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The Readers' Service will give you 

 suggestions jor the care oj live-stock 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



July, 1910 



A TABLESPOON IS THE HOUSEHOLD STANDARD OF MEASURE FOR SOAP POWDERS 



^AP T be fooled by 



\J l\ A the size of the 



Soap Powder Packages 



Some look big but do little. 



Here are the results of an actual test: 



You should be able to guess the 



story — think of Corn before and 



after it is POPPED 



PEARLIN 



ALWAYS HAS BEEN— IS NOW 

 ALWAYS WILL BE 



Best by Tes 



TRY TO MAKE SOAP PASTE OF THE FLUFFED SOAP PO' 

 BY PEARLINES DIRECTIONS— SEE WHAT YOU'LL 



WEIGHED ONE OUNCE 



ESPOOl 



THE FLUFFED, LOOK BIG PACKAGES 

 ■ WEIGHED ONE-HALF OUNCE 



-A TABi«t£SPOO"WM!!Jffl!WK ANOTHJ^fc OF 

 THE FLUFFED, LOOK-BIG PACKAGES 

 WEIGHED ONE-HALF OUNCE SCANT 



RUNNING WATER 



When and Where You Want It 



Pumped from nearby stream, pond or spring. 

 No expense for power, no trouble, no repairs. 

 Entire satisfaction assured with every 



FOSTER Su g t? RAM 



■ Thousands Used 



All Highly Endorsed 



Low in cost, high in efficiency- 

 Pumps day and night auto- 

 matically in any quantity to 

 anv height. 

 An Economical and Reliable Pumping Plant 

 for your country home, da'ry, carriage house, garden or lawn. 

 You can install it yourself if you wish, or we will put it in and 

 guarantee that it will meet with your entire satisfaction, for a 

 fixed sum, agreed upon in advance, When once installed, 

 expense ends. Write us. 

 Power Specialty Company, 2135 Trinity Bldg., New York 



IVlSllllC S OCGQS always grown! 

 Send postal for 1910 catalogue. William Henry 

 Maule, i 72 i Filbert Street, Philadelphia. 



JyIONEY 



■ - -IN ■ /*■ 

 MUSHROOMS 



WHITE FOR BIG ILLTTS. FREE KOOKXET 



showing our beds and farm and learn how to grow 

 nushrcoms at home in cellars, sheds, stables, 

 .boxes, outdoors, etc. Only small space necessary. 

 300 per cent, profit, markets waiting. We were 

 first, 25 years experience, make and sell best fresh 

 spawn, and teach vou our methods free. 



NATIONAL SPAWN & MUSHROOM CO. 

 Dept. Hyde Park, Mass. 



SQUIER'S WEED KILLER 



Will clear your drives and walks of all vegetation quickly, more 

 efficiently and enduringly than by any other way. U. S. Govern- 

 ment uses SQUIER'S. Avoid substitutes. Send for circulars to 



C. HARRISON MFG. CO., Railway, N. J. 



Try This "Richmond- 



Suds -Maker Free 



You simply turn the faucet and The "Richmond- Suds-Maker delivers 

 thick, hot suds. It does not in any way interfere with the hot water 

 faucet and can be easily attached to it. It gives you instead, two faucets — 

 one for clean, hot water — the other for thick, hot suds. 



Think of the dozens of ways 

 this ingenious device will 

 cut down the work in the 

 kitchen ! Learn what it 

 means to save hundreds of 

 steps every day — to always 

 have thick creamy soap suds 

 on tap. The"Richmond"Suds 

 Maker gives you anyquantity 

 of soap and water thoroughly 

 mixed in scientific ' propor- 

 tion—it is always ready to 

 meet your instant needs. It 

 puts an end to the drudgery 

 of dishwashing— simply place 

 dishes, silver, glassware 

 under its creamy suds for an 

 instant, then just rinse and 

 wipe. It putsaninstantauto- 

 matic end to waste, to un- 

 sightly soap dishes, to the 

 nuisance of using up the 

 odds and ends of soap. Use 

 Just send your name and address together with any kind of goap- 



the name and address of your local plumber and 

 we will forward by express prepaid one "Richmond- Suds-Maker. Use it ten days — then if you 

 think you can spare it, return it at our expense. This is your chance to learn about the 

 greatest convenience, money and time saver you can install in your kitchen. Write today. 



THE M^CRUM: HOWELL CO. 264 Terminal Building New York, N. Y. 



Startling Torch Lilies 



IF there is any flower which can properly 

 be called " startling," it is the torch lily, flame 

 flower or redhot poker plant, known to gardeners 

 as Tritoma. This plant suggests a sky-rocket, by 

 reason of its pyramidal scape of blazing red flowers. 

 It is a member of the lily family, but is a form as 

 unique in its way as the kangaroo. It can be 



North of Philadelphia roots of torch lilies have to 

 be dug up in fall and stored indoors over winter 



bought both from nurserymen and seedsmen, in the 

 spring of the year, and is generally classed as a 

 bulb; but it has only a short rhizome and numerous 

 clusters of root fibres. 



Less than ten years ago the torch lily was con- 

 sidered solely an autumn flower, but great im- 

 provements have been made by the Dutch hybrid- 

 izers, and there is now a longer-blooming variety 

 known as Pfitzerii, which is said to begin bloom- 

 ing about the 4th of July at Philadelphia, and to 

 keep it up until frost. There are about one hun- 

 dred flowers in a spike, and the spikes are often six 

 inches long. 



The torch lily is not reliably hardy north of 

 Philadelphia, and there are two ways of treating it. 

 The safest way is to take up the roots in the fall 



Torch lilies are most appropriate for formal gardens 

 because they bloom from July to frost 



and put them in a box of dry earth for the winter. 

 Some, however, prefer to leave them in the hardy 

 border all winter and cover them with a box of 

 leaves so as to keep the rain off. 



It seems to us that the torch lily is best suited for 

 bedding of the kind shown in the lower of the 

 two pictures. We should prefer not to see it 

 planted in front of shrubbery, as in the upper picture, 

 for it is too striking a plant to harmonize with the 

 northern landscape. 



New York W. M. 



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