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How This Strong Chain Protects 
You In Buying Nursery Stock 
D ID you know there’s a big constructive move 
afoot that’s going tc mean more planting satis- 
faction to you and to everyone who uses trees or 
plants ? 
The men behind this movement have linked them- 
selves together, to make it their business to see that 
you get satisfaction with every tree and plant you buy. 
They are the Members of the American Associa- 
tion of Nurserymen; men whose methods and stand- 
ards come up to the Association measure; men who 
are permanently established in the business and who 
seek to give honest stcck and dependable service. 
Buying from any Member of this Association, you 
have the Association’s assurance of satisfaction back 
of your purchase. 
Just what the American Association of Nursery- 
men is, and how, through its Vigilance Committee, 
it is aiding buyers of trees and plants to get varie- 
ties true-to-name, free from disease and of satisfac- 
tory quality, is told in our Booklet, “ Looking Both 
Ways Before You Buy Nursery Stock.” 
Of the greatest importance to you; it contains a list 
of the members of the Association. 
We will gladly send you a copy. 
In doing your part to make America fruitful and 
beautiful get your trees and plants from a Member 
whose use of the Association’s Trade-Mark links him 
in the strong chain of cooperative protection to 
planters. 
General Offices, 
Princeton, N. J. 
Catalogue Free 
DAHLIAS are the wondrous results of hybridizing experiments in 
crossing and recrossing the choicest English, French and Holland 
varieties. They are marvelously beautiful in both coloring and form, 
have strong stem and are excellent as cut flowers. 
M. G. TYLER 
1660 DERBY STREET 
PORTLAND, OREGON 
Plant Blueberries 
The Blueberry, although among the finest of fruits and the 
finest of all berries for pies, is almost unknown in the average 
garden. This is due to the scarcity of nursery grown plants, 
the only kind that transplant easily 
We have to offer this Spring some excellent nursery grown 
plants — ideal for the home garden. All that is needed is some 
good garden soil and the plants will take care of themselves. 
They are very hardy, rapid growers and heavy bearers. 
In the Summer when you are eating luscious blueberry pie made from berries 
picked from your own bushes, you will realize the wisdom of planting Blueberries. 
WRITE for our Illustrated Catalogue and Planting Guide 
J. G. Mayo &• Co., 
603 Ellwanger &• Barry Building 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Marking Drills 
T HERE are two matters which I have in 
mind that I believe The Garden Magazine 
readers should know about. The first is a 
suggestion which 1 think is worth passing on for 
the convenience of those whom it may concern. 
The second matter is a riddle which I daresay the 
editor or some good friend will solve for me. 
The suggestion referred to above is in relation to 
a simple little device for measuring and marking 
drills. Every gardener appreciates the use of a 
garden line in making straight rows and most 
everybody uses some gauge or tpol for spacing 
the rows. A yard stick or sometimes a graduated 
hoe handle answers the purpose. My way is to 
use two yard sticks (the man who sells you your 
garden tools or seeds should give you these) each 
cut in two in the middle and the small end, up to 
18 inches, nailed or screwed to the line stakes 
which are i inch square and 24 inches long, the 
yard stick section extending from the top of the. 
stakes to within 6 inches of the bottom which is 
tapered to a point. The stakes may, of course, 
be either longer or shorter to suit the individual 
notion of the operator by the use of more or less of 
the yard sticks than the 18 inch which 1 suggest. 
By the use of this little trick your measuring 
stick is always where you want it. You don’t have 
to chase it from one end of the row to the other or 
back to the tool house. It is like unto the poor, 
always with you. Now to return to my riddle. 
Who will explain to me why some of my Peonies 
do not bloom? They have been planted at least 
nine years, send up each year an abundance of 
slender canes, but in the nine years 1 have not had 
nine blossoms from the six original clumps. 
When 1 received them 1 planted them on rather 
high ground which was I suppose none too rich. 
After about three years I moved them down into 
my garden where other Peonies were flowering 
beautifully but in the words of the immortal 
Huck Finn, “Nothing came of it.” As yet they 
have not changed their habits. What will 
somebody recommend? I do not feel that I 
ought to commute their sentences. Shall 1 give 
them a new trial? 
Chas. Edw. Curtis, N. Y. 
— Now then speak out! Why is it that some 
Peonies do not bloom? — E d. 
Patriotic Color Notes 
O NE fallwhen I planted six Farnscomb Sanders 
Tulips in front of a clump each of the old 
blue Iris and Florentine Iris, 1 never dreamed 
they would arrive at approximately the same 
time and start a grand patriotic parade in my 
back yard, but that’s exactly what they did'. 
The Farnscomb Sanders Tulips bloomed first, 
about four days later the old blue Iris arrived and 
two days later along came the delicately scented 
Orris-root, otherwise the Florentine Iris which, 
though tinted lavender, is white enough for 
practical purposes. The effect is gorgeous 
beyond description, and I have promised myself 
to have the same parade next May by design in- 
stead of accident. Another pretty patriotic 
color note is to plant old blue Iris and scarlet 
Darwin Tulips in front of Spiraea Van Houtteii. 
The Tulips and Iris open first against a back- 
ground of the green Spiraea leaves, which are 
followed in a few days bv their snowy white 
blooms that provide the field of pure white against 
which the nearly blue Iris and red Tulips show 
to great advantage. Other combinations will 
suggest themselves, or present themselves, once 
attention focusses on the idea — or perhaps some- 
one has already found another? 
Mrs. R. W. Walters, Ohio. 
