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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 19 12 



YOU NEED TREES THE YEAR ROUND 



The first hints of spring call attention to the 

 desirability of having plenty of trees and shrubs 

 and vines about the home. The early days of 

 summer accentuate the need of this form of 

 home decoration. Fall comes and adds horror 

 to the premises where landscaping has been 

 neglected. Winter gives still further the ap- 

 pearance of neglect to the place where trees 

 are wanting. 



LANDSCAPES WITHOUT WAITING 



We make a specialty of perfecting landscapes, and of 

 furnishing big, healthy, robust trees and shrubs that have 

 many years of growth stored within them. Our book 

 "Landscapes Without Waiting," tells how we are able to 

 make you a landscape at once. Free if you live within 

 500 miles of Chicago and have home grounds to plant — 

 otherwise 50 cents a copy. 



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755 Marquette Building, Chicago, Illinois 



Two Things You Need 



FIRST: The only Sanitary method of caring 

 for garbage, deep in the ground in metal 

 receiver holding heavy galvanized bucket 

 with bail. Garbage cannot freeze. Avoid the 

 battered can and scattered refuse resulting 

 from removal of frozen contents. Health 

 demands it. 



n^czjrrn^i&vn J Underground Garbage Receiver 

 B^^^^ a "J Underfloor Refuse R ece ; ver 



SECOND: This clean, convenient way of 

 disposing of ashes from furnace or hot water 

 heater, cellar and yard refuse. Fireproof. 

 Flush with floor. Abolish the old ash barrel. 

 Nine years In practical use. 

 IT PAYS TO LOOK US UP 

 Bold direct. Send fur circulars on each 



C. H. STEPHENSON, Mfr. 

 40 Farrar Street, Lynn, Mass. 



Easy to swe«"p into 



How Would You *} 



Heat This Home • 



Residence Ardsley-on-Hudson. 

 Oswald C. Hering, Architect. 



You might consider a Hot Air Furnace. You 

 might consider Steam or Hot Water. But why not 

 consider a 



KELSEY w A a f r m GENERATOR 



It affords advantages that over 40,000 Home Own- 

 ers have considered sufficient to make them in- 

 stall the KELSEY GENERATOR in preference to 

 all other methods of heating. You want fresh air 

 in all rooms and you want ventilation, not burned 

 out hot air or foul air heated over and over by 

 radiators. Investigation will pay you and we in- 

 vite comparison. Send today for new Booklet, 

 "Achievements in Modern Heating." 



KELSEY HEATING COMPANY 



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How I Grow Cucumbers 



IT IS folly to try growing cucumbers on a clay 

 soil. If you succeed in getting them at all, 

 they will be misshapen or will scald and yellow 

 badly. What this vegetable needs is a mealy, 

 loamy soil, rich in humus and with as much 

 additional plant food as it can hold. 



When I grow cucumbers in my garden, I usually 

 put two large shovelfuls of fine rotted manure in 

 each hill and two handfuls of some good fertilizer, 

 if I have no fish scrap or fish (usually obtainable 

 in this locality). 



In the language of an old farmer, the plants are 

 great feeders. Plenty of old rotted manure, fish 

 scraps or tankage, dried blood and bone meal are 

 favored articles of diet to this voracious vegetable. 

 The earliest and finest cucumbers I saw last season 

 were grown upon moist, well-drained soil, each hill 

 being surrounded by four fish buried to a depth of 

 about six inches. 



Here is a formula for a good fertilizer for cucum- 

 bers, and which can be used on the melons, peppers, 

 squashes, beets, asparagus, and celery with equal 

 advantage: 



Muriate of potash 15 lbs. 



Dried blood . . . . . . . . 15 ,, 



Nitrate of soda . . . . . . . 10 ,, 



Sulphate of ammonia . . . . . . 10 ,, 



Ground bone. . . . . . . . 10 ,, 



Acid phosphate . . . . . . . 45 „ 



If more convenient one may use ten pounds 

 more of the acid phosphate and omit the ground 

 bone. 



If the hill method of planting is used, five or six 

 seeds in a hill is enough, having the hills about 

 three feet apart. Do not put the seeds deeper than 

 an inch or so. Another planting method used by 

 farmers in the field and equally adaptable to the 

 garden is to plant the seed about eighteen inches 

 apart in rows three feet apart. It is better to drop 

 two seeds in each place and, after the plants have 

 their second leaves and are established, to cut 

 out the superfluous ones with a small pair of 

 scissors. Hill plants should be thinned down to 

 three plants. 



The proper planting time is in established spring 

 weather. Frost will kill the young plants. How- 

 ever, south of New York, gardeners aim to get 

 them in by May first, sometimes making another 

 planting a few inches from the first four or five 

 days later. If the first planting is successful it 

 is but a few minutes' work to cut out the others 

 with a hoe. 



Young cucumber plants are easily effected by 

 long cold storms at the time that they are 

 just breaking through the ground. If possible 

 protect with pieces of glass until the storm is 

 over. 



Almost as soon as the second leaves have grown 

 and the tender centre of the plant is unfolding, 

 the striped squash beetle will appear. It is a 

 slender creature with stripes of black and yellow 

 on its wings and perforates the leaves in a short 

 time. It is impossible to poison them but the 

 gardener can make their eating very inconvenient 

 by sifting land plaster over the leaves especially 

 about the tender parts of the plant. As the plants 

 increase in size, their susceptibility to this pest 

 diminishes. 



When the vines are large enough to run, an 

 application of nitrate of soda is a good stimulant. 

 A tablespoonful on the surface of the ground about 

 each plant is enough. It must not touch the stem 

 or foliage nor be in such quantity that a shower 



ROWE'S 



GLOUCESTER 



BED HAMMOCK 



The Hammock That's Made to Last 



When you buy a bed hammock for your veranda this summer, 

 be sure it is sightly and comfortable, but above all be sure that 

 it is made to last. Cheap imitations soon look delapidated and 

 unattractive, because they lack the material and skill in making 

 so-necessary to service and lasting comfort. 



Rowe Gloucester Bed Hammock is made by skilled sailmakers 

 who are trained to sew canvas sails strong and true for every wind 

 that sweeps the Atlantic. It is made of duck weighing not less 

 than 21 ounces to the square yard, reinforced at every point of 

 strain — others use 16-oz., 12-oz., and even 8-oz. duck single 

 thickness. 



Rowe's Hammocks have consistently given ten years of contin- 

 uous outdoor service. We have never had one returned to us as un- 

 satisfactory. They are firm, strong, comfortable. They present es- 

 sential advantage* of which other makers have not even learned 

 the need. 



Write for catalog and name of dealer nearestyou. If you are 

 not so located as to deal conveniently with the dealer, we will 

 supply you direct. Before you buy a hammock, be sure to 

 see ours or send for illustrated book and prices 

 E. L. ROWE & SON, Inc. 138 Wharf St., GLOUCESTER, MASS. 

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" In this book Rudyard Kipling has done some of his best 

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