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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



July, 1919 



HODGSON Portable HOUSES 



The worries of building are forgotten when you order a Hodgson House. From 

 the wide variety of models offered you can easily find just the cottage, 

 bungalow, garage, or playhouse that will suit your requirements. It 

 will save you the dirt, bother, noise, and uncertainty of building. 



The neat, trim designs delight the eye. The sturdy construction 

 gives enduring service under all weather conditions. The s< 

 tions which we ship are made of Oregon pine and red cedar 

 already painted and stained. Windows and doors are 

 perfectly fitted. Every part is complete, ready for the 

 simple task of bolting together. Send for our catalogue 

 which gives plans and photographs of the houses. Write 

 us to-day, 



E. F. HODGSON CO. 



Room 228, 71-73 Federal Stroct, Hoston, Mass. 



B East 39th Street. Now York 





FAIRFAX ROSES 



The Aristocrat of Rosedom, no garden com- 

 plete without my hardy everblooming roses. 

 Grown under natural conditions. My free 

 guide on "How to grow roses" sent on re- 

 quest. I also have a select grade of 

 GARDEN seeds. 



Box 6 



W. R. GRAY 



OAKTON, VA. 



5-foot Handle 



Patent Applied For 



5-Tooth Liberty Hand 

 Cultivator 



Also made with 7 and 9 teeth 



GILSON GARDEN TOOLS 



The Gilson Adjustable Cultivator-Weeder is the gardener's most 

 dependable friend during the summer months. It is adjustable 

 to any width from four to ten inches. Middle tooth can be re- 

 moved to straddle rows. It is a Gilson guaranteed garden toot. 

 Ask your dealer, or write to 

 J. E. GILSON CO. Port Washington, Wisconsin 



7j IMP SOAP 



JJPRAY 



Sure Insect Killer 



IMP Soap Spray is a scientifically prepared compound 

 that is destructive to insects without injuring plants 

 or roots. Does not spot leaves, fruit, grass or deface 

 paint work. It is clean and colorless. May be used on 

 fruit trees; shade trees; flowering shrubs; vines; garden 

 truck; and on all sorts of plants, both under glass and 

 out of doors. 



It is most effective against rose bug; mill bug; white, 

 black, green and rhododendron fly, red spider: thrips; 

 aphis; fruit pests; elm leaf beetle and moths. Used in 

 country's biggest orchards and estates. Very economical, 

 one gallon is mixed with 25 to 40 gallons of water. Full 

 directions on each can. Genuine can has Ivy Leaf 

 trade mark. Your money back if Imp Soap Spray 

 does not do as claimed. Order direct if your dealer can- 

 not supply. 



Pint can $ .50 Gallon can $2.25 



Quart" 75 5 " " 10.00 



10 Gallon Can 18.00 



Sent by express at purchaser's expense. 



F. E. ATTEAUX & CO., Inc., Props. 



Eastern Chemical Co. 

 176 Purchase St., BOSTON, MASS. 



Dealers Wanted. 



Moss Aztec Pottery 



Offers a wide choice of objects, from simple fern dishes and 

 bud vases to impressive jardinieres and plant stands. Its 

 predominating characteristic is refined elegance in designs and 

 colors. A post card request will bring you the "Moss Aztec" 

 catalogue and name of nearest dealer. 



DISTINCTIVE FERN PAN $1.50 





is square with 

 separate liners 

 measuring 7x7 

 inches by 4 inches 

 deep. Order as 

 No. 495. 



PETERS & REED 

 POTTERY 

 COMPANY 



So. Zanesville, 0. 



Japanese Gardens 



Specially made for 

 summer house 



Gardens are a necessary part of 

 world reconstruction. 



T. R. OTSUKA 



Landscape Architect 

 300 South Michigan Ave., Chicago, ID. 



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. 



Se7tdfor illustrated Price-List 



Lattice 



Fences 

 Garden 



Houses 



Transforming barren spaces into Gates and 



spots of rarest charm and beauty. Arbors 



When writing enclose ioc and 



Ask for Pergola Album "H-30" 



HARTMANN - SANDERS COMPANY 



Elston and Webster Avenue, CHICAGO 



New York Office, 6 Uast.39th St., New York City 



Making Two Shoots of Asparagus Grow 

 Where One Grew Before. — For the last two or 

 three years my asparagus bed had been doing 

 only fairly well. It produced a fair quantity 

 of stalks but they were rather on the thin 

 order, not bigger than one's little finger. The 

 bed had been getting, like the rest of the 

 garden, a general commercial fertilizer dress- 

 ing each spring. I was not satisfied with 

 just ordinary asparagus and I decided to 

 make that bed do its proper duty. Since 

 asparagus produces shoots in proportion to 

 the food stored up the previous season, I 

 fertilized to obtain the maximum growth of 

 green foliage after the cutting season. A 

 rich, well-balanced dressing of commercial 

 fertilizer made up of acid phosphate, wood 

 ashes, and nitrate of soda was applied over 

 the rows early in spring. This was worked 

 into the soil by a deep cultivation over the 

 whole bed before the shoots started. When 

 the cutting season was over, I put a heavy 

 dressing of well rotted manure over each 

 row. This acted as a mulch to hold moisture 

 and the fertilizing elements were washed 

 down to the roots by each rain. Clean cul- 

 tivation was given all summer, between the 

 rows. The tops were allowed to remain in 

 the fall until the foliage had yellowed, show- 

 ing that the food materials elaborated during 

 the summer had been stored in the roots. 

 They were then cut and burned to avoid 

 carrying over any disease. This spring the 

 shoots are not just ordinary asparagus, they 

 are real asparagus, most of them being as 

 thick as one's thumb. — H. N. Hutt, N. C. 



Supporting Bean-poles. — On a recent trip 

 from New York to Harrisburg, I was deeply 

 interested in the thousands of regular family 

 gardens that bordered the railroad track for 

 more than two hundred miles. In all these 

 gardens there were poles for beans of 

 some kind. Yet in no instance were they 

 properly supported. They reclined against 

 one another; they leaned; they staggered; 

 they fell. Those that were set as if a tent were 

 to be pitched over them were standing best. 

 But this old method takes a needless amount of 

 ground. How, then, can such poles be 

 made to stand upright, even when laden with 

 vines and pods, and even when, so laden, 

 heavy gusts of wind come? The method is 

 simple and very effective: Stretch a common 

 wire at a height of about five feet from the 

 ground. This should be drawn very tight. 

 It is usually attached to convenient fence- 

 posts; but if there are none such in the line 

 of the row of beans, the first and last poles 

 on the lines should be very deeply sunken,, 

 leaning slightly outward, and braced. Then 

 plant the poles along the line of the wire at 

 the desired distances. Tie each pole to the 

 wire. The crop is held well off the ground, 

 and the space has been most economically 

 employed. — Archibald Rutledge, Pa. 



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