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June, 1909 



CREAM 

 SEPARATORS 



Don't buy a cream separator without being sure you KNOW what you are doing. 



Making a mistake in buying a cream separator means a great deal — it means 

 waste of time and butterfat twice a day, every day in the year, if you get the 

 wrong machine, — until you "scrap" the machine itself. 



More than 15,000 users who had made such a mistake replaced their " mis- 

 taken " machines with DE LAVAL separators during the year 1908. 



They had probably wasted Five Million Dollars worth of investment, labor 

 and butter meanwhile. 



If you feel inclined to buy some other make of separator by all means do so, 

 if you can find any apparently good reason for it. 



BUT why not TRY a DE LAVAL machine beside the other machine for 

 ONE WEEK before you actually contract to buy it ? Simply SEE the compara- 

 tive operation and comparative results and examine the comparative construction. 



That's a proposition open to every intending separator buyer. Any DE LAVAL 

 agent will carry it out. WHY not avail of it and KNOW what you are doing 

 before making this very important investment ? 



Don't let any alluring " catalogue house " literature or clever talking agent 

 wheedle you into buying any other separator without FIRST actually TRYING 

 it alongside a DE LAVAL. 



In other words buy your separator intelligently and knowingly and not on 

 blind faith in anybody's representations. 



THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO. 



42 E. Madison Street 

 CHICAGO 



1213 & 1215 Filbert St. 

 PHILADELPHIA 



Drumm or Sacramento Sts. 

 SAN FRANCISCO 



General Offices: 

 165 B RO A D WA Y 



NEW YORK 



173-177 William Street 

 MONTREAL 



14 and 16 Princess Street 

 WINNIPEG 



107 First Street 

 PORTLAND, OREG. 



to four inches deep, and leaflets sent out by some of 

 the largest seedsmen give similar advice. I 

 sincerely hope that none of my statements will bring 

 disappointing results to your readers. 



Georgia. Thomas J. Steed. 



The Wild Grape as a Porch Vine 



IN THE April, 1909, issue of The Garden 

 Magazine I note some excellent suggestions 

 about the use of wild grape for decorative purposes 

 around old stumps and dead trees. I have found it 

 to be the most practical, inexpensive and effective 

 way of decorating a frame house. The color of 

 the leaf is brighter than most porch vines. 



The vine can be led anywhere over the house by 

 means of small staples. It does not lift the boards, 

 and as the leaves fold over each other in such a way 

 as to exclude moisture, the house remains dry 

 instead of becoming damp. A year ago I took down 

 my vine in order to paint the house, and found the 

 paint under the vine in better condition than else- 

 where. The only care a wild grape requires is 

 being cut back and trained whenever the growth 

 becomes too dense. 



On the north side of the house we have a vine 

 planted near the central window, and another on 

 the south side, which have been trained forward until 

 they pass each other at the front of the porch. 

 Another line runs up and encircles the windows. 

 The porch is 10 x 30 ft. and this heavy hanging 

 of green makes it ideally cool during the hot 

 summer months. 



Illinois. Galen B. Royer. 



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More About the Groundsel Tree 



THE article on the groundsel tree which ap- 

 peared in the February, 1909, number of 

 The Garden Magazine, was very interesting to 

 me. I have seen it cultivated in only one place, 

 and that was at the Jamestown Exposition, in 

 1907, when it was used quite extensively on the 

 grounds. One of the men in charge of the land- 

 scape gardening there told me that, so far as he 

 could see, the shrub was identical with one that 

 grew wild on Long Island. It was also abundant 

 on the sandy land lying between Norfolk and the 

 exhibition site. 



Since then I have seen it growing at Oyster Bay 

 and also on the south shore of Long Island oppo- 

 site Bellport, on the sand strip that separates the 

 Great South Bay from the ocean. From the latter 

 place I pulled up a small shrub by hand the middle 

 of last October, and planted it in Connecticut in 

 ordinary garden soil. Although it was out of the 

 ground for over a week, it has every appearance 

 of being alive. 



Connecticut. H. S. A. 



