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Uy :; l :^i;;!T:!^f^ es the garden magazine 



February, 1911 



ABOUT that garden of yours — are you going to let 

 L your neighbor get ahead of you again this year? 

 What's the use when $ 1 3.50 will buy a two-sash cold 

 frame that will give your plants a six weeks' start. Good, 

 stocky plants all ready to go on growing. That's the kind. 



Now don't sag back in your easy chair 

 and say — "y es > that may be so, but aren't 

 frames a lot of trouble ?" No, decidedly 

 no ! That is, if you are a garden enthus- 

 iast. If you are not, then by all means get 

 some of our frames and you surely will be. 

 There is nothing like gardening when gar- 

 dening is done right. If you are tired of 

 it, it's your fault, not gardening. Give it 

 another try ! This kind of a try. 



We have frames three feet and six feet 

 wide. Can furnish them in any lengths. 



Frames with either single or double 

 light sash — whichever you prefer. This 

 one shown is six feet square. One we 

 call the "Junior," is but three feet square. 



The sash on the Juniors being smaller, 

 they are light to handle. Perhaps you 

 would like them best. They are a size 

 that because of their lightness, are particu- 

 larly in favor with the gentler sex. 



While you are about it, order a couple 

 of melon frames and have melons that are 

 melons this year. Two frames with sashes 

 complete cost but $2.70. 



Send for our Two P's Booklet. It tells 

 about the Pleasure and Profit of Cold 

 Frames. It is informative — tells just the 

 things you want to know in a kind of talk- 

 over-the-fence with your neighbor way. 

 Order your frames as soon as possible — 

 get started. Every day counts now. 



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The cut herewith shows one of a large number of vine's in my garden this 

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THRIPS ON CINERARIAS 



An insect about one-sixteenth of an inch in 

 length, slender, reddish brown, quite active in 

 its movements, is eating the undersides of the 

 leaves of my cinerarias which are growing in a 

 window garden. What is this pest and what will 

 kill it? 



South Dakota. G. M. D. 



— The cinerarias are troubled with thrips. These 

 can be suffocated with insect powder or tobacco 

 dust, or they must be hit with an oil, soap or 

 tobacco spray. Kerosene emulsion, a strong 

 tobacco decoction, or whale-oil soap (one pound 

 in six to eight gallons of water) will kill all the 

 insects that are wet with the spray, but it is prac- 

 tically impossible to hit them all with one appli- 

 cation. They develop so rapidly that usually 

 it is necessary to repeat the dose several times 

 during the season. Any of these sprays will 

 doubtless kill at the same time any slugs that may 

 be at work. 



KILLING THE BURROWING MOUSE 



In the mountains of North Carolina we are 

 troubled with a short-tailed or burrowing mouse. 

 I have put grain covered with strychnine in the 

 holes. Is there not a better method of destroy- 

 ing the mice? 



North Carolina. T. G. H. 



— Use carbon bisulphide and the work can be 

 quickly accomplished. Bisulphide of carbon is 

 a heavy, colorless, volatile liquid which easily 

 sinks into the ground, and the fumes, which are 

 heavier than the air, quickly penetrate downward 

 into the most remote corners. One or two table- 

 spoonfuls of the liquid may be carefully poured 

 into the opening of the nest or runs and a damp 

 cloth or a handful of soil should be immediately 

 put over it and packed down tightly. Nothing 

 else is necessary. If one application does not 

 entirely get rid of these little pests, it is a simple 

 matter to repeat the attack. This poison is 

 highly inflammable, and the vapor is dangerously 

 explosive. Be very careful not to use it near a fire. 



HOW TO GROW CANNAS 



Will you give me particulars about starting 

 cannas? 



New York. H. N. K. 



— New varieties of cannas are raised from seeds 

 which usually are slow to germinate and sometimes 

 fail entirely unless the hard integument is cut or 

 filed, or softened by soaking the seed in water 

 before planting it. Sow late in the winter, in 

 rather strong bottom heat, either in flats or pots. 

 Prick out, and give plenty of room as they grow. 

 Cannas are ordinarily propagated by dividing 

 the root-stock, a branching mass with many large 

 buds. As many plants may be made from a 

 rootstock as there are buds, although the weak 

 buds produce weak plants. Leave as much tissue 

 as possible with each bud. Those i-bud parts 

 usually give best results if started in pots, so that 

 the plant is six to twelve inches high at planting 

 time. The commercial canna plants are mostly 

 grown in pots. If one has sufficient roots, however, 

 it is better not to cut so close, but to leave several 

 strong buds on each piece. These pieces may be 

 planted directly in the ground, although more 

 certain results are to be secured by starting them 

 in the house in boxes or pots. C A. H. 



