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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 190 9 



Won't You Sit Down 



in an "Old Hickory" — just once? Then you'll 

 know the real comfort of an "easy chair" 

 that is easy! Enjoy that elastic, springy 

 feeling — like the gentle sway of the young 

 tree itself. 



Old Hickory Furniture breathes the com- 

 fort and rest of the woods. It stands, sturdy 

 and rugged, made now as in the long ago, 

 when Clay, Calhoun and Webster sat in hick- 

 ory chairs. Andrew Jackson liked his chair 

 so well that people nicknamed him "Old 

 Hickory." That's our trademark, burned 

 into every piece of furniture we make. 



OldHickoryFurniture 



is fast displacing bamboo, willow and painted 

 wood. Famous resorts like "Claremont-on- 

 the-Hudson," the "Old Faithful Inn" of Yel- 

 lowstone Park, and the splendid West Baden 

 Hotel, are fitted up with "Old Hickory." 

 From east to west the highest types of resorts 

 have adopted it. 



It is so in refined country homes— in all places 

 where good taste prevails — "Old Hickory" is 

 found. There is nothing so comfortable, so 

 durable, so much the vogue, yet so much like 

 old times, as Old Hickory Furniture. 



The legs and rungs we cut from young hick- 

 ory trees, grown just for us— 7,000 acres in one 

 grove. From bigger trees we peel the stout 

 inside bark in long strips, strong and smooth as 

 rawhide. From these we weave by hand the 

 smooth,. springy seats and backs. 

 To library, lawn, or porch, "Old Hickory" 

 lends grace and comfort — artistic in its rare 

 simplicity. 



Write today for our Free Style Book, showing 

 150 typesof "Old Hickory," and telling ail about it. 



The Old Hickory Chair Co., Box B3, Martinsville, Ind. 



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The wide tires make light draft. The Electric Steel Wheels, 



longlifeand short lift. These wheels are built to outlast many 



sets of ordinary wheels. They cost less, save much hard work 



and many hard earned dollars. Rocks 



can't damage them, weather doesn't 



affect them. Electric Steel Wheels are 



made to fit any kind or size of skein. 



They will turn any old wagon 



body into a useful, long-lived 



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hardy enough to withstand the alternate 

 freezings and thawings of the cold north- 

 ern winters and will do well on an ordinary 

 rockery, among them being the moss pink, 

 rose moss, rock cress, sea pink, etc. 



The forget-me-not is extremely satis- 

 factory on a rockery, and gives a profu- 

 sion of flowers. The accompanying photo- 

 graph shows it planted with primroses 

 in a Massachusetts garden. 



Maine. Samuel Johnson. 



Tomatoes on Irrigated Land 



HPHE wisdom of intensive culture on 

 -■- irrigated lands has been demonstrated 

 by the Arizona Agricultural Experiment 

 Station near Yuma, Arizona. The ground 

 on which the experiment was conducted was 

 a warm, sandy loam, which had been 

 leveled and irrigated the preceding fall. 

 One-half acre of ground was laid off in bor- 

 ders two feet wide, with ditches between 

 of the same width. 



Burpee's Quarter Century and Dwarf 

 Champion tomatoes were grown, these 

 bushy varieties being best adapted to the 

 climatic conditions. More diffuse and 

 branching sorts lose blossoms and fruit 

 by sun-burning, as soon as the hot weather 

 sets in. Part of the plants were started in a 

 coldframe and transplanted to the open 

 field in March; others were sown directly 

 in the open ground as soon as danger 

 from frost had passed. 



The plants were set two and one-half feet 

 apart in a row on the edges of each of the 

 raised borders, the whole half acre contain- 

 ing about 3,300 plants. The crop began to 

 ripen early in June, harvesting continuing 

 during July and until the first week in Sep- 

 tember. 



The quantity of fruit harvested and sold 

 from this hah acre during the season was 

 13,530 pounds, not including 1,800 pounds 

 of waste fruit cracked by rain storms. The 

 bulk of the crop brought from two to 

 six and a half cents a pound at Yuma, 

 according to market conditions. The first 

 fruits, picked about June 10th, sold for 

 thirty cents a pound. 



The total receipts for the crop were 

 $624.60; the cost of seed, irrigating water, 

 and shipping boxes was $72.72. The profits 

 would' have been not far from $550 for 

 the small farmer who could have managed 

 this half acre with very little outlay for 

 labor. 



Arizona. R. H. Forbes. 



Using "Rogued" Seeds 

 is Economy 



Low-priced seeds are the most expensive, as the 

 editors of this magazine have urged repeatedly. The 

 cost of seeds is a small matter, comparatively, and 

 you can well afford to pay for extra selected (or 

 iogued) dependable stock. It frequently means the 

 saving of your garden. 



A FREE BOOK 

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Adams' Little Green Book is more than a seed 

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 Furthermore it tells the real truth about each variety. 



I send with this little book the planting tables and cul- 

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 for a small garden designed to give a succession of the 

 best vegetables. 



Selections of seeds are offered that include just enough 

 to plant a given space with no waste. 



Try the Adams Method. It pays. 



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