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September, 1910 



On Buying Your Greenhouse 



First, go to a thoroughly reliable greenhouse 

 concern, in whom you can place entire confidence, 

 and tell them frankly exactly how much money 

 you want to spend. Then they will tell you how 

 much of a house the amount allotted will buy. 



We know, down to almost a pound of nails, 

 just what a house of any certain width and 

 length costs to manufacture and erect. Should 

 you buy your house from us, everything would 

 be made" at the factory, ready for immediate 

 erection when the materials reached your 

 grounds, which is a decided advantage. 



If you will send for our catalog you can readily 



select from it a house that will doubtless be just 

 what you want, and we can tell you by return 

 mail exactly what its duplicate will cost you. 



There are a large number of subjects in the 

 catalog to choose from, starting from the small- 

 est, up to those splendid large groups of houses 

 that are always so interesting. 



And U-Bar greenhouses are different from any 

 others— the construction is entirely different — 

 the growing results are better, cost of repairs is 

 considerabl}- less. It is the all-around, up-to- 

 date house, and that's the house you want. Send 

 for catalog. 



U-BAR GREENHOUSES 



PIERSON 



DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS 



U-BAR CO. 



1 MADISON AVE.,NEW YORK. 



BURPEFS 



Catalog, " for 1910, nddres 



SEEDS GROW 



If yon want a copy of tlio 

 "Leading American Seed 

 BURPEE, Philadelphia. 



HO>V TO GROW ROSES 



A splendid rose manual — telling how to ^^//^ \ 

 cultivate, fertilize, spray and mulch ^/^^ 

 roses. Invaluable to every lover of the ""* 



Queen of Flowers. Mailed for lo 

 cents — send today. Box 24. 



Andorra Grown Peonies 



For 



August and September Planting 



We catalog a special collection of 

 one hundred choice varieties, and list 

 them with complete descriptions in our 



Calendar of Perennials 



Also a special offering of Choice Pink 

 Peonies, three year old plants, good 

 standard sorts in varieties of our selection 



Per Dozen 

 Tv^o Dozen - 



Fifty - - - 

 Per Hundred 



$ 



4.00 



7.00 



13.00 



25.00 



Reproduced from photo of Andorra's Peonies 



ANDORRA NURSERIES 



WM. WARNER HARPER, Prop. 

 Box G Chestnut Hill PhUa., Pa. 



Won't You Establish One Colony 

 This Month? 



ALL we ask of you this month is to establish 

 one colony of wild-flowers along the roadside 

 — say fifty plants — which need not cost you any- 

 thing and ■n^ll give you a lot of pleasure. 



Perhaps two hours' work this month wiU be all 

 that is necessary. Everj-body will be able to enjo}'- 

 the results next year, and you will enjoy it most of 

 all if you plant this colony along your daily walk 

 or drive where it vnll have a chance to multiply. 



Here are six suggestions. Follow any one you 

 like, then write us and you will be a member of 

 the Roadside Gardening Club. The Garden' 

 Magazine will give the news, tell the results, pub- 

 lish your pictures, and pay for acceptable articles; 



1. Won't you collect and sow broadcast one 

 pound of seed of an)' ^-ild-flower which you can 

 collect easily now and which would be appropriate 

 to the roadside between your home and office or 

 station? For example, ironweed, Joe-Pye-weed, 

 sweet clover, ba3'berries, barberries. 



2. AA'ould }'ou rather devote one coldframe to 

 raising a colony of sweet rocket or sweet woodruff 

 to make the roadside fragrant? These perennials 

 will bloom the first year from seed if sown indoors 

 in March, but the best way is to sow them in August 

 when you have plenty of time. Get the white 

 flowered variety of rocket (Hesperis matronalis). 

 It is pure and refreshing, whereas the old magenta 

 looks coarse, weedy, and hot in summer. Rocketj 

 seed costs only twenty cents an ounce. A\'oodru£f 

 {Aspcrula ndorata) costs fifty cents an ounce. Look 

 for it under miscellaneous, forage and economic 

 seeds in the big catalogues. Or get an ounce of 

 forget-me-not seed to beautify that little brook 

 you pass ever\" day. 



3. Jerusalem artichoke is the quickest and 

 cheapest of the perennial sunflowers to establish. 

 It is a nuisance in the garden, where it spreads too 

 fast, but is a joy by the roadside. It grows six to 

 ten feet high. You can buy the tubers for S4 a 

 bushel from the seedsmen. See if you can't get 

 them cheaper in your neighborhood. 



4. The best time to transplant perennials in the 

 fall is from September ist to 15th, but can't you 

 make a tour of your neighborhood now, and see 

 what is available? Go especially to new sub- 

 divisions and new buildings, where native plants 

 are nearl)' always destroyed. Won't you trans- 

 plant one colony — fifty plants — this month of 

 some wild-flower which would othemise be 

 destroved? You ■uill probably have to water 

 them only once. Don't take plants from the woods. 

 They will not live on a hot, dry, dusty woodside. 

 How about asters and goldenrod, which wiU bloom 

 this ver}' fall ? Cut them back and they may flower 

 in October, after the ordinar}' crop is past. 



5. Do vou want seed collected for you cheaply 

 bv the pound? If you have a favorite ■n-ild-flower 

 that has been exterminated in your locality, you 

 can have seed of it collected for you in some locality 

 where it is plentiful. There are several men who 

 make a specialty of this. Sometimes you pay 85 

 for a day's work of an expert, -which includes his 

 traveling expenses, express, etc. But no matter 

 what vou want, the chances are that it is catalogued 

 and kept in stock by these collectors. 



Join the Roadside Gardening Club now. It has 

 only one aim — to make every joot oj your daily 

 walk or drive delightjid the year round imthout 

 expense. 



New Jersey. Thomas McAkabc 



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