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The Garden Magazine, March, 1921 
You Garden Lovers 
Send For Your New 
Ten-Ten Book 
It’s a real joy to look at both inside 
and out; with its quaint illustrations 
and sunny covers. 
Easy to read. Easy to find things. 
We’ve listed the ten best of everything 
for your garden and grounds — from 
seeds to shrubs and trees. 
All of which turns bother into zestful 
pleasure. 
There’s an illustrated index. A really 
interesting index, where you’ll find all 
your old garden friends. 
Both their common and botanical names 
are given, and just the descriptions and 
prices you want to know about. 
Then, too, you ought to know about our 
new seed envelopes. They’re so de- 
lightfully fanciful in their apple green 
and blue-bird garbs. 
Blue for the flower seeds. Green for 
the vegetables. 
Wedesigned them so you can usethemfor 
markers to make your garden sing while 
you’re waiting for the seeds to sprout. 
Send for vour Ten-Ten Book to-day, and 
see what a good, folksy thing a garden 
catalogue can be; and what a lot of 
contentment you’ll get from ordering 
wisely for your early planting. 
SPECIAL OFFER 
Here is a sample ten set page, "TheTen Strike of Roses." 
Contains the following splendid roses: Juliet H. T., 
Los Angeles, Mrs. Ambrose Ricardo, Nerissa, Lady 
Ursula, H. V. Machin, Chateau de Clos Vougeot, 
Constance, Ophelia, Madame Edouard Herriot. 
These two-year-old, field grown plants range from Sr 
to Sr. 50 each, but a ten set, one each of the above, 
will be sent you for $12. Here’s a chance for you to 
start a model rose garden. 
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CALIFORNIA DAHLIAS 
Write for catalogue describing my new novelties 
F. C. BURNS 
SAN RAFAEL 
CALIF. 
Nevins’ “Success With Small Fruits” 
Do you know that you can obtain more health, pleasure and 
profit from a garden of strawberries and raspberries than from any 
equal amount of land on your place? My beautiful new Catalogue 
greets you with a smile, and tells you something about ourselves and 
our favorable location where soil and climate combine to produce 
plants of superior quality. 
WHAT IT TELLS: 
It tells: How to select varieties best adapted to your soil and needs. How to 
prepare the soil for planting. When to plant. The different systems of small fruit 
growing. How to plant. How to care for the patch. How to pick and market the 
fruit so as to obtain the highest prices. How to renew the patch. It is a Fruit 
Grower’s Guide and whether you buy your plants of us or not you will need this 
helpful book — Nevins’ ‘‘Success with Small Fruits.” Send for your copy to-day. 
A postal will bring it. 
Elmer H. 
Nevins 
Bush Fruit and 
Strawberry 
Specialist 
Ovid, Mich. 
{Continued from page 54) 
down the row with the cultivator. As the burlap 
brushes the tops of the plants the flea beetles 
fly up and become stuck on to the tar-smeared 
under side of the board. When the tar on the 
board becomes set, or clogged with the insects, 
it is renewed with a fresh coat. Or if it is not con- 
venient to provide the hot tar, strips of “tangle- 
foot” fly paper may be substituted, though it is 
not, I am told, quite as effective as the tar. 
That the device is both effective and practical 
has been demonstrated by many vegetable 
growers about Toronto, Canada. I inspected 
its operation at several places and also rows of 
plants before and after treating, and was sur- 
prised at the thorough way it had freed the plants 
of this pestiferous little beetle. The cultivator 
moves along the rows at the same rate as for 
regular cultivating, so the crop receives at the 
same time the benefit of a good cultivating. Or, 
in other words, two necessary tasks are per- 
formed in one operation. 
L. G. Brown. 
CALIFORNIAN REMINDER 
Note: So much planting and seed-sowing can 
be done at any time of the year in California that 
it is only possible to indicate in a general way the 
seasonal tasks, and even these vary greatly with the 
distance north or south, on the coast or inland. 
March and April. Finish planting deciduous 
stock and continue with evergreens. Sow half- 
hardy annuals in boxes for summer flowers. 
Cannas may now be planted and Gladiolus for 
mid-summer flowering. Propagate Dahlias and 
Chrysanthemums by cuttings. Spray with 
bordeaux such multiflora Roses as are subject 
to mildew. Discourage aphis with nicotine 
preparations. 
THE GARDEN, A PLACE OF 
WORSHIP? 
When you go to your garden to worship 
At an early hour of the day 
Do you find that the hens have arisen 
Ere yet the sun shows a ray? 
And all through the darkness of slumber, 
The cabbage and cut worm and fly, 
The potato bug and tomato worm 
Have never once closed an eye? 
When a peaceful glow o’erspreads the West 
And all the world seems fine, 
Do you seek a moment of silent thought 
In your garden? When lo! the kine 
Have leaped the fence and eaten your corn! 
The pigs have rooted about! 
A rabbit has nibbled the grapevine stem! 
And a horse meanders out! 
Was it thus in the Garden of Eden? 
Did Adam keep a hen? 
And when Eve, his wife went out to pray 
What language did she speak then? 
— Allegracronk. 
