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The Garden Magazine, May, 1922 



Rain When Yov AVant ItT 



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Have More Garden 

 by Having Less 



Not only can you have twice the 

 amount of vegetables or flowers from 

 the same space; or the same 

 amount from half the space; but 

 what you have will be far superior, 

 in every way if your garden is Skinner 

 System watered. 



Just why and exactly how it accom- 

 plishes these seemingly impossible 

 things is fully told and freely illus- 

 trated in our catalogue called " Your 

 Watering Problem — Its Solution." 

 Send for it. 



$9.75 buys a Portable Rain Maker— 18 feet long 

 It will water 900 square feet without moving 



The Skinnw Irrigation Co. 



219 Water St., Troy, Ohio 



^KINNEFf 

 Oystem 



IRRIGATION 



Ye Olde Fashioned Garden Plants 



Why not have a hardy, permanent border which gives you flowers from early April until late NovemDer. 

 We Make You a Special Trial Offer. All plants are field grown clumps. 



A border 25 feet long and 4 feet wide, including 70 strong plants of the best varieties and blending colors cover- 

 ing the blooming season. Regular price $15.00. 



SPECIAL OFFER. — We will supply this collection, as a unit at $12.00, charges prepaid, providing cash accom- 

 panies the order. Order at once, shipment to be made immediately. 



We specialize in Hardy Plants. We also offer Gladioli, Bedding Plants, Nut Trees, Roses. Small Fruits, etc. All grown in our own 

 Nurseries. Only best varieties of Plants and Bulbs offered. Catalogue free on request. 



CLINTON NURSERIES Hardy Plant Specialists Clinton, Conn. 



Visit a Garden where Dutch Bulbs are Blooming 



Take a copy of Farr's Bulb Book with you, check the varieties you like and want 

 in your own garden. This is usually the most satisfactory way to select the 

 colors that appeal to you, as it gives an intimate knowledge of the blooms. 



Price Reductions Have Come 



Dutch Bulbs are showing a slight reduction in 

 price — not very much but a little. All my cus- 

 tomers will receive the benefit of the reductions, 

 but to those who order before June ist I give a 

 special discount of 2 per cent over and above my 

 usual discount of io per cent for orders received 

 before July 15th. 



Send Your Order in May and Get 

 12 Per cent Discount 



From June ist to July 15th the discount is only 10 per cent. After July 

 15th you must pay the prices printed in 



Farr's 1922 Bulb Catalogue 



Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissi, Crocus, and fall plants are described and 

 pictured. Write for a free copy now, and save money by ordering Dutch 

 Bulbs in May. 



BERTRAND H. FARR, Wyomissing Nurseries Co. 

 104 Garfield Avenue Wyomissing, Penna. 



Make Your Garden 

 a Wonder Garden 



It's easy. Market growers know the secret. Follow it and 

 have the largest crops of fruits and vegetables, an abundance of the 

 biggest and sweetest scented flowers of the most intense and vivid 

 colors. Here is the secret! 



The better grades of commercial fertilizers contain only 3 to 5 

 per cent, nitrogen; 6 to 10 per cent, phosphoric acid and 3 to 5 

 per cent, potash, combined in material that has no fertilizing 

 value. Most fertilizers are far below this average 



Science has produced a tablet, rich in plant food, containing 11 

 per cent, nitrogen; 12 per cent, phosphoric acid and 15 per cent, 

 potash — clean and odorless. 



For crops in rows, set the tablets a foot apart along the row. 



Three tablets, one every ten days, in the hills make Cucumbers, 

 Squash, Melons and vines fairly jump. 



In Flower Beds and Borders, place tablets a foot apart. 



For Bush Fruits and Shrubbery, use three to five tablets, placed 

 in the soil about each plant. 



Fruit or Ornamental Trees, place tablets two feet apart, extend- 

 ing trom the trunk as far as the longest branches. 



Fine also for greenhouse benches and pot plants. 



Four tablets dissolved in a gallon of water, used in place of 

 liquid manure, is less trouble and gives better results than 

 objectionable manure water. Makes velvety lawns. 



Each tablet contains highly concentrated, immediately available 

 plant food. They increase production, heighten color and improve 

 quality. Their use is highly profitable. 



The name of the tablet is Stlm-U.pIanT. No matter how 

 fertile the soil, Stim-U-planT is effective in feeding and forward- 

 ing crops. Market Gardeners use them in large quantities. Ordei 

 by name — there is no substitute. 



Price delivered: 100 tablets, 75cts; 1,000 tablets, $3.50. 



If your dealer hasn't it, order from the makers — 



EARP-THOMAS CULTURES CORPORATION 



80 Lafayette Street, New York 



Kill Bugs — Prevent Blights 



You can easily keep your garden, shrubbery 

 and roses healthy and free from diseases 

 Spray early and often. Use a No. i. 



It operates by compressed air — throws a continuous 



stream. Finger pressure instantly starts or stops the 



spray. Special nozzle strainer prevents clogging. 



Solid brass pump parts are non-corrosive. 



Write for catalogue and Spray Calendar prepared by 



Cornell University specialists — both free. 



Ask your dealer to show you an Auto-Spray. 



The E. C. BROWN COMPANY 

 850 Maple St., Rochester, N. Y. 



Auto 

 Spray 

 No. 1 



MUST BE SOLD 



America's finest collection of true to name Gladioli bulbs, 

 Dahlia, Peony and Iris Roots. New, rare and standard varieties 

 including a few thousand pure strain Gladioli grown from original 

 imported Vilmorin and Kelway stock. Address 



E. H. PERSHING, Saks Manager 



514 E« Broadway, Logansport, Ind. 



GLADIOLI 



SPECIAL 



IRISES 



OFFERS 



12 Varieties choice Gladioli worth $1.25 for $1.00. 



10 Varieties choice Irises worth $4.40 for $3.50. 



A request will bring our instructive catalogue. 



FOREST HEIGHTS GARDENS 



1815 26th Ave. No. Dept. G. Minneapolis, Minn. 



Irises, Peonies, Gladioli 



Importers and growers of choice varieties. 

 600 varieties of Irises — Catalogue free. 



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