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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
March, 1912 
‘Simmons flose Reel 
ND 
<= Garden Hose 
The Reel owes its 
great demand to the 
fact that it combines 
the features of a lawn 
sprinkler with the spe- 
cal qualities of a spiral 
hose reel. It is prac- 
tically indestructible 
—thoroughly drains 
after use by its 
spiral wind. 
es Garden Hose has been in use for years and is 
practically everlasting-~it is carefully woven and has 
an inner tube of pure rubber — an important feature 
which exists in but few other brands. 
Price of Hose Reel complete—fitted with one hun- 
dred feet of our 34-inch Garden Hose, and 
nozzle—$15.00, or with 50 feet hose $10.00. 
Don’t wait—write now 
JOHN SIMMONS COMPANY 
100 Center Street New York 
Bulbs ordered now will reach you soon enough for plant- 
ing, but there is no time for delay. Gladioli should go in 
just as soon as ground and season are fit. Have your bulbs 
ready by ordering now. 
TRY MY “WORLD’S FAIR” COLLECTION 
OF GROFF’S NEW AND RARE GLADIOLI 
It is made up of expensive named varieties regardless of 
cost. Flowers are of exceptional size and beauty, in endless 
variety of colors and markings. No such collection can be 
obtained for the money elsewhere. 
“World’s Fair’ Collection, postpaid, 25 bulbs $5.25, or 
60 bulbs $10.25. Express. collect $20.00% per 100. No 
order accepted for less than 25 bulbs. 
ARTHUR COWEE, Meadowvale Farms 
Box 95, Berlin, N. Y. 
ORLD-famous 
Ornamental and 
Fruit Trees, Shrubs, 
Roses, Evergreens and 
Hardy Plants. 
Perfect specimens in splendid condition, true to 
species, first choice from the Most Complete Nursery 
Stock in America. Endless standard varieties and 
tested novelties, suitable for all purposes. Guaranteed 
by a 72-year reputation for honest, accurate dealing. 
Write for our 72nd Annual ’Guide Book 
Indispensable in planning lawn, garden and park 
decoration. A copy will be mailed you free on request. 
ELLWANGER & BARRY 
Mount Hope Nurseries, Box 28, Rochester, N.Y. 
duce buds until cut down by severe frost. 
They are an entirely hardy class of plants 
and rival in beauty anything which the 
Summer garden has to offer. The best- 
known form of the anemone is the semi- 
double variety—Whirlwind. This is a 
very beautiful flower, about two inches 
in diameter, with a yellow center closely 
resembling that of the Cherokee rose. The 
blossoms are born on long, slender stems, 
and are exceedingly useful and effective 
as cut flowers. The colors range from 
pure white of the Whirlwind and Lord 
Ardilaun — the finest double white, 
through such delicate silvery-rose shades 
as Queen Charlotte and Elegantissiman, 
to the deeper rose shades of Rose D’Au- 
tumne and the deep, rich coloring of Prince 
Henry. They are very easily grown, but 
require some protection in Winter. They 
increase rapidly, and a few plants left un- 
disturbed soon form prolific colonies 
which produce an abundance of flowers. 
They root from rhizomes, from each joint 
of which new plants spring, so that they 
are always appearing unexpectedly at 
short distances from the parent plant. 
Still more enduring and frost defying, 
the tritomas rival in splendor all other 
flowers of the Autumn garden. Their 
spikes of flame are little affected by even 
the killing frosts of late October, and are 
one of the most striking features of the 
garden at this time. They do well in 
sun or in shade, coming into bloom a few 
days later in partial shade, but blooming 
none the less surely. They are not en- 
tirely hardy and must be wintered in the 
cellar; but as this operation may be left 
until into November and they are one of the 
earliest plants which may be planted out 
in the Spring, their season of rest in the 
cellar is comparatively brief. Few bed- 
ding plants increase as rapidly as do the 
tritomas, and a dozen roots from the florist 
will make as many strong clumps the 
second year. They are especially effec- 
tive planted along the outer edge of beds 
or hedges of ornamental grasses and bam- 
boos, or along artificial ponds or running 
streams, having in this position the same 
decorative value as the cardinal flowers 
with which our streams and sedgy bord- 
ers are brightened in August. The tri- 
tomas much excel in brilliancy the cardi- 
nal flower, however, having the tone of 
melted iron at a red heat, just before it 
passes to white, and on bright days seem 
fairly to radiate heat. 
Sharing the autumnal honors with the 
tritomas, the hardy chrysanthemums are 
much in evidence. These flowers have 
the advantage of being entirely hardy, and 
may be left in the ground from year to 
year, growing into fine clumps in a season 
or two, as they die down to the ground 
in late Fall and spring up anew each 
Spring, each root sending up many new 
shoots, as do the more tender greenhouse 
chrysanthemums. 
So little are they affected by frost and 
cold that I have often seen them peeping 
forth from a heavy covering of snow and 
emerging unscathed from an enveloping 
casing of ice under the thawing influence 
of the sun. They do especially well if 
planted in a sunny position, as on the 
south side of a building which holds the 
sun’s heat late in the day and protects 
from cold winds at night. In such a posi- 
tion they may often be had in bloom for 
Thanksgiving day, and, with the late pan- 
sies, furnish a rich color scheme for the 
decoration of the rooms. 
The colors range through all the shades 
of yellow, of crimson and of bronze, both 
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estates. Growers of nursery stock, small fruits, 
hedges and. gardeners generally will find Sheep's 
Head Brand the best fertilizer. Contains large 
percentage of Humus and all fertilizing substances 
necessary to promote Plant life. Tests place it 
far ahead of chemical or other fertilizers. Readily 
applied to the soil. _ Let us quote you prices. 
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Tells how to fertilize the soil so that productive crops may be 
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Sweet P eas 
Six Superb Spencers 
we will mail one regular packet each 
For 25 Cts. of Florence Nightingale, the largest 
and best lavender; Constance Oliver, rich rose pink on 
cream; Marie Corelli, beautiful, brilliant crimson; Prim- 
rose Spencer, the best primrose- Senator Spencer, claret 
flaked and heliotrope; and W. T. Hutchins, apricot over- 
laid with blush-pin These six super pencers are 
shown, painted from nature on pages 109 and 110 of 
Burpee’s Annual for 1912. Purchased separately they 
would cost 65 cents, but all six packets, with leaflet on 
| culture, will be mailed for only 25 cents, five collections 
for $1.00. 
BURPEE’S 
ANNUAL FOR 1912 
This “Silent Salesman’”’ of the World's Largest Mail- 
Order Seed Trade is a Bright Book of 178 Pages. It tells 
the plain truth about the Best Seeds that can be grown, 
—as proved at our famous Fordhook Farms—the lereedt. 
most complete Trial Grounds in America. It is Mailed 
Free upon Application. Shall we send YOU a copy? 
W. Atlee Burpee & Co. 
Philadelphia 
