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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1910 



$10,000 



OF GARDEN 

 FURNITURE 



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EHKINS STUDIOS 

 NEW YORK 



50% below former prices. The list contains some 220 Vases of 34 

 different designs, Sun Dial Pedestals, Flower Boxes, Benches and 

 Statuary. Many of these pieces are from our best designs; all of 

 them equal to our best grade of workmanship. 



The prices are actually 50% below former prices. This offer 

 will not be made again. Send for our illustrated catalogue which 

 contains some 600 designs of Garden and Hall Furniture. 



306 Madison Ave. 

 NEW YORK 



Erkins Studios 



Carrara 

 ITALY 



New England 

 Trees and Plants 



New England Qron>n 

 Means Quality 



Our 1910 Catalog, 

 mailed free, tells the 

 whole story. Don't 

 buy — don't plant, un- 

 til you have seen it. 



THE NEW ENGLAND 

 NURSERIES, Inc. 



Bedford Mass. 



Thorburn's Lawn Grass Seeds 



Containing a mixture of the finest Grasses : Quart 25c, 2 quarts 45c 

 4 quarts 80c. Sent prepaid by mail to any address in the United 

 States. Write for Catalogue. 



J. M. Thorburn & Co., 33 Barclay St., New York 



FOR SALE 



Farm of 30 acres in the Berkshires, 3% hours from G. C. Station; tiny 

 cottage, 6 rooms. Water in kitchen. Never failing well outside. Sev- 

 eral fine Bungalow sites. Nice grove Evergreens between cottage and 

 road. Large garden planted; also potatoes, corn and hay; strawber- 

 ries, raspberries, blackberrieB and currants and pears. Mountain brook 

 runs through farm. Woodcock, partridges and other game in woods on 

 place. An ideal country place. Horse, buggy, sleigh, harness, wagons 

 and tools. Prit-e $2,000. 



MRS. E. B. CARTER. Winsted, Connecticut 



Is Your Milk Really Clean 

 or Merely Clean Looking ? 



Strained milk all looks alike, it may be 

 crowded with germs, or positively sanitary. 

 Straining takes out the coarse dirt; but if the 

 dirt and milk once become mixed, the milk is 

 tainted and cannot possibly be cleaned by straining. 



The Sterilac Pail assures really clean 

 milk, because it keeps the milk and the dirt 

 from ever coming into contact. It is the only 

 effective low -cost device for producing pure 

 milk. Furthermore, it is better made and 

 will last longer than any pail that you ever 

 owned. Try it at our risk. 



Note the strainer cloth on 

 which the milk strikes. 



Note the dirt -she If which 

 catches the dirt falling from the 

 udder. The projecting top 

 shields the strainer cloth from 

 falling dirt. 



It is easy to use, because the 

 opening is of ample width. 

 It does not spatter. 



Here is our offer: We will send a pail prepaid delivery. You try it for 10 



days. If you are not satisfied, send it back at our expense. If you like it, 

 send us $2.50. Write us that you accept our offer, and we will ship the pail. 

 Specify a seamless pail if you prefer it, at an increase in price of 50 cents. 



STERILAC COMPANY 



2 MERCHANTS ROW, BOSTON, MASS. 



Modern sanitary Milk Apparatus of all kinds. 



Exterminate Poison Ivy! 



WHY not telephone two or three of your neigh- 

 bors to come to your house some evening 

 this week and figure out a plan for destroying all 

 the poison ivy that lines the roadside from your 

 respective homes to the railroad station? 



You may be immune, but think about the people 

 who are blinded for a week and suffer all that 

 time! 



You can hire a gang of workmen to root it out 

 with a pick, mattock and the hands. People who 

 work outdoors and perspire freely are not, as a 

 rule, sensitive to ivy poisoning. But to make sure 

 have an English-speaking foreman, who will watch 

 them and as soon as he sees a man rubbing an itch, 

 make him wash hands and face with warm water 

 and soap. That will generally stop the trouble at 

 once. This is the practice of a large nursery firm 

 near Philadelphia which has employed gangs of 

 twenty or more Italians in rooting out poison ivy 

 from a hundred-acre tract of woods. 



Let the foreman also have a bottle of sugar of 

 lead dissolved in alcohol — half-a-dollar's worth. 

 Any drug store knows how to make it. The 

 chances are he will never have to use it. But this 

 is a good thing to remember or paste in your hat, 

 for you may get a case of ivy poisoning yourself. 

 As soon as you feel the itching and see the pustules, 

 hustle for the bottle and apply the stuff every five 

 or ten minutes, for nothing can stop the course of 

 the disease after the pustules are broken. If the 

 lead irritates or reddens the skin, weaken the solu- 

 tion by putting in more alcohol. 



Do you want the cheapest and sanest policy 

 toward weeds on the roadway you use most ? Don't, 

 for the love of Heaven, let a gang of ignorant men 

 mow everything down with a scythe once a year! 



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Poison ivy has three (not five) clustered leaves 

 which are of a bright and shining green. It changes 

 color early in the fall 



That method will never control the worst weeds 

 and merely destroys or impairs the beauty that is 

 natural to the wayside, the glorious colonies of 

 bouncing Bet, tansy, sumach, milkweed, yarrow, 

 Joe Pye weed, sunflower, asters and goldenrod, none 

 of which ever harmed a first-class farmer. 



Goldenrod innocent? Yes. The real villain that 

 causes hayfever is ragweed. And I don't mean 

 any one of forty different things that people have in 

 mind when they say "ragweed." I mean Ambro- 

 sia artemisimfolia, which doctors say is responsible 

 for most of the hayfever. Look at its picture in 



