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GARDEN MAGAZINE

Devoted to Planting and Managing the Grounds About the Home
and to the Cultivation of Fruits, Vegetables and Flowers

Volume XIII

February, 1911, to July, 1911

( pct 29 1986

LiskAne 7

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

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INDEX TO THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Volume XIII —Pebruary comm tom) wlypa ion

Abrus, 370.

A. C. A., articles by, 264, 318.

Adams, H. S., articles by, 74, 240.
photograph by, 116.

Age, plants for, 156.

Alder, 156.*

Alexander, J. K., dahlia list by, 231

Ally, D. D., photograph by, 18.

Altheas, where to plant, 308.

Amateur’s Peach Orchard, An, 28.*

American Pomological Society meeting,

Anderson, H. C., article and photograph
by, 376.

Andrews, D. M., photograph by, 354.

Anemones, 15,* 16,* 17,* 294, 295,*
296,* 354.*
A Note from England, 278.
Japanese, 312.*

Angell, H. E., articles, 134, 239.

photographs by, 346, 348, 357-

Angell, I. M., articles and photographs
by, 28, 214, 312, 372, 374.

Annual Flowers, 256.

Annuals, how to grow, 74.*

Another Experience with Asparagus from
Seed, 104.

Answers to Queries, 42, 132, 330.

Aphis, 32.
woolly, 330.

Apple trees, renovating, 332.

Apples for all year, 332.
wild, grafting, 208.

Arabis, 87.*
growing from cuttings, 318.

Arbor Day, 170.*

Arborvite, 351.*

Arches 20e

Arctotis, 192.*

Asparagus from seed, 104.

Association of Herbs and Cooked Meats,
The, 9o.

Aster border, 21.*

Asters and sweet peas, 50.*

Autumn, plants for, 156.

Avenues, plants for, 156.

Azalea, 27.* ,
repotting, 138.

Backyard Gardening, Money in, 170.
The, so.

Balance in the Flower Garden, 164.*

Banks and bluffs, plants for, 156.

Barron, Leonard, photographs by, 10,
Mit, 50s

Barrows, Anna, articles by, 25, go.

photographs by, 25.

Barton, Richard, article and photograph
by, 252.

Basket flower, 264.

Baskets, hanging, how to water, 360.

Bean poles, plants for, 374.*

Beans, 200.

Bedding, different styles of, 234.
Plants, How to Grow, 236.

Beds, how to make, 272.*

Beets, 200.

Belemcanda, 8-f.

Best of all the Tropical Fruits, 18.*
Low Conifers, The, 254.
Plants for Special Purposes, The, 156.*

B. F. O., article by, 378.

B. G., articles by, 8-/, 128, 214, 258, 376.

Biggers, J. W., articles and drawings by,
244, 316.

Bit of Blue and White, A, 176.

Copyrighted, 1911, by DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO.
The asterisk (*) signifies that the subject 1s illustrated

Blackberry lily, 8-f.
Blackberries, pruning, 266.
Blue and Yellow Combination, A, 244.
Eyed African Daisy, The, 192.*
Bogula, Otto, article by, 236.
Book Reviews, 48, 378.
Border of asters, 21.*
hardy, 305.7
plants, 233.
Borders, how to make, 272.*
Boy’s market garden, 167.*
Bringing Wild Flowers Into the Garden,
298.* :
Brown, A. C., article by, 250.
C. N., photograph by, 169.

E. Stanley, dahlia list by, 230.
G. F., article by, 302.
tail moth, how to destroy, 184.
Bulb Department, 8-/, 66
hardy, 332.
Bulbs, dahlia, 12:*
failing, 332.
keeping old, 27.
Bulkley, Louis C., article by, 104.

Bullard, F. L., article and photograph
by, 212.
Bullock, Benjamin, 3rd, photographs by,
307-
S. H., article by, 307.
Burlap, uses for, in gardening, 130.
Business methods on the farm, 302.
Busy Spring Commences, The, 30.*
Butterfly flower, 76*.

C., article by, 362.
Cabbage, 200.
bursting, 360.
Cages to Protect Corn from Crows, 214.*
(Callas, Say
Candytuft for Edging, 258.
Canna, 42.
roots, 12.*
Canning vegetables, 311.*
Carpenter, Jessie J., article and photo-
graph by, 170.
Carpeting plants, 157.
Cast-off Cracker Boxes for Seedlings,
By
Cats in the garden, 22.
Cauliflower, 200.
Cedars, red, 155.*
white, 351.*
Celery, 77,* 202, 362.
caterpillar, 358.
in Florida, 76,* 96.
in pails, 244.*
Some Points About, 204.
Cemeteries, plants for, 157.
Centaurea, 74,* 264.
C. E. R., article by, 204.
Chamedaphne, 48.*
Chestnut, 238.*
Children’s garden contest, prize winners
in the, 102.
Gardens Everywhere, 23, 88, 171, 241,
309, 358.
Chrysanthemum, root cuttings, 11.*
Chrysanthemums, 83.*
‘single, 256, 258.*
Clarke, Daniel A., article by, 48.
Clematis, 347,* 348.*
Japan, 346.*
C. L. M., article by, 46
Clothes for garden wear, 334.*
Clover seed, 332.
Coal ashes, 332.
Cobcea, 74.*

Coldframes and Hotbeds, 202.
Color combinations, 176, 244.
harmony, laws of, 234.
Near the House, 312.
Concerning Celery in Florida, 96.
Yellow Larkspur, 378.*
Concrete lily pond, 122.*
Connell, C. E., article by, 112.

Conover, M. Roberts, articles by, 32,

98, 311, 362.
photographs by, 34, I00, 190, 311,
B20), BED, AEB
Cooked meats and herbs, go.
Cooking squash, 25.*
Cooperation in Farming, 12.
Corn, 200.
raising with dynamite, 250.
what and when to plant, 312.
Corner in Celery, A, 362.
Cosmos, 74,* 86.*
Crocheron, B. H., articles by, 12, 268.
Crop rotation, 296.
Cucumbers for Six on Ten Square Feet,
176.
on a Trellis, 372.*
Cut flowers, keeping, 308.
Cutting, A. B., article and photograph
by, 276.
Cutworm, 358.*

Daffodil, branching, 330.
Dahlia bulbs, 11.*
Culture, The Whole Subject of, 226.*
Dahlias, prize, growing, 231.
selected for a home garden, 230.
Daisy, African, 192.*
Damson plum, 326.*
Dandelion Greens for Spring, 276 *
Daturas, 132.
Dawson, Jackson T.,
Medallist, 212.*
De Kenson, J. A., article by, 116.
Design for a Lath House, 368.*
Destroying Scales on Ferns, 175.
the gypsy and brown tail moths, 184.
Dianthus, 75.*
Dibble, home-made, 316.*
Dick, Walter, photograph by, 302.
Dictamnus, 126.*
Different Styles of Bedding, Some, 234.*
Dimock, Julian A., photographs by, 77,
78.
Discoveries of a Southern Amateur, 246.
Doogue, Luke J.,_articles by, 60, 243,
278, 345.
photographs by, 10, I1, 12, 62, 91,
243, 278, 345.
Drain, how to make a, 272.
Dreyer, Mrs. J. W., article and photo-
graphs by, 82.
Drives, plants for, 157.
Drought resisters, 157.
Duffy, Sherman R., article by, 316.
photographs by, 22, 87, 318.
Dynamite, planting fruit trees with, 176.
Raising Corn with, 250.

Second White

Early planted potatoes, 104.*
Summer Reminders, 264.

Easy Construction for a Lily Pond, 124.
Money from Onions, 198.
Way to Enjoy a Vision of Roseland,

An, 116.*

E. D. D., article by, 312

Edging, Candytuft for, 258.
of sod, 308.

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- Edgings, fragrant, 157.

E. E. S., article by, 102.

Egan, W. C., articles by, 126, 138, 244.

Egg plants, 200. ‘

Eldredge, Arthur G., photographs by, 80,
81, 83, 86, 135, 154, 155, 174, 175, 226,
227, 228, 229, 233, 260, 279, 300, 312,
326, 335, 346, 357.

Ellerman, Ernest, article by, 198.

Endive, 308.

E. S. J., articles by, 27, 175.

Evans, Mary, article by, 364.

Evergreens for the Northwest,
moving, 252.*

Everlasting Pea, The, 126.*

Exhibitions Worth Seeing, 210.

Extending the Strawberry Season, 240.

350.*

Fairchild, David, photograph by, 309.

Farm business methods, 302.
products, how to sell, 302.*

Farming, Cooperation in, 12.

Ferns, destroying scales on, 175.

Few Newer Gardens of the West, A, 169.

Field Crops, 110.

Finest of Pentstemons, The, 120.

Five Crops of Vegetables From the Same
Plot in One Season, 92.

Florida, celery in, 76,* 96.
lettuce in, I10.

Photographic Concern, photograph by,
306.
Flower beds, 232,* 233,* 235.*
plants for, 157.
garden, balance in the, 164.
succession through the year, 304.

Flowers for Sun and Shade, 36. ~

the Fall, 314. -

Forced Plants, Repotting, 138.

Ford, Lena Smith, article by, 353.

photographs by, 353, 364.

Forsythia, 157,* 244.

Foxgloves, 305,* 359.*

Fragrant edgings, 157.

Frame for All-Year Use, A, 38.

Fruit Garden, The, 28, 98, 266, 320.
Juices for Hot-Weather Drinks, 362.
planting to advantage, 266.
tree, how to buy and plant, 166.*
trees, planting with dynamite, 176.

summer pruning, 320.*

Fuel, different kinds of, 174.*

“Fun” of Collecting Anemones, The,
15,* 294,* 354."

Gaining Time on the Summer Flowers,
TOs
Garden Enemies, 184.
on a city lot, 20.*
Operations, 241.* }
Pests, 358.* }
plan, how to make, 4o.
Prizes, 358.*
Publications, 48, 378.
Reminder, 178.*
scene, 135.*
Gardener’s Golden Rule, The, 343.
Gardening ‘‘Costume” for Women, A,
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in the backyard, 170.
Gardens of New England, 168.*
the West. 169.*
hillside, plants for, 157.
Permanent Materials for. 154.*
rock, plants for, 157.
Garrigues, H., article and photographs
by, 27.

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Gas Heating for Victorias Outdoors, 344.*
plant, 126.*
stove, 174.*
Gay Little Prayer Bean, The, 370.
Gayman, H. M., photograph by, 310.
Geranium, 10.*
Getting Choice Petunias, 206.”
Down to Business, 153.
Gibbons, William F., article by, 362.
Gifford, John, articles by, 18, 306
photographs by, 19. hs
Gilbert, A. C., article by, 244.
Gill, Mrs. S. A., article by, 312.
Gladiolus, 30,* 260.*
Glassless Hotbed, A, 202.
Glen Brothers, photograph supplied by,
238.
Good and Bad Taste in Bedding, 232.*
Goodrich, B., article by, 118.
Grafting roses, 11.*
Wild Apples, 208.
Graves, H. B., article by, 20.
Mrs. N. B., article by, 176.
Nathan R., photographs by, 8-, 10, 11,
20, 21, 48, 57, 74, 75, 76, 126, 130,
138, 154, 156, 157, 208, 217, 228, 232,
295, 298, 347, 348, 355, 357) 378-
Gray, Walter M., dahlia list by, 231.
Greene, M. L., photographs by, 88, 89.
Nat. S., article by, 92.
Greenhouse interior, 1.*
starting vegetables in, 198.
Grinstead, H. F., article by, 194, 266.
Grow Your Own Callas, 8-/.*
Growing Arabis from Cuttings, 318.
asparagus from seed, 104.
celery in Florida, 76, 96.*
Roses in Pails, 244.
seedlings in cracker-boxes, 28.*
Strawberries for What’s in Them, 239.*
Tree Tomatoes, 206.*
Guarding Against Insect Pests, 98.*
Guava, 306.*
Gypsy moth, how to destroy, 184.

Hales, J. H., photograph by, 239.
Hall, Eugene J., photographs by, 228,
Agpicn Te
Handy Repairer, A, 243.*
Hardiness of the Common Hydrangea
128.*
Hardy Annual for Cutting, A, 264.
Hardy Border, The, 126, 233, 305.*
Cape Bulb, A, 380.
Harmony in the garden, 164.*
Harrow, 190,* 297.*
Hathaway, W. D., dahlia list by, 230
Harvey, E. T., article by, 344.
photographs by, 344, 345, 357
H. D. P+ articles by, 138, 262.
Hedge, hemlock, 155.*
how to start, 46.
Hedges, 157.
Hemlock, 154.*
hedge, 155.*
Hendrie, I. L., photographs by, 169.
Hepatica, 15, 16.*
Herbs and Cooked Meats, go.
Hesperis, 138,* 360.
Hill, Elizabeth, photographs by, 88, 359.
Hillside gardens, 157.
Hints for Making a Garden Plan, 4o.
Holst, P. N., articles by, 76, 110.
photograph by, 78.
Homans, Susan J., article by, 300.
Home-made Contrivances, 38, 134, 214,
316.
Plant Protectors, 134.*
Hot Weather Work, 370.
Hotbed, 167.*
without glass, 202.
House Plant Troubles to Guard Against,
Bone
Plants, 60.
Household hints, 91.
Housekeeper, The, 25, 90, 174, 243, 311,
361.
Housekeeping Discoveries, 243.
How a City Man Revolutionized the
Selling of Farm Products, 302.*

INDEX TO THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

How a Pergola Redeemed a Back
Yard, 82.*
Everyone Can Grow Muskmelons, 262.
I Grow My Prize Dahlias in a Back
Yard. 231.
Propagated Roses, 362.
Bedding Plants, 236.
Make a Dibble, 316.*
Space-Saving Bean Trellis, 312.
Beds and Borders, 272.
Reminder Really Remind, 293.
Move Big Evergreens, 252.*
Prune a Shrub, 182.*
H. S. A., articles by, 66, 120, 126, 312,
322, 370.
Hudson, Leslie, article by, to.
Hull, Virginia, article by, 312.
Hydrangea, 130.*
climbing, 347.*

Iberis, 258.
Impatiens, 22, 34.
Improving the Soil, 132.
Inarching a rubber plant, 62.*
Inexpensive Water Lily Pond, An, 353.*
Insecticides, pure, law for, 114.
Insects’ eggs, trap for, 312.
guarding against, 98.*
Instead of Labels, 262.
Interior of greenhouse, 1.*
Irises, making money from, 326.
Trish, H. C., article by, 236.

Jelly Glass Gardening, 250.

Jenkins, W. H., articles and photographs
by, 166, 324.

Jensen, Jens, photograph by, 169.

J. L. K., article by, 120.

Johnson, Roosevelt, article by, 34.

July Planting, Vegetables for, 356.

Juniper, dwarf, 351.*

Kalmia, 156.*
Kansas Gay Feather, The, 322.*
Keeping a Rubber Plant Healthy, 60.*
cut flowers, 308.
Weeds out of Paths, 338.*
Keeler, Lucy E., article and photograph
by, 92.
Keller, E. E., photograph by, 233.
King, Mrs. Francis, article by, 164.
photographs by, 164, 165.
Kitchen, 26.*
Kohlrabi, 308.
Kruhm, Adolph, article by,. 170.
photograph by, 158.

Labels, new ideas in, 360.

substitute for, 362.
Larkspur, yellow, 378.*
Lath house, design for, 368.*
Lathyrus, 126, 128.*
Laurel, mountain, 156.*
Lawn, making, 108.

wood ashes on, 44.
Leather Leaf, The, 48.*
Letting Roses Climb a Tree, 118.*
Lettuce, 78,* 200.

Growing in Florida, ro.
Liatris, 322.*
Rilacw1sae se.
Lilium, 87.
Lily-of-the-valley, 10.*

pond, how to build, 122.*
Limas, planting, 308.
“Tiving” Bean Poles, 374.*
L. L. D., article by, 175.

McCollom, W. C., articles by, 346, 356.
McFarland, J. H., photographs by, 157.
McFate, Elsie, article by, 298.
McIlvaine, Frances E., article by, 362.
Magnolia, 155.*

Mahoney, Edward, photographs by, 241,

242, 310.

Making a Garden in a City Yard, 20.*
Long Bean Season, 94.*
Strawberry Bed, 194.

Cosmos Bloom Early, 86.*
the Most of the Squash, 25.*
Water Effects a Feature, 349.*

Making Your lawn Now, 108.

Mango, 18,* 19.*

Mason, F. H., article and photograph by,
368.

Meller, C. L., articles and photographs
by, 79, 122, 124, 182, 338, 350, 351,
352.

Melons, watering, 362.

Mertensia, 244.

Metcalfe, Elizabeth Tyree, article by,
334.

Method of watering, 172.*

M. H. N., article by, 175.

Mice, 42.

Milla uniflora, 360.

Miller, L. K., photograph by, 17
Wilhelm, articles by, 15, 154, 232,

294, 354.

Missouri Botanical Garden, photographs
by, 235.

Mitchell, Sydney B., articles by, 36, 108,
256, 264, 366.

photograph by, 258.

Moles, 22.

Money from growing irises, 326.
in Backyard Gardening, 170.

Montbretia, 380.

Month’s Reminder, The, 9, 73, 153, 225,
293, 343-

Moore, Percival, article by, 243.

Morris, Robert T., article by, 237.

photograph by, 238.

Morrison, Edward, article and photo
graph by, So.

Morton, Verne, photograph by, 155.

Most Rugged of the Hardy Evergreens,
The; 350."

Mountain laurel, 156.*

Moving big evergreens, 252.*

M. R. C., articles by, 190, 320.

Multiple Uses of the Guava, The, 306.

Muser, Mabel J., photograph by, 23.

Muskmelons, 262.

Narcissus, 57.*
Nash, Anna, photograph by, 359.
Nasturtiums as a Screen, 278.*
in Mounds, 214.
Nature-Made Rock Gardens, 316.*
Nelson, L. H., article and photograph
by, 206.
New Celery Culture, A, 244.*
England gardens, 168.*
Use for Burlap, 130.
Way to Water Melons, A, 362.
Nicotiana, 22.
Northend, Mary H., article by, 304.
photographs by, 168, 175, 230, 304,
305, 357-
Northwest, hardy evergreens for, 350.*
Novel Traps for Insects’ Eggs, A, 312.
Novelties and Rarities, 192.
Now, or Not at All, 225.
Nushka, article by, 208.
Nuts, Why Not Grow, 237.*

O'Connell, Howard, photograph by, 24.
Oil stove, 175.*
Old-fashioned border, 305.*
* Time Gas Plant, The, 126.*
One Woman’s Summer Garden, 304.*
Onions, 202.

money from, 198.
Oven, 174.*
Overton, Daniel H., article by, 362.
Oyster Plant, The, 312.

Pacific Coast Reminder, 36, 108, 264,
366.
Parsley, 202.
Paths, clearing of weeds, 338.*
Peaches, how to grow, 28.*
Pearl Achillea, 360.
Peas, sowing for succession, 308.
Sparrows and a Hoodoo, 274.
Pentstemons, 120.
wild, 318.*
Peppers, 94,* 200.
Pergola, 82.*
plants for, 157.

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Permanent Materials for Your Garden,
154.*
Perrine, U. R., article by, 86.
Perry, Roger N., article by, 167.
photographs by, 24, 167.
Personal Experiences, 27, 92, 312, 362.
Pests, remedies for, 297.
Petunias, choice, 206, 208.*
Phlox, 244.*
Pines, white, 176.*
Plan Making, 89.
Planning the garden, 40, 84,* 154.*
Plant for a West Window, A, 43.
Winter Beauty, 175.
Gladiolus Now, 260.*
Now for Fall Flowers, 83.*
protectors, 134.*
Planting a fruit tree, 166.*
altheas, where, 308.
around a house, 154,* 307.*
corn, 312.
for succession, 176.
Fruit to Advantage, 266.
Trees with Dynamite, 176.
lima beans, 308.
tables, vegetable, 159, 160, 161, 162,
163, 170, 241.
for July, 356.
Plants as bean poles, 374.*
for age effects, 156.
autumn, 156.
avenues, 156.
banks and bluffs, 156.
bedding, 232,* 233,* 235,* 236.
carpeting, 157.
cemeteries, 157.
drives, 157.
edgings, 157.
flower beds, 157.
pergola, 157.
rock gardens, 157.
screens, 157.
seaside, 157.
shade, 157.
special purposes, 156.*
Plow, 190.*
Plum Trees in the Poultry Yard, 324.*
Plummer, Agnes, photograph by, 169.
Poinsettia, 27.*
Points for Water Gardening, 364.*
on Starting a Hedge, 46.
Pond Construction, 122.*
Poppy, oriental, 154.*
seedlings, transplanting, 360.
Porch, how to screen, 360.
H. W., photographs by, 241, 242.
Potato beetle, 358.*
Potatoes, 106.*
Poultry manure, 44.
yard, plum trees in the, 324.*
Powell, Julie A., article by, 104.
photograph by, 106.
Practical and Impractical Ideas from
England, 3o01.*
Celery Culture in Florida, 76.*
Practical Hints for Beginners, 122, :76,
244.
Prayer bean, 370.
Prepare for Pests, 297.
Preparing the Soil, 190.*
Prize Winners in the Children’s Contest,
The, 102.
Profit in Sweet Potatoes, 180.
of Planting Potatoes Early, The, 104.*
Propagating roses, 362.*
Protecting against rot, 132.
corn from crows, 214.*
Protectors for seedlings, 134.
Pruning Blackberries, 266.
Fruit Trees in Summer, 320.*
right and wrong, 182.*
root, 176.*
the orchard, 44.

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Quack Grass for Pasture, 112.
Quick Results in a Renter’s Garden, 79.*

Raising Corn with Dynamite, 250
Snapdragons from Seed, 27.*
Rank Heresy That Pays, A, 296.*

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Rawley, Estelle M., article by, 176.
Raynal, Charles E., articles by, 246,
274.
Reader’s Experience Club, 22, 87, 173,
308, 360.
Ready-Made Planting Tables for Any
Garden, 158.*
Recipes, 26.
Red cedars, 155.*
spider, 34.
Rejuvenation of Azaleas and Poinsettias,
The, 27.*
Remedy for Wire Worms, A, 362.
Reminder for the Pacific Coast, 36, 108,
264, 366.
the Month’s, 9, 73, 153, 225, 293, 343-
Repotting azalea, 138.
Forced Plants, 138.
Rescuing Worn-Out Bulbs, 27.
Re Shore, Grace, article by, 260.
Rhodes, Emily, article by, 83.
Richards, Rosalind, article by, 194.
Richardson, Archie, article by, 250.
Righenzi, A., article by, 231.
Right Way to Buy and Plant a Fruit
Tree, The, 166.*
Plan Walks,
The, 84.*
Robinson, William, anemone note by,
278.
Rock garden, 92,* 157, 316.
Rocket, 138.*
Rogers, W. S., articles by, 40, 84, 272,
349.
Roof garden, children’s, 309.*
Root cuttings, chrysanthemums, 11.*
Pruning Before Starting, 176.*
Rose border, 116,* 232.*
Department, 116.
Garden That Gave Results, A, 80.*
of Two Seasons, A, 376.
Roses, 80,* 157.
grafting, I1.*
in pails, 244.
on apple tree, 118.*
propagating, 362.
Ross, Helen W., article and photograph
by, 176.
Rot, protecting against, 132.
Rotation of crops, 296.
R. P. J., article by, 130.
Rubber plant, 60,* 62.*
Ryan, Frank M., article by, 38.

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Lawns and Beds,

Sage, 75-*
Salad, Spinach, 175.*
Salpiglossis, 74.*
Salvia, 75.*
Sanderson, E. D., photographs by, 358.
S. B. M., article by, 326.
Scales on ferns, destroying, 175.
Schizanthus, 76.* ¢
Screening the porch, 360.
vines for, 348.*
Screens, plants for, 157.
Scudder, Myron T., article by, 174.
Seaside, plants for, 157.
Secret of Certain Annuals, The, 74.*

INDEX TO THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Seed, raising snapdragons from, 27.*
Tests, 23.
Seedling shrubs, 308.
Seedlings, growing, 28.*
protectors for, 134.*
thinning, 310.*
Self-Supporting Hobby, A, 326.
Selling farm products, 302.*
Send for the Catalogues, 9.
Seymour, E. L. D., articles by, 158, 184
S. H. A., article by, 362.
Shade, flowers for, 36.
plants for, 157.
Shannonhouse, R. S., article by, 176.
Shaw, Ellen Eddy, articles by, 23, 88,
170, 241, 309, 358.
Showiest Permanent Flowering Vine,
The, 300.*
Shrubs, 157.
how to prune, 182.*
seedling, 308.
Sinclair, Gladys H., article by, 202.
Single Chrysanthemums Treated as
Annuals, 256.* 5
Small Fruits, 194.
gardens, schemes for, 242.
greenhouse, starting vegetables in, 198.
Snapdragons, 75.*
from seed, 27.*
Sod edging, 308.
Soil, improving, 132.
preparation, 190.*
Some Old New England Gardens, 168.*
Points About Celery, 204.
Something about Corn, 312.
Sowing peas, 308.
Soule, Etta Rich, article by, 27.
South, vegetables in the, 246.
Southern Department, 30, 94, 178, 246,
314, 370.
Summer Begins, The, 248.*
Spraying, 96.
Spinach Salad, 175.*
Spring in the South, 30.*
Star Flower, The, 66.*
Work for Every New Englander, 184.*
Spruce, 350,* 352.*
Squash bug, 358.*
how to cook, 25.*
Standen, George, articles by, 176, 198.
Starting Vegetables Indoors, 198.
Steed, Thomas J., articles by, 13, 30,
94, 178, 180, 248, 314, 370.
photographs by, 13, 14, 30, 96, 178,
248.
Story of a Boy’s
Garden, The, 167.*
Stove, gas, 174.*
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Strawberry, 239.*
Alpine, 240.
bed, how to make, 194.
Street trees, 158.
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planting vegetables for, 92, 176.

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photograph by, 192.

photograph

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159, 160,

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MAGAZINE

The Readers’ Service will give you
tnjormation about motor boats

7

Here is the most important announcement ever made
to poultry raisers, professional or amateur. Everyone
knows that it is not the chickens hatched that meas-
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VICK QUALITY SEEDS

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These three vegetables, grown from Vick Quality
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IR ONDEQUOIT. Vick’s Favorite Muskmelon. Fruit

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Packet, 10cents; 14 ounce, 30 cents; ounce, 50 cents.
GOLDEN NUGGET. The Finest of all Sweet

* (Corn. Large ears, filled
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earstoastalk. Packet, 10 cents; 3 pint, 20 cents; pint, 30

cents; quart, 50 cents.
EARLIANA Vick’s Improved Strain. of this Tomato
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Packet, 10 cents; 42 ounce, 35cents; ounce, 60 cents. :
These vegetables and many other favorites are described and illus-
trated in Vick’s Garden and Floral Guide, a real helper to all who
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The Readers’ Service will give information
about the latest automobile accessories

Two Hall Brooder Systems and interior of the Brooder

House at Kenotin Farm, Washington Mills, N. Y.

THE GARDEN MeAGae7ZiONs

CATALOGUE
IS READY—NOW!

Describes and illustrates
the Hall Mammoth In-
cubator and Hall Brooder
Systems, and shows some
of the farms on which
the Hall Equipments
are proving satisfactory

beyond competitive com-

parison.

Also, a new Edition of the “RESULTS” Booklet is from

the press.

THE HALL MAMMOTH INCUBATOR Co.,

It contains 31 letters on satisfactory service.

Utica, New York

Money in
7) Early Tomatoes
One of my customers sold $102.35
Y, worth of big, red tomatoes from 100
Y plants in his back yard.
Another from 14 plants in her flower garden
4 sold 312 lbs. during July and Augustfor $16.70.
It’s all in the knowing how and in using the right
seed. They used my new tomato—

FIELD’S EARLY JUNE
Earlier than Earliana, as handsome as Stona, as solid a

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A New Hydrangea

(Snowball Hydrangea—Hills of Snow)

The Hydrangea has always been a favorite garden shrub,
We offer a new one which pos- <
sesses, in addition to its
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merit of flowering :
all summer and
is perfectly hardy.
Catalogue con-

descrip-

Perfect Equipment is THE Secret of Our Suchen

With the experience gained in operating the Largest Poultry Plant in the World, our knowledge of the

several makes of incubators is greater than the manufacturers’.

For the sake of economy WE built an

incubator giving results never secured by any other make, and
we now offer it to the public. The

eee

HUMID

=" _Incubator

is responsible for our great success, and will give to the struggling beginner all of the

profits and none of the losses.

Absolutely automatic in every function, unvariable

temperature, certain moisture from the moment of starting the hatch until nature
requires a cessation in order to properly dry the newly-hatched unit of future profit—
so thoroughly safeguarding its entrance into poultrydom as to guarantee its livability

when raised under the very acme of ‘Foster Mothers,” the

INTERNATIONAL SANITARY HOVERS

This Hover makes possible the rearing of the maximum of chicks and the minimum of deaths—

90% to 95% live and thrive and grow.
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It is the only device that contains the active principle

Our best efforts are centered in the production of Day-Old-Chicks and Hatching Eggs

from matured stock.

No pullets’ eggs are used except for table purposes.

We have just completed our 1911 catalogue on incubators and hovers, also our stock
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come to either or both of these catalogs. Send to-day.

INTERNATIONAL POULTRY SALES COMPANY

Home Office, Box 330, Brown’s Mills-in-the-Pines, N. J.

Branch, 21 Barclay Street, New York City

FEBRUARY, 1911

HAVE A FINE LAWN
IN SHORT TIME ©

The use of Wizard Brand Pulver-
ized Sheep Manure on your lawn
will make it a cleaner, better lawn
than you ever had before. No
unsightly appearance or objection-
able odor. A. highly concen-
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PULVERIZED
SHEEP MANUREg

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will come surely and quickly if |
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Manure is used for top-dressing }\
and mulching in the Spring. Is
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brings no weed seeds. ~)

| A Beautiful Lawn

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Pulverized Sheep Manure
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Write for quantity prices and literature.
Select stock ready for quick shioment

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Wizard Brand is handled by all first class

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‘ The Readers’ Service will give ;
Fepruary, 1911 , 4h H E G A R D E N M A G A Lj I N E Remain aha automobiles Sa

The Seeds Issued By The
D. Landreth Seed Company

are largely grown by that Seed Establish-
ment on the Bloomsdale Farms situated at
Bristol, Pennsylvania.

Those other Seeds which are purchased | Recs Re mT

are the best obtainable, from the most fam-

ae growers in the United States and in How Any One Can
urope.
The Landreth Seed Establishment was Grow Mushrooms

Delightful Occupation — Delicious Delicacy for the
Home Table and a Good Income if you Wish

founded in 1784, now 127 years ago, during

all of which time the House has held an en- e have peony stowing mushrooms for over profit and making a good income without Be
° ee . ° twelve years. probably know more about the terfering with their regular occupation, with this
viable position in the American Seed Trade. subject of mushroom culture than anyone else in wonderful, easy, pleasant pastime. I hope soop
emcee ‘ Axor i sat with A few follars that a mushroom bed will be as common as
0 capita uilt up the largest mushroom farm in vegetable gardens.

Send us NOW your address and applica- America, with acres of bed space in cultiva- I have written a little book which gives
. ’ tion. By actual experience I have learned just truthful, reliable, experienced information about
tion for Landreths Seed Catalogue one of how mushrooms can be grown, and what’s even mushroom culture, where mushrooms can be
‘ h ? F mote Boporant how they Coe Bee be ero ' grow, how to have o mushroom bed an your
rowing mushrooms is really no more difficult cellar, etc. Italso tells about spawn and how
the best publis ed of Seed Catalogues,which ean growing radishes, " to secure fo reliable spawn. I shall gladly

0 0 0 t’s just a matter of knowing how. send you this book Free.
also contains an album of Farm Views, iIn- Every failure in the mushroom business If you have never tried mushroom growing,
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dicating the ability of the Lanareths to do information. causes of which I have spoken, write for my
iL is . I have shown sehousancs of men and women tee ook, ial which ee show you beyond
ow to grow mushrooms successfully. Mosta the shadow of a doubt that you can have a fine

WwW at t ey undertake. of them are now in the business growing for mushroom bed. Address

With each Catalogue sent will be mailed a packet A. V. JACKSON
of a very desirable new Squash. Jackson Mushroom Farm

5974 North Western Ave. Chicago, If.

CHEAP FERTILIZER
Oyster Shell Lime

ground fine, so it can be used in a distributor, and
a burner used in burning it that makes

Beautifully illustrated catalogue, 144 large A Fine Fertilizer A Fine Germicide for Trees
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ESCHSCHOLTZIA THORBURNI Oyster Shell Lime
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Hardy Annual—Sow Outdoors in Spring will prevent rust in Cotton
The grandest of all will prevent shedding in Cotton

Eschscholtzias. will double the yield of Cabbages and other vegetables.

The unopened buds
on outer side of petals
are of the deepest crim-

Se ns ee It Unlocks Phosphoric and Potash
inner side to bright flame Deposits In the Land

color and molten gold.

Cheap freight rates

We-will mail a packet of and makes available, and makes one of the best all-
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33 BARCLAY STREET, and 38 PARK PLACE, NEW YORK
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<p The Readers’ Service will give you
s-— ] suggestions jor the care of live-stock

for any building—
for any institution—
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Td No matter where you want water, or how much
you want, or under what conditions you want
it, it will pay you to investigate the

Kewanee System
of Water Supply

No city water system provides better water supply
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Thousands of Kewanee Systems are in use
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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Abolish the Ash-Barrel.

It’s a nuisance, a menace to health
and_a constant fire risk. Adopt this
modern Receiver for ashes and all
cellar refuse. Fire-proof, sanitary,
out of sight. Top flush with floor.
Easy to sweep into.

Cabbage Plants

grown in the open air will stand
great cold; from seed grown by the
best Seedsmen on Long Island,
New York. Price $1.00 per thou-
sand F. O. B. here. Count and
quality guaranteed.

Special Express Rates

The Sea Island Plant & Seed Co.

MEGGETTS, S. C.

Before the Furnace.

=
Underfloor Refuse Receiver
Another great problem has been what to do with
Garb use in Winter. The or-
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and w he n the collector pounds the
can to empty it, he ruins the can.
This is avoided by using the
Stephenson Underground
Garbage Receiver.
Sold direct from factory. Circulars
of each Sree.
C. H. STEPHENSON, Mfr.,
40 Farrar St., Lynn, Mass.

Open with the Foot.
No Freezing. No Odors.

Frpruary, 1911

Grow Von Own Callas

OW that the calla has, and deservedly, a

vogue no longer restricted to funerals, it

is well to bear in mind the ease with which this
stately flower may be grown.

In a large pot or tub it flourishes mightily in
an ordinary bay window, if kept well watered dur-
ing the blooming season; but the grandest of all
places for it — that is, wherever it must be grown

Try growing a Calla lily in the window garden.
Keep it well watered while in bloom

indoors —is an odd corner of a greenhouse or
potting-house. Take out a few feet of bench
plant the bulbs in good soil on the greenhouse
bottom, and then let them alone, excepting to
give them plenty of water in winter.

A 5-foot bed arranged in this fashion, and left
undisturbed half a dozen years or so, produced
more than one hundred and fifty large blooms
last winter; and all of them, with some of the
foliage, commanded a good enough price to more
than equal a fair return for the space used.

BEG:

An Interesting Plant

HE blackberry lily (Belemcanda Sinensis, or
Pardanthus) is a fascinating old hardy plant.
It belongs to the iris family, but the fruits
look like a blackberry. It is very interesting to
see the orange-colored flowers twist and untwist.

Frespruary, 1911

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

| Good Farm and Garden Books
And Where To Get Them

Every reader of this magazine who is interested in the growing of field

and garden crops, will be delighted with the following books.

These

interesting volumes are replete with valuable information and contain
detailed directions for the culture of every important Field, Orchard and

Garden Crop from the amateur’s point of view.

General Farming
Farmers’ Cyclopedia of Agriculture, E. V. Wilcox & C. B

rath Hmem te eee avai is) ayslornva& relate ates ejcts $3.50-$4.50
Gardening for Profit, by Peter Henderson ............ 1.50
Gardening for Pleasure, by Peter Henderson .......... 1.50

Farm Development, by W. M. Hays........-....-- net 1.50
How Crops Grow, by Prof. Samuel W. Johnson........ 1.50
How Crops Feed, by Prof. Samuel W. Johnson........ I.50
Chemistry of the Farm, by R. Warrington.......... net 1.00
Farm Machinery & Farm Motors, by J. B. Davidson &
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A Hardy Flower Garden
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conditions as, the kinds that you know to
be reliable. Then, at the end of the season,
tell us about any of them that were really
better than those you had before. We
will pay for any note of real experience
that will help amateur gardeners generally.
We want to know more about our readers’
actual experiences with novelties.

Indoor Activities

|S ABOUT eight weeks’ time, spring
will be upon you. Are you ready
with all the little extras — labels, stakes,
brush for peas, strings, even poisons for

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spraying? Look through the sundries list

of your seed catalogue and lay in a stock.

of all these little requisites.

Buy a garden basket; you will find it
useful for holding cut flowers as you
gather them.

Coldframes and hotbeds will be wanted
very soon. No garden is too small for a
coldframe — in fact, the smaller the gar-
den the greater the necessity. Lettuce,
radishes, parsley, beets, carrots, beans
can all be helped along as early crops by
being grown in a coldframe.

Make hotbeds during February. Use
good stable manure, breaking it up finely
and treading it down firmly. For great
heat use the manure without litter; for
a moderate but a more lasting heat, add
litter or leaves used as bedding.

Vegetables to be Sown

N GREENHOUSES or hotbeds, for
transplanting later: Plant French
artichoke, broccoli, all kinds of cabbage,
cardoon, cauliflower, celeriac, celery, leek,
lettuce, onion, pepper—all these are
for planting out later as soon as the weather
permits.

To be matured in greenhouse or hotbed:
Bush beans, carrots, cucumber, egg plant
kohlrabi, melon, parsley, tomato.

For succession, every week in greenhouse
or frame: Rutabaga, mustard, cress.

Mushroom beds may still be made in
cellars, under the bench of the greenhouse,
or in any other waste space. It will not
be worth while starting mushrooms after
the beginning of this month.

Flower Seeds to be Sown

NDOORS or in the hotbed you can
make first sowings of all hardy annuals
and half-hardy sorts, such as China aster,
gaillardia, castor bean, cobea, dahlia
and pansy.

You can have much enjoyment by sow-
ing canna and dahlia seeds now and watch-
ing for the different colors that they will
develop. You cannot foretell the color
in either of these plants, and in a dozen
or two there may grow some of es-
pecially appealing beauty. Old pansy
plants that are outdoors can be lifted dur-
ing a period of thaw, or dug out from under
the snow, and brought into a cool green-
house or into the window of the dining-
room. Keep moderately cool, with plenty
of air and light.

Orchard and Grounds

[eG this month prune all outdoor
fruits and finish up all thinning
out and heading back of ornamental trees
and shrubs. All transplanted stock that
was moved last fall should be headed back
one-third before growth begins. Flower-
ing shrubs which bloom on the new wood
can be pruned back hard now to make an
abundance of bloom in the spring.

Did you ever try forcing rhubarb and
asparagus? Lift up well established roots,
put them into boxes with soil or sand,
bring them into a warm place and keep
them thoroughly watered. By bringing in
clumps in succession the supply can be
extended over a long season.

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Gaining Time on the Summer Flowers—By Leslie Hudson,

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE DULL SEASON TO ENSURE A WEALTH OF BLOOM OUT-
DOORS FROM EARLY SUMMER—GAINING THREE OR FOUR MONTHS IN BLOOM

OU can have your garden full of
flowers from the very moment that
thé bloom of the first bulb begins to fade
by taking a little thought and planning
now. Even if you have no greenhouse,
you can start seeds of the commonest of
our flowering plants in the window. By
sowing seed in February, the small plants
can be grown on to flowering size ready to
plant out toward the end of May, just at
the time when the less watchful gardener
is thinking of sowing the seeds outside.
These later-sown seeds will not give flowers
until well into the summer.

It is always well to buy the best seed
for these early starts. The newer named
varieties of Europe may have many
surprises for you. It may cost a trifle
more and its total germination may be a
lower percentage, but it is worth while
for the finer quality, larger size and better
color of the flowers.

The newer petunias can be had in a
great range of colors from white to the
richest, true magenta and purple, quite
a different thing from the sickly, washed
out tints that justify the hatred of this
color that is so often felt. They flower
all summer in the beds, and giving large
sheets of bloom, there is no flower that
will be more satisfactory. The newer
flowers are fully six inches across. If
you have not tried them, get some of the
selected strains this year.

There are named strains, too, of the old-
time blue-flowered ageratum. This is
a popular edging plant for flower beds.
It never grows tall, it flowers freely, and
while being compact, yet has withal
gracefulness and freedom. The color is
rather a gray-blue and works well into the

Get some *‘ frozen valley pips’’ and have a steady
supply of flowers for cutting

general garden scheme in framing formal
beds and for edgings of gardens. It
flowers all through the year from May

- onward with absolutely no attention.

Perhaps the easiest of all the plants
to be sown just now is alyssum. Its
white flowers make it a very welcome
plant in all borders and in all situations;
it mixes well with everything and har-
monizes and softens any glaring color
effects that may accidentally arise. Alys-
sum is quite hardy, but it is worth while
starting the seed indoors and setting out
the little plants when the weather becomes
settled, so as to be sure of having plenty
of white flowers almost from “‘frost to
frost.”

As a carpeting plant to fill in between
shrubs, rose beds, etc., the verbena offers
the greatest variety of colors. You can
get it in white, blue, pink and fiery red.
It is an accommodating plant; you can
let it sprawl as it will, or you can peg it
down with hairpins, and it.flowers equally
serene under any kind of treatment.
It will give color in the garden after the
bloom of the roses is gone.

There is nothing mysterious or difficult
about sowing seed of any of these flowers.
Any soil that is well aerated and drains
freely can be used, preferably a garden
soil with a good mixture of leaf mold
and sand. Exact proportions do not
really matter, and if you cannot get ex-
actly these ingredients, get the nearest
possible substitutes; use shallow boxes or

Start the old geranium and take cuttings from the
growths as they develop

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pans — earthenware pans are better than
pots because they are easier to handle.
After filling the boxes or pans and firming
the soil well, leaving a half-inch rim all
around, water it before sowing the seed.
By doing this you will be sure of not wash-
ing the seed off the surface which is easily
done by overhead applications.

Plunge the pan into a tub of water,
allowing the moisture to soak through
until it appears on the surface. After
removing the pan and draining it off, sow
the seed directly from the packet on the
surface, cover the pan with a sheet of glass
for protection and place in the window-
garden. One watering given in this way
will suffice until the seeds have germinated
and the little plants are strong enough to
hold on to the soil during an overhead
watering. This method is particularly
good for petunias, which are likely to be
kept too damp.

FOR EARLIEST FLOWERS

If you have never before tried it, get
some “frozen valley pips.” That is to
say, lily-of-the-valley roots from cold
storage. You can buy these from the
seed stores and by starting them in the
middle of January and making successive
plantings every week, you can get bloom
from the middle of February until the
outdoor flowers come in. Nothing is
easier. ‘Take the clump of pips as it comes
from the store, with a pair of scissors snip
off the long straggly roots, put the several
masses in boxes or pots or pans, packing
them as tightly as possible with a little
sand or moss in between, give them a
good watering and put them in a sunny

Sweet alyssum started indoors now will give flowers
for outside all the year

FEBRUARY, 1911

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Take root cuttings from the old chrysanthemum
to make the big blooms of November

window in a warm living-room — 65 de-
grees is the ideal temperature. Your
reward will be flowers. You cannot get
both foliage and flowers unless you start
them into growth gradually, by a more
moderate heat.

STARTING UP STOCK PLANTS

Did you save from last year your old
geraniums and chrysanthemums? If so,
you can begin now to take cuttings for the
supply of the coming year’s plants. Noth-
ing is easier to propagate than the geran-
ium if you observe one precaution: do
not keep it too wet. The cuttings will
stand drying off more comfortably than
they will being kept too moist. The latter
will cause them to rot quickly.

By starting cuttings now, if you have
only one or two plants left that have been
carried over the winter, you can propagate

_ cuttings from these again within a very few

weeks and by the time the bedding-out
season arrives, have as many geraniums
as you can use.

Growing up from the root of the old
chrysanthemum plant, as the season ad-
vances, you will see the little shoots which
can be taken off when about two inches
long, and if put into sand will quickly
root. You must begin now if you want
to make large plants for November flowers.
Successive cuttings may be taken as the
season advances, which will give bushy
plants; but for large specimens, you must
begin now. It is too late when spring
is upon you.

GREENHOUSE FLOWERS FOR WINTER

Begonia Gloire de Lorraine still remains
one of the most useful of all our winter
flowering plants. If you have an old
one that has gone out of bloom you need
not throw it away and have nothing! By
merely taking a leaf off and putting it in
a_small pot you can start your own

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plant for next winter. The critical time
in the growth of this plant is in the first
potting, when the leaf cuttings are struck

.in the usual way. The amateur will do

best to put the cutting directly into a
small pot and let it root there.

To the amateur who has a greenhouse,
the home propagation of roses offers an
opportunity for a good deal of amusement.
Of course, you can buy plants nearly as
cheaply as you can make them, but there
is some satisfaction in having your own
roses. For greenhouse cultivation the
best results are had from roses grown
on the Manetti stock. This stock is a
wild rose of Europe, and the dormant
pieces can be had from the nurseryman
or from the seed store. If you are near a
florist growing cut flowers, you can prob-
ably purchase a few Manetti roses.

Grafting roses is simple if you have the
facilities for putting them into a close frame
to callus. A hotbed can be used, but
usually a propagating box in the green-
house is preferred. The secret in rose
grafting is to get the Manetti stock just
after it has made a good break, and before
the growth has attained any appreciable
size. The illustration shows the suc-
cessive stages of rose grafting. It is
best to have the stock and the cion of the
same diameter, so as to make complete
contact. If the stock is much larger than
the cion, make a cut on the stock to cor-
respond with the size of the cion, as nearly
as possible. Put the two edges together,
tie them with a piece of raffia, and put
into the propagating box or hotbed. After
the batch of grafted roots is ready, give
a slight spraying, enough to give moisture
to the air in the box but not enough to
drench the plants.

Now close the box and keep it air-
tight and at a temperature of 70 degrees,
for from ten to fourteen days, or until

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Start dahlias and increase the stock of your favorites
by taking off the cuttings!

the wounds have properly callused. The
plants may now be taken up, potted and
will be ready for putting into the green-
house benches for flowering later.

INCREASING DAHLIAS AND CANNAS

A most interesting work for the ama-
teur to start during this month is getting
ahead with the cannas and dahlias. The
advantage of starting the canna in some
kind of heat now is that it will begin to
flower in the early summer and will con-
tinue blooming all season. You can enjoy
its beauty all the time. The advantage
of starting the dahlia now is that you can
increase your stock of desirable varieties.
Both these roots will start to grow if given
moisture and heat. You can increase your
stock of cannas by cutting the roots into

The art of grafting roses. On the left a Manetti stock in proper condition. On the right the stock and
cion (supported in a wire) ready for union. Completed graft in centre. Use flowering wood for the cion

Start verbenas for summer flowers in the rose beds

Cooperation in Farming—By B. H. Crocheron,

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as many pieces as there are eyes after
they have started into growing, and you
can keep this up indefinitely until your
stock is entirely planted out. Dahlias

brought into heat and light now will push .

up small shoots, which may be taken off
as cuttings and potted up into a light,
sandy soil. They will give new plants
and increase the stock.

Sunshine, warmth and moisture must
be present to do any of these things suc-
cessfully. You can make use of frames
or hotbeds or windows of living rooms if
they have a southern or some sunny ex-
posure. North windows and shaded cor-
ners will not do, and if you do not have the
right conditions it will be better to make no
attempt at propagating your own plants,
but buy them ready to set out in May.

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Increase your cannas by starting the old roots in
heat and cutting up into single eyes

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land

SOME SURPRISING FACTS THAT SHOW HOW THE INDUSTRIES OF THE SOIL ARE WORKING TOGETHER FOR MUTUAL
BETTERMENT —PRACTICAL SCHEMES OF FINANCIAL AID IN ESTABLISHING INDUSTRIES AND OPENING MARKETS

fe HAS been repeatedly said that

farmers as a class are impossible
to combine codperatively, but facts prove
that farmers are particularly adaptable
to codperative enterprises.

The Bureau of Statistics, U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture, reports that 45,000
correspondents inform them of the following
coéperative organizations in the United
States.

Insurance (Number estimated)
Fire, lightning,hail and wind x =) 2.000
Livestock A teal kt Omir E pon! IG 150
Dife Insurance, 9548) a. se Se SOO
Sickness, funeral and relief 6,000

Selling 1,000

Buying SE LS. sls) a eee ee! 124,000

Production Me oe hy raked OE Te oid = 75

Communities, colonies and settlements . 50

Miscellaneous . owes 300

@elephone Services yas) 9s see 15,000

Social, economic and educational 1,500

Irrigation gre 30,000

Grain elevators 1,800

From data compiled previous to 1007 it
has been estimated that there are more
than 85,000 different farmers’ organiza-
tions with a membership of 3,000,000
farmers. There is scarcely a branch of
agricultural interest into which codperative
associations have not already penetrated.
Some of these are:

Beet-sugar making; butter and cheese
making; cider making; cotton ginning;
dairy products, marketing; fruit-growing
and marketing; fruit-drying and selling;
field crops marketing; grain elevating;
honey, shipping and _ selling; live-stock
breeding; poultry-products, selling; to-
bacco marketing; wheat and corn milling;
wheat threshing; vegetables, marketing and
canning; wine making; wool production.

