August, 1910 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



// a problem grows in your garden write to 

 the Readers^ Service jar assistance 



37 



BEAUTIFY YOUR GROUNDS WITH 



Evergreens, Paeonies and Irises 



Send for our attractive Catalogue 



SHATEMUC NURSERIES 



Barrytown, Dutchess County, N. Y. 



GINSENG 



Culture is the "Only Way" to make 

 Big Money on Little Capital. One 

 acre is worth $25,000, and yields 

 more Revenue than a 100-acre farm, 

 with ten times less work and worry. Let me show you how 

 to increase your annual income $500 to $5,000, and take life 

 easy and live in comfort on the large returns from a small 



garden. T. II. SUTTON, llOO Sherwood Ave., LOTJISTILIE, K¥. 



MONEY 



T. I N ^ 



MUSHROOMS 



WRITE FOR BIG ILI.US. FREE i;OOKLET 



showing our beds and farm and learn liow to grow 

 mushrooms at home in cellars, sheds, stables, 

 boxes, outdoors, etc. Only small space necessary. 

 300 per cent, profit, markets waiting". We were 

 first, 25 years experience, make and sell best frebh 

 spawn, and teach you our methods free. 



NA.TIOi\AL SPAWN & SIUSIIRUOSI CO. 

 Dept. 9 Hyde Park, Mass. 



gSSatest Money Saver 



Cheapest to install, least attention, fewest repairs, 

 highest efficiency and economical and dependable 

 under every condition of service is the 



"American" Centrifugal Pump 



^. Tliere is not a valve or other g:et-oiit-of-order feature about 

 it — just the easiest possible curved flow-lines without a sudden 

 diange of direction in passage through the pump, enabling: 

 water to be raised with less power than wiih 

 any other pump in existence. It's the modem 

 way in pumping:. There's 41 years* of manu- 

 facturing: experience beliind it. All gold 

 medals given to centrifugals at the Alaska- 

 Yukon-Pacific Exposition at Seattle in igog 

 were awarded to this pump. 



Made in both horizontal and vertical types, in any 

 size, in any number of stages 



Catalog 



and equipped with any power. 

 Let us tell you of other sav- 

 ing features of this pump, 



THE AMERICAN 

 WELL WORKS 



Gen. Office and Works, 

 AURORA, ILl.. 



Chicago Office, First National 



Bank Building 

 420 First Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. 



Here's the U. S. Incinerator — Offi- 

 cially Adopted by the U. S. Govern- 

 ment, and Ordered for Army Purposes 



If you are a contractor employing men in excavating and con- 

 struction work — 



If you operate a mine or lumber camp — 



If you are in charge of a hospital, sanatorium, or any institution 

 housing people, you should at once investigate the wonderful sim- 

 plicity, superiority and advantages of the U. S. Incinerator. 



U. S. Incinerators provide for accumulating and disposing of 

 excreta and all^ forms of waste, conveniently and 

 economically; and in a sanitary manner. 



They can be used separately as a single 

 toilet, or in batteries accommodating any number 

 of persons. 



They are portable, economical, and require 

 no special attention. 



The U. S. Incinerator totally destroys excre- 

 ment and all forms of waste with a sanitary and 

 odorless incineration, — posilivel'^ emitting no 

 odor during accumulation or incineration. 



Indispensable to hospitals — cremates dressings, 

 bandages and infectious parts from operations, sputum 

 cups, etc. 



They solve the toilet problem in country homes, 

 hotels, and railroad stations, also summer resorts and 

 factories. 



Write us today for complete information as to how 

 it can best be applied to your particular purpose. 



United States Incinerator Co., Inc. 



Reverse view of floor installation 

 showing firing side and position 



The United States Incinera- 

 tor Equipped as a Toilet 



Sectional View of Incinerator 



Executive Office, 430 White Bldg., Buffalo, N. Y. 



OFFICFS AT 



32 Union Square 217 Chamber of Commerce Bldg. 



New York Chicago, III. Trap Door Installation 



2120 First Avenue 

 Birmingham, Ala. IT t^ 



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Hardware Dealers wanted 

 Everywhere to Repre- 

 sent us 



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Firing Side. Battery of Three Equipped as Toilets 



IMWS 



Reverse Side, showing Approach 



Largest co.^iS Stock of 

 Hardy Plants in America 



Catalogue on Application 

 ELLIOTT NURSERY CO., Pittsburg, Pa. 



HARDY PHLOX 



Over 250 varieties, many of which are far and 

 above the best of the standards. No other firm in 

 the world can show so many. Also Delphiniums, 

 Iris, Hibiscus, etc. Write today for free list. 

 W. F. Schmeiske, 163 Robinson St., BInghamton, N. Y. 



The most prolific of large 



Pot-grown Strawberries 



You can have luscious, highly perfumed berries seven 

 inches in circumference within ten months, if you plant 

 pot-grown Silver Coin in July or August. Judge how 

 strongly Silver Coin grows, how profusely it yields, by 

 the fact that it has produced such berries at a cost of 

 two cents per quart. Vigorous pot-grown plants, 75c 

 per dozen; $4 per hundred. 



Pot-grown plants of all the good old varieties (at 50c per 

 dozen; $2.50 per hundred) listed and described, along with 

 full cultural instructions, in our free mid-summer catalog. 



LOVETT'S NURSERIES, Box 125, Uttle Silver, N. J. 



Strawberry Specialist for Thirty Years 



