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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March. 191S 



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What kind of music 

 do you like best? 



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Victor- Victrola IV, $15 



Oak 



The Victor -Victrola 

 will bring your kind 

 of music right into 

 your home. 



Yottr kind of music— the kind you like best— sung 

 and played as you have probably never heard it before. 



Your kind of music perfectly rendered by the 

 world's greatest artists whenever you wish to hear it. 



You don't have to wait until you 

 feel you can afford a $100 or $200 

 instrument — any Victrola you choose 

 as the instrument for your home will 

 play every record in the Victor cata- 

 log, and will give you almost as perfect 

 music as the Victrola XVI, the instru- 

 ment by which the value of all musical [ 

 instruments is measured. 



Any Victor dealer in any city in the world 

 will gladly demonstrate the Victor-Victrola 

 to you and play any music you wish to hear. 



Victor Talking Machine Co. 

 Camden, N. J., U. S. A. 



Berliner Gramophone Co., Montreal 

 Canadian Distributors 



Always use Victor 

 Machines with 

 Victor Records and 

 Victor Needles — 

 the combination. 

 There is no other 

 way to get the un- 

 equaled Victor tone. 



:, $200 



quartered oak 

 $15 to $150 



New Victor Records are on sale at all dealers on the 28th of each month 



For Liquor and Drug Users 



A scientific treatment which has cured half a 

 million in the past thirty-three years, and the one 

 treatment which has stood the severe test of time. 

 Administered by medical experts, at the Keeley 

 Institutes only. For full particulars write 



To the Following Keeley Institutes: 



Hot Springs, Ark. 

 Atlanta. Ga. 

 l»wl c ht. HL 

 Marion, Ind. 

 l>es Moines, la. 

 Crab Orchard, Ky. 



Portland. Me. 

 Omaha, Neb. 

 Manchester, N. II. 

 Buffalo, N. Y. 

 Greensboro, N. O. 

 Columbus, Ohio. 



Oklahoma City. Ok In., 91 8 N. Stiles st. 



Philadelphia. Pa.. 812 IV. Broad st. 



Pittsburgh, Pa., 4346 Fifth ave. 



Dallas, Tex. 



Salt Lake City, Utah 



Seattle, Wash. 



Waukesha, Wis. 

 Winnipeg:, Manitoba 

 Guatemala City, 



Guatemala 

 Puebla, Mexico. 

 London, England. 



It is best planted in very rich soil, in hills 4 by 6 

 feet. 



The majority of amateurs believe that cauli- 

 flower requires infinite skill, but it is no more 

 difficult to grow than other things provided a 

 suitable variety is chosen. I have raised snowy 

 heads from 90 per cent, of the plants set of Erfurt 

 Best Early. An ounce of seed will produce 3,000 

 plants; sow one half in a hotbed about February 

 1st, and transplant after the ground is settled and 

 mellowed. These plants head for summer and 

 early autumn use. But the main crop for fall 

 and winter use, and for pickling, come from the 

 balance of the paper of seeds sown in an outdoor 

 bed in May. Set these where other and earlier 

 crops have been removed. Hoe frequently and, 

 if the season of setting (about August 1st) is very 

 dry, water until well started. If at the beginning 

 of October they have shown no inclination to head, 

 do not be troubled. These may remain growing 

 until the severe freezes of late autumn, without 



injury. 



Connecticut. 



Hollister Sage. 



Starting Less Hardy Vegetables 



TO SUPPLY a family of five or six persons 

 there will be needed about one dozen each 

 of eggplant and tomato plants and a half dozen 

 pepper plants. 



Plant the seed at any time from the middle 

 of March to April 1st, so as to have plants for 

 transplanting by May 10th, and later. 



They may be started in the house in a shallow 

 box of convenient size. Mine is 4J inches deep 

 by 20 inches long and 12 inches wide. It has good 

 bottom drainage, sandy soil, and is in a sunny 

 window. Make the soil fine, and plant the seed 

 thinly in little furrows about two inches apart. 

 Wet thoroughly ■ — in the morning — as often as 

 seems necessary; wetting at night will sometimes 

 cause the young plants to damp off if the tempera- 

 ture should fall. 



By planting the seed thinly, transplanting may 

 be delayed until the plants are about 2! inches 

 in height. They may then be removed to individual 

 pots or small berry boxes of earth set in a box of 

 moist sand. To transplant to the open ground 

 slip the plant and the clump of moist earth from 

 the pot or cut out the bottom of the berry box 

 without disturbing the roots, and set into the 

 ground. Do not put them out until all danger 

 of frost has passed. 



Put tomato plants deep into the earth. They 

 also root from the stem above. If the plants 

 incline to great height and thin stems, pinch out 

 the tender growth at the apex of the plant and 

 expose them to outdoor air on mild days. This 

 will thicken the stems and make them branch 

 from the axils of the leaves. 



New York. M. Roberts Conover. 



Trials in Growing Cabbages 



EIGHT years ago this summer, I discovered 

 that the cabbage wasn't the meek and guile- 

 less vegetable it had looked to be. My experience 

 was limited that season, for my whole garden was 

 but thirty feet square, and the part of it allotted 

 to cabbage was insignificant. In the end, however, 

 this was a greac comfort. 



I had planted the cabbages according to Hoyle, 

 Henderson, or whatever garden authority you 

 prefer; and the second morning after, I found 

 that the last plant had succumbed to cutworms. 

 That was easy. I replanted, wrapping the stems 

 with paper before setting. That settled the cut- 

 worms, but at intervals during the following weeks 

 came other creeping things; first green worms, 

 which made filigree work of the succulent leaves; 

 then gray aphids. At this point I lost my temper, 

 pulled the cabbages carefully out of the ground, 

 one at a time, and took them in and burned plants, 

 lice, and worms in the kitchen fire. 



Last summer I read that boiling water could be 

 poured from a kettle upon cabbage plants, and 

 that by the time it struck it would be just cool 

 enough not to hurt the cabbage, while it would 

 cook the bugs on them. I tried it — on a quarter 

 acre of Danish Ball* Heads; and by evening, I 

 didn't have to tell any one that I was sorry: the 



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