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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1914 



Billiard-Library Table 



20 Cents a Day 



The trifling sum of 20 cents a day 

 will pay for this beautiful Brunswick 

 "Convertible" Billiard-Library Table 

 including complete Playing Outfit. 



The table is made of finest Quarter-sawed 

 Golden Oak, handsomely finished. Equal in 

 playing qualities to the famous "Baby Grand." 



Concealed Cue Rack and Accessory Drawer hold 

 entire pla}dng equipment. 



Adapted for use in library, living room or den— no 

 extra room required. 



Brunswick "Baby Grand" 



Billiard or Pocket -Billiard Table 



The Brunswick "Baby Grand" is a 

 masterpiece in Mahogany. Fitted with a 

 genuine Slate Bed, the celebrated Monarch Quick- 

 Acting Cushions and Accessory Drawer to hold entire 

 playing equipment. 



Sizes, 3x6, 3^x7, 4x8. Furnished as a Carom, Pocket-Billiard 

 or Combination Carom and Pocket-Billiard Table. Attractive 

 prices and easy terms. 



Playing Outfit Free 



The price of each table includes complete high- 

 grade Playing Outfit — Cues, Balls, Bridge, Rack, Chalk, Markers, 

 Brush, Cover, Rules, Book on "How to Play," etc., etc. 



Send the Coupon 



or a postal card for richly illustrated book, "Billiards — The Home 

 Magnet," containing pictures, descriptions, Factory Prices and 

 details of Easy-Purchase Plan. This book will help solve the 

 gift problem. 



The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. ( --i 



Dept. X.D, 623-633 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago. 



Please send me the free color-illustrated-book, 



"Billiards— The Home Magnet" 



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Give Nature a Boost 



Your lawn, your flowers and shrubs, your vege- 

 tables and fruit trees, all need plant food. Use 

 natural fertilizer. It is best. And use it now 

 to get your soil ready for spring planting. 



SHEEP WIZARD MANURE 



tUM BRflNblUU 



is all natural plant food and humus that makes better soil and 

 better crops. It's 



NATURE'S BEST FERTILIZER 



No Weeds— No Waste— No Refuse 



C^OO for large barrel. Freight prepaid 

 «r* east of Omaha. Ask for our practical 

 booklet on Fertilizing , with special quan- 

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The Pulverized Manure Co. 



19 Union Stock Yards, Chicago 

 Sold by Garden Supply Houses Everywhere 



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April Jobs 



APRIL is the month for planting watermelons, 

 muskmelons, squashes arid cucumbers for 

 main crop. The two last named, of course, should 

 not be planted close to melons, if you expect to 

 save any of the seed for next year's planting. 



It is not yet too late to plant roses. The ever- 

 blooming type will flower almost the year round in 

 the South. Small cuttings will usually flower the 

 first year, but should not be allowed to do so. 

 Pick the buds until the plants attain some size. 



Sow a few edible cow peas. The early White 

 Black Eye will be ready for use in about seven weeks 

 from planting. They may be planted where early 

 cabbage was grown. 



Sow the seed of cabbage now for the main summer 

 crop. The Drumhead sort is good, as is also the 

 Savoy type, which is particularly adapted to the 

 southern climate especially in the summer season. 



'Sow the seed of the late Gooseneck or Ribbon 

 cane types of sorghum for making syrup. 



Japanese sugar cane may also be planted now. 

 This is a valuable new variety of cane for both 

 forage and syrup. It succeeds well on upland and 

 will produce from ten to twenty tons of green feed 

 per acre. The stalks are planted thick in drills 

 like sugar cane, instead of seed. The rows should 

 be about six feet apart. This variety is more hardy 

 than common sugar cane and can be grown farther 

 north. 



This is the month for planting peanuts. This 

 crop requires vegetable matter, lime potash and 

 phosphoric acid for the best results. See The 

 Garden Magazine for May, 19 10, for full parti- 

 culars as to cultivation. 



Sow the seed of r unni ng nasturtiums among the 

 sweet peas now to follow the peas when their crop 

 of flowers has ended. The bush sort may be plan- 

 ted among pansies that are almost through flowering. 



Plant moonflower and wisteria cuttings for ver- 

 anda decoration. 



Continue to plant dahlia, canna and tuberose 

 bulbs. The latter is a very slow grower and should 

 be forced a little by placing a quantity of rich 

 manure deep in the soil before planting the bulbs. 



