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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1912 



Evergreens as grown for specimens at Andorra Nurseries 



Plant for Immediate Effect 



Not for Future Generations 



It takes over twenty 



Start With the largest Stock that can be secured ! 



years to grow such Trees and Shrubs as we offer. 

 We do the long waiting — thus enabling you to secure Trees and Shrubs that 



give an immediate effect. Spring Price List gives complete information. 



ANDORRA NURSERIES B S* 



WM. WARNER HARPER, Proprietor 



CHESTNUT HILL, 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Fall Bearing Strawberries 



These Berries are truly wonderful. They bear fruit every fall as well as springr. three crops in 

 two years. They have yielded as hisrh as 10.000 qts. to acre in Aug:., Sept. and Oct. of first year, 

 with us. We cannot gret enougrh fruit to supply the demand at 25c. per qt. wholesale. I know of 

 nothing: in the fruit line quite so profitable. VYe are also headquarters for Plum Farmer, Idaho 

 and Royal Purple Raspberries, Early Ozark Strawberry, Watt Blackberry, Hastingrs Potato. 

 Catalogue of all kinds of Berrv Plants free. Address 

 L. J. FARMER Box 229 Pulaski, N. Y. 



THE HIGHWAY 

 TO PERENNIALS 



Leads straight to the 



Palisades Nurseries 



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A Highway of Perennials 



HTHERE you will find 

 * all kinds and you can 

 take your pick from the 

 best that grow. Peren- 

 nials add a feeling of per- 

 manency to your home 

 surroundings. They change their plumage but not their face 

 and keep reflecting the seasons all the year around. 



No grounds are really gardened without a big showing in peren- 

 nials. We are headquarters for perennials and assure the widest 

 latitude in choice as well as the most courteous promptitude in 

 correspondence and service. Our motto — Maximum Quality at 

 Minimum Cost. Write 



THE PALISADES NURSERY, Sparkill, N. Y. 



plant these asparagus seedlings to a partially shaded 

 place in the outdoor garden where the soil is rich. 

 Give water and tillage through the summer as you 

 would for any other plant and in September you 

 will have as attractive a set to transplant to win- 

 dow boxes or flower pots for indoor growth as you 

 could wish. The plants should be as good as those 

 you can get from the florist, and to the owner they 

 possess a greater interest in that they represent 

 months of watchful experience in growing them. 



These plumose asparagus plants will thrive either 

 in a sunny window or in one with little sunshine. 



The commonly known asparagus "fern" is easily 

 raised from seed started indoors in March 



They are particularly useful for fern-dishes; place 

 several of them together in one receptacle when 

 they are transplanted from the outdoor garden. 



After the transplanting a few of the stalks are 

 likely to begin to drop their leaves. Cut such 

 stalks off close to the ground. Xew ones will 



soon appear. 

 Massachusetts. 



Clarence M. Weed. 



Concerning Colt's Foot 



THE first colt's foot {Tussilago farfara) that I 

 ever saw was in one of the Xew York parks. 

 Curious to know what it was, I inquired of the 

 gardener, and he not only gave me the information 

 but told me where I could get all I wanted of it 

 without so much as saying by your leave. Not 

 far away, an old mansion had been sold and the 

 fence around the extensive grounds, vnich were 

 six feet below the street level, was removed. There, 

 on the bank thus disclosed, colt's foot had run wild 

 for years and had crept up to within a few ieet of 

 the sidewalk. Doubtless it had "escaped" from 

 the garden of the homestead. As it was spring 

 there could be seen only the scaly scapes, man} - of 

 them crowned with a single yellow blossom, very 

 like that of the dandelion, only much smaller. I 

 dug some roots and planted them in my garden, 

 where I have found the source of "colt's-foot 

 rock" rather attractive. Very early — this year 

 it was the third of April — the blossoms give the 

 border a pleasing touch of yellow and when they 

 are gone, there comes foliage that keeps in good 

 condition until frost. Of the two I prefer the 

 foliage, the cordate leaves, covered with a whitish 

 down on the under side, being really handsome. 

 The only trouble with colt's-foot in the garden is 

 that it spreads so rapidly, by both root stock and 

 seed, that it must be watched carefully. If one 

 has the room, it is better to lei il grow naturally. 

 It is supposed to prefer wet places and a clayey 

 soil, but I have seen it doing equally well in garden 

 loam, and on a very dry bank. More for the foliage 

 than the flowers, I would suggest it for clayey 

 banks that, on the country place, usually offer 

 planting difficulties. It would clothe all summer 

 many a spot that now is needlessly bare. 

 New York. H. S. A. 



