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T II E GARDEN MAGAZINE 
March, 1917 
A Work Saving Result 
Insuring Sprinkling System 
For Your Garden 
D ON'T let all the painstaking work that you’re 
going to put into that garden of yours this 
Spring; all the seeding, hoeing and back- 
aching — go for naught. Protect it against 
the dry weather days that come along and shrivel up 
your flowers or vegetables. 
A Skinner System Sprinkling Line is your sure 
insurance against stich a happening. 
No trouble. No bother. Just turn on the water 
and it does the rest. Thoroughly and uniformly 
waters your garden with a fine mist-like spray. Does 
not pack the soil. Nor injure the finest foliage. Easy 
to put up, take down, or change location. A few min- 
utes’ attention waters your garden. Fifty foot line 
fully equipped costs $13.75. Waters 2,500 square 
feet. For other lines add 25 cents a foot extra. For 
$14 we can equip lines with an Automatic Turning 
Device, which will move the spray from one side to 
the other and then itself shuts off the water. Time 
of watering under full control. Send for full infor- 
mation about this Skinner Sprinkling System. 
THE SKINNER IRRIGATION CO. 
219 ' y ■|'||||i N s Troy 
Water St. Ohio 
OF" IRRIGATION. 
Dulbs 
We are growers of these bulbs on our own 
farms, and the 1916 acreage was double that of 
former years. 
FLOWERS ALL <2> *| 
SUMMER FOR M* A 
There is no flower that is so easily grown and 
blooms so readily as the Gladiolus, and by re- 
peated plantings a continued bloom may be had 
all summer long. The long spikes are grace- 
ful and fascinating in their great array of colors; 
cut as first flowers open and placed in water, 
the flowers develop for a week, even to the 
last bud. Commence planting in April and re- 
peat at 10 day intervals until end of June, and 
you will have flowers until late autumn. 
“HOMEWOOD” GLADIOLUS 
?.» Fine Bulks. Many Kinds Mixed, for 
*1.00. MAILED FREE 
to customers within fourth postal zone f6oo 
miles) from Chicago or New York. 
For further zones add 10c In fttamps. 
“llow to Grow” In every package. 
To interest Boys, Girls, Young Women and 
Men in grow ing these flow ers, we make the 
following exceptionally low prices for smaller 
bulbs, many colors mixed. 
“KENWOOD” GLADIOLI'S BUUBLET8 
60 for 50e; 25 for 20c; IO for 1 Oc; all postpaid with our 
1 60 puge catalogue. Addrean Dept. G 
VAUGHAN’S SEED STORE 
31-33 W. Randolph Street ------ CHICAGO 
43 Barclay Street - -- -- -- - NEW YORK 
Hot Bed Sash 
85c 
CYPRESS, well made, with 
cross bar, blind tenons, white 
leaded in joints, 
Glass, $2.00 per Box 
C L On** Qaa/1 pearliest vegetables in cultivation. Send 10c 
‘JaHipit vfUI dCcu for one pa' ket each, Robinson's Earliest Tomato, 
Earliest Round Red Radish, Earliest Lettuce, and we will include our illus- 
trated Seed Catalogue, one 25c profit sharing coupon, one xoc profit sharing 
coupon anti three silver premium certificates, all for 10c to introduce our “Best 
Quality Seed." 
C. N. ROBINSON & BRO. Dept. 8. Baltimore, Md. 
These Prices Are Your 
Opportunity 
To introduce our mail-order department 
we are offering a fine lot of carefully grown 
parking trees, 2 to 2 £ inches in diameter. 
measured 2 inches above 
Per 10 
ground- 
p.t :,o 
-line. 
P.r 100 
American Elm 
$8.50 
$37.50 
$70.00 
American Sycamore 
7.50 
32.50 
60.00 
Sugar Maple 
10.00 
47.50 
95.00 
Soft Maple 
Norway and 
7.00 
30.00 
55.00 
Carolina Poplar 
5.50 
17.50 
32.50 
Prices: f.o.b. Council Bluffs, Iowa. Terms: 20% 
cash with order or 5% discount for cash in full. 
Order To-day — This offer is limited and 
may be recalled 
MENERAY NURSERIES, Inc. 
3101 Avenue A Council Bluffs, Iowa 
**Here Since 1868” — 250 Acres Nursery Stock 
Gladiolus Bulbs 
From Hillair Gardens 
will bring delight to every flower lover who will buy. 
They are doubly freighted with joy — the joy of the 
growers and the no less joy of the purchasers. 
Helping the Plant Dealer 
npHE best brains of the plant trade have 
tried to devise ways and means to over- 
coming delays in the execution of orders, but 
they have nature to face, and it frequently 
happens that a sudden cold spell will freeze 
up all out-of-door stock, or that a few wet 
days will just as effectively put a stop to the 
filling of orders, and all of the well-laid 
schemes for the rapid and careful filling of 
orders goes for nothing. The only chance 
the plantsmen have, is for spring to open up 
by the middle of March and stay open, per- 
mitting the filling of early orders and reliev- 
ing the rush which is sure to come beginning 
with the middle of April, and lasting until 
the close of May, or later. 
