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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



NOVEMBEE, 19 12 



UseOXIDE^ZINCPaints 



WHEN you look over a property 

 the first thing that catches your 

 eye is the paint. 



Good paint makes value apparent. It 

 also preserves value. 



Good paint always contains Oxide of 

 Zinc. 



Paint your property with 



Oxide of Zinc Paint 



to preserve and make manifest its value. 



We do not grind Oxide of Zinc in Oil. A list of 



manufacturers of Oxide of Zinc Paints 



mailed on request. 



The New Jersey Zinc Co. 



NATIONAL CITY BANK BUILDING 



55 Wall Street, New York 



1847 ROGERS BROS 



Spoons, Forks, Knives, etc., of the highest 

 grade carry the above trade mark. 



"Silver Plate 

 that Wears" 



Guaranteed by the largest makers of silverware. 



INTERNATIONAL SILVER CO., MERIDEN, CONN. 



Successor to Meriden Britannia Co. 

 NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO 



Send (or . 

 catalogue "Y-32. 1 



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5* DAIRY FARMilg 



SAUSAGE 



The Farm 

 in Winter 



UR sausage is really made on a 

 farm, in the old-fashioned way, 

 which is still the best way. 

 Young milk-fed pork and pure, home- 

 ground spices are all the materials we 

 use. But we are ever on guard to pro- 

 tect the reputation that our sausage has 

 gained in the 25 years we have been 

 making it. 



Each day's orders are 

 filled the same day re- 

 ceived, and every step in 

 making our sausage is tak- 

 en under the watchful eye 

 of some member of the 

 Jones family. 



We ship it everywhere. Gro- 

 cers who sell it are the best in 

 their respective localities. Ask 

 your grocer about our prices, 

 the sizes of our packages and 

 our "standing order plan." 



If your grocer, by not know- 

 ing it, argues himself unknown, 

 write to us and we will ship it, 

 express prepaid, direct from 

 the farm. 



MILO C. JONES 



Jones Dairy Farm 

 Box 635 Fort Atkinson, Wis. 



How Last Winter Affected My 

 Plants 



THE WINTER of 1911-12 was very severe in 

 Maryland. In January the thermometer 

 fell as low as 25 degrees below zero in this neigh- 

 borhood. The cold was so intense and protracted 

 when I left for California on February 1st that I had 

 little hope that my garden would come through 

 without heavy losses. On the whole, such a winter 

 gives a useful lesson and serves to curb some 

 rampant growths, which tend to dominate the 

 garden at the expense of choicer and finer things. 



Returning home on the first of May, I found the 

 bloom of the bulbs was practically over, but the 

 neighbors said that there had been plenty of tulips, 

 hyacinths and scillas. The tall May tulips were 

 yet to come. Some new crimson Gesnerianas 

 bloomed well and were extremely handsome, but 

 the older Darwin and cottage tulips had smaller 

 flowers than usual. This may have come from the 

 splitting and multiplying of the bulbs. 



The flower borders seemed in fairly good con- 

 dition and it was only by degrees that I realized 

 how many plants were missing from their accus- 

 tomed places. A special favorite was gone, the 

 pretty Daphne cneorum, one of the most charming 

 of early spring flowers, with its low mass of grayish 

 foliage and heads of deliciously fragrant, rosy pink 

 bloom. 



Among the shrubs there were some losses. A 

 row of St. Johnswort (Hypericum Moserianum) 

 was completely frozen out. Not useful for the 

 house, for the heavy crown of stamens, which look 

 like conventional sunrays, fall off soon after the 

 flowers are picked, but both for bloom and foliage 

 they were very ornamental in the garden for several 

 summers. In the same bed several plants of .4 belia 

 rupeslris, dainty dwarf shrubs, survived but with 

 the loss of a good deal of wood. While of ttte 

 azaleas, A. amcena, said to be perfectly hardy, 

 all but one were lost, and that poor, frostbitten 

 member did not bloom. The bloom of the dog- 

 wood was poor. Three old shrubs standing in a 

 row, which have always done remarkably well, 

 were variously affected. The forsythia did not 

 bloom at all, and usually it is a mass of gold. A 

 tall spirea was also badly nipped. 



However, the mock orange (Philadelphus) was 

 never so fine. It soared up into the air, bearing 

 masses of snowy flowers. It seemed to have had 

 just the tonic that suited it. The rose acacia 

 under the shelter of the wall did well, and had many 

 lovely rose-colored blooms. The great white 

 deutzia, which has for years been easily the finest 

 shrub in the garden, was frozen to the ground, but 

 not killed. Of two new shrubs set out in 191 1, a 

 Magnolia stellata lived and throve and a Japanese 

 Styrax Obassia was killed. A little Deutzia gracilis 

 was uninjured, and the dwarf Anthony Waterer 

 spirea, which I could cheerfully live without, 

 came through in perfect health. A crepe myrtle 

 was killed, but it had been planted without much 

 hope of keeping it alive in this treacherous climate. 



Roses in this small garden are spoken of with 

 respect. They have never made themselves com- 

 mon. During the month of April, in Berkeley on the 

 San Francisco bay, roses of the rarest and most mag- 

 nificent sorts were blooming con amore. My thoughts 

 turned many times to my own Lady Roberts, 

 Bessie Brown, William R. Smith and Magnafrano, 

 all set out in the fall of 1911. It was to be pre- 

 sumed that I would never see them again. But 

 though on my return I found they had been frozen 



