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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1911 



"HAMILTON-MADE" 

 GARDEN HOSE 



How to get quality in garden hose. 



IN hose, quality is everything. Looks count for nothing. 

 You can't tell the quality of rubber hose by examining it. You 

 must depend upon the maker, and the reputation of his hose. 

 Therefore always buy hose with the maker's name on it. 

 If you buy Hamilton-Made Hose, you get not only the maker's 

 name, but his GUARANTEE. This is very important, for very few 

 makers will guarantee their hose to stand a specified pressure. 



On every length of HAMILTON-MADE HOSE you will find 

 on the label the words "Guaranteed 600 pounds pressure," or 650 

 pounds, or 750, according to its grade,. 



Our splendid "Hamilton" brand, our highest grade, is tested 

 under an actual pressure of 750 pounds to the square inch. 



Do you think hose could stand such a pressure if it were poor 

 in any respect ? 



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 Hamilton-Made, 

 and you will be certain of getting the BEST HOSE OF THAT GRADE 

 that is made. 



Here are some of the 



leading grades of 



Hamilton-Made Garden 



Hose. Note that every 



label bears the words 



HAMILTON-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 hrand, our highest grade garden hose, com- 

 plete with standard hrass 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 



Growing Tree Tomatoes 



WHILE ordinary tomato culture is both sim- 

 ple and easy, tomato " trees ' seven to 

 eight feet high are another story. To have plants 

 of a good variety is the first essential. I grow the 

 Ponderosa which has the vitality to stand frequent 

 pruning, an essential in growing tree tomatoes. In 

 planting we put a half-wheelbarrow load of manure 

 beneath each plant. Horse manure is preferable as 

 it feeds the plant slowly all through the season. 



When the plants were set out on May 5th, they 

 were staked with ij^-inch round, smooth, ash 

 stakes, seven feet long. When the plant was 

 twelve inches high, it was tied to the stake per- 

 fectly straight with two-ply jute twine, tying the 

 twine first around the pole in a hard knot, then 

 loosely around the plant. The time of setting 

 out the plants, of course, varies with the locality. 

 But do it as soon as the ground is workable and 

 there is no danger of frost. 



Two weeks later all side shoots were clipped from 

 the main stalk close to the tree, slipping the string 

 up the pole. After a few days, we trimmed again. 



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Try growing tomatoes as trees; 400 pounds were 

 obtained from 16 trees in this field 



slipping the string up the stake, cultivating the 

 ground all through the season. All branches and 

 some of the blossoms nearest the ground were 

 clipped off, the tree maturing strength of trunk 

 before its vitality goes into the fruit. 



From sixteen trees, we picked about four hundred 

 pounds of luscious, rich, red, juicy, almost seedless 

 fruit, all of it sizable and smooth, each tomato 

 weighing from ten to nineteen ounces. Before 

 frost, we clipped the tree-top down to the pole, 

 and "bagged" it. October 10th, we picked all 

 ripe fruit, leaving only green tomatoes which 

 would have been killed by freezing. 



We then slipped a paper flour bag over each 

 tree, tying and winding it down to the ground. 

 Later we removed the bags and found most of the 

 remaining tomatoes ripe. All fruit not fully ripe 

 or matured was then picked and paper-wrapped 

 (like oranges) and packed away to ripen. 



New York. L. H. Nelson. 



Getting Choice Petunias 



THERE is perhaps no plant whose blossoms 

 show so great a difference in quality as the 

 petunia, some being decidedly plebeian, others 

 true aristocrats. I have a choice collection of 

 both single and double varieties and this is how 

 I have obtained it: 



Early in the spring I sow seeds in frames of the 

 best variety I can obtain. When the weather 

 becomes warm enough they are transplanted to 

 the garden. In a few weeks they begin to bloom, 



