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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1911 



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The only lawn mowers in 

 which all the blades are made 

 of crucible tool steel, hardened 

 and tempered in oil, are the 



PENNSYLVANIA 



Quality Lawn Mowers 



This is why they are actually 

 self-sharpening — why they will go 

 for years without regrinding or 

 repairing. 



All high-grade cutting instru- 

 ments must be made of crucible 

 oil-tempered steel — that's why it 

 is used exclusively in the "Penn- 

 sylvania." If you want a light- 

 running, self-sharpening machine, 

 with over thirty years of pains- 

 taking effort back of it, then, ask 

 your dealer to show you the 

 "Pennsylvania" — he knows its 

 true worth. 



"The Lawn— Its Making and 

 Care," a text book written by a 

 prominent authority, will prove 

 most helpful to all interested in 

 lawns and shrubbery. Mailed 

 free on request. 



SUPPLEE HARDWARE COMPANY 

 P. O. Box 157s, Philadelphia. 



Lawn Mcw£rs 



TREES AND SEEDS 

 THAT GROW 



We celebrate our 2-5th anniversary 

 In the Tree and Seed Business this 

 year by offering our customers 

 Anniversary Collections. Send 

 your name and iddress to 

 day for list of Collections 

 and Free Anniversary 

 Garden Book, of 136 

 pages. Also a Free 

 packet"! ncom 



All kinds 

 of Farm, 

 Garden and 

 Flower Seeds to 

 select from. Best 

 quality fruit trees, 

 large bearers, grafted 

 parable Let- dGF5M2T stock, not seedlings. Ap- 

 tuceSeed," ^CcflK^r P le 4c ' Peacn 6c - 1 ' 1 » m . 



the best j^Jtir 15c. Cherry 12c. Concord 



ever >CJflr Grape |2.50 per 1U0. Forest tree 



seedlings Jl.25 per inoo up. We 

 pay freight on $10 orders of nursery 

 stock. Write to-day. 



German Nurseries, Box 351 Beatrice, Neb. 



year, it remains. Sometimes a market basket 

 full of roses, is picked without seriously marring 

 the general effect and always there is plenty of 

 flowers for the house and to send to friends. More- 

 over the border, all through its June days of 

 brightness, is a delight to the hundreds who pass 

 it daily. 



And all it has cost so far is the breaking into a 

 third five-dollar bill and such time as a man away 

 from home thirteen hours a day, six days in the 

 week, could give it in fits and snatches. Not 

 much to exchange for so many agreeable rose 

 years! Doubtless the roses could have had more 

 care; but it has sufficed to plant them, keep the 

 ground well hoed through the summer, protect 

 the bushes with leaves during the winter, cut them 

 back to eight inches in March, work in some 

 fertilizer and replace the dead or degenerated stock 

 in April and gather in June what women are prone 

 to call "bushels and bushels of roses." 



Besides the two varieties that the border started 

 out with, the roses grown include Baroness Roths- 

 child, Frau Karl Druschki, Souvenir du President 

 Carnot, Papa Gontier, Caroline Testout, Co- 

 quette des Alpes, La France, Magna Charta, Paul 

 Neyron, Alfred Colomb, Soleil d'Or and American 

 Beauty. All have not done equally well, but 

 few have failed to pay their way with at least a 

 season's bloom. And is not a season's bloom 

 cheap enough at a dime, if only it be a single rose? 



Connecticut. J. A. De Kenson. 



Letting Roses Climb a Tree 



IT IS against the rule to plant roses under trees: 

 but what happy gardener wants forever to 

 be doing things by rule? I have planted roses 

 under three trees and they are all doing well. 

 True the trees are old apple trees, with the lowest 

 branches so high in the air that there is no lack of 

 sunshine, and the roses are planted a couple of 

 feet away from the trunk; but at that I have not 

 compromised such a great deal with the cut-and- 

 dried rule. 



I confess to liking to see a rose up a tree; it 

 seems sort of natural for a climber to really climb 



Dorothy Perkins rose on an old apple tree gives a 

 most artistic effect 









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There's But Little 

 Work in a Big Garden 



If proper tools are used. Whether a man does his own garden work 

 or hires it done, he naturally wants something to show for his labor 

 or nvney. Gardening with old fashioned tools is unsatisfactory and 

 unprofitable: with Iron Age tools it is a decided pleasure. 

 Work that formerly required a day is accomplished in an hour, — 

 and it's done easier and better. Even a small boy can operate 

 these tools. They save time and labor, insure better culti- 

 vation and bigger crops* 



IROMASE 



No. 9 Single Wheel 

 Hoe. Cultivator. 

 Plow and Rake — 



one of the many well-known and widely-used Iron Age tools — 

 light, strong, built for many years' satisfactory service. Will 

 plow, rake, cultivate, weed, hill and hoe your garden. Tools 

 from $2.50 to $12.00. Write for free Anniversary Catalog, describ- 

 ing all Iron Age Farm and Garden Tools, JJ. 

 horse hoes, potato machinery, orchard tools, etc ■ ■ - * * 



Bateman M'f'g Co. 



Box 535-M Grenloch. N. J. 



It destroys the insects; invigorates plant life, 

 and possesses excellent cleansing qualities 

 for decorative plants . For sale by seedsmen . 



MANUFACTURED BY 



APHINE MANUFACTURING CO., Madison, N.J. 

 IWAN POST HOLE AND WELL AUGER 



Best for fence, telephone post holes and wells. Makes hole 9 

 smoothly and quickly, empties easily. Three full turns com- 

 plete post hole. Special price to 

 Agents wanted where dealers do 

 not handle. Ask dealer for it. 

 Be sure Iwan Bros, is on handle 

 casting. Write for " Easy Digging" book free. 



IWAN BROTHERS, BOX 18, SOUTH BEND, INDIANA. 



HORSFORD'S 



HARDY PLANTS 

 For Cold Weather 



and 



FLOWER SEEDS thatGrow 



Try a few plants and seeds from Vermont, 

 if you want something hardy. Do your 

 shrubs and trees kill back in cold win- 

 ters? Send up for a few of ours and see 

 how they will stand the cold. We can 

 save you money every time, not only in 

 the price but in the quality of stock, and 

 we know how to pack them so they reach 

 you alive and fresh. Our plants for the 

 most part are field grown, and stand 

 the change of soil and climate better 

 than potted stock. Send for catalogue. 

 FREDERICK H. HORSFORD, Charlotte, Vermont 



