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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1911 



50% Cheaper than Paint 

 100% More Artistic than Paint 



Paint now costs more than twice as much as Cabot's Shingle 

 Stains, and (Minting costs more than twice as much as staining, 

 because painting requires skill, while any intelligent laborer 

 can ipply our stains peifcctly and rapidly, either by using a 

 wide, flat biiish, or dipping. The stains give beautiful color- 

 in- effects, soft, deep and transparent, on shingles, siding, or 

 hoards. Tue creosote penetrates and thoroughly preserves the 

 wood. You save half your painting bill, double the beauty of 

 your house, and keep the woodwork sound, by using 



Cabot's Shingle Stains 



Stained with Cabofs Stains 

 Davis, McGrath &> Shepard, Arc/i'ts, New York 



Linedwitk Quilt a7id stained with Cabofs Shingle Stai?is 



C 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 com- 

 fortable in the coldest windy weather." 



"The cost was $20 for the whole 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. 



You can get our goods all over the country. 

 Send for free samples and name of nearest agent. 



SAMUEL CABOT, Inc., Manfg. Chemists, 1 Oliver St., BOSTON, MASS. 



Grow Dwarf Apple Trees 



Novel, but practical, and intensely interesting. Require less room. 

 Easily cultivated, pruned and sprayed. Bear fruit earlier than the 

 standards. Make little shade, permitting other crops to be grown 

 between the rows. May be trimmed and trained on wire to grow 

 in almost any shape. Suburbanites, farmers and amateur horticultur- 

 alists alike find pleasure and profit growing dwarf apple trees. No 

 garden or orchard is now complete without several of these wonder- 

 fully productive trees. 



VARIETIES: — Duchess of Oldenburg, yellow, striped red; Winter Maiden's 

 Blush, red cheek; Bismarck, red, beautiful; Red Astrachan, crimson. 



I also carry a complete line of Nursery Stock, Asparagus Roots, California 

 Privet, Strawberry Plants, etc. 



p Prompt Shipment. Send today for Illustrated Booklet, Free. 



ARTHUR J. COLLINS, Box T, Moorestown, N. J. 



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deals with the peculiar situation of a man who loses his 

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 The story and the setting are exquisite. $1 .50, 

 DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO., Garden City, New York 



PRACTICAL REAL ESTATE METHODS 



By Thirty New York Experts 



Net $2.00 Postage 20 cents 



Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, New York 



Largest growers of pedigree farm and gar- 

 den seeds in the world Clovers, Grasses, 

 Oats, Bye, Barley, Potatoes, Seed Corn, 

 etc. We breed only pedigree heavy 

 yielding stocks. CATALOGUE FREE. 



SALZER SEED COMPANY. Box 



OATS 



Sworn yield 259 

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 can beat that in 1911. 



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Plant for Immediate Effect 



Not for Future Generations 



Start With the largest stock that can be secured ! It takes over twenty 



years to grow such Trees and Shrubs as we offer. 

 We do the long waiting— thus enabling you to secure Trees and Shrubs that 



give an immediate effect. Price List Now Ready. 



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WM. WARNER HARPER, Proprietor 



CHESTNUT HILL, 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



For the 



Flowers for Sun and Shade 



AFTER the cold and rain of December and 

 January, when garden operations are often 

 quite difficult, February, with its sunshine and 

 drying soil, its flowering trees and its daffodils, 

 gives the California amateur the nearest thing 

 he ever gets to the April and May enthusiasm of 

 the eastern gardener who has been kept from his 

 favorite recreation for a so much longer time. 



Except in the high and colder valleys he can still 

 plant his trees, shrubs, rose-bushes, and (if he has 

 been prevented before) he can still do that pruning 

 which is required by many things in early spring, 

 including the cutting out of that wood which bore 

 fruit on his raspberry and blackberry bushes last 

 season. This also is an excellent time to sow all 

 hardy annuals for later blooming, though they will 

 rarely do as well as those sown in the fall. Even 

 the half-hardy annuals may now go in, except 

 where experience has shown that heavy later 

 frosts are apt to come. This, also, is a good month 

 for sowing vegetables in most parts of the state, 

 but, except in frostless places or where protection 

 is given, cucumbers, melons, tomatoes and corn 

 had better wait over for a couple of months. 



During the next few weeks many of the most 

 attractive flowering trees will be in bloom, so that 

 the gardener who has limited space and wishes to 

 select what will please him most had better visit 

 neighboring parks, or, if he can obtain permission, 

 some of the fine private places where good collec- 

 tions may be found. The golden-flowered acacias, 

 of which I prefer the very fragrant A. mollissima, 

 and the glaucus-leaved A. Baillyana, are fine, 

 rapid-growing evergreens blooming this month. 

 These, with the various fruit trees grown for their 

 flowers — such as the double pink and white 

 peaches, almonds, cherries, double-flowering crab- 

 apples, and Japanese scarlet quince — are all as 

 satisfactory as they are appropriate to the Cali- 

 fornia landscape and garden, and besides this 

 furnish the finest flowers for house decoration 

 as well. 



It is no difficult matter to have flowers in April, 

 when the whole country-side is a garden; but to 

 have the house and its surroundings looking bright 

 in July after three rainless months, is a different 

 matter. 



Perhaps no two plants will thrive with less atten- 

 tion in the matter of watering, and yet continue 

 to cover such large areas with their flowers as well 

 as the lowly petunia and the verbena, yet as bor- 

 ders to paths and in large beds they are very 

 attractive if some attention is paid to using pure, 

 unmixed colors. This can be done either by 

 pulling old plants apart and rooting the newer 

 shoots now, or sowing the seed of such colors as 

 you desire, for though they will not always come 

 quite true, a packet of white seedling petunias or 

 pink verbenas, for example, will be safe to produce 

 no discordant shades. 



The scabious, too, in its present improved size 

 and nice, clean shades of pale blue, white, blush, 

 pink, rose, and cherry reds, is so much at home 

 under our summer conditions that it has escaped 

 from some gardens and may be found growing 

 by the roadside; yet, when I gave it a little atten- 

 tion last summer, it rewarded me with the prettiest 

 and most lasting cut flowers we had during the 

 months of July and August. 



Snapdragons, particularly in masses of harmoniz- 

 ing colors, add to the variety of our dry season; , 

 while for yellows and browns the annual chrysan- 

 themums and calliopsis are quite useful. Of all 

 perennials the Shasta daisies, gaillardias, and peren- 



