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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1912 



watnger 

 jp Barry 



SUPERB collections of 

 Trees, Shrubs, Ever- 

 greens, Roses and Hardy 

 Plants adapted to small 

 gardens, private estates, 

 public parks and ceme- 

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Both large and small orders receive 

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 safely delivered in all parts of 

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ELLWANGER & BARRY 

 Mount Hope Nurseries 



Box 56 Rochester, N. Y. 



AN INVALUABLE 

 FREE BOOK. 



Write for a copy of our 72nd 

 Annual Catalogue. It 

 is a standard guide 

 in all matters per- 

 taining to lawn 

 and garden dec- 

 oration. IT IS 

 FREE. Just 

 mail us a 

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 wewillsend 



you a 



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FERRY? 



SEEDS 



Good 



gardeners are those 

 who raise good 

 flowers and vege- 

 tables. Good flowers and 

 vegetables come from good 

 seeds. We producegood seeds 

 —the inference is obvious, 

 For sale everywhere. 



1912 SEED ANNUAL 



Free on Request 

 D. M. FERRY & CO. 



Detroit. Mich. 



A Miniature Greenhouse for 

 Sweet Peas, Corn, etc. 



TWO years ago, I made a miniature green- 

 house for raising early sweet peas. I was 

 very successful, and there was practically no work 

 connected with it. 



There is a sheltered, sunny, southwest corner, 

 in our garden between the kitchen step and the 

 dining room windows. In the fall this was spaded 

 and well fertilized; then we sunk into the ground a 

 1 2 -inch plank on edge about eighteen inches from 

 the house, leaving it two inches above ground. This 

 made a trench that would hold water and the 

 board formed the front support for the glass. 



Early in February the seed was planted; I pro- 

 cured the re-selected Extra Early Blanche Ferry, 

 and Burpee's Earliest White. After planting, I took 

 panes of window glass and slanted them from the 

 outside board to the side of the house. The sun 

 shining on the glass, and reflected against the white 

 house made the warmest, most sheltered spot one 

 could imagine! The seeds germinated readily and 

 the plants grew steadily. As the days became 

 wanner I removed the glass occasionally, but did 

 not remove it entirely until the plants were so 

 high that there was danger of the glass burning the 

 leaves. My sweet peas were in bloom at least six 

 weeks earlier than those of my neighbors. 



Both grandiflora and Spencer varieties for trans- 

 planting were also started here. I made small 

 pots of tough water-color paper two and one half 

 inches high and two inches in diameter. In each 

 pot, I planted two seeds and placed all the pots in 

 two large shoe boxes in a cool, light, store room. 

 When the pots were filled with roots, I placed four 

 of the paper pots in a pound coffee can filled with 

 rich soil, and let them grow this way until the 

 weather was settled enough to plant outdoors. I 

 planted the peas from each pot in a clump by 

 itself, about one and one half feet apart. Those 

 made remarkably strong growing plants much 

 stronger than any that I have ever planted directly 

 out-of-doors and much earlier flowering also. 



I had such success with my sweet peas in paper 

 pots that I tried sowing early corn and canta- 

 loupe in the same manner. I had had much trouble 

 with my early corn seeds failing to germinate, so I 

 entirely avoided this by using the paper pots. I 

 bought Earliest Catawba corn, which is a dwarf 

 variety, and planted twenty small pots, 3 kernels 

 each, putting them in the garden when the shoots 

 were about two or three inches high. I had green 

 corn about the middle of July, which is much earlier 

 than I had ever grown it before. 



I planted melon seeds in small pasteboard boxes 

 (the lower part of corn meal packages cut about 

 four inches high). When I put them out in the 

 garden, I cut out the bottoms but left the sides of 

 the boxes on, as they protect the roots from cut 

 worms. This spring our entire planting of melons, 

 except those in the boxes, was eaten by worms. 



Idaho. Mrs. E. H. Plowhead. 



Plant Sugar Cane Now 



SOUTHWARD, from Macon, Ga. and Dallas, 

 Tex., one may risk planting a few early 

 bush beans, sweet corn, squashes and melons, 

 for only a light frost is likely to occur in that 

 section after the first of February. And these 

 vegetables can easily be protected with news- 

 papers should a heavy frost threaten. 



In this section be sure to plant some sugar cane. 

 Lots of people like to eat it. The stalks for plant- 

 ing can be bought for one dollar to one dollar and 

 fifty cents a hundred, and are usually from two 

 to six feet in length. Sugar cane requires a rich, 

 moist soil. Never use manure as it gives a salty 

 taste to the cane; cotton seed meal, or fertilizer 

 and cotton seed, is best for cane. Apply liberally, 

 so as to get long stalks. Red cane is hard but 

 very sweet; in fact, it is the sweetest of the three 

 types. Green cane is very soft and is used mostly 

 for chewing; ribbon cane is striped red and green. 

 It is also very hard and, like red cane, is used mostly 

 for making syrup. 



Sweet potatoes should be bedded during the 

 last half of the month, or if you have a glass with 

 which to cover the bed, they should be planted 

 at once. Select sound tubers for bedding. 



GREGORYS 



HONEST 



SEEDS / 



You ought now to be making plans for the spring 

 planting of your flower and vegetable gardens. You 

 want seeds that grow; that produce higher quality 

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 founded on honor — a house that sends out seed so 

 dependable that " Honest Seeds " has become its 

 trade mark. 



We are offering a special flower collection, goc. worth 

 postpaid for 25c. in coin or stamps. It will prove the 

 dependable quality of our seed. 



Note this Choice 25 Cent Offer 



Aster, Gregory's Special Fancy Mixture . 10c 



Pansy, Gregory's Special Fancy Mixture . ISc. 



Coreopsis, Gregory's Special Funcy Mixture Sc 



Poppy, Gregory's Fancy Double Mixed Annuals . 10c. 



Mignonette, Gregory's Large Flowering, very rich 10c. 



Bachelor Button, Gregory's Finest Mixture . 10c 



Petunia, Gregory's Finest Hybrid Mixture . . 15c. 



Candytuft. Gregory's Finest Mixed ... 5c. 



Nasturtium, Dwarf, Finest Mixed ... 5c. 



Sweet Peas, Extra Choice Mixed ... 5c. 



Total 90c? 



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