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House & Garden 
Luscious Strawberries 
From your own Garden 
Two Months after Planting 
The joy of serving delicious fresh-picked straw¬ 
berries from your own garden is beyond compare. 
Your family and your guests will join with you in 
appreciating this tempting delicacy. 
With all the taste and flavor of the strawberry 
then at its best, just after picking, and the pleasure 
and pride at your partnership with nature, you will 
have a delectable dish of fruit of which the taste will 
long remain. 
We have specialized in Strawberry Culture for 
forty-three years. Our reputation and the high qual¬ 
ity of our plants are recognized from one end of the 
country to the other. 
Lovett’s Ready-Grown Strawberry Plants 
10 save you time and labor, and to give you perfect bearing 
FT**!’ 0l ™ s P ec ' a ^ sts months ago carefully placed in the soil the 
A-lother Plants , choosing just the proper kind of soil; and have 
since given them just the right care and attention. Now the 
children are ready to travel to your garden and come into bearing - 
for your home table. 
For Fruit - TTic Fall* The following chosen varieties 
n, r .are all fine pot-grown plants and 
will bear fruit this fall: Champion Everbearing, Francis, Ideal, 
Lucky Boy,. Progressive, and Superb. These are standard ever- 
bearing varieties, with the exception of Lucky Boy and Champion 
Everbearing, which are new sorts, showing great improvement 
m, er varieties. They have our hearty recommendation 
We will send six each (36 in all) for $ 375 ; or a (t7 f\f\ 
dozen of each (72 pot-grown plants in all) for tp/.UU 
For Strawberries Next Spring: yo ^ e t he’three 
wonderful Van Fleet Hybrids, which have created so much favor- 
able attention the country over: Early Jersey Giant, John H. Cook, 
and Edmund Wilson. These will all bear fruit next June. Twelve of 
each varieties (36 pot-grown plants) for $ 3 . 50 ; or O'S' CA 
twenty-five plants of each variety (75 plants) for tpD.DU 
Send Your Order NOW—Before it is too Late I 
■Time and season wait for no one. Send your order to-day and I 
be assured of home-grown strawberries this fall. You’ll never I 
regret it. Once you ve tasted them you’ll always want them 1 
hull directions for planting and care sent with each shipment The 
Plants are shipped with ball of earth, so they will safeh- transplant arc 
carefully and properly wrapped and come to you by express transplant ’ are 
Send for CATALOGUE No. 102, containing complete 
list of varieties with descriptions of unusual clear¬ 
ness. Sent on request. Mention House and Garden. 
*J* T. LOVETT Monmouth Nursery 
Strawberry Specialist for 43 Years 
Box 1 52, LITTLE SILVER, N. J. 
The mesembryanthemums are curious creeping 
plants which store water in their leaves. They are 
grown under glass in winter and outdoors in sum¬ 
mer. This is M. depressum, with yellow flowers 
THE FIG -MARIGOLD 
OR MESEMBRYANTHEMUM 
I ' HE South African flora is two- 
fold: one part is representative of 
tropical Africa, while the other is en¬ 
tirely different, something that is pecu¬ 
liarly its own, and seems to fit the Cape 
Colony. This second is a conglomera¬ 
tion of the southern species directly de¬ 
rived from prehistoric ages, a slightly 
changed remnant of a former geological 
flora. In this class the mesembryanthe- 
mum belongs. 
The beauty of the flowers of the 
mesembryanthemum, the peculiar shape 
of their leaves which, through the thick, 
spongy, succulent network are such a 
contrast to most of the other flowering 
plants, have found numerous friends 
among the lovers of plants. Their en¬ 
tire shape and leaf form show character¬ 
istic adaptations to a dry and somewhat 
desert-like environment. In mesembry¬ 
anthemum the water reservoir is the 
leaf, and the cells of the leaf are com¬ 
paratively large, its walls thin, and its 
protoplasma a thin hollow ring enclos¬ 
ing the slimy cell sap which quickly 
takes up all the moisture absorbed by 
the roots. Then, during periods of con¬ 
tinued drought, water is taken from 
these reservoirs as it is needed. 
The culture of these interesting and 
beautiful plants is very simple if they 
are not kept too warm nor lack a suffi¬ 
cient quantity of fresh air. During the 
winter they should be kept at a tem¬ 
perature ranging between 40° and 50° F. 
Water should be given only on sunny 
days and then in moderate quantities, 
but in summer, especially during the 
vegetative stage, they should receive 
more. These plants should be kept in 
sunny places, for many of the flowers 
open only when they are kept in the sun. 
Mesembryanthemums are planted in 
the spring into quite large pots. At this 
time the fine root hairs of the root balls 
are cut off with a sharp knife, and then 
they are placed in a mixture of humus, 
hotbed soil and sand. The flower pot 
should receive a good foundation of pot¬ 
sherds so that the excess water will 
drain off quickly. Propagation takes 
place through seeds or from cuttings. 
The latter form roots quickly if they 
are placed in a sandy hotbed soil. 
E. Bade. 
Other forms have slender, needle-like 
leaves rising 1' or so above the ground. 
In all there are over 300 species, most 
of them native to South Africa 
