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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1911 



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"HAMILTON-MADE" 

 GARDEN HOSE 



Why slow-process hose is cheapest 



THIS company is one of the largest rubber hose manufacturers in the world. 

 We make many kinds of hose, for all purposes. We ought to know what 

 process makes the hose that is really cheapest. 

 We have carefully tested the rapid processes of making hose, and deliberately 

 decided to stick to our old, slow process. 



Why? First, because the new rapid-process hose will not stand the tremendous 



pressure which Hamilton-Made hose must stand in testing. It is not strong enough. 



Then time has proved that the stiff, springy, hard-to-kink hose produced by our 



slow process is in the long run the cheapest hose that can be made, because it takes 



so long to wear out. 



The lasting quality of hose cannot be told by examination when it is new. You 

 would probably think our 15-cent hose as good as our 25-cent hose ; but after six or 

 eight years' use you would find that the 25-cent hose was actually cheaper than any 

 lower-priced hose. 



Buy hose that has the maker's name on it. It's your best safeguard. If it is good 

 hose, don't you think the maker will want everybody to knoiv that he made it? 



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 



3w;' KEN MORE 



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 KENMORE (guaranteed 650 pounds) at $10.60, 

 or CYGNET (500 pounds) at $8.00, for 50-foot lengths. 

 Shipped same day order is received. 



Hamilton Rubber Manufacturing Co. 



Trenton, New Jersey 



What Has to Be Done Now 



MANY vegetables are ready for harvesting dur- 

 ing this month, among them being onions 

 and white potatoes. Peas are usually through 

 bearing, and something should be planted in 

 their places. Plant late corn and melons now: 

 also sow seed of cucumber for pickles. They are 

 easily grown on almost any soil. 



The yard long beans should be ready for use now. 

 If the pods are gathered young (that is, when about 

 half a yard in length) and cooked like snap beans 

 they are good, but when they are much longer 

 than that they are fit only for cow peas. If you 

 are growing these beans, save the seed from the 

 most prolific plants, and in a few years you will 

 have a fine strain of beans. Keep the pods picked 

 off the other plants, not allowing any to make 

 seed, and they will bear until frost. 



After harvesting oats, sow cow peas and sorghum 

 cane for hay, or plant Early Prolific corn. Use a 

 peck of sorghum and three pecks to a bushel of 

 cow peas per acre. Clay cow peas are best, as 

 they make the most foliage. 



Continue to sow collards, which are excellent 

 after being touched by frost. They are also an 

 excellent food for chickens in winter. 



Sweet peas are usually through flowering by 

 this time. But try sowing a few seed during the 

 month for flowers in the fall and early winter. 

 Nasturtiums can be planted any time up to the 

 last of July. 



If there is not a canning factory in your section 

 where you can dispose of your superfluous fruit 

 and vegetables, get a small canning outfit and can 

 them, rather then let them go to waste. 



Don't allow cannas to make seed. •They cannot 

 do two things at the same time — make seed and 

 produce fine flowers. 



Plant some more strong gladiolus bulbs in rich soil 

 during this month. Strip the sage plants of their 

 longest leaves, dry in shade, and when well dried 

 put up in tin cans. 



Sow seed of tomatoes at once for late crops. 

 The old plants will usually continue fruiting, but 

 the tomatoes will not be as good as those from 

 young plants. 



Seed of late varieties of garden peas may be 

 sown during the month in moist places. Cutting* 

 from sweet potatoes and tomato plants may be se^ 

 out during the month when the weather is favor- 

 able. Do not cut the vines of sweet potato plants 

 too close. Sow rutabagas from the first of June 

 to the first of August, but only when there is 

 plenty of moisture in the ground. 



Watch for potato bugs on the eggplants. They 

 destroy them in a very short time. 



Don't allow over-ripe fruit to remain on the trees. 

 Take it out of the orchard; it is just as im- 

 portant to keep the orchard and the fruit trees 

 clean, as it is your poultry yard and poultry. It is 

 also important to keep the orchard free from 

 weeds and grass. 



Georgia. Thomas J. Steed. 



Flowers for the Fall 



AN excellent hardy flower for September and 

 October cutting is Catananche ccerulea, which 

 looks like a blue-flowered oyster-plant on onion- 

 like stems, rising from a dense rosette of needle- 

 like leaves. It is hardly strong enough for a mass 

 effect in the garden, but cut flowers during the 

 last week in October are not to be despised \sy 

 people who have no greenhouse. 



