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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



July, 1912 



MOTHS OF THE 

 LIMBERLOST 



By Gene Stratton-Porter 



THERE is no portion of the country which has been made more familiar to hundreds 

 of thousands of readers than the Limberlost Swamp, that woodland and marsh 

 which has been the setting of Mrs. Porter's wonderful novels, "Freckles," "A Girl of the 

 Limberlost," and "The Harvester." 



It is about this very bit of Indiana that Mrs. Porter has written her new book, "Moths 

 of the Limberlost," and it is the most unusual and interesting nature book ever imagined. 

 It is a story of the "Moths" of the Limberlost which every reader of "A Girl of the 

 Limberlost" will remember. Mrs. Porter pictures and describes the moths hunted by Elnora, and 

 in many of the chapters there ^^ specimens. Fully half the book is 



are the landscapes over which she i^fek m\wL of birds, flowers and the out-doors, 



hunted, much of the swamp, and Em !^k jB k \ described and pictured as only the 



the very bridge under which she f\ Jm\ Mm author knows how. 



was working to cut loose a cocoon j^L m\\ One feature is notable. Almost 



when Philip came up the stream, H *^^ *- HU all books on these subjects are 



fishing. There is also the log ■( ^,^1 HjUg illustrated by reproductions of 



cabin in which Elnora lived. The fl Ij pinned, shrivelled, unnaturally 



text is just scientific enough to If , -g placed dead moths. Every repro- 



give the name and description ■l&g'j »¥ duction in this book is from living 



of each moth, cocoon and cater- if [9 moths, posed naturally, in their 



pillar; the remainder is a fascina- {■ proper environment, and colored 



ting record of personal expe- from life. 



riences in finding or raising the 24 beautifully colored illustrations 



from original and rare photographs, 

 and more than ioo in black and 

 white by the author Net, $2.50. 



By the Same Author 



The Harvester 



Now in its Sixth Large Printing 

 More than 200,000 Copies in Seven Months 



For Six Months among the "Six Best Sellers," it led the list 

 in April (8 months after publication) by more than 100 Points 



In a remarkable review a page and a half long in The Independent, Corra Harris, Author of 

 "The Circuit Rider's Wife" and "The Recording Angel," thus defines the extraordinary charm of 

 Mrs. Porter's book: 



"There is not a financier in Wall Street, not an artisan, nor grocerman, nor clerk in any city who reads this 

 story who will not discover in himself some dim relationship, buried beneath the dry and dead leaves of commer- 

 cialism, to this medicine man, who lived with his dog in a cabin in the green shade upon the banks of its singing 

 water. A vacation likeness to be sure, for few men of to-day are sufficiently hardy in mind or body to endure such 

 an existence longer than three weeks. But that is the fault of our kind of civilization, not of the life portrayed 

 in "The Harvester." 



Illustrated in colors. Net, $1.35. 



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Freckles " and " A Girl of the Limberlost," the other mem- 

 bers of this delightful trio, are selling better to-day than when 

 they were published six and three years ago, respectively. 



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were set in the field is shown in the illustra- 

 tions. 



At the end of the season we checked up our results 

 and found them to be as follows: 



PLOT NO. 



METHOD OF HANDLING 



\1ELD PEE ACRE 



I 

 2 



3 



Transplanted twice 

 Transplanted once 

 Not transplanted 



g.8g Tons 

 8.38 " 

 5-95 



The crop was sold to a 

 canning factory for §10 per 

 ton which made the value 

 of the fruit from the above 

 test plots respectively 

 $98.90, $83.80 and $59.50. 

 The plants were set on each 

 of these plots at a distance 

 of 5 by 5 feet which made 

 1742 to the acre. The cost 

 of transplanting the plants 

 was $1 per thousand or 

 $1.74 extra expense per 

 acre for those that were 

 transplanted once, and 

 $3.48 for those that were 

 transplanted twice. After 

 deducting each of these 

 items from the value of 

 the crops secured from the 

 corresponding plots we had 

 the following figures which 

 represented the results by 

 actual test secured from the 

 plants started and handled 

 in the three different ways: 



Not transplanted 

 yield. 5.95 tons an acre 



Plants hotbed grown, transplanted twice be- 

 fore setting $95.42 per A. 



Plants hotbed grown, transplanted once be- 



for setting 82,06 per A. 



Plants hotbed grown, not transplanted be- 



for setting 59.50 per A. 



The season was rather dry, which probably made 

 the differences somewhat greater than they would 

 have been in a wet season. However, the point at 

 stake was settled quite definitely and we will be 

 looking for transplanted plants in the future 

 and will be willing to pay a much higher price 

 for them. 



Indiana. J. S. Boyle. 



Staking and Pruning Tomatoes 



THE biggest returns are realized from tomato 

 plants that have been staked and pruned. 

 Plants so treated throughout the season will excel 

 in yield any other tomato plants you have ever had. 

 On an average, each branch will set three clusters 

 of four large fruits each. We have had thirty-six 

 fruits of eight ounces each, or eighteen pounds of 

 fruit, as the average per plant. After you have 

 learned how to thin out poorly-shaped specimens 

 early in their development, you may even beat this 

 record. 



This treatment will likewise enable you to set 

 the plants 2x25 ft. apart another year, instead 



Remove all side shoots that develop at the base of the 

 plants and along the three main stalks 



