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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Necessities for the Garden 



Inexpensive little things that pay for themselves 

 immediately in increased crops and labor-saving. 



MODEL TOMATO AND PLANT SUPPORT 



The best support for tomatoes and heavily flowered plants, such as Dahlias, Peonies, 

 Chrysanthemums, etc. Tomatoes grown with supports produce a much larger crop 

 and of better quality. Constructed of heavy galvanized wire frame work, they are 

 light, strong, and easily applied. More than half a million in use. 

 Price, per dozen, $1.75 Per gross, $18. 



MODEL ROSE STAKES 



LOOPED OR STRAIGHT 

 Strong, light, more sightly than wooden stakes, and do not 

 harbor insects. Made of galvanized wire, proof against rust. 

 All sizes from two to six feet. Send for prices. 



MODEL POT HANGER 



Adjustable to pots of all sizes up to ten inches. Can be put on quickly and taken 

 off easily. The only practical device for converting ordinary flower pots into 

 hanging baskets. 



Prices: Sizes up to five inches, per dozen, 50 cents; gross, $4. 



Sizes for pots, from five to ten inches, per dozen, 75 cents; gross, $7. 



MODEL EXTENSION CARNATION WIRE SUPPORT 



Light, strong, easily applied. Every grower of Carnations should use these. 

 Prices: 50 Complete Supports, $2.25. 100 Complete Supports, $3.50. 



SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED PAMPHLET 



PARKER-BRUEN MFG. CO., 1519 St. James Bldg., New York City 



FACTORY : HARRISON, H. J. 



Cottage Gartens Co- 



will assist in planning your grounds 

 for planting if Jyou send them a rough 

 sketch and short description of the place 



Specimen evergreens 

 Crees anti £>l)rub£ 



COTTAGE GARDENS CO., Inc. 



QUEENS, L. I., NEW YORK 



BAY STATE 



NURSERIES 



W. H. WYMAN, North Abington, Mass. 



"LJARDY Ornamentals, Shade and Ever- 



green Trees in great variety. Hardy 



Rhododendrons, Roses, Shrubs and Vines. 



1902 Catalogue Free 

 OWNERS OF COUNTRY ESTATES are par- 

 ticularly invited to get our prices. 



Box and Bay Trees 



Rose Hill Nurseries 



are noted for the largest 

 and choicest Evergreens, Bay 

 Trees, Box Trees, Flowering 

 Shrubs, Hardy Herbaceous 

 Plants, Fruit Trees and 

 Vines. 



ROSES ARE ALSO A SPECIALTY 



Send for our Book : "Beautifying Country Homes" 



SIEBRECHT & SON 



Nurseries: New York Office : 



NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y. 425 FIFTH AVE. 





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Singular Facts in the Cultivation 

 of Oriental Poppies 



A MONO garden plants perhaps none are 

 -'"*■ more impatient of removal in spring 

 than Oriental poppies. If sown in the open 

 ground they make, as a rule, one long taper- 

 ing root straight down in the ground which, 

 after a year or two of good growth it is im- 

 possible to dig out. The breaking of this 

 root is not fatal, but if this happens in spring 

 when the plant is in full leaf, it is very likely, 

 under ordinary conditions, to lose its foliage. 

 When this is lost, many people jump to the 

 conclusion that their plants are dead. They 

 are entirely mistaken since, in nine cases 

 out of ten, the plants will recover and reap- 

 pear the following September or October, 

 after which they will make a good tuft of 

 foliage. If you will then dig down to their 

 roots you will find them pushing out from 

 all around their long tap roots masses of 

 small, fibrous, feeding roots which indicates 

 that they are getting ready to produce their 

 gorgeous flowers the following spring. 

 They also make fibrous roots very early in 

 the spring. The foliage of Oriental poppies 

 often disappears entirely during July and 

 August. 



WHEN TO MOVE THEM 



If therefore Oriental poppies are to be 

 moved in spring, do it as soon as they begin 

 to show signs of making new growth. If 

 bought from the nursery see that they have 

 been pot-grown, but don't plant after the 

 middle of May. You had better wait till 

 the following August or September. They 

 will not die, however, for the least piece of 

 root will grow and will come up from great 

 depths, where pieces have been broken off 

 in transplanting or removing. The very 

 best way to increase a good variety quickly 

 is to take it up in the fall, cut the roots into 

 short lengths, some two or three inches long, 

 insert them into sandy soil, where they will 

 soon push out new crowns or buds and make 

 vigorous flowering plants. Thence they 

 can be removed to their desired location. 



There are now many varieties of this 

 universally admired flower offered by deal- 

 ers in hardy plants, running through various 

 shades of crimson, scarlet salmon, pink, 

 and striped to silvery white, and dark choco- 

 late or mahogany colored. The dark black 

 blotches at the base of the petals have been, 

 in many cases, entirely eliminated. 



Oriental poppies may also be very easily 

 raised from seed sown in the open ground 



