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The Readers' Service will give 

 information about automobiles 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1911 

















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Davis, McGrath &■ Shepard, Arch'Is, N. Y. 



Stain Your Bungalows 



Don't paint them. Stain them all over, roofs, siding, and 

 trimmings with 



Cabot's Shingle Stains 



The "painty" effect does not harmonize with bungalow con- 

 ditions, but our stains produce the soft transparent colors that ex- 

 actly suit. They cost only half as much as paint, and can be put 

 on at half the expense. If your bungalow is in the woods, away 

 from skilled labor, you or your man can apply them perfectly. 

 They are made of Creosote, which thoroughly preserves the wood. 



Cabot's Stains are sold all over the country. Send 

 for samples on -wood, and name of nearest agent. 



SAMUEL CABOT, Inc. 



Manufacturing Chemists 

 1 Oliver Street Boston, Mass. 









SUN-DIALS JKSS? 



PEDESTALS 



Please send for Catalogue of Sun Dials 

 H 29. Also catalogue H 27 of Pergolas 

 and H 40 of Wood Columns if interested. 

 HAR-TMANN-SANDERS CO. 

 Chicago, 111. 

 New York Office, 1 123 Broadway 



KEITH'S 



The Authoritative Maga- 

 zine for Home Builders. 

 Each 80-page issue shows 8 

 to 10 Plans of Artistic 

 Homes. 20c copy. Sub. S2. 

 Send SI. for 6 mos. sub. and 

 book of Cottages & Bungalows 



No. 1070. Cost $2200. One of the 100. 100 P L A IN D 

 M. L. KEITH, 680 Lumber Exchange, Minneapolis. Minn. 



Rustic Hickory 

 Chair only $2.50 



Comfortable, handsome, durable 

 chair for porch, lawn or den. Made of 

 young hickory with bark on. No paint 

 or varnish to hide natural beauty of wood. 

 Put together by old school 

 I craftsmen to outlast anybody 

 "now living, no matter how used 

 or abused. But little hickory 

 remains in American forests. 

 Hickory Furniture will cost 

 more each succeeding year. 

 This chair handed down to next 

 generation will be worth many 

 times its cost now. 

 Shipped prepaid, east of Rocky Moun- d?0 C f\ 

 tains. With rockers, 75 cents extra. Y^'"^ 

 If your dealer will not supply you the Genuine Rustic 

 Hickory Furniture order from us. 



'■"''Ti C* C" Catalog with over 1 00 styles of Rustic 

 r IX Hi Hi Hickory Chairs, Settees, Tables, Rockers, 

 Swings and Odd Pieces. Write for it today. 



Rustic Hickory Furniture Co. 



66 State Street, La Porte, Ind. 



HAND MADE 



Pruning Fruit Trees in Summer 



SUMMER pruning is as necessary in the 

 training of trees and vines as winter prun- 

 ing. It preserves the general improvement 

 established by winter pruning. Peach, apple, 

 pear, plum, etc., derive the chief benefit from it 

 while the trees are young. The grape, however, 

 demands some attention of this kind each year of 

 its life. 



Summer pruning is accomplished by rubbing off 

 buds, shoots and superfluous fruits with the thumb 

 and finger. This does not bruise or mutilate the 

 surrounding bark, and the juices of the plant are 

 not wasted but at once begin their work of healing. 

 In some instances where shoots have been removed, 

 the process may have to be repeated to remove 

 growth arising from supernumerary buds. Only 

 the tender shoots can be removed in this way, 

 however, as wood that has hardened is too rigid 

 and too closely connected with the sap flow of the 

 tree to be removed until after the growing season. 



Summer pruning ought to begin with early 

 growth in May and continue until late in the 

 summer as occasion requires.- The nature of the 

 plant's growth must be considered in each instance. 

 Blackberries, whose rampant growth produces 

 long canes, are made to give a better fruit yield 

 by simply pinching the tip of each cane at the 

 desired height and also the tips of the upper 

 branches. In the case of the quince, however, 

 which fruits from the terminal buds, this treat- 

 ment would diminish the crop of fruit. Apples, 

 pears, plums, and peaches bear fruit laterally. 



The summer pruning of the grapes consists in 

 removing buds below the arms and superfluous 

 buds along the arms supporting the fruiting canes. 

 In the case of young vines, all fruit clusters are 

 removed from one-year old vines, one cluster is 

 allowed to remain on each cane of the two-year 

 old vines, and two on each cane of the three-year 

 old vines. Prune by pinching out the tiny cluster, 



ROWE'S 



GLOUCESTER 



BED HAMMOCK 



For Verandas, Porches, Lawns, Indoors 

 The Perfect Coach for Outdoor Sleeping 

 A Rowe Hammock has hung for 8 or io summers on a 

 porch within 200 feet of the Atlantic Ocean. Last season 

 a visitor referred to it as "your new hammock." 40 years' 

 experience shows that Rowe's Hammocks give 10 years of 

 continuous out-of-door service. As far as the signs of wear 

 go, you can't tell whether a Rowe Hammock has been used 

 6 months or 6 years. 



It is made by sailmakers on the model we supplied for 

 years to the U. S. Navy. It is made from duck that is 60 per 

 cent, to 200 per cent, stronger than that in others, and sewn 

 with thread that is twice as strong. It has sewing and brac- 

 ing that no other maker has learned the need ot. It is hand- 

 some, but severely plain — no showiness, just solid merit. 

 Our Khaki is permanent in color, will not soil clothing. 

 A very few first-class stores are licensed to sell our ham- 

 mocks. If not conveniently situated, you should buy direct 

 from us. Delivery prepaid, ready for hanging. 



WRITE FOR DESCRIPTIVE BOOKLET 



Small silk name-label on every Rowe Hammock. 



E. L. ROWE & SON, Inc., Sailmakers and Ship Chandlers 



324 Wharf Street, Gloucester, Mass. 



£ e u Building? 



Then let us send you copy of our new booklet — 

 which tells all about the proper method of finish- 

 ing floors and interior woodwork. 



Johnson's Wood Dye 



makes inexpensive soft woods just as 

 artistic and beautiful as hard woods. 

 Tell us the kind of woods you will 

 use and we will mail you panels of 

 those woods artistically finished 

 — together with our 25c booklet 

 — all bee and postpaid. 



S„C Johnson & Son, Racine, Wis. 

 The Wood Finishing Authorities 



SIMPLEX 

 IRONER 



Summer pruning, as necessary as winter prun- 

 ing, consists in removing buds, shoots and super- 

 fluous fruits 



It willpay you to know that all plain clothes, table and 

 bed linen, curtains, doilies and flat pieces can be ironed 

 with a betterfuiish with the Simplex Ironer than by hand 

 and done in much less than half the time. 



NO BACK-BREAKING LABOR 



A child can operate it with ease. Inexpensive to heat; 

 simple, durable, efficient. Hand or power. Low in price. 

 A 30 Days* Free Trial of the Simplex will convince you of its 

 value. Write for illustrated Catalog and copy of new booklet 

 "Ironing Hints" invaluable to housewives — both free. 



AMERICAN IRONING MACHINE 



CO. ,Y32 E. Lake St., Chicago. 



MAKES 



IRONING EASY 



