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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1914 



Satisfaction Plants 

 For Your Hardy Garden 



When you can buy fine husky, full rooted, potted 

 plants from Cromwell Gardens that will bloom this 

 very summer, ■why fuss around planting flower seeds 

 and then have to wait until next season for your 

 hardy plants to bloom? 



Hollyhocks — Canterbury Bells — Shasta Daisies — 

 Phlox — Coreopsis — Gaillardia and dozens of other 

 kinds we have. 



Cur catalog tells about them and gives you some 

 good common sense suggestions to help you make 

 your garden the envy of your neighbors. 

 Roses, either for your garden or your greenhouse, are also in the catalog — some one-hundred and 

 varieties for outdoors and thirty-four for inside. 



Satisfaction Plants from Cromwell Gardens mean satisfaction plants— just that. Send for a catalog. 



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bigger yield of bigger berries. 



It pays in dollars and cents to 



get our new catalog — lists and 



gives cultural helps on all the 



better varieties. 



Only novelties of proven merit 



are included — we discard many times as 

 many as we list. We include and recom- 

 mend competitors' varieties whenever 

 tests have shown them superior to our own 

 introductions. The result 

 is a complete dependable 

 catalog, of dependable 

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a coarse plum, but huge in size. If ripened in the 

 open, where it will not rot too freely, and thinned 

 well during growth, it will give a magnificent and 

 rich fruit. Gueii is a great bearer of second class 

 plums that take well in market. In Florida we have 

 a class of seedlings rapidly increasing, which carry 

 the blood of European sorts probably in mixture 

 with our Americana. Of these the more profitable 

 for home use or market are just now Excelsior and 

 Terrell. These give us fine strong and prolific 

 trees, while the fruit is of excellent quality. 



Of the Japanese hybrids we have to select Abund- 

 ance for either North or South, very productive and 

 hardy with a lemon yellow fruit, and plenty of 

 pollen. Burbank is something of the same sort, 

 ripening a little later with a sprawling tree that 

 bears very young and very heavily. Maynard is a 

 sturdy tree, yielding good crops that are well 

 shaded by luxuriant foliage. The fruit is dull 

 red, ripening just after the earliest. Climax is a 

 very large plum, earlier than Burbank and fruit 

 as large as a peach. It is of fine quality, dark red 

 skin with yellow flesh. Red June is generally 

 classed as one of the best. The tree however is 

 subject to black knot, and in the North is short 

 lived. Chalco is an exceedingly strong grower, 

 very hardy and very productive. The fruit belongs 

 with the Simoni, or apricot plum, almost stemless 

 and tomato shaped. Shiro is very subject to black 

 knot, not very high flavored, but almost transpar- 

 ent and very beautiful. 



Of the prunes, by all odds the best for home use 

 or for market is the Italian, known generally as 

 Fellenberg. The quality of this prune or plum 

 places it almost in the lead of all plums; it is late in 

 ripening, large, purple, with rich yellow flesh. 

 The seedling Sugar prune is rich in sugar, dark 

 purple and early ripening. It is, however, very 

 likely to succumb to black knot, which is also the 

 case with the Pacific prune. Two very handsome 

 purple leaved plums are Pissardi and Othello. The 

 latter gives us a good crop of crimson plums about 

 one inch in diameter and very early. It is one of 

 the handsomest trees in existence, and useful on 

 the lawn. 



For those who need a very short list of plums, to 

 grow about the house or yard, take Peter's Gage, 

 Grand Duke and Coe or Golden Drop. These three 

 are almost absolutely immune to black knot. Coe 

 is an enormous bearer of rather small plums, rich 

 yellow, and of the best for cooking. Add Shrop- 

 shire Damson if you desire. The three best Orientals 

 would be Abundance, Climax and Gold. Gold is the 

 handsomest plum in existence, very large, shaped 

 like an apple, and hanging on the tree until middle 

 October. These six plums, with Fellenberg prune 

 added, would make a complete assortment for any 

 country home. 



Plum trees are short lived as compared with 

 apples and pears; but they grow very fast and come 

 to bearing very early. The tree withstands root 

 gall so well that Southern nurserymen are begin- 

 ning to graft the peach on plum stock. It is a 

 general truth that the plum which is hardiest in 

 the North will best resist the heat of the semi-trop- 

 ical part of the country, and this is true of all shrubs, 

 vines and trees. In Florida we have selected Kel- 

 sey and Satsuma as parents of a new race, rather 

 than as wholly satisfactory in themselves. The 

 development of new seedlings is easy work for the 

 orchardist, because the trees come into bearing 

 within three or four years. 



Florida. E. P. Powell. 



The Use of Poultry Manure 



FOR what purpose can I use poultry manure? 

 Pennsylvania. H. W. C, 



— Poultry manure is a valuable fertilizer, contain- 

 ing a large amount of nitrogen and being relatively 

 more available than other farm manures. This 

 is true, of course, if it has been well preserved. It 

 can be used on any garden crops. The best way 

 to apply it is to pulverize it and spread it along the 

 rows of growing crops and work it into the soil. 

 If, when fresh, it comes in contact with the roots of 

 the growing plants, it is liable to burn them. The 

 best way to keep it is by mixing it with dry soil or 

 land plaster, storing it in boxes, barrels, or bins 

 where the rain cannot reach it. 



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