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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
May, 1917 
-Timely Topics— 
Slowly but surely, the fact is brought 
home to all Americans that a. food 
shortage of serious proportions is con- 
fronting the nation. The staples of life 
— wheat and potatoes — are unusually 
short. Stocks of canned goods are al- 
most exhausted. Canned vegetables 
will be at a premium before the next 
season’s crop is ready. 
Because of this, we consider it the 
patriotic duty of every American to 
help relieve the situation by growing 
more vegetables. This is our first step 
to popularize the idea of 
A Vegetable Garden 
for Every Home 
To help the beginner, as well as the 
“seasoned” gardener, to score the best 
possible results in the garden, we have 
published a booklet, 1 6 pages and cover, 
devoted to vegetables exclusively. It 
stands for the last word ingrowingqualitv 
vegetables with time-table precision. 
Tells when to sow, and how, how much 
to sow for any desired supply, how to 
cultivate and harvest the crop, how to 
have the kind of vegetables you like best 
the year around! The price is io cents 
which will be refunded in form of a Due 
Bill accepted as cash with future orders. 
Invest One Dollar 
to Save Twenty 
The following truly “pedigreed” vegetables 
will easily yield $20. worth of vegetables in as 
small a space as 15 X45 feet. All are of top 
notch quality, easily grown by anybody, in 
most any soil. 
For One Dollar, we will mail postpaid, 
one regular packet each of 
Bean, Bountiful — flat green-podded 
Bean, Brittle IV ax — round-podded 
Beet, Detroit Dark Red — early, sweet 
Carrot, Chantenay — fine flavored 
Corn, Golden Bantam — sweetest 
Cucumber, Davis Perfect — very tender 
Endive, Green Curled — fine salad plant 
Lettuce, Early Curled Simpson— loose heads 
Lettuce, IV ayahead — early butterhead 
Lettuce, California Cream Butter 
Parsley, Early Double Curled — for garnishing 
Pea, Little Marvel — early, sweet, prolific 
Pea, Thomas Laxton — excellent flavor 
Radish, Sparkler — round scarlet with white tip 
Radish, Icicle — crispest long white 
Swiss Chard, Lucullus — a spinach beet 
With each collection we will send a compli- 
mentary copy of the booklet described above. 
It will help you make new records with above 
vegetables. 
Other Items of 
Immediate Interest 
To the late starter among home vegetable garden- 
ers, we can supply Cabbage, Cauliflower, Lettuce, 
Egg Plant, Pepper and Tomato plants. Different 
sized plants are available in tomatoes and the best 
varieties are provided in all classes. 
Prices and variety names on request. Write lor 
complete free catalogue or, better still, start a vege- 
table garden by ordering above collection. 
"Stumpp & W alter Co 3 .°^NEw7Y^RK eet ”» ■ 
(Concluded from page 244 ) 
Our orchard was an old one much ill-treated 
and neglected and considerably infected with 
canker and blight. I hus severe cutting back 
was necessary and in many cases even to the 
main stump itself. In this the crown graft 
was the saving grace. 
All the cions were left to be thinned out in 
the spring. Some even may be sufficiently 
developed to be used as cions for the coming 
year. 
We had one tree that was simply starved, 
one half was grafted last spring, while the 
balance is to be done this season. But it 
seems as if this might have been done all at 
once, leaving a few water sprouts to keep the 
spark of life going. 
A word as to cions : Those which were cut the 
fall before and kept over winter, did not do as 
well as they might, having a tendency to dry; 
those cut in the 
spring did better. 
Those were cut just 
before the buds 
started to swell and 
were laid away and 
inserted when the 
leaves on the stock 
were about the size 
of a mouse-ear, and 
even larger. Some 
of the cions were 
from clippings of 
the prior late fall 
that had laid under 
the snow all winter 
and as far as could 
be seen they did as 
well as the others. 
As a matter of ex- 
periment, cuttings 
were taken from a 
young tree — a seed- 
less, coreless apple 
— that the mice had 
effectually girdled during the winter. The 
main thing in these tests was that the wood 
The old apple tree that was 
crown grafted and saved for 
better things 
was dormant. 
We would add a word of caution from past 
experience. Do not put in the cions too 
early. The stock should be in condition to 
start the growth at once. 
As for the crown graft, we take off our hat to 
it; one takes very little chance with a Crown 
graft. 
Conn. E. C. H. 
How to Pot A Plant 
P OTTING is one of the commonest garden 
operations and yet it is often carried out 
in a very careless manner. A huge num- 
ber of plants come to grief owing to the fact 
that they have not been properly placed in the 
pot. Clean pots are very desirable at all 
times, and old ones should always be washed 
before use. The question of drainage is of 
immense importance. A quantity of broken 
crocks should be secured and one of these 
which is of a good size and rounded, must be 
arched over the hole. Then build up two or 
three layers of other crocks as shown in the 
photograph. Finally add a layer of moss, 
fibre, or similar material. This ensures the 
safety of drainage and prevents the settling 
down of the earth in between the crocks — a 
frequent cause of an imperfect passage of 
water. Now throw in a little soil so that the 
pot is about a third full. I ake the ball of the 
plant to be repotted and, if needful, loosen 
the soil at the base. Now put the plant ex- 
( Continued on page 248 ) 
Y Ol R rose garden should be 
a joy spot of beauty and 
delightful fragrance all summer 
long! 
That’s just what you can 
make it with my sturdy-rooted 
American grown roses. They 
are unexcelled for vigorous 
growth, bounteous bloom and 
hardiness. 
They will thrive practically 
anywhere; coming up smiling 
after rigorous Winters. They 
will give you a sure first season’s 
bloom profusion and be a con- 
stant delight in years to come. 
This is a rose stock that is bound to make 
friends because of its surpassing quality. 
My Rose Book tells the whole story of this out-of- 
the-ordinary rose stock, and describes the most popular 
varieties. 
Gladioli 
Joy Givers for Your 
Mid-Summer Garden 
T HE modern Gladioli is excellently adapted 
for either bedding or background planting. 
The wonderful combinations of colors that it 
embraces, go all the way from the magnificent 
and gay, to the most delicate. Its charming 
grace of habit is truly fascinating. 
My American grown Gladioli bulbs are all plump and 
healthy; teeming with life. They are quality bulbs in 
the full sense of the word. 
Send for my Rose and Gladioli Catalogue 
To those unacquainted with the quality of my 
Gladioli bulbs (to make them acquainted) 1 will 
send a box of 25 choice, selected bulbs of named 
varieties, anywhere in the United States for $1. 
172 Broadway Paterson, N. J. 
FREE 
For Your Name 
and Address 
T HIS Spraying Guide has 
enabled over 400,000 farmers, 
experiment stations, gardeners, 
orchardists. florists, to prevent crop ruina- 
tion by insects and blights — to better 
quality and quantity of yield. Sent free 
for your name and address. 
' Annihilates Bugs 
and Blights that 
, Ruin Crops 
and Kill Trees 
Brown's Auto-Spray made 
1 40 hand and power styles. Style No. 1 is pop- 
ular for general use. Right size for 5 acres berry 
plants, or one acre trees. Easily carried over your shoulder. Also 
investigate Brown's Non-Clog Atomic Nozzle. Cannot clog. 
Cleans itself automatically. IVrite /or FREE Guide To-day. 
E. C. BROWN CO., 850 Maple St.. Rochester, N. Y. 
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