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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



September 1909 



MOON'S EVERGREENS 



and the immediate effect they produce 



MOON'S EVERGREENS FOR AUTUMN PLANTING 



A stock of over lOO acres ; an assortment unexcelled anywhere. There are varied forms in dwarf 



and tall growing kinds and infinite tones of green, golden, and blue, in sizes from one to twenty-five feet. 



Space for symmetrical development of the branches and ceaseless cultivation make these trees. 



LOOK WELL AND MOVE WELL 



If you are going to plant evergreens, first write us. Our catalogue of Hardy Trees and Plants for 

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Save the Lives of Your Trees— 

 They Are too Precious to Sacrifice 



If you are fortunate enough to have trees about your place, no doubt you have 

 come to love them as living things. Tender memories of those who planted or 

 have cared for them probably cluster around many if not all of your tree friends. 



Trees are no longer common or cheap, and you could not replace the fine old 

 ones at any reasonable outlay — even if you could, the substitutes would not be the 

 same to you ; they would lack the associations that made the old ones so precious. 



Davey men and Davey methods can save your trees, if there is anything at all 

 left to work on. Many of the achievements of the Davey corps of tree surgeons 

 are little less than marvelous— healthy, hearty trees, that a few years ago 

 were only shells, are living monuments to the efficiency of the Davey treatment. 



John Davey, the Father of Tree Surgery 

 Has Given the World a New Profession 



If you have to engage a lawyer, you want a successful one ; if you 

 must call a physician or surgeon, you want one in whom you can place 

 absolute confidence; if you employ a tree surgeon, you should have 

 the best — not experimenters or men whose reputation in the 

 profession his not been established in practice. 



If you wish to save your trees, you need the services of tree 

 surgeons who can give results. The Davey experts alonecan thoroughly 

 satisfy you. We are just now preparinga beautiful new booklet, which 

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 Its cost is too great to permit promiscuous distribution but if you have 

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CAULIFLOWER ROOT MAGGOTS 



Is there any simple remedy for root maggots in 

 cauliflower ? 



Massachusetts. I. E. C. 



— Bisulphide of carbon is one of the most effective 

 remedies you can possibly use. The fumes are 

 not so dangerous a poison as they are a dangerous 

 explosive, but there is no danger whatever in 

 using ir if you do not carry a naked light near the 

 liquid. The vapor which is produced from the 

 liquid is many times heavier than the air. It will 

 penetrate into the ground and will not rise; conse- 

 quently, there is absolutely no danger from its use. 



CLUB ROOT IN CABBAGE 



My cabbages are infested with club root. 

 What causes it, and how can the ground be 

 remedied ? 



Washington. W. W. 



— Club root is a fungus growth, and attacks both 

 cabbages and cauliflower. The roots become laige 

 and distorted, and resemble a turnip in shape; 

 the plant invariably fails to head, and the leaves 

 droop, wilt, and finally die. The disease spreads 

 rapidly and whole fields are often ruined. Its 

 causes seem to be the continued growing of cabbage, 

 cauliflower, or turnips on the same land without 

 rotating with other crops, and failure to supply 

 the necessary lime that the soil requires. When 

 club root makes its appearance, stop immediately 

 the planting of cabbage and similar crops on the 

 land, and apply lime in the fall at the rate of about 

 seventy-five bushels to the acre. Do this at least 

 for two seasons before again attempting to grow 

 cabbage on the land. 



MAKING GRASS LAND FOR HAY 



What is the best seed mixture and treatment 

 to establish permanent grass land for hay in a 

 clay loam, the seed to be sown after a late corn crop ? 



Pennsylvania. S. E. 



— Sow immediately in the corn a mixture of 20 

 pounds of timothy, 8 pounds redtop, 8 pounds red 

 clover, and 6 pounds alsike clover, covering it 

 with a very light cultivation. If you wait until 

 the corn crop is off, it will be too late for these to 

 get well rooted before freezing weather, and the 

 chances are that anything put in would kill out 

 during the winter. As to the best treatment for 

 permanent meadows, there does not seem to be 

 anything that equals top dressing of barnyard 

 manure every year or two years. It is surprising 

 how permanent meadows will respond to this 

 treatment even when there have been only seven 

 or eight loads of manure put on to the acre. One 

 farmer in Massachusetts gets three tons of hay to 

 the acre the first cutting, and at the second cutting 

 late in the season one and a half tons. L. C. 



THE DREAD HOLLYHOCK DISEASE 



Last year my collection of hollyhocks made an 

 unusually healthy growth, and was full of buds 

 about the last of June, when the undersides of the 

 leaves became covered with small grayish bunches. 

 Soon after these appeared the veins on the upper 

 sides of the leaves turned orange, and orange dots 

 came through from the bunches underneath. 

 What was the trouble, and the remedy? 



Maine. C. M. E. 



— Your hollyhocks have become victims of the 

 dread hollyhock disease. This is a fungus (Puc- 

 cinia malvacearum) which twenty or twenty-five 

 years ago practically exterminated the hollyhock 

 in English gardens. It is one of the most pestif- 

 erous and troublesome plant diseases that ever 

 entered our gardens. The particular trouble with 

 this disease is that the fungus does not appear on 

 the leaves until the final stage of its growth. It 

 develops in the tissues of the plant, possibly from 

 the very moment the seed starts to grow, and it 

 is in the fruiting stage when the little pustules 

 burst and scatter their millions of spores over the 

 ground, infecting the hollyhocks under them. 

 The only possible remedy is to spray the ground 

 and surrounding plants with Bordeaux mixture 

 to prevent the recurrence of the attack. Addi- 

 tional spraying now and in the fall to prevent 

 germination may succeed in holding the disease in 

 check; and as a further precaution, destroy at once 

 by burning all the affected plants. L. B. 



