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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1911 



Use A Cozy Cab 

 30 Days At Our Expense 



So wonderfully adjustable is the COZY CAB — so unlike any- 

 other carriage or buggy — so unique and distinctive — so im- 

 proved in every detail — that we realize that the best way tot- 

 you to fully understand and appreciate it is to ride in it, in all 

 kinds of weather, over all kinds of roads. Consequently, we 

 invite you to try the COZY CAB for 30 days at our expense, 

 while you learn by actual observation and experience its many, 

 many points of advantage. You do not have to send us one 

 penny in advance to secure the 30-day trial. We will send 

 any Cab to anybody anywhere, subject to acceptance or 

 refusal after trying it 30 days. If you decide to send it back 

 — we'll stand the expense. The 



Cozy Cab 



Is the smartest and handsomest of pleasure carriages and an 

 absolutely storm-proof buggy all in one. Just think of the 

 comfort of a buggy that is instantly adjustable to every 

 need of every day's drive. In a few seconds and without 

 leaving your seat, you can close it so tight that not a drop of 

 rain can beat in. Yet you aren't penned in as you are by the 

 storm curtains of the ordinary buggy. In case of accident 

 the door curtains can be opened quick as a flash, while you 

 leap to safety from the low-cut box through the roomy dooi. 

 If the wind blows chill or the dust annoys, one side of the cab 

 can be quickly closed. No matter what the condition of 

 weather, no matter how muddy the roads, it's always safe, 

 dry, and comfortable inside the COZY CAB. There are no 

 points of disadvantage to mar these wonderful advantages. 

 The COZY CAB is simply perfect — it's the neatest, hand- 

 somest buggy on the road today. It's the lightest closed 

 buggy made, the roomiest and the most serviceable. 



Mail the Coupon Today 

 For the Cozy Cab BooK 



Even though you may not need a new buggy just now, post 

 yourself on the COZY CAB. It is the one buggy that is 

 abreast with 20th-century improvement. A buggy, so im- 

 proved over the conventional types that you'll never forgive 

 yourself if you learn its wonderful comfort and convenience 

 after you've put your money in an ordinary buggy. Don't 

 put this off, but mail us the coupon today or drop us a post 

 card, if that is more convenient. We'll send you prepaid our 

 handsome COZY CAB book and our 30-day trial offer by 

 return mail. 



CATALOG COUPON 



FOUTS & HUNTER CARRIAGE MFG. COMPANY, 

 Dept. O-2, TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA. 



Please send me your new 1911 catalog, postage prepaid. 



NAME. 



STREET orR. F. D 



TOWN STATE. 



TREES AND SEEDS 

 THAT GROW 



We celebrate our 25th anniversary 

 In the Tree and Seed Business this 

 year by offering our customers 

 Anniversary Collections. Send 

 your name and address to- 

 day for list of Collections 

 and Free Anniversary 

 Garden Book, of 136 

 pages. Also a Free 

 packet "I n co m- 

 parable Let- 



of 



AH 



tuce Seed," 

 the best 

 ever. 



kinds 

 Farm , 

 Garden aDd 

 Flower Seeds to 

 select from. Best 

 quality fruit trees, 

 large bearers, grafted 

 stock, not seedlings. Ap- 

 ple 4c, Peach 6c, Plum, 

 15c, Cherry 12c. Concord 

 Grape $2.50 per 100. Forest tree 

 seedlings $1.25 per 1000 up. We 

 pay freight on $10 orders of nursery 

 stock. Write to-day. 



German Nurseries, Box no Beatrice, Neb. 



the previous autumn, and secured from a Two 

 Pound Pippin and a Golden Sweet tree a large 

 pitcher of fruit-bearing twigs, or cions. There 

 is a difference between the fruit and leaf twigs — 

 the former grow from the sides of the branches 

 and the leaf twigs from the ends. I filled the 

 pitcher with water to keep the cions fresh and 

 was soon at work on my own wild apple trees. 



I clipped the trunks clean of branches and 

 leaves to where the trunk of the tree was two 

 inches in diameter; then with a small saw I cut off 

 the top. These leafless trunks looked denuded of 

 every promise, but I took a sharp meat knife and 

 wooden mallet and slightly spilt the ends of the 

 stubs. Then I took two cions about six inches 

 long and whittled the cut end to a wedge, each 

 cion having a bud left at the apex of the wedge. 

 These I inserted into the split of the tree stub in 

 such a way that the bud was outside and on a 

 line with the bark where it was split. I bound 

 them firmly into their exact places with soft 

 grafting twine, and applied the soft grafting wax 

 to every cut and bruised place so that the tree 

 could not bleed. Each stub was treated in the 

 same way, and I waited for developments. After 

 I had clipped the trunks clean I was haunted with 

 a fear, for I realized too late that a tree breathed 

 through its leaves and that the wild trees leafed 

 earlier than the trees from which I had secured 

 my cions — a good thing for the growth of the 

 cions if I had not deliberately taken the lives of 

 the grafted trunks. 



But out of the six trees experimented with, 

 three are flourishing and are my pride; two more 

 are living but the cions died; the sixth met with 

 the same fate the German gardener's did fifty 

 years ago, and when I saw some one had pulled 

 the cions from my grafted trees I felt the German 

 gardener was avenged! 



