V'///////////^/////////////^^^^^ ■ ■ ■ //////JW/A 



HICKS MONOGRAPHS 



FIVE LITTLE BOOKS THAT WILL HELP YOU GET 

 THE MOST FROM YOUR LAND 



EACH SUBJECT IS COMPREHENSIVELY TREATED. CHECK 



THOSE THAT INTEREST YOU PARTICULARLY AND THEY 



WILL BE MAILED WITH OUR COMPLIMENTS 



□ Hardy Garden Flowers 



grow. 



Color; vvhen they 

 bloom; how they 

 Formal gardens and old fashioned borders. 



□ Flowering Trees and Shrubs &£*<£ 



and new varieties that will surprise your friends. 

 Berry bearing shiubs for the birds and Winter land- 

 scape. How to use them all effectively. 

 □ CL„ J_ Its benefits to mother and baby; the 

 OlldUC children and their pets; friends, guests and 

 everybody. Its relation to the coziness and beauty 

 of the home. 



□ Fruits r ^ le ^ est ^ nc ' s f° r home use. When they 

 nulla ripen. How to grow and care for. Space 

 required. Recipes for toothsome preserves. 



□ Foundation Planting I^tlAl^Z 



look cozy and homelike. \ arious types of country 



homes illustrated and treatments that show the touch 



of an artist. 



Place my name on your 

 mailing list. I have 



given below the area of my grounds so you can send 



what will be most helpful. 



□ Future Publications 



Name Area of Grounds . 



Address . 



HICKS NURSERIES 



Westbury (Box M), Long Island, N. Y. 



Fertilizer — Ring 

 Depositor 



Places any material, phos- 

 phate, nitrate, lime, salt, ashes, 

 etc., in a ring around growing 

 plant or seed. Amount can be 

 varied. 



Tested and approved by 

 Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tions and Farm Bureaus. 



Valuable on a large or small 

 area. The greatest invention 

 in the history of agriculture 

 and horticulture for nourish- 

 ing growing plants. 



Send for Booklet, Telling About 

 this Wonderful System 



George William Browning 

 Clinton, N. Y. 



Pansy Seed 



RARE 



ORIENTAL 

 FLOWERING TREES 



FROM PERSIA, CHINA and JAPAN 



Catalogue 



A. E. WOHLERT 



The Garden Nurseries 



Imported Giants. Pur- 

 ple, bronze, indigo, azure, 

 mauve, canary, mahog- 

 any, silver-white, cardinal, coal-black, golden or violet: 25c 

 per pkt. Butterfly Collection including blotched, striped, 

 mottled, shaded, margined, curled and frilled — indescriba- 

 ble variegation — -$i per 1000 seeds. Postpaid with cultural 

 instructions. 

 Patrician Seed Co., Inc., Dept.E, P.O. Station M, New York City 



1 Narberth, Montg. Co. 



!«...«... L-. — 



Per 



Killing Poison Ivy by Spraying 



VARIOUS SUBSTANCES TRIED, BUT SULPHATE OF 

 IRON WITH OIL GAVE BEST RESULTS 



POISON IVY abounded in quantities on 

 our grounds, and its presence during 

 the summer was a continual source of annoy- 

 ance. The vines grew in and over the stone 

 walls, on fences, and even persisted in climb- 

 ing trees. It was present in such large quan- 

 tities that pulling the vines was out of the 

 question, even if someone was at hand who 

 desired the work. 



CUTTING BACK DID NO GOOD 



Our neighbors tried to eradicate the Poison 

 Ivy by cutting the vines. We also cut the 

 vines flush with the ground in late summer, 

 and they grew the following spring as vigor- 

 ously as ever. This treatment seemed to 

 give them a kind of beneficial pruning and 

 aided in developing a much stronger vine the 

 following season. Some of the vines were 

 pulled up, but the roots had ramified in the 

 ground under the stone wall, so that getting them 

 all was impossible. Where it existed on wooden 

 fences we pulled the vines, and found that 

 they came up fresh in the ground from the 

 sprouts made by the roots. 



Sulphuric acid was tried at the place where 

 the stem joined the ground and the Ivy sprouted 

 up ten for one around it. We sprinkled an en- 

 tire piece of ground with sulphuric acid, and 

 the result was that nothing else would grow 

 on the area treated. Kerosene was also tried 

 on some vines. It surely killed the leaves, but 

 also killed the grass around it. 



WEED KILLERS TRIED 



We had previously secured a quantity of a 

 patent weed killer for killing Dandelions, and 

 in our spraying experiments in the grass near 

 spots where Poison Ivy was prevalent it was 

 observed that the weed killer blistered the 

 leaves of the Poison Ivy. Closer observation 

 revealed the fact that the older leaves were 

 blistered and that the young growth was not 

 affected by the spraying. To use this weed 

 killer was an expensive proposition, so we 

 decided to find out what the general run of 

 weed killers were composed of, our object be- 

 ing to secure an adequate weed killer which 

 would be inexpensive. Copper sulphate was 

 first tried, but it did not adhere to the foliage 

 when applied alone, and while it burned the 

 foliage of some plants it did not seem to have 

 much effect on the Poison Ivy. Sulphate 

 of iron was next tried, and it seemed to adhere 

 better to the foliage and didn't kill the grass. 

 This chemical will stick to the foliage of plants 

 having hairy leaves, but seems to roll off from 

 the grasses and grains. 



SULPHATE OF IRON MIXED WITH OIL 



A small quantity of oil emulsion which was used 

 for San Jose scale was added to the sulphate of 

 iron, and it seemed more effective in killing the 

 leaves than sulphate of iron alone, but would not 



{Concluded on page 294) 



