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TH EN GARD EIN = SVCAR GA Na 
OcToBeER, 1908 
DON’T WAIT YEARS FOR FINE LARGE TREES— 
| PLANT THEM NOW 
The finest trees we see were planted by our fathers and grand-: 
_ fathers years ago. A half century will produce such trees, but 
why wait for small trees to grow and get along without for half 
our lives? By spending a little more money at first, you can | 
start with large perfect trees and your place has a finished ap- 
pearance. Think of planting trees 15 to 30 feet high and 15 to 
22 feet broad. 
_In my nursery I have the largest trees that are to be found in 
this country, that can be moved without injury 
They are all beautiful specimen trees, that have been transplanted re- 
i; peatedly to give a root system and to hold a ball of earth. Each tree is 
eiven space to grow in, to develop perfectly in branches and roots. 
Specimen Street Trees, Flowering Trees, Flowering Shrubs, 
Hedge Plants 
Send for booklet showing grounds we have planted. 
HENRY £. BURR, Landscape Architect and Importer of Rare Nursery Stock 
Mail Address Nurseries: 
Tremont Ave,, East Orange, N. J. Irvington and Boyden Aves., South Orange, N. J. 
(Tel. 2001 Orange) 
GUIDE TO MUSHROOM 
CULTURE 
The most complete and authentic guide to mush- 
room culture published, giving complete instructions 
on the preparation of the compost, making thebeds, 
planting and encasing beds with loam. It tells how 
HARDY ROSES FOR 
THE GARDEN 
When properly planted in the 
Fall give best results. Plant 
the choice list of everbloom- 
ing roses described in my 
catalogue; they are superior 
to the hybrid perpetuals in 
variety of color and free 
blooming qualities. 
Plant Walsh’s new race of 
American Rambling Roses, 
universal favorites. 
to double the yield of beds by using commercial fer- 
tilizer at a cost less than one cent per square foot; 
how to water so as to injure the least possible number 
of young mushrooms; how to grow mushrooms in the 
open, in pastures and lawns, and in sheds and vacant 
stalls. It alsogives numerous formule for preparing 
the mushroom for the table. No grower of mush- 
rooms can afford to be without this book, Send for 
it to-day and use fertilizer with the beds this season. 
Price soc. postpaid. 
Pure Culture Spawn Co., 
Pacific, Missouri. 
For description and price Our ‘‘ Pure Culture Spawn’? book sent free. 
list, send for my catologue. 
M. H. WALSH, 
Rose Specialist 
Woods Hole, 
The Good Comrade si’srxaap 
“As well calculated as anything in the season’s fiction to 
prove 2 safe recommendation to readers of varying require- 
ments and tastes.’’—Life. Illustrated, $1.50 
: THe Wortp's Work Tre GARDEN 
CountEr. LIFE ®) ue 
DouBLEDAY, PAGE & Co. NEw York. 
Mass. 
HARDY 
FRUITS, FLOWERS, TREES 
Big variety to select from. I carry every kind of nursery stock. Ornamental 
trees, small fruits, evergreens, fruit trees, hedges, bulbs, roses, flowering bushes, aspar- 
agus, etc. Allare hardy, stfong plants, full of growing life and natural vigor. I have 
everything needed for the garden, tools spray pumps, mixtures, ete. Write for free 
spraying guide and handsome catalog. Doitnow. A. J. Collins, BoxT, Moorestown, N. J. 
MAKE MONEY FOR YOURSELF 
The demand for ‘‘ Arts & Crafts’’ Novelties is unlimited, and I am 
placing within the reach of any man or woman an opportunity to engage 
in the manufacture (at home) and sale of one of the HIGHEST CLASS 
articles of the day in this line. 
HAND PIERCED Brass Candle Shades is the VERY CORRECT 
thing in all up-to-date homes, and I am prepared to either sell you the 
shades (see sample cut) or furnish you with the tools, brass and patterns, 
thus enabling you to GET STARTED RIGHT in one of the cleanest 
money-making businesses. 
The Fall and Holiday Season is approaching, when your grand harvest is reaped, so 
don’t delay placing your order for outfit, as the first in the field in your community will 
certainly get the cream of the business. 
Price of outfit, $10.00, This includes Tools, Brass for six different shades, Patterns 
for six different shades, and instructions. 
BO gant JOSEPH R. KING, 12-14 State St., CHICAGO, ILL. 
where the smut spore lies. The seeds 
should remain under treatment at least over 
night to insure complete disinfection. If 
applied immediately before sowing it is 
only necessary to have the grain dry enough 
to run freely through the drill, allowing, 
if necessary, an increased amount of seed 
to provide for the swelling of the grain by 
moisture; if treated any length of time 
before seeding, it may be shovelled over 
until perfectly dry and placed in sacks or 
returned to the granary. 
Formalin costs about fifty cents a pound, 
so the expense of treating a hundred or more 
bushels of seed is inconsiderable. Because 
of its volatile nature it must not be added to 
the water until immediately before using. 
Dipping the seed in this solution, as with 
the hot water and corrosive sublimate 
treatments, is not necessary, and this one 
item alone is sufficient to recommend it to 
the busy farmer. 
New Vork. R. M. Winans. 
Diseases of Bees 
N THE state of Massachusetts there are 
over 2,000 men engaged in bee keeping 
and there is a continually increasing demand 
forhoney. Itisthe general feeling, however, 
that the bee keeping industry is not progress- 
ing as rapidly as it should in comparison with 
the increase in population, and it is believed 
that one of the reasons for this is the pre- 
valence of brood diseases. A most inter- 
esting and helpful bulletin on the subject, 
entitled “Bee Diseases in Massachusetts, ” 
by Burton N. Gates, has recently been issued 
by the Department of Agriculture. This 
describes the two known diseases of bees 
(American and European foul brood) which 
are contagious and can be carried from hive 
to hive, how they can be controlled and how 
exterminated. 
Mr. Gates says: “There is one agent over 
which the bee keeper has no control, but 
which should cause him no anxiety if a 
considerable territory is freed of the disease. 
It is a well-known fact that under certain 
conditions, as, for instance, in storms and 
heavy winds, bees enter hives other than their 
own. Obviously, then, such bees in their 
interchange of hives may spread the infection. 
This only emphasizes the urgency of cleaning 
the disease out of a whole state, or better out 
of a block of states. Codperation is the key 
to the situation.” 
