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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



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BEFORE putting your money in small trees, 

 that will take, no one knows definitely how 

 many years to develop, why don't you let us 

 tell you what some of our big ones will cost? 



Your idea of their cost may be entirely 

 wrong. When you consider the immediate 

 results they give, and how they promptly 

 add a definite money market value to your 

 property, the chances are you wouldn't think 

 of buying anything but Hicks big trees. 



Along with our big trees we can also furnish 



you with smaller ones of any size from six 

 inches up, for less important positions. Shrubs 

 we also have in large assortment and sturdiness 

 of growth. 



Furthermore, the fall is the time to do your 

 planting. 



Nothing is gained by waiting till Spring. 

 Much is gained if you don't. 



Come to our nursery and pick out just the 

 tree and shrubs you want. If you can't come 

 — write for catalog, and let us advise with you. 



ISAAC HICKS 6 SON 



WESTBURY, LONG ISLAND 



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Cut down your living expenses. You'll be astonished how healthful it is 

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Adapted to more uses than any other implement. 

 Opens furrows, plants, covers, and marks next row 

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We have now ready a complete line of the 

 very choicest Spring -flowering bulbs, in- 

 cluding Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissus or 

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 Iris, Lilies, Spring Snowflakes, Oxalis, Scillas, 

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 offers a splendid line of Hardy Perennial Plants 

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HENRY A. DREER, Philadelphia, pa 



TULIP 

 Sir Thomas Lipton 



all sticky or water logged. So we tried an experi- 

 ment. 



Last October we wrapped heads of endive in 

 paper to keep the ashes out of them; the roots were 

 left exposed below the paper. A layer of the moist 

 ashes was placed in the bottom of a box; the 

 endive heads were packed in rows and between 

 the rows we placed some of the ashes. The box 

 was placed in a room separated from the furnace 

 room by a rough board partition. The last of 

 the endive was served as the salad for the 

 Christmas dinner. Water was added but once 

 during this period. Celery was also wrapped 

 in paper and placed in ashes; carrots were 

 buried in the same and at the middle of April were 

 as crisp as when they were removed from the 

 ground in October. 



Just before Christmas it came to mind that ashes 

 might be a most excellent material in which to keep 

 apples. I at once packed away some Baldwins 

 in the moist ashes. Each was separated from the 

 others in such a manner that if rotting did occur 

 it would not spread. On the 20th of April most of 

 the apples were in perfect condition, being hard and 

 firm. Only a few showed decayed spots. The 

 apples not thus protected are so withered as to 

 be useless. On account of the dryness of the 

 room, the fruit does not decay at all badly; yet 

 it is much more marked in the apples kept in the 

 air than in those stored in the ashes. 



E. G. Hastings. 



Lifting and Storing Tender Bulbs 



THE bulbs or roots of such plants as tuberose, 

 amaryllis, canna, caladium, dahlia, gladiolus, 

 Cooperia, zephyranthes, Watsonia and all other 

 half-hardy bulbs, which will not winter out of 

 doors, must be dug before the ground freezes. A 

 warm sunny day in late autumn favors a prelim- 

 inary drying. 



Tuberose, gladiolus, and bulbs of small plants 

 are very easily lifted by thrusting the spade under 

 them and lifting by their tops, but cannas are 

 much more stubborn. Where they have grown 

 well, large root clumps are formed which are held 

 so tenaciously by their long feeding roots that 

 often it is difficult to get them out without digging. 

 By digging entirely around them and then insert- 

 ing the spade directly beneath the root mass it can 

 be lifted without much energy. 



Canna roots are more difficult to dry and more 

 likely to rot, hence it is necessary to get as much of 

 the roots' surface to the air as possible. After 

 cutting the tops off about three inches above the 

 root, separate the root clumps by cutting through 

 the connecting parts, leaving a generous piece of 

 root to each stalk. Small clumps might better be 

 left intact until spring, however, if they are well- 

 dried before storing. It is not necessary to separate 

 such as the tuberose and gladiolus bulbs until 

 ready to plant them in the spring, when they are 

 readily pulled apart without injury. 



For drying or curing bulbs for winter storage, 

 a dry floor in a sunny room, or a loft, or a flat 

 house roof is excellent. Twist off the tops of the 

 gladiolus and amaryllis bulbs when dry. All 

 the bulbs will keep if stored in a cellar where the 

 air is dried by the house furnace or heater. Gladi- 

 olus bulbs will winter in an unheated cellar where 

 the temperature gets almost down to freezing but 

 tuberose and canna roots will not. 



New Jersey. M. Roberts Conover 



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