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Do you inlend to build a poultry house? 

 Write to the Readers' Service 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



October, 1910 



^'' " It takes us at one bound into the Old World atmosphere of Normandy, 

 It is a fine specimen of literary impressionism." — Rochester Post-Express. 



" Mr. Smith has created a dream-world of ineffable charm, surcharged 

 with poetic beauty." — San Francisco Argonaut. 



"It has that indefinable quality of atmosphere." — Brooklyn Eagle. 



" By far the best thing Mr. Smith has done."— New York Evening Sun. 



Fixed Price, $1.50. Postage IS Cents 



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This Bungalow is Lined, Roof and Walls, with 



Cabot's Sheathing Quilt 



and the owner says: 



"Experience has more than justified this method. The second 

 story rooms are in summer as cool as those on the first floor, 

 while in winter all the rooms are warm and comfortable in tlie 

 coldest windy weather." 



The cost was $20 for the wliole house, and for 

 this $20 the owner gets warmth and comfort and 

 reduced coal bills as long as the house stands. 

 Can you make a better investment ? Quilt is not 

 a mere building paper. It is a heat-proof and 

 cold-proof insulator. 



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Samuel Cabot, Inc., 1 Oliver St., Boston, Mass. 



An Experience in Transplanting 

 a Tree 



I HAD long considered it out of the question for to 

 successfully move a tree of large size, especially 

 a kind notoriously hard to transplant, like an 

 oak. All my previous experience had been with 

 trees that were either very small, such as nursery 

 stock, apples, pears etc., or easy to move, such 

 as maples, willows, or poplars. However, as the 

 tree was growing on my own property and in a 

 place where the digging was easy, I decided to make 

 an attempt to move it to my lawn. 



I knew that large trees were often moved by 

 professionals, but I had neither a knowledge of 

 their methods nor any of their apparatus. All the 

 tools I used were a shovel, a pick, a crowbar, and 

 a ball of heavy twine. 



We (for I had a helper) started by cutting away 

 all the sod around the tree for a distance about 

 three and one-half feet from the butt. Then 

 we began digging carefully and as fast as we 

 uncovered a lateral root we would follow it out 

 and uncover it to the end and, bending it up care- 

 fully, would tie it to the tree trunk by means of the 

 twine. I had intended to preserve a ball of earth 

 around the roots, but the sandy character of the 

 soil made this impossible. Perhaps in the winter, 

 with the ground frozen, we could have done so, but 

 this was done in October with the leaves still hang- 

 ing on the tree, although they had been killed by 

 the frost. 



We found that most of the'roots radiated toward 

 the south and west which was doubtless merely an 

 accident of growth. Wherever we had free digging 

 without any roots in the way we would remove 

 as much earth as possible and, working under the 

 tree with our hands, haul the dirt into this hole 

 and take it out with a shovel. In fact, a great 

 deal of the work was done with our hands anyway. 



None of the larger roots were injured in the least 

 until we got to the tap root. The end of that 

 must have come out in China, After following it 

 down as far as we could without special tools, we 

 cut it off. We lifted the tree and measured its 

 root system in order to make the receiving hole 

 large enough. 



Then it started to rain. I had purposely selected 

 a cloudy day for the work, and we covered the 

 roots with an old carpet and stopped work until 

 the next day. When the tree was planted we were 

 very careful to spread the roots out and to make 

 the earth fine around them. All the earth was 

 packed in and tramped upon before the tree was 

 set. We secured it by two guy wires to the north 

 and west to prevent it from being disturbed by the 

 winter winds. None of the branches were trimmed 

 off except a few scraggly things that spoiled the sym- 

 metry of the tree. 



The next spring the tree came out in full leaf 

 just as though nothing had happened. I watered 

 it several times during the summer drought, but 

 perhaps even this was unnecessary. The tree was 

 fully four inches in the butt and at least twelve 

 feet high. (Rather over-much trouble for this sized 

 tree — Ed.) 



New York. F. H. Moore. 



Flowers for Nine Months 



LAST year in my garden was not particularly 

 favorable — the spring was late, the summer 

 very dry, the fall came all too soon — yet from the 

 last of March, when pansies were in full bloom under 

 the disappearing snow, to December 31st, when I 

 cut the last bunch of the same flower, the garden 

 was not without bloom of one kind or another. 

 I also had stocks all through November. 



First of all came the bulbs — planted in all the 

 annual beds they need almost no care, need not be 

 removed, and do not run out for years, and then 

 only the tulips. The crocus and narcissus bulbs 

 multiply each year. 



In four annual beds, 50 x 5 ft. I put two rows in 

 each of white, yellow, lavender, and purple crocuses. 

 They are much more effective if the colors are 

 kept separate. All through April these beds are 

 most attractive with scillas in the grass plots and 

 snowdrops in the border. 



In May the Emperor narcissus and yeUow tulips 

 blossom in one bed; Narcissus poeticus and white 



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