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T II E GARDEN MAGAZIN E 



March, 19 18 



The Liberty 

 Cultivator Weeder 



you have been wishing for 



A seven-toothed cultivator that will help you maintain a 

 weedless garden throughout the season, with least labor. 

 Light, yet powerful; made for thorough work and hardest 

 use. Easily and quickly adjusted to from 4" to 10" 

 width. With middle tooth removed, it will cultivate both 

 sides of row at once. 



Quickly Turned into 

 sturdy Wheel Hoe 



By means of a patent 

 socket, the Liberty 

 cultivator is attached to 

 a wheelframe, as shown 

 to left. You then have 

 a wheelhoe that is ad- 

 justable for width of 

 cultivation and for 

 height of person doing 

 it. With wheel offset, 

 and middle tooth re- 

 moved, both sides of 

 row can be hoed as fast 

 as you can walk. 

 Adjustable Liberty Cultivator Weeder, 

 with 5 feet long polished ash handle $1.50. 



With special wheel attachment, complete, as shown 



above, $3.00. 



Prices : 



shrubs, 

 flowers, and garden 



will please you as an efficient combination 

 scuffle hoe, weeder, rake and cultivator. So 

 easy to handle, it never tires man, woman or 

 child. Comes in four sizes, differing in width 

 of blade, for different work. Prices: — 3%" blade 

 80c; 5" blade 90c; 6" blade 95c; 8" blade $1.10. 



Send for Circular— NOW! 



Learn all about our complete line of labor savers in the garden. 

 Ask your dealer to see them or write us direct. Tell us which tool 

 interests you most and we will send full information — FREE 

 Don't accept a substitute. 



J. E. GILSON CO., Port Washington, Wis. 



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(Concluded from page 06) 

 International Flower Show, New York 



THE Annual International Flower Show 

 will be held in the Grand Central Palace, 

 in New York, March 14th to 2ist, as pre- 

 viously announced. And, as in former years, 

 the Tea Garden feature, for the benefit of the 

 Red Cross, will be one of the major attractions. 

 The management offers some interesting 

 novelties in arrangement and spectacular 

 floral display. Formal RoseGardens will again 

 be featured and other groups of flowering 

 plants in artistic arrangements. 



Not the least attractive feature will be a 

 "wargarden"inaction,whichis promised asthe 

 contribution from one of the large residential 

 estates of New Jersey. This will occupy 

 several hundred square feet and will represent 

 a typical vegetable garden as planned to meet 

 the exigencies of the times. The plant lover 

 and curio hunter will find in theOrchid displays 

 the usual interest that properly belongs to 

 these fantastic plants. 



Visitors may rest assured that they will see 

 typical displays of the season's floral novelties. 



American Gladiolus Society Membership Campaign 



ON FEBRUARY 1st Mr. A. E. Kunderd, 

 Goshen, Ind., President of the Society, 

 started the wheels moving for a five- 

 months' aggressive membership campaign, 

 with the idea that the newly made food gar- 

 deners may be initiated in the delights of 

 growing the Gladiolus, "Flower Growing 

 as a Relaxation from the Stress of War." 

 The Membership Committee is under the 

 leadership of J. J. Lane of The Garden Maga- 

 zine. In order to encourage action the Execu- 

 tive Committee has authorized the waiving 

 of the initiation fee during this period. 



International Garden Club 



npHE second part of the Journal (Vol. 1, 

 -*- No. 2) issued under date of December, 

 follows closely upon its predecessor. It con- 

 tains many articles of real interest and shows 

 much improvement over the earlier issue. 

 George C. Thomas reviews the new introduc- 

 tions of outdoor Roses. Dr. Van Fleet speaks 

 of the possibility and production of American 

 garden Roses. John Scheepers writes on the 



Elanting of May flowering Tulips. Alexander 

 urie writes on tree surgery. The volume is 

 freely illustrated, including color plates of 

 some recent Roses. A Guide to the Litera- 

 ture of Pomology by E. A. Bunyard is an im- 

 portant contribution. The volume is illus- 

 trated with color plates. 



Nurserymen Offer Expert Advice 



IN ORDER to contribute "their bit" to the 

 national need the members of the Orna- 

 mental Growers' Association recently adopted 

 the following resolutions: 



Whereas, the successful prosecution of the war in which our 

 country is engaged will overtax our normal food production 

 if we are to supply our people at home and our allies abroad, 

 and 



Whereas, throughout every state and section of the nation there 

 are scores of millions of fruit trees of mature and bearing 

 size and age that would bring within the reach and purchasing 

 power of the most humble of our citizens hundreds of millions 

 of bushels of fruit in excess of the normal production during 

 the season of 1918, without the entailment of great expense 

 or the encumbering of our already crowded transportation 

 facilities, 



Therefore, he it resolved, that we nurserymen in conference 

 assembled tender our service gratuitously to the owners of 

 fruit trees everywhere in the matter of instruction for the 

 immediate rejuvenation of barren and under-productive 

 trees to make them fully productive. We urge nursery- 

 men everywhere to render this patiiotic service whenever 

 and wherever possible to increase the production of fruit as 

 food from present orchards for the winning of America's war. 

 We respectfully suggest that the national and state food 

 administrators include in all their propaganda for increased 

 food production this agitation and admonition to spray, prune, 

 cultivate, fertilize and otherwise so handle as to bring into 

 full and immediate production all orchards and fruit trees of 

 whatever kind or wherever located. 



Lawn mowers 



J AWN mower blades 

 must be sharp all the 

 time to cut clean and 

 easily — like razor blades 

 they drag and chop 

 when dull. 



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Food Will Win the War 



DAHLIAS 



OF DISTINCTION 



You want the new mammoth kinds 

 that will win the prizes. I have lately 

 originated over 200 gorgeous new dahlias 

 which I am offering in my new catalogue. 

 Stillman's dahlias are world known. Get 

 a copy of my new descriptive catalogue 

 and guide, free. Over 1400 kinds grown 

 last season. 



GEO. L. STILLMAN, Dahlia Specialist 



Westerly, R. I. Box C-8 



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