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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
265 
A Five Dollar Investment 
that spells 
Crop Security 
ALPHANO 
Alphano Humus eliminates 
war risks in the home vege- 
table garden. It acts as in- 
surance and crop guarantee at 
the[same time. With potatoes, 
celery, lettuce, etc., it will 
double and treble your garden 
yields. 
Alphano gives more ferti- 
lizing material for less money 
than any other fertilizer on 
the market. It will do more 
than either manure, chemical 
fertilizer or inoculation alone, 
as Alphano does the work 
of all three. 
Then why hesitate? Order 
a sample shipment to-day! 
Learn all about the re- 
markable work of this soil 
builder, growth maker and 
crop getter. 
Write us to-day! 
5-100 lb. bags #5. $12. a ton in bags by carload 
$15. a ton in bags $10. a ton in bulk by carload 
F.O.B. Alphano, N. J. 
ALPHANO HUMUS COMPANY 
17-C Battery Place New York 
For Late Planting 
^JI Mount Desert’s rigorous climate produces plants of great 
vigor and hardiness, and the lateness of the shipping sea- 
son — April 25th to June 15th — is to your advantage for late 
planting. We send you only strong plants, which cannot 
fail to grow. 
tflj Our illustrated general catalogue is a most interesting 
□J production which we shall be pleased to send upon receipt 
of a post card. We sell a general line of nursery stock, flower- 
ing shrubs and high class herbaceous perennials — all well grown 
in a rigorous climate. 
A supplementary list, in brochure form, of New and Rare 
□1 Shrubs and Hardy Plants describes one of the best collec- 
tions of New Plants ever offered in this country. This includes 
many of Mr. Wilson’s notable introductions. 
We make a specialty of plants for Rock and Wall 
Gardening. 
MOUNT DESERT NURSERIES 
Bar Harbor Maine 
Load Your Gun! 
Load it in defense of the crops which nature is helping 
you to grow. Load it to defeat the enemies that 
threaten to endanger our food supply. Load your gun 
to fight bugs and droughts and, incidentally, to stimu- 
late the productiveness of every row in your garden. 
All this is made easy by 
The Kirke System 
— at Your Service 
This garden gun presents the most in- 
genious device imaginable to perform two 
most important missions in the garden — 
it fertilizes and destroys insects, and all 
through the simple mediums of water 
faucet and garden hose. 
THE KIRKE SYSTEM comprises a 
cylindrical, nickel-plated metal cartridge 
holder (see above) which is- connected 
either at faucet or nozzle end of hose, 
preferably the latter. In this holder is 
inserted a cartridge of fertilizer, insecti- 
cide or fungicide. 
The Kirke cartridges to be placed in 
the Kirke holder are of four types — fer- 
tilizer, insecticide, fungicide and germi- 
cide. There are nine different preparations 
as priced below. The cartridges dissolve 
uniformly and gradually, insuring an even solution of the preparation. 
This is thus evenly distributed over the lawn, garden, shrubbery. 
The preparations are of the highest grade of concentrated and extremely 
activechemicals. They are of sufficient hardness to prevent wasting. 
Insect-Destroying Cartridges 
Abolish the use of cumber- 
some hand-pumps, hand-sprayers, 
carts and wagons, etc., for dis- 
tributing Insecticides. These 
cartridges will work as well for 
you and give you the same sat- 
isfactory results as are scored by 
thousands, who already enjoy 
the benefits. Highly endorsed 
at all leading flower shows and by special- 
ists throughout the country. Nine distinct 
preparations are priced below. 
Prices: — 
Cartridge Holder 
Fertilizer Cartridge 
Tobacco Insecticide 
Arsenate of Lead 
Half 
Doz. 
Doz. 
Each 
$3.00 
0.35 $2.00 $3.60 
0.38 2.15 4.00 
0.48 2.65 4.80 
Fertilizes While Watering 
A clean, odorless, positively 
active, easily handled, practicable, 
economical, and efficient method 
of fertilizing, requiring no experi- 
ence. It eliminates the need of 
unsanitary stable manure, so 
objectionable, because of its disagreeable 
odors, and the great abundance of weed- 
seeds it contains. 
The cartridges of Concentrated Fertilizer 
for the lawn and garden dissolve in as much 
water as will pass through the ordinary 
garden hose in about five hours. 
Half 
Prices: — Each Doz. Doz. 
Bordeaux Fungicide $0.35 $2.00 $3.60 
Angle Worm Destroyer 1.50 8.00 15.00 
Fly Maggot Destroyer 0.38 2.15 4.00 
Sulphur Cartridge 0.35 2.00 
Salt Cartridge 0.15 0.85 
3.60 
1.50 
Renders Life-time Service for $3.00 
The nickel-plated cartridge container is simplicityntself — a child can fill and handle it. It is 
a neat device and cannot get out of order. Its use will greatly reduce your garden troubles 
and disappointments. • l 
Write to-day for descrip- l rbp 
tive literature telling all i^.11 IxC 
about this remarkable 
labor saver in detail. 
Tables on sowing and » 
planting of all Jtinds of IflC*# 
seeds free, 
order NOW. 
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supply, order direct 
from us, at above 
prices 
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