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r H E G A R D E X INI A G A Z I N E 
January, 1917 
This pleasing layout of parallel houses, we erected for Mrs. Daniel Lamont, at Millbrook, N. Y. 
About This Greenhouse 
W ANT to tell you why it is a particularly prac- 
tical plan, both from the side of flower grow- 
ing and economy of operating. We want to 
tell you why it is constructed the way it is; because 
It is of such vital importance. 
Want you to know what one of our houses, to meet 
your requirements, will cost. 
Want you to have one of our latest catalogues, 
showing some fifty subjects, some in color. It will 
give you a good conception of the kind of green- 
houses we build, and the character of the firm who 
builds them. 
If preferred, will be glad to arrange for an interview ; 
time and place as you may suggest. 
Hiicliin 
mpany* 
General Offices and Factory — Elizabeth, N. J. 
BOSTON 
49 Federal Street 
NEW YORK 
1170 Broadway 
PHILADELPHIA 
40 South 15th Street 
A 
ill 
This Year Plant the NEW 
Rochester Peach 
Begins to bear fruit after one year — 
heavily the second year. Tree so strong 
and hardy to produce heavw crop after a 
i6-below zero freeze. 
Bears 10 Days Earlier than Crawford 
or other yellow free-stone varieties and fruit is 
large and handsome. That’s why in Rochester 
market last summer, the Rochester Peach 
Sold for $l .00 a Baisket with next best variety 
at 60 cents and others as Low as 15 cents 
Exceptionally prolific in quantity of fruit that’s 
juicy, sweet, and fine for canning. 
Write us to-day about Rochester Peach. Don’t 
plant a peach until you get complete story in our 
catalogue which lists everything for orchard and 
garden. Send in your name and address to-day. 
L. W. HALL COMPANY, Inc. 
509 Cutler Bldg. Rochester, N. Y. 
Fancy Strawberries 
Bring Big Profits 
T)LANT the right kind and grow 
t them in the right way. Allen’s 
illustratedBookof Berriesdescrib^ 
I all the best varietiesand tells how 
I to grow them profitably for home 
use and local market, also for 
distant shipping. A complete 
guide — this 1917 Book of Ber- 
ries. Send for it to-day — free. 
The W. F. Allen Co. | 
1 88 .Market St. 
I Siili.liiiry jniir.\l:md I 
Do You Love 
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ROWERS? 
FREE my select 1917 Flower List. Send .1 
dime and addresses of 3 Bower growers and I will in- 
clude art study of 
NASTURTIUMS IN NATURAL COLORS 
for framing, a Surprise FarkH of 20 kinds of choice flower 
seeds mixed, and coupon good for 10c on a 50c order. My 
methods eliminate high-cost {irices. Try me. 
MISS EMMA V. WHITE, Seedswoman 
30H Aldrich Ave. So. Ulinnenpolis. ninn. 
SPRAYING RESULTS GUARANTEED 
Liberal Offer No Fruit Grower Should Miss 
Here’s proof-positive of our unbounded confidence in “SC.A.LECII)by’ as the most effective 
dormant spray. We will make the following proposition to any reliable fruit grower: 
Divide your orchard in half, no matter how large or how small. Spray one-half with “SC.VLECIDE” 
and the other with Lime-Sulfur, for three years, ev'erything else being equal. If at the end of that 
time, three disinterested fniit growers say that the part sprayed with “SC.WECIDE” is not in every 
way better than that sprayed with Lime-Sulfur, we will return the money you paid us for the 
“SCALECIDE”. Could anything be fairer? Write to-day for full particulars. 
B. G. PRATT CO., M’f’g Chemists, Dept. I, SO Church Street, New York 
DLAN your garden this month. Send for 
seed catalogues, make out your list and 
send in your order as soon as possible, as you 
get better attention before the seedsmen are 
rushed. Refer to your garden calendar as to 
which varieties proved best and earliest. 
If you are a novice, buy a few good garden 
books besides reading this magazine and ask 
your neighbors’ advice. If possible join a gar- 
den club and thus get the exchange of ideas 
from practical experience. 
I have had earlier tomatoes from Spark’s 
Earliana, but John Baer is a good tomato and 
only a little later, and New Stone, Ponderosa, 
Success and Matchless are good for mid-season 
and late. 
Undoubtedly the best asparagus is the Giant 
Argenteuil. It is free from rust and other 
diseases, grows rapidly and is very large, the 
shoots sometimes measuring three and four 
inches in circumference. 
May King and Wayahead Lettuce are good 
for early spring and Hanson is a delicious, 
crisp, curly lettuce suitable for the frames, but 
as it does not make compact heads is not a good 
commercial lettuce. It is nice for early spring 
planting too. Big Boston or Boston Market 
is the most satisfactory forcing lettuce for the 
winter. The early lettuce should be sown in 
the hot beds in late January or first of Feb- 
ruary and then transplanted to cold frames 
and forced quickly for early spring consump- 
tion after the winter’s crop has passed. 
Extra Early Egyptian Beet and Stringless 
Green Pod Bean, the small seeded Pole Lima 
(which is well flavored and very productive) 
are good for the family garden. The best 
flavored squash is the Golden Crookneck, but 
the Patty Pan is earlier. 
Sow a row of the smooth variety of peas, the 
Alaska type, the first and third weeks of Jan- 
uary if the ground is not too wet and the 
weather open. They will be ready to eat by 
the middle of May. It is worth while planting 
them seriatim so as to have a continuous 
crop until the warm weather begins, for al- 
though as it often happens, an early spring de- 
velops them rapidly and all plantings ripen at 
the same time, still it quite as often happens 
one has a continuous picking from the middle 
of May until July, when the weather becomes 
too dry and hot, for peas are a cold weather 
plant. The later plantings in March and 
April should be the wrinkled variety which is 
more tender, but often much better flavored. 
No other cantaloupe is as satisfactory in this 
section as the old Hanover County netted gem. 
It is small, rough, and the meat is a pale 
greenish yellow, sweet and juicy. It is under- 
stood the Rocky Lord is a modern develop- 
ment of this old time favorite. 
Dry weather cauliflower is the best for this 
climate. It should be planted late in the sum- 
mer, as also Brussels Sprouts, as they are cold 
weather plants and if planted after June they 
will escape a number of their enemies, which 
beset this class of plant early in the season 
Early Jersey Wakefield and Burpee’s Sure- 
head are good cabbages. Chautenay is a 
good carrot for family use and Black Beauty 
Egg plant, Chinese Giant sweet peppers and 
Tabasco pepper for pickles and sauces and the 
Davis Perfect cucumber, Country Gentleman 
corn are well tried and excellent vegetables. 
