230 
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
May, 1915 
Court of 
Palms 
COLDWELLS 
AGAIN CHOSEN 
Renewed recognition of 
Coldwell leadership is im- 
plied in the decision of the 
Panama-Pacific Managers 
to use 
COLDWELL 
LAWN MOWERS 
exclusively in caring for the grounds 
at the Exposition. Coldwell Mowers 
have received similar honors at all the 
big fairs, including those at Chicago, 
St. Louis and Buffalo. 
The Coldwell line includes 150 styles 
and sizes. This year’s leaders are the 
Walk-type roller and motor mowers in 
two sizes: — Model G weighs 600 
pounds, cuts ; of an acre per hour 
and costs $325. Model H costs only 
$250, cuts | acre per hour and weighs 
500 pounds. 
Write for 1915 catalogue giving full 
description of these and the entire 
Coldwell line of motor, horse drawn, 
hand and putting green mowers. 
COLDWELL LAWN MOWER CO. 
Manufacturers of Hand, Horse 
and M otor Power Lawn M owers 
Offices iS Factory 
at 
Newburgh, N. Y. 
Warehouses 
at 
Philadelphia 
& Chicago 
SYSTEM 
Of Underground Refuse Disposal 
Keeps your garbage out of sight in 
the ground, away from the cat, dog, and 
typhoid fly. 
Opens with foot. Hands never touch. 
Underground Garbage 
v l0U4 . e . I0 ,r MASS and Keiuse Keceivers 
A Fireproof Receiver for ashes, sweepings and oily 
waste in house or GARAGE. 
Our Underground Earth Closet 
means freedom from polluted water. 
Look for our Trade Marks 
In use 12 yrs. It pays to look us up 
Sold direct. Send for catalogue 
\ C. II. STEPHENSON, Mfr. 
40 Farrar St., Lynn, Mass. 
investment of ten or fifteen dollars already made. 
The small outlay required in addition to get a set of 
discs, guard-hoes, or sweeps, each one of which will 
give you practically a new machine, will pay big 
dividends. The discs when properly used are very 
efficient — but they should be sold only to certified 
gardeners. Used on soil in the right condition 
that has not been allowed to form crust or become 
filled with half-grown weeds, they will do very close 
and rapid work and leave the surface in the finest 
possible condition. But they must be carefully 
adjusted and watched, while at work. The guard- 
hoe or peat-hoe is similar to the ordinary hoe at- 
tachment except that the curve or shank of the 
blade extends up for three or four inches, so that no 
soil is thrown over onto the smallest seedling plants, 
bending them over and covering up weeds as the 
ordinary type does, especially where a light crust 
has formed. The “sweeps” or wide, thin hoes are 
designed to take the place of the hand scuffle-hoe. 
They cut just below the surface, and take every- 
thing within range for a width of four to ten inches, 
according to size. The weeder attachment for the 
wheel-hoe is also very effective to use either after 
or in combination with the hoes or cultivator teeth 
to level and pulverize the soil after them. 
New York. F. F. Rockwell. 
The Busiest Month for the 
Southern Gardener 
E TERNAL vigilance is now the watchword. 
Weeds grow rapidly and the borders need 
constant attention. There are innumerable dis- 
eases and insects to combat. Watch out for the 
first rose chafers; catch them and throw them into 
a can of kerosene oil. If the mildew appears on 
the climbing roses or lilacs, sprinkle with flour of 
sulphur early in the morning when wet with dew. 
Spray hollyhocks and cornflowers with a weaker 
solution of bordeaux mixture, with a small amount 
of arsenate of lead to guard against the leaf curl 
and the diseases and insects to which they have been 
subject in recent years. Receipt for bordeaux was 
given in the March number of The Garden Maga- 
zine. Diseases of roses are mitigated by a timely 
spray of bordeaux mixture, either in March when 
dormant at full strength, or the weaker solution in 
April after the leaves have put out. 
Keep the soil constantly stirred and throw about 
the roots hardwood ashes or soot to destroy pernici- 
ous insects and worms and also for a fertilizer. 
