April. 1913 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



197 



Flower Guards 



FOR edging walks and flower beds there is nothing so lasting or orna- 

 mental as Excelsior "Rust-Proof" Guards. The clean silver gray of 

 the pure zinc coating looks well in contrast with flowers and shrubbery. 

 The Guards are made just like the famous Excelsior Fences, and are 

 impervious to the ravages of time and weather. They successfully 

 resist rust without any painting. These guards are sold in rolls, and may 

 be bent to conform to any desired curve or angle. 



Ask any hardware dealer for them. Let us send you ILLUSTRATED 

 CATALOG "B" and sample of the "Rust-Proof" finish. 



Wright Wire Company 



Worcester, Mass. 



What Reasons Have You For 

 Not Planting Home Trees? 



Evergreen^, shade trees and a few fruit trees, are worth 

 $100 each at any home — sometimes $500 each. But they 

 cost only two or three dollars each. Have you any excuse 

 for not planting what is worth even $100? 



The Benefits of Planting 

 Home Trees 



Trees will make your place beautiful 

 — a home to be proud of. Trees will 

 make it restful — a home to enjoy. And 

 if your home is anything like the average 

 home where trees have been planted, 

 trees will increase its salable value exactly 

 fifty-one times the cost of the trees and 

 their planting. 



Harrison Shade Trees and 

 Evergreens Hard to Equal 



The same deep, loose, fertile soil, long 

 growing season, salt air from the nearby 

 Atlantic, and scientific care that make 

 our fruit trees so excellent, produced 

 spruces and pines and maples and all 

 other home trees that are unexcelled. 

 Our trees will grow into beautiful, shapely 

 specimens. 



*'The How and Why of Shade Trees and Evergreens'* — a home-planting 

 book that tells what kind of trees and plants to use and how to arrange and plant 

 them. Sent on request. 



"The Trees That Grow The Fruit That Sells," tells what varieties of 

 fruits are making the bulk of the profits now. 



"How To Grow and Market Fruit," used as a text book in two colleges, and 

 used daily by thousands of fruit growers. 50 cents, and that amount rebated on 

 first $5 order. 



Write today for 

 what interests you. 

 Tell us what you 

 think you need, so 

 we can send you the 

 right literature. 



Harrison's 

 Nurseries 



Main Avenue 



Berlin, Md. 



Eastern Shore Sum- 

 mer Homes — Old Plan- 

 tations— for sale. 

 Write for particulars. 



Farrs New Catalogue of 

 Hardy Plant Specialties 



It tells of the thousands of varieties of Irises, Peonies, 

 Phlox, Poppies, Larkspur and other hardy plants 

 that make up my collection — a man's garden that 

 long since over-flowed into the open fields, a glorious 

 riot of color, an intoxication of delight. 



A Business from a Hobby. Some one has said, 

 "Blessed is he who has a hobby, and can make it his 

 business." It is a far cry from a boy's garden on the 

 Iow T a farm, to a garden of many acres at Wyomissing, 

 and a business that has reached to every state and 

 territory, bringing me in touch with thousands of 

 others w T ho also know r the delights of the hardy garden, 

 and have made it their hobby. 



They have told me of their gardens, and 

 I have shared with them my treasures, 

 and so the Wyomissing Nurseries seems 

 but the natural development of a com- 

 plete abandonment to a passionate love 

 for growing things — a garden that 

 grows and grows, and an ever- 

 widening circle of friends whose 

 appreciation and support make 

 possible and necessary a new edi- 

 tion of my book of Hardy Plant 

 Specialties. 



The Charm of the Hardy Garden. The old- 

 fashioned garden has a charm of its own — breath- 

 ing the spirit of the past into the living present, i 

 Oh, the joy of living when, on the first mild days, we 

 go forth to examine whether they have survived the 

 perils of winter, and the thrill of delight with which 

 here and there we see them bursting into new life. 



But there is a fascination, too, in the building of a 

 new garden, the planning of which shall be all your 

 own, and its accomplishment the realization of your 

 own fancy. Whether a garden be new or old, it is a 

 place of recreation and forgetfulness of business cares, 

 a safety-valve from overwork, and a place where the 

 man who is "city tired "may find rest and new life. 



About My New Book. In my new book I have 

 tried to express the charm of the hardy plants — 

 the charm that induced me to grow them by the 

 thousands at Wyomissing, that led me to secure 

 complete collections of all the most desirable flower- 

 ing perennials, so that now I have more than a 

 million plants in hundreds of varieties. ... My col- 

 lections of Peonies and Irises are pronounced the 

 finest in America. My new book shows the choicest 

 of my treasures in the full colors of nature — it is more beau- 

 tiful, more helpful, and more complete than the old one. 

 If, as many wrote, they found the last edition "so delightful" 

 they will find this one even more enjoyable. 



This book is free to all who love the Hardy Plants. 

 Send for it today, and let it be a help to you. 



BERTRAND H. FARR, Wyomissing Nurseries 

 1 04 Garfield Avenue, Wyomissing, Pa. 



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