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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1911 



Union Increases Use 



When two groups of telephone 

 subscribers are joined together the 

 usefulness of each telephone is 

 increased. 



Take the simplest case — two 

 groups, each with three subscribers. 

 As separate groups there are pos- 

 sible only six combinations — only 

 six lines of communication. Unite 

 these same two groups, and instead 

 of only six, there will be fifteen 

 lines of communication. 



No matter how the groups are 

 located or how they are connected 

 by exchanges, combination in- 



creases the usefulness of each tele- 

 phone, it multiplies traffic, it 

 expands trade. 



The increase is in accordance 

 with the mathematical rule. If two 

 groups of a thousand each are 

 united, there will be a million more 

 lines of communication. 



No one subscriber can use all of 

 these increased possibilities, but 

 each subscriber uses some of them. 



Many groups of telephone sub- 

 scribers have been united in the Bell 

 System to increase the usefulness of 

 each telephone, and meet the pub- 

 lic demand for universal service. 



American Telephone and Telegraph Company 

 and Associated Companies 



One Policy One System Universal Service 



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Chrysanthemum 



A marvelously large variety, the 

 flowers of which are frequently 22 

 inches in circumference; beautiful. 

 bright lustrous pink color and per- 

 fect form. Plants are really worth 

 25 cents each, but to readers of this 

 paper, we will send a strong plant 

 of the above and four other choice 

 Chrysanthemums, all different- 

 five plants in all lor only 25 cents, 

 lirections for growing big flowers. Beau- 

 free. 



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 Direct to the Planter 



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DEERFIELD 



BROTHERS 



ILLINOIS 



with the air, at least, that it is bossing the job and 

 not you. Then I have no time to build trellisses, 

 let alone pergolas, and even roses on pillars need 

 a lot of attention. Rather, I prefer an aged tree, 

 which calls for no carpentering, is never too long 

 for a young rose or too short for an old one and 

 through all the long winter does not leave the 

 unclothed canes against a sadly artificial back- 

 ground. To my mind old apple trees are 

 best; they are as apt to be crooked as not; and the 

 crookeder they are the less boosting you have to 

 give the rose, which will climb fast enough if you 

 enrich the soil around it. 



My hardy borders have absorbed three of the 

 right sort of old apple trees, and each of them has 

 one or two roses running up it. To one tree I 

 have given the old-fashioned single prairie rose, 

 which has few equals among climbers, and also a 

 Persian Yellow. The latter is rampant rather than 

 climbing, but, when well established, is glad to j 

 lean on a tree. Two Dorothy Perkins ramblers 

 are planted by another tree and the second summer 

 they attained a height of twenty feet. This 

 is the best rose of all for the purpose, not only 

 because of its free, graceful habit, but for the reason 

 that the pink blossoms are so well set off by the 

 bark. A third tree has a crimson rambler for its 

 portion. 



Climbing roses may also be used to excellent 

 advantage on dead trees. In that case the trees 

 should be so topped as to leave a few feet of the 

 main branches. The finest ramblers I know of 

 are thus trained. Other good roses for the purpose 

 are those prime favorites, more honored of our 

 grandmothers and mothers than of the younger 

 generation, the Baltimore Belle and the Queen 

 of the Prairies. 



Connecticut. B. Goodrich. 



The Finest of Pentstemons 



NO one can realize the height to which culture 

 has brought the pentstemon unless he has 

 grown the so-called gloxinia-flowered type, or, at 

 least, studied it at close range. While the blos- 

 soms naturally are not so large as those of the 

 gloxinia, they do resemble the latter in not only 

 form but shades of color and markings. All in 

 all, these hybrids are among the most attractive 

 of the showier perennials. 



Unfortunately they are afflicted with a pest that 

 does not appear to bother the other pentstemons 

 that have come under my observation — four or 

 five that are either true species or are only slightly 

 improved. This is a little borer that gets in the 

 flower stem and soon ruins the whole stalk. I 

 have never been able to fight the pest successfully 

 and as I have found it flourishing where there w r as 

 the best of professional care, I fancy that neither 

 prevention nor cure is easy. 



The gloxinia-flowered pentstemon will bloom 

 later in the first summer if the seed is sown early 

 indoors, say in April. It is best treated as an 

 annual, my experience being that hybrid pentste- 

 mons do not winter so well as the several species 

 that are in cultivation. 



New York. H. S. A. 



Using Torches to Kill the Tent 

 Caterpillar 



THOUGH spraying with arsenates early in 

 the season is a preventive of the tent worm, 

 the next best thing is to destroy both the cater- 

 pillars and their nests with fire, just as soon as 

 they appear. A bunch of straw or a rag saturated 

 with kerosene and attached to the end of a pole 

 will destroy them if it does not burn out before 

 the task is completed; but it must be prepared 

 anew each time. 



The advantage of a kerosene torch is that it 

 is always ready for use and needs but to have 

 the match applied. This often means that the 

 time to burn out these nests can be spared 

 when they are first noticed, as no time need be 

 spent in preparation. A common tin torch will 

 answer, but the three-burner torch made for this 

 purpose will do the work more quickly and once 

 purchased will last for years. 



Pennsylvania. J. L. K. 



