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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1914 



Stained with Cair>t's Creosote Stains 

 Charles Barton Keen, Architect, Philadelphia 



Twenty-five Years of Proof 



"I built a house 25 years ago and the same 

 shingles on to-day. Rebuilt another 5 years ago, 

 and in each case Cabot's Creosote Stain in good 

 shape. Candidly, I'm afraid to build without 

 using it. Edwin F. Garman, Bellefonte, Pa. 



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 that Cabot's are used. 



Yon can get Cabot 1 s Stains all over the country. Send 

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Samuel Cabot, Inc., Manfg. Chemists, 1 Oliver St., Boston, Mass. 



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Hand-Made Peaches and Pears 



FOR some years it was my sad experience that 

 young fruit trees bloomed a season or two for 

 aesthetic reasons only, without in the least meaning 

 anything serious by it. Last season, though, I 

 got some "child labor" out of my young pears and 

 peaches. 



In particular there was, in a sheltered southeast 

 nook in my yard, a three-year old, foundling 

 peach, a nameless product from a Georgia crate of 

 peaches bought in July, 1909, which frivolously 

 bloomed in March. Its flowers were very like the 

 wild crab of the woods, had the same odor — when 

 they were not being rained on or sleeted or snow- 

 plastered — and they were very deficient in pollen. 

 For three nights I tented in that tree with the aid 

 of a step ladder, the grape arbor and lengths of 

 rag carpet, and gave it two lamps all night long 

 to keep it warm. Twenty feet away were my three 

 hives of bees ready and willing to set fruit blossoms 

 into fruit, given only the flower-dust. And yet 

 with all these advantages, the nameless peach was 

 not going to be known by its fruits in the summer of 

 1913, if it knew itself. 



I resorted to strong measures. I cut from an old 

 humdrum, reliable, garden peachtree a bundle of 

 twigs with swollen flowerbuds. These I placed in a 

 can of hot water on the back of the kitchen range 

 for three days and nights. They forced into good 

 strong anthers, poor little pale petals, and some 

 bud-scales. The anthers had good pollen. Day 

 after day, as the kitchen bouquet matured, I carried 

 out the forced flowers and rubbed noses, bloom for 

 bloom, with the emasculated flowers of the tree 

 outside. I was particular to do this when the sun 

 was on the tree, as sunlight and sun heat have a 

 powerful, stimulating effect on the sap. I did not 

 attempt to fertilize all the blooms, but rather so as 

 to distribute the crop. I discovered in handling the 

 flowers that peach pollen is very short-lived, being 

 in proper condition only an hour or two. (The 

 same is true of normal blooms of the peach. An- 

 thers mature before the pistil, to guard against 

 self-fertilization in any one flower; and as a pre- 

 caution of Nature's, the anthers on any flower open 

 lopsided, half one day and half the next, so as to 

 economize the perishable necessary pollen. And 

 hardly two flowers on a crowded twig will be in 

 precisely the same stage together. No wonder 

 that, given bees and pleasant weather, our peach 

 trees set more fruit than they can mature!) 



On May 13th, I could declare with confidence 

 that I had gotten the better of the Georgia up- 

 start! Almost every doctored blossom set a fruit. 



In April, when my young pear trees bloomed in 

 scattering clusters, so many fruit and shade trees 

 were in glorious flower all through the town that 

 I was sure no fly or bee of sense would waste time 

 on them. As well might one expect Paquin in 

 person to pull bastings from a gown about to leave 

 his famous establishment! 



As a matter of experiment, I selected pear blos- 

 soms with ripe pollen from my old trees, and fer- 

 tilized marked flowers in each cluster on the juvenile 

 efforts. My method involved no brush or watch- 

 glass; I merely rubbed noses of the two flowers. 

 And all but one of my marked flowers set; and no 

 other flowers set but those I assisted! Decidedly, 

 the joke was on these youngsters — they were 

 no longer in the purely ornamental class. It was 

 their turn to treat! 



Pennsylvania. E. S. Johnson. 



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