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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1911 



SEEDS FOR YOUR 191 1 GARDEN 



$1.00 



A Season's Supply, 33 large pack- 

 ets, Vegetables and Flowers for 



^ Just send a dollar bill for this great collection. If, on receipt, you i ^ 

 don't consider it the biggest dollar's wordi of seeds you ever received, * 

 return it and we'll return your money!! Thirty-two large packets — 

 best standard vegetables and some high-class novelties. For good meas- 

 ure we add one ounce of either Livingston's Top-Notch Mixture of 

 Tall Nasturtiums or Livingston's Special Mixture of Finest Sweet Peas. 

 The 33 packets come to you by mail postpaid. You couldn't buy a 

 collection like this at such a price anywhere in the country. 



The price is the only cheap thing about the coUection. 8 of the 32 

 packets retail at 10 cents each. The remaining 24 packets (regular 5c. 

 VcJues) you buy for 20 cents in this collection which is absolutely the 

 best bargain we ever offered. Every reader of the " Garden Maga- 

 zine" should take advantage of it. You can easily raise 50 Dollars 

 worth of vegetables from this collection and we can prove it. 

 Just the thing for a backyard garden. All packets contain sufficient 

 seeds for repeated sow^ings of ten foot rows. 



Thirty-two large packets of 32 kinds Vegetable Seeds 

 and one ounce of Flow^er Seed for One Dollar. 



Beautiful New Catalog Free 



It's different from most seed catalogs you know. No overdrawn 

 pictures and sumptuous descriptions, but just plain facts about "true 

 blue" seeds— the best we have been able to produce with our 60 years 

 experience. The 1 30 page book is bound in handsomely lithographed 

 covers, contains colored insert and nearly 300 " true-to-nature " illus- 

 trations from photograph. Correct descriptions, moderate prices for 

 "quality seeds" and valuable culture directions make the book a safe 

 guide to a good garden. 



Write for this catalog to-day — you need it and we can mail it 

 right away. A postcard will bring it. 



The Livingston Seed Co. 



459 HIGH ST., COLUMBUS, OHIO 



Landscape Gardening 



A course for Home-makers and 

 Gardeners taught by Prof. Craig 

 and Prof. Batchelor, of Cornell 

 University. 



Gardeners who understand up-to- 

 date methods and practice are in 

 demand for the best positions. 



A knowledge of Landscape Gar- 

 dening is indispensable to those 

 who would have the pleasantest 

 Prof. Craig homes. 



250 page catalogue free. Write to-day. 



THE HOME CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL 



Dept. C, Springfield, Mass. 



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Conservation 



Conservation has become a watchword and is on every tongue. When its novelty has passed and 

 we come to consider its true meaning, we shall find that conservation of the resources of the soil of our 

 farm lands is the most important element in the whole subject. 



The American farmers have been a race of unconscious soil skinners. 



Now, we want not only to conserve productivity, but to restore some of that removed. We must 

 get down to facts. 



One fact often lost sight of is that we can double the value of clover and farm manure by supple- 

 menting them with 



Potash and Phosphates 



thus making a complete and balanced fertilizer. This is true soil building as well as plant feeding. 



IT WILL PAY. FOR POTASH PAYS 



We will sell you Potash through your dealer or direct, in lots from one bag (200 lbs.) up. 

 Write for prices. 



Continental Building, Baltimore, Md. 

 Monadnock Block, Chicago, IlL 



GERMAN KALI WORKS, 



the work, and nearly 1,000 trees were then planted. 

 They, too, are looking well but I do not consider 

 their condition as good as the first. I have planted 

 tulip trees in December — large trees, too — with 

 perfect success. Indeed, the whole matter of plant- 

 ing is so largely dependent upon the condition of 

 soil, weather and how the work is done, that no 

 specific time can be positively stated as being 

 the best. 



But, speaking generally, the best season is 

 after the maturity of the season's growth; in 

 the case of deciduous trees, when the leaves are 

 falling naturally or have fallen; and in the case 

 of evergreens, when they are at rest from active 

 growth. Spring best answers these requirements 

 as a whole, and it is therefore the season when 

 most transplanting is done. 



I urge, however, that every one errlbrace the 

 opportunity to plant in autumn, or any time they 

 can, anything in the condition indicated herein, 

 using care and a fair degree of judgment. 



Long Island. Theodore Foulk. 



What to Do with a Girdled Tree 



EVERY year hundreds of young fruit trees 

 are destroyed because the bark is gnawed 

 off by mice or rabbits. If the bark is removed 

 entirely around the tree it will die unless prompt 

 attention is given it. Sometimes bark can be 

 grafted on, in place of that removed by the rodents, 

 but this requires some skill and is considerable 

 trouble. 



In order to save trees which have been girdled 

 and to ensure early recovery, it is necessary 

 in all cases to cover the wound with fresh soil 

 and remove at least half of the top. The ob- 

 ject in covering the wound with fresh soil is 

 to prevent the wood from drying out and to 

 allow new bark to form, rather than to assist 

 in the formation of new roots. The danger to 

 girdled trees is from summer and not from winter. 

 When girdled at the surface of the ground the 

 dirt may be hilled up above the wound without 

 difficulty, but when the injury is higher up some- 

 thing will be required to keep the soil in place. 

 Last winter we had three trees in a row entirely 

 girdled by rabbits. All were provided with or- 

 dinary tree protectors, but they were rendered 

 useless by the snow which drifted six or eight 

 inches above them. These trees were not girdled 



A box was built around this girdled tree and filled 

 with soil to protect the exposed wood. The tree was 

 headed back severely 



