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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1910 



Grow Asparagus 



In Four To Five Weeks 



In Your Back Yard 



Big, white, showy stalks can be grown in four or five weeks. Most dainty and 

 healthful vegetable at a minimum cost. No trouble, no care from the time the 

 bed is made until out. 



Reliable, practical method. A bed six by three feet will produce 

 asparagus enough for a family of five with some to sell to your neighbors. 

 Intensive cultivation is the most profitable method of vegetable growing. 

 It produces the best crops and the earliest. Getting to market first with the 

 earliest vegetables brings the advanced price. 

 Our book is the only practical treatise in 

 this country on the French 

 method of intensive cultivation. Besides the story of 

 asparagus forcing, the book tells in a simple way all the 

 principal methods that allow the working of the smallest 

 amount of land with the largest financial returns. 



Flexible Cover, $1.00 ; Library Edition, $1.25, postpaid 



ALBERT S. DIETZMAN 

 650 Fourth Avenue Louisville, Ky. 



Home-grown asparagus raised by French method of forcing 



THOUSANDS 



endorse 



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For your early vegetables, flowers, rose 

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 Your roses will bloom 

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 Your lawn will look 

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 Childs, Dingee & 

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Put up in dry form in all size packages as follows: 



1 lb. " 28 gallons, postpaid .65 



5 lbs. " 140 " $ 2.50 



10 lbs. " 280 " 4.75 



50 lbs. " 1120 " 22.50 



100 lbs, " 2800 " 40.00 



200 lbs. " 5600 " 70.00 



BONORA CHEMICAL CO. 



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Dept. 84 



DAHLIAS FROM SEED 



They blossom beautifully from s«etl 

 first season. For 4 cents in stamps and names 

 of two flower-loving friends, I will send 30 

 double Dahlia seeds, choice mixed; also FREE, 

 my handsomely illustrated 17th Annual Catalog:, 

 and "Floral Culture," telling how to grow 

 flowers from seed. Better write now. 



MISS C. H. LIPPINCOTT, 



Pioneer Secdsuuo)iian 

 Hudson, Wis. ( One hour's ride from Minneapolis) 



WANTED A ft*— 



I want a man (.unmarried) to take complete charge of my 

 garden and grounds. He must be a thoroughly capable all 

 around man, but will be called upon to give particular attention 

 to the vegetable garden. Address 



C. F. DRURY New Boston, Illinois 



ASTERS 



Famous Aster, Lady Roosevelt, 

 gorgeous pink, marvelous beauty, 

 20 to 40 inch stems, Scientifically grown and separated seed, 

 25c. and 50c. pkts. postpaid. Order today. J. S. WEAVER, 

 Glen Mawr Seed Farms, Box A, Kinzers, Pa. 



SUMMER 



FLOWERING 



BULBS AND PERENNIALS 



From the Growers 

 Direct to the Planter 



Send for 



list of prizes 



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BROTHERS 



DEERFIELD 



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ARE YOU OPEN TO CONVICTION? 



We <h> not claim that our seeds and horticultural supplies are the best in the world, nor anything like that, 

 but we know that there are none better, and that you can depend upon them to give absolute satisfaction. 

 We want to convince yon of the value of an old established business and our years of experience, so let's 

 get to know each other "at once. Please send for our 



CATALOGUE FOR 1910 



We are sure it will interest and be of real service to you. It is most complete and will be a thoroughly 

 worthy guide to you in planning the vegetable and flower garden this spring. We believe you will find it 

 in maliyways the most attractive and distinctive catalogue you have ever owned. 



BRIDGEMAN'S SEED WAREHOUSE 



37 East 19th Street 



RICKARDS BROS. Props. Established 1824 

 Telephone 4235 Gramercy 



New York City 



packed away in sand and occasionally inspected 

 during the winter to guard against rot, the clumps 

 will surely be plump and in good condition in the 

 spring, at which time they are divided and most of 

 them sold. 



My friend divides the clumps March ist and 

 plunges the divisions into the sand. He markets 

 them April 15th. He never sets the bulbs in the 

 ground before June ist. 



Cannas are propagated by division, a good- 

 sized clump making a dozen or more new plants. 



A 12-foot canna bed yielded ten baskets of bulbs 

 like this 



These, in the course of a year or two, can be again 

 divided; the process continues year after year, the 

 plants being multiplied indefinitely. 



As a centre for formal flower beds there is prob- 

 ably no plant more universally used than the canna, 

 and it is also very effective when , planted singly 

 or in groups in the border, the brilliant colors of the 

 flowers and massive foliage showing particularly 

 well against a background of green. Canna bulbs 

 always command a good price in the spring, and 

 there is never an oversupply of really good stock. 



Massachusetts. Luke J. Doogue. 



VINES 



A Splendid Vine for the Far South 



ONE of the loveliest vines which warm countries 

 alone may grow is Clerodendron Thomp- 

 sons, known to nurserymen as C. Balfouri. The 

 striking peculiarity of this vine is the great con- 

 trast between the great bag-like calyx and five- 

 parted corolla, the former being white and the 

 latter scarlet. One of the accompanying pictures 

 gives a good idea of what the individual flower is 

 like, while the other shows the great profusion of 



