watch your garden grow! 



Let spring and Vertagreen transform your grounds — almost 

 magically! Vertagreen is complete, better balanced — provides 

 the nourishment that makes your lawn grow thick and green 

 —touches flowers, shrubs, trees with new color and beauty. 

 Get Vertagreen today from your garden supply dealer. Feed 

 it now. (P.S.: A little goes such a long way!) 



Ask us about PLANT FEEDING 



The difference between a good lawn— or garden — and a poor 

 one, more often than not, is A MATTER OF FEEDING. The best grass 

 in the wor'd can't give you a good permanent lawn unless the 

 soil is fed, regularly and correctly. Same way with flowers, veg- 

 etables, shrubs, trees. 



That's why we say, "Talk it over with us!" We don't just sell 

 plant foods. We want to help all we can to make sure you get 

 results. 



WItether it's window box or a hundred acres to be fed — we have 

 the right food and the "know-how" and the desire to help! 



Cave-Man Gardeners 

 Get Cave-Man Results 



If you have a garden just for the sake 

 of the exercise you get out of it, this 

 won't interest you. 



But if it's results you're after — if you 

 want better flowers and better crops 

 with less labor, then consider — 

 Many of the garden tools now being 

 used by home gardeners are about as 

 out-of-date as the plows made of deer 

 antlers and the spades made from 

 great animals' shoulder blades which 

 the cavemen used. 



You may not have noticed it — but gar- 

 den tool design has moved ahead al- 

 most unbelievably in the last decade. 

 Some of our recently developed garden 

 tools let you do as much in one hour 

 as you formerly did in five! Others 

 make play out of jobs that have al- 

 ways been back-breakers. Hoeing, cul- 

 tivating, weeding have been stream- 

 lirLed and speeded up amazingly. 



When we say we can cut your "hard 

 labor" time in hali, we're being con- 

 servative. Ask us to prove it! 



There's Ways to Beat 

 Rabbit's Destruction 



It's no mere accident that agricultural 

 production has increased so tremen- 

 dously the last few years. Scientific 

 advancement in the insecticide and 

 weed-killing fields has contributed very 

 much toward it. The men of the test 

 tube and bunsen burner have now 

 come up with a chemical to discourage 

 the invasion of rabbits into the garden. 

 You surround your garden with this 

 repellant and it discourages the ma- 

 raudings of papa and mama rabbit just 

 as though Rover was standing in 

 watching them from the center of your 

 carrot patch. 



Where your garden plot is of a perma- 

 nent nature, an attractive, rabbit stop- 

 ping, fence can be made by stretching 

 two-foot high close mesh and planting 

 hedge shrubs on both sides. The wire 

 will turn all pests that walk, and flying 

 pheasants rarely fly over this type of 

 hedge if it is closely planted. If a wire 

 fence must be used because of space 

 limitations, plan on covering it with 

 some woody vine. 



When fo Lime 



Liming will help break up heavy clay 

 and will sweeten acid soil. But don't 

 use lime unless it is needed, since too 

 much lime destroys humus. Use only 

 when needed. We can supply a simple 

 test kit that shows if lime is needed, 

 and if so, how much. Litmus paper is 

 not enough: it only shows a plus or 

 minus riding. A good check on the need 

 for lime is the way your beets grow. 

 Usually a soil that will grow good beets 

 contains enough lime. If you have trou- 

 ble with beets, and clovers do not grow 

 well in your vicinity, it will pay you to 

 have your soil tested. 

 Most garden plants do best in a soil that 

 is neither strongly alkaline or acid but 

 nearly neutral. A soil test of pH 6.0 to 

 7.0 is ideal, for most crops. 

 A 



Building Windbreaks 



Many gardeners who have experienced 

 failure with their summer plantings 

 should consider planting a windbreak 

 to slow down the force of the hot, dry 

 winds that suck moisture from the soil 

 and burn up tender seedlings. A sum- 

 mer windbreak should be located to 

 cut off the prevailing summer breezes, 

 usually to the south or southwest of the 

 garden. Because garden plots are small 

 and because garden plants are low- 

 growing, a hedge five to six feet tall 

 should be enough. This will not cut 

 off breezes from the house. A hedge 

 of privet or similar hedging should be 

 adequate. 



Vegetable Vitamins 



All fresh vegetables are high in the 

 vitamins which we all need for proper 

 nourishment. If we could eat enough 

 vegetables fresh from the garden, we 

 wouldn't need to buy our vitamins in 

 pills at the drug store. 



For Vitamin A — eat plenty beet greens, 

 broccoli, collards, endive (escarole), 

 mustard greens, and spinach. 



For Vitamin B — brussels sprouts, kale, 

 green lima beans, and peas. 



For Vitamin C — beet greens, broccoli, 

 brussels sprouts, cauliflower, kale, 

 mustard greens, peppers and spinach. 



For Vitamin G — beet greens, collards, 

 kale, mustard greens and spinach, 



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