Other associations, different from these,
aim to promote the general welfare of no one
industry or branch of industry, or section

of country. The following are some of the
most prominent:

American Breeders’ Association, American
Farmers’ League, American Pomological
Society, American Poultry Association,
California Fruit Growers’ & Shippers’
Association, Hood River Fruit Growers’
Union, National Farmers’ Alliance, Patrons
of Husbandry, National Rice Association,
The Codperative Commission Company,
The Tri-State Grain and Stock Growers’
Association.

The industrial codperation seems to be
particularly marked in certain regions.
Thus:

Fruit-growing in the far West; vegeta-
ble-raising in New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois,
Utah; milk in New England; wheat in the
Northwest.

This localization of codperation is not
because it is impractical in other sections,
but largely because it is untried.

Thus far, codperation has proved most
profitable among the more quickly perisha-
ble products. The success has been more
marked with fruit than with wheat, with
vegetables than with live-stock. This
does, not necessarily mean that codperation
cannot be as effective with one as with
another, but merely that it is more easily
successful when the section is small and
when competition is eliminated because
of distances and times.

Marketing codperation is possible for
some objects. One of the chief aims ac-
cording to the constitution of many so-
cieties has been to eliminate the middleman.
The societies have in but few instances been
able to do this since most found that in
eliminating one middleman they must
substitute another of their own for they
could not market their products except
through the operations of a skilled salesman.

The greatest success of coéperation has

been in the buying of commodities for the
use of farmers. Fertilizers, seeds, coal,
feed, flour, etc., are sold at cost to members
by the organization which buys in large
lots and is able to save $5.00 a ton on fer-
tilizer, $1.00 a bushel on clover seed, 50
cents a ton on coal. These organizations
are usually vigorously opposed by the town
merchants and are not often successful
unless they employ a salaried sales agent
to attend to their business.

Fruit and Vegetable Marketing Associa-
tions have been highly successful where they
were able to control a large part of the out-
put at the time when their products were
put upon the market. Thus, sections which
marketed strawberries in train-load lots
were able to raise the price two or more
cents per quart by sending their berries
to points which could keep the demand
up to the supply and so prevent the glut-
ting of one market. This type of asso-
ciation usually supervises the output of
its members insisting that it shall come up
to a certain definite standard in quantity,
quality, type of marketing package, method
of packing and amount of output.

Codperative credit and agricultural
banks. America has been notably behind
Europe, where institutions for the establish-
ment of agricultural credit have been well
and favorably established. The societies
are formed to promote credit among those
who cannot give security such as would
pass muster in a regular national bank.
The’ security of the bank is the standing
of the borrowing member in the community
in which he lives. The association or bank
loans the money at a low rate of interest
without any other than personal security
and the member borrows in order to pur-
chase land, seeds, fertilizer and farming
implements. The system is highly necessary
in a poor community.

Watermelons from the Southern Viewpoint —By Thomas J. Steed, %*

WHAT MAKES FOR QUALITY IN THIS LUSCIOUS FRUIT—SOME REASONS WHY THE SOUTHERN GARDENER
DOES NOT GET THE BEST THAT OPPORTUNITY AFFORDS—FACTS FOR NORTHERN GARDENERS TO FOLLOW

HE watermelon is just one of the

things that the Southern gardener can
enjoy in perfection without much trouble;
his northern brother has no chance what-
ever to compete with him on even terms.
The southern climate exactly suits the
peculiarities of the watermelon. For this
very reason, however, there are too many
poor watermelons grown in the South.
The crop comes too easily. Up in the
North it is a matter of skill and good
cultivation to produce a good watermelon,
and only good ones are worth growing. In
the South, unfortunately, little attention
is paid to quality watermelons. Yet
there is all the difference in the world;
a poor quality watermelon is one of
the most unsatisfying fruits to offer to
anybody.

The watermelon will grow in the South
on almost any kind of soil and grow to
perfection, too. But at the same time it
shows a preference to a light, sandy
soil that has been lying out a year or
two and has grown up in weeds which
supply vegetable matter to the soil. Weeds
also serve as supports for the vines, and
prevent the wind from blowing the vines
about and bruising them. A sandy loam
that cow peas or crimson clover has been
grown on the year before is also good for
melons. The northern gardener knows,
from experience, that a light, porous,
warm soil is the one thing that is necessary
to good quality in a melon of any kind.
There is some difference in growing a crop
for home and for market. The home
gardener can naturally give better attention
and produce a higher quality result.

After the watermelon has been suc-
cessfully grown, there still remains the
problem of picking it at the critical moment.
The fruit requires from three to six weeks
from the time it forms on the vine, until
it attains maturity, depending on the
variety, and the gardener must know the

relative times of the different kinds he is
growing. ‘This is important.

There are four possible methods of tell-
ing a ripe watermelon: First, strike on
it sharply with the finger; if it sounds
rather hollow it is ripe. Second, if the
tendril where the melon is attached to the
vine is dying, the melon is usually ready
to eat. Third, press on the melon firmly
with the hand; if ripe, you will hear the
heart cracking. Fourth, pick the melon
when it has a yellowish tinge on the under
side where it rests on the ground. But
sometimes the tendril of a melon vine dies
from the attacks of insects or disease,

The Georgia Rattlesnake comes next
in popularity, is almost as sweet, but is
about a week later in maturing. This
melon grows very long, is of a light green
with dark green stripes, and has a medium
tough rind. There is an improved form
of this melon sold as Improved Georgia
Rattlesnake or Augusta Rattlesnake.

Halbert Honey is equally as sweet
as Kleckley, is of a darker color, and is
ready for use from one to two weeks earlier;
but it does not grow quite as large. The

seed is white with two dark spots on the
edge.
Panmure Allheart is certainly what its

Get the best seed possible.

and sometimes when green melons are hot
from laying in the sun they will sound
hollow when struck with the finger. There-
fore, experience counts.

The Kleckley Sweets watermelon, which
originated in Sumpter County, Georgia,
in 1894, is the most popular melon in the
South to-day, and is generally considered
the sweetest of all melons. It is ready
for use in one hundred days from planting.

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Halbert Honey, is one of the best early kinds and is adapted to the home garden

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Note the difference between these fruits of the same name but different sources

name indicates it to be. It has very thin
rind and few seeds, which are very small.
The melons do not grow as large as Hal-
bert Honey, but are equally as sweet.
It is two or three days earlier and as pro-
ductive. This and Halbert Honey are
two of the best melons for small gardens,
as they can be planted closer together
than most other sorts.

The Florida Favorite is very similar
to the Rattlesnake, but the melons do not
grow as long as fhe Rattlesnake and the
stripes are darker. The seeds are white.

MclIver’s Sugar melon is also very
similar to the Rattlesnake. The Rattle-
snake is of a lighter green and longer and
smoother. The MclIver’s Sugar is easily
distinguished from other varieties in the
field on account of its very narrow, cut
foliage.

Turpen’s Gray is a very fine late, main
crop melon. It grows very long and large,
is very sweet and a good keeper. It is
of a mottled gray green, has a very thin
rind, brownish yellow seeds, and the flesh
is a bright red.

Augusta Round, white in color, is prac-
tically the same. It is round in form,
medium early, the flesh is a bright red
and very sweet, and the seed is white.

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The late kinds require more room than the early ones.

The Georgia Sugar Loaf is an oblong form
of this same melon. |

Alabama Sweet, or Bradford, is a very
fine, medium-early melon of a medium
dark green color with light green stripes.
The flesh is a bright scarlet and the seed
is white. This melon is also catalogued
by seedsmen under the following names:
Tinker, Hoke Smith, McGuire and Pearson.

Sweetheart is a very good late, round
melon for home use and market. Of a
mottled light green with thick rind, it grows
to large size, and is a good keeper; the
seeds are black.

The Triumph is considered the largest
of melons, and for this reason it is a good
variety for growing for exhibition purposes.
In quality it is very poor. Primus Jones
is an excellent large, late melon, oblong,
dark green with very narrow light stripes,
bright red flesh and very sweet.

Angel Kiss is a very popular melon in
the Southwest for home use, on account
of its good quality and earliness. It is
ready for use about the same time that
Halbert Honey is. It is of medium
size, the flesh is a deep crimson, seed very
small and white, the rind thin and almost
white.

In the home garden plant melons after
beans and garden peas. The soil should

Turpens Gray, a reliable market variety

be plowed up with a large one-horse turn
plow, or a two-horse plow, two months
before the seeds are to be sown. Lay off
or mark out the row with a large turn plow.
Plow right and left so as to get a deep
furrow (the rows should be from six to
ten feet apart; six feet for small varieties
and home gardens, ten feet for large varie-
ties and field cultivation).

At least two weeks before planting, put
one or two large shovelfuls of well-decayed
stable, horse or cow manure in these fur-
rows every six to eight feet. If possible
place a handful of some high-grade fer-
tilizer at each hill, and be sure to mix the
fertilizer well with the soil. Cover the
manure and fertilizer with four inches of
soil. If manure cannot be had, use fer-
tilizer and cotton seed instead.

For early melons, plant when trees are
out in leaf, which is from the first to the
last of February in the Lower South,
March in, the Middle South, and April
in the Upper South, and May and June
in the North. For succession, plant every
three or four weeks. One of the most
important points in growing fine melons
is good seed. No matter how high you
intend to fertilize and cultivate, above
all be sure to get good seed.

When ready to plant drop from ten to

Panmure Allheart, a type of fruit that is worth growing because of the thin rind

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FEBRUARY, 1911

fifteen seeds on each hill and cover from
three-fourths to one inch deep; by using
plenty of seed you save replanting. It
is a good plan to soak the seed in water
for from twelve to twenty-four hours,
most especially in sections where it does
not often rain. One ounce of seed will
plant from twenty-four to thirty hills.

When the plants are well up begin culti-
vation with a hoe and thin them out to four
to a hill, and when they have four or five
leaves give cultivation with a plow and
thin to one good plant to a hill. A week
or ten days later give them another culti-
vation with a plow and hoe and continue
to cultivate with a plow until the growth
of the vines prevents it. (Don’t turn
watermelon vines; they are very tender,
and handling injures them.) Then culti-
vate with hoe only. Continue this culti-
vation until the melons are the size of a
cocoanut.

At the last cultivation with the plow
many growers sow cow peas in between
the rows so as to shade the melons from
the hot sun and to enrich the soil. This
may be a good plan provided the peas are
sown thinly. If sown thickly they may
make a large amount of foliage which
would exclude all the sun from the melons
and in wet weather would induce decay.

To grow extra large watermelons for
exhibition and other purposes, dig holes
two feet deep and two feet wide and ten
or twelve feet apart each way. In these
put a double handful of cotton seed and a
handful of high-grade fertilizer, most
especially rich in potash. Mix this with
the soil in the bottom of the hole and put
in seven or eight shovelfuls of well-decayed
horse manure. Cover this over at once
with fine soil; in about two weeks plant
the seed. Allow but one plant to a hill,
and only one or two melons to a vine;
prune the others off when they are young.
In dry weather give them water; make
holes near the plants six inches deep and
wide enough to hold almost two or three
gallons of water. Do this in the afternoon,
and as soon as the water has soaked in,
cover the hole with dry soil. This should
be done every other afternoon during the
drouths. Give frequent cultivations, once
every week at least, so as to keep up a
rapid growth. Cultivation maybe discontin-
ued when good-sized melons have formed.

The black squash bug is the most de-
structive insect in the South. It sucks
the juice from the vines and from the
stems of the watermelons, thus prevent-
ing the fruit from attaining full size. It
also causes the leaves to rust or dry up
and the small melons to wither. The
only reniedy that I am aware of is to pick
the bugs off by hand. Spraying the vines
early in spring with kerosene emulsion
will usually ward them off for a while.
Always spray late in the afternoon. Spray-
ing will also have a tendency to keep off
the plant lice which however are not very
troublesome here in the South, as they are
very soft bodied and cannot stand the hot
summer sun.

The “Fun” of Collecting Anemones, I.—By Wilhelm Miller, %

THE HERALDS OF SPRING IN WOODS, ROCKS AND GARDENS—CHARMING LITTLE WIND-
FLOWERS THAT BRAVE THE SNOW AND ‘‘ TAKE THE WINDS OF MARCH WITH BEAUTY”

[Epiror’s Note — This new series is designed especially for beginners who would like to become collectors.

was published in January.]

W ont you please describe all the

anemones worth growing,” writes
an enthusiast with more wealth than
prudence, ‘‘and tell me where I can buy
every kind there is? I am smitten with
their beauty and I want to have the most
complete collection in the world. And,
between you and me, I want to set back
and ——,, two neighbors who set them-
selves up for little tin gods, because they
collect cannas and dahlias. Cannas and
dahlias! Ugh!”

Bless your innocent heart! You will
have to buy about one hundred different
kinds, employ a private secretary to
send for them, a gardener to label and grow
them, a card index system to record them,
many flower beds, a rock garden, a piece of
woods, and three years’ time. Wouldn’t
flying be a cheaper sport for you?”

It is so easy to ask such a question!
But it takes years to answer it. One
ought to study the literature, visit the
herbaria, grow the plants, gather the
pictures, correspond with experts, and
even then a man cannot get all the varie-
ties, or find out how best to grow them.
Never mind, my Enthusiast, we expect to
hear no more from you for several months.
If you send postals to half the list we
gave you, you will be buried in an ava-
lanche of European and American cata-
logues.

But, airy persiflage aside, I admire
your taste and hope to give you what
you want in four installments, because

there are four groups of anemones, based
upon the season of bloom.

Group I. THE HERALDS OF SPRING,
which bloom before the last snows, in
March or April, the most familiar examples
being the diminutive hepaticas and pasque
flowers.

Group 0. THE SPRING WINDFLOWERS,
which glorify the month of May, especially
the garden anemones (A. hortensis and
coronaria), which are famous for their gor-
geous reds and blues.

Group mr. THE SUMMER WINDFLOWERS,
which bloom in June, July or August —
all white flowers, and usually three on a
stem, whereas in the preceding groups
there is generally only one flower on a
stem. Example, the Pennsylvanian or
Canadian windflower.

Group iv. THE AUTUMN WINDFLOWERS,
of which the celebrated Japanese anemone
is the chief species.

Only the heralds of spring will be treated
in this article. There are fifteen species
of them worth growing and all but one
are still catalogued as anemones by nursery-
men, but the botanists now place them in
four different genera. To clear the decks
for action let us see just why they do this:

Styles long, becoming feathery in

fruit PULSATILLA.
Styles short, glabrous or pubescent
Involucre remote from the calyx ANEMONE.

Involucre of three simple leaves close
under the flower HEPATICA.
Involucre of three compound leaves SyNDESMON.

The first article, “ The Fun of Collecting Aroids,”

But, while these botanical distinctions
are important enough to constitute sepa-
rate genera, all these heralds of spring
should be considered as one horticultural
group. They are not for show. They
can never vie with daffodils, which they
precede little, if any. Their mission is to
stir the heart and make us rejoice that
winter is really past. Not one of them
is as large as a crocus, or has as wide a
range of color. And yet they have an
irresistible appeal. So long as men cheer
any plucky little chap who fights against
great odds, so long they will thrill at the
sight of these game little flowers that look
so fragile and are so hardy.

HEPATICAS HAVE THE MOST COLORS

The best of this group, in my opinion,
are the hepaticas. For in the first place,
they are generally the first wildflowers of
the year in America, if we omit the skunk
cabbage. Second, they are unique in
having evergreen leaves of great beauty.
And, most important of all, they have the
widest range of color of all the plants
mentioned in this article. You can buy
the blue, purple, pink, or white in single
or double forms. That makes eight va-
rieties, and all are better than any you can
collect. There is also the sharp-lobed
hepatica (H. acutiloba) in as many colors.
And finally there is the great hepatica
(H. angulosa), a European species grow-
ing nine inches high and having flowers as
large as a half dollar. This species is also

The American wood anemone (A. quinquefolia) is
a trifle smaller than the European, but cheaper

American pasque flower, blooming in April amid the
snow. Nurserymen callit A. patens, var. Nuttalliana

ES

The rue anemone usually has more

than one
flower on a stem

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running the gamut of color, since varieties
alba, lilacina and grandiflora have already
been offered.

Hepaticas will probably never be com-
mon garden flowers because they need
partial shade in summer. They do not
look happy if you bring them from the
woods and put them into flower-beds with
garden flowers. They look well when
carpeting the ground beneath shrubs.
But they are most beautiful when grow-
ing by the thousand in real woods.
And I hope every wealthy person who
reads these words will think about that
sinful woodlot of his which the cows
have spoiled. I hope he will restore
the native wildness of that spot by ex-
cluding cattle and planting wild flowers
that will multiply without care. He
can have 1000 hepaticas, either round or
sharp-lobed, gathered for him at acost of
only $25.

Mr. Collector, of course, is not interested
in pictorial effects, but in getting all the
different varieties. He will have to import
some of them, and pay half a dollar each
for the rarest sorts.

RUE ANEMONES, THE MOST FLOWERS

One flower on a stem is the rule with
these early flowers, but a charming ex-
ception is the rue anemone, which bears
several white, rarely pinkish, flowers, only
an inch across, but lasting a good while.
I hope my wealthy reader is still awake
because I want him to plant several
thousand rue anemones in that shame-
iully neglected woodlot. He can buy
zoco of the interesting clusters of little
tubers for a sum I blush to mention —
‘$3.00.

What a pity that we must give up
the musical and, expressive name Anemo-
nella. The botanists have revived an
older name — Syndesmon. Sometimes it

seems as if the smaller a plant the more
they pick on it and load it down with
This rue anemone, for in-

hard names.

Wood anemone and trillium in the rock garden of
Prof. C.S. Sargent, Brookline, Mass.

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stance, has the soul of an anemone, but
the clothing of a rue. Hence it has been
burdened with the following names which
you will find in nursery catalogues to this
day: Anemonella thalictroides, Thalictrum
anemonoides, and last and worst Syndes-
mon thalictroides.

PASCUE FLOWERS THE LARGEST

The most famous wildflower of the
Rocky Mountains is the American pasque
flower (Pulsatilla hirsutissima) which is
here pictured blooming amid the snow.
The blossoms are purple, bluish, or
whitish, and would probably measure
three or more inches if spread out. They
are as satiny as any poppy. Tourists
who buy souvenir collections of pressed
wild flowers in Colorado always get this
pasque flower. It is famous for the buds
coming out of the ground before the leaves,
and also for the wonderful silkiness of
the whole plant, even the blossoms having
these long, soft, white hairs. After bloom-
ing an extraordinary thing happens. The
flower stalks, which have been only three
to six inches high, grow at least two inches
and sometimes a foot more. And to
crown the wonder the seeds form a mass
of fluffy stuff, resembling the feathery-
fruited species of clematis.

You will find this charming flower
catalogued only under the name of Anem-
one patens, var. Nuttalliana, because Gray
thought it a variety of a European spe-
cies.

The name ‘‘pasque flower” refers to
the fact that the most famous of the group
in Europe blooms about Easter. ‘This is
Anemone Pulsatilla, which is found all
over Europe in dry, sandy or chalky
soils. William Robinson says that it
makes large clumps in the garden and
bears larger flowers, but is prettier in the
wild state, especially when ‘‘just showing
through the dry grass of a bleak down
on an early spring day.”

THE TRUE ANEMONES

We come now to the true anemones,
which never have the silky leaves and
feathery fruits of the pulsatillas. Indeed,
the pasque flowers are as showy as a poppy,
whereas the anemones have a more spirit-
ual beauty. I think we ought to call them
““windflowers” oftener than we do. Of
course, every flower is charming when
stirred by tne wind, even a fat old hya-
cinth. But the name “‘windflower” would
open the eyes of many persons who are
blind to the beauty of growing things.
Anemone is simply Greek for windflower.
The ancients had a notion that these
blossoms opened only when the wind was
blowing.

The only mean thing about anemones
is the way to pronounce them. If you,
Mr. Collector, began to enthuse about
your anémones, people will look blank a
moment and then exclaim, “Oh! duny-
monies! Now I know what you mean!”
But the classical scholars insist that
the Greeks said Anemone. Consequently

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Hespatica angulosa has flowers as large as a half
dollar when well grown

your botanical purist will use one system
of pronunciation for the English names
and another for the botanical names.
Thus, it is correct to say Japanese anémone,
but the scientific name is Anemone
Japonica.

But book learning is very dull compared
with the flowers themselves. The most
exciting of the early anemones, undoubtedly,
are the two sky-blue species which make
such ravishing pictures in England when
naturalized in woods, blooming with the
snowdrops and earliest daffodils, and
making the best possible foil for them.

TWO SKY-BLUE ANEMONES

The Grecian .windflower (A. blanda)
is probably better than the Italian (A.
Apennina), for it has the reputation of
being earlier and larger. Some say its
tubers are less liable to decay from wet-
ness, especially in winter. Certainly they
are rounder and more bulb-like, while
those of the Italian windflower are more
slender and cylindrical. Both must be
planted in early autumn. Roots of the
Grecian species cost $8 a 1000; those of
the Italian $12 to $25.

On the other hand Mr. Mallet declares
that the Italian windflower ‘‘thrives in
almost any soil, and for purposes of nat-
uralizing it is a better plant in damp or
wet soils.”

There are white, pink and rose varieties
of both these species, but they are costlier
and collectors only want a few of them for
contrast with the blue.

I hope every enthusiast who can afford
to naturalize these precious blue winter
windflowers will try them, but the general
public would better put its money into
Siberian squills and glory-of-the-snow—
which also bloom in March and have
good pure blues. Of course, they are
different in form, being bell-shaped like
diminutive lilies, while the anemones are
more starry and open. But $8.00 is
something. And tooo scilla bulbs in the
long grass will probably give you a prettier
picture for the money next March, and
every March, on. the first day the lawn
turns green. wel

Collectors will naturally desire A. A pen-
nina, vars. alba, flore pleno, and purpurea;

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also A. blanda, vars. alba, grandiflora,
Scythinica, and Taurica.

YELLOW, ANOTHER RARE COLOR

Rare as blue is among the windflowers,
yellow is still rarer. Therefore collectors
will be glad to know about A. ranuncu-
loides — which, as its name implies, is as
golden as any buttercup. The form from
southern Europe may not be as hardy as
the Siberian, for Robinson says it blooms
less freely than the Italian windflower
on common soils, though it is happy on
chalk. A nurseryman in Massachusetts
says it soon makes broad clumps and
blooms in March or April.

It is a very pretty idea’ to carpet a
piece of woods with golden blossoms that
spring as if by magic out of the bare earth
before the trees have put forth their
leaves, but I doubt if anyone can furnish
this yellow anemone in quantities sufficient
for naturalizing. Probably the winter
aconite (Eranthis hyemalis) would paint
such a picture more cheaply. You will
find it offered in every American bulb-
catalogue. But I hope some one who can
afford the yellow wood anemone will im-
port it and send us a picture of it when
a colony of it is established.

THE FAMOUS WOOD ANEMONE

The wood anemone of history and
literature is A. nemorosa, a lovely white
flower which grows abundantly throughout
Europe and Northern Asia, blooming in
April and May. The flowers are only
an inch across but full of charm, as may be
seen by the picture. The double white

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variety is said to be a good garden plant,
but I should think it safest to give all the
wood anemones shade during the hottest
part of the day.

Collectors can get a rich haul by studying
this species in foreign catalogues. The
range of color is indicated by varieties
alba, cerulea, and rosea. Of double forms.
I find alba plena, rosea duplex and rubra
plena, the last of which was said by the
late Mr. Forbes, of Hawick, Scotland, to
be “rosy crimson” and “blooming in
June or July,” both of which statements
sound dubious. Another quaint double
form is the “ Jack-in-the-green”” anemone
(var. bracteata), so called because of the
pretty way in which the double white
flower is set off by its snug collar of green.
As to the largest variety there is dispute,
two of the claimants being grandiflora
and Vestal.

But the most surprising thing is to find
a flower that is normally white varying to
sky blue. The most celebrated example
is A. Robinsoniana, named after William
Robinson, the leader of English gardening.
I shall not believe it is sky blue until I see
it, and my suspicion is deepened by the
fact that many catalogues describe it as
pale lavender. Other “blues” are Con-
nubiensis, Alleni and Blue Bonnet. The
two latter are claimed to be even better
than Robinsoniana.

It sounds too good to be true —a blue
anemone flowering in April before the trees
leaf out and dotting the forest floor with
the color of the sky. Yet Americans are
taking it seriously, for all the plants offered
last year at $7.50 per 100 were sold.

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Some of our millionaire friends must have
been awake. We need a blue flower of
that kind very badly at that time to re-
deem those shabby, uninteresting woods
near all our great cities.

OUR BEST WHITE WINDFLOWER

You may have noticed that I did not
recommend the European wood anemone
(A. mnemorosa) for naturalizing. That,
Mr. Millionaire (nudge him), is because
I want you to plant a few thousand of
its American equivalent, which is A.
quinquefolia — our best white windflower
of early spring. It is so much like the
European that botanists formerly consid-
ered it the same thing. And a collector in
New Jersey offers 1000 plants of what he
calls ““nemorosa” for only $5. Of course
it must be the American species, as this
price is far below what the European species
costs.

As collectors will need to know the
botanical differences I will quote them from
Britton. The American species has a more
slender habit, slender petioles, less lobed
divisions of the involucral leaves, paler
green foliage, and smaller flowers.

Take my word for it —this is one of
the daintiest and most exquisite plants
known to the art of wild gardening.
The books say it is a white flower. Ah,
the letter of truth again! It is white
on the inside; but half the time you will
see the outside, which is one of the purest
and most tender pinks in creation. Verily,
Nature is better than any account of it.

Mr. Backhouse, of York, an authority
on alpine flowers and rock gardens, says

The European pasque flower (Anemone pulsatilla) as grown at Rochester, N. Y.

The wood anemone of Europe as grown at Rochester, N. Y.

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that the blue wood anemone (Robin-
soniana) is an American variety! If so,
it must belong to quinquefolia. Davis,

however, who was the last to monograph
the genus, puts it with nemorosa. Can
anyone tell me when and how the blue
wood anemone originated, and to what
species it really belongs?

This group of anemones is of easy culti-
vation in the wild garden or rock garden.
The plants require such conditions of soil,
shade and moisture as they find in woods
and rocky places. Do not plant them in
full sunlight among garden flowers. A
writer in The Garden (London) says:

“As the Pasque Flowers ripen plenty of
seed, they can always be best increased in
this way. Good seed will germinate readily
and freely, especially if sown as soon as it
is quite ripe. It is best to sow the seed in
good-sized pans, and plunge them in ashes
in a cold frame, so that they can be pro-
tected from heavy rains, but yet not be
allowed to get dry at any time. The pans
should be thoroughly well drained, and a
sandy loam is the most suitable soil for the
seedlings. If germination takes place the
same autumn, the seedlings may be left in
pans during the winter, and potted off, or

The Best of All The Tropical Fruits—By John Gifford, “

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pricked off into other pans in spring when
they start growing again. When the seed-
lings are large enough to plant out, select
an open situation in well drained, some-
what dry soil.

RARE ANEMONES FOR COLLECTORS

There are half a dozen species in the
Pulsatilla section which are not sharply
distinguished in Bailey’s Cyclopedia, and
perhaps they cannot be.

The type is the European pasque flower

(A. Pulsatilla), of which vars., rubra, lilac-

ine and alba are offered abroad.

Another European species is A. patens,
which is said to have larger and more
pointed flowers than A. Pulsatilla.

The shaggy Swiss anemone (A. vernalis)
is said to be the smallest, but full of charm.

A. Halleri is another Swiss species with
large whitish purple flowers.

We come now to the later-blooming
members of the Pulsatilla group, which are
generally said to bloom in May.

The most famous of these is the alpine
windflower (A. alpina), with flowers 2 or 3
inches across, creamy white inside and
purple outside, but varying much. All the
other pulsatillas have solitary flowers, but

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this one often bears two or three on a
stem. It blooms at Ottawa about April
24 to May 23.

Its variety sulphurea (A. sulphurea, of
nurserymen) has larger leaves and flowers,
and blooms later.

The Pacific Coast representative of A.
alpina is A. occidentalis, with white or
purple flowers only, 1 to 2 inches across.

The meadow anemone of Europe (A. pra-
tensis) differs from all the preceding species
in having drooping, bell-shaped flowers.
Normally it has very dark purple flowers
but there is a cream colored variety.
Blooms at Ottawa April 28 to May to.
The variety montana grows 14 ft. high,
and has dark flowers appearing at Ottawa
May 5 to June 3; catalogued as A. montana.

The following seem to have come in
since Davis published his revisions of the
garden anemones in Bailey’s Cyclopedia
and Vick’s Magazine for 1900, page 108.

A. cernua, a Japanese species, said to
have “‘dark crimson”’ flowers.

A. intermedia, a hybrid between nema-
rosa and ranunculoides, having pale yellow
flowers.

A. Regeliana, a Siberian form of A. Pul-
satilla.

Flor-

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTS FORESHADOWED BY THE NEWER IMPROVED VARIETIES OF MANGO, A FRUIT THAT
TO THE TROPICS IS ALL THAT THE SEVERAL DIFFERENT ORCHARD FRUITS ARE TO NORTHERN CLIMES

OME call the mango ‘the apple of the tropics.”
it is the apple, peach and pear combined. The novice in
eating the old common seedling sorts meets with difficulties.
Such an experience is sure to prejudice him against
These old-time sorts have

mangoes forever.
the smell and taste of turpentine and a
tough cottony fibre around their big
seeds which completely fills the
crevices between the teeth, mak-
ing business for the dental
profession. It is mushy, slip-
pery and hard to hold. The
juice stains the clothing.
One smells and feels and /7*
looks as though he had g
been the victim of a yel-
low paint accident. After
eating such a fruit for
the sake of three or four
tablespoonfuls of pulp,
one must take a bath
and then retire to some
shady nook for the rest
of the day to pick his
teeth. But some of the
improved sorts which sell
locally at twenty-five cents
each are quite otherwise. The
skin peels off easily, the aroma
is pleasant, there is no fibre, the
seed is small, the fruit weighs twenty
or more ounces and the creamy, deli-
cious peach-like pulp melts in your
mouth.
which,

y.

I have never tasted a mangosteen,
according to the books, holds the
world’s record for goodness, but of all the

It is more;

Type of the improved Mulgoba mango: rich,

lucious, and devoid of fibre. Actual size

fruits I know, temperate and tropical, two or three varieties of
mangoes lead in my estimation.

South Florida is making rapid strides in mango culture. Many

varieties have been introduced from all parts of the

tropics, both by the government and enter-

prising growers. Many choice seedlings
are just coming into fruit and our bud-
ders are learning the trick.
I have always contended that a
Florida seedling mango will be-
come the commercial mango
of the future. None of the
choice imported sorts fill
the bill perfectly. There
is usually some defect,
such as shy-bearing, poor
carrying qualities, or
lack of resistance against
pests. If the government
had imported a large
quantity of seeds of all
the best varieties of man-
goes the world affords ten
years ago, we would now
have several new varieties
of local origin which would
y exactly fill the bill for home
needs and shipment North.
It is possible that we have, it
Y anyway in the form of a seedling
» Mulgoba, bearing this year for the
first time; it is too early to say. But
this tree bears fruits of a large size, of very

beautiful coloring; hard, rather thick skin;
no fibre; small flat seed and delicious flavor. It
remains to be seen whether it is a shy bearer

FEBRUARY, 1911

ornot. This is the fault of many of these
high-grade mangoes. It is possible that
this difficulty may be remedied by root-
pruning, girdling, or by a proper fertilizing.

I have a little book on the mango written
by Woodrow of India, the man who
sent Mulgoba plants to Florida in 1880,
in which over eighty varieties of mangoes
are listed and this is probably not more
than half of the varieties now known, many
of which are of recent origin and many of
which are no good.

For instance, the Alphonse, Alphoos or
Alfoss is highly prized. Higgins thus
describes it: ‘‘This is one of the most
noted of the India mangoes. Size, medium
to large; color, greenish yellow on the un-
exposed side and running to yellow on the
exposed side, which is overlaid with light
red; peeling qualities excellent; texture ex-
cellent, may be readily eaten with a spoon;
flavor unique, with a peculiar mingling of
acidity and sweetness in the bright colored
fruit.” In looking over Woodrow’s list, on
the other hand, one runs up against all
kinds of Alphonses. For instance:

Afonza of Goa; Alphonze, Kirkee, “the
keeping qualities of this fruit are excellent
and it is generally admitted the best of all
mangoes. The’ name is applied in the
markets to many distinct sorts of greatly
varied merit.” (The italics are mine.)
Kola-Alphonse; Kagdi-Alphonse, Bombay;
Surawini Alphonse, Bombay. In fact, it
seems that whenever they found a really
good mango, they called it Alphonse.

The Mulgoba, Cambodiana and a long
yellowish kind from Burmah are my
favorites. There is a little mango in
Florida about the size of a peach, yellow
in color, with a beautiful pink blush on one
side. It has a thin skin, no fibre and deli-
cious flavor. It is commonly called the
“peach mango” and was raised from seed
sent from Jamaica. For home use one
would hardly wish for a more perfect fruit.

The Khatkia, according to Woodrow,
is meant to be sucked while others such
as Fernandino II. of Goa is a _ cook-
ing mango of special value. It should
be stated to the credit of the mango that
good apple pies can be made from the green
fruit. The merits of the many kinds is a
fruitful topic of discussion among mango

cranks. Conclusions are not warranted
as yet. It takes time to settle such ques-
tions. Some of the old timers with per-

verted taste settle it by saying that the
common turpentine mango is good enough
for anybody.

The mango belongs to a disreputable
family, the Spondiacee or sumac family.
It is probably the most respectable of all
its relations. It is represented in Florida
by a poison tree (Metopium Metopium)
commonly called hog plum, poisonwood,
bumwood and doctor gum. It includes
the cashew nut (Anacardium occidentale),
the jobo, pronounced hobo, and should be
spelled the same way (Spondias lutea),
the famous pepper tree (Schinus molle)
so common in California, and the cassava
(Manihot Manihot).

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The mango is not unlike a peach tree, but evergreen, and in its season laden with the golden yellow fruit

In spite of the highly poisonous nature
of many plants of this family, the mango
is very wholesome although I have heard
of one or two cases of “mango rash” due
presumably to the excessive eating of this
fruit. Negroes in many parts of the tropics
practically quit work during mango season
devoting themselves assiduously to mak-
ing the best of a good thing while it lasts.

The mango isa beautiful, broad-spreading
shade tree. Its rounded crown and dense
foliage form a perfect shelter from the sun.
It has a dark green leaf larger than, but sim-
ilar in shape to that of the peach. It is never
leafless. The young leaves are a beautiful
pinkish red. The tree grows to be very
large and groups of such trees around the
homestead are striking features of many
tropical landscapes.

The flowers are small but profuse and a
dry winter season is favorable to a good
crop. Some of the common mangoes bear
heavily almost every year, the branches
bending to the ground with the weight

of fruit. In planting the seed it is best to
remove the outer covering or case by care-
fully cutting the margin with a sharp
knife. The seed may contain two or three
embryos so that it is often possible to se-
cure two or even three trees from a single
seed. It is a promising fruit for South
Florida and although it bears in the summer
when peaches and other northern fruits
are in the market, it will sell on its merits
and besides there is the probability of
keeping it in cold storage till winter, when
the tourists come with plenty of money
and good appetites for the fruits of the
land. By this means, too, the railroads
and commission men may be prevented
from robbing the owner of the fruits of his
toil. Ten years in the future Florida
mangoes will be famous. Many local va-
rieties will be developed and perfected
and become as well and as favorably known
as is the Florida standard grapefruit or
pomelo. The same prediction applies to
the avocado or alligator pear.

Making a Garden in a City Yard—By H. B. Graves,

New
York

A BUSINESS MAN’S RECREATION THAT IN EIGHT YEARS HAS MADE A “PICTURE GARDEN ”’
OUT OF UNPROMISING MATERIAL— THE PART PLAYED BY HAVING A DEFINITE PLAN

HEN buying our home nine years ago, we secured with it

two acres of land adjoining the rear of the house lot,
which was of the modest dimensions of 80x 315 ft. The two
acres consisted of an oblong piece, one side 445 feet and the
other 488 feet in length, with a width of 185 feet. A grape
trellis and fruit trees at the
rear of the lot cut off the
view of this plot of ground
from the house. The larger
part of this two acres was cov-
ered with an orchard of fine
old apple trees.

I enclosed an oblong strip
in the centre of nearly an acre
with wire fence for the family
cow, and fortunately nearly
all of the apple trees came
within this enclosure. The
land outside of this centre was
used for the garden and land-
scape planting.

The first step was to put my
plan on paper, and to make out
lists of plants. After exhaust-
ing the favorites that were fa-
miliar to me, I began to study
parks and private grounds,
as well as garden literature,
nursery catalogues and works
on landscape gardening. The
list of desirables grew fast.
The more I studied the sub-
ject, and considered the im-
portance of placing each
tree or group to secure best
relationship to all, the more
I appreciated the necessity
of the services of a first-
class landscape architect in the final adjustment of the plan. I
turned my lists and plan over to a man of ability and wide experi-
ence, telling him the effects I wanted to secure, and stated
that he’ might add to or take from my planting list as his
judgment dictated. The re-
sult is that my ideas have
been, to a large extent, car-
ried out, and mistakes apt
to be made by an amateur
have been avoided.

The house, with three first-

Old apple

trees and newer ornamentals are combined to make garden pictures.

A flower-bordered grass walk makes a pretty outlook from the window in early spring

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story rooms on the front, did not give a view of the back lawn
from a living room. A new part was built and the library
enlarged. All of the planting on the east side of the lot is in-
cluded in the vista from a broad plate-glass window in this
room. The fruit trees were taken out of the centre of the
back lawn, and the grape trel-
lises removed.

The first. planting included
about one hundred varieties
of trees, about the same num-
ber of shrubs, and upward of
thirty kinds of climbing vines,
with a few perennial flowers.
Each year herbaceous plants,
bulbs, and usually some choice
trees and shrubs have been
added. The largest planting
of bulbs, about four thousand,
was put in four years ago.
The path was put on paper
when the first planting plan
was made, and it was con-
structed of cinders two years
later. The first two years the
entire plot, outside of the pas-
ture lot, was kept under cul-
tivation. Perennials and bulbs
have been planted in colonies
along the fence enclosing the
pasture lot, and on the bor-
ders of shrubbery groups. The
old line fences were re-
moved and replaced with new
wire fence, which was built
614 feet high just inside of
the line. This and the pas-
ture fence were planted with
climbers—Crimson Ramblers,
Hall’s honeysuckle, Japanese golden-leaved honeysuckle, Bel-
gian honeysuckle, Chinese wistaria, Clematis paniculata and
Virginiana and some thirty other things.

The rear of the lot is planned for a wild garden, and here the
fences are covered with
wild grapes, bitter-sweet,
wistaria, and Virginia
creeper (Ampelopsis quin-
quefolia). While the trees,
shrubs and vines for this
section were largely included

The walk following the boundary lines opens on a series of different effects

Fepruary, 1911

The whole garden, about two acres in extent has several distinct features

in the first planting, and some wild flowers
have been planted since, the wild garden
is mostly a work for future development.

In order to screen outside objects and
secure a pleasing background for the
general planting, I set out five or six
species of willow along the outside fence.
Within three years’ time these and the
climbing vines gave a fairly good back-
ground and something of a parklike effect
to our little pleasure ground. Laurel-leaf,
golden and rosemary willows were largely
used, these being planted quite near to-
gether with the intention: of thinning them
out as they became large. Purple foliage,
with the golden willow as a background,
gives a most charming color effect. Dur-
ing the past three or four years borers in
the willows have given me much trouble,
but the three kinds named have been
exempt from their attacks. While
beautiful all the year, nothing is more
charming than the canoe birch in a winter
landscape, and these have been largely
used in preference to the European cut
leaf, as the latter are apt to be killed by the
borer that has destroyed so many of these
beautiful trees in this section.

An enjoyable feature is the path, which

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The border of asters skirts the walk that leads
around the whole area

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winds gracefully among the trees and
shrubbery, making a circuit of the pasture
lot, and on the east side lying principally
at the left of the vista, which it crosses
at the farther end. Through the wild
garden the branches of the trees overhang
the path. On the west side the planting
is of a different nature, and includes a small
collection of magnolias. The final stretch
running east and west is the only part
laid out on straight lines. It runs parallel
with the south end of the pasture lot,
between which and itself is the planting
of lilacs, and at the right the fruit and
a vegetable garden.

Care in planting, cultivating and mulch-
ing has resulted in the loss of but a small
percentage of the planting. Some that
failed to pull through the first season have
done well in the second planting. The
greatest loss has been among the canoe
birches, some of which have been replaced
three or four times. In the fall of 1909
I made an experiment, planting a cluster
of eight of these, placing them closely
together and interlocking the roots. I
gave the clump the usual mulching, and
then drove tall stakes around the planting,
covering them with burlap, thus securing
complete shade from the winter sun.
This screen was not removed until spring
was well advanced, and every one of the
eight trees is living and doing well.

From the kitchen door a cement walk
extends back about one hundred and fifty
feet to the tool house, located at the rear
of the house lot, where it joins the two
acres. This walk forms the eastern or
the right-hand border of the vista from
the library window. On the farther side
of the walk are fruit trees and a grape
trellis, with some bulbs and _ perennial
flowers, but the border on the left of the
walk is the feature that gives color to the
foreground of the vista. This is filled
with bulbs, Narcissus poeticus, Emperor and
Empress, and tulips Kaiserskroon, Chrys-
olora and Picotee. To follow these in
bloom are some clumps of scarlet oriental
poppies. The bulbs are planted fully
four inches deep, and are left in the ground
from year to year. The last of June the
ripened stalks are removed, except the
poppies, which not entirely ripened, are
tied to stakes. The surface soil is worked
up fine, and a light covering is added of

And the enjoyment and comfort of the owners are well provided for

sifted rotten sod, with some wood ashes
or fertilizer. With this preparation the
entire border is planted with branching
china asters. At the left of the vista,
beyond the clump of Japanese evergreens
seen on the picture, the setigera and rugosa
roses are bordered with early and late
red tulips, with a few groups of white, and
some scarlet oriental poppies. The bulbs
here are usually followed by Salvia Bonfire,
and a little bay extending between the
roses makes a capital place for a few plants
of nicotiana, which mingle their white
blossoms with and above the rich green
leaves of the rugosa. Three Magnolia
stellata are planted so that the blossoms
and foliage give appearance of a bank of
white blossoms some thirty feet long. Two
clumps of forsythia, one fifty feet beyond
the other, give the appearance of a con-
tinuous mass of blossoms.

At two points Lombardy poplars were
planted to screen telegraph poles and in
other places trees are also planted to hide
some object beyond. In order to get the
proper location for these, a long pole with a
white flag at the end was placed in different
positions until it came in line between the
view point and the object to be screened.

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Passing under an arbor of clematis and flowering
vines. See also the opposite picture

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(Eprtor’s Nore.—We want to know how suc-
cessful workers do things in order to put actual
experiences before our thousands of readers in all
parts of the country. Every reader is invited to con-
tribute a short nole on some interesting experience.
Just state the facts about some ingenious idea thal you
have actually worked out yourself or have seen.)

A few years ago, in one season, I caught
twenty-seven moles in my small garden,

and twenty-four of these in one row of peas-

less than thirty feet long, the number about
evenly divided between noon and night.
I used the spring spear trap. — W. H. R

A part of the hardy border of our garden
is so shaded by an overhanging tree that we
had great difficulty in inducing any flowers
to bloom. Finally, quantities of ferns, in
as great variety as the neighboring woods
afforded, were transplanted. Then the
impatience (Impatiens Sultant), which had
flowered freely in the house all winter, was
“vivisected,” and the slips planted along
the border of the bed. They all rooted
successfully, and made a lovely mass of rose-
pink all summer and autumn. Among the
ferns several varieties of tuberous-rooted
begonias were planted. The cool green of
the ferns and the soft coloring of the begonias
were most pleasing on hot days.—F. B. C.

I want to disagree with B. G. who wrote,
in the Readers’ Experience Club for No-
vember, that ‘“‘cats should never be
allowed in a garden unless planted three
feet underground.” My cat has been
for eight years my constant companion
in my garden. He is so well fed that he
has no desire to catch the birds nor does
he appear to frighten them away, as B.
G.’s “chipping sparrows, song sparrows
and robins” are found in my garden to-
gether with orioles, summer yellow birds
and others. The only insect pests from
which I ever suffer are aphis on young
rose shoots, and I do not spend. much
time in spraying, either. Cats and gar-
dens can “go together’? comfortably if
the cat is well fed “and i is taught properly.
I do not say that a well-fed cat will
never catch a bird, for he will. Mine
has had three this past season, to which
I consider he is as well entitled as I am
to an occasional quail, reed-bird or snipe.
In travelling about England I have
noticed that the garden is exceptional
which does not show at least one cat, and
in some gardens — not very large —I
have seen as many as six!—M. A. H.

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A charming little picture I noted this
spring was a clump of scarlet Japan
quinces with an underplanting of white
dogtooth violets. The almost bare
branches of the quince seemed to rise
from a mass of the handsome speckled
foliage of the bulbs as if they were part
of them. Dog-tooth violets are plenti-
ful almost everywhere in the spring but
securing the bulbs demands a search
warrant and an expert miner! They
are down at a remarkable depth, consider-
ing the size of the plant, and they seem to
ramble around and send up their leaves in
a manner which disguises the real location
of the bulb. —D

I have had an annoying experience
in trying to secure the Dropmore variety
of Anchusa Italica. Various dealers sell
various plants under this name. From
one I secured a dwarf plant, evidently
Anchusa, angustifolia, with a militant
Dutch blue color that fought with every-
thing within reach. A lot of a dozen
bought from another dealer were Anchusa
Ttalica, but there was a very marked
difference among these plants. Some
had much larger flowers than others,
and some were a better blue than others.
The foliage, although rather coarse and
weedy, is so overshadowed by the wealth
of flowers that it is forgotten. None of
my plants survived the first year, I am
sorry to say. They seemed to bloom
themselves to death. It would be in-
teresting to know what firm sells the
true Dropmore variety. It seems evident
that some of them are selling seedlings
which do not come true. —sS. R

Wallflowers are hardy in Northern
Illinois if kept dry. This statement is
made in endorsement of a note from a
reader of THE GARDEN MAGAZINE printed
some time ago. This reader was from
the “Show Me” State and said that
wallflowers could be grown in Missouri

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These wallflowers lived over winter in Missouri by
being kept dry

FEeBRUARY, 1911

provided they were kept dry in winter.
Last year I raised a lot of wallflowers .
and placed them in a coldframe, which
was not built with an idea of providing
warmth but merely to protect such
plants as Canterbury bells and foxgloves,
the crowns of which rot so readily if
subjected to thawing and freezing while
wet. Everything in this frame froze
several times, the temperature dropping
to ten and twelve below zero repeatedly.
Not a wallflower was hurt in the least;
snapdragons were killed, while others left
in the open ground and covered with a
light mulch survived. These wallflowers
bloomed in April and were brought
through the winter in splendid shape by
merely being kept dry. —C. D. J.

The sweet pea article in the November
GARDEN MaGAZINE interested me exceed-
ingly. A friend of mine, a rose grower
in New Jersey, puts her sweet peas into
the ground in the fall in a sheltered spot
and allows them to get a few inches
above the ground, contrary to the
theory expressed in the article just
mentioned. She then covers them light-
ly with straw; the vines survive the
winter and bloom very early. She also
sows the seed in a coldframe in early
spring, and has a bountiful supply of
peas all summer. —C. J. D.

Experiments make the garden game
worth while, but experience often makes.
the game better for some one else. So
let me pass on my experiment and experi-
ence with Nicotiana sylvestris. Do not
use it in a small garden. Put it in large
groups in the shrubbery, or use it as a
bold background where one has room.
It is worse than hollyhocks for spread-
ing over the ground. A year or so ago
THE GARDEN MAGazinE said this variety
was superior to JV. alata as its flowers.
kept open all day instead of wilting in
full sun. I grew it for the first time last
year placing it during August in bare
spots, as I always do the alate, for bloom
in September and October. It waxed
mighty and strong, and many lower
leaves had to be cut off to save young
perennials from being smothered. In
one border where it had full play, it grew
eight to nine feet tall. It is effective,
but its flowers do droop in sun, though
not quite as badly as those of the older
alata for they grow differently, are much
smaller individually and hang from a
large flower head. What a difference of
scent there is in Nicotiana! One of my
old plants that self-seeds in the same
spot each year has a decided lily perfume;
others have scarcely any or, at best, just
a faint petunia-like odor.—F. E. Mcl.

Spinach, as everyone knows, is a rank
feeder and likes to have its food near the
surface of the soil. A plan I have followed
every year with great success is to plough
the soil, then manure and harrow it,
which leaves the manure where the plants
can quickly reach it. —C. J. D.

The Soil Pantry

\ N 7 CAN look upon the soil as a great

big pantry full of food. This food
often is locked up in the pantry, locked
so tightly that even the plants themselves
cannot get at it. This is pretty serious.
We expect to find certain soils with little
food in them because they are really poor
and lack food. But it is amazing to think
about soils which have plenty of food and
to spare, but cannot give out this food
in proper form so that the plants may get
the benefit. Where can a boy or girl
find a key which will unlock this soil
pantry?

What is plant food? There area number
of chemicals and combinations of chemicals
which serve as foods to plants. Some
of these are very important. Others are
less important, not so necessary to plants
as others. The foods we should know
about are the absolutely necessary . or
fundamental ones. There are three of
them: nitrogen is one, potash another,
and phosphorus the third. You can
always tell whether or not these foods are
actively present in the soil by the appear-
ance of the plant. Suppose its foliage
is fine and green and abundant? Then
you may know that there has been plenty
of nitrogen given to that plant. Now
appears a well-formed flower which tells
us that potash is available too. Good
sound fruit has been fed by potash and
phosphorus.

