Gardening with Buist Top-Notchers 



Make sure of full-measure returns from your 1920 garden by planting types and 

 strains of vegetables that have stood the test of time. For 92 years Buist's 

 Seeds have enjoyed liberal patronage on the part of exacting gardeners. 



Sorts that Stand for Bountiful Crops 



All are as dependable under widely differing conditions of soil and climate as our many 

 years of practical experience have found any vegetable can be. 

 Beet, Buist's Perfect Model. Of particularly fine home-garden quality, sweet 

 and fine grained. Rich color and small tops. Pkt., 5c; 02., 20c; 54 lb., 60c. 

 Cabbage, Copenhagen Market. Greatest "discovery" in cabbages in a de- 

 ^^ y cade. Readyin ioodaysand twice aslargeasanyotherearly. Pkt., 10c; oz., 50c. 



Carrot, Buist's Improved Rubicon. Sweet, tender and entirely free 

 from coarseness at all stages of growth. Medium early. Pkt., 5c; oz., 25c. 

 Lettuce, Buist's "Veribest" Butterhead. Early and of 

 "second-to-none" quality, crisp, tender and free from bitterness. 

 5c; oz., 20c; '4 lb. 



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60c. 



Onion, Buist's Prizetaker. The famous mam- 

 moth yellow home garden sort of America, 

 mild, crisp and of good flavor. Pkt., 5c; oz., 

 30c; X A lb., 90c. 



Radish, Buist's Scarlet Button. Very early, 

 crisp, mild and tender. Bright scarlet in color, 

 ready for the table in 21 days. Pkt., 5c; oz., 

 15c; Hlb., 50c. 



Tomato, Buist's Earli-Belle. Choicest early 

 bright red sort of great solidity and prolific nature. 

 Pkt., 5c; oz., 35c; l A lb., $1.15. 

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1021 Peters Avenue TROY, OHIO 



Strawberry Plants 



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Better Seeds for Your Garden 



The per cent, that will grow is marked on the package 



Harris Seeds are the kind that make the garden more productive and the 

 vegetables more delicious. Bred as carefully as prize live stock on our own 

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You can get fine results from this pedigree seed because every lot 

 is tested and the percentage that will grow is marked on the label. So 

 you know just how thick to plant. 



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"First Aid" to an Amaryllis 



accidents win happen to the most 



carefully cared for plants sometimes, but, 

 if one uses a little ingenuity, he can usually 

 remedy things. However, my success with 

 "first aid" measures to my beloved Amaryllis 

 this winter scores ahead of all past feats. I 

 had been keeping my plant, an Amaryllis John- 

 soni, up stairs in a sunny window until the buds 

 would be about ready to open. There were to 

 be five beautiful flowers and I had watched it 

 day in and day out as only a real plant-lover 

 watches a pet flower. When the time came for 

 it to open I asked my "man-about-the-house" 

 to carry it downstairs for me as I wished to 

 have it on the library table during its blossom- 

 ing, where all the family could see and enjoy 

 it. But, in some manner, in moving it, the 

 lovely long bud-stalk was broken. As it was 

 borne into the room I saw with consternation, 

 that it was hanging limp and the life juice of 

 the plant was already pouring out. Being a 

 surgeon's daughter I thought of adhesive plas- 

 ter. I made a little light wooden splint, about 

 three inches in length just long enough to 

 stiffen the stalk, then around that wrapped 

 adhesive plaster, enough completely to cover 

 the wound and stanch the flow of juice. I 

 awaited the result. Well, the result was grati- 

 fying enough to suit any plant-surgeon. In 

 proper time the buds opened; the flowers 

 lasted as long as they ever do, and the plant, 

 aside from the rather unsightly plaster, was 

 as much a thing of beauty as ever. 



K. D. B., Iowa. 



Lengthening Narcissus Season 



¥ HAD an interesting experience with Narcis- 

 *■ sus last year and the year before. A row of 

 the Emperor variety was planted beside the 

 house wall from front to rear. Nothing unusual 

 in this! When the spring opened, the speci- 

 mens to bloom first were at the rear end of the 

 row. Fully a third of the total number of 

 plants blossomed before the front third ap- 

 peared above ground. The middle third was 

 intermediate in time of appearance and blos- 

 soming. The whole row lasted nearly six 

 weeks. Had there been different varieties 

 I would not have been surprised but with 

 only one kind I was at first surprised. In 

 another place I had a bed about two feet wide 

 and six or eight feet long where the specimens 

 next the wall were three weeks earlier than 

 those on the outside. The warmth of the 

 cellar was the cause in each case. In the 

 former, the rear third was beside the furnace 

 cellar, the intermediate third beside the "cold 

 cellar," and the front third by the veranda. 

 Here's a hint for extending the season of early 

 blooming bulbs. 



M. G. Kains, Long Island. 



Planning for the Summer Garden 



CHORTLY after Christmas last year I began 

 ^to plan for the coming Summer's garden, and 

 suddenly decided to try and get the seedlings 

 started early; for here on the Sound our real 

 hot seasons are late and short, so while my 

 orders were being filled by the seedsmen I 

 began preparing the earth for these precious 

 seeds. Shocked to discover that I had no 

 earth as the ground was securely frozen, I 

 had to resort to thawing out the window boxes 

 all around the house. After sifting the earth 



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