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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



October, 1912 



The Roofings 

 That Have and Will 



Some roofing claims are filled with 

 " wills "— " They will last"— "They will 

 not need repairs" — etc., etc. You hear a great 

 deal about what the old-time shingles have done. 



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The Real Rival of Best Shingles 



and other NEPonseT Roofings are the roofings that prove to you what they 

 have done before asking you to judge what they will do. For instance : In 

 1898, in Havana, Cuba, the U. S. Government roofed a storehouse with 

 NEPdnseT Paroid. Last year when the storehouse was torn down the roofing 

 was found to be in perfect condition. Isn't that the kind of a roof you want 

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and the name of a NEPDNSET dealer near you. He's a good man to know 

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New York Chicago Washington Portland, Ore. San Francisco 



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PoTfERY 



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AND NOT A POISON— Harmless to Animals other than 

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not one has failed. They are situated on a gentle 

 slope, were well watered when moved and- several 

 times thereafter, and covered with a blanket of 

 leaves and strawy manure. The trees averaged 

 three feet high. 



The behavior of the bulbs was rather out of the 

 ordinary. Tulips were late, due as much to our 

 cool spring as to the severe winter but otherwise 

 normal. Narcissus were not in good bloom until 

 Decoration Day, both established and fall planted 

 bulbs, and single and double. To be able to pick 

 several hundred blossoms for Decoration Day 

 comes very opportune, but to have narcissus when 

 peonies start into bloom does not seem exactly 

 right. It was not a matter of deep or shallow plant- 

 ing for the established bulbs were earlier in years 

 past, some of them poked their little roses above 

 ground fully a month earlier in other springs. 



North Dakota. C. L. Heller. 



How Southerners Grow Sweet 

 Peas 



OCTOBER and November are probably the 

 best months for planting sweet pea seed, with 

 December to February the next best time. Sweet 

 peas are not generally grown in the South be- 

 cause of the general supposition that they will not 

 succeed on account of the hot weather in the sum- 

 mer. From repeated trials in my garden I know this 

 is not so; just as fine sweet peas can be produced 

 here in the South as in any other place, provided 

 they are planted at the right time and properly 

 cared for. Seed sown in October and November will 

 usually produce flowers very early in April in the 

 lower South; and those sown in January produce 

 flowers in May and will continue to flower until 

 July or later, provided the soil is kept moist by 

 mulching and the flowers kept cut off and not al- 

 lowed to make seed pods. 



I prepare the soil by spading it up good and deep 

 so that the long roots can easily penetrate the soil. 

 I then spade out trenches fifteen inches deep and 

 twenty-four inches wide, place good strawy manure 

 in them to a depth of four inches, and cover this with 

 fine, rich soil to within four inches of the surface. 

 Allow this to settle for a week or two, and then sow 

 the seed in double rows, two to three feet apart, 

 with the single rows eight inches apart. Place a 

 row of brush or poultry netting in the middle of 

 these single rows, thus producing double rows. 

 By this plan one row of brush or netting will serve 

 two single rows of vines, while in the single row 

 plan a row of brush is required for each row of vines. 

 Sow the seed rather thickly in order to get a good 

 start at first, as this is better than to be stingy with 

 seed and probably have to replant, or be contented 

 with a poor stand. One ounce of seed is required 

 for each thirteen feet of row. Cover the seed with 

 soil one inch deep. 



When the peas are well up cultivate carefully 

 and thin them out. And use good judgment in 

 thinning, as different soils and varieties require 

 different spacing. When allowed to stand too close 

 together, vines are produced at the expense of the 

 flowers, or the vines turn to a sickly yellow and fail 

 to grow or flower. If the plants are thinned too 

 much there are not enough of them to cover the 

 brush. Five or six inches apart in the drill is consid- 

 ered the proper distance under average conditions. 

 Cultivate thoroughly and frequently, graduall> 

 working the soil up to the plants until the trench 

 is filled in. Always keep the soil loose around the 



