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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



1SUMMER! 



" Where Cooling Breezes Blow" 



LONG ISLAND 



The ideal territory for a Summer Home or Outing. 

 250 miles of coast line on ocean, Sound and bays. 



Trending east and west, is cooled in summer by the prevailing south winds from the ocean. 

 Unexcelled surf and still-water bathing, fishing, boating, driving, automobiling, and golf- 

 ing. Long Island, with its unbounded natural advantages, coupled with the many improve- 

 ments now in course of construction, is without equal as a location for Summer or Permanent 

 Residence — a land of real home life. 



Summer Homes, a booklet describing Hotels and Boarding Houses. Postage, 4 cents. 

 Long Island, a handsomely illustrated descriptive book, containing also a list of Hotels 

 and Boarding Houses. Postage, S cents. 

 Both free on application, or mailed on receipt of postage, by the General Passenger Agent. 



LONG ISLAND RAILROAD 



A. L. LANGDON, Traffic Manager HOWARD M. SMITH, General Passenger Agent 



Corner Fifth Avenue and 29th Street, New York City 



BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N. Y. 



THIRTY MILES FROM NEW YORK CITY 

 Hudson River Railroad to Scarboro; Putnam Division to Briarcliff Manor, or Harlem Division to Pleasanlville 



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FARMS- 

 HOTELS 



6,000-aere Westchester County estate 



\ Briarcliff Lodge season opens in June 

 I Pocantico Ledge open all the year 

 REALTY — Sites for permanent Country homes 

 DAIRY— For the highest Milk Products obtainable 

 PRINT SHOP— Handling only the Finest Printing 

 OUTLOOK — For the promotion of Country Life 



Briarcliff Information at Windsor Arcade, 5th Avenue and 46th Street, New York City. Briarcliff Home Office 

 at Briarcliff Manor, N. Y. DAVID B. PLUMER, General Manager 



(From Chicago, 

 with correspond- 

 ingly low rates frc 

 other points, via the" 

 Chicago & North-Western 

 Railway. Choice of routes^ 

 via Omaha, Cheyenne and Granger,^ 

 via St. Paul and Minneapolis, 

 through the mountain scenery of 

 I Colorado, via Yellowstone Park, through 

 the LakeMc Donald Country or the Cana- 

 dian Rockies. Return via California at 

 L slight increase in rate. 



^A great opportunity to visit one of the greatest grain and fruit J 

 i raising countries, the largest fishing and lumbering indus- 

 tries, and some of the most aggressive, rich and growing i 

 \cities in the world. 



I^These low rates are in effect daily, May 23 to Sept. 30. 

 Full particulars in regard to the exposition and 

 L ^descriptive of the Pacific Northwest sent to an 

 .address on receipt of two 2-cent stamps. 



W. B. KNISKERN, 



Passenger Traffic Manager, 



CHICAGO. 



Why California Should Beat the 

 World on Geraniums 



TT is a singular fact that we Calif ornians 

 ■*- neglect the geranium. Easterners envy 

 us because geraniums grow up to the second 

 story of a house and visitors say that a 

 five-foot hedge of red geraniums like the 

 one pictured in the "California Department" 

 heading, is one of the most brilliant sights 

 on earth. Why don't we have more hedges 

 like this? And why don't we have more and 

 better geraniums everywhere instead of 

 coddling rare plants that are not adapted to 

 our conditions? No other plant, native or 

 foreign, seems to be so perfectly at home with 

 us as the much-neglected geranium. Any- 

 one who explores our foothills and canyons 

 may find deserted cabins around which are 

 growing many varieties of geraniums, in 

 nearly all shades of color from white to car- 

 mine, with no hand near to till, with no 

 moisture except the annual rainfall, yet 

 seeming to thrive fully as well as the average 

 native plant. 



The geranium is valuable for its foliage 

 effect alone — for massing in our drier and 

 more barren spots — yet the geranium with us, 

 as everywhere, is distinctly a flowering plant, 

 more so by far than the canna and a host of 

 other well-known "bedders." This neglect 

 is due, no doubt, to the ease with which it 

 can be grown. The novelty of being able to 

 grow geraniums out of doors every month in 

 the year appeals very strongly to the new- 

 comer who has known it only as a much- 

 coddled pot plant, but after he sees the possi- 

 bilities of our climate, something less com- 

 mon — something impossible of successful 

 growth in his Eastern home — claims his 

 attention, to the complete neglect of the 

 geranium. 



The uses of the geranium in the garden are 

 many and various. They are, perhaps, most 

 popular for massing around the base of 

 buildings, where a heavy, yet bright effect is 

 desired. For such purposes those ranging 

 from scarlet to crimson should be used, one 

 shade of color only; or if more than one 

 shade is used, the lighter shade should be 

 kept in the foreground and the darkest 

 behind. 



The strongest favorites for banking around 

 buildings are that class of which "Gen- 

 eral Grant" is the most popular and best- 

 known member. For alignment along paths 

 or roadways, a lighter and more natural 

 effect may be gained by the use of the lighter 

 shades and colors, for no such staid im- 

 pressions are expected as is the case around 

 residences, etc. As one gets away from the 

 house all vegetation should gradually grow 



