March, 1913 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



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Try These Fifty-five 

 Hardy Berry Plants 



Here is a lot of berry plants of the very best 

 varieties that I want you to try, and let me know 

 how they do for you. Some are high-priced new 

 sorts. Others are my improved strains of older sorts. 

 The fifty-five plants are worth $3.50 at the lowest 

 retail prices. I will send them to you for $2.00. 



Plants set this spring should produce a few berries 

 next summer, many more in 1914, and more than 100 

 quarts per year of the finest kind of fruit in 1915, and 

 afterward — fully $25.00 worth a season if you sell it. 

 The Himalaya Berry, Macatawa Blackberry, Cur- 

 rants and Gooseberries will last as long as apple trees. 



-The Ten Different Kinds- 



1 Macatawa Blackberry; 1 Twelve-month Himalaya; 



2 Two-year Currants, Perfection and Biskoop Giant ; 

 18 Raspberries, 6 Superlative Red, 6 Shepard's Pride 

 Red, 6 Plum Farmer Black ; 8 Gooseberries, 2 Win- 

 ham, 6 Gold Drop ; 25 King Edward Strawberry. 



SEND FOR THE BERRYDALE BERRY BOOK FOR 

 1913. Full of good advice and money making ideas. De- 

 scribes all the new berries and the best old ones. The only 

 book of its kind printed. Write today. 



A. MITTING 



Berrydale Experiment Gardens 

 Garden Avenue Holland, Mich. 



Have a Perfect Lawn — 

 Plant Stokes' Seed Early 



March is the time to sow lawn grass seed in the bare spots. Renovate your 

 lawn now, and the new grass will be well established before hot, dry weather. 

 Sow new lawns as soon as the ground can be worked without becoming lumpy. 



STOKES' STANDARD LAWN MIXTURE 

 1 PECK FOR 91, BY PARCEL POST 



I want you to know Stokes' Standard Lawn Mixture, a perfect blend of Kentucky Blue Grass 

 and seven other grasses — some chosen because they make a close, thick turf; others because 

 they spread along the surface and prevent bare spots, and others because they resist constant 



tramping 



This mixture will produce a beautiful lawn in five weeks 

 from planting. It makes a permanent, deep-rooted turf 

 that resists drought and improves with age. To convince 

 you by leslol its superiority, I wll send, prepaid, by parcel 

 post to any address in the United States, one peck (enough 

 for 2,000 square feet) for $1. Bushel, (enough for J acre) 

 S3. 50, not prepaid. 



Stokes' Shady Lawn Mixture, peck $1.25 

 bushel, $4, not prepaid. 



Stokes' Lawn Restoring Grass Seed, peck, $1, 

 bushel, S3. so, not prepaid. 

 Plant Stokes' Seeds at My Expense 

 To show their quality, I will send five 10- 

 cent packets of seeds, a credit slip good for 

 25 cents on your next order and my 1913 

 catalog — all for 25 cents. Here is the list: 

 Lettuce, Big Boston. Greatest heading kind. 

 Radish, Scarlet Globe. Ready in 20 days. 

 Tomato, Bonny BestEarly. First.most productive. 

 Asters, Stokes' Standard. Biggest many colors. - 

 Pansies, Stokes' Standard. Blend of finest French. 

 Mail 25 cents at my risk and get seeds, credit slip 

 and catalog by return post. Catalog alone, FllEE. 



WALTER P. STOKES 



Dept. 131, 219 Market St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



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A RARE EASTER GIFT 



THIS picture shows a mass of Lilies 

 of the Valley grown by one of our 

 Customers from pips supplied by us, and 

 planted in our prepared mossfiber. 



Would not your friends appreciate such 

 a gift far more than anything purchased 

 in a store ? 



It takes just 18 to 21 days to bring 

 these flowers to full perfection. First 

 the emerald green leaves, then the buds, 

 and the silvery white bells unfold, exhal- 

 ing their unique fragrance. No one who 

 has not observed this phenomenal growth 

 and flowering can judge of the pleasure 

 experienced. 



The pips of Lily of Valley which we 

 furnish can be grown in any bowl, pot 

 or jardiniere without any drainage in our 

 prepared mossfiber, which we furnish 

 with the pips. We also send full and 

 concise directions just how to grow them 

 successfully. 



PRICES INCLUDE DELIVERY 



6 Lily of Valley, with mossfiber, $ .35 



12 



25 



.60 

 1. 00 



Lily of Valley grown in our mossfiber 



Do you wish to enter into the soul and spirit of 



GARDENLORE? ? 



Send for our 1013 Gardenbook. It 

 will interest and please you. Offers, be- 

 sides all tested and best novelties, the best 

 in flower and vegetable seeds, bulbs, 

 plants, etc. Address: 



H. H. BERGER & CO., 70 Warren St., N. Y. City 



Department C 26 



My Fairfax Roses 

 Are Grown Slowly 



Sappy growth, secured by forcing Rose plants under glass, lacks 

 the vitality necessary to enable it to produce good flowers out of 

 doors. As Fairfax plants are designed for outdoor culture, I let 

 them grow slowly in nature's way, forming vigorous wood and 

 sturdy roots, full of vitality. 



Then, to establish their hardi- 

 ness, I winter them out of doors. 

 A Rose from the outside — one that 

 has had seven months of good 

 growing weather and five months 

 of rest, is bound to give you better 

 results than one taken right from 

 a greenhouse bench and never giv- 

 en a dormant period since its life 

 began. 



My Fairfax plants, bred to se- 

 cure vitality, make Rose-growing 

 easy. They are so stocky and 

 thrifty that they are bound to 

 thrive for you, and produce an 

 abundance of blooms this year. 



My Free Book,' 'Fairfax Roses" 

 Shows You the Way to Success 



With Fairfax Roses, and 

 the directions, " How to Grow 

 Roses," contained in my 1913 

 book, you can have blooms better than you ever imagined possible. 

 My book describes 128 kinds of Roses, including newvarieties of real 

 merit, shows engravings of these from life, and lists the best of the 

 flowering plants,bulbs and shrubs. May I send you a copy? It is free. 



W. R. GRAY, Box 6, Oakton, Virginia 



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