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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1912 



HARDY 

 FLOWERING 



VINES 



Delivered at your 

 door 



4 for $1 



To give the Finishing Touch 

 to your Home Landscape 



I've selected the four best permanent flowering 

 vines out of my 68 different kinds, and offer all of 

 them for $1 — they're worth twice that. They're 

 just the things to make your porch comfortable, and 

 beautify walls, fences and pergolas. They bloom 

 from spring to fall. They're strong thrifty plants, 

 and I'll send them prepaid, at the right time to 

 plant. Here is the list, choose any four. 

 CLEMATIS PANICULATA, most useful, showy 

 and beautiful of all the vines. Covered in August 

 with innumerable exquisitely fragrant pure white 

 flowers; has handsome foliage and grows rapidly. 

 One, 35 cents. 



WISTARIA CHINENSIS, covered in May with 

 fragrant blue flowers, in dense clusters sometimes 

 a foot long; the most popular of woody vines; 

 grows rapidly ; will climb to the roof. One, 50 cents. 

 HALL'S JAPAN HONEYSUCKLE, finest of all 

 the honeysuckles. Blooms all summer and is 

 magnificent in late fall; has long, drooping spikes 

 of sweet-scented pale-yellow and white flowers, 

 making the vine a continuous bouquet; dark green 

 foliage remains nearly all winter. One, 35 cents. 

 TRUMPET CREEPER, (illustrated above), bears 

 gorgeous clusters of big glowing scarlet flowers 

 that make a brilliant display in August; valuable 

 for vases ; foliage light and feathery. One, 35 cents. 



Pin a dollar bill to your letter: 

 mail it NOW, before you forget 



Let Me Send You Plants for a 

 Barberry Hedge "On Approval" 



Pay for them if you like them; if you don't, send 

 them back, at my expense. The best size to buy 

 is \h to 2-foot stock (plant 18 inches apart) at $20 

 a hundred, fifty for $10, ten for $3. These are fine, 

 showy plants. 



Escape the rush and be sure of getting your 

 hedge when you want it by booking your order now 

 — shipment when you desire. 



FREE — My brochure on hardy shrubs, a helpful 

 handbook, beautifully illustrated. Write for it 

 TODAY. 



FRED HAXTON, Nurseryman 



4717 Winthrop Ave., Edgewater, Chicago 



BEANS 



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111 W make big yields. Un- 



^ ^^ ™ * surpassed for soiling, 



hay or fertilizer. Will grow anywhere corn does. 



We are cow pea and soy bean specialists. Ask us 



about seed, planting, harvesting, etc. Booklet free. 



Write for it today. 



HICKORY SEED CO. 

 102 Trade St. Hickory, N. C. 



SEND ME TEN CENTS 



If you will send me the addresses of two of your flower loving friends, 1 

 vill send you my bargain collection of Spencer Sweet Peas, Giant 

 Orchids flowering type, Nasturtiums, dwarf chameleon mixed. Royal 

 Skoiu Pansies, Asters, finest mixed; also 30 seeds of the 



GIANT MARGUERITE CARNATION 



hich blooms In 4 months from sowing; also Free, 

 'Flower Culture" and my descriptive 1912 catalog containing 

 48 pages. Write today, enclosing 10 cents, 



MISS O. II. LIPPINCOTT 

 Pioneer Seeds-woman, Dept. 81, HTD80I, WISCONSIN 

 (1 honr't rld> from Elnnenpolli) 



root crops would starve without the application of 

 fertilizer! No wonder the red water from the 

 starch washings enriches the soil! No wonder this 

 pumice residue from this starch manufacture is 

 excellent for a fertilizer filler or a mulch around 

 citrus trees! The supply of nitrogen has really 

 come from the air and has been "fixed" or captured 

 by these bacterial nodules. 



This plant is indeed a wonder. It grows in the 

 hot sands and rocks among pines and palmettoes 

 and is burnt over by forest fires without being 

 choked out or killed. 



