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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



November, 1913 



Four Sash Frame 



Winter Gardening for Pleasure and Profit 



Do you realize that with this miniature glass garden you can provide an abundance of flowers 

 and vegetables during the long winter months? Just imagine a space in your garden of 72 sq. 

 ft. covered with glass at a nominal sum. You can supply your Christmas table with crisp curly 

 lettuce, Swiss chard or a splendid boquet of Queen Louise violets. Start your seed early and 

 have your plants ready for transplanting weeks before your neighbors. 



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You will derive pleasure and profit from this 

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Budded English Walnut Tree only two years 

 from the bud, bearing three targe, fine wal- 

 nuts. Another tree only three years from 

 the bud, bore twenty-one fine walnuts! 



Grow Your Own Pecans and Walnuts 



PLANT MY HARDY PENNSYLVANIA 

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There are no other trees that you can plant that 

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We are the pioneer propagators of the Persian 

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 the Rocky Mountains, and the first to use our native 

 Black W T alnut, Juglans Nigra, as a stock. 



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Raising Japanese Iris from Seed 



HOW many amateur gardeners know that 

 Japanese iris can be easily grown at home 

 from seed and will flower abundantly the second 

 year? 



Part of the seed from which the iris shown in 

 the accompanying photograph was raised was 

 saved from our own and our neighbors' plants, 

 and part of it was purchased. It is possible to 

 buy only mixed colors, as named seed is not a 

 possibility. As a rule, home-saved seed germin- 

 ates much better, as it is certain to be fresh. 



The seed-bed was prepared late in the fall 

 and the seed was sown early in November, 

 in rows six inches apart. After the ground froze, 

 the bed was covered with a mulch of manure and 

 straw to prevent the frost from heaving the seeds 



Japanese iris raised from seed sown in November 

 flowered in profusion two years later 



out of the ground. They remained dormant all 

 winter and germinated in the spring. They came 

 up well, painting the rows a solid line of green. 

 When the young plants were four or five inches 

 high they were transplanted into a row in the 

 vegetable garden, where they received wheel-hoe 

 cultivation all summer. 



By the first week of September there were 115 

 fine, strong plants reedy to be placed in their 

 permanent location. This is in our wild garden, 

 where they have amply proved their adaptability 

 to naturalizing, for the plants placed there have 

 multiplied more generously and produced more 

 and larger blossoms than the plants in the bor- 

 ders. They have received no care but a mulch 

 of cow manure every fall. 



The background for these irises is a red birch , 

 against whose dainty foliage the blossoms are a 

 splendid sight. The group shown contains nine 

 varieties, and numbered its blooms by the score 

 the first spring and by the hundreds the next. 



Pennsylvania. Florence B. Cathcart. 



An Unusual Begonia 



THERE are over one hundred different kinds 

 of begonia in cultivation, but none of them 

 is more interesting to a collector of plants than 

 B. digitata (usually spoken of among gardeners as 

 B. pahnata). All begonias but this look alike. 



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