Suppose the plants’ foliage look weak
and sickly; then by this sign it is evident
that nitrogen is lacking in the soil. If

THE GOAL OF OUR GARDEN WORK
LIES WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF
THIS CHILD’S OWN HOME. IT IS HIS
HOME GARDEN OR HIS EFFORT TO-
WARD THE IMPROVEMENT OF HIS SUR-
ROUNDINGS WHICH TELLS THE STORY
OF THE INCENTIVE WE HAVE GIVEN
HIM.
Conducted by
ELLEN EDDY SHAW
New York

there is trouble with flowers and fruit,
although the previous growth has been
good, then potash and phosphorus are
needed.

I suppose the next question you would
ask is concerning the best form of these
different plant foods to add to the soil.
Put on manure for nitrogen. Bone ashes
or phosphates will give the phosphorus.
For potash get the muriate or the sulphate
of potash and wood ashes. Perhaps nitro-
gen is the most universally needed, the
most generally lacking food.

The real key to the food question has
to do with bacteria. We hear a great deal

about bacteria in these days. Bacteria
are present in the soil too. There are
good bacteria and bad ones. The good

ones act upon the soil and change the food
into forms which the plants can take in.
The bad ones prevent this. To en-
courage the good and discourage the bad
ones the best conditions must be present.
The best conditions are these ;: first,
plenty of air; second, water in right amount;
third, a sweet condition of things; and
lastly, extra plant food if necessary.

Clay soil, you have found out (by
experiment), has the bad habit of squeezing
its fine particles up into tight masses and
thus excluding air. So clay soil needs
to be helped over that weakness. It is
a soil which bakes and cracks in the sun;
it is a soil which is cold and wet in early
spring. We must change these conditions.
Again old rotten manure will put this
soil into shape. This sort of help is a
physical one. When manure was added
just for the nitrogen element in it, the

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soil was improved chemically. When we
add manure we also improve the soil
physically by breaking up its bad habits.
Ashes or sand mixed with clay will also
improve it physically.

Sand has a bad habit, too. It is that
of letting water pass through it too quickly.
Sandy soil has not enough body. Rotted
manure added to this soil puts into it
what it lacks both chemically and physi-
cally. What is true of sand physically
is true, too, of lime soils. These need more
body; they also need to hold more water
in their own mass. Rotted manure is
the remedy for both of these.

And so the great question is: How can I
make the soil of my garden hold just the:
right amount of water and give up to the
plant its proper and right food ? =

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Seed Tests

AST month’s tests were with soils;
this time try the following with seeds:
Experiment t—Count out 100 seeds
of the kind you wish to test. If the seeds
are large, like squash or bean seed, take
but fifty. Place on a plate a damp blot-
ter, and on that sprinkle the seed you wish
to test. Cover with another damp blotter.
Have as many of these plates as you have
kinds of seed to test. After a day or two
count the seeds which have sprouted or
germinated. How many did not germi-
nate? What is the percentage of ger-
mination? Work out the germinating
per cent. for all the seeds you are going
to plant this season. Make a germination
table.

Note the method used by Mabel in training her prize tomatoes

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Boy’s Garden. Background of foxglove; effective foreground of Shasta daisies

a

A part of Roger’s flower garden: 105 different
varieties were in this garden

Experiment 2 — As you do experiment 1,
note the number of days it takes the dif-
ferent kind of seeds to germinate. For
example, how many days before lettuce
starts to sprout? How many days does
it take corn to germinate? Suppose some
of the lettuce seed begins to germinate
on the sixth day and after the eighth no
more seed sprouts. Then the germination
time for lettuce seed is from six to eight
days. Work this out for your other seeds.
Call this a germination table or a ger-
mination time-table.

Experiment 3—If you have some seed
two years old, some of the same kind three
years old and some of this past season’s
seed, test the effect of age upon the power
to germinate. You may have corn seed
from several years back.

+ Experiment 4— Try the effect of deep
planting. Take corn for this experiment.
Plant some 1 inch deep, some 2 inches,
and so on up to 4. Keep track of the
number of days it takes each lot of seed
to come up. What effect has deep plant-
ing upon corn seed? Try this with any
seed you like and in different soils. Plant
the seed in pots or in separate boxes.

The Children’s Contest Letters

HE following are a few letters written by some

of our “contest” children concerning their

gardens. These are a part of the report required
by the contest conditions.

I HAVE had ros different kinds of flowers in my
garden this last summer. My seeds for plants
sold cost me $4.25. J have sold plants and flowers
for $22.95 and took $2.50 in prizes, making $25.75.
I started my seeds April 5th, in my hotbed, ex-
pecting to sell only aster plants, but people
wanted a few of the others, so I sold them. On
account of dry weather I did not get large enoygh
blossoms to get many prizes exhibiting. I raised
some handsome water lilies in a tub. I am
saving my money for a greenhouse.

Worcester, Mass. ROGER NEWTON PERRY.

OwuR GARDEN festival was very fine. All the
schools and many home gardens were on exhibit.
I am happy to report six first premiums out of
nine entries, including one special first on asters.

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I won easily on tomatoes (which averaged over
one pound each). I entercd more for display and
must say I was much surprised when the judges
placed first banners on my parsnips and celery,
and special first on my asters. The best premium
or the one I prize the highest is one year’s sub-
scription to THE GaRDEN MacaziIne. We have
had a very warm dry summer here, no rain in
July or August, but I am much encouraged with
my summer work. So far this season my receipts
are $35.40, my expense $4.21, leaving me a balance
of $31.19. I sowed all my perennials in coldframes
on the fifteenth of August. They are now nice,
hardy plants. I will only protect them with
boards this winter, and transplant to hot sash
about March rst. I hope this, together with my
chart, pictures, press clippings and premium
cards will give you a fair idea of the interest and
pleasures I have taken in my garden this season,
and place me in a favorable position in class “A”
of THe GarpEN MacaziIne’s National Contest.
Cleveland, Ohio. Maser JANE MUSSER.

My VEGETABLE garden was 24 feet long by 16
feet wide with two paths running cross-ways,
each 11% feet wide. In this garden I grew twenty
different varieties. I will tell the amount of each

variety.
Com (einvanieties): oa eeneren eee 4 dozen ears
Redicalbbag eases) areeenn arr: iterate Necks bar 4 heads
Greenticabbare.2- 22): ae en eee 4 heads
Tomatoes) .j2 5S Meteo Cee 4 bushel
Potatoes 25) chet eee eee + bushel
IBeansm (bush) pees (2 plantings) 4 bushel
‘Beans\i(pole)) acdsee 3 eee ee + bushel
Beets ish ais. 5 i Bio Senet Ut Alecia aCe
Carrots
Parsnips
Turnips
SqWashi. S54 cucu ies csiocestele ake Chshe eee nee eee 4
Cucumbers
Radish.....
Onxions
Parsley

Spinach
Cauliflower and Bruss-l sprouts too late for exhibit.

My flower garden was 8 feet by to feet, with
twenty-one varieties, namely:

Asters (4 varieties) Poppy

Dahlias (5 varieties) Love-in-the-mist
Zinnia Candytuft
Morning Bride Marigold

Phlox Dianthus
Snapdragon Cosmos
Larkspur Verbena

Waltham, Mass. R. GREENLEAF BRUCE.

I HAVE a pretty good garden this year of about
the same size as last year, but have more and
better things. For vegetables I had two varieties
of sweet corn, two varieties of carrots, two varieties
of tomatoes, two of potatoes, and three of beans.
The other vegetables were beets, turnips, cauli-
flower, cucumbers, muskmelons, citron, pumkpins,
two varieties summer and winter squash, onions,
parsnips, cabbage lettuce, curly leaf lettuce,

“y,

Howard supplied his home with vegetables all
summer. Area of garden 50x40 feet

Fepruary, 1911

cabbage, and besides these I had a patch of yellow
field corn. I had fifteen varieties of flowers. The
cutworms bothered quite a little the first part of
the summer so that I had to put paper around the
cauliflower and cabbage plants when I set them
out. I entered a collection of vegetables and
flowers at the Groton Fair, September 29th, and
got second prize.

Groton, Mass. ' Paut H. Witson.

I PLANTED my nasturtiums in a place about ten
feet long and twenty-seven inches wide. I planted
two rows of seeds and put them about three-
quarters of an inch under the ground. They
came up in about a week and they grew rapidly.
I planted them about the first of April. About
May they had advanced very much. About the
first of June the plants had little green worms on
them. I sprayed with arsenate of {lead, and in
two or three days I had gotten rid of the pests. My
first flower came out on July 4th, Independence
Day. I have had a great many bunches of nas-
turtiums since July 4th. They were the climbing
nasturtium. The leaves were very large, and I
soon had to put strings up for them to climb on.
I planted them right under the dining-room window
and they were also at the foot of the porch steps.
I planted my sweet peas, but only a few came out
as it was rather late when I planted them. Those
that did come out were very large and fragrant.
They were planted against a fence in a bed about
seven or eight feet long and a foot wide.

Rochester, N. Y. EsTHER HENCKELL.

I witt describe how I cared for my plot in Hudson
Park. The ground was measured into plots three
by six feet. The earth had to be dug with a spade.
The large stones were removed by a rake. After
this was completed the work of sowing the seeds
began. I divided the ground into five rows. In
the first I planted radishes, a few seeds in a place
and about aninch anda half apart. In the second,
beans, one in a place and a few inches apart. In
the third, beets, a few in a place and a few inches
apart. In the fourth, carrots, which I scattered
along the ground. The fifth, I divided into two
parts, putting onions in one part, and in the other
I scattered lettuce seeds, and when it had grown
to a certain size I transplanted it. I took great
care that the weeds would not choke out the
vegetables while growing. I watered them three
times a week after the sun went down. Farming
is entirely new tome. And I hope by next summer
my garden may be even a greater success.

New York City. RICHARD QUIGLEY.

From a Boy’s Garden

WA® A faithful old reliable, the foxglove is one

of the best flowers in the garden. Once
grown, it reseeds itself industriously in all corners.
We have grown it with much success, some plants
attaining a height of nine feet.

Those in the picture were found by a little boy,
growing in various parts of the garden, and planted
by him ina “nursery.” In the fall they were planted
in his corner at the end of an old-fashioned border,
Some were planted close to the edge of the border,
thus bending gracefully over its edge to whisper
courage to the daisies. For effect and charming
picturesqueness, the foxglove occupies a place of
its own.

This summer the boy has discovered some eight
or nine dozen foxglove plants here and there in
the garden, which are now a flourishing colony
ready for their permanent places. It is a biennial,
blossoming the second year after sowing. The
white foxgloves are especially beautiful, sometimes
oddly penciled.

When the foxgloves had finished blooming, the
Shasta daisies (planted in front of them) opened
their handsome white flowers, so the corner was
attractive all summer. The gap in the daisies
was where a mole showed an appetite for tender
green leaves. Next year the boy plans to have
a longer row by using all the new foxgloves and
dividing the daisies into more plants.

The boy has started a seed-bed of his own by
gathering ripe seeds from the flowers, and wherever
there happens to be a bare spot he asks, “Can I
have that for my garden, too?”

Making the Most of the Squash

By ANNA Barrows, New York

iE IS worth while even this early in the
year to consider the end thereof. For
of all the vegetables that round out this
time of the year none equals the squash in
importance or real value. For the winter
table, however, we must plan beforehand.

Once well started in the spring in a
deep moist soil, squashes require little
care, and a small patch will yield a
winter’s supply for a family. Even in a
dry season they thrive and though the
squashes may not be as large or as numer-
ous they are drier and more mealy than
when there is plenty of rain.

The illustration gives an idea of the
thickness of the shell in some varieties of
squash. The kind which furnished these
pictures has often been brought from the
home garden, kept in a city flat through
the winter and until after the fourth of
July. Each squash that is used has a
somewhat thinner shell than its prede-
cessors and in the late spring or early
summer there is only a thin skin, the
remainder of the hard shell having softened
in pulp like the rest.

It also shows two of the best utensils
for sifting squash or pumpkin or similar
vegetables — the usual potato ricer and an
inexpensive puree strainer.

One of the most satisfactory ways to
serve the hard-shelled winter squashes is
- cooked in its own shell. Split the squash

as regularly as possible that the shell may
Some are
Take

be a shapely dish for the table.
better split across, some lengthwise.

out the seeds, but do not scrape the pulp

clean until the squash is steamed or baked. -

The oven should be moderate or the sweet
juices of the squash will brown too fast —
an hour will be none too long to make the
pulp tender to the shell. Carefully scrape
out the pulp. Trim the shell into better
shape with scissors if needed, but be care-
ful not to break it. Mash the pulp fine,
perhaps press through a potato ricer.
Season with butter, or cream if the squash
is dry, salt and pepper. Refill the shell
and brown slightly in the oven. A border
may be forced through bag and tube.
The pulp of a whole squash thus may be
put in the half shell.

Yet another way, suitable for a squash
with only medium hard shell, is to cut it
in pieces suitable for individual service
—brush over with melted butter — put
in a dripping pan or deep pie plate and

turn another closely fitting over it. When
the squash begins to soften or in half an
hour remove cover and bake till soft and
slightly brown.

But it is usually more satisfactory for
general use to steam the squash in its
shell, which requires about half an hour —
then scrape and put through a colander
or potato ricer and season as desired.

An early writer on household affairs,
Miss Catherine E. Beecher, in some of her
recipes suggests that left over squash, if
not mashed is “excellent fried for next
day’s breakfast.”’ She also advised sav-
ing the water in which the squash was
cooked for yeast or for brown bread, thus
recognizing that much of the sweetness
of the squash is dissolved and lost if it is
cooked in water which is thrown away.

The preparation needed for a squash
pie is that described above. If the squash

Squash delicacies that help out the winter table. Note the thick meat-of the cut specimen

vas

As the season advances the rind of the squash gets thinner.

Two tools for preparing squash

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was buttered and salted and only slightly
peppered any left from the table may be
used in a pie. The squash varies so in
texture that it is difficult to give propor-
tions for a pie. However, one cup of dry
squash is ample for an average pie plate.
Combine this with a custard made of
two eggs, one pint milk, one-half cup
sugar, flavor with nutmeg, cinnamon,
ginger.

Line a deep plate with thin crust, pour
in the mixture and bake in an oven quickly
first, to cook the crust, then slowly till the
whole is firm, which is usually shown by a
puffing of the centre.

On the other hand, if the squash is moist
and there is no time to let it dry away,

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use one and one-half cups or more of
squash and correspondingly less milk.

Condensed milk or the milk powders
are useful when squashes are watery.

The squash biscuits or rolls shown in
the cut are made by combining one cup
of cooked and sifted squash with each cup
of milk in an ordinary recipe for raised
rolls. The squash in any case is so moist
that additional flour will be required.
The result is a soft roll of rich golden color
as if much egg yolk had been used.

Cream of squash soup is made much
like the familiar cream of tomato or mock
bisque soup. Use one cup sifted squash
for each quart of milk. Thicken with
two tablespoonfuls of butter and the same
of flour cooked together. Season with
salt, pepper and onion. Strain and add
a little fine chopped parsley or green pepper
just before serving.

The old time housekeepers used to dry
the pumpkin and squash much as apples
are dried—and sometimes they were
used for preserves— alone or combined
with quince or some high flavored fruit.

Some Turkish sweetmeats have squash
as a basis. The squash is cut in strips
and partly boiled, then is cooked in syrup
until well preserved. The syrup is finally
flavored with rose water.

A Harmonious Bed Cover

fe a bedroom leads directly out of a liv-

ing-room the bed itself is the one thing
which seems to stand out and proclaim
itself. A very pretty covering for a bed
is one made of monk’s cloth. Monk’s
cloth looks like a burlap. The color is
just a natural one. It does not come in

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different colors as does burlap. The
texture of monk’s cloth is pleasing, as is
the coloring. It harmonizes well with any
room furnishings. 2s

A Cooking Kit

|? is a problem how to cook a dinner
over a one or two burner oil or gas
stove. As soon as one or two vegetables
are cooked these must come off and others
go on. While the latter are cooking, the
former are cooling down. Then finally
comes the grand rush of trying to have
everything hot, and the mother of the
house is hot and disturbed when dinner
is served. By using the following con-
trivance a hot dinner of several vegetables,
soup and even meat in certain forms may
be served.

Get a large agate or porcelain kettle or
even a 5-pound lard pail will do. Then
gather together a small pail or two, some
baking-powder tins and a wire basket.

Let us have potatoes, beans, squash,
and onions for the hot part of this supposed
meal. Place the beans in a small pail
with the water for their boiling and in
another pail or tin go the onions. Now
place the tins and pails, all nicely covered,
on the bottom of the large pail. Pour in
water. Fill in chinks between the pails
with the potatoes. The wire basket should
fit down into the top of the pail and in
this put the squash. Cover the kettle and
place over the one little burner.

You might wish to cook certain things
which take different lengths of time for
their boiling. Suppose you wish to have
some brown bread for the evening meal.
Put it in its own can and start it ahead of

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A great ‘deal can be done to lighten labor in the kitchen by making the plan fit the conditions. In

this case there is ample work space, and the sink is properly put in the lightest place,

recess in which the table fits is a novel feature, too

The space-saving

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the other food. If one has a two-burner
stove then start one kettle with those
things which take a long time for cooking
over one burner. Later put on the second

kettle with its foods requiring less time

for their cooking over the second burner.
New York. LOD e IS).

Afternoon Tea

LL lovers of lemon served in tea will
like this combination. Add to a

cup of clear tea a teaspoonful of orange
marmalade. Stir it in well. The resulting
flavor of orange combined with lemon,
which is of course necessary, is delicious.

Meat Soufflé

HIS is to be made of the final re-
mains of a roast which has been
served up for several meals. Chop the
meat fine. Warm it up in its own gravy
or a little hot water. Toa cup of chopped
meat plan to use one egg. Beat the eggs,
both white and yolk together, with a quarter
cup of cream or milk for each egg. Add
salt, pepper, and butter. Mix with the
meat and cook for fifteen minutes in a
double boiler. Line a baking dish with
mashed potato, pour the hot meat mixture
into this, and cover with potato. Brush
over the top with the white of an egg and
drop little pieces of butter here and there
over it. Cook for twenty minutes. Serve hot.

Keeping Cut Flowers

ee A symposium of ideas as to the
best way to preserve cut flowers
in water which I read some time ago
nothing whatever was said of a little
point worth knowing and _ observing.
In cutting the stems (which should, of
course, be repeated every time that the
water is changed), use a knife and cut
diagonally. That adds to the suction
area of the cut part. Hi. Sie

A Cheese Supper Dish

Ses one cup of bread crumbs in
one cup of milk. Add to this one
well beaten egg, salt, and last of all one
cup of cheese cut in. This is only a
small individual portion to be baked in a
ramekin. For four or six people the in-
gredients can be increased accordingly and
one large dish may be used for baking.

Doctoring an Omelet

VERY one knows this receipt: 3 eggs,
3 tablespoonfuls of milk, a pinch of
salt.

Beat separately the whites and yolks of
the eggs. To the yolks add the milk and
the salt. Fold the whites into the yolks.

But it is far better if, after beating
the whites until the mass is perfectly stiff,
one-half is then thoroughly stirred with a
spoon into the yolks and milk. Fold the
other half in. This makes more body to
the omelet and less froth.

FepruarRy, 1911

Rescuing Worn-out Bulbs

AY excellent February idea for amateur gardeners

is that each one should establish an in-
dividual ‘Band of Hope for the Rescue of Orphaned
Pot-Hyacinths.” The formula says: “There is
much good in everyone, and a rather papery and
battered hyacinth bulb is not necessarily beyond
restoration to a life of usefulness.” This is a fact.
I have been sole proprietor of such a mission for
nine years, and the rescued now amount to two
good pecks; or to fifty square feet of crowded
flowery beds, if you are not used to measuring
hyacinths by the peck like rutabagas.

The whole trick lies in keeping the potted bulb
in a light, cool place, not only till the spent flower-
stems wither, but so long as it has leaves. Given
light and a little water, the leaves will rebuild the
bulb. For convenience, I keep my spent plants
in bedroom windows until the first of April, and
then, removing pots without breaking the root-
ball, earth them in some flower bed in which the
soil has thawed enough to be manageable. By the
middle of June large, rather light-weight bulbs
will be found, with no roots nor leaves. These,
with the few offsets they may have made, should
be taken up, cleaned of soil, and well dried all
summer. Plant in October or November in light
soil, preferably in beds left empty by the freezing
off of annuals. The forced bulbs are not usually
worth potting a second year; but planted out
closely in beds they make a cheerful show — Dutch
Romanized, so to speak —slender, extra early,
and often smaller in bells than the year before.

All of the bedded bulbs and bulblets should be
lifted and cured as before when their leaves have
died. By the second year some of the original
roots have made three or four small flowering bulbs,
while some have attended just to rebuilding their
own stout persons. These last may be graduated
from the sanatorium and go back into pots for
the winter, or they will produce splendid flowers
in the outdoor bed. A small offset will, in five or
six years produce a true “exhibition spike” and
in a year or two after that will split itself into small
trash again, to begin life over. Thus, in my two
pecks of bulbs saved from eight seasons, I find
sometimes one grand flower-spike of a double
blackish tint; sometimes two poor stems; sometimes
two good stems and one poor one; and at last
a half-dozen little double blacks, fairy size. Al-

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lowing for mortality, I may next have five medium
spikes of the black, and next year after that,
three fine ones and one fair. With all costlier
sorts the increase is slow — Morena, Gigantea,
and La Peyrouse on the contrary, are as the English
sparrow’s posterity; they ripen early, therefore
ripen perfectly, and get the very most out of their
roots and leaves before being lifted in June.
Pennsylvania. 135 tse Ale

The Reiuvenation of Azaleas and
Poinsettias

N THE 22nd of February, 1909, I received as
a gift, an azalea which was covered with
exquisite pink and white blossoms. It remained

in bloom for nearly a month. When the last
blossom faded, I removed the plant from the parlor
with the intention of throwing it away, as I sup-
posed, being a hothouse plant forced into bloom,

After your Christmas azalea has finished blooming,
keep the soil moist and it, will bloom next year

it had exhausted its vitality. I was told, how-
ever, that if it was never allowed to become dry,
it would bloom another year.

The experiment was surely worth trying. Dur-
ing the spring and summer I watered it occasionally,
and in the autumn repotted it, using very rich
earth. A florist told me afterwards that it

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would have been better to have repotted it in
the spring.

Late in November, buds appeared. Every

few days, I would plunge the pot in a deep pail of
water, allowing the water to reach as far as possible
into the branches. I also sprinkled the leaves.
This was continued until the color began to show
in the buds. Once a week I used a little ammonia
when I watered the plant.

A year afterwards, on the 22nd of February,
1910, there were over seventy blossoms on the plant
and a few days later there were more than a hundred.
The plant was much larger and more beautiful
than when I received it.

I had a similar experience with a poinsettia
which was given me one Christmas. I cast that
aside also, but my housekeeper rescued it, put
it in a sunny pantry window and tended it until
it began to put forth new leaves. In the fall it
was repotted and at Christmas time—it was
again in bloom; but it presented a grotesque
appearance, as the blossom was at the end of a
leafless stalk nearly two feet high. I subsequently
learned that the leaves had dropped because I had
allowed it to become too dry. The poinsettia
needs to be kept moist (not wet). It should also
be cut down when it is through blooming; then it
will branch out and be attractive in shape.

Massachusetts. Etta Rich SOULE.

Raising Snapdragons from Seed

] DO not believe any plant can give more satis-

factory results in a garden than the snap-
dragon; it is so easily grown and seems to be
practically free from insect pests. I have always
had them in my garden, but never in such quan-
tities as last summer. And it was the result of
two packages of seed sown indoors in small seed
pans about the last of February.

One package was of pink snapdragons and the
other red. I gave the pans bottom heat to hasten
germination by placing them on boards over the
radiator in my room for a few hours each day,
until the plants showed above the surface of the
soil. A piece of cheesecloth, laid over the top
of the pans and kept moist, prevented the surface
from parching and injuring the tiny shoots.

When the plants were from one to one and a half
inches in height they were transplanted and placed
in a window with a southern exposure, which gave
the needed light and sun. Three transplantings
developed good strong plants by the middle of
May, when they were set out in the open ground.

The two packets of seeds produced from one
hundred and fifty to two hundred fine plants —
enough for myself and all my neighbors. The
plants bloomed from July until hard frost in No-
vember. Cutting simply seemed to increase
the blooming capacity of the plants. The main
stalk, of course, always gives the largest and finest
bloom, but when it is cut off a number of side
shoots send up blooms which are smaller but quite
as beautiful.

If you have never grown snapdragons in your
garden, try this little experiment just for fun.

Pennsylvania. H. G.

Snapdragons are easy to raise in the house.
drying out. The third picture shows the seedlings four weeks aiter the seeds were sown

Sow seeds in pans, give bottom heat to hasten germination, covering with cheesecloth to prevent the soil from

An Amateur’s Peach Orchard

M* ORCHARD of less than fifty trees was
set, primarily, to furnish choice fruit for
family use through as long a season as possible;
secondarily, to test and compare a number of the
old and the most promising of the new varieties.
It is in the latitude of, and Jess than a score of
miles from, the upper part of New York City,
at an elevation of probably 200 feet above sea
level. The surface slopes gently to the east,
giving good air and water drainage.

The soil is sandy to a depth of thirty feet, under-
laid with red rock. It has been severely affected
by drouth nearly every summer. It was pretty
well worn out when the first trees were set six
years ago. The trees have since had practically
no commercial fertilizer or chemicals, but coal
ashes, with a small admixture of wood ashes,
have been applied occasionally.

The trees were set in the yards in which chickens
and ducks were raised each season. The company
of the growing birds seems to have had a beneficial
effect. During the earlier years of these trees,
we buried within reach of their roots the mortal
remains of whatever fowls or chicks had wearied
of life’s struggles; these furnished excellent plant
food for the growing trees.

There was some trouble with San Jose scale
during the first years, it having been introduced
on trees purchased before rigid inspection was
enforced. But a thorough spraying with common
kerosene oil three years ago, before the buds started,
apparently rendered further spraying needless.

Belle of Georgia peach tree one year from plant-
ing, showing half of new growth after having been
cut back

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There were one or two trees that showed slight
traces of the scale, but a good spraying last spring
cleared the trees.

The trees have received practically no culti-
vation except that the ground is dug up early in
spring and oats sowed for the later delectation
of the chicks. As they grow, the oats grow less
and less, and bare ground is the rule for the rest
of the season. Sometimes oats are dug into the
ground, thus furnishing an incentive for the
chicks to do more cultivating. The treatment
seems to agree with the trees, judging from their
vigorous growth.

Our greatest drawback, so far as fruit is con-
cerned, has been the liability to late frosts after
the trees are in bloom. Bright prospects of a
generous crop have been several times blighted
by this untimely visitation. On April 29, 1900,
while the trees were in full bloom, we had a heavy
fall of damp snow which remained on the trees
for several hours, and I gave up all hope of having
any fruit that season. But though all the trees
had been full of buds and a few bore heavy crops,

Four-year-old Greensboro peach tree in full
bloom. Half or more of previous year’s growth ©
had been cut away

the others had only scattering fruits. I have no-
ticed that there seems to be a great difference in
varieties as to their resistant power over unfavor-
able conditions.

When the trees were set, the broken roots were
cut off smoothly and all branches removed, leav-
ing only a straight stick. From the top of this,
three, four and five of the strongest shoots were
allowed to grow. Pruning these consisted in cut-
ting off half or more the next spring. Little summer
pruning was done except to rub off any shoots
that started on the body or about the base of the
tree. Pruning in after years had consisted in
cutting out weak shoots, interfering branches and
shortening remaining ones from one-third to two-
thirds according to circumstances. I have been
told that I was pruning the trees “to death,”
but their appearance three months afterward
belied the accusation. The trees were set in rows
twelve feet apart, the trees in the second row being
set opposite the spaces in the first row, and so on
alternately. This plan gives more space to each
individual tree.

We aim to set a few more peach trees in the spring
of each year; we do not plant these trees in the
fall. There are not more than two trees of any
kind. Sometimes, unfortunately, when new trees
come into bearing, we find they are not what
the labels indicated, so we have to try again, and
wait a few more years before tasting the fruit
of some much-desired variety. Our present
assortment gives us ripe fruit every day from late
July until almost the end of October. We are
planning to set a few more trees that we think
will lengthen the season at each end, and make a
round three months of peaches.

VARIETIES FOR A CONTINUOUS SUPPLY

In late July, we have the Greensboro, a very
large peach, an early variety of the best quality,
and handsome in appearance. Triumph follows
a few days later. With us, this needs thinning
severely. Champion comes next, a handsome,

FEBRUARY, 1911

creamy-white peach of excellent quality. Follow-
ing closely in order comes Carman, Belle of Georgia,
Mt. Rose, Foster, Oldmixon, Elberta, Wager. Dr.
Cummings is much later, of extra size and quality,
but not a heavy bearer. The full bearers under
adverse conditions have been: Belle of Georgia,
Reeves’ Favorite, Greensboro, Triumph, Champion,
Mountain Rose, Banner and Iron Mountain. Tri-
umph and Banner are small fruited, but under more
favorable conditions, on older trees, and with more
severe thinning, would do better. Iron Mountain
is a lusty, late variety with huge fruit. It is not
a handsome peach, but of best quality. Pickett’s
Late is also among the last to bear— yellow, of
medium size and excellent quality.
New Jersey. F. H. VALENTINE.

Cast-off Cracker Boxes for Seed-
lings

Fo the indoor starting of vegetable seedlings
we found the ordinary cardboard cracker
boxes very satisfactory. We made three sizes:
one by cutting each box into two equal parts,
‘setting each on its end, which we used for potatoes,
tomatoes, beans and other large seedlings.
smaller size was made the same height as the width
of the box and used for plants that required less
depth, or for any plant in its early stages, trans-
planting to a deeper one when necessary. The
entire box, placed horizontally, with the cover
folded back to reinforce the inside, was useful
for groups of seedlings or for sprouting corn or
peas in sand.

Of course, these boxes are not durable and are
inclined to mold, but for temporary use they
make good substitutes for the little individual
flower pots and are much. less expensive. The
only work required, beside cutting the box to the
desired size, was to tie a string around it, to keep
the sides from spreading. Transplanting to the
open garden was especially easy with these boxes,
because they were simply unfolded from around
the roots, without disturbing them. The potatoes
pushed their roots through the cracks, so we took
the precaution to line with paper all boxes planted
later. Some drainage is necessary, and this we
supplied with charcoal.

A good supply of cracker boxes, saved up for
early spring, will be the means of having vegetables
ahead of the season, as they can be started in a
sunny window, hardened to outdoor conditions
in some sheltered spot. and then set out in the
garden when the proper time comes.

New York. I. M. ANGELL.

Try starting vegetable seedlings in cracker boxes.
Transplanting will be wonderfully easy

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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Frspruary, 1911

DREER'S GARDEN BOOK

1911 Edition

ex. All of the required
es information

about growing Flowers,
Plants, and Vegetables,
about soils, times and
methods of planting, fer-
tilizers, garden tools, etc.,

= Ayla Ne willbe found inDreer’s
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tains

Hundreds of
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Bi il eel

sh : written in clear, concise,
it untechnical language by
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of the subjects:—

How to grow Roses— situation, prepar-
ation of the beds, planting and summer
care, pruning, winter protection, enemies.

Proper treatment of Pansies, Dahlias,
Asters, Sweet Peas, Ferns, Gladioli, Palms,

florist and gardener—soil for pot plants,
drainage, watering, repotting, fertilizers,
insects, airing.

How to make and care for hotbeds and
cold frames.

How to make and care for a border of

The Busy Spring Commences

qiee is one of the busiest spring months for

gardeners in the Lower South. All hardy
vegetables and flowers should be planted before the
fifteenth, and all tender ones toward the end of
the month.

If the weather is favorable, plant some early
bush beans and sweet corn. Cover them on cold,
windy days and frosty nights. ;

Watermelons and muskmelons may also be
planted now. Fertilize with stable manure.

Plant gladiolus bulbs. It pays best to get the
large-sized ones, for they will flower the first year.

Bed sweet potatoes and plant white potatoes
any time during January and February.

On hot days peonies should be shaded from the
mid-day sun. On page 345 of Tor GARDEN MAGA-
ZINE for July, 1910, a good plan is shown for shad-
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During this month and the early part of next
is your last chance for sowing garden peas and
sweet peas in the Lower South.

Dahlias can be easily grown from seed and will

flower this year if sown’now. Plant in a sunny

spot in the garden where the soil is rich and where
protection from cold winds can be given.

Every garden should contain a full assortment
of herbs. They are easy to grow and are useful
for many purposes. Sow the seed or plant out
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Nasturtiums and marigolds are two of the
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of the new varieties if you want the finest flowers
and sow them about the last of the month.

Plant out rhubarb roots in rich, moist soil.

Water Lilies, etc. old fashioned, hardy plants.

Complete cultural instructions for grow-
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to harvest.

How to grow flowers from Seeds, both
annuals and perennials.

Hints and suggestions for the amateur

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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Get large ones and don’t delay planting later than
the last of February.

If perennial phlox was not planted in the fall, see
to it now. Also plant out carnations. Give them
a rich soil. Carnations are easy to grow and
successfully withstand the hot, dry summers.

Horse radish may be planted any time from now
until the last of April. The new variety Malin-
erkren is earlier and grows larger than the kinds
ordinarily planted.

Cyclamens and Chinese primroses make excel-
lent pot plants for house culture, and are very
easy to grow from seed, provided the seed is sown
now while the weather is cool.

February is also an excellent time for sowing seed
of begonias and geraniums. Put them in a warm,
sunny place protected from the wind, and cover on
cool nights or, if possible, take them in to the house.

Geraniums are very seldom grown from seed,
as they make rather slow growth and require more
care than most flowers that are grown from seed;
but you can thereby get a good assortment of
varieties, and very likely some that are different
from others already in cultivation.

Georgia. THOMAS J. STEED.

‘Te WINDOW GARDEN]

House Plant Troubles to Guard
Against

N° MATTER how careful you are, nor how

healthy your house plants were at the
beginning of winter, the warm, dry air of the
living-room will sooner or later promote the growth
of insect pests. The minute the insects are dis-
covered, commence treatment; do not wait until
the blighted or curled leaves become conspicuous.
It is very convenient to have a supply of remedies
on hand for immediate application. They are
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thirty-five cents to a dollar.

The most common pests — the aphis or green
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not formidable if attacked when they first make
their appearance.

The aphis is easy to recognize. It is a louse-
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the under sides of the leaves and along the tender
stems, the most vulnerable part of the plant aside
from the root. What may at first appear to
be a heavy, vigorous stem will prove upon examina-
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he is quite easy to vanquish. His chief aversion
is tobacco and he can be smoked out of house and
home. Or else apply a tea made by steeping four
ounces of tobacco stems in one gallon of hot water.
When cool, apply to the infested plants with a
small syringe, spraying both the upper and under
sides of the leaves. Spray twice a week until
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If tobacco stems can only be had in bales of
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Fir-tree oil soap is also destructive to the aphis.
Dissolve an ounce of it in warm water and syringe
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Somewhat similar in style but more lively, and
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If neither of these creatures has been found upon

Frepruary, 1911

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FEBRUARY, 1911

a plant and the leaves are turning brown or copper-
red in spots, it is probable that the very injurious
red spider is at work. This insect is so minute as
to almost escape detection with the naked eye.
Use the fir-tree oil soap solution as for thrips;
but unless the spraying is very thorough, it is
better to sponge the under sides of the leaves.
(Red spider is easily routed by plain water. The
pest cannot endure moisture, and its appearance is
an indication of too dry air.—Eb.]

The blue aphis, which works at the roots of
roses and other plants, and the mealy bug, a small
downy creature gray-white in color, thrive in a
high temperature and rarely trouble plants in an
ordinary living-room. For the former pour liquid
tobacco, strong and black, about the roots. Use
fir-tree oil soap for the mealy bugs. It will also
destroy the brown or white scale which sometimes

Use a syringe for spraying so as to be sure all
infected parts receive treatment

affects oleanders, palms, ivies, etc. Where the
scale infection is slight, simply rub them off.

Gray-white patches of mildew on the leaves
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Flowers of sulphur sells for ten cents a pound at
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Worms in the soil of potted plants often retard
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elevations of the surface of the soil. Lime water
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A Plant for a West Window

Ar tHe Impatiens Sultant is a stand-by
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Slips may be made at any time, and they take
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FEBRUARY, 1911

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Flowers for Sun and Shade

FTER the cold and rain of December and
January, when garden operations are often
quite difficult, February, with its sunshine and
drying soil, its flowering trees and its daffodils,
gives the California amateur the nearest thing
he ever gets to the April and May enthusiasm of
the eastern gardener who has been kept from his
favorite recreation for a so much longer time.

Except in the high and colder valleys he can still
plant his trees, shrubs, rose-bushes, and (if he has
been prevented before) he can still do that pruning
which is required by many things in early spring,
including the cutting out of that wood which bore
fruit on his raspberry and blackberry bushes last
season. This also is an excellent time to sow all
hardy annuals for later blooming, though they will
rarely do as well as those sown in the fall. Even
the half-hardy annuals may now go in, except
where experience has shown that heavy later
frosts are apt te come. This, also, is a good month
for sowing vegetables in most parts of the state,
but, except in frostless places or where protection
is given, cucumbers, melons, tomatoes and corn
had better wait over for a couple of months.

During the next few weeks many of the most
attractive flowering trees will be in bloom, so that
the gardener who has limited space and wishes to
select what will please him most had better visit
neighboring parks, or, if he can obtain permission,
some of the fine private places where good collec-
tions may be found. The golden-flowered acacias,
of which I prefer the very fragrant A. mollissima,
and the glaucus-leaved A. Baillyana, are fine,
rapid-growing evergreens blooming this month.
These, with the various fruit trees grown for their
flowers — such as the double pink and white
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It is no difficult matter to have flowers in April,
when the whole country-side is a garden; but to
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Perhaps no two plants will thrive with less atten-
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to cover such large areas with their flowers as well
as the lowly petunia and the verbena, yet as bor-
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attractive if some attention is paid to using pure,
unmixed colors. This can be done either by
pulling old plants apart and rooting the newer
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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Fepruary, 1911

Hints for Making a Garden Plan

Wy ees making your plan for next year’s gar-

den remember that the picturesque charac-
ter of a garden may be marred as much by sins of
commission as by sins of omission. There are
gardens in which no expense has been spared to
ensure a splendid succession of bloom but which
have been utterly runed by the introduction of
garish and incongruous accessories. The smaller
the plot, the stronger, apparently, the temptation
to import these eyesores. The garden-maker
cannot be too watchful against the use of inhar-
monious features. Such accessories as summer-
houses, arches, pergolas, dials, and garden seats
should be designed to suit the garden, and their
details and mode of construction should be simple
and unostentatious. Paint should be used
sparingly if at all, and its color should be chosen
so as not to compete with the flowers. I have
seen a wide expanse of trellis painted canary-
yellow, which for crudity and ill-taste would be
hard to match, yet the perpetrator was content
to grow nasturtiums upon it!

The so-called “rustic” work is rarely in good
taste. If the summer-house is to be decorated,
allow some pretty creeper to scramble over it, soft-
ening its outline and load it with bloom.

Terra-cotta, china, and cast-iron vases are
generally out of scale in a small garden, and never
quite satisfactory unless associated with a terrace
wall or some similar structure. In most cases
their place could be advantageously filled by
stout oaken tubs. “Ihe gardener must be hope-
lessly depraved if he admit such objects as
minerals, mechanical models, and sea-shells into
his garden.

Given discretion in excluding the inartistic and
incongruous, there may be still room for mistakes
in the use of garden accessories. They may be
selected so as not to be in proper scale with the
garden, or with that part of the garden in which
they are to be installed. Good proportion is largely
a matter of intuition, though a sense of fitness may
come from knowledge and good sense. The golden
rules are: Use before ornament; simplicity; ap-
propriateness; sound construction; scale.

As every garden picture must have a focus, I
attach much value to the summer-house. It
makes a very natural terminal to the principal
path, and is therefore “led up to” in such a way
as to enhance its usefulness. Again, the pointed
roof is admirably adapted for constituting the
apex or summit of the garden picture. This
particularly applies to new gardens, before it is
possible to utilize the trees as conspicuous elements
in the picture. Make the summer-house weather-
proof, and place it so that its open side is in shade.

It is often feasible to so wed the kitchen garden
to the flower ground that it materially helps .
the garden picture. In small gardens the apparent
size of the garden is reduced if the vegetable
ground is screened off. On the other hand, if
left in full view, it contrasts too conspicuously
with the flower ground. It is best to take both
factors into consideration when making the garden
design, and to blend the flower and kitchen garden.
In this way the garden vistas may be lengthened _
without curtailing the vegetable space.

There is only one other point to emphasize, and
that has reference to garden management rather
than to garden making. I refer to what some gar-
deners call ‘‘tidiness.” The striving after a neat,
trim, and well-kept garden is apt to lead the gar-
dener into a ruthless trimming and pinching of ©
plants. It is one of the things which can be too
well done. The truly artistic garden is one in
which the plant has full scope to develop its char-
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for artificial boundaries. It is a sin to curb and
mutilate a plant, because it pushes out its foliage
across the path. The occasional plant which
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neighbor in vigor of growth deserves encourage-
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Feesruary,1911 — THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 41

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FrpruarRy, 1911

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THRIPS ON CINERARIAS

An insect about one-sixteenth of an inch in
length, slender, reddish brown, quite active in
its movements, is eating the undersides of the

leaves of my cinerarias which
window garden.
kill it?

South Dakota.

— The cinerarias are troubled with thrips.

are growing in a

What is this pest and what will

G. M. D.
These

can be suffocated with insect powder or tobacco
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tobacco

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insects that are wet with the spray, but it is prac-
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They develop so rapidly that usually

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In the mountains of North
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ing the mice?

North Carolina.

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Carolina we are
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Tf one application does not

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matter to repeat the attack.

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— New varieties of cannas are

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PROFIT IN POULTRY MANURE

Would there be any profit in selling poultry
manure?

Ohio. eRe
— If you can dispose of poultry droppings in a
local market it will probably pay. Unless poultry
manure is properly treated while fresh, the ammonia
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In order to preserve this the droppings must be
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PRUNING IN THE ORCHARD

What is the best time to do the annual pruning
of apples, peaches, pears and plums?

New York. C. M. W.
— Pome fruits can be pruned any time during
the winter (except when the wood is actually
frozen), or before grcwth starts in the spring.
Peaches and stone fruits had best be pruned in

| the spring before growth starts. Pruning the

peach after the June drop is in the nature of pinch-
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ing is necessary; but this entails an enormous
amount of work during the busy season. The
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HEATING A GREENHOUSE

In a greenhouse is it practical to use heat gen-
erated by a hot-air furnace?

New York. D: Le
— In small greenhouses where steam or hot water
cannot be put in, fairly good results can be obtained
from the old-fashioned flue. One cannot heat
the greenhouse by means of a furnace like the
ordinary living-room. The flue can be carried
into the greenhouse and through it; but the hot-air
must not be allowed to come into the greenhouse
itself. The flue will keep the greenhouse to the
right temperature, provided a hot enough fire
is kept in the furnace, and the flue is big enough. -
To overcome the dryness in the air, pans of water
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WOOD ASHES ON THE LAWN

What is the best time of year to put wood ashes
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Missouri. A. M.
— The best time to use wood ashes on the lawn is
during the spring or at any time during the grow-
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over the surface of the lawn at the rate of one ton
to the acre. This will give an even covering over
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grayish color. The top-dressing may be safely
used in heavier doses than the uninitiated would
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a day when rain is anticipated so that the fertilizer
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HOW TO GROW SWISS CHARD

Is Swiss chard adapted to the climate of St.
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Missouri. EE. Wa Je
— Swiss chard and other leaf beets require much
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teen inches apart, and thin the plants to stand ten
to fifteen inches apart in the rows. Cultivate
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ones. Leaf beets continue to yield in the open
ground until quite late in the season; but if a
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leaves are large and tender and succulent, and
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FepruarRy, 1911

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MAGAZINE

Frepruary, 1911

Points on Starting a Hedge

S A HEDGE is to endure for generations,
the preparatory work cannot be done too
thoroughly. Prepare the soil by digging a trench
about two feet wide with a depth of three feet.
Where the original soil is of a fair quality, plenty
of well-rotted manure only will be needed, which
should be mixed into the soil as thoroughly and in
much the same manner as cement is mixed into
sand in concrete work. Where the ground is very
clayey, it will positively have to be replaced with
prepared soil. In setting out the material always
do it with the aid of a tightly stretched line, and
never trust to the eye alone for exact alignment.
The distances apart will vary according to the
plant.

In trimming, the experienced gardener will
discard the hedge shears as far too cumbersome
and slow; he will use a corn knife or have a long
knife made from an old wornout flat file. By
means of this, with deft upward strokes, he trims
the sides of his hedge, while the top he cuts moving
the knife from him. It is easier to keep true to
the line with a knife than with the shears. Whether
water be applied or not, cultivation should on no
account be neglected for at least the first three
years of the hedge’s growth. Weeds or grass
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Be advised that to start a hedge is a matter
of patience; five years, at least, will be consumed
from the time you set out your bushes until the
hedge assumes its true character. But what is
worth while is worth working and waiting for.

North Dakota. C3 eMe

An Honor Medal for Horticulture

JS IMPORTANT event in the horticultural

world during the past year has been the
establishment of the George Robert White Medal
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The American Pomological
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MATEUR horticulturists who may be travel-

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find it worth while to be at Tampa, Florida, on
February oth, roth and 11th. On these days the
American Pomological Society will hold its 32nd
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be held in the Tampa Bay Casino on Thursday
evening, February oth, are purely formal. On the
two following days, however, a very valuable lot
of discussions will be introduced by the leading
horticulturists of the country. An exhibition of
tropical fruits will be held in connection with the
sessions, and also on the opening day the Society of
Horticultural Science will hold its annual meeting.

A Greek Desert Plant

ONG years ago, when we studied Greek, we
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back of your hardy border where the thinness
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HE leather leaf (Chamedaphne calyculata) is

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Plant the leather leaf in a bog or elsein the garden
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are small, white, urn-shaped and borne in one-
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NE of the best combinations of annual flowers

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They will give a wealth of blossoms on a small

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and sweet peas do best in ground rich in phospho-
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ground. ‘There will be far better plants if the |
early spring is not abnormally warm. The article
on sweet peas published in the August, 1910,
GarDEN MacazINe explains fully how to be
successful with fall-planting.

Almost all city gardens are provided with run-
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drought and does away with the necessity of pro-
viding mulches in hot weather. For sweet peas
in city gardens wire trellises are commonly used,
but they are troublesome to put up and take down,
and the sweet peas burn on them. Brush is very
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To make such a trellis, get from a lumber yard
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five and one-third feet long. For sunny situations
the shorter pieces will be long enough to form the
posts of the sweet pea trellis, if driven so as to
stand four feet out of the ground. Where there is
shade the vines grow taller and the 8-foot lengths
are better. Sweet peas do better if they get a little
shade in the hottest days of summer, but too much
makes a vigorous growth of vines with few
flowers. Asters do best in full sunshine.

The r-inch by 2-inch posts of the trellis should
be painted or stained, if you desire a neat appear-
ance, green being the most pleasing color. Each
post should be sharpened at the lower end for
driving into the soil and should have galvanized
wire staples, about three-eighths of an inch wide
and one and a half inches long, driven into it at.
intervals of four inches, from a point one inch
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feet from the pointed end in the case of 8-foot
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twine, about one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter,
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end of the blooming of the sweet peas run a knife
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can easily be pulled out. One advantage of hori-
zontal strings is that they need be used no higher
than the vines grow, and they can be put up one
or two at a time, as needed.

In loose soil the posts can be driven quickly
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posts by means of tie lines, for the pull of the
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The asters are set out, when four or five inches
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FEBRUARY, 1911

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Wouldn’t you like to
know in advance what
colors would look best on
the outside of your house

We have a Portfolio of color
schemes for house- painting
which we send free on request.
This shows colors in artistic
combinations on actual houses.
There are fifteen of these plates,
each showing a different style
of architecture and each sug-
gesting a different color scheme
with com-
plete spec-
ifications
for obtain-
ing it.

Another Portfolio

This One on Interior Decoration

This Portfolio shows an attractive cottage bun-
galow, decorated and furnished throughout. Each
room, as well as three exteriors, and a veranda, are
shown in their actual colors, and accompanying each
plate are carefully worked out specifications. Even
the curtains, rugs, draperies and furniture are sug-
gested. You can adapt any or all of the color combi-
nations in the Portfolio, or our Decorative
Department will prepare without cost specia!
suggestions to be used, upon request.

Write to-day for these two helpful Port-
folios.

SHERWIN-WILLIAMS
PAINTS &VARNISHES

Sold by merchants everywhere. Ask your local dealer for color
cards and full information. For the Special Home Decoration Ser-
vice write to the Sherwin-Williams Co., Decorative Dept., 657 Canal
Road, N. W., Cleveland, O.

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P TREE FILLED 2 YEARS
ESTATE OF ISAAC N.SELIGMAN

Witow Broox,
SUNNYSIDE LANE,

IRVINGTON-ON-HUDSON,
New YORE.

The work that you, your brother,
father and co-workers have done on
my place in doctoring many of our
fine noble elm, cherry, maple and
other trees and in preventing fur-
ther decay, commends itself to us
and I gladly recommend you to
others in use of scientific treat-
ment of their trees. It appears to
me to be money well spent for
others to seriously look after the
health of their trees and not to
delay. I was greatly pleased with
the gentlemanly conduct of your-
self and all your men on my place.

(Signed) Isaac N. Seligman.

PEASLEE-GAULBERT COMPANY,
MANUFACTURERS AND MERCHANTS,

LovtsvinuE, Kr.

