90 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 19 18 



— — 





















































Mr' 



1 



zr4 





- 







—— - 









For Food Conservation, and Time Conservation 

 Buy Cold Frames 



YOU can conserve food by conserving time. You can 

 conserve time by starting your garden earlier. 

 You can start your garden earlier by setting out 

 your seedlings in cold frames now. 



Never mind the blows and snows. Never mind the 

 last "gasps" of Winter. Your plants can make just as 

 much progress in the frames as if it were late April or May. 

 Leave them there until they grow into sturdy, well 

 established plants. By that time, the weather will be 

 such that your regular garden will be ready for business. 



Then transplant them — with a full six weeks running 

 start over the man without cold frames. 



That six weeks head star t will mean more this year than 

 ever before. Will mean more to your country in food 

 conserved. Will mean more toyouindollars and cents be- 

 cause of the high vegetable prices that are sure to prevail. 



Send for our Booklet No. 215. It gives you a line 

 on the Pleasures and Profits of cold-frame growing. 

 Contains a wealth of valuable information as to how it 

 can be most successfully done. 



WHAT YOUR FRAMES WILL COST YOU 



Perhaps you want to get action right away. Don't want to wait for the Booklet. If so you can order now. 

 Here are prices on our most popular frames: 



Four Sash Standard Frame 



A good all-around size. Each sash 

 3 by 6 feet. Depth in front. 8 inches ; at 

 the back. 16 inches. Cypress is 1% inches 

 thick. 



Price $29.00 



3 Sash Standard Frame 23.35 



2 Sash Standard Frame 17.05 



Junior Frames 



Somewhat smaller than the Standard. 

 Very easy to handle. Can be used in 

 limited spaces where the Standard will 

 not quite fit. Sash is 34 inches by 38% 

 inches. 8 inches hig-h in front. 12 inches 

 in back. Cypress is 1 inch thick. Prices: 



1 sash frame $ 5.17 



2 sash frame 8.39 



3 sash frame $11.71 



4 sash frame 14.09 



Booster Boxes 



Handy little frames to set over single 

 plants. 11 by 12% inches. y % inch 

 cypress securely bolted together by cast 

 iron corner cleats. You can have ten of 

 them for so little as $C, 50. 



■■" ~ ' "~ 



BUILDERS OF GREENHOUSES AND CONSERVATORIES 



SALES OFFICES 

 NEW YORK BOSTON PHILADELPHIA 



42nd Street Building Tremont Building Widener Building 



ROCHESTER CHICAGO CLEVELAND 



Granite Building Continental and Commercial Bank Building Swetland Building 



TORONTO MONTREAL 



Royal Bank Building FACTORIES Transportation Building 



Irvington, N. Y. Des Plaines, HI. St. Catharines, Canada 



Woodruffs Gladioli 



Here I am again. My gladiolus flowers 

 again took first premium at Iowa State 

 Fair in 1017. 



Here are two (2) offers: First. 2 each 

 America, Chicago White, Mrs. King, Bur- 

 rell, Cracker Jack, Princepine, Baron Hu- 

 lot; one (r) each Niagara, Golden King, 

 TITANIC, Candidum. Glory and 25 State Fair 

 Preni. Mixture — all for$i.oo, postpaid. Second: 

 1 each Candidum, Eldorado, Geo. Paul, Golden 

 West, Halley, Jessie, Independence, Mrs. Pen 

 dleton. Pink Perfection, Peace, Schwaben, TI 

 TANIC, Princepine, Velvet King, postpaid 

 Ji.oo. My new catalogue sent to all. For 15c 

 will add 1 pkt. POTATO SEED which will 

 produce 50 new sorts potatoes. 

 You really must mentionthe Garden Magazine 



GEO. S. WOODRUFF 

 Independence Iowa 



1 2 Choice Irises . . $ 1 .00 

 8 Moisture-loving Plants 1 .00 



All different, all hardy. Postage paid 

 Oronogo Flower Gardens, Carthage, Mo. 



Horsford's 



25th Anniversary 

 Catalog of 



Cold 

 Weather 

 Plants 



Lilies, hardy peren- 

 nials, shrubs, trees, 

 vines, wild flowers, ferns, 

 orchids. The kinds that stand 

 cold weather. Better plant the 



kinds that stay: You should see this 

 plant list before placing spring orders. 

 Ask for list N. 

 F. H. H0RSF0RD, Charlotte. Vermont 



Eggplant as an Amateur's Crop 



'HpHE average amateur garden maker fights 

 ■*■ shy of eggplant, or at most buys 

 plants which somebody else has started. It 

 is true that the eggplant is not so easy to raise 

 as most other vegetables, and yet there is no 

 reason why the average amateur should not 

 succeed with it, especially if a hotbed is 

 available. If he has a little greenhouse, 

 success can be assured. 



It must be remembered first of all that the 

 eggplant loves heat. It likes a warmer 

 temperature even than tomatoes and peppers. 

 Seeds can be sown indoors or in a greenhouse 

 the middle of March. The more heat that 

 can be given the young plants the better. 

 The temperature should be kept up to 70, at 

 any rate. Directions for growing eggplant 

 often call for two or three transplantings. It 

 is right here that the average amateur is 

 likely to make his mistake. The eggplant 

 doesn't mind being shifted from one flat or 

 pot to another when it is very small, that is 

 to say, before its first true leaves have 

 developed. Later on it is impatient of hand- 

 ling. If the plants are transferred from their 

 original flats to a hotbed or to paper pots or 

 perhaps to other flats when small, and then 

 allowed to grow until set in the open ground, 

 the loss will be very small. 



It is of decided advantage to have a hotbed 

 for them, in which no other plants, unless 

 possibly peppers and tomatoes, are grown. 

 Then the heat can be kept as high as the 

 plants require. At the same time ventila- 

 tion must not be overlooked. When a hotbed 

 is not available, the plants may be started a 

 little later in the house, and then transferred 

 to a coldframe after cold weather is past. 

 It is much better, though, to have a little 

 bottom heat. 



Eggplant will grow in almost any good 

 garden soil, provided it is deep and well 

 drained. Of course a warm, sandy soil will 

 give best results, and it is especially import- 

 ant that it should contain an abundance of 

 humus. Because of its tender character the 

 eggplant should not be set out-of-doors in 

 the North until the first of June; possibly 

 later. Oftentimes eggplant fit in well as a 

 succession crop to follow early lettuce. If 

 the ground has been manured heavily in the 

 spring, it will only be necessary to use com- 

 mercial fertilizer when the plants are set in 

 the ground. Nitrate of soda is the fertilizer 

 most needed. Sometimes it is planted in the 

 hills, but a better plan is to apply it as a top 

 dressing. As the plants require considerable 

 room, it is best to have them three feet apart 

 in the rows, with about four feet between the 

 rows. 



It is of supreme importance to remember 

 that eggplant cannot be grown for more than 

 one season in the same place, unless con- 

 ditions are remarkably favorable. Usually 

 the second season finds the plants succumb- 

 ing early to fungus troubles in spite of all 

 the spraying and nursing which can be given 

 them. A four or even five year rotation is 

 required. 



The purple varieties seem to be the earliest, 

 and for that reason are to be preferred in the 

 North for amateur gardens. It is only fair 

 to say, though, that some markets demand 

 the black varieties, and that some such sort 

 as Black Beauty is mostly produced by com- 

 mercial growers. European gardeners have 

 a fondness for white varieties, and a good 

 white fruited kind is Ivory, originated by Dr. 

 B. D. Halstead, of New Jersey. 



The Readers' Service mill give you suggestions for the care and purchase of cats and dogs and other pets 



