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// you are planning to build, the Readers* 

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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1910 



FreeBooKHome Refrigeration 



This book tells how to select the home Refrigerator — how to know the poor from the good — 

 how to keep down ice bills. It also tells how some Refrigerators harbor germs — how to keep a 

 Refrigerator sanitary and sweet — lots of things you should know before buying ANY Refrigerator. 



It tells all about the "Monroe," the refrigerator with in- 

 ner walls made in one piece from unbreakable SOLID POR- 

 CELAIN an inch thick and highly glazed, with every corner 

 rounded. No cracks or crevices anywhere. The " Monroe " 

 is as easy to keep clean as a china bowl. 



£KMonroe" 



Most other refrigerators have cracks and corners which can- 

 not be cleaned. Here particles of food collect and breed germs 

 by the million. These germs get into your food and make it 

 poison, and the family surfers — from no traceable cause. 



The " Monroe " can be sterilized and made germlessly clean 

 in an instant by simply wiping out with a cloth wrung from hot 

 water. It's like "washing dishes," for the "Monroe" is really 

 a thick porcelain dish inside. 



■■ Always sold DIRECT 

 and at FACTORY PRICES, 

 Cash or Monthly Payments 



NOTE CAREFULLY 



to manufacture that but few cc 

 dealers. So we sell direct and E 

 50 per cent commission. This 

 reach of tbe'MANY, at a price 



Solid l J otce!ain 

 roe is so costly 

 llford it if sold through 

 ir customers the dealers' 

 the Monroe within the 

 :an aftprd. 



Sent Anywhere on Trial 



e will send the 

 : to use until 

 : you wish to. 



responsible person an 

 obligation to keep 

 ost sell itself to you c 



The high death rate among children in the summer months 

 could be greatly reduced if the Monroe Refrigerator was used in 

 every home. 



The " Monroe " is installed in the best flats and apartments, occupied by 

 people who CARE — and is found today in a large majority of the VERY 

 BEST homes in the United States. The largest and best Hospitals use it 

 exclusively. The health of the whole family is safeguarded by the use of a 

 Monroe Refrigerator. 



When you have carefully read the book and know all about Home Re- 

 frigeration, you will know WHY and will realize how important it is to select 

 carefully. Please write for the book today. (4) 



Monroe Refrigerator Co., Station 13, Cincinnati, Ohio 



"I HAVE SO LITTLE FUNGUS 



that I cannot afford to mark my fruit with Bordeaux," says Mr. Geo. T. Powell of Ghent, N. Y., a grower 

 of fancy apples. "I have less scale and finer foliage than ever before." REASON : Five years' consecutive use of 



a 



SCALECIDE 



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cheaper, more effective and easier to apply than Lime-Sulphur. Send for Booklet, "Orchard Insurance.' 



PDITP C, • ,n barrels and half barrels, 50c. per gallon; 10 gallon 



* IVIV^LmJ . cans , $6.00; 5 gallon cans, $3.25; i gallon cans, $1.00. 



If you want cheap oils, our "CARBOLENE" at 30c. per gallon is the equal of anything else. 



B. G. PRATT CO., MFG. CHEMISTS, 50 CHURCH STREET, NEW YORK CITY 



RFpK"FFPINr' * ts pleasures and profits, is the theme of 

 DE.CIYCE,r inU that excellent and handsomely illustrated 

 magazine, GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. We send it for 

 six months on trial for twenty-five cents, and also send free a 64- 

 page book on bees and our bee supply catalog to all who name this 

 paper. The A. I. ROOT CO., Box 44, Medina, Ohio. 



NOVELTIES ! CAL. PRIVET ! 

 French Asparagus, Hungarian Raspberry 

 and Strawberry plants. Rare Shrubs ! 



Write today for artistically illustrated leaflet. 

