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T II E G A R D E N M A G AZIN E 
F F. B R O .V R V , 19 15 
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Peas, Shirley Poppy and Giant Mixed Cosmos; 
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catalogue included, if you will send us your 
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The catalogue contains all the Flower and 
Vegetable novelties for 1915, and much relia- 
ble information explaining in detail how to 
plant. One million packets will be distributed 
this year. May we add your name to our list. 
WM. ELLIOTT & SONS 
Est. 1845 45 Vesey St., New York 
now and again there were taller plants — dielytra, 
or love-lies-bleeding, bluebells in white and pink and 
blue, and suggestive waving clusters here and there 
of columbine. Just enough to break a possible 
monotony of low-lying plants. 
The soil that the Alpine plants thrive in must be 
full of lime; bits of mortar and brickbats, broken to 
a dust, should be mixed with a soil that is not too 
rich; and if these plants, which like the cold so much, 
are to live through summer heat, they must be 
watered very freely. If this is true of an English 
summer, I should think the inference would be, that, 
to survive our July*, and Augusts, they must be 
planted in shady corners, and I am sure that they 
should be protected in winter from alternate freez- 
ing and thawing. They grow very quickly, even 
in two years spreading into quite sizeable, delight- 
ful, cushion-shaped plants. 
England. Eleanor L. Wolcott. 
[Editors’ Note: From many sources we scent 
a budding interest in the possibilities of alpines in 
America. What can our readers tell about actual 
trials? We should also be glad to hear of any rock 
gardens and to receive photographs. Let’s all get 
together for the alpine!] 
The Opalescent Apple 
E XPERIENCE has made us wary of the siren 
call of some florid announcements and conser- 
vative in our acceptance of “new” varieties. Be- 
fore we recognize a new government or a new berry 
we wish to be assured of its stability. 
I venture to select the Opalescent apple for special 
mention because it bears the stamp of approval of 
at least two discriminating pomologists — Prof. C. 
P. Close of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
and Prof. U. P. Hedrick of the New York State 
Experiment Station at Geneva. “It is a splendid 
variety,” says Professor Hedrick, “and one of the 
most attractive apples grown.” 
With the single exception of Delicious it is un- 
doubtedly the best • nple that has been introduced 
within the past ten or fifteen years, though it has 
not enjoyed the wide-spread advertising that has 
made Delicious famous. 
About the year 1899 a nurseryman of Xenia, 
Ohio, found a number of apple seedlings growing 
in an old orchard. One of these he saved and 
planted in a vacancy in a near by row with the idea 
of top-grafting it when large enough. The fruit 
borne by this tree a few years later attracted atten- 
tion as being superior to anything else growing in 
the orchard, and the tree was saved. From this 
beginning the Opalescent apple was developed. 
Opalescent is a late fall or early winter variety, 
its natural season lasting from November to Jan- 
uary. It is a large apple, round and shapely, with 
a glossy skin, deep red on a yellow ground. Its 
unusually handsome appearance, as well as its excel- 
lent quality, classes it as a dessert apple of the sort 
with which Eastern growers may hope to compete 
on equal terms with the showy fruit of the far West. 
Its flesh is yellowish, firm, crisp, tender, and juicy, 
mildly sub-acid, and of a delightful flavor. 
Long Island. Walter A. Dyer. 
Making Celery a Pure Food 
A S MOST gardeners know, it is almost im- 
possible to raise celery — at least for market 
— without spraying it occasionally with bordeaux 
mixture. Neglect this precaution and there result 
both crop and expectations blighted. 
On the other hand, careless spraying and, espe- 
cially, the use of dry bordeaux, are almost sure to 
result in an accumulation of copper salts at the base 
of the stalks. And, thanks to Doctor Wiley and 
his followers, we know that copper is neither nut- 
ritious nor wholesome. 
To steer between this Scylla and Charybdis 
requires the combined efforts of grower and con- 
sumer. Let the former use a thoroughly efficient, 
powerful spray outfit — one that produces a mist 
rather than a spray; and let him simply cover 
each plant with drops, moving on before they run 
together and down in between the stalks. The 
housekeeper’s duty is to see that the stalks are 
washed, thoroughly and entirely. 
New York. E. L. D. S. 
Do You Have to 
be Shown ? 
I 'm told that I have the best quality of seed, give 
the largest packages and have the most common- 
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I'll send you the Seed Book and a big package oj garden 
seed, and you can judge for yourself. NO CHARGE FOR 
EITHER, and you need not even send the postage unless 
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I also have guaranteed Clover and Alfalfa, and all kinds of 
farm seed at Farmer's Prices. Shall I send you free samples 
of these also ? 
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“Strawberry Plants 
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All the best June and Fall-bearing varieties also best Rasp- 
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Largest general nursery in America. Estab- 
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i?rfect?o re 
E NGLISH lawns are world- 
famous, owing to the va- 
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season’s crop. Despite the limited imports, we offer 
our choice English mixtures suitable for our climate 
at usual prices. These mixtures have never been 
surpassed. Trial pound, 40 cents, prepaid; 5-pound 
bag, $1.25, f. o. b. Waukegan. 
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are favorably known. Many of 
the best sorts were introduced 
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Private < Southport Red Globe . 6c > for 
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