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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1911 



(~)UR Melon Frames make the handiest kind 

 of little portable cold frames. You can tote 

 them about anywhere and use them in endless 

 ways, as starting early vegetable and flower 

 plants — forcing hardy flowers in bloom earlier. 

 For melons they are little wonders. 

 They cost only $1.35 complete — sash included. 



Order some right now 

 and give things a boost. 

 It's really amazing the way 

 they will help you to have 

 things early with the least 

 possible trouble. 



There'syourrhubarb — 

 put a frame over a clump 

 and have "sauce" two to 

 four weeks in advance. 

 Three or more placed on 

 your asparagus bed will 

 give that a goodly boost. 

 You can take single frames 

 and plant one each to 

 lettuce, radishes, pepper 

 grass, swiss chard and so 

 on, and be smacking your 

 lips over the good things 

 weeks ahead of the regu- 

 lar garden planting. Then 

 of course there are your 

 melons and cucumbers — 

 these frames are a tre- 

 mendous advantage to 

 each, as the plants have 

 a chance to get thoroughly 

 started and strongly rooted 

 before hot weather begins 

 Melons and "cukes" grown 

 certain crop. Melons then 

 mouth-watering flavor. 



The melon frames are 22}£ x 25M inches and 

 are made in the same careful way as our 

 larger frames. Shipped knocked down. 



The Junior frames are next in size to the melon 

 and take a sash 34 x 38 inches. We make 

 them for one, two, three or any number of sash. 



to sizzle them, 

 this way are a 

 have that true 



So much for the vege- 

 table garden — and think 

 of the help they would be 

 to your flowers! You 

 see they are so light and 

 handy you can tote them 

 around anywhere, and 

 put them over tulips or 

 daffodils and have blooms 

 while the snowstill lingers. 

 Think of the cosmos — 

 the larkspur' — 'the salvia 

 — the coreopsis — the 

 nasturtiums — you could 

 start in them and have 

 things blooming just that 

 much earlier. It's great, 

 this gardening when you 

 have frames to help you. 

 Send for our Two P's 

 Booklet — it tells all about 

 all the different kinds and 

 different sizes of frames 

 we make. There's one 

 we call the Junior that is 

 a size between the melon 

 frames and the regulation 

 garden size. Perhaps you 

 would prefer it to the melon frames. In any 

 event, get your order in, because the robins are 

 already here and the crocuses are even now 

 peeping through the ground. 



Lord & Burnham Company 



New York 

 St. James Bldg. 



Boston 

 Tremont Bldg. 



Ph il a d elphia 

 Heed Bldg. 



Chicago 

 The Rookery 



THIS BOOK 



sent free for the asking, is full of 

 reliable information concerning 



Trees and Plants hardy in New England. It is well worth 



sending for. 



Our Stock includes a most complete line of Fruit and 

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when all but the finest are pulled up and destroyed. 

 Whenever I see at the florist's a plant with an 

 unusually pretty blossom I buy it; or, if it hap- 

 pens to be in a friend's garden, I beg for a slip, 

 which I root in damp sand or in a bottle of water. 

 In September two or three cuttings are taken 

 from each plant which I wish to reproduce the next 

 season. These are inserted about four inches 

 apart in a box of rich, sandy loam and a glass 

 placed over them to retain the moisture. The 

 cuttings are placed close together, as the idea is 



Petunias make a fine display in the garden. Select 

 only the best seed from year to year 



not so much to make a large growth as to carry 

 over to the next season as great a variety as possible. 

 The cuttings have rooted and have made some 

 growth before it is time to take them indoors. 

 The box is then carried to a cool room which has 

 plenty of sunshine but no artificial heat. Here 

 the growth is slow and the tips are pinched out 

 to induce branching. 



In February the box is brought into a warm 

 room and the plants are encouraged to make a 

 growth from which cuttings are taken about the 

 first of April, rooted in damp sand and potted 

 about four inches apart in boxes of light, rich soil. 

 These will be nearly ready to begin blossoming 

 by the middle or last of May, when they are planted 

 out in beds, in boxes — in fact, everywhere. 

 Nothing can be finer for a sunny window box than 

 a riotous growth of single petunias, and they will 

 also grow without direct sunshine if given plenty 

 of light. They will bloom and make a brave show- 

 ing long after frost has killed all tender things in 

 the garden. 



New York. Mrs. E. E. Trumbull. 



Grafting Wild Apples 



WHEN I went to my New Hampshire camp 

 last April to make our vegetable garden 

 there were a few days before the ground could be 

 worked, and in looking about for occupation I 

 discovered among the birches innumerable small 

 wild apple and thorn apple trees. The thought 

 occurred to me that possibly these could be grafted 

 with a choice fruit. On inspection I found the 

 thorn apple trees were such a haven for brown tail 

 caterpillars that I cut down and burned every 

 one I could find. 



With the wild apple trees it was different. 

 These were clean and thrifty. I selected half 

 a dozen for my experiment. I remembered having 

 seen — when a child — some pear trees being 

 grafted by my uncle's German gardener, and I was 

 so piqued with curiosity that I pulled out one of 

 the cions to see how he had put it in — much to 

 the gardener's wrath. But that incident, occur- 

 ring nearly fifty years ago, was my only teacher 

 now. I secured some grafting wax and melted 

 it in a can set in boiling water. I went to a neigh- 

 boring orchard where I had reveled in "windfalls" 



