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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



July, 1909 



Use Paint made with Oxide of 



LOOK NOW 



Which, think you, will 

 produce the better paint? 

 When you buy modern 

 paints you buy OXIDE 

 OF ZINC paints. 



Modern OXIDE OF 



ZINC paints are the last 



word of progress in paint 



making. 



Do your paints contain 



Oxide of Zinc ? 



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An old time painter making 

 paint by hand. 



Oxide of Zinc is unalterable 

 even under the blowpipe 



We do not grind Oxide of Zinc in oil. 



A modern paint mill and mixer 

 making paint by accurate formula. 



The New Jersey Zinc Co. 



National City Bank Building 

 55 Wall Street, New York 



A list of manufacturers of Oxide of Zinc paints mailed on request. 



Whether going Abroad, or 

 to the Mountains, Seashore 

 or Country, one additional 

 pleasure will be a Box of 



Pure and* /r Unequalled 



CANDIES. 



For Sale at our 55 Retail 

 Stores and by Sales Agents 

 throughout the Country. 



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 diflerent crops. 

 Built light enough for the woman who gar- 

 dens for pleasure— strong enough for the 

 man who gardens for profit. Ourjfew Iron 

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



BATEMAJI MFG. CO. firenloch, N. J. 



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Iron Age 



Double .mil Single 



Wheel Hoe. 





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Garden Notes and News 



HALF a mile of roses! There is such a sight at 

 the Payne Whitney estate, Manhasset, L. I. 

 It is composed mostly of single wild roses, like the 

 Carolina and prairie rose, and is, therefore, attrac- 

 tive in winter, as well as summer, by reason of the 

 red stems and "hips." 



What is duller than an alleged "grove" of trees 

 with nothing but grass underneath? Answer: 

 The same thing forty years later, when the trees all 

 take on "stag -horn" shape and have no branches 

 below. Both kinds can be seen side by side near 

 West bury, L. I., on an estate where the mania for 

 neatness prevails and there is no conception of 

 "landscape forestry." 



People have begun to buy holly since The Garden 

 Magazine has declared that it is the most desirable 

 of all broad-leaved evergreens. Letters come to us 

 asking if collectors and nurserymen have done well 

 to^strip off all the leaves at planting time. Yes. 

 And it will pay you to wrap the stems with straw 

 to retard evaporation until new feeding roots are 

 formed. 



Every collector of alpine plants should be eager 

 to get a copy of Rydberg's "Flora of Colorado." 

 There are no descriptions but every species is dis- 

 tinguished by means of keys and some day the 

 flowers of the Rocky Mountains are going to be a 

 fad in the East. The "Flora" is published as a 

 bulletin of the Colorado Experiment Station and 

 contains 446 pages of pretty stiff botany — too stiff 

 for amateur gardeners without special skill. 



Is there any hardy white flower to compare with 

 The Pearl achillea for cutting? It produces an 

 enormous number of "buttons" and will bloom 

 from June through August. It is too sprawly for 

 garden effect, but plant it in the vegetable garden in 

 straight beds four feet wide and the plants will then 

 hold one another up without the bother or expense 

 of staking or pegging down. This idea is practised 

 at the Breese estate, Southampton, L. I. 



Everyone ought to "interlace" shrubbery instead 

 of planting each kind in a solid block, which pro- 

 duces an absurd effect, like carpet bedding. To 

 interlace groups, let a few individuals stray out from 

 the "home colony" into neighboring groups. This 

 is now a recognized principle of landscape garden- 

 ing and if you have employed some one who has done 

 otherwise, you may be sure that he is not a finished 

 artist at planting. 



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Potting Soils for Amateurs 



GOOD soil is an absolute necessity to success 

 with plants, and there is only one way to 

 get it — by mixing. A workable potting soil can 

 be made from loam, sand, and manure, but it will 

 be much better if it has an addition of leafmold, 

 peat, or well weathered muck. 



PASTURE LOAM FOR COMPOST 



Where it is impracticable to make a compost 

 heap, any good garden loam can be used, and it 

 is not necessary to prepare it any length of time 

 beforehand. 



The best loam to use in a potting soil is well 

 decayed sod taken from a pasture. The best 

 time to secure it is in the fall after the grass has 

 been killed by hard frosts; it can, however, be 

 secured in the spring before the grass starts to grow. 



