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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 19 14 



Garden Refinements In 

 Iron and Bronze 



BEAUTIFUL and impressive ornaments for coun- 

 try places. 



From driveway gates to vestibule door, everything 

 in ornamental metal for garden, lawn and courtyard. 

 Special designs prepared to meet special requirements. 



We issue separate catalogues of Display Foun- 

 tains, Drinking-Fountains, Electroliers, Vases, Grills 

 and Gateways, Settees and Chairs, Statuary, Aqua- 

 riums, Tree -Guards, Sanitary Fittings for Stable 

 and Cow Barn. 



A ddress : Ornamental Department 



THE J. L. MOTT IRON WORKS 



Fifth Avenue and 17th St., New York 



Only 



_ Our new Hand Craft design at a sensational spe* 



cial price for a limited time. A big, roomy, 



magnificent rocker. Quarter Sawed Oak. Rich, 



ew Fumed Oak finish. Height 38inch- 



s- Seat 19x20 inches. 



Our new Automobile Everlasting 



Spring seat cushion. Fabrikoid leather 



upholstered. Shipped in assembled 



sections, simple, extremely strong, new 



method of bolt and dowel pin invisible 



construction 



On Approval 



) introduce this splendid rocker we will fill orders 

 for a limited time at only S3.95. Your money re- 

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 rocker. Send us S3. 95 today on this unusual offer and see 

 this chair on approval, 



fXfXftl^- K*V* *-**■» Our new book of furniture at factory prices 

 *-"-* v ** v x * ^^ sent free. "Write for it. Our book on Piedmont 

 Red Cedar Chests is the biggest and finest ever issued. The famous 

 Piedmont Chests— genuine moth-proof, at factory prices. Write for it. 

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 Piedmont Red Cedar Chest Co., Dept. R6 Statesville, N. C. 



THREAD 



AND 



THRUM 

 RUGS 



Made to ordei — to exactly match 

 the color scheme of any room 



HAVE your fine rugs made to order, not cheap 

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For Porch, Bungalow, Summer Home 

 Woven in selected camel's hair in natural undyed 

 effects or pure wool in any color tone. Any length, 

 any width — seamless up to 1 6 feet. Order through 

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 Auburn, New York 



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 Steel Flag Poles < 

 and Tennis Posts 



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Clothes Posts— n 



Made of high-carbon galvan- 

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 on each post makes clothes hang- 

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 Write for Folder A or ask your dealer. 



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MILWAUKEE. WIS. 



QjyRFF S CATALOG 



Fully describes tiio products of our 

 1100 acre nursery, fruit and seed 

 farm. Over 25 years* experience in 

 growing heaviest bearing strains of 

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 Also seed potatoes, rhubarb, horseradish, 

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 W. N. SCARFF, New Carlisle, Ohio 



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Strawberries the Year Round 



On Three Feet Square 



Never Stop, The Wonderful Everbearer 



Fruits in garden April to November. In barrel, as shown, all year round. Exquisite 

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CONTINENTAL PLANT CO, 213 R. R. St. Kittrell. N. C. 



Improving Lima Beans 



WITHOUT doubt the most interesting feature 

 about the careful and intensive growing of 

 lima beans is the fact that the average gardener can, 

 by home growing and selecting, permanently im- 

 prove the type of beans that he regularly grows. 



Three years ago I decided that while the so-called 

 Giant Pole limas were undoubtedly fine, a very 

 much larger and better bean could be produced. 

 Having, therefore, bought from a reliable seedsman 

 some of the Giant lima seed, I planted it with es- 

 pecial care, having taken double precautions to get 

 the ground rich and mealy. 



As the growing plants developed I husbanded 

 their strength by encouraging them to take hold at 

 once of the fence against which they were planted. 

 I did not trim back their tips, but let them run at 

 will. During the late spring I gave them one appli- 

 cation of liquid manure, moderately strong. In the 

 drought of summer I gave them several waterings 

 with a hose-sprinkler, this water being applied late 

 in the afternoon. As the pods developed, I searched 

 the vines carefully, marking for seed those that 

 showed remarkable vigor and regularity of develop- 

 ment. All pods which were deformed in shape 

 (however large they were), as well as those which 

 showed traces of disease or some defect of growth, 

 were rejected. The perfect pods were not many in 

 number, but there were enough of them to give me 

 a start for the next season. 



The results of the first year's home selection were 

 so encouraging, that the second season I eagerly fol- 

 lowed the progress of the development I had begun, 

 and was that year rewarded by having the vines 

 yield larger, finer pods, and, most vital and inter- 

 esting of all, there was a very much higher percent- 

 age of them than during the previous year. As be- 

 fore, I selected only the finest beans for seed. 



The third year I planted 160 feet of fencerow 

 with my specially selected and developed seed. 

 From 160 vines I gathered 32 bushels of pods. 

 This was an exceptional crop; but it was grown 

 under exceptional conditions. The soil, naturally 

 loamy and rich, was highly fertilized with barnyard 

 manure which had been leaching on the garden all 

 winter; the exposure was toward the south; and the 

 support of a meshed wire fence was almost ideal. 



In setting beans against a fence, there should be 

 left (after the full stand is secured) but one plant 

 in each hill, and these hills should be at least a foot 

 apart. This distance is not great when one remem- 

 bers the low-branching habits which the new strains 

 of pole limas have and the prodigious tops that are 

 produced by them. 



I have never used commercial fertilizers on limas, 

 for the vines do not seem to need it. Good stable 

 manure that has become somewhat old is the best. 

 Provided that it is not too strawy, so that it might 

 lift and sift the soil to dryness, there is small danger 

 of using too much of the right kind of manure. 

 This may be either thoroughly mixed and incorpor- 

 ated with the soil, or it may be buried five or six 

 inches below the surface, where it will prove a well 

 of water for the bean roots. 



Within the past ten years the pole lima has been 

 developed to an astonishing size and power of 

 yielding. These giant pods are frequently eight or 

 more inches in length; and such growths are not 

 abortive, but genuine bona fide beans, having per- 

 fection of size, shape, succulence, and flavor. 



In growing the pole lima, a good start is of the 

 highest importance. The sprouts of this bean are 

 excessively tender, being intolerant of the chilly 



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