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v 2^ #1335? &*.*** THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1912 



THE GARDEN 

 BEAUTIFUL 



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Ask Warner — he helps — not only with stock but service. 



Wagner Plants, Shrubs and Flowering Trees Wagner Landscape Sendee is an invaluable aid 

 — all vigorous and varied — make possible gar- in artistic planting for color -beauty and contin- 

 den pictures of great and lasting loveliness. uous bloorn in gardens large or small. 



Warner's immense nurseries are open to you. Let us send you the Warner Book — 

 "Plants and Plans lor Beautiful Surroundings" — A gardener's guide that is a guide! 



WAGNER PARK NURSERIES Florists. Nurserymen. Landscape Gardeners BOX 669. SIDNEY. OHIO 



This is the Simplified perfect Air Pressure Water Works System. 



Can be used by hand or any type of power in combination. 



The little plant for the small house, hand-power equipment, $39. 



We install five distinct types of Water Works for the rural home. 

 Our Engineers will work out your problem without charge. We a 



guarantee satisfaction. Write us to-day if interested. Our Water 

 Works Book "XB" tells how the different types can be installed. 



The Baltimore Company, Baltimore, Md. 



A lawn roller whose weight can be adjusted to the con- 

 ditions of your lawn, garden, tennis court or driveway. 



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^^ l A light Machine for the soft, wet spring lawn. 



OriC ■' A heavy Machine for the hard, dry summer lawn. 



(_ A heavier Machine for the driveway or tennis court. 



Why buy one of the old style iron or cement fixed-weight rollers that is generally too heavy 

 or too light to do your lawn the most good, paying for two or three hundred pounds of useless 

 metal — and freight on it as well — when less money will buy the better, more efficient 



"Any weight" Water Ballast Lawn Roller 



A difference of 50 pounds may mean success or ruin to your lawn — a half-ton machine will 

 spoil it in early spring, while a 200 lb. roller is absolutely useless later in the season. If you 

 desire a fine, soft, springy turf of deep green, instead of a coarse, dead looking patch of grass, 

 use an "Anyweight" Water Ballast Roller — built in 3 sizes, all of 24 inch diameter and of 

 24, 27 and 32 inch widths. Drums boiler riveted or acetylene welded. Weight 1 15-124 or 

 132 lbs. empty — from that "anyweight" up to half a ton when ballasted. Filled in 30 

 seconds — emptied in a jiffy- Runs easy — lasts a lifetime. 



Tli" Knrklr cpnf Fkpp' We will mail you postpaid, our valuable and inter- 

 1 MS DOOK Sent riCC. estingbookon "TheCareof the Lawn"toeether 

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Wilder Strong Implement Co., Box 6, Monroe, Mich. 



A Home-made Plant Table 



STARTING flowers or vegetables in the house 

 each spring is quite a problem. The earth- 

 filled seed flats are heavy and dirty and, when 

 several are put on an ordinary table, it requires 

 time and labor to shift them properly for cleaning, 

 watering, weeding, etc. A plant table, similar to 

 the one shown in the accompanying illustration, 

 overcomes all the ordinary difficulties encountered. 

 It can be moved to any desirable window, changed 

 about so that all the plants get an equal share of 

 light and air, moved easily when necessary for 

 cleaning, wheeled out on fine days and brought 

 indoors again if frost threatens. When the time 

 comes to plant in the open the individual flats can 

 be taken out as needed, or the whole table can be 

 wheeled into one's garden and moved about at will. 

 This table cost me less than two dollars to make. 

 The lumber consisted of odds and ends of f-inch 

 dressed pine. The wheels, bought from a baby 

 carriage repair shop are 14 inches in diameter and 



A movable two-dollar plant table eliminates mans" 

 of the troubles of raising plants indoors 



have rubber tires to save the floors, and the braces 

 were three pairs of japanned shelf brackets. The 

 table, or tray, is 48 x 30 in., 2 inches deep, and is 

 18 inches above the floor. Each seed flat is n 1 

 x 14! x 3 in. The table is lined with a heavy 

 building paper (zinc would be better) and is stained 

 to match the trim in the room where it is most 

 frequently used. The reason for keeping the table 

 so low is that one may work while seated, thereby 

 saving backache and fatigue. The width of the 

 table should be governed by the size of doors it 

 may have to pass through. 



New York. W. N. McV. 



A Pole Bean Trellis 



AN EXPEDIENT I used this year as a trellis 

 ■ for pole beans proved very successful. I 

 planned to raise two hundred hills of lima beans, 

 but could get only one third that number of poles. 

 Sometimes the method is followed of planting the 

 beans in a circle round a stout pole, letting them 

 run up strings to the summit, but I like to have 

 everything in rows, as far as possible, so I can use 

 my little wheel cultivator, which is a great labor- 

 saver. 



The pian occurred to me of setting the poles six 

 feet or more apart in the row, and planting a hill 

 at each pole and two between. On a rubbish heap 

 was a lot of old wire that had come round bales of 



