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T H E GARDEN MAGAZIN E 
March, 1915 
Promote good health and happiness - 
reduce cost of living. 
Joy — the best and most prolific Blackberry. Jumbo — 
biggest and best Raspberry. Van Fleet Hybrids — wonderful strawberries. Caco — best 
and most beautiful Hardy Grape. Everybody’s — Best Currant for everybody. Carrie 
Gooseberry — succeeds everywhere. 
My Catalog No. 1 , an illustrated book of 54 pages, tells all about them and describes, with prices, 
all “the good old varieties” of Small Fruits as well. It gives also full instructions for planting with 
cultural notes, and tells about the giant Jumbo Raspberry that I am giving away. It is free. 
For 36 Years a Specialist in Berry Culture 
J. T. LOVETT 
Box 125 
Little Silver, New Jersey 
PLANT 
BERRIES 
Alfred Mitting has had 
experience with 
all over the world. 
47 years 
berries from 
His new berry, Macatawa, is the wonder, to all 
that see it in fruit. It is 35 inches one way by 
31 inches the other way. Send a postal card to- 
day for his 1915 catalogue with 1 colored plate, in- 
cluding the cream of all berries from a commercial 
standpoint or for home requirements. 
ALFRED MITTING 
8 New Street SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA 
“Strawberry Plants 
That Grow” 
All the best June and Fall-bearing varieties also best Rasp- 
berry. Blackberry, Currant, and Grape Plants; Asparagus 
and Rhubarb Roots in assortment. Our 1915 Catalog tells 
how you can] get plants of our Wonderful New Seedling 
Strawberry, “Collins,” absolutely Free; Write for it. 
C. E. WHITTEN’S NURSERIES 
Box (10) Bridgman, Mich. 
VICK’S 
Garden 
and Floral 
GUIDE 
kt For 66 years the leading authority on Vege- p 
* 0 table, Flower and Farm Seeds, Plants and 
Ready Bulbs. You need it. Send for free copy — today. 19 15 
JAMES VICK’S SONS Rochester, N. Y. 
62 Stone Street The Flower City 
Grape Vines 
Gooseberries and Currants 
For the vineyard, for the home garden, 
we have just what you need, Best 
varieties and finest grade of stock— 
’ guaranteed true. We are the largest and most 
successful growers of grape vines and small 
fruits in the country. 
Book on Grape Culture — Free 
No grape grower can afford to be without 
this practical book. It contains valu- 
able information; tellsyouthingsthat 
we have learned only after years of prac- 
tical experience. Planting, cultivating, prun- 
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yours for the asking. 
Write today for free copy. 
. T S. HUBBARD CO., Box la 
Fredonia, N. Y. 
£ARFF'Sci^A U LOG 
Fully describes the products of our 
1200 acre nursery, fruit and seed 
farm. Over 26 years’experience in 
growing heaviest bearing strains of 
strawberries, raspberries, currants, goose- 
berries. blackberries, dewberries, grapes 
and all kinds of fruit trees and shrubs. 
Also seed potatoes, rhubarb, horseradish, 
asparagus, 6eld seeds. Send addresses of 6 fruit 
growers and get fine currant bush and catalog free. 
\V. N. M’ARFF, New Carlisle, O. 
Fruit Trees, Plants, Flowering Shrubs 
Direct from Nursery at Wholesale Prices. Apple, Peach, Pear, 
Plum, Quince, Cherry, Berries, Roses, Shrubs, Perennial Plants, 
Shade Trees. Best varieties, highest quality, healthy, hardy, guar- 
anteed stock. Send list for special prices Freight Paid. Secure 
varieties now, pay in spring. Illustrated Catalogue Free. DENTON, 
WILLIAMS & DENTON, Wholesale Nurseries, 87 Elm St., Dansville, N. Y. 
Grow Big, Luscious Strawberries 
Select hardy, prolific, carefully tested varieties. Grow them right. Even 
small patch will yield big profits — one man made $200 on | acre of a standard var 
iety. Think of the pleasure, too, of having your oicn delicious berries for home use. 
Buy Allen’s True-to-Name Plants 
and you are more certain of large crops of big, delicious strawberries. They are hardy and v igorous 
and heavy yielders. We have 200 acres in small fruit plants and can guarantee prompt shipment 
in any quantity. We have all the early and late strains for every soil and climate re- 
quirement. All plants carefully selected and packed fresh for shipment, and guaranteed 
true-to-name. 
For full description of all worth-while varieties, read Allen's Book of Berries. It is well illus- 
trated and gives the latest and best cultural methods. It’s free. Write for copy today. 
THE W. F. ALLEN CO. 
