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T H E GARDEN M A G A Z I N E 
February, 1917 
— 
Don’t You Long for a 
Rose GardenThisYear? 
\I^OULDNT you like to cut from your 
own plants the long stemmed, dew- 
dipped, fragrant beauties? You can — and 
this year, too — if you plant S. & H. dormant 
plants in early spring, just as soon as the 
ground can be worked. 
Storrs & Harrison Co’s. Roses 
Are Grown in the Open Ground 
We grow hundreds of thousands of hardy, 
sturdy Rose plants out in the broad fields, 
on the shores of Lake Erie, where the clay soil seems to have 
been made for Roses, where the summers are long and the winters 
tempered by the large body of water. When these plants reach 
your garden you can be absolutely sure that they have been 
grown right, packed carefully, shipped promptly, and are ready 
to bloom for you this year. 
Storrs & Harrison Co’s. 
Rose and Plant Catalogue 
contains descriptions of the desirable Hybrid Perpetuals, Hybrid 
Teas, Climbing and Trailing Roses — roses that are adapted to all 
American gardens. This is a complete garden book, listing 
flower and vegetable seeds, shrubs, plants, shade and fruit 
trees. Every reader of this magazine may have a copy — 
write to-day so you may plan your rose garden early. 
THE STORRS & HARRISON CO. 
Box 340 Painesville, Ohio 
wb e r r i e 
(The Wonderful Everbearing and 
All Other Fruit Plants) 
We are headquarters for all kinds of Strawberry 
Plants, including the Fall or Everbearing, which 
fruit in August. September. October, and Novemlxrr 
as well as in^une and July. Also Raspberry. 
Blackl>erry. GooScl>crry. Elderberry. Current, and 
Grape Plants. F ruit Trees. Roses. Ornamental Trees, 
Shrubs. Vines, Seed Potatoes. Vegetable Plants, Eggs, 
for Hatching, Crates. Baskets, etc. Large Stock, Low Prices. 34 years' 
experience. Catalogue free. 
L. J. FARMER, Box 729, Pulaski, N. Y. 
Ask now! This beautiful o6-j>age four-color l>ook 
describes 1917 varieties vegetables and flowers: 
“ fjff/i handsomely illustrated: beautiful home grounds. 
f flower and vegetable gardens, landscaping, shrub- 
bery. orchards, farms. A dictionary on gardening! 
Flower lover’s delight! Berry grower’s 
book! An orchardist's manual! Most won- 
derful gardening guide catalogue ever pub- 
Better than our famous 1916 book. Don't miss it. Ask 
A postal gets it 
Galloway Bros. & Co., Dept. 2525, Waterloo, la. 
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EVERGREENS 
\\ 'HEN you w ant some especially fine ever- 
* ' greens, the kind that have been neither 
coddled nor forced; but }>osscss that much- 
sought-for sturdy constitution, resulting 
from growing in the rugged climate of 
New England; then come to us. No finer 
trees can be found anywhere, or more rea- 
sonably priced. Send /or Catalogue. 
"T- 
SHRUBS 
672 Adams St. 
North Abington, Mass. 
'M'OT Just the ordinary run of shrubs, but 
the full-rooted, sturdy top|>ed kind, that 
you can depend on. As for Rhododendrons, 
we have an exceptional assortment of both 
native and imported hybrids. You will say 
they are surely priced consistently. 
Send /or Catalogue 
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be used. The openings in the wall should not 
commence nearer than six inches to the floor 
nor go higher than within four inches of the 
water level when the tank is in operation. 
1 he arrangement of the roof forms is shown 
in a sketch. 1 wo by four joists are run length- 
ways of the tank and supported by posts also 
made from two by four stuff. The posts 
should be set on two thicknesses of inch board 
to make their removal easy. The joists must 
be spliced in the centre over a post. The 
boards are then laid on the joists as shown with 
a splice in the centre. To remove the forms 
and get at the interior of the tank a manhole 
must be provided. 1 his is made by leaving a 
hole in the roof form about eighteen inches 
square. Build up a frame of inch boards 
which will be square and twenty-one inches 
each way. 1 his must be braced securely on 
the inside. 1 his frame is set over the hole left 
in the roof form. It should be toe nailed in 
place with nails driven from the inside of the 
frame. 
If the tank is in a place where it is necessary 
to team over the top must be reinforced with 
iron rods or bars spaced about six inches. 
These can be purchased at a hardware store 
or may be made from old wagon tire. When 
the rods are laid on the form the roof is ready 
for pouring with concrete. A mixture of one 
part of Portland cement to three parts of sand 
to six parts of crushed stone or a one to six 
mixture of sand and gravel can be used. The 
forms for the roof can be removed in a week’s 
time and then the manhole sealed up by a large 
flat stone laid on a strong cement mortar. 
The action of the tank is to purify the water 
by oxidizing or burning up the sewage in it. 
The water coming out of the outlet pipe is 
pure. 1 his should be led away some distance 
from the tank to a blind ditch having a gravel 
bottom. When this is done the sewage prob- 
lem on the farm is solved for all time. 
A tank similar to the one just described was 
built by the writer recently with farm labor. 
1 he cost of material used is given in the follow- 
ing table. 
13 bags of cement @ 45 cents $6.95 
75 bricks @ I $ cents 1.13 
6 5" square rods 3' 6" long .66 
4 2" x 4" 8' o" long 
2 2" x 4 " 10' o" long 
2 2" x 4" 12' o" long 
150 feet i" boards 220 feet (a* $20.00 per M feet . 4.40 
* 13.14 
In this particular instance good sand and 
gravel in its natural bed were near by on the 
farm so that there was no bill of expense for 
that item. 
Owego, N.Y. Sidney K. Eastwood. 
Farm Structures. By K. J. T. Ekblaw, M. A. The 
Macmillan Company, New York. Illustrated; price, 
$1.75 net. 
A survey of the basic principles and the 
more important practical details involved nthe 
design, location, construction, and equipment 
of typical farm bulidings. An eminently suc- 
cessful attempt to supply the student with 
knowledge that will enable him “to erect his 
own minor structures and to differentiate be- 
tween good and bad construction in larger 
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