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// you are planning to build, the Readers'" 

 Service can often give helpful suggestions 



THE GARDEN M AGAZINE 



August, 1911 





LONG 

 • DISTANCE 

 TELEPHONE 





Fire Fighting and Telephoning 



Both Need Team Work, Modern Tools 

 and an Ever Ready Plant, Everywhere 



Twenty men with twenty buckets can put out a 

 small fire if each man works by himself. 



If twenty men form a line and pass the buckets 

 from hand to hand, they can put out a larger fire. 

 But the same twenty men on the brakes of a 

 "hand tub" can force a continuous stream of 

 water through a pipe so fast that the bucket 

 brigade seems futile by comparison. 



The modern firefighter has gone away beyond 

 the "hand tub." Mechanics build a steam fire 

 engine, miners dig coal to feed it, workmen build 

 reservoirs and lay pipes so that each nozzleman 

 and engineer is worth a score of the old- 

 fashioned firefighters. 



The big tasks of today require not only team 

 work but also modern tools and a vast system 

 of supply and distribution. 



The Bell telephone system is an example of 

 co-operation between 75,000 stockholders, 

 120,000 employees and six million subscribers. 



But to team work is added an up-to-date plant. 

 Years of time and hundreds of millions of money 

 have been put into the tools of the trade ; into the 

 building of a nation-wide network of lines ; into 

 the training of men and the working out of meth- 

 ods. The result is the Bell system of today — a 

 union of men, money and machinery, to provide 

 universal telephone service for ninety million 

 people. 



American Telephone and Telegraph Company 

 And Associated Companies 



One Policy 



One System 



Universal Service 



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'^ tSSSSSSJS^L 



WM. WARNER HARPER, Proprietor 



Reminders for Garden Work 



DURING the heat of August, the spring en- 

 thusiasm that drove the wheel-hoe and 

 cultivation will flag a little. But do not yield; 

 hoe faithfully, choosing the evenings or early 

 mornings. 



Do not become despondent if your asparagus 

 bed shows rust. Keep right on cultivating. 

 Beds persistently cultivated will withstand the 

 rust and will yield next spring, while those neglected 

 are sure to succumb. 



The celery and strawberry beds must be kept 

 clear of weeds. 



Get the soil ready for receiving the seed of fall 

 vegetables. The soil is in a different condition 

 now than it was- in June. The early applications 

 of quick-acting fertilizers, acid phosphate, nitrate 

 of soda, etc., have been exhausted by the growth 

 of vegetation, but the early applications of com- 

 post are now well incorporated with the soil, 

 which is ready to yield quantities of rich plant 

 food. 



As far as possible choose the ^noist parts of the 

 garden for your late plantings. Don't forget that 

 the dilapidated pea and bean patch have abun- 

 dant stores of nitrogen. 



riant rutabaga turnips early in the month and 

 other varieties at any time during the next thirty 

 days. 



Cabbage proves very stubborn on soil which is 

 insufficiently fed. Set out the plants early in 

 the month in a rich moist location where turnips 

 or early cabbage have not been previously 

 grown. 



Plant the curled non-heading lettuce for greatest 

 tenderness and quick growth. Sow endive in 

 rich soil, covering the seeds lightly. 



The patch that was devoted to early truck 

 may now be turned over and planted with rye 

 or crimson clover. Rye may be sown at any 

 time until the end of September to get a good 

 stand, but clover must be sown early this month 

 to get sufficient growth. 



Select from your finest tomatoes, peppers, melons, 

 cucumbers, eggplant and other vegetables for 

 seed fruit. Let them ripen thoroughly before 

 removing seeds. 



The flavor of Bartlett pears is finer if they are 

 gathered before they mellow and are laid on a 

 dry floor, beneath a blanket or other covering, to 

 complete the ripening process. 



Be very careful not to bruise the muskmelon 

 vines when gathering the fruit. They will blacken 

 and die wherever injured. 



If you have a healthy-looking row of string 

 beans from which you have gathered quite a 

 harvest, go over them .and pick off every bean, 

 large or small; add a little poultry manure to 

 the soil about the vines and see what they will 

 do for you! 



New Jersey. M. Roberts Conover. 



For Early Cosmos Bloom 



I FIND that the easiest way to get the cosmos to 

 blossom early is to let it join the ranks of self- 

 sowing annuals. The blossoms are not so large 

 as they might be; but the plants start blooming 

 in July and keep it up until frost comes. The past 

 September my self-sown cosmos was a mass of 

 blossoms on the fifth of the month, whereas that 

 started in a coldframe had not unfolded one bud. 

 — A. C A. 



