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The Garden Magazine, May, 1824 
Motorize Your Gardening 
and Lawn Mowing! 
Transform drudgery into pleasant recreation. This versatile 
tractor unit has snap hitch attachments. In less than two minutes 
you can go from cultivating to lawn mowing without even using a 
wrench. 
Here is power instantly available 
for your work. 
The BOLENS POWER HOE 
and Lawn Mower Tractor multiplies 
your work or the work of your hired help. 
With the BOLENS you can usually do in one hour what requires 
four hours with a wheel hoe or ten hours with hand implements. 
Think of the added hours of garden enjoyment that will be yours. 
If your work is done by hired help, the saving wall very soon pay for a 
BOLENS outfit. 
Ask for our catalogue and name of nearest dealer 
GILSON MFG. CO., 205 Park St., Port Washington, Wis. 
They follow Roses as Surely 
as Night follows Day! 
Rare, indeed, is the rose garden of unblemished 
beauty. All too frequently the invasion happens 
overnight and before the marauders are discovered 
much harm is done. The only satisfactory way 
to get rid of these nefarious Rose Bugs is to kill 
them when they appear. This not only eliminates 
present loss but prevents them from breeding. Far¬ 
sighted gardeners now spray their rosebeds with 
Tested and Proved Fatal to Every 
Bug It Touches 
Spray with Melrosine when the roses come into leaf. Spray the ground 
around them as well, for Melrosine is fatal not only to full-grown bugs, 
but also to hatching larvae, and a beneficial agent to check the fungous 
diseases that lurk beneath the rose bushes. 
JTC HU 
Melrosine is a complete insurance against bugs in 
yonr garden. Leading Seed and Nursery Establish¬ 
ments supply it. If not obtainable in your neighbor¬ 
hood, a trial can will be mailed upon receipt of 60c. 
Descriptive circular on request. 
THE GARDEN CHEMICAL CO. 
Sole Manufacturers of MELROSINE and LOTOL 
Park Avenue and 146th Street New York. N. Y 
Swelling Buds and 
Budding Hopes 
M AY must have been the month that gave rise 
to the expression about Anticipation being 
greater than Realization. When Mrs. Cooper and I 
decided to turn the corn fields of Dunmovin into 
Peony fields, we knew that we gambled in both, 
Anticipation and the hopes for Realization. Every 
May since, we have watched thousands of buds and 
learned that many fond hopes were beyond realization. 
But we also learned that the joys to be gotten out 
of even a few good Peonies are so great as to make 
the price of the roots look small indeed. And so 
another hope was bom—the hope that some day 
this experience would help others. From time to 
time I jotted down observations, together with 
reasons for many successes and failures with Peonies. 
The sum and substance of all these studies I pub¬ 
lished in book form. 
With its many color illustrations, the “Unvarnished 
Facts” edition of “Tips and Pointers” is too ex¬ 
pensive to send out free. If you are really interested 
in Peonies, send 25c, (to be rebated on orders) and 
the book will be mailed promptly. 
Kenosha, 
Wisconsin 
GL 
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