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The Garden Magazine, February, 1922 



In Anticipation of Your Garden Joys 

 And Planting Pleasures 



For you who know so well the 

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Everything is arranged in the 

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It is complete in vegetable and 

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It also contains ten pages of de- 

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Just glance over a few of the headings 

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Flowers 



for DRY 



Ten Annual 

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Ten Annuals 

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Ten Perennial seeds for 

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Ten Hardy Phloxes. 



Ten Plants for Home 

 Decoration. 



7- 



9- 



io. 



Ten plants for paved 

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Ten Shrubs for Hedges 

 and Boundary Planting. 



Ten Evergreens for 

 Foundation Planting. 



Ten Choice Apples 



Ten Choice Peaches. 



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jLTuliuy T^gelutf Cor 



«J Al The Sifn of The Treo 



Box 10, Kutkerford NJ. 



Berri 



"Plants That Keep Faith" — For Real Success 



A dependable stock of superior small fruit plants selected from the 



famous collection of the country's foremost specialist in berry culture. 



Supremely Tasteful Strawberries, Luscious Raspberries, Giant Blackberries, P 1 - 



Gooseberries and Currants, Splendid Heavily Rooted Grapes. 



These and a complete, stock of garden roots, fruit trees, roses, hardy perennials and other; ornamental plants are 



listed in a fine new catalogue, No. 104, which is sent for the asking. Free advice by a berry expert to all who are interested. 



FOR 44 YEARS A SPECIALIST 

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J. T. LOVETT Box 125 LITTLE SILVER, N. J. 



TWO ROCKY MOUNTAIN 

 PENTSTEMONS 



'T > HE root-borer and all the pests which so 

 1 often molest the hybrid and imported va- 

 rieties are to the Rocky Mountain Pentstemon 

 so far unknown. 



Its bright, glossy green leaves hold the season 

 through without a blemish. Its blossoms, if soil 

 and location are right, are profuse. It is not 

 uncommon to be able to count sixty wide-throated 

 blossoms on one stalk; the color is a clear, true 

 blue untouched by violet. 



The variety glaber blooms from early summer 

 through most of September, while Pentstemon 



ROCKY MOUNTAIN PENTSTEMON 



caeruleus is a spring-bloomer. The former is 

 much more adaptable to ordinary garden con- 

 ditions than the latter. If the soil is so consti- 

 tuted that water will readily be taken up and sink 

 away from the surface, giving the plant a chance to 

 draw its moisture from below, it is easily grown; 

 the variety caeruleus, on the other hand, while 

 always beautiful, is never grown to absolute 

 perfection without a heavy percentage of clay. 



I wish I might describe the beauty of Pent- 

 stemon glaber! Let me quote the words of Mr. 

 Reginald Farrer, that noted lover and grower of 

 alpines, in the truest description of this plant I 

 have ever read : "glaucous gray leaves amid which 

 nestle whorls of loveliest flowers, rather small but 

 of translucent, very pale, turquoise color with a 

 soft white throat. Not even to myself, of course, 

 does the hard opacity of turquoise convey a fair 

 impression of the bland soft transparent blueness 

 of the Pentstemon — so perfectly gentle yet so de- 

 cided in its purity of tone. However, there is 

 nothing better to be done unless one ventures on 

 the tenderest azure of early dawn for one's 

 parallel and that, again has too much green in 

 it to realize the absolute heavenliness of the 

 Pentstemon's blossoms." 



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