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Your Garden Tools 
The push-ahead-a-stei>-at-a-time \ 
Kind are the ones you want — with \ 
high wheels to run easy over rough \ 
ground, even with a woman behind the tool, 
and with adjustments so that a boy or girl can 
handle it. Tools of this kind will do as much in 
one hour as you could with old fashioned hoes in 
ten hours. Easy work and better results. 
Wheel Hoes 
and Seed Drills 
Include 38 or moie styles and combinations from which 
any gardener can choose just what be needs. Accurate 
sowing in rows or hills, perfectly safe cultivation astride j 
young plants or between rows, hoeing, weeding, ridg- f 
ing. opening furrows and covering them. 16 inch / 
wheels. Steel tube frame. L 
.1 a k your •lealer lo show them and write 
us Jor booklet "llome. Farm and Mar- 
ket Gardening with Modern Tools.” 
BATEMAN M’F’G CO. 
Box 352 
Grenloch, N. J. 
Also 
i Spraying 
is Machinery, 
Potato 
Machinery, 
Cultivating 
Tools, Etc. 
School of Horticulture for Women 
Box 105, AMBLER, PA. 
Three short courses in Practical Horticulture for 
Amateurs. Spring, Summer and Fall. Instruc- 
tion and practical work in Flower Gardening, 
Fruit Growing, Vegetable Gardening, etc., etc. 
Very moderate terms. 
For particulars address 
ELIZABETH LEIGHTON LEE, Director 
The Recognized Standard Insecticide warn 
will help keep your garden free from insect 
pests, with little trouble and at small cost. ■ 
Popular with home gardeners everywhere 
because it is so easily applied. Economical, 
because it comes in highly concentrated form, 
to be diluted as per directions on each can. 
Saves Vegetables, Fruits and Flowers 
It positively rids plants of all sap sucking in- 
sects like lice, green fly, etc. Endorsed by 
leading growers throughout the country. 
Does not stain foliage or injure vegetables, 
but does most effective work either in the 
garden or with house plants. Put up in 
various sizes at prices within everybody’s 
reach and sold by all representative seeds 
houses and dealers in horticultural supplies. 
For further particulars apply to 
APHINE MANUFACTURING CO. 
Manfacturers of Agricultural Chemicals 
Madison New Jersey 
IWIIWI1IIM 
{Concluded from page 2Q2) 
ammonia is practically as effective, nitrogen for 
nitrogen, as nitrate of soda; it is also to all 
intents and purposes as rapid in its action, 
because the process of nitrification, which 
generally precedes the utilization of the am- 
monia by the plant, takes place very rapidly 
in suitable soils.” 
A test by the writer on the farm of W. O. 
Davids, Peconic, L. I., last year, gave 191 
bushels of potatoes per acre with sulphate of 
ammonia as against 114 bushels without, 
both plots being fertilized alike. Such quota- 
tions could be extended without limit. 
It is perhaps more to the point to emphasize 
the fact that sulphate of ammonia is a native 
source of nitrogen and is produced in this 
country, whereas nitrate of soda, whatever its 
merits, is necessarily imported from Chile. 
In such times as these, it is the part of every 
American tiller of the soil to inform himself 
accurately as to how best we can use our own 
natural resources and make available our own 
supply of nitrogen for the purposes of agricul- 
ture. 
C. G. Atwater. 
Transplanting Roses in Summer 
f | 'HE local florist told me that there was 
-*■ no use in trying to transplant Roses 
during a hot, dry spell in late June. But 
because we had to have the garage, and be- 
cause, to build it we had to dig up part of the 
Rose-bed, I was obliged, therefore, to make a 
heroic effort to save the bushes. 1 here was 
one Rosa rugosa which was still blooming. 
The other nine had finished for the year. 
We saved all but the rugosa; and I think I 
know why we lost that — it had no roots. 
As a beginning, we cut back all shoots, 
both old and new, to within ten inches of 
the earth. This was in order to stop growth 
and to lessen the strain while the roots were 
establishing themselves in the new quarters. 
We dug out the new bed to a depth of almost 
two feet, piling up the earth so that it was 
returned in about the same order — that is, the 
sub-soil was still the sub-soil, and the top-soil 
still on top. The ground was a rather rich 
clay, located on the south side of the lawn 
and well drained, being high ground. 
Digging up the bushes was a tedious pro- 
cess, as they had been so closely set that 
it was difficult to loosen the earth among the 
roots without breaking some of them. We 
refilled the new bed to within a few inches of 
the top and flooded it with water. After 
this had soaked in, we set the bushes, except 
the Rosa rugosa, and filled in about them 
with the thoroughly fined soil, and left them 
a little high, to allow for settling. We then 
soaked the top-soil and covered the bushes 
with newspapers pegged down with sticks. 
At night we uncovered them for air, and 
when the earth needed it water was given. 
We did this for three or four days and 
should have continued it, but I was called 
away. 
There followed a drought of at least six 
weeks, during which, though we kept the 
ground moist, the bushes did not show a leaf. 
After the rain fell, however, they leafed out 
beautifully. 
Indianapolis, Ind. L. Lennox. 
[Editor’s Note: One cannot be arbitrary 
in gardening matters: Our man misunder- 
standing directions, transplanted a score 
of Roses the middle of last August and they 
all lived. J 
June. 1 S) 1 
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