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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 1912 



UseOXIDE^ZlNCPaints 



PAINT IS THE HALL-MARK of 



prosperity. The properly painted town 

 looks prosperous — is prosperous. Prosperity 

 commends itself to enterprise. 



The best way to "boom" a town is to keep 

 the buildings well painted. To paint well 

 is to paint with 



OXIDE OF ZINC PAINT 



How about your town ? How about your 

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We do not grind Oxide of Zinc in oil. A list of 



manufacturers of Oxide of Zinc Paints 



mailed on request 



The New Jersey Zinc Co. 



NATIONAL CITY BANK BUILDING 



55 Wall Street, New York 



Wilson's Outside Venetians 



Used as a blind or an awning, pulled up out of sight if desired. Slats 

 open and close. Admit air. exclude sun. Very Durable and Artistic. 

 Orders should be placed NOW for Summer Delivery. 



Inside View Outside View Blind Pulled Up For Piazzas an<1 Porches 



WILSONS BLINDS have been furnished to the houses of John P. Mor-an.H. M. Flagler, A. G. Vanderbilt. Chas. Lanier, Mrs. K. Gambrill, Clarence 

 Mackay, Wm. C. Whitney, J- S. Kennedy, C. Ledyard Blair, Jas. C. Colgate, O. Harriinan, Jr., and many others. 



Send for VENETIAN Catalogue No, 4. JAS. G. WILSON MFG. CO., 1 & 3 West 29th Street, New York 



Also Inside Venetians, Porch Venetians, Rolling Partitions, Rolling Steel Shutters, Burglar and Fireproof Steel Curtains, Wood Block Floors. 



Ornamental Fixtures for Country Grounds 



The choice of a fountain 

 should be guided by the 

 space at your disposal and 

 the quantity of water avail- 

 able. The illustration shows 

 an artistic effect adapted to 

 most conditions. 

 Our fountains include a wide 

 variety of artistic designs. 

 We also supply special de- 

 signs for all requirements. 



We issue separate catalogues of Display 

 Fountains, Drinking Fountains, Electroliers, 

 Vases, Grills and Gateways, Settees and 

 Chairs, Statuary, Aquariums. Tree Guards, 

 Sanitary Fittings for Stable and Cow barns. 

 Address Ornamental Department 



The J. L. MOTT IRON WORKS, Fifth Avenue and 17th St., New York 









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A Really Practical Garden Book 



THEORETICALLY all good gardeners, like 

 all good housewives, are supposed to know 

 precisely where everything is. In practice this 

 does not always work out, especially in an age 

 when the gardener and his or her garden bear — 

 more's the pity! — a less intimate relation, speak- 

 ing generally, to each other than in bygone days. 

 A garden record, on simple lines, has at least 

 wisdom, if not actual necessity, in its favor. For 

 my own part I would grant both the wisdom and 

 the necessity, and then add pleasure and education. 



When, in the course of garden events, all these 

 considerations took hold of me with a certain 

 degree of insistence. I thought that I could have 

 a better time making my own record book than 

 trotting around trying to buy something that, 

 after all, might not quite answer m_v purpose. 



Here is how I set about it. For a dollar and 

 forty cents I bought a patent ring binder with a 

 stout cover of gray canvas, selecting the nj/? x 0^9 

 in. size as the most convenient. (The lesser 

 dimension is the width.) Then I figured out very 

 carefully just what information I wanted to keep 

 on record and laid out a blank form for the sheets 

 of the loose leaf system that I proposed to use. 

 The more I thought of it, the more I was convinced 

 that I might as well keep the record as complete 

 as possible, so I decided upon a printed form that 

 should provide space for not merely the Latin 

 and common names, the usual class, height and 

 color designations and the place of planting, but 

 the garden whence a plant came or, if purchased, 

 the name of the firm and the price, with the date 

 in either case; the botanical order and family, 

 the country of which it is a native, the general 

 habit, to what it is best suited, how it is propa- 

 gated and also any remarks that I might care to 

 make. As all this printing could easily go on the 

 upper half of the sheet, it struck me that it would 

 be a good idea to leave the lower half blank so that 

 an illustration could be pasted on it. At a cost 



BOTANICAL NAME <$>** Vtvnu^jueiy VARIETY A«^, CAia£*ms 

 ORDER .J/te<i«^4^,. FAMILY d^-^U NATIVE or JuA^t. 



COMMON NAME A&L~»U*i/ X^U^j •fjrurt'r - lit, - s£*^*— 



CLASS <JlMMS**aL HAB:T Jk^. cAi~ HEIGHT 3 TEET 

 BLOOMING PERIOD fci/UL ^u^JU COLOR Utt^Ji. et^jed- /<rMs -t&ut— 

 BEST SUITED CtsJLy- ^vAa^PROPAGATION BY j(2lJlA*JI&*>^~ 

 WHERE AND WHEN 08TAINED /&/v/t~- ^ Q-Osnu* TK^^^j., 



lU^My. tiut, Cn~~s SL>v.~],/fO£ 



where planted C*j<Uyi*~i^^6tZ -£«^&^v, xte^t^v, s 



NOTES Gnj^, ^-l f&, -il*^ t-i tiU. i*-±~~u£ xms^j&tjL*, 



A really practical record of one's plants and flowers 

 can be thus kept every year 



of less than a cent apiece, I had two hundred and 

 fifty of these sheets cut to the proper size, printed 

 and perforated with the three necessary holes to 

 fit the binder. The total expense, therefore, ran 

 a little above four dollars, which may seem a great 

 deal at first glance but is not, as the record will 

 last a lifetime. Personally I have found that the 

 convenience warranted my investing in a second 

 book when the first got crowded, and now I use 

 Volume I. for perennials and Volume II. for 

 annuals, biennials, shrubs, herbs and wild flowers. 



If the amateur protest that this record is too 

 elaborate, I answer that it is simplicity itself. 

 Xo sheet is, of course, put in the binder until it 

 represents a plant, or plants, in the garden; but. 

 if time presses, only the botanical and common 

 names may be filled in at first, though, lest memory 

 fail, it is well to add at once the source and also 

 the location in bed or border. The rest may be 

 the work of long winter evenings or — it may be 

 left undone. The essential thing is the record 

 of varieties and the place of planting. 



I use the loose leaf system because it is elastic 

 and therefore incomparably better than a bound 

 volume. Besides it is self-indexing. I find it 

 easier, in placing the sheets in the binder alpha- 

 betically, to follow the Latin names, which rarely 

 vary as do the common names. It is not difficult 

 to memorize these and. inasmuch as every amateur 

 should know them, the record serves a good 

 educational purpose in that point alone; the mere 



