HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1915 
America’s MOST BEAUTIFUL Evergreen 
White 
Pine 
AMERICAN BORN 
(Free from pests) 
NORTHERN GROWN 
(Hardy, vigorous) 
They Grow Fast 
USE Wind and Snow breaks; 
Dust and Noise breaks; 
FOR Screens, Tall Hedges and 
Backgrounds. For Bor¬ 
ders along avenues and country 
roads. For underplanting in shade 
and woodlands. For beautifying 
dry, barren waste lands on an 
estate. 
One of our TWICE Transplanted 
2 to 3 foot grade White Pines, 
well-branched, straight, 
heavy-rooted. 
SPECIAL 
No. 1 Quality 
Root-Pruned and 
TWICE Transplanted 
3 to 4 FT. HIGH 
100 Trees, $ 34.00 
10 Trees, 7.00 
No. 2 (Regular) Quality 
ONCE Transplanted 
2 to 3 FT. HIGH 
100 Trees, $ 10.00 
10 Trees, 2.50 
All F.O.B. So. Framingham, Mass. 
LOWER PRICES 
For Larger Quantities 
Write now for Our Illustrated 
Spring Price List of many millions 
of Ornamental. Forest, Shade and 
Hedge TREES. 
Ittiir ®rrr farms of Ammra American Forestry Company 
NEAR BOSTON 
The GREAT Farms of LIT¬ 
TLE Trees, of LARGE values 
and SMALL prices. 
Division K 
Let Us Help You 
with your 
Tree Problems 
15 Beacon Street 
BOSTON, MASS. 
Build up your soil and increase the yields. Unless you add HUMUS and 
PLANT FOODS to depleted soils you cannot expect results. 
Ho“ure DIAMOND BRAND COMPOST Mg 
is free from weed seeds, largely HUMUS and abounds in plant foods. It will 
also stimulate bacteriological action in the soil. A large grower aptly says “Stable 
Manure is the only thing that supplies all the needs for truck gardening, green¬ 
houses and lawns, with one application.” Give your lawn a coating of Com¬ 
post this Spring—need not be raked off—it will hold the moisture dur¬ 
ing the summer and keep your grass green. Use it in your vegetable and 
flower gardens. 
Put up in bags 100 lbs. each. Write for Circular "B” and prices. 
Dried, Ground 
NEW YORK STABLE MANURE Co. pv 
g/3 WASHINGTON STREET. JERSEY ClTV.N.J. £ 
S TART with the larg¬ 
est stock that can be 
secured! It takes over 
twenty years to grow 
many of the Trees and 
Shrubs we offer. 
We do the long wait¬ 
ing — thus enabling you 
to secure trees and shrubs 
that give immediate re¬ 
sults. Spring Price List 
Now Ready. 
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DORM HuRSERlES 
Wm.Warner Harper ’Propr-Xc.tor-. 
Chesinut Hill. 
PHila, Pa. 
Box H 
justed in a moment as the need arises. 
As the sun gets still more powerful it is 
a good plan to make the paper damp. 
Sooner or later, in most cases, a time 
comes when transplanting has to be ar¬ 
ranged. Wherever possible, whether in 
bed or border, it is an excellent plan to 
sow the seed in the position where the 
plant is to be. Much stronger specimens, 
as a rule, result from this method. In a 
great many cases, however, this cannot 
well be managed, and one is faced with 
the necessity of making a shift. A few 
hints on this point may usefully conclude 
this article. In the first place, always try 
to remove as much soil as possible with 
the little plant. Almost every root tip 
which is exposed to the air, even for a 
few minutes, is likely to die, and this will 
mean a great tax on the energies of the 
little plant before it can settle down in its 
new home. So much do some gardeners 
realize the importance of this point that 
in the case of many large seeds they sow 
these singly in thumb pots, out of which 
they can be turned without serious root 
disturbance. A small, flat piece of wood 
is very useful for lifting up a little wedge 
of soil with the roots of the plant. It is 
best to do the transplanting when the soil 
is in rather a specially damp state, as then 
the earth is not so likely to fall away from 
the roots. Do not keep the little plants 
out of the soil longer than is absolutely 
necessary. After putting them into the 
fresh position press the soil gently around 
the stem. It is a good thing to plant 
rather deeply; that is, well up to the first 
pair of true leaves. This will encourage 
a stocky growth. Now and again spindly 
seedlings may be improved if they are put 
deeply down into the soil. The first few 
days after transplanting are always rather 
critical in the life of the seedlings. The 
chief danger is that the specimen loses 
moisture more rapidly through its leaves 
than it can make good by root absorption. 
At this early stage the roots are still suf¬ 
fering from the shock of the removal. 
Transpiration from foliage is checked by 
protecting the plants, wherever this is 
possible, with glass shades. Where this 
cannot be arranged, as might be the case 
out of doors, pieces of paper propped up 
with sticks could be employed to shield 
the plants from the hot sun. As soon as 
all signs of drooping are at an end the 
shelters must be discarded, as once the 
plant is established, the more light and air 
it has the better. 
In many instances an even better plan 
than the use of individual thumb pots is 
to use one of the varieties of ingenious 
combination flat and paper pots that are 
being shown. This flat is of strong wood 
with an inside collapsible crating of stiff 
paper, dividing it into a number of square 
compartments, and the bottom is a sheet 
of galvanized steel that also serves as a 
carrier. When the plants are grown all 
one has to do is to put out the bottom 
sheet and each plant drops from its com- 
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