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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 19 14' 



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The present joint tour of Melba and Kubelik is 

 acclaimed one of the greatest musical sensations of 

 recent years — and it is a truly noteworthy event. 



But to hear these two famous artists is an everyday 

 pleasure where there is a Victor or Victrola in the 

 home. 



Melba and Kubelik are among the world's greatest 

 singers and musicians who make records exclusively 

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Any Victor dealer in any city in the world will gladly play any Melba or Kubelik 

 records you wish to hear. No more beautiful rendition of 

 Gounod's "Ave Maria" can be imagined than Victor 

 Record 89073, sung by Melba with violin obbligato by 

 Kubelik. 



Victors $10 to $100. Victrolas $15 to $200. 



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do the transplanting, and protect the plants from 

 the hot sun until they have taken root. A shingle 

 or piece of paper will serve as a protector if placed 

 on the side toward the sun. Be sure that the young 

 plants have plenty of water at the time of trans- 

 planting and for some days after. 



Asters are especially valuable for California 

 gardens because they bloom at a time when most 

 other plants are not in flower. They should be 

 sown now in the hotbed and later pricked off and 

 transplanted. They are very heavy feeders and must 

 be supplied with plenty of fertilizer. A combina- 

 tion of rotted sheep manure and bone meal is the 

 best fertilizer if applied in the proportion of ioo 

 pounds of each ingredient to 1,000 square feet of 

 bed. It is very dangerous to use common stable 

 manure for asters. It is likely to result in the 

 appearance of numerous wire worms that will kill 

 the young plants. 



Set the plants into the ground up to the first 

 leaf. Press the soil around them firmly with the 

 hands and water at once. Then give an applica- 

 tion of fertilizer. Snails have a particular fond- 

 ness for young aster plants, but they are readily 

 killed by a liberal use of tobacco dust. 



If you plan to use the asters in a fairly large rec- 

 tangular bed, buy the following varieties: Giant 

 Comet Branching (crimson) two feet tall, to be used 

 at the back of the bed, or for the centre row if the 

 bed is open on all four sides; American Branching 

 (white), i \ feet high, should come next; American 

 Branching (rose pink) will blend well if planted in 

 the next row, then use a row of American Branching 

 (flesh pink), and a row of Victoria Branching (snow 

 white). The Victoria Branching is a foot high and 

 Queen of The Market is about eight inches high and 

 is a white variety. A row of each of these makes a 

 good border for the bed. 



The plants should be about one foot apart each 

 way. If your bed is not large enough to hold all 

 the varieties mentioned, leave out some of those 

 in the centre of the bed. If the bed is larger, put 

 in additional rows of some of the varieties in the 

 centre. Do not add to the border variety, and pre- 

 ferably not to the background, although an extra 

 row of the Giant Comet Branching would not be 

 entirely undesirable. 



If the space to be used is a triangular bed at an 

 angle of the house or between the house and the 

 porch, use in the corner three plants of Giant Comet 

 Branching (light blue), next a row of Giant Comet 

 Branching (lilac), then two rows of Semple's or Giant 

 Branching (white). For the edging try one row of 

 Semple's or Giant Branching (purple). 



For covering the ground between shrubs or for 

 planting around the base of palms, plant Phlox 

 Driimmondii in the hotbed now and handle the 

 same as the aster seedlings. It may be had in 

 white, rose, scarlet, red, or yellow. 



Zinnias may be had in scarlet, purple, salmon, 

 white, and yellow and one or more of the separate 

 colors should be purchased rather than a mixture. 

 They bloom throughout the summer and are excel- 

 lent for a border along the side of the house or at 

 the edge of a drive. Treatment is the same as for 

 other hotbed plants except that a special caution is 

 needed — never allow zinnias to be checked in their 

 growth for lack of water. They revel in a sunny 

 spot, but must always have a good supply of mois- 

 ture at the roots or the blossoms will be very in- 

 significant. 



The good old-fashioned petunias (and some of the 

 newer fashioned sorts) should be propagated now. 

 If your neighbor has a bed that you have parti- 

 cularly admired, secure cuttings from him. Or 

 purchase seed and grow in the hotbed, selecting the 

 best plants after they have flowered and replacing 

 any that do not please you by cuttings from the 

 good ones. Giant of California is a large-flowering 

 sort and the blossoms are attractively fringed and 

 delightfully fragrant. Eureka is a beautiful deep 

 crimson pink and Rufus is a pure white mottled pink. 

 Unless you are very much cramped for room, I rec- 

 ommend that you purchase the following varieties 

 of pansies. Use the two white varieties as a border 

 and set the others in rows inside it. Of course, in 

 the hotbed the seeds of each- variety will be by them- 

 selves and carefully marked with small labels. 



For the border use the two white varieties, Snow- 

 flake and President Carnot. The latter is white 

 with violet blotches. Inside the border use Emper- 

 or William, an ultramarine blue; Faust or King 



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