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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
July, 1917 
Pot-Grown Perennials 
WE have grown in pots some of 
our choicest perennials, for 
summer planting. Strong rooted 
and healthy. Order some of these 
for your own hardy garden! 
Blue Spirea % .25 each $2.50 doz. 
Torch Lily .25 “ 2.50 " 
Larkspur .75 •• 7.50 *• 
White Flowering Mugwort 
$ .25 each $2.50 doz. 
Sage .20 ** 2.00 “ , 
Julius' Cor 
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Suntrapz — the wonder working plant boxes 
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Get our Catalogue of Garden outfits. Free 
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Hardy Plants 
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hardy plants in America. Illus- 
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trees and bulbs sent free on request. 
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( Concluded from page 328) 
crowded so as to relieve the weight on the 
limbs to prevent breaking and also to have 
finer and larger fruit. 
Early flowering shrubs should be pruned 
now; these include Forsythias, Lilacs, Pyrus, 
Spiraeas, etc. 
FOOD CROPS FOR WINTER STORAGE 
Plant this month succession of those crops 
that have the highest food value both for man 
and beast. Sweet potatoes are more nutritious 
than Irish potatoes, are free from insects 
and diseases, but need a sandy loam. They 
can be stored in a cool cellar which has good 
circulation of air. Beans and peas are rich 
in protein and should be planted in large 
quantities. They can be dried and stored in 
attics in paper hags hung to the ceiling for 
winter use. Continue to plant dwarf lima 
beans, Burpee’s Stnngless snap beans, and 
navy beans, Eclipse beet for table use, mangel 
wurzel (rutabaga) beets for stock, late cabbage 
plants and winter cabbage seed in cold frames 
to be transplanted later. Plant celery plants 
in trenches (see July, 1915 number of The 
Garden Magazine). 
Sow in a row, and quite thinly, Witloof 
chicory. Thin out later to five inches apart 
in the row. In the fall cut off tops to within 
two inches of the crown, dig up roots and 
pack in sand in a cool cellar; or leave in ground, 
to be taken up throughout the winter as 
needed. Take up a few at a time, pack in a 
box in rich soil and water them and place in a 
warm dark cellar or turn box over them to 
keep dark, to sprout and blanch. 
Sow thinly in rows Red-top turnips and sow 
broadcast Large White Norfolk turnip for 
salad. Sow latter part of month Norfolk 
Savoy spinach. Sow broadcast cow peas 
both for food and to turn under the vines for 
green manure after peas are gathered. Sow 
crimson clover on all garden plots that will 
be unused during the winter. Sow rape for 
hogs and sheep and mix Sunflower seed and 
buckwheat and sow broadcast for chickens. 
Sorghum is also valuable for stock sown broad- 
cast, to be chopped up for feed or in rows 
thinly, to develop into canes to crush out for 
sugar and molasse sand the seed to mix with 
feed for stock. 
Jerusalem artichoke tubers should have 
been planted in April like potatoes. 1 hey 
can be kept in the ground all winter and dug 
as needed. They are excellent as feed for 
hogs and chickens but are also good as a table 
dish creamed and especially good if pickled. 
Plant late potatoes now; Green Mountain 
is a good keeper. Plant if possible where the 
early peas stood and if the vines were turned 
under, the soil will be in fine condition for the 
potatoes. Incorporate in the soil a good com- 
mercial fertilizer. 
Asparagus should be allowed to grow after 
the first of June, a good layer of salt thrown 
over the beds, which kills weeds and is other- 
wise beneficial to asparagus. A good fertilizer 
or well rotted cow manure should be scattered 
over the beds and weeds kept down and the 
tops cut off and burned before the seeds fall. 
Plant cauliflower and brussels sprouts for 
winter use. Transplant the Asters from the 
cold frames to the flower border. I rim off 
the weak shoots from Dahlias and pinch off 
lateral branches of Chrysanthemums, making 
one good strong plant. Feed constantly 
with liquid manure. Keep aphis off by a 
strong stream of water from the hose. Pinch 
back Cosmos to make stocky, bushy plants. 
J. M. Patterson. 
DUTCH BULBS 
are coming! 
The Quality of “Diamond Brand” Bulbs of 1917 crop 
promises to be superfine! We are not so sure about the 
Quantity , but hope enough will reach us to go around. 
S necia I Off • To popularize the giant-flower 
\sircr . ing DAinviN tulips win 
mail 12 blooming bulbs each of (TAKA BUTT, clear salmon 
pink, PUIDK OF IIAAKLEfl. deep rose shaded 
scarlet and (IKETCHEN. very light salmon, <£1 
!{(» flm* bulbs in nil, postpaid for «pl 
FREE: — Treasures of Bulbland 
describes the choicest Hyacinths, Tulips. Daffodils, 
etc. Delivery in September. Write for your 
copy TO-DAY. 
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Readers of who enjoyed 
This Ernest H. Wil- 
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° able series or 
articles, may now secure them in 
book form with a chapter added 
on the author s experiences in 
exploring for the Dove Tree. We 
are bringing out “Aristocrats of the 
Garden as befits such a book in a 
limited, numbered edition, bound 
in heavy linen and green boards, 
and with 16 full-page illustrations. 
Boxed, Net $5.00. 
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Garden City, New Yor\ 
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You will be astonished at our low prices. Tells how 
we prepay express charges anywhere in the U. S. and 
guarantee safe delivery. Write to the Rose Specialists 
for your copy to-day. 
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mail. 100 Meatless recipes, 15c. 50 Sandwich recipes, 15c. All 
three, 30c. B. H. Briggs, 456 Fourth Ave., Newark, N. J. 
“HOW TO GROW ROSES” — Library Edition; 12 1 pages — 16 in 
natural colors. Not a catalogue. Price $1, refunded on $5 order 
for plants. The Conard & Jones Co., Box 24, West Grove, Pa. 
MR. ROBERT PYLE — the well-known Garden Lecturer and 
Rosarian invites correspondence from garden lovers and societies. 
Subject — “The American Rose Garden” illustrated with finely 
colored lantern slides. Address: West Grove, Pa. 
OREGON & CALIFORNIA RAILROAD CO. grant tends. Title 
to same revested in United States by act of Congress, dated June q, 
iq 16. Two million three hundred thousand acres to be opened for 
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Large sectional map showing lands and description of soil, climate, 
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SCOTCH GARDENER wants position as head gardener or superintendent on 
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Garden Magazine, Garden City, N. Y. 
W’ATERWEEDS of all kinds are easily removed from lakes, ponds, 
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