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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



November, 1910 



$40.00 Buys One of Hicks' 



Big Maples, 

 Oaks, Lindens, 

 or Catalpi 



What is $40.00 a tree, 

 when it buys big, fine speci- 

 mens like ihese? 



Think of having a shade- 

 less, barren looking place 

 today, and tomorrow wake 

 up and find a tree 25 feet 

 high sheltering one corner 

 of your piazza or beautify- 

 ing your grounds! Isn't it 

 worth even $70.00 to have 

 trees 20 to 30 feet high and 

 with a spread of from 14 to 

 20 feet ? 



It takes 25 years to grow 

 such trees. Do you want 

 to wait that long to grow 

 yours ? 



If you were buying a 

 place today, would you be 

 willing to pay additional 

 for one with good sized 

 trees ? Of course you would 

 and so would anyone if they 

 wanted to buy yours. 



Hicks' big trees add to 

 the value of your property 

 — they are not a luxury, they 

 are an investment. 



You take no risk in buy- 

 ing our big trees. We guar- 

 antee them to thrive. If 

 they don't, yourmoney back 

 or a new tree. The fall is 

 the lime to plant them. 

 Come and pick them out, 

 or send for the catalog and 

 order direct from it. Big 

 trees can be safely shipped 

 1,500 miles at this time of 

 the year. 



Isaac Hicks 

 ea Son 



Westbnry, Long Island 



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Haigmficent Indian Azalea.- 

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^^M^ Thisstately Azalea, with its masses of hand me flowers—white, 

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Drawer 1070B, Aagmta, Georgia. 

 Landscape Department, 414 Hairuon Boildinc 



How I Installed Tile Drains 



THE effect of tile drains upon the soil is to loosen 

 it. They also prolong the growing season 

 by removing surplus water early in the spring. 

 Flowers and vegetables growing near the drain 

 do especially well. The accompanying plan shows 

 how the problem of tile drainage was solved in one 

 small garden. The soil is a clay loam on a hea^y 



A system of tile drainage wliicli lias been a com- 

 plete success 



clay subsoil. The drains are laid eighteen inches 

 below the surface, and the direction of the iJow 

 of surface water is shown by arrows. 



Ditches i and 2 separate the area drained from 

 the surrounding farm property. 



Drains i and 2 discharge into a street catch-basin. 

 Drain i is a 6-inch sewer-pipe with a filter at A for 

 surface water, and a 4-inch lateral just above the 

 filter. Drain 2 is a 4-inch round tile. Its con- 

 struction was combined with that of the garden 

 walk which was trenched thirty inches wide and 



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A small garden in whlcli' tile drains prolong the 

 grow^ing season 



filled with stones, forming a continuous filter. The 

 top layer is cinders, thoroughly rolled. 



A lateral was led off at B to drain the hotbed. 

 Another lateral was led off at C. 



Drain 2 was put in by contract. It is 215 feet 

 long and cost $43, or twenty cents per foot. Drain 

 I I built myself, and kept no account of the cost 

 of labor. This drain, including laterals, is about 

 325 feet long. The cost of the tile, delivered in 

 100-foot lots, was $7.50. 



Ohio. Harry E. Scott. 



Growing an Aster Collection 



LIFE is too short to know the entire genus Aster. 

 Gray thought so; and gardeners who want the 

 best forms would better buy a collection from a 

 nursery, instead of trying to identify species in 

 the wild. 



