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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1912 



A New Book by 



H. RIDER 

 HAGGARD 



Author of "She," 

 "Ayesha," "Queen 

 Sheba's Ring," etc. 



Red Eve 



IN THIS tale of the Middle Ages Rider Haggard has given us a 

 picture, in his vivid and striking way, of the days when feud- 

 alism was in the land and every man held his life and love in the 

 strength of his sword arm. Hugh de Cressy falls in love with Sir 

 John Clavering's daughter, but her father and brothers are de- 

 termined to marry her to a French nobleman. Hugh meets her 

 secretly and they are planning flight when her brothers discover 

 them. A conflict ensues and in defending himself and Eve, 

 Hugh kills one of the brothers. 



The lovers escape, but because Hugh has blood upon his hands 

 the Church forbids the marriage for a year. This stay gives the 

 French lord fresh opportunities and many thrilling adventures 

 intervene to delay the union of Eve and Hugh. 



Four illustrations in colors by A. C. Michael 

 Fixed price, $1.20 (postage 12c.) 



Strawberry Acres 



By Grace S. Richmond 



•I A bright wholesome story. All 

 will be better for having made 

 the acquaintance of the young 



heroine. — Si. Louis Post Dispatch. 



Eight illustrations. Fixed price, 



$1.20 {postage 12c.) 



The Boss 

 of Wind River 



By A. M. Chisholm 



f& Here's a tale of the Big 

 Woods with all the vigor and 

 freshness in it of the open 

 country which the author puts 

 so graphically before you. 



Illustrated in color by Frank 



Tenney Johnson. Fixed price, 



$1.20 (postage 12c.) 



The Adventures 

 of Bobby Orde 



By Stewart Edward White 



•I" Bobby Orde is themostlov- 

 able small boy that has lived 

 between book covers in many a 



day. — ■ The Albany Times-Union. 



Illustrated. Fixed price, $1.20 



(postage 12. 



Rolf in the Woods 



By Ernest Thompson Seton 



•I "The boy who will not enjoy 

 this book needs looking after. 

 Something is wrong with him." 



— San Francisco Call. 



Many illustrations. Fixed price, 

 $1. 75 (postage 15c. ) 



Further 

 Adventures of Nils 



By Selma Lagerlof 



€f "Certainlyequal toanything 

 which Hans Christian Ander- 

 sen ever produced." 



— Philadelphia Inquirer. 

 Illustrated. Fixed price, $1.20 

 (postage 12c.) 



TheTalkingBeasts 



By Kate Douglas Wiggin 

 and Nora A. Smith 



*I A newvolume in "The Crim- 

 son Classics" Series. 

 •I " It will be a delight to the 

 children as well as entertain- 

 ment for their elders." 



— The Springfield Union. 

 Illustrated. Fixed price, $1.25 

 (postage 12c.) 



Garden City Doubleday, Page & CO. New York 



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fumigating storehouses filled with grains, etc., which 

 had become infested with insects, tetrachlorid 

 proved to be less destructive to the insects than 

 bisulphide — in fact, it could be used successfully 

 as a substitute for bisulphide only at the rate of io 

 pounds to 1,000 cubic feet, which is about ten 

 times the quantity of bisulphide needed for fumigat- 

 ing the same space. 



Therefore, in the opinion of the Department 

 experts, unless tetrachlorid can be manufactured 

 and sold at a much lower price, it cannot be as 

 economically employed as carbon bisulphide as a 

 remedy for insects in warehouses, mills, etc., but 

 might be used for fumigating choice seeds or plants 

 in the house, where the specimens to be treated can 

 be enclosed in an air-tight box and where the use 

 of inflammable materials is out of the question. 



An Unfamiliar Acanthus 



AMONG the new plants which have been intro- 

 duced into garden cultivation within the 

 last few years, Acanthus montanus is one of the 

 most attractive. It is an old plant to botanists, 

 having been collected in western Africa in 1865. 



One of the first plants sold in this country 

 flowered in 1910 in a Philadelphia garden. It 

 attained a height of nearly four feet. The leaves 

 were twelve to fifteen inches long, narrow, and 

 very deeply and irregularly lobed like a dandelion 

 leaf. Each lobe terminated with a long spike- 

 like point. The leaves were of a dark olive green 



Acanthus montanus is one of the most attractive of 

 plants recently introduced into garden cultivation 



and marbled with a bright yellowish green, the 

 midribs being somewhat brighter than the other 

 markings. The flowers were borne in a narrow 

 spike about a foot long. They were set rather 

 closely together, were rosy white in color with 

 purple veined bracts. 



The plant illustrated was about fifteen months 

 in making its growth and in flowering; when pur- 

 chased it was a small plant in a 3-inch pot. 



This acanthus should be grown in a house 

 having a night temperature of 60 to 65 degrees, 

 with a rise of 10 degrees during the day. A palm 

 house is an admirable place for this plant. It 

 can be propagated by cuttings in a bench having 

 a little bottom heat. After the cuttings are rooted, 

 put them in small pots in a light compost mixed 

 with one third its bulk of peat. As the plants grow 

 they must be shifted to larger pots, using the same 

 soil. The plants will ultimately need a 9- or 10- 

 inch pot in which to flower. 



Pennsylvania. H. Ci.arkf. 



