The Garden Magazine, January, 1922 



269 



DAHLIAS 



None over a dollar and ranging to ten cents per tuber. 

 A sifted, selected choice collection, twelve years in the 

 making. Worth your attention, will save you money. 



Twenty Dollar Prize Box 



of tubers for best letter written me about dahlias. A 

 $20.00 collection of dahlias will make a wonderful 

 display in your garden. Send postal for catalogue and 

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Written by an American Grower for American ama- 

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 growing for joy, exhibition, or commercially, needs 

 these booklets. 



Harvesting and Storage, may save your crop of tubers. 

 Fertilizer and Large Blooms, tells how to grow garden 

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My 1922 Dahlia Catalogue now ready 

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Charlton Burgess Bolles 



R. F. D. 3, Box 81 Media, Penna. 



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What You Can Do In 

 January 



Suggestions from Henry Hicks 



economical, safe 



Winter planting is practical, 

 and sane. 



I once asked Arthur Herrington, manager of the 

 New York International Flower Shows, over ten years 

 superintendent for H. McK. Twombley, and in his 

 early days gardener for William Robinson, the great 

 garden authority of England, why people thought of 

 planting in the Spring only. He answered, "Tradition." 

 As mentioned in our December ad. we have 

 been winter planting for twenty years. Some winters 

 the ground does not freeze more than four inches and at other times the mulch in December or 

 early January keeps out the frost. Only two or three times in the twenty years has it frozen in 

 late January sufficiently to stop planting. This planting is particularly practical near the coast, 

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What you can do now is to think where you need a wall of green, a hedge, a screen or wind- 

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 and make it difficult to plant, we will give you some salt hay to mulch the ground. We can 

 usually do the planting within a week. You can get what you want without waiting. 



The reason we talk winter planting in this ad. is that we will be more than busy next Spring 

 planting all sorts of little shrubs and hedges. Secondly, it is not as advantageous to plant these 

 little things in Winter and it may not pay to mulch the ground for them. With time saving 

 trees it does pay to have it done in the Winter when you have plenty of men and we have plenty 

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Any way, come to the Nurseries. The roads are good. They keep them open with a snow 

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A big shade tree or a group of shade trees such as oak, linden, beech may be just what is 

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Hicks Nurseries 



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Westhury, L. I., N. Y. 



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