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T H E G A R 1) E N M A G A Z I N E 
February, 1917 
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If You Would Have 
England’s W onderf ul Gardens 
Plant Sutton’s Seeds 
Y OU know there was a 
time, years ago, when 
travelers returning from 
England, filled with the charm 
of her wonderful gardens, 
thought it was impossible to have 
like results in America. Happily 
for you, the facts are exactly to 
the contrary. Surely, nowhere, 
for example, are there lovelier gar- 
dens than at Lenox and Tuxedo. 
Gardens filled with the choicest 
things; the unusual things; such 
as are the continual pride of their 
possessors. In these gardens, 
Sutton’s Seeds are used exten- 
sively. The one below at Lenox, 
Mass., is a delightful instance. 
WINTER, SON & 
COMPANY 
64-C Wall Street 
New York 
Sole Agents East 
of the Rocky 
Mountains 
Cite 
Royal Seed Establishment 
READING. ENGLAND 
Aside from the wonders of 
Sutton’s Ray Asters, Phlox, 
Giant Antirrhinum of gold medal 
fame; this year’s catalogue con- 
tains the usual number of in- 
teresting new things. Every- 
one has been painstakingly tested 
and abundantly proven its 
merits. 
No seeds, so it is common ly 
acknowledged, are tested quite 
so vigorously as Sutton’s. 
That is why they are uniformly 
dependable. 
Send 35 cents for Garden 
Guide. With $5 purchase of 
seeds, the 35Cts. will be promptly 
refunded. 
THE SHERMAN T. 
BLAKE CO 
429-C Sacramento 
Street 
San Francisco, Cal. 
Sole Agents IVest 
of the Rocky 
Mountains. 
Millions of Trees 
PLANTS, VINES, ROSES, ETC. 
The oldest, largest and most complete nursery in 
Michigan. Send for catalogue. Prices reasonable 
I. E. ILGENFRITZ’ SONS CO. 
THE MONROE NURSERY Monroe, Michigan 
START RIGHT 
by Planting 
Sullivan’s Standard Products 
Trees, shrubs, vines, plants, also garden implements 
of the highest possible quality, at the lowest possible 
price. Send for catalogue. 
SULLIVAN SEED CO., P. 0. Box 84, W. Somerville, Mas*. 
“STRAWBERRY PLANTS THAT GROW” 
“PROGRESSIVE” Best of the Fall-Bearers, also Standard June Sorts including Wonderful 
New Seedling “COLLINS,” and a full line of other Small-Fruit Plants. 
Our 1917 Catalogue describes all these and tells how you may get a year’s Subscription to Garden 
Magazine Free. 
C. E. WHITTEN’S NURSERIES Box 1 O, Bridgman, Michigan 
Raising Perennials from Seed 
S OMETHING has been said in another 
place in this month’s magazine about 
certain kinds of perennials that will 
flower quickly from seed sown within the 
next few weeks (see page 18). The actual 
method of handling the young plants is told 
here: 
The seeds may either be sown in shallow 
boxes (flats), put in a hotbed or in the soil 
which is placed over the manure in the hot- 
bed, the former plan being preferable for as 
soon as the seedlings are large enough they 
may be transplanted into other boxes which 
are replaced in the same bed until it is time 
to remove them to a cold frame, or set out 
in the open. The seed boxes, or flats, may 
be made out of old boxes which can be pro- 
cured from the grocery store and should be 
three to four inches deep, fifteen or eighteen 
inches wide and long. Place half an inch or 
so of drainage material, broken pots, or 
cinders in the bottom, then an inch of fairly' 
good soil, not too fine, then fill up with com- 
post made as follows: Sift the best soil at 
your disposal through a very fine sieve and 
mix two parts of this with one part each of 
fine leaf mould and of sand. Fill the boxes 
so that when pressed firm the surface will 
come to within half an inch of the top. Water 
with a fine rose, using the tepid water. 
Sow the seed thinly in rows two inches 
apart, covering the finest seeds very lightly, 
or only pressing them into the soil. Large 
seeds should be covered with compost to a 
thickness equal to their diameter. Label 
each variety correctly as it is sown. It will 
greatly facilitate rapid germination if each 
box is covered with a sheet of glass, and some 
experienced growers cover the frames entirely 
with burlap or mats until the first of the 
seedlings appear. This obviates any' necessity 
for watering at this stage and all seeds germin- 
ate much quicker in darkness. 
Every morning during bright sunny days 
the sashes should be opened slightly for fifteen 
minutes or so for ventilation. In the course 
of a few days some of the seedlings will begin 
to appear, when the boxes containing these 
must be brought together in one part of the 
frame and be exposed freely' to the light, 
otherwise they would quickly become spindly 
and weak. It will be necessary, however, to 
shade them slightly when the sun is bright, 
covering the frames securely again each night 
with mats. When watering is necessary do 
it in the morning and always use a fine rose 
can and let the water be tepid. 
When the seedlings have formed their 
first true leaf, transplant two to three inches 
apart in other boxes, and after watering re- 
turn again to the frame, shading them 
from bright sunlight until they are rooting 
freely. 
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