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BETTER FRUIT 



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Montana Fruit Growers 



AND OTHERS OF HIGH ALTITUDE 



We are now ready to book your orders for fall and spring delivery of Mcintosh Red and Wageners. 

 For Northwest fruit growers in general, a full stock of all standard varieties — Spitzenbergs, Jonathans, 

 Winesaps, Rome Beauties, etc., and all other kinds of fruit trees and shrubbery. 



THIRTY-ONE YEARS IN BUSINESS 



MILTON NURSERY COMPANY 



A. Miller & Sons, Incorporated MILTON, OREGON 



SOMETHING NEW IN FRAMES FOR THE HOTBED 



HOTBEDS and cold frames are used 

 by professional gardeners for two 

 objects: First, to get ahead of the 

 weather; second, to get ahead of com- 

 petition. They are used by the amateur 

 gardener with the same two objects, but 

 dif¥erently expressed, as follows: First, 

 to create a bit of summer in winter time, 

 and, second, to compel flowers and vege- 

 tables to come when they are a treat. 



Whichever way you view it the main 

 fact remains, that by growing plants in 

 winter weather ready to set out half- 

 grown in spring, just as soon as the 

 ground will do, the gardener, whether 

 professional or amateur, gains half the 

 growing season. 



If one wants these advantages from 

 using sash he should get full measure 

 by using the very best. The most mod- 

 ern sash are made to receive two layers 

 of glass instead of one. These two lay- 

 ers enclose an air space five-eighths of an 

 inch thick. This air space is dry and a 

 non-conductor of either cold or heat. It 



lets in the sunlight to warm up the bed 

 and does not let the warmth out. 



It does away with the use of boards 

 or mats, and saves the labor of covering 

 and uncovering cabbage, lettuce, cauli- 

 flower and any half hardy plants that are 

 being grown. Even for tomatoes, pep- 

 pers and other tender plants it is rarely 

 necessary to put any extra covering on 

 the two layers of glass. 



Many thousands of these sash are in 

 use by market gardeners and on private 

 estates, and even in city yards through- 

 out the country. They have been tested 

 in every latitude from Middle Canada to 

 Southern Florida, and have given such 

 excellent results that the purchasers have 

 written hundreds of letters praising them 

 enthusiastically. These letters have been 

 printed in pamphlet form for free dis- 

 tribution. 



Especially noteworthy is a letter from 

 H. B. Fullerton, the director of the Long 

 Island Railroad Company's Experiment 

 Station. Mr. Fullerton says: 



"Double glass wins out. We have 

 struck another good thing. It is the 

 double glass sash for cold frames and 

 hotbeds. We purchased a few for trial. 

 We placed on contiguous beds this sash 

 and a single glass sash and put in lettuce 

 we had started out-of-doors late in the 

 fall for trial purposes. The double glass 

 gave us good heads for our home hampers 

 just twenty days ahead of the single glass 

 sash. Of course, the air space between 

 the two glasses did the trick, preserving 

 to a great extent the heat of the day, and 

 hence keeping out the cold of the nights, 

 acting on exactly the same principle as a 

 double door or double window. These 

 sash are regular size and are very clev- 

 erly constructed, needing no putty and 

 being very readily slipped into their 

 grooves, where they are firmly held by a 

 special brass spring clip, which is fur- 

 nished with the sash. They are a mighty 

 good gap filler between the open air and 

 the expensive, but necessary artificially 

 heated greenhouse." 



In a letter afterwards referring to the 

 above report, Mr. Fullerton said: 



"One item I omitted was our expe- 

 rience with radishes. Although Long 

 Island seldom has a temperature drop 

 below 24 degrees, we occasionally catch 

 a bit of almost zero weather. One sud- 

 den drop after a heavy rain made condi- 

 tions in our hotbeds and cold frames 

 pretty serious and we lost practically all 

 our radishes under the single glass sash, 

 while those under the double glass sash 

 were not injured in the least." 



The double glass sash is a radically 

 new idea in hotbeds and cold frames. 

 It means more to gardenening than any- 

 thing since the invention of the hotbed 

 itself. It increases the size, quality and 

 rapidity of growth of the plant, multi- 

 plies market values and profits for the 

 gardener, and anticipates the seasons in 

 rewarding all who prepare a little piece 

 of ground and give it a trial. 



Were it more expensive than the old 

 style single layer it would still be a fine 

 investment because it is a superior imple- 

 ment, but when one considers that it not 

 only does such good work, but is made 

 to last a lifetime, and that it saves the 

 cost of boards and mats and the labor 

 of handling them it is the most eco- 

 nomical sash to use. — Wenatchee (Wash- 

 ington) Republic. 



FRUIT GROWERS, YOUR ATTENTION! 



Royal Ann, Bing and Lambert cherry trees; Spitzenberg and 

 Newtown apple trees; Bartlett, Anjou and Comice pears, and 

 other varieties of fruit trees. 



ATT O T A A "V MONTE VISTA NURSERY 



. -Tl W JLf ri I SCAPPOOSE, OREGON 



I RHODES DOUBLE CUT 

 .PRUNING SHEAR 



HTHE only 

 pruner 

 made that cut* 

 from both sides of 

 the limb and does not 

 bruise the bark. Made in 

 all (tyles and sizes. We 

 pay Ejcpress charge* 

 on all orders. 

 Write for 

 circular and 

 prices. 



STUMP DESTROYER 



Send and get our formula and method for destroying stumps, 

 -imple and efifective. Price $5.00. 



VOLL & BARKER, Chemists 

 411-412 Marion Building, Seattle, Washington 



Cheap, 



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