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The Readers' Service gives informa- 

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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



September, 1909 



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Keep The Tank 



Throvv Away the Tower 



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The Kewanee System 

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which ten years of practical experience and technical 

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original water supply system involving the use of air pressure instead of gravity pressure. 



Avoid cheap imitations. Look for our trade mark and name plates on tanks and pumping 



machinery. Getthe genuine and you will take no chances — we guarantee that. 



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Kewanee pumping outfits are furnished 

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A Reapin 



By E. F. BENSON 



Author of "The Climber," etc. 



]\ /TR. BENSON here hangs upon a thread of story a series of idyllic essays, 

 J-"-*- each chapter covering a particular month of the year. The book shows 

 admirably the cultivation, the love for music, the humor and light touch that charac- 

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DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO., 133 East 16th St., New York City 



day more, for he assured us box would die if planted 

 in any month but April. This first planting was 

 well done, for almost every slip sent out shoots, 

 and has continued to thrive ever since. 



In November of the same year for the second time 

 we fell from grace; we lost confidence in some 

 experimental work at Hope and sent for another 

 gardener of even greater repute than the former one 

 — this time an Irishman. He arrived the first day 

 of November, and was taken at once to pass judg- 

 ment on our work. On seeing the young box slips, 

 he asked when they, had been planted; learning 

 that it was April box, he threw up his hands in 

 horror and swore that November was the only month 

 in which to plant box slips and expect results. 



We then gave orders for him to get busy. He did 

 so. He planted until the first of December. The 

 following spring the November box put out new 

 shoots, and has continued to do so ever since. 



At that time there seemed to be a landscape 

 necessity for some old box plants. We found a 

 garden of some two hundred box bushes about 

 fifty years old, ranging in height from two and a 

 half to five feet. We bought the garden and moved 

 it to Hope, and people came from miles in ever)' 

 direction to tell us it would die. But it did not die; 

 it lived and put out new shoots and continues to 

 please. 



These slow-growing things once established, we 

 gave ourselves to the planting of privet. We 

 went to a nursery, selected the desired stock, and 

 paid down a neat little sum for three thousand 



Another view of the old box hedge 



plants (you all know what a sight of money it takes 

 to buy privet), at the same time choking down our 

 ambitious dreams of having all the plantation fences 

 outlined with hedges. As we were about to leave 

 the nursery we asked innocently why we couldn't 

 grow the plants ourselves. We were not encouraged 

 to do so. Certain mysterious things had to be done, 

 which demanded previous experience, and it neces- 

 sitated great labor, knowledge of hedge plants, etc. 



So we thought no more about it until the hedge 

 was all set out, and trimmed to a foot in height. 

 This gave us enormous piles of slips — estimated 

 roughly about ten thousand. It was the 15th of 

 December when work was slack, that we made our 

 declaration of independence; we planted the 

 privet slips. We stood over those slips in all kinds 

 of weather — rain, sleet and snow — and finally 

 the whole pile had been stuck into the ground. 



Again people drove miles to tell us that those 

 bare, brown twigs heaped up so carefully with 

 mulching would die. But they did not. 



I never before realized the temptations which 

 beset nurserymen. Now, when I point with pride 

 to those 10,000 privet plants growing like mad and 

 just as vigorous as the original stock, it is all I can do 

 to restrain the desire to drop some remark which 

 will impress the listener that we have done some- 

 thing which required mysterious skill and knowledge 

 of plant life. 



The time came to trim the fast growing ten thou- 

 sand slips. Then we had over twenty-five thousand 

 to plant. These we set out in the field, for the 

 garden space could no longer contain them. Now 



