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I J a problem grows in your gar Hen write to 

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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



August, 1909 



Hardy 



Evergreens 



as grown in Hill's Famous Dundee 

 Nurseries, are the product of over 

 half a century's practical experience, 

 and a conscientious and thorough 

 study o the best methods of grow- 

 ing, digging, packing, and shipping. 



Our 1909 Catalog 



and Planting Guide 



describes the following varieties and 

 many more, also other valuable trees 

 and shrubs, and tells the ones that 

 are entirely hardy and can be suc- 

 cessfully moved in the Fall. 



Hemlocks 

 White Pine 

 Grafted Blue Spruce 

 Oriental Spruce 

 Engleman Spruce 

 Alcock's Spruce 

 Excelsa Pine 

 Swiss Stone Pine 

 Concolor Fir 

 Nordman's Fir 

 Balsam Fir 

 Arbor Vitaes 

 Junipers 

 Yews 



Send for Catalogue NOW, and let 

 us urge upon you the necessity of 

 getting your order in early, because 

 later on we will be sold short on 

 many sizes and varieties. Address 



D. HILL, 



Evergreen Specialist 



Founded 1855. Box 106, DUNDEE, ILL. 



RATS 



KILLED BY 

 SCIENCE 



By the use of the wonderful bacteriological preparation, dis- 

 covered and prepared by Dr. Danysz of Pasteur Institute, Paris, 

 science has at last found the only successful method for exterminat- 

 ing rats and mice. Used with striking: success for the past few 

 years in England, Scotland, France, and Russia. 



DANYSZ VIRUS 



contains the germs of a disease peculiar to rats and mice only and is 

 absolutely harmless to birds, human beings and other 

 animals. The rodents always die in the open, because of feverish 

 condition. The disease is also contagious to them. The virus 

 is easily prepared and applied. 



How .Much to I'se.— A small house, one tube. Ordinary 

 dwelling, three tubes (if rats arc numerous, not less than 6 tubes). 

 One or two dozen for large stable with hay loft and yard. Three to 

 six tubes per acre in case of open fields, game preserves, etc. Price: 

 One tube, 75c; 3 tubes, Si .75; one dozen, $6.00; delivered. 



INDEPENDENT CHEMICAL COMPANY 

 Dept. V. 25 Old Slip, New York, N. Y. 



Garden Notes and News 



THE cheapest way to screen unsightly objects 

 at once and forever is to plant red cedars, 

 but they look like so many ten pins. To tie them into 

 a group plant some broad-based evergreens in front, 

 e. g., young hemlocks. 



Good news for those who have a hemlock hedge 

 that is bare at the base! You can patch it by 

 planting small hemlocks in front. A century-old 

 hedge can be restored to perfect beauty in this 

 way. 



Have you ever seen evergreen arches in a formal 

 garden? Is there anything better than red 

 cedar? The cedars can be trained to iron pipes 

 properly bent and coupled. 



You would hardly imagine that a single red 

 cedar could hide any unsightly object, any more 

 than a needle stuck on end, but you could probably 

 blot out all, or nearly all, of that telegraph pole 

 that worries you by moving one tall cedar in front 

 of it. 



Where are the best private collections of hardy 

 perennial flowers in America ? We know about the 

 Hunnewell collection at Wellesley and the Breese 

 garden at Southampton, but where else could color 

 photographs be taken. The editor will be grateful 

 for replies. 



Sweet peas, used alone, look lumpy. To break 

 up their heaviness, four flowers with a delicate, 

 mist-like spray of white flowers, are used. 

 They are Gypsophila pam'ctdata, Galium Mollugo, 

 Asperula hexaphylla and Asperula galioides. 

 Why not get one plant of each for your hardy 

 border, and see which you like best? If you want 

 something blue in this line try Statice latijolia. 



