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Ij you, are planning to bn ild, the Readers' 

 Service can give you help Jul suggestions 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



July, 1909> 



What Is the Use of Trying to Get 

 Along Without a Greenhouse? 



YOU will build one sooner or later and we believe if you knew how reasonable in price a house 

 like this is, what a great amount of pleasure can be derived from it and what a help they are 

 in carrying on your garden operations, you would straight away have one. The greenhouse 

 itself is 11 feet wide and 25 feet long — just a nice size to start with. The workroom you can make 

 cost little or much just as you incline. Perhaps you have some building on the place that will an- 

 swer the purpose, or why don't you attach it direct to your house, and put the boiler in the cellar and 

 omit the workroom entirely? The frame of this greenhouse is made of steel with just enough 

 wood to secure the glass, making an extremely light, attractive and very durable house. It is just 

 the kind of house you will have no end of pleasure working in now and then. When you find out 

 just how much pleasure, it's a chance if you won't insist on doing all of it. This house is fully 

 described in our catalogue, and you had better send for it. 



U-BAR GREENHOUSES 



PIERSON 



DESIGNERS and BUILDERS 



U-BAR CO. 



I MADISON AVE-NEW YORK 



Just Published 



An unusually interesting circular, 

 describing this new curved Eave 

 Greenhouse of ours. It is the 

 kind of a house you want to know 

 about, so send for the circular. 



Hitchings & Company 



U70 Broadway New\ork 



¥*]fc • The best in the world. 



£ StCOrilCS All the choice vari- 

 eties from every source. Lists free. 



E. J. SHAYLOR 



Paeorty Specialist 



Wellesley Farms. 



Massachusetts 



Horsford's Hardy Plants 



For Cold Climates 



are field grown in Cold Vermont. They are con- 

 stitutionally hardy and should stand any climate 

 in the U. S. They are packed for shipment in 

 sphagnum moss and are guaranteed to reach the 

 purchaser in fresh condition. Ask for catalogue. 

 FRED'K H. HORSFORD, Charlotte, Vt. 



An Absolutely New Idea 



A rat-killer — very effective, ready to use, not 

 inflammable, and the only one safe to handle, 

 because if accidentally taken, small quantities are 



Harmless to Human Beings 

 Made in form of squash seeds, the rats' favorite 

 food. The rats do not die in the house, but rush 

 for the open air and water. Will not poison dogs, 

 cats or hens. 



20 cents at your druggists', or sent pre- 

 paid for 25 cents 111 stamps or coin. 



FULTON CHEMICAL CO. , 



100 William Street New York City J 



An Astonishing Bulb 



ANi I he 



of 

 cultivation 



most extraordinary flowers in 

 is Hall's amaryllis (Lycoris- 

 sqtcamigera), which reverses the order of nature 

 by blooming in midsummer without any foliage. 

 Ordinary bulbs bloom in spring and rest in summer, 

 but, as the accompanying picture shows, Hall's- 

 amaryllis suddenly appears out of the bare ground 

 during the dry season. 



This extraordinary plant has fragrant, rosy-lilac 



Hall's amaryllis which reverses the order of. 

 nature by blooming in summer without -waiting 

 until next spring to put forth its leaves 



flowers which are banded with yellow. Fortunately 

 the plant is hardy in New England. 



In the spring the leaves make their growth, die: 

 down, and after a long interval of rest the flower 

 stalks appear with the strange effect here shown. 



The bulbs are also procurable from importers of 

 Japanese plants and are offered in a few of the 

 general bulb catalogues. We presume that the 

 bulbs are best planted in September, but with such, 

 unusual plants it is well to place an order several, 

 months in advance of their probable delivery. 



New York. L. B. C. 



Improving Tuberous Begonias 



THE man who has done the most for tuberous be- 

 gonias in America they say, is Mr. Griffin, now 

 Superintendent of the Whitney estate at Westbury, 

 L. I. Some society ought to persuade him to put 

 on record all the improvements he made by hybrid- 

 izing and how he managed to grow tuberous be- 

 gonias on the Hempstead Plain in full sunshine and 

 with full exposure to those famous winds. 



