August, 1912 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



The Readers' Service will give you 

 suggestion jor the care of live-stock 



Carter's Tested Grass Seeds 



FOR LAWNS, GOLF COURSES, 

 TENNIS COURTS, Etc. 



Are now beins used by all the Championship and prominent coif and country clubs 

 in America and Great Britain, and by many private estates. 



The Country Club, Brookli 



Records Prove the Superiority of Carter's Tested Grass Seeds, Lawns, Golf 

 Courses, Etc., Inspected, Reported on and Built Under Our Supervision 



Grass 

 Experts 



James Carter & Company 



Raynes Park, London, Eng. 



Seedsmen to His Majesty, King George V. 



PATTERSON, WYLDE & CO. 



Grass 

 Experts 



Sole Agents United States and Canada 

 Shan'.:s 102-106 Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Boston, Mass. Fertilizers 



Imported Booklet " The Practical Greenkeeper" Mailed Free Wooden 



Mowers Carter's Flower, Vegetable and Farm Seeds RoIIers 



Write for Particulars 



Stewart 

 Edward 

 White 



^ The man 

 who has helped 

 the East to 

 know the West 



" The Adventures of Bobby Orde" 



" In one sense it is the finest thing the Grand Rapids novelist has done. 

 It shows a finer and sweeter knowledge of human nature than any of his 

 big novels of the lumber woods and of adventures by sea and land. He 

 has gone straight to the heart and motives of the normal healthy child, 

 and that is why, while it is the story of a boy, it is very much a story for 

 grownups and will appeal inerringly to every man who has not forgotten 

 his queer impulses, his bashfulness and his devoted friendship and little 

 chivalries while he was himself a boy.— Grand Rapids Evening Press." 



Illustrated. Fixed price, $1.20 (postage 12c). 



" The Rules of the Game " 



" It is full of adventure, and has a climax of absorbing interest." — St. 

 John Globe. 



Illustrated. Fixed price, $1.40 (postage 15c). 



" The Cabin" 



The Cabin ' has somehow captured the spell of the wild woods and 

 the brooding peace of the mountains. ' The Cabin ' is gotten up in 

 the style that charms one utterly before the first page is read, and the 

 illustrations make you feel perfectly wild to be up and away to the 

 Sierras.' 1 — Lexington Herald. 



Illustrated. Net, $1.50 (postage 15c), 



GARDEN CITY 



Doubleday, Page & Co. 



NEW YORK 



Three things to remember in August and September 



2. sow 



X« Plant bulbs of the glorious 



Madonna Lily 



(Lil. Candidum) the hardiest pure white 

 LILY, if you desire MATCHLESS bloom 

 next spring. 



Large fine flowering bulbs 

 Mammoth profusely flowering bulbs 

 Jumbo Bulbs a riot of bloom 



J 12 ioo 

 -io $1.15 $ 8.00 

 .15 Si. 50 £10.00 

 .25 £2.50 S15.00 



Prize Includes Delivery 



Hardy Perennials 



to secure sturdy plants for your beds and borders next 

 spring. A SMALL outlay will repay you hundredfold. 

 We list only a few of the easiest grown, yielding the 

 most flowers. 



PKT. 



Lupin us Polyphyllus roseus .05 

 Myosotis alpestrls, blue .10 

 Pansies, our ROYAL mixture .ic 

 Pansies in 12 rarest Giant 



sorts; the 12 pkts .50 



Poppies Iceland or Orient- 



alis .10 



Viola cornuta "Babies 



faces" .10 



PKT. 



Antirrhinum Snapdragon .10 

 Aquilegia, Columbine .10 



Asters Hardy Michaelmas 



Daisies .10 



Campanula Pyramidalis, blue 



or white .10 



Coreopsis, Golden Queen .05 



Delphiniums. English Hybrids .10 

 Gaillardias, English Hybrids 



The 12 pkts. for 75 cents, 

 successfully." 



We send full directions "How to grow seeds 



3. Secure Early Forcing Bulbs 



3 12 



Narcissus Paper white, Giant flowers of satiny sheen. Large bulbs .12 .40 2.75 



Soleild'Or Golden Sun Narcissus of a magnificent dazzling golden color bear- 

 ing rich clusters on long stiff stems. A glorious companion for 

 White Narcissus. Plant together and note effect. .15 .50 3.00 



Roman Hyacinth, A mass of exquisitely fragrant pure white bells .15 .50 4.00 



Freesias, The perfumed GEMS of our window garden. Large bulbs .5 .15 1.00 



ALL PRICES listed include free delivery 



Fall 1912 Catalogue is ready. Send for it. JT IS FREE. Contains COMPLETE list of all seeds, 



bulbs, with concise directions ' HOW best to succeed growing flowers." 



70 Warren St.. New York City 

 Department G. 26. 



Address H. H. BERGER & CO. 



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Make Farr's Irises Your Friends 

 From March to Late November 



Each year brings new wonders in these dainty flowers. A few 



plants in a favorite corner of the garden, or a clump among the 



shrubbery, will reveal a variety of forms, with marvelous colors and 



markings that rival the peerless Orchids. Beginning with the dainty Dwarf 



Irises in March your garden can have a succession of these "rainbow 



flowers" until the Japanese varieties fade under the August suns. 



You can have some of the rare kinds in bloom almost every month if you choose your 

 plants from Farr's Wyomissing Collections. The Irises do not need a skillful gardener to make 

 them bloom, but to secure the finest flowers the roots should be set in August or early September. 



The Most Complete Collection of 

 Irises and Peonies in the World 



Year by year I have added to my gardens until now I have all the best German, Japanese, English 



and Spanish Irises, and a collection of Peonies unsurpassed in Europe or America, My experience 



convinces me that August and September are the months for successful planting. If you want to 



know more about my hardy perennials — and I am sure you do — write today for 



My Book "Farr's Hardy Plants" 



This is a text book on Irises, Peonies, Phlox and other perennials. I want to help you plan 



your garden, so you may know the joys of friendship with these plants. 



BERTRAND H. FARR, Wyomissing Nurseries 

 643 D Penn Street, Reading, Pa. 



