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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



November, 1912 



Poultry, Kennel and Live Stock Directory l ^ZtZ ah c T^o\ 



dogs, poultry and live stock will be gladly given. Address INFORMATION DEPARTMENT, 

 The Garden Magazine, 11-13 West 32d Street, New York. 



HEADQUARTERS 



For The Celebrated Hungarian and English 



Partridges and Pheasants 



BEST GAME BIRDS AT RIGHT PRICES 



Have a fine lot of Wild Turkeys. Also Capercailzies, 

 Black Game. Quails, Rabbits, Deer, etc., for stocking pur- 

 poses. Fancy Pheasants, Peafowl, Swans, Cranes, 

 Storks, Ornamental Geese and Ducks, Foxes. Squirrels, 

 Ferrets, etc., and all kinds of birds and animals. 



WENZ & MACKENSEN 



DEPT. 55 

 Pheasantry and Game Park, 



YARDLEY, PA. 



Make Your Hens Lay 



Send for and read our book on feeding raw bone. Rich in pro- 

 tein and all other egg elements. Get twice the eggs, more fertile 

 eggs, vigorous chicks, earlier broilers, heavier fowls, bigger profits. 



MANN'S % t o?e™ r ' io days- free trial 



Makes bone-cutting simple, 

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 Open hopper automatic feed. 

 Cuts all bone with adhering, 

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F. W. MANN CO. 



Box 325 Milford, Mass. 



A POSITIVE NECESSITY 



CARTER'S 

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Cabbage, Beets, Clover, etc., cap. 1-2 bu. 

 Can't injure head or comb. Green food 

 thrown on floor or in pans is half wasted, 

 gets foul and spreads disease. Place my 

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Price 4Sc. each. $4 .75 per dozen deliv- 

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A. Q. CARTER 

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PAT. APPLIED FOR. AGENTS WANTED 



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My stock of pigs and hogs was 

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Jersey Reds 



Fatten easily and quickly, small boned, 

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 All pigs and hogs vaccinated % 

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Arthur J, Collins, Box T, Moorestown, N. J. 



Large Rerkshires 



at Highwood 



No animal good enough unless 

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Anyone Can Raise Poultry 

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Winter or summer, it 

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How I 

 $1600 



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The "Dandy" is the easiest oper- 

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I If it suits keep it. if not, send it back. 



Free catalog. Stratton Mfg. Co., Box 24, Erie, Pa. 



Building Site Overlooking the Hudson 



About 300x600 feet, 20 rods from N. Y. Central Station. 

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 Catskill and Shawengunk Mts. in the distance. Nothing like 

 it for 40 miles. Finest garden soil, gentle slope. Many fine 

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 A. T. COOK, Agent, Hyde Park-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. 



A Shetland Pony 



— is an unceasing source 



of pleasure. A safe and 



ideal playmate. Makes 



the child strong: and of 



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 l>ept- 15. Murkham, Va. 



AIREDALE FARM KENNELS 



Spring Valley, N. Y. 



Mr. Howard Keeler, Owner. 

 The largest and most complete home for Registered 

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The Best Chum for Children 



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home. 

 If we 



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winter, or more glorious than their bloom in sum- 

 mer? We have seven or eight very large beds. 



In the woods, the true resting-place of - these 

 shade-loving shrubs, the number of trees growing 

 together is enough protection for each other from 

 the wind and the sun. But when transplanted it is 

 very necessary to protect them in winter. Espec- 

 ially is the sun in winter more often a cause for their 

 failure to survive than too severe cold. If they 

 are in an exposed position, partially cover them 

 with leaves and branches of evergreens to prevent 

 sun-scald and injury from frost and snow. Also, 

 because they must have moisture in a protracted 

 drought, it is absolutely necessary to soak them 

 even when they are well established, as they will 

 be weakened, and maybe cannot survive the 

 winter, although at the time they will not show how 

 much they are suffering. 



Whenever our rhododendron (which is the native 

 Catawbiense), looks droopy, we turn the hose full 

 into each bed for a whole day, alternating, until 

 the drought is over. 



In digging the beds we made them three feet 

 deep, filling them in with rich lower woods soil and 

 judicious mixing with rich compost and chopped 

 turf. If the soil is hard or heavy, use sand to make it 

 light and porous; for the rhododendron makes 

 many fine, almost hairy roots, which do not pene- 

 trate rapidly into the ground if it is too heavy. 

 Although it is well to cover the beds with leaves, 

 to help retain the moisture, the leaves must not 

 become too thicks or too packed, and occasionally 

 we take off the covering and rake on new leaves. 



In regard to " vines, " as we here in America erron- 

 eously call them, our greatest success has undoubt- 

 edly been the English ivy, which has a full northern 

 exposure. At first we were somewhat despairing, 

 for each wind that came tore the weak little tendrils 

 of the young plants away from their wall. Finally 

 it took hold, and excepting to dig around it and 

 add a little nourishment occasionally, we do 

 nothing, now, but nip back the tips of each new 

 growth, so that it will spread. This I never fail 

 to do as I pass by, or even, as often happens, when 

 I look out of a second or third story window. One 

 interesting proof that the ivy likes the shade has 

 been shown in comparing the sunny with the dark 

 side of our house. Under the same conditions of 

 planting and care, we have found it almost imposs- 

 ible to make any ivy grow on the south side of the 

 house, and we have finally discovered that the sun 

 on the wall creates too much heat for this lover of 

 cool, moist shade. 



The Boston ivy has struggled along in the 

 shade, never quite dying, but never thriving, 

 and the wistaria, which is also on the north side, 

 we supposed each year was breathing its last; but 

 last year, it gaspingly reached the roof of the house, 

 and the minute it saw the sun over in the south- 

 west, it knew that life was worth while, and burst 

 forth into exquisite blossom. I think it did not 

 like the shade, and simply lived in spite of its 

 situation. 



Climbing roses, trumpet-vine and woodbine all 

 love s unli ght, but hold on to life, in spite of the 

 shade, and with care in the beginning, will grow, 

 until like the wistaria, they have seen the sun, 

 when your worries for them are over. 



New York (Mrs.) John B. Miles. 



Another Umbrella Admirer 



ON READING the article in The Garden 

 Magazine for last November on UmbellifercB, 

 I felt that I must tell you that the "umbrella- 

 bearers" have another admirer in this country. I 

 am curator of a wild botanic garden in Minneapolis, 

 Minn., where refuge is given to various ornamental 

 plants commonly unnoticed, because they grow 

 without cultivation. In connection with my work 

 I had occasion last summer to write the following 

 about Heracleum lanatum: 



"It seems necessary to write a word in favor of 

 what are usually called weeds, which may be 

 denned as plants out of place, growing where we 

 wish something else to grow. The accompanying 

 print of the cow parsnip {Heracleum lanatum) 

 shows fine decorative possibilities. A rampant 

 growth of this plant gave character to a certain 

 roadside. Barely an hour after the photograph 

 was taken the plants were mown down and nothing 



