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The Garden Magazine, May, 1920 
■^4 AdJajner Cjarden in Identuc/cy 
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T HE perfect grounds that you dream of having, don’t just happen. They are the logical 
result of planting according to the original plan of long experienced landscape artists. 
The lovely garden that you wish is waiting for you. It may cost much less than you 
expect, too. You have only to call on the Wagner Landscape Gardeners, who will 
prepare plans and plant for you, if you wish, in the most charming manner, Wagner roses, 
hardy flowers, vines, shrubs, evergreens, and ornamental trees. No matter whether 
your grounds are large or small, you will be delighted with Wagner Plans and Planting. If 
you desire, you may secure Wagner Plans by mail. Send to-day for our new catalogue B B. 
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Nurserymen, Landscape Gardeners, Florists 
- : 
After Gardening — 
Clean, White Hands 
T?VEN the grimy black line under the 
nails magically disappears if you clean 
the hands with Mechanics’ Soap Paste 
(Colgate’s). If you love to “fuss around” 
your own garden, you can still keep the 
hands nice — for this paste cleans quickly, 
thoroughly and “kindly.” 
Send 4c for a trial box — or you can buy 
large generous cans at your dealer’s 
for 15c. 
SEND THE COUPON 
Trial Box 
(same size 
as shown) 
4c 
Colgate & Co., 199 Fulton St., New York C. M. 
Enclosed find 4c for which send trial box of Mechanics' Soap 
Paste to: 
Name 
Address 
City 
State 
WATER/ THE ROOT/: 
MAKE/ THING/ GROW 
Lay a “Sub-Pipe” line a few inches under 
the ground between every third or fourth row 
in your garden. “Sub-Pipes” feed the roots 
directly — will make your garden produce all 
ummer long — will keep your lawn fresh and 
green until frost. The 
“SUB-PIPE” SYSTEM 
of Irrigation 
will make you independent of the weather, 
produce abundant vegetation with least ex- 
penditure of time, water and money. Write for 
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get full benefit THIS SEASON. If in- 
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THE SEVEN LAMPS OF 
AGRICULTURE 
TTHE Lamps are manure, lime, bone meal, 
A leaf mold, water, cultivation, and com- 
mon sense. 
1. Even if the garden has been fertilized in 
the autumn, be sure to work in an extra supply 
of well-rotted manure when setting out Cabbages, 
Tomatoes, Eggplants and Peppers; and later 
apply nitrate of soda. 
2. Liming is preferably done in the fall and 
always sparingly. 
3. Bone meal is slow, but you get results this 
year and next too. 
4. It is an economic crime to burn dead leaves. 
Piled on a foundation layer of sods, with manure 
and Pea and Bean vines thrown in, and topped 
with soil, they make fine fertilizer. 
5. Set your sprinkler and let it play in one 
place for several hours, the next day in a different 
place, and so on. 
6. Keep the cultivator and hoe busy. Spray!! 
— for beetles and worms never take an afternoon 
off. 
7. Last, a huge headlight indeed, is common 
sense. There is only one element of luck and that 
is the weather. 
Kate B. Burton I 
AUTUMN SHOW OF THE 
AMERICAN DAHLIA SOCIETY 
A T THE meeting of the Executive Committee 
T* of the American Dahlia Society held at 
New York, March 19, it was decided to hold the 
autumn show in New York during September. 
The trial grounds will be continued at the Con-, 
necticut State Agricultural College, Storrs, Conn., 
and will be larger and better than ever. Tuber? 
for the trial gardens should be properly labeled 
with the name of the variety and exhibitor and 
sent to Prof. George Fraser. 
James Duthie, Oyster Bay, N. Y., moved that 
a new scale of points be made so that good exhibi- 
tion varieties and varieties good for cut flowers, 
be given an equal chance. The motion wa? 
carried. 
A motion of protest against the quarantine by 
the States of Illinois and Michigan of Dahlia 
tubers and bulbs was adopted. 
ANNUAL EXHIBITION 
The American Dahlia Society has engagec 
the entire conservatory and roof garden 0 
the Hotel Pennsylvania, opposite the Pennsyl- 
vania Station, 32nd— 33rd Street and Eight! 
Avenue, New York, for September 27, 28, anc 
29 for the Annual Exhibition of the Society 
The exhibition will open on the evening of Sep 
tember 27 and close on the evening of the 29th 
The roof garden has good daylight on all foui 
sides and the entrance is through the conserva 
tory on the roof. Space is 12,000 square feet 
E. C. Vick, Secretary. 
