Keywords: Everything for the garden (16391145225).jpg Fr sm PETER HEMDEMOM <br> O MEW YOIRH <br> The Kirke Automatic Lawn Feeder <br> It applies the fertilizer while watering and feeds the grass or garden with high grade immediately <br> available concentrated plant food See cuts- Nos 1 and 2 <br> The Kirke fertilizer dispenser is a neat device easily attached to any garden hose It will last <br> a life time and can be used both for Kirke Fertilizer and Insecticide cartridges See cut No 4 <br> The cartridge stick of Concentrated Fertilizer for the lawn and garden and the Nicotine Cart- <br> ridges for the destruction of soft bodied insects dissolve in as much water as will pass through the <br> ordinary garden hose in about five hours They are clean odorless and nonpoisonous and will give <br> perceptible results after one weeks use on the lawn or in the garden <br> The cartridges that fit into the feeder are prepared from the highest grade of concentrated fertilizer <br> absolutely soluble and quick acting A combination to make plants grow and flourish keep the grass <br> green and the flowers in bloom Its available elements of plant food in one tablet are equal to at least <br> SO lbs of good stable manure but contains none of the impurities such as odor unsightly refuse or- <br> seeds of weeds not to speak of the amount of labor required first in distributing and later in removing; <br> the undissolved refuse <br> The fertilizer cartridge is sufficiently hardened to prevent a too rapid wasting but is thoroughly <br> dissolved as it leaves the nozzle or lawn sprinkler and is therefore in a condition to be readily absorbed <br> by the roots of the plants or grass ' <br> The nicotine cartridge is made from a free nicotine which when applied to both indoor and out <br> door vegetation acts as a preventive against aphis thrip green fly rose bug mealy bug etc <br> Price Kirke Fertilizer and Insecticide Dispenser nickel plated as shown in cut No 4 3 00 <br> Mail weight 2 lbs- <br> Price Kirke Fertilizer and Insecticide cartridges S3 00 per dozen Mail weight 8 lbs <br> THE VELVETLAWN SEEDEFv <br> A VALUABLE NEW MACHINE FOR SEEDING NEW LAWNS <br> Also for renovating worn out lawns and bad spots Puts the seed IN old sod or IN newly prepared <br> ground covers and rolls it <br> The Velvetlawn Seeder is a valuable new machine for seeding new lawns and doubly valua- <br> ble for renovating worn out lawns and bad spots in Greens Tennis Courts etc without redigging or <br> plowing and without marring the surface It puts the seed <br> IN newly prepared ground or IN old sod � the seed is dis- <br> tributed very evenly in any desired quantity � wind or no wind <br> not too thick in some places and too thin in others In new <br> ground or soft turf it is easily operated by one man but in old hard sod it may require another person to pull The <br> revolving discs cut narrow trenches the seed being sown in it and immediately behind the discs There are eight of these <br> discs with their accompanying seed spouts These sow 2 inches apart � putting the seed in at any desired depth thus the <br> machine sows a strip 16 inches wide as fast as a man can walk It will sow and cross sow an area 50 x 150 feet in thirty <br> minutes a little roller follows each seed spout thus pressing the soil back and covering the seed As each <br> disc seed spout and roller work individually they therefore adapt themselves to the inequalities of the <br> ground � insuring a perfectly even stand of grass Price Hand Power Velvet Lawn Seeder complete with <br> press wheels net 15 00 <br> The Henderson Double Hopper Wheelbarrow Seeder <br> Sows Grass Seed Mixtures as well as Heavy Seeds or Light Chaffy Seeds <br> This is a superior Seeder One side of the Seed Box is adapted for all such heavy seeds as clover timothy; <br> millet alfalfa Hungarian etc The opposite side handles the light chaffy <br> seeds as Red top Kentucky blue Orchard grass etc as well as grass seed <br> mixtures for golf pasture hay lawns etc The machine may be easily regu- <br> lated to sow any desired quantity per acre sowing it accurately and evenly <br> the whole length of the hopper � 14 feet � and it does not clog up The total <br> weight of thj machine is only 40 pounds The hopper is perfectly balanced <br> and is close to the large wheel � giving greatest force with least exertion <br> and leaving light weight on the operator Every machine warranted to do <br> good work and of especial value on a windy day Full directions with each <br> seeder Price 110 00 <br> THE KIRKE FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTOR 43874977 149634 78295 Page 185 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/43874977 c1915 10 5962/bhl title 78295 Henry G Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection ; Peter Henderson Co Biodiversity Heritage Library Everything for the garden 1915 Garden Stories Books Bulbs Plants Catalogs Equipment and supplies Flowers Gardening Lawn mowers Seeds U S Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library bhl page 43874977 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/43874977 bhlGardenStories BHLinbloom bulbs plants u s department of agriculture national agricultural library bhlgardenstories bhlinbloom Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2015-01-28 Check categories 2015 August 25 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/16391145225 2015-08-25 01 53 55 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 Everything for the garden 1915 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script |