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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



THREE 

 OF 



DREER'S SPECIALTIES 



AN OLD-FASHIONED HARDY BORDER. 



Hardy Perennials, or Old- Fashioned 

 Hardy Garden Flowers 



We are specialists in this class of plants, and have the 

 most complete list and largest stock in the country. Thirty- 

 two pages of our Garden Book are devoted to information 

 on this class of plants alone and offer, besides the many 

 popular well-known standard varieties, hundreds of new, 

 rare, and old varieties not found in any other American 

 list. 



Large Roses for Immediate Results 



We make a specialty of large Roses, plants that have 

 been properly prepared to give immediate results. Among 

 the newer Roses offered this season the NEW IRISH 

 ROSE " K1LLARNEY " is in our opinion the greatest 

 addition to the list of really high-class garden Roses that 

 has been introduced for many years. If you plant but one 

 new Rose this season let it be "Killarney," it will more 

 than please. 



The new dwarf bedding Rose, "THE BABY 

 RAMBLER" is also certain to find a place in every 

 garden. It is remarkable for its freedom of bloom and 

 bright, cheerful color, and is a perfect gem in everyway. 

 We hold at present the best stock of large plants in 

 America. Plants that we are certain will please. 



Water Lilies, Lotus, Victoria Regia, 

 Etc. 



Our display of Water Lilies at the St. Louis Exposition, 

 1904, was awarded the Grand Prize, and was commented 

 upon by the judges as follows: " The finest feature in the 

 Ornamental Gardening Department." If you saw this 

 display and have the facilities to grow Water Lilies, you 

 can not help but feel interested in Aquatic Gardening. 

 The facilities can readily be provided in any garden having 

 sunlight. If our circular " How to Grow Aquatics " 

 (which is mailed free on application) does not give you 

 the necessary information, our experts are ready to assist 

 you in making plans and the selection of varieties best 

 adapted to your purpose. 



Our Garden Book lor 1905 



a book of 224 pages, truthfully illustrates and intelligently 

 describes all of the above as well as a full line of 



Vegetable and Flower Seeds, Bulbs, Lilies, 

 Dahlias, Bedding Plants, Greenhouse 

 Plants, Palms, Ferns, Bay Trees, Etc. 



Write for a copy, which will be sent free if you mention 

 this magazine. 



HENRY A. DREER, 714 Chestnut St., PHILADELPHIA 





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were awarded Two Grand Prizes, the high- 

 est possible honors, at the St. Louis Expo- 

 sition. Our Catalogue, the One Hundred and 

 Fourth Annual Edition, is by far the most 

 complete, most reliable and most beautiful 

 of American Garden Annuals. We are 

 offering this year the great 



N0R0T0N BEAUTY POTATO 



The Most Valuable Ever Introduced 



Full description and the opinions of many 

 high authorities who have tested it will be 

 found in our Catalogue, which will be mailed 

 free to all interested in gardening or farming. 



J. M. THORBURN & CO. 



SEED GROWERS and MERCHANTS 

 36 Cortlandt St., New York 



103 years in the business 





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 results for the vegetable garden, on the lawn, 

 for shrubbery or trees as a top dressing of 



NITRATE of 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 

 Soda 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 



Dress and Tools for Women 

 Gardeners 



HERE is a practical working dress for the 

 woman who personally delves in her 

 garden: A loose shirt waist, with the addi- 

 tion in colder weather of a heavy sweater; a 

 stout tweed skirt for the spring and fall, 

 replaced in summer by one of linen or 

 denim, cut a good three inches off the ground. 

 Over that a seersucker apron, with two 

 capacious pockets to hold the necessary 

 labels, twine, pencil and shears. An im- 

 provement on the ordinary gardening gloves 

 is, to take a pair of old loose dogskin gloves, 

 sew pieces of seersucker on their tops, drawn 

 up and gathered in with elastic bands above 

 the elbows. These tops will prevent the 

 sifting in of sand or gravel. 



For a sensible head-covering, a sun- 

 bonnet with "poke before and cape behind" 

 is advocated. But an old-fashioned Leghorn 

 hat, tied on with ribbon, will be preferred by 

 some. My spring gardening in March is 

 such windy work that if my hat were not well 

 anchored I fear I should accomplish but little. 



As to tools: First buy a good pair of 

 solid steel pruning shears (do not be beguiled 

 into taking "ladies' light pruning shears"), 

 a solid steel trowel, an angle-trowel, a round 

 dibble for transplanting, an Excelsior hand- 

 weeder, a small hand-fork, a rubber plant- 

 sprinkler, a ball of stout twine, a bundle of 

 raffia for tying up the smaller flowers, and a 

 light small-sized rush basket in which to 

 carry these tools. Above all things, have 

 your own small-sized, but strong, spade and 

 rake; they are handier for a woman to use 

 than the unwieldy man's size. Two joys 

 of my life for use in the garden are wooden 

 labels painted on one side, and countless 

 wooden dowels. In my perennial beds I use 

 quantities of the ten-inch wooden labels, for 

 I sometimes forget the spots of the perennial 

 roots. I found that at any planing mill I could 

 buy seven-eighths-inch dowels, twelve feet 

 long, at nine cents apiece. These are cut 

 into four- or six-foot lengths, as needed, and 

 painted a dull green color. A wet day in 

 spring is excellent for the task. When well 

 sharpened at one end they make excellent 

 substitutes for the more finished plant stakes 

 of the seedsman. 



For the smaller-sized plants, buy slim 

 bamboo rods in bundles of 100 or 150, from 

 any seedsman, and cut into the required 

 lengths with the steel pruning shears. 



Mary Leland Butler. 



New Jersey. 



