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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1914 



If 



Harry Lauder singing to himself 



"They adore me when I've got my trousers 

 on, but they love me in my kilt". 

 "Rob Roy Macintosh"— Victor Record No. 70004. 



When the famous Scotch comedian wants to "hear him- 

 self as ithers hear him", he becomes his own audience of ono 

 before the Victrola. 



And he hears himself just as his vast audiences hear him 

 all over the world, just as thousands hear him on the Victor 

 in their own homes, just as you too can hear him. 



Hearing Harry Lauder on the Victrola is really hearing 

 him in person — his delightful droll Scottish dialect and 

 humorous personality are all there in Victor Records, and 

 Lauder himself has pronounced them "simply 'to the life' ". 



Any Victor dealer in any city in the world will gladly 

 play any of the 39 Lauder records, or Victor Records by 

 such other well-known artists as Christie MacDonald, 

 Blanche Ring, Elsie Janis, Al Jolson, Montgomery & 

 Stone, Nat Wills, NoraBayes, Robert Hilliard, George M. 

 Cohan. 



There are Victors and Victrolas in great variety of 

 styles from $10 to $200. 



Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N. J., U. S. A. 



Berliner Gramophone Co., Montreal, Canadian Distributors 



New Victor Records demonstrated at all dealers on the 28th of each month 



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Annuals for Color Borders 



THE use of flowers of one color or, at all events, 

 of two or three colors that are related, will 

 give more pleasing effects than an indiscriminate 

 jumble of everything. The following lists, selected 

 by color, include the most easily grown annuals 

 and should be read in connection with the article 

 on page 100. White should always be employed 

 to lighten up or to tone down other colors. A 

 great variety of effect can be had by following a 

 color rotation, so to speak, and if white is used as 

 a dominant note one year, it is quite easy to have 

 a six-year rotation, each term of which will be 

 quite strongly characterized. 



Red 



Celosia plumosa 





Drummond's phlox 



Cosmos 





Nasturtiums 



Scarlet runners 





Asters 



Sweet peas 





Mignonette 



Poppies 





Kochia 



Salvia 





Godetia 



Zinnias 





Pinks 



Stocks 





Balsams 



Jerusalem cherry 





Portulaca 





Pink 



Morning glories 





Lupines 



Cosmos 





Godetia 



Dahlias 





Lavatera 



Sweet peas 





Asters 



Zinnias 





Pinks 



Stocks 





Bachelor's buttons 



Poppies 





Snapdragons 



Petunias 





Balsams 



Drummond's phlox 





Portulaca 





Blue 



Cobea scandens 





Lobelia 



Morning glories 





Larkspur 



Ageratum 





Nigella 



Bachelor's buttons 





Lupine 



Asters 





Stocks 



Brachycome 





Verbena 





Yellow 



Sunflowers 





Zinnias 



Gaillardias 





Marigolds 



Annual chrysanthemums 



Stocks 



Sweet Sultans 





Drummond's phlox 



Celosia plumosa (golden 



Nasturtiums 



plume) 





Portulaca 



Coreopsis 









White 



Nicotiana 





Poppies 



Cosmos 





Matricaria (feverfew) 



Hyacinth bean 





Drummond's phlox 



Wild cucumber 





Lupines 



Sweet peas 





Gypsophila 



Asters 





Verbenas 



Balsams 





Pinks 



Four o'clocks 





Bachelor's buttons 



Candytuft 





Alyssum 



Coal Ashes in a Clay Soil 



PLEASE give me some advice about putting fine 

 coal ashes on garden soil. The tendency of my 

 soil seems to be to cake; it doubtless contains 

 quite a good deal of clay. I have no wood ashes. 

 New York. J- T. R. 



— Coal ashes will be of great help in lightening 

 your garden soil. We would advise the use of 

 coarse ashes rather than fine ones. A dressing of 

 lime will help to modify the caking tendencies of 

 the clay soil. Apply the lime at the rate of twenty 

 bushels to the acre. Your soil probably stands 

 in need of humus and this can be provided for by 

 sowing rye whenever the ground is vacant and 

 turning it under later on in the season or in the 

 early spring. Crimson clover can also be used with 

 good effect. A good way to do this is to sow a 

 cover crop of the rye or clover early in the fall and 

 let it grow until the late fall or early spring, and 

 then turn it under in the spring when the garden 

 work begins. Two or three years of this will 

 wonderfully improve the texture of your soil. 



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