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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1912 



Use the "One-Man" 

 Spray-Pump 



If you have a small orchard 

 or garden, one to five acres, 

 you need this "One -Man" 

 Compressed Air Hand-Power 

 Spray-Pump. A power 

 sprayer is too large, and the 

 ordinary hand -power barrel 

 sprayer, requiring- two men 

 to operate it, too expensive 

 and inconvenient. With the 

 aid of 



The 



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you can do your own spraying at approxi- 

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 easy pumping compresses sufficient air to 

 spray for fifteen or twenty minutes with a 

 pressure sufficient to carry the spray to 

 every part of the tallest orchard-tree. The 

 pump is made of solid brass, is double- 

 acting, and does not come in contact with 

 the liquid. The machine is carefully made 

 from the best materials for the purpose, 

 and there is no chance of the outfit getting 

 out of order. Special attachments can be 

 furnished for spraying two, three or four 

 rows of truck-crops. 



If your dealer can t supply you, 

 we will ship prepaid direct on 

 receipt of $30 the cost of the ma- 

 chine. Send dealer s n a ?n e . 

 Write for descriptive literature. 



The Sherwin-Williams Co. 



INSECTICIDE MAKERS 

 657 CANAL ROAD, CLEVELAND, OHIO 



GoodSpray Materi- 

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Good spray materials are 

 as necessary as a good pump. 

 There are many inferior ma- 

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 the insects, they injure the 

 fruit, burn the foliage and- 

 decrease the vitality of the 

 tree. When results are 

 considered, it is obvious 

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produce the maximum results at a minimum 

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 Solution, for use against San Jose scale and 

 fungus troubles ; S -W Paris Green, for 

 leaf-eating insects, particularly the potato 

 bug, and S-W Bordeaux Mixture (Paste), 

 a fungicide principally for garden use. If 

 properly used, these products will keep your 

 orchard or garden crops free from insects 

 and disease. Look up our Agent in your 

 town, or write for a copy of How to Spray. 

 This booklet gives all necessary information. 



In the back of the book you will 

 find a practical spraying caloi- 

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INSECTICIDE MAKERS 

 657 CANAL ROAD, CLEVELAND, OHIO 



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Getting Character into the 

 Garden 



THE shrub and shrubby vine are essential to 

 the proper planting of the home grounds, 

 because no other wood} - plants offer so great a 

 range in variety of fruit, foliage, outline, size, and 

 adaptability to varied soils and conditions. For 

 the smallest bit of ground, in the smallest home lot, 

 a suitable shrub or vine can be found. 



In the use of shrubs one seeks to accomplish 

 the utilitarian purpose of screening bad outlooks 

 because he has to, and the esthetic purpose of giving 

 a place a pleasing character, because he wants to. 

 In doing this, if the work is done successfully, then 

 utility and beauty are so combined as to make the 

 place all beautiful without sacrificing convenience. 



The distinctive character of a place may be 

 established by decidedly attractive local conditions, 

 such as a tree, shrub, ridge, boulder. The additions 

 here must be made in such a manner as to fix and 

 emphasize, not impair, this original beaut} 1 . 



The place may have such an unattractive or 

 commonplace character that all work must be new 

 work, and in such work nothing is more serviceable 

 than shrubs and small trees, especially in small 

 and moderate sized places. If there is a particu- 

 larly attractive view from the selected outlook 

 points, these plants will immediately frame them. 



The character of a place may be determined by 

 the house upon it. which if of the bungalow type, 

 will have the horizontal lines most pronounced. 

 If the designer of the grounds desires to carry out 

 these dominant house lines into his foliage, he will 

 seek such plants as the native thorns of the cock- 

 spur or scarlet type, the pear-leaved viburnum, 

 Japanese snowball, stephanandra, and Regel's 

 privet. 



There may be a very tall and narrow house with 

 limited grounds, where narrow foliage masses are 

 essential to relieve tall, bare wall spaces, and 

 provide screens and landscape frames in narrow 

 soil strips. For this, such plants as the Lombardy 

 poplar, Douglas thorn, panicled dogwood, white 

 lilac, buffum pear, Siberian crab, red cedar, and 

 Irish juniper, would be selected. 



It ma}- be desired to have a color scheme of gray- 

 ish green and soft and fleecy foliage texture. Here 

 the single tree might be the gray leaved royal 

 willow, or the narrow leaved Russian olive, with 

 the sea buckthorn, tamarisk, and Loniccra Albcrti. 



There might be a preference for a special family 

 or for a particular genus, of which there are several 

 that offer enough species with a sufficient variety 

 to meet the requirements of the average home 

 grounds. 



In thus establishing a character for the little or 

 the big landscape, either flowers, fruit, or foliage 

 may be incidental, the choice for the landscape 

 composition being determined by the general 

 outline and aspect of the shrub, or by soil conditions. 

 For example, an owner may prefer to accept poor 

 soil and shrubs that will go well therein, even though 

 slowly, rather than to incur the expense of good 

 soil preparation. It very often occurs that there 

 are several varieties, either one of which would 

 have a suitable outline and aspect for the land- 

 scape composition. From these a selection would 

 be made to fill each one of the months of the year 

 with the few varieties that are most effective in the 

 color or form of flower, autumn foliage, winter 

 fruit, or twig. 



Massachusetts. Warren H. Manning. 



