146 



The Garden Magazine, April, 1920 



How This Strong Chain Protects 

 You In Buying Nursery Stock 



DID you know there's a big constructive move 

 afoot that's going tc mean more planting satis- 

 faction to you and to everyone who uses trees or 

 plants ? 



The men behind this movement have linked them- 

 selves together, to make it their business to see that 

 you get satisfaction with every tree and plant you buy. 



They are the Members of the American Associa- 

 tion of Nurserymen; men whose methods and stand- 

 ards come up to the Association measure; men who 

 are permanently established in the business and who 

 seek to give honest stcck and dependable service. 



Buying from any Member of this Association, you 

 have the Association's assurance of satisfaction back 

 of your purchase. 



Just what the American Association of Nursery- 

 men is, and how, through its Vigilance Committee, 

 it is aiding buyers of trees and plants to get varie- 

 ties true-to-name, free from disease and of satisfac- 

 tory quality, is told in our Booklet, " Looking Both 

 Ways Before You Buy Nursery Stock." 



Of the greatest importance to you; it contains a list 

 of the members of the Association. 



We will gladly send you a copy. 



In doing your part to make America fruitful and 

 beautiful get your trees and plants from a Member 

 whose use of the Association's Trade-Mark links him 

 in the strong chain of cooperative protection to 

 planters. 



tffrnrtccim&toc&ffib 



%^A 



k 



Catalogue Free 



DAHLIAS are the wondrous results of hybridizing experiments in 

 crossing and recrossing the choicest English, French and Holland 

 varieties. They are marvelously beautiful in both coloring and form, 

 have strong stem and are excellent as cut flowers. 



1660 DERBY STREET 

 PORTLAND, OREGON 



M. G. TYLER 



Plant Blueberries 



The Blueberry, although among the finest of fruits and the 

 finest of all berries for pies, is almost unknown in the average 

 garden. This is due to the scarcity of nursery grown plants, 

 the only kind that transplant easily, 



We have to offer this Spring some excellent nursery grown 

 plants — ideal for the home garden. All that is needed is some 

 good garden soil and the plants will take care of themselves. 

 They are very hardy, rapid growers and heavy bearers. 



In the Summer when you are eating luscious blueberry pie made from berries 

 picked from your own bushes, you will realize the wisdom of planting Blueberries. 



WRITE for our Illustrated Catalogue and Planting Guide 



603 Ellwanger &- Barry Building 

 Rochester, N. Y. 



J. G. Mayo Sr Co v 



Marking Drills 



THERE are two matters which I have in 

 mind that 1 believe The Garden Magazine 

 readers should know about. The first is a 

 suggestion which I think is worth passing on for 

 the convenience of those whom it may concern. 

 The second matter is a riddle which f daresay the 

 editor or some good friend will solve for me. 

 The suggestion referred to above is in relation to 

 a simple little device for measuring and marking 

 drills. Every gardener appreciates the use of a 

 garden line in making straight rows and most 

 everybody uses some gauge or tool for spacing 

 the rows. A yard stick or sometimes a graduated 

 hoe handle answers the purpose. My way is to 

 use two yard sticks (the man who sells you your 

 garden tools or seeds should give you these) each 

 cut in two in the middle and the small end, up to 

 18 inches, nailed or screwed to the line stakes 

 which are i inch square and 24 inches long, the 

 yard stick section extending from the top of the. 

 stakes to within 6 inches of the bottom which is 

 tapered to a point. The stakes may, of course, 

 be either longer or shorter to suit the individual 

 notion of the operator by the use of more or less of 

 the yard sticks than the 18 inch which I suggest. 

 By the use of this little trick your measuring 

 stick is always where you want it. You don't have 

 to chase it from one end of the row to the other or 

 back to the tool house. It is like unto the poor, 

 always with you. Now to return to my riddle. 

 Who will explain to me why some of my Peonies 

 do not bloom? They have been planted at least 

 nine years, send up each year an abundance of 

 slender canes, but in the nine years I have not had 

 nine blossoms from the six original clumps. 

 When I received them I planted them on rather 

 high ground which was I suppose none too rich. 

 After about three years I moved them down into 

 my garden where other Peonies were flowering 

 beautifully but in the words of the immortal 

 Huck Finn, "Nothing came of it." As yet they 

 have not changed their habits, 

 somebody recommend? I do not 

 ought to commute their sentences, 

 them a new trial? 



Chas. Edw. Curtis, N. Y. 

 — Now then speak out! Why is it that some 

 Peonies do not bloom? — Ed. 



Patriotic Color Notes 



ONE fallwhen I planted six Farnscomb Sanders 

 Tulips in front of a clump each of the old 

 blue Iris and Florentine Iris, I never dreamed 

 they would arrive at approximately the same 

 time and start a grand patriotic parade in my 

 back yard, but that's exactly what they did'. 

 The Farnscomb Sanders Tulips bloomed first, 

 about four days later the old blue Iris arrived and 

 two days later along came the delicately scented 

 Orris-root, otherwise the Florentine Iris which, 

 though tinted lavender, is white enough for 

 practical purposes. The effect is gorgeous 

 beyond description, and I have promised myself 

 to have the same parade next May by design in- 

 stead of accident. Another pretty patriotic 

 color note is to plant old blue Iris and scarlet 

 Darwin Tulips in front of Spiraea Van Houtteii. 

 The Tulips and Iris open first against a back- 

 ground of the green Spiraea leaves, which are 

 followed in a few days by their snowy white 

 blooms that provide the field of pure white against 

 which the nearly blue Iris and red Tulips show 

 to great advantage. Other combinations will 

 suggest themselves, or present themselves, once 

 attention focusses on the idea — or perhaps some- 

 one has already found another? 



Mrs. R. W. Walters, Ohio. 



What will 

 feel that I 



Shall I give 



