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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1913 



— sent free on request to any garden lover 



— is more than a mere catalog of well 

 grown nursery stock. It features the new, 

 rare and unusual plants you need to give 

 your garden individuality. For instance, 



unusual hedges that lend 

 distinction to any grounds 



Meehans' New Improved Variegated-leaved 

 Althaea is a splendid flowering shrub, of upright, 

 sturdy growth — admirably adapted for hedge use. 

 Can you imagine any hedge more beautiful than 

 this; .with its neat variegated foliage and profuse 

 covering of flowers from late July until September? 



For English Garden effects, you need Beech 

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 Our years of effort and three transplantings have been 

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Dahlias, Gladioli, Lilies, 

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and other summer-flowering bulbs and hardy 

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Best Dutch Bulbs 



procurable in this country 



Franken Brothers 



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Nurseries also at Sassenheim, Holland 



New Strawberries 



Our annual plant catalog free to all. Reliable, interesting and in- 

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Large crops are the result of giving the 

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watered, and the soil tamped firmly about 

 them. 



As soon as the ground is open in spring, cuttings 

 rooted as recommended should be planted outdoors 

 in rows twenty-four inches apart, allowing eight 

 to nine inches between the plants. By fall some 

 of these plants will be two feet in height and all 

 will be of sufficient strength for planting wherever 

 needed. I find that Euonymus radicans can be 

 successfully transplanted at any time when the 

 ground is clear of frost, but April, May, August 

 and September are the ideal months. 



In midwinter the form vegetus with round leaves 

 and smothered with fruit is very attractive. 

 Even one-year old cuttings of this variety will be 

 found full of fruit. As between the green and 

 variegated forms of euonymus I much prefer the 

 former, it also possessing greater vigor and hardi- 

 ness; both are, however, easily propagated. 



Massachusetts. W. N. Craig. 



FERTILIZERS 



Cost of Fertilizing 



THE article by Mr. O. A. Spencer in the January, 

 191 2, issue of The Garden Magazine is very 

 interesting and I agree with him in the general idea 

 of mixing your own fertilizer. But he does not go 

 far enough in his cost reduction, for he pays $9.78 

 for the small supply of 391 pounds of nitrate of 

 soda. 



Science, as applied to agriculture, has now proved 

 beyond all question that the planting of a legume 

 crop whose seeds have been inoculated with a 

 good bacteria culture will supply the soil with as 

 much nitrogen as 700 to 1,000 pounds of nitrate 

 of soda per acre. 



My authorities for this are the Department of 

 Agriculture, the various state experiment stations, 

 and the results of long practice of scientific agri- 

 culture in Europe, where it is necessary to make 

 every square inch of soil yield its utmost. 



In addition to this gain of nearly 3 to 1, nitrogen 

 added in the form of nitrates lasts but a short sea- 

 son — the plants take it out of the soil, and if any 

 remains it leaches or washes out — but nitrogen 

 added by inoculation, not only supplies the require- 

 ments of the legume crop, but that of the crop 

 growing with it as well; and, at the same time, the 

 bacteria in the root nodules remain in the soil 

 for the benefit of the succeeding crops the following 

 seasons. 



The difficulty has been to secure bacteria that 

 were certain to be of the proper kind and alive 

 and virile at the time of use. The various experi- 

 ments of dry cotton, liquid or powder seemingly 

 not having produced positive results in this direction 

 until the discovery by Doctor Earp-Thomas of a 

 medium in which the bacteria grow and remain 

 in the- most active condition — guaranteed for at 

 least two years. This at once makes this culture 

 a success, in distinction from those which do not 

 keep or of whose virility we cannot be certain. 



Coming back to the costs, they work out as 

 follows: 



Acid phosphate 1484 lbs. at $.75 per 100 lbs $11.13 



Farmogerra (Dr. Thomas's preparation) for one acre. 2.00 



Muriate of potash 125 lbs 3.12 



Total for one acre $16,25 



instead of $24.03 by Mr. Spencer's formula — a 

 saving of $7.78 or 32 per cent, in first cost, not 

 to mention the large extra saving in the further and 

 lasting soil enrichment secured by inoculation. 

 Connecticut. Rudolph Riege. 



[It must be remembered that the inoculation is effective 

 only on a leguminous crop, however, and on soils that are 

 deficient in that particular bacterium. — EditorsI 



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