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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 19 10 



"HAMILTON-MADE" 

 -GARDEN HOSE 



The hose that stands hard use 



OF course garden-hose ought to have kind 

 use and tender care — but it doesn't get it. 



"Hamilton- Made" Hose is made to stand a long life of rough 

 use and hard wear. We know it will be puddle-soaked and then sun- 

 baked, dragged over rough stones and around sharp corners. Wagons 

 and wheelbarrows and ash-barrels will grind and crush it. 



"HAMILTON- Made" Hose is prepared for the worst. It is TOUGH. 



Here are some of the 



leading grades of 



Hamilton-Made Garden 



Hose. Note that Every 



label bears the words 



HAMILTON-MADE 



^HAMILTON- &J 



Hamilton-Made Hose is made by our old, slow pro- 

 cess, which produces such stiff/springy, long-lasting hose. An 

 inner tube of pure "live" rubber is tightly wrapped with layer 

 after layer of close-woven duck, all vulcanized tight together, 

 with an outside cover of tough rubber to take the wear. After 

 seasoning, every foot is TESTED under tremendous hydraulic 

 pressure, to discover the slightest defect. This enables us to 

 GUARANTEE our hose to stand enormous pressures. Most 

 makers will not do this. 



There's a Hamilton-Made Hose for every different use and pressure, 

 each grade made better than is necessary to meet the- requirements for 

 that use, at prices from 10 to 25 cents a foot. Whatever grade of hose 

 you need, ask the dealer for Hamilton-Made, and you will be certain 

 of getting the best hose of that grade that is made. 



SOLD BY DEALERS EVERYWHERE 



If your dealer lias not HAMILTON-MADE HOSE on hand, we wlU 

 deliver to you anywhere in the United States, FREIGHT PREPAID, 

 50-foot lengths of our highest grade hose, complete with standard brass 

 couplings, for the regular price, $12.50 each length. This splendid hose 

 stands a pressure of 750 POUNDS TO THE SQUARE INCH, and 

 while it is our highest-priced garden hose, it lasts so long that it is 

 in reality probably the CHEAPEST hose made. 



If you want hose of a different grade, write us for samples and the names of dealers near you. 



Hamilton Rubber Manufacturing 



Trenton, New Jersey 



H rL/INC-'rl o century 



Steel Ball Coupling Pivot Axle 



Cultivator £ ith Double 

 K o w Corn 



Planter and Fertilizer Attach- 

 ment complete in One 

 Machine. 



Awarded 

 GOLD MEDAL 



at World's Fair, St. Louis. 

 A wonderful improvement 



in cultivators, combining every 

 possible movement of gangs and 

 wheels required. Easily changed 

 to different styles. Thousands 



Manufacturers of all kinds of Agricultural Imple- 



Agents wanted ; write for circular. 



The Hench & Dromgold Co., Mfrs., Ycrk, Pa, 



in use. 

 ments. 



A Mess lM--«U— - 'Vrfx»«<% at all seasons 



of fresh lVIUSfirOOmS Growing la your Cellar 



40 cts in P° sta £ e stamps together with the name of your 

 dealer will bring- you, postpaid, direct from the 

 manufacturer, a fresh sample brick of 



Lambert's Pure Culture MUSHROOM SPAWN 



the Lest high-grade spawn in the market, together with large illustrated boo k 

 on Mushroom Culture* containing simple and practical methods of raising* 

 preserving and cooking mushrooms. Not more than one sample brick will 

 be sent to the same party. Further orders must come through your dealer. 

 Address: American Spawn Co., Dept. 2, St. Paul, Minn. 



WITH OR 

 WITHOUT 



SUN-DIALS 



PEDESTALS 



Send for illustrated 

 price list H 29 



HARTMANN-SANDERS CO. 

 Chicago, 111. 



