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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Mat, 19 09 



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The Brightest Paint 



WHEN YOUR PAINTER uses Carter Pure 

 White Lead, mixed with Pure Linseed Oil 

 and the desired colors at the time of paint- 

 ing, you are sure of bright, clear and durable tints — 

 true colors — not muddy hues. 



Because of its extreme whiteness, Carter White 

 Lead produces brighter and more beautiful colors 

 than other white leads. 



CARTER 



Strictly Pure 



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is the whitest paint you can buy. It is so dazzlingly 

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Whiteness means fineness of grain — that the 

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 makes Carter spread farther, just as a cup of flour 

 spreads farther than a cup of wheat. 



Whiteness means even quality. Every ounce 

 in every keg of Carter is just like every ounce in every 

 other keg. Ask your painter what this means. 



By the pound, Carter costs a trifle more than other 

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 of wear, however, it is the most economical paint you 

 can buy. Carter is sold by all reliable dealers — used 

 by first-class painters. 



But send NOW — today — for our Valuable Free 

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The Busy Time Commences 



AFTER the early spring-flowering bulbs have 

 finished blooming gather them up and 

 plant them out thickly in an unused part of the 

 garden where they can remain until planting time 

 next October. Their old beds can be used for 

 other flowers, but the soil must first be spaded 

 over and fertilized. No flower bed should be 

 allowed to remain idle — just as soon as one flower 

 is through blossoming clear up the bed and plant 

 something else. 



If you do not have very much time to devote 

 to flowers, try planting nasturtiums. They require 

 little care, the seed is cheap, and the blooms are 

 undoubtedly among the most beautiful that grow. 



Plant out violets in soil that is not very dry 

 nor very wet. Of course, they will not flower 

 this year, but they will get a good start and produce 

 a large quantity of fine flowers next season. Put 

 the plants twelve inches apart each way, unless 

 the soil is very rich, when they should be set 

 sixteen inches apart each way. 



At this time of the year moles usually begin 

 to destroy vegetables and flowers by running under 

 them and gnawing off their main roots. If you 

 have noticed their runs about the garden during 

 the last few months, and do not try to at once get 

 rid of the moles, you will very likely find some 

 morning your choicest plants turned out of the 

 soil with the roots gnawed off. 



In many cases the roots are gnawed off below 

 the surface of the soil, and the plant left standing 

 erect. Many such plants can be saved if noticed 

 before they are too much wilted. Give them shade 

 by placing brush over them but not on them, and 

 plenty of water, firming the soil thoroughly about 

 each plant. 



I consider the following the most satisfactory 

 method for destroying the moles: Mix together 

 equal parts of corn meal and rat poison and place 

 it in the runs. Keep chickens and cats away from 

 where the poison is. 



Early in the month plant peanuts in soil which 

 has been well prepared and fertilized. The best 

 fertilizer is one that contains a high percentage 

 of potash and phosphoric acid with but very 

 little nitrogen. The Spanish peanut has been 

 the most popular sort here in the South for many 

 years on account of its being so free from pops. 

 The one great drawback to it, however, is that 

 the seeds and pods are very small. This is now 

 being overcome in the improved varieties which 

 are as early, as free from pops, and of the same 

 upright growth as the Spanish, but the pods 

 contain from one to two more seeds of larger size. 



Nitrate of soda may be applied to peppers and 

 egg-plants now, just before they begin to flower 

 freely; it will promote a rapid growth of both fruit 

 and foliage. Allow from a teaspoonful to a 

 tablespoonful to a plant, and spread it thinly two 

 or three inches from the plants. Nitrate of soda 

 must not be applied in too large a quantity, nor 

 when the dew is on the plants; and if spread too 

 close to them it will kill them. 



Place house plants out of doors where they can 

 get only part of the morning sun. It gets too 

 warm during this month for such plants to get the 

 sun all day. 



If fruit is too thickly set on the peach trees 

 thin it out so as to get larger and finer peaches, 

 and to prevent the branches being broken by the 

 weight of the fruit. 



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