It is probable that the spring of 1916 was one 
of the worst seasons ever experienced in the 
plant trade. March was a real winter month, 
and as late as April 8 th there was a general 
snow storm which covered the Eastern states 
to the depth of three inches or more, and 
while the snow melted rapidly it brought 
business to a standstill and there was not 
less than three precious weeks of time lost, 
that under favorable weather conditions would 
have seen thousands of orders filled and 
planted. 
EARLY DELIVERY HELPS 
Varieties We Offer: 
Kunderdi Glory. Niagara, Mrs. Frank Pendleton, 
Panama, LaLuna and the old time favorites, Augusta, 
America and Mrs., Francis King. No bulbs have 
been better grown. 
Write for free catalogue 
SAYLER & TAYLOR 
Hillair Gardens Huntington, Indiana 
Let Us Introduce Ourselves 
By sending you by mail each or all of our 1917 special 
collections as listed below together with our new catalogue 
16 Ever-Blooming Roses for $1.00 
These plants bloom the first and each succeeding year from 
early spring till severe frosts. They are noted for their 
exquisite coloring and delightful fragrance and the harvest 
of bloom they give amply repays for their trifling cost. 
7 Packets Home Garden Vegetables for 50 cents 
Boston Beans, Wax Beans, Sweet Com, Radish, Lettuce, Onions 
^.nd Beets. 
16 Packets Flower Seeds for 75 cents 
Columbine, Candytuft Canterbury Bell, Coreopsis Grandi- 
flora, Forget-me-not, Foxglove, Blanket Flower, Baby’s 
Breath, Hollyhock. Iceland Poppy, Pinks, Larkspur, Oriental 
Poppy, Scabiosa Caucasica, Sweet William and Shasta Daisy. 
SULLIVAN SEED CO., P. 0. Box 84, West Somerville, Mass. 
Everything for the Lawn, Or- 
chard and Fruit Garden, Fruit Trees at 
$10 per 100 and up. Shade and Ornamental , 
Trees, Shrubs, Roses — -at lowest prices. BUY 
NOW, before prices advance. New Specialties; 
Rochester Peach, Butterfly Bush, St. Regis Ever- 
bearing Raspberry. Send for catalogue. 
GROVER NURSERY COMPANY 
94 Trust Bldg., Rochester, N. Y. 
Established 1890 — 
Beautify and ma\e productive your idle land 
by planting 
EVERGREENS 
1000 Three Year Old Trees for $6.00 
Catalogue and booklet on request 
THE NORTH-EASTERN FORESTRY COMPANY. Cheshire, Conn. 
SELL YOUR SPARE TIME 
We will pay you well for all you have — every spare hour can 
mean money — by securing new subscribers to the World’s Work, 
Country Life in America, and The Garden Magazine. Write to 
Circulation Dept. 
Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York 
The flower loving public can do very much 
indeed to help the general situation, relieving 
pressure in the store and nursery and so ensur- 
ing bett.er attention to individual orders by 
placing their orders early, and by taking as 
early delivery of their plants as possible, and if 
circumstances should compel late ordering 
to wait gracefully until preceding orders are 
executed. Do not push nor trouble the 
overworked plantsmen by frequent inquiries, 
all of which consumes time to looking up 
facts and in answering, and otherwise hinders 
instead of hastening the work. You may 
be sure that every dealer in plants is just as 
anxious to have your order filled, as you are 
to get the plants, and at this particular time 
with a real shortage of skilled as well as com- 
mon labor, the plantsman’s lot is not a bed of 
roses, and we should all try to make it at 
least a little less thorny. 
In the past few years there has been a wide- 
spread movement to relieve the congestion 
and consequent discomfort to buyer and 
seller alike of Christmas goods, by the advice 
“ Do your Christmas Shopping Early.” This 
has resulted in quite an improvement and 
benefit to all, by spreading over 6 to 8 weeks 
or more the vast amount of Christmas 
business, that was formally squeezed into 
2 to 3 weeks. 
CONGESTION IN APRIL 
But the Christmas business rush in the 
big stores was never worse than the congested 
conditions found in most plant establish- 
ments during the height of the planting season, 
extending from the middle of April to the 
end of May, and while each year more and 
more buyers take up the question of what to 
plant early in the year, and place their orders 
a month or more in advance of the time they 
are wanted, there are still many more who 
do not think of ordering their supply of plants 
until planting time is upon them, and very 
properly their orders have to fall in line behind 
those who believe in preparedness, and are 
much disappointed when they have to wait 
two weeks or more before their orders can be 
executed. 
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