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The Readers' Service will gladly assist 

 in selecting decorations for the house 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Febhuary, 1908 



Fifteen to Twenty-five Years of Your Time 



Saved by Planting* 

 Hicks Big Trees 



Trees up to 28 ft. high, 15 ft. spread and 8 in. 

 diameter may be shipped and successfully planted. 

 The roots are wrapped in damp moss, straw and 

 burlap, and tied in radiating bundles. The tops are 

 trained with single leaders and flexible branches 

 which tie in for shipping. Over 1000 numbered 

 specimens are ready for you to choose from. 



Now is the time to write and select the shape 

 you prefer — tall trees with ovate tops or broad, 

 round-topped trees. 





Diam. 



Height 



Spread 



Age 



Price 





inches 



feet 



feet 



years 



f.o.b. 



Norway Maple, 



■3* 



18 



6 



13 



$ 8.00 



" " 



S, 



22 



10 



18 



20.00 



" " 



5* 



24 



10 



20 



30.00 



" 



6 



26 



12 



22 



3S-oo 



Silver Maple, 



4* 



22 



10 



12 



9.00 



•i " 



5 



24 



10 



12 



18.00 



i< " 



6 



26 



12 



16 



25.00 



11 •.<■ 



6 



28 



12 



16 



35.00 



American Lindf 



6 



20 



15 



16 



25.00 



Pin Oak, 



fi 



22 



15 



IS 



25.00 



" " 



6 



24 



12 



20 



30.00 



" " 



6 



26 



12 



20 



40.00 



Ctnill fhpon TYl»PC Pines, Spruce, Oak, etc., 1 to 

 Ollldll l^llCay llCCi. ,, years old, by the 1000, 

 for landscape and forest planting and private nurseries 



Norway Maples, 4 to 6 in. diam. planted 12 to 



25 ft. apart for perfect development. Send for beautifully illustrated catalogues and price list 



Isaac Hicks & Son, Sc,^rXTreemo"er S , Westbury Station, Long Island, N. Y. 



Soap No. 3 



KILL SAN JOSE SCALE 



You need not lose your fruit crop this season. Spray your 

 orchard early with a strong solution of 



C* ~ J>~ CAUSTIC POTASH 

 VlOOCl S WHALE OIL 



! - It will positively destroy scale, apple scab, aphis, lice, bu« 

 worms, and all other insects and parasites which infest your trees, 

 plants and shrubs. It contains no poisonors or injurious ingre- 

 dients; no salt, sulphur or mineral oils. It fertilizes the soil, a*nd 

 quickens growth. Endorsed by the 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 50 lbs., #2.50 ; 100 lbs., $4.50 ; larger quantities proportionately 

 less. Write for free booklet, "A Manual of Plant Diseases." 



JAMES GOOD 

 Original Maker, 931 N. Front St., Philadelphia 



2HPStationary*2955 

 EHf^ill,© ENGINE ONLY 



Runs pumps, cream separators, churns, grist mills, 

 corn shelters, washing machines, lathes, sawing 

 machinery, etc. Uses alcohol, gasoline, napth 

 distillate, kerosene, etc., without change in 

 equipment. Starts without cranking, drop 

 foiged crank shafts, best grade babbit bear- 

 ings, steel I-beam connecting rods. Other sizes 

 proportionate prices. Free catalog tells how to 

 save -J cost of hired help. All Pizes ready to ship 

 Detroit Engine Works, =29 Eellevue Ave., Detroit, Mich. 



Highest Grade Seeds We Grow, 

 Highest Grade Seeds We Sell. 



Let us tell you about them in our 1909 Catalogue. 

 Revised from cover to cover. It is mailed tree. 



H. E. FISKE SEED CO. 



12 and 13 Faneuil Hall Square, Boston, Mass. 



NitrateiofSoda 



^s 





Nitrate Of Soda applied as a top dressing, produces not only 

 more tons to the acre, but cleaner and higher grade 



TIMOTHY 



Test It for Yourself Entirely Free 



Let us send sufficient Nitrate of Soda for you to try, asking only that you 

 use according to directions, and let us know the result. To the twenty-five 

 farmers who get the best results, we offer, as a prize, Prof. Vorhees' most 

 valuable book on fertilizers, their composition and how to use for different 

 crops. Handsomely bound, 327 pages. 



Apply at once for Nitrate of Soda by post card, as this offer is necessarily limited. "Grass 

 Growing for Profit," another book of useful information, will be sent free to farmers while the 

 present edition lasts, if paper is mentioned in which ihis advertisement is seen, 



Send name and complete address on post card. 



W. S. MYERS, Director, John Street and 71 Nassau, New York. 



volunteered to attend to their gardens once 

 a week throughout the summer. The boys 

 kept a record of their crops during July 

 and August, and, as part of each lesson, 

 calculated the value at current market 



A schoolboys' garden which produced during one 

 summer vegetables worth $35.12 



prices. The following report does not 

 give absolutely complete returns, as much 

 was stolen from them: 



167 qts. beans 20 bunches onions 



347 heads lettuce 50 " beets 



176 bunches radishes 26 pecks tomatoes 



Value at current market prices, $35.12 



The only expenses attached to the work 

 were the laborer's hire of three dollars and 

 the cost of one load of manure, $1.75. The 

 seeds were given to the school by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, the tools were brought 

 from home and the stakes to mark off the 

 individual plots were made from broom- 

 sticks. 



Washington, D. C. Susan B. Sipe. 



Profit in Flax Seed 



THERE is a good demand for flax seed 

 and a fair profit in growing it. It may 

 be successfully grown in any of the Northern 

 States from New England to the Pacific- 

 Coast and the acreage should be steadily in- 

 creased. 



Good corn lands are well adapted to the 

 cultivation of flax, but the very besi soils both 

 for seed and fibre are the rich, moist, but 

 well-drained, heavy loams. The plant 

 will reach maturity some ninety days after 

 seeding and is not so exhaustive of soil 

 fertility as are either corn or oats. 



Flax absorbs most of the mineral nut- 

 rients necessary for its growth in the first 

 half of the growing period, and for this 

 reason it is important that the ground be 



