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■"^ * <T~* are famous for producing most of the 



Fvl |l*|A/>/> 7 C ^£^£^#"1^ prize-winning products at State and 



L/UI L/^'m 3 fc_/X-»X,/Vl3 County Fairs. The illustration above 

 I shows the first prize collection at Oregon 



State Fair, while photographs (or letters from the winners) of the first prize exhibits at 

 the 1904 State Fairs of New York, Minnesota. Wisconsin. Kansas, Iowa, and Indiana are 

 published in oui New i i rAi.OGUE for 1905. Many other prize awards, with full particulars, 

 are published in our New Prize Supplement for IQ05. I5P Besides several GOLD flEDALS, 

 the products of Burpee's Seeds Exclusively were awarded 



The Only GRAND Prize 



for Vegetables at St. Louis World's Fair ! 



IF YOU would have the very best seeds that can be grown, you should study BURPEE'S 

 FARfl ANNUAL for 1905, " The Leading American Seed Catalogue." An elegant new 

 book of 178 pages, with hundreds of illustrations and beautiful colored plates, it honestly 

 describes all varieties worth growing, including Superb Novelties, which cannot be had 

 elsewhere. Interesting photogravures illustrate the conduct of the World's Largest Mail 

 Order Seed Trade, and give glimpses of our famous Fordbrook Farms — the most complete 

 trial grounds in America, [gjf* Your garden will not be as good as it should be, unless you first 

 study Burpee's Farm Annual for 1905. Shall we mail you a copy ? If so, write TO-DAY! 



W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., seed growers, PHILADELPHIA 



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Out From the Northwest it has Come at Last— 

 THE GUARANTEED APPLE! 



THE MINNETONKA APPLE" 



which for the first time in the history of Horticulture bears a Nursery Guarantee, is propagated, owned and controlled by 



L. L. MAY & CO., whose MAYFIELD NURSERIES 



distinguished for exclusive productions, are the most Northern in America. This latest triumph of apple culture, the pride of the 

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li/C f\l j A D A \I*TFF ever y tree °f " Th e Minnetonka" to produce a bushel of fruit, and will replace, 

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PR ICES— 4 to 5 foot trees, 75 cents each; 3 for $2; 6 for $3; 12 for $6; by express or freight. Mail order size— one year old, 

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Every owner of a home should have one or more of " The Minnetonka, ' pride of the Northwest. Order to-day. 



Free Catalogue of Seeds, Trees, Plants, etc. 



L. L. MAY & CO., ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA. ^»?^5*E;*K 



standard white and green varieties. Empty 

 the ancient treasure of your manure pit into 

 trenches two feet deep and work it well into 

 the soil, which, if inclined to stiffness, should 

 be lightened with sand or sifted ashes. It 

 goes without saying that the plot must be 

 well drained. If the loom is not naturally 

 rich and sandy, make it so. Bury the roots 

 six or eight inches deep in three rows eighteen 

 inches apart, to form the bed, which should 

 have at least a foot of soil beyond the outer 

 rows. Gradually draw the earth around the 

 shoots as the}- rise, and keep down all weeds. 

 Cover the bed in the autumn with coarse 

 stable manure. Feed the plants generously 

 for two years, when you may confidently 

 expect them to repay you in kind. When 

 well-grown plants are four years old, they 

 should begin to supply the family, and a 

 rightly cultivated bed should last unimpaired 

 through one generation. 



GERANIUMS IN BLOOM ALL WINTER 



Q. How can I have geraniums blooming 

 in my sitting-room window by Thanksgiving 

 and keep them gay all winter? 



.1. Make cuttings frcm old plants in May 

 cr after danger from frcst, choosing only the 

 most vigorous shoots. Cut close to a joint 

 with a sharp knife, ar.d slit the stem where 

 you put it in the earth. Give the cuttings 

 good, light soil, but not over rich. Sink the 

 pots in the open ground under a shady tree. 

 Usually, cuttings are made tco late to insure 

 vigorous plants and early blossoms. 



A CHEAP HERBACEOUS BORDER 



Q, There is a part of our home acre where 

 I long to see a hardy herbaceous border 

 about fifty feet long, yet I have no more than 

 ten dollars to spend on it. Is the dream 

 impossible? 



A. Not if you will wait a year for results 

 and are willing to do much of the necessary 

 work yourself. Set aside a small plot in 

 your vegetable garden for a nursery, and 

 spend half your appropriation, if need be, 

 on having this and the proposed border next 

 the lawn well spaded and manured. Buy 

 only such seeds as you cannot beg, borrow or 

 steal from your friends' gardens. Plant 

 Oriental poppies, Boltonia, sweet-williams, 

 pyrethrums, larkspurs, foxgloves, coreopsis, 

 chrysanthemums, hollyhocks and other old 

 favorites in May. Weed and water them 

 throughout the summer, transplant them to 

 your border in September, cover them with 

 stable litter in the autumn, and look for 

 flowers the next season, with greater and 

 greater profusion each succeeding year. 

 Save a dollar or two for narcissus and other 

 Dutch bulbs. The cheap sorts are very 

 charming. Try to have only flowers of 

 harmonious colors in bloom at once, and 

 distributed from crocus to chrysanthemum 

 time. Do not overlook the decorative and 

 lovely wild flowers, most of which improve 

 surprisingly under cultivation. The tall 

 Canadian goldenrod is superb in the hardy 

 border; so is the cardinal-flower, the moun- 

 tain laurel, butterfly- weed, columbine, wood 

 or meadow lily, the swamp-rose mallow, the 

 iris, and the meadow-rue among a host of 

 others. Violets make a beautiful edging. 



