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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



July, 1912 



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Why bother 

 to raise so many " good 

 things " unless — 



— unless you save them. Your wife can ''put 

 up " many kinds of fruit. But it isn't so easy 

 to ''can" vegetables. 



Not — if she depends on old-style, narrow- 

 necked, tin-topped, screw -capped jars that take 

 in only small fruit. This year find out the 

 better way to "put up" fruit — and vegeta- 

 bles, too — the 



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This is the all-glass jar, with the all-glass cap 

 — no metal to taint the fruit — no twisting and 

 t-irning. Xo shattering, no splattering. Easy 

 to fill, easy to seal, easy to open and clean. 



Don't allow good garden stuff or fruit "to go to 

 waste." You may be sure it will keep — veg- 

 etables and fruit will not spoil in these air-tight, 

 all-glass sanitary jars. 



Free Jar — 

 Free Book 



Cut out this coupon, 

 take it to your grocer 

 — he will give vou one 

 E-Z Seal Jar— FREE. 

 Be sure and write us 

 for FREE Book of Re- 

 cipes — it tells many 

 things you should 

 know. Get the Jar 

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 the Book from us. 



HAZEL-ATLAS GLASS COMPANY 

 Wheeling, W. Va. 



1-Qt. E-Z Seal Jar CH 

 FREE for the Coupon 



Please note — in order to secure free jar this coupon must 

 be presented to your dealer before Sept. ist, 1912, with 

 blank spaces properly filled out. 



HAZEL-ATLAS GLASS CO. 

 Wheeling. W. Va. 

 This is to certify. That I have this day received one 

 "Atlas" E-Z Seal Jar Free of all cost and without any obli- 

 gation on my pan.. This is the first coupon presented by 

 any member of my family. 



Xame 



Address 



TO THE DEALER: Present this to jobber from whom 

 you recieved E-Z Seal Jars. All coupons must be signed 

 by you and returned before Nov. ist, 1012. 

 DEALER'S CERTIFICATE. This is to certify, that I 

 gave away one 'Atlas'' E-Z Seal Jar to the person whose 

 signature appears above. 



Dealer's Xame 



Address 



of 3 x 3. without detriment to either plant or yield. 

 You can grow fifty tomato plants where you 

 formerly grew thirty, and these fifty will produce 

 more and better fruits, plant for plant, than the 

 thirty ever did, grown in the old, easy fashion. 



Here is what should be done early in July: 



Plants set out the last week in Ala}- will be about 

 two to two and a half feet tall and will nearly cover 

 the space between rows if they are set two and a 

 half to three feet apart each way. Secure a number 

 of strong 5-foot stakes (any lumber yard will 

 furnish fifty oak stakes 5 feet tall and two 

 inches square, for about §4). Drive one stake 

 to each plant, setting it eight to ten inches 

 deep and about four inches away from the base 

 of the plant. 



Get your pocket k ni fe and reduce the number 

 of branches on each plant to three of the strongest, 

 cutting away all the rest to within one inch of their 

 base. Tie the remaining three to the stake with 

 raffia or strips of rags. Place the first cord about 

 six inches above the surface of the soil, the second 

 eight inches above that, and so on. 



Go over the patch on an average of once a week 

 and prune and trim. The plant, feeling its growth 

 curbed in certain directions, attempts to make 

 up for this by sending out numerous side-shoots 

 from the main stalk and suckers from the branches. 

 Trim regularly all shoots that are produced at base 

 of plant so as to send all the strength of the plant 



Cut out all suckers that develop along the branches, 

 usually at the leaf joints 



into the vines and flowers above. Trim all suckers 

 that develop between leaf-joints on the branches 

 because they usually thrive at the expense of some 

 cluster just beyond them. 



By August first, the plants, or rather the three 

 branches, will have reached the tops of the poles. 

 Then cut out the crown of each branch and throw 

 all the strength of the plant into the fruits already 

 set and the clusters in process of forming. After 

 September first, cut off all flower clusters, for you 

 cannot possibly hope to get reasonably good-sized 

 fruits from flowers set after that period. In the 

 meantime, don't forget to go over your patch 

 occasionally and trim all shoots and suckers close 

 to their base. 



With the approach of cool nights, when the days 

 are getting shorter, it pays to trim the foliage from 

 around large clusters so as to give the sun a chance 

 to help color the fruits. If you desire to raise 

 some extra choice clusters for exhibition purposes, 

 it will pay you to slip some paper bags over them 

 when they are about half grown. The same 

 method is employed by grape growers to keep 

 insects from injuring the fruit. 



A few tablespoonsful of nitrate of soda, dissolved 

 in a bucket of water, will hasten maturity of fruits 

 later in the season. A quart applied to each plant 

 at intervals of a week will make a perceptible 

 difference in the quickness of ripening. 



Ohio. Adolph Kruhm. 



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