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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 19 18 



A Tool That Stands 



for Liberty 



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Are you running your 

 garden or is the gar- 

 den running you? 

 Weedy gardens run 

 the enthusiasm out 

 of many a home gar- 

 dener long before the 

 garden bears crops. Don't 

 let weeds make a slave of you! Use a 



LIBERTY Adjustable 

 Cultivator and Weeder 



Learn of the joys of pulling or pushing this great 

 labor-saving tool through the mellow soil. See 

 it stir the ground, cut and uproot weeds, pul- 

 verize the soil — all in one operation. Easily 

 adjusted (see thumbscrews) to cultivate spaces 

 four to ten inches wide. 



Special Wheel Attachment 

 Saves Stooping 



By removing the handle and attaching the 

 cultivator to a special 

 wheel frame, the Liberty 

 cultivator becomes an 

 efficient wheelhoe and weeder. 

 Adjustable to four different 

 heights. May be worked be- 

 tween rows or with wheel off- 

 set, will straddle rows. 



Prices: Liberty Cultiva- 

 tor, as shown above, with 

 5 ft. polished ash handle $1.50. 



With Combination hard- 

 wood and metal Wheelframe, 

 as shown below $3.00. Write 

 for illustrated booklet TODAY. 



J. E. Gilson Company 

 Port Washington, Wis. 





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WATERWEEDS of all kinds are easily removed from lakes, ponds, 

 streams, etc., by the Submarine Weed Cutting Saw. Send for 

 particulars. Aschert Bros., West Bend, Wis. 





Why Handicap 

 Your Flowers? 



Half the beauty of cut flowers is in 

 their "setting." A most appropriate 

 container for any kind of flower will be 

 found in 



This Beautiful "Moss Aztec" 

 Vase— $1.00 Postpaid 



Its design, execution, and general char- 

 acter are fully in keeping with the high 

 standards that have made "Moss Aztec" 

 Pottery the choice of the discriminating. 



PETERS & HEED POTTERY COMPANY, South Zanesvlllp, 



{Concluded from page 242) 

 Green Mountain, Peach Blow, and Snow are 

 good late varieties. 



Now is the time to transplant celery plants 

 sown in May in a coldframe, placing them three 

 or four inches apart in another coldframe to 

 make stocky plants to be set in the open ground 

 in July. 



Reminders for the Flower Garden 



COW a few pepper seeds along with the Asters. 

 ^ The beetle will attack the peppers in 

 preference to the Asters. If Asters are sown 

 late, either at the end of May or the first of 

 June, they are less apt to be attacked by the 

 beetles. 



Spray Chrysanthemums with "Black-leaf 

 40" to rid them of the aphis. 



Trim Dahlia plants of all the weak 

 shoots and have only one or two strong ones 

 left. 



If large blooms are preferred on Chrysan- 

 themums to a mass of bloom, pinch off the 

 side shoots and also a few buds. 



Cut down the Cosmos with clippers to make 

 them branch out rather than grow into 

 spindly plants. 



Successional sowings of annuals can be 

 made to get continuous bloom all summer and 

 late into the Fall. Nasturtiums, Pansies, 

 Larkspur, Cornflower, Phlox Drummondi, 

 Mignonette and Sweet Alyssum are a few that 

 can be treated this way. 



Dead Roses should not remain on the 

 bushes. Cut Roses every day. Keep the soil 

 stirred and fertilize with well rotted cow 

 manure and some bone meal, and wood 

 ashes, or water occasionally with manure 

 water. 



A low-growing annual like Alyssum or 

 Portulaca or Mignonette is pretty under the 

 Rose bushes, and keeps the roots cool. 



"Attention" in the Orchard 



TF THE limbs of the trees are too close cut 

 *■ them out. 



Thin out fruit if too crowded on plum, 

 apple, and peach trees. Spray for coddling 

 moth or curculio up to June 1st, — bordeaux 

 with arsenate of lead is the spray to use. See 

 that the spray goes well up under the leaves, 

 and right into the heart of bloom. 



Virginia. J. M. Patterson. 



In the Rose Garden 



T/"EEP the blooms cut. This not only 

 ■"■ keeps the plants looking better; but 

 serves also as a sort of constant pruning 

 which stimulates the further growth of 

 blooming wood. Cut the buds with fairly 

 long stems; cut always above an outside eye, 

 so that the plant will make a vase-shaped or 

 open centre growth. 



Spray regularly. The green aphis is 

 almost sure to put in an appearance, so add 

 nicotine to whatever other spray you may 

 be using (it will take only a few cents worth 

 each time); and keep this pest from getting 

 any serious start. 



Put on a summer mulch. The clippings 

 from your lawn will be excellent for this 

 purpose; or light manure, or the remains of the 

 winter mulching, if saved; even sifted coal 

 ashes will help hold the moisture around the 

 plants. 



While the bushes are blooming profusely, an 

 occasional application of liquid manure, or of 

 nitrate of soda, will help them stand the strain 

 without having the blossoms decrease in 

 size, as they will if the plants are not helped. 



Perfection 



in Cultivation 



To save moisture and fertility, to give air access to the 

 roots and sweeten the soil, such are the principle reasons 

 for cultivation. The tool that does all this perfectly, 

 in shortest time, with least effort, is the 



Leonard Perfection Cultivator 



The knives cut and up-root the weeds, loosen the soil, 

 the discs pulverize it, prevent moisture from coming 

 to surface. Plants need moisture most. Save the 

 moisture in your garden the "Perfection" way. 



No. 1, with 2 discs, 6" or 7" knives 



No. 2, with 4 discs, ^\", &\" and 8f" knives 



No. 3, with 4 discs, 10" or n" knives ' 



Any of 3 Sizes, $3.50 Each 



Choose the patriotic combination of "Perfection" 

 weeder, plus Leonard's Seeds for your patriotic garden 

 Write for catalogue TO-DAY. 



LEONARD SEED COMPANY 



226 West Kinzie Street Chicago, Illinois 



ORCHIDS 



Largest importers and growers of • 

 Orchids in the United States 



Send twenty-five cents for catalogue. This amount will bs refunded 

 on your first order. 



LAGER & HURRELL 



Orchid Growers and Importers 



SUMMIT, N.J. 



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NEW YORK 

 1170 Broadway 



BOSTON 

 49 Federal St. 



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