All the while in fact, the soil is being improved 

 by its presence. Being the only root crop capable 

 of garnering its own supply of nitrogen, this 

 plant should be improved and its cultivation en- 

 couraged over a wider area. By inoculating the 

 soil with its special type of bacteroid as is done 

 with clovers it might succeed and prove of great 

 value in certain dry tropical districts where other 

 root crops fail. 



A root crop on some of the rocky limestone lands 

 of South Florida, where soil of any kind is at a 

 premium seems anomalous, nevertheless, the roots 

 of this hardy plant find places in the crevices. 

 On well prepared soil the returns could be in- 

 creased many fold. 



Florida. John Gifford. 



Improving the Garden Soil 



ABOUT three years ago we moved to the suburbs 

 and I spent the first winter planning my 

 garden. But in the spring I was disappointed, for 

 I found the soil a sticky clay which could not be 

 easily dug, for the soil would stick to the fork and 

 it was almost impossible to break the lumps apart. 

 A load of sand and two loads of manure was mixed 

 with it but did not help very much. I planted 

 nothing but annuals that year and, in one par- 

 ticularly bad spot, planted nasturtiums. The 

 result that fall was a very poor garden indeed, and 

 except for the nasturtiums, which yielded hundreds 

 of blossoms, I would have been utterly discouraged. 



Some of the other flowers I planted did not come 

 up at all and those that did had very few blossoms 

 because I could not cultivate them. When I tried to 

 cultivate, the soil, instead of loosening, would come 

 up in lumps, sometimes bringing the plant with it. 



That fall we bought another load of sand and two 

 loads of manure and had the whole garden dug and 

 left that way throughout the winter. I planted a 

 few tulip and crocus bulbs. The following spring 

 I again planted nasturtiums in the same place and 

 again they furnished me with quantities of blossoms. 



The tulips made a pretty display and somehow I 

 forgot to dig them up when they were through 

 blooming. The next year each bulb had two flowers 

 in place of one, which measured three inches across, 

 whereas those the first year measured only two 

 inches. 



I could not afford more sand, but was determined 

 to have a garden worth while. So as soon as the 

 weather was cold enough to have a fire I began sift- 

 ing coal ashes and used the fine dust on the beds all 

 winter. Last spring we bought a load of manure, 

 had it dug under and the ashes spread over the top 

 of each bed, hoed and mixed with the top soil. 

 This loosened the soil and made it easy to cultivate. 

 I had a beautiful garden all summer; all the seeds 

 germinated and each plant yielded an abundance 

 of blossoms. I had a bed of double poppies which 

 every one mistook for chrysanthemums, each flower 

 measuring seven inches across. My cosmos grew 

 to be seven and one half feet tall. 



The entire cost of the garden for three years was 

 $18.00, as follows: 



Improving garden soil first year 



1 load of sand . „ $2.50 



Digging spring and fall 4.50 



Two loads of manure . . 2.00 



$9.00 

 Cost of the garden the second year 



1 load of sand $2.00 



2 loads of manure 3.00 



For digging 1.50 



$6.50 

 Cost of garden the third year 



1 load of manure $1.00 



For digging T..50 



$2.50 



Illinois. Charlotte Marous. 



Garden Frames 



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YOU can be planting plants, 

 when your neighbor is planting 

 seeds. You can be picking flowers 

 or vegetables when his are "just 

 getting started." 



You can short cut the time and 

 increase your results. Frames are 

 easy to manage and cost but a trifle. 



Send for our Garden Frame Booklet, 

 and order early and get started early. 



Hitchings & Company 

 SOO Louisa Street Elizabeth, N. J. 



All sizes 2 inches to 15 inches. Write for prices 

 at your station. 



THE E. BIGLOW CO. NEW LONDON, OHIO 



$1 or $2 per Acre per Month 



Buys a Sanford celery farm. Flowing artesian well 

 guaranteed. Sub-irrigation, fine drainage, good sub- 

 soil, proven district, no interest; water and rail transpor- 

 tation. Our liberal contract allows six years to pay out. 

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