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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 19 14 



Start Your Flowers or Vegetables Early 



Many of our patrons object to the 3x6 sash saying that they are too cum- 

 bersome for the amateur; with this objection in view we have manufactured a special 

 sash and frame 8 ft. 4" long and just wide enough to put in a 3 ft. space on the 

 southside of the house; a child can ventilate the sash with ease as it can be hinged 

 if necessary; the frame is all complete ready for erection and has the advantage of 

 one large light of extra heavy glass instead of the many small lights. Price com- 

 plete $10.50. Prepare for your garden now by sending check with order, we will 

 ship the same day. We pay the freight to any part of the United States. 



Pamphlet D and planting instructions sent free on request 



WILLIAM H. LUTTON 



Office and Works, Kearney Avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey 



AND SMALL FRUITS 



The proven productive varieties 

 of berries, grapes, etc., are listed 

 in my IQ14 Catalog. 



Contains finest small fruits, vegetable roots, fruit (j6t tO< 

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ARTHUR J. COLLINS 

 Box 23 Moorestown, N. J. 



ales Plan 



850,000 Fruit Trees 



Apple, $15.00 per 100; Peach, $9.00 

 per 100; also Cherry, Plum, Pear and 

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Write for special wholesale prices, freight paid, 



and free illustrated catalogue. 



WELL'S WHOLESALE NURSERIES 



T8 Wellsley Ave., Dansvllle, M. Y. 



Weather 



and Flower Seeds that Grow! 



Horsford's SS« 

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The hardy kind that can stand the se- 

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F. H. HORSFORD, Charlotte, Vermont 



WARREN H. COLSON 

 184 Boylston Street, Boston 



is a liberal buyer of old letters bear- 

 ing stamps, stamp collections, and 

 autographs. The advanced collector 

 is offered selection from one of the 

 largest and without exception the 

 choicest stock of stamps in America. 

 Mr. Colson is prepared to travel and 

 meet clients in person anywhere. 



You can now buy direct from Grover, 

 the grower, high grade, best quality, fully 

 matured Fruit Trees at $1 P E R 1 00 

 up. All Ornamental Trees, shrubs, roses, etc., at 

 wholesale prices. Don't order until you get our 

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GROVER NURSERY CO. 



94 Trust Bide.. Rochester, N. Y. 



Established 1890 



"Strawberry Plants that Grow" 



Fall Bearing sorts are the latest thought in Strawberries, 

 and we have the best varieties. "Progressive," the most pro- 

 ductive and bearing the first year, "Superb," the largest of 

 all the fall bearers. Our 1014 Free Catalog describes these, 

 also a full line of June varieties, with Raspberry, Blackberry, 

 Currant and Grape Plants. 



C. E. Whitten's Nurseries, Box 10, Bridgman, Mich. 



COHO TOBACCO SOIL 



for house plants, window and porch boxes, hot- 

 beds and greenhouses, prepared in the richest 

 agricultural county in the United States. 



Sample bag loo lbs. $i.oof. o. b. Lancaster, Pa. 

 RALPH W. COHO, LANCASTER, PA. 



SCHOOL OF HORTICULTURE FOR WOMEN 



( / <S Miles from ^Philadelphia) 



Special Course in Landscape Garden- 

 ing- begins February 1914. Regular two 

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 Practical and theoretical training in the 

 growing of fruit, vegetables and flowers. 

 Bees, Simple Carpentry. School Gar- 

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 Write for Catalogue. 



Jessie T. Morgan, Director 

 Ambler, Pa. 



I RHODES DOUBLE CUT 

 PRUNING SHEAR 



RHODES MFG. CO., 



527 S. DIVISION AVE., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 



THE only pruner 

 made that cuts 

 from both sides of the limb and 

 does not bruise the bark. Made 

 in all styles and sizes. We pay 

 Express charges on all 

 orders. Write for circu- 

 lar and prices. 



plant of the creeping water hyacinth (Eichhomia 

 azurea) was put in and it proceeded to grow and 

 bloom in a very short time. This plant has moss- 

 like roots which proved to be very attractive to the 

 fish. 



During September the yellow lily had three 

 flowers before the frost blackened the leaves. The 

 fish had grown amazingly and it was decided to 

 allow them to remain in the tank all winter. 

 About the middle of November the old leaves were 

 taken out and the water changed ■ — using a hose 

 to siphon it out — and the tank covered with 

 boards and leaves to prevent it from freezing solid. 

 The lilies chosen are hardy, provided the roots arei 

 not frozen, but the water hyacinth is a native of the 

 South and must be wintered in the cellar or renewed 

 each spring. 



Early inApril the covering was removed, the water 

 changed and the fish were found to be in excellent 

 condition. The yellow lily commenced to bloom 

 in May and flowered continuously until October 

 having, during the height of the season, as many as 

 six lilies open at one time. The other lilies bloomed 

 quite regularly, the lotus having enormous pink 

 flowers. However, after three seasons, I reached 

 the conclusion that Nymphxa Marliacea, var. 

 chromatella is one of the very best lilies for the 

 amateur grower. By the third season it's growth 

 became so luxuriant as to hide the flowers, so it 

 was taken up and divided into more than thirty 

 plants. 



Ohio. Albert L. Pashek. 



A Novel Garden Fence 



WHEN a man starts in to build a perfectly legal 

 fence he generally has in mind something 

 "horse high and pig tight." But all I wanted was 

 just a suburban back fence, something inexpensive, 

 something good to look at, and a background for 

 our garden. And we built the fence shown in the 

 illustration for $22.00, plus the writer's personal 

 time. 



I had seen many beautiful garden fences in France 

 done in various openwork brick designs, latticings 

 and natural coppice work. All of them figured out 

 too expensive for us. The plain American board 

 fence or crisscross lattice, however ornamented, 

 seemed too raw, too brutal, too overdone to get 



:£'x Vs'CAT^ 



Working plan for the ornamental fence which 

 shown in the photograph on page 60 



any beauty out of it as a garden background, and 

 it cost anywhere from $.75 to $1.25 a foot. 

 The English brick wall, while capable of much rug- 

 ged beauty as a garden background, seemed far too 

 ponderous for our little 75-foot plot and its expense 

 ran into the hundreds of dollars. 



But I had seen, in the gardens of Sans Souci in 

 Potsdam, some very beautiful effects in the lattice 

 walls and arches of the rose gardens of the Old 

 Palace, and something of the sort in an open lattice 

 design appealed strongly to us and so I designed my 

 own fence. The original idea was to let gourds and 

 summer squashes, planted in behind the row of 

 currant bushes, wander at will over the lattice; as 

 a matter of fact the ungrateful things perversely 

 overran the currant bushes and set them back at 

 least a year, so that their places have been taken by 

 Dorothy Perkins roses at each post. When these 

 have spread themselves over the lattice and put 

 forth their numberless pink roses, I will defy Sans 

 Souci itself to produce a prettier fence! 



As to how it was built; I ordered 600 feet of 



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