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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Febbuaet, 19 10 



GARDEN GUIDE AND RECORD 



is the title of our new hand book of condensed cultural instructions, 

 and which we consider to be one of our most valuable publications. One 

 of our customers who has had an advance copy, says: "// is the most com- 

 plete, concise and comprehensive book °f # 5 k m d- " To give our annual 

 catalogue, "Everything for the Garden," described below, the largest 

 possible distribution, we make the following liberal offer: 



EVERY EMPTY ENVELOPE 

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To every one who will state where this advertisement was seen and who encloses Ten Cents 

 (in stamps) we will mail our annual catalogue " Everything for the Garden " described 

 below, the "Garden Guide and Record," and also send free of charge, our famous 

 50c " HENDERSON " COLLECTION OF SEEDS, containing one packet each of Giant 

 Mixed Sweet Peas; Giant Fancy Pansies, Mixed; Giant Victoria Asters, Mixed; Henderson's Big 

 Boston Lettuce; Freedom Tomato and Henderson's Blood Turnip Beet in a coupon envelope 

 which when emptied and returned, will be accepted as a 25-cent cash payment on any order 

 amounting to $1.00 and upward, 



EVERYTHING FOR THE GARDEN, our 1910 catalogue is a book of 200 pages with 

 700 photo engravings direct from nature. 8 superb colored and duotone plates of vegetables 

 and flowers. Complete and thorough in every respect, it embodies the results of sixty years 

 of practical experience. We believe it is the best we have issued and the premier horti- 

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DIGITAI-IS (Foxglove). White, rose and yellow 

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HOLLYHOCKS, Double flowering-. Very inter- 

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AOUILEGIA. (Columbine). Canary yellow flowers 

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Beauty of the Camphor Tree 



THE camphor tree is now largely planted in the 

 South both for beauty and profit. As to its 

 beauty, the accompanying picture, gives some idea. 

 It has broad evergreen leaves noted for their gloss 

 and their refreshing odor. It is a quick grower, 

 attains a height of about forty feet in southern Flor- 

 ida and California and makes a compact, symmet- 

 rical tree that looks well on a lawn. It is hardy as 

 far north as Augusta and thrives in the South 

 Atlantic and Gulf states. It does fairly well on 

 a poor sandy soil. A four-year-old, pot-grown, 

 camphor tree from Georgia, costs less than a dollar. 

 The camphor tree has been planted on a con- 

 siderable scale in the United States for profit. The 

 production of camphor, is an interesting process. 

 The whole tree is used to produce the gum. It is 



The camphor tree is native to Japan and China, 

 but has been extensively planted in this country 

 for the production of camphor 



broken up and treated with water in closed vessels, 

 the volatilized camphor being sublimated on rice 

 straw. 



Botanically, also, the camphor is interesting. 

 It has small yellow flowers in axillary clusters, a 

 study of which shows that it belongs to the family 

 Lauraceas, of which the poet's laurel is the type. 

 It is related to the cinnamon and is often catalogued 

 as Cinnamomum Camphora, but should be called 

 Campliora officinalis. It is native to Japan and 

 China. 



Maryland. William Allen. 



A Garden Patch Sowed on 

 Washington's Birthday 



AS a test of the hardiness of the seeds we sowed 

 a small patch of vegetables on February 226., 

 1909. The season was unusually favorable for 

 the experiment, the frost was out of the ground for 

 the time being, the soil was almost dry and the day 

 mild. With any other conditions our Washington's 

 Birthday garden would have been an impossibility. 



The seeds used were radishes, lettuce, parsley, 

 endive, turnips, beets, carrots and tomatoes. The 

 hardiness of all but the last named had been proved, 

 but the tomatoes were added to the list because 

 they so often self-sow in the garden. All the seeds 

 germinated and grew throughout the season. 



The space and care given them were not sufficient 

 to raise any record-breaking specimens, but the 

 fact that they germinated and grew under such 

 unfavorable conditions might be a useful hint 

 for fall planting. Any seeds that weather the 

 trying season between February and April surely 

 deserve special mention. 



New York. I. M. Angell. 



