March, 1911 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



The Readers' Service will give you 

 injormalion about motor boats 



115 



How Any One Can 



Grow Mushrooms 



Delightful Occupation — Delicious Delicacy for the 

 Home Table and a Good Income if you Wish 



I have been growing mushrooms for over 

 twelve years. I probably know more about the 

 subject of mushroom culture than anyone else in 

 America. From a start with a few dollars 

 capital I built up the largest mushroom farm in 

 America, with acres of bed space in cultiva- 

 tion. By actual experience I have learned just 

 how mushrooms can be grown, and what's even 

 more important, how they can not be grown. 



Growing mushrooms is really no more difficult 

 than growing radishes. 



It's just a matter of knowing how. 



Every failure in the mushroom business 

 can be traced to poor spawn and unreliable 

 information. 



I have shown thousands of men and women 

 how to grow mushrooms successfully. Most all 

 of them are now in the business growing for 



profit and making a good income without in- 

 terfering with their regular occupation, with this 

 wonderful, easy, pleasant pastime. I hope soon 

 that a mushroom bed will be as common as 

 vegetable gardens. 



I have written a little book which gives 

 truthful, reliable, experienced information about 

 mushroom culture, where mushrooms can be 

 grown, how to have a mushroom bed in your 

 cellar, etc. It also tells about spawn and how 

 to secure really reliable spawn. I shall gladly 

 send you this book Free. 



If you have never tried mushroom growing, 

 or if you have tried and failed because of the 

 causes of which I have spoken, write for my 

 free book, in which I will show you beyond 

 the shadow of a doubt that you can have a fine 

 mushroom bed. Address 



A. V. JACKSON 



Jackson Mushroom Farm 



6023 North Western Ave. 



Chicago, 111. 



You Can Succeed With Gladioli 



My New Book Tells You How 



If you know the Gladiolus as I do from long personal exper- 

 ience — then you love it, too — for you have learned that it 

 is the most serviceable of flowers — can be grown in nearly 

 all soils, blooming almost the whole summer. 

 No other flower you can grow will lend itself to so many practical uses 

 as will my Gladioli. Bedded in lawn or garden, they keep up a display 

 for weeks that one cannot pass by; while the long, stiff stems and the 

 wonderful lasting qualities of the flowers, which often "stand up" for a 

 week, make the Gladiolus ideal, when cut, for home or church decoration. 

 Planted among Peonies, Irises, etc., they keep up a succession of brilliant 

 color after the other things have stopped blooming. 

 Gladiolus culture is easy — I want you to read a book I have just issued, entitled, 



The Uses of the Modern Gladiolus "—Free 



A handy little work, telling in plain English how to prepare soil, plant and 



care for the bulbs. Describes the best, and contains-an irresistible lot of special 



collections ranging from 50 cents to $5-25 and up. 



And the pictures I You simply can't get away from the illustrations in this 



little book — pages and pages of true-to-life color work, showing the dainty tints 



and shades of each individual flower. But you must see it to understand it properly 



—so write your name on a card and let me send my book NOW — today ! 



Arthur Cowee, Meadowvale Farm, Box 74, Berlin, N. Y. 



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Farr's Hardy Plants 

 For Spring Planting 



A REMINDER 



The swelling of the buds in March reminds us it is time to get busy, if the 

 garden picture our fancy has created during the Winter evenings is to 

 become a living reality. 



THE LOOK-AHEAD-QARDENER KNOWS 



That early spring is the best time to plant most things, and the only proper 

 time to plant some things that should have a prominent place in every 

 hardy garden, as 



Anemones, Hardy Asters, Chrysanthemums, 

 Pyrethrums, Primroses, Campanulas, 

 Tritomas, Foxgloves, Hollyhocks, etc. 



HE KNOWS 



No time may be lost now; that he cannot afford to risk having his garden 

 picture marred by plants inferior, or untrue to name, and that he will save 

 time, annoyance and money, by ordering from 



THE LOOK-AHEAD-QROWER 



Whose complete collections of the best things enable him to supply all his 

 needs with the assurance that he will get just what he orders without 

 substitution. Knowing or wanting to know my plants, he will want My Book; 



"Farr's Hardy Plants" 



For the information and help which its accurate descriptions and suggestions 

 for planting and cultivating will give — mailed free on request. 



SOME SPECIALTIES 



PHLOXES — A superb assortment, including the latest novelties. 

 IRISES — A surpassing collection of over 500 varieties. 



DELPHINIUMS — " Wyomissing Hybrids " equal to the finest named 

 English varieties. (Seeds 25 cents per pkt.) 



BERTRAND H. FARR, BSt 643 D Penn Street, 



Reading, Pennsylvania. 



N. B. Dickson's Famous Irish Roses, extra heavy dormant plants up to April 15 th. 

 Established in pots for later planting. 



