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May, 1915 
Dog Kennel 
No. 4 Poultry House— 5 units 
No. 3 Poultry House — / unit 
Hodgson 
Portable 
Houses 
KENNEL— Sanitary, neat, durable. $10.00. 
No. 4 POULTRY HOUSE— 10x50 feet ; in 5 pens ; complete for 200 hens. Cedar, vermin-proof. First pen, 
$75.00 ; additional pens, $ 60.00 each. „ 
No. 3 POULTRY HOUSE— 8x10 feet ; complete for 30 hens. $60.00 ; additional pens, $50.00 each. Cedar, 
vermin-proof. 
Neatly painted. Quickly bolted together by anyone . Send for illustrated catalogue. 
E C nnnrcnil] rn /Room 311, 116 WASHINGTON ST., BOSTON, MASS./ Addres* *11 corre- 
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BOSTON TERRIERS 
fine markings, good breeding and excel- 
lent dispositions. I have sold fifty of 
these fine pets and companions to Coun- 
try Life readers during the past year and 
satisfied every one. 
Also Bull Terriers and English Bull* 
do.o. c ft easona l > / e prices. Write 
Box 330, Garden Magazine 
11 W. 32nd St. New York 
Bob White Quail 
Partridges and Pheasants 
Capercailzies, Black Game, Wild Turkeys, Quails, 
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Pheasants, Peafowl. Swans, Cranes. Storks, 
Ornamental Geese and Ducks. Foxes, Squirrels, 
Ferrets, etc., and all kinds of birds and animals. 
WILLIAM J. MACKENSEN, Naturalist 
Dept. 55, Pheasantry and Game Park YARDLEY, PA. 
G. D. TILLEY 
Naturalist 
“ Everything in the Bird Line 
from a Canary to an Ostrich” 
Birds for the House and Porch 
Birds for the Ornamental Waterway 
Birds for the Garden, Pool and Aviary 
Birds for the Game Preserve and Park 
I am the oldest established and largest exclusive 
dealer in land and water birds in America and have on 
hand the most extensive stock in the United States. 
G. D.TILLEY, Naturalist Box G. Darien, Conn. 
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Cats destroy millions of our native birds each year. Our new box cat trap 
solves the problem. Catches and holds the cat without the slighest injury or 
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A pair of bluebirds are worth 
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extra. Send to-day and put this 
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THE MAPLEWOOD BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY 
Stamford, Connecticut 
That’s the evidence 
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If you want your dog to be in good condition, gentle, clear eyed and 
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The Garden Magazine, 11-13 West 32d Street, New York. 
You Can’t Cut Out 
A BOG SPAVIN, PUFF or THOROUGHPIN, but 
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will clean them off permanently, and you 
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Book 4 K Free 
W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F., 152 Temple Street, Springfield, Mass. 
Annuals For Late Bloom 
L AST fall, when late October found my garden 
denuded of, most of its bloom, [I blessed the 
spring day when I had planted cosmos and zinnias. 
The cosmos, graceful, and lovely through the early 
fall, drooped with the first frost; but the zinnias 
were still blossoming gaily in late October. 
Seeds of both these flowers can be planted in 
April and May in the open, as soon as the ground 
can be comfortably worked. I suppose time would 
be saved by earlier indoor planting, but as the late 
bloom is what I want, I sow my seeds outdoors. 
The cosmos I plant where I want it to grow. I 
stretch tall chicken wire along the back of the hardy 
border and plant the two varieties of cosmos — 
early and late — along this wire, in two rows, the 
early in the first row and the late back of that. The 
rows should be a foot apart, the seeds about six 
inches apart in the rows. The wire serves as a 
support, and when the cosmos has attained its full 
growth, a string or two keeps it in place. 
The zinnias should be sown in the seed bed, as 
transplanting makes them so much sturdier. The 
bed should be well prepared, and the seeds sown 
sparsely in rows. Be careful to keep the colors 
separate — zinnias “swear” dreadfully at each other! 
I never use mixed zinnia seed. The red zinnias are 
perhaps the showiest — I use them in the tulip bed, 
which has a background of barberry, and in Novem- 
ber the red berries of the barberry, and the red 
zinnias, make a gorgeous bed. The little plants can 
be set among the tulips before the leaves of the 
latter have died, provided, of course, the bulbs are 
not to be taken up. My tulip bed has blossomed 
for four years without taking up; it is, of course, an 
informal bed, and is the lovelier, to my mind, for 
not being stiff and conventional. 
Yellow zinnias are pretty, and the yellow and 
brown shades look well with the yellow button 
chrysanthemums. Then there are the pinks — 
some good, some very bad. The best plan is to 
plant the pastel shades and pinks off by themselves 
the first year, and save only the good colors, keeping 
these separate. Saving, by the way, is the best as 
well as the cheapest way to get zinnia seed, for 
only by saving can you be sure of the colors. 
New Jersey. Mary T. Richardson. 
Supports For Garden Peas 
D ESPITE some claims to the contrary, even the 
dwarf varieties of garden peas do much better 
with supports; and for the medium and tall va- 
rieties, a support is almost as essential as the soil 
itself. 
Growers in the South have easier solutions for this 
problem than those living in other sections. Some 
of the great truck growers near Charleston plant 
their early peas on the old cotton field and the vines 
find ideal support on the dead and dry cotton stalks. 
But the average gardener must take his choice 
between ware mesh and such brush as he can secure. 
Metal trellises for peas are obtainable; but their 
cost is such that they must be considered as reserved 
for the gardens of the wealthy. 
Good brush is really better than wire; but of 
course it is perishable, and seldom can be made to 
last more than two seasons. Wire mesh is perhaps 
in the end the most reliable support; and, since it can 
be used for many seasons, it is economical. But its 
effectiveness depends to a large degree on the method 
employed in planting the peas. 
After long consideration of this question, and 
after a series of experiments extending over a number 
of years, it has been found that quadruple rows of 
peas, with the wire support stretched between two 
pairs of close rows, is most economical of space and 
most satisfactory in results. Twin rows are planted 
two and one half inches apart; then a space of four 
inches is left, down the middle of which the wire is 
tightly stretched. On the other side of the wire, 
two other rows are set. In this manner, a single 
stretch of wire will give support to four rows of 
peas. The distance between each set of quadruple 
rows should not be less than three feet. 
A 4-foot wire, four or five inches off the ground, 
will support all the ordinary varieties of peas. The 
wire should be strongly, staked every ten or twelve 
feet. 
Pennsylvania. Archibald Rutledge. 
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