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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1913 
TREE CONSULTANTS 
doubtful 
I F YOU have trees that are 
health or need repairing, pruning or 
spraying, get our expert advice; ar¬ 
range with us to go carefully over your 
trees, study conditions and make recom¬ 
mendations for the care needed. 
If there is work necessary to be done to 
preserve your trees, you want to know it, to 
be able to guard against danger. 
In the event there is need of our experts, 
they can repair and care for your trees in 
the most practical, conservative way possible. 
Another phase of our work is Periodical Inspec¬ 
tions. 
These involve our making a certain number of 
careful inspections of your trees each year and ad¬ 
vising with your own men concerning the care that 
should be given them. 
Send for our booklet and let us explain oui 
guarantee. 
Munson Whitaker Go. 
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dry curd may be given and some animal 
food is a necessity at all times. They get 
much of this themselves if the range is 
large. They should be fed five times a 
day the first few days, gradually extend¬ 
ing the time between meals as they begin 
to pick up feed for themselves on the 
range. 
There is no lack of demand for pheas¬ 
ants at present. Write to the game offi¬ 
cials of your State and adjoining States, 
and any private preserves which you may 
hear of, and state the exact quantity and 
quality of stock you have to offer, send¬ 
ing photographs of birds, if you have 
them, asking for their best prices. You will 
perhaps be able to dispose of all you have 
to spare in that wav. You may run an ad¬ 
vertisement in poultry journals or a boys’ 
and girls’ magazine and dispose of your 
stock in that way. If you are rearing 
market birds only you will find your best 
market by getting orders direct from some 
nearby large hotel, shipping according to 
orders from the manager. Be sure to 
crate stock to be shipped alive so that they 
may not injure their beautiful plumage in 
transportation. Eggs are shipped exactly 
as are those of ordinary fowls. 
Jennie E. Stewart 
Color in the Flower Garden 
(Continued from page 294) 
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Send for Catalog. 
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A Pretty Garden for a Dollar 
W ITH the approaching of Spring and 
planting time grows within you the long¬ 
ing for a pretty garden; and your ambition is to 
make that garden prettier than ever before. 
After careful thought and selection we have 
made a collection of 24 varieties of flower seeds 
that will grow a surprisingly pretty little garden 
having distinctive individuality and charm. 
, Here is the collection — one regular packet of each: 
Asters 
Candytuft 
Centaurea cyanus 
Clarkia 
Collin si a 
Convolvulus, Dwarf 
Cosmos 
Eschsclioltzia 
Larkspur, Dwarf 
Larkspur, Tall Rocket 
Lupinus 
M a lope 
Marigold 
Marigold, Dwarf 
Mignonette 
Nasturtium, Dwarf 
Phlox Drummondil 
Poppy 
Portulaca, Single 
Scabiosa 
Sunflower 
Sweet Alyssum 
Zinnia, Dwarf 
Zinnia, Tall 
A dollar bill pinned to your letter will bring the collection 
together with an attractive garden plan insuring color har¬ 
mony. Also our Spring catalog containing a wonderful list 
of flower and vegetable seeds, garden tools, etc. . as weii as many 
helpful hints and suggestions on the cultivation of your garden. 
The Most Reliable Seeds’ 
have been renowned for their uniform purity and fertility ever since 
Thomas Jefferson was President—you can depend upon them. 
J. M. Thorburn & Co. 
33E Barclay St. Founded 1802 — 111 years ago New York 
ANNUALS ( continued ). 
NAME. Season. Height. 
Vinca Alba .August 18" 
Verbena .June to Nov. 18" 
Water lily, Tuberosa Richardsoni. . .May-Nov. — 
Tuberosa maxima .. — 
Nympliaea Gladstoniana . . — 
Nymphaea odorata gigantea .. 
Nelumbium Shiroman . . 3'-4' 
.Zinnias .Summer 2' 
A BLUE GARDEN 
At first glance it would seem that there 
are fewer blue flowers than any other 
color; certainly they are less in evidence in 
the garden ; but a careful search of the flor¬ 
ists’ catalogues reveals a considerable 
wealth of this charming color, only await¬ 
ing our pleasure to possess. To be sure, 
not all the colors listed as blue conform to 
our conception of a clear blue or a sky 
blue, and some discretion is needed in se¬ 
lecting plants which will harmonize in a 
garden whose note is wholly blue, but the 
following list will be found fairly satis¬ 
factory as a whole, while many of the 
plants listed are magnificent in their pure, 
clear tones. As far as possible, lavender 
tones have been avoided. 
BULBS. 
NAME. Season. Height. 
Crocus, King of the Blues.April 4" 
C. Pupurea .. . — 
Hyacinth, Blondine .April — 
H. King of the Blues.. — 
H. Queen of the Blues.. — 
H. Chas. Dickens.. — 
H. Czar Peter. . — 
H. Grand Maitre . . — 
Early blue Roman hyacinth. . — 
Grape hyacinth . . — 
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