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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



November, 1910 



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Food with 

 the Ocean 

 Taste 



It's the Finest Fish I Ever Saw'^ 



That is what everyone says of our 



NABOB BRAND 



of Absolutely Boneless Georges 



CODFISH 



The fish from which this is made are caught by hand- 

 lines on Georges Bank, where the best and thickest 

 codfish are found. It is the finest selection of the catch, 

 cut into thick, white, flaky pieces, all bones removed, 



and the fish is carefully packed in an improved hinge- 

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You cannot get fish with flavor or quality 

 like this anywhere except from us. 



A trial 4-lb. box, $1.00 (or a 5-lb. box for $1.20), delivered anywhere in 

 the United States -wliere express companies make residential deliveries. 



Send for fire honk of recipes arid jnice list of Mackerel^ Halibut^ Lobster, Sardines 

 and all sorts of salt-water foods of the highebt quality. 



By dealing -with us, you insure freshness and high quality such as you can 

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From 

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 Consumer 



Grow Dwarf Apple Trees 



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Chemical' 



Vaj •.t^MI^X^'rti.. 



TRY TO MAKE SOAP PASTE OF THE 

 FLUFFED SOAP POWDERS BY PEAR- 

 LINE'S DIRECTIONS-SEE WHAT YOU'LL 

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e^ Why Buy Wash Water? 



Pradically fl It requires two or more table- 



^^^ spoonfuls of the Big Pgickages of 



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; of onetablespoonfulof PEARLINE 



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^ Dry the powders by spreading 

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 J spot — leave for 24 hours — then 

 ? ^ weigh them — you'll find the differ- 

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 C| PEARLINE IS CONCEN- 



TRATED SOAP POWDER- 



THESE BIG PACKAGES ARE 

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Money from Rhubarb 



THE greatest success in my garden during^ 

 the season of 1910 was the rhubarb patch. 



When the house we live in was built forty years 

 ago, its owner had his rhubarb bed, of the Linnaeus 

 variety, planted on the south side of the 6-foot 

 board garden fence. 



As the years went by, the rhubarb bed was not 

 renewed, although it was lightly fertilized every 

 year. The rhubarb crop grew smaller and smaller, 

 and the family decided that the plants had "run 

 out." 



In the season of 1908, on some nearby land which 

 had not been worked in several years, I grew a good 

 crop of potatoes. In November of that year, 

 the ground was ploughed and furrowed. Then all 

 the old rhubarb roots were dug up and separated. 

 Some we found to be decayed, but I was able to 

 set out fifty good roots. They were set a foot 

 deep in the ground and four feet apart each way 

 in the furrows. The latter part of the month, 

 the ground was covered with three inches of well 

 decayed stable manure. 



The following March another covering of 

 manure was applied, and that summer the plants 

 grew luxuriantly, but we did not pull any of it. 



I 



Twenty-six pounds of tender, crisp rhubarb 

 picked on June 30th 



That fall (1909), another covering of manure 

 was put on the bed. This past spring (19 10), the 

 rhubarb appeared above ground before asparagus, 

 and we pulled the first on April 18. 



The stalks were of good size, and so crisp thatgreat 

 care had to be taken to keep from breaking them 

 in the picking. The first day thirty-two pounds 

 were pulled. We received at first five cents at 

 wholesale and seven cents at retail, the lowest 

 wholesale price, being' three cents. 



We had steady private custom for it up to the 

 first of July. In all' we pulled 356 pounds, part 

 of which we sold, and canned the remainder 

 for our own use. 



The plants were kept from running to seed 

 by going over the patch once a week and cutting 

 out the seed stalk. It was prepared for market 

 by having the leaves cut off; it was cleaned, washed 

 well, weighed, and delivered loose in baskets. 



Connecticut. Julie Adams Powell. 



A Postscript on Yews 



SINCE writing the article on yews (page 171) 

 I have had a chance to go over the speci- 

 mens at the Arnold Arboretum again, and I wish 

 to make two important additions. 



The Japanese yew is certainly better for 

 hedges than the American, because it grows 

 much faster, and because the leaves are twice 

 as long, so that the foliage effact is richer and 

 more massive. The American is better for woods 

 and rock gardens. 



As bad luck will have it there is a third brevi- 

 folia and I beseech my reader;' patience, for it 

 may be the best of all, because it is certainly the 

 densest of all. I saw this at the Arnold Arboretum 

 labelled Taxus aispidala, var. brevifolia, but 

 cannot swear to its botanical status, since it is 

 too new a thing for Bailey's Cyclopedia. Even 

 Dallimore does not mention it in his book " Holly, 

 Yew and Box." I am glad to say that one nursery- 

 man has catalogued this in quantity, but whether 

 there will be any left now, I cannot tell. 



New York W. M. 



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