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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
SEPTEMBER, 1908 
is a phrase often used to mean the 
command of everything that makes life 
enjoyable. All inventions and appliances 
which, in any way, conduce to the 
comfort or convenience of domestic life 
are thoroughly investigated and most 
carefully compared with others of their 
kind, and the best article for any 
special purpose is, in this way, selected 
for use in the King’s household. Its 
choice means the survival of the fittest. 
When, therefore, after a test of all 
forms and methods of supplying water, 
King Edward VII installed in his 
favorite palace, at Sandringham, the 
little Hor-Arr Pump shown in this 
announcement, by such selection it was 
proven to be, beyond all possibility of 
the 
doubt, best available source oj 
| Gil 
violets, etc, 
is an Investment paint. It more than fulfills all 
requirements. With 35 years of experience in 
paint-making Lowe Brothers produce a paint 
that has a better covering capacity and will 
cover more square feet to the gallon than any 
other paint. Every can of ‘High Standard’’ 
Liquid Paint is full U. S. Standard measure- 
ment. All the ingredients used in ‘‘High 
Standard’? Paint are the best quality 
obtainable. All the ingenuity, all the skill, 
The Lowe Brothers Company, Paintmakers, Varnishmakers 
450-456 E. Third Street, DAYTON, OHIO 
“As Happy as a Kine” 
ett’s Ferns and Flowers 
For Dark, Shady Places 
There is no corner so shady but that certain ferns and plants will thrive 
there. Thereis no soilso light and sandy butthat some of our hardy wild 
ferns will beautify it. 
and flowers and know what is suited to each condition. Wecan supply 
fernsfor the dark corner by the porch, orferns and flowers, including our 
native orchids,in quantity, to make beautiful country estates, 
swampy spots, rocky hillsides, dry woods, each may be made beautiful by 
plants especially adapted to them. Nothing adds greater charm to the 
home grounds than clumps of thrifty ferns. 
flowers which require open sunlight —primroses, campanulas, digitalis, 
Write for my descriptive catalogue. 
EDWARD GILLETT,Box C, Southwick, Mass. 
Painting As An 
N outlay of money can always be divided into two classes: 
Expense and Investment. 
you do not receive full value for your money. 
It is an Investment when you do receive full value. 
can be classed in this manner. Some aresimply Expense. Others 
are an Investment. 
than fulfill all requirements. 
~ = “/ Lowe Brothers 
“High | Standard” Liquid Paint 
so far as 
water is concerned, you may easily be 
“as happy as a king.” 
domestic water supply. ‘Thus, 
Remember that a Hor-Arr Pump 
lasts a lifetime, that over 40,000 are 
now in successful use; that the users 
include the best-known names in 
America and Europe, and that the cost 
need not exceed $100. 
Be sure that the copyright name **Reeco-Rider” or 
** Reeco-Ericsson”? appears upon the pump you purchase. 
This name protects you against spurious imitations. For 
further information apply to our nearest store (see list below) 
asking for catalogue ** U. % 
RIDER-ERICSSON 
ENGINE CO. 
35 Warren Street, New York. 
40 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 
239 and 241 Franklin Street, Boston. 
40 North 7th Street, Philadelphia. 
22 Pitt Street, Sydney, N.S. W., Australia. 
234 Craig Street, W., Montreal, P. Q. 
Amargura 96, Havana, Cuba. 
For 25 years we have been growing these hardy ferns 
Wet and 
We also grow the hardy 
It tells about this class of plants. 
Investment 
It is always Expense when 
All paints 
Some fallshort of requirements. Others more 
all the best mechanical appliances are em- 
ployed to make ‘‘A/igh Standard” Liquid Paint 
the best that money or brains can produce. 
The “Little Blue Flag’’ isthe Lowe Brothers 
emblem of quality. It’s on every can of their 
Paint and Varnish—and there’s a special 
product forevery need. 
Write for Booklet, ‘‘Attractzve Homes 
and How to Make Them,” and Color Cards 
of latest fashions. 
They are free for the asking. 
“The Little 
Blue Flag’’ 
New York Chicago Kansas City Protection 
of them come from the Holy Land where 
they have a rainless summer with intense — 
heat. In this country, they start to grow 
too early in the spring and are caught by 
frosts.. The theory is, therefore, that they 
must be kept in coldframes all summer or 
otherwise protected from rain during the 
summer and allowed to bake in the hot sun. — 
The mourning iris may not be the most 
gorgeous of the cushion irises, but it seems 
to be the commonest. 
have beginners’ luck with this species 
more than with any other, as it is commonly 
offered in bulb catalogues and people often 
succeed in growing it for a year or two 
Apparently, people - 
under ordinary garden conditions without ' 
ever knowing it requires special treatment. 
The accompanying picture is taken from 
a book published in 1613, called the “ Hortus 
Eystettensis,”’ which describes the flowers 
in the garden of the Prince of Eystadt. 
There is only one hand colored copy of this 
work in America, and this is in the library 
of Cornell University, which paid $800 for 
it, on the strength of a letter from Asa Gray 
saying that he considered the coloring to 
be ancient. However, Miss Vail, formerly 
librarian of the New York Botanical 
Garden, assured me that artists did not begin 
to sign or initial their work until long after 
_the seventeenth century, and she therefore 
regards the initials and date which ap- 
pear on the pictures as a sure sign of 
forgery. 
Whether the color is ancient or not, it 
would seem that the colors had been made 
from Latin descriptions and not direct from 
Nature by a person who deliberately made 
them better than they really are, for 
he has given us carnations, poppies, and 
tulips of colors which do not exist to-day. 
New Jersey. THomas McApam. 
[The next article will show a very remark- 
able form of the Crown Imperial, a most 
majestic and interesting plant. | 
A Nasturtium Plant Five Feet 
Across 
HE accompanying picture shows (greatly 
reduced) a nasturtium plant that was 
actually five feet across. It was a freak 
and not the result of high feeding. The 
plant ran to leaves and produced practi- 
cally no flowers until the 5th of October, 
when this picture was taken. It was not 
until the 20th of October that the plant was 
in full bloom and a week later it was cut 
off by frost. 
New Jersey. J. E. Witson. 
A freak nasturtium plant which did not produce 
flowers until October 5th 
