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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 1913 



FROM our Spring Imports we have a 

 large surplus on hand which we MUST 

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May Bargains 



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Every bulb is guaranteed SOUND, strong and flowering size 



Anemones, many beautiful shades I 



Amaryllis, including one RARE Giant Hybrid 

 Begonias, single, six colors 



" double, five colors 

 Cannas, six colors, including rare white 

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Rare chance to secure these magnificent sorts 



Gladioli, named, six colors $ .20 $ .35 $2.00 



*' choice mixed .10 .15 1.00 



Japan Iris, strong clumps 1.00 2.00 12.00 



Lilies, Auratum, Roseum. Album, Superbum .75 1.25 8.50 

 Lil. Henryii, "THE YELLOW SPECIOSUM" 1.25 2.25 17.50 



MOST MAGNIFICENT OF GARDEN LILIES 

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Paeonias, Japan sorts including the RARE Lotus 

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Tigridis, Tigerflowers, brilliant colors .40 .75 $6.00 



Tuberoses, double Pearl .20 .30 2.00 



Any one or three bulbs at six rate. 

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A Hardy Pink Rose 



THERE is a rose, Conrad F. Meyer, which 

 ought, I believe, to be much better known, 

 because it is so hardy, so prolific and long-blooming. 

 It is a cup-shaped, large, pink, rose, in flower from 

 Decoration Day until the buds are killed by frost. 

 Of course, its greatest effort is made in June and 

 after that the size and number of roses depend upon 

 the attention given to keep off insects and fungi 

 and to supply the soil with manure water. I have 

 two beds filled with this rose, each thirty feet wide 

 and ninety feet long, and the plants have been 

 blooming for six years. I picked the last flowers last 

 year on October 19th. The only fungus which has 

 bothered my plants has been the black spot, which 

 a couple of sprayings with bordeaux mixture usu- 

 ally eradicates for the season. The slugs I dispose 

 of with arsenate of lead, three pounds to fifty gallons 

 of water applied with a barrel sprayer, though a 

 hand machine does as well on a smaller bed. 



A virtue of this rose, where its location is within 

 reach of the public (as in a park), is its great briars 

 on heavy wood stems. An occasional flower may 

 be lost, but if picked with one's fingers, the stem 

 must necessarily be short; no one will attempt to 

 break down much of the bush, and if the plants are 

 pretty close together, no one will try to run through 

 or between them. Although I cut back my plants 

 every spring twenty to twenty-four inches, they are 

 six feet high in the fall and make quite a hedge. 



Illinois. A. W. Joedan. 



"Reminders" for the Month 



PROBABLY the amateur fruit grower who wants 

 all the best fruit adapted to his locality, has been 

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 about best methods of culture, and do thorough 

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If you are in the latitude of New York and did 

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 early in May. If the leaves have made consider- 

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 as directed in the April, 191 2, Garden Magazine. 

 Early planted strawberries should be given thorough 

 cultivation all through May. Stir the soil around 

 the plants with suitable tools just before the weeds 

 break through the soil. Run as close as possible 

 to the plants, with horse or hand-wheel cultivators, 

 and run them deeply between the rows both ways, 

 if plants are in check rows, and then work close 





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