THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



The Best Catalogue of Seeds, Plants, Bulbs, Etc. 



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DREER'S 



GARDEN BOOK 



For 1905 



Tells how to grow Vegetables and Flowers 

 and offers the largest and most complete list 

 of SEEDS, PLANTS, BULBS, etc. 

 This beautiful catalogue is now ready and will 

 be mailed 



FREE 



to all applicants who mention The Garden Magazine when writing. 



Contains 224 pages with hundreds of illustrations made from photographs, and six full- 

 page colored plates painted from nature especially for this book. IV rite for a copy to-day. 



HENRY A. DREER, 714 Chestnut Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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BRIDGEMAN'S 



HIGH GRADE 



VEGETABLE, FARM, 

 and FLOWER SEEDS 



GARDEN TOOLS and 

 HORTICULTURAL BOOKS 



Descriptive illustrated catalogue 

 mailed free on application 



BRIDGEMAN'S SEED WAREHOUSE, 



37 East 19th Street, New York City 



The Flowers 



I grow in quantity 

 here in cold New 

 England are the 

 best hardy garden 

 sorts, the old reli- 

 able kinds that everybody wants for the border or 

 shady corner. Also the best hardy Ferns and Wild 

 Flowers of New England suitable for cultivation. 

 Illustrated catalogue sent on request. 



EDW. GILLETT, Southwick, Mass. 



, — PETER THE GARDENER— 



says " Beautify America." Send 10c. for a year's membership 

 in the Flowerlovers' Club and 1 pkt. each of New Japanese 

 Morning Glory, Flowerlovers' Nasturtiums and Mixed Gourds 

 to plant on that bare fence, wall, or other unsightly place. 

 My Little Green Book free. 

 Henry Saxton Adams, Seedsman, Jamaica Plain, Mass. 



The BAY STATE NURSERIES 



1 have just issued their new Catalogue for 1905, 



J designed especially for Gardeners and Owners of 



\ Large Estates. It contains many attractions for 



buyers of Nursery Stock hi quantity. Send us 



your name, and we will send you the book. 



We offer a complete line of healthy 



NORTHERN-GROWN 

 NURSERY STOCK 



including Shade and Evergreen Trees in great 

 variety. Rhododendron Maximum and Kalmia 

 Latifolia in carloads. ROSES of all classes in 

 many sorts. Shrubs and Climbing Vines of every 

 description. 



Our Herbaceous Department contains over Six 

 Hundred Varieties of Hardy Perennials, new 

 and old. PAEONIAS, PHLOX. IRIS, 

 HARDY ASTERS, Etc. 



Our nurseries are located eighteen miles south 

 of Boston. We have rapid transit both north and 

 south. Freight arrives in New York or Boston 

 the next morning after shipment. 



The BAY STATE NURSERIES, 



W. H. WYMAN 



Propri et o 



> North Abington, Mass. 



Inoculating the Soil 



T^HREE or four years ago a great Ger- 

 *- man scientist discovered and patented 

 a way of sending out material for inoculating 

 seeds or soil with the bacteria necessary to 

 enable peas, beans, clover, alfalfa and other 

 legumes to get free nitrogen from the air 

 and thereby add to the richness of the soil, 

 but the experience was a commercial failure, 

 because the bacteria in the scientist's labo- 

 ratory were fed upon rich food. Dr. Moore, 

 of the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, found that the bacteria fed upon food 

 rich in nitrogen became lazy and would not 

 work hard enough to get nitrogen from the 

 air. He therefore fed the bacteria on food 

 poor in nitrogen,, with the result .that the 

 United States Department of Agriculture 

 is now sending out to all applicants, free of 

 charge, small packets with full directions 

 for inoculating the seeds or soil. Most of 

 the plants concerned are forage plants, or 

 plants used for green manuring, but it will 

 pay any one who has a garden to write to the 

 Department of Agriculture for material for 

 inoculating garden peas and beans. 



More Enjoyment and Less Work 



TN this department we invite suggestions 

 -*• concerning anything connected with the 

 home fruit, flower or vegetable garden. If 

 you have worked them out, so much the bet- 

 ter. We want to know the new and unique 

 things that are going on in all parts of the 

 country, and offer a five-dollar bill for the 

 best suggestion that comes to us each month. 



This sort of friendly and informal com- 

 petition is very popular among amateur 

 gardeners in England, and it is to be hoped 

 that Americans are not deficient in imagina- 

 tion and ingenuity in the planning and execu- 

 tion of their gardens. As a sample subject, 

 we would suggest "How to Have More Fun 

 and Less Work in the Garden." 



Send all contributions to xhe "Suggestions 

 Department," The Garden Magazine, 

 133 East Sixteenth Street, New York, N. Y. 



