THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



HARDY PHLOX 



are becoming very popular. The recent improvements 

 are hardly recognizable. Flowers two inches in 

 diameter and clear, bright colors are now a frequency. 

 Our large collection contains the latest and best. 



We have a large assortment of 



TENDER and HARDY PLANTS 



Send for "Descriptive Catalogue 



NATHAN SMITH & SON, *££*., Adrian, Mich. 



The Water Garden 



Hardy •varieties planted now 

 will bloom this summer 



The Egyptian Lotus Queen of the 

 ■ ■ " ' -■ -■ i floral world. 



Enormous leaves two feet, and lovely 

 pink flowers nearly one foot across ; 

 hirdy, free blooming, easy to culti- 

 vite in tubs or ponds. 50c. each, 3 for 

 $i. 25; large tubers, 75c. to $1.00 each. 



Magnolia Lotus, £^^$1.00 each 



American Lotus, ye Sow 50c. each 



1 each of these 3 grand Lotuses SI. 75 



My stock embraces all varieties of 



water lilies, quality best, prices lowest. 



Catalogue free 



Geo. B. Moulder, The Water Lily Specialist, Smith's Grove, Ky. 





2Bant department 



A special low rate is made in this department for 

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 Cortlandt Street, New York City. 



water, adding two gallons of kerosene and 

 then churning vigorously or passing through 

 a pump till a white, milk-like emulsion is 

 formed, which mixes readily with water, 

 dilute as needed. E. P. Felt. 



New York State Entomologist. 



A New Remedy for Squash Bugs 



I WAS bothered almost beyond endurance 

 by the striped and big black brown 

 squash bugs, some three years ago, but have 

 entirely cleared out the big fellows, and can 

 handle the striped ones with ease. Observ- 

 ing that the big bugs come in colonies, each 

 colony covering a small # space, especially 

 mornings, I bought- a gasoline blow torch of 

 brass, such as electricians use. The flame is 

 so concentrated and so hot that a blast kills 

 instantly. I soon destroyed even- colony. 

 The striped fellows came like a swarm of 

 bees when they first returned from their win- 

 ter quarters. By taking a small pan and 

 dropping it over the hill of vines, I caught 

 them all and as they came from a small crack, 

 which was left open. A few trips for a week 

 to get every swarm that came out gave me a 

 firm stand of plants. By using the pan the 

 plants were not burned in the least. I have 

 also killed bugs in October as they would 

 come on warm afternoons upon green squash 

 left in the field, thus killing them before they 

 went into winter quarters. Sometimes a 

 little tin hood is necessary to keep the"gasoline 

 blaze from going out on cool windy days. 

 Massachusetts. H. J. Baldwin. 



Hot Water for Cabbage Worms 



I USED to think that plenty of strong fer- 

 tilizer and a large piece of cabbage, 

 the only practical method of getting the 

 start of the worm. It never failed when I 

 grew them in quantity for market. But for 

 the home garden, where only a few heads are 

 raised, I felt sure always of nothing except a 

 crop of green, crawling worms. I tried road 

 dust, ice cold water, saltpetre and kerosene 

 emulsion and the worms still ate the cabbages 

 to the stump. Dalmatian insect powder was 

 fatal, however. But the latest and simplest 

 remedy is hot water applied with a garden 

 sprinkler when the cabbages are heading. 

 Have it hot enough — not quite to boiling — 

 to kill the worms when it touches them. 

 You may scald a few leaves, but new ones 

 will grow, so no harm comes to the head. 

 Maine. H. L. Paliier. 



Home-Made Kerosene Emulsion 



THE amateur can make this very easily. 

 Take of hard soap half a pound and 

 dissolve in one gallon of boiling water; then 

 add two gallons of kerosene and churn thor- 

 oughly for ten minutes. The efficiency of 

 the preparation depends upon thorough mix- 

 ing. This stock mixture is diluted four times 

 for scale or up to twentv times for lice. The 

 stronger dilution will have one gallon of 

 kerosene to six and a half of water. Where 

 the water is very hard, use one gallon of 

 sour milk to two gallons of kerosene. 



TO PRODUCE A BEAUTIFUL LAWN 



it is necessary that the method of preparing; the 

 ground, the proper kind of seed to use, the care to 

 be taken, and several other important points should 

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a mixture of seeds of the finer grasses and clovers, 

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BURPEE'S 



Handsome catalog, containing beautiful colored prints, directly 



photographed from nature, mailed FREE on request. 



W. ATLEE BURPEE, Seed Growers. Philadelphia, Pa. 



SEEDS 

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Quality 



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 34-2 West 14th 



for Catalogue 



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Street - NEW YORK 



Poarh Tnx>« Xo ' ' at 3 cents; medium size 



rCaCIl I I *C<C> at 2 i£ cents . an( i No. 2 a t 



-^^-^^^- ^^^^^^™ ij4 cents each. Trees kept 



dormant until after May 15th. Circular Free. 

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Steel Plate Greenhouse Boilers 



NO CAST IRON SECTIONS 

 TO CRACK. NO JOINTS TO 

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 OF FUEL. 



Water space all around, front, sides 

 and back. 



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