It gives me pleasure to say
# that the work executed on my
place was eminently satisfactory,
in fact, the only job I have ever
had done that really measured up
to my expectations. Congratula-
ting you on the corps of workmen
that are looking after your interests,

I beg to remain,

(Signed) S. E. Duncan.

TREE BUTCHERY

Don’t Risk Your Trees in the Hands
of Ignorant or Irresponsible Persons

RESPONSIBILITY is of vastly greater importance than the matter of a few cents more or
less per hour when it comes to the treatment of trees, as it is in any vther profession
that deals with living things.

IT IS BETTER by far to cast money to theffour winds than hand it out to the unskilled
and pretending tree-men, no matter whether of the ignorant type or the well-mannered
gentlemen whose ability is limited to a fluent use of Latin names.

SKILL in the art of Tree Surgery is not acquired from books, Neither is it obtained in
Agricultural Colleges nor Forestry Schools. These institutions fill an important place
in the national life, but they do not and can not teach correct Tree Surgery.

THOROUGH TRAINING and skill are synonymous, provided the training is received from
men who know.

JOHN DAVEY created Tree Surgery. The idea itself is his. The methods are his. All
the advancement in this branch of science is the direct result of his work. The whole
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THE DAVEY TREE EXPERTS are just what the name implies—John Davyey’s selection of

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ment to sick and wounded trees.

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Study and
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The Davey Institute of Tree Surgery

is maintained by the company at very heavy expense for the sole purpose of schooling its
men regarding tree life, insect enemies of trees, tree diseases, proper remedies, and—most
important of all—the theory and practice of Tree Surgery, which cannot be obtained else-
where. They are specialists in the treatment of trees. There are no successful imitators.

The treatment of trees is a real profession. It suffers just as all other professions do
from the invasion of quacks of all degrees of badness. Nevertheless the real Davey ex-
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confidence of the public.

The Davey Tree experts actually save wounded and crippled trees—save their lives for
many added years of usefulness. Absolutely correct methods plus exacting care in train-
ing quality men are the distinguishing characteristics of the Davey service—the real
service. Your trees will be safe in the hands of the Davey Tree Experts.

The service of The Davey Tree Expert Company is available east of the Missouri
River for those who desire quality at a cost which is not in any sense unreasonable.
Send today for handsome booklet and full information. When you write, tell us how
many trees you have, what kinds and where located.

The Davey Tree Expert Company, Inc.
152 Oak Street, Kent, Ohio

CovURT oF
Common PiEAs No. 5,

PHILADELPHIA.

It gives me much pleasure to
state that an examination of the
trees upon our ‘‘Guynedd” place
evidences that in every case the
process of healing is going on most
satisfactorily. This is especially
80, in the case of a large maple
tree at the side of the house,
which had so much of the bark
removed, that I rather despaired of
saving the tree.

This tree has been in a more
healthful condition than it has
been for years. Mistaken butchery
of the tree and excessive use of
crude carbolic acid upon the bark,
had well nigh destroyed it. Your
intelligent and skilful efforts have
saved it. The death of a fine old
tree is a tragedy, and the pre-
vention of such death is indeed an
evidence that your work is along
the lines of ‘‘an established science,
which distinguishes ‘surgery’ from
‘butchery’.” The two unusually
intelligent young men, sent by you
to do the work, showed thorough
competency and skill, combined
with the conduct and development
of courteous gentlemen.

(Signed) William H. Staake,

ON Pd ene Pee

Baddineton’s Collections of Quality Vegetable Seeds

Containing what we consider the cream of their respective classes, made up for the purpose of those who are in doubt as to what to order,
and are specially recommended to holders of small gardens, These collections will supply the family with fresh vegetables from early spring
till the snow Hies—and with some left over for the winter months.

Collections each, by mail or express prepaid, A, $3.50; B, $6; C, $11; D. $20

PEAS—Boddington’s Early of Earlies.... : : . LER TUGE—May King ...-........-0-0--
Boddington’s Early IBYtil oopsoceoasc00%6 VYopt. : : = Boston’ Marketi. winner cee ene
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BRUSSELS SPROUTS—The Wroxton.. 5 : 0 - |PARSLEY—Boddington’s Triple Moss-

CABBAGE —Boddington’'s Early of Earlies xt. : 0 0 Curledien ee Bee oe Cee
Early Jersey Wakefield................. ;

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Danvers Half-Long pAodoosnéravedododas . D é 9 RADISH—Boddington’s Early Frame.....

CAULIFLOWER — Boddington’s Extra- Olive-shaped French Breakfast.........

EarlySnowballieerensee ere oee ee ct. : : -]| Early Scarlet Turnip and Crimson Giant. .
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natbartoohsogoosnooe buuoad : : : -|SPINACH—Boddington’s Triumph.......
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GountiylGentlemaneree reer eee ener . c : : sey» White:Bushe joc. epee
Stowell’s Evergreen..........-......... 2pt. " : -| Improved Hubbard ....................
CUCUMBER — Boddington’s Selected English Vegetab'e Marrow .............
White Spine (Improved) ............ : : 0 -|/TOMATO—Boddington’s Ear!y Sunrise. .
EGGPLANT—Boddington’s Improved Dwart'Stone ssceck eee oe een
New York Spineless........-.......-- : : : 5 Parlianancs cc. ock hoe een eee

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KALE—Dwarf Green Curled Scotch...... : . : “ll” (GoldencBalla fowler eee ele

KOHLRABI—Boddington’s Early White (Rutabaga) Champion .................

Delicious: ;...acecmesh tee ree : : 5 - |] HERBS—Dill, Fennel, Lavender, Marjoram,
Bow Gon ods : : : . Savory, Th Foose ses oqoauoe oo ndne

For full descriptions of the above varieties, see vegetable portion of our Garden Guide, pages 71 to 100.

Giant Orchid-Flowering Mixed Sweet Pea Seed Free with these Collections

If ordered at once we will include with these collections of garden seed, packages of our famous Giant Orchid-
Flowering Mixed Sweet Pea Seed as follows— i
With Collection A, 2 ozs. With Collection B, 4 ozs. With Collection C, 8 ozs. With Collection D, 16 ozs.

We make this liberal special offer so as to induce early ordering, and also to further introduce our high-grade
Flower Seed. With every order we will also include a copy of :

BODDINGTON’S 1911 GARDEN GUIDE

—144 pages, handsome art covers, elaborate photographic illustrations from life throughout. The descriptions are accurate, and complete cultural
directions are included. This isa really helpful “Guide,” and if you have a garden, we want you to have a copy, whether or not you order one of the
above special collections. Write for it xozv—and we will gladly forward a copy by return mail.

Department ARTHUR T. BODDINGTON, Seedsman, 342 West 14th Street, New York City _,,Telephone

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Of All Lovely Roses, These Are the Most
Exquisitely Beautiful and Fragrant .

Out from among our almost limitless superb species, we have selected the fol-
lowing four as worthy exhibits of our wizard skill in rose propagation and culture.
We offer them to you at a special price, so that you may prove Conard & Jones
Roses to be “the Best Roses in America.” And we guarantee them to bloom.

Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, white. Mlle. Gambier, yellow.
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Abundant bloomers. Large, delicately moulded flowers. Rich, green foliage.
Sturdy, well-developed bushes, grown and sold on their own roots—not grafted.
These will add the finishing touch to your garden, and assure you an enviable
display all Summer. Unequalled for bouquets. We will deliver the whole four
to you in perfect condition for $2.00, paying the transportation ourselves.

Conard & Jones Roses

We have ample basis for our claim of supremacy. Fifty years of priceless
experience and success have proven our ability. Fifty continuous years of rose
propagation and development by thé foremost rose grower of the United States
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—wherever your plant—we have beautiful, vigorous rose bushes in endless variety.

Write for Free Floral Guide

Planting time isnear. Thiselaborately illustrated free catalogue tells the species suit-
able for each climate; suggests harmonious collections for beds, arbors, hedges, pots;
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choice flowers. Quick action is necessary. Just write us a postal—and do zt now !
Our famous Manual; “‘“How to Grow Roses,” full of authoritative \
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will be included free on request with your first rose order. Sold for

10 cents a copy. Address all correspondence to

THE CONARD & JONES CO., Box 24-C, West Grove, Pa.

Rose Specialists—50 Years’ Experience

Marcu, 1911

. If a problem grows in your garden write to
EME GAPE DIB ON IMVANGIAZ TNE 7 Gertrades Service tor conttonce

Bobbink & Atkins

WE PLAN AND PLANT GROUNDS AND GARDENS EVERYWHERE WITH OUR
World’s Choicest Nursery Products.

The proper way to buy is to see the material growing. We shall gladly give our time and attention to all intending pur-

chasers visiting our nursery, andinvite everybody interested inimproving their grounds to visit us.

Our nursery consists of

250 acres of highly cultivated land, and is planted with a choice selection of Ornamental Nursery Products, placing us in a
position to complete plantings and fill orders of any magnitude.

ROSES. It’s important to place orders at once, while we have several hun-
dred thousand in choice, new and popular kinds. We are frequently sold
out of many varieties, causing annoyance and disappointment.

RHODODENDRONS. Many thousand of acclimated plants in Hardy Eng-

lish and American varieties are growing in our nursery.

EVERGREENS, CONIFERS AND PINES. More than 75 acres of our

TRAINED, DWARF AND ORDINARY FRUIT TREES AND SMALL
FRUITS. We grow these for all kinds of orchards.

HARDY TRAILING AND CLIMBING VINES. We grow immense quan-
tities for all kinds of plantings.

BOXWOOD AND BAY TREES. Are one of the many attractions of our

nursery. We carry many thousands of specimens.

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nursery are planted with handsome specimens of these popular lawn plants.

HARDY OLD-FASHIONED PLANTS. Hundreds of thousands of new,

ENGLISH POT GROWN GRAPE VINES. For greenhouse cultivation.
BULBS AND ROOTS. Spring, Summer and Autumn flowering.

rare, and popular varieties of these old-time favorites are growingin many | LAWN GRASS SEED. Our Rutherford Park Lawn Mixture has given

acres of our nursery.

ORNAMENTAL SHADE, WEEPING AND STANDARD TREES. 200,000

of these in all kinds can be seen in our nursery. We grow them for

every place and purpose.

FLOWERING SHRUBS AND HEDGE PLANTS. We make a specialty

of them and can do plantings or fill orders of any size,

Visitors to our Nurseries are always Welcome. We grow everything for every style of garden.
Rutherford is the first stop on the Main Line of the Erie Railroad; 8 miles from New York City.

satisfaction everywhere.

TUBS. We manufacture all shapes and sizes.
OUR PRODUCTS give satisfaction, because they possess the standard of

Ask for special list.

quality created by the highest grade of cultivation.

OUR ILLUSTRATED GENERAL CATALOGUE NO. 25 will tell you

about the above and all our other products for Lawns and Gardens.

Bobbink & Atkins

Nurserymen, Florists and Planters

An Irish-grown Rose 14 months from planting, showing 20 buds.

Qur Prices for such Stock are, in most
cases, as low as for ordinary quality offered
elsewhere when one considers our liberal dis-
counts and free boxing and packing. Special
prices on car lots.

Rosedale Booklet is unique— not a mere
catalogue.

Unique in that it GIVES SIZES as well as prices, so
that a customer knows what to expect.

Unique in its hundred helpful ENGRAVINGS from
photographs of grounds and specimens on some of
the most noted estates as well as of our own plants.

Unique in what it LACKS — effusive utterance.

Unique in its DESCRIPTIONS of groups and species
prepared by one whose knowledge and experience

Landscape Dept.
63 Hamilton Place

Rosedale Nurseries

of insect pests. A certificate of the State Ento-
mologist is sent with each shipment.

make them accurate and helpful. In fact it is a
Tarrytown Light diffusing its rays to all horticultural
voyagers who place themselves within its influence.

Like the Tarrytown Light it is free to all
who seek its aid. If youown a home or expect
to, write today for a copy.

Every kind of Plant has a time and re-
quires conditions most favorable for trans-
planting: ¢.g. Jap. Iris requires spring planting
in a sunny location, in moist ground on which
water does not stand. Meet these conditions
and you succeed. We are as anxious as our
customers for their success and therefore sup-
plement the catalogue in every way in our
power for those who send their problems early.

S. G. HARRIS, M. S.
Tarrytown, N. Y.

Order Your Trees and Plants Now

We will see that they arrive at proper time for planting

Our stock has an enviable reputation: Of 350 trees shipped to one cus-
tomer not a tree failed; of 300 sent to another only one failed; another
customer writes that “practically all the 650 trees received from you grew.”

There are reasons why our stock is unsurpassed:
BEcAusE, tst. It has been frequently transplanted and set wide apart, which develops a
great root-system. A tree is no better than its roots.
Because, 2d. Our soil is adapted to the making of many fibrous roots.
BECAUSE, 3rd. Great care is given to pruning and shaping the tops.
BECAUSE, 4th. Constant care is given by our own expert, a Cornell man, to the prevention

The General Supervision of Public Grounds and Private Estates a Specialty

RUTHERFORD, N. J.

Tarrytown Light

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The Readers’ Service will give information
about the latest automobile accessories

HAVE A FINE LAWN
IN SHORT TIME

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Keeping a Rubber Plant Healthy

(Ps rubber plant is one of the easiest plants

to handle in the house. The great trouble,
however, is that it is not properly understood, and
from this misunderstanding there results drooping
and yellowing leaves and, in most cases, an un-
gainly and sickly plant.

The most important thing is to make a good
start. Begin right, and the rest is comparatively
easy. Therefore, when buying a rubber plant,
get one that is properly rooted. Oftentimes plants
are forced for market at the expense of their root
system. If possible, ‘“‘knock out” the plant be-
fore buying it and see that it has plenty of roots.
A young plant with good roots will live on indef-
initely until its branches fill the room.

The general idea is that a rubber plant requires
considerable water. This is entirely wrong;
it wants but little water in the house. To prove
this, start two plants under the same conditions.
Give one frequent and plentiful waterings and the
other just enough to moisten the loam, every

This rubber plant has not been repotted for two
years. It is watered once a month

second or third day. The latter plant will not
drop a leaf from the time it is taken into the house,
while the former will probably either remain sta-
tionary or else the leaves will begin to turn yellow
and drop off.

An old plant watered every third day and kept
in a small pot, pot-bound, will retain its green

foliage, and the pot-bound condition will force.

it into making new growth. To repot such a
plant in the winter is a mistake. By repotting
you check the growth and destroy the root system

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Marcu, 1911

Part of Trinidad Asphalt Lake

The costliest roofings are
the roofings that don’t last.

The roofing that does last
is made of Trinidad Lake
Asphalt—

Genasco

the Trinidad-Lake-Asphalt Roofing

Other roofings all have their
drawbacks: Shingles crack, split,
and rot; tin rusts; slate breaks and
blows loose; coal-tar gets brittle
and cracks; so do the many socalled
‘‘asphalt’’ roofings, because they
lack the ‘‘live’’ lasting qualities of
natural asphalt.

Genasco has the natural oils of Trinidad
Lake asphalt sealed in it; and they keep the
roofing always pliable and strong and defen-
sive against all weathers. Genasco doesn’t
crack, rot, rust, or break. It is permanently
waterproof. “That means real economy.

It pays to cover the roof of every building
on the farm with Genasco. Fully guaranteed.
The Kant-leak Kleet prevents nail-leaks, and

waterproofs the roofing-seams without cement. Makes
Genasco easier to apply than ever.

Ask your dealer for Genasco mineral or smooth sur-
face Roofings with Kant-leak Kleets packed in the roll.
Write us for the Good Roof Guide Book and samples.

The Barber Asphalt
Paving Company

Largest producers of asphalt, and largest
manufacturers of ready-roofing in the world.

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Asters—Dahlias—Gladiolus

The best flowers for cutting and garden decoration,
none excepted.
The easiest to grow—The surest to bloom.

NATL. CO-OPERATIVE SHOW GARDENS
Box 1000, SPENCER, IND.

Note—Write for our list of Flower and Garden Plants, they are
cheaper than you can possibly Faise them yourself.

Marcu, 1911

Biltmore
Nursery
Plants Trees,
Shrubsé Vines

For Your Lawn

and Garden

by OUR landscape planting requires just two things
to give it that distinctly unusual touch that you
admire so much. The first is trees and plants of excep-
tional worth; the second is the knowledge of how_to plant
them so that they will harmonize with their surround-
ings, and with each other in the landscape picture.

The superb trees and plants of Biltmore Nursery and
the original literature describing them supply both needs
—opening the way to such a decoration of lawn or garden
as you have doubtless hoped for but perhaps have thought
it hardly possible to realize in your own home grounds.

The three books described below contain complete and
accurate descriptions of our trees and plants. And the
illustrations show you how to secure the effects you want.
They are not confined to specimen trees or flowers but
suggest delightful ways of planting them—an informal
clump of Hydrangea in a corner of the lawn, a mass of
Spirea at the gate, a great bed of old-fashioned peren-
nials along the walk, or vines for the pergola.

The Three Biltmore Nursery Books

Each of these books has been carefully prepared at great expense
with a view of supplying all the information one can possibly need in
planting and caring for a given variety of trees or shrubs. These are
unusual books in printing, illustrations, and text, and are not to
be compared with the ordinary nursery catalogue. We shall be pleased
to hear from owners who intend to beautify their grounds by planting
ornamental trees or shrubs this spring and to such will forward free of
charge, whichever of the following books is best adapted to the in-
dividual requirement of your grounds.

THE BILTMORE NURSERY CATALOGUE — a guide to the
cultivated plants, shrubs and trees of North America. Over two years
in the making and cost more than $1.00 a copy to complete. In ex-
cess of 500 photographs were made in preparation for it, and the
volume contains 196 large pages. More than 300 Perennials, more
than 500 Flowering Shrubs, including Roses, more than 325 distinct
kinds of Evergreens, more than 300 different Deciduous Trees, and
more than 300 Vines and Odd Plants, are fully described and many

of them illustrated. Second edition now almost exhausted.
We want every home owner to have one of these books.

BILTMORE NURSERY, Box 1032, Biltmore, N. C.

THE GARDEN

‘BILTMORE NURSERY —
BILTMORE, N.C,

MAGAZINE

Three Rocks

Suggestive of
PleasingWays
of Planting-
One of them
Free to You

eeEMORE Nursery produces uncommonly good
ornamental plants, trees and vines. Primarily
this is due to the great natural advantages of location in
the Southern Alleghanies, Nature’s “‘ wonderful work-
shop”’ for the production of trees and plants with a rugged
vigor that fits them for planting either North or South.

Here are many soils, many elevations, many temper-
atures; we take advantage of them by planting in each
the things that thrive best there—certain deciduous
trees here, evergreens there, roses yonder. Our soil is
rich but shallow, inducing strong, fibrous roots which
grow trees and plants notably free from disease.

To these natural conditions we have added skilled prop-
agators to whom are given exceptionally good facilities,
and ample room in which to work. Weare located on the
main line of a great railway system; there is no unneces-
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express and mail to any place in America, using light,
strong packing cases especially constructedforthe purpose.

Ask Us For The One You Need Most

If you have a garden of perennials, or want one, request “Hardy
Garden Flowers.”” Should you prefer the more showy things, tell us
to send ‘‘Flowering Trees and Shrubs.”’ In case you have a larger
place and can plant extensively of many varieties, we shall be glad to
send the Biltmore Nursery Catalogue. See description opposite.

“FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS”—a book that gives
full information as to the habits and characteristics of this class of
ornamentals, and shows many of the best kinds as grown in typical
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ideas for planting the home grounds, large and small, describing the
flowering trees and shrubs best adapted to the purpose.

“HARDY GARDEN FLOWERS ”—A tribute to the merits of the
permanent plants, which we have named ‘“‘Hardy Garden Flowers.”
ee oe and style it maintains the high standard set by our earlier

ooks.

The illustrations, all from special photographs, suggest many pleasing and varied
forms of hardy garden planting, from the simple door-yard effect to the elaborate
formal attainment. The descriptions are full and complete, yet are free from purely
technical terms.

The edition of each book is limited. Write today for a book.

BILTMORE NURSERY, Box 1032, Biltmore, N. C.

6]

5 If you wish to purchase live-stock
62 write the Readers’ Service

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to a great extent, and this injury manifests itself
principally by the leaves turning yellow.

If you have a rubber plant that has grown leggy
it can be made into many little ones. Propagation
by cuttings is easily accomplished, particularly
if bottom heat ‘is available. Even without this
heat in the spring, the rubber cuttings will strike.
Make the cutting by taking it just under a joint.
Split the end for about half an inch. Stuff some
moss into the cut and then wrap a little ball of
moss around it. If placed in moist sand little
roots will be thrown out through the moss. The
cutting is then ready for potting in a thumb pot.

Another way is to wrap moss about a joint
on the plant. Roots will also strike through
this moss if it is kept moist. Split a pot and tie
it, filled with moss, about a joint and the result
will be the same. Roots will form in the pot.

An old stump that has lost about all its leaves
can have a new set put on it by “inarching” a
branch of another plant on to it. Stand it near
the plant that is to supply the cutting. Cut a
slice off the side of the stump at the place you want
the leaves. On the other plant make the same
kind of a cut. Bind the two branches together
with tape, the cut places being placed together.
Keep the plants dry and in the light, and in the

The old stump two
weeks after separating
the plants

Inarching—putting
a new top on an old
stump

course of a few weeks the two branches will have
united. The new top can then be cut from the
plant that supplied it.

Again, take an old stump and cut the top wedge-
shaped, and on this set a cutting that has been so
cut as to receive the wedge. Have the cutting
and the old stump about the same size. Bind
them with electric tape and keep them dry. The
old stump can be further decorated by inserting
cuttings along the stem at different points in
practically the same manner. Once get the top
growing and the matter of decorating the stump
beneath will be easy.

Do not repot your rubber plants too often. In-
stead of repotting, top dress them. Dig out the
earth without going into the roots too deeply and
replace what you take out with good soil. Pack
it in well and this treatment will answer better
eons repotting. It.will not check the plant
at all.

However, if repotting is imperative, crack the
old pot and set the ball of the plant in a pot one
size larger. Then fill in with good garden loam.
Do not increase the size of the pot more than one
size. Be sure to give good drainage, putting
charcoal in the bottom of the pot. Put a little
moss over it before filling it with the soil, which
should be packed in hard. But don’t be in a hurry
to repot; keep the plant pot-bound as long as
possible. And do not resort to stale meats and
oysters for fertilizing purposes. With the proper
kind of loam this will not be necessary.

Massachusetts. Luxe J. Doocue.

MAGAZINE

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Se

Abolish the Ash-Barrel.

It’s a nuisance, a menace to health
and_a constant fire risk. Adopt this”
modern Receiver for ashes and all
cellar refuse. Fire-proof, sanitary,
out of sight. Top flush with floor.
Easy to sweep into.

aan
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Trace wARM

Before the Furnace.

BZ

Underfloor Refuse Receiver
Another great problem has been what todo with
Garbage in Winter. The or- —
dinary garbage can freezes up, y
and when the collector pounds the
can to empty it, he ruins the can.
This is avoided py using the

Stephenson Underground

Garbage Receiver.
Sold direct fromfactory. Circulars
of each free.

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Open with the Foot.
No Freezing. No Odors.

Marcu, 1911

Write to the Readers’ Service jor

Marcu, 1911 T H E G A R 10) 18. N MA G AZINE suggestions about garden jurniture 63

BONORA FOR
FLOWER LOVERS

With your seed order, include Bonora,
the greatest fertilizer in the world.
Results are wonderful. Will make flowers
and vegetables grow
7 and bloom, as if in

iE GREATEST DISCOVER?) | the tropics, mature
OF MODERN TIMES.
RES PLANT F()

| much earlie', and in
| abundance.

| If you have not used
it, write for descrip-
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ee | velous results.
THOUSANDS USE
TF, THOUSANDS ENDORSE IT.
Luther Burbank, John Lewis Childs,
Dingee and Conard say it is wonderful.

Ask your dealer for it or order di ect.
Put up in dry form:
1 |b. make 28 gallons, postpaid .65
oe 0K. $

100 Ibs.

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488-492 Broadway, corner Broome Street, New York

Best in the world. Lined with real porcelain en-
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cleaned as a china dish. ou can’t break, scratch
or marit. Fifty styles and sizes. Polished oak or
satin walnut cases. Prices $18.90 to $75. We
sell direct where we have no agent. Freight paid
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sample of the porcelain lining. Address Grand }
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FONTS VASES BENCHES PEDESTALS

Use KEROSENE
Engine FREE!

Amazing ““DETROIT” Kerosene Engine
shipped on 15 days? FREE Trial, proves
kerosene cheapest, safest, most powerful
fuel. If satisfied, pay lowest price ever
given on reliable farm engine; if not, pay
nothing.

Gasoline Going Up!

Automobile owners are burning up so
much gasoline that the world’s supply
is running short. Gasoline is 9c to 15¢
higher than coal oil. Still going up.
Two pints coal oil do work of three
pints gasoline. No waste, no evapor-
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Amazing “ DETROIT”

The “DETROIT” is the only engine that handles coal oil successfully;
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All sizes, 2 to 20 h. p., in stock ready to ship. Complete Enzine tested
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PALISADES— POPULAR — ‘PERENNIALS

3 ; : Visitors always welcome at our Nurseries. where they can make
A perfect picture in your garden to last for years will be the re- selections from more than a thousand varieties of Hardy Plants.
sult if you allow us mow to plan a scheme, whether of contrasts or
of harmonies, to be carried out this spring.

Our “‘Artistic’’ Border, too ft. by 3 ft., costs $25.00 only, for 300 plants, freight charges included. Consider what is ‘‘saved’”’ by this

system, and what is gained in true beauty.

“REAL NOVELTIES AND NOVEL REALITIES” IN HARDY PLANTS

The biggest collection offered anywhere is found in our Novelty Catalogue, just out

Of great interest to the amateur and commercial grower alike.

It describescuncommon plants of singular beauty, desirability, and simplicity of growth; in+xp2nsive to acquire, and profits large.

Mailed along with our wholesale catalogue of Hardy Perennials, etc. on receipt of three 2c. stamps, which pays postage only, and
which amount is deducted from first order.

PALISADES NURSERIES, Inc., SPARKILL, NEW YORK.

Ihe Roses of New Castile

Most rugged, hardy Rosesin America. They are just the kind Fé aoe
to plant to make your Rose Carden a success, for they ;
carry with them all the strength and vigor imparted to ei
¥7 them by our wonderful New Castle soil. : :
@ We grow and sell all the leading varieties of Roses, and plants
are sent everywhere wiih all shipping charges pr: epaid and safe
arrivalquaranteed. Orderat once, and we will carefully reserve
the plants until you desire them shipped. Let us help you start
Tight this year by showing you_what Roses to plant and how to
make them bloom luxurious y. You'll find all the necessary infor-
mation in our beautiful book for 1911, illustrated in colors, entitled

“The Roses of New Castle’—F ree!

The famous Rose-scented Rose Book—something unique in bookmaking. Each co
carries with it the perfume of the excellent Roses it describes. Itis the most beauti aa
book of its kind ever issued, and it’s yours on request, absolutely free. A postaleard will JEANNETTE
bringa copy to you. it pricesand describes the best Roses for you to plant and tells how HELLER
to grow them. Plan your Rose Garden now and send for this great book. The Greatest
Hardy Bush Rose

HELLER BROTHERS CO., ROSE SPECIALISTS, BOX 21, NEW CASTLE, INDIANA inthe World

A PALISADE HARDY BORDER

Strokum
For Caterpillars

It keeps them from crawling up the
trunk.

Bind it around your trees this month
and save the first tender leaves from being
riddled. Every caterpillar you keep down
‘in the early spring means hundreds pre-
vented later on. Easy toapply. Cannot
injure your trees. When removed in fall,

es comes off clean—no unsightly remnants
SWORE Se SU CN SNe left. Itis by far the most effectual band-

aration ungorperatcd wii aycseiable
extract destructive to the caterpillars 7 7
but absolutely harmless to the trees, ing substance known. One banding lasts
caternillars caw'tlommly under ie entire season. Send at once for booklet.
They won’t crawl over it.

Mail us $1.00and we will send you,

Special XPress Paid, _ enough Stratford Oakum Company

Strokum to band five trees,

Offer : foot in diame- - .
RRR estophtizccsippt voolexta, 161 Cornelison Ave., Jersey City, N. J.

What is a fair rental for

property? Ask the Readers’ Service

FARLINE vsPoppen

This picture shows simply an exagg¢
ted case of what happens when Sea
Powder is made by the new method.

Each Grain of Soap Powder is POPPED .

—FLUFFED—FLAKED—it F ills more
space—yet does no more work.
Besides— Water is added to ieee the

Weight—again Decreasing the value of the
Powder.

a given

WASHING:
POWDERS g

Simply a
Matter of

Intelligence.

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Marcu,

Old England’s historic estates
are carpeted with the most beau-
tiful stretches of lawn. Through
centuries of careful study and
trial, coarse undesirable grasses
have been supplanted by a uni-
form durable species, almost the
texture of velvet.

Let English lawns surround
your own home.

Barwell’s Imported English
Lawn Grass Seed Mixture comes

Wah

Se

Possess a Perfect Lawn

across the Atlantic in large quanti-
ties every season. ‘It is literally the
finest, straight from its “Native
Heath.” It has proven hardierthan
the average domestic mixture and
grows luxuriantly in sun or shade.
Directions and information for seeding and
making a perfect lawn, free on application.
Just mail us the measurement of your lawn
space describing its soil and situation.
Barwell’s Agricultural Works
Waukegan, Illinois
Established at Leicester, England, in 1800

Panay plants

I have made a specialty of
Pansies for years, by the most
exacting selection. I now have
= a strain that posttzvely cannot be
/ surpassed. Large Size, Great Sub-
stance. Wonderful Variety of color
or Vigor of Plants.

f 1 doz., 50c., 3 doz., $1.00, 100, $2.50,
EY 1000, $30. 00. Mixed or separate colors

\ Mixon b. @ano Pansy Specialist
Box 40 Martingbille, Ind.

PEARLINE 1s NOT £ORRED: FLUEFED
PEARLINE is the same DRY—
DENSE—CONDENSED—EFFICIENT

Soap Powder it has been for 30 years. A
tablespoonful will do the work of several of

these Popped Look Big Powders. PEAR-
LINE is more than ever

IBEST sy TEST

SEND FOR THIS BOOK

@ It is full of reliable information concerning Trees and

‘THIS ’PHOTO SHOWS. SIXTY . KERNELS
OF CORN BEFORE AND AFTER POPPING.
60 KERNELS OF UNPOPPED CORN WEIGH
6 GRAMS AND FILL % OF A CUBIC INCH.
60 KERNELS POPPED WEIGH 6 - GRAMS
AND FILL 7Y5CUBIC INCHES.
WEIGHT REMAINED THE SAME—VOLUME
INCREASED 16 TIMES. :

Plants and is free to all who are interested in them.

@ Our stock includes a most complete line of Fruit and
Ornamental Trees, Shrubs and Vines, also Roses and Hardy
Flowering Plants in variety, the quality of which will suit
Lies the most discriminating buyer. We solicit correspondence
THE NEW ENGLAND

_ NURSERIES. Incrpd

|EDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS

regarding all planting-problems.

THE NEW ENGLAND NURSERIES, INC.
BEDFORD MASS.

| LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

and

TREE DOCTOR

ADOLPH JAENICKE
Floral Park

@ We manufacture a large variety of Lawn and
Park Fountains, Railings and Entrance Gates,
Electroliers for Driveways, Flower Vases in Cast
Iron or Bronze, Statuary, Settees, Chairs and
Tree Guard. SANITARY FITTINGS

FOR STABLE AND COW BARN.
Long Island

BASSETT’S DAHLIAS

Standard of Flower Mar-
kets—Grown in the District
where Dahlias{bloom freest,
we are enabled to weed
out the mixtures — Our
stock is practically pure
and true to name.

10 Named Roots
$1.00

all different, our selection,
express charges to be paid
by purchaser.

CATALOGUE FOR THE ASKING §

Wm, F. Bassett
Hammonton, N. J. }

ouE J. L Moire ws WORKS, Fifth Ave. and 17th St., New York

WM. F. BASSETT
Dean of Dahlia Growers

: ~ r The Readers’ Service gives injor- .
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> Get Your Share

of a Billion Dollars

—Chicken Money

1911 will be the greatest of all years
in the poultry business. One billion
dollars for the year is a conservative
estimate based on reliable facts and
figures. Get our big FREE Book.

Poultry and eggs bring handsome
prices—steadily. Get your share.

There is no better money-making business on earth—if
gone into, dead-in-earnest—with the right equipment.

CYP HER and BROODERS
are the World’s Standard Hatchers—tried and proved for
16 years. They mean absolutely no heat or moisture
trouble; no faulty regulation or ventilation.
A genuine, non-moisture machine—self-ventilating, self-

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Send today for our handsome, new 212 page
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OR such service as enclosing a private particularly if the top is surmounted with
park, or the grounds of a private one strand of barb wire—a desirable ad-
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PROFIT FARM BOILER

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scape gardening, especially recommends from the extreme height of 88 inches down

and windows. No. 28 galvanized steel double
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Brass top, brass bottom, brass nozzle, brass ex-
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Greatest Of All Berries

Dealers Everywhere — Stocks of American Fence are carried in every place where

farm supplies are sold. The Fence is shipped to these points
in carload lots, thereby securing the cheapest transportation, and the saving in freight thus made enables
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he is enabled to offer. He is there to serve the purchaser in person, offer the variety of selection and save

é This is the Greatest Berry the buyer money in many ways.
ONE PLANT Tee 4 the world has ever known, dis-
FROM PHOTO = : covered in the Hima-

FRANK BAACKES, Vice President and General Sales Agent

laya Mountains. Jcs
growth and producti-e-
ness is simply marve-
‘lous. t is perfectly
hardy everywhere and
grows from 30
_ toso feet ina

season and can
m be trained on
= arbors or trel-
me lises of any
kind.

JULY, 1910

American Steel & Wire Company

Chicago New York Denver San Francisco

Send for copy of ““American Fence News,” profusely illustrated, devoted to the interests of farmers and showing how fence
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The Engrav-= SSE
ing shows one 20 kinds, my selection, $1. Satisfaction
< Famous Aster. Lady Roosevelt, New Lavender Crego and DAHLIAS . =
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a within ik Catalogue and packet of mixed aster seed free. Please send address of Catalogue. My dahlias were given the highest possible awards at

friends. Pan American and St. Louis Expositions.

s trained ,to.a :
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large trellis,
fF loaded with §
fruit, and con-
ar : z : tinued bearing

until October. The Fruitis black, almost corelessand the large
luscious Kerries bornein enormous clusters will literally melt
inyourmouth. Itis unsurpassed for eating fresh, cooked, canned
or preserved in any form and is the Greatest of all Berries forall
Climates. :

Everybody can and will grow this Great Berry, for it is
the easiest Fruit in the world to grow, is splendid for city
people or any one with limited space, for it can be trained up
from the ground like a tree, producing Berries from 3 to 4
months, growing larger and producing more Fruit each year.

We guarantee this the Greatest of all new Fruits and
can produce facts no one can getaway from. 7
_ Beware of imitations; Giant Himalaya isa family by
itself and highly valued wherever grown. The English Hima-
laya or Plants raised from seed cannot be relied upon for fruit
orhardiness. Our plants are from tested parent stock.
Complete satisfaction guaranteed.

Instructions for cultivation, with a booklet of receipts for
using in many ways, free with all orders.

Strong Plants, 30c each, 3for 60c, 6 for $1.00,
15 for $2.00, 25 for $3.00, postpaid.

Our 1911 Catalogue of Vegetable and Flower Seeds, Plants
and Rare New Fruits free with every order.

MILLS SEED HOUSE, Box 45, ROSE HILL, N. Y.

Taunton, Mass_

Nature’s Best Fertilizer

is Sheep Manure

Sheep’s Head Brand furnishes the valuable
organic matter and humus necessary to grow crops.
It improves the mechanical conditions of the soil.

Makes compact clay more open and porous, makes light,
sandy soils more retentive of moisture,

10 Broad-Leaved Evergreens for $1

One each of *Rhododendrom maximum, *Kalmia,
*Leucotho”, *Am. Holly, Boxwood, Euonymus Japonica,
Euonymus Jap. variegata, Euonymus radicans variegata,
Abelia grandiflora, Vinca minor. Ten of any starred
sort for $1.

3 CONIFERS FOR 25 CTS.—1 each of Carolina
Hemlock, White Pine, Red Cedar. Or 3 conifers and
any 3 Broad-leaved Evergreens for 50 cts.

1 GALAX, 1 TRAILING ARBUTUS, 1 MITCHELLA
REPENS FOR 25 CTS.

keeps soluble plant foods within reach of
rootlets of growing vegetation. Farmers,
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Marcu, 1911

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How to Keep

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Marcu, 1911

The Spring Star Flower

OF ALL my spring flowers I doubt if any has

been a more delightful surprise to garden
visitors than a charming one that for two years I
cultivated under a wrong name. This is the spring
star flower.

I purchased the bulbs as Willa uniflora, but they
are properly Tviteleza uniflora, a near relative of
what at first I took it to be, as well as of the North
American brodiaeas. The ordinary Milla uniflora,
which is a native of the Argentine Republic, is
described as “shaded blue” and “pure white’’,
and the Violacea variety as “porcelain blue
striped violet.” Mine, presumably, is the latter,
though I should call it, to all intents and purposes,
white with a faint lavender stripe on each section

The spring star flower (Triteleia unifiora) is equally
as hardy as scillas and showdrops

of its dainty and deliciously fragrant stars. I
plant it in my hardy borders, the same as scillas
and snowdropsg, and find it equally hardy. Cost-
ing as it does only fifteen cents a dozen, it should
be planted more extensively. Indoors it may be
grown in earth or sphagnum and, by gentle forcing,
the lovely blooms, which are fine for cutting,
may be had from January to March.

This bulb should not be confused with the true
milla that is cultivated— WM. biflora, known
variously as Mexican star, Mexican star-of-
Bethlehem, frost flower and floating star. The
latter grows about twice as tall as Triteleia uniflora,
which is less than six inches high, and the pure
white blossoms, usually in pairs, are much larger
—say two and one-half inches across. It blooms
in August, is too tender to be treated as other
than a summer bulb, costs four times as much as
Triteleia uniflora and, aside from the question
of hardiness, requires greater cultural care.

New York. ens. Ae

Marcu, 1911 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

If you want to be really successful in raising chickens, you can. You
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New Lilacs
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F LATE years there has been a multi-
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beauty, but, unfortunately, almost all the stock
offered, both in this country and Europe,
has been budded on privet and is practically
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Lilacs on privet because they can produce a _

tain to die in a few years.

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

MarcuH, 1911

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large stock quickly and inexpensively, but
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of budded plants.

NEW LILAC, MARIE LEGRAYE

LILAC. SOUVENIR bE LOUIS SPAETH

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La Ville de Troyes. Large, purplish red
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VoL. XIII—No. 2

PUBLISHED MONTHLY

[For the purpose of reckoning dates, New York is
generally taken asastandard. Allowsix days’ difference
for every hundred miles of latitude.]

As the Frost Leaves

LANT the hardiest seeds just as
soon as the ground can be worked
— that means: on light grounds, as soon
as the frost is out; on heavy grounds, a
little bit later, as they must take time to
dry out and warm up a little. For earliest
crops, sow on the lightest and highest
ground.

Vegetables: In the open: asparagus, car-
rot, chicory, corn, salad, mangel wurzel,
parsnip, peas, salsify, sea kale, spinach.
For first sowings of peas, use round-
seeded kinds. If you want sea kale this
season, read the article ‘‘Sea Kale In Nine
Months,’ by W. C. McCollom, in the
March, 1908, GARDEN MAGAZINE.

In greenhouse or hotbed, for planting
out when the weather is safe, sow now:
beets, broccoli, all the cabbage family,
cardoon, cauliflower, celeriac, leek, lettuce,
celery, eggplant, kohlrabi, okra, onion,
parsley, squash and tomato.

Under cover, to mature inside, sow bush
beans, cucumbers, melons.

Begin your successions by sowing every
week from the first of March, in frame or
greenhouse, cress, mustard, radish. It is
not too late, at the beginning of this
month, to try an outdoor mushroom bed,
but this is the last chance.

Flowers: All hardy annuals can be sown
this month in the open air, to flower where
they are sown. Give room by thinning
out. Or they can be sown in the green-
house or hotbed and transplanted out-
doors as soon as the ground is right.

The half-hardy annuals and _ tender
perennial plants that are grown as annuals
must be started in heat. Read Mr.
Adams’s article on page 74.

As early as possible plant bulbs of hardy

MARCH, 1911

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lilies. It is yet too early to put outdoors
any other roots, except peonies, which
were not planted last fall.

Plant perennials in the hardy border
any time from now on. Also transplant
shrubs and rearrange groups. It is per-
fectly safe to transplant any time in the
spring, even while they are in bloom, any
shrubs that flower before the leaves come.

Fruit Garden

ET out fruit trees any time now.
Prune the orchard trees. Thin
out currant bushes, graft cherries and
plums. Cut back two-thirds of last year’s
growth of dwarf trees, if it was not done
during the winter. Prune raspberries and
trim up the grape vines. (See THE GArR-
DEN MAGAZINE for March, 10910.)

Make new strawberry beds, planting
some of the novelties and testing out their
behavior in your region. Nothing in
the garden has more strongly marked
local peculiarities.

Lawns and Grounds

ENON e gradually all protective ma-
terial that was used during the
winter, especially the covering of bulb
COS, mose loeGlsy, Gites Ieolleres ami Wats
weather suddenly becomes colder.

Mulch afresh all stock planted last fall.
Bring in and distribute manure and give
a final overhauling to all shrubberies and
plantations, repairmg any winter damage
by wind or ice.

Prune roses and plant new beds. At-

tend to the roses as early as possible,
because they make early growth. If
you want large flowers, don’t be nervous
about cutting back. Roses flower on the
new wood. For a quantity of flowers,
prune moderately; the weaker the growth
the greater the necessity of pruning.

Prune now all flowering shrubs that
flower on the current season’s growth, such
as Hydrangea paniculata, garden roses, etc.

Roll lawns and repair all heavage by
winter frosts. Fill the hollows, beat down
high places, top dress and scatter a pinch
or two of seed on any bad spots.

Remove coarse, rank weeds before they
start strong growth.

Spray while the trees are yet dormant.
See page 08.

Work the Hotbeds

Ni hotbeds at any time, using clean,
fresh manure —a layer two feet
thick tramped down hard. Be careful
not to let the heat get too great. Put
a few inches of soil over the heating ma-
terial and after the first fermentation
seeds may be sown. Give air on all fine
days when the weather is warm, and
remember the bed must be kept moist.
Better use two thermometers — one for
the air and the other for the soil. In
here you can sow all seeds of annuals
and perennials for transplanting in the
open, all tender vegetables, and propagate
hardy perennials in quantity. By sowing
a pinch of lettuce seed every ten days a

succession of salad can be kept running .

ahead until the outdoor crop matures.

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Sweet sultan (Centaurea imperialis)
matures flowers before hot weather

The Secret of Certain Annuals—By H. S. Adams,

The cosmos will
bloom from July until frost

He
j

Coboea scandens

give abundant A most ornamental climber is the

Salpiglossis, a neglected but one of
the most fascinating annuals

New oe

PLANT ‘THE MORE TENDER ONES INDOORS, OR IN A COLDFRAME,
IN APRIL, OR EARLIER, AND THUS DISCOUNT THE SEASON

ie all of gardening there is nothing

more disappointing than to see cosmos,
or Brazilian morning glory, or any other
annual blackened by the frost at the very
moment when no end of buds are ready
to give the first burst of bloom. One
remedy there is, and only one: plant under
glass and get a fair start of the season.

True, the season may be prolonged at
the other end by taking the trouble to
cover the plants; but, aside from the fact
that this is a real trouble when it comes
to protecting such big things as cosmos
and vines, at every sign of frost, the
cooler weather from the middle of Septem-
ber on has a marked tendency to diminish
the size of some blossoms. So that several
of the most beautiful annuals, even if they
do get the better of Jack Frost, are never
seen in all their perfection when they do
not begin to bloom before the fag end of
the season.

There are annuals and annuals: some
are and some are not. By certain annuals
here is meant the more tender class of
those flowers that are treated as annuals,
whether they actually are such or are
biennials or perennials when on their
native heath. That class cannot be sown
in the open ground until ‘“‘all danger from
frost is over,” which in the North means
some time in May, according to the lati-
tude. And seed sown so late either
stands scant chance of giving good bloom
before frost is to be looked for or, owing
to the limited time allowed, is forced to
offer half measure when only too gladly
it would make it full and running over.

As has been said, the sole remedy is
planting the seed under glass. Neither
a greenhouse nor a hotbed is needed;

with both the temptation of the amateur
is to sow the seed too early and thus get
weak, or weakened, plants for May plant-
ing out-of-doors. A coldframe will answer
just as well, or shallow boxes placed in a
sunny window anywhere from cellar to
attic. The point is to get the seed in the
ground more than a month earlier than
it would be safe to sow it in the open;
it must be sown, say, not later than the
first to the tenth of April to bring about
the desired result.

I like the coldframe idea myself, because
it reduces trouble to a minimum — and
brings no dirt into the house. I sow the
seed in rows the short way of the frame,
and on the back board I put a number,
which, in my notebook memorandum, is
placed opposite the name of the flower.
Only the ordinary rules of seed-sowing
are followed, excepting that, until the
seeds begin to come up, I water through
a piece of cotton cloth cut to fit the seed-
bed. The rows can be thinned out as
they stand, at the proper time, or if the
seedlings are too precious to lose they
may be transplanted to another frame.
I knock my own frames together, because
there always is plenty of old sash avail-
able, but in my opinion no country place
is complete without one of the real kind,
made solid and put in some convenient
place to stay there for years, and twice
each year to prove an unmixed blessing.

I speak of cosmos and Brazilian morn-
ing glory not at random, but from the
heart; I have seen six-footers of the one
and twenty-footers of the other ruined by
Connecticut frost, and Nebraska frost,
just when both at last were ready to re-
ward me generously for my summer’s

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pains. Another reason why I mention
the Brazilian morning glory ([pomea
setosa) is because I not only seize every
opportunity to call attention to one of
the most magnificent of annual climbers,
but make opportunities wherever I can.

Here is a really stunning thing, glorious
at first with its wonderfully, vigorous
growth of handsome light green, lobed
foliage, set off by- stems thickly covered
with reddish hairs, and still more glorious
later when the large blossoms of old rose,
with a solferino throat, appear. Seeds
planted in the open sometimes have given
me blossoms in the late summer, but
unqualifiedly JI recommend the earlier
planting that allows this tropical climber
to find its full expression. Started under
glass, it is such a rank grower that by
August a single vine is likely to cover a
space twenty feet square.

The charming little scarlet morning
glory (J. coccinea), the remarkable but
sadly unappreciated Japanese and Heavenly
Blue morning glories and the moon-
flowers all should be given the same early
start. To hasten germination the seed
of all the ipomoeas should be soaked in
warm water before planting; frequently
I leave them in a tumbler over night,
setting the glass on the seed envelope.
Moonflowers are such “pesky critters”
about coming out of their shells that the
only safe way is to file a notch in the seed;
once when I merely soaked some over
night it was just four months before the
first one showed above ground. All
the ipomeceas are easy to transplant if the
seeds are not planted too close together.
I put the seeds in the ground one by one
to obviate thinning.

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As for cosmos, there is an early bloom-
ing kind nowadays, but if you want masses
of bloom from July on, the seed must be
sown under glass. Indoors, March is
not too early to sow the seed. Care
must be taken, however, that the plants
do not get too spindling. For porch use,
or for placing in the shrubbery temporarily,
pot some of the seedlings, one in a pot.
Pinch off the top when the plant is six
inches high and again at intervals if a
compact plant is desired. The com-
paratively new Lady Lenox is the best
pink variety and, with a package of white
cosmos, will give more for the money than
most flowers.

Salpiglossis is another annual that simply
finds it a physical impossibility to do its
level best unless helped along in the same
manner. One of the most fascinating
of all annuals, it is at the same time one
of the most neglected. I have had fair
results, very late in the season, from seed
sown in the open, but the secret of suc-
cess is April planting under glass. Unless
a hotbed is at hand, it is better to sow this
seed indoors. The Emperor strain, in
mixed colors, is best if only one package
of seed is planted. It is possible, however,
to get six separate colors — crimson,
primrose, purple, rose, scarlet, and white,
the last four with intricate veinings of
gold —for only forty cents, and such a
collection will give any one who does not
know salpiglossis one of the real joys of
his gardening experience.

Dahlias from seed are only in the in-
fancy of their possibilities so far as the
average grower of flowers is concerned.
Although the single ones will flower in ten
weeks from the time that the seed is plan-
_ted, if the con-

ditions are ideal,
theadvantages of
April sowing are
obvious. The sin-
gle type, which
is admirable for
cutting, is the
most reliable as
to results. The
peony-flowered
type, which is
semi-double, is
excellent, how-
ever, and it is
interesting to test
by actual ex-
perience the po-
tentiality of the
double types —
show, fancy
pompon, and cac-
tus —in the way
of producing
something at
oncenewand
worth while.
One gardener
of wide experi-
ence sows the
Seed Romert hialt
splendid climber,

Dianthus blooms the
first summer from seed
sown outdoors in May

THE

GARDEN

For a blaze of brilliant red late in summer,
plant masses of scarlet sage (Salvia splendens)

Cobea scandens, as early as the middle of
February for bloom the middle of July,
and never later than the first of March;
but where heat is not available, the first
of April will do. The seed should be put
in the ground edgewise, and if the seed-
lings are potted, one to a small pot, they
may be allowed to run up a yard or more,
on a small stake, before planting time.

