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The Readers' Service will Rive you 

 suggestions jor the care of livestock 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1909 



NONE JUSTAS GOOD 



FIRE 



the greatest danger that 

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You can insure your factory against 

 fire loss, but that does not prevent fires 

 or protect you in consequent losses. 



The safe, sensible thing is to have 

 a factory that is in itself a protection 

 against fire — a factory of reinforced 

 concrete. 



Reinforced concrete is fireproof — 

 not " slow-burning " or near fire-proof, 

 but unburnable. Actual fires prove it. 



Such a factory will stand off fire from 

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of agriculture, were detailed for this daily work. 

 In a smaller garden it could easily be done by one 

 of the older schoolboys, who would consider him- 

 self well paid if he were given an extra share of 

 the flowers and vegetables raised. 



It is necessary that a school garden be fenced 

 to keep out destructive chickens and other animals. 

 Will not the vegetables and flowers be stolen? 

 The answer to this depends upon the success with 

 which public sentiment in the community is 

 educated by means of the garden. The Whittier 

 garden is near a high road and contains a straw- 

 berry bed in addition to regular ones. It is easily 

 accessible and yet has never been molested. 



J. E. Davis. 



Random Notes in Season 



DO YOU know any better yellow flower for edg- 

 ing a border than the woolly yarrow. 

 (Achillea tomentosa)? It blooms at least six weeks, 

 beginning in June. By the middle of July only 

 half the flowers are gone. It grows four to six 

 inches high. 



German iris and chrysanthemums are alternated 

 along a garden walk in Roslyn, L. I., so as to have 

 two crops of flowers, and good foliage throughout 

 the season. 



We always think of asters as autumn flowers, but 

 the blue mountain daisy (Aster alpinns) blooms in 

 June and we have even seen it in April. The wild 

 form is purple, but var. superbus is said to have 

 bright blue flowers. They are astonishingly large 

 for an aster. 



Spurless columbines are occasionally boomed as 

 novelties, but they are an old trick of nature's. 

 You can see pictures of them in a book published in 

 1613 — purple, violet and white varieties, every 

 flower being a perfect rosette one and a half inches 

 across, and composed of four rows of flat petal-like 

 bodies. Presumably they are a case of atavism, i. e., 

 they go back to the ancient condition when the spurs 

 had not yet been developed by insect agency. It 

 seems to us that spurless columbines lack a charac- 

 teristic beauty. One might as well have Hamlet 

 without the Prince, corned beef without mustard or 

 roses without fragrance. But then seedsmen must 

 have something to blow about! 



An English gardener who expected to set America 

 afire, planned to do it with the purple rock cress and 

 its rose, carmine, violet and white varieties. So he 

 planted aubrietias on an enormous scale but they 

 were a sad failure. Our sun is too hot for most 

 alpine plants. We must develop the flowers of 

 the Rocky Mountains and the rock-loving plants of 

 the East such as moss pink, the Virginian saxifrage, 

 etc. 



We should be glad to hear from anyone who is 

 collecting bellflowers. Sixty-six kinds of cam- 

 panula are offered in some English catalogues. 



Everyone who has a rockery should grow Charle- 

 magne's thistle (Carlina acaidis) for its own sake, as 

 well as the legend that it cured Charlemagne's army 

 of the plague. It grows only three to six inches 

 high and the white flower is enormous for so small a 

 plant. It is like a daisy, but six inches across. 

 However, it is not very showy, as the flower barely 

 rises above the foliage. It blooms in June or July 

 and again in late fall. 



"Balm of Gilead" is a name applied to many 

 plants including Cedronella, which means "little 

 cedar," referring to the fragrant leaves. The oldest 

 favorite of this group is C. trifihylla, afour-foot shrub 



DELICATE and Dainty 

 Summer Wash Fabrics ' 

 k must be handled carefully in 

 ^ the Wash. 



4} €[ It's the Rubbing— not the I 



Wearing — that shortens the H 



Life o{ most Fabrics and the | 



M more Delicate the material— £ 



^ the greater the Harm that 1 



';•& Rubbing does. The Wash- 



Board is the Summer Gar- - 

 I ment's worst enemy. 

 €J This Summer try washing 

 those things you really care 

 about in the "PEARLINE 

 WAY"-without Rubbing- I 

 hence without Wear and Tear 

 to the Clothes. PEARLINE I 

 Loosens all the Dirt and Rins- * 

 ing carries it away, leaving I 

 your Clothes Fresh — Clean 

 and Sweet Smelling- 



WASHING 



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