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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
March, 1917 
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GLADIOLI 
The Best Summer Flowers 
for Pleasure or for Profit 
Have a Beautiful Garden from July to Oc tober 
Gladioli make the showiest of beds and exquisite, long-lasting 
bouquets and are in enormous demand for cut flowers. You 
can now have a handsome big bed of these glorious flowers; all 
colors mixed, from white to crimson, as well as many beauti- 
fully variegated at almost no cost. As easy to grow as a weed. 
I sell good plump bulbs that will bloom this summer; import- 
ing in enormous quantities direct from reliable Holland growers. 
John N. Fagan , 2829 Unruh Street, Tacony, Pa., says: “ I 
had $ 100 zvortk of pleasure. They are the largest and most 
beautiful I have seen .” 
Stores ask 25c or more a dozen. Many growers demand 
double last year’s prices. Nevertheless I shall again, for the 
fourth successive season, continue my sensational and popular 
low-price offer while stock lasts. Here is my unbeatable offer. 
20 Bulbs, 25c 100 for $1.00 1,000 for $8.00 
7 T. R. Barington , Summit Hill, Pa., says: “ The gladioli 
were most beautiful and displayed a riot of most charming colors.” 
You will say the same thing 
As a lover of choice flowers, can you resist such a liberal 
offer when I give such amazing values and send the bulbs 
prepaid? Don’t wait until stock is gone; order NOW. 
CLARENCE B. FARGO Desk 6 Frenchtown, N. J. 
Double Value 
This Month 
This unusual get acquainted 
offer enables you to provide 
for a lovely display of ever- 
blooming Hybrid Tea Roses 
at almost no cost. The 
regular price of these Roses 
is 5 for $i, but I now offer 
double for the money — 10 
Roses, each one a different 
kind, properly labeled, sent 
prepaid, and all for only $i, 
if you mention this paper. 
If you appreciate choice 
Roses, don’t miss this liberal 
offer. Provide NOW for a 
permanent and handsome 
display at small cost. 
LEARN 
To Speak Spanish 
In a Few Days 
It is by far the most important foreign language to-day for all\ 
Americans— a truth that the present Mexican situation has 
merely emphasized. Whether you are a soldier, sailor, teacher, 
business man. or professional man — whoever you are, in fact — a knowl- 
edge of Spanish \\ ill be an immense advantage to you at this time. It 
will make things easier for you in a hundred ways and will put many 
dollars in your pocket. Remember that new avenues of trade are open- 
ing up every day with the Latin-American republics, and the man who 
can speak Spanish will be at a premium. You ran soon heroine fluent — a 
little spare time daily makes you so — The Koseuthal tommon-Sense 
Method of Praetieal Linguist ry will teach you to speak, read, and write 
Spanish readily if you will devote ten minutes oi your leisure time each 
day to this wonderful system which teaches you in the way a child 
learns to speak, by nature s method. Write NOW for free booklet, 
*• Revolution in the Study and Teaching of Foreign Languages. ” 
FUNK A WAGXALLS COMPANY Dept. 940 NEW YORK 
KNIGHT’S 
Fresh Strawberries from 
Your Own Garden 
It is easy to have fresh Strawberries almost every 
day from spring to late fall if you plant Knight’s 
Superb and Knight’s Progressive Strawberry 
Plants this spring. They will bear in a short time and 
will continue to fruit until frost. 
Knight’s Guide to Small Fruits is valuable to the 
home gardener and market grower. It tells how to raise 
Strawberries, Raspberries, Blackberries. Grapes, etc., 
and lists the leading varieties. Send for a copy to-day. 
DAVID KNIGHT & SON 
Box 75 Sawyer, Michigan 
BERRYPLANTS 
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Tuber-Tonic 
Good for potatoes and bad for bugs 
A three-in-one potato spray that kills insects, prevents blight 
and acts as a tonic to the plant. 
Like all Sherwin-Williams Dry Powdered Insecti- 
cides, it is cheap to ship, easy to use, and cannot freeze. 
All in 
Lime-Sulfur 
Arsenate of Lead t Q p owdere J 
1 uber-tomc [ r~ 
Fungi-Bordo J toTm 
Send for our Spraying Literature 
The Sherwin-Williams Co. 
Insecticide and Fungicide Makers 
657 Canal Road, Cleveland, O. 
( Concluded from p. 108) 
last species having two varieties. Of the nut- 
bearing bushes, the filbert is practically the 
only one worth considering. Of these, the 
black walnut is the least exacting, and the 
pecan the most exacting, as, also, it is by far 
the finest of American nuts, if not of all nuts. 
1 he black walnut will grow from the Canadian 
line to the Gulf, and from coast to coast. The 
butternut, which is a variation of the black 
walnut, has a liking for hill and mountain 
country, and thrives throughout the northern 
tier of States. The shellbark and shellbark 
hickory will grow throughout the northern 1 
regions of the United States; being native, 
however, only in the New England and Middle \ 
Atlantic States, and in the more mountainous 
portions of the Southern States. This fine 
tree, which apparently seems to prefer river- 
banks and creek-bottoms to other locations, 
will grow well on almost any soil, as its great 
root-system renders it impervious to the 
effects of drought. It is generally found along 
streams because the nuts which produced the 
trees were floated there and found congenial 
lodgment against the bank. The pecan, a 
truly superb nut, is strictly a Southern tree; 
and as yet has not been found to thrive north 
of North Carolina. Hardy varieties are now 
advertised; but their certainty to succeed in a 
cold climate has not been established. 
Whenever you think of your children and 1 
grandchildren, plant a nut tree! Whenever 
you think of your own future, plant a nut tree! 
If you want good summer shade, plant a nut 
tree! If you want to gather on your lawn bet- 
ter nuts than the market can offer, plant a nut 
tree! If you want your work to outlast a 
hundred years, plant a nut tree! 
A Question of Management 
T AM living in the outskirts of a city of 
100,000 and have a lot about an acre in 
area. I am desirous of. keeping a gardener 1 
and would build a barn and keep a cow, chick- 
ens agd pigeons. There is some available 
pasture fairly near. Would this be practical 
from a financial standpoint, when it is costing 
us about $16.00 a month for milk, $4.00 a 
month for eggs and $12.00 a month for a gar- 
dener, a total of $32.00? I intend to keep 
between 50 and 60 birds. — C. M. D., Ontario, 
Can. 
— It is always difficult to give a definite an- 
swer to such a question since the success and 
profit of the plan would depend very largely 
upon the ability and energy of the laborer em- 
ployed and all the other factors that make 
up the returns obtained from crops and stock. 
As a general thing, it may be estimated that it 
costs $150 per year to keep a cow. The 
figures here show that nearly $195 is spent for 
dairy products in this time which suggests 
economy in owning a cow. Fifty hens ought 
to be sufficient to supply the family’s needs, 
and these should not cost more than $1.00 
each per year to maintain, which just about 
balances the present expenditure for eggs. 
Of course, practically all of the grain food for 
both chickens and cow will have to be bought, 
but by using a part of the acre for poultry 
runs and having other land available for cow 
pasture, it would seem as though the food 
costs might be kept down to normal limits. 
Of course, an acre is rather more than one 
might need for garden truck for summer con- 
sumption; but a good gardener ought to be 
able to raise on that space enough potatoes, 
roots, celery, etc., to lay in supplies for a good 
part of the winter as well. 
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