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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1911 
Hardy Plants 
Rhododendrons for mass planting and for 
specimen plants. I can supply bushy 
clumps in small or large quantities. 
Before placing your order get my prices. 
Hardy Ferns for open sun, dry shade, 
moist shade or wet open ground. 
Hardy Flowers for open border, dark 
shade, wild garden or rockery. 
Azaleas and ornamental shrubs for lawns. 
My illustrated catalog containing 75 
pages will be of interest to all lovers of 
wild flowers. Mailed free on request. 
EDW. GILLETT, Box F, Southwick, Mass. 
New 
Double Pink Flowered 
From the Land of 
the Rising Sun 
One of the most exquisite pro¬ 
ductions of the horticultur¬ 
ist’s skill, for which Japan 
has long been famous. 
Send for Booklet 
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Horticulturists. Leaders for fO years 
Mount Hope Nurseries 
ROCHESTER. N. Y. 
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A Perfume for the 
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A leader among leaders. 
After being in use for 
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is just as popular at ever 
BECAUSE: 
IT is a Floral Extract of 
absolute purity and endur¬ 
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and revives as does no other 
Perfume; it is delightful in 
the Bath and the finest thing 
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in fact, the most reliable and 
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ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR IT. 
ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTE! 
( Continued, from page 184) 
pointment, there was plenty of parsley. 
Except the weeds, nothing ever grew more 
luxuriantly. There was parsley to use and 
parsley to give away; parsley for week¬ 
days and parsley for Sundays; parsley for 
festive occasions and parsley for common 
days; parsley for soup and parsley for gar¬ 
nishing. They garnished nearly every¬ 
thing with parsley, all through the autumn 
and the following winter. They garnished 
all the roasts, all the broiled meats, all the 
stewed potatoes; they even garnished the 
fried potatoes. At last the Big Man pro¬ 
posed that they should have a dish of boiled 
parsley, so that they might garnish the gar¬ 
nishing. 
But the Little Woman was wiser than 
her husband knew. She had kept that 
parsley on the table all through the win¬ 
ter, so that she might provoke the Big 
Man to garden-making the next spring. 
In this calculation she was not mistaken; 
for, although he had been discouraged 
with the two experiments, yet when he 
came home one warm day in April for a 
half holiday and proposed that they 
should have another garden, the Little 
Woman had already purchased seed and 
contracted -with an Italian to dig up the 
ground. 
This time the Little Woman managed 
the garden all herself. Corn, potatoes, 
pumpkins, and all vegetables requiring 
much space for their growth, were rig¬ 
idly, although in some cases regretfully, 
excluded. On this third year they suc¬ 
ceeded in raising so many luscious vege¬ 
tables that they never again went back to 
the green grocerman. 
Although they did not learn everything 
in the first year or two, and even yet they 
are still learning how to garden on a 
small lot, yet they have done so well that 
they would not think of omitting to plant 
a garden on this general plan : 
1st. They plant only those vegetables 
which can be grown in a limited space, 
planting the seeds in parallel rows, which 
run north and south, so that the sun may 
have an equal chance at every stalk. 
2d. They arrange their crops so that 
two, and often three, different kinds of 
vegetables can be grown on the same 
ground in the same year. This requires 
very rich soil and careful management in 
the rotation, but it can be done somewhat 
after this manner : First planting, which 
can occupy nearly the whole available 
garden space, spinach, radishes, lettuce, 
swiss chard, peas, onions, and beets. Sec¬ 
ond planting, beans, tomatoes, cabbage, 
cauliflower, and summer squashes, all of 
which can be planted between the rows al¬ 
ready occupied by the first planting, if the 
ground is spaded over. Third planting, 
fall peas, celery, and turnips. Turnips can 
be broadcasted over space already occupied 
by almost any other vegetable and left to 
grow after the frost has killed almost ev¬ 
erything else. 
3d. They have secured the continual 
growth of the garden by constant cultiva- 
(Continued on page 188) 
FARR’S HARDY PLANTS FOR 
SPRING PLANTING 
A REMINDER. The swelling of the buds in March reminds 
us it is time to get busy, if the garden picture our fancy has 
created during the Winter evenings is to become a living reality. 
THE LOOK-AHEAD-GARDENER KNOWS that early spring 
is the best time to plant most things, and the only proper time 
to plant some things that should have a prominent place in 
every hardy garden, as: 
Anemones, Hardy Asters, Clirysaidliemums, Pyretlirums, 
Primroses, Campanulas, Tritomas, Foxgloves, Hollyhocks. 
HE KNOWS no time may be lost now; that he cannot afford 
to risk having his garden picture marred by plants inferior, or 
untrue to name, and that he wall save time, annoyance and 
money, by ordering from 
THE LOOK-AHEAD-GROWER, whose complete collections of 
the best things enable him to supply all his needs with the as¬ 
surance that he will get just what he orders without substitution. 
Knowing or wanting to know my plants, he will want My Book: 
“Farr’s Hardy Plants” 
For the information and help which its accurate descriptions 
and suggestions for planting and cultivating will give— mailed 
free on request. Plan your Garden NOW. WRITE ME TODAY. 
Bertrand H. Farr, 
WYOMISSING NURSERIES, 
G43 F. Penn St., Reading:, Pa. 
N. B.— Dickson's Famous Irish Roses, extra heavy dormant plants 
up to April 15th. Established in pots for later planting. 
Gregory’s Honest 
FLOWER SEED OFFER 
We will send you these ten packages of Gregory’s Honest 
Flower Seeds, postpaid, for 25 cents in coin. 
90 cents worth lor 25 cents 
1 pkg. Aster, Gregory'8 Special Fancy Mixture, . . . 10c. 
1 pkg. Pansy, Gregory’s Special Fancy Mixture, . , . 15c. 
1 pkg. Coreopsis, Gregory’s Special Fancy Mixture, . . 05c. 
1 pkg. Poppy, Gregory’s Fancy Double Mixed Annuals, . 10c. 
1 pkg. Mignonette, Gregory’s Large Flowering, very rich, . 10c. 
I pkg. Bachelor Button, Gregory’s Finest Mixture, . , 10c. 
1 pkg. Petunia, Gregory’s Finest Hybrid Mixture, . , • 15c. 
1 pkg. Candytuft, Gregory’s Finest Mixed, .... 05c. 
I pkg. Nasturtium, Dwarf, Finest Mixed,.05c. 
1 pkg. Sweet Peas, Extra Choice Mixed,.05c. 
10 packages sent for 25c in coin. Our 
new 1911 Catalogue, more profusely 
illustrated than ever, is just out. A 
copy to you for the asking. 
J. J. H. GREGORY & SON, 
89 Elm St., Marblehead, Mass. 
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