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The Garden Magazine, August, 1922 



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Rain When Yov Want It 



The Secret of Having a Late Garden 

 And How to Save It From Frost 



THE secret is no secret at all. It's just one 

 of those things that everybody knows and 

 then forget they know it. 



Water is the secret. Water not after your 

 garden needs it, but before. Water, plenty of 

 water, soaking right down to the very root ends. 

 None of your surface watering. It's almost 

 worse than no water at all. 



The top roots scald and the soil bakes. You 

 know what that means. 



Give your garden plenty of water with the 

 Skinner System of watering and it will keep it 

 growing weeks after other gardens are at a 

 standstill and looking sorry. 

 It's the only way to have a late garden that's 

 worth having. 



By attaching one of our Drum Oscillators so the 

 spray will keep moving back and forth, Jack 

 Frost can freeze ice without hurting your corn 

 or tomatoes. 



What we say is so, surely is so, or you send back 

 the equipment and back will come your money. 

 Portable Rain Makers 18 feet long for so little 

 as $9.75 waters 900 square feet. 



The Skinner Irrigation Co 



218 Water St., 

 Troy, Ohio 



286 Fifth Ave. 

 New York 



THINNER 1 



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OF - IRRISATIOf 



FOR SALE 

 Private Collection of Peonies 



This collection of beautiful popular Peonies consists of 

 35 varieties, 350 plants, and was chosen for me some 

 years ago by one of the former Presidents of the American 

 Peony Assoc. The plants are 3 and 4 years old. Price 

 very reasonable. Will sell in part or whole collection. 

 Erith N. Shoup The Gardens Dayton, Ohio 



Did you attend the 



London, Ontario 



Peony Show? 



Illustrated booklet report 

 of the Show now ready 

 for distribution, and will 

 be mailed free to all who 

 request it. My latest 

 price list on both Peonies 

 and Irises will be included 

 if you wish. 



LEE R. BONNEWITZ 



Washington Street 

 VAN WERT OHIO 



M-trrdlo HUMUS 



For the Price is the Best and Cheapest 



Unequalled for making new and keeping old lawns and gardens in 



condition. May be used at any time. Write for cultural directions. 



$5.00 for 5, 1001b. bags, f. o. b. Stanhope, N. J. 



H. B. PRINDLE. 



70 E. 45th St.. New York 



HAVE YOU A 



CONSERVATORY? 



There is a certain prestige and distinction attached 

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Harvesting and Storage, Fertilizer and Large Blooms, 

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All Bolles Brochures are now 50 cents each. 



Everlasting Aluminum Tags 



Embossed, not printed; rustless. The sincere garden 

 lover, the self-respecting and careful gardener, knows all 

 his loved children by name. These tags add distinction 

 to your garden. Tag your Dahlias, Roses, Glads, Shrubs, 

 Trees, tools and tool box. Dates of setting shrubs and 

 trees (so soon forgotten, or notes mislaid). Ten years 

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 Tag the childrens' plots and tools, each with the youngster's 

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 and postage if order under half 

 a dollar. Sample for four 

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IN AUGUST, PLANT 



Evergreens 



VY/E Have over 800 acres full of the 

 ** very choicest specimens of every 

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Our service department will gladly 

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"Successful for over a century' 



AMERICAN NURSERIES 



Singer Building, New York 



The World's 

 Choicest 



PEONIES 



Including all the New and Rare Varieties 



Mrs. Edward Harding $100/0 



20.00 

 35.00 

 20.00 



6.00 

 25.00 

 20.00 

 10.00 



8.00 



4.00 

 Strong 3 eye roots, absolutely true, new list free. 



D. W. C. RUFF 



Buena Vista Gardens St. Paul, Minn. 



Le Cygne 

 Kelways Glorious - - 

 Kelways Exquisite 

 Therese - - - - 

 Cherry Hill - - - 

 Martha Bulloch - - 

 Elizabeth A. Browning 

 Solange •--'-- 

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Clemenceau 

 Augusle Dessert 

 Renee Marie - - 

 Candeur - - - - 

 Jeannot - - - - 

 Rosette : - - - 

 Laura Dessert - - 

 Desire - - - - 

 Souv. de Louis Bigot 

 Mme. Jules Dessert 



- $40.00 

 35.00 



- 25.00 



- 15.00 



■ 30.00 



- 15.00 



■ 12.00 



■ 20.00 

 10.00 



7.50 



CHOICE AND RARE 



PEONIES 



AT REASONABLE PRICES 

 SEND FOR LIST 



O. L. RINGLE, Wausau, Wis. 



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Increasing your buying power to-day is a growth, which 

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 courage and hard work, 



Our Motor Macultivator is as essential to this growth, 

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 itself in increased production and saving in time. The Motor 

 Macultivator will do it quicker and better, without any of the back- 

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 absolute money-back, try-out guarantee. 



THE MOTOR MACULTIVATOR CO. 

 1319 Dorr Street Toledo, Ohio 



