HOUSE AND GARDEN 
LASTING FENCES 
For Lawn and Garden 
ANCHOR POST 
FENCES 
for lawns and gardens provide a 
permanent protection against tres¬ 
passers. The posts are of high 
carbon steel and these and all 
other parts are heavily galvanized 
to prevent rust. Owing to the 
effectiveness of our method of 
anchoring the posts. Anchor Post 
Fences keep in perfect alignment 
for many years. 
Write for our 
Catalogue. 
NCHOR POST IRON WORKS 
11 Cortlandt Street, New York 
KRELAGE’S 
DUTCH BULBS 
FOR FALL PLANTING 
including the world-renowned novelties 
of their own raising (Darwin and Rem¬ 
brandt Tulips, etc.), are offered in their 
new catalogue, sent free on requestto 
J. A. de VEER, ^*1^7 
100 WILLIAM STREET (Suite 200) NEW YORK 
No. 21, Blue Bird No. 25, Woodpecker. No. 23, Wren 
RUSTIC HOUSES 
Attract where Others Fail 
Put them up now and let the Birds know where they can 
find a suitable habitation on their retarn in the Spring 
$1.25 each Three for $3.50 
Best Wire Sparrow Trap, $4.00 
Free circular Booklet free with every order 
THE CRESCENT CO., “Birdville,” Toms River, N. J. 
BUH 
|\ni SEASHORE 
LIU PLANTING 
Now, while at the seashore you see the need of 
evergreens in some spot or various locations. 
Do not wait till next April to fill that want. 
September is the month to plant evergreens. 
Hicks Nursery is the place to get evergreens that 
save 10 years. Send for Evergreens for Summer 
Planting, just out. Do not delay or you may be too 
late for its list pf bargain offers. 
Grown especially for this purpose, we have an ex¬ 
ceptional collection of salt spray resistent varieties 
of trees and shrubs. We will guarantee them to 
prove satisfactory or be cheerfully replaced. 
They have all been carefully grown with ample 
room to spread out. They have been systematically 
root pruned. Splendid stock in every 
particular. Prices are decidedly reason¬ 
able for such quality. 
Come to the nursery and let us talk your 
problem over. If you cant come, then write. 
icks }re^5 
Isaac Hicks &>Son 
Westbury, Nassau County. N. Y. 
September, 
sturdy gentleman to pamper him. Give 
him plenty of room out of doors; make 
him work for you, if it is only bringing 
the papers up from the post office; and 
do not cuddle him by the fire or stuff him 
with sweets and goodies. A fat, lazy Collie 
is a wholly disgraceful and pathetic object. 
A Method of Vitalizing Plant 
Growth 
E ACH year sees the discovery of some 
new disease, some new pest, some 
new force that spells disease and death to 
crops. And with equal regularity are dis¬ 
covered methods for combating them, for 
rejuvenating the old growth and vitalizing 
the soil. Two methods that have success¬ 
fully passed the experiment stage are a 
process for inducing carbonic acid gas into 
the soil and into plants; and the use of 
radium to stimulate growth. 
Investigation has proven that the more 
carbonic acid there is put into the soil, the 
more healthy and thrifty the bacteria will 
be, and hence the more fruitful the soil 
becomes. 
Appropriate apparatus has been devised 
for generating subsidiary gases and ap¬ 
plying them, with or without carbonic acid, 
to the soil. 
A small kit, suitable for garden or lim¬ 
ited orchard use, is supplied. It comprises 
a drum containing carbonic acid com¬ 
pressed into a liquid, a gas generator with 
chemicals in packages so labeled that any¬ 
one can use them, and the necessary brass 
and rubber piping with the needle for in¬ 
sertion into the soil. For heavier work a 
larger apparatus is made. 
Trees can be treated at any season of 
the year. During the fall and winter the 
gas acts on the soil as a solvent, preparing 
food for the roots’ absorption when 
growth commences in the spring. Holes 
are made with the round end of a crow¬ 
bar at several places among the roots, from 
one to two or three feet deep, according to 
the location of roots. Into these holes the 
needle is inserted and the gas blown in, 
care being taken to plug up the hole tight 
at the surface around the needle, and also 
after the needle is withdrawn. 
This work can be done with great suc¬ 
cess when the ground is moderately frozen 
over, as the gas is then pressed in under 
an effective lid of frozen earth, which pre¬ 
vents escape of the gas. But the gassing 
may be done at any stage of the season’s 
growth of either trees or garden plants. 
In dry weather, after gas has been ap¬ 
plied to the trees, water should be plenti¬ 
fully sprayed over the treated surface— 
well water, if none else is available, but 
preferably rain water, washing water 
(soap suds) or waste from the farmyard, 
should be used. 
Your New Home 
and the 
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Number 
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From this number you will get many 
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In the business section you will find 
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materials as well as the furnishings and 
specialties which add so much of distinc¬ 
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