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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1911 



Protect and Beautify 

 Your Grounds 



Only one moderate-priced fence has ade- 

 quate strength for protective purposes 

 and a beauty of outline that harmo- 

 nizes perfectly with its surroundings — 



Barcalo 



Sensible 



Steel Fence 



Barcalo Sensible Steel Fence is almost as much 

 superior to iron fence as iron is to wood fence 

 — a truly modern fence. 



It meets every requirement for estates, schools, 

 parks, cemeteries, railroad and factory yards. 



Strength of Steel— Price of Wood 



Barcalo Steel Fence is ex- 

 tremely light, but possesses 

 marvelous resisting powers. 



The Barcalo V- Joint is the 

 greatest improvement 

 made in this type of fence 

 in years. It gives the entire 

 fence a present and perma- 

 nent unity. The price is 

 practically what a wood 

 fence would cost. Very easy 

 to erect. 



Let us tell you about the undupli- 

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 Barcalo Fence. Information and 

 prices mailed free on request. 



We need aggressive representa- 

 tives. If you appreciate an at- 

 tractive offer on an easily sold 

 fence, send for our agents' prop- 

 osition. 



Ba.rcalo Mfg. Co. 



Dept. D-41, Buffalo, N. Y. 



A Sweet Rocket for Semi-shady 

 Situations 



NO OTHER free-flowering plant that I know 

 of will bloom, increase, and seem so happy 

 and at home in such trying places as the rocket 

 (lies peris matronalis) . In full sunlight and fairly 

 good soil it makes a plant two to three feet tall and 

 as broad, but in less congenial situations and 

 even where hardly any other attractive plant would 

 grow, it sends up only a single stalk which branches 

 as it blooms. It self-sows, however, and as plants 

 come up every few inches, it presents a mass 

 effect when in bloom. 



It flowers from the middle of May until the 

 last of June, the blossoms being a pale pink 

 and a fair white. I have it growing along the 

 edge of a shady roadway, and in between the 

 bordering shrubs. Here it sows itself and, being 

 a hardy, lasting perennial, it does not take long to 

 establish a colony. Plants that would thrive ^at 



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The free-flowering sweet rocket (Besperis matron- 

 alis) is at home in most trying situations 



all — other than early spring-blooming ones — 

 in semi-shady places are scarce, and one having 

 such situations should try the rocket. Scattering 

 seed early in the spring will, in a couple of years, 

 create quite a group. 



Illinois. W. C. Egan. 



Repotting Forced Plants 



IN "The Rejuvenation of Azaleas and Poinset- 

 tias," in the February, 1911, Garden Magazine, 

 I noted the statement that a florist told the author 

 afterward it would have been better to have 

 repotted the azalea in the spring. My experience 

 has been that repotting in the fall, as the author 

 of that article did, produces more flowers the 

 succeeding winter. If the repotting is done in the 

 spring the plant does not have a sufficient period 

 of rest in which to recover from having been forced 

 and the new earth stimulates wood and leaf growth 

 at the expense of the flower buds. 



If the plant is watered occasionally after flower- 

 ing and, when all danger of frost is passed, is 

 plunged, pot and all, into the ground in a partially 

 shaded place, it will have an opportunity to re- 

 cuperate and end development will be stimulated. 

 Fall repotting gives a new supply of food which 

 is utilized in developing flowers. 



Massachusetts. H. D. P. 



Wilson's Outside Venetians 



Blind and Awning Combined 



For town and country houses. Very durable and artistic. 

 Easily operated from inside. Admit air; exclude sun rays. 



Special Outside Venetians 



for porches and piazzas, 

 exclude the sun; admit the 

 breeze, Virtually make an 

 outdoor room. 



Orders should be placed 

 now for early summer. 



Write for Catalogue 4. 



Also Inside Venetians, 

 Rolling: Partitions, Rolling 

 Steel Shutters, Burglar and 

 Fireproof Steel Curtains, 

 Wood Block Floors. 



JAS. G. WILSON 

 MFG. CO. 



3 and 5 West 29th St. 

 New York 







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Cuts where lawn mower 

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stone-walls, fences, shrubbery, 



tomb-stones, etc. 



It is simple in construction 



and made to endure. Makes 



a cut 7 inches wide. 



Price only $3.75 each. Send 

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Beautiful reproductions of famous models from 

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We are the largest and oldest manufacturers of 

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Our catalog, containing more than 

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