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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Beautiful Lawns 



Are the pride of the home; why disfigure with 

 ugly clothes posts. 



Hill's Lawn Clothes Dryers 



hold 100 to 150 feet of line, take small space, and 

 are quickly removed when not in use. Make a 

 neat and tasty appearance, last a life-time. 

 More than two million people use them. 

 No traveling in wet grass. No snow to shovel. 

 The line comes to you. Also 



Balcony and Roof Clothes Dryers. 



If not foundat your hardware store, write 



HILL DRYER CO. 



359 Park Ave., Worcester, Mass. 



Write for Cat. 39 



MY CATALOGUE ;L T e ™i 



Roots, California Privet, Nitro-Culture, Hydra- 

 ted Lime to kill scale, and Jersey red pigs. 



ALL FREE. WILL BE OF VALUE TO YOU. 

 ARTHUR J. COLLINS, - Moorestown, N. J. 



Rhodes Double Cut 



Pruning 



Shear 



Cuts from 

 botli sides of 

 limb and does 

 not b ru ise 

 the bark. 



We pay Ex- 

 press charges 

 on all orders. 



Write for 

 circular and 

 prices. 



FLORISTS 

 ordinary hose for green-house use, when for 

 the same cost they can buy 

 Bull-Frog Brand Seamless Tube Hose 

 which is made with an extra heavy wall and 

 j especially designed to withstand short turns without kinking. Where 

 a large volume of water is required and must be conveyed a great 

 number of feet, we recommend % in. four ply. For short distances 

 and through aisles there is nothing better than % in. three ply. 

 ^PFPIAI OFFFP. To widely distribute Bull-Frog Brand 

 jrLV^IrAL \Jl I LIV. Seamless Tube Hose we will, ifyour 

 dealer does not handle it. ship you upon receipt of price, on SO 

 DAYS* FREE TRIAL 50 feet of^m.four ply with brass coup- 

 lings for $ 9. 00. or 50 feet of : -> in.threeplyfor $7. 00, express prepaid east 

 of the Mississippi and north of theTenness-e line, equalized bevond. 

 SAMPLES FREE, section of Dull-Frog Brand Se.imle-a Tuhe Hos e and seali'.n 

 of old BtTle lapped tube that you. may flee at a glance the adrantneeB Bull-Frog 

 Brand offers. Herders should write and get bene"t of our advertising. 

 The Toledo Rubber Company, 417 Summit St., Toledo, 0. 

 Established, 1800 

 References: Any bant in Toledo 



Why and How You Should White- 

 wash Peach Trees 



PERHAPS the greatest trouble in peach 

 growing is that the buds start to grow 

 too soon, so that the delicate pistils are 

 nipped by late frosts and hence a full crop 

 of flowers is followed by a complete failure 

 of the fruit crop. Some years ago, Prof. 

 J. C. Whitten, horticulturist of the Mis- 

 souri Experiment Station conceived the 

 brilliant idea that peach buds could be held 

 back by spraying them with lime, on the 

 principle that light is reflected from a white 

 surface, whereas it penetrates and heats a 

 dark-colored object. He found that twigs 

 containing much purple absorbed heat 

 enough to raise their temperature on sunny 

 days in winter to fifteen degrees above the 

 temperature of the air, and in one case, 

 where a high slope reflected part of the 

 sun's rays on the trees, he observed a 

 rise of twenty-three degrees. The experi- 

 ment station has repeatedly saved a peach 

 crop by whitewashing certain trees, while 

 other trees of the same variety right next to 

 them, but not whitewashed, had their fruit 

 buds killed. Very few commercial fruit 

 growers in the great Ozark region use this 

 method because the winter rains often wash 

 off the lime, and it is difficult and costly to 

 get through the muddy orchards with the 

 spraying machinery. The fruit growers of 

 Ontario, however, have had remarkable 

 success. They spray the trees at the ap- 

 proach of cold weather, with the lime wash, 

 choosing a time when it will freeze on the 

 trees as it is applied. In this way, they 

 have no trouble in getting as thick a coat 

 as they want. In regions where the winter 

 is uniformly cold, the lime stays on fairly well. 

 The one feature of this work that promises 

 to have the greatest commercial value is that 

 Professor Whitten is breeding new varieties 

 of peaches with the hope of securing some 

 that will have no purple coloring matter in 

 the twigs. The Ozark region has several va- 

 rieties, with only a small percentage of purple 

 coloring matter, especially the Ortiz and Snow, 

 which have pale yellowish-green twigs. "All 

 peaches with this color of twigs with which 

 I am acquainted," writes Professor Whitten, 

 "are exceedingly hardy and have fruited 

 in this section of the country when no other 

 varieties bore fruit at all. Most of them, 

 however, have comparatively small, undesir- 

 able fruit. We are crossing them with 

 the finer fruited varieties. None of the 

 seedlings which we have thus originated 

 are old enough to bear." 



NO FORM OF NITROGEN 



is so quickly available, or so positive in its 

 results for the vegetable garden, on the lawn, 

 for shrubbery or trees as a top dressing of 



NITRATE 2_f SODA 



(THE STANDARD FERTILIZER) 

 Send your name and address on Post-Card and I will send 



" Food for Plants " 



a most valuable book dealing with the use of Nitrate of 

 So:la as a fertilizer, giving detailed information covering 

 a long list of trials at Agricultural Experiment Stations 

 throughout the United States and on all sorts of crops. 



WILLIAM S. MYERS 

 Room 163, 12-16 John Street, New York 



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FUMIGATING, 

 Less than 5c. per 

 POQT rvcJ 1000 cubic feet. 



SPRAYING, 

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Professor L. H. Bailey, Cornell University. 

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GARDEN CHEMICALS 



Copper Sulphate (Blue Vitriol) for the Bor- 

 deaux Solution, Sulphur, Brimstone, Nitrate 

 of Soda, Sulphate of Ammonia, Phosphoric 

 Acid, Grafting Wax, Dry Bordeaux Mixture, 

 Paris Green, and Special Preparations for 

 the San Jose' Scale, etc., etc. 

 Buyers will find a very considerable saving 

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 by jobbers. 



THE CHARLES E. SHOLES COMPANY 



164 Front Street, New York 

 Also proprietors of the INDUSTRIAL LABORATORIES 



Brass Sprayers Last Longest 



And Are The Cheapest To Buy 



Price, £3.50 and upwnrd. Make your labor and investment 

 earn a good profit by destroying the insect pests and plant diseases 

 which cause so mucli loss. These sprayers may also be used fur 

 applying whitewash and cold water paints, spreading disinfectants, 

 clea ling wagons, curing surface diseases on cattle, chickens, and 

 many other purposes. Sprayers mny be returned at oar 

 expense If they are found defective. Send for catalogue. 

 DAYTON SCPPLT CO., Bayton, Ohio. 



