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Seed Catalog 
“Better than ever” for 1909! 
AN ELEGANT Book OF 174 PAGES,—it is “THE 
SILENT SALESMAN ” of the World’s Largest Mail-Order 
Seed Trade. It tells the plaiz truth about the Best 
Seeds that can be grown,—as proved at our famous 
FoRDHOOK FArRMs,— the most complete Trial Grounds 
in America. Handsomely bound in covers lithographed 
in nine colors, it shows, with the beautiful colored 
plates (also in nine colors) Seven Superb Novelties 
in Vegetables, Three New “Spencer” Sweet Peas 
and the most beautiful New Giant-flowered Pansies,— 
all accurately painted from nature in Europe and at 
our own farms in America. With hundreds of illus- 
trations from photographs and carefully written de- 
scriptions it is A SAFE GUIDE to success in the 
garden and should be consulted by every one who 
plants seeds, whether for pleasure or profit. While 
too costly a book to send unsolicited (except to our 
regular customers), we are pleased to mail it FREE to 
every one who fas a garden and personally writes for 
it. Shall we mail YOU a copy? If so, kindly write your 
address plainly and mail postal,—To-day ! 
W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO. 
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The Readers’ Service is prepared to 
advise parents in regard to schools 
transplanted; but at the South our most 
successful fruit growers select one-year-old 
peach trees, cut off all side branches and 
reduce the naked stem to a height of three 
feet. By proper cultivation many orchards 
begin to yield fruit the second year from 
planting and a paying crop the third. A 
young tree will recuperate much more 
rapidly from transplanting than an old 
one. 
This applies also to most of the hardy 
deciduous trees and small fruits, but not 
to such fruit trees as figs, pomegranates, 
olive, etc., which are apt to be injured from 
excessive cold following their moving. The 
transplanting of these should be delayed 
until February, when all danger of severe 
frost is over. 
EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS 
The early fall planting period, following 
a sharp frost and lasting until early Decem- 
ber, is to be preferred for transplanting 
evergreen trees and shrubs. After the 
coldest part of December and January is 
over and the ground becomes less cold and 
wet, the moving of plants taken up with 
bare roots may be resumed. But broad- 
leaved evergreens, like magnolias, English 
laurels, etc., will suffer little from being 
moved if they are defoliated. Large trees, 
such as live oaks, should have their tops and 
branches reduced according to the size of 
the tree. 
In selecting evergreens, especially of the 
coniferous class, give preference to plants 
grown in pots, or to such that can be lifted 
with a large ball of earth and their roots 
left intact. After such plants are set out, 
give them a copious watering and cover the 
ground with a mulching of leaves, straw, or 
other material that will prevent a rapid 
evaporation of soil moisture. Such plants 
may frequently be transplanted in the 
South during the spring months, but care is 
required to keep the soil moist. 
Georgia. P. J. BeRCKMANS. 
An Experiment Worth Ce 
()ee wheat grower got the best of the 
Hessian flies by sowing in August a 
strip of rye a few rods wide around his entire 
wheat field. The flies deposited all their 
eggs in this, and it was then plowed under. 
In the spring he planted potatoes in this 
strip. Not only did he find that the potatoes 
were not scabby, but that the flies did not 
trouble his wheat. 
New York. NVee 
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
JANUARY, 1909 
‘S, jORSTEDS SERGES 
ANIMAL WOOL] 
{must be carefully washed to 
[keep them SOFT & PREVENT 
SHRINKING. It isn’t necessary 
to send these materials to the 
cleaners if you will use 
Fearline 
FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS 
“Wash woolens by hand in luke- 
warm PEARLINE suds; rinse | 
thoroughly in WARM water; 
wring dry, pull and shake well 
and they. will keep soft without 
shrinking, DRY in WARM 
temperature.” 
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and cultivating. We make garden wpolemen's of all 
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AMES PLOW CO., 
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where Good Seeds are known 
Vick’s Garden and Floral Guide 
For 1909 tells how to plan, plant, 
for the garden. Send for it today; 
Mailed free. 
JAMES VICK’S SONS 
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