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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



December, 1909 



THE DIFFERENCE IN 

 GREENHOUSES 



You most certainly want a greenhouse that will produce the greatest number 

 of blooms, grow the best vegetables and fruit with the least trouble and expense. 



You want a house that is not an everlasting bill of repairs or a continual 

 annoyance in glass broken. You, of course, insist upon its being attractive out- 

 side, and a cheery, nicely equipped house inside. All these things are a necessity 

 to you, both from the practical side and the enjoyment point of view. 



If this be the case the U-Bar is just the greenhouse for you. If you don't 

 want us to come just yet and talk over with you why it is the best house for you, 

 then send for our catalogue with its 72 pages of illustrations and interesting, 

 instructive text. Then after that send for us. But get the catalog. 



UBAR GREENHOUSES 



PIERSON 



DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS 



U-BAR CO. 



1 MADISON £VE„NEW YORK 



Plant Hicks Shrubs Now 



It's the right time to do it. With few exceptions, fail planting 

 is decidedly more successful than spring. The early flowering 

 kinds bloom better the first year if you plant them in the fall. 

 Our shrubs are as good as can be had. 



If you want a group to border your lawn like this one shown, 

 we can assure you of a like result. If you haven't the trees, we 

 can furnish them, too— any size from'io to 15 feet broad. With 



them you get an immediate effect. By planting trees and shrubs 

 this way, one helps the other — your trees will grow twice as fast as 

 on the bare, closely cropped lawn. 



If you can possibly, come right to our Nursery and select your 

 own shrubs and trees. If this is impossible, it is an easy matter 

 to make your selections direct from our catalog — it is arranged 

 especially for that purpose. Send for it. 



Isaac Hicks (Si Son 



Westbury, Long Island. 



eggs were laid. On January first, having pre- 

 viously put numbered bands on the hens, I placed 

 five trap nests in the house and kept an accurate 

 record of what each hen was doing. I also fed 

 them more liberally, and was rewarded with 584 

 eggs, the highest number any one day being twenty- 

 seven and the lowest ten, an average for thirty- 

 one days of almost nineteen eggs per day. And 

 this record was maintained all during the winter 

 months. A poor breed of hens, well fed, with fresh 

 air and exercise, will, therefore, more than pay for 

 their keep in winter, when eggs are selling at forty- 

 two cents a dozen. 



Owing to the trap nests I found that the Wyan- 

 dottes were the poorest layers, giving only forty- 

 five eggs during January. They are either late 

 layers, or else I had a poor strain. The two best 

 pullets gave twenty-seven eggs each, and I had 

 four drones that refused to lay an egg. 



Pennsylvania. F. R. Roberts. 



Try Propagating Now 



DECEMBER is the time to prune all trees and 

 shrubs, and for making cuttings. 



Many fruits and flowers, shrubs and vines can 

 be easily propagated by planting cuttings in sand 

 now. Try doing this with the Scuppernong grape, 

 although a better and surer way of getting results 

 is to pull down two or more feet of the vine and 

 cover it with several inches of the soil. Allow at 

 least fifteen inches of the end of the vine to extend 

 out of the soil. Next November or December 

 this portion will be rooted and can be detached 

 from the old vine. The Scuppernong is one of the 

 most valuable grapes for the South. It is almost 

 free from the attacks of insects and birds; 

 is remarkably resistant to diseases, and is well 

 suited to both the soil and climate of the South. 



The rose and chrysanthemum beds should be 

 mulched with strawy stable manure to prevent 

 possible injury from sudden changes in the weather. 



Sow seed now in a hotbed, instead of in the early 

 spring, of such hardy perennials as chrysanthemum, 

 hollyhock, phlox, etc. The plants will be older, 

 stronger, and better prepared to stand the hot, 

 dry weather of next summer. 



Spray fruit trees, for you will have more time now, 

 before the holidays, than you will have afterward. 



Sow garden peas about the middle of the month, 

 and if the weather is favorable, you will be enjoy- 

 ing this vegetable very early in the spring; if a 

 freeze kills them, the trouble and expense of plant- 

 ing again is of little moment. 



Georgia. Thomas J. Steed. 



Another Good Porch Vine 



IN THE "Answers to Queries" department of 

 the April, 1909, number of The Garden 

 Magazine, two lists of porch vines were given. 

 I think there should be added to the plants there 

 mentioned mountain fleece (Polygonum multi- 

 fiorum). It grows thicker and more rapidly than 

 Clematis paniculata, puts out its leaves earlier in the 

 season, has more attractive foliage and is equally 

 as beautiful as clematis when in flower. P. Bald- 

 schuanicum is a good vine, but it is about five times 

 more expensive than multiflorum, is of slower 

 growth, though more rapid than Clematis paniculata, 

 and is not so attractive in flower or foliage. My 

 most luxuriant vine is Lonicera Japonica, which has 

 the advantage of being evergreen in this locality 

 (ten miles south of Chattanooga, Tenn.). 



Georgia. J. A. Degen. 