54 Market St., Salisbury, Md. 
JAPAN DREAM-THE TOMATO PEACH 
Matured 44 perfect peaches four months after planting in orchard of William Royce, Cement, Okla- 
homa, 160 peaches from one tree 15 months after planting reported by J. R. Smith, Sweet Springs, 
Missouri. “Japan Dream bore next year after I got them, and every year since. Grandest early peach 
I have ever known.” C. B. Keith, Alva, Oklahoma. Youngest-bearing, heaviest-fruiting peach ever 
discovered. Guaranteed to bloom first year, and bear second year unless season is unfavorable. Extra 
hardy variety. Bears early when good peaches are scarce. Fruit a beautiful red, fine quality, freestone. 
Pays quicker profits than any other peach. One year after planting you can count on Japan Dream 
bearing just like your Tomato vines — equally heavy — equally quick. Be sure to “set” Japan Dream 
this year- Send at once for your free copy of THE MONCRIEF ORCHARD BOOK 
Our new 1915 Fruit Book, just finished. Tells all about this marvel quickest-protit peach and many other new better 
paying strains of fruit. Explains wonderful, yet simple and effective Moncrief way of making orcharding pay better. 
Shows you how one fruit-grower saved four years’ time and trebled his profits — how you can do as well. A most 
valuable book for any fanner, orchardist or market grower. Get it before you plant this year. No charge for it. 
Write today. WINFIELD NURSERIES, J. MONCRIEF, PRES., J 808 Park Street, Winfield, Kansas 
It has a tendency to be rather tender in the bud, causing some 
loss from frost. 
Reeves. Very high quality fruit and quite handsome. The 
trees are light bearers. 
Salvay. Particularly adapted to the warmer sections. 
In New York State it can be raised only in the Lake Erie 
district. Long Island district, and the warmest portions of 
southern New York, New Jersey, and southward. It cannot 
be ripened in the northern, colder sections. This peach is of 
high quality and quite desirable in all respects. 
EUROPEAN OR JAPANESE PLUMS 
Red June. A Japanese plum; very handsome, medium 
quality, the trees being very productive but relatively short 
lived. 
Abundance. Japanese plum. The same description as 
given to Red June will apply to Abundance, but the quality 
of the fruit is rather higher than the Red June. 
Jefferson. European plum. A large, reddish, fine quality 
plum of soft texture. The tree is a moderate bearer. 
Green Gage. European. One of the oldest varieties. The 
fruit is medium size, high quality. The trees are good bearers. 
Shropshire Damson, European plum. A small blue plum, 
much prized for making jam. The trees are hardy and very 
productive. 
CHERRY 
There are two classes of cherries, the sour and 
the sweet. It is a personal question whether both 
should be planted. If one desires them, selec- 
tions from both the sour and the sweet should be 
made, always remembering that the sweet varieties 
are not adapted to the northern or colder regions. 
Sweet cherries are the Black Heart, a black cherry 
of large size and good productivity; General Wood, 
a red cherry of desirable characteristics; the 
Tartarian, a black cherry of good type and quality; 
the Spanish, a yellow cherry of high quality; the 
Windsor, a red cherry. 
The sour cherries are Montmorency and Morello, 
both red and fine for preserves. 
GRAPES 
Most of the types of grapes are of American 
origin. However, some are crossed with a European 
grape. Some of the commonest types are the Early 
Ohio, black; Moore’s Early, black; Delaware, 
red; Concord, black; Vergennes, red; Diamond, 
white; Niagara, white; Catawba, red. 
CURRANTS 
There seems to be a good deal of difference in the 
quality of American currants. The standard is 
the Cherry, a red currant of long standing. Other 
desirable sorts are -Rice Prolific, black; Fay’s 
Prolific, red; Grape, white; Wilder, red. 
GOOSEBERRIES 
Many of the English sorts are not useful in this 
country, owing to the fact that they are troubled 
with mildew to such a large extent. A few of 
the good sorts are Downing, a white fruited variety 
which is American hybrid; Industry, and Brown 
Bob both red and both European varieties. 
BLACKBERRIES 
The blackberry is a native product. There are 
two general types, one upright growing and the 
other trailing. The trailing forms are called dew- 
berries. Agawam and the Eldorado are desirable 
blackberries; Snyder is, however, the one most 
commonly grown, and is a strictly hardy vine. 
The three mentioned are upright growers. Lu- 
cretia is the best of the trailing type, or dewberry. 
RASPBERRIES 
There are two general types of raspberries, those | 
which are produced by suckering and those which I 
are produced by tipping. The suckering varieties | 
are Marlboro (red), Cuthbert (red), Shaeffer j 
(purplish). Tipping varieties (those taking roots ( 
from the tip) are all black caps or black raspberries, » 
the Palmer being one, also Ohio and the Gregg. A : 
very good sort for home use, gaining in popularity » 
each year, is a yellow variety known as the Golden I 
Queen. The berries are very large and of the I 
highest quality. 
New York. A. E. Wilkinson. 
A Nasturtium Mound 
O NE of the best nasturtium tricks that I have 
run across is the creation of a mound effect by 
the use of brush. Small pieces of the brush are 
laid on the ground and others stuck in it, forming 
a loose pile that soon is completely covered with 
the climbing nasturtiums, which remain in eood 
condition until frost time i>. v 
