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GARDEN SUPPLIES - INSECTICIDES - FERTILIZERS 
SPHAGNUM FOR 
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It is impossible to germinate 
the use of milled 
sphagnum moss. If you were over your 
seed pans all day long as the professional 
grower is you may find you could get along 
without it, but no professional grower 
would fail to have the fine moss on hand. 
It will save many a packet of valuable seed 
from loss due to an hours neglect, that can- 
not be avoided by one having other duties. 
simply 
many seeds without 
Now packed in 12 bushel boxes contain- 
ing approximately 12 bushel; $1.50 postpaid. 
PEAT MOSS 
Necessary in the germination of many 
seeds such as Ilex, Vacciniums and other 
acid loving plants 
Postpaid 
1 Peck Packages...........ccsccesssessssesseeeee Nessitcrorsses -70 
34” Lee Miseuctdescstecsteosccscasestestesauses 1.30 
ROSE PLANT FOOD 
100% plant food, organic formula of 
dried blood, fish scraps, bone meal, guano, 
potash, cotton seed meal, nitrate of soda, 
sulphate of ammonia, poultry manure 
powder and superphosphate, a 7-8-5 for- 
mula. CNE LB. PKGS. 75¢ 
Du PONT 10% DDT INSECT POWDER 
Controls cockroaches, flees, ants, bed 
bugs, moths, ticks, carpet beetle and sil- 
ver fish. ‘ 
1 Oz. 
3 Oz. 
Puffer Cans, Postpaid............00 -25¢ 
Puffer CanS..cciccceccccessscooncsecnassess .50¢ 
ACTIVO 
Quickly and cheaply makes rich, soil 
building humus from house and garden 
wastes. 
Energizes bed, pot, garden and orchard 
soils. 
COMPOSTING- Bring following types 
of materals into well drained heap, large 
barrel or hogshead, or ventilated garbage 
ean: table scraps, fruit wastes, leaves, 
grass clippings, garden rubbish, sewage 
or sludge, citris pulp, peat, etc: 
Use as much garbage and other rich 
wastes as possible. Neutralize with ground 
limestone, and add a few shovels of or- 
dinary soil for compacting the mass. Mix 
in 1-3 lbs. of ACTIV-O for each (approx) 
250 lbs. compost: Moisten. Keep moist, but 
NOT wet. Use greater amounts of garden 
soil to compact leaves and other light, 
dry materials. 
Better, mix in a handful or so (for each 
bushel of compost)) of commercial fertil- 
izer or plant food or ammonium sulphate, 
ammonium nitrate, etc. 
No.2. (approx. 245 lbs. gross) 
No. 7: (Approx. 614 lbs. gross) 
$1.35 
$2.20 
FERTO POTS 
FERTO-POTS have taken the gardening 
world by storm. Users highly enthusiastic. 
Millions sold. 
Pots made of rich rotted cow manure 
in automatic pot machines and kiln dried. 
No wilt, no set-back; quicker, better re- 
sults if seed, bulbs, plants, cuttings are 
started in FERTO-POTS. When trans- 
planted outdoors pot and all goes into the 
ground. Pots soften up in the moist soil 
and feet the plants. Excellent resulis as 
liners inside clay pots for African Violeis 
and other house plants. FERTO-POTS 
are a boon to professional growers and 
home gardeners alike. Shipped prepaid 
at following prices: (Add 10% for Pacific 
Coast States). 
PRICES: All prepaid by parcel posi. 
No. 2 100—$3.98 ‘00—$11.48 
No.2l2 100—$3.48 250—$5.98 
No 3s 100—$2:98 250—$7.48 
HY-GRO PLANT FOOD 
A SOLUBLE PLANT FOOD 
A soluble plant food that can be used 
while you water your plants. It is immed- 
iately available as the solution penetrates 
into the soil and continues to feed over a 
long period. Will not harm roots or leaves. 
Can also be used in transplanting. Best 
applied to pots when they are dry and 
need watering. 
Starter Solution for Transplanting 
for flower and vegetable seedlings, peren- 
nials, shrubs, etc. Checks wilting and 
gives transplants a healthy start for rapid 
growth. 
FORMULA: 13-26-13 
3 Oz. Bottle. Postpaid 60¢ 
3 Botiles, postpaid $1.10 
HAMMOND’S SLUG SHOT 
Destroys many insects that prey upon 
house and garden plants. 
It is most effective when used as a 
powder and applied lightly over the in- 
fected parts. One application is generraly 
sufficient. 
1 Ib. Cans. POStpaid vo. iccscccscssvesveusoresse 75¢ 
3 Cans. Postpaid............cscosess $1.50 
VERMICULITE 
Special for seed beds, for cuttings or for 
mixing in potting soil. It comes in three 
sized paper bags; the small size will take care 
of the germination needs of the small grower. 
PRICES: 4 qt. bags, 55¢; 2 bushel bags, 
$1.00; 2 bushel bags, $2.45, prepaid by mail. 
PERFECT LABEL 
MARK with ORDINARY LEAD PENCIL 
Mark with your ordinary lead pencil; it is 
permanent and will not fade or become un- 
readible. If you wish to make any changes 
an ordinary erasor will remove the writing. 
PRICES 
5 inch; width of marking space 2 inches: 
12 labels; $1.25;25 for $2.40; 100 $9.25 
7 inch; width of marking space 2..1/8 inches. 
12 labels: $1.50; 25, $2.90; 100,$11.25. 
POT STAKES 
3 inch: 90¢ doz; 250 for $4.00. 
Painted stakes 3/8 inch wide; prepaid. 
4 inch: 65¢ per 100; 1,000 for $4.25. 
5 inch: 70¢ per 100; 1,000 for $4.50. 
8 inch: $1.00 per 100; 500 for $4.75 
10 inch: $1.15 per 100; 250 for $2.50 
SPECIAL GARDEN STAKES: 
7/8 inch wide, painted white: 
8 inch: $1.30 per 100; 250 for $3.00. 
11/8 inch wide; these make an attractve 
and cheap garden stake. 
12 inch: Each 3¢; 25 for 55¢; 100 for $2.00. 
COPPER WIRED TREE, SHRUB TAGS: 
345” long, 5/8’ wide, for tagging trees 
and shrubs; painted white. 
70¢ per 100; 1,000 for $5.50. 
HARRY E. SAIER - DIMONDALE, MICHIGAN 
