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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 
1914 
Reliable 
T he envied charm of 
lawns luxuriant in their 
beauty and regularity, is 
attributable to one essential— 
good seed. 
A surprisingly large portion 
of America’s finest lawns were 
made with “The Thorburn 
Lawn Grass Seed.” 
This mixture makes a rich green¬ 
sward in three or four weeks—its tex¬ 
ture constantly improving as it ages. 
We want you to plant this seed— 
to see for yourself the wonderful re¬ 
sults it is producing. 
So, to acquaint you with its true 
merits, we submit the following 
low prices—postage prepaid by us. 
The Thorburn Lawn Grass Seed 
Per pint . 15c 
Per quart . . 25c 
2 quarts • . 45c 
‘ One quart will cover 300 sq. ft. 
Ask for our catalog when 
send in your order. 
you send in your 
J. M. Thorburn & Co 
53E Barclay St. ^ 
New York M 
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There will NEVER be enough num¬ 
ber one apples—ALWAYS too many 
cider apples. Don’t waste your time 
and your trees growing inferior grades. 
Use “Scalecide” the one sure spray for 
San Jose scale, and produce number 
one fruit. “Scalecide” is 100% efficient 
against scale and has marked fungi¬ 
cidal properties. Used by best orchard- 
ists the world over. Endorsed by Ex¬ 
periment Stations. Our SERVICE 
DEPARTMENT furnishes everything 
for the orchard. Write today to Dept. 
“2” for new booklet—“Pratt’s Hand¬ 
book for Fruit Growers’’ and “Scale¬ 
cide the Tree S*ver.” Roth free 
B. G PRATT COMPANY 
50 Church Street New York City 
fully adjusted. The best way to do this is 
to get along, clean board or sweep a place 
clean on the shed floor, where you can sow 
a few feet of seed and see whether it is 
dropping properly. A great deal of trouble 
will be saved by so planning your garden, 
that seed of approximately the same size 
and requireing planting of the same depth 
are sown together, so that in planting the 
garden it will be necessary to adjust the 
machine as few times as possible. In 
planting large seeds, such as peas and 
beans, which have to go quite deep, the 
rows may be furrowed out first lightly 
with a hoe or the plow attachment to the 
wheel-hoe, and the seeds then sown with 
the drill in the bottom of this. The trench 
can be fielled in immediately, or after the 
plants are several inches high, at the time 
of the first hoeing. 
For the first cultivation, after the 
plants have come up, the disc attachment, 
which shaves close to the row without 
throwing any dirt toward it, or the hoes 
with the shank turned toward the row, as 
illustrated, should be used, with the ma¬ 
chine running astraddle of the row. When 
the plants get larger, the hoes may be 
turned the other way, so that they overlap, 
and the machine runs between the rows. 
The rake attachments are also very valu¬ 
able in breaking up the crusts where there 
are no small weeds; in this way the work 
can be done with great rapidity, and it is 
much easier to do this, keeping the weeds 
down when they are just beginning to 
sprout, than to wait until they are an inch 
or two high and then have to go over the 
garden carefully, doing a good deal of the 
work by hand. Keep the wheelhoe and its 
attachments as carefully as you would a 
sewing machine; keep it well oiled and the 
cutting edges sharp, and do not be afraid 
to take the time and trouble to get the 
right attachment and the proper adjust¬ 
ment to do the best work for the particular 
job you may have in hand. For after you 
have once succeeded, you will know just 
what to do the next time without wasting 
any time. 
Cultivation — The chief purpose of 
cultivation is to conserve the moisture in 
the soil by maintaining a dust mulch. In 
addition to this, it breaks up and pulver¬ 
izes the soil below the surface, admitting 
air, and destroys weeds. 
Cultivation should begin just as soon as 
the planting has been done. The rows 
will, or should be, plainly marked by the 
roller on the seed drill or where the soil 
has been pressed down by the hack of the 
hoe after covering the seed. Some seeds 
come up in a few days, but others take a 
much longer period. Do not wait for the 
plant to appear, keep the surface soil 
stirred continuously, every week or ten 
days, between the rows and as near as pos¬ 
sible to the rows of little seedlings coming 
up. The first few cultivations can be quite 
deep, but as soon as the plant roots begin 
to spread through the soil it should be kept 
nearer the surface, so that they will not be 
cut off or injured. The roots of quick- 
Seven Glorious 
Lillies 
for ONE DOLLAR 
Delivery included. 
STRONG PLUMP 
BULBS 
Flower first season. 
Each 
L. ALBUM re¬ 
curved petals 
like driven 
snow. 
FRAGRANT 
3-4 ft. $.25 
L. AURATUM 
A GLORI- 
IOUS LILY. 
Through cen¬ 
ter of each 
white petal 
runs a golden 
yellow band. 
Ht. 4-6 ft... .20 
L. RUBRUM 
Recurved 
white petals 
are spotted 
rich crimson. 
Ht. 3-4 ft... .20 
L. Umbellatum. Upright flowers, colors vary 
from buff to rich apricot. 2J^-3 ft. 15 
L. Tenuifolium. Coral Lily of Siberia. Bright 
coral red flowers sway in masses on numerous 
branches. 2-2}^ ft.15 
L. Washingtonianum. Native of high Sierras. 
Large trumpet flowers open pure white, shading 
into deep rose. Perfume entrancing. Ht. 5-6 
ft. Monster Bulbs, 50c.30 
L. GLORIOSA SUPERBA. A GEM of Southern 
climes. The ONLY climbing LILY KNOWN. 
Soft tendrils twine around any support. On 
slender stems are poised, like birds of tropical 
plumage, the exquisite dazzling yellow and 
scarlet flowers. Monster Bulbs, 50c. each.30 
All Bulbs are sold singly or in collection of seven. 
With every order, we send printed directions — HOW 
TO CULTIVATE LILIES successfully. 
Our spring, 1914, Gardenbook of 120 pages is FREE on 
application. 
Address H. H. BERGER & COMPANY 
70 Warren Street, New York 
“The Wood Eternal.” 
OF COURSE ! Lasts and Lasts and Lasts 
For durable painting of all kinds use 
National Lead Company’s Pure White Lead. 
(Dutch Boy Painter trade mark.) 
Ask for Helps No. 18. Sent free on request. 
National Lead Company. Ill Broadway, New York 
Every time you open your win¬ 
dows, you create draughts, and 
let in dust and dirt from the 
outside. 
MALLORY 
Shutter Worker 
is a little crank on the inside of the window 
which opens or closes the shutters with a 
slight turn. The shutters stay locked in any 
position. Write us to-day for information 
and booklet. 
MALLORY MFG. CO. 
255 Main Street Flemington, N. J. 
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