Good news about the mountain andromeda 

 (Pieris floribunda) which an eminent authority says 

 is "perhaps the most valuable broad-leaved ever- 

 green for New England." A collector has found 

 the first large quantity of it, and the price of this 

 unique beauty may now come down within reason. 

 It is the only plant that has the look of flowering 

 all winter. It has sprays of white buds somewhat 

 like the lily-of-the-valley. 



We need more and better low evergreens for 

 entrances, massing near a house, covering the 

 ground under trees and beautifying rocky land. 

 The Japan cypresses (or retinisporas) are too 

 short-lived; so are dwarf spruces and firs; the 

 small arborvitas are too brown in winter. About 

 the only good plant of this class the nurserymen 

 grow is mugho pine. People should demand 

 trailing yew, American juniper, and the prostrate 

 American savin. If you can't buy them, have 

 them collected for you. 



Have you ever eaten any of those enormous 

 Lucretia dewberries — about an inch and a half 

 long? The upright variety winterkills and one is 

 likely to get slivers into one's hands while picking the 

 fruits. Both objections are overcome at the 

 Mortimer estate, Roslyn, Long Island, where 

 these dewberries are planted along the banks 

 of a private running track for children. 

 Dewberries are cheaper than grass for covering 

 steep banks. They fruit two weeks earlier here 

 than in the neighboring places where they are 

 trained upright. 



Nineteen Dozen Ears of Corn from 

 Ten Cents' Worth of Seed 



ON THE 22nd of July, 1908,1 planted four 

 rows twenty feet long with Golden Bantam 

 corn. Every one said it was late to plant corn, 

 but the ground had just been cleared from pea 

 vines, and I took the risk. Fortunately, the 

 weather was hot and damp, and in less than a 

 week all the seed was up. 



I kept the ground loose with my wheel hoe, 

 and picked nine ripe ears on September 22nd. 

 The last was picked October 19th, and in all I 

 had nineteen dozen ears of what we consider the 

 sweetest corn that grows. The seed cost me but 

 ten cents! 



New York. Jeannie S. Salisbury. 



Japan Bamboo Stakes 



DURABLE, STRONG, pliant, the very best for 

 staking Lilies, Roses, Chrysanthemums, Gladioli, 

 Asters, Tomato Plants, etc. 100 500 1000 



6 ft. long § to % inch diam. $1.00 $4.00 $6.00 



Extra Strong Heavy Stakes 



for tying DAHLIAS, HOLLYHOCKS, young 

 trees, shrubs, etc. I2 100 



5-6 ft. long 1| to 2 inch diam. $1.00 $6.00 



7-8 ft. long 1 J to 2 " " 1.50 10.00 



Freesias and Lil. Candidum should be planted 

 in JULY and August to attain good results. 



We deliver our beautiful Freesia Bulbs 

 SNOW WHITE 

 bearing a magnificent, pure ivhite, fragrant flower 

 with faint trace of golden in chalix about July 20th. 

 Large Bulbs, of which plant six in a six inch pot 

 at once on receipt, to have flowers byXmas. 

 Per six, 15c. Per dozen, 25c. Per 100, $1.25. 



Lil. Candidum, the Madonna Lily, should be 

 planted EARLY August to insure BEST success 

 for flowering next season. 



Large Fine Bulbs, each 10c. Dozen, $1.00. 



MAMMOTH BULBS, each 25c. Doz. $2.25. 



Delivery is included in price. We also send by 

 August first our NEW, INTERESTING FALL 

 CATALOGUE containing a FINE LIST of the 

 MOST DESIRABLE Novelties in Bulbs, Plants 

 and Seeds. Do not fail to send for it. 

 H. H. BERGER & CO., 70 Warren St., New York City. 



For Autumn Planting 



Flowering Shrubs and 



Hardy Perennials 



Roses, Irises and Paeonies. 



Catalogue sent on application. 



SHATEMUC NURSERIES, 



BARRYTOWN, DUTCHESS COUNTY, N. Y. 



