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Do you intend to build a poultry house? 

 Write to the Readers' Service. 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1911 





"HAMILTON-MADE" 

 GARDEN HOSE 



What priced hose is cheapest? 



TOW much should I pay for garden hose? Is6-cent, 



15-cent, or 25-cent hose cheapest considering wear?" 

 Everyone ought to get light on this question before 

 buying hose. 



With the same care, or the same neglect and abuse, you will 

 find our "Hamilton" hose, at 25 cents a foot, in the long run 

 the cheapest hose you can buy. 



Take three neighbors who use garden hose. Suppose one buys 

 6-cent hose, one 15-cent, and one our 25-cent "HAMILTON" Hose, 

 and that all use their hose with the same care — or lack of care, 

 which is more common. At the end of six or eight years the last- 

 named man will have bought only one lot of hose, and spent the 

 least of the three. Besides, he will have had no trouble and twice 

 the satisfaction that the others have had. 



There's a Hamilton-Made Hose for every different use, 

 each grade made BETTER THAN IS NECESSARY to meet the 

 requirements for that use, and GUARANTEED to stand a 

 SPECIFIED PRESSURE. Whatever kind of hose you need, 

 ask the dealer for HAMlLTON-MADE.and you will be certain 

 of getting the BEST HOSE OF THAT GRADE that is made. 



How to get the best hose 

 that is made 



COME dealers do not sell the highest-grade garden hose. 

 ^ They argue that everybody wants low-priced hose. 

 We know better, for we know that our stiff, strong, tough 

 "Hamilton" brand hose is really the CHEAPEST 'OF 

 ALL, and that many wise buyers will be glad to get it. We 

 therefore make this offer to all who cannot buy it of a dealer: 



If your dealer does not keep it, we will deliver to you any- 

 where in the United States, PREPAID, 50-foot lengths of 

 HAMILTON brand, our highest grade garden hose, com- 

 plete with standard brass couplings, for the regular price, 

 $12.50 EACH LENGTH. 



This splendid hose stands a pressure of 750 POUNDS to 

 the square inch, and while it is our highest-priced garden 

 hose, it lasts so long that it is really the cheapest hose made. 



If hose of such extremely high resistance is not required, 

 we will send KENMORE (guaranteed 650 pounds) at $10.50, 

 or CYGNET (500 pounds) at $8.00, for 50-foot lengths. 

 Shipped same day order is received. 



Hamilton Rubber Manufacturing Co. 



Trenton, New Jersey 



Here are some of the 



leading grades of 



Hamilton-Made Garden 



Hose. Note that every 



label bears the words 



HAMILTON-MADE 



3& CYGNET^ 



Home-Made Plant Protectors 



ALMOST all transplanted plants require some 

 protection for a few days after they are set 

 out, and the amateur gardener is often at a loss 

 to find suitable articles for the purpose. Peach 

 baskets, berry boxes, shingles and even news- 

 papers are often used, but these do not answer 

 the purpose well nor are they convenient to handle. 



After one season of putting up with such make- 

 shifts I decided to find some better way to protect 

 my plants and finally hit upon the scheme of 

 making "domes" out of mosquito netting, on a 

 framework made of barrel hoops. 



I was fortunate in having several old barrels 

 on the place and from these I removed the hoops, 

 being careful not to break them. The best hoops 

 I used for the base, leaving the weaker and broken 

 ones for the semi-circular arches. I used three such 

 arches on each protector, although two would 

 probably have done well enough. 



I secured the ends of the arches to the circular 

 base by means of one-inch wire nails, clinching 

 them securely. I found that it took just one 







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Protectors for newly transplanted seedlings made 

 of barrel hoops and mosauito netting 



square yard of mosquito netting for each protector. 

 (I made a few of two thicknesses for use where 

 greater protection was needed.) The netting was 

 drawn fairly taut and fastened with double 

 pointed tacks on the inside of the base. 



I used these contrivances in my garden last 

 spring and found them far superior to the old 

 makeshifts. I was most successful in my transplant- 

 ing and I am sure I have been repaid for my few 

 hours' work. The cost of the protectors was almost 

 nothing. The netting costs three cents a yard, 

 and the hoops and small amount of hardware 

 could hardly be said to represent any cash value 

 at all. When out of use the protectors nest one 

 within the other, taking up surprisingly little room. 



I believe there are similar contrivances on the 

 market that may be purchased, ready made, but 

 I am sure they cannot be any more satisfactory 

 and certainly not as inexpensive as these home- 

 made ones of mine. 



New York. H. E. Anceix. 