The borders should have been thoroughly spaded 
and rotten manure forked under in April. Keep a 
dust mulch by constantly stirring the surface of 
the soil with a small rake which can get in between 
the plants. Seeds of annuals should be sown 
among the perennials to fill up gaps, and always 
keep on hand some potted annuals sunk in the cold- 
frames for the same purpose. 
Study the blooming season of each flower so as 
to keep a good color effect in the garden, or at least 
avoid colors that clash. 
Sow aster seed in coldframes to be transplanted 
later in the borders, and a few in small pots to be 
used as fillers. 
Plant gladiolus every two weeks until July, 
beginning the first of May. If the soil is heavy put 
in each hole a handful of sand and place on it the 
gladiolus corm; all bulbs should be so planted. 
It affords good drainage and prevents rotting. 
Plant dahlias the end of May and in loose soil 
not over rich, else they will go to leaves. If the 
soil is heavy work in some coal ashes and use a 
fertilizer that tends to a larger percentage of potash 
and phosphates and a small amount of nitrogen. 
A good potato fertilizer is desirable for dahlias. 
That receipt was given in the December, 1914, 
number of The Garden Magazine. 
It is a good plan to start dahlia roots in sand in a 
coldframe the first of May; divide the roots accord- 
ing to the shoots and then plant in the borders. 
Keep a good stocky plant by retaining only one 
shoot, cutting away the others. 
The Darwin tulips which bold sway the first part of 
the month can be removed after blooming to a 
shady place to mature the bulbs, if space in the 
border is needed; and tender bedding plants such 
as geranium, fuchsia, heliotrope, and hardy cape 
jessamine, can now be put in the borders. 
Do not longer delay transplanting to the open 
Trade mark. 
Use Hammond’s Slug Shot 
If you have never used Slug Shot go to your 
nearest seed store and say: “Give me a barrel, 
a keg, 25 lbs., 10 lbs., 5 lbs., or a I lb. carton,” 
as the case may be, of Slug Shot. After you 
have tried Slug Shot you will find nothing else 
to be its superior because you know from expe- 
rience that Slug Shot is reliable in everything 
that goes to make a useful Insecticide for 
garden use. 
Hammond’s Slug Shot Works 
Beacon, N. Y. 
BARTON’S 
LAWN TRIMMER 
TAKES THE PLACE OF SICKLE AND 
SHEARS— NO STOOPING DOWN 
SAVES 90% OF TEDIOUS LABOR 
Cuts where lawn mower 
will not, up in corners, along 
stone-walls, fences, shrubbery, 
tomb-stones, etc. 
It is simple in construction 
and made to endure. Makes 
a cut 7 inches wide. 
Price only $3.75 each. Send 
Money Order to 
E. BARTON, Ivyland, Pa. 
Tr'iumpII CARDEN HOSE REEL 
sAViH carry 50 to 150 feet of 3-4 in. hose. 
-^\W e believe this to be the most satisfactory 
Other's. Reel ever produced. Will last for years— 
Built mostly of steel. 
Has handle at each 
end-and always a 
clean handle. 
jit is well built and very 
strong, with 26 in. wheels. 
; ' Vl 
■Swartwout Mfg. Co. cuktokn i 
“RE-MOVE-ABLE” 
CLOTHES POSTS 
Last a 
Lifetime 
Cheaper 
than Wood v : 
Made of high-carbon gal- 
vanized steel tubing, filled 
with concrete. You drop them 
into the sockets and can 
remove them in a moment. 
Heavy steel sockets separate 
from posts. No skill needed 
to drive them. 
Save Cost 
of Digging Holes 
Adjustable Hook on each post 
makes clothes hanging easy. 
Don’t disfigure your lawn with 
short-lived wooden posts when the 
indestructible “RE-MOVE-ABLE” 
cost less. 
Write for Folder A or ask your 
dealer. 
MILWAUKEE STEEL POST CO. 
MILWAUKEE, WIS. 
Note: We also make the well known “Re- 
Move-Able” Tennis Posts and Flag Poles. 
