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in planning your vacation trip THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1910 



"Pure, Clear Well-water 



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A customer writes : "It affords me pleasure to state that during the last twenty years I have 

 liud one of your Hot- Air Engines (8-inch Ericsson) at our house in the country at Edgewater 

 Park, N. J., and am pleased to say that it has been most, satisfactory. Although we have 

 city-water brought to our door, the advantages of pure, clear well-water with the aid of the 

 engine are such that we decline to introduce into the house this city-water." 



If you dwell in the suburbs and have reason to 

 doubt the purity of the public water supply, the 



Hot-Air Pump 



always offers you a remedy for such conditions, and 

 will always assure you freedom from the dangerous 

 effects of an impure public supply. It guarantees 

 to you that clear, pure, sparkling fluid, which in 

 memory we love to associate with " the old oaken 

 bucket, the iron-bound bucket, the moss-covered 

 bucket which hung in the well." 



Remember that these pumps are not steam- 

 engines, but machines of low power which cannot 

 explode, operated solely by hot air, automatic in 

 their action, requiring no skilled attention, so simple 

 that any servant or farmer's boy can start and stop 

 the little flame that gives them life. Wood or coal 

 supplies the fuel ( an oil or gasoline lamp may be 

 used if preferred ). The cost of operation is almost 

 nil, while the delivery of water is absolutely certain 

 at all times and seasons. They are independent 

 of wind, weather, or frost. 



SnT^&i&sz wRIDER or "bkco-ERICSSON ^ ar Lrv'o e - 



tects you against worthless imitations. When so situated that you cannot personally inspect 

 the pump before ordering:, write to our nearest office (see list below) for the name of a repu- 

 table dealer in your locality, who will sell you only the genuine pump. Over 40,000 are in 

 use throughout the world to-day. Write for Catalogue (J, and ask for reduced price-list. 



Rider-Ericsson Engine Co. 



35 Warren Street, New York 

 239 Franklin Street, Boston 



40 Dearhorn Street, Chicago 

 40 North 7th Street, Philadelphia 



234 West Craig Street, Montreal, P. Q. 

 22 Pitt Street, Sydney, N. S. W. 



HOT-AIR PUMP 



(Also builders of the new " Reeco " Electric Pump.) 



Plant for Immediate Effect 



NOT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS 



Start with the largest Stock that can be secured ! It takes over twenty 

 years to grow such Trees and Shrubs as we offer. 



We do the long waiting — thus enabling you to secure Trees and Shrubs that 

 give an immediate effect. Price List Now Ready. 



Andorra Nurseries 



WJW. WARNER HARPER, Prop. 



Box Q, Chestnut Hill, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



We Want You to Know that 



EDUCATOR 

 CRACKERS 



are more delicious and healthful than any other cracker, 

 because the ingredients are absolutely pure and our methods 

 ' of handling, baking and packing insure their perfect clean- 

 liness, and we want you to try our 



Assorted Sample Box 



Send us your name and address, your grocer's name, and two two-cent 

 stamps ; we will forward the day we receive it, the box of Educator 

 Crackers containing some of the best liked kinds. In this way we can 

 prove to you and every member of your family, the difference between 

 Educator Crackers and " just ordinary crackers'* after "you all" have 

 tried them. 



The Name EDUCATOR is 

 on Every Educator Cracker 





The package we'll send you will help you in select- 

 ing the kinds you prefer. Leading grocers every- 

 where keep Educator Crackers. If yours doesn't 

 and won't get them for you, order from us direct. 



JOHNSON EDUCATOR FOOD COMPANY 

 227 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass. 



As the Frost Leaves the Ground 



IN THE middle and lower South we very seldom 

 have any frost after the middle of March; 

 therefore, seed of all tender annuals, such as nastur- 

 tiums, marigolds, morning glory, sunflower, cypress 

 vine, moonflower, etc., may be safely sown in the 

 open after the fifteenth. 



The following roots and bulbs may also be 

 planted about the same time: cannas, montbretias, 

 zephyranthes, gloxinias, caladiums, begonias, hop 

 and moonflower vine, and tender roses. After the 

 fifteenth sow seed of tomatoes, for main crop and 

 canning; also seed of ornamental gourds. The 

 garden fence makes an excellent support for them, 

 as it permits the handle or neck of each gourd to 

 grow straight. 



Watermelon and muskmelon for main crop 

 should be planted the last of this month. 



Plant field corn after the tenth of the month. 

 Apply at planting time half of the total amount 



Cover young bean plants when frost threatens and 

 the beans will be earlier and better 



of fertilizer you intend using, the other half at the 

 second plowing of the corn. 



In the upland South, sow seed of early sweet 

 corn, squash, cucumber, muskmelon and water- 

 melon after the middle of the month. The soil 

 should be a warm, sandy loam where the plants 

 can easily be given protection on cold nights. 



Towards the middle of the month plant out 

 tuberose, gladiolus and dahlia, iris, calla and 

 hardy lilies, if you failed to plant them in the fall. 

 Also plant main crop varieties of Irish potatoes, and 

 bed sweet potatoes. 



Sow grass seed for lawns and seed of early bush 

 beans in warm loamy soil, that has been given a 

 dressing of stable manure. Bountiful, Early 

 Mohawk and Burpee's Stringless Green-pod, are 

 the best early green-pod varieties and Brittle Wax 

 of the yellow-pod wax sort. Cover the young plants 

 when frost threatens. 



