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Plant Bulbs Now 
To Flower Christmas 
Slate’s large, healthy bulbs pro¬ 
duce the handsomest of blooms. 
Each wrapped separately with 
variety and color marked. 
24 bulbs—Hyacinths, Freesia, 
Narcissus and Crocus—$1.00 
Postpaid. 50 bulbs—12 Hya¬ 
cinths, 12 Tulips, 14 Narcissus 
and Jonquils, 6 Freesia and 6 
Crocus—$2.50 Postpaid to 4th 
zone—$2.75 beyond 4th zone in 
U. S. To have beautiful flowers 
for Christmas and early spring, 
order Slate’s bulbs now. Help¬ 
ful guide and catalog free. 
SLATE SEED COMPANY 
Box 452, South Boston, Va. 
c ONWARD 
Ro^ES 
BLOOM 
or your mone y back 
G olden 
autumn is the 
time to prepare 
for rosey spring 
with Conard Star 
Roses. Get ahead 
of Jack Frost with 
your planting and your 
bushes will be heavy 
with blooms when 
your neighbors are 
just beginning to plant. 
Each Conard Star Rose 
guaranteed to bloom 
or your money back. 
Each permanently 
identified in your gar¬ 
den by _ our durable 
celluloid Star Tag 
which you leave on the 
plant — two exclusive 
C. & J. features. 
Send now for illustrated 
catalog of roses and other 
dowers for fall planting. 
fONARD* ROSES 
& Jones Co., Box 126, 
West Grove, Pa. 
Robert Pyle, President 
A. Wintzer, Vice-President 
Backed by over 50 years 
experience 
Six Splendid Evergreens 
of the six hardiest and most popular vari¬ 
eties—Big rooted, vigorous, full of joyous 
life—How can you spend ten dollars to yield 
greater satisfaction than to plant these six 
specimen plants this Fall? 
Th is collection includes— 
One Blue Spruce 
One Arborvitae 
One Prostrate Juniper 
ALL FOR 
One White Spruce 
One Erect Juniper 
One Douglas Fir 
DOLLARS 
You will want 
your copy of this 
Year Book, full 
of other offers and 
many pages of 
helpful advice. A 
large, beautiful 
book, profusely il¬ 
lustrated with col¬ 
or and hundreds 
of fine photo- 
graphs. Mailed 
only on request. 
These evergreens range from 3 feet in height 
to iy 2 feet in spread, their roots wrapped 
in burlap, a ball of native loam around them. 
The whole shipment carefully crated and 
delivered to the express at Framingham, 
Mass., on receipt of your remittance, which 
must accompany order. 
This selection is limited, order promptly. 
Back Bay K-9 
BOSTON 
Time to Order Delphiniums 
As the supply of plants is limited, early 
ordering is advisable. 
For all that is best in hardy plants, send 
us your lists, and be assured of “Better 
Plants—By Farr”. 
BERTRAND H. FARR 
WYOMISSING NURSERIES CO. 
Wyomissing Pa. 
Better Plants—By Farr 
lowers 
Our Landscape Garden Department makes it 
a simple matter to secure the beauty you 
have wished for, whether your grounds are a 
small suburban lot or a large estate. This 
department is at your service for advice or 
to furnish planting sketches. May we tell 
you more about it? 
A Helpful Fall Catalog 
TVTOW is the time for fall plan- 
■i-' ning and planting. Wagner 
Iris, Peonies and Flowery Shrubs 
for Spring blooming—Evergreens 
and Conifers for Winter cheer. 
Wagner hardy Perennial, Shrub¬ 
bery and Ornamental Trees are 
developed especially for making 
the home surroundings attractive 
and are obtainable in a wide va¬ 
riety. 
Our fall catalog is of especial interest to 
all flower lovers. Ask for No. 30 
THE WAGNER PARK NURSERIES 
Box 300 Sidney, Ohio 
Nurserymen, Florists and 
Landscape Gardeners 
WHAT YOU CAN DO 
IN SEPTEMBER 
A Personal Message from Henry Hicks 
T HE most important thing to re¬ 
member this month is that you can 
do almost anything you want to do 
now with trees, evergreens, shrubs, 
fruits and flowers. 
* * * 
For many years, Joseph Meehan, a 
wise nurseryman, edited a department in 
“The Florists’ Exchange.” One of his 
recommendations to nurserymen was 
that they should do their own planting 
in September—before the frost killed 
the leaves. 
The reason was foliage: at this time the 
foliage is nearly ripe. It makes little dif¬ 
ference whether Jack Frost kills it or that 
you strip it off or whether it drops off in 
transplanting. The ground is warm and 
moist, the roots have two months to grow. 
It is often necessary to strip off the leaves 
when we take up the greater part of our 
plants with a large ball of earth, to avoid 
any possible shock. 
We are not urging you to early Fall 
planting merely to bring in income. 
A Landscape Architect tells this story: 
He planned to plant a place in the Fall but 
his client met at dinner a famous tree 
authority who advised Spring planting. Thi9 
last advice was followed. The next year 
the Landscape Architect showed his client 
another place planted in the Fall which, was 
naturally further ahead and in better con¬ 
dition than the one on which planting had 
been done in the Spring. 
Long Island people have trained them¬ 
selves to come to the nursery in September 
to pick out their trees, flowers and shrubs. 
They are not so busy then and the gardener 
cannot say he is as busy as in the Spring. 
But it is not always a matter of fore¬ 
thought; it is for the fun of spreading the 
planting season over a greater part of the 
year. 
You can be the creator of your own land¬ 
scape and by coming to the nursery you 
can see just the forms and colors you will 
get. 
By the way, September is the time to 
consult a Landscape Architect. Do not 
be afraid of the profession because your 
place is small. Landscape Architects are 
easy to find, even though they do not ad¬ 
vertise. They need not be an extravagance. 
It should he practical for two or three home 
owners in the same community to combine 
and have a Landscape Architect spend the 
day staking and labelling and advising you 
all what to do. 
Now for the things that will be happy on 
your soil. If your soil is sandy and dry, 
your native trees will be white pine, pitch 
pine and oak. We have big and little pines 
and oaks that will smile. They will not look 
sad like the poplar trees you see dropping 
their leaves, with dead limbs and borers. 
The poplar or cottonwood is happy in lime¬ 
stone swamps. (Because they are cheap per¬ 
haps your community has been inflicted with 
them.) 
Now is the time to have the courage of 
your convictions and put in the trees and 
shrubs that will smile. The trees are ready. 
Are you? We will deliver, plant and guar¬ 
antee them to grow satisfactorily. 
Are you on the seashore? Can you use a 
truck-load of two-needle pines—the kind 
that will stand more salt spray than any 
other? The pines are big and broad. They 
have been root pruned. The balls are filled 
with fibrous roots and are so big that you 
get a truck load of soil with the trees. In 
the lee of a group of these pines you may 
have quiet and shade and a beautiful garden. 
Just say the word and we will do the rest. 
Do you need shade? We have groves of 
trees that will give you shade right away. 
Some as low as five dollars, others at two 
hundred, and worth it. 
Have you limestone soil ? We have some 
things for you but not much. We specialize 
as most nurseries do not, in plants for dry 
acid soils. 
Do you wish to include the flower garden? 
September is the time and this is the place 
to get some of your plants. Pick out the 
colors of Phlox, Aster, Veronica, Eupa- 
torium, Day Lily, Sneezeweed, Sunflower, 
Marshmellow, Blazing Star and other flow¬ 
ers that suit you. 
Have you lived off the fat of the land this 
year or do you have to go to the village to 
buy your^ fruit and can you buy plenty of 
fruit? We have never seen the time when 
fruit ha9 tasted quite as fresh as when it is 
home-grown. We will tell you what to do, 
where to go for fruit tree advice. If your 
fruits have disappointed you, it is probably 
that they have suffered from starvation and 
thirst, rather than from lack of spraying 
and pruning. 
If you love a plant, you can make it live 
any time. 
( Signed ) Henry Hicks. 
HICKS NURSERIES 
Westbury Box H Long Island, New York 
