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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1914 



Satisfaction Plants of Pot-Grown 

 Chrysanthemums 



WHEN it comes to 

 "Mums," (as the en- 

 thusiasts call them) 

 there are countless kinds and 

 varieties that fill a wider range 

 of purposes, perhaps, than any 

 other flower. 



There are varieties for ex- 

 hibition and general growing. 

 Varieties for window sill pot 

 plants as well as those for your 

 outside garden. There axe 

 those delightful button pom- 

 pons and the husky frost- 

 standing ones that tenaciously 

 hang on and give cheer to the 

 fall days. 



Whether for your home, 

 your greenhouses, or your 

 garden, we have the finest of 

 pot grown Satisfaction Plants. 



The thing to do, is to send 

 for our catalog, containing 



No description can do our 

 Indian Summer Chrysanthe- 

 mum quite justice. Its name 

 suggests golden sunshine min- 

 gled with russets and deep rich 

 red. It's all the name implies. 



descriptions and numerous re- 

 productions of photographs 

 which will aid you to select 

 the type of flowers and varieties 

 you wish. 



In this catalog you will also 

 find the new roses and carna- 

 tions; bedding roses and per- 

 ennials for your garden; bed- 

 ding plants for your lawn and 

 borders. We want you to have 

 this catalog so you can get 

 acquainted with Satisfaction 

 Plants from Cromwell Gardens. 



Furthermore don't omit the 

 pompons and single varieties 

 of Chrysanthemums that have 

 lately been so much talkedabout. 



As you have already sur- 

 mised — all this array of Satis- 

 faction Plants has something 

 to do with our asking you to 

 send for our catalog. 



AN.PlEl^SON inc. 



CROMWELL GARpENS 



C^pmwell Conn 



WE grow a general line of good sturdy nursery stock. Our soil and 

 climate here are peculiarly adapted to it. All our trees are several 

 times transplanted which insures a fine root system. We give more 

 than usual attention to care in packing for shipment. There's a good bit 

 of frank sincerity of the Puritan ancestors in our business methods which, 

 our customers have said, is reflected in the kind of stock we grow and sell. 

 Send for catalog and price list. 



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Japanese Styrax 



A remarkable tree-shrub, 10 to 12 feet high, 

 with unusual lively green foliage. Profusely 

 covered in June and July with clusters oi 

 fragrant, fuchsia-shaped flowers. 



Plants 3 to 4 feet, Si. 00 each. 



Merely one of many uncommon specialties 

 in Meehans' Spring Specially Book Jot IQI4. 



An unusual listing of unusual plants — 



superior in selection, superior in quality. There 



are thicker catalogs aplenty, but none more helpful 



and dependable in choosing plants that take the 



home grounds away from the commonplace. 



Extra helpful because only seasonable varieties 

 of proven worth and hardiness are included. 



Extra valuable to those planning new properties, 

 or large plantings — for the fact that we devote the 

 larger percentage of our capital and effort to grow- 

 ing stock rather than selling, assures you best re- 

 turns on your investment. 



Send for this book today. It includes, in addition to the 

 finest varieties in popular hardy plants, trees, shrubs and 

 evergreens, many suggestive combination plantings for diffi- 

 cult locations. 



If you have a new property less than an acre to plant, write 

 for our Special New Property Proposition. 



THOMAS MEEHAN & SONS 



Box 17, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. 



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to purchase a regular lawn mixture containing 

 English rye. This we scattered on the soil, raking 

 it over lightly. 



Meanwhile we had planted our vegetables and set 

 out our roses and berry bushes. We put our trees 

 in the two back corners of the yard, the rambler 

 roses, grape vine and berry bushes, along the fence; 

 and in front of these we planted the taller vegetables, 

 corn and pole beans, with the low-growing ones 

 between them with a border of petunias. 



The strawberries were planted by themselves 

 across the front of the back bed with only a row of 

 petunias between them and the lawn. 



With the backyard completed we turned our 

 attention to the front one, which was in fairly good 

 condition. There were two hydrangea bushes al- 

 ready planted at each side of the walk on top of the 



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We filled the front yard with a mass of foliage — 

 hydrangeas, smoke bush, etc. 



low terrace and to these we added golden glow, 

 smoke bush, cannas, phlox, petunias — all sorts of 

 odds and ends, planting them without regard to 

 plan or season, our only desire being to fill the yard 

 full of foliage. 



Nature must have smiled on our efforts that first 

 spring (we have not always been so successful 

 since) for everything we planted — and some that 

 we did not — appeared promptly on time. By 

 August the backyard fence was nearly hidden from 

 sight by vines, golden glow and corn stalks, and our 

 lawn was beautiful. Of course we had weeds, lots 

 of them, but by endless watchfulness we kept them 

 under control. 



New York. H. E. A. 



An Egg-shell Flower Pot 



TO RAISE a tiny or a valuable seed in a flower 

 pot with a certainty of success is not easy, for 

 the soil in the pot is alternately flooded and parched. 

 To place the seed in a garden bed in the open makes 

 matters doubly worse, but the "wrinkle" here des- 

 cribed clears away all difficulties 



Take two flower pots, one of which is much larger 

 than the other. Rub the top of the smaller one 

 upon a stone so that a piece of glass will rest closely 

 upon it, and in this pot sow the seed in suitable soil. 

 Put cocoanut-fibre in the larger pot and pack it 

 tightly all around the sides, taking care that the 

 level of the soil is just above that of the cocoanut- 

 fibre, or water may collect on the surface. 



The idea is that no water shall be given to the 

 inner pot, but that the fibre in the outer pot shall 

 be well soaked each day. In this way the soil 

 keeps healthily moist. Such things as lobelia, 

 musk, ferns, and the like which have seeds of almost 

 microscopical fineness, do exceedingly well when 

 raised in the manner described. 



A novel method of raising the seed of a delicate 

 plant is to sow it in half an ordinary egg-shell 

 which can be stood in an egg cup and placed against 

 a window. When the seed has germinated and the 

 plantlet is growing too large the shell can be carefully 

 but well cracked, and the whole transferred to a 

 garden bed or a flower pot. The roots of the plant 

 will push their way through the cracks in the egg 

 shell. 



New York. Frank Wright. 



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