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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



93 



VIC K'S 



GARDEN 

 an'a FLORAL 



IT'S FREE 



GUIDE 



1918 



""■■ WRITE TODAY 

 Several New Features 



Based on our experience as the 

 oldest mail order seed concern and 

 largest growers of Asters and other seeds 

 in America. 500 acres and 12 greenhouses 

 in best seed growing section. Our Guide is full 

 of helpful information about planting, etc. — 

 an invaluable aid to a successful garden. Illus- 

 trates and describes leading Vegetables, Flowers, 

 Farm Seeds, Plants and Fruits. With our Guide, 

 the best we have issued, we will gladly include 

 interesting booklet, "A Liberty Garden." 

 Both are absolutely free. 

 Send for your copies to-day, before you forget. 

 For 25? we will include either our Superb Class 

 And Color Aster Collection of three 2C# packets, 

 one each Perfection White, Mikado Rose and 

 Autumn Glory (Pink.) 



Or Our Finest Small Garden Vegetable Col- 

 lection of six packets, one each Beets Vick's 

 Early Market, early, best red; Carrot Danver's 

 Half Long, extra fine quality; Onion Crystal 



White Wax, early, large, mild; Lettuce Big Boston, sure 

 heading, delicious; Radish Vick's Scarlet Globe, most 

 popular ever grown; Tomato Royal Red, very productive, 

 deep rich color. For 50^ both collections, and a packet of 

 our famous Early Flowering Cosmos. 



JAMES VICK'S SONS 



62 Stone Street, Rochester, N. Y. 

 The Flower City 



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SAVE THE TKEES— Kill San Jose Scale, Aphis, 

 White Fly, etc., by spraying your trees with 



GOOD'SSSSFISH OIL 



SOAP N?3 



Sure death to tree pests. Contains nothing" injurious to 

 trees — fertilizes the soil. Used and endorsed by U. S. 

 Dept. of Agriculture. 



PpCC Our valuable book on Tree and Plant 



r IXCiEi Diseases. Write for it to-day. 

 JAMES GOOD, Original Maker, 2111-15 E. Susquehanna At*., Phila. 



WHOLESALE PRICES 



On large orders of small fruit plants; large assortment 

 of the BEST new and standard varieties to select from, 

 including the BEST fall bearing kinds. 25 years" ex- 

 perience in propagating fruit plants, and every ship- 

 ment backed by our ironclad guarantee. Send to-day 

 for our free catalogue, showing eight pages of berries 

 in their natural colors. 



A. P. Weston & Co., Bridgman, Mich. 



Morris Nurseries 



ORIENTAL PLANE 



Commonly known as Buttonwood and 

 •wrongly called the Sycamore. A very dig- 

 nified, substantial looking tree. Splendid 

 for street planting. An exception, 

 ally fine shade tree for lawns. 

 Grows to a large size with beauti- 

 ful wide spreading branches. 

 Easily transplanted. Write to-day 

 for our free catalogue. Describes 

 and illustrates many varieties of 

 trees, shrubs, plants and flowers. 

 Drop us a postal to-day. 



The Morris Nursery Co. 

 Box 804, West Chester, Pa. 



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Lawn Grass Has Only 

 a Short Growing Season 



Soon the dull browns of winter will give place to the delicate 

 greens of spring — and the first hint comes when the lawn grass 

 renews its growth. 



Roots of lawn grasses make their best growth in early spring, 

 and in the fall, when the days are cool. A quickly avail- 

 able, concentrated fertilizer, applied as soon as growth starts, 

 supplies the food the plants need at this time, and will help 

 them to withstand hot, dry summer weather. 



Takoma Odorless 

 Lawn Plant Food 



js a highly concentrated fertilizer, containing all necessary elements in such 

 form that the grass roots seize them quickly, and the effect is soon apparent. 



Lower Costs and Larger Results 



To fertilize an acre satisfactorily with stable 

 manure requires 10 to is tons, making the 

 average cost $40; Sheep Manure, 1 to 2 tons, 

 average cost $40; Humus, 2 to 4 tons, aver- 

 age cost $35; Bone Meal (highest grade), 

 1000 pounds, costing $25; Takoma Odorless 

 Lawn Plant Food only 400*pounds, costing $18, 

 Hie mo-it economical material of all and the 

 most efficacious. 



Prices and Application 



Takoma Odorless Plant Food is very concen- 

 trated, and should always be applied only one 

 pound to every 100 square feet. Our 50 lb. 



Eackage, sufficient for a lawn 50'xioo', at $4; 

 ag lots in 100 lb. bags, at $6.50 per bag, de- 

 livered by express anywhere east of Cleve- 

 land, Ohio. Acre quantities, 400 lbs. or more, 

 at 4^c per pound f.o.b. Takoma Park, D. C, 

 for shipment anywhere, by express or freight. 



Send your order now; this is the proper time to apply the Plant Food. Can also be 

 used on roses and other plants, and will keep indefinitely. Our booklet on "The Maintenance 

 of Lawns" will be sent on request. 



Odorless Plant Food Company 



1317-19 NEW YORK AVENUE, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Our Garden Plant Food will enable you to meet the present need for large yields 

 from small areas. This is possible only when the soil has a plentiful supply of the necessary 

 fertilizer elements. Takoma Odorless Garden Plant Food is concentrated, easy to use, effica- 

 cious, and absolutely odorless. Prices same as Lawn Plant Food; application same or more. 

 This product also put up in 25 lb. packages at $2 delivered east of Cleveland, Ohio. 



THE policy of the Bay State Nurseries has never changed. After a quarter of a century of experience we 

 believe in it more than ever. It is simply this: Give Value for Value. We can do this because we 

 spend very little money on the selling end of our business but we spend liberally in growing and handling 

 all our products. We have nearly 500 acres of ornamental nursery stock, but we employ no salesmen and 



spend but little in printers' ink. Don't look for any large display of advertising from us. Our money goes into the growing of our 

 stock and we expect, as in the past, that our stock will sell our stock. Pleased customers are among our most valuable assets. Our 

 1918 catalogue is for the asking. Get one and send us a trial order. We will guarantee you satisfaction. 



THE BAY STATE NURSERIES, 678 Adams Street, North Abington, Mass. 



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