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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 191L 



THE HOUSE 

 BEAUTIFUL 



A "House Beautiful" illustration greatly reduced 



"The House Beautiful" is an illustrated 

 monthly magazine, which gives you the ideas 

 of experts on every feature of making the 

 home, its appointments and surroundings 

 beautiful. 



It is invaluable for either mansion or cot- 

 tage. It shows how taste will go farther 

 than money. Its teachings have saved costly 

 furnishings from being vulgar — on the other 

 hand, thousands of inexpensive houses are 

 exquisite examples of refined taste, as a result 

 of its advice. It presents this information 

 interestingly and in a plain, practical way. 

 Everything is illustrated frequently in sepia 

 and colors. 



"The House Beautiful" is a magazine which no woman 

 interested in the beauty of her home can afford to be with- 

 out. It is full of suggestions for house building, house 

 decorating and furnishing, and is equally valuable for 

 people of large or small income. 



Ellen m. Henrotin, 

 Ex. Pres. Nat. Federation of Women's Clubs. 



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OLD ENGLISH GARDEN SEATS 



RUSTIC AND VERANDAH FURNITURE 



Send for nero Catalogue of many designs 



North Shore Ferneries Co., Beverly, Mass. 



plants of each will suffice for a moderately sized 

 family. They demand a good deal of heat and 

 can be treated in much the same way as tomatoes. 

 Egg plants require an occasional syringing to keep 

 down red spider. The best varieties to grow are 

 New York Improved and Black Beauty. The 

 best peppers are Large Bell, Chinese Giant and 

 Long Red Cayenne. 



Parsley. Sow a few pots or a flat in March 

 or April. Parsley is slow to germinate; the soil 

 should be thoroughly firmed when the seed is 

 sown. It is one of the hardiest of vegetables 

 and requires no special treatment. 



Onions. A few of the large mild varieties, 

 such as Prizetaker and Ailsa Craig, can be sown 

 during March or April in flats for extra early use. 

 Broadcast the seed moderately thick. As soon 

 as the plants are of sufficient size, transplant to 

 other flats, in good rich soil, three inches apart 

 each way. As soon as the plants have attained the 

 size of lead pencils transfer to permanent quarters in 

 open ground. The soil cannot be too rich for 

 onions. Plant nine inches apart in drills two inches 

 deep, allowing eight inches between the rows. 



Celery is always in demand. Sow a small flat 

 in February for early use, barely covering the 

 seed. Shade for a few days till it germinates, and 

 then give an abundance of air and water at all 

 times. As soon as the second pair of leaves 

 appears transplant to other flats, about three 

 inches apart each way. For main crop sow in 

 frames or open ground about April 15th. For 

 early celery grow White Plume, Golden Dwarf, 

 Self Blanching; mid-season, Fin de Siecle, Giant 

 Pascal; late, Winter Queen, New Rose. 



New York. George Standen. 



A Glassless Hotbed 



MANY a small home garden would be the 

 richer for a small hotbed. But the cost 

 of sash is to be considered, the glass is always 

 breaking and, if not carefully tended every day, 

 the baby plants under glass are burned up. 



We enjoyed the advantages of a hotbed for 

 years in our garden without a foot of glass. This 

 was in Northern Michigan where planting-out 

 time delays until the last of May. A neighbor 

 who did truck gardening in a small way, and who 

 had been nursing cabbage and tomato plants on 

 racks in his windows since the middle of February, 

 laughed at us when we made a glassless hotbed 

 the first of April and declared that our plants 

 would equal his. At planting-out time he had to 

 admit defeat. Our plants were larger, greener, 

 sturdier than the window-grown ones; best of all 

 they had not stopped growing, which is one of the 

 essential things in the development of young plants. 



This hotbed was made of some hemlock boards 

 we happened to have, digging out to a depth of t 

 eighteen inches. Fresh horse manure was tramped 

 in, ten inches deep, and eight inches of garden 

 soil over that. Since we meant to let our plants 

 grow here until settled weather, we made the frame 

 twelve inches high at the back and eight at the 

 front, sinking it three inches and banking the out- 

 side a little. The frame for the cover was of 

 very light strips hinged to the back of the bed, 

 and upon this frame we tacked unbleached cotton 

 cloth — two widths seamed in the middle. 



When the heat in the bed fell to 90 degrees we 

 sowed our seeds, both flowers and vegetables. 

 They flourished remarkably because the weather 

 was warm enough to allow the cover to be raised 

 nearly every day and the plants had an abundance 



Boston 

 Garter 



is highesl grade— not only 

 fits the leg, but will wear 

 well in every part — the 

 "Velvet Grip" 

 clasp slays in 

 place until 

 released. 



See that 



BOSTON 



GARTER 



is stamped 

 on the clasp. 



Sample Pair, Cotton, 25c, Silk, 50c. 



Muiled on receipt of Price. 



George Frost Co., makers 



Boston, U.S.A. 



WHOLESALE and RETAIL 



$5t 



C\C\ will bring 

 UU you Hardy 

 Perennials, 

 assorted for 

 continuous display the entire 

 or 



100 



season, 



100 



Summer-flowering Annuals, all 

 pot grown stock. Don't miss. 



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Chas. W. Schneider, Little Silver, N. J. 



1840 



1911 



Old Colony Nurseries 



HARDY SHRUBS, TREES, VINES, 

 EVERGREENS AND PERENNIALS 



A large and fine stock of well-rooted plants grown 

 in sandy loam. Good plants; best sizes for plant- 

 ing very cheap. Priced catalogue free on appli- 

 cation. Wholesale and retail. 



Plymouth, Mass. 



T. R. WATSON 



50 Aster Plants For 

 50 Cents, Prepaid 



You can set these Aster plants any- 

 where the sun shines and they are 

 sure to furnish a profusion of blooms 

 all summer until frost. These are 

 strong, healthy plants that will give 

 you flowers of beautiful red, pink, 

 white, lavender, purple and blue, 

 and are borne on strong stems — veiy 

 suitable for cutting. You will save 

 time by getting our Aster plants -so 

 much quicker and surer than plant- 

 ing seeds and waiting for them to 

 grow. Order to-diy, we'll send the 

 plants at the right time for planting 

 in your garden . We want you to have 



our illustrated catalogue — a postal request tiring* 



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