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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 19 10 



REECO WATER SYSTEM 



(Water-supplies installed complete 

 and ready for use) 



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Showing pump in cellar connected 

 with pneumatic pressure tank 



We do the work, you turn the fau- 

 cet. Our system relieves a customer of 

 every detail. We install any kind of 

 water-supply complete and ready for use. 

 No matter where you live, if it be near a 

 well, a spring, or running brook, and you 

 feel that you could enjoy some of those 

 comforts and conveniences which a bath 

 and running water give in a home, but are 

 in doubt as to the expense involved, write 

 us and we will tell you exactly the cost, and in case you purchase, we will take complete 

 charge of the work, relieving you of every detail of installation, thus giving you a water- 

 supply all ready for the turning of the faucet. Our business life covers an experience of seventy 

 years. During this period we have been able to adopt the best of such inventions and im- 

 provements as have from time to time become available, until our system of water-supply 

 is the very best obtainable, being indorsed and in use of various departments of the U. S. 

 Government and, to the number of over 40,000, is working in all countries throughout the 

 world to-day. Our pumps are operated by electricity or hot air, as may best suit the location 

 or convenience of the purchaser. 



Write to our nearest office for Catalogue U, and let us tell you the cost of a water-supply all ready for use. 



Rider-Ericsson Engine Co. 



35 Warren Street, New York 

 239 Franklin Street, Boston 



40 Dearborn Street, Chicago 



40 North 7th Street, Philadelphia 



234 West Craig Street, Montreal, P. Q. 

 22 Pitt Street, Sydney, N. S. W. 



GOLDEN RETINOSPORAS, JAPANESE CYPRESSES, KOSTER'S 

 BLUE SPRUCES, WHITE AND NORWAY PINES 



We are offering this season collections of 16 different young" 

 evergreens, postpaid, for #2, as follows ; White Fir, Nordmann's 

 Fir, Silver Fir, Lawson's Cypress, European Larch, Norway 

 Spruce, Colorado Spruce, Ked Spruce, Sitka Spruce, Douglas 

 Spruce, Austrian Pine, Jack Pine, Bull Pine, White Pine, Nor- 

 way Pine, Canadian Hemlock. Any 7 of the 16 for $1. 



Send, for folder describing these and other trees. 

 KALPH E. IKVXFORTJI, East Jaffi-ey, New Hampshire 



Work for Men ami 

 Women ^fiJ 



300% PROFIT MADE 

 Growing Mushrooms 



Markets waiting for all you can raise- 

 No capital or special place necessary. 

 Grown in cellars, stables, sheds, boxes, 

 Write for big illustrated free booklet 

 ng our beds and farm and learn how to 

 start this easv business. National Spmvn & Mush- 

 room Co., Dcpt.9, 184 Summer St., Boston, Muss. 



The United States Government Endorses 

 "RED CEDAR" as Moth-Proof Wood 



We quote as follows from a letter written us by the Department of Agriculture, under date of Nov. 13, 1909. 

 "Red Cedar is the most useful wood in the United States for the manufacture of Cedar Chests. The wood is 

 close grained, and has a delicate, agreeable fragrance which is especially marked. Its odor is disagreeable to 

 insects, and for this reason, chests and closets of cedar are highly valued as storage places for garments subject 

 to the ravages of the moth and buffalo bug. Neither Libocedrus decurrens nor Chamaecyparis lawsoniana (the 

 latter known as Port Orford or White Cedar) compares with the Bed Cedar of the East, in the manufacture of 



Chests." 



Our Chifforobes are the only ones in America that 

 are made of RED Cedar. Style No. 107, which is shown 

 in the picture, is as magnificent and useful a piece of 

 furniture as was ever built. It combines the advantages 

 of 'a Wardrobe and Chiffonier, being equally desirable 

 for men's and women's clothing. Dimensions are: 62 

 inches high — 18 inches wide — and 24 inches deep, which 

 makes the wardrobe section sufficiently high for hang- 

 ing garments, while the drawers will easily hold ladies' 

 hats. Conies in dull finish or in a hand-rubbed, piano 

 polish, and has the appearance of African Mahogany. 



TRY IT FOR 15 DAYS-ON APPROVAL 



We guarantee this Chifforobe to be absolutely motli-proof. 

 It will eventually pay for itself by saving the expense of cold 

 storage on furs and other apparel. No camphor or moth paper 

 is required. The construction throughout is of RED Cedar, 

 which is the only moth-proof wood in the world. The doors fit 

 so perfectly as to make the Chifforobe practically air-tight. For 

 a birthday or wedding present, amore appropriate gift could not 

 be selected. We sell Direct from our factory to the public, 

 thereby eliminating the middleman's' profit. TJaTaTog "K" 

 which is beautifully illustrated, tells more about this splendid 

 Chifforobe; also about our Cedar Chests. May we mail you a 

 copy free and postpaid? Write us TODAY— a postal will do. 



PIEDMONT RED CEDAR CHEST CO. DEPT. 79, STATESVILLE, N. C. 



A Fertilizer for Bulbs 



FOR several years my narcissus and tulips 

 have been a disappointment to me. I care- 

 fully applied manure every fall, but the blossoms 

 were small and sickly. Early last spring I applied 

 a fertilizer that I had found very satisfactory the 

 year before on my flower beds — a combination 

 of slaked lime, hen-manure and wood ashes. My 



Enormous narcissus and tulips, with stems aver- 

 aging twenty inches. Grown with, a combination 

 fertilizer 



narcissus last year were three inches across, with 

 strong and stocky stems, from twenty to twenty-five 

 inches in length. Many of the narcissus had two 

 blossoms to a stem. 



My tulips were gorgeous and simply enormous, 

 nearly every one from six to eight inches wide with 

 stems from eighteen to twenty-two inches. The 

 combination of fertilizer acted in a marvelous 

 manner on my soil. 



New York. Herbert Pembroke. 



Is Gunnera Hardy ? 



IN The Garden Magazine for November, 1909, 

 you speak of the gunnera as not being hardy 

 north of Philadelphia. In 1905 I purchased 

 Gunnera scabra from nurserymen in northern 

 New Jersey. Not knowing it to be a waterside 

 plant and supposing it to be perfectly hardy, I set 

 it on a high point, in a heavy clay, limestone soil. 

 The first winter it was well protected; since then, 

 it has had a handful of leaves or straw thrown over 

 it and no more attention paid to it. In that con- 

 dition it has stood 15 degrees below zero, and two 

 severe droughts. If there is a more trying climate 

 for shrubs and flowers than central Illinois, I have 

 yet to hear of it. 



It is true the leaves of my gunnera have never 

 attained the dimensions quoted in the catalogues, 

 thirty inches being about the maximum diameter. 

 With this experience, do you think it might safely 

 be classed with the hardy perennials? 



Illinois. Mrs. W. G. R. 



[Technically yes, "but practically no. There is 

 little point in having a gunnera, unless it develops 

 leaves five or six feet across. Unless a plant will 

 do what it is famous for, why grow it? Our 

 business is to save people disappointment. Gun- 

 nera may be hardy in the North, but it is not hardy 

 enough to be satisfactory. — Editor.] 



Feeding the Lawn 



NINE people out of ten who complain about 

 patchy lawns in summer have never fed the 

 grass. Have you? Before you try any costly, radical 

 change, get ten pounds of nitrate of soda at a local 

 seed-store. Don't put the dry nitrate on the grow- 

 ing grass but use it on the bare spots. Then water 

 the soil and in a week you will be astonished and 

 delighted. Persevere and you will take pride in 

 your lawn and a new interest in gardening. 



