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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1910 



Begin Fighting Caterpillars Now 

 Band Your Trees With StroKum 



DO it before the caterpil- 

 lars, tussock moths or 

 canker worms begin to 

 crawl up the trunks. Keep 

 the first ones from attacking 

 the tender leaves. Every 

 crawler killed now means 

 hundreds less later on. 



St r okum is a perfectly 

 harmless vegetable product 

 that is the most effectual 

 banding substance known. 



It's easy to apply, does not 

 stick to the tree when re- 

 moved, will last an entire 

 season. The caterpillars can't 

 crawl under it because it fills 

 up the chinks of the bark. 

 They won't crawl over it. 



Birds will not carry it away 

 as they do cotton. Fly paper 

 does not fill bark chinks and 

 dries up in a few days. 

 Smeared-on tar preparations 

 dry up and disfigure trees 

 indefinitely. 



St r okum , besides being 

 effectual, is not unsightly. 



Send $3.00 at once for a 

 sample package of 15 pounds, 

 which is enough to band 

 fifteen trees, 3 feet around. 

 Delivered free anywhere East 

 of the Mississippi ; 50c. ex- 

 tra West of it. 



Let us mail you our illus- 

 trated booklet. 



George Stratford Oakum Co. 



161 Corrvelison Avenue Jersey City, N. J. 



Modern Gladiolus 

 25 Bulbs, 25 Cents 



For only 25 cents I will send you, 

 postpaid, 25 assorted flowering size 

 bulbs of Gladioli. I have greatly 

 enriched my assortment, which in- 

 cludes, besides the celebrated Groff's 

 Hybrids and Silver Trophy strain, 

 the best in the world, mixed and 

 named varieties of Gandavensis 

 Childsi, Lemoine (Butterfly) and the 

 giant Nanceianus. Best assortment. 

 Lowest prices. Complete list of named 

 sorts, including new varieties for igio, 

 not before or elsewhere offered, sent 

 free. 



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 Box B Independence, Iowa 



Strong, Healthy, Choice 

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 Our goods will surely give satisfaction. Get our 

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Orange County Nurseries 



P. O. Box 4 CORNWALL, N. Y. 



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Notes for the Spring Season 



THE quickest way to get a hardy evergreen 

 vine is to plant climbing euonymus with 

 Englemann's ivy. The former is said to climb 

 up faster than the latter when used alone. 



Do salmon-barked willow and red-twigged dog- 

 wood brighten in March when the sap begins 

 to move? Or do they only seem brighter, because 

 there is more sunshine then and we are outdoors 

 more? 



March flowers are so rare that every new one is 

 worth trying. Adonis Amurensis (or Davurica) 

 "blooms two weeks earlier than any other hardy 

 perennial" in southern New Jersey. Plants cost 

 about $5 a dozen, but should be worth it. 



American holly is probably the most desirable 

 of all hardy evergreens, because it has red berries 

 all winter, yet there are only two or three nursery- 

 men who handle it. Any estate owner who will 

 plant it by the hundred in his woods will make a 

 name for himself that will go down to posterity. 

 The cheapest way would be to have a collector 

 gather a peck of berries in southern New Jersey. It 

 could be done for $5. Then stratify the seeds, 

 which germinate, the second year. At the end of 

 four years a man would have a thousand holly plants 

 two feet high, half of which would live after being 

 transplanted. 



Have you ever brushed through a thicket of 

 bayberry (not barberry) in March? What a 

 joyous fragrance! Even when the leaves are off 

 and the waxy white berries are beginning to dis- 

 integrate this lovely native shrub is enjoyable. 

 And how splendid its coloring in November, a 

 month after the trees have shed their leaves! Why 

 not plant it for November color and winter fragrance ? 



Everybody knows the- Cornelian cherry (Comus 

 Mas), because it blooms in March before the 

 forsythia, but have you ever heard of Comus 

 officinalis, which blooms two weeks earlier? It is 

 the Japanese equivalent of C. Mas, having the 

 same sort of small yellow flowers in flat clusters 

 followed in summer by showy red fruits. March 

 bloomers are so rare and precious that you would 

 think every nurseryman would jump at the chance 

 to propagate this Japanese beauty. 



The best time to buy big clumps of perennials 

 cheaply is in the fall, but the following are said to 

 give better results the first year if planted in spring 

 from four-inch pots: phlox, gaillardia, coreopsis, 

 stokesia and sweet William. 



Climbers that twine are tough; those that cling 

 are brittle. Therefore, don't plant English ivy or 

 climbing euonymus on wood. You may want 

 to take them down in five or six years to paint the 

 house. It will be a hard job to take them down 

 and replace them. 



How many centuries will it be before we wake 

 up to the beauties of sassafras? Its yellowish 

 flowers in May are as pretty as those of Norway 

 maple: its autumn foliage is even more brilliant — 

 purple, red and gold; and its green twigs are vivid 

 in winter. Children love to hunt for the "mitten- 

 shaped" leaves and those with two thumbs. Yet 

 few nurserymen keep it and rich planters seem 

 to be asleep and snoring. 



Any one who likes red columbines can have his 

 fill by planting A. Canadensis for April and early 

 May; A . formosa for late May and early June; and 

 A. Skinneri which will bloom most of July and 

 August. The second kind is usually advertised as 

 A. Calif ornica. 



The run-wild hyacinths of Virginia have lost 

 all the grossness of the Dutch hyacinth and have 

 all the delicacy of an American wild flower. It is 

 pleasant to see them in old farm yards where they 

 have maintained themselves for forty years. We 

 have seen them blooming there in March. They 

 look somewhat like English blue bells (Scilla nutans) 

 but have all reduced to only one or two flowers on a 

 stem. A pretty purple-blue variety is before us 

 as we write. We presume it to be Hyacinthus 

 orientalis, because the tube is nearly half an inch 

 long. It is certainly not a scilla, for true scillas 

 have the petals united only at the very base. 