Nasturtium seed sown out-of-doors
gives bloom the middle of July; you will
get it early in June if you sow the seed
under glass about March 15th. This
getting ahead of the season is particularly
desirable in the case of the tall climbing
kind, Tropwolum majus, than which no
annual vine is more gorgeous. Its charm-
ing near relative, the Canary bird flower
(T. peregrinum), absolutely demands early
planting as the price of success—-say the
middle of March for bloom the first of
July andsoon. Seed sown in the open oc-
casionally does not bloom until September.

Schizanthus, sometimes called butter-
fly flower, is in the class of half hardy
annuals, which is a good enough reason
for favoring it; but there is another reason,
its flowers are too lovely to lose one day of
the normal blooming season. There are
two good kinds, S. pinnatus, which has
a considerable range of coloring, though
running a great deal to mauve shades for
the markings other than yellow, and
Wisetonensis, a white variety marked with
rose.

For bold floral effects some of the
aristocratic relatives of the common
“‘Jimson weed” (Datura Stramonium) are
worth early planting. I do not know
where daturas begin and brugmansias
end, but there are some showy kinds,

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75

usually sold under the former name, that
may be treated as tender annuals. Per-
sonally I prefer the single ones, especially
the pure white. The horn-of-plenty type,
D. cornucopia, however, is interesting
because of its trumpet-in-trumpet form
variations and the double yellow, Golden
Queen, has a fine color tone to recommend
it. The white D. cornucopia, which was
brought from South America so recently
as 1895, is not the old fashioned marriage
bell, or angel’s trumpet, that our grand-
mothers used to winter in the cellar and
bring out every spring for summer flower-
ing; that seems to be either D. suaveolens or
Brugmansia arborea. It is called the latter
in the Bahamas, where, as a tall shrub,
it is a striking permanent feature of gardens.

The snapdragon (Antirrhinum) is a
perennial, but getting a start of the season
brings it into the annual class for the
present purpose. Seed should be sown
under glass in March or April; pick out
a few of the fine named varieties and

‘don’t forget to include the pure white,

that being one of the best for cutting.
Sow the scarlet sage (Salvia splendens)
at the same time for like advantageous
results; also the so-called annual pinks
(Dianthus), which agreeably resolve them-
selves into biennials and sometimes re-
fuse to die even at the end of the second
season. They will bloom the first summer
from seed sown in the open ground in May;
but it is better to give named varieties,
of which there are some wonders, an early
start. For a single red I find Crimson
Belle reliability itself.

Then there is the sweet sultan (Centaurea
imperialis). This time-honored flower,
lately in vogue
again, likes to
perfect its flowers
before the advent
of hot weather;
so it offers to the
others its own
excuse for early
planting. Violas,
or tufted pansies,
though not ten-
der, will bloom in
June if started in
April; likewise the
new strains of ver-
benas and petun-
ias. For Memorial
Day, petunias and
also stocks should
be sown late in
February, and
verbenas by the
middle of March.

Rose moss (Por-
tulaca grandiflora)
has its own
notions about ger-
minating; it wants
high temperature
and therefore it is
not customary to
plant it until late
— corn - planting

Be sure to grow some
pure white snapdragons.
Best for cutting

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time. As it transplants
easily, I favor indoor plant-
ing for the double kind.
This gives early bloom and
good colors can be increased
at once by taking cuttings
and sticking them in the
ground.

The amethyst (Browal-
lia demissa, the B. elata of
the florists), generally is
used as a greenhouse an-
nual, but it may be grown
from April-sown seed for
bedding purposes. The
African daisy (Arctotis
grandis) gives fine flowers
for cutting in July if
sown under glass, and that
is the best way to be
sure of perfect blooms
of helichrysum, one of the
choicest of the everlast-
ings. For the same reason
the annual wallflower, an
excellent substitute for the
perennial kind where the latter objects to
the winter, should be sown in April.

Practical Celery Culture in Florida—By P. N. Holst,

GARDEN

THE

Among the lesser known half-hardy annuals the butterfly flower (Schizanthus |Wise-
tonensis) is worth knowing for its variety of coloring

These tender or half hardy annuals also
should be helped to get a proper foot-

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Marcu, 1911

hold by forcing the season;
the balloon vine (Cardios-
permum); the lovely Swan
River daisy (Brachycome
iberidifolia); Japanese hop
(Humulus Japonicus); ice
plant (Mesembryanthemum
crystallinum); Joseph’s coat
(Amaranthus tricolor); but-
terfly runner bean (Pha-
seolus multiflorus, var. papi-
lio); balsam apple (Momor-
dica balsamina); giant hemp
(Cannabis gigantea); yellow
morning glory (Convolvulus
aureus, var. superbus); bal-
sam pear (Momordica Char-
antia); squirting cucumber
_ (Momordica involucrata); rag
gourd (Cucumis aoe
Bryonopsis laciniosa, Eryth-
rocar pa, coccinea, var.Indica,
Rhodanthe maculata, Cyclan-
thera explodens, Leptosyne —
Stillman, Linum grandiflor-
um, var. rubrum, martynia,

Matthiola bicornis Nicotiana alata, Passiflora
gracilis, Thunbergia elata, and maurandia.

Sanford
Florida

[Eprror’s Note:—Supplementing the article in the January number on the general situation, a grower now tells his routine of cul-

tivation and shows how £1,000 an acre has actually been made in celery in the Sanford district.

It is only fair to add that such returns are

coupled to great speculative uncertainty, on account of the chances of losing the entire crop. As a matter of fact the writer of the present article
suffered a complete loss of the crop following the one now described, and at the same time the price of lettuce fell to about 50 cents

net.

We would emphasize these facts in view of correspondence that has reached us.
of necessity be speculative and is not a safe poor-man’s game, although he may win largely on his first venture.

Any venture that returns such large percentages must

Other correspondents

declare that the West Coast of Florida offers still greater rewards, or rather that it is on record that a still greater return was made there,

at least once.|

T= fact that flowing artesian wells

can be drilled at Sanford, Fla., is a
reason of the preéminence of that region
as a trucking centre. Flowing wells are
found at an average depth of too feet, and
a 2-inch well, complete with shut-off
valve, usually costs only $60. I know of
one well that was dug in an afternoon and
cost only $27.50. The whole district
is practically honey-combed with wells
(one to each five acres) without showing
any diminution in flow.

The land in the district is of two types
(1) The low hammock on the lake shore,
distinguished by the growth of hardwood,
and the peaty character of the soil; and
(2) The so-called “flatwoods” or pine land
with sandy soil. This land in the raw
state now sells at from $125 to $200 per
acre according to location. Hammock land
costs more than flatwoods, as the ham-
mock soil contains more humus and there-
fore requires less fertilizer.

The cost of clearing depends of course,
upon the nature of growth upon the land.
Hammock land sometimes costs as high
as $200 per acre to clear, whereas the flat-
woods can be handled at from $15 to $75
per acre.

Clearing by the piece costs as follows:

Trees dug up .
Stumps dug up
Burning the wood and

$ 1.00 to $ 3.00
o6i5 KO) | IFC)

grubbings . 10.00tO 20.00 per acre
Grubbing roots and

scrub palmettoes I0.00 tO 20.00 per acre
Disk plowing (4 mules) 8.00 per acre
Four horse cutaway

INTO co 5 8 8.00 per day

Orme . o « 5.00 per acre

There is very little profit in selling the
wood. Cut up in stove lengths it costs
$3 a cord, and $2 a cord for delivery. It
can sometimes be sold for $6 a cord de-
livered, but as a rule the sale of wood is
a negligible item in reducing the cost of
clearing.

After the land has been thoroughly
broken up and the well dug, tiling is
commenced.

The well is dug at the highest corner of
the field, and is provided with a valve so
that the water may be turned on or off
at will. The well pours into a large terra
cotta stand pipe which has a cement
bottom laid init. From this, a terra cotta
4-inch main is laid along one side of the
field with all joints cemented. At inter-
vals of about twenty feet this main is

tapped and the water from the main flows
into 8-inch terra cotta stand pipes which
are at the head of each row of lateral tiles.
The object of these stand-pipes is to
regulate (by means of wooden plugs) the
amount of water flowing into each row
of tile. The tile is laid eighteen inches
deep across the field with a slight fall
(x to 3 inches to 100 feet). Three-inch
tile, a foot long, and made of clay or cement,
are commonly used. The water passes
through the joints where the tiles meet,
and these joints are covered with palmetto
fibre to keep sand from sifting into the tile.
At the lower end of the rows of tile are
so-called pockets to regulate the amount
of water to be turned on the crop. A
pocket, made of cement, is simply a box
with a partition in it. The tile enters the
lowest part of the pocket, and if the
partition is not plugged up, the water
flows right through the pocket into the
drainage ditch which is dug along the side
of the field opposite the main. But by
plugging the bottom hole in the partition
the water is raised until it pours through
a hole almost at the top of the partition.
By plugging this upper hole the water is
raised to the level of the top of the par-

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Marcu, 1911

tition. Thus there are three degrees of
wetting the land: (1) by letting water
run through the tile a certain amount
escapes from the joints and is carried
upward by capillary attraction; (2) the
bottom hole being plugged the water is
raised to within a few inches of the surface
and the ground becomes thoroughly
saturated; and (3) in extreme cases the
upper hole may be plugged and the land
flooded.

Besides being invaluable in times of
drought and for saturating the soil at the
time of setting plants in the field this
system of irrigation is particularly advan-
tageous as a drainage system. In other
words the matter of moisture is absolutely
under the control of the grower.

The cost of tiling averages about $100
per acre.

Estimate cost of tilling 5 acres:

11,000 tileat $2operM.. . . $220
48 stand pipesand pockets . . . . . 48
320 feet 4-inch mainat8c. . ... . 26
Nipplesrand) plugsiss°-\ hee 4 fo 4 “8
Cement "3. eye SE vee an’ tia ee 5
IPT O@ oe pete a nae pene ne ea 10
Hauling materials . ny A Ne eae ee 30
Labor, 8 men ro days, at $1.50 2) oe eae TO.

“TROYES at Nac NE te eR Yo

This estimate is based on actual experi-
ence but may vary about $30 either way.
Having the work done by contract usually
costs more.

Planting begins about September ist,
and ends about June ist, during which
time three crops are raised. In the
summer the land is planted in cowpeas or
allowed to go to grass, from which about
three tons of hay to the acre are cut. This
refers to old land in a thorough state of
cultivation. Newly cleared land is very
sour and will not make a good crop of

- celery and lettuce, which are the two

principal crops of this district.

The usual practice with new land is to
apply a ton of Canada hardwood ashes to
the acre, and sow cowpeas broadcast at the
rate of about a bushel to the acre, if the
peas can be planted before July. Should
the land not be ready by that time, the
land is repeatedly plowed and harrowed

‘* ®

Transplanting young plants into the ‘‘prick bed’”’
whence they are later set into the field

THE GARDEN

until time for planting the winter crop.
This crop on new land is usually cauli-
flower or potatoes. With excessive appli-
cations of ashes or lime, celery is sometimes
successful on new land, but lettuce seldom
does well on first-year land.

The cost of cauliflower per acre is
about as follows:

YAN) eeel ior Ae 4 2 gn Oe pean
rt ton high grade fertilizer 5st ane 42
ADOT rani Me he | 30
Harvesting including hampers . . . . 75

Total . eee “74 ORGY

Average yield 400 hampers

The cost of planting potatoes, including
barrels at about forty cents apiece, should

This is the average Florida celery head, which is
very profitable when the crop catches the market
properly

be a little less than this. Average yield
about forty barrels. Average price last
year about $4.50 per bbl. f. o. b. Sanford.
This year, $4.00.

With average yield and fair prices a
profit is possible on either of these crops,
but even with no profit, the value to the
land from the cultivation is inestimable.

Supposing, therefore, that we have
finished our first year, that our land has
been thoroughly and repeatedly turned
up to the sweetening influences of air and
sunshine, that our land has been gathering
nitrogen from the air all summer through
the aid of some leguminous crop such as
cowpeas or beggar-weed, and that we
are on the ground by August 1, to
begin our campaign on second year land,

MAGAZINE

A good planter can set out 20,000 plants a day. An
acre takes 70,000

then we are prepared to follow the general
method of the old-timers, whatever may be
the age of their land. The third season,
and each succeeding year, our chances of
success may be better, but in describing
one we describe them all.

First, some disposition is made of the
summer cover-crop. It is generally con-
ceded that to turn under any green vege-
tation is to run the risk of adding more
acidity to our sandy soil, so our usual
procedure is to run a harrow over our
pea vines, turning them under when dead,
or to cut them for hay and plow in the
stubble. Stable manure is a luxury that
only a favored few can obtain. Those
who are lucky enough to get it now work
it thoroughly into the soil.

We always try to obtain a few loads of
manure at $3 or more to put on our seed-
beds, the preparation of which is now in
order. For reasons beyond the logic of
the writer, new land is preferred for celery
seed-beds, and if no more new land is
available, those who know always choose
a new spot for seedbeds each year. This,
like many other local customs, is the direct
antithesis of the practice in the North.

The early birds begin planting celery
about August 25th, extremists some days
earlier. In order to make the seed ger-
minate during this hot weather, precau-
tionary methods of a complicated nature
have to be taken. Beds three feet wide,
raised an inch or two above the general
level and of any desired length, are made
convenient to the water supply. These
are raked, re-raked, rolled smoothed, ferti-
lized, and raked again until they are in
a condition of most perfect tilth. Slight
furrows are then made across the beds,
four to five inches apart, in which the
Golden Self Blanching French-grown seed
is thinly sown. Individual opinion varies
in the matter of raising plants. Some

‘ cover the seed lightly with soil, others

do not cover, but simply lay burlap sacks
over the uncovered seeds. “‘Half-covers”’
(which are frames made of plaster laths
with interstices of about an inch) are placed
on the south side of the bed, leaning at
an angle of 45 degrees toward the North,
thus completely shading them. Until the
seedlings are up, burlap sacks are stretched

78

An abundance of water readily available is the foun-

dation of the celery industry at Sandford

across these frames to make the shade
more dense. These beds are watered
at least once a day with a fine spray until
the seeds have germinated, which takes
from ten to twenty days. When the
plants are about one inch high the sacks
are removed from the ‘“‘half-covers”’;
when two inches high, the “‘half-covers”
are taken off; and when about three
inches high, the plants are ready to “prick
out.” The “prick beds” are made in
the same way as the seed beds. The plants
are pricked or transplanted into these
beds with an awl or a one-tine fork (which
may seem paradoxical) by pushing the
roots down into the ground, in five-inch
rows across the bed, and one inch apart
in the row. Sometimes the largest plants
are set directly from the seed bed into the
field, but the transplanted plants can be
sorted and give a more even stand in the
row which.is an important consideration.
when blanching time comes.

Seedbed plants usually sell for fifty
cents a thousand, pricked plants from one
to three dollars a thousand.

About September roth, after the celery
beds are well under way, the lettuce is
planted (Big Boston). The beds are
prepared in the same way as above de-
scribed, but shading is seldom resorted to.
The seed germinates in about three days,
if well watered, and in three weeks the
plants are ready to set in the field.

Meanwhile the field has been plowed,
harrowed, fertilized (1 to 2 tons of ashes
and ten days later 2 to 3 tons of high
grade fertilizer) then harrowed again
and levelled and smoothed until it is like
the surface of a ballroom.

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Marca, 1911

Transplanting is done most efficiently by division of labor; one man drops the plants, another following
actually plants them

The lettuce is set in the field in 15-inch
checks and each plant watered. It takes
about thirty-two thousand to set an acre.
Plants are set out about October 1st, and
should be ready by November roth. Aver-
age yield 400 hampers.

After the lettuce is harvested the celery
plants are set in the field in 30-inch rows
and three to four inches in the row. ‘This
usually requires two hands to take the
plants out of the beds and sort them, two
to drop them on the row (which has been
marked with a roller having cleats at the
required distance) and one waterer. A
good setter can set 20,000 plants a day.
It takes 70,000 plants to set an acre. The
celery is cultivated frequently and several
applications of fertilizer are made along
the rows until time to blanch the celery.

Celery is blanched with cypress boards
— 12-inch boards 12 to 16 feet long. This
is the most costly outlay. It takes 30,000
feet of boards to blanch an acre or about
$400 worth. To economize boards we
set large and small plants in alternate
rows. By the time the large row is

—

Lettuce is grown as a “‘catchcrop’’ before celery
and usually pays its way

blanched (average time about fifteen days)
the small row is large enough.

The celery is cut, sorted, and packed in
crates in the rough (7. e. not washed) state.
Average yield about eight hundred crates.

As the celery and lettuce crop on the
same land come so close together that it
is hard to correctly separate the fertilizer
and labor accounts, I give a combined
statement for the two crops:

Seed... 5 4 2. 2 Getotpertacte
Hertlizers se eZOO)
Crates).s ow" Aen eis)
Labor. (nt. oe

$500 for the two crops
Average yield and returns in 1909-10:

Lettuce, 400 hampers at $1.75. . . . $ 7oo
Celery, 800 hampers at $1.25 . . . . 1,000
Total .. -.43 4.2 Oo
Less cost of production 32 ES OO
Net profit per acre PM GSI, Aer)

After the celery is harvested, some
spring crop follows, as tomatoes, cucum-
bers, eggplants or peppers. These some-
times prove quite profitable and they have
the advantage of being cheaper to raise.

[Ep1tors’ Notre.—In this connection, we publish
elsewhere in this month’s magazine a letter con-
cerning the Sanford situation. The writer of this
letter does not wish to have his name made public,
which may, to some extent, lessen its weight as
evidence. We publish it, however, just for what it
is worth. We do not desire to be considered as in
any way booming a special industry or any partic-
ular locality. Our desire is merely to lay before
the readers of THE GarDEN MAGAZINE what we
believe to be the facts as they come before us. One
man will succeed where another will fail. The
capacity of the individual and his quickness to
perceive and take advantage of peculiar conditions
give the greatest opportunities for success.]

Quick Results in a Renter’s Garden—By C. L. Meller, 33,

HOW THE TENANT, UNCERTAIN OF THE DURATION OF HIS OCCUPANCY OF A PLACE,
MAY DRAW ON ANNUALS TO CONVERT HIS BACK YARD INTO A GARDEN OF DELIGHT

[Ae an annual garden, if you are not

sure that you will occupy the same
rented place another summer. Say it is
a typical city back yard that is available,
and one divided into unequal parts by a walk
leading from the house to the back fence or
alley gate, you can handle it thus: Next to
the house, on the wider part, measure off a
square the full width from the walk to the
side fence. Divide this square into a central
round bed and four corner ones with the sides
facing the central bed. Sow the remainder
of that plot to grass and-lay out the narrow
side of the yard in rectangular beds.
Have just enough paths to bring the flowers
within easy reach.

Then commence spading, the hardest part
of all. Turn under as much manure as
may be available; and if none is to be had,
spade’ the ground all the more thoroughly.
Almost any soil will grow annuals, provided
it is sufficiently worked.

Hide the fences and shut out buildings
as much as possible, and for this morning-
glories are excellent. In fair soil they will
quickly grow as high as eight feet, and when
sown thickly afford an abundance of foliage.
With Tom Thumb nasturtiums at the base,
these are as effective an annual treatment
for a tight board fence as there is. ‘The wild
cucumber vine is hardly to be recommended;

it soon gets unkempt and yellow. Along a
picket fence sweet peas do fairly well.

The treatment of the geometric design
must be simple to be really effective. In the
central bed, plant cannas, edged with either
lobelia or sweet alyssum. Castor beans
may take the place of cannas for a bolder
effect. By far the most artistic way to treat
the corner beds is to sow the same variety
of flower in each. This provides not only
harmonious, massed color, but uniform
height, which should not run over two feet.
Petunias give white and crimson until frost;
nasturiums have fine yellow, salmon, and
red shades, but if already used as a border
it is just as well not to repeat; ageratum
is a good blue, and Drummond’s phlox is
a free bloomer with many tones. Aside
from annuals, geraniums are always good
bedders, though expensive as compared
with seeds. They may be used for the
triangular beds to fill the middle one instead
of cannas or castor beans.

As for the bit of lawn, this may be con-
verted from spaded ground into a sheet of
green almost within a month, though a good
lawn is really a matter of years. White
clover makes a fair lawn, germinates quickly
(especially if soaked for a few hours in luke-
warm water), and when carefully sown a
pound of seed will cover a considerable

space. I have achieved a tolerable sod with
a plentiful sowing of the sweepings from a
hay loft. A sod, however inferior, is quite
an addition to any garden, yet there are other
uses to which this plot of ground might be
put. Asters might be grown, for instance.
These sown thickly and thinned out properly
will yield a profusion of bloom from which
even a slight financial return may be derived.
I doubt if there is any town with ten thou-
sand inhabitants or more where such flowers
would not find a ready sale at ten cents a
dozen, and the number of dozen that one can
cut from a fair-sized bed is really astonish-
ing. I have in mind a woman who made
a neat little sum from an aster bed in a weed-
grown lot next the house she was renting.

The rectangular beds should be filled
with such flowers as fancy dictates. For
the best effect, put the lower-growing flowers
near the house. Have a bench, or make
some other provision, for whatever foliage
plants have been growing indoors. Along
the alley fence sow a row of sunflowers.
Grow the large double varieties that so
much resemble huge chrysanthemums.

This renter’s annual garden is feasible,
because it has been done, not once, but many
times, and worth while because the results
of all the work will be evident within the
year.

The chief effect here is from annuals. It is fortunate, indeed. if. as in this case, a few trees already have been planted on the place

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A Rose Garden That Gave Results— By Josiah D. Whitney,

New
Jersey

A REFUTATION OF ALL THE COMMON BUGABOO IDEAS ABOUT THE DIFFICULTY OF GROWING ROSES

AND GETTING FIRST-CLASS
THINK I was made into a rosarian
suddenly by reading in a garden book
some such prohibition as this: “The
first thing a novice always wants to grow
is roses, although it ought to be the last.”
The implied challenge is enough to make
a rosarian of anybody. Every garden
person knows that being a novice has
nothing to do with the case. That advice
should merely have read:

“Nobody ought to try to grow roses
who is not willing to show a little common
sense and a little devotion.’”’

My rose garden — which at the time
of this writing is a little more than a year
old — has upset so many of the popular
beliefs that I am encouraged to set down
a few of the facts about it.

Roses are generally regarded as being
expensive. We have 230 bushes in 30
of the finest varieties; and the cost, up
to date, has been $25.

Another belief is that roses require an
unheard-of amount of care. I have man-
aged ours singlehanded in odds and ends
of time. A few minutes a day, most of
the time, are all they need.

A third notion is that it is almost im-
possible to keep the foliage looking well.
Nothing is easier, if you keep the plants
themselves well.

We had also read that rose bushes, out of
flower, could never be an ornament to the
landscape, and that after the June festival
there would be no further returns till the
following year. Our plantings have been
beautiful and have borne flowers constantly
from May 15th till the first snow after
Thanksgiving.

There were other bugaboos, such as
the sucker peril with budded stock, but
they all failed to materialize.

For several days in the spring of 1909
my neighbors thought that I was crazy.
They saw me getting out before breakfast
on raw, cold mornings, clad in old clothes
and hip boots. The plants I was putting
in looked insignificant — being dormant,
leafless stock — and the people regarded
it as an act of folly that I cut the plants
down to the ground. Many came into
the yard and inquired: “Aren’t you put-
ting them too close together?” Others
said: ““Do you have to plant them so
deep?” and “‘Isn’t it too cold yet?”

I did not undertake to be at all positive,
never having raised a rose before, and only
knowing what I had read. However,
the following summer—three months
later — we had armfuls of flowers.

I waited one year before writing this
article, to see whether the performance
would be repeated. It was, many fold.

The rose garden came about originally
through the accidental opportunity to
buy some plants very cheaply. The lust

BLOOMS — FLOWERS ALL SUMMER AND

of possession, reinforced by an unusually
low market, overcame me, and soon I
had several hundred bushes. They were
mostly Dutch stock, budded on Manetti
roots. But some were American grown.

We have been able to give away twenty-
five or more plants to friends, and sell a
number in their second season to people
who wanted roses which they had seen in
bloom. The account stands at present
as follows:

Expended on plants $24.45
Labor ets St) aes 1.50
Manure PS sie Ca PR Sg 2.50
Sprayer. hie eee 2.00
Insecticides . yas Gon A ey, 2.00
Sey IKI 5 5 « o 525

$32.70

Deduct for those sold W/O

$25.00

There are 230 plants left, as follows:

Bush roses: 13 Frau Karl Druschki,
white; 5 Killarney, brilliant pink; 4 Hugh
Dickson, crimson shaded scarlet; 9 Kaiserin
Aug. Victoria, white to lemon; 14 Gruss an
Teplitz, fiery red; 3 Paul Neyron, deep
pink; ro Maman Cochet, pink; 5 Prince
Camille de Rohan, almost black; 7 Magna
Charta, bright pink; 1 Mme. Plantier,
white; 1 La France, pink; 9 American
Beauty, crimson, 5 Margaret Dickson,
white; 13 Mme. Caroline Testout, clear
pink; 5 Mme. Jules Grolez, red; 11 Ulrich
Brunner, crimson scarlet; 8 Mrs. John
Laing, soft pink; 7 Clio, flesh; 5 Duke of
Edinburgh, dark red; 3 Gen. Jacqueminot,
rich crimson; 1 Captain Christy, pink;

Clio, Flesh Colored (in the foreground) and Mag-
na Charta, a bright pink

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FALL AND AT LITTLE COST

1 Bride, white; 5 Perle des Blanches,
white; 4 Persian Yellow, yellow; 7 Soleil
d’Or, yellow and copper.

Standards: 4 Gruss an Teplitz, fiery red.

Climbers: 3 Gloire de Dijon, creamy sal-
mon; 2 Dorothy Perkins, pink; 3 Prairie
Queen, pink; 2 Hiawatha, scarlet; 1 Tau-
sendschoen, white to deep pink; 2 Lady
Gay, cherry pink.

Rugosas:-48 red or white, single.

Miscellaneous: 9 names uncertain.

I decided to grow primarily for “cut
flowers;” and so I had an Italian dig up
four long rectangular beds in the rear half
of the side yard. These beds were so
placed that the roses would have air and
light on all sides. There was no tree near
enough to dispute the soil and the sun
fell on them all day except in the late
afternoon. I had read Dean Hole’s de-
scription of a suitable place for roses, and
this seemed to fit it, save that my loca-
tion was somewhat windswept. I tried
to remedy this by planting a hedge of
rugosa roses and other shrubbery to the
north of it. The rugosas are so hardy
that they mind nothing. Some of them
were planted on December 15, 1908, when
they had to be inserted with the aid of a
pickaxe.

Early in February I had measured off
the beds and sprinkled sheep manure on
the snow where they were to be. As the
snow melted the richness sank in. The
ground was naturally rich; and when,
in March, Tony came round to dig the beds,
all that seemed to be needed was to lay
a little old cow manure in the bottom
of them.

Excepting some of the rugosas, all the
plants were put in between March 2oth and
April 4th. After struggling with the
‘first bush, the vision of 250 more to plant
was indeed appalling. The term ‘‘budded
low” is, in most cases with Dutch roses,
a misnomer. The roots are likely to be
long, and they call for a deep hole. Then
care has to be exercised not to get the
manure against the roots, and each plant
requires a half bucketful of water to settle
it. When the planting was finally com-
pleted, I spent several weeks with a bottle
of peroxide of hydrogen and needles re-
moving thorns from my hands.

The loss by death was less than 5 per
cent. Cutting the bushes back had the
effect of making them grow strongly, and
the stems stout, so that the bushes stood
up of their own accord, A third result
was that larger and fewer blossoms were
obtained. Within three months of that
first planting, we cut a Frau Karl Druschki
which measured five and one-half inches
in diameter.

We expected to have some flowers the
first year, but we were unprepared for the

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Marcu, 1911

Have a
bowl of kerosene in which to drop the bugs

Rose bugs are best picked off by hand.

Overpowering abundance that appeared.
The rugosas opened in the middle of May;
the hybrid perpetuals began about the
end of the first week in June; and the
hybrid teas followed close after. From
that time on until Thanksgiving there
was not a day on which we did not pick
roses.

When all else failed, such wonderful
performers as Gruss an Teplitz, Kaiserin
Augusta Victoria, and Mme. Testout
were still producing blossoms. It was
interesting to see the brilliant red of
Gruss an Teplitz against the first snow of
November.

The secret of having roses all summer con-
sists simply in having a liberal number of
the hybrid teas, and such of the hybrid per-
petuals as have an ever-blooming habit —
Frau Karl Druschki, Mrs. John Laing,
Ulrich Brunner, and so on. Probably the
most popular rose in existence is Kil-
larney. It makes a splendid garden rose,
and blooms beyond belief.

We began at the outset cutting our
blossoms heavily, and with as long stems
as possible. This assured us other crops
in succeeding months. Roses are things
of wonderful vitality. They love to be
stripped of their growth in order to show
how readily they can put out more: They
will send up shoots two feet high on a
fortnight’s notice.

When November came, we cut the long
shoots back to about two feet to keep the
wind from tearing the bushes out of the
ground; and that left plenty of margin
for the further pruning which most of
them received in the spring.

No insecticide or other spray was used
the first season save an occasional appli-
cation of tobacco water to discourage the
aphids. There seems to be no doubt that
the best preventive of pests and diseases
of all kinds is good health. Just as the
healthy human being repels germs, so the
healthy rose bush goes unscathed.

Our roses were planted in the open,

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GARDEN

where we could watch them on all sides.
We inspected them carefully from time to
time, and many a rose-bug did we lift
from them. But there was never what
could properly have been called a plague.

Roses grown in gardens can hardly be
expected to equal those produced under
glass. The latter, as a rule, have larger
leaves and longer stems, because the
strength has been concentrated into one
stalk; and they have more substantial
flowers, because the buds have had longer
to form and have been protected from the
softening blaze of the sun. But garden
roses too, can be made to develop large
fresh-looking leaves and substantial flowers,
if the right means are employed.

The deep planting referred to above
is one of these means. They must not
be too deep, for the roots have to breathe;
but, if they are eight or ten inches under
the surface and you keep the top soil
stirred through the dry season, they will
feel little thirst and the foliage will be a
thing of beauty and a joy throughout
the summer. Then by disbudding and
nursing your blooms along, you can pro-
duce big flowers on stems which would not
disgrace any florist.

Watering has not cut much of a figure
in our garden. We made up our minds
at the outset that the roses would have
to learn to get along without that help,
and they have done it. Frequently, to
be sure, I turn the hose on them, but more
to refresh the foliage and drive the aphids
away than to wet the ground. A cold,
driving spray from a hose does more to
discourage the insect army than any other
one thing. When the drought makes
watering imperative, I take the nozzle
off and apply the water in quantities
directly at the roots.

If the roses produce abundant foliage,
they make shade about their own roots,
and thus preserve the water supply.

The problem of protection for several
hundred bushes —if you are doing all

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the work yourself and have no money to
spend —is a serious one. We solved it
by not protecting the hardier varieties.

Mme. Testout, Kaiserin Augusta Vic-
toria, La France, the Bride, and Gloire
de Dijon were taken care of thoroughly.
First I heaped the earth up three or four
inches high about their stems. Then I
took the straw jackets of champagne
bottles (obtained by presenting twenty-
five cents’ worth of cigars to a barkeeper)
and slipped them over the tops, having
first tied the shoots together with raffia.
Then I put a coat of about six inches
of manure on the ground all around
them.

All the other bushes, and the four
standards, too, had no protection what-
ever, except earth heaped about the stems
and a few leaves dumped in among them
loosely.

Not a single bush died during the most
severe winter of some years; and all were
healthy and vigorous last summer.

One could go on and give descriptions of
each of the varieties enumerated above,
for each rose has its own personality, and
from comparing their varied merits, one
comes to take as much interest in them as
if he were dealing with human beings.
But I will spare the reader that, and only
say that all have proved good garden roses.
American Beauty is a parody on the
florist’s sort, but a fine rose nevertheless.
No one of the above named thirty varieties
has failed to give its share of pleasure.
If we had to limit ourselves to one single
white rose, we should probably choose
Frau Karl Druschki; although Margaret
Dickson, during its brief June stay, is a
marvel of stately beauty. For one red
rose, we should name Gruss an Teplitz,
for its rich, velvety color and its constancy,
although Ulrich Brunner is larger, and
Hugh Dickson is nobler than either. The
greatest pink rose is Killarney, or Mme.
Testout. I must confess that our affec-
tions are equally divided there.

An ideal site:

partial shade, but each part gets some sunshine every day

The garden seen from two opposite directions.

betes

When a background of trees arises behind the pergola, screening the houses beyond, the picture will be

completely framed and an air of seclusion given to the place

How a Pergola Redeemed a Back Yard—By Mrs. J. W. Dreyer,

Illi-

THE REVOLUTION WROUGHT IN SIX MONTHS AND AN EXPENDITURE OF A SMALL AMOUNT OF
MONEY—A PERMANENT PICTURE AND A DISPLAY OF FLOWERS ALL THROUGH THE SUMMER

S& months before these pictures were

made, our back yard was a tangle of
quack-grass and weeds,and there was a
ditch through it which was full of débris.

The whole lot is 66x 265 ft., and faces
northeast. One of the first improve-
ments we made was the building of a
pergola, which we had ourselves planned
according to our own ideas.

It is 12x36 ft. In building it two
points of originality were attained — it
has a cement floor eighteen inches above
the grade of the lawn, and the central
third is provided with a roof which shades
some portion all day.

We first built a wall eighteen inches
thick and three feet high, half of its height
being under ground, and the space inside
the wall being filled with cinders. On
top of this the cement floor is laid in blocks
like a sidewalk. It is four inches thick
and projects one inch over the wall. This
floor is approached by three broad steps,
twelve feet long. At each end of the steps
is a buttress on which stands a fluted
pillar, supporting the portico of the covered
portion of the pergola. A carpenter erected
the superstructure and furnished. the
materials for $150. The cement work
for both pergola and garden walk was done
for $207.

We planted Spirea Van Houttei around
the base of the pergola, in front of. that
salvia, and started a vine at each pillar.
We selected Dutchman’s pipe, matrimony
vine, Clematis paniculata, trumpet vine
and wistaria. We bought large plants
at the nursery, but while all lived, none
did any climbing except the wistaria.

To make the garden more secluded, we
planted tall-growing shrubs next the fence.
They were from three to six feet high and
cost 25 cents each. Certainly they have
great fortitude. Last summer’s drouth in
Northern Illinois was very severe, but
less than a dozen out of the two hundred

planted succumbed. There are about fif-
teen of a kind, and they are planted in
irregular groups. The tallest ones are
sumac that we brought from the roadside.
These improve wonderfully under culti-
vation and make a lovely touch of color
in the fall. We have also white lilac,
Japanese quince, cut-leaf elder, two kinds
of mock orange, Persian lilac, golden elder,
ninebark, golden bells, cut-leaf sumac, yel-
low dogwood, privet, wayfaring tree,
high-bush cranberry, Tartarian honey-
suckle, red dogwood, Van Houtte’s spirea,
tamarix.

In front of these are some low-grow-
ing bushes — hydrangeas, syringa, althea,
deutzia, locust, flowering almond, snow-
berry and Judas tree.

The remaining space up to the walk is
to be filled in eventually with perennials,
and we made a very good start with these
last year. We have a good three-sash cold-
frame back of the garage in which we raise
the perennials. Just for curiosity we
counted the Shasta daisy and pyrethrum
plants; at fifteen cents each they would
have cost.us $27. We raised them all
from three packets of seeds.

The perennials are planted in the garden
according to height, in large groups, and
straight lines are avoided. The shrubs
are not yet tall enough, so we planted the
whole length of the fence, behind the cold-
frame, with single and double hollyhocks
in mixed colors.

We have several large patches of sweet
William, and dozens of pink and white
pyrethrums and Shasta daisies. A long
strip of nasturtiums is filled in with tulips
after frost, and with gaillardia in the
spring. Bordering this is a fine collection
of aquilegia of many colors, which blooms
very early. The foliage is almost as pretty
as maidenhair fern. It is easy of culture
and every seed germinates apparently.

In the right-hand lower corner, white

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lilacs form the background, golden spirea
is before it and then about a hundred lark-
spurs. We raised them from seed; they
bloom continuously and are free from dis-
ease. In front of them are several groups
of Chinese larkspur and platycodons.

Between this corner and the pergola
are two groups of achillea and Oriental
poppies. Back of the pergola are fourteen
crimson ramblers climbing on the fence.
Next to these are Viburnum lantana and
high-bush cranberry, as a background for
several hundred perennial phlox, made
by division.

In front of the pergola the space be-
tween it and the walk is filled with pink
and white peonies, and there are a dozen
speciosum lilies in each corner next the
steps.

For a yellow effect we planted cut-leaf
elder as the background, then canary-
colored hollyhocks, golden glow, Heliopsis
Pitcheriana, coreopsis, and double butter-
cups.

In the rose-corner, Clothilde Soupert
is usually the first to come and the last
to go. Last season forty buds were frost-
nipped. Magna Charta, Paul Neyron
and the Cochets also did very well. Most
of the roses were started from cuttings.

In addition we have five thousand
crocuses naturalized in the lawn between
the walks, and narcissi, tulips, daffodils,
Spanish irises, hyacinths, Laliwm speciosum,
var. rubrum, longiflorum and superbum

‘among the perennials and shrubs.

The garden offscape yet needs screening.
As a background to the pergola will be
mountain ash and lombardy poplars and
both east and west borders will have other
trees to hide out unpleasing sights —
maples and Avalia spinosa. Yet our gar-
den is a relief among its neighbors, and
impells me to ask: If I can do these
things so easily and so quickly, why are
other back yards such eyesores? Why?

Plant Now for Fall Flowers — By Emily Rhodes,"

WHAT THE HARDY CHRYSANTHEMUMS WILL DO IN THE ONE SEASON—MAKE A START
! THIS SPRING, AND HAVE FLOWERS IN THE LATE FALL DAYS EVERY YEAR AFTER

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HEN in the
fall I look
around my garden
and see the masses
of flowers — white,
pink, yellow and rich
red-browns in a
hundred gradations
of tone—I am filled
with amazement at
the easiness of it all.
I feel sorry, too,
that so many other
gardens around are
not so well dressed,
their floral wealth
having utterly van-
ished with the first
real touch of frost.
The old-fashioned
little button-
flowered hardy
chrysanthemums of
long ago have been
outclassed in use-
fulness by some of
the newer kinds
which are richer in
their bloom. The
hardiness was the
one great attraction of those old favorites;
to-day we have the same hardiness with
added beauty. Even a chosen few of the
real large-flowered chrysanthemums of the
florist will flourish in the hardy border if
given average good conditions.

a Pet —

Aiglon d’Or, a golden yellow, is a larger flowered
variety worth having

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A border with haray chrysanthemums, in which there is a riot of beautiful colors every fall

I have seen these flowers in my own
garden that measured between two and
three inches in diameter, and have picked
many dozens from one plant. If I had
cut off some of the flower buds, I could
have increased the size of the remaining
blooms, for by growing only a few blooms
to a plant, I have seen those chrysanthe-
mums measure four inches in diameter.

Last fall I had over 1300 of these plants
in bloom from the beginning of September
until the snow came. The first to bloom
was Autumn Queen, deep pink. It is best
to plant this alone as a hedge or in front of
shrubbery, for it spreads so fast that it will
kill any other chrysanthemums that are
near it. About ten days later the others
begin to bloom. Among the newer ones most
worthy of cultivation are Mme. Marthe,
Prince Victor, Boston, King Henry, Julia
Lagravere, Aiglon d’Or, Golden Pheasant
and many others too numerous to name.

The only requirement for these flowers
to bloom each fall is to plant them once
in the spring —any time in April or
May —in good rich soil. You do not even
have to cover them in winter to protect
them. And they increase easily of them-
selves, or cuttings taken in spring can be
planted in specially prepared soil and will
surely root. I now have in my garden
1,000 plants; yet I bought, in these last
six years, only about 200 plants! Many
of them were grown from cuttings but
more by dividing the roots. Up to July
tst each year, the plants grow tall and I
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four inches. This
induces the develop-
ment of side bran-
ches. The pieces cut
off I plant either in
a box of earth or
in the garden in
rows, where they are
watered daily, and
are sheltered from
the sun until they
are well rooted. If
showy plants are
wanted, plant large
clumps in the fall.
I strongly advise fall
planting of clumps;
when it is possible to
doit. These clumps
can be divided the
following spring.

In one of the bor-
ders of my garden
the fall effect of these
hardy chrysanthe-
mums is most beau-
tiful. Daffodils come
with March and
April; the tufted
violas bloom all
summer. Then come the irises — a row
just inside of the violas. Tall, light-blue
larkspur, lilies of all kinds, perennial phlox
and monk’s hood carry on the succession
till in the fall come the chrysanthemums.
Every three feet have I planted them. [am
never without some bloom in that border.

Autumn Queen, a deep pink, is the first to bloom

The Right Way to Plan Walks, Lawns and Beds—By W. S. Rogers

MAKING A PROPER BALANCE BETWEEN THE THREE MAIN FACTORS OF THE GARDEN PLAN SO AS TO
SECURE THE BEST EFFECTS IN SMALL GARDENS AND GIVE A SENSE OF AS MUCH SPACE AS POSSIBLE

N THE evolution of the garden design
the beds (in which term I include
borders) should receive first consideration.
They may well occupy more space than
is usually allowed them. The narrow
strips of border, so often seen skirting the
fences of suburban gardens, are practically
useless for flower culture. A width of
6 feet is not too much for the principal
border, and it should be, if possible, in
full sun. If the main path defines its
near boundary, another border parallel
to it may be made on the other side of
the path, but narrower, say 4 feet wide.
This disparity in width is designed to
secure variety, and to eliminate one-
sidedness. Two such borders, the wide
one planted with shrubs and herbaceous
plants, the narrow one with surface-
growing flowers, become complementary,
and offer opportunity for many charming
effects, and for the creation of a fine vista.
The narrow border would on one side abut
on the grass plot, and short transverse
extensions of it might be carried into the
grass area to break its inner line and to
extend the flower space laterally. Such
off-shoots from a long border become
partial screens, helping to secure that
quality which I have already referred to as
“reticence”? (See THE GARDEN MAGAZINE,
Nov. 1910, p. 174).

It is by no means necessary that every
border should be served by a path. On
the contrary, variety of effect is assisted
by introducing a border between the grass
and the boundary fence, say on the side
of the garden opposite to the main walk.
These points I shall further elucidate
when I come to consider special examples.
The main point to emphasize is that the
borders, in which the gardener aims at
securing his principal flower display, be
in full sun, and served by the principal
path. These borders must be the domi-
nating factor in the design, for they con-
stitute the “garden” in the truest sense
of the word. The path is for utility, the
grass for repose, and both must be subor-
dinate to the beds and borders.

Just how the further elaboration of
the scheme is contrived will depend upon
circumstances and the fancy of the garden-
maker. If the garden is of considerable
length it may be advisable to divert the
path before it has traversed the full extent
of the plot. How this may be done with-
out sacrificing the welfare of the flowers,
and with best results to the garden picture,
we will discuss later. The introduction
of detached beds also is a matter in which
the taste of the designer is the only guide.
One expedient is to allow the path to
expand into a square at some points of
its length, and to install a square bed in
its centre. This is a very convenient

device when it is required to effect a slight
deviation in the path without altering
its direction, as the path may enter the
square at one corner, and
leave it by the diagonally
opposite corner.

Beds in grass, when set
near its boundary, should
be allowed a verge of at
least eighteen inches, to
avoid difficulties in mow-
ing.

The use of circles and
parts of circles, as well as
of figures in which the
angles are equal and not
less than a right-angle —
the hexagon, for example
— is not opposed to the
rectilinear system of treatment. They be-
come mere details, in no special way related
to the leading lines of the garden plan.

Though the principal borders should
usurp the best position in the garden,
there is no reason why the gardener should
not make a border in the shade, where he
may grow such plants as thrive best under
that condition. The foot of a south
boundary fence is well suited for a shady
border, because it is warm as well as shady.
Ferns, lily-of-the-valley, and Solomon’s-
seal would thrive in such a border.

When the house does not stand squarely
within its boundaries, or when the garden
boundaries are straight but not rectangular,
the problem requires some special con-
sideration; but usually means may be
devised to bring the garden details into
harmony. E

Besides this, paths have a utility value
in linking together the other elements of
the garden. Moreover, it is an objective
invitation to walk through the garden and
enjoy its beauties. A garden without a
path would hardly satisfy the eye. On the
other hand, nothing is so wasteful of space,
or So irritating to the eye, as a multitude of
paths cutting up the garden into small
compartments and destroying the breadth
of the picture.

There should be two principal points
in every path, the beginning and the end.
Paths which start nowhere and end at
a blank wall suggest purposelessness. It
may be taken as an axiom that the prin-
cipal path should commence at some
point conveniently near, and preferably
facing, the door by which the house in-
mates enter their garden. Its direction
should be through the flowers, and it
should have a natural destination. The
best terminal to a garden path in my
opinion is the summer-house, and when
that feature is non-existent an arbor, or
some other erection, should serve the pur-
pose. Failing that, the path might ter-

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Method of
diverting
astraight
walk

minate in a square expansion, in which
a seat, sundial, or other appropriate object
might be placed. It would be better to
end it at a bicycle or motor house, or even
at a pretty shed, than to allow it to stop
suddenly nowhere. ‘

Diagonal paths are not permissible in
a small garden. All deviations in direction
should be made at right-angles.

The value of a path is mainly in propor-
tion to its utility. After rain or heavy
dew the garden would be uninviting with-
out a path. It also preserves the turf
from traffic which would soon wear it
to bareness. This sums up the path’s
usefulness. I have seen it laid down that
the smaller the garden the more the need
for the “winding path,” to add to the
“apparent length of the garden.” I
cannot conceive that any such result
could follow in a garden the boundaries
of which are visible on every side. The
winding path in a small plot serves only
to cut up the space into irregularly shaped
areas, hard to deal with successfully,
whilst the additional amount of gravel
surface is so much deducted from what
might be made productive ground. I do
not favor a less width than 3 feet for a
principal path under any circumstances.

In larger gardens greater width may be
permitted, as there is a certain distinction

Provide some

“‘excuse’’ for turning and expanding
a walk

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am

On acurve expansions may accommodate a sundial
or seat

and dignity in a broad walk when all
else is in proportion. In a half-acre plot
a width of 5 feet might be desirable.

Red gravel, burnt ballast, bricks, and
tiles are warm in tone, contrasting well
with the grass and harmonizing with the
flowers and their foliage. Granite chips,
cinders, tarred gravel, shell gravel, and
cement are cold and uninviting, and should
only be used when other materials are
unobtainable.

Red gravel (of the right kind which
binds well), bricks, tiles, tarred gravel,
and cement make paths with a close, hard
surface. Burnt ballast, stone chips,
cinders, and shell gravel never bind
thoroughly, and therefore make paths
with a loose surface, which, apart from the
unpleasant feel underfoot, implies that
much loose material will adhere to the
boots and be carried upon the grass,
with disastrous results to the knives of
the mower.

Though paths, as a rule, should be made
of equal width throughout, it is sometimes
advisable when they are of any great
length, and particularly if straight, to
introduce at some suitable point an ex-
pansion in width to break the line.

This should be done in one of the ways
indicated in the illustration. These ex-
pansions may be utilized to accommodate
garden seats, sundials, vases or tubs,
trees or beds, so as not to appear quite
purposeless.

Expansions of the kind indicated are
well placed where a secondary path breaks
off from the principal one, or at a terminal.
In winding paths they would take a form
more in harmony with the lines of the
path.

Although the rectilinear system, as
adapted to small gardens, demands that
path off-shoots should be made to leave
the path at right-angles, the rule does
not apply to curved paths, in which all
by-paths must leave the main path at a
more or less acute angle, the curves of

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both being laid down to form a pleasing
combination of lines.

The use of curved paths, though inad-
missible in small plots, is desirable in plots
of larger size.

Curves should be set out in good bold
sweeps. Grace of line is only to be ob-
tained by a practised eye guided by an
intuitive sense of what is pleasing, so that
the best achievements in this direction
are usually the result of skill, knowledge,
and artistic instinct. A hint may be
given as to what should be avoided. Thus
the curve B in the illustration is better
than A.

Mawson says of garden walks: “They
should be arranged in such a way that the
beauties of the place may be exhibited,
not by a series of wriggles, . . . but
in a simple straightforward manner.”

As a rule, these curves are best not
modelled on a geometrical basis, 7. ¢.,
one in which parts of circles do duty as
their components. Rely on freehand in
the draft, rather than on compasses.

In laying down such a curved path the
novice is too apt to overlook the space
to right and left. He should ever bear in

The junction of two walks affords a place for an
expansion

es
a

In laying curves a freehand sweep will be better
than where parts of circles are used

mind that his walks subdivide the garden
space, and on the course they take will
depend the shape of the areas they bound
or enclose. Thus in the case of a path
skirting the garden boundary the amount
and shape of the space between it and the
boundary fence must be considered. For
instance, it would be bad practise to
leave a strip too wide for a border, but
too narrow to carry a border with grass
in front of it.

In small gardens it is best to confine the
grass to a single area, though circumstances
may arise to make it desirable to depart
from this rule. In such event the second
grass space should be subordinate to the
principal one, and if possible reserved for
a separate purpose.

In small gardens the idea of a “lawn”
for games is rarely realizable for want of
space, and the grass plot, therefore, is
treated with other purposes in view. Its
functions are more closely related to the

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flowers and general picture. It affords
welcome relief to the eye, and by contrast
enhances the value of the color effect
obtainable with the flowers.

The grass plot should never be isolated
by surrounding it on all sides with gravel,
and beware of fretting your principal grass
plot into a thing of ragged outline and do
not pierce it with a multitude of little beds.
Remember also that the simpler in shape,
the less difficulty you will experience in
mowing it and keeping it trim and neat.

