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What is a fair rental for a given 

 properly? A sk the Readers' Service 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



November, 1909 



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. 





FOOD WITH THE OCEAN TASTE 



We will supply direct from the ocean to your 

 home the finest, the truly choices/, sea food that 

 the ocean produces. Never in your life, probably, 

 have you tasted morsels so tempting, so appetiz- 

 ing — right from the depths and redolent of the 

 crisp, salt tang of the sea. 



When served inland, a dinner of our delicious 

 ocean viands cause the guests to marvel that such 

 things can be — the taste is so "different" from 

 the average fish-foods. The improvement in 

 tablefare made possible by our service is a 

 re-uelation. 



We select the choicest products of the best 

 catches from the finest fishing grounds. They 

 are prepared and put up with scrupulous regard 

 for cleanliness and tastefulness, and bring to your 

 table a flavor and delicacy unequaled. 



S 

 FROM OCEAN 



TO CONSUMER- 



LET US BE YOUR FISHERMEN 



Our line of sea foods is complete, including 

 white, plump cod, fine juicy mackerel, tasty, 

 savory lobsters, etc. — a long list like the menu 

 of a shore dinner and everything the best you 

 ever tasted. 



Send for price list, and to sample our products, 

 take advantage of our 



Special Trial Offer 

 For $.1.00 — A four pound box of our 

 "Nabob" absolutely boneless Cod, the 

 choicest cuts of the finest fish that can be 

 taken from the sea. Four dinners for 

 four persons. 



Prices include 

 guaranteed. 



delivery and satisfaction 



CONSUMERS FISH CO., No. 66 Commercial St., GLOUCESTER, MASS. 



PRACTICAL 

 HIN 



ifinerS 



Making Potting Soil 



IN our back yard stand two neatly painted four- 

 bushel boxes, with hinged lids, and sides made 

 of slats an eighth of an inch apart, which give us 

 two-fold service. At all times they furnish a com- 

 fortable resting place, seat backs being supplied by 

 slats tacked to the two saplings against which the 

 boxes rest, and they are the treasure chests from 

 which is drawn the support for our big yard full 

 of lovely shrubs and flowers and our small garden 

 of fine vegetables and fruits, which help out the 

 family living. One box is now full of rich, crumbly 

 earth for fall re-potting and winter bulbs and 

 number two will soon receive its consignment for 

 spring use, the earth in each always being ready for 

 instant service. This supply is drawn from my 

 treasure pen, hidden behind bushes in the garden, 

 which is built of waste plank, is ten feet long, 

 five wide, four high and is divided into two parts. 



We began with the fall months, got permission to 

 remove the falling leaves from our street, and 

 these went into pen No. i, and from this time 

 until the ensuing July we added old soil from pots 

 and flower beds, sods, weeds, grass clippings, 

 faded flowers, kitchen refuse, some sifted coal ashes 

 and all the wood ashes we could procure, all sweet- 

 ened by liberal sprinklings of lime and moistened 

 by soapy water from kitchen and laundry. 

 Then our picnickers contributed baskets of woods 

 earth, clay and sand, while, for a small sum, the 

 produce man for our street brought in a few sacks 

 of thoroughly decayed stable fertilizer. Until the 

 end of July all this was frequently forked over 

 and mixed and at that time this pen was loosely 

 covered with boards and we began to fill pen No. 2. 



In October the boxes are filled with the cream of 

 the earth from the first pen, which serves for potting 

 a large number of plants and bulbs for the winter 

 and spring, having an abundance to make a fine 

 seed-bed surface for outdoor flowers. We further 

 arrange for spring work by clearing stalks and much 

 of the flower bed soil into the pen, after frost has 

 fallen, together with small leavings from the shrubs, 

 and re-filling the beds with the coarser, parti)' 

 decayed portion from pen No. 1, and by mulching 

 the shrubs with the same. 



Kentucky. L. B. M. 





Good Results from an Old Bulb 



an old 

 and 



AN experiment I tried last year with 

 hyacinth bulb was surprising to me 

 may interest other bulb lovers. 



I had already put last year's bulbs — those that 

 had bloomed in the house — into the border for 

 spring blooming, and had buried in a trench many 



