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The Readers' Service will give 

 information about motor boats 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1909 



Health and Rest 



are the two main objects of a country residence. 

 The stillness which prevails away from the 

 bustle and hum of a great city is particularly 

 beneficial to tired nerves. City people are 

 careful, therefore, to surround their country 

 places with an atmosphere of quiet and rest- 

 fulness. Many of our customers are people 

 with country homes who have had their nerves 

 sorely tried by the noisy clanging of a wind- 

 mill's wheel (the source of their private water 

 supply), until, in a spirit of desperation, they 

 have felt compelled to remove the windmill 

 and make trial of a 



Hot-Air Pump 



The action of this pump being noiseless, 

 Health and Rest have come back again along 

 with natural quiet and repose. In this way 

 the Hot-Air Pump has proved itself a wonder- 

 ful therapeutic agent, besides being the most 

 reliable domestic water supply known. 



Remember that these pumps are not steam- 

 engines, but machines of low power which 

 cannot explode, operated solely by hot air, 

 automatic in their action, requiring no skilled 

 attention, so simple that any servant or farm- 

 er's boy can start and stop the little flame that 

 gives them life. The cost of operation is 

 almost nil, while the delivery of water is 

 absolutely certain at all times and seasons. 



1jm : RIDER ot 1M : EHICSS0N 



appears upon the pump 



Be sure that the name 



you purchase. This 



against worthless imitations. When so situated that you cannot personally inspect the pump 



before ordering, write to our nearest office (see list below) for the name of a reputable dealer 



in your locality, who wid sell you only the genuine pump. Over 40,000 are in use throughout 



the world today. 



Write for catalogue U f and ask for reduced price-list. 



Rider-Ericsson 

 Engine Co. 



35 Warren Street, New York 

 239 Franklin Street, Boston 



40 Dearborn Street, Chicago 



40 North 7th Street, Philadelphia 

 234 West Craig Street, Montreal, P.Q. 



22 Pitt Street, Sydney, N.S.W. 



(Also builders of the new "Reeeo Electric" Pump) 



HOT-AIR PUMP 



After the Garden's Started 



Success is mostly a matter of cultivation. One kind of cultivation will compen 

 sate for drouth. Another kind of cultivation will hold the weeds in check between 

 showers. 



IRON AGE 



Implements 



permit many different combinations for 

 different purposes and different crops. 

 Built light enough for the woman who gar- 

 dens for pleasure— strong enough for the 

 manwhogardenBforprofit. OurTfew Iron 

 Age Book describes all. It's free. Write for it. 



BATEMAS MF6. CO. Box C, Srenloch, B. J. 



No. 1. 



Iron Age 



Doable mid Single 



Wheel Hoe. 



> 



You can plant Evergreens 



in August-September, 



not wait until 



next year. 



You can save 10 to 25 years with our large trees. 

 Let us send you photographs and estimates from 

 our stock of over 1,000 Pine, Spruce, Fir, Cedar 

 and Hemlock, 10 to 30 feet high, in our nursery. 

 The cheapest way is to order a car load direct 

 from the collecting fields where we have them 

 prepared. You pay nothing for the 15 to 25 

 years time they have been growing, only for the 

 expense of successful transplanting and freight. 

 Evergreens of ordinary sizes, 2 to 8 feet, we 

 offer in excellent quality at moderate prices. You 

 will save money and have the best success by 

 selecting these, packed by our methods with 

 better roots than usual. 



Small evergreens at 1 cent to 25 cents each you should plant in August-September. This is 

 probably the best place in the east to get them. 



Send for catalogues giving accurate and full information on evergreens. 



White Pines in our collecting fields; 

 numbered specimens 10-20 feet. 



ISAAC HICKS & SON 



WESTBURY, L. I., N. Y. 



Grow Better Tomatoes 



GROW your tomatoes on stakes and get larger- 

 cleaner and more fruits, and no rot. 



Last year I tried an original method of staking 

 which proved to be a great success. For twelve 

 plants I used the front border of my garden, a strip 

 measuring three feet wide by twenty-eight feet long. 

 I bought three cedar posts ten feet in length and 

 divided my distance equally, setting the posts so 

 that they were eight feet out of the ground to the 

 bottom of the holes I had previously bored to- 

 receive a f- inch gas pipe, which ran the full length 

 of the posts horizontally. Strips of pine one by 

 three inches pointed at the bottom end and slotted 

 at the top were procured and driven into the 

 ground, the slotted end being placed against the 

 gas pipe. Holes were bored in these strips four- 

 teen inches apart into which were inserted quarter 

 inch iron rods twenty-eight inches long. 



The plants were from twelve to fourteen inches in 

 height when planted, and were placed to a depth 

 within half an inch of where the first laterals would 

 form. They were set diagonally two feet apart 

 in width and four feet apart in the row. In the 

 centre of the border I dug a trench quite twelve 

 inches wide and deep, which I filled with four 

 barrels of horse manure. 



As the vines grew 7 I tied them to the rods, pinch- 

 ing off all the laterals as they appeared, save the two 

 that were formed just above the ground. These two 

 I let grow until they had attained a length of two 

 feet; then I buried them about four inches deep and 

 trained the remainder to grow toward the rack. 

 The buried portion rooted very quickly and the 

 roots from the parent plant soon found the mulch, 

 which was always moist (and required no watering) 

 and proceeded to grow across, so that by the middle 

 of July the roots from each row extended through 

 the mulch to the plant opposite. This gave about 

 fourfold roots to each plant. 



The fruits formed in clusters of from two to twelve 

 which were tied to the iron rods to hold them up. 

 No matter how hard the wind blew I had no fear as 

 to the safety of plants or fruits. 



During the third week in August the plants were 

 a foot above the iron pipe. No commercial ferti- 

 lizer was needed; any ordinary, thrifty-growing 

 plants will attain the same height 



Illinois. E. T. Sargent. 



Tomato plants trai* ed on this trellis attained. by- 

 August a height of nine feet 