Beds in grass are best grouped at one
or two points, and the components of the
group should be shaped so as to produce
unity of effect. Compare the two ex-
amples illustrated below.

It is generally better that the outlines
of the group should preserve a parallelism
with those of the grass plot, as this ensures
a more harmonious effect.

The principal shadows should fall upon
the grass, where they will be welcome as
shade, and will not preclude the growth
of good turf. Small detached grass spaces,
if unavoidable, may be made interesting
by planting them with bulbs, for effects
in spring and early summer. Or utilize
the space for a sunk rock garden, or make
a central group of beds upon it, which in
the case of a square space becomes an
attractive secondary focus.

Give proper access to all grass spaces.
This implies that the borders should not
bar the way which appears to be the most
natural one of reaching the grass. Neglect
of this consideration may tempt those
who use the garden to skip over the borders.
It is well to provide means of access to
the grass at all points from which it is
likely to be approached, by bringing it
up to the path at those points. This is
done by curtailing the border some three
or four feet at its end, or by breaking
through it at some point in its length.

In dealing with grass spaces of irregu-
lar outline, such as would occur where
the paths are winding, the placing of the
beds should take into account the out-
line of the grass space. For instance, a
square group of beds set in a curved
promontory would produce a discordant
note. Better to adapt the shape of group
to the space in which it is set.

There is no need: to make the grass Jevel
if the ground has a natural slope. On
the contrary, sloping ground greatly assists
drainage.

Note the disturbing effect of scattering the units
of a group of formal beds. The upper plan is better

Making Cosmos Bloom Early —By U. R. Perrine, ses

Be year I “‘specialize’’ on some one

thing in my garden—that is one
of my hobbies. Last summer, in following
out this idea, my garden was ablaze with
cosmos. As early flowering is sought
by all who grow this flower my experience
may be of some help to others.

I sowed the seed the first week in March
and as [ had a very hot hotbed some of
the plants started to run up. About the
first of April I cut the tops off the tallest
ones and set them in the same bed. In an
incredibly short time these slips were
finely rooted, and the third day of June
I picked my first blossom from one of these
slip plants.

Another way to have early-blooming
cosmos is to move the plants into 6-inch
pots about June ist or earlier, let them
become pot-bound and set them out in
the open in July. Put the plants not less
than eighteen inches apart in rows, or else
mass them.

The tops of the plants should be pinched
out at an early age —say, when about a
foot high — and again in the fall. This in-
duces a bushy growth. By very careful

disbudding of all but one bud on a branch
larger and earlier flowers may result.

I had thought the cosmos immune from
insect pests but the dahlia bug infested
my field. Cosmos should be planted on
rich, moist land and mulched heavily —
buckwheat hulls are ideal for this purpose.

Lady Lenox is undoubtedly the finest
cosmos but I secured a break in the type,
a variety having beautifully fimbriated
petals and extra large blooms. Pink
Butterfly is the next best pink. And
Early Dawn is worthy of a place in every
collection.

Among the white kinds the varieties
most pleasing to me were White Pond Lily
and Marguerite; also Titania,a semi-double.

The Giant Crimson Saucer is easily
the best of the crimson kinds. It is per-
haps really one of the California Giants,
superb in foliage and bloom.

Among the early-blooming mixtures the
Woodside Early cosmos takes first place.
Early Dwarfs are little gems and the
Dwarf White Prolific bloomed contin-
uously through five months.

The only yellow variety of my acquaint-

ance is Klondyke, and it is very slow to
bloom.

In new shades I secured these kinds:
A very delicate pink at the edge of petals
changing to white in the centre; the
reverse — pink centre fading to white
border; pink, except a touch of bright
crimson at base of petals; white, flaked
with pink; crimson, semi-double; white,
semi-double; dark maroon-crimson. There
was a notable absence of the washy
colors which first characterized the genus.

In a commercial way flowers should be
picked when the bud is first opening and
placed in a vase of water till wanted for
shipment. Only one flower should be
allowed to each stem, which should be
stripped of the foliage for at least two-
thirds its length, the stems being cut two
feet long, or over. Use pruning shears to
cut with, and gloves should be used to
strip the leaves as the juices stain deeply.
When placed in water as the bud is open-
ing the petals continue to grow. I have
kept bouquets for fully two weeks in a
cool place, and the flowers looked as fresh
at the end of that time as when first picked.

As a cut flower the cosmos is particularly satisfactory; it lasts a long time in water and the petals continue to grow if the young flowers are gathered.
Lady Lenox, a beautiful shade of pink, the finest modern variety, is shown here
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(Epitor’s Note.—We want to know how suc-
cessful workers do things in order to put actual
experiences before our thousands of readers im all
parts of the country. . Every reader is invited to con-
tribute a short note on some interesting experience.
Just state the facts about some ingenious idea that you
have actually worked out yourself or have seen.)

It is not generally realized that the
common blue violet (Viola palmata) is
worth growing for its foliage. Under
cultivation the leaves, after the blooming
period, attain to a luxurious growth.
Not infrequently the dense foliage is ten
inches in height. Used in clumps, as
an edging or for carpeting, this violet is
very effective during the summer. While
it is best for the out-of-the-way places
on the home grounds, it may be used
anywhere that a “something-for-nothing”’
result is sought.— H. S. A.

To take away the bare look of newly
set shrubbery borders, try setting English
daisies, forget-me-nots, and pansies between
the shrubs, taking pains to have them
placed neatly about midway between
bushes, and to have the various kinds
scattered evenly all through to give a
homogeneous appearance. Carelessly
“scattered” plants will only give a ragged
effect, as I found last spring to my sorrow.
Sow sweet alyssum liberally in a line
about a foot from the edge of the bed,
and keep cutting it back ruthlessly for
the first few weeks until the plants are
very bushy. Then leave it to take its
own sweet will, and you will have a bank
of snow until winter sets in in earnest.
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I have a brick-walled hotbed about
a dozen feet in length in which [I start
early annuals. In one end, among other
things, are some early tomato plants.
At transplanting I usually leave a few of
these plants and let them bear through
the summer, taking them and other things

_ out in the early fall to make room for my
late lettuce. Last fall they were full of

green and ripe tomatoes, so I left two or
three plants, and put on the glass. The
plants continued to grow, and I had fresh,
ripe tomatoes up to the middle of Decem-
ber. In the other part of the bed I have
fine heads of lettuce. These usually keep
all right until January 1st. This year,
I am planning to start my tomatoes a
little later, expecting better fall results.
I grow Chalk’s Early Jewel.— J. L. M. W.

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Last year we had a plague of grasshop-
pers here in Nebraska, that swept every-
thing before them. Our garden suffered
most. Common salsify, scolymus, okra,
cardoon, a variety of sweet pumpkin and
artichokes were the only vegetables that
stood the test. Mignonette, four o’clock
and larkspur also lived right through the
plague. — B. E. N.

My home is nearly as far north as Al-
bany, N. Y., but my Christmas rose plant
has survived several hard frosts without
being covered. The flowers have not
been harmed when chrysanthemums stand-
ing next were turned black. This plant
has grown in the same place for ten years,
not having been transplanted in that
time, and the only care it gets is the spring
mulching with fertilizer that is put on the
whole garden. The flowers of the Christ-
mas rose are white and waxy and resemble
an anemone. They can be found bloom-
ing under the snow.— K. R. V. A.

There has been much extravagant praise
showered upon Lilium Henryi which,
according to my experience, is not alto-
gether deserved. I have found Hanson’s
lily or Lilium maculatum a much better
subject. A picture printed in THE Gar-
DEN MAGAZINE some time ago showed
a beautiful specimen of Lilium Henryi —
many flowered and evidently of good
height. I have tried bulbs from three
different sources but none of them justifies
its description. I have also seen this
lily as grown by some of the park gardeners
in Chicago in the hardy borders and it
is far from being “majestic.” It would
correspond to the description of “yellow
speciosum” if it were yellow. Mine was
not yellow. Neither were those I saw
in the park borders. They were tawny
or dull orange in color, with fine spots
in the centre of the flower that gave a
rather dirty effect. It grows on the bias
as do the speciosums, but in my lilies this
characteristic was so pronounced as to
make them rather awkward. The bulbs
I secured were sound, firm and of fair
size. The first year I decided that the
lily had not sufficient time to establish
itself, but when the second and third
seasons it showed no increase in the vigor
of its stems but continued to lop over,
it struck me that perhaps there were
variations in this lily and that inferior
types were being sold. The first year I
had two blooms. The third five. The
bulb had one offset in this time. It was
planted in a cool corner in soil consisting
of leaf mold, well-rotted manure and
silver sand. In this situation Hanson’s
lily grew finely, multiplied rapidly (for a
lily) and gave fine clusters of its thick
waxy flowers, much the same in color as
Henryi. At one dollar a bulb, Lilium
Henryi strikes me as an extravagance.
As Lilium auratum, Hansoni, and superb-
um lad done excellently as near neigh-
bors to Henryi, I suspect the lily itself
rather than the culture I gave it. —C. J.

Last year I saw at Fonthill, an estate
in Virginia, white Madonna lilies which
were planted about eighty years ago and
still bloom every year. The estate is an
old one and is filled with many beautiful
things, but in my opinion the most strik-
ing feature is a long double holly hedge
which rises in a dense mass from the
ground to a height of nearly fifty feet.
This hedge is never pruned and _ bears
an immense load of brilliant berries every
Wear. —— ba Ose de

The most important tool in my garden
basket is a large pair of long-bladed scis-
sors. If one is a keen gardener, one can
never pass by the beds and borders with-
out seeing something that needs attention,
and that immediately, and down one
goes, and hands are ruined even though
the plant is saved. For gloves are not
always by. But with the scissors one
becomes so dexterous that a weed is
wrenched out neatly with a turn of the
wrist, seed pods are snipped off, or speedy
death is given to worm or beetle. —
F. E. Mcl.

Two years ago I secured a few plants
of the double arabis to use in late tulip
plantings. Previously I had been using
the single arabis. The double form proved
so much more floriferous and better in
every way that I pulled up the single form
and propagated enough of the double
by cuttings to cover the bed. The cut-
tings strike readily in July and make good
plants by fall. This arabis resembles
a miniature ten weeks’ stock and blooms
sparingly all summer after its main season
in the spring which extends over a month.
I found it an easy matter to secure as big
a stock of the plants as was necessary by
taking the new shoots, planting them in
flats and setting them in a coldframe until
[ney inororwKeGl, VS), Ie ID),

The double arabis resembles a miniature ten-
weeks’ stock and is excellent for planting with
late tulips

Children’s Gardens

ARCH is an excellent month in
which to prepare for the outdoor
garden work. People usually begin to
think about the real outdoor gardens in
May. It is then too late to start one’s
thinking. May is a month of outdoor
action. So one must have done all pre-
paratory thinking before that time.

There are many questions which you
will wish to ask concerning this work.
We have not space in the magazine to
take up point by point all the phases.
So if you wish to get advice and help
on your special problems write now
to the ‘Children’s Gardens’ Correspon-
dence Bureau.”’

As you read a little of the following
story about the Trinity Garden, questions
will come to your mind. This story
of a first year’s garden struggle is printed
both to encourage others in the starting of
a garden for children and to serve as a
basis of estimate.

There are certain things that are nec-
essary in all community gardens. First
the garden area should be fenced in.
Thus temptation is put out of the way.
Fences of fine meshed chicken wire five
feet in height are excellent. If the chosen
spot has been a dump heap for years you
cannot expect the children to do all the
cleaning of the grounds. Ploughing and

In Melrose, Mass. city water is used in this way
for watering school gardens

HOW A CHILD CAN PLAN AND MAKE
SEED ESTIMATES FOR HIS GARDEN.—
PROBLEM OF STARTING AND MAINTAIN-
ING CHILDREN’S GARDENS—A NEW FEA-
TURE: THE CHILDREN’S GARDENS’ COR-
RESPONDENCE BUREAU

Conducted by
ELLEN EDDY SHAW
New York

harrowing are also men’s work. The
main and side garden paths should be
carefully defined before the children start
work. Be sure to buy good tools. Make
an estimate of the amount of seed required.

The water supply for the garden is one of
the matters to have settled before you go
ahead with work. Two of the pictures
shown here give different methods of
supplying water. Water pipes were laid
in the Trinity Garden and taps placed here
and there. The other method was used
in the Women’s Club Children’s Garden
in Melrose, Mass. Permission was given by
the city to use the water pipe shown in the
picture. A garden in New Rochelle, N. Y.
under the auspices of the National Plant,
Flower and Fruit Guild, had permission
from the city to take water from one of
the city hydrants and from this fill large
casks which were placed within the
garden. The children filled their watering
cans from these casks. Certainly the
water problem is a very necessary one to
solve. Besides all these matters, plan for
good summer supervision. Ask us the
questions you wish concerning the start
and maintenance of a community garden.

Next month we shall take up home
gardens. The methods presented will be
those used in different places where the
work has been carried on with success. This
work is a most important one. City and
village improvement is really based on the
civic pride of individuals. Home gardens
stimulate civic pride.

The Trinity Garden School

“pee following account is taken from a

report that was a requirement of our
children’s garden contest In roto. Dr.
M. Louise Greene, who wrote it was the
director of the Trinity Garden located in
Morris Cove, New Haven, Conn. This
garden is an outgrowth of the work of
the Trinity Parish Vacation Cottage. It
is first year work done under certain
difficulties. It should stimulate others
to start similar work.

Dr. Greene says: “ The original condi-
tion of this land was a rough, weedy, rank
grass land, where twitch grass, briars, rag-
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woven wire fence costing $69 replaced the
3-foot border that up to 1909 surrounded
the field with an impassable barrier of road-
side vines, weeds and small shrubs — even
seedling locusts and a few small trees.
Gates cost $25. A privet hedge costing
$50 was set on the north and south lines.

The plowing and land preparation cost
$15 and $45, with the fertilizer costing
$9 extra.

Water was installed by a hydrant in
both the southeast and northwest corners
of the lot, at a cost of $118. This location
of hydrants, together with some 175 feet of
hose, made it possible to reach all but
about 4o feet of both the cottage garden
and the garden school area. The watering
of the whole garden, in any adequate
degree, required nearly four hours, and it
suffered from lack of assistance in this
matter. The pressure of water was too
great to allow much use of the hose by
children except when under individual
and constant supervision. Tubs were at
each hydrant for the filling of water cans
and for the washing of vegetables. The
children were required to put twelve
6-quart watering cans upon each 8 x 16 it.
garden and upon the smaller ones, pro-
portionately.

In this garden the children fill their watering
cans from large casks

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The plots were 8x16 ft. for seniors —
that is, children over 11 years old. Those
for juniors being 8 x 8 ft. or less.

The cement summer house cost approx-
imately $220. It was eighteen feet square
inside and was furnished with some Sunday
school benches, two kindergarten tables,
a camp stool, movable blackboard and a
portable closet. In it were kept trowels,
weeders, improvised garden lines, some
material for nature study and the small
necessities of the garden, while the larger
tools were kept in a rack in the basement
of the Vacation Cottage.

Flowers were, for the most part, selected
for the character of the soil and for decora-
tive effect in the late summer and fall,
since the garden was to “‘speak for itself”
to many who passed and to many to whom
the term “school garden” meant little
or nothing.

About $30 was spent for flower seeds, and
plants for decorative effect. Government
seeds were also used. Tools supplied
were, to each child, a hoe, rake and garden
line. Half-moon hoes, with 4-inch and
5-inch blades were used, and an 11-inch,
to-toothed rake. Fifty dollars was allowed
for tools, watering cans, barrows, etc.

The mothers help in cultivating the
observation crops. Mother’s Day was
every Wednesday from 11 A.M. to 8 P. M.
at the cottage. They brought the young
children, and frequently some of the older
boys and girls came with them. The
Director made them as much sharers in
the Garden School as possible, furnishing
extra seed for their home gardens, as well
as seedlings and slips, and gave as gen-
erously as possible to them and to the little
children the flowers as they opened.”

Plan Making

HIS is the time to sit down at a table
and work out the garden plan.
Choose a warm day when the snow has
melted and then get the measurements of
your garden.

A plan is worth having because it
clears up all your hazy thoughts on your
garden to be.. Then, too, it is a real guide
when you go outdoors to work.

See the picture of a child’s individual gar-
den plan. The scale is not only marked
out but all the different things which are to
be planted. The places for the tomatoes
could be marked off by circles in the area
shown on the plan. The drills for the
planting of small seed are shown by lines.
Show drills on a plan by lines or dotted
lines, hills by means of rings or crosses.

Choose easy scales to work with. That
is, let one foot be represented on the plan
by an inch, half, quarter or eighth inch.
Suppose your garden to be 80 feet long. If
one inch equals one foot, then the drawing
must have a line of 80 inches for the 80
foot line. This or the half-inch is good to
use for a large drawing to go up in your
school room. But for the individual
plan use a much smaller scale.

Make plans on stiff paper, drawing paper
or tag board. Use Indiaink. Place the

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plan in the centre of the piece of paper.
To find the centre of a sheet of paper
draw diagonals with a pencil, very lightly.

Figure out from the garden plan the
exact amount of seed necessary for the
planting. Suppose there is to be a row
of lettuce 50 feet in length. How much
lettuce seed does it take to plant 50 feet
of drill? Consult this table and so make
your estimates.

SEED FOR 100 FT.OF DRILL SEED FOR 100 HILLS

Beans (bush) . r1qt. Beans (pole) 1 pt.
Beets 5 > BOxs Coral . Y-W pt.
Carrot . . . 2£0z. Melon, musk 1-2 oz.
Kohlrabi . \% oz. Melon, water 4 oz.
Lettuce Yoz. Pumpkin. . % lb.
Onion . 4 Ozaaoquashy 4.02,
Reasieuenar sb ose pus

IRAGIS 5 4 a Gy,

Turnip VY o7.

Things to be Attended to

THe following are suggestions for both
individuals and schools:

1. Sow in the hotbed or in boxes seeds of
lettuce, radish, kohlrabi, tomato and onions.

2. About the middle of March uncover
the bulb beds.

3. After the garden plan is made and the
seed estimate made, order the seed.

4. Send for a seed catalogue and get
acquainted with it. Use it in the school
room. Cut out its pictures to use as
illustrative material.

5. Plant inside seeds of ten weeks’ stock,
asters, verbenas and salvia.

6. Look over your tools. Fix the broken
ones, oil the rusty ones and replace the
hopeless ones with new tools.

7. Make your dibbers.

8. Look over your stock of garden
stakes and markers. Be sure to have plenty.

g. Think over the conditions in your
garden. See if the following lists of plants
are of any help:

Plants for sunny gardens are as follows:
Balsam, gaillardia, nasturtium, portulaca,
petunia, cornflower, ageratum, snap-

dragon, poppy, and sunflower.

Plants for shady gardens ‘are: Pansy,
fuchsia, begonia, ferns, myrtle, godetia,
nemophila, bluebells, phlox, and feverfew.

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Seedling Verbenas

Be sure to first plan your garden on paper.
Know where everything is to be

Plants for rock places: Baby’s breath,
candytuft, clarkia, nasturtium, portulaca,
and columbine.

Plants for shady places: Godetia, por-
tulaca, zinnia, nasturtium, poppymallow,
and sunflower.

ContTEST BULLETIN—The prizes in the
toto Children’s Garden Contest have been
awarded. A list of the prizes and the
prize winners is printed on page 102.

Midsummer in the Trinity Garden —a garden which “‘ speaks for itself’’

The Association of Herbs and
Cooked Meats

By Anna Barrows, New York

OR civilized man much of the relish
for animal foods is due to what is
served with them — the herbs and other
accompaniments from the vegetable garden.
Whether this is due to the skill of cooks,
or is an inherited taste derived from the
medicinal customs of our remote ances-
tors, it is impossible to decide.

The cookery of the meat to serve with the
products of the vegetable garden is asimpler
matter than it sometimes seems. All kinds
of meat may be divided into two classes.
One, which everybody desires because there
is less of it and less intelligence is needed for
its preparation, consisting as it does of
tender muscles with small proportion of fat
and bone. The other class forms the greater
bulk of the creatures, the musclestoughfrom
constant exercise, and the bones and fat.

The tender meat may be cooked quickly
by boiling or roasting, the other needs
slow cooking, usually with the help of
water. A low temperature should be
maintained to soften and separate tough
fibres, hence the usefulness of the fireless
cooker for tough meats. It is when our
pocket books are not expanded sufficiently
to secure the high priced cuts that we most
need to study the savory accessions which
may make the cheapest meats appetizing.
The bulletin on Economical Uses of Meat
from the United States Department of Ag-
riculture, which has had an enormous cir-
culation since its appearance within a year,
gives many suggestions for the preparation
of the less expensive cuts of meat. (Far-
mer’s Bulletin 3091.)

The influence of a species of mint, the
catnip, on that domestic animal may have
led early housekeepers to test the virtues
of that and other mints upon their chil-
dren. Not many generations ago catnip
tea was often administered to babies.

Mint of several varieties is cultivated,
especially the peppermint and spearmint.
Peppermint long has been recognized as
a stomachic and anti-spasmodic remedy
and a tribute to its past and its real virtues
is the after dinner mint whether combined
with soda or sugar.

Spearmint has the reputation of ‘‘mak-
ing a lamb out of an old sheep,” and the

sweet sour sauce in which it is the chief
ingredient is deservedly popular.

The only secret for a successful mint
sauce is to have an abundance of the
herb. The younger leaves are tenderer
and stronger, but fine chopping will put
the larger leaves in suitable condition.
After washing the stalks thoroughly,
remove moisture in a cloth, pick off the
leaves, discarding all that are yellow or
withered. The stalks usually are too
fibrous to use. Then chop fine. For a
large quantity this may be accomplished
more quickly with a chopping bowl and
knife. But a few sprigs of mint or parsley
may be pressed firmly together, held in
place by the fingers of the left hand, and
from the balls thus formed thin layers
shaved off with a sharp knife. This may be
done on a sheet of paper on which the parti-
cles are easily lifted and turned into a bowl.

A few spoonfuls of actually boiling
water poured over the leaves will deepen
the color and extract the flavor. No
more water should be used than will serve
to slightly dilute the later addition of
vinegar. The sugar will dissolve rapidly
if added after hot water, and when that
is accomplished the vinegar should be
poured in cautiously. The proportion
of sugar and vinegar must be varied
according to the strength of the vinegar.
This sauce is often served cold, and if
properly made a small quantity suffices.
It will not chill the meat, yet it may be
heated without cooking. A bunch of
mint as ordinarily sold, with about one-
fourth cup of vinegar, one or two table-
spoons of sugar, a little salt and pepper
and one-fourth cup of water is a fair
proportion for a small family. Sometimes
a syrup is made of the liquid and sugar and
the mint is left to stand in it half an hour
before serving. Lemon juice may take
the place of vinegar.

Mint jelly to serve with meats is made
in several ways. A tart apple jelly may
be highly flavored with mint and colored
green with the convenient color pastes.
Or an ordinary lemon jelly made with
gelatine may be flavored with the mint
and tinted. Sometimes the sweet pickle
vinegar left in a jar, if not too highly
spiced, may be flavored with mint and
stiffened with gelatine. In this case the
flecks of chopped mint may be stirred
through the jelly as it begins to thicken.

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Mint ices usually derive their flavor
from the créme de menthe cordial, but
often water in which mint has been steeped
is used in making a plain lemon ice or
sherbet.

The vinegar and sugar will preserve

the mint. It is in effect a sweet pickle and
may be kept a long time in a glass jar
ready for use when fresh mint is not ob-
tainable. Or the mint may be chopped
and put in vinegar to add to other sauces
as capers are kept and used. Moulds
and ferments do not readily attack such
things. This may be one reason that
peculiar digestive functions have been
attributed to spearmint —that it retards
the action of hostile bacteria.
As an old rhyme has it:
“Mint, St. John’s wort, vervain, dill
Hinder witches of their will.”

Mint is sometimes boiled with green
peas, but that is not to be recommended
unless the peas are old and tasteless.

Other familiar herbs—sage, thyme,
marjoram —have had various virtues as-
cribed to them in the past, hints of which
appear in the folk lore of foods, which may
have had some foundation, but they have
been lost sight of in the medical methods
of to-day, which appear to be based more
on surgery than on the senses.

Certainly all these may be classed among
the ‘pleasure giving” things as the Ger-
mans name these food materials of little
nutritive value, but which make the sub-
stantial foods more appetizing.

A bit of bay leaf in a kettle of stewed
lamb or veal is sufficient to give an in-
definable delicious flavor which will dis-
guise the characteristic flavor of meats
not always popular.

An essential oil, expressed from parsley,
has medicinal virtues, and those who
enjoy eating this popular garnish should
be allowed to do so without the interference
of fashion’s dictate that “it is not the
thing.” :

A convenient way to distribute parsley,
cress, mint or any other green herb on
hot meats is to clean and chop it fine and
blend with creamed butter, seasoned
with salt, pepper and lemon or lime —
juice. This maitre-d’hotel sauce is spread
over the steak or chops on the platter
just as they are placed on the table.
When the parsley leaves are large and

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tough they may be dipped in boiling
water before chopping. Fried parsley
is quickly done in deep fat, no preparation
further than cleaning and drying being
necessary. Dried parsley is convenient
when fresh is not available. To dry
parsley, plunge in boiling water to fix
the color, then dry without excessive heat,
and rub through a coarse strainer.

Horseradish (like cress) owes _ its
pungency to a minute portion — one part
in 2,000 — of a sulphurized oil. So pene-
trating is this flavor that it is often an
unpleasant task to put the hard root in
usable shape by grating it — the volatile
juices getting into one’s eyes. The same
quality probably induces a flow of the
digestive fluids and thus digestion is
aided.

Horseradish sometimes is powdered
and dried, but is more satisfactory if
kept in vinegar. Even then it is liable
to darken if exposed to the air. Because
of its intensity, horseradish sauce is
usually made by adding a small portion
of the grated root and vinegar to a bland
and harmless mixture of bread or cracker
crumbs and cream. It is added to the
ordinary white or cream sauce in the
proportion of about one-fourth cup of the
grated root to one cup of sauce. Often
it is combined with a bread sauce or a
Hollandaise sauce. The bottled horse-
radish may be used in this way, most of
the vinegar being drained off.

Again the grated horseradish and a small
amount of vinegar are often combined with
heavy cream. These may be warmed to-
gether and, if necessary, slightly thickened
with cracker dust.

To serve with cold boiled beef, either
salt or fresh, a horseradish sauce may
be made with thick whipped cream
and served cold like mayonnaise or sauce
tartare.

Sandwiches often are made appetizing
by adding some of these pungent roots
or herbs to creamed butter or a may-
onnaise dressing which is then spread
on the bread. Either mint or horseradish

is especially acceptable in the sandwich
filling.

Washing Chamois Gloves

Ay EN I wash my chamois gloves I
never put them on my hands but
just scrub them together in warm, soapy
water. I rinse in clean, warm water and
hang them up to dry away from the steam
heat, which shrinks them. When nearly
dry, I rub them between my hands to keep
them from getting very stiff. When thor-
oughly dry they are as soft and pliable as
when new. Mary Brown.

[Eprtor’s Notr.—It is our aim to make this
department as helpful as possible, and in order to
do so we ask our readers to tell us of any practical
time- or labor-saving experiment they have carried
through in their household duties. Anything to
do with the interior of the house will be acceptable,
and we shall be pleased to send a check for what-
ever we publish.]

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Housekeeping Discoveries

INGER bowls should be brought in

with the dessert. Place the bowl on a
doilie in the plate which is to be used for
the dessert. Each person then removes
the bowl, setting it above and at the left
of his plate after placing the doilie so the
bowl may be set on it. Bringing in the
finger bowl at this time makes one less
move in the serving of the meal.

In cutting hard butter first dip a silver
knife into very hot water. The hot knife
blade melts the butter just enough to
make the cutting easy and clean. This
method, of course, is used only when the
butter is cut into small pieces before serv-
ing. Perfect little squares of butter may
be thus cut.

Here is a little plan I tried; perhaps
you would like to use the suggestion. I
had a dark blue dress and nothing to trim
it with. I bethought myself of some old
écru lace. It was a rather heavy lace and
were it blue would look well on my blue
woolen goods. So I bought some blue dye
and experimented until I had the right
shade to match the blue of my material.
This, of course, took more time than
money. I recommend this method as
a very practical one for using up old
lace and making it just match the material
you happen to have.

If your dining table is small and the
guests numerous, serve the meat and
vegetables from a side table. Then the
dining table is uncrowded throughout the
entire meal. Press the boys of the family
into this service of attending to the side
table. The lad of twelve can and will
serve as deftly and gracefully as any
French maid. Let them have a share
in the household entertaining and every
day work, too.

A good cloth for the tea table is a run-
ner made of crash towelling stenciled at
the ends. For a rarebit cloth use a stencil
of little bunnies. Make doilies to match.

All butter taken from the plates after
meal time should be scraped into a cup kept
for that purpose. This butter cup is then
drawn upon for the butter used in cooking.
How much better this is than making up
the table-left-over-butter into butter balls
for a second using.

A Unique Dining Table

N°? ONE objects to converting the
living-room into a dining-room for
just the short time it takes to eat. But
almost everyone objects to being constantly
reminded of this combination arrangement
by the visible sign of the dining table. Of
course, if one can have sliding doors and
movable partitions in his house the case
is well settled. But all of us are not so
fortunate as this. So the following plan

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is suggested as a possible solution for some
people’s troubles along these lines.

Have a large settle made out of cheap,
soft wood. The back is made so that it
can be tipped up. It then rests on the
heavy broad arms of the settle. So there
is formed an ample table surface from the
once broad back of the settle.

The wood may be stained any color
which harmonizes with the color scheme
of the living-room. This settle in itself
is an ornament to the room. It serves
two purposes— first, that of adding to the
general effect of the room, and second that
of being a whole dining-room table.

This settle-table idea is not only a good
one for those living in restricted quarters,
but it is an equally good one for summer
cottages. Often a table of any size placed
on the piazza takes too much room. But
a settle placed against the house would
take little of the extra free space on the
piazza. Such a convertible settle increases
the seating capacity and in the twinkling
of an eye makes the table so needed for
serving tea, breakfast or luncheon.

Repairing a Piazza
Sue time ago the flooring on my
\”7 veranda showed signs of decay.
Upon examination it was found that the
supports underneath were more or less
rotted. When the carpenter estimated the
job at fifty dollars I asked for time to
think it over!

The supports were two-inch planking,
decayed on the top for about an inch or
two, but beneath that they were perfectly
sound. The carpenter’s proposition was
to rip out everything and put in new plank-
ing throughout. After thinking for some
time and inspecting the stock of odds and
ends in my cellar I decided to do my own
repairing. I had about one hundred and
fifty feet of 2-inch plank which I cut into
suitable lengths and, where needed, I
spiked them to the partly rotted supports
that were under the piazza. I cut
out all the decayed parts and then
painted both the old surfaces and the new
with white lead. I renailed the flooring
to the new boards and my piazza is good
for at least ten years more at an expense
of probably $2.50 instead of $50!

Massachusetts. PERCIVAL Moore.

flooring. Part of it was removed and 2-inch planks
were nailed to the old stringers

Vertical Flower Beds

Peas summer the stony face of my all but
vertical flower bed fairly cracked into
smiles of color and fragrance. A hundred foot
wall bounds part of the eastern side of my place,
but toward the front where the hill is lower, the
mortar-laid wall gives place to one merely piled
up, sloping back into the bank of earth and planted
up and down its face, and over its top, with low-
growing, rock-loving plants. The very stones
have a sentimental value, having been the founda-
tions of an old family residence, and I laid most
of this dry wall with my own hands, placing in
the rooted plants as I built up the strata. The
main requirements are to have the strata slope
backward into the bank to conserve the rainfall
about the roots; and to have the filling earth
packed so tightly that there will be no slipping
of the wall nor any empty pockets where roots
might penetrate only to die from lack of
nourishment. 53

For successful planting one must cram, jam,
tread, and then put a stone over part of the roots!
Use plenty of gravel, strewing it over the surface
and crowding it into the cracks. It keeps the
surface soil cool, and allows the dew and rain to
percolate to the roots. Bits of old mortar are
capital food for the rock garden.

Half shade is the ideal, but seldom attained.
The part of my dry wall next the steps is heavily
shaded by a big spruce, and there grow half a
dozen varieties of ferns, Kenilworth ivy, aubretia,
arabis and primulas, forget-me-nots and colum-
bines. Next comes the half-shaded portion where
early iris, dwarf campanulas, gypsophilas, hardy
pinks, silenes, thrift and yellow alyssum revel;
and next the sunny part where erodiums, thyme
and helianthemums luxuriate, as well as stachys,
sedums, cerastium, white Pilox subulata, and
gray-leaved lavender-cotton which glorifies some
magenta ragged-robins blooming up into them.

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On top of the dryest and hottest bit of the wall
where Jris reticulata, scilla and puschkinias grow
in April, I sow portulaca seed in June, only the
double rose and white varieties; and they make
a continual glory till cut off by frost.

Captain John Smith, in 1614, made a “garden
upon the top of a rocky ile.” J hope it gave him
half the pleasure my vertical rock garden affords
me and my friends:

Ohio. Lucy Evtror KEE Ler.

Five Crops of Vegetables From
the Same Plot in One Season

HE average amateur gardener is apt to be
quite content if he succeeds in growing two
crops of vegetables on the same ground in one
season, but we got five crops last year. Unusually
favorable weather had something to do with this
particular case, but with a little care in the way
of protection from frost the same results might
be attained in a normal season.

A strip of ground five feet wide by a hundred
and fifty feet long was chosen for our “extra
intensive” experiment. It lay along one side of
the vegetable garden where stable manure had
been used liberally for a number of years, conse-

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together in rows eighteen inches apart. Three
rows on the 5-foot strip gave a total length of 450
feet of row. Ample space was left on either side
of the strip for cultivation with the wheel hoe.
The radish seed germinated quickly and in a few
days the plants were up sufficiently to mark the
rows. With a weeder attached to the wheel hoe
the soil was stirred frequently to discourage young
weeds and to keep the surface soil loose. The
beet was slower to germinate and appear. They
grew well for a while; then came a cold snap and
we were forced to protect the plants by setting
up 12-inch boards along each side of the strip,
stretching muslin over the rows.

The first radishes were pulled April roth. The sur-
pluswastiedinto bunchesandsc!dtothe grocer. The
crop at the end of two weeks was 32 dozen bunches,
worth, at the grocer’s price, over three dollars.

The cabbage plants of Early Louisville Drum-
head which had been started indoors in the kitchen
window, were put out-of-doors April 16th, in
the two outside rows of beets, two feet apart in
the row, the beets being pulled up to make room
for them. The muslin curtain was used every
night to guard against sudden cold. A freeze on
April 23rd, and cool weather following, retarded
the beets, so that it was May 25th before the first
roots were pulled. We found ready sale for our

. . QUANTITY DATE FIRST LAST
VECE TSE aes PLANTED | PLANTED USED USED ee VALUE
Radish Cincinnati 3 rows March 4 | Aprilto | April 26 32 doz.
I Market (450 feet) bunches $ 3.20
Beet Crimson 3 TOws March 4 | May 25 June 26 24 doz.
Globe (450 feet) bunches 4.80
2 Cabbage Early 150 April 16 | July 7 Aug. 12 122
Drumhead plants heads Sos
3 Cucumber | White 24 hills June 20 Aug. 16 Aug. 20 250
Spine pickles 75
4 Bush Beans |} Speckled 2rows | Aug. 20 Oct. 22 Oct. 28 3% f
Valentine | (300 feet) pecks 1.05
Total value, $15.05

Table showing the succession, yield, etc., of the five-cropped plot.

The vegetables are numbered in the

order in which they were grown

quently the soil was well supplied with humus
and readily available plant food. But, believing
that it is scarcely possible to make the ground too
rich, another coat of manure was given late in
February and plowed under as soon as the ground
was in workable condition. A spike-toothed
harrow followed the plow, mellowing and fining
the soil until it was an ideal seed bed.

Planting began March 4th with Cincinnati
Market radish and Crimson Globe beet sowed

An ideal place for a rock garden is a rocky, sloping bank like this.

Here a succession of flowers is had

all summer

surplus among the neighbors and at the grocery
store. As we wanted the ground cleared as
quickly as possible the beets were all pulled while
small. As those next the cabbages were pulled,
poultry manure was worked into the soil about
each cabbage plant. In the middle row enough
beets had been removed by June 2oth to make

* room for 24 hills of White Spine cucumber, spaced

six feet apart. Twelve seeds were planted in each
hill, but only four strong plants allowed to grow.

Just about this time the striped beetle made its
appearance on the plants. We sprayed with
arsenate of lead at once, also sprayed the cab-
bages, which were heading up nicely but suffering
from the green cabbage worm. The spraying
kept the worms well in check but was less successful
against the beetle. July 7th, a few fine solid heads
of cabbage were cut. Some plants failed to head
up and these we fed to the poultry; but from the
150 plants we obtained 122 marketable heads.

The ravages of blight, added to attacks of the
striped beetle, damaged the cucumber vines so
badly that we pulled them up and burned them
after they had been bearing a few days, the net
result from the 24 hills being about 250 pickles,
worth thirty cents a hundred. Having the ground
clear.earlier than we had anticipated it was de-
cided to try a late planting of bush beans instead
of lettuce as we had at first intended. After
stirring the ground with the wheel hoe Round
Podded Speckled Valentine beans were planted
August 20th. They were frequently cultivated
and grew rapidly until the cool weather of October
checked them somewhat. Preparations had been
made to protect them from frost, but favorable
weather continued and we picked a few string
beans October 22nd. We protected them at
night, but a heavy frost and freeze killed them on
the 29th. We had gathered three and one-half
pecks in the week.

Ohio. Nat. S. GREENE.

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Symmes’ Blue Hubbard Squash

Sent out last season for the first time and a proved success among gardeners.
Thicker meated than the Warted Hubbard, and more delicious than the excellent De- a
licious. Very prolific, a good keeper and unexcelled for market purposes. This seed is grown on our own farm,

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Gregory’s Excelsior Peas—Without exception the finest
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and have "sauce" two
to four weeks in advance.
Three or more placed on
your asparagus bed will
give that a goodly boost.
You can take single frames
and plant one each to let-
tuce, radishes, pepper
grass, swiss chard and so
on, and be smacking your
lips over the good things weeks ahead
of the regular garden planting. Then of
course there are your melons and cucum-
bers—these frames are a tremendous advan-
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get thoroughly started and strongly rooted
before hot weather begins to sizzle them.
Melons and "cukes" grown this way are a
certain crop. Melons then have that true
mouth-watering flavor.

So much for the vegetable garden—and
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: flowers! You see they
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al can tote them around any-
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tulips or daffodils and
have blooms while the
snow still lingers. Think
of the cosmos—the lark-
spur—the salvia—the co-
reopsis—the _nasturtiums
you could startin them and
have things blooming just
that much earlier. It’s great this gardening
when you have frames to help you. Send
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frames. In any event, get your order in,
because the robins will be here before you
know it. The sap’s running a little even

now, and that’s a good spring sign.

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HL 17 \. \ ee . \
Making a Long Bean Season

[ees month is an excellent time for planting
out small rose bushes, which haye been
grown in a greenhouse. The large outdoor-grown
plants should have been set out after the first
frost in the fall, but if you neglected to do so,
commence planting at once. I always prefer
the small bushes as they grow faster and are more
likely to live. Here in the South the growing
season is nearly twelve months long, so it does not
take the small plants long to attain size. When
once started they require but little care and pro-
duce flowers from March to November in the
Lower South.

During the last of the month sow seed of phlox,
poppies, balsams, cosmos, petunias, portulaca,
zinnia and other annuals. Make the soil rich with
manure and spade it in deep so as to get large
flowers.

Sow grass seed for a lawn any time during the
month. Set out dahlia roots now. For direc-
tions as to how to grow dahlias, see THz GARDEN
Macazinge, Vol. IX, pages 156 and 232. Tuberoses
should be planted early in the month.

If you wish to grow cannas from seed, sow them
at once. Remember to make a small hole in the
hull, and keep the soil where they are sown thor-
oughly moist. Be sure to select a sunny spot
for sowing the seed. Seed of verbenas and car-
nations should be sown now.

Divide chrysanthemum roots. Plant each shoot
separately from twelve inches to two feet apart.

Sow seed of cabbage and cauliflower so as to
have a continuous supply during the summer.
Also sow seed of lettuce, beets, radishes, turnips,
carrots, and parsnips. Set out celery plants and
sow seed of onions if you.have not already done so.

Sow seed of pepper for main crop; the fruit
comes in very handy for making pickles and sauce.
During the summer, you will need some of the
large, sweet ones (of which the Chinese Giant
and Ruby King are best). Sow several varieties
of the small, hot pepper. A general asscrtment
is better for making sauce than just one kind.

Sow seed of bush Lima beans during this month
— Fordhook and the small seeded Wood’s Prolific
or Henderson’s Improved. Sow seed of early
squashes and early cucumbers now.

Plant corn for main crop after the fifteenth of

Sow peppers this month outdoors in the South,
in hotbeds in the North. (Chinese Giant, a reliable
main crop variety) ;

Marcu, 1911

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

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the month. Plant a
small patch of an im-
proved variety this
year. Get the seed
from a reliable seeds-
man or farmer near
you, as corn that
comes from a different
section has to become
acclimatized before be- —
ing at its best.

GROWING BEANS

Beans can be grown
on almost any soil and
with but little cultiva-
tion, though their pref-
erence is for a moist
loam and _ frequent
shallow cultivation.
Plant thickly so as to
get a good stand, but
later on thin out to
one plant every five
or six inches for the
bush type and two to
three vines of the run-
ning sort to a pole.
Set the poles two to
three feet apart in
rows of the same dis-
tance apart; remember
that the vines must
have plenty of room in
which to grow.

Use a fertilizer rich
in potash and phos-
phoric acid. Remem-
ber also not to culti-
vate when the vines
are wet or they will
Trust.

Here, in Middle
Georgia our first plant-
ing is about the first of March and the last about
the first of September. Beans from the first planting
are ready to eat about the last of May, and those
from the last planting until first frost which comes
about November. If the bushes are covered with
newspapers in the fall, they will furnish beans
several weeks later. Of course, our first and last
planting is of the early bush sorts; the running sort
is not planted until the middle or last of March,
and the last planting is made the first of August.

Buena Vista, Ga. THOMAS J. STEED.

Beans repay for having
plenty of room. Big crops

cannot be had from

crowded vines

Concerning Celery in Florida

[The following letter, referred to in the editorial
note on page 78 is presented for the general benefit
of our readers. The writer claims to be financially
interested in the district under discussion.]

WAS much surprised to read in THE GARDEN.
Macazine for January such a dream of get-
rich-quick, via the celery route at Sanford, Fla.
The writer confessed that he was there in February,
1910; had he been there several months later, he
would have seen an almost universally discouraged
community, as acre after acre of celery was plowed
under because of lack of markets. I know where-

_of I speak for I am myself an owner of Sanford

soil, as good as any there and fully developed to
celery.

The actual truth of the matter is that at the
present time Sanford faces the disaster of three
unfortunate crops in succession. The lettuce
crop of the fall of 1909 was an almost complete
failure, many of the crates shipped not paying the
express. In many cases I personally know of,
the returns in New York per crate were insufficient
to pay expressage. Following this came the
hardest blow: the celery crop was excellent in
quality, but there was so great an overproduction
that the majority of growers plowed under their
celery in the fields.

Last fall hopes were high again and the com-
munity pluckily set out to redeem past losses.
In October a tropical hurricane swept down and,
as a result, probably three-fourths of the fall seed-
beds of lettuce were ruined.

The whole history has been that some years ago

Marcu, 1911 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 97

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several men, as an experiment, raised celery at
Sanford for the New York market. They had the
field all to themselves and made big returns. This
led enterprising realty men to rush in and sell
land at enormous “boom” prices. This has
brought a big tide of new-comers and northern
capital. At the present time, after three successive
disasters such as I have named, many have either
sold out or are vainly hanging on hoping to see a
turn in the tide.

One example may be cited. Hearing the tales
of wealth so easily acquired, a number of bankers
and capitalists of Stamford, Conn., bought up a
big tract of land and formed a company to raise
celery. They engaged a practical farmer, one who
had made a decided success in the North. After
many disappointments, they at last raised a fine
crop of celery, but were chagrined to find the mar-
ket over-stocked. They have lost very heavily.

Of those who have acquired sudden wealth from
celery, nearly every one sustained heavy losses
last spring when hundreds of acres of celery rotted
in the field for lack of a market. One woman,
Mrs. Tackach, whom THE GARDEN MacGazINE
cites as an example of a successful grower, esti-
mates that she lost $15,000 last spring on her crop.

One or two statements made in THE GARDEN
Macazine I think should be corrected. To be
sure there is water transportation, but it is slow
and uncertain. Accordingly 90 per cent. of the
truck from Sanford issent by express. The express
rate on a crate of celery to New York is nearly $1.

Then again, very little celery is sold in the field.
Last winter nearly all was handled through com-
mission merchants.

The soil is so light that fertilizer for celery costs
neatly $500 an acre. From this alone it can be
seen that it is decidedly not a poor man’s game.

Guarding Against Insect Pests

D° NOT neglect your orchard. Now is the

time, before the buds swell and the sap
commences to flow, to spray the trees for insect
pests. The liquids may be used in greater strength
while growth is dormant than later on toward
the end of March and in April.

The commonest enemies are: (1) The San Jose
scale, a louse protected by a scale, which infests
peach, apple, plum and pear trees as well as small
fruits, covering the bark thickly first on the twigs
and spreading to the boughs and trunk; (2) borers,
which burrow into the twigs and trunk of apple,
peach and plum trees — very destructive, and only
waiting for warm weather to renew their dep-
redations; (3) numerous insects in a state of
hibernation concealed beneath the roughened bark,
as well as the spores of different fungi ready to
attack foliage and fruit as soon as warm weather
comes. Spraying with some liquid containing
lime, kerosene, sulphur, arsenic or copper, is usually
a remedy for external pests.

Before spraying, go over the trees and remove
all dead wood that was not pruned off in the fall.
Lifeless twigs may be distinguished by being
brittle. The bark is curled away from the wood
in some instances and appears much darker than
on healthy parts of the tree. Such dead wood may
be due to the twig borer or other causes, but in
all cases indicating disease cut the wood away
at least two inches below the dead part.

If the apple trees are old and the bark rough
and loose, carefully scrape it off.

Cut the grape canes back to two buds. Remove

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Money will be Saved by
Painting this Spring

AINT which wears is made from pure white lead,
mixed with linseed oil and colored at the time of
painting. Even though linseed oil is high, the thing to

remember is that paint materials are not nearly so expensive
as the repairing of a neglected house. Linseed oil at even $1.00
or $1.25 a gallon makes the painting of the average house
cost only $4 or $5 more than it used to cost. Not enough
to warrant letting any house go to ruin from lack of paint.

Furthermore, the flax crop is short again. Linseed oil won’t soon
go lower. It may go higher. Paint this Spring and get the benefit of
present prices.

And use *“Dutch Boy Painter’’ white lead and genuine linseed oil.
Don’t be tempted, because standard materials are high, to employ some-
thing inferior. This is a mistake because not true economy.

It may surprise you if you do a little figuring yourself.

Get from your local dealer prices on the following ingredients :

100 Ibs. “Dutch Boy Painter” white lead $
4 gallons purelinseed oil - - -
1 gallon turpentine -

1 pint turpentine drier

This makes 8 gallons Genuine old-fashioned paint

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Our Free Painting Helps

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If you are planning to build, the Readers’
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and Samples

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In this book are samples of Brenlin, the
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Landscape Gardening

A course for Home-makers and
Gardeners taught by Prof. Craig
and Prof. Beal, of Cornell Uni-
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Gardeners who understand up-to-
date methods and practice are in

demand for the best positions.

A knowledge of Landscape Gar-
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THE HOME CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
Dept. G. Springfield, Mass.

any dried remains of fruit still clinging to the
peach trees. These contain the spores of the peach
fruit blight fungus. Burn them.

Remove all wood older than one year from your
blackberry and raspberry bushes. And from the
currants and gooseberries prune off all wood older
than three years. Then burn every twig and
branch cut from the trees and bushes.

As a remedy for the scale give a thorough spray-
ing with the California wash—a combination of
lime, sulphur, and salt. Dilute by adding twenty-
five parts of water to one of wash. A spraying liquid
which is a general remedy for fungus as well as
scale and other insects is made from limoid, a
combination of lime, magnesia and kerosene.
These are blended in an emulsion which works
smoothly through the sprayer and is less trouble
to prepare than the California wash. Or get a
ready prepared oil made for this purpose.

Tf limoid is not cbtainable, dry-slake stone lime.
Use about twenty pounds of lime for twenty-five
gallons of liquid. First pound it to break up the

Before growth starts clean up about fruit trees to
destroy insects that have endured the winter

lumps. Put about four or five pounds in a box or
pail, and sprinkle enough hot water over it to start
slaking. Add the remainder of the lime and cover
the box. When the process is complete the lime
will be a fine dry powder. Sift it and mix with
kerosene in the proportion of four pounds of lime
to one gallon of kerosene. Then add to it Bor-
deaux mixture — three times the quantity of the
kerosene. Emulsify this mixture by rapidly agi-
tating it —a mere stirring will not suffice. One
way to do this is to use the spraying pump and
pump the liquid back into itself for five minutes,
working the pump vigorously. The other way is to
use a hoe and a covered barrel, and work the hoe
up and down through a hole in the cover after
the manner of the old-fashioned dash churn. This
answers best for small quantities.

When applied to the trees, this emulsion coats
them white. If, however, one ounce of lamp-
black is added to every five pounds of lime a dark
gray color will result which will not be objection-
able. This should be applied to the plum, peach,
pear, apple, quince, grape and small fruits, using
any good spraying apparatus. It is too strong to be
used after the buds swell or foliage appears. Twigs,
limbs and trunks should be thoroughly covered.