 S. L. de Fabry, Grower of Novelties, Little Silver, N. J. 



There's a Big Crop of Big, Red 



STRAWBERRIES 



for Everybody Who Will Use 



KELLOGG'S Thoroughbred Pedigree Plants 



The Strongest, Healthiest and Most Productive Strawberry 

 Plants in the World Today 



E. J. Brown, Bloomsburg, Pa., picked 14,000 qts. from 10,000 plants, which he sold for a big price. 

 C. N. Russell, Manistee, Mich., makes more than $500 per acre each season from his Kellogg plants. 

 C. O. Wigen, Creston, B. G, picked 53,000 qts. from 4 acres, which brought him more than $1,000 per acre. 

 If you have a notion of growing strawberries either for market or home use, cultivate that notion ; it's a good one. 

 It will make you money. 



It's Your Easy Money 



for it is just as easy to grow a big crop of big, red, delicious berries as to grow a small crop of the little sour fellows. 

 The kind of plants you set out will determine the quality and quantity of berries you will have to pick. KELLOGG 

 PLANTS PRODUCE BERRIES OF SUPERIOR QUALITY IN ENORMOUS QUANTITIES. 



Our Free 64-Page Book 



fully explains the Kellogg Method of growing the world's greatest crops. It tells you how to get pleasure as well 

 as profit out of the business. One of these books is for you ; it's all ready to mail upon receipt of your name and 

 address. A postal card today will do. The book is free. 



R. M. KELLOGG COMPANY, Box 690, Three Rivers, Mich. 



Stand them in about four inches apart and pack the 

 earth firmly about. If they are set in a vegetable 

 garden, or flower bed, where they can get half 

 shade, so much the better. I planted some in April, 

 1905. One out of every three or four lived. They 

 were moved that fall to permanent positions. They 

 bloomed sparingly in 1907, but the summer of 1908 

 they were thrifty bushes three feet high, with abun- 

 dant flowers. A larger percentage of cuttings will 

 live if they are made in mid-summer, but you may 

 not want to cut a bush to get them at that time. 



In July, 1907, the dog chased a cat into a deutzia 

 bush in the garden. Several branches were broken 

 from the heart of the bush by the fight that ensued, 

 but these broken branches were made into cuttings 

 the required length and set in a trench close to a 

 mignonette border in a flower bed. The mignonette 

 grew about them and sheltered them as they rooted. 

 Late in the fall they were mulched down to keep 

 the soil from freezing away from the stems. They 

 were taken from this trench and photographed in 

 October, 1908, after the foliage had been ripened 

 and was ready to drop. They were immediately 

 planted in their permanent positions where they 

 will bloom the next spring. ± found myself four- 

 teen deutzia bushes to the good, and the damage 

 to the old bush entirely forgotten. 



Each summer, when the crimson ramblers are 

 through blooming, the old wood is partially cut away 

 and rows of cuttings arranged among the flower 

 beds also. In this way thrifty stock can be raised 

 on its own roots without a greenhouse or much 

 work. A cutting started one summer will bloom 

 the second summer following. 



WHAT LAYERING CONSISTS OF 



Layering is the process of growing roots on a 

 branch of the parent plant while it is still attached 

 to and nourished by it. 



In the summer of 1905 when the young shoots 

 about the root of an old lilac had grown about three 

 feet high, they were all trimmed back to the earth 

 except one, which was saved for layering. Being 

 young and easily bent, it was curved over to the 

 ground into a hole three inches deep, dug the proper 

 distance from the old bush. The shoot was notched 

 through the wood on the lower side that went into 

 the ground and fastened down with a clothes pin. 

 The earth was put over it and the end of the shoot 

 was turned upward and fastened to a stake driven 

 in the ground. By fall this shoot had become a 

 bush with good roots of its own. In the spring of 

 1906 it was moved to a permanent position. In 

 setting it out one long root was left near the sur- 

 face, and stretched as far from the bush as possible, 

 in order to get upright shoots from it. A number 

 of shoots appeared from this long root during the 

 summer of 1907. These were all trimmed off 



I 



This trumpet vine grew ten feet the year after 

 layering 