New York Office, 1123 Broadway 



Send for Catalogue of English Grown Flower Seeds 



of Proven Quality 



Also Plants, Bulbs, Roses, Vines, Shrubs 



ROBERT T. PINKERTON, 709 Eastern Townships Bank Bldg., Montreal, Canada 



An Experience with Asparagus 

 from Seed 



CONTRARY to all garden tradition, I have 

 found asparagus to be one of the easiest and 

 least expensive vegetables to raise. I started a 

 new bed last spring. The part of the garden I 

 selected had been laid off in beds sixty feet long 

 by about four wide, with walks between. It 

 slopes to the west, so was naturally well drained. 



I ordered one ounce of Eclipse asparagus seed 

 and two packets of Great Emperor, at a total cost 

 of fifty cents. Then, in one of the aforementioned 

 beds, I dug three trenches — one in the middle and 

 one about six inches from each edge of the bed 

 — six to eight inches deep. I soaked the seed in 

 warm water for a few hours before planting. The 

 ounce of Eclipse filled two of the trenches, the 

 seeds being placed about an inch apart. One 

 package of the Great Emperor filled the third trench, 

 and I hastily dug a fourth, in which I almost broad- 

 casted what I had left. Of course, these seeds were 

 much too thick, and the plants never were as fine 

 as those from the thinly planted seeds. I covered 

 the seed with about an inch of earth and sprinkled 

 a little bit of bone meal in each trench. 



The seeds were planted the first week in April, 

 and took a full month to appear above ground. 

 But what a forest I had when they did come! The 

 necessity of immediate thinning was obvious, and 

 as I always hate to throw away nice little plants, I 

 determined to transplant them, even if they were 

 only two inches tall above ground and two inches 

 long below. I transplanted hundreds of these 

 seedlings during the first part of June, and most of 

 them grew. The plants in the original trenches were 

 left about a foot apart, and as they grew the earth 

 was drawn back into the trench, until it was level. 

 Then I scattered several bushels of manure from 

 the chicken coops on the surface between the r@ws, 

 and weeded several times during the summer. 

 By the middle of September, many of the plants 

 had from four to six stalks, eighteen inches to two 

 feet high, and an eighth of an inch or more in 

 diameter. The transplanted plants, of course, 

 were not so fine, but they have had practically no 

 care, no fertilizer and no water except, a few 

 showers. They were not so deeply planted 

 either. 



The total cost of this asparagus was fifty cents 

 spent for seed. The bone meal was a "left over," 

 too small to count, the manure a by-product of 

 the poultry yard, and I did all.the work myself. 



New Jersey. A. C. Brown. 



A Shrub for a Shady Place 



THE mountain currant (Ribes alpinum), a 

 native of the mountains of Europe and the 

 Orient, is admirably adapted to growing under 

 the shade and drip of trees, even in quite dry 

 situations. 



It is hardy without question, growing about three 

 feet high and bearing in profusion, during the 

 summer, currants much resembling the garden 

 variety but tasteless. It is well clothed with foliage 

 and gives, at all times, a pleasing effect. 



Two years ago my neighbor wanted his place 

 fixed up. A walk came in from the corner of a 

 street and ran diagonally to his house. It was 

 bordered for some twenty feet by an old shrubbery 

 and tree belt; all undergrowth was killed on 

 account of the dense shade. The bare ground 

 displeased my neighbor. I dug up the soil as best I 

 could and planted it largely to Ribes alpinum. I also 

 tried some of the common snowberry, sometimes 

 recommended for such situations. They only did 

 fairly well, but the Ribes is doing splendidly and 

 gives a fine green carpet. The following fall I 

 planted, in between the plants, various spring- 

 flowering bulbs. 



All of this came from noticing a few Ribes on 

 my own grounds. The building of a cottage some 

 six or eight years ago, after they had been planted, 

 in connection with the growth of adjoining shrubs 

 and trees, had so shut them in that they were in 

 dense shade, but they flourished and still seem to be 

 happy. I do not know of any other shrub, suitable 

 for growing in this climate, which would live under 

 such conditions. 



Illinois. W. C. Egan. 



