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ERE is 

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venient and practical 

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 quart jars of fruit or vege- 

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Conservo 



Conserves Fruit— Vegetables— Fuel— Food— Time 



It conserves, serves and saves. No 



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In canning, a new delicacy of flavor is 



secured and the rare flavor of fresh 



fruits and vegetables is retained. In 



cooking the food is cooked in its own 



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Thus saving the valuable mineral 



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The fuel saved by Conservo will 

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 P. S. Ridsdale, Secretary, 

 Nat'l Emergency Food 

 Garden Commission, 

 Washington, D. C. 



J Free Book — "Secrets of Cold-Pack Canning" and Conservo 

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(Concluded from page iq6) 

 comprehensive book on the subject published 

 this year; and it will be many years before 

 anything more helpful will come to the 

 assistance of the many who seriously consider 

 home gardening in all its phases. The 

 author has succeeded in dealing with the 

 subject in the broadest possible fashion by 

 incorporating in his book much of the best 

 material published by other writers on the 

 subject. Thus Garden Magazine readers 

 will not be surprised to find figures, and many 

 tables on vegetable varieties by Mr. Kruhm, 

 which first appeared in our own columns. 

 Every chapter of this 400 page book, which 

 includes small fruits, fruit trees, community 

 gardening, and what to do month by month, 

 bears witness to the practical knowledge of 

 the author. The information given is uni- 

 formly reliable; the advice on what to do, how 

 and when, is applicable to a wide territory. 

 Gardening America, amateur and professional 

 alike, owes a debt of gratitude to the author 

 for such an illuminating contribution to 

 current garden literature. 



Another cultural manual is reoffered in 

 "Putnam's Vegetable Book," 1 by Mae Savell 

 Croy, a disjointed grouping of paragraphs 

 relating to the various vegetables passed 

 under consideration. As a reference book of 

 practice and reminder in management, it may 

 have its use, but a close reading suggests that 

 the author, or compiler, lacks practical acquaint- 

 ance with the soil, and exception might be 

 taken to some of the author's statements in 

 endeavoring to correlate cause and effect. 



'Putnam's Vegetable Book by Mae Savell Croy. pp. vii + 

 258, and index. Cloth, y\ x 5 in. Price, £1.50. (New York, 

 G. P. Putnam's Sonsj. 



^ 'FortheconvenienceofthereaderstheEditorial 

 Dept. of The Garden Magazine will under- 

 take the purchase of books that may be desired. 

 Add ten per cent, to cost to cover postage. 



WITH us May is "The maddest, 

 merriest month." There is a mad 

 riot of color. Everything is giving 

 of its best. The tall, graceful 

 Darwin Tulips, the Irises, Peonies, and Roses, 

 the choicest of flowers — are in full bloom. 

 Eternal vigilance is the cost of all this beauty, 

 for disease and insects get in their deadly 

 work. There is the rose chafer to combat, and 

 the brown spot of the leaves, and the mildew 

 on the climbers; on the Hollyhocks and other 

 plants is rust; while aphis beset the Corn- 

 flowers, Chrysanthemums, and Peonies. 



If one began spraying in March, just as 

 the leaves appear, much trouble would be 

 averted; but a bi-weekly spraying is necessary 

 for some plants and this month the spraying 

 material should be summer strength so as not 

 to burn the leaves. The formula to be used 

 at this time is two pounds of copper sulphate, 

 five pounds of unslaked lime to fifty gallons of 

 water. Add to this quantity of bordeaux one 

 and one-half pounds of arsenate of lead. Mix 

 the sulphate, lime and arsenate of lead each 

 separately with a little water to dissolve 

 thoroughly before mixing them together, and 

 then add the remainder of the water, stirring 

 (Continued on page 200) 



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