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For Beautifying Home Grounds 



When writing enclose ioc and ask for Pergola Catalogue "H-31" 



HARTMANN-SANDERS CO. 



Elston and Webster Aves., Chicago, 111. 



New York City Office, 6 E. 39th Street 



When planning your garden don't 

 neglect the most reliable of all summer 

 flowers. 



DAHLIAS 



They bloom from July until frost 



A postcard brings my catalogue describing 

 the World's most select varieties. 



C. LOUIS ALLING 



Dahlia Specialist 

 251 Court St. West Haven, Conn. 



BEAUTIFY YOUR 

 FLORIDA HOME 



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Royal Palm 



Nurseries offer 



you the planting 



material — high quality, 



adapted to local conditions. 



Bamboos, flowering 

 shrubs and trees, palms, 

 roses — an infinite variety 

 from which to select. 



Send for free copy of our 

 "Beautiful Grounds" book. 

 Ask about our service as 

 landscape designers and ex- 

 pert horticulturists. 



REASONER BROTHERS 



ROYAL PALM NURSERIES 

 \ ONECO, Florid a, U.S. A. 



£ Decorative -plants for north- 



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Apiary Locations. — Should any amateur bee- 

 keeper desire to enter the professional field, he 

 will do well to read a discussion in the 38th 

 Annual Report of the Beekeepers' Association 

 of Ontario, page 43, on Apiary Locations. This 

 is led by H. G. Sibbald and includes many other 

 American and Canadian beekeepers. 



Avoid Spraying When Plants Bloom. — Nothing 

 is to be gained by spraying while fruit trees 

 are in blossom. Much may be lost. Probably 

 the pistils and the stamens will be injured by 

 the spray mixture. Certainly many insects will 

 be killed by the poison. Chief among these 

 are bees, which not only play important parts 

 in fertilizing blossoms, thus giving the fruit, but 

 they often give us a very high grade of honey from 

 the fruit bloom. It is, therefore, worth while to 

 avoid taking any chance of injuring either bees 

 or blossoms. Spraying should be done either 

 before the flowers open or after the petals have 

 fallen. 



European Foulbrood. — A disease of bees, which 

 has caused great losses to American beekeepers, 

 was first recognized as a distinct disease in the 

 United States by New York beekeepers in 1894. 

 It is important that the beekeeper know whether 

 he has European or American foulbrood in his 

 apiary, for the two do not respond to the same 

 treatment. In European foulbrood control the 

 most important step is to prevent the entrance 

 of the disease by keeping all colonies strong and 

 by having all stock resistant. This can be done 

 successfully even though the disease is in the 

 neighborhood. In case, through fadure to take 

 all precautions, the disease does enter, certain 

 practices will readdy eliminate it, but all of these 

 must be used with care. The facts about the 

 disease on which the preventive and remedial 

 measures are based are discussed in Farmers' 

 Bulletin, 975, which will be sent free by the 

 Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C. 



Profits in Bee-Keeping— In answer to your 

 question as to whether keeping bees is profitable 

 my twenty years' experience says that it is. When 

 about eighteen years of age I caught a swarm 

 from a tree near my home, bought an empty hive 

 from a neighbor and put them into it. A week 

 later I bought another swarm in a good hive and 

 so had two swarms to work with. Since then I 

 have always had from four to eight swarms, not 

 having time to care for a greater number, and I 

 have averaged every year, except two or three in 

 twenty, a production of twenty to one hundred 

 pounds of comb honey per hive. Bees are easily 

 cared for if you like the work but at the start a 

 boy should learn the habits of the bee from books 

 such as the American Bee Journal of Chicago, a 

 weekly publication. Bees have their likes and 

 dislikes, and when these habits are learned, they 

 are easily cared for; usually one member of the 

 family should have the entire charge of them 

 with perhaps a very little help in catching and 

 hiving the swarms in May and June. Locality 

 has a little to do with the successful keeping of 

 bees but usually the bees will do well in any place 

 where apple trees grow. Some of the best plants 

 for honey are white clover, sweet clover, raspberry 

 bushes, and the Linden tree. 



Frank Mancaster, Pennsylvania. 



To Garden Lovers 



Wolcott's 



for 



We should be pleased to send you a copy of 

 our 1920 catalogue if you 

 are interested in the rare, 

 the beautiful and the un- 

 usual in hardy plants. It 

 is a complete digest of the 

 plants that are suitable 

 for your border, or rock 

 garden or out of the way 

 places. It is not a preten- 

 tious booklet but it is full 

 of facts that will interest 

 you. 



WOLCOTT NURSERIES 

 Jackson Michigan 



Hardy Plants 



Gardening for Women 



School of Horticulture, Ambler, Pa. (18 

 miles from Philadelphia) offers: Two year 

 Diploma Course beginning January 20th, 

 1920; Intensive Poultry Course, January 

 20th to March 29th; Spring and Summer 

 Courses. Lectures and practical work in 

 greenhouses, gardens, orchards, canning 

 kitchen, apiary, live stock. 



Elizabeth Leighton Lee, Director 





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Originated and Introduced by 

 THE ELM CITY NURSERY COMPANY 

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Send for Box-Barberry Folder and Nursery Catalog ?{j 



1894 



We specialize 



1919 



in the production of Nursery Stock in great vari- 

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We can furnish Evergreens (both narrow and broad 

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If interested send for Price List 



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This Book of 

 WATER LILIES 



tells how easy it is to § 



have these fragrant, j 



waxy blooms in your | 



garden. The cover shows | 



the variety "Mary" in | 



all of nature's glorious | 



tints, the daintiest flower j 



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pictured and described truthfully. j 



If you have only a small space you | 



can grow lilies successfully. Write | 



to-day for this booklet —free. 



Independence Nurseries | 



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Independence, Ohio 



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