xxii AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
August, 1909 
Grow 
Chestnuts 
Like This 
For Profit : 
‘overs a 50c. piece. 
Whether you have one acre, or a hun- 
dred, you can get bigger profits per acre 
from Sober Paragon Chestnuts than from any 
other crop you could plant. 
Hardy, rapid, symmetrical growth; luxuri- 
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stateliness ; immunity from parasitic blight— 
These qualities have been combined and de- 
veloped by science toa degree that closely bor- 
ders perfection, in the new 
SOBER PARAGON 
Mammoth, Sweet Chestnut 
A single crop, Fall of 1908, brought $30,000 
(5,000 bushels @ $6.00 a bushel). And that or- 
chard was only 7 years old. 
The only large sweet chestnut in the world. 
United States Pomologist, G. B. Brackett, says 
“The Sober Paragon comes the nearest in quality 
to the native chestnut of any of the cultivated 
varieties that I have examined. It is of large 
size, fine appearance and excellent flavor.” 
The Sober Paragon bears the second year—a 
5-year old tree grew 500 burrs in 1 year. The 
nuts average 1 to 2 inches in diameter—and 3 to 
5 nutsina burr. 
We offer 3 to 5-foot xrafted trees for delivery 
Fall, 1909, and Spring, 1910. Orders being 
booked now. ey 
Testimony from growers, commission mer- 
chants, Forestry Experts, etc ,givenin our free 
booklet, together with prices and particulars. 
We own exclusive con- 
trol of the Sober Para- 
gon. This copyrighted 
metal seal is attached 
to every genuine tree, 
when shipped. 
Write today for the booklet. Address ‘Desk D.” 
GLEN BROS, Nursery, Sole Agents, 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
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AL COLLECTION of designs of houses 
velopment, and placed ten inches apart. Ni- 
trate of soda carefully mixed with the soil, but 
not too freely, will improve the lettuce. The 
“Big Boston” is a variety that will head out 
doors. ‘The favorite “Boston” can only be 
grown under glass. By sowing and transplant- 
ing at least three fairly good crops of lettuce 
should be grown in the course of the season. 
Next year, after the asparagus has been cut, 
there will be room to raise at least one crop 
of lettuce before the tops of the asparagus are 
so tall as to shade it. Meantime, as it grows 
the asparagus makes this side of the garden 
prettier and prettier all summer, until it is 
brightened by its red berries. 
A foot from the inner edge of the asparagus 
bed may be set a row of thirty sweet pepper 
plants a foot apart, and on the same line, eigh- 
tain four hills of summer squash, an ample 
number, and the remaining fifty feet may be 
set with tomato plants. It is important that 
the cucumbers and squash vines be thus sepa- 
rated, as they are likely to be invaded by the 
same beetle. Forty tomato plants—not safely 
set in this latitude before May 20—should be 
put out in two rows, alternating a space and 
a plant. I recommend people who have no hot- 
bed to plant their tomato seeds in a shallow 
box in a sunny window in March. Thus you 
may be sure to have plants of a good variety. 
Set out only the strongest plants. I have tried 
several kinds, and find none so satisfactory as 
the ‘““Trucker’s Favorite.” They begin to 
ripen before some given in the seed catalogues 
as earlier varieties, and are delicious in flavor 
and very prolific. Tomatoes begin to ripen at 
teen inches apart, a row of egg plants. Both of 
these kinds of plants are of singular beauty and 
interest after they begin to blossom. Next 
may come a row of white or of pink and white 
alyssum, forming the border of a path two 
feet wide. 
The next six and a half feet in width, for 
a distance of forty feet, are devoted to four 
rows of onions; in the remaining twenty feet 
there is room for about twelve hills of cu- 
cumbers, in two rows, from four to eight seeds 
in a hill. 
Between the hills of cucumbers African 
marigolds may be sowed, a dozen seeds or so, 
in a line. “They will be ready to blossom 
about the time the cucumbers are over. 
In the next space, three feet wide, three 
rows of beets may be sowed, rather thickly so 
that about every other plant may be taken out 
while the leaves are still tender, to be used, 
tops and all, for the most delicious “greens” 
the garden will afford. If, in sowing the beet 
seed, you put in two-inch spaces, at intervals 
of about a4 foot and a half, aster seeds (purple 
in the row next the onions and cucumbers, 
white in the next, and pink in the third), you 
will have beautiful rank plants to make the 
spaces where beets have been taken out less 
noticeable. Where the asters are crowded you 
may transplant some into such spaces ‘with 
safety before the middle of July. In Sep- 
tember these rows of aster blossoms will be 
your delight. 
The next section, five feet wide, may well 
be divided so that the first ten feet may con- 
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the center and should be picked before the out- 
side is in its deepest color. Never lay them 
in the sun to ripen. “They need the dark. 
Beyond the tomatoes and squash vines our 
plan gives a foot and a half of space for one 
row partly of carrots and partly of turnips or 
parsnips. [he plants make a pretty border 
for the four-foot-wide path through the cen- 
ter of the garden. In the middle of this path 
I suggest a bed about eight feet long, devoted 
to scarlet geraniums or verbenas. Either of 
these will blossom all summer and make a 
bright spot in sight from every path of the 
plot. 
The other border of this wide path may 
well be parsley. 
Next to this, in a space eighteen inches wide, 
a row of cauliflowers may be set. When the 
heads are well started the large leaves should 
be tied over them with rafha or a strip of 
cloth half an inch wide (not string), and thus 
protected they will whiten to perfection. In 
the adajcent foot I suggest a row either of 
salyias or nasturtiums of a dwarf variety. The 
latter have the advantage of blossoming earlier, 
of furnishing in their seeds a toothsome addi- 
tion to any pickles, and in their leaves a spice 
to any salad. 
In the next space of four and a half feet 
there is room for two rows of spinach and one 
of cabbage. “Then may come in a three-foot 
space, two rows of peas. Arrange them so 
that the brush upon which they are supported 
is between the rows. I have not succeeded 
with the varieties of peas left unsupported, and 
