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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, 1914 
Always Reliable 
OUR 
of 
our 1914 
Spring Catalog is 
waiting for you. 
It is brimful of helpful sug¬ 
gestions for your garden — its 
planting and care. Full in¬ 
structions as to the best way to 
grow every'flower and vegetable 
—a list of varieties even more 
comprehensive than ever—these 
are but a few of the many rea¬ 
sons for the popularity of Thor- 
burn’s Annual Seed Catalog. 
We’ve just prepared a rather novel 
little book called “A Thorbum Garden 
for a Family of Six” in which we 
plan your vegetable garden for you. 
A copy goes with each catalog. 
J. M. Thorburn & Co. 
53E Barclay Street - New York 
This is the popular “Ragged 
Sailor.” Ten cents enclosed 
with your letter brings a 
generous packet of seeds. 
Dahlia, any preferred; the single flow¬ 
ered will bloom from seed the first year if 
sown in May in the open ground; 4 to 
5 feet. 
Heliantbus cucumerifolius, Stella; min¬ 
iature sunflower; 4 feet'; sow in full sun, 
in April or May. 
Heiianthus, chrysanthemum-flowered; 
double sunflower; 7 feet; very beautiful 
flowers. 
Heiianthus, double white miniature; 
sunflower; 4 feet; nearly white flowers, 
some partly double. 
Pennisetum Rue p p elianum; purple 
fountain grass; 3 feet; excellent in fore¬ 
ground of taller things. 
Kochia tricophylla; summer cypress; 3 
feet; sow in lines, thinly, as a division 
mark or summer hedge; becomes sym¬ 
metrical pyramid; plants should stand 
from 10 to 12 inches apart in the row. 
Lavcitera trimestris; annual mallow; 2 
feet; suitable for border against building, 
or extreme foreground. 
Nicotiana sylvestris; tobacco; 4 feet; 
pyramidal plants with very fragrant 
white blossoms; use in groups of two to 
five, with lower material before them. 
Ricinus Cambodiensis ; castor oil bean ; 
5 feet; plants should stand 2 feet apart. 
Ricinus Z anzibariensis ; the largest and 
finest castor bean; 10 feet; very beautiful 
foliage effects; same distance apart as 
above. 
Crops for Quality 
(Continued from page 39) 
urban section, to get brush to use as a trel¬ 
lis for peas and it is a good deal of a job to 
put it in. Wire trellis is more convenient 
to use, and although it is quite expensive, 
it will last several years. Picking is much 
easier from vines which have been sup¬ 
ported, and the tall sorts, as I have said, 
bear for a longer time. They also vary 
more in the time required to come to 
maturity, so that if a careful selection is 
made, one may plant four or five varieties 
on the same date and they will mature in 
succession, giving a continuous crop in 
prime condition for several weeks. O11 the 
other hand, where garden space is limited, 
where time is of value and where it is 
difficult to procure brush or other ma¬ 
terial for trellis, the dwarf wrinkled sorts 
are much more convenient to use. As far 
as the table quality is concerned they are 
entirely satisfactory; the only difference 
is that to insure a continuous succession 
of peas, they should be planted more 
frequently. But if an early and a late 
main crop sort are planted at the same time 
they will together yield a crop that will be 
in prime condition for from two to three 
weeks, and by replanting at intervals of 
about that length of time a continuous 
supply will be obtained. Futhermore, the 
vines take up little room, the crop matures 
quickly and the dead vines may be re¬ 
moved and the space planted to bush 
beans or some other vegetables. This is 
the system which I use for myself and have 
“Breathes there a man with soul so dead 
Who never to himself hath said, 
I Want a Garden 
but I’m not going to get down on my 
hands and knees and sow by hand 
and weed or break my back over that 
old hoe. I want the garden, for I 
know that, in it, I would find relaxa¬ 
tion for mind and body and a great 
appetite easily satisfied, no little 
satisfaction in producing part at least 
of my living at a lower cost, a variety 
for my table without waiting for 
hucksters or grocers and quality such 
as they cannot sell to me.” 
Well, men (and women, too) you 
don’t need to work hard to get your 
wish — 
IRON AGE 
Garden Drills and Wheel Hoes 
do the'work for you. They are prac¬ 
tical, every-day tools, which, when 
set to do certain work, need only to be 
pushed ahead a step at a time. They 
do all of the hoeing, cultivating, 
weeding, ridging, etc., open furrows 
and cover them and plow in some 
soils. The drills open the furrow, 
sow the seed, cover and roll it and 
mark the next row. High wheels, 
steel tube frame and self-cleaning 
side hoes distinguish Iron Age tools. 
Ask your dealer about them and 
write us for booklet, “Gardening 
with Modern Tools” and a copy of 
Iron Age Farm and GardenNews. 
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