January, 1914 



THE GARDEN M A G A Z I N E 



245 



Burpee's 

 Seeds 



ow 



Burpee's 

 Annual for 1914 



which is now being mailed at the 

 rate of more than ten thousand 

 copies every day, is a Bright New 

 Book of 182 pages and is known as 

 the "Silent Salesman" of the world's 

 largest Mail-order Seed trade. It 

 tells the plain truth about 



Burpee-Quality 

 Seeds that Grow 



With hundreds of illustrations from 

 photographs and carefully written 

 descriptions of Vegetable and 

 Flower Seeds, it is a safe guide to 

 Success in the garden and should be 

 consulted by every one who plants 

 seeds either for pleasure or profit. 

 We are pleased to mail it free to 

 every one who has a garden and 

 asks for it. Shall we mail you 

 a copy? If so, kindly men- 

 tion "The Garden Magazine" 

 and write to-day. 



W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO. 



Burpee Buildings 

 PHILADELPHIA 



ILLETT'S 



Hardy Ferns and Flowers 

 For Dark, Shady Places 



Buy your Fall Bulbs now. We have Lilies, Trilliums, 

 Erythroniums, Claytonias and many others. 

 Send for our descriptive catalogue of over 80 pages, which 

 tells all about our Plants and bulbs. It's FREE. 



EDWARD GILLETT, 3 Main Street, Southwick, Mass. 



Farr's Hardy Plants 



FOR EARLY SPRING PLANTING 



If you send for my book now and make your selection during 

 the winter, I can ship the plants the first warm days in Spring. 

 The book tells all about hardy plants, and a copy will be sent 

 free if you tell me about your garden. 

 BERTRAND H. FARR, WYOMISSING NURSERIES 

 104 Garfield Avenue Wyomissing, Pennsylvania 



Speaking of Greenhouses 



Here's a Common Sensed One 



SOME of us shy _ at those words: common 

 sensed. Perhaps it takes certain of us back 

 to our childhood days when we had to 

 wear clothes that were so painfully common sensed 

 that they were ugly. 



Happily greenhouse building long ago arrived 

 at the place where utility and attractiveness were 

 united. 



The house above is 24 feet wide and 58 long. 

 With the workroom attached it makes just a nice 

 snug little outfit. 



As far as the construction is concerned, none 

 could be built better or of better build. It has 

 a complete iron frame, which at once tells its own 

 story of lightness and endurance. Besides the 

 iron and cypress in that house, there also went into 

 it, over a quarter of a century of "Know Bow." 



Upon these years of accumulated "Know How," 

 confidence is based. 



When a man spends his good money for some- 



Hitchin 



NEW YORK OFFICE 



1170 Broadway 



thing he feels is in a way, a luxury, he wants to 

 feel sure he will get just what the specifications 

 call for, whether or not he is "Keeping an eye 

 on things." 



Further than that, he wants to feel, that all 

 that should be in the specifications, is in there, 

 regardless of the fact that he may or may not be 

 "posted on building methods." 



The fact that we have suggested by implication, 

 that there are "loop holes" in building, is rather 

 conclusive proof that you can depend on Hitchings 

 & Company being dependable. 



If you want a thoroughly up to date, absolutely 

 practical house not devoid of attractiveness, then 

 unquestionably you will find us particularly plea- 

 sant and eminently fair people to do business with. 



Glad to send you our catalog and also come and 

 see you. It always takes longer to start to build 

 than it actually does to build. 



So now seems like a good time to start to build. 





Philadelphia Office : 

 Pennsylvania Bldg.. 15th and Chestnut Sts. 

 Factory. ELIZABETH, N. J. 



OSES 2f NEW CASTLE 



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