The trunk borers must be reached in other ways.
If your peach trees have oozed sap now forming
into hard gummy lumps on the lower part of the
trunk, these pests are at work. Excavate six
inches below the surface at the base of the trees
and test the exposed trunk until you strike a soft
spot. Open this up with a knife. The culprit,
a soft white worm, will be found at the remote
end of the channel. Work until you have dis-
covered and destroyed all in the tree, then thor-
oughly paint the trunk below ground with tar and
replace the soil.

New Jersey. M. RoBerts Conover.

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Marcu, 1911

“* By far the best book that
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Send for Booklet

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Horticulturists. Leaders for 70 Years
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Rhododendron Hybrid

Best Varieties, 1’ to 4’
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Kalmia_ Latifolia

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1 Madison Ave., Metropolitan Bldg. New York City, N. Y.
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Bigger Fruit Profits

Here is a spray pump invented by fruit
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The Readers’ Service will give information
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“Quilt”

A “Comforter” That Will Keep
the Whole Family Warm

A house lined with Cabot’s Sheathing Quilt
will be wind and frost proof. It will be warm
No heat can get
out or no cold get in, or vice versa. It is not
a mere paper or felt, but a thick matting, which
retains the warmth asa bird’s plumage does.
“Tt is cheaper to build warm houses than to heat
cold ones.”

in winter and cool in summer.

Stained with Cabot’s Shingle Stains and lined with
Cabot’s Sheathing Quilt
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Preserve and Beautify

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They are made of Creosote (‘‘the best wood pre-
servative known’’), pure linseed oil, and the
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Samples and full informaticn sent upon request

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Agencies at All Central Points

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years to grow such Trees and Shrubs as we offer.

We do the long waiting—thus enabling you to secure Trees and Shrubs that
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give an immediate effect.

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r-Home Mixed Fertilizers

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9 The Readers’ Service gives information
102 about automobile accessories

GILLETT’S
Hardy Plants

Rhododendrons for mass planting and for

specimen plants. J 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 B, Southwick, Mass.

FLORICULTURE

Complete Home Study Course in practical Floricul-
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Course includes Greenhouse Construction and
Management and the growing of Small Fruits and
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Personal Instruction. Expert Advice.
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Prof. Craig

Special Seed Offer

Why not try our
seeds this year?
For only 10c in
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we will send you a
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MAGAZINE

Marca, 1911

The Prize Winners in the
Children’s Contest

HE contest which THE GARDEN MAGAZINE
has conducted for the last two years is a
national contest. It is open to all boys and
girls. A review of the classes in the last con-
test should be an incentive for this year’s garden
work.

Individual and group prizes are given in this
contest. A group prize may be competed for by
an entire school or by all the schools in a city or
town. Again, it may be competed for by a num-
ber of children not working in a school garden,
but connected with community work.

There are only first prizes under the group
heads.

One group prize was The Nature Library —
a set of fifteen volumes on nature subjects. This
is well worth winning for the school library. Three
of these sets were given.

One went to the Roger Williams Park Garden
in Providence, R. I., because it was the “finest
looking garden of more than three years’ cultiva-
tion.”

A second set was awarded to the Fremont
Street School, Lancaster, Pa., for “the finest
looking garden of less than three years’ culti-
vation.”

The Trinity School Garden of Morris Cove,
New Haven, Conn., won the third of these prizes
because it represented ‘‘the greatest improvement
of an unsightly piece of ground.” This repre-
sented work under city conditions.

A similar prize had been offered for “‘the greatest
improvement of unsightly spots under city con-
ditions.” The Waltham School Gardens, Wal-
tham, Mass., and the Huguenot School Garden,
New Rochelle, N. Y., were tied for this. Soeach
received a set of nine volumes on practical garden
subjects. This set of books is called The Garden
Library.

Two other sets of The Garden Library were
offered, one for the school “having the best show-
ing of garden products at its annual exhibit”
and the other for the school or schools “dis-
playing the greatest variety of annuals.” The
former was won by the Fairview Garden School,
Yonkers, N. Y.; the latter by the schools of
Worcester, Mass.

The individual classes had the following classi-
fication and the prizes were given thus:

To the boy or girl raising: The best flowers in
a home garden; the best vegetables in a home
garden; the best flowers in a school garden; the
best vegetables in a school garden; the greatest
variety of flowers or vegetables. This made five
competing classes. Three prizes were given under
each head: The first prize in all cases was three
volumes from The Garden Library, namely ‘The
Flower Garden,” ‘‘The Vegetable Garden,” and
“House Plants and How to Grow Them.” These
first prizes were won by:

Edward J. Vlasak, Chicago, Ml.
Mabel J. Musser, Cleveland, O.
George Ackerley, Yonkers, N. Y.

Lina Svack, Yonkers, N. Y.

Roger Newton Perry, Worcester, Mass.

Second prizes consisted of two books from The
Garden Library. These volumes were ‘The
Flower Garden” and “The Vegetable Garden.”
The list of second-prize winners is as follows:

Estelle Henckell, Rochester, N. Y.
Howard O’Connell, Providence, R. I.
William Duff, Yonkers, N. Y.

William Suttake, Yonkers, N. Y.
Paul Wilson, Groton, Mass.

R. Greenleaf Bruce, Waltham, Mass.

The third prize, a year’s subscription to THE
GARDEN MAGAZINE, was awarded as follows:

John W. Nash, Seattle, Wash.
Azelmais Lewis, Garrison, N. Y.
Thomas Halley, Yonkers, N. Y.
Richard Quigley, New York City
Bernard Rich, New Rochelle, N. Y.
Morris Lipetz, New Rochelle, N. Y.

This closes the contest of 1910. The garden
year of 1911 is with us. We shall be glad to send
out contest conditions to all wishing such in-
formation.

New York. 13, 18), Sh

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Paper Pots

Your garden will be one to four weeks
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Prof. R. L. Watts of the Penna. Ex.
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THE BAY STATE NURSERIES
NORTH ABINGTON, MASS.

Marcu, 1911

and 40 other good varieties of Strawberries—the kinds for big profits.
500,000 Choice Raspberry Plants
Black, Red, Yellow and Purple varieties.
Blackberry Plants by the million

The most complete stock in the United States. Our blackberries
are of the fruiting strains, and are sure money-makers. e offer

Pract inducements in Currants, Gooseberries, Grapes, Fruit and
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spring, and have a bumper crop again for sale.

} It is the kind that

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this. Send today.

W. N. SCARFF, New Carlisle, O.

HIGH GRADE
FLOWER SEEDS

We offer

Henry Mette’s German Seeds
Kelway & Son’s English Seeds

and
Our own well-known productions of Aster and
Petunia seeds, Dahlias, Gladioli and Perennials.

Our modest catalogue is yours for the asking.

RALPH E. HUNTINGTON, Painesville, O.

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if you would embellish your grounds
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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Are " Youon the!

Last year when [I told you that the sentiment
expressed in the quotation from Emerson: “If
a man can write a better book, preach a better
sermon or make a better mousetrap than his
neighbor, the world will make a beaten pathway
to his door,” had been the incentive — the inspira-
tion on which this business had been built, I little
thought of how great a portion of “the world” was
really then coming my way and how many, after
the pathway was well worn, would literally knock
at my door in vain.

Again the rose planting season is approaching
and so this personal appeal is made to you to start
now lest disappointment again be yours.

PETERSON ROSES signify quality — assure

success.
And why shouldn’t they ?

They're the result of ten years of enthusiastic
study and devotion to the outdoor culture of the
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ers’ as I had succeeded.

And in this, too, I have succeeded beyond all ex-
pectation as thousands of amateur growers have
gladly — warmly testified.

The native evergreens, shrubs and flowers of the

Rocky Mountains

are the hardiest and healthiest in the world. The eastern slope
of the Mountains in Colorado affords more worthy native
plants which are successful in cultivation than any other region
of equal area. Our nursery-grown stock succeeds everywhere.
Besides natives we grow the best kinds of hardy ornamentals
for the Westand Northwest.

One dozen plants of the superb Rocky Mountain Columbine,
(the State Flower of Colorado) sent prepaid for $1.00, $1.50
or $2.00, according to size. Safe delivery and satisfaction
guaranteed or money returned. Catalogue free.

ROCKMONT NURSERY, Boulder, Colorado.

Ij a problem grows in your gardén write to 103
the Readers’ Service jor assistance .

Way?

To-day, as I write this, comes a gracious letter
from the editor of a leading garden monthly telling
me of how an author, unknown to me except as a
customer, in preparing a Rose article for them,
spoke enthusiastically of the splendid roses (and
results) yearly gotten of me. The editor further
says: “Altogether the tribute paid you was quite
exceptional.”

It costs too much to say all I would like to here
and so I want to send you a copy of

“@ Little Wook About Roses,”

It’s different from most catalogues — very differ-
ent. It appeals to intelligent, thinking people —
it tells the truth. It tells you in detail how, from
the time you take up the spade until the flowers
are gathered, to achieve the fullest success.

It’s sent on request to intending purchasers —
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cents in coin or stamps.

Write for it now — today.

GEORGE H. PETERSON

Box 50
FAIR LAWN, N. J.

Rose and Peony
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Marca, 1911

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Another Experience with Aspar-
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MY’ WIFE said that we must have an aspara-

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without it, to which I quite agreed. We had
bought the crowns for the bed at the old home;
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ist, being guided in the main by Farmers’ Bulle-
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every seed germinated. I do not remember just
how many plants we got from that packet of seed,
but it is sufficient to say that we have in our garden
seven rows 200 feet long that have been doing duty
for the last four years.

The seed bed was kept free from weeds, but
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which were four feet apart, with a 2-horse plow,
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it hot at dinner and as a salad with lettuce at the
evening meal.

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plants; she cannot use a tenth of them.

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The Profit of Planting Potatoes
Barly

ie ONE of the early spring numbers of THE

GARDEN MaGaziIneE for 1909, the advice was
given to get in a few early potatoes during March.
That year I had planted my early potatoes on
April 6th, and we enjoyed fair sized new ones on
June 27th.

But last year I resolved to plant a few potatoes
in March, and on Good Friday, March 25th, I
put in one peck of Beauty of Hebron. I cut,
planted and covered them myself. THE GARDEN
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far as possible. This I did, and then sifted fine
wood ashes over the pieces. The furrows were
eighteen inches apart; the seed was set twelve
inches apart in the rows, and covered with about
four inches of soil.

March 25th, the thermometer registered 75
degrees. Such weather did not last long, however;

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for several weeks it was cold and rainy, and my
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2oth.

On April 27th, the potatoes were given their first
forking between rows. Two days later, when the
potatoes were about four inches high, there was a
frost in the night. I felt heart-broken when I saw
the blackened tops, but I let the plants alone, and
in a few days I saw that they were recovering.

On May 4th frost threatened again, and the
potatoes were covered with stable bedding. Two
nights later there was a heavier frost, and I would
have surely lost all the crop had the plants not been
covered.

The potatoes grew right up through the litter
and on May roth were twelve inches high. On
May roth, the litter was carefully removed and

Beauty of Hebron potatoes, planted March 25th.
were this size on June 18th

the potatoes hilled. They were then fifteen inches
in height.

On May 26th, I picked off a quantity of potato
bugs, and dusted slug shot over the tops. The
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hill was dug, and the accompanying photograph
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The largest potato in the hill! weighed three
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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

108 Marcu, 1911

This year I am thinking of having bins made
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Except in cool coast counties, sweet peas can-
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then put in their permanent places in early June,
I had the most beautiful corner in my garden, for
they began blooming in late August; and in mid-
December, after a couple of rains and some frost,
the plants were still bright and gay with their lilac,
pink, rose, crimson and scarlet flowers, many of
them with white throats and picotee edges rivaling
gloxinias in size and' color. With their tall spires
they do for the autumn garden what their relatives
the foxgloves do in spring and, while dwarfer than
these latter, they far excel them in range and
purity of colors. Pentstemons may be considered
hardy perennials on the Pacific slope, but I believe
the best results are obtained by sowing each year,
and merely retaining the old clumps over one winter
so as to get early bloom from them.
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Marcu, 1911

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This small part of the
Contents shows the
every-day value
of this useful
guide.

Agriculture, Appropriations for
Department of

Aid to the Injured, First

Almanac, Calculations for 1911.

Angora Goats, The Truth About

Animals, Ages of
Diseases and Their Remedies.
Farms, Number and Value of,

in the States

Antidotes for Poisons.

Apple Orchard, Materials Used
and Removedin Twenty Years.

Apples, Best,to Plant in Different
Locations.

Apricots, Best to Plant in Dif-
ferent Locations.

Arid Area in the Different States
and Territories.

Barn Use, Weights for

Bee Keepers’ Maxims

Blackberries, Best, to Plant in
Different Locations.

Bookkeeping for Farmers and
Gardeners.

Builders, Information for

Building a Hotbed.

Bulb Culture—Indoor

Bulletins, Farmers’

Bushes, How Long They Will
Bear

Cattle, Best Breed of Dairy
To Ascertain Weight of
Cereals, Composition of, for
Comparison
Cheap Seed, Why Expensive
Cherries, Sweet, Best, to Plant
in Different Locations.
Sour, Best, to Plant in Differ-
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Chronological Cycles for rgrr.
Church Days for r9rt.
Concrete, What a Farmer Can Do
with
Cooking Time Table
Corn, How Deep,
Planted.
Planting for Big Crops.
Rule for Measuring.
Cost of Plowing.

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Who’s Who In Dogs
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Lettuce Growing in Florida

OR actual hard, back-breaking work a lettuce

crop carries off the palm, although it is

the cleanest, quickest and prettiest crop of all
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Lettuce is usually planted in Florida about the
first week in September. This time of sowing
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come just in time to make them head-up with a
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of September, but I have found that flooding the
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A popular lettuce formula in this locality is a
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that occupied the land during the summer.

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Paris green for the green lettuce worms. A
broadcast sowing, before planting, of bran and
Paris green sweetened with syrup generally pre-
vents the ravages of cutworms. Some farmers
make a second application of fertilizer between
the rows after planting, but is it of questionable
benefit to this quick-growing crop. Shipping
should begin five weeks from setting.

Lettuce is usually packed in half-barrel hampers,
averaging thirty heads to the hamper. The heads
often attain such a size that a hamper can hold
only eighteen or twenty. It is shipped in re-
frigerator cars to northern and western markets.
The average cost of production with an average
yield of 500 hampers per acre is about forty cents
per hamper, including the cost of crate material.
A net profit of $500 per acre is not unusual with
prices ranging around $1.50 here.

Though lettuce is the salad plant par excellence,
few people know that the outside leaves, cooked
like spinach, make a delicious vegetable; and the
heads stripped down to hard little balls, boiled
and served whole with a cream dressing, are fit for
a gourmet, even though it may offend the ethics
of some epicures to cook a salad.

The lettuce crop is usually followed by celery,
by potatoes, or by a second crop of lettuce. In
the last case weather conditions are just reversed;
during the growing period the weather is cold and
the plant hardly attains a good size before heading.
Frost will not hurt young lettuce, but will detract
from the appearance of lettuce about ready to
cut. On the other hand, if early hot weather
should come when the lettuce is mature, it is apt
to make the plant throw up a seed stalk. It is,
therefore, evident that this second crop is risky,
but for that reason, usually brings a handsome
return if successful. Potatoes planted last season
after a lettuce crop without additional fertilizer
in one case yielded as high as 125 barrels to the

acre.
Florida. P. N. Hotst.

For Quack Grass Pasture

N MY farm in Central New York State I
had a sixteen acre field that had produced
nothing but a few scattering weeds for many
years; the soil was supposed to be as nearly
worthless as any in that locality, being composed
largely of a gravel loam with some clay and shale
intermixed, with a clay subsoil. The same ridge
of poor soil ran through other farms in the vicinity.
We had, on the more fertile part of our farm, a
field which we wished to grow to winter wheat,
but found it nearly impossible to do so because
the soil was completely filled with long and very
healthy quack grass. We plowed the field to
properly prepare the soil for seeding, but the
roots left lying on top of the ground would send
down their fibrous roots into the soil, and grow
and flourish as though they had not been dis-
turbed. We then commenced gathering them,
drawing them away and piling them at a distance,
but. still they grew, and so quickly would they
take root and so tenacious were they of life that,
if the weather was not particularly dry, we seemed
to make but little headway in getting rid of the

est.
; Finally we decided that our barren field with
the very poor soil should be the repository for all
the roots we could gather. By the cart-load we
scattered them, after having loosened the soil
with a two-horse cultivator. When the work
was completed, we paid no farther attention to
the field until the following spring, when to our
satisfaction, we found the roots alive and flourish-
ing. From the fact that these roots were left
on the surface of the soil, we decided not to put
the stock into the field until later in the season,
so as to give the roots an opportunity to make
good their claim upon the soil. In the month
of August, the grass was standing about a foot
high, so we mowed it and left it lying upon the
ground to rot. In October, eighteen cows, one
hundred and eighty sheep, and eight horses and
colts were turned into the field, our desire being
to test to the utmost the staying qualities of the
grass under adverse circumstances. The stock
were kept in the field constantly from October rst
until the zoth of November, when the eighteen

Marcu, 1911

A beautiful new

rose for your garden

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

E’VE accomplished what

seemed to be impossible.

We've taken the

beautiful hot-

house American Beauty and cross
fertilized it with a hardy, outdoor,
climbing rose and the result has
been this wonderful new plant—the

Climbing American Beauty

It possesses all the charm of the “Queen of
Roses” — the beautiful flowers three to four
inches in diameter, finely formed on long
stems, the rosy-crimson color and the same
delightful fragrance —a fragrance which is so
rare in climbing roses.

But it has these virtues in addition: Whereas
the American Beauty is seldom satisfactory
when planted in the open ground, the climb-
ing American Beauty is very hardy and will
thrive and grow anywhere a pillar or climbing
rose will. It will stand heat and drouth as
well as any rose.

One plant of our new rose will produce twenty
times as many flowers in June as the old
American Beauty and continue to bloom oc-
casionally throughout the growing season.

The leaves are large, bright, glossy green and
keep on the bush all summer. They will
not burn with the sun nor will sudden changes
of temperature harm them.

The illustration shown is reproduced from a
photograph taken in June and shows over a
hundred flowers on one side.

Every rose lover will want some of these
wonderful Climbing American Beauty Roses.
We are ready to supply a limited number of
one-year-old plants at $2.00 each. Mailed to
any part of the United States, postpaid, on
receipt of the price.

Should you like to know more about this
wonderful plant we will be pleased to send
special printed matter.

Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas Company
West Chester, Pa.

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Marcu, 1911

head of cattle were taken out; but the horses
and sheep were pastured there until December 4th.
Although the field had been given so severea test, on
May toth of the following spring the grass was of
sufficient growth to warrant putting the milch
cows on it at once.

This was fourteen years ago; the field has been
pastured every season since with as many head
of stock as any sixteen acres ever accommodated,
and it has never failed to respond. This plan
has proved successful under various circumstances;
in most cases, the land has been plowed and
sometimes the roots were plowed under.

In my case, the account for turning a poor field
into a good pasture stands like this:

Man and team cultivating four days at $3 : $12
Spreading grass roots eight days later at $1.50 12
Mowing field, man and team three days at $3... . 9

Total’ . $33

There was no charge for collecting and drawing
the roots, which we were obliged to do in order
to prepare the field for the wheat seed.

On the credit side, we have pasture for sixteen
cows (one cow per acre being the usual allotment on
farms from May 15th to November 15th), twenty-
five weeks at thirty cents per week, or $120 for
one year; a total of $1,680 for fourteen years, or a
credit balance of $1,647. The pasture is still flour-
ishing. I count this one of the best investments I
ever made as the profits are large and easily obtained.

In establishing a permanent pasture, not only
once but many times has this species of grass made
good when every other has failed. I know it is
called the “farmer’s pest,” but it is adapted to
any soil and is so hardy and vigorous that you
will often find the root growing through potatoes
and other vegetables, if they chance to be in its
way. No soil is too hard for it, and the softer
woods have often been penetrated by its sharp-
pointed, needle-like ends. I remember seeing a
basswood rail which had been left lying on the
ground where a quantity of these roots had been
strewn, and when the rail was lifted from the
ground, it was found that many of the roots had
passed through the rail and had attached them-
selves to the soil on each side of it.

New York. C. E. CONNELL.

For Pure Insecticides

PP ENCEEORTED there need be no fear in your

mind, when buying prepared insecticides, that
you are not likely to get the pure article, for the
Insecticide Act of z910 became effective on the
first of January. This acts forbids the manu-
facture or sale in Federal territory of adulterated
or misbranded insecticides and fungicides, espe-
cially mentioning Paris green and lead arsenate-
It also forbids interstate shipment of such articles,
which is its most important feature.

Any insecticide or fungicide is misbranded if
the label bear any statement, design, or device
that is false or misleading in any particular, either
as to the character of the article or as to the place
of manufacture. If the contents are stated in
terms of weight or measure, they must be correctly
stated. If an insecticide or fungicide (other than
Paris green or lead arsenate) contains arsenic
in any form, the total amount of arsenic and the
amount of water-soluble arsenic must each be
stated on the label. The amount of inert sub-
stances (often called ‘‘filler”?) must also be stated.

Paris green is considered adulterated if it does
not contain at least so per cent. of arsenious oxide:
on the other hand, it must not contain arsenic
in water-soluble forms equivalent to more than
34 per cent. of arsenious oxide; and no substance
may be mixed with it so as to lower its strength.
Lead arsenate is counted adulterated if it contains
more than 5o per cent. of water, or if its total
arsenic is equivalent to less than 124 per cent.
of arsenic oxide, or if it contains arsenic in water
soluble forms equivalent to more than .75 of a
per cent. of arsenic oxide, or if any substance is
mixed with it so as to lower its strength. If lead
arsenate contains more than 50 per cent. of water
it must be labeled “lead arsenate and water,”
and the extra percentage of water must be plainly
stated. Any other insecticide or fungicide is
considered adulterated if it is intended to be used
on vegetation and is injurious to vegetation.

Marcu, 1911

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

The Readers’ Service will give you

How Any One Can
Grow Mushrooms

Delightful Occupation — Delicious Delicacy for the
Home Table and a Good Income if you Wish

I have been growing mushrooms for over
twelve years. I probably know more about the
Subject of mushroom culture than anyone else in
America. From a start with a few dollars
capital I built up the largest mushroom farm in
America, with acres of bed space in cultiva-
tion. By actual experience I have learned just
how mushrooms can be grown, and what’s even
more important, how they caz ot be grown.

Growing mushrooms is really no more difficult
than growing radishes.

It’s just a matter of knowing how.

Every failure in the mushroom business
can be traced to poor spawn and unreliable
information.

I have shown thousands of men and women

profit and making a good income without in-
terfering with their regular occupation, with this
wonderful, easy, pleasant pastime. I hope soon
that a mushroom bed will be as common as:
vegetable gardens.

have written a little book which gives
truthful, reliable, experienced information about
mushroom culture, where mushrooms can be
grown, how to have a mushroom bed in your
cellar, etc. It also tells about spawn and how
to secure really reliable spawn. I shall gladly
send you this book Free.

If you have never tried mushroom growing,
or if you have tried and failed because of the
causes of which I have spoken, write for my
free book, in which I will show you beyond

how to grow mushrooms successfully. Most all

r the shadow of a doubt that you can have a fine
of them are now in the business growing for

mushroom bed. Address

A. V. JACKSON

_ Jackson Mushroom Farm

6025 North Western Ave. Chicago, III.

You Can Succeed With Gladioli
My New Book Tells You How

If you know the Gladiolus as J do from long personal exper-
ience—then you love it, too—for you have learned that it
is the most serviceable of flowers—can be grown in nearly
all soils, blooming almost the whole summer.

No other flower you can grow will lend itself to so many practical uses
as will my Gladioli. Bedded in lawn or garden, they keep up a display
for weeks that one cannot pass by; while the long, stiff stems and the

wonderful lasting qualities of the flowers, which often ‘“‘stand up” for a
week, make the Gladiolus ideal, when cut, for home or church decoration.
Planted among Peonies, Irises, etc., they keep up a succession of brilliant
color after the other things have stopped blooming.
Gladiolus culture is easy—I want you to read a book I have just issued, entitled,

<* The Uses of the Modern Gladiolus ’’— Free

A handy little work, telling in plain English how to prepare soil, plant and
care for the bulbs. Describes the best, and contains.an irresistible lot of special
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And the pictures! You simply can’t get ‘away from the illustrations in this
little book—pages and pages of true-to-life color work, showing the dainty tints
and shades of each individual flower. But you must see it to understand it properly
—so write your name on a card and let me send my book NOW—ioday /

' Arthur Cowee, Meadowvale Farm, Box 74, Berlin, N. Y.

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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, Chrysanthemums,

- Pyrethrums, Primroses, Campanulas,

Tritomas, Foxgloves, Hollyhocks, etc.
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 will 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 assurance that he will get just what he orders without
substitution. Knowing or wanting toknow my plants, he will want My Book;

**Farr’s Hardy Plants”’

For the information and help which its accurate descriptions and suggestions i
for planting and cultivating will give— mailed free on request.

SOME SPECIALTIES

PHLOXES—A superb assortment, including the latest novelties.
IRISES—A surpassing collection of over 500 varieties.

DELPHINIUMS—“ Wyomissing Hybrids” equal to the finest named
English varieties. (Seeds 25 cents per pkt.)

BERTRAND H. FARR, ‘vx* 643 D Penn Street,

Reading, Pennsylvania.

N. B. Dickson’s Famous Irish Roses, extra heavy dormant plants up to April 1 5th.
Established in pots for later planting.

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information about motor boats 1

The Readers’ Service will give
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Our Decorative Staff will help you
select the right colors and materials
for painting the outside a
or decorating the inside
of your house.

HEY have made a Portfolio of ““Color

Schemes for Exterior House Paint-
ing,” which shows in the right colors
many houses, with correct specifications
for using the Sherwin-Williams products
so as to produce the results shown. If
you do not find just what you want
in this Portfolio, our staff will
make a special suggestion for
you. The Portfolio is free.
Send for it.

Interior Decoration

This is a small reproduction
from the color design of the
interior of one bedroom inthe
Sherwin-Williams Cottage
Bungalow Portfolio, which is
sent free and which will help
you to decorate your house.

Stenciling
“Stencils and Stencil Materi-
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book for decorating and beau-
tifying the home and thethings
in it, is sent free upon request
to anyone who will ask for it.

SHERWIN-WILLIAMS
PAINTS E-VARNISHES

Sold by dealers Exe AV BEES: Ask your local dealer for color cards and full information
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An Easy Way to Enjoy a Vision
of Roseland

HEN a man has to leave his suburban home

for town at six in the morning and cannot

be back there until seven in the evening, Saturdays

included, he is scarcely able to figure on being much

of an amateur in flowers. As for roses, looking

over into Roseland would seem to be his only
hope.

But, after all, that first syllable of improbability
—and even that of impossibility—ais not so
terribly hard to knock off, once you make up your
mind that it can be done. In the case of my rose
border it came easy enough. All that was really
necessary was to make a beginning.

As a matter of fact, the beginning had been already
made. There were two Madame Plantier roses
and one Général Jacqueminot, acquired at a cost
of a dime apiece and, in their luxuriant growth and
profuse bloom, looked like anything but “thirty
cents.” That is to say, they had not looked
that way the past June; it was now April.

At first it was merely a matter of buying a
dozen more hardy roses at the same price and,
for their accommodation, rehabilitating, in the
direction of the street, the side lawn border in
which Florentine iris and two or three of the par-
ticularly devilish species of grass were fighting out
the question of ‘“‘might makes right,” with a good
chance of the latter coming off winner. The roses
were brought home, “heeled in” back in the kitchen
garden and set out in their new quarters in a straight
row the following Sunday morning — of course,
while people were not going by to church. The
flower product that first season was sufficient to
breed enthusiasm at home and attention on the
part of the passer-by.

That was some years ago. The rest of the
story is merely a tale of improvements, main-
tenance and repairs. Gradually the border was
extended to the street and then made a double
row of roses with a final definite limit of some
sixty bushes. Each April there have been fresh
purchases of about half a dozen plants to make
good the ravages of mortality and other rose
casualties, the latter including certain tendencies
to go manetti-ward and in similar disappointing
directions. The casualties short of actual decease,
however, have meant merely a transfer of lessened
usefulness, as several thriving single and double
pink roses now testify elsewhere on the home
grounds.

Directly the border was well established the
floral output was prodigious and so, from year to

This rose border, started with three ten-cent plants,
now supplies ‘‘ bushels and bushels of roses’’

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Moon's Hardy
Trees and Shrubs
did this

Moon s Nursery Products are used in this garden adjacent to an open-air veranda. It makes a veritable out-door living-room in which the beauty and fragrance of the flowers are enjoyed.

Beyond are shubbery borders that give an uninterrupted succession of bloom during the open months. Not only have they added to the beauty of this home, but they greatly enhance its value.

We’ve hardy plants—shrubs, trees and vines—evergreen and de- great city. Here the young trees and shrubs are allowed plenty
ciduous—in two thousand varieties and ranging in age from one to of room for symmetrical development and are transplanted fre-
twenty years. quently to give them the splendidly developed root systems that

Our nurseries cover 400 acresin one of the most fertile sections insure quick establishment. We’ve had thirty-nine years’ ex-
along the Delaware River—far from the gas and smoke of a perience.

Before planting, let us send you our abundantly illustrated catalog —“Hardy Trees and Plants for every
Place and Purpose.

” It tells just what to plant, when and where in order to get best results. Free on request.

THE WILLIAM H. MOON COMPANY
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BECOME A
SANFORDITE
There is real money in
growing celery in San-
ford. Net profits of

over $1000 an acre
have been realized.

WHAT IS SANFORD ?

Sanford is a little dot
on the map, 125 miles
south of Jacksonville,
punctuating the head
of the navigable waters
of the St. John’s river.
But its ever-flowing
wells and comprehen-
sive drainage system
make four crops a year for Northern markets.

Strawberries—Fresh and Crisp for Your Guests
and for You from Your Own Garden.

Tt is much easier to have a real appetizing breakfast, luncheon, dinn er,
or a supper, in strawberry time, than in August or at Christmas. Guests
appreciate Strawberries, just as the little boy did who said, “I go to the
garden to eat Strawberries before breakfast, and before I go to bed, and
lots of times between.” If your patch is as big as 50 by 100 feet you will
have berries for every meal all season, and plenty to eat from the patch,
to preserve, or flavor sherbets, etc. It will give all of you—babies, par-
ents, and old folks, if there are any—a chance to exercise and relax out-
doors Strawberries lead to health, in the eating and in the growing.

Money to be Made Get King Edward
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Neighbors will buy what you A new one,—berries big, coni- ;
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twenty or even fifty dollars. If| ous, healthy, with perfect
there is plenty of space—a sum-| blossoms and handsome
mer home ora farm—any amount | foliage. The best oi seventy
of money can be readily made. _| sorts grown side by side.

Our 1911 Berry Book Sent Free

Get our unusual and complete berry book, which Qt z
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course, —but ask soon, or some one else will get the
last one. Use your pen and a postal now.

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The growing season begins in August and lasts until June.
Railroads ramify in four directions from Sanford. All water route
offers cheap transportation direct to Jacksonville.

Many farms and lands are located on street car lines. Shipping
is done from the doorstep.

Full information about the flower of productive lands and their
flowing wells, — with the unique and world-famous Sanford system
of sub-irrigation and drainage, — free for the asking.

Celery Land a Specialty

J. N. WHITNER, Real Estate

Sanford, Florida

I} you wish to systematize your business the
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The only lawn mowers in
which al] the blades are made
of crucible tool steel, hardened
and tempered in oil, are the

PENNSYLVANIA

Quality Lawn Mowers

This is why they are actually
self-sharpening—why they will go
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All high-grade cutting instru-
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is used exclusively in the ‘“‘Penn-
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running, self-sharpening machine,
with over thirty years of pains-
taking effort back of it, then, ask
your dealer to show you the
““Pennsylvania’’—he knows its
true worth.

“The Lawn—Its Making and
Care,” a text book written by a
prominent authority, will prove
most helpful to all interested in
lawns and shrubbery. Mailed
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SUPPLEE HARDWARE COMPANY
P. O. Box 1575, Philadelphia

TREES AND SEEDS
THAT GROW

We celebrate our 25th anniversary
inthe Tree and Seed Business this
year by offering our customers
Anniversary Collections. Send
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day for list of Collections

and Free Anniversary

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large bearers, grafted
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the best 15c, Cherry 12c. Concord
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seedlings $1.25 per 1000 up. We
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stock. Write to-day.

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THE GARDEN

year, it remains. Sometimes a market basket
full of roses is picked without seriously marring
the general effect and always there is plenty of
flowers for the house and to send to friends. More-
over the border, ail through its June days of
brightness, is a delight to the hundreds who pass
it daily.

And all it has cost so far is the breaking into a
third five-dollar bill and such time as a man away
from home thirteen hours a day, six days in the
week, could give it in fits and snatches. Not
much to exchange for so many agreeable rose
years! Doubtless the roses could have had more
care; but it has sufficed to plant them, keep the
ground well hoed through the summer, protect
the bushes with leaves during the winter, cut them
back to eight inches in March, work in some
fertilizer and replace the dead or degenerated stock
in April and gather in June what women are prone
to call ‘‘bushels and bushels of roses.”

Besides the two varieties that the border started
out with, the roses grown include Baroness Roths-
child, Frau Karl Druschki, Souvenir du Président
Carnot, Papa Gontier, Caroline Testout, Co-
quette des Alpes, La France, Magna Charta, Paul
Neyron, Alfred Colomb, Soleil d’Or and American
Beauty. All have not done equally well, but
few have failed to pay their way with at least a
season’s bloom. And is not a season’s bloom
cheap enough at a dime, if only it be a single rose?

Connecticut. J. A. De KeEnson.

Letting Roses Climb a Tree

\ (G3 IS against the rule to plant roses under trees:
but what happy gardener wants forever to
be doing things by rule? I have planted roses
under three trees and they are all doing well.
True the trees are old apple trees, with the lowest
branches so high in the air that there is no lack of
sunshine, and the roses are planted a couple of
feet away from the trunk; but at that I have not
compromised such a great deal with the cut-and-
dried rule.

I confess to liking to see a rose up a tree; it
seems sort of natural for a climber to really climb

Dorothy Perkins rose on an old apple tree gives a
most artistic effect

MAGAZINE

Marca, 1911

‘There’s But Little “2
Work in a Big Garden

if proper tools are used. Whethera man does his own garden work
or hires it done, he naturally wants something to show for his labor
or money. Gardening with old fashioned tools is unsatisfactory and
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Marcu, 1911

with the air, at least, that it is bossing the job and
not you. Then I have no time to build trellisses,
let alone pergolas, and even roses on pillars need
a lot of attention. Rather, I prefer an aged tree,
which calls for no carpentering, is never too long
for a young rose or too short for an old one and
through all the long winter does not leave the
unclothed canes against a sadly artificial back-
ground. To my mind old apple trees are
best; they are as apt to be crooked as not; and the
crookeder they are the less boosting you have to
give the rose, which will climb fast enough if you
enrich the soil around it.

My hardy borders have absorbed three of the
right sort of old apple trees, and each of them has
one or two roses running up it. To one tree I
have given the old-fashioned single prairie rose,
which has few equals among climbers, and also a
Persian Yellow. The latter is rampant rather than
climbing, but, when well established, is glad to
lean on a tree. Two Dorothy Perkins ramblers
are planted by another tree and the second summer
they attained a height of twenty feet. This
is the best rose of all for the purpose, not only
because of its free, graceful habit, but for the reason
that the pink blossoms are so well set off by the
bark. A third tree has a crimson rambler for its
portion.

Climbing roses may also be used to excellent
advantage on dead trees. In that case the trees
should be so topped as to leave a few feet of the
main branches. The finest ramblers I know of
are thus trained. Other good roses for the purpose
are those prime favorites, more honored of our
grandmothers and mothers than of the younger
generation, the Baltimore Belle and the Queen
of the Prairies.

Connecticut. B. GoopricH.

The Finest of Pentstemons

N°? one can realize the height to which culture

has brought the pentstemon unless he has
grown the so-called gloxinia-flowered type, or, at
least, studied it at close range. While the blos-
soms naturally are not so large as those of the
gloxinia, they do resemble the latter in not only
form but shades of color and markings. All in
all, these hybrids are among the most attractive
of the showier perennials.

Unfortunately they are afflicted with a pest that
does not appear to bother the other pentstemons
that have come under my observation — four or
five that are either true species or are only slightly
improved. This is a little borer that gets in the
flower stem and soon ruins the whole stalk. I
have never been able to fight the pest successfully
and as I have found it flourishing where there was
the best of professional care, I fancy that neither
prevention nor cure is easy.

The gloxinia-flowered pentstemon will bloom
later in the first summer if the seed is sown early
indoors, say in April. It is best treated as an
annual, my experience being that hybrid pentste-
mons do not winter so well as the several species
that are in cultivation.

New York. Tals S/he

Using Torches to Kill the Tent
Caterpillar

u i ‘HOUGH spraying with arsenates early in
the season is a preventive of the tent worm,
the next best thing is to destroy both the cater-

‘pillars and their nests with fire, just as soon as

they appear. A bunch of straw or a rag saturated
with kerosene and attached to the end of a pole
will destroy them if it does not burn out before
the task is completed; but it must be prepared
anew each time.

The advantage of a kerosene torch is that it
is always ready for use and needs but to have
the match applied. This often means that the
time to burn out these nests can be spared
when they are first noticed, as no time need be
spent in preparation. A common tin torch will
answer, but the three-burner torch made for this
purpose will do the work more quickly and once
purchased will last for years.

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WE’S
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WHICH WAY ARE YOU PAYING FOR
AN [HC GASOLINE ENGINE?

HERE are two ways—a quick, easy way and a long,
costly way.

The first way is to go to the I H C local dealer, pick out
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The other way is to get along as best you can without it, and
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as a frame for the final sides of the cistern. Be-
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to wet the bricks thoroughly that the mortar
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The following letter is received from a
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“Ts it necessary to have exactly a one-half acre
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of it. Besides lettuce, radish, onions, Swiss chard
and young plants for spring setting in coldframe,
we were using all through January out of the open
garden lettuce, parsnips, onions, celery and collards.
Would have had salisfy had it been planted early
enough for winter use. From sixty plants we sold
over $10 worth of tomatoes last season, besides
supplying a large family for about two months.
It is hard to get seed like parsnips, planted in
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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

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The Old Time Gas Plant

no over three hundred years the gas plant

(Dictamnus fraxinella) has been in constant
cultivation. No new aspirant for garden honors
has been able to supplant it in the affection of
many. New clumps and new hedges are installed

in new homes, and the days of old are represented. .

I know of no plant that is better behaved the
season through, for it retains its dark green foliage
without a blemish until the last, and stands in

The gas plant makes an excellent border plant. It
attains a height of three feet

tidy array in spite of wind and storm. Few plants
seem to possess the vitality it has, for clumps
of it will outlive the generation in which it was
planted.

It is suitable for a low herbaceous hedge in a
narrow space between a walk and roadway or for
a border in large formal gardens, where it is not
too tall. When in flower, its stately stalks stand
up nearly three feet and last a long time, whether
on the plant or when cut. When through bloom-
ing, the flower stalks should be cut. The bruised
foliage emits the scent of lemon. The name
“gas plant” was given it upon the supposition
that if a lighted match is held near the flower
on sultry evenings it will give out a flash of light.

Illinois. W. C. EGan.

The Everlasting Pea

Aca having all but disappeared from the
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Marca, 1911

How to Protect
the Garden and
Crops—from the
Ravages of

Inseets and
Plant Diseases

PRAYING is the best insurance
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shrubbery, in all of which places it may be left.

to ramble at its own sweet will, since it never
looks so well as when absolutely untrained. As
to culture, it takes care of itself, if let alone. I
have had no trouble transplanting it, aside from
the length of the roots; but, unless it is absolutely
necessary, it is better not to disturb it. The pink
shades are hardier, but scarcely so beautiful as
the white, and comparatively uncommon, kind.

The everlasting pea, an old-time vine worth plant-
ing. Hardy and vigorous

The White Pearl is a new variety of the latter
with very large flowers. Both are as fine for
cutting as the sweet pea, though they lack its
fragrance. The blooming period is throughout
the summer and into the early fall. Barring a
pod or two for propagation, it is better not to
allow seed to form. The everlasting pea grows
freely from seed, but is ‘‘slow as all get-out” about
coming up; it will wait a whole year if it pleases.
Propagation by division is accomplished most
easily by digging carefully at the side of the plant
in spring and working off one or more of the roots,
taking care not to break the brittle shoots. Good
bloom, in such a case, should not be looked for
until the second summer. Cuttings may be taken
also—in the fall, at the end of the blooming
period. Jal, Ss Ade

The Hardiness of the Common
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HERE seems to be a pretty general misap-
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hortensis. the only common species in this country
before the introduction of H. paniculata from Japan
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cannot withstand much more than 1o degrees
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sometimes used for ornamental hedges,
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hardiness of this fine old hydrangea —it was
introduced to western cultivation in 1790 —is on
the grounds of Mr. Neils Poulson’s place on the
Shore Road, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. There a
sturdy hedge of the plant is used to define the
easterly boundary line, and it does so very beauti-
fully. This hedge was planted eighteen or twenty
years ago and has endured the winters without
any special care being given to it, and with no
protection whatever.

In another part of outlying Brooklyn I have
seen an enormous plant that has lived out-
of-doors years beyond memory, and this within
a stone’s throw of salt water. Two more are
thriving in ordinary city back yards, and they
not only have no protection but are grossly
neglected.

Originally the Poulson hydrangeas were pink,
but the color has changed to blue and the tones seem.
to get deeper each year. Last summer it was the
darkest blue that I have ever seen on the hydrangea
and the line of hedge was a glorious sight. Al-
though Mr. Poulson is in the iron business, he has
not fed the hedge with that mineral, nor has he
used alum —the only other way I know of chang-
ing a pink hydrangea to blue. There is a great
deal of iron in the construction of the house,

Hydrangea hortensis is hardy as far north as New
York and will live through the winter without
protection

however, and no doubt the natural drainage has
carried it to the hedge in solution. Such presence
of iron in the soil explains the intense blue color
of the hydrangeas that grow in profusion in the
vale of Furnas, in the hot spring region of San
Miguel, Azores.

The best tubbed specimens of the newer Otaksa
type that I have run across are nearly ten years
old, and have grown so cumbersome that they are
to be discarded very soon. They are made to
produce blue flowers by the use of iron filings in
the soil. Their wintering is in a cool shed cellar,
where they have nothing over them but are not
allowed to freeze. So far as I know, this type
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A New Use for Burlap

E CAREFUL when watering seeds in flats.
Although I used a sprinkler with a very
fine rose, I found that I washed to the edges the
seeds in several flats of foxgloves, leaving the:
centre bare, while at the edges the plants were too
thick. After that I escaped further trouble by
soaking burlap in water and laying it on flats.
After the seedlings are up the danger of washing
them out is small.

Burlap, by the way, is one of the handiest gar-
dening ‘‘tools.” I use it to shade flats of seedlings,
placing it over sticks, a couple of feet long, nailed
to each corner of the box, shade transplanted
plants with it, and in the fall protect from frost
the best of the dahlias. With the present prices
of lumber, it is more economical to use over seed-
beds than the orthodox lath screen, and appears
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fruit the first season.
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red raspberry.

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The Chapter Headings

On the Relation of Landscape to Life.
On the Ministry of Trees.

On Looking at the Sky.

On he Weather.

On the Art which Mends Nature.

Concerning the American Landscape.

On American Landscape Gardening.

As to the Field of Criticism.

zo. Onthe American Landscape Gardeners.

Am. Masterpieces of Landscape Archi-

tecture.

ze. On the Improvement of the Open
Country.

13- On the Ownership of Scenery.

14. On the Decorative Use of Landscape.

a5- As tothe Landscape in Literature.

16. On the Beauty of Landscape Psycho-
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17. SuggestingSomePractical Applications.

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PROTECTION AGAINST ROT

What is the best method to prevent the rotting
of that part of wooden (chestnut) posts which is
to be put under ground?

Maryland. 405 ING 5
—Charring the parts of posts or timbers which come
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treated with a coating of creosote or they may be
dipped into hot coal tar.

DATURAS IN A BORDER

What is the correct name for the plant commonly
known as “wedding bells?”

Massachusetts. E. F. T.
—The name “wedding bells” is applied more or
less loosely to any one of the species of Datura,
but perhaps more appropriately to Datura corm-
gera. The daturas are easy to grow, some being
treated as tender annuals. In the North the
woody species can be grown outdoors in the
summer and stored in cellars. during the winter.
Daturas are sometimes kept in cool conservatories
the year round, but they rarely flower well in
pots, their roots being large and spreading and
requiring a constant supply of moisture. Plant
them in the border and have great quantities of
bloom in the spring. After flowering cut the plants
to the main limbs, or a straggling and unsightly
growth will result.

IMPROVING THE SOIL

Three years ago the soil in my garden was
poisoned or soured by the use of horse manure
containing wood shavings instead of straw. All
vegetable plants have since been stunted and
fertilizers fail to make the soil produce as it should.
The surface after a rain shows a greenish scum.
What remedy can be applied?

Pennsylvania. F. M.
—The soil has not been poisoned, but soured. It
is probably due to poor drainage and not to the
manure; this opinion is strengthened by the
statement that after a rain the surface shows a
greenish scum, an unfailing sign of imperfect
drainage. Wood shavings have been successfully
used as a fertilizer on a large scale in certain sec-
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lightening the soil and therefore are more useful
on clays than on lighter loams. It may be possible
that your land is over-manured; if so, it will
quickly recover after receiving a dressing of lime.

Marcu, 1911

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Cultivator and Seeder

Is a Perfect Implement for the Small Garden

It has every part necessary for all kinds of hill and drill seeding
and for both straddle and between the row cultivating and may be used
with one or two wheels. It makes gardening a pleasure for man,
woman or child, saves arduous labor and gives the best results.

For the family which has a small home in the country or in the
suburbs it is the ideal outfit. Its parts are easily adjusted and the con-
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Ask your dealer to show you an Ames Cultivator and Seeder
and look for our name on the handle. It can be used with equal
facility in all kinds of soils in every part of the country.

The Ames Plow Company has been manufacturing small and
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best for the garden. If your dealer does not carry it write us direct
and we will send you a catalog. In writing kindly mention your
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“HAMILTON-MADE”
GARDEN HOSE

What priced hose is cheapest?

ce OW much should I pay for gardenhose? Is 6-cent,
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and that all use their hose with the same care—or Jack of care,
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ME dealers do not sell the highest-grade garden hose.
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Marcu, 1911

ult

Home-Made Plant Protectors

[MRE all transplanted plants require some

protection for a few days after they are set
out, and the amateur gardener is often at a loss
to find suitable articles for the purpose. Peach
baskets, berry boxes, shingles and even news-
papers are often used, but these do not answer
the purpose well nor are they convenient to handle.

After one season of putting up with such make-
shifts I decided to find some better way to protect
my plants and finally hit upon the scheme of
making “‘domes” out of mosquito netting, on a
framework made of barrel hoops.

I was fortunate in having several old barrels
on the place and from these I removed the hoops,
being careful not to break them. The best hoops
I used for the base, leaving the weaker and broken
ones for the semi-circular arches. I used three such
arches on each protector, although two would
probably have done well enough.

I secured the ends of the arches to the circular
base by means of one-inch wire nails, clinching
them securely. I found that it took just one

Protectors for newly transplanted seedlings made
of barrel hoops and mosquito netting

square yard of mosquito netting for each protector.
(I made a few of two thicknesses for use where
greater protection was needed.) The netting was
drawn fairly taut and fastened with double
pointed tacks on the inside of the base.

I used these contrivances in my garden last
spring and found them far superior to the old
makeshifts. I was most successful in my transplant-
ing and I am sure I have been repaid for my few
hours’ work. The cost of the protectors was almost
nothing. The netting costs three cents a yard,
and the hoops and small amount of hardware
could hardly be said to represent any cash value
at all. When out of use the protectors nest one
within the other, taking up surprisingly little room.

I believe there are similar contrivances on the
market that may be purchased, ready made, but
I am sure they cannot be any more satisfactory
and certainly not as inexpensive as these home-
made ones of mine.

New York. H. E. ANGELL.

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Father of Tree Surgery,

Expert tree work is far less expensive than cheap tree work because experts get to work quickly, climb more rapidly, waste no time in useless
experiment, carry a complete equipment of necessary tools, and — most important of all—they leave your trees in practically perfect condition, as
far as human skill can make them so. Your trees are not butchered nor practiced upon. They are treated by thoroughly trained men who are
skilled in the use of John Davey’s methods— the same methods which have saved many times ten thousand trees. These men know how, and

“Know-how” is always less expensive than haphazard experiments and blunders.

The Davey Tree Experts Alone Are Trained in Tree Surgery

First of all, the Davey men are selected carefully. They are gentlemen — intelli-
gent, earnest, ambitious, and trustworthy. This training has been in the organization
which created the science of Tree Surgery and which developed every method of
worth. The Davey Institute of Tree Surgery is maintained by the company at very
heavy expense for the sole purpose of schooling its men regarding tree life, insect
enemies of trees, tree diseases, proper remedies, and —most important of all—the
theory and practice of Tree Surgery, which cannot be obtained elsewhere. They are
specialists in the treatment of trees. There are no successful imitators.

THE WARNER BROTHERS COMPANY, Manufacturers of Corsets, Bridgeport, Conn.

The Davey Tree Expert Company have done work for me both on my place at Augusta, Ga., and Bridgeport.
Their treatment of trees is both scientific and sensible and I believe the class of work they are doing will materially
prolong the life of trees. I am entirely satisfied with what they have done for me and unhesitatingly recommend
them to any one who desires similar work done. I should employ them again if I had any work in their line,

Yours very truly, (Signed) 7. De Vere Warner.

The service of The Davey Tree Expert Company is available, east of the Missouri River, to those
who desire quality work at a cost which is not umreasonable. Send to-day for handsome booklet and
full information. When you write, tell us how many trees you have, what kind and where located.

Se

THE DAVEY TREE EXPERT COMPANY, INC., 153 Oak St., Kent, Ohio — J THE TREE OPPOSITE
: : ; : AS THE DAVEY EXPERTS LEFT 1T
Dahli Dahli.

From the largest collection in America you have the privilege
of selecting when you have our 1911 Garden Manual before
you. The Manual has this season been rewritten and new
illustrations used to make it stand in the front as a place to find

The Newest in Flowers

The Newest in Vegetables

The Best in Spring Flowering Bulbs
Ornamental Shrubs and Fruit Trees
Perennial Plants

and Sundries for the Lawn and Garden.

w« This Garden Manual is ‘an addition to any collection of
reference books. Write us now and we will mail it free.

s We want you to know more about our
D ahli a S collectionand wemake this offer to mail
to any Post Office in the United States
Ten Dahlias for $1.00

Your selection as to whether they shall be Cactus, Decorative,
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all with correct names, mailed to you for $1.00

If interested in Dahlia or Gladiolus ask for our special catalogue. Over
1,000 varieties to select from. Mailed free for the asking.

Fottler, Fiske, Rawson Co.
Faneuil Hall Square BOSTON

Boddington’s Quality Vegetable Seeds are used in America’s most successful gardens, producing crops which win
prizes each year at famous exhibitions. But, whether sold in large or small quantities, their high standard of excellence
and Quality is always the same—and they are just as valuable to the owner of the small home garden as to those whose
plantings cover many acres.

We want you to try them this year and improve your garden, too! In order to make it perfectly easy for you, we
have made up four special collections which include everything that you will care to plant, and varying from a packet to
several ounces or quarts—so you can get the collection that just fits the size of your vegetable garden.

When ordering in the usual way, you're likely to forget something that you really want; when you get one of the
following special collections, however, you are sure to have every kind of seed you need for the whole year’s planting.
Our method saves you uncertainty and worry.

Boddington’s Collections of

Quality Vegetable Seeds

listed below, comprise what we know to be the finest varieties, and we include those kinds that will provide a succession of fresh vegetables from early
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PEAS—Boddington’s Early of Earlies.... 5 : -|LET TUCE—May King
Boddington’s Early Bird : : : -| Bostor Markez........ eae Oye
oddington’s Selected Gradus : : : -| Califoynia Cream Butter
Telephone : : : -| (Romaine) Boddington’s Eclipse........
-| MELON—Boddington’s Selected Emerald
BEANS—Boddington’s Bountiful

Mammoth Stringless Green Pod
Refugee W
Bush Li “ c A ae)
Pole L ° 5 : - |ONION—Bcddington’s Bountiful
BEETS—Boddineton’s Early Model Globe : : : : The Queen
Crosby's Egyptian : : : : Yellow Globe Danvers
BRUSSELS SPROUTS—The Wroxton.. : : b - |PARSLEY—Boddington’s Triple Moss-
CABBAGE —Boddington’s Early of Earlies :
Early Jersey Wakefield
ate American Drumhead
Mammoth Red R
CARROT—Early Scarlet Horn
Danvers Half-Long
CAULIFLOWER — Boddington’s Extra- Olive-shaped French Breakfast
Early Snowball . : : -| Early Scarlet Turnip and Crimson Giant. -
Earliest Dwarf Erfurt j : : .
CELERY—Boddington’s Improved White

- |SPINACH—Boddington’s Triumph
-|_ Victoria
-|SQUASH—Boddington’s Extra-Early Jer-
Country Gentleman : : : : sey White Bus
Stowell’s Evergreen . : : -| Improved Hubbard
CUCUMBER — Boddington’s Selected English Vegetab’e Marrow
White Spine (Improved) : . 5 -|TOMATO—Boddington’s Ear!y Sunrise. .
EGGPLANT—Boddington’s Improved Dwarf Stone
New York Spineless : . : -| Earliana
ENDIVE—Moss_ Curled : : : -|__ Ponderosa
Broad-leaved Batavian : - : - | TURNIP—Boddington’s Model Snowball. -
KALE—Dwarf Green Curled Scotch : : : -| Golden Ball
KOHLRABI—Boddington’s Early White (Rutabaga) Champion
Delicious : : : - |HERBS—Dill, Fennel, Lavender, Marjoram,
LEEK—Boddington’s Prizetaker : - : 5 Savory, Thyme

Boddington’s Famous Giant Orchid-Flowering Sweet Pea Seed Free If You Order Now

To encourage early ordering, and to further introduce our Quality flower seed, we will include free, packages of our famous Giant Orchid-
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with Collection D, 16 ozs. With every order we will also include a copy of

BODDINGTON’S 1911 GARDEN GUIDE

—144 pages, handsome art covers, elaborate photographic illustrations from life throughout. The descriptions are accurate, and complete cultural
directions are included. This is a really helpful “‘Guide,” and if you have a garden, we want you to have a copy, whether or not you order one of the
above special collections. Write for it zow—and we will gladly forward a copy free by return mail.

Departmet¢ ARTHUR T. BODDINGTON, Seedsman, 342 West 14th Street, New York City .71¢°ticis,

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Your Garden and Burpee’s Seeds

HERE is one man in
this great Country of
ours who is helping the
Farmers, great and
small, in a permanent
way, and that man is

W. Atlee Burpee, of Philadelphia,

California and the Planet Earth.

He mates plants, breeds, and evolves
Seeds that Grow.

Whether you plan to plant a square
yard of ground, an acre or three acres,
you should, for your own protection
and satisfaction, write Burpee.

Burpee knows what he is talking
about, and he gives Service plus. That
is, he experiments with Seeds three
hundred sixty-five days each Year, at
his own expense, but only the Best he
sells to you.

This is an interesting fact: Burpee
experiments for you—you don’t exper-
iment for Burpee.

The Burpee- Business is more than
that—it isa Friendship. “My Friends”
(what a fine phrase for a Business
Man !)—that means honest treatment,
fair dealing, prompt service and
Seeds that Grow.

Burpee buys no seeds in the Open
Market. Burpee seeds are grown by
Burpee.

Burpee is a Busy Boy bent on
Benefiting you.

Burpee’s Customers are always
Burpee’s Customers.

Any man or woman, girl or boy,
whois interested in a Garden, Flowers,
or Home-grown Vegetables, would do
well to write to W. Atlee Burpee for
his Latest ‘“‘Seed-Book.” It’s a Gar-
den Guide. . . . The information
given has net been gleaned from an
Encyclopedia; it’s the crystallized
Garden Experience of a Man who tells
of things as he knows them—W.
Atlee Burpee. You should have this
Book—and you may. Just Address

Burpee—Philadelphia.
The above advt. was written by the Editor, ELBERT HUBBARD,

d ed in The Fra, J ry, 1910. That “‘Fra Elbertus,”’ as
the ehr ia Famili eS kaaein anc *” believe in

iarly known, and his fellow ““Roycrofters
BURPEE’S SEEDS is even better proven, however, by the annual
orders for their own planting at East Aurora, N. Y.

Do You want a Copy of BURPEE’S
NEW ANNUAL FOR 1911? If so, name
Garden Magazine and writeTO-DAY!

Thirty-Five Famous Burpee-Specialties
Any “Four of the Finest” Novelties,—for 25 Cts.!

2 5 Cts buys any Four of the Thirty-five

e Flowers and Vegetables named in
this Advertisement; or you may select any Nine
for 50 cts.; any Fourteen varieties for 75 cts.,
or any Twenty varieties for One Dollar. All
these seeds are in regular size packets, costing 10
cts. and 15 cts. per pkt.—if purchased separately.

Seventeen Superb Vegetables.

Of the varieties enumerated below, all but
one were first named and introduced by us!

93 Burpee’s Giant-Podded Pole Lima.

By far the largest podded and most productive of all Limas.
For illustrations and description see pages 8 and 9 of Burpee’s New
Annual for rort.

The only

65 Fordhook Bush Lima. ii’ 22%

bush form of the popular Potato Lima. For pods in natural colors
and description,—see page 6.

22 Bush Bean,—Fordhook Favorite.

Quite unique,—the only White-seeded Stringless Green-Pod. For
illustration, description and prices,—see pages 10 and rz of Bur-
pee’s Annual for r1ort.

121 Beet,—Burpee’s Black-Red Ball.

Extremely early and of finest quality,—see page r2.

301 Burpee’s Golden Bantam Sweet Corn.

Earliest and best extreme early,—most delicious in flavor. For
illustrations and descriptions,—see pages 17 and 48.

310 “Howling-Mob” Sweet Corn.

The best large-eared extra early white Sweet Corn. For descrip-
tion,—see page 48 of Burpee’s New Annual for tort.

393 Fordhook Famous Cucumber.

The most beautiful and best long green cucumber,—see page 53 of
Burpee’s New Annual for rorr.

420 Burpee’s Black Beauty Egg Plant.

Earliest and best of all large-fruited,—see page 55.
476 Burpee’s “Wayahead” Lettuce

Earliest and most solid of all early Butterhead Lettuces,—see page
10 of The Burpee Annual for ror.

523 Burpee’s Brittle-Ice Lettuce.

The most distinct and largest heading “‘Crisp Head’? summer
Lettuce,—see page 50 of the Burpee Annual.

575 Burpee’s Emerald Gem Musk Melon.

First introduced by us in 1886, this has been long recognized as
the sweetest of all melons,—see page 63.

574 Burpee’s Fordhook Musk Melon.

Pronounced equal to Emerald Gem in delicious flavor, the melons
carry to market as well as Burpee’s Netted Gem—the famous
Rocky Ford Melon,—see pages 21 and 63.

611 Burpee’s “Halbert Honey” Watermelon

Fully equals the famous Kleckley Sweets in luscious flavor and of
better form,—see page 26 Burpee’s Annual for Tort.

676 Burpee’s Golden Globe Onion.

Earliest and longest keeping of globe-shaped,—see page 72.
707 Burpee’s Mammoth Silver King Onion.

Introduced by us in 1884 (twenty-seven years ago!), this is still
the largest of all white onions,—-see page 73.

1101 Chalk’s Early Jewel Tomato.
The best extra early and the best ‘‘all seasons’ bright red
tomato,—see pages 23 and go of The Burpee Annual.

9 e

1095 Burpee’s Dwarf-Giant Tomato.
By far'the largest fruited and best of all dwarf tomatoes,—see
pages 24 and 25 of Burpee’s New Annual for rorr.
2 5 Ct buys any “Four of the Finest” Specialties

Se named above; 50 Cts. buys any Nine, while 75
Cts. buys any Fourteen varieties; $1.00 buys any Twenty of
the Thirty-five Vegetables and Flowers named in this advertise-
ment,—in regular packets postpaid.

("Make your own selection at the rate of only
five cents per packet (provided you buy twenty
varieties or more), and thus you will secure the Best
Seed of the Choicest Novelties at the same rate your
neighbors pay for common seed of old varieties at the
village store. And all the trouble you have is simply
to check 7/ the varieties wanted and, with your re-
mittance, return the Yellow Circular enclosed with
each BURPEE’S ANNUAL with your name and address.
Or you can order direct from this advt.,—giving the
numbers of varieties wanted.

Nine New Sweet Peas.

Your choice in regular packets (which, if purchased
separately, would cost ro cts. or 15 cts. per packet) of
any Four varieties 25 Cts., or all Nine for 50 Cts.,
—postpaid to any American address.

3146 Florence Nightingale. ,,7%./2%<

ender Spencer,—see page 113 of Burpee’s New Annual.

3162 Mrs. Hugh Dickson. ,,.c0° pei fine

cers,—see page 112 of Burpee’s Annual for rort.
3168 Purple Prince Spencer. ,5° 9°72:
most beautiful and distinct New Spencer,—now first offered,—see
page 113 of The Burpee Annual for rorr.

“Ennobled” type of

3131 America Spencer. corsa ype!

—see page 113 of Burpee’s New Annual for rort.
3173 Senator Spencer. yop ep 6.

© B iful
3175 W. T. Hutchins. 2 Speen

3164 Paradise Ivory. wiitiepia
3181 Superb Spencer Seedlings.

Burpee’s Unequaled New Blend for 1o11,—-see page 178.

3013 Ros e du Barri An entirely new Grandi-

flora, unique.and distinct.

Nine Other New Flowers.

Any Four for 25 Cts.; All Nine for 50 Cts.

15262 New Fancy Antirrhinums.
The Burpee-Blend for 1911. For illustration and description,
—see page 119 of Burpee’s New Annual.

1906 African Golden-Orange Daisy |
(Dimorphotheca Aurantiaca). Entirely unique in color,—a most
remarkable and truly ‘“‘sensational” novelty. For illustration and
description,—see page 120.

1915 Burbank’s Fireflame Eschscholtzia.

Most gorgeously brilliant,—now first introduced by us.

2860 Variegated Queen Nasturtiums.
Burpee’s Superb Mixture for 1911. For description and
colored plate painted from nature,—see pages 108 and 109.

2327 Best Giant-Flowered Pansies.

The Burpee-Blend for 1911 is the choicest and most complete |
mixture ever offered,—see pages 1a3 and 142.

A most charm-

2476 New “Cecily” Phlox. ;,7° 79°
growa and improved at Fordhook Farms,—see page 145.
2479 New Burbank Poppies. |

Wondrously varied in color and extra large in size. For Luther
Burbank’s own description,—see page 125. :

2524 New Giant-Flowered Portulaca, —
“Parana,” 6 cna, ce dant cee |
2554 Azure-Fairy Scabiosa. ,,0:°7 {tt

lovely new double Scabious,—see page r2r.

8@=Thousands who plant these new flowers and choicest vegetables will surely remember with pleasure for months,
the coming season, that 1911 is the Thirty-Fifth Anniversary of THE BURPEE-BUSINESS IN QUALITY-SEEDS! It
goes without saying that if you are not thoroughly satisfied, you can have your money back any time within the
year,—for such is the guarantee that goes with all Seeds purchased of

W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Burpee Buildings, Philadelphia

THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY. N. Y.

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COUNTRY LIFE gg =) DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & Ct

IN AMERICA GARDEN CITY AND NEW YORK

Bobbink & Atkins

WE PLAN AND PLANT GROUNDS AND GARDENS EVERYWHERE WITH OUR

World’s

The proper way to buy is to see the material growing.

Choicest Nursery Products.

We shall gladly give our time and attention to all

intending purchasers visiting our nursery, and invite everybody interested in improving their grounds to visit us.
Our nursery consists of 250 acres of highly cultivated land, and is planted with a choice selection of Ornamental
Nursery Products, placing us in a position to complete plantings and fill orders of any magnitude.

ROSES. It is important to
place orders at once,
while we have several
hundred thousand in
choice, new and popu-
lar kinds. We are fre-
quently sold out of

many varieties, causing annoyance and disappointment.

RHODODENDRONS. Many thousand of acclimated plants in Hardy Eng-

lish and American varieties are growing in our nursery.

EVERGREENS, CONIFERS AND PINES. More than 75 acres of our

nursery are planted with handsome specimens of these popular lawn plants.

HARDY OLD-FASHIONED PLANTS. Hundreds of thousands of new,
rare, and popular varieties of these old-time favorites are growing in many
acres of our nursery.

ORNAMENTAL SHADE, WEEPING AND STANDARD TREES. 200,000

of these in all kinds can be seen in our nursery, We grow them for
every place and purpose.

FLOWERING SHRUBS AND HEDGE PLANTS. We make a specialty

of them and can do plantings or fill orders of any size.

Bobbink

Nurserymen, Florists and Planters

-Their Lives
are in Danger

that they require but a small amount af expert work to make them completely so.

JOHN DAVEY
‘Breather of Tree Surgery’

TRAINED, DWARF AND ORDINARY FRUIT TREES AND SMALL
FRUITS. We grow these for all kinds of orchards.

HARDY TRAILING AND CLIMBING VINES. We grow immense quan-
tities for all kinds of plantings.
BOXWOOD AND BAY TREES. Are one of the many attractions of our

nursery. We carry many thousands of specimens.
ENGLISH POT GROWN GRAPE VINES. For greenhouse cultivation.

BULBS AND ROOTS. Spring, Summer and Autumn flowering.

LAWN GRASS SEED. Our Rutherford Park Lawn Mixture has given
satisfaction everywhere.

TUBS. We manufacture all shapes and sizes.

OUR PRODUCTS give satisfaction, because they possess the standard of
quality created by the highest grade of cultivation.

OUR ILLUSTRATED GENERAL CATALOGUE NO. 25 will tell you

about the above and all our other products for Lawns and Gardens.

Visitors to our Nurseries are always Welcome. We grow everything forevery style
of garden. The General Supervision of Public Grounds and Private Estates a
Specialty. Rutherford is the first stop on the Main Line of the Erie Railroad; 8

miles from New York City.

& Atkins

Ask for special list.

RUTHERFORD, N. J.

Their Wounds

A perfect tree is a rare thing. Only a very small percentage of our American trees are so nearly perfect

In any grove of one

hundred trees, native or transplanted, from ten to fifty will be found in a serious condition, as a rule—
exceptions to this rule are very rarely found. Probably half of the remainder will show evidences of
moderately serious conditions and the other half will grade from that stage to nearly perfect.

The Vast Majority of Trees Need
Expert Treatment.

Abuse and neglect are the two chief factors which
are at work to destroy trees. If even the tiniest
cavity in a tooth is neglected the inevitable result
is either a difficult operation in the course of a few
years or the loss of the tooth. Just so with the
trees—the small and innocent looking hole you see
today will be greatly increased in diiaensions five
years hence. As the cavity grows in size, it
weakens the tree and in but a few years the
tree will be blown down some windy day.

Prompt Treatment of Tree Ills
Saves Money.

While a tree is but slightly affected it is a com-
paratively inexpensive matter for it to be treated
by the Davey experts. They will treat the cavity,
stop the decay, fill the hole skillfully, and the bark
will gradually heal over it. The longer the tree
is neglected the more its life is endangered and the
more it costs to save it. It pays to take time by the
forelock and give your trees really expert attention
when they least needit. As the tree grows worse,
treatment becomes more imperative and more expensive.

Write Us Now About Your Fine Trees and Their Examination by An Expert.
The quality service of our experts is available east of the Missouri River. Our special representatives are
making up their traveling schedules for spring and summer. It is quite possible we can arrange to have one

of them make an examination of your trees without cost or obligation to you—if we hear from you

at once. When you write, tell us how many trees you have; what kinds and where located. We will
write you promptly and send you booklet explaining the science of tree surgery and the
Davey service, giving ample evidence of its practical and permanent value to trees.

THE DAVEY TREE EXPERT CO., Inc.
154 OAK ST., KENT, OHIO.

(Operating the Davey Institute of
ree Surgery.

Aprit, 1911 Tab GARDEN MAGAZINE

Nas have you heard sacred music sung so beautifully as it is brought to you on
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Soul-stirring hymns, magnificent anthems and oratorios, rendered by the ablest singers.
Just think of hearing such selections as these:

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5760 Face to Face (Herbert Johnson) Percy Hemus GAG The Light of the World is Jesus. ... Whitney Bros. Quartet
Adeste Fidelis Westminster Chimes 495 \ He Leadeth Me .....Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler
16053 , Lead Kindly Light and Nearer My Sere. Thee 2 I Heard os, Jesus Say Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler
estminster imes Ave Maria (Gouno Elizabeth Wheeler
“Bie { The Palms Harry Macdonough ABS Beyond the Smiling and the Weeping.. ..Peerless Quartet
4 The Holy City Harry Macdonough 5 Softly Now the Light of Day Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler
GP Where is My Boy To-night Haydn Quartet 31770 Hallelujah Chorus from “Messiah”
There is a Fountain Fill’d with Blood Trinity Choir Victor Chorus with Sousa’s B: and
avant Throw Out the Life Line. .. Macdonough and Haydn Quartet 31781 Festival Te Deum (Dudley Buck) .... Trinity Choir
43°) Onward Christian Soldiers. ... Westminster Choir with band Ee oe Surrender Trinity Choir
16451 Yield Not to Temptation Percy Hemus 129, Trinity Choir

Victor Red Seal Records

88138 Silent Night, Holy Night (in German) 88016 Ave Maria (in Latin) _.Emma Eames
Ernestine Schumann-Heink 85102 Elijah—O Rest in the Lord ; . .Louise Homer
88059 Stabat Mater—Inflammatus (in Latin) Johanna Gadski 64092 Lead Kindly Light Evan Williams

16490

Hear this beautiful sacred music today. Any Victor dealer will gladly play any Victor
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And be sure to hear the Victor-Victrola

The new Victor Record catalog lists more than 3,000 selections—both single- and double-faced
records. Same high quality—only difference is in the price. Buy double-faced if the
combination suits you.

Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N. J.

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To get best results, use only Victor Needles on Victor Records

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Protect and Beautify
Your Grounds

Only one moderate-priced fence has ade-
quate strength for protective purposes
and a beauty of outline that harmo-
nizes perfectly with its surroundings—

Barcalo
Sensible
Steel Fence

Barcalo Sensible Steel Fence is almost as much
superior to iron fence as iron is to wood fence
—a truly modern fence.

It meets every requirement for estates, schools,
parks, cemeteries, railroad and factory yards.

Strength of Steel—Price of Wood

Barcalo Steel Fence is ex-
tremely light, but possesses
marvelous resisting powers.

The Barcalo V-Joint is the
' greatest improvement
made in this type of fence
in years. It gives the entire
fence a present and perma-
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practically what a wood
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to erect.

Let us tell you about the undupli-
cated points of superiority in The
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prices mailed free on request.

We need aggressive representa-
tives. If you appreciate an at-
tractive offer on an easily sold
fence, send for our agents’ prop-
osition.

Barcalo Mfg. Co.

Dept. D-41, Suffalo, N. Y.

A Sweet Rocket for Semi-shady
Situations

O OTHER free-flowering plant that I know
of will bloom, increase, and seem so happy
and at home in such trying places as the rocket
(Hesperis matronalis). In full sunlight and fairly
good soil it makes a plant two to three feet tall and
as broad, but in less congenial situations and
even where hardly any other attractive plant would
grow, it sends up only a single stalk which branches
as it blooms. It self-sows, however, and as plants
come up every few inches, it presents a mass
effect when in bloom.

Tt flowers from the middle of May until the
last of June, the blossoms being a pale pink
and a fair white. I have it growing along the
edge of a shady roadway, and in between the
bordering shrubs. Here it sows itself and, being
a hardy, lasting perennial, it does not take long to
establish a colony. Plants that would thrive _at

The free-flowering sweet rocket (Hesperis matron-
alis) is at home in most trying situations

all — other than early spring-blooming ones —
in semi-shady places are scarce, and one having
such situations should try the rocket. Scattering
seed early in the spring will, in a couple of years,
create quite a group.

Illinois. W. C. EGAn.

Repotting Forced Plants

N “The Rejuvenation of Azaleas and Poinset-

tias,” in the February, 1911, GARDEN MaGAzinge,
T noted the statement that a florist told the authcr
afterward it would have been better to have
repotted the azalea in the spring. My experience
has been that repotting in the fall, as the author
of that article did, produces more flowers the
succeeding winter. If the repotting is done in the
spring the plant does not have a sufficient period
of rest in which to recover from having been forced
and the new earth stimulates wood and leaf growth
at the expense of the flower buds.

If the plant is watered occasionally after flower-
ing and, when all danger of frost is passed, is
plunged, pot and all, into the ground in a partially
shaded place, it will have an opportunity to re-
cuperate and end development will be stimulated.
Fall repotting gives a new supply of food which
is utilized in developing flowers.

Massachusetts. H. D. P.

T camamans sone

| Wilson’s Outside Venetians

Blind and Awning Combined

For town and country houses. Very durable and artistic.
Easily operated from inside. Admit air; exclude sun rays.

Special Outside Venetians
for porches and piazzas,
exclude the sun; admit the
breeze, Virtually make an
outdoor room.

Orders should be placed
now for early summer.

Write for Catalogue 4.

Also Inside Venetians,
Rolling Partitions, Rolling
Steel Shutters, Burglar and
Fireproof Steel Curtains,
Wood Block Floors.

JAS. G. WILSON
MFG. CO.

3 and 5 West 29th St.

Wilson's Piazza Blinds New York

BARTON’S
LAWN TRIMMER

TAKES THE PLACE OF SICKLE AND
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Special Attention Given To Original Designs

A visit to our studio will prove well worth your
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Our catalog, containing more than

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APRIL, 1911

- . The Readers’ Service will give mnjormation ‘
APRIL,1911 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE ra the latest aulomobile PEL iteR 139

feeLLEIIS

Hardy Ferns and Flowers
for Dark Shady Places

O corner is so shady but that certain hardy ferns and
flowers will thrive there. There is no soil so light

and sandy but that some of these plants will beautify it.
For 25 years we have been growing these hardy ferns and
flowers and know something of the conditions necessary

to their growth. Have you a shady nook, a bit of wood-
land path, 2 brook or swampy spot, or a rocky hillside
you wish to re-establish and grace with ferns and flowers
and rhododendrons and so bring out the natural charms ?
Do you wish the little wooded path bordered with bright
hepaticas, bloodroots, trilliums, wood-violets and dainty
yet hardy ferns; or the low marshy place brightened with
, brilliant lobelias, yellow marsh-marigolds and bright blue
gentians? We are in a position to help you, and shall be
glad to send our descriptive catalogue which may aid you
in selecting. Pictures of some of these wild wood plants
have been taken by us here and are shown by half-tones
in the catalogue, including the clump shown in this ad of
Aspidium Goldianum and Asplenium Angustifolium.

EDWARD GILLETT

Box C, Southwick, Mass. fe FY

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ISWEET CORN

when you have planted in your garden |
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You will have a variety that is early,
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Seed that has been very carefully
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plant it. Do not wait any longer.
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It is easy to grow fine hedges when
you plant Allen’s strong, healthy,
well-rooted plants. Our stock is
right and our prices are right.

California Privet (Ligustrum Ovalifolium) 2 yr., well
branched, strong 2 to 8 teet, 3.00 per 100; 825.00
per 1,000; 18 to 24 in.,%2.00 per 100, %18.00 per
1000; 15 to 18 in., $1.50 per 100,812.50 per 1,000;
10 to 15 in. 81.25 per 100, 810.00 per 1,000.
Amur River Priyet (Ligustrum Amurense) 2 yr,
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18 to 24 in., 82.50 per 100, %20.00 per 1.000; 15
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Spirea Van Houtti, 2 yr. strong, 2 to 8 feet. ®15.00
per 100, 440.00 per 1.000; 18 to 24 in., 38.50 per
100, 850.00 per 1,000; 12 to 18 in., $2.50 per 100,
20.00 per 1,000.

Also a long list of other shrubbery and small fruit
plants. Get my catalog. It is free.

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The Readers’ Servi y ;
140 sal ceinateon cio bisaenre T H E G A R D E N M A G A Z I N E APRIL, 1911

Does YOUR. PLACE have THAT NEW LOOK ?

The: planting of a simple hedge, the addition of one or two large trees, or the screening
of.an unsightly view or building is perhaps all it needs to make it attractive and homelike.
A very little expense for so much comfort and satisfaction.

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We make a planting plan of your place, selecting trees,
shrubs, etc., suitable to soil and situation, and give
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Write for Catalog A and Instruclicn Book.

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A ice Fence Protects But Dox Not Hide

A low-growing California privet hedge-fence will add to the appearance of the home-ground, keep
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A Privet Fence Is Least Expensive, ? Some Other Uses For California
Its first cost, including planting, is less GET HARRISON S) Privet. —\t can be trimmed to any
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Meer 1981 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE “* titetessigmenie mitt M1

When You Buy

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You do not experiment—You succeed.

And then too, you are not dealing with
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but with a live personality—a man who
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Want a Copy? Mailed on Request

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Box 40 Martinsville, Ind.

Strawberry Plants That Grow

Largest stock of thrifty young plants in the New
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Sub-aquatic plants, hardy old-fashioned garden
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ERE’S a fence that thoroughly incloses and excludes and
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In spite of its many superior features American Park and Pad-
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It comes in a wide range of heights—from 61 to 88 inches—
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Stocks of American Fence are carried in every place where farm supplies
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He is there to serve the purchaser in person, offer the variety of selection and save the buyer money in
many ways.

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PLANT

Alfalfa should appeal to every thinking farmer who seeks the most from his high-priced
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142 Hens comin SIgeene THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

EARLINE VS SPONGY POWDE

REDUCED PHOTO OF NEW. SPONGE;}

; _ |DRY=IT WEIGHED 1% OzS. AND|

Sp Powder like Sponges absorbs Moisture} |Measunep ‘ssa0 11, INCHES. Oe
which makes the Powder heavier— =

YOU BUY WATER.

Soap Powder like Sponges can be filled with
Air which makes the Powder. Flufher—
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It’s hard to keep the water ‘in—tho" they

have found a way. Open and expose a|

ITHE SAME SPONGE SOAKED IN WATER}
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BEST BY, LES:
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TRY. TO MAKE SOFT SOAP OF THE SPONGY | |

: THE SAME SPONGE EE
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OUR NATIVE AZALEAS

are the most beautiful, hardiest and permanent of any Azaleas known to cultivation.
Ouer 50,000 growing at Highlands Nursery, 3,800 feet elevation in the Carolina Mountains

Lutea (calendulacea), sulphur yellow to deep Canescens, brilliant pink, early species.
Nudiflora, dwarf, with deep pink flowers; early.
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APRIL, 191]

Anybody Can Grow Flowers
or Ferns Successfully In
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Flower Growing No Longer a Knack

You may think you can’t grow
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Aprizt, 1911 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

If You Grow

YOU NEED

Roses and How to

Grow Them

By MANY EXPERTS

The only recent book on this most
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The Flower Garden

By IDA D. BENNETT

“A clear and concise summary of
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Daffodils a Narcissus and

How to Grow Them

By A. M. KIRBY

All that is really worth while about
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The Vegetable Garden Ferns and How to Grow Them

A D. BENNETT

This book deals fully Siutihiowarioas vegetables that form the staple of the By G. A. WOOLSON
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House Plants and How to Grow Them Lawns and How to Make Them

By P. T. BARNES By LEONARD BARRON

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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

The Little Gardens Number

“T want every single man, woman, and child, who reads
this Little Gardens Number, to start right now to make his own
garden. If it is only one two-inch pot of soil and a seed from the
orange or the apple you are eating, it is wort while. We want
America to be all a garden, to be a land of the people’s gardens,
the mother’s garden, the child’s garden, and not alone a land of

the rich man’s gardener’s gardens.”

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Consulting Editor

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Country Life
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A Partial List of the Special Illustrated Features:

“Unique Little Gardens,” by Warren
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“The Right and Wrong Kind of
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how to realize them—practical and impractical fruit
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“Perfect Home Grounds of One
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“Why a Walled Garden is the
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A FEW REMARKS ABOUT SPRING
and DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO.

The advent of spring is generally hailed
with joy by all the world for reasons fully
explained by every poet who ever lived, but
we have a few private reasons for acclaiming
it which we would like to set down.

To Doubleday, Page & Co., the spring of
to11 has been looked forward to with special
keenness and many have been the preparations
made for. its arrival. Among other things
it is our first spring in the country and while
we have enjoyed the winter and things have
gone well with the Country Life Press in
Garden City, we are naturally eager to get
at our planting and complete our plars for
beautifying our forty acres,

There are other reasons, and, we suppose,
from a business point of view, better ones.
For instance:

It is the season when the advertiser gets
cheerful and grows optimistic. The real
estate man combines with us to lure the city
people from town and he has done it with
wonderful success in Country Life in America.
We have been able to trace sales aggregating
several millions of dollars to these attractive
advertisements. We would like to give our-
selves the pleasure of printing paragraphs
from letters received on this subject —a
few taken from a drawerful.

DEAR Sir:

I feel it my duty to write you that had I had the
stock the two one inch Ads. in Country Life would
have sold about $1,200.00 worth of Great Danes.
The results were simply astounding and I have been
selling Great Danes for a good dozen years.

DEar Sir:

I have your letter of the 11th inst. relative to the
advertisement for Country Life in America. I have
this to say regarding the advertisement in your mag-
azine, that even if I did not want to run the Ad. I
would have to or lose, say on the average of twenty
inquiries a month. You know as well as I do what
inquiries lead to. Truthfully speaking, it would be
hard to do without Country Life.

The two one-inch ads. above referred to -

cost $7 each.

The nurserymen.and the seedsmen come
from their winter hiding places and tell the
readers about their great catalogues of
magnificent floral splendors, and these cata-

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And go to ’t with delight.””—A xtony and Cleopatra

logues are increasingly fine. Each year they
become more elaborate and less gaudy, more
useful and practical and less extravagant.

The man who deals in every sort of thing
that grows or is used in or connected with
the garden and the country home, begins to
send in his copy and makes glad the heart
of the Advertising Department, if a depart-
ment can be said to have a heart — and it
has.

For the March numbers the composing
room was called upon to set up nearly one
hundred and twenty thousand lines of ad-
vertising for all our magazines, a figure
which may mean more to the layman when
we say that this is the equivalent of more than
five hundred pages of the regular magazine
size. The quantity is, of course, only part
of the success of the month’s business; it
is the quality of the things advertised that
pleases us. Among these hundreds and
hundreds of announcements are put forth
—in most wonderfully attractive shape
—the articles that first-class people want
and ought to want, and we think there is not
a degrading line among the lot, no patent
medicines, no gambling games, no financial
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we are wrong tell us of a bad advertiser and
we will gladly go after him.

A SUGGESTION DEPARTMENT FOR ADVERTISERS

If a man spends his good money in adver-
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the results are not only bad for the advertiser
but very bad for the publication. We have
noted a great difference between the merits
of the “copy” supplied by advertisers.

For our mutual benefit we have started a
suggestion department at the head of which
is an experienced man whose business it is
to help advertisers now with us and people
who have goods to sell to our readers, but who
are not yet represented in our columns, and
to prepare “copy” which we think will help
to bring success.

The announcement of the starting of this
department brought so many requests for
suggestions that for the first few weeks the
work of the office was overwhelming, but
we have added to the staff and are pre-
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studying the question of copy. We may
say that behind the experts is a collection
of nearly one hundred thousand photographs
owned and being constantly added to by
Doubleday, Page & Co., and a photo-
engraving department, all on the ground at
Garden City, waiting to help.

If you are interested, write to “Suggestion
Department,” Doubleday, Page & Co., Gar-
den City, L. I. The service is absolutely
free and you place yourself under no embar-
rassing —or any other kind — of obligation
in consulting us.

EGOTISM AND LETTERS

As it has been frequently said in these
pages we receive a good many letters which
we should like to reprint for our own gratifi-
cation (and some which we are willing to
grieve over in silence and in private) and we
realize that they cannot be as interesting to
our readers as they are to us, but here are two,
one of which fairly offsets the other and they
will go to show what an interesting sort of
a letter box is ours. We would like to add
that the World’s Work Financial Department
is constantly receiving letters from subscribers
who have saved money by information given
by the financial editor. For example, a
Superintendent of Public Schools in Ohio
writes:

DEAR Sr:

Please send the World's Work to He is a
former pupil of mine and I have advised him to read
your articles on investment closely for some years and
then he will be safeguarded.

As a result of reading these articles I have not made
a bad investment for seven years.

The best of all my investments, therefore, is the
World's Work.

But the World’s Work has harder problems
than the answering of financial questions.
Its editorial staff was called upon the other
day to reply by mail to the following question:

“Tf a squirrel is on the side of a treeand I go around
the tree and the squirrel keeps on the opposite side of
the tree from me, when I have gone around the tree
have I gone around the squirrel?”’

Mid-Month Country Life for March 15th,
which is now just ready on the newstands,
is the “‘ Back to the Land” number, Liberty
H. Bailey, consulting editor. 20 cts.; $4.00
a year.

The Readers’ Service will give information
about the latest automobile accessories

Fairfax Roses Will Put New Life

Into Your Home Rose Garden

This is a sample of Fairfax Roses as] grow them in my Nursery
—right in the heart of the best Rose-growing section of the United P ;
States, where the seasons are long and mild, yet cold enough to pro- R® 21
vide that period of “ripening” and rest so essential to the production — a

of Roses that will thrive in the North. ; _ Wor
And Fairfax Roses do thrive in the North—and in the West and the

Eastaswell. Wherever Rosesare cultivated, my Roseswill show most
satisfactory results—will put new life into your home Rose garden.

APRIL, 1911 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 149

I Have More Than 100,000
of These Splendid Plants

—hearty, vigorous specimens, every one of them, with ample roots to take hold in the
soil of your garden and throw out lusty canes with the return of spring.

This extensive stock covers more than 200 sorts—all the leading varieties that can be
successfully grown, particularly in the hybrid tea class.

My book “Fairfax Roses for 1911,” tells of the finest stock of Roses | have ever grown and

I'll gladly send a copy if you say so.

Box 6, Oakton, Va.

explains my successful methods of Rose propagation.

W. R. Gray,

Big Crops from Little Trees

Dwarf Fruit Trees Solve the Problem of Fruit Growing
in Small Gardens.

Dwarf Apples Why You Should B a ee
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PY Alexander 1. They bear bigger, better fruit; come into bearing several years : OS ey’
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Greening insect pests can be controlled. Picking is easy, because the fruit is
Dwarl4P within reach.
Ww cars 3. With dwarf trees, you can use the land for vegetables, as the
eects pectel shade is less dense.
ect: : Bae earn You can have forty trees, with a variety, in a space 20 feet
Anjou square, save several years, get better fruit, and each tree should

Other varieties listed in booklet

bear a bushel a year.
We offer the best stock ever produced in this country. Our apples

Prices are grafted on Paradise stock, and the pears on quince stock. They
4 Trees, carefully packed, $ 3.00 will succeed in many places where standard trees would fail.
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150 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE Aprin, 1911

A Lawn that will be Your Pride
and Your Neighbor's Envy

Why not have a lawn of real, green grassy grass
—healthy and velvety, with close knit turf—a fazry

carpet of infinite beauty—a lawn that will call forth

admiration from all whosee itP You

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the Twentieth Century invention that restores life to old
lawns and magically produces new lawns where no grass
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KALAKA is a mixture of choicest selected grass seed and a
powerful concentrate of dried animal manure from which all chaff,
weed seeds and impurities are eliminated. Seed and fertilizer are
mixed in scientific proportions, the mixture goes into the ground
together, the seed germinates with moisture and the grass comes up
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Ideal for public and private grounds
where a thickly knit turf and
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Hundreds of users have proven the efficiency of this magic grass
grower. It is sown like any seed but goes further, hence, is more
economical and it is more easily planted and cared for than common
grass seed.

KALAKA comes in 5-lb. boxes—enough to sow 1,000 square
feet of new lawn or renew 2,000 square feet of old lawn.

If your dealer can’t supply you, let us. Express prepaid East
of Missouri River on receipt of $1.00 per box; West of the Missouri
River for $1.25 per box. FREE: Our instructive booklet, “‘HOW
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PERMANENT MATERIALS FOR YOUR GarDEN - Wilhelm Miller 154 PLANTING Fruit TREES WITH DynamMITE - Estelle M. Rawley 17
Photographs by H. Troth, A. G. Eldredge and others G R - 8
READY-MADE PLANTING TABLES FOR ANY GARDEN - - ARDEN INEMINDER SEO th TE ROMRCE, OL | 17
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BALANCE IN THE FLOWER GARDEN - - Mrs. Francis King 164
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THE RicHt WAy TO Buy AND PLANT A FRuIT TREE

Photograph by the author
SprinG Work FoR Every NEW ENGLANDER E. L. D. Seymour 184

; PREPARING DHE, SOLE, =) = = 96 - = = MeROC. 190
W. H. Jenkins 166 Photographs by the author !
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approaching brilliant carmine, with a dash of white at their hearts.
The flowers almost hide the foliage —four and six rows deep, in
clusters of ahundred or more. The leaves are of rich, dark green
—almost evergreen. The plants grow and climb most vigorously,
are hardy as the oak, and are disease-proof. In the Autumn its
bright red seed hips are beautiful to behold.

We will send you a sturdy plant, one-year size, postpaid, for 25c.
Two-year size, 50c, and three yearsize, $1.00, delivery prepaid, 15c
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We have the foremost propagator in America. We have the ideal soil for sturdy

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Our elaborate:y illustrated catalog shows a wide range of Chests and

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APRIL, 1911

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Vo. XIII— No. 3

PUBLISHED MONTHLY

[For the purpose of reckoning dates, New York is
generally taken asastandard. Allow six days’ difference
for every hundred miles of latitude.]

Getting Down to Business

|) OASIS April you must give your
garden a proper start, if you
mean to get the most out of it this season.
But do not be in any unreasonable haste.
There is no arbitrary date for starting
the garden. You can begin earlier on
light soils than you can on heavy, unless
the heavy ones are well underdrained. If
you want the best result from your garden
and have not made a plan before, it will
pay you to follow one of the charts given
in this month’s GARDEN MAGAZINE, or in
one of the April numbers of former years.

Good vegetable gardening rests on good
cultivation. You must fertilize the soil
with barnyard manure.

Before actual work begins, look through
the back numbers of THE GARDEN MAGa-
ZINE and refresh your memory on points
that most interest you. Send for seed
catalogues before the real work begins.

For the last time we urge you to make
a complete plan to scale for your garden
‘Try a few of the season’s novelties, by
all means; even if they are not better
than the older ones, you wil have a great
deal of satisfaction from the trial.

Also, plant a few dwarf fruit trees if
you have only a very small plot. They
are beautiful as well as useful and occupy
hardly any space.

Plant your flower garden for harmony
of color and succession of bloom. Read
the articles in the April and May, to10,
GarRDEN MAGAZINE.

Buy the best seeds the trade offers.
The difference in money between the best
and the common grades is infinitesimal
compared with the results.

Buy any tools, machinery and other
garden sundries that you will need. Have
everything ready for immediate use.

arden Magazine

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§ ONE DOLLAR Firry CENTS A YEAR
| FirFTEEN CENTS A Copy s

Write all labels. The proper way is to
smear a piece of wood with thin white
lead paint and write on it with pencil
before the paint is quite dry.

Give your last spraying to fruit trees
before the buds open.

Look to stored roots and bulbs in the
cellar. Throw out any that are rotted.

Do not plant the dahlias in a hurry.
Wait for the May GARDEN MAcazine if
you wish to know the latest about them.

Resolve this year to keep an accurate
diary of your work. Some of your ex-
periences will be worth telling about,
and we will pay for anything that we can
use, even though failures, which will help
other people to avoid trouble. Of course,
we want a photograph if possible.

Actual Planting

Ae EARLY as the ground will permit

— that is, when peaches bloom —
plant trees, shrubs, vines, including all
fruits and nuts.

Before April ist, plant out roses for
immediate effect. Sow sweet peas; and
if the fall-sown peas do not appear, resow
at once. The secret of good sweet peas
is to sow as early as possible.

Try, at the risk of the seed, a few extra
early rows of peas, beans and corn, but
be ready to cover if frost threatens.

Prune only autumn-flowering shrubs.
Leave the spring-bloomers alone except
roses newly planted.

Make lawns. You cannot have the
soil too deep. If possible, give at least
two feet, with plenty of fertilizer down at

If it is the most productive
and the best managed plot
during the season of 1911.

We want the actual records
of a well-managed home gar-
den — its plan, its operation,
yield, successions, etc., because
we believe that besides better
living, there is actual money to
be made or saved in making
the garden work for you.

This award will be made for
the best account of a well-
managed garden of a half-

provided the account really
tells how the greatest pro-
ductiveness may be achieved.
This competition is open to
all, whether present subscrib-
ers or not.

153

BEST HOME
GARDEN

acre or less in the year I9II, OF

Half an Acre

OR LESS

the bottom. Repair holes in old lawns
by filling in with top soil and reseeding.
If the turf is old, raise it with a spade and
fill in with soil underneath.

All construction work should be done
before April 1st. This includes grading,
draining, making paths, roads and walks.
Be sure that poultry wire or brush for
peas and beans is all ready.

Do not forget to start seeds in coldframes
and plant early potatoes—the earlier
the better. It is only early potatoes that
are worth while growing on the small
home plot.

Sow the Seeds

N the open ground without transplanting :
Jerusalem artichoke, asparagus, bush
bean, carrots, chickory, field and pop-corn,
cornsalad,mangel, mustard, parsnip, parsley,
potatoes, radish, salsify, seakale, spinach;
hardy annuals, half hardy annuals, annual
larkspur, mignonette, poppy, snapdragon,
sweet peas, zinnia.

On seed bed indoors to transplant: French
artichoke, broccoli, cabbage, cardoon, cauli-
flower, celeriac, celery, eggplant, endive,
kohlrabi, leek, lettuce, onion, tomato,
cosmos, morning glory, nasturtium, pe-
tunia, salvia, verbena.

Twice during the month in the open
ground: Sweet corn, peas, spinach.

Indoors, to be transplanted as soon as the
ground can be worked: Beets, cucumber,
okra, melon, pepper, squash; hardy lilies,
peony, hardy perennials. Sow cress every
week in greenhouse or frame to have
succession.

The only conditions are :—
1. Notice of intention to com-

V ' ell Pa pete to be given not later than
y May zoth, ro1t.
$5 00.00

FOR THE

2. A complete record of work to
be submitted at the end of the
season, with names of varieties
grown, yields, etc., and anexact
record, in detail, of all labor and
expense, with bills and vouchers.

3. All entries must be accom-
panied bya plan of the garden
and tts succession plantings.

4. All contestants must submit
their manuscripts not later than
October 31st, IQTT.

5. The prize-winning manu-
script, with photographs, etc., to be-
come the property of THE GAR-
DEN MAGAZINE. The right
is reserved to purchase any other
MSS. at our regular rates, or not
to award the prize at all, tf the
MSS. submitted are not suf-
ficiently worthy.

Permanent Materials for Your Garden—By Wilhelm Miller, *%

HOW TO SAVE MONEY NOW AND ALWAYS, AND HOW TO MAKE YOUR HOME
GROUNDS LOOK BETTER EVERY YEAR FOR THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS

PART IL—HOW TO PLAN YOUR HOME GROUNDS

F YOU want to make THE GARDEN
MaGaZzINE worth $100 or more to you
this year, compare this article with your
home grounds and see if you cannot do
two things:

1. Save money every year in the care
of your place by substituting permanent
for short-lived material. ;

2. Make your place more comfortable
and beautiful every year for the next
hundred years without worry or extrava-
gance.

Here is an easy way for you to accom-
plish both objects. Hitherto there has
never been an easy way by which anybody
could find out what he really wanted and
what he didn’t. I do not say this way
is perfect. But all methods must em-
body the same principle, viz., to help you
analyze your own needs. No one else can
dictate what you need. Ready made
plans are no good. After you know what
you want nothing could be more con-
venient than the nursery catalogue. The
method here proposed supplements the
nursery catalogue because it helps you
discover what you want. And what you
want to know is which plants are the best
for each particular purpose.

TRUE AND FALSE ECONOMY

The wrong way to plan a place is to
draw up a list of the plants you like best, or
employ an architect or jobbing gardener.
The right way is to employ the best land-
scape gardener you can get, or if you
think you cannot afford that, then study
the subject and draw a plan to scale.
The first cost of your place may be more
if you employ a designer, but you will
save years of waiting and the cost of
ripping up your whole place and rede-
signing it five years from now,
or whenever you learn better.

The wrong way to plant a
place is to use too much short-
lived material, such as bed-
ding plants, annuals, poplars,

Example of a permanent specimen
tree for the lawn — hemlock

Example of year-round beauty near the house.
and Japanese yew are more permanent than retinisporas

privet hedges and other “quick growers.”

The right way is to plant long-lived mate-
rial, like perennial flowers, oaks, and hedges
of Japanese barberry. The cost of main-
tenance will be less and your place will
be more dignified and beautiful every year
as long as you and your children live.

It is false economy to buy the cheapest
nursery stock and send your list to half
a dozen nurserymen in competition.

It is true economy to employ a first-class
designer to help you to decide on your
material and to select the sizes and
quantities to be used.

WHAT YOU NEED FOR COMFORT

Consider use first — then beauty.

Do you want fruit? The best way to
keep out thieves is to have a high wall
around your garden. Next best is a fence.
A hedge robs the garden. Youcan’t train
fruits on wires a foot away from the wall.
Plant small fruits and dwarfs only.

Do you want vegetables? The best way
to have fresh vegetables the year round is
to have a greenhouse. Next best is to
have some hotbeds and coldframes. With-
out these you can make your garden bear
a fortnight earlier in spring and two months
later by having a windbreak on the north
and west sides, e. g. a wall, fence, or hem-
lock hedge.

Do you want to ide unsightly objects?
Evergreen plants are better than de-
ciduous. Will large cedars do it now?

Japanese ivy covers the most wall space.
Poplars are the worst solution.

Do you want privacy? Let passersby
see your front yard, if you like, but sur-
round the rest of your place with trees
and tall shrubs.

Do you want cut flowers?

Then don’t

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Mugho pine, ground hemlock,

have formal flower beds. Have informal
borders of shrubs and perennials. Grow
a row of your favorite cut flower in the
vegetable garden.

GET YEAR-ROUND BEAUTY

Most places are bleak and ugly five-
twelfths of the year — while the leaves
are off. Don’t you want to make your
place comfortable and beautiful every day
of the year? First, make a list of the
months and provide three main attrac-
tions for each month. +4
- Second, ward off the winter winds. Save
coal. Provide a winter playground. Per-
haps a hemlock hedge is necessary. Per-
haps only a clump of red cedars, edged
with young hemