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The Garden Magazine, April, 1920 



Cico Oscillating 



IRRIGATOR 



For Lawns, Vegetable Gardens, Seedbeds, 

 Shrubbery, Greenhouses, Hardy Borders, Put- 

 ting Greens, Fairways and General Irrigation. 



Cico throws a generous, gentle, mistlike spray 

 which can neither wash out nor pack the soil, nor 

 injure the most delicate seedling. The plane of the 

 spray Oscillates back and forth, wetting the soil 

 evenly and thoroughly. 



Cico waters any rectangular area 1 2 feet wide up 

 to 60 feet long, is instantly adjustable without tools, 

 and may be moved at will without turning off the 

 water or wetting the operator. 



Cico is unique in the automatic oscillation of the 

 distributing pipe in which a line of small brass noz- 

 zles are fitted — thus throwing a plane of spray to 

 and fro over the area being watered. 



Cico oscillations recur 20 times a minute. Each 

 interval allows time for the spray to sink in before 

 the next precipitation. The advantages are: 



— No puddles can form. 



— Large area watered thoroughly, quickly. 



— An absolutely even precipitation over the area. 



— No dry spots, no spots too wet. I 



— No unsprinkled corners and no waste. 



Cico weighs but five pounds and is 21 inches long. 1 



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A HANDY ROSE GROWER'S 



MANUAL 



THE time to decide that you want Roses in 

 your garden is now in Rose planting time, 

 not later on when your neighbors are enjoying 

 their blooms and you are bewailing your lack of 

 them. And that you may choose wisely and 

 plant and care for the flowers as they should be 

 planted and cared for, don't delay in studying 

 up the facts about them. One good way is to 

 send to the New York State College of Agricul- 

 ture at Ithaca for a free copy of its Reading Course 

 Bulletin for the Farm, Number 121, bearing 

 the title The Culture of Garden Roses. Remem- 

 ber, indeed can one ever forget, that 



Roses always roses are — 

 What with roses can compare? 

 Search the garden, search the bower, 

 Try the charms of every flower; 

 Try them by their beauteous bloom, 

 Try them by their sweet perfume. 

 Morning light it loveth best 

 In the rose's lap to rest; 

 And the evening breezes tell 

 The secret of their choice as well, 

 Try them by whatever token, 

 Still the same response is spoken; 

 Nature crowns the rose's stem 

 With her choicest diadem. 



WHAT IS A GROUND COVER? 



I SHOULD like to have an exact definition of 

 this term which I see used often in garden 

 writings. How are we to know exactly where to 

 classify any plant? — L. H. R. 



My definition of a ground cover plant is very 

 elastic, and not quoted from any authority. I 

 make the purpose for which used the test for plant 

 lists. To me a ground cover is a plant that covers 

 soil, for the purpose of holding it in place, and 

 adding green foliage, colored flowers, or winter 

 effects. There are two sorts: herbs and shrubs. 

 Of herbs, whose primary use is to cover up ground 

 otherwise bare, we think of Pachysandra, English 

 Ivy, Myrtle, etc., and cheap self-supporting herbs 

 as Ferns, Bouncing Bet, Coreopsis, etc., though 

 lawn grass, pasture grasses, clovers, etc., are also 

 soil cover. From the landscape architect's point 

 of view an herbaceous ground cover is a low herb 

 of great vitality that takes the place of grass in 

 formal or wild plantings. Woody ground cover, 

 larger in scale, gives the effect of woodland under- 

 cover, and ranges from Witch Hazel and Red- 

 barked Dogwoods to prostrate Junipers and Rosa 

 wichuraiana. In the broad sense height has 

 little to do with the definition, for Basket Willows 

 are often "ground cover," but practically we do 

 restrict our idea to plants of low dense spreading 

 nature, those that hide the soil surface most com- 

 pletely. Stephen F. Hamblin. Instructor in 

 "Plant Materials," Harvard School of Landscape 

 Architecture. 



HOW TO TREAT LETTUCE 

 PLANTS 



IN THE spring I had all my lettuce sown in 

 sunny places. The sun is not strong in the 

 early spring and nearly all seeds need all the 

 spring sunshine they can get. Lettuce and its 

 relations are really cool weather plants and must 

 be treated as such. If I felt it was heading too 

 quickly I covered it over with cheese . cloth 

 propped up on branches of trees to shade it from 

 the sun. This discourages any tall growing ideas 

 it may have and makes it head firmly. In the 

 latter part of the summer I plant it under a shade 

 where it only gets the noon day sun. I -treat 

 romaine and endive the same way. 



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SAYS 

 // you love ROSES 



and want to succeed in 

 growing them as you have 

 sometimes dreamed of do- 

 ing, but never really ex- 

 pected to, you should send 

 for a copy of "A Little 

 Book About Roses." 



(Mailed on request) 



GEORGE H. PETERSON 



Rose and Peony 

 Specialist 



Box 50 

 Fair Lawn, N. J. 



