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The Garden Magazine, April, 1920 
A HANDY ROSE GROWER’S 
MANUAL 
Cico Oscillating 
IRRIGATOR 
For Lawns, Vegetable Gardens, Seedbeds, | 
Shrubbery, Greenhouses, Hardy Borders, Put- | 
ting Greens, Fairways and General Irrigation. | 
Cico throws a generous, gentle, mistlike spray | 
which can neither wash out nor pack the soil, nor 
injure the most delicate seedling. The plane of the 
spray Oscillates back and forth, wetting the soil 
evenly and thoroughly. 
Cico waters any rectangular area 12 feet wide up 
to 60 feet long, is instantly adjustable without tools, 
and may be moved at will without turning off the 
water or wetting the operator. 
Cico is unique in the automatic oscillation of the 
distributing pipe in which a line of small brass noz- 
zles are fitted — thus throwing a plane of spray to 
and fro over the area being watered. 
Cico oscillations recur 20 times a minute. Each 
interval allows time for the spray to sink in before | 
the next precipitation. The advantages are: 
— No puddles can form. 
— Large area watered thoroughly, quickly. 
— An absolutely even precipitation over the area. 
— No dry spots, no spots too wet. 
— No unsprinkled comers and no waste. 
Cico weighs but five pounds and is 21 inches long. 
Ptice complete $15.00 F. O. B. Factory, but transportation 
paid in U. S. A. if remittance accompanies order. Buy direct 
or from your dealer. Descriptive circular on request. 1920 
output limited; order now to insure delivery. 
CAMPBELL IRRIGATION COMPANY 
Woodbury, New Jersey 
Dealers Wanted to Sell Cico — AY rite for details. We manu- 
facture t he well known T urbo-Irrigators and Automatic Sprink- 
| lers. All necessary machinery and equipment furnished for 
I complete irrigation of large projects, including truck farms, 
market gardens, sugar beet fields, orchards, golf courses, etc. 
The Glen Road Iris Gardens 
Grace Sturtevant, Prop. 
Wellesley Farms, Massachusetts 
GROWERS AND ORIGINATORS OF FINE VARI- 
ETIES OF BEARDED IRIS 
T HE time to decide that you want Roses in 
your garden is now in Rose planting time, 
not later on when your neighbors are enjoying 
their blooms and you are bewailing your lack of 
them. And that you may choose wisely and 
plant and care for the flowers as they should be 
planted and cared for, don’t delay in studying 
up the facts about them. One good way is to 
send to the New York State College of Agricul- 
ture at Ithaca for a free copy of its Reading Course 
Bulletin for the Farm, Number 121, bearing 
the title The Culture of Garden Roses. Remem- 
ber, indeed can one ever forget, that 
Roses always roses are — 
What with roses can compare? 
Search the garden, search the bower. 
Try the charms of every flower; 
Try them by their beauteous bloom, 
Try them by their sweet perfume. 
Morning light it loveth best 
In the rose’s lap to rest; 
And the evening breezes tell 
The secret of their choice as well. 
Try them by whatever token. 
Still the same response is spoken; 
Nature crowns the rose’s stem 
With her choicest diadem. 
WHAT IS A GROUND COVER? 
1 SHOULD like to have an exact definition of 
this term which I see used often in garden 
writings. How are we to know exactly where to 
classify any plant? — L. H. R. 
My definition of a ground cover plant is very 
elastic, and not quoted from any authority. I 
make the purpose for which used the test for plant 
lists. To me a ground cover is a plant that covers 
soil, for the purpose of holding it in place, and 
adding green foliage, colored flowers, or winter 
effects. There are two sorts: herbs and shrubs. 
Of herbs, whose primary use is to cover up ground 
otherwise bare, we think of Pachysandra, English 
Ivy, Myrtle, etc., and cheap self-supporting herbs 
as Ferns, Bouncing Bet, Coreopsis, etc., though 
lawn grass, pasture grasses, clovers, etc., are also 
soil cover. From the landscape architect’s point 
of view an herbaceous ground cover is a low herb 
of great vitality that takes the place of grass in 
formal or wild plantings. Woody ground cover, 
larger in scale, gives the effect of woodland under- 
cover, and ranges from Witch Hazel and Red- 
barked Dogwoods to prostrate Junipers and Rosa 
wichuraiana. In the broad sense height has 
little to do with the definition, for Basket Willows 
are often “ground cover,” but practically we do 
restrict our idea to plants of low dense spreading 
nature, those that hide the soil surface most com- 
pletely. Stephen F. Hamblin. Instructor in 
“Plant Materials," Harvard School of Landscape 
Ar chit edit re. 
OlfERY 
GIVES ENDURING CHARM 
S end for our illustrated 
'catalogue of Flower Pols. 
Boxes.Yases.Benches. Sundials. 
GazmgGlobes, Bird Fonts and 
other Artis tic Pieces for Garden 
and Interior Decoration. 
GAROmYTERRACbTTA (b. 
3214 WALNUT ST.PHILADELPHIA. 
HOW TO TREAT LETTUCE 
PLANTS 
I N THE spring I had all my lettuce sown in 
sunny places. The sun is not strong in the 
early spring and nearly all seeds need all the 
spring sunshine they can get. Lettuce and its 
relations are really cool weather plants and must 
be treated as such. If I felt it was heading too 
quickly I covered it over with cheese cloth 
propped up on branches of trees to shade it from 
the sun. This discourages any tall growing ideas 
it may have and makes it head firmly. In the 
latter part of the summer I plant it under a shade 
where it only gets the noon day sun. I treat 
romaine and endive the same way. 
Emily Halson Rowland, Conn. 
From 75 c. per dozen and upwards according to size 
\Nrite for catalogue and send 15 c. for sample 
PAPER POTS 
That will allow an early start for beans, 
corn and other “tender” vegetables 
ORDER EARLY 
2x2 $ .75 per 100 $5.00 per 1000 
4x2 $1.00 “ $6.00 
3x3 $1.25 “ $6.50 
4x3 $1.50 “ $7.00 
Include postage when sent by parcel post 
THE CLOCHE CO. 
205 West St New York 
YOUR WATER PROBLEMS 
taken care of 
Send me a sketch of your gar- 
den and I will give you an esti- 
mate on Skinner System. 
CHAS. H. ALLENDER 
N. Y. Selling Agency 
SKINNER IRRIGATION CO. 
205 West Street New York 
Phone Lirpenard 6519 
PETERSON 
SAYS 
If you love ROSES 
and want to succeed in 
growing them as you have 
sometimes dreamed of do- 
ing, but never really ex- 
pected to, you should send 
for a copy of “A Little 
Book About Roses.” 
{Mailed on request ) 
GEORGE H. PETERSON 
Rose and Peony Box 50 
Specialist Fair Lawn, N. J. 
