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The Garden Magazine, April, 1920 



This Ten -Ten Catalog 



Saves You Money— Saves You Time 



Multiplies Your Gardening Joys 



But don't mistake us — the joys of gardening 

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 of practical garden practise. 



It always has seemed to us, however, that gar- 

 dening, done the way it can so easily be done, 

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 the best asters. Ten of the best annuals. Ten 

 things that ought to be in every vegetable gar- 

 den. Ten ways of making the garden you 

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 And so on. everything in tens. 



All of which, you at once welcome as the happy 

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of more things, than any mortal could plant in 

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 to walk. 



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When a thing is named and described, it is 

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You don't have to be a Sherlock Homes to find 

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THREE WAYS TO GET RID OF 

 DANDELIONS 



EXPERIMENTS made at the Colorado 

 £-' Agricultural College show that there are 

 several ways in which Dandelions may be eradi- 

 cated from lawns. There is first the familiar 

 and common method of digging them out which, 

 as usually done, is a waste of time; for when a 

 Dandelion root is cut ofT near the top, it simph 

 gets very busy and produces several plants! 

 But when the digging is done early in the season 

 just before the plants mature seed, and again in 

 the autumn, the weed can be kept in control 

 fairly well, providing seed is not introduced from 

 other sources. 



Dandelions spread mostly from seed. Seven 

 days are required after the first day of blooming 

 for the seeds to reach the germinating age. If 

 all flower heads are cut off once a week, there will 

 be no seeds, but many flower heads are missed 

 because they lie too close to the ground to be 

 reached by lawn mower blades. An excellent 

 tool especially designed for gathering them is 

 really a rake with protrusions that resemble a 

 saw blade except that they are longer. With 

 this the young flower buds, the heads in bloom, 

 and the seed-ripening heads may be gathered 

 in one operation. Of course, the plants remain, 

 but they can be gradually dug out. 



It is possible to dig deeply enough to remove 

 the whole plant, and this method can be used 

 advantageously when the number is not large. 

 It is often followed in public parks, sometimes for 

 areas which cover several hundred acres. The 

 work is best done when the ground is rather soft, 

 following a rain. A tool which has a blade eight 

 inches long and one inch wide is used, the blade 

 being thrust into the soil about four inches from 

 the plant, and at an angle of forty-five degrees. 

 The root is not cut off, but pried out by pushing 

 down on the handle of the tool. Of course this 

 is laborious and defaces the lawn somewhat; 

 but it is most effective, and the addition of a little 

 grass seed will soon cover the bare spots. 



An altogether different way of eradicating the 

 Dandelion is by means of herbicides, gasolene 

 and kerosene being among the most useful. A 

 teaspoonful of gasolene applied in the centre 

 of a Dandelion plant will usually kill it, although 

 twice as much may be required for very large 

 plants. Usually the leaves will wilt very quickly, 

 and the plants appear quite dead in a few days. 

 Sometimes the entire root shrivels up and can be 

 pulled out of the ground. Something which drives 

 the gasolene into the head of the plant is best for 

 making the application — often a large sized oil can 

 will serve. The fluid may kill some of the grass 

 around the plants, but reseeding will remedy 

 that. Kerosene is about as effective as gasolene, 

 and should be used in the same way or a smaller 

 amount of coal tar creosote may be used, from 

 a quarter to a half teaspoonful being enough for 

 each plant. This method of exterminating the 

 Dandelion is one which can be adopted to ad- 

 vantage by the owners of suburban and village 

 places. 



A SPRAY FOR ALL WEEDS 



Finally, there is the spraying method, which is 

 really the cheapest and most effective when a 

 lawn is badly infested. A solution of \\ pounds 



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