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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



September, 1909 



TO GROW 



HARDY PERENNIALS AND 

 OLD FASHIONED FLOWERS 



SUCCESSFULLY 



They should be planted in September and 

 October like Spring-flowering bulbs. 

 They make roots during Fall and Winter, 

 establishing themselves for Spring and Sum- 

 mer blooming. 



Hardy Perennials our specialty. We grow 

 thirty acres. Get our net wholesale prices 

 with all necessary cultural directions, and 

 largest list of Novelties for the asking. 



PALISADES NURSERIES 

 PERENNIAL GROWERS Sparkill, N. Y. 



99 VARIETIES OF PEONIES 99 



In our new illustrated descriptive peony catalogue, which we will send free. This 

 is the cream of 1200 varieties which have been grown in our trial grounds during 

 the past twenty years that we have made a special study of the herbaceous peony. 

 Our Guarantee — We replace with three every plant proving untrue to description. 

 Our catalogue also includes a list of the very best iris. 



Order now. Plant in September. Get Blooms Next Spring 



PETERSON NURSERY Wm. A. Peterson, Proprietor 

 Lincoln & Peterson Aves., CHICAGO, ILL. 



Freesias at Christmas 



Would it please you to have Freesias at Christmas 

 and the holidays? You can have them if you plant now. 

 Mammoth bulbs 25c. per dozen, $ 1 .70 per 100, postpaid, or 

 send me roc. and I will send enough for a pot and a copy 

 of my Little Brown Book of Dutch Bulbs for 1909, 

 just out. 



If you garden indoors or out you should have this 

 little book. It is specially written for the amateur by 

 Peter the Gardener, and is full of practical advice for the 

 beginner or adept. It tells you just how to have success 

 with bulbs. 



My Little Brown Book not only tells you how to 

 plant bulbs, but where to get them at unusually low prices. 

 My special offers, which include free delivery, should not 

 be overlooked. Write today. 



HENRY SAXTON ADAMS, Wellesley, Mass. 



Plant Peonies 

 This Fall 



Ready in September 



HTHEY thrive better, bloom 

 •*■ earlier and grow larger 

 than if planted in the spring. 

 We specialize in these 

 plants and have just issued 

 a booklet on their culture, 

 including IRISES, EVER- 

 GREENS. ETC., for Fall 

 Planting. 



Write for a copy 



Wild Bros. Nursery Co. 



Box 5 1 4, Sarcoxie, Mo. 



Landscape Gardening 



A course for Home-makers and 

 Gardeners taught by Prof. Craig 

 and Prof. Batchelor, of Cornell 

 University. 



Gardeners who understand up-to- 

 date methods and practice are in 

 demand for the best positions. 



A knowledge of Landscape Gar- 

 dening is indispensable to those 

 who would have the pleasantest 

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250 page catalogue free. Write to-day. 



THE HOME CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL 



Dept. G, Springfield, Mass. 



Prof. Craig 



Plant for Immediate Effect 



NOT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS 



Start with the largest Stock that can be secured ! It takes over twenty 

 years to grow such Trees and Shrubs as we offer. 



We do the long waiting — thus enabling you to secure Trees and Shrubs that 

 give an immediate effect. Price List Now Ready. 



Andorra Nurseries 



WM. WARNER HARPER, Prop. 



Box G, Chestnut Hill, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



April and November planted box growing side by 

 side and making equal progress 



the question has arisen what are we to do with the 

 one hundred thousand privet slips which we shall 

 have when these last plants need to be pruned ? 



This experience has proven many things, but 

 nothing so conclusively as the fact that faith in one's 

 own effort is half the battle in successful planting. 

 We kept our plants clean and we fed them well, 

 and we had faith that they would be good citizens, 

 and they were. We treated the plants as we treat 

 our children. After all there is a strong family 

 resemblance between plants and children. 



Maryland. Ida M. H. Stare.. 



Color All the Year 



A NARROW bed in our garden between a walk 

 and the stone house presented difficulties. 

 After various unsuccessful experiments, a row of 

 barberries (Berberis Thunbergii) was planted against 

 the house. Its pale green in spring is a beautiful 

 background for the columbine in front of it. We 

 hope to make a fuller collection of this exquisite 

 flower, but only of the single varieties. So far we 

 have but three varieties. The native red and 

 yellow columbine blooms in April and May at the 

 same time as Narcissus poeticus, which forms the 

 border of the bed. The Rocky Mountain colum- 

 bine (A(;uilegia cmrulea), perhaps the most exquisite 

 of wild flowers, blooms in June, and the long spurred 

 yellow variety (A. chrysantha) blooms during 

 June and July. Then Anemone Japonica takes up 

 the bloom and carries it on till frost, while the red 

 berries of the barberry make a touch of color all 

 winter. 



Pennsylvania. F. B. Cathcart. 



Familiar Swiss Flowers. By F. Edward Hulme. 



Cassell & Co., London and New York, 1908; pp. 224, 

 100 colored plates. Price, $2.75 net. 



A thoroughly good book. Capital portraits in 

 colors of the most famous flowers of the Alps with 

 brief, but sufficient, descriptions in simple language. 

 Too large to be used as a pocket guide in the Alps, 

 but the sort of book everyone likes to own. It tells 

 nothing about the culture of these flowers, but is 

 admirable for its purpose. 



