The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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fino condition for business, and we exper t 
them t.o do well, The most important 
thing on this farm is a good garden. We 
shall provide for that even if everything 
else is neglected. We get. nearly GO per 
cent pf our living out of the garden and 
the henyard, and with an average <>f 
nearly 15 people to feed, that means 
considerable. The garden ought to be 
the working heart of every farm, and so 
little Rose and I can staurl at the window, 
look out across the snowy waste and re¬ 
pent in concert: 
'If Winter comes can Spring be far 
behind?” H. W. C. 
r Cortiith Hit 7 
Burnt offal lumber and tawduit 
If You Want Healthy Trees 
spray with 
MECHLING’S 
SCALE OIL 
An Old-Fashioned Garden 
Some reader may get an idea from my 
garden. It is 20x30 ft., and encloses a 
dear old twisted apple tree. I marked off 
an 18-in. border on all sides, next an 18- 
in. flag walk. This 1 placed myself, after 
the good man hauled a load of flat stones 
and dumped handy. I may say this job 
alone took me nearly four weeks—my 
spare time. However, it paid the first 
time I walked proudly over my nice, flat 
walks. A pole in the center holds an 
old copper dish, in which my birds take 
many a dip in Summer, and a good grain 
and crumb feed in Winter. 
Now one bed has sweet old Phlox, 
Sweet William, and Zinnias. One has 
poppies. Asters and pinks. Another has 
Verbena, mourning bride and balsam, and 
the fourth has Petunia, batchclor’s but¬ 
tons and wallflower. Pansies nod gaily 
around the pole in the center, with a row 
of sweet Alyssum at outer edge. Dwarf 
nasturtiums snuggle under some of the 
taller plants around the edges, next the 
walks, also the dear old goldie marigold. 
Around the outside border are tall Cos¬ 
mos, sweet peas, hollyhocks, morning-glory, 
climbing nasturtium and foxglove. There 
has to he a 4-ft. wire fence f keep out 
stray hens, also dogs, and even a heavy 
cat walking over tiny seeds may press 
them so deeply they may not germinate. 
Four o'clock and larkspur find a tiny 
corner to nod their pretty heads, too. This 
picture was taken two years ago, just 
after I had furnished the beds; now many 
of these plants seed themselves, 
I find hen manure, or rabbit, is the best 
of fertilizer. a> it is small, and the tiuy 
rootlets can reach it much better than 
a large lump. If other dressing is used, 
however, be sure to break it up finely 
with point of shovel, and mix well with 
soil. Many a beginuer may fait for want 
of water on the tiny seed. After planting, 
keep well moistened till seed comes up. 
j at least. I shal start some Delphinium 
roots this Spring. I find that the large 
African marigold is equal to any Dahlia. 
| and makes a most gorgeous showing in 
some trench on the far side of the lawn, 
for instance. Let all plant the four 
o’clock by all means; it is so refreshing, 
opening in the evening after so many of 
the day’s flowers have closed for the 
night. 
Nothing brightens up the garden like 
yellow flowers. This year I am planning 
Coreopsis. Calendula, and Calliopsis for 
that purpose. The dear old balsam is a 
very hardy friend to have in one’s garden, 
and lasts at least a month, with its many- 
colored. tiny, rose-like flowers. Of course, 
one must have a bit of Myosotis in some 
shady spot, better known as forget-me- 
not. 
If one likes cut flowers late in the Fall, 
let her try the African daisy; the hardy, 
spreading plants are covered for weeks, 
with all shades of lemon, yellow, and or¬ 
ange daisy-shaped flowers. 
The larkspur lends all shades of blues 
and purples, and the small plants come 
up early from seed all over the garden, 
and are very easily transplanted to their 
own bed. Of course, all know the China 
and Japan pinks, spicing up the garden 
for nearly six weeks, but do all know 
how very easy of culture they are, com¬ 
ing up early year after year and seeding 
themselves? A glorious bed of Sweet 
William is hard to beat, and many of the 
late varieties bloom the first year from 
seed and are much larger blooms than 
our grandmothers' old stand-bys. 
Let us all give freely of our garden 
seed, and thus encourage posy beds, for 
the child who can remember her mother 
and her posy bed will have one sweet 
picture to take through life with him. 
Flowers certainly give pleasure to all 
who tend them with their own hands, to 
say nothing of the health benefit from 
the garden’s fresh air and contact with 
the sweet earth. mbs. peg. 
It has been used by Thousands of Fruit 
Growers in the past decade and we have yet to hear of 
one who does not consider it the best oil he has ever used. 
It has a wonderfully beneficial effect 
on the tree at the same time that it kills scale, insects eggs 
and generally cleans up the tree. 
Old rough trees are the ones that need it most, 
but every orchard should be given a dormant treatment 
with Scale Oil once in every few years at least. 
Mechanically perfect —we never have com¬ 
plaints about trouble in mixing or in staying mixed. 
We make a full line of spraying materials— 
Mechling’s Hydroxcide— the spray with the 
Highest Analysis.' Just what you need for a crop of 
potatoes. 
Mechling’s Arsenate of Lead. 
Mechling’s Lime Sulphur Solution. 
Mechling’s Dusting Mixtures, for fruit or 
potatoes. 
Mechling’s Sulphur. 
Write us direct if your dealer does not carry our 
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