flats, 

 using a little rotted 

 manure in flats. 



Young eggplants 

 usually suffer from 

 fleabeetlesand plant 

 lice during the seed- 

 ling stage. I would 

 suggest a solution of 

 one part to 500 of 

 black leaf forty, 

 sprayed every week 

 till plants go to field, then treat same as potato 

 crop, as the potato beetle usually makes its 

 appearance at that time, using arsenate of 

 lead or paris green. The former is better — 5 

 lbs. to 50 gals, of water. 



When all danger of frost is past about June 

 first set plants in field for horse cultivation 

 from 30 to 36 inches between rows and from 

 18 to 24 inches apart in rows, especially for 

 the New York Improved variety, which I 

 think from past experience is better than the 

 Black Beauty as there are less spines or 

 thorns on the stem, and commercially they 

 pack better in crates. , 



This is probably the easiest vegetable to 

 prepare for the table. One medium sized 

 fruit will substitute meat for four adults at 

 least for one meal. Fried in bread crumbs 

 and using Crisco or butter, their quality 

 makes me think of the darky in our town, 

 who says, every time I deliver these to 

 the stores, "Urn! Um man, I ate one 

 yesterday un they shu am good." 



New York. M. Spiegel. 



Hear! The Garden Magazine Again. — 

 The monthly arrival of The Garden Maga- 

 zine is an event with us. My wife and I 

 look it over together, and then I take it for 

 a good long study. It's all good! Ideas 

 and plans too big for us, or too small, inspire, 

 or awaken sympathetic interest; set our minds 

 in motion, and the suggestive value of all 

 that is published is valuable and delightful 

 to us. — C. B. B., Pennsylvania. 



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