350 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April. 1913 
This superior willow furniture excels all others 
in beauty of design, materials, workmanship and 
length of service. 
You will receive full value for your money 
and have the satisfaction of owning artistic and 
correct willow furniture if you avoid the many 
cheaply made imitations of the genuine Willow- 
craft. 
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Money refunded if not entirely satisfactory. 
The Willowcraft Shops 
North Cambiidge, Mass. 
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The Elm City'Nursery Co, 
New Haven, Dept. N, Connecticut 
Sr 
Beautiful Lawns 
and Gardens 
With their wonderful colors and delicious perfumes: 
their luscious berries and tender greens depend upon 
natural fertilizer. The best soil will fail unless it is 
kept rich and fertile with 
Wizard Brand Sheep Manure 
Dried and Pulverized 
3 M 0A for 200 lb. barrel prepaid east of Omaha. 
Special quantity prices and Free Book- 
let — sent for your name on a postal. 
THE PULVERIZED MANURE CO. O I 
25 Union Stock Yards Chicago 
Wizard Brand is sold by Seedsmen and Garden Supply Houses 
row in the same manner, both to compact 
the soil and to mark the row. 
It must be very obvious, even to the be¬ 
ginner, that the different habits of growth 
of the various vegetables demand different 
methods of planting them. A carrot oc¬ 
cupies some four inches of space, a cab¬ 
bage taking four square feet or more, and 
a cucumber running over the sixteen to 
thirty-six square feet allotted to it and then 
crawling over into a row of beans or up a 
tomato pole, necessarily require different 
methods of planting. Most of the root 
crops such as carrots, radishes, beets, tur¬ 
nips, etc., are planted in drills or continu¬ 
ous rows, where they are grown as close 
together as they can be without too much 
crowding. Most of the leaf crops, such as 
cabbage or lettuce, are set in rows where 
the plants, though put at regular intervals 
apart, have practically all the cultivating, 
as with drills, done in one direction. The 
vine crops, such as cucumbers, squashes, 
melons and most of the fruit crops, such as 
tomatoes and pole-beans, are planted in 
hills — usually at equal distances apart each 
wav and always far enough apart to allow 
of cultivation in both directions. 
I have taken this matter up at length be¬ 
cause it is the most important thing which 
the beginner in gardening has to master 
and because lack of skill in this matter, 
given a suitably prepared soil, is, I believe, 
the cause of more failure and discourage¬ 
ment than any other one thing. 
For detailed information as to the needs 
and requirements of each individual vege¬ 
table see the accompanying planting table 
on page 282. 
To get early crops of such vegetables as 
lettuce, cabbage and beets and to get satis¬ 
factory results with such late things as 
late cabbage, cauliflower, celery and so 
forth, it is necessary to set out and to 
transplant plants already started. 
The distance apart for the rows and for 
the plants in the rows for the various veg¬ 
etables is given in the table on page 282. 
As with seed sowing, you should have a 
perfectly smooth and freshly prepared sur¬ 
face. Mark out your rows with absolute 
straightness, not only because it will look 
better but because you will find it of the 
greatest assistance in cultivating during 
the entire season. 
With many of the plants that are set out 
in rows, unless the garden has received 
the heaviest kind of a dressing of rich 
manure, it is a very good plan to give the 
plants an extra quick and strong start by 
a “manuring in the hill.” I do this very 
quickly and easily by marking out the 
rows and opening a small furrow with the 
plow-and-wheel-hoe attachment, marking 
off the cross rows, dropping the required 
amount of the compost to be used where 
each plant is to be set, and then covering 
it in again with the wheel-hoe, thus leav¬ 
ing a very small, low ridge with the earth 
in the best possible condition for rapid 
and thorough plant setting. The cross 
marks still left between the rows will in¬ 
dicate the direct point at which the plants 
are to be set. 
(Continued on page 352) 
THE LAWNS OF OLD ENGLAND 
are famous for their wonderful perfection and durability. 
Such lawns may be had here if real 
IMPORTED ENGLISH LAWN GRASS SEED 
is used. This seed is the result of centuries of selection. 
No weed seeds or coarse grasses in it. Hardy and fine in texture 
and beautiful in color. We have handled this seed for 
more than one hundred years. We import the choicest 
quality only, with seed for shady places a specialty. 
Write for free Booklet. 
“How To Seed & Keep A Beautiful Lawn” 
Barwell’s Agricultural Works 
Madison and Sands Sts., Waukegan, III. 
Established at Leicester, England, in 1800. 
English 
Ivy 
Seven to Eight Feet Speci¬ 
mens. Heavy Pot Grown 
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The Elm City Nursery Co. 
New Haven, Dept. N, Connecticut 
MODERN GLADIOLUS 
I am again offering to my old friends and new customers 
the finest kinds of gladiolus bulbs to be had, the kind that 
take premiums wherever offered and surprise and delight 
the people. Not only Groff’s Hybrids, but all other sorts 
that are first class, including the best new named sorts and 
some never before offered. Fifty selected flowering size 
bulbs, postpaid, for 50 cents. 
GEO. S. WOODRUFF, „„ 
European ri £Lt < £”r s & 
B fik A h The Elm City Nursery Co. 
^ ^ ^ New Haven, Dept. N, Connecticut 
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From 
Insects 
Fungi 
Unhealing Wounds 
Diseased Fruit 
Rabbits 
IF SO USE TIJV 
which is in use throughout Germany, 
where it is RECOMMENDED BY GOV¬ 
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This TREE TONIC makes your ORCH¬ 
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Write to 
RUSSELL. PROELL & RUSSELL 
Box 493, Keene, N. H. 
Before 
Installing. 
THE 
JONES & HAMMOND 
Underground Garbage Receiver 
Solves Your Garbage Troubles 
The Receiver Without a Fault. 
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