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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



September, 1910 



Is Your Milk Really Clean 

 or Merely Clean Looking ? 



Strained milk all looks alike, it may be crowded 

 with germs, or positively sanitary. Straining takes 

 out the coarse dirt, but if the dirt and milk once become 

 mixed, the milk is tainted and cannot possibly be cleaned 

 by straining. 



The Sterilac Pail assures really clean milk, 

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Note the strainer cloth on 

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Note the dirt-shelf which 

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It is easy to use, because the 

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It does not spatter. 



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Transplanting the Lobelia 



AMONG the midsummer flowering plants for 

 the perennial garden or border, there is 

 nothing more decorative or satisfactory than the 

 native cardinal flower {Lobelia cardinalis). 



Bearing glowing scarlet spikes of bloom from 

 ten to twelve inches in length, that hardly may be 

 excelled in brilliancy or richness of color, this plant 

 produces a most conspicuous display during late 

 July and throughout the entire month of August. 



The lobelia is a lover of moist, shady locations; 

 it will, however, not only thrive gloriously in a dry, 

 sunny location in the border, but the flower spikes 

 produced on cultivated plants are larger and more 

 generous in number than those that are borne in 

 the wild. 



Some four years ago, during August, I trans- 

 planted three 01 four plants from a boggy spot in 

 the woods to my garden. The plants were in full 

 flower at the time and, although I had really little 



A clump of cardinal flower roots before being 

 divided 



hope of success, to my surprise the plants adapted 

 themselves at once to their new surroundings and 

 bloomed until the middle of September. The 

 following spring the plants not only appeared in 

 their old places among the perennials, but in greatly 

 increased numbers and they have multiplied from 

 year to year. 



The lobelia, strictly speaking, is a biennial, but, 

 like the hollyhock, perpetuates itself from year to 

 year by new growth formed at the side of the old 

 stalk, and by self-sown seed. My strongest plants 

 are those matured from these sprouts that appear 

 as tufted heads near the parent stalk. Every spring 

 these tufted heads are pulled apart and planted 

 anew, each forming a thrifty plant that by mid- 

 summer sends up stalks three feet high. I find 

 divided plants flower more generously than those 

 that are left undisturbed. 



The flowering season may be prolonged several 

 weeks if the plant is not allowed to seed. If the 



The same clump after dividing. A few plants wiU 

 easily make quite a colony 



flower Stem is cut immediately after blossoming, 

 innumerable side shoots will spring into bloom. 



To tone down the glowing brilliancy of the 

 lobelia, white flowers should be used in generous 

 quantities. For this purpose I use, to great ad- 

 vantage, varieties of white perennial phlox, the 

 giant daisy {Chrysanthemum uliginosum), the 

 annual candytuft and nicotiana. 



Lobelia seed germinates about a week after 

 planting, and the plants are unusually thrifty and 

 hardy. Nurserymen, all over the country, how- 

 ever, keep it in stock, and a colony may be easily 

 made from two or three plants. 



Illinois. Adeline T. Thomson. 



