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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



July, 1909 



An Ail-Around 

 Stove 



Your kitchen may be well 

 planned — everything apparently 

 handy — yet if there is not a New 

 Perfection Wick Blue Flame 

 Oil Cook-Stove in it, the one 

 greatest convenience of all is 

 lacking. 



The "New Perfection" is a 

 home and family stove — big 

 enough and powerful enough to 

 do all you'd ever ask a cooking- 

 stove to do, and, best of all, it 

 does its work without over-heat- 

 ing the kitchen. The 



NEW PERFECTION 



Wick Blue Flame 00 Cook-Stove 



is built with a CABINET TOP just like a modern range. It" is the 

 most convenient stove ever made and is almost indispensable to summer 

 comfort. Three sizes. Can be had either with or without CaDinet 

 Top. If not with your dealer, write our nearest agency. 



Th e W\ &l\ /w% T A ^Vy*/^ ' s tne most perfect all-round home light. 

 * !- , -J JL^jTM. 1 JL X^ Has large font, best and latest center 

 draft burner and beautiful porcelain shade. It is easily 

 cleaned, easily managed. If not with your dealer, write our nearest agency. 



STANDARD OIL COMPANY 



(Incorporated) 



LLOW us to send you 



without charge this little 



portfolio showing com- 

 position stone ornaments such 

 as sun dials, benches, fountains, 

 vases, etc., suitable for the large 

 estate or small garden. 



It will tell you how to make your garden a delight- 

 ful outdoor living room and also offer you in the con- 

 venience of your home a wide selection of garden 

 accessories. You can select garden accessories from 

 this portfolio as confidently and satisfactorily as if 

 you were at the Garden Studio, 647 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. 



We have long made a specialty of the most classic and beautiful accessories for mak- 

 ing the country place more attractive or the small garden an outdoor living room. 



This firm also makes a specialty of interior decoration of churches, libraries, 

 residences and public building. 1 -. Address Garden Department, 



L. HABERSTROH 



647 Boylston Street 



& SON 



BOSTON, MASS. 



and they have informed me to get sufficient stock 

 one has to depend upon slips or cuttings and 

 started plants. When cut for bouquet work it 

 will not compare for beauty or keeping quality 

 with Madame Van der Dael. It has a tendency 

 to run out and is subject to a disease which will 

 not allow it to develop into a strong bush. 



W. W. Rawson is indeed a lovely bloom, but 

 comparatively new and not yet tried by many 

 outside of the professional growers. Delice is a 

 beautiful shade of pink and I hope to soon be able 

 to speak of its behavior. 



I am sorry that the writer did not mention 

 Lord Lyndhurst (decorative), which is a fiery scarlet 

 just as good as the standby, Wm. Agnew, is of its 

 color, scarlet crimson. Both are marvelously 

 grand in border, shrubbery or field, and in bouquet 

 work it is hard to find their equal. 



Jack Rose I am inclined to think has a tenden- 

 cy to over-bloom and so give flowers much 

 reduced in size. Jumbo has been a very 

 strong favorite with me, but it has too many 

 flowers which drop down and hide their faces 

 either in the bush or on the ground. Minos is 

 one of the best dark maroons ever grown — tall, 

 with long stems, and strong. Papa Charmet is a 

 fit companion to it. I prefer either Siegfried or 

 Henry Patrick to Flora, but believe that Mrs. 

 Winters is better still. 



The stem of Perle de la Tete d'Or is so rigid 

 and hard that it does not lend itself to cutting or 

 even to grace on the bush itself, as a rule, and the 

 flower is stiffly flattened. A few blooms now and 

 then are better than the average, but they are 

 hardly to be considered normal. 



Long Island, N. Y. E. Stanley Brown. 



Improve the Soil 



EVERY beginner looks upon all money spent for 

 manure or fertilizers as a waste. But after the 

 first expense, the point of view invariably changes. 

 You feel a pride in having done something for the 

 land. And when the crops come they are so much 

 bigger and better than you expected that you become 

 eager to spend more on fertilizing. Consider texture 

 of the soil first, then plant food. 



Every gardener should use manure, because 

 it improves the texture of the soil, while commercial 

 fertilizers do not. The drawbacks to manure are 

 four: It contains relatively little plant food; the 

 most valuable portion is likely to escape; it intro- 

 duces weed seeds; and the odor is objectionable. 

 However, it is invaluable for supplying humus, i. e., 

 decaying vegetable matter. Therefore use all the 

 good manure you can afford to buy, as there is no 

 danger of overfeeding the heavily cropped vegetable 

 garden with this fertilizer. 



Another way to improve the texture of the soil is to 

 sow crimson clover in July among corn and other 

 wide planted crops. In late fall or early spring 

 plow under the clover to add nitrogen and humus. 



A third method is to deposit all leaves and clean 

 garden refuse in a pit where it may decay. Keep all 

 decaying vegetable matter well covered with earth 

 so as to prevent odors or unsightliness. In one year 

 you will have invaluable fertilizing matter. 



If you cannot procure sufficient quantities of 

 manure at reasonable prices, use commercial ferti- 

 lizers to make up the deficiency. The most satisfac- 

 tory combination for me is bone meal and muriate of 

 potash, together with what manure it is possible to 

 procure. 



Bone meal contains from 2\ to 4^ per cent, nitro- 

 gen and 20 to 25 per cent, phosphoric acid, but a 

 large part of the latter is not immediately available 

 as plant food, but it becomes so as the particles of 

 bone decay. Bone flour, which is very much finer 

 than the meal, costs more but is quicker in action. 



Muriate of potash contains about 50 per cent, 

 potash. I use it in the proportions of two parts by 

 weight of bone meal to one of muriate of potash. 



Nitrate of soda (15 to 16 per cent, nitrogen) 

 applied at the rate of one pound to 400 sq. ft. or 100 

 lbs. to the acre, is of especial benefit in the early 

 spring, when the effects can be seen in three to 

 five days after rain or watering. 



Spend at least twice as much for manure as you 

 do for seed, and more if you can. 



Penna. J. L. Kayan. 



