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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 1914 



Here is the Warm Sunny 

 Productive Little Greenhouse 

 You Have Always Wanted 



After careful study we have designed 

 this attractive practical Greenhouse, 

 which is sent you in sections and can 

 be put up without any foundation. 



King Iron Frame Sectional Greenhouses 



fill a long felt want because they can be put up by any handy man; give you 

 a complete heating plant, service building and the same amount of growing 

 space for much less money than is possible in any other way. The sections 

 come complete in every detail ready to be put together. The material is the 

 best. The Iron Frame construction makes them permanent and productive. 

 Write today for our descriptive leaflet. 



We can supply you with any other kind of Greenhouse you need — from the 

 beautiful and productive King Channel Bar Houses to the Iron Frame Houses 

 for Professional Growers. Just write us telling for what you want to use your 

 greenhouse and we will gladly advise you what kind to buy. 



KING CONSTRUCTION COMPANY 

 265 Kings Road North Tonawanda, N. Y. 



"AH the Sunlight all day Houses 



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Clothes Posts— i 



Made of high-carbon galvan- 

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_ Don't disfigure your lawn with short- 

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 Write for Folder A or ask your dealer. 



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MILWAUKEE, WIS. 



Also makers of (^ 

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 Steel Flag Poles V< 

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Garden Decorations 



Spend thissummerin your garden 

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 THE MATHEWS MFG. CO. 

 9th Floor Williamson Bldg. 

 Cleveland, Ohio 



" Seeds with a Lineage " 



Seeds with a generation of finest flowers and vege- 

 tables back of them — carefully selected — really tested. 

 Write today for Catalog. 



CARTER'S TESTED SEEDS, Inc. 



104 Chamber of Commerce Bldg. 

 Boston, Mass. 



Do Better Disking and Raise Bigger Crops 



—You'll Make More Money 



Regardless of how fertile or how poor the land, 

 you can make more money by doing better 

 disking. You can grow bigger crops at pro- 

 portionately less cost. 



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Made in sizes small 

 enough for one 

 horse and large 

 enough for the big- 

 gest tractors 



disk harrows will make you more money — they are specially 

 designed for intensive tillage. Many farmers not only 

 grow bigger crops at proportionately less cost by using Cut- 

 away (Clark) disk harrows, but they raise more per acre 

 at less cost per acre. There is one for the biggest tractor 

 or the smallest horse. Ask your dealer to show you a 

 Cutaway (Clark) disk harrow. If he doesn't sell the 

 Cutaway (Clark), write us. Don't accept a substitute. 

 We ship direct where we have no agent. Write today for 

 free catalog, "The Soil and Intensive Tillage." 



THE CUTAWAY HARROW COMPANY 



Maker of the original CLARK disk harrows and plows 

 902 Main St, HIGGANUM, CONN. 



Made in 5 sizes, 

 each in regular 

 and extension 

 heads. Disks 16, 

 18 and 20-inch 



The Hotbed in May 



DURING the month of May what shall be done 

 with the hotbed? 



About the first thing to do is to dig up the soil, 

 and replace any that has been lost, so that the soil 

 in the beds will be not less than four inches deep; 

 in fact six inches would be much better. This soil 

 should be fined with the rake and left smooth. 



If you followed the instructions given in the 

 March Garden Magazine, you will have several 

 cucumber plants growing in pots that can be planted 

 in the beds, one plant at the rear one foot in front 

 of the back board, and the other one foot back of 

 the front board. Allow these plants "full swing". 



Squashes, muskmelons, and watermelons can be 

 raised in the same way, or seeds may be planted 

 in rows, one at the back of the bed and one at the 

 front, later thinning out the plants to two to the bed. 



In place of the foregoing vegetables, three tomato 

 plants could be used. Place one plant toward the 

 back of the bed, one toward the front, in each case 

 one foot from the back or front boards. The other 

 plant should be placed in the centre of the bed. 



Celery may be grown in the bed if six inches of 

 good soil has been supplied. Take some of the 

 seedlings from those previously raised and place 

 them in rows seven inches apart each way. Give 

 ample watering during the summer. Use Golden 

 Self-Blanching for seed to raise the plants. 



Lettuce and radishes could be used throughout 

 the summer, one crop following another as needed. 

 With the lettuce, a forcing type such as Belmont, 

 Keene's Improved, or May King should be used 

 at first, following by White Paris Cos for the hot 

 summer days. 



Peppers and eggplants can be raised in these 

 beds very successfully, about four eggplants to one 

 sash being enough. Space them alternately in the 

 bed. Peppers can be spaced eighteen inches apart. 



New York. Albert E. Wilkinson. 



Geraniums for Indoors 



NO PERSON who loves geraniums will be con- 

 tent to have them only during the summer 

 months especially as they are one of the most satis- 

 factory plants for the winter window garden. 

 Take cuttings at once (before hot weather comes) of 

 varieties that are suited for winter blooming. As 

 a comparatively small number of plants will be 

 wanted the cuttings can be taken from the plants 

 in the garden during May or June or from older 

 plants if you have any. As soon as rooted the 

 cuttings should be potted up and shifted as soon 

 as needed into larger pots. The pots for the sake 

 of convenience may be plunged into the soil to the 

 rim so that they will not dry out too quickly and 

 require very frequent watering. When well started 

 cut back a joint or two at the top to induce a 

 short stocky growth and nip out all buds as soon as 

 they appear. 



There is only one way of having a chance of suc- 

 cess with this method. First do it as long as 

 possible before the plants will have to be taken 

 into the house. Second prune the plants back very 

 severely; cut them back to one or two of the young 

 side-shoots just starting out on each branch and a 

 few of the large leaves near the base. If you can't 

 bear the thought of losing all the beautiful flowers 

 and buds put them in a vase. Don't try to save 

 them on the plant. Then make a clear cut down 

 about the plant with the trowel or a sharp spade 

 leaving a ball of earth and roots of suitable size. 

 Lift it out clean instead of dragging it out and bruis- 

 ing and breaking the roots and shaking most of the 

 earth off. Pot the plants firmly in properly 

 "crocked" pots — four to six inch pots will be the 

 right size — and place them in a semi-shaded posi- 

 tion. Use rich fairly heavy garden soil. Give 

 one good watering and then water very sparingly 

 — just sprinkling the foliage — until new growth 

 indicates that the roots have again become active. 

 Get them accustomed to winter quarters gradually; 

 that is after first taking them indoors put them if 

 possible in a window where they can be kept prac- 

 tically in the open air for several hours a day. Let 

 freshly potted plants grow on gradually at first, 

 supplying them with extra food only when they are 

 carrying plenty of new growth and showing the 

 first buds. Do not overwater. 



Connecticut. F. F. Rockwell. 



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