THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



July. 1817 



— Timely Topics 



Are you "doing your bit'' in the 

 garden by growing vegetables for 

 yourself and country? If you are, 

 suggestions below will help you pro- 

 vide additional crops for Fall and 

 Winter. This also is the eleventh 

 hour call for the man with land, but 

 no garden, to start one. July-made 

 gardens are very profitable. Below 

 we offer the seeds you need to make 

 them and two free books to help you 

 succeed. For the country's sake — 

 and your own — get busy! Write and 

 order— Right NOW. 



Seeds to Sow Now 



{All prices postpaid) 

 Beans, Bountiful — most productive green-pod, Pkt. 

 15c; Pt. 30c. 

 S, iff W. Co's Favorite — green-pod, white seeds for 



winter use, Pkt. 15c; Pt. 35c. 

 Sure Crop Stringless Wax — yellow podded, very pro- 

 lific. Pkt. 20c; Pt. 35c. 

 Beets, Detroit Dark Red — best all round, Pkt. 10c; 

 Oz. 20c. 

 S. cjf W . Co's Model Globe — extra fine quality, Pkt. 

 15c; Oz. 25c. 

 Carrot, Danvers — a selected, heavy-yielding strain, 



Pkt. toe.; Oz. 30c. 

 Corn, Metropolitan — for planting until July 15th, 

 Pkt. 15c; Pt. 25c. 

 Golden Bantam — plant first week in July, \ Pt. 10c; 

 Pt., 20c. 

 Kohlrabi, White Vienna — earliest, keeps well. Pkt. 



5c; Oz. 25c. 

 Lettuce, Wayahead — butterhead for late July plant- 

 ing, Pkt. 10c; Oz. 25c. 

 Salamander — butterhead to sow at once, Pkt. 5c; 

 Oz. 20c. 

 Peas, Little Marvel — bears fine crops in fall, \ Pt. 

 15c; Pt. 25c. 

 Thomas Laxton — taller growing, as prolific, \ Pt. 

 15c; Pt. 25c. 

 Radish, Chartiers — best for summer, Pkt. 5c; Oz. 10c. 

 California Mammoth Winter — keeps well, Pkt. 5c; 



Oz. IOC. 



Turnips, White Milan — ready in 60 days, Pkt. 5c; 

 Oz. 15c. 

 Purple Top White Globe — keeps splendidly, Pkt. 

 ioc., Oz. 15c. 

 Rutabaga, S. rjf W. Co's Long Island Improved — a se- 

 lected strain of exceptional value. Pkt. 5c, Oz. 15c. 

 Order direct from this "Advt." 



PrOVide More Beets, Carrots, 



n M, f*mm Kohlrabi, Turnips 



KOOt C rOpS and Rutabagas as 

 offered above, will play a most powerful part 

 in our national food program. For years we 

 have advocated their more extensive use. 

 For years we have pointed out the advan- 

 tages of having cellars well-stocked with these 

 excellent Winter vegetables. Varieties offered 

 above are our personal choice — we know them 

 to be dependable croppers and powerful 

 "cost-of-living" reducers. 



Seasonable Plants 



for Quick Results 



It is still time to "catch up" with the season by en- 

 listing the help of our well-rooted cabbage, caulihower, 

 celery and other plants for immediate setting out. Cor- 

 rect varieties for the different seasons are provided. 

 Write for list. 



Insecticides of aTl descriptions, for July uae, also 

 fertilizers, irrigation and watering accessories in a com- 

 plete assortment. 



Two Free Books to Help You 



Besides selling seeds, etc., we make it our business to 

 help customers to make them grow and yield the ex- 

 pected crops. Our Midsummer Catalogue is a complete 

 guide to the work of the season, besides offering the 

 seeds, plants and accessories for midsummer gardens. 

 "Fegetab&s for the Home Garden" is the most unique 

 booklet of the season, gotten out under " war pressure." 

 It accurately and thoroughly deals with vegetables 

 growing in all its phases, during different seasons. It 

 answers many questions on the subject. Both these 

 "helping hands" are free. Send for them. 



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/O ->-- COMING EVENTS -& < 



V9LUB ^SOCIETY NEWC 



5. 



6. 



7-8 



Meetings and Lectures in July 



(Following dales are meetings unless otherwise specified) 



•Minnesota Garden Flower Society at Wild Flower 

 Garden, Glenwood Park, by announcement. 



2. Lenox, Mass., Garden Club. 



New Bedford, Mass., Horticultural Society. 



3. Lake Geneva, Wis., Gardeners' & Foremen's Associa- 



tion. 



Garden Club of Pleasantville, N. Y. 



Marshfield, Mass., Garden Club. 



Garden Club of Lawrence, Lawrence, L. I. Lecture: 

 Small Trees and Shrubs Suitable for the Garden. 



Pasadena, Cal., Horticultural Society. 



Rumson Flower Show, Sea Bright, N. J. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Boston, Mass. 

 Sweet Pea Exhibition. 



American Sweet Pea Society, Boston, Mass. Annual 

 Exhibition. 

 9. Park Garden Club, Flushing, L. I. 



Rochester, N. Y., Florist Association. 



New Rochelle, N. Y., Garden Club. 



New York Florists' Club, New York City, N. Y. 

 10-11 Lenox, Mass., Horticultural Society. Summer Show. 

 11. Short Hills, N. J., Garden Club. 



Lenox, Mass., Horticultural Society. 



Nassau Co. Horticultural Society, Glen Cove, L. I. 



Westchester, N. Y., & Fairfield, Conn., Horticultural 

 Society. 



Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Horticultural Society. 

 14-15 Horticultural Society of New York, New York City, 

 N. Y. Exhibition and Lecture. 



Lenox, Mass., Garden Club. 



Marshfield, Mass., Garden Club. 



Pasadena, Cal., Horticultural Society. 



California Dahlia Society, San Francisco, Cal. 



Park Garden Club, Flushing, L. I. 



Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Horticultural Society. 



13. 

 14, 



Street — 1 = 



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American Rose Society at Washington 



TT WAS a great gathering of rosarians at 

 -*• the Arlington Testing Gardens on June 4th. 

 The judges noted the following Roses as 

 worthy of special mention: 



Teas and Hybrid Teas: Laurent Carle, 

 Gruss an Teplitz, Lieutenant Chaure, Mary 

 Countess of Ilchester, Mme. Paul Euler, 

 Dorothy Page Roberts, Mme. Jules Graver- 

 eaux, Lady Ursula, La Tosca, Mrs. Wake- 

 field Christie-Miller, Lady Ashtown, Gustave 

 Grunerwald, Countess of Gosford, Koenigin 

 Carola. 



Dwarf Polyantha: Katherine Zeimet, Baby 

 Tausendschoen, Ellen Poulsen, Mrs. Wm. H. 

 Cutbush, Baby Dorothy,TriompheOrleanaise. 



Climbers: Countess M. H. Choteck and 

 Bess Lovett. 



Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, Carl 

 Vrooman, spoke earnestly on the general out- 

 look, and while impressing upon his hearers 

 the solemnity of the national crisis he urged 

 at the same time that the task be approached 

 on a sane and not hysterical basis. 



"Nothing will go on the same as usual. I 

 do not object to an occasional flower garden 

 being plowed up for the sociological effect of 

 it. Roses and flowers are something we need, 

 that we must have; they are a part of our war 

 programme as well as our peace programme. 

 But even more than these things must we 

 have the fundamental essentials of living. 

 As much as I love Roses, if it were, for me to 

 choose between Roses and bread I believe 

 I would take the latter, and so would you, 

 but that time has not come, and I hope it 

 never will." 



Peony Society at Philadelphia 

 ' I ''HE meeting and exhibition on June 13th 

 ■*■ and 14th met local conditions favorably 

 and there was a first-class display of blooms. 

 In particular, the following were of superlative 

 quality: Jubilee (Pleas), Walter Faxon 

 (Richardson), Martha Bulloch (Brand), and 

 the European La Cygne. 



The visitors were enabled to see a splendid 

 bloom of the yellow Hybrid Tree Peony La 

 Lorraine, from Mr. Farr, which is a butter- 

 yellow with maroon-red base to each petal. 



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