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Do you intend to build a poultry house? 

 Write to the Readers' Service 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1910 



asa Money Crop 



for Rough Feed 



for the Soil 



' The best farmers of New England and the 

 J Eastern Sta teshave followed tliisrule, under 

 a proper rotation of crops, and have pros- 

 pered. They have used good, dependable 

 />" seed, of course, as the first essential. Such 

 £/$ farrrers have been happy and contented, 

 y / -ft living well and "layingby." Theirfarms 

 / f\jf -^j have increased in fertility and value each 



year— their experience shows clearly how to 



the Farm Pay 



This kind of man \v\Wfeed his soil as *^ 



carefullyas his livestock. He will grow crops 



that not only yield an immediate return but 



leave the land better than before. His live 



stock will have blood and breeding and he 



will farm on a business-like basis. The seed he 



sows will have pedigree, also; long ago this type 



of man learned that it is poor economy to plant 



any other, and the result is that farming pays 



him better than it ever has. 



Ross Bros' Good Seed 



Have an established reputation and have 

 been bought and planted by many farmers 

 and gardeners for over twenty successive 

 years, with uniformly good results. The 

 leading Ross specialties are corn and forage 

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Write to-day for this great book, 



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Complete Greenhouse 

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A full-fledged greenhouse, complete in every 

 way. Gives you about 65 square feet of 

 indoors garden. Grows practically any- 

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 handy man can put it up. No foundations 

 needed — it is bolted to iron posts. If you 

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Joined to residence, makes ideal con- 

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Saves your plants from frost; grows 

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Send for booklet, fully describing it. 

 Has growing hints too. 



Hitchings & Company 



1170 Broadway, New York 



when we had a plague of grasshoppers. I found 

 nothing that seemed to affect these swarms of 

 pests except a good drenching and that only- 

 cooled their ardor. I picked nasturtiums every 

 day, but the grasshoppers got ahead of me and 

 ate the buds unless I sprinkled them. 



I found Mr. Cutworm did not enjoy plaster of 

 Paris as a condiment on young cucumber and 

 squash vines. Mrs. Squashbug disliked bug death 

 as did the entire potato bug family, and crows 

 objected to strands of white streamers waving over 

 the corn hills. 



New Hampshire. Nushka. 



One Hundred Dollars from a 

 Small Lot 



WE CAME to the city from the country with 

 no idea of being identified with garden work. 

 But a case of ptomaine poisoning, which resulted 

 from eating store vegetables, and a longing for 

 the fresh products of the farm soon set our minds 

 on a city garden. 



The first of November, 1908, found us encamped 

 upon a suburban lot — a waste of yellow sand with 

 a ditch to be filled in and a conglomeration of tin 

 cans and debris to be disposed of. 



At times it did not seem worth the effort demanded 

 to subdue and enrich this desert: but recollections 

 of past successes, of the barrenness of city life 

 (according to our standards) without a garden and 

 a vision of what might be set us to work. We had 

 about a quarter of an acre to till. 



We brought in several wheelbarrow-loads of 

 manure and early in April started to dig up the 

 soil. All the coal ashes which had accumulated 

 during the winter were used to fill in below the 

 spading depth. And, by the way, coal ashes make 

 one of the best subsoils, retaining a degree of mois- 

 ture for dry weather and yet supplying good 

 drainage. 



One bed, extending from the house to the back 

 fence and bordering the line fence, was about nine 

 feet wide. Here we sowed kohlrabi, peas, beans, 

 carrots and beets, and had a large bed of cabbage 

 plants and another seed-bed for flowers, the con- 

 tents of which were transplanted in due season and 

 provided for a succession in the garden proper. 



Along in May we planted three rows of StowelPs 

 Evergreen and Golden Bantam corn, lengthwise 

 and through all the other plots of vegetables. This 

 plan, aided by the use of a sufficient mulch to 

 retain the moisture, worked out splendidly. We 

 also planted Golden Bantam corn in the middle plot 

 of the garden, where tomatoes, egg plant, lettuce, 

 pepper and cucumbers were growing. Later, among 

 the corn, we planted squash. 



In the middle space close to the house we had 

 a circular bed of roses which bloomed continuously 

 from June to November. Next to this was a large 

 circular bed of gladioli, a clump of cosmos and 

 dahlias flourishing in the centre of it. 



The plan followed with these two moisture- 

 loving plants was to make a depression in the centre 

 so that all possible moisture could be held. Dur- 

 ing the summer we emptied a pail of water around 

 the roots each evening. 



Between the house and the shed we left a plot 

 of sod for the children to play on,' and between the 

 walk and the south line fence (a strip about two 

 feet wide) we had a gorgeous array of poppies and 

 sweet peas. Along the north line fence we had 

 sweet peas and later Japanese cucumbers and Lima 

 beans. 



A record of value received might disclose this 

 result, which, deducting $3.50 for seeds, etc., gives 

 a net profit of $110 for one season: 



Peas $2.00 



Beans i-°c 



Corn 12.00 



Tomatoes 2.00 



Cucumbers .5> 00 



Other vegetables 4.00 



Value of flowers 10.00 



Cabbage plants • 4.00 



Various plants sold 3-5° 



2,000 pansy plants in stock for spring sale .... 40.00 



Forget-me-not plants in stock for spring sale ... 5.00 



Sweet William plants in stock for spring sale ... 10.00 



Winter onions for early spring 15.00 



Total $113-5° 



Michigan U. R. Perrine. 



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SPECIAL BARGAINS 

 6 Carnations, the "Divine Flower," 

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 8 Sweet-Scented Tuberoses - - 

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1910 



Old Colony Nurseries 



HARDY SHRUBS, TREES, VINES, 

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A large and fine stock of well-rooted plants grown 

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Plymouth, Mass. 







