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T H E G A R I) E N M A G A Z I N E 



Mahch, 1918 



Make Things 

 Grow by Pruning 



Here is a hook, "The Little Pruning Book," that 

 will help you. It is an authoritative guide to right 

 pruning. This Iwck will tell you how, when and 

 where to prune. Pruning in the Flower Garden; 

 Pruning Hedges and Vines, Fruit Trees, are among 

 its eleven chapters of sound pruning advice. 



The kind of shears you get is equally important. 

 Pexto Pruning Shears will make pruning a pleasure. 

 The easy grip and clear cutting are the things you'll 

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Send to-day for a copy of our free circular, or 

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Address correspondence to 2186 West Third St., 

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PRUNING SHEARS 



SITUATION WANTED AS GARDENER on private place. Life 

 experience in all branches of gardening, landscape and floral work. 

 Specialties — Roses and Fruit trees. Married, no children, [41 years of 

 age. Bohemian descent. Box 191, Roslyn, L. I. 



Hardy Roses for the Garden 



Extra strong, two-year-old, dormant, field-grown, 

 low-budded plants of first quality. Plant early to 

 secure best results. 



My Handbook of Roses describes all the desir- 

 able varieties for the garden, including Hybrid 

 Teas, Teas, Hybrid Perpetuals, Polyanthas, 

 Rugosa Hybrids, Standard Roses in variety and 

 Walsh's world -famed Ramblers. Handbook 

 mailed on request. 



M. H. WALSH, Rose Specialist 



Box 376 Woods Hole, Massachusetts 



(Concluded from page 02) 



paper pots, which were packed close together 

 into the usual greenhouse wooden flats or 

 shallow boxes. These were set away on 

 shelves and given the usual greenhouse water- 

 ings till they were planted out June 8th. 



The forty plants from the paper pots 

 were set in forty separate hills in one row 

 with about eighteen inches between the 

 plants. The land which had not been 

 broken for several years was plowed in the 

 fall prior to planting and was disc-harrowed 

 June 5th. It was not extra fertile, manure 

 was not used for the potatoes, nor had any 

 been applied to this soil at least for many 

 years. Only a small amount of mixed fer- 

 tilizer containing 8 per cent, nitrogen and 10 

 per cent, phosphoric acid was used along the 

 row. The land contained considerable witch 

 grass, the season was dry and the plants con- 

 sequently at times suffered because of insuf- 

 ficient moisture. The row was hoed four 

 times and sprayed twice with bordeaux mix- 

 ture and lead arsenate. 



The yield per hill was not large but the 

 tubers were mostly of good size and smooth, 

 many weighed ten, eleven and twelve ounces. 



The method is interesting chiefly as it 

 shows what can be done to increase quickly 

 the stock of potatoes in times of great short- 

 age or to increase rapidly "seed" of a new 

 and valuable variety. The method can 

 also be readily used to secure extra early 

 potatoes from the home garden where one 

 has the use of a few square feet of greenhouse 

 bench space, or one may start the sprouting 

 in a garden hotbed or even in a box of sand 

 by the kitchen window, transferring the little 

 plants as potted to a coldframe and later, 

 as the weather warms up, to the garden. 



New Hampshire. James Macfarlane. 



Varietal Differences in Rhubarb? 



TSUALLY, people say, there are none! 

 *-^ And I never heard of anything that 

 better illustrates the differences than the 

 recent confession of a market gardener. This 

 man annually sold hundreds of pounds of 

 Red Mammoth, a coarse, hard, huge, intensely 

 acid variety, to a local grocer who gave it to 

 his customers because they would need extra su- 

 gar to make it palatable I I have never grown 

 this variety nor the Green Mammoth but 

 have grown Giant, a variety that with ordinary 

 cultural care grew stems 24 to 30 inches long 

 and as thick as my wrist, and from this fact, and 

 others to be mentioned presently, judge the 

 large varieties are inferior to the smaller ones. 

 The best variety that I have grown for home 

 use is Linnaeus, a rather late, small-stalked 

 variety of mild acidity and fine texture. The 

 next best with which I am acquainted is 

 Victoria which is fully as attractive looking 

 and nearly as good flavored as Linnaeus 

 but much larger and more productive. I 

 have not grown St. Martin's but have been 

 told that it is rich, spicy, very juicy and much 

 earlier than Linnaeus. Monarch, I am in- 

 formed, is a coarse, acid kind similar to Giant. 

 I have several times sown rhubarb seed to 

 get plants, but though I have had fair stands 

 I don't like this way because one has to wait 

 too long to get edible stalks and also because 

 the seedlings are very variable in size, pro- 

 ductivity, acidity, texture, earliness, etc. 

 The only way worth considering is to use 

 plants grown from "eyes" or divisions of 

 clumps known to produce stalks of good 

 quality — really correctly named varieties so 

 produced. — M. G. K. 



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155 Acres of Specimen Stock 



A rigorous "weeding out" process is practiced 

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