288 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Hammond's Slug Shot for Potato Bugs, 



Currant Worms, Cabbage Worms, Etc. 



James Lawrence Eden Trial GrOlinuS J- Reynard Lawrence 



Dear Sir : — Have been delayed in reporting on goods you sent me 

 for trial by severe illness. Slug Shot was as good, and did the work 

 it was advertised to do as well and effectively as compounds and mix- 

 tures costing double and triple the price asked for it. For potatoes 

 it proved especially efficient. Your Bordeaux Pulp is all right, 

 dissolves readily and minutely so it does not clog nozzles of finest 

 sprayers. Your Ammoniated Copper Solution saved my melon 

 vines (musk). It was not a case of preventing blight, but of checking 

 it after it had developed and to quite an extent. I shall be glad to 

 use and commend vour goods another season. 



Yours truly, 



(Rev.) J. Reynard Lawrence, 



North Middleboro, Mass. 



Sold in Iaree or small lots 



Sold by Seed Dealers and Merchants all over America 



"SOLUTION OF COPPER" " BORDEAUX MIXTURE" 



Send for pamphlet to B. Hammond, Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



'CATTLE COMFORT" 



Everblooming Roses 



From a photograph of one of our two-year 

 plants of Baby Rambler 



which were 

 awarded the 

 Gold Medal 

 at St. Louis. 

 Your order 

 booked now 

 will s e c u re 

 you la r g e 

 plants of those 

 rare varieties 

 of which the 

 supply is al- 

 ways short of 

 the demand at 

 planting time- 

 WHY NOT 

 HAVE THE 

 BEST, since 

 they require 

 no more care 

 (except to pick 



the extra blooms)? We supply some of the most 

 eminent rosarians in the country, one order alone 

 amounting to $1,200. Such orders are not 

 placed at random. 



Other Specialties : Choice Trees and Shrubs, 

 Phlox, Iris, Peonies and other old-time Flowers, 

 Bulbs, Vines, etc. Seeing the superiority of our 

 stock, a customer placed an order for nearly 

 $4,000 for spring of 1905. 



New Catalogue ready July ist 



S. G. HARRIS Tarrytown, N. Y. 



THE PIER50N-SEFT0N CO. 



horticultural Architects and Builders 



West Side Avenue, JERSEY CITY, N. J. 



We manufacture and erect 

 every type of greenhouse 



for private and commercial purposes. 



"P1ERS0N" BOILERS 



For Steam and Water 



and everything for greenhouse heating. 

 Hot Bed Sash and Frames 

 Sketches and Estimates Free 



arDp 

 Plants 



including Phloxes. Bell-Flow 

 Iris, Garden Pinks, Day Lil 

 novelties. Catalogue on appli 



FREDERIC J. REA 



©ID jfasfitoncD 

 Jflotocr (SarOcns 



Larkspurs, Poppies, 

 etc. Also fine colli 



Norwood, Mass. 



IRQ 



H esp< 



NAGE 



Gardetv 



I nrvplertvent^ 



[ 



make gardening a pleasure or a 



profit. They double your capacity, 



ipecially In the early growing time when 



everything needs quick action. Send for our 



book, "Iron Age," describing Seed Drills, Wheel 



Hoes, Potato Planters, Hand Cultivators, etc. 



BATEMAX MFG. CO., Box C Grenloch, N J 



Telephone, 4150 Cortland! 



aipn 



■MANU FACTUM ERS-OF 



FEMOffl 



NEW YORK. 



WIRE FENCING, ORNA- 

 MENTAL IRON WORK. 



LAWN FURNITURE, TREE 

 GUARDS, ETC. 



TENNIS COURT ENCLO- 

 SURES A SPECIALTY. 



Wrought Iron Fence and Entrance Gates 



not as fertile as the soil upon which it is to 

 be used. 



THE CRUCIAL TEST 



Do not make the mistake of buying 

 primarily by the ton, but according to the 

 guaranteed analysis. The guarantee that 

 you want to look for is that of the per cent, 

 of available phosphoric acid. Do not be 

 misguided by the long strings of other 

 figures which are sometimes placed on the 

 bags; they contain information about things 

 that are of no importance to the gardener. 



WHAT THE COMMON CROPS NEED 



Although a well-balanced fertilizer, like 

 one of those described in the June Garden 

 Magazine, will serve the amateur very well, 

 there are certain preferences shown by cer- 

 tain crops, which are set forth here, together 

 with an estimate of the quantity to be used 

 on ioo square yards. The quantities are 

 given in percentages of actual plant food. 



percentage analysis 



Pounds 

 A Phos- for 



Crop „,„„;, phoric Potash space, 



Acid ioxio 



yards 



Beans and peas 3 7 7 10 



Cabbage and cauli- 

 flower 6 5 8 31 



Cucumbers, melons (Best use a good 

 and egg plants compost with a hand- 

 ful of high-grade fer- 

 tilizer to each hill.) 



Onions 5 5 8 25 



Potatoes 6 7 8 30 



Spinach 5 8 6 30 



Tomatoes 5 6 7 25 



Turnips 5 7 8 20 



It should be remembered that these 

 figures do not represent exact rules. Soils 

 differ in their chemical composition; they 

 vary, too, in their organic matter and in the 

 amount of water which is available to the 

 plant. So it is impossible to state absolutely 

 the amount of fertilizer for the same crop on 

 different soils, but the differences are not 

 of great practical importance; the chief 

 thing is to see that there is plenty of plant 

 food present in an available condition, and 

 in about the ratio stated above. 



HOW TO CALCULATE QUANTITIES 



Suppose now we want to make a mix- 

 ture for turnips on the basis of the above 

 table. We need an equivalent of 7 per cent, 

 phosphoric acid in twenty pounds of mixture. 

 Assuming 16 per cent, acid phosphate as 

 the source of the phosphoric acid, we deter- 

 mine first the actual number of pounds of 

 phosphoric acid. Twenty pounds should 

 yield 1.4 pounds — i. e., 7 per cent. Dividing 

 100 by 16 we find that it takes 6.25 of 

 the acid phosphate to yield one pound of 

 the phosphoric acid. Multiplying 6.25 by 

 1.4, the number of pounds of phosphoric 

 acid wanted, we get 8.75, the number of 

 pounds of acid phosphate to be used in mak- 

 ing the mixture. Similarly, the amounts of 

 the other materials to be used can be de- 

 termined on when the source and the com- 

 position of the source are known. 



New York. J. S. Cates. 



