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T HE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
March, 1915 
1915 
GARDEN 
AND FARM 
ALMANAC 
The Garden and Farm Almanac 
For 1915 
Will Tell You How 
To recognize, combat and conquer the Insect 
Pests , Fungous Diseases and Weeds that attack 
garden, farm and orchard crops. 
To distinguish the various breeds of cattle, 
horses, sheep, swine, and poultry, and to recognize 
the best type of each. 
lo estimate the cost of farm houses, barns, poul- 
try sheds, the water supply, the silo, and the 
detailed operations of farm work such as plowing, 
planting, harvesting, etc. 
I o choose the right book on any phase of garden 
or farm activity. 
lo judge and score farm animals, farm crops, 
and everything that is likely to be exhibited 
at the “County Fair.” 
To plan your vegetable and flower gardens, 
shrubbery border, and orchard. 
To make spray mixtures, in small, convenient 
quantities. 
To estimate the weight of cattle, 
lo keep ahead of the garden month by month. 
A Partial List of the Contents 
La 
■ 
Mushrooms, Key to Types of 
Magazines, List of Agricultural 
Browntail Moth Caterpillar 
Crops in the United States, Average Yields of 
Bank Credit, Value of 
Federal Department of Agriculture, Organi- 
zation of the 
Massachusetts, Agricultural Data for 
Dairy Standards for the States, Legal 
Crop Areas, Yields and Values in 1913 
Tile Drainage, Average Cost of 
Light for the Farm Home, Cost of Different 
Kinds of 
Seedings per Acre in All the States, Average 
Woodlot, How to Estimate the Value of a 
Holstein Cattle, Description of 
Live Stock Breeders, National Organizations of 
Dear Sirs: — G. M. 3-15 
Please send postpaid the Garden and 
Farm Almanac, for which I enclose 35c. 
Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, N. Y. 
Horticulture, New Books on 
Seed Standards for all the States, Pure 
Vegetables, A Tested, Proven Planting Table 
Silage Cutter, Power Needed to Run a 
Farmers’ Bulletins, Classified List of 
Parcel Post Regulations 
Shropshire Sheep, Description of 
Poultry Organizations, List of 
Plowing Match, Score Card for 
Weeds, A Table of Common 
Horse, What it Costs to Raise a 
Country Life, Books on 
Mold in Cellars, How to Prevent 
Horse Shoeing, Score Card for 
Rogation Days for 1913 
Soils and Crops, Books on 
Guernsey Cattle, Score Card of 
Feed Your Plants, How to 
Waterproof, How to Make Cloth 
Concrete Work, Estimating Materials for 
Diseases and their Remedies, Animal 
Fertilizer Table for the Home Garden, A 
Hay in a Stack, How Much 
This Great Work of Reference 
will be sent postpaid for 35 cents 
This coupon is for your convenience 
Our Collection of 
HARDY MUMS 
was awarded Silver Medals by the Pennsylvania 
Horticultural Society at the shows of 1912-1913 
and 1914. 
They are the Glory of the Garden in Autumn 
Send for our list, grouped as to color and time 
of blooming, with full cultural directions. 
A subscription to the Main Line Floral Guide 
is given with each order. 
$1.25 per dozen; $7.00 per 100, expressage 
prepaid. 
Strafford Flower Farm 
Box 170 Strafford, Pa. 
SPECIMEN TREES 
We are offering for spring planting a limited 
quantity ofbeautiful, large specimens twenty- 
five feet high with clean, straight trunks and 
uniform heads, every tree of COTTAGE 
GARDENS QUALITY. 
The selection comprises Maples, Oaks, 
Elms, Lindens, Planes and several varieties 
of Evergreens. 
We have just published a leaflet giving full 
particulars. If you are interested, write us 
and a copy will be sent you by return mail. 
COTTAGE GARDENS CO., Inc. 
NURSERIES 
QUEENS NEW YORK 
A Four-Day Cut Flower 
H EMEROCALLIS THUNBERGII is alone in 
its family in carrying its open flowers almost 
vertical. Its stalks are two to three feet tall, or 
even four feet in moist rich situations. They 
branch four or five times and carry from five to 
twenty buds and flowers, giving by this abundance 
a long flowering season. Owing to the vertical 
position of the blossom, this species is a most 
effective plant for the foot of a terrace or for plant- 
ing along a veranda at the seashore house or country 
club, as in looking down at the bed the owner does 
not forever see the floral decorations inside out. 
Too many perennials — the bellflowers, foxgloves, 
pentstemons, gladiolus, hibiscus, all the sunflowers 
This tall-growing lily furnishes a profusion of bloom over 
a 'long season 
and most of the lilies — face outward from a wall 
and show at their worst when seen from above. 
The strong Thunbergii lemon lily is not lanky nor 
drooping; its abundant foliage is the shortest of 
its type; and it is as cheap as it is hardy for plant- 
ing in quantity. Also, if one has enough of it, it 
affords charming cut flowers for the large bouquets 
that belong to wicker furniture and the midsummer 
toilet of a house. With light blue delphinium and 
white achillea, or with a sheaf of the sweet hay fern 
supporting its stems from a huge brass j’ardiniere, 
a mass of these lilies a yard across is a radiant glory 
in a room. It is also that sort of decoration which 
a hard-pressed summer hostess once apostrophized 
in my hearing — “Thank Heaven, a four-day bou- 
quet, at last!” 
Pennsylvania. E. S. Johnson. 
Space Saving Schemes 
I F ONE’S space in the vegetable garden is 
limited, a very good way to grow cucumbers is 
to plant them in a barrel. Knock out both heads 
of the barrel, stand it in some sunny comer, fill it 
with good soil, well fertilized, and in it plant the 
cucumber seed. By nipping the runners as they 
increase in length, enough will soon be developed 
to entirely cover the barrel. They then may be 
clipped or allowed to grow as desired. 
The advantages of this method are economy of 
space, ease in picking the cucumbers, and perfectly 
clean vegetables, free from gravel or dust. Water- 
ing is easy, also, as the barrel may be located accord- 
ing to convenience. 
Another space economy in a small garden is to 
take a narrow border or strip — any back yard or 
clothes yard will furnish one — and in it plant closely 
the small vegetables or savory herbs used in soups 
and salads, or for garnishing. One end of even the 
small flower garden may be taken for this purpose, 
with no sacrifice of beauty. 
Fertilize the tiny bed generously, as in it is to be 
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