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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
March, 1917 

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These little Handy Andy frames are n x 12$ inches. 10 
of them cost only $ 7 - 59 - Price includes glass and cast iron 
corner cleats and all bolts. 
It’s Cold Frame Time — 
Start Your Garden Now 
— Send for Booklet 
This two sash frame 
is about 6 feet square. 
Casts $16.34 complete. 
The 3x6 feet sash cost 
$4.24 separately. 
Double light same size, 
each $5.45. 
T HIS new booklet No. 215 tells you 
exactly how you can, with surpris- 
ingly little trouble, have a winter 
garden under glass. One from which 
you can be having vegetables and 
flowers weeks before seeds are even 
planted outside. It shows you how to 
get a running start on your outdoor 
flower and vegetable garden; and how 
to boost it busily after it is started. 
Dame Spring comes late nowadays. 
The use of frames is the way to over- 
come her exasperating lagginess. They 
turn garden uncertainties into certain- 
ties. The booklet tells you what, 
when and how to plant. 
Order the sash and frames early. Get 
started. Send for the booklet. 
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With a row such as this, it’s like having a goodly sized greenhouse. Junior Sash 
34 x 38 inches cost $2.42 apiece. Standard Sash 3x6 feet cost S4.24 apiece. 
Double light 3x6 feet cost $3.45 apiece. Price on different length of frames given 
in the Booklet. 
Tsuga caroliniana 
From the high Carolina Mountains, the 
most beautiful Hemlock known. 
Rhododendron carolinianum, 
the new, clear pink species. 
Rare American Plants and Specimen Evergreens. 
Rock, Water and Wild Gardens designed and executed. 
HARLAN P. KELSEY, Landscape Architect, 
Salem, Massachusetts. 
Owner, 
Highlands Nursery in North Carolina, Boxford Nursery 
in Massachusetts. Catalogs. 
Beautify Your Home Outside 
Your lawns and gardens radiate your 
personality. Plant beautiful ornamen- 
tal trees, shrubs and plants to add a 
picturesque touch; plant for fruiting. 
Green’s sure-bearing, true-to-name 
fruit trees, grape vines, berries, etc., 
all of which you can buy from us at 
Half Agents' Prices 
We sell direct to you. There is no 
Nursery’ Agent to pay. Green’s stock 
is backed by forty years of success- 
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Send for our Catalog. Contains val- 
uable planting information and money- 
saving combination offers. Write toda/. 
GREEN’S , ^ 7 Wall St. 
NURSERY Rochester, 
COMPANY New York 
{Concluded from p. 118) 
with organic manures, the two supplement 
each other in providing the soil with plant food | 
for the entire season. Nitrate of soda is 
readily soluble and the nitrogen in it im- 
mediately becomes available for the crops. 
Not so, however, with organic manures. To 
make their contained nitrogen available for 
plants, the activity of nitrifying soil organisms 
is necessary’. But when garden soil has a tem- 
perature below 50 degrees F., these soil 
organisms are practically dormant. As the 
soil temperature rises with the progress of 
summer, the nitrifying organisms become more 
active and change the nitrogen pf organic ] 
manures into nitrites. While these forms are 
readily soluble, the season is well advanced in 
northern climates before the nitrogen of j 
organic manures is made available for garden 
crops; so that if early vegetables are desired 
some form of commercial nitrate fertilizer 
should be applied to the soil. 
In growing vegetables in the home garden I 
use in connection with nitrate of soda, poultry | 
manure compost as the organic material. 
This is composed of straight poultry droppings i 
and waste material from the scratching pens. 
This combination has given quick growth and 
large yields with asparagus, beans, beets, cab- 
bage, cauliflower, lettuce, peppers, radishes, 
spinach and tomatoes. Horse manure is not 
as good a fertilizer because it contains organ- 
isms which change nitrates into gaseous 
forms which pass off into the air instead of into 
the soil. 
When used on the garden, nitrate of soda 
gives the best results when applied as a top- 
dressing. In northern parts it should be used 1 
several times during the early part of the 
growing season, that is, until the soil has be- 
come quite warm. Then the nitrogen from the 
organic materials becomes available. The 
first application should not be made until the 
plants are well established. This may be fol- 
lowed by other applications every ten days or . 
two weeks according to the weather. The 
rate should not exceed 100 pounds to the acre t 
at each application. A very little nitrate of j 
soda, therefore, is required for a hundred- 1 
foot row. If applied in large quantities at a 
time, the plants are not only liable to be in- 
jured, but the contained nitrogen would be 
partly wasted by leaching before it could all 
be utilized by the crops. 
When the plants are small, nitrate of soda • 
may be applied by a side-dresser drill, a useful n 
garden implement. But when the plants be- 
come larger it is necessary to apply the nitrate 
by hand. Care should be taken not to 
sprinkle it on the leaves of the plants if they 1 
are damp, as nitrate of soda burns the foliage. 1 
As soon as possible after being applied, it 
should be worked into the soil. 
While dried blood is more easily applied 
than nitrate of soda, its contained nitrogen is s 
not so readily available. If heavy applica- i 
tions of a nitrogenous fertilizer are required, 3 
dried blood is the best form of nitrogen to ap- 
ply. It is not so likely to injure the plants, its 4 
nitrogen is slowly made available by soil or- 1 
ganisms, and the nitrates are utilized by grow- 
ing crops for a much longer period. 
Sulphate of ammonia is not so generally ^ 
recommended as the other two nitrogenous 
fertilizers. In fact, until more is known about 
its effects gardeners should use it with caution. 
Its contained nitrogen is not so easily trans- 
formed into nitrates for the use of crops unless . 
some calcium carbonate is applied with it or 
the soil is thoroughly limed. 
Kensington, Md. James B. Mormon. 
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