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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1913 



ingWill Do. 



We would be glad to tell you the cost of one adapt- 

 able to your particular requirements, both as to 

 grounds and purse. 



If you can come to the Nursery and talk it over, 

 selecting the particular trees or shrubs you want; 

 we would be delighted to have you. If you are unable 



to do so, then tell us your problem and we will send 

 our catalog. 



Evergreens 6 to 30 feet high can be planted all 

 winter. Trees like these take eight years to grow 

 from the usual nursery sizes. We can save you from 

 eight to twenty years. There are thousands of big 

 evergreens in our nursery that can be shipped a thou- 

 sand miles and safely planted by your men. 



You may think that if the ground is frozen deeply 

 you cannot plant. It takes but a few minutes to 

 break through 6 inches of frost or you can spread on 

 some mulch and keep the frost from going deeper. 



Are there large Cedars or Pines in your vicinity 

 that you can have us plant. Perhaps there are large 

 evergreens on some neighboring estate that you can 

 get, or your own evergreens may need thinning out. 



We can do it for you. 



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PLANT THE SEEDS THAT 

 MARKET GARDENERS USE 



postal- 



Stokes 



seed 



book 



Stokes' Standard Seeds are planted every year by more 

 than 10,000 market gardeners. These men, who must be 

 sure of the quality of their seeds, know that Stokes' Seeds 

 can be relied upon every time; that they are of the most 

 productive, profitable strains. They know that Stokes' 

 catalogue (illustrated at the right) is 



A Guide to Money-Making Gardens 



This catalogue, illustrated from real photographs of 



real vegetables, is a dependable handbook for the home 



gardener, the market grower, and the farmer. It offers 



only the tested, proved varieties that produce the paying 



crops. Your name on a postal will bring it. Ask for 



Catalogue 31. 



TO MARKET GROWERS: Write for our special wholesale Market Gardeners' price 

 list of seeds in quantities, if you have not already received it. Mention the Garden Magazine. 



WALTER P. STOKES, Seedsman, 219 Market Street, PHILADELPHIA 



Duties for Southern Gardeners 



THIS is the month when seed catalogues begin 

 to arrive. Give them your careful attention; 

 they contain much valuable information and will 

 keep you up to date on novelties. Try a few in 

 your garden each season; one or two of them may 

 prove of extraordinary value. 



If you have not already done so, spread manure 

 on the flower beds and spade deep so that the soil can 

 be absorbing moisture and storing it up for the dry 

 summer weather. 



Sow some annuals in the hotbeds, and you will get 

 flowers two months earlier than if you wait to sow 

 them in the open ground. 



Tuberose bulbs may be planted in the open in 

 Florida and Southern Texas. Canna and dahlia 

 roots may also be set out in these localities. Half 

 hardy annuals may be sown in the open in Florida, 

 as well as tender annuals below the frost line. 



Continue to plant Iris. It is well suited to the 

 Florida climate, as it is a great lover of moisture. 

 It can be grown to perfection along the banks of 

 lakes and streams, where it will become naturalized. 



Sow more turnips, beets and radishes. Continue 

 to set out cabbage plants and cultivate those that 

 were planted out in November and December. Do 

 this in the morning, after the dew has dried. Morn- 

 ing cultivation is best at this time of the year, as it 

 gives the top soil a chance to dry before night. 

 Frost is not then likely to do any damage as it 

 might do if the soil was plowed in the late afternoon. 



Seed of celery and cauliflower may be sown in well 

 made hotbeds now, as well as onion seed, to be 

 transplanted to the open ground in March. 



Plant white potatoes now, taking time to make 

 the soil loose and deep. Use stable manure and 

 commercial fertilizer, and if possible cover the patch 

 with wheat, oat straw, or pine needles to a depth of 

 two or three inches. This saves cultivation and 

 also protects from frost. 



Clean up old orchards and prune out all bad 

 limbs. This is the last chance for pruning grape 

 vines, as well as for planting peach trees in the 

 Lower South. Plant magnolias also; they are the 

 best evergreen shade trees. 



Strawberries may be set out in the Lower South 

 any time during the month; and blackberries in the 

 Upper and Lower South any time when the ground 

 is not frozen. Firm the soil around the plants. 



Put the tools in order. Gather up the manure 

 and haul it out into the field. Save all that is 

 possible; manure lasts several years in the soil 

 while the effect of commercial fertilizer is dissipated 

 in a year or two. Commercial fertilizer pays better, 

 too, when used in combination with manure. 



More oats may be sown now. Use one of the 

 early sorts, such as Bancroft, Burt or Ninety Day. 



Georgia. Thomas J. Steed. 



"Fancy" Potatoes in Boxes 



BAKING potatoes, selected and graded for 

 size and quality, wrapped in paper and packed 

 50 to 75 in a box, are now being sold in Chicago 

 alongside of fancy apples, oranges and grape fruit. 

 The stock is all of the white variety in Eurekas, 

 Rurals, Carmens, and Raleighs. They average in 

 weight from the minimum, three-quarters of a 

 pound, to two and one-half and three pounds. 

 The purchase from the growers' association is said 

 to have been the largest single contract ever made 

 for produce in that section of Idaho from which they 

 were secured, and called for from forty to fifty cars 

 of fine selected stock. 



An inquiry of a Chicago dealer, as to the price, 

 brought forth the following comment: 



"We get $1.80 per box, and they are cheap at 

 that. There are not less than fifty and from that 

 on up to seventy-five good sound potatoes in each ' 

 box. If you have ever had any experience in 

 selecting baking potatoes from the usual run at 

 market, you know that you will pick over three or 

 four bushels and then not get three pecks of bakers. 

 Picking out the potatoes suitable for baking leaves 

 a large quantity to be utilized as hashed brown, 

 French or German fried, or mashed. The result 

 is, that while you may have plenty of potatoes on 

 hand, those suitable for baking are soon picked out. 

 But where they are put up this way you pay for 



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