I HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 
1912 
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A BEAUTIFUL LAWN IN FOUR WEEKS 
^ No need now for barren ground around new buildings: No need now for 
sodding with unsightly patchwork for Thorburn’s Lawn Grass Seed gives a rich 
green sward in four weeks from time of sowing. 
Lawn 
Grass (3 
is a perfectly blended mixture of enduring grasses that make a fine, 
thick, interwoven growth and speedily produces a permanent, firm 
yet springy, turf. You are sure to have a beautiful vel¬ 
vety lawn when you sow Thorburn’s Lawn Grass Seed. 
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tells you all about the making and care of lawns and many other things 
important to those who are interested in making things grow. One 
hundred and ten years’ experience in the cultivation, testing and se¬ 
lection of high grade seed stocks, make Thorburn’s Seeds the standard 
for purity and fertility. 
FOR THE CATALOG TODAY. 
J. M. THORBURN & CO. 
( no YEARS IN BUSINESS IN NEW YORK CITY ) 
33-P BARCLAY ST., NEW YORK CITY 
IT’S 
FREE. 
Our 1912 Catalog and Planting Guide — Includes Nut Culture Fruits, Roses, Shrubs, Evergreens, etc., mailed FREE on request 
GLEN BROTHERS, Glenwood Nursery 1906 Main St., Rochester, N. Y. 
St. Regis 
EVERBEARING 
The Raspberry for the Million 
and the Millionaire. 
“ There’s Millions In It.” 
You can now have wonderful rasp¬ 
berries from June to October by setting 
out the plants this spring. 
St. Regis produces continuously from 
June to October—heavy crops of large, 
; lu.scious, sugary berries of bright crim- 
: son. 
: Its summer and autumn crops do not 
consist of a few scattered berries, but 
good to heavy pickings all the time. 
I One party who had a small patch, say % 
an acre, picked and shipped from it two 
or three pickings each week for four 
months and his profits were enormous. 
Grows successfully in any soil — en¬ 
dures without injury heat, drought and 
severest cold. 
Hardy English 
Walnut Trees 
Rochester grown—hardier than Peach 
Trees. For the lawn, the acclimated 
English Walnut is unmatched, with its 
smooth, light gray bark, luxuriant, dark 
green foliage, lofty, symmetrical growth. 
Grafted on Native Black Walnut, these 
trees are hardier than the Peach. 
ENGLISH WALNUT 
CROPS YIELD BIG 
PROFITS 
The demand for nuts is big and prices 
give growers handsome profits. Cali¬ 
fornia crop exceeds its orange crop in 
money vaiue. Cultivation, harvesting 
and maintenance are easy and inexpen¬ 
sive. Whether you plant for decoration 
or for profit, investigate acclimated 
Engiish Walnuts. 
Here are Pecan Trees which will thrive 
in Northern States—producing as pro- 
lifiically and as profitably as any South¬ 
ern Pecans. 
Pecan Orchards pa.v far bigger profits 
per acre than wheat or corn. 
\ shade tree of wondrous beauty, long 
the pride of the South, may now adorn 
any Northern landscape. 
We control five varieties of hardy trees 
best suited for Northern planting. These 
have withstood temperature far below 
zero, — never been known to “winter- 
kill.” Successfui in almost any soil. 
Begin bearing in 3 to 5 years. 
Actual Sice 
New 
Catawba-Concord 
Grape 
A complete union of the grand old Catawba and the 
ever popular Concord. 
A GRAPE for EVERYBODY-EVERYWHERE 
A grape of rare superiorit.v — for the 
garden arbor or for the market grower. 
A heavy and early annual yielder. Vine 
of extreme vigor, free from rot or mil¬ 
dew. 
Berries are a rich, sparkling red, highest 
quality — equalling the Catawba in ten¬ 
derness of pulp, sweet luscious flavor 
and aroma, with added sweetness and 
juiciness- — more luscious than Catawba. 
A superior shipper and keeper. Cataw¬ 
ba-Concord has been given 10 years 
of the severest kind of test — never 
petted. 
Pomeroy 
Actxial 
Size 
Large Nuts--Paper Shell 
Hardy Acclimated 
Pecan Trees for Plant¬ 
ing in Northern 
States 
Basket of Mantura Pecans 
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