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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1912 



JUST 

 OUT 



The Counsel 

 for the Defense 



By 



Leroy Scott 



Author of 

 "ToHimThatHath" 



"The Walking 



Delegate," etc. 



The story of 

 a womanly 

 woman who 

 meets a cri- 

 sis in her 

 father's life 

 as a man 

 might have 

 done and 

 loses none 

 of her fem- 

 inine charm 

 in the or- 

 deal 



TITHEN KATHERINE WEST returns from the 

 * * East on the eve of a civic celebration in her 

 home town — a celebration in which her father, Dr. 

 West, is to be the principal figure, she is stunned 

 with the news that the Grand Jury has just 

 indicted her father for accepting a bribe. The 

 evidence against him is so strong that no lawyer 

 can be induced to accept the case. 



/ T A HIS is the tense situation into which a young girl 

 -*- unconsciously steps. Fresh from an Eastern col- 

 lege and the possessor of a diploma in law, Katherine 

 West resolves finally to undertake the case for her 

 father herself. To the old-fashioned towns-people of 

 her native place a "lady lawyer" is something un- 

 thinkable, and the girl confronts public derision as 

 well as an apparently hopeless case. One of her bit- 

 terest opponents is the ardent reforming newspaper 

 editor — with firm convictions as to the proper sphere 

 of woman — and the relation between these two pro- 

 duces a situation of romantic and dramatic power. 



Frontispiece in colors by Charles Chapman 

 Fixed price, $1.20 (postage 12c.) 



Garden City Doilbleday, Page & Company, New York 



C\ DFPP'Q 1912 BARGAINS 



jUAKr r O IN SMALL FRUIT PLANTS 



"At it 25 years." Have grown from 1 acre to 1,100. We do not claim to know it all. We do 

 know enough to start you right in fruit growing. Success depends upon good plants of the 

 right variety. We grow the right kinds and make no extra charge for them. We strive for 

 the best in evervthing. We actually paid 



$350 for lO ears of SEED CORN 



We have issued and send free, to anyone interested in good Com. a booklet telling how we planted the 10 

 prize ears of Corn, its yield, and other instructive facts. It is nicely illustrated from actual photographs. 



Send for Free Catalogue 



Every reader of this magazine should have a copy. It is a concise business catalogue of Plants. Fruit 

 Trees. Ornamental Shrubs, Vines, Seed Corn, Oats, Potatoes, Alfalfa, Timothy, Clover, 

 etc. Planters should get our prices and terms. 



We gioe our 1912 customers a start ofthe $350.00 Corn FREE 



W. N. SCARFF NEW CARLISLE, OHIO. 



this will obviate breaking the roots, which is very 

 liable to happen if you dig out the plants as you 

 would take out the seedlings of annuals. 



A good soil into which to transplant the seed- 

 lings can be made from well rotted sod, leafmold. 

 well decayed horse manure, and sand, but if these 

 various ingredients are not available any good 

 well drained garden loam will answer. You will 

 find when potting these seedlings that the deep 

 pots will be much better than the ordinary flower 

 pots; a deep two and a half inch pot will be 

 plenty large enough for most of the palms. Be 

 very careful not to break the roots when potting 

 the plants, for it is an injury from which the young 

 palms do not readily recover. 



After the plants are potted, water the soil to 

 settle it, place the pots in the window garden and 

 shade them with a newspaper. If it is convenient 

 to use the Wardian case made from a box, as pre- 

 viously suggested, a moist atmosphere can be 

 maintained about the plant which will be more 

 conducive to their rapid recovery from the shock of 

 being transplanted, as it will create a more con- 

 genial atmosphere. 



After the plants have once taken hold of the new 

 soil and are growing they can be removed from the 

 case and given the same treatment as the other 

 plants in the window garden. When the plants 

 have filled the pots with roots, shift them into a 

 pot one inch larger in diameter, using the same 

 kind of soil. 



Seeds of the date palm can be secured by buying 

 dates from the fruiter, removing the seeds and 

 washing them before planting. The following 

 table gives some interesting facts: 



SPECIES OF PALM 



A reca lutescens 



Caryola urens 



Cocos fiexusosus 



Cocos Weddcliana 



Hoivea {Kentia) Belmoreana. 

 Forsteriana. 



Latania Borbonica 



Livistonia rotundifolia 



Phanix Canariensis 



" reclinata 



Roebelinii 



Washingtonia filifera 



Seaforlhia elegans 



TT\CF WHEN 

 FRESH SEED 

 MAY ARRIVE 



April, May 



July. August 



various seasons. . . 



January 



Feb., Sept., Oct... 

 Feb., Sept., Oct.. . 



February 



August, Sept 



January to March 

 January to March 



January 



January to March 

 various seasons. . . 



MINIMUM 

 NUMBER OF 



DAYS TO 

 GERMINATE 



OO 



go 



75 



70 to 700 

 70 to 700 



25 

 60 

 60 

 60 

 60 

 50 

 30 



Pennsylvania. 



Parker T. Barnes. 



Red Berries for Next Christmas 



IT IS quite easy to have growing plants laden 

 with red berries at Christmas if you start now. 

 Among the prettiest and most attractive things 

 shown during the last winter in the florists' stores, 

 were the pepper plants (Capsicum annuum) and 

 Jerusalem cherry (Solatium pscttdo-capsiaim). The 

 color of the bright and glossy red fruit was so 



Sow seeds of Jerusalem cherry now for plants In 

 fruit next Christmas. The bright red berries en- 

 dure several weeks 



