180 
THE G A R D E N M A G A Z I N E 
D E C E M 
E R 
1916 
Sunken Rath House 
Bench House 
Keep Your Garden 
Busy all the Winter 
A Sunlight outfit should be added to Nature’s 
soil and light and heat in order to keep your 
plants coming and growing Fall, \Vinter and 
Spring. 
Buy one or many double glazed sash or a ready- 
made, small Sunlight Greenhouse at oncf. Start 
thing.s at once. The cost is small, the service 
surprisingly great and sure. Shipment immediate. 
Catalogue sent free. If you want 
Prof. Massey’s Hooklet on Hotbed 
and Greenhouse Gardening enclose 
4C in stamps. 
SUNLIGHT DOUBLE 
GLASS SASH CO. 
927 E. Broadway 
Louisville Kentucky A Sunlight Sash Outfit 
» RHODES DOUBLE CUT 
RHODES MFG. < 
527 S. DIVISION AVE., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 
I ^HE only pruner 
made that cuts from 
both sides of the limb 
and does not bruise the 
bark. Made in all styles 
and sizes. All shears de- 
livered free to your door. 
JVrite for circular and prices 
These 
Superb 
Pansies 
with their delicate colors and 
velvety petals can be yours next 
spring and summer if you sow 
the seed early. We will send one 
full-sized packet of mixed colors 
for lo cents and will also send our 
new catalogue of 
Seeds, Plants, Roses 
200 pages of text and pictures of the best Flowers, Vegetables, 
Shrubs, Fruits for home garden planting. We sell direct to you, pay 
the postage, guarantee delivery. For 63 years the leading seeds- 
men and plantsmen. Write to-day for the catalogue — it’s fre^. 
THE STORES & HARRISON CO. 
Box 340 Painesville, Ohio 
Strawberries 
Large, Luscious Ones 
. The kind you can grow from Al- 
len’s Plants will mean delicious Ber- 
ries on your table and money in 
your pocket. Strawberries will suc- 
ceed in the garden, in the young 
orchard, in the field — wherever oth- 
er crops will grow. Our 1917 Book of 
Berries tells how. 
Write to-day for your copy — FREE. 
THE W. F. ALLEN CO. 
88 Market St., Salisburyt Md. 
ROSES 
Dingee roses are always grown on their own roots 
—and are absolutely (he best for the amateur planter. 
Send to-day for our 
“New Guide lo Rose Culture” lor 1917 
—it's free. It isn't a catalog — it s a practical work on rose 
growing. Profusely illustrated. Describes over looo varieties 
of roses and other flowers, and tells how to grow them. Safe 
deliverv- guaranteed. Established 18:^0. 70 greenhouses. 
THE DINGEE & (ONARD UK, 'Box 37, West Groie, P.t. 
IRISH ROSES EVERGREENS 
TREES 
And Hardy Perennials Extra Sizes for Immediate Effect 
Liberal Discounts on Large Orders 
Our Catalog is a Cyclopedia of Information to the Planter 
S. G. Harris ROSEDALE NURSERIES 
BOX A 
TARRYTOWN, N. Y. 
S T.ART with the largest stock 
that can be secured! It takes 
over twenty years to grow many 
of the Trees and Shrubs we offer. 
We do the long waiting — thus ena- 
bling you to secure trees and 
shrubs that give immediate results. 
Price List Now Ready. 
^TiMDORRA liuRSERIES 
'Wnv.V\/eimer Harper ‘Pt-of>n*tar. 
PKUa. Pa. 
Box G 
Southern Planting Continues 
p'VERY part of the garden which is not 
in use, or has been seeded down to crimson 
clover, vetch or rye to be turned under 
as a green manure in the spring, should 
have lime put on it at the rate of one ton 
to the acre, harrowed in, and left for a few 
weeks; then apply a heavy dressing of farm- 
yard manure and upon this spread fifty pounds 
of acid phosphate to a ton of manure, and 
work all into the soil with the disk harrow. 
Leave in a rough state so it will absorb 
moisture. 
If the weather continues open and the win- 
ter garden was not planted in Octobel, sow- 
now seed of spinach and kale; plant out cab- 
bage plants on the south side of a furrow' in a 
trench with well rotted manure, but do not 
put in nitrate of soda until spring. Plant 
lettuce in the same way. Make stocky plants 
and do not hurry them; they w'ill be ready to 
use in March and April when those in the 
frames have given out. 
Run deep furrows and plant potatoes, and 
the smooth variety of garden peas. Use 
plenty of manure in the furrows and cover 
seed lightl}'. If the winter is severe cover 
with a little more soil. In the spring use 
nitrate of soda on the lettuce; and on potatoes 
commercial fertilizer especially adapted for 
them. 
Give the greenhouse and conservatory daily 
inspection. Open windows to ventilate, w'ater 
thoroughly several times a week rather than 
lightly every day, watch out for aphis and 
if they' appear, close the greenhouse and burn 
tobacco in a pan near the affected plants. 
Scale on Oleanders can be w'ashed off with 
diluted lemon oil, using a stiff brush to rub 
under side of leaves and stems. Put tea 
leaves around potted plants, so the soil won’t 
bake hard. M ash palm leaves and rubber 
plants with soapy w'ater every week. 
Create a sentiment in favor of potted ever- 
green trees for Christmas decoration. Buy- 
potted trees with good roots and plant them 
in the spring on the law-n. 
Plant out small fruit like raspberries, goose- 
berries and currants; also apples, pears and 
cherries. Stone fruits, like peaches, apricots 
and plums, should be planted in early spring. 
Trim out all diseased and superfluous limbs 
on the orchard trees. Pull aw-ay the earth 
from peaches and plums to prevent early- 
blooming. Look out for peach borers at the 
base of the trees; if found dig out with a sharp 
knife or strong wire and paint the trunks with 
coal tar to kill the larvae. Spray all orchard 
trees several times during the w'inter if there is 
any indication of San Jose or oyster scale. 
[Read the article on page 170-2]. Plant more 
nut trees. 1 he Paragon chestnut begins to bear 
in three years and the Stuart Pecan is hardy 
in this section and bears in five or eight years. 
They are also very ornamental. The Japan- 
ese persimmon is desirable because of its ap- 
pearance and its delicious fruit. The native 
persimmon is much smaller but after several 
frosts the fruit is mealy and toothsome. The 
chinquapin bush is low' grow'ing and bears 
small nuts which have the flavor of chestnuts; 
the leaves and burrs are similar. 
Plant ornamental deciduous trees and shrubs 
as long as the weather is open and until the 
sap rises in early spring. Get in as many 
Crape Myrtles as possible. They are summer 
blooming shrubs of unusual beauty, have no 
enemies and are little trouble after once 
planted. 
Virginia. J. M. Patterson. 
The Readers* Service will gladly furnish information about Retail Shops 
