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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1911 



"Wigwarm" Specialties 



For Poultrymcn 



'Wigwarm" Setting and Brood Coop 



For a hen 

 ting. Gives 



and her chicks and while she is sit- 



protection from rats, skunks, hawks, 



and other enemies. 





$300 



knocked down 



Insures larger 

 hatches — fewer 

 broken eggs. The 

 runway is 20 x 24 

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 is just the thing 

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 and has proved 

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 Size, 2x4 ft., 2 ft. high. 



" Wigwarm" Brooder 



Uses the least oil of any brooder made. Storm 

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bined gives perfect 

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 an even tempera- 

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 in the brooder re- 

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No. Colony Laying House 



Fitted complete with nests, fountain and feed 



trough. Sanitary. Easily cleaned and , . - — .. 



aired. One man i '* * a 



can easily raise 



several hundred 



birds. Nicely 



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Winter or summer 

 the stock is always 



comfortable. In stormy weather the run may 

 be covered at top and sides, giving protection 

 and scratch room. Size, 10 x 4 ft. , 5 ft. high. 



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5 Section Poultry House 



These are houses that will grow with your 

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 $75. Additional sections $60 each. 



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The Spring Star Flower 



OF ALL my spring flowers I doubt if any has 

 been a more delightful surprise to garden 

 visitors than a charming one that for two years I 

 cultivated under a wrong name. This is the spring 

 star flower. 



I purchased the bulbs as Milla unifiora, but they 

 are properly Triteleia unifiora, a near relative of 

 what at first I took it to be, as well as of the North 

 American brodiaeas. The ordinary M ilia unifiora, 

 which is a native of the Argentine Republic, is 

 described as "shaded blue" and "pure white", 

 and the Violacea variety as "porcelain blue 

 striped violet." Mine, presumably, is the latter, 

 though I should call it, to all intents and purposes, 

 white with a faint lavender stripe on each section 



The spring star flower (Triteleia unifiora) is equally 

 as hardy as scillas and showdrops 



of its dainty and deliciously fragrant stars. I 

 plant it in my hardy borders, the same as scillas 

 and snowdrops, and find it equally hardy. Cost- 

 ing as it does only fifteen cents a dozen, it should 

 be planted more extensively. Indoors it may be 

 grown in earth or sphagnum and, by gentle forcing, 

 the lovely blooms, which are fine for cutting, 

 may be had from January to March. 



This bulb should not be confused with the true 

 milla that is cultivated — M. biflora, known 

 variously as Mexican star, Mexican star-of- 

 Bethlehem, frost flower and floating star. The 

 latter grows about twice as tall as Triteleia unifiora, 

 which is less than six inches high, and the pure 

 white blossoms, usually in pairs, are much larger 

 — say two and one-half inches across. It blooms 

 in August, is too tender to be treated as other 

 than a summer bulb, costs four times as much as 

 Triteleia unifiora and, aside from the question 

 of hardiness, requires greater cultural care. 



New York. H. S. A. 



