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Start in February- 

 Boosting Your Garden 



Gardens are a lot like automobiles. 

 Cranking and starting them when cold, takes time 

 before the engine is running along sweetly and 

 giving its full power. 



Our sun boxes do for gardens what self starters 

 and warm garages do for an auto. 

 They give you a running start on the other fellow. 

 When he is struggling along next spring try- 

 ing to get his garden to start, yours can be all 

 set out with goodly sized plants and running in a 

 way that will make your neighbor look over your 

 fence enviously and say: "Oh, what's the use of 

 trying to compete with you fellows who have self 

 starter attachments!" 

 Just naturally that will be the time you will 

 chuckle, and give reign just a wee bit to a feeling 

 of gardening superiority. 



Btit before you can chuckle, you must have the 

 chuckle maker — our Sun Boxes. 



The boxes that grab every warm ray of the sun 

 and imprison it to boost along your seed plant- 

 ings. 



There are some things which ought to be started in 

 February if you want an extra early start. 

 By middle of March, all your seeds ought to be 

 warming their toes in the Sun Boxes. 

 Which you see, means ordering now is none too 

 early to make sure of having the Boxes early 

 enough. 



A two sash Junior Sun Box 3' 1\" wide x 5' lOf" 

 long costs $14.51 complete. 

 $20.36 for 3 sash, $26.16 for 4 sash. 

 Our Two P's booklet tells you every detail about 

 the half dozen different sizes and prices of our 

 Sun Boxes (or Cold Frames). 



It also includes helpful directions for starting, time 

 to plant and so on. 

 You are most assuredly welcome to a copy. 



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Imp. Dwarf Blueberry 



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Large, lucious, almost seedless. 

 Succeeds where Strawberries, 

 Raspberries succeed. Yields abun- 

 dantly under ordinary culture, 

 very hardy. 



*\lso the best Strawberries, Raspberries, Blackberries, etc. Fruit, Nut and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Vines, 

 Roses, Hedge Plants and Garden Roots. Our descriptive Catalogue No. I gives details. It is FREE. 



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Box 125 



Berry Specialists for 42 years 



Little Silver, New Jersey 



The Needs of St. Regis Raspberry 



CONTINUOUS CLEAN CULTIVATION CLAIMS SUCCESS 



'TPHERE probably is a greater diversity of 

 -*■ opinion -about the St. Regis Everbearing 

 raspberry than about any other kind of fruit. 

 My interest in this variety has led me to observe 

 it carefully in my own gardens, in those of my 

 neighbors, and in experiment station plots during 

 the past eight years. During this same time I 

 have received written and verbal reports from 

 dozens who have tried this fruit. Opinion among 

 these latter seems to vary about fifty-fifty, on the 

 one hand to the effect that it is a poor variety 

 and on the other that it is one of the very finest 

 varieties in cultivation. What are the facts? 

 Why these extreme differences of opinion? 



Every one will agree that St. Regis is extremely 

 hardy. Away up in Auburn, Maine, the other 

 day one grower assured me that St. Regis was the 

 only variety of five he had grown which never 

 showed any winter killing. This assuredly is a 

 strong point in its favor especially for northern 

 sections. Every one too who has tried it knows 

 that St. Regis produces when left to itself more 

 suckers than almost any other variety. In two 

 years from planting, unless special precaution is 

 taken, the new shoots will stand so thickly on the 

 ground that it is difficult to tell just where the 

 original rows were laid out. It is in this one 

 characteristic alone that the plant in nine times 

 out of ten has bred the cause of its own par- 

 tial disrepute. Excessive suckering is nearly 

 always the cause of failure or meager success. 



I find where the St. Regis is grown in very 

 narrow rows, or better yet is grown in hills and 

 the new canes or suckers are kept severely thin- 

 ned out, success invariably results. From my 

 observations I am led to believe this variety 

 is always better when grown in hills and culti- 

 vated both ways. The hills should be about 

 five feet apart and only about five or six new 

 canes should be allowed to grow up in the hill 

 each spring. This will mean ten or twelve 

 canes to each hill during the first part of the 

 summer or until the canes of the previous 

 season have completed their spring crop. These 

 last named set of canes should be topped back to 

 a height of about three and a half feet in early 

 spring and should be cut out after the early 

 summer crop. Other than this no pruning of 

 canes is necessary or desirable. 



The St. Regis will produce a very fair crop of 

 its bright red berries in eafly summer on side 

 shoots from the previous season's canes. This 

 fruit will ripen early and be out of the way before 

 the varieties Cuthbert or Herbert begin to ripen. 

 We have many times had canes loaded with 

 ripe red berries on exhibit at the fairs in Sep- 

 tember and October. 



The fall crop on St. Regis is produced from 

 flower clusters which terminate the season's 

 canes much in the same way as Hydrangea blos- 

 soms terminate the growth of that shrub. In 

 order for this fall crop to be as large as possible, 

 not only must the canes be strong so that the 

 flower heads may be large, but these summer 

 canes must be pushed ahead fast so as to come 

 into flower early and afford a long period for 

 fruit growth and ripening. All of the above 

 practice tends to accomplish just this end, and 

 it may be still further hastened by top dressings 

 of nitrate of soda and acid phosphate, at the 

 acre rate of about 100 pounds (^ oz. per sq. 

 yard) and 250 pounds respectively, in the early 

 spring. Three quarts per hill, which is the 

 equivalent of five thousand quarts per acre may 

 be and very often is secured when St. Regis is 

 grown in this way. 



W. H. Wolff, New Hampshire. 



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