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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



August, 1911 



M lillli 



THIS 



is the 



Faultless 

 Fruit Jar 



Habit is the only thing that is keep- 

 ing you to the old-fashioned, ordi- 

 nary fruit jar. Every year you've 

 put up with the screw top kind that 

 gets stuck three times in five. You 

 had to use that kind, until lately — 

 but not now. That troublesome, 

 narrow-mouthed fruit spoiler is a 

 thing of yesterday, and today it's 

 the all glass convenient 



ATLAS 



E-Z 



SEAL 



Jar for all preserving purposes. See that 

 wide mouth? It takes uncut fruit and 

 vegetables. Gives you all the flavor and 

 all the freshness of summertime foods, right 

 through the winter. Fruit or vegetables 

 can't spoil, can't "work" in E-Z Seal Jars. 

 Top seals air-tight with a finger push — 

 and opens as easily. It's the jar you 

 ought to have. Sold at all general stores. 



Send for our booklet of Famous 

 Preserving Recipes. Tells you 

 better ways of canning and pre- 

 serving. 5Vj> charge and glad 

 to mail it to you. 



HAZEL ATLAS GLASS CO., 



Wheeling, W. Va. 



Cyclamen for Everybody 



THE cyclamen, an old-time favorite bulbous 

 flowering plant, has been popular with 

 gardeners for years. There are few window gar- 

 deners who attempt to grow it, though it is an 

 excellent plant for house culture. One gardener 

 tells of a single bulb that was grown by a woman in 

 her window garden for nineteen years, and at the 

 time that he saw it, it was bearing 160 flowers! 



Three months of bloom from a single cyclamen 

 bulb is not at all uncommon. During that period 

 a bulb three inches in diameter will produce a 

 hundred or more flowers, twenty-five to fifty flowers 

 being borne at one time. I have a plant which 

 has been growing in my window for two months 

 that has withstood about all the trials to which 

 a plant can be subjected. Several times the soil 

 has become very dry, and once the room became 

 filled with illuminating gas, but the plant is still 

 in good condition and has several flowers. 



The cyclamen can be grown from seed, or the 

 bulbs can be purchased in November, or later, 

 from the seedsmen. The seeds can be sown at 

 almost any time. The usual practice among 

 gardeners is to sow them in August, but there 

 are many who wait until December or early 

 January. It takes from thirteen to eighteen 

 months, according to how fast the plants are 

 forced, to get good flowering bulbs. The window 

 gardener had better sow his seed in August or 

 September to insure good flowering bulbs a year 

 from the following winter. 



Use pans or shallow boxes in which to sow the 

 seed. The soil should be very porous; one com- 

 posed of two parts leaf mold and one part sand 

 will give good results. One gardener of my 

 acquaintance uses equal parts of sand, leaf mold, 

 and thoroughly decayed horse manure, and then 

 adds some charcoal which has been finely broken, 

 or, if that is not available, soft bricks are broken 

 up and the fine siftings added to the soil. 



Scatter the seeds thinly over the surface of the 

 soil and cover them with sand, or with a covering 

 of the seed soil, one-eighth of an inch deep. Water 

 with a fine-rosed watering pot, and if the seeds 

 are being germinated in the living room, cover the 

 pot with a piece of glass. Further watering must 

 be done carefully; too much will rot the seeds. 



In from fifteen to twenty-five days, the small, 

 round, dark green leaves will appear above ground, 

 one to each bulb. Then the glass should be re- 

 moved from the pan. When two or three leaves 

 have been made, the plants are large enough to 

 be transplanted. Put them in other pans or in 

 shallow boxes, using the same kind of soil as was 

 used for starting th' seed. In transplanting do 

 not disturb the roots any more than is necessary. 

 Set the plants one inch apart each way. 



The next transplanting should be made when 

 the bulbs become as large as peas, when they will 

 be put in two-inch pots. If the cyclamen are 

 being grown in the window garden, it will be 

 better to transplant the young bulbs into three 

 inch or three and one-half inch pots rather than 

 the two-inch pots because then the soil will not 

 dry out so quickly. 



Some growers sow the seed in the flats or pans 

 very thinly — an inch or so apart — and do not 

 transplant the bulbs until they are put in the pots. 

 However, the most successful growers find that 

 the transplanting and change of soil is advan- 

 tageous. From this time on the plants should 

 be shifted from time to time as necessary. At 

 no time should they become potbound, nor should 

 they receive a check of any kind. 



When mixing the soil for subsequent pottings, 

 use two parts well decayed sod, one part well 

 decayed horse manure, one part leaf mold, and 

 add some finely broken charcoal for drainage. 



The plants will need five to six-inch pots in which 

 to flower, the latter being the best size if the 

 plants are making a good growth. They should 

 be in these pots by September. 



Grow the plants near the glass at all times so 

 as to avoid "drawing them" — i.e., getting long, 

 spindly growth. If grown in the greenhouse, 

 give them a night temperature of 60 degrees and 

 maintain a dry atmosphere; a humid atmosphere 

 will tend to make leggy plants. 



When transplanting the cyclamen always keep 



Boston Garter 



FRANKEN'S 

 DUTCH BULBS 



We invite any who may be dis- 

 satisfied with either the quality 

 or price of the bulbs planted 

 by them, to try ours. 



We sell nothing but the best, at 



Growers' Prices 



Fine Peonies, Iris, Phlox, etc., 

 Catalogue 



FRANKEN BROTHERS 



DEERFIELD ILLINOIS 



(Nurseries also at Sassenheim, Holland.) 



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Three Things You Need 



FIRST : The only Sanitary method of 

 caring for garbage, deep in the ground 

 in heavy galvanized bucket with bail. 

 Odorless; proof against rats, cats and 

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 the house fly. Health demands it. 



Underground Garbage Receiver 

 Underfloor Refuse Receiver 

 Underground Earth Closet 



SECOND : This clean, convenient 

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 cellar and yard refuse, does away 

 with the ash or dirt barrel nuisance. 

 Stores your oily waste and sweep- 

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THIRD: It supplies 

 a safe and sanitary 

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 from pollution. It 



Easy to sweep into 



A Camp Necessity j 



prevents the danger from the house or 

 typhoid fly, around camp or farm, dis- 

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 pays to look us up. 

 Sold direct. Send for Circular* on each 



C. H. STEPHENSON, Mfr. 

 40 Farrar Street Lynn, Mass. 