Plant the bulbs of elephants' ears or caladium; 

 you cannot make the soil too rich for this plant if 

 you want to have the very largest leaves and most 

 tropical effect. If you have only one or two plants, 

 put a bushelful of well rotted manure to each plant. 

 Put it deep in the soil and give plenty of water in 

 dry seasons. 



Georgia. Thomas J. Steed. 



An Idea for Planting Salvia 



THERE is no good reason why, more often 

 than not, the common salvia (S. splendens) 

 should look like a whole regiment of British sol- 

 diers. Sometimes I have found it worth while 

 to go to the other extreme and confine myself to 

 one specimen plant in a hardy border, thus re- 

 ducing this "glare of the garden" to a single 

 brilliant spot. Aside from making one's self and 

 one's neighbors feel cooler in the "dog days," 

 there is the advantage of allowing this really 

 splendid plant to show its beauty of form and 

 color in a fullness that is out of the question in 

 massing. A good middle ground is to see that each 

 plant is framed with green. For instance, I have 

 noticed it alternated with Berberis Thunbergii in 

 front of a piazza and the effect was admirable in 

 its restraint of color. — T. B. E. 



How To Win Birds 



Mr. Dodson's Free Booklet 



tells you how to attract our native song birds 

 to your gardens and how to make them come 

 back to you every year. Write for this book 

 and have bluebirds, wrens, purple martins and 

 other birds living near you. 



Here within one small garden — I've drawn a ring about 

 each — are five Dodson Bird Houses, a Sheltered Feeding 

 Table and a Bird Bath. Hundreds of Native Birds live in 

 this garden. The photograph shows — 



The Dodson Automatic Feeding Table for Birds. 

 Price — with 8-foot pole — S6 — all-copper roof, S7.50. Size, 

 24 x 22 x 12 inches. 



The Dodson Great-Crested Flycatcher House — 

 Price, $3, with all-copper roof $4. Size 15 x n x 8 inches. 



The Dodson Bluebird House. Solid oak, cypress 

 shingle roof, copper coping — Price, $5. Size, 21 inches 

 high, 16 inches in diameter. 



The Dodson Tree-Swallow House — Size 12 x 14 X 9 

 inches — Price, $3; with all-copper roof, $4. 



The Dodson Cement Bird Bath; 32 inches high, basin 

 34 inches in diameter. 



The Dodson Wren House — Solid oak, cypress shingle 

 roof, copper coping. Price, $5. 



The Dodson Purple Martin House. Three stories; 

 26 rooms and attic. Over-all 44 x 37 x 31 inches. Price 

 $12 — with all-copper roof, $15. All pricesare f.o.b. Chicago. 



I have 20 different Houses, Feeding Tables, Shelters and 

 Baths — all for Native Birds — prices, $1.50 to $70. I have 

 been building Bird Houses for 18 years. 



The Dodson Sparrow Traps are catching thousands of Sparrows all 

 over America. Get one; banish the pest that drives awaj song birds. 

 Strong wire, electrically welded, needle points at mouths of two 

 funnels. Price $5 f.o.b. Chicago. 



If you love birds and want to have them live near you, get 

 Dodson Bird Houses — the ones the birds have approved. 

 Let me send you my illustrated book about birds. If there 

 is any question about Native Birds you want answered, 

 write me. I'll be glad to help any lover of birds. 



JOSEPH H. DODSON 



1209 Association Bldg., Chicago, HI. 



Mr. Dodson is a Director of the Illinois Audubon Society. 



Do You Take 200 Useless 

 Steps Every Wash-Day? 



Two hundred back-breaking, basket-pulling, prop-adjusting, 

 line-putting-up and line-taking-down steps that could be 

 avoided ? Steps thai take you through the snows of winter and 

 through damp grass in summer? 



HILL'S CHAMPION 

 CLOTHES DRYER 



will save you all these. It is sightly, compact, easily handled 

 and can be adjusted in one minute. You stand in one place 

 and turn the revolving top until the entire wash is hung out. 

 Goes a long way toward making wash-days easy. 



If your hardware dealer cannot supply you, 

 write to us. Send for illustrated Folder 2. 



HILL DRYER COMPANY 

 302 "?ark Ave., Worcester, Mass. 



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