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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



August, 1909 



When You Buy Hose Buy Rubber Hose 



That's the only kind of hose that 

 will wear. And because a hose has a rubber cover 

 don't think it is necessarily rubber inside. The usual 

 hose is canvas daubed with rubber cement and 

 wrapped around a mandrel. 



The finest hose in the world is 



Electric Garden Hose 



Here is how it's made. A series of woven jackets 

 in one piece of high-test cotton fabric alternating with 

 layers of fine grade rubber. The whole vulcanized 

 into one solid seamless piece. 400 lbs. water pressure 

 won't burst it. You can buy any length up to 500 feet. 

 That construction makes Electric wear twice as 

 long as any other hose. Isn't it worth a cent or two 

 more not to begin to patch and repair before the 

 season is half over ? 



Before you spend a penny on hose ask your 

 hardware dealer or seedsman to show you 



ectric Hos 



Electric Hose & Rubber Co. 



Wilmington, Del. 



Place a sundial in your garden or 

 on your lawn and it will return an 

 hundred fold in quiet enjoyment. 

 Write us for free booklet of 



Sundial Information 



C'nas. G. Blake & Co. 



787 Womans Temple, Chicago, 11!. 



Superintendent of parks and public 

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LLOW us to send you 



without charge this little 



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 position stone ornaments such 

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 vases, etc., suitable for the large 

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It will tell you how to make your garden a delight- 

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We have long made a specialty of the most classic and beautiful accessories for mak- 

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This firm also makes a specialty of interior decoration of churches, libraries, 

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The common mullein which farmers despise but 

 which is cultivated in English wild gardens chiefly 

 for its large rosettes of beautiful woolly leaves 



rain. Indeed, most of the species cultivated in 

 English wild gardens are valued quite as much for 

 the leaves as for the flowers. Verbascums, or 

 mulleins, are a race of biennial plants which form 

 a rosette of leaves the first year and throw up a 

 flower-stalk, the second. 



The showiest of the mulleins is the Olympian 

 (V. Olympicum), which has the great advantage 

 of condensing its bloom into three weeks. It 

 attains the great height of from six to ten feet 

 and is the noblest of the candelabrum type. Unfor- 

 tunately, this species is likely to damp off in winter 

 unless well drained. Also, it does not bloom until 

 the third year. 



The mullein that undoubtedly has the widest 

 range of color is the purple mullein (T". phomiceum, 

 now available in purple, violet, rose, pink, lilac, 

 and white. 



I wish that someone would try verbascums for 

 wild gardening in America. It would not cost 

 much, because the seeds can be imported without 

 duty from English dealers, and when the plants are 

 once established, they ought to self-sow. 



But to return to the roadside. Please notice 

 what a great variation there is in the common 

 mullein — the inflorescence dense or lax, simple 

 or branched, the flowers large or small, and the 

 wool dense or loose. There are ten different 

 varieties of this plant in cultivation in English 

 gardens. 



Also, I hope you will look especially this summer 

 and fall for the moth mullein, which has larger 

 flowers and looser inflorescence, and is said to 

 attract many interesting and beautiful moths. 

 The accompanying picture shows that it is a plant 

 of no mean beauty. 



Marvland. M. D. Marshall. 



A Substitute for Garden Gloves 



FOR those who find that the usual leather 

 gloves worn when gardening are too clumsy for 

 handling seedlings rubber finger-tips will be found 

 an excellent substitute. They protect the finger 

 nails, and are so thin that the wearer is barely 

 conscious of having them on. They may be bought 

 in various sizes. Rubber gloves are also an excel- 

 lent substitute for leather ones. 



New Jersey. M. D. 



