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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Ale gust, 1912 



A Greenhouse Will Give 

 You a Tropical Garden 

 365 Days in the Year 



YOU can grow the choicer palms — 

 the wondrously beautiful orchids 

 and the countless lovely flowering 

 plants that thrive so luxuriantly in just 

 the ideal conditions made possible in 

 our greenhouses. 



In fact you can grow practically any- 

 thing you want to grow, almost any time 

 you want to grow it. 



Send for our catalog. It shows and 

 describes 50 or more greenhouses for 

 different wants and different purses. 



Hitchings&Co. 



Write to our main office at 



800 Louisa Street, Elizabeth, \. J. 



Or call at our New York Office 



1170 Broadway 



ILLETT'S 



M -mm- HARDY FERNS AND FLOWERS 



For Dark, Shady Places 



SQ I Buy your Fall Bulbs now. We have Lilies, 



^H I Trilliums, Erythroniums, Claytonias and 



^^L ABl man y others. 



^^^^^^^^ Send Eoi descriptive catalogue of over 



„^^^__^_^__ So pages, which tells all about our Plants 

 <— ■— — ^ and Bulbs. It's FREE. 

 EDWARD GILLETT, Box F, Southwick, Mass. 



Did Your Berries 



Pay Expenses This Year? 



If you had common varieties, and gave 



the plants extra good care, maybe you 



rude a little money — but you worked 



n.ighty hard for it. didn't you? Why not 



make more money next year, with less work? 



You can if you plant the right kinds — those 



I tell about in my "Berry Book." Seven 



ndred dollars has been made from one 



acre of my plants! You will save one year 



by planting Berries this fall. The soil works 



easier new than in spring: the 



plants will be rooted and ready 



to start early next spring, 



which means strong growth in 



hot weather, and 



Berrydale Plants Set This Fall 

 Will Bear Fruit Next Summer 



Illninlayn Ttcrry. Like a blackberry, but not a black- 

 berry, strong grower; bears first year: sixteen thousand 

 quarts, worth #2400, picked from five hundred two- 

 year plants. 



Gulden l»rop Gooseberry. Big as a Richmond cherry. 

 Thin, yellow skin. Flavor rich and sweet. Plants 

 strong: and compact. Fruit ripens latter part of June, 



Mittiiiir'sWIiinhnmsGoosebf.rry.ThelargestGooseberry 

 known. Creamy green when ready for market: deep 

 red if left to ripen on bush. 



Write today /or my Berry book, 



and get ready to make s 



next summer. 



A. HITTING, rroprioln: 



Berrydale Experiment Gardens 

 r> — . Uurde 

 \M£/ Ifollnml, Mich. 



the surface has dried sufficiently, give deep culti- 

 vation. 



Every year I plant ten rows of berries 100 

 feet long — about 1,000 plants — and by plac- 

 ing the new plantings alongside of the old beds, 

 they can be worked more economically. I always 

 have three beds in bearing. I throw out a bed 

 after it has produced a crop for three years; after 

 a bed has been in use for two years T let the first 

 runners root, so that the oldest bed gives me the 

 largest quantity of berries, al though they are 

 not quite of the same high quality as those pro- 

 duced by the two newer beds. A bed of this size 





m** 



Put bell glasses over some of the plants to force 

 them into early bearing 



is sufficient for a family of twelve; four people 

 could be plentifully supplied from 400 plants set 

 out each year, which would give 1,200 bearing 

 plants at the end of three years. 



I believe it is a good plan for every gardener to 

 have a few bell glasses to place over some of the 

 largest plants, so that they can be forced to provide 

 a few berries two or three weeks earlier than the 

 regular crop. 



A great deal depends upon the proper care of the 

 strawberry bed. Cultivate it frequently, keep 

 the runners removed, and in extremely dry weather 

 water it thoroughly. 



As to varieties, I would advise growing such 

 varieties as have proved successful in your locality. 

 Try some of the more promising of the new ones, 

 if you like, but for the greater part of your bed use 

 the same varieties that your neighbor is success- 

 fully growing. 



Mulch the bed in fall, but wait until the soil 

 has frozen a little. This prevents the constant 

 freezing and thawing, and if you use a good quality 

 of manure it prevents the bed from running down 

 and producing poor berries. In spring I turn the 

 mulch right under between the plants. 



After applying the mulch, which should be kept 

 from direct contact with the plants, I cover the 

 beds with a light covering of meadow hay or rye 

 straw. The common mistake is to use too much 

 of this; just a light covering is all that is required. 

 Over this lay some pea brush to keep it from 

 blowing away. 



New York. W. C. McCoixom. 



More Than Enough Strawberries 



WE HAD only a small bed, but picked more 

 fruit than we could use," said a friend. 

 Where is there a family that would not like to be in 

 this predicament? 



There is probably no fruit crop that will return 

 so much money in so short a time as strawberries 

 if one is near a good market. 



August presents the last opportunity for getting 

 such a gold mine, and if you have a square yard of 

 idle soil, take my advice and set strawberries. 

 There is no single crop which has so universally 

 succeeded under all conditions of soii, skill, experi- 

 ence, climate and locality as the strawberry. Set 

 now and watched, to keep dry weather and weeds 

 at bay, the fruit next spring should be abundant. 

 However small the bed, skill and understanding, 

 of course, must accompany the setting. 



Let the soil be rich, and naturally well drained 



Last Call 



on 



Dutch Bulbs 



Direct from Holland 



For best results — and moderate cost — deal 

 direct with the Holland growers of the high- 

 est grade Bulbs. 



The best Dutch Bulbs you can buy, solid, spotless 

 and full of vitality — sent direct to you in original 

 packages at the same prices that you would have to 

 pay for inferior bulbs. 



Write for our 1912 Catalog to-day — prove our bulbs 

 by actual test and you will never be satisfied with 

 any others. 



Gt. van Waveren & Kruijff 



American Branch House, 140 N. 13th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



LOUIS BERGER, Manager 



Home Nurseries, Sassenheim, Holland. Other Branches 



in Russia, Argentine Republic, Germany 



England, Sweden. 



Lovetfs 



Pot-Grown 

 Strawberry 



Plants 



set out this month will give you a 

 full crop of fine berries next June. 



Two Wonderful New Varieties 



Five best EVERBEARING sorts, and 25 

 good old kinds are described and pictured 

 in my Strawberry Booklet, with full cultural 

 directions. Write for a free copy to-day. 

 J. T. LOVETT 



MONMOUTH NURSERY, Boi 12S, LITTLE SILVER, N. J. 



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