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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 190 9 



Winter Care,— About il 

 the soft growth has been ki 

 oughly ripened, the old hi 

 burned up.. It will then be 

 s top-dressing of, loose stab 

 covering of leaves— Nature' { 

 plied when the ground Is in 

 done ; two or three inches spr 

 A deeper covering would in, 

 [early spring with a liability 

 hurry to cover the plants, a 

 extreme cold weather begins 

 moved by degrees, allowing , 

 have made to gradually han 

 only a few days, after which 

 sun-hme, and lire litter or cov, 

 .wmler may be raked up and r 



,Ke planting It is all ,,., 



an rnged hardy border, in vih 

 e.vfly-rlowering varieties ripen 

 Ihr.Mlch the summer until late 

 Wn.iilWerS, 1'i.mpone Clirv! 



We n.e continually athluiJ 

 collt?cuon in the country. 



Cnllivalioh is of the simpl 

 fertilizer, such as well decon 

 be vet as early in the season 

 in, keeping t lie ground well 

 material, which will keep ih 

 will, be as good for this purpt 



A covering of manure shot' 

 Care need be given, the occi 

 of many species, and the d 

 needed._ 



Many not thoroughly fam 

 factory returns the first seaso 

 sue will, in nearly evVry casi 

 offeied in this catalogue is p, 



Drainage. — Every pot mi 

 to have something in the wa' 

 soil, through which surplus 

 in the botiorri becomes cloved 

 and the soil is soon soured b> 

 and anything that intcrlcrev v. 

 ally destroy the plant unless I 

 An inch of drainage is enoug 

 inch pot three is not loo m 

 pmponionalely. Old flower 



gravel can be used if there is 

 anything, in fact, that will no 

 It is a good plan to put a hi) 

 over the drainage material I 

 prevent the 1 latter from lieir 

 cracks and crevices through 

 dram off. Apiece of sod wi 

 at hand. 



JUST read what the following eminent horticul- 

 tural authorities — entirely unsolicited — say about 

 our different kind of catalogue. Will give you a 

 better idea than anything we could write of the brand- 

 new features in Dreer's Garden Book for 1909. We 

 have received hundreds of other letters just as flattering: 



I am in receipt of your Catalogue for 1909. It is far and away the finest and most practical 

 Garden Book of the season. I think you will find it just what most amateur gardeners need. You 

 ask for suggestions for its improvement. The only suggestion I would make along this line is to 

 add more cultural notes to future editions, thur, making it of permanent value, and making it un- 

 necessary for the amateur to invest money in books on floriculture. In advising this, I am talk- 

 ing against my own interests, for such a catalogue would interfere with the sale of my own books, 

 but I am frank in answering your question. 



EBEN E. REXFORD. 



Many thanks for the beautiful Catalogue. . It is by far the best I ever saw, and in the course of 

 seventy years I have seen many. The instructions are so varied and so plain — and about all the 

 plants I wanted so much to know. 



MRS. C. P. DENSON, Raleigh, N. C. 



JOHN E. HAND & SON, Florists, Center Moriches, N._ Y., write: We wish to thank 

 you for the catalogue we have just received. It is well worth the price of any of the standard works 

 on horticulture. 



I read your Garden Book last evening, and find it the most complete of any similar work ever 

 published. Were a novice — imbued with a love for gardening, imprisoned on a desolate island, 

 and shut out from all communications with the outside world — given your Book and any of the 

 seeds and plants described therein that he desired, he could soon turn that island into a paradise. 

 No question cquld come up but what your book would answer. 



W. C. EGAN, "Egandale," Highland Park, 111. 



I have the copy of your Garden Book which you so kindly sent me, and find within its pages 

 much that is instructive in the amount of information so simply set forth as to be intelligible to every 

 one. The illustrations are excellent, and the improved varieties of perennials and annuals make one 

 long for the coming of Spring, that they may have a place in the garden. 



Very cordially yours, 

 HELENA RUTHERFURD ELY. Author of "A Woman's Hardy Garden." 



I am in receipt of your 1909 Garden Book, and want to say it is one of the finest Catalogues that 

 reaches our office. It sets forth in a very educational way a great number of flowering plants, both 

 exotic and perennial. Again thanking you for the same, I am, 



Very truly yours, 



J. W. RODGERS, Supt. of Parks, Cincinnati, O. 



I beg to acknowledge, with thanks, receipt of your 1909 Catalogue, which, as usual, is full of 

 interest. I note with approval, your introduction of cultural notes, which is a step in the right 

 direction. Yours very truly, 



IDA D. BENNETT, Author of "The Flower Garden" and "The Vegetable Garden." 



We will, if you mention " Garden Magazine" mail you free a copy 

 cf'Dreers Garden Book'" — the new kina of Seed, Plant and Bulb 

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. HENRY A. DREER, 714. Chestnut St., Philadelphia 



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What One Class Accomplished 



MANY schools in the vicinity of Washington, 

 D. C, have included gardening in the course 

 of studies. Each year some available land in the 

 neighborhood of the schools is divided into small 

 plots, the scholars being assigned their own individ- 

 ual part of, or a whole, plot. During the spring 

 and summer the gardening lessons continue, even 

 though school is closed for the vacation period, and 

 the accompanying photographs show what excellent 

 results have been obtained by one class. Each 

 child becomes intensely interested in the work, and 

 regrets when the season ends and gardening is over 

 for another year. 



Vegetables as well as flowers are grown, and rec- 

 ords are kept of the season's work. The crops are 

 estimated at current market prices and show a 

 really remarkable return for the amount of labor 

 expended. 



Washington, D. C. V. W. 



Land near a country school, converted into a pro- 

 ductive vegetable garden by the school children 



One of the older boys and two of his assistants 

 hoeing and weeding 



A school garden in the early stages of develop- 

 ment. Each child is allotted a certain amount of 

 ground to cultivate 