Our state experimental station tells me that 

 from these grafted wild trees I will get a better 

 fruit than from the nursery trees I set out at the 

 same season, and that in two years these wild 

 trees should bear fruit. 



New Hampshire. Nushka. 



Exhibitions Worth Seeing 



A GREAT national flower show will be held in 

 Boston March 25th to April 1st. This 

 is the second national exhibition to be held by the 

 Society of American Florists and is in cooperation 

 with the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 

 The exhibition will take place in Mechanics' 

 Building. Besides the organizing societies there 

 will be on successive days meetings of the various 

 allied associations, such as the American Rose 

 Society, the American Carnation Society, etc., 

 with special displays of their particular flowers 

 all the week. The leading novelties' of the season 

 will be on display at the combined exhibitions and 

 will afford excellent opportunities for amateurs 

 to see the very latest introductions. 



The Massachusetts Horticultural Society sched- 

 ules the following exhibitions for the coming year, 

 in Horticultural Hall, Boston . 



May 20th, 21st: May exhibition. 



June 10th, nth: Rhododendron exhibition. 



June 24th, 25th: Rose, peony, and strawberry exhibition. 



July 15th, 16th: Sweet pea exhibition. 



August roth, 20th: Exhibition of flowers, fruits, and vege- 

 tables. 



September 2d, 3d: Children's exhibition, collectionsjof flowers 

 and vegetables from school gardens and children's home 

 gardens. 



November 9th, 12th: Chrysanthemum show. 



Visitors to New York City should not fail to 

 visit the monthly meetings and exhibitions of the 

 Horticultural Society of New York, which are held 

 in the American Museum of Natural History in 

 February, March and April. Other exhioitions 

 during the summer are held in the museum of the 

 New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park. This So- 

 ciety meets on the second Wednesday of the month. 



The program of the Pennsylvania Horticultural 

 Society, at Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia, is as 

 follows : 



Spring exhibition: March 21st, 22d, 23d. 



Peony exhibition: End of May or in June. The National 

 Peony Society will hold its exhibition in connection with 

 the sweet pea show, late in June. 



Outdoor-grown rose show in June or according to season. 



Dahlia exhibition: September 19th. 



Annual chrysanthemum show in November. 



Natives digging and loading asphalt at Trinidad Lake 



All " asphalt roofing " is not Trin- 

 idad Lake Asphalt Roofing — there's 

 a great big difference. Look out 

 for that when you buy your roofing. 



Ordinary so-called asphalt roofings 

 are. made of artificial products masquer- 

 ading as real asphalt. They are nothing 

 more than the residue from petroleum oil 

 or native bitumens made into a black 

 pitch, which is easily affected by changes 

 in weather. 



Genasco 



the Trinidad-Lake-Asphalt Roofing 



is made of genuine natural asphalt — perfectly 

 stable and uniform in quality. 



Trinidad Lake asphalt is endowed by nature 

 with natural oils; and they stay in it. This 

 gives Genasco its wonderful resistance to rain, 

 snow, sun, wind, heat and cold — and keeps it 

 lastingly waterproof. 



The artificial asphalts have oils mixed with 

 them, but they haven't the quality of the oils 

 in the natural product; and they soon evaporate 

 and leave the roofing "dead" — and it cracks, 

 breaks and leaks, although at the first it may look 

 like Genasco, the real Trinidad-Lake-Asphalt 

 roofing. 



To make sure of roofing that will permanently 

 protect, ask your dealer for Genasco, the Trini- 

 dad-Lake-Asphalt Roofing, with either mineral 

 or smooth surface. Fully guaranteed. 



The Kant-leak Kleet waterproofs the seams of Genasco Roof- 

 ing without cement, does away with nail-leaks, andgives the roof 

 an attractive finish. Ask your dealer for Genasco with Kant-leak 

 Kleets packed in the roll. 



Write for samples and the Good Roof Guide Book. 



The Barber Asphalt 

 Paving Company 



Largest producers of asphalt and largest 

 manufacturers of ready roofing in the world. 



Philadelphia 



San Francisco Chicago 



Cross-section Genasco Model Roofing 



Crushed Quartz 

 Trinidad Lake Asphalt 

 Asphalt-saturatedVVool Felt 

 Trinidad Lake Asphalt 

 Asphalt saturated Burlap 

 Trinidad Lake Asphalt 



EQUIP YOUR GARDEN RIGHT 



Get the new sash that has two layers of glass and needs no mats or other 

 covers. Send For These Two Books 



One is our valuable free catalog. In the other Prof. Massey tells what and 

 when to plant in hotbeds and coldframes. Send 4c in stamps for this book, 

 let in addition to free catalog. 



SUNLIGHT DOUBLE GLASS SASH CO., 927 E. Broadway, Louiiville, Ky. 



ROCKY MOUNTAIN 



flowers, shrubs and evergreens, the native sorts from northern 

 Colorado, are hardy and of remarkable vitality, thriving where 

 many plants fail. Their ornamental character is distinct, and 

 they take first rank for beauty and refinement. Our illustrated 

 catalogue (18th year) offers and describes the best. You will 

 find it interesting and instructive. Mailed free. Besides 

 natives, we grow the best hardy ornamentals for the West and 

 Northwest. Don't fail to see our catalogue. 

 ROCKMONT NURSERY. Boulder, Colorado 



