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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1912 



The High Cost of Living 



Secretary Wilson recently made a statement to the 

 effect that practically all the advanced prices which make 

 up the increased cost of living go to the many handlers be- 

 tween the producing farmer and the consumer. 



You can solve your own problem of the "High Cost of Liv- 

 ing" by becoming a Producer. With a proportionately very 

 small expense for seeds and fertilizers, a small tract of ground, 

 even so small a tract as 25 x 50 feet can be made to produce all 

 the vegetables an average family uses in a season. You do 

 not have to share the profits of your own garden with job- 

 bers, middlemen or retailers. 



To get the best results it is necessary to get the best seeds. 

 Every packet of Henderson's seeds that is sold has behind it the 

 experience of 64 years of successful seed growing and selling. 

 The methods of seed testing and trials that were the best three 

 generations ago, have been improved and bettered by us from 

 year to year and are, to-day still the best. The initial cost of 

 the seeds is really the smallest cost of your gar- 

 den and it pays to be sure you have started 

 right. Hende son's are Tested Seeds. 



SPECIAL OFFER 



Our 1912 Catalogue— Everything for the Garden 



A book of 204 pages, over 800 illustrations, color 

 plates, etc., will be mailed on receipt oi 10 cents. In 

 addition we will send our Garden Guide and Record, 

 and our collection of 6 Hendersons' Specialties, in a 

 coupon envelope, which will be accepted as 25 cents 

 on any order of one dollar or over. 



Peter Henderson & Co. 



35-37 Cortlandt Street 

 New York 



The Unknown Quantity 



In planting a Garden, whether large or small, the initial 

 cost of the seeds themselves is by far the smallest item of 

 expense. 



Good soil with water and sun, will produce crops if the 

 unknown quantity, that is, the quality of the seeds, is also 

 good. 



The thousands of dollars that are expended each year by 

 Peter Henderson & Co. in their exhaustive tests and trials 

 are spent to reduce this unknown quantity to such a mini- 

 mum that it is removed almost entirely. 



In buying Henderson's seeds you are buying seeds that 

 have been tested and tried and have been found up to the 

 Henderson Standard, a Standard which is not exceeded by 

 any seed house in the world. In planting your Garden it 

 pays to start right and you can be sure that there is no un- 

 known quantity in your Garden if you 

 use Henderson's Seeds. Henderson's are 

 Tested Seeds. 



Our Garden Guide and Record 



This hand-book which will be sent without extra 

 charge to all sending for our catalogue under our 

 Special Offer, is one of the most valuable of our many 

 publications. It has concise and complete cultural 

 tables, planting instructions, cooking receipts, per- 

 sonally selected by Mrs. Rorer, for all vegetables, in 

 fact a comprehensive garden hand-book. 



Peter Henderson & Co. 



35-37 Cortlandt Street 

 New York 



Lily of Valley 



fro m Photo, grown 



in our prepared 



Mossfiber 



You will be highly pleased 

 and enjoy the process of 

 watching those fragrant 

 exquisite blossoms grow in 

 your own home. No leak- 

 age — no damage to polish- 

 ed surfaces, as the Valley 

 pips can be grown without 

 drainage in the Mossfiber; 

 the same as Hyacinths, 

 Narcissus, Crocus, Jon- 

 quils, Lilies, etc. 



Full directions with every 

 order sent out "How to suc- 

 ceed in growing the bulbs." 



6 Lily of Valley pips and 

 Mossfiber to grow same $0. 35 



12 Lily of Valley pips and 



Mossfiber to grow same . 65 



20 Lily of Valley pips and 



Mossfiber to grow same 1. 00 



Delivery included in price 



notour ai,e Weal Spring Garden Book ^ 



January 20th 



H. H. BERGER & CO. 



70 Warren St. 



New York 



AFRICAN ORANGE DAISY 



No Garden Should Be Without It. 



A rare and extremely showy annual from 

 Namaqualand, South Africa, of very easy culture. 

 The plants of neat branchy habit, grow about 

 12 to 15 inches high and are exceedingly pro- 

 fuse in flowering. Its Marguerite-like blossoms, 

 23^ to 2M inches in diameter under proper culti- 

 vation, show a unique glossy rich orange-gold, 

 with dark-colored disc surrounded by a black 

 zone. It produces its pretty flowers very early 

 after being planted out in the open ground in 

 sunny situations and will continue to flower dur- 

 ing the summer. Plant in soil not over rich. 



We will mail a packet of this superb annual and a copy 

 of our beautifully illustrated catalogue, 144 large pages 

 — the best seed book published in America — for only 

 1 Oc, stamps or coin. Write to-day. 



CATALOGUE READY JANUARY 1ST. 



J. M. THORBURN & CO. 



(Dept G.) 

 33 Barclay Street and 38 Park Place, New York 



