October, 1912 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Going abroad? Routes, lime-tables, and all sorts of 

 information obtained through the Readers' Service 



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AMES 

 GARDEN TOOLS 



are what you need to 

 make your garden more 

 productive. 



They are made right, 

 with over sixty years ex- 

 perience back of them, 

 are easily adjusted; and 

 easy to handle. Your 

 garden work will be a 

 pleasure with Ames Gar- 

 den Tools. 



Write at once for our 

 catalog No. 6. For your 

 dealer's name we will 

 send you a beautiful Gar- 

 den Calendar Guide free. 



AMES PLOW CO. 



Boston, Mass. 



Beautify Your Home with 



Choice Evergreens and Shrubbery 



Our methods of planting and conducting business enable us to 

 offer high-grade Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Evergreens, Roses, 

 Vines, Water-Lilies, Fruit Trees. Herbaceous Plants, etc., at prices 

 which defy competition. 



Send for Illustrated Catalogue 



MONTROSE NURSERIES 



Montrose, Westchester County New York 



For a Most Beautiful Lawn 



Bow KALAKA. It Is specially selected, specially tested grass 

 seed, and pulverized menure — the Ideal combination to grow 

 quick, hardy, lasting tur£. For seeding new lawns or putting 

 new life into the old lavrn nothing equals 



Tacked in 6 pound boxes at 81.00 per box. express paid east. 

 or tl.26 west of Omaha. Write and ask for prices on special 

 mixtures for special locations and purposes. Order today 

 and have the best seed money can buy. Get our/re dawn book. 

 THE KALAKA CO., 14 Union Stock Yards, Chicago 



% Actual Size 



St. Regis Everbearing 



The Raspberry for the Million and the 

 Millionaire. " There's Millions In It. " 



You can now have wonderful Rasp- 

 berries from June to October by setting 

 out the plants this Fail, 



St. Regis produces continuously from 

 June to October— heavy crops of large, 

 luscious, sugary berries of bright crimson. 



Its summer and autumn crops do 

 not consist of a few scattered ber- 

 ries, but good to heavy pickings ait 

 the time. One party who had a small 

 patch, say \ an acre, picked and shipped 

 from it two or three pickings each 

 week for four months and his profits 

 were enormous. 



Grows successfully in any soil — endures 

 without injury heat, drought and severest 

 cold. Catalogue free. 



Grow 

 Chestnuts 

 Like This 

 For Profit 



The trees are hardy, rapid, sym- 

 metrical growth, luxuriant foliage: 

 spreading boughs; clean trunk; state- 

 liness. 



These qualities combined and de- 

 veloped by science to a degree that 

 closely borders perfection, in the new 



SOBER PARAGON 



Mammoth, Sweet Chestnut 



Crop, Fall of igir, brought $48,000, 

 orchard only 10 years old. 



The only large sweet chestnut in the 

 world. 



Bears the first year. The nuts average 

 1 to 2 inches in diameter. 



United States Pomologist, G. B. 

 Bracken, says "It is of large size, fine 

 appearance and excellent flavor." 



Testimony from growers, commission 

 merchants, Forestrv Experts, etc., given 

 in our free catalogue. 



1 of the Sober 

 Paragon. This 

 copyrighted 

 m etal seal is 

 attached to every 

 genuine tree. 



Mantura Pecans 

 Large Nuts — Paper Shell 



Hardy Acclimated Pecan 



Trees for Planting in 



Northern States 



Here are Pecan Trees which will 

 thrive in Northern States — producing 

 as prolifically and as profitably as any 

 Southern Pecans. 



Pecan Orchards pay far bigger profits 

 per acre than wheat or corn. 



A shade-tree of wondrous beauty, long 

 the pride of the South, may now adorn 

 any Northern landscape. 



We control five varieties of hardy trees 

 best suited for Northern planting. These 

 have withstood temperature far below 

 zero, — never been known to "'winter- 

 kill." Successful in almost any soil. 

 Begin bearing in 3 to 5 years. 



Catalogue free. 



GLEN BROTHERS, Glenwood Nursery (Est'd 1866) 2012 Main St., Rochester, N. Y. 







Country Life In America 



tli i-~ is all you could desire, if you use 



jj|t "ECONOMY" GAS 



LI *-»-S^ = ^ftl For Lighting, Cooking. Water Heating, 

 Laundry, etc. 



"It makes the House a Home" 



Write today for circular. 



Economy Gas Machine Co., Rochester, N. Y. 



"Economy" Gas is Automatic, Sanitary and Not Poisonous 



WALSH'S WORLD FAMED 

 RAMBLER ROSES 



This new race of American origin is hardy, of 

 vigorous growth, single and double; in various 

 colors. When in full bloom the plants may be 

 justly described as fountains of blossom. 



Also first quality hybrid teas in best and hardi- 

 est varieties. And hybrid perpetuals in all the 

 leading varieties. 



Gruss an Teplitz, Lady Gay and Hiawatha in 

 standard or tree form. Hybrid perpetuals and hy- 

 brid teas in standard form four feet high- All the 

 best polyantha and dwarf everblooming roses. 

 Rugosa roses in single and double varieties. 



Catalogue on request 



M. H. WALSH, Rose Specialist Woods Hole, Mass. 







David 

 Grayson 



"Adventures in Friendship " 



" Adventures in Friendship " is an 

 attractive book, rich in insight into char- 

 acter and alive also with the charm which 

 comes to a man who keeps his eyes open to the magic appeal of nature." 



— London Standard. 



" Adventures in Contentment " 



" The proper word to apply to this book is charming, for these little stories of life 

 in a back country village are told with a quiet humor and kindliness that remind one of 

 the days of Mrs. Gaskell and Miss Mitford." — Indianapolis News. 



Charming illustrations in black and white and full colors by Thomas Fogarty. 



New Leather Edition, each volume, Net $1 .50 



Cloth, Net $1.35 



Garden City DOUBLED AY, PAGE & COMPANY New York 



