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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1909 



2c a Week Pays Wash BH1L-: 



Electricity or Water -Power Does the Work 



Just a "Twist of the Wrist" Starts or Stops the Machine! 



The 1900 Motor Washers are now at work in thousands of homes. They are doing- the work for- 

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The 1900 Motor Washer 



Washes a Tubful in Six Minutes! 



Handles heavy blankets or dainty laces. 



The outfit consists of the famous 1900 Washer 

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 and easy that overseeing its work is mere 

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Can be connected with any ordinary 

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Walsh's Hand Book of 



ROSES 



AND DESCRIPTIVE PRICE LIST 



Contains all the leading varie- 

 ties of Everblooming and other 

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 beautifully illustrated with 

 Cultural directions for the 

 Amateur. Also Hollyhocks, 

 Paeonies and Phlox. 



Mailed on Request 



M. H. WALSH, Rose Specialist 



WOODS HOLE, MASS. 



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Located 18 Miles South of Boston. 



Beauty Around Barns 



OUTBUILDINGS, sheds, cow barns, 

 etc., on country places are usually 

 about as bare as bean poles in winter, but 

 that they can be easily redeemed and made 

 more beautiful is seen by the accompanying 

 picture, which shows one side of the cow 

 barns at Biltmore, N. C. The buildings 

 extend about five hundred feet northwest to 

 southeast, with three wings toward the 

 southwest. The rear buildings, parallel to 

 the barn, include silos and engine room. 



Between the buildings is an alley-way about 

 ten feet in width, having a curb on each side, 

 and between the curbing and the wall of the 



A space eighteen inches wide and 100 feet long, 

 left between the wall of this barn and the curb- 

 ing, was utilized as a flower bed, and filled with 

 fast-growing annuals 



building is a width of eighteen inches 

 filled with earth and now utilized as a 

 border for growing plants. 



The original intention was to cover the 

 buildings with English ivy, but this failed in 

 some places, leaving stretches of bare ground 

 and uncovered wall. It was decided to make 

 these stretches into flower beds, using quick- 

 growing annuals and the more common 

 bedding plants. About one hundred run- 

 ning feet of space was thus utilized, giving 

 a great burst of color and making the barns 

 look like cottage dwellings in some country- 

 side rather than mere outbuildings. 



Among the more satisfactory plants were 

 ageratum, balsam, fibrous begonias, cannas, 

 cypress vine, dahlias, fuchsias, marigold, 

 morning glory, nasturtium, pansies, snap- 

 dragon, verbena, violets, and for very late 

 fall bloom zinnias, in variety. 



North Carolina J. W. R. 



