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What is a jair rental for a given 

 property? Ask the Readers' Service 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 1909 



Boddington's Quality Dahlias 



Are " good from the 

 ground up." 



Boddington's 

 Garden Guide 



Contains four pages 

 of the most up-to- 

 date and promising 

 dahlias. All the 

 giant, decorative 

 cactus, pompon, 

 single and pasony 

 flowered, in unique 

 and kaleidoscope 

 colorings. Surprise 

 your garden and 

 place some of these 

 grand flowers. 



Boddington's 

 Garden Guide 



a unique 144 page 

 catalogue, hand- 

 somely illustrated 

 with engravings 

 from life, beautiful 

 color insert, art cover, 

 and concise, practical 

 cultural directions. 



Mailed Free to 

 Applicants 



ARTHUR T. BODDINGTON 



SEEDSMAN 

 342 West 14th Street Dept. B New York City 



Keep Your Drives Clean 



Don't Dig Weeds 



Kill them with TH1STLEINE. Spray the walks, 

 driveways and gutters with THISTLEINE. 



ONE SPRAYING will keep them FREE FROM 

 WEEDS and GRASS the ENTIRE SEASON. Kills dande- 

 lions, burdock and Canada thistles. 



5-POUND CAN OF THISTLEINE will make sufficient 

 solution to SPRAY 4,000 SQUARE FEET. 

 Price, $2.00. If your dealer doesn't keep it send money direct to 

 LINDGREN CHEMICAL CO.. Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Used for four years by the City of Grand Rapids and officially endorsed. 



GARDEN FURNITURE 

 OF OOLITIC STONE 



This urn, 22 inches in height by 17 inches in diameter, is offered for 

 $18, freight prepaid to any point east of the Missouri River. Its ample 

 bowl, capable of growing flowers, bay trees, palms or ferns, is water- 

 proofed and has an interior drain of iron pipe through the bottom. 



Indiana oolitic, as you know, is a white stone, as hard and almost as 

 close-grained as marble; it grows harder each year when exposed to 

 the elements. 



Special Designs Executed. — At our extensive quarries and mills we 

 execute with artistic fidelity special designs for seats, dials and every- 

 thing made of stone. An estimate will be made promptly on receipt of 

 drawing and specifications. 



OOLITIC QUARRIES COMPANY, Saks Building, Indianapolis, Ind. 



HOME STUDY COURSES 



EVERYONE interested in 

 farming or gardening, 

 everyone who owns or 

 who expects to own a suburban or 

 country home, should know about 

 the Home Study Courses in Agri- 

 culture, Horticulture, Landscape 

 Gardening and Floriculture, 

 which we offer under Prof. Wm. 

 P. Brooks of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College and Prof. 

 John Craig, of Cornell University. 



john craig *§ There is money, and pleasure 



Professor of Horticulture in Cornell f 00 j n farming and gardening, in 



University ° . ° 



the growing of fruit and of flowers, 

 for those who understand the ways how and the reasons why of 



modern agriculture. A knowledge of landscape gardening and 

 floriculture is indispensable to those who would ever have the 

 pleasantest homes. 



CJ Every reader of The Garden Magazine who is interested 

 in these matters is invited to send for a free copy of our eighty- 

 page catalogue and full information in regard to our home 

 study courses. 



THE HOME CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL 



Dcpt. 8, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 



