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T II E G A R 1) E N MAGAZINE 
February, 19 1 5 
THORBIH 
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Catalog is full 
of real Garden 
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prepare our seed cat- 
log each year with 
ae single thought of 
laking it of service to 
selection of the right 
flowers and vegetables for your 
garden, and in their planting and 
care. 
We have been helping our custo- 
mers to make successful gardens for 
more than a hundred years. We 
have learned a good deal about it, 
as you will see from the book. 
It will be sent free to anyone who 
has a garden or wants one. 
Drop us a postal today. 
Your copy is now wait- 
ing for you. 
J. M s Thorburn & Co. 
53 B Barclay St., through 
to 54 Park Place 
New York 
Just to look through its pages will 
make you long for spring to come 
ready to set outdoors, which with us is usually 
about the middle of May. I have two coldframes 
on the south side of the house where some of the 
plants are kept after being transplanted into the 
larger boxes; and for the same purpose also have a 
small glass house, or rather lean-to, about six by 
ten feet in size, with head-room, where the balance 
of the plants find a home until setting-out time. 
On cold nights the boxes in the coldframe are taken 
indoors for safekeeping, while Jack Frost is kept 
out of the glass house by means of a small oil 
heater, on top of which I keep water steaming to 
supply the necessary moisture. On pleasant days 
the plants are given an abundance of air in order 
to strengthen and harden them off. 
We usually plant sweet peas directly outdoors 
early in April, but as the ground is cold at that time 
and germination thereby retarded, it is my pur- 
pose to try the transplanting method this year 
which, 1 believe, should give the vines an earlier 
An Alaskan backyard — stocks, pansies, asters, godetias, 
and schizanthus all vigorously blooming 
start. Until last year I also planted canary 
vine and nasturtiums outdoors, but I learn from ex- 
perience that to sow indoors and then transplant, 
while it involves more labor, is surer and well worth 
the extra trouble. By so doing the plants are given 
an earlier start. 
While outdoor gardening is our chief pleasure and 
joy, the house plants are not neglected, and in our 
small conservatories and at the windows may be 
found a wealth of geraniums, lilies, cannas, gloxi- 
nias, fuchsias, begonias, ferns, etc., all depending 
upon the taste or inclination of the individual home 
owners. 
Alaska. W. C. Blanchard. 
A New Idea in Tree Labels 
O N THE grounds of Haverford College, a few 
miles out of Philadelphia, are many magni- 
ficent native trees, most of them matured speci- 
mens three-quarters of a century ago. The College 
recently labeled each of these in an effective and 
unique way. It had discs 2J inches in diameter 
cut out of zinc and stamped the botanical and 
common name of each tree in these with dies such 
as machinists use to mark their tools. A disc is 
fastened to each tree with a lag-screw, at the height 
of five feet. 
The advantage of using a lag-screw is that, when 
growing trees are labeled, the fastening may be 
loosened every few years to prevent the bark from 
growing over the label. 
Illinois. Fred Haxton, 
An adjustable zinc tree label held in place by a lag-screw 
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5 MAJESTY KING GEORGE V 
Make Your 
Garden 
Distinctive 
by planting some of 
the finer varieties of 
pedigreed flowers and 
vegetables offered by 
Jas. Carter & Co. of 
Raynes Park, Eng- 
land. Write at once 
for handsomely illus- 
trated catalog, Ameri- 
can edition. 
CARTERS TESTED SEEDS, Inc. 
104 Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Boston, Mass. 
Branch at Seattle, Wash. 
In Canada — 133 King St. E., Toronto 
Branch of James Carter & Co., Raynes Park, England 
Te sted 
The Seeds with a Pedigree ” 
J 
Start Lima Beans, Corn 
and Melons in Paper 
Transplanting Pots 
(dirt bands) and when the ground is warm 
plant them in the garden without removing 
from the pots, and they will be ripe two weeks 
earlier. Tomatoes started this way at the 
Indiana Experiment Station yielded 4 tons 
more per acre and ripened 9 days earlier. 500 
3-inch dirt bands or 300 4-inch prepaid by 
mail for $1.00. 
P. B. CROSBY & SON 
Catonsville Maryland 
