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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 1911 



"HAMILTON-MADE" 

 GARDEN HOSE 



U. S. A, Uses Hamilton-Made Hose, 



The Government knows which garden hose gives the best serv- 

 ice. It tests it thoroughly. Buying is done scientifically, not by 

 looks or guess-work. 



That is why you will find Hamilton-Made Hose in use in every 

 Government building and lawn in Washington, including the 

 White House, Capitol grounds, the Treasury, the State, War and 

 Navy Building, the Pension Bureau, Post Office, Printing Office, 

 Supreme Court, Zoological Park, Botanic Garden, etc. 



Get hose with the maker's name on it. All our hose has on it a 

 guarantee that it will stand a certain pressure. 



The Government demands the hose that gives the most for the 

 money. Will you? 



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. 



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 brand, our highest grade garden hose, com- 

 plete with standard brass 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 EENMORE (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 



Here are some of the 



leading grades of 



Hamilton-Made Garden 



Hose. Note that every 



label bears the words 



HAMILTON-MADE 



^CYGNET^ 



Discoveries of a Southern 

 Amateur 





I SUPPOSE there is no trade that fosters such 

 a generous fellowship as gardening. Fish 

 stories and hunting yarns surely inspire no better 

 feeling among the tellers about the camp fire at 

 night than passes, with the interchange of plans 

 and methods, over the back fence between gar- 

 deners. My garden 6o x 70 ft. was surprisingly 

 successful last year and a list of the things grown, 

 with quality and quantity indicated, would en- 

 danger my standing as a sober gardener and range 

 me almost with the fishermen. And these are 

 some of my "stunts " : 



In tomato culture the following method will 

 insure large fruit in abundance, and long life to 

 the plant even in drought. A study of the plant 

 shows that the main root system forms a mat, 

 very near the surface of the soil. In the South, 

 especially, this shallow growth often results, 

 during August, in the death of the plant from heat 

 and drought. The plant would shield its roots 

 with its suckers, but these cost the plant too much 

 and must be pruned to conserve the strength for 

 the main stalk and for fruit. 



In watching some Italian gardeners I noticed 

 that they had developed a system of deep planting. 

 The soil is well dug and deep trenches, or furrows, 

 run three or four feet apart. In these furrows near, 

 but not at, the bottom the young plants are set. 

 Gradually, as the growth allows, the earth is drawn 

 to the plants so that when the hilling is done the 

 rows are slightly raised. The roots now rest eight 

 or ten inches below the surface and new roots form 

 as the earth is drawn to the stalk. A little nitrate 

 of soda applied gradually in this process will work 

 wonders in the plant. So treated the bearing 

 season runs until frost. 



For generations the tradition in asparagus 

 culture has been for a bed. By far the better 

 method is to plant it in a long double row. In the 

 old system the bed was made wide and short, 

 and the crowns matted close together. The 

 rich, deep soil was too good for grass to miss, 

 and the roots of this struck down and became so 

 intertwined with the asparagus roots that it was 

 practically impossible to get them out. Besides 

 this it was necessary to walk on the bed whenever 

 the stalks were cut. 



In the new method the crowns are placed in a 

 double row that can be easily worked with a wheel- 

 hoe. There is no treading on the soft earth in 

 cutting the sprouts. My row extends clear across 

 one end of the garden. It is three feet from the 

 fence so as to allow a row of sweet peas to climb 

 the fence by way of ornament. Such an arrange- 

 ment has the asparagus safely out of the way in 

 plowing time. 



In preparing this long bed all the care of the old 

 method is used. The first layer of surface soil 

 is thrown out, and the subsoil is deeply dug and 

 well mixed with quantities of stable manure, 

 gravel, and commercial fertilizer. A little soil 

 is then thrown back. It will never do to set a 

 plant in contact with the hot fertilizers. The 

 crowns are then placed evenly, about four inches 

 down, and eighteen inches each way in a double 

 row. The rest of the surface soil is then carefully 

 thrown in and a top dressing of well rotted manure 

 spread over the bed. 



On a bed eight feet wide and twenty feet long 

 I raised over two hundred fine eggplants. Noth- 

 ing I grew the whole year did quite so well. I used 



