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THE G ARDEN M A G A Z I N E 
March, 191 
The gardener who gets the high prices is the one who sends his crops 
early to market. You can beat Nature by forcing your growths under glass. 
Plants and flowers in ordinary hotbeds may freeze, but they’re safe if you us 
Duo-Glazed Sash. No covering required. You get all the light and no chance 
of frost. A good living can be made from three acres under Duo-Glazed ! 
Double Glass Forms Air Chamber 
Two layers of glass instead of one. Non-conduct- , 
ive air chamber between protects your plants and 
flowers just as the space between wall and plaster 
keeps your house warm. 
The Duo-Glazed Sash will advance your season a 
month to six weeks. It’s the same, climatically, as 
though you moved your farm 300 m iles farther south . 
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PATENTED HOTBED SASH 
Made of genuine Louisiana Red Cypress, 13^ inches thick, with extra heavy ten- 
ons. Will last a lifetime. A boy can put in the glass. Broken panes can be cut 
to use in bottom layer. Every farmer, gardener, or home owner needs Duo-Glazed 
Sash. They pay for themselves by producing early crops for the table or for sale. 
Write for free catalog and prices. 
CALLAHAN DUO-GLAZED SASH CO., 80 Wyandot St., Dayton, Ohio 
RIPLEY 
GLADIOLI 
I know them — 
love them — raise 
them — sell them. 
My bulbs yield 
large, beautiful, 
magnificent blos- 
soms. Write now 
for my interest- 
ing pricelist and 
special “Get Ac- 
quainted” offer. 
LILLESAND 
Bulb Specialist 
Cambridge Wisconsin 
Modern Gladiolus 
'T'HOUSANDS of people all over the 
* country know that for over ten years I 
have been selling the best gladioli at the 
lowest prices ancLI want more of them to 
know it. I keep getting and growing the 
best varieties and I keep putting the prices 
down to meet the purses of the people. I 
am again offering Fifty carefully selected 
gladiolus bulbs of flowering size for Fifty 
(50) Cents and I "pay the freight” and 
send my instructive catalogue of new and 
old named sorts and mixtures. This col- 
lection will contain a number of the best 
named sorts but without marks. Don’t 
forget that there are no better bulbs than I 
offer. I grow them myself and they are 
especially fine this year. Send your orders in now. 
GEO. S. WOODRUFF 
Box B Independence, Iowa 
GLADIOLI 
One cannot grow orchids without 
a greenhouse, but anyone can 
grow our new Gladioli. In color- 
ing, texture, beauty and lasting 
qualities they are a lot more sat- 
isfactory than Orchids. It’s a 
poor gardener that won’t be the 
envy of the neighborhood if he 
grows “Perkins-King Glads.” 
10 fine flowering Bulbs, named kinds, 
postpaid for 50 cts. Catalog giv- 
ing cultural directions FREE. 
THE PERKINS-KING CO. 
Box 810 West Mentor, Ohio 
GLADIOLI 
Mrs. Frank Pendleton, Europa, Lily Lehmann, Niagara, Pan- 
ama, Halley, are six finest varieties. We have best stock of 
these and many other fine kinds at lowest prices. Also best 
dahlias, roses, phlox, iris, fruit trees and small fruits. Every- 
thing for garden and poultry. Be sure and send for catalogues. 
M. S. Perkins & Co. 
Danvers, Massachusetts 
Gladiolus Bulbs 
THE BARGAIN OF YOUR LIFE. 12 Kunderdi Glory 
(Immense Cream, Ruffled); 12 Princeps (The Ama- 
ryllis Flowered); 12 America, (Lavender Pink); 12 Mrs. 
Francis King (Flame Color); 48 strong blooming bulbs, 
$1.00 postpaid. A beautiful little book for the asking. 
JOE COLEMAN, Grower, Lexington, Ohio. 
You are invited to correspond with our Readers’ Service 
Department for information regarding the purchasing, 
breeding, feeding and care of high class dairy cattle. 
Readers’ Service Department, The Garden Magazine 
Garden City, New York 
very intensive gardening! In it plant closely rows 
of chives, parsley, upland cress, radishes, tiny 
French carrots, onion sets, lettuce, small beets. 
If you can possibly spare the room, set a plant of 
the Yellow Plume tomato, and one of Earliana, a 
small, red, early bearing and very prolific variety. 
Replant the radish, lettuce, carrots, and onions as 
soon as pulled. Plant thickly, and thin as you wish 
to use, pulling the largest each time. Water 
thoroughly and often. 
You will be surprised to see how many pennies 
you will save by having this small bed in the garden. 
Massachusetts. Florence Spring. 
The Venetian Sumach 
T HE sumach of Venice, introduced into this 
country from Europe and commonly known as 
the smoke bush (Cotinus coggygria) is widely culti- 
vated throughout the United States and is de- 
servedly popular. Few ornamental shrubs have 
more distinctive and attractive characters than 
this one. This shrubby tree is found growing wild 
from Northwestern Europe to the Himalaya mount- 
ains and Western China. 
The profusely branched inflorescence, covered 
with fine hairs, suggests the name of smoke bush. 
The true flowers are inconspicuous. The color is 
produced by the plumose divisions of the flower 
stalks which are for the most part sterile. In 
Massachusetts the flowers appear early in June and 
A highly ornamental plant is the smoke bush, the 
“smoke” changing in color, from a light tan to deeper 
shades of brown and red as the season advances 
remain for a month or more. At first the flowers 
are light in color and contrast strongly with the 
dark green foliage. Later in the season the color 
changes to various shades of brown and red. The 
color effect is quite odd and different from most 
flowering plants, yet the color is delicate and always 
harmonious. 
Aside from the flowers the plant is noticeable for 
its beautifully smooth green foliage which does not 
lose its freshness during the entire season. The 
leaves are for the most part round as a dollar and 
about as large, although tending toward an oval 
shape in some. 
The smoke bush possesses the hardiness of the 
common sumach, poison ivy and other sumachs to 
which it is closely related without, however, having 
any poisionous qualities. The foliage is rarely 
attacked by insects or affected with any disease. ; 
Propagation is easily accomplished by seeds or 
root cuttings, and the plant seems to thrive in a 
wide variety of soil and climatic conditions. For 
the best effect this ornamental should be grown as 
an individual plant and not in clumps as are most 
shrubs. It needs a rich soil and plenty of room in 
which to spread out. The attractiveness of its 
flowers will be increased if they are set off against a 
background of trees. 
Massachusetts. Donald F. Jones. 
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