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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



October, 1913 



No expert is needed to make your buildings permanently secure against storm 

 and weather. You or your farm-hands can make a perfectly tight and lasting job 

 of Genasco. 



Trinidad Lake asphalt makes the roofing always weatherproof; and the Kant- 

 leak Kleets make it easy for you to keep the seams absolutely weatherproof. You 

 don't have to fuss and muss with dauby cement, or run the risk of nail-hole leaks. 

 And you have a roof with a handsome finish, attractive for all your buildings. 



Get Genasco of your dealer. Mineral or smooth surface. Look for the hemisphere trademark. 

 Write us for samples and the Good Roof Guide Book. 



The Barber Asphalt Paving Company 



Largest producers in the world of asphalt and ready roofing 



Philadelphia 



New York San Francisco Chicago 



Peonies and Perennials 



THINGS THAT THRIVE 



FRED W. CARD SYLVANIA, PA. 



KEEP WINTER PLANTS IN HEALTHY CON- 

 DITIONS by peat dust. Better than manure. 

 Odorless and insectless. § bushel packages, 60 cents 

 postpaid. Leaflet and sample free. Agents wanted. 

 PEAT COMPANY, Incorporated, 130 Manhattan Street, NEW YORK 



Max Harold WesthofT, Architect, Saranac Lake, N. V. 



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To secure "that natural effect" 



For the mountain camp or boathouse use the wood browns and 

 greens, weather gray or the many other soft, artistic shades of 



MS BROTHERS A-J i€Mil 



They harmonize with natural surroundings perfectly. Bring out all the 

 beauty of the grain, and waterproof the wood, adding years to its life. 

 The high grade English ground colors cannot fade. Cost less than half 

 as much as paint and are easier to apply. 



Write for 23 stained miniature shingles and Booklet A 

 DEXTER BROTHERS CO., no Broad Street, Boston, Mass. 



Branch Office: 1133 Broadway, New York 

 Also makers of DEXTROLITE, the IVHITE ENAMEL 

 ■which does NOT TURN YELLOW. 

 AGENTS : H. M. Hooker Co., Chicago : Asam Bros., Inc., 917 Arch St., 

 Philadelphia; F. H. McDonald. Grand Rapids; F. T. Crowe & Co., 

 Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane. Wash., and Portland, Ore.; R. McC. Bulling- 

 ton & Co., Richmond; Hoffschlaeger Co., Honolulu; AND DEALERS. 



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box, yew, red cedar, or any green that pro- 

 jects a coppery reflection in sunlight. It is 

 singularly and horribly hostile to blue or any bluish 

 shade of gray, as the Colorado spruce, and in a small 

 formal garden must be planted with caution. It 

 would probably harmonize with the coppery young 

 foliage of a blood-beech or some of the Japan maples. 

 As a cut flower indoors for grouping against mahog- 

 any or cedar panelling it is perfect. In spite of its 

 good qualities, though, it is not to be planted rashly; 

 few tulips can be so uncompromising in their 

 demand to "head the ticket or split the organiza- 

 tion." 



A glorious mid-season tulip is the double Vur- 

 baak, classed in the Dutch lists as a double early. 

 It is pure vermilion, the true and pristine vermilion 

 rarely to be seen by adult eyes, a glory proper to the 

 water-color paint boxes of childhood, and hardly 

 attainable elsewhere save in the circus parade. Its 

 height runs a scant foot. The blooms are very 

 large, very double, open in umbrella shape, and 

 endure all extremes of weather nobly. The stem 

 is thick and strong, the leaves very broad and of a 

 distinct blue-gray velvety tone very effective when 

 clumps are planted in a border. First-grade bulbs 

 of this variety are large and extra heavy. 



Pennsylvania. E. S. Johnson. 



Time for Planting Trees 



SET out some trees this month, most especially 

 peach and plum trees. Get from your nursery- 

 man a list of the fruit and shade trees that may 

 safely be planted now in your section of the 

 world. 



Clear the fruit garden of all old trash, which is a 

 breeding place for insects and disease. 



Don't forget that the present is a good time for 

 setting out strawberry plants. Get good plants to 

 start with; don't get any kind just because they 

 are cheap. There is as great a difference in plants 

 as there is in seed, and you can't tell the difference 

 until they make a crop. 



Dig sweet potatoes late in the month on a clear 

 sunny day. Let them dry thoroughly before 

 storing. Always put down a layer of pine straw 

 about a foot deep on which to pile the potatoes. 

 Place pine straw or pine needles around them and 

 bank up with soil, leaving a little hole at the top 

 of the pile so that air can penetrate the mass on hot 

 days. And have boards to put over them to keep 

 out rain. If you have a potato house it is much 

 better, as they can then be kept at an even tempera- 

 ture and entirely dry. Before storing in old potato 

 houses it is a good plan to burn sulphur in the house. 

 Close the doors so that the sulphur smoke will kill 

 all insects and diseases, such as potato rot. Re- 

 member the important point in keeping potatoes 

 is to avoid bruising them; therefore, handle care- 

 fully. 



Plant Dutch bulbs. This is the best month of 

 the whole year for planting them. 



Pansy plants may be transplanted now if they 

 have four or more leaves. They should stand four 

 to six inches apart on rich soil, the only soil pansies 

 ought to be planted on. If it is not rich add well 

 rotted manure. 



Continue to plant lilies. 



Continue to sow rye for grazing and crimson 

 clover for cover crop. 



Georgia. Thomas J. Steed. 



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