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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
January, 1917 
Do Your Planting 
Planning Now 
Our Garden Guide Will Help 
J T is in achieving the unusual, that our Guide to Garden- 
ing is of especial value to you. Varieties of flowers and 
vegetables that can be obtained no other way, are illus- 
trated and described there. Flowers with which you can 
duplicate all the quaint loveliness and charm of England’s 
old fashioned gardens. 
Vegetables, it contains, that will be a real revelation to 
you in their surpassing size and goodness. 
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TREES AND PLANTS 
The isolated, barren look of your garage will be overcome at small expense 
by a few MOON trees and plants. Our Catalogue A-3 will help you. 
The Wm. H. Moon Company, Morrisville, Pa. 
Phil*. Office. 21 S. IZlh Si. White Pliini, N. Y. 
Start a Collection 
of Phloxes This Spring 
/ For borders, for masses of color, for grouping in 
front of shrubberj'. Phloxes are superior to most 
other perennials. I offer a collection of named 
varieties. 
Twelve 2-year-Old-Plants 
Selected From my List for 
For the full list see page 3 of my 
Booklet of Hardy Plants 
which is just completed. Phloxes. Irises, Peonies, ever- 
greens, and flowering shrubs are included — not a big list, 
but a good list. Send to-day for a copy. 
ADOLPH MULLER, DcKalb Nar,*ri«, Norrittowi, Penna- 
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planted the flemish beauty pear trees trimmed 
espalier shape to prevent shading too much 
and at the lower end iris forms a border; while 
the front side, twenty feet long, is bordered 
with tulips giving a spring brilliancy and a 
sunny exposure during the summer. 
After the fruit is gathered, it seems un- 
necessary to have so much idle space, so 1 
planted the intervening lines with cucumbers, 
squash, peppers, egg-plants, muskmelons 
and one line with Dahlias; for these, were first 
dug deep holes two feet deep; cow manure put 
in first, then earth, and one tuber w'ith one 
sprout on it, laid in on its side. The result is a 
vigorous plant full of bud. A small pot was 
sunken at the base of the egg-plant and musk- 
melon, in which is poured weak fertilizer water 
once a week. All these things have matured 
finely, the fruit plants giving them a slight 
shade during the hot dry days. 
In choosing small fruits good judgment 
At the side of the flower garden is this mixed patch of vege- 
tables, fruits, etc. 
brings a good crop. A large red raspberry and 
an amber berry a little smaller in size but a gen- 
erous bearer of fruit succeeded in my garden. A 
black cap roots freely from the tips of the shoots. 
The Downing gooseberry I find best for pre- 
serves, jellies, pies, etc., and a large English 
gooseberry for eating out of hand; it grows 
quite differently from the Downing — has a 
firm, darker, larger leaf, and is not such a ram- 
pant grower making it desirable to trim to 
standard shade. 
I am at a loss on the blackberry question. 
It is the one small fruit which disappoints me 
more than any other. It dies down and dries 
up quicker with me than any other kind; and I 
should like to know how to treat them to 
insure success. 
I consider the most satisfactory of all fruit 
in my garden, is one tree — a very small one — of 
Abundance plum. A very small garden could 
support one specimen of this plum and be well 
supplied for both preserves and table use. It 
is well named Abundance. Being a Jap- 
anese, it grows very differently from the 
other plum family, having a low, open head 
and making its greatest growth laterally, so 
that with shortening in each year and trimming 
out the crossing centre branches, this tree re- 
mains small and a constant generous fruiter. 
In the spring the white blossoms entirely sur- 
round the twigs and branches and the fruit 
grows -so closely that in June, when the plums 
are half grown, it is necessary to pluck at least 
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