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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1912 



Palisade 

 Popular 

 Perennials 



For 

 Late 

 Comers 



An Excellent Example of (developed) Fore-planning in Perennial Planting 



IT IS not too late to plant perennials. A good thing to know if you have just moved in and 

 the grounds look bare. 

 All you need to do is to plant now. Annuals will grow up from seed and bloom abun- 

 dantly before frost. Pot grown plants instead of seeds can be set out today, and tomorrow they will 

 be as much in place as if they had been a fixture for years. 



Buy some potted perennials and vines. You will thank yourself a month from now for the fore- 

 sight that prompts you to buy today. 



For years we have made a specialty of filling orders for late comers. We are fully equipped to fill 

 your order. Write for our catalogue and suggestions what to plant. 



THE PALISADE NURSERIES 



SPARKILL, N. Y. 



Perennial Specialists 



R. W. CLUCAS, Manager 



J. H. Hale, the " Peach King ," writes: "The Double Action 'Cutaway' is a splendid tool. I use 

 it in polishing off my peach orchards several times a year. A good pair of horses handle it all right." 



The genuine "Cutaway" tools are used and endorsed by successful orchardists from coast to coast and 

 bay to gulf. 



In orchard work the driver can cultivate under the trees and below the low limbs, the horses not interfering 

 with the branches. The double levers give the driver full control of tool at all times. For regular farm work 

 the gangs can be drawn together. 



IITAWAV DOUBLE ACTION 

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Every orchardist and fruit grower should have one or more of these labor savers and fruit makers. They 

 will positively pay for themselves in one season. To investigate is to be convinced. 



Thorough cultivation makes large crops. Stirring the soil lets in the air, sunshine and new life, and kills 

 foul vegetation. The "Cutaway" disk slices, stirs, lifts, twists and aerates the soil. Clark's "Cutaway" 

 Tools run lighter and do better work than any other machine. Lasts a lifetime. 



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HIGGANUM. CONNECTICUT 



Farr's Fancy Bulbs 

 Imported to Order 



Have you thought about importing Tulips, 

 Daffodils or Hyacinths from Holland especially 

 for your garden? If you send me your order 

 before July ist, I can import just what you 

 want and deliver the bulbs about the middle 

 of September. My plan gives you better 

 bulbs than you usually buy, for I order only 

 what my customers require, and theretore 

 have no losses on unsold bulbs. 



Special Discount of 10% on all 

 orders received before July 1st 



The finest bulbs can be secured only by order- 

 ing early, and for this reason I give this 

 extra discount, I will fill orders after July ist, 

 but I cannot guarantee such high quality bulbs. 

 Send for my Bulb Book and learn about my 

 plan; then make your selection at once, so thai 

 you may be sure of receiving Holland's finest 

 bulbs for your garden. 



Bertrand H. Farr, Wyomissing Nurseries 

 643 D Penn Street, Reading, Pa. 



"Cream Quality" Bulbs 

 for American Gardens 



For years past most of the choice Hyacinth, tulip 

 and Narcissus bulbs have gone to England — we Americans 

 got what were left and thought we were getting the best. 

 For a number of years I have been able to import these 

 extra choice bulbs by placing my order not later than 

 June 25>.h. 



Hunt's "Cream Quality" Bulbs 



— will be a revelation to American gardeners; they are 

 carefully selected, sound and solid. I know the varieties 

 are of the highest quality, for most of them are in bloom 

 in my trial grounds. 



My book "The Cream of Holland" tells what varieties 

 I import. Send for a copy today, and make your 

 selection at once — for my orders must be sent to Holland 

 not later than June 25th. 



"Daffodils de Luxe" describes the latest novelties in 

 these magnificent flowers — send for a copy if you are 

 interested in them. 



CHESTER JAY HUNT 



Box 123 



Montclair, New Jersey 



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are still in pots. Give them plenty of water and 

 give it to them often. 



For fall and winter celery sow seed at once. 



Do not neglect the strawberry and asparagus 

 beds; keep them clean. 



Sow cucumber seed now for pickles. 



Egg plants should be watched every day; potato 

 bugs multiply rapidly and can destroy the plants 

 in a very short time. 



Melons, will begin to ripen toward the last of the 

 month. Keep all bruised and wilted watermelons 

 picked off; the vines will fruit longer and the good 

 melons will be larger. 



The same may be said of the whole fruit gar- 

 den; do not allow any fruit to rot on the trees or 

 in the orchard. It will form a breeding place for 

 all sorts of insects and diseases. 



Georgia. Thomas J. Steed. 



An Earlv-blooming White 

 Shrub 



I THINK the most striking of all the early white- 

 flowering shrubs is Spircea arguta. Its long 

 sprays of delicate, single, small flowers, of dazzling 

 whiteness, extend to the tips of the branches, and 

 give the shrub a light, feathery appearance which 

 is lacking in the more popular Van Houttei. The 

 flowers, coming on the bare branches, remain for 

 three weeks or more, and then are succeeded by a 

 graceful foliage which makes the bush attractive 

 throughout the summer. Spircea arguta is a hybrid 

 of 5. Thunbergii and S. maltiflora and its merits 

 do not seem to be adequately recognized. 



In Northern Illinois S. arguta blooms three weeks 

 earlier than Van Houttei, and is fading when the 

 latter opens. This fact enables those seeking for 

 white effects to secure six weeks of flowers by plant- 

 ing the two in combination. 



But it is as a foil for other early blooming shrubs 

 that Spircea arguta proves most effective. Planted 

 with Forsythia intermedia, which blooms at the 

 same time, or with F. suspensa which begins to 



Spiraea arguta is one of the most striking of all the 

 early white-flowering shrubs 



bloom a little earlier, it serves to subdue the too 

 striking effect given by the forsythia alone, and, 

 since it does not grow so tall, is useful for blending 

 the forsythia with the ground. Plant arguta under 

 the American red bud (Cercis Canadensis), in this 

 locality a low-growing, shrub-like tree, for an ex- 

 cellent contrast, the lavender of the red bud being 

 intensified by the white of the spirea. 



Arguta does not give its finest blooms until two 

 or three years after transplanting, and it does best 

 when the bushes are not closer together than three 

 feet. Once established, it thrives wonderfully 

 even when surrounded by sod, and requires little or 

 no pruning. 



It will bloom well in moderate shade, but, like 

 other spireas, does best in full sunlight. Because of 

 its erect, graceful form of growth and its light 

 foliage, arguta does not appear at its best when used 

 as a specimen plant, but should be planted in 

 groups. 



Illinois. Feed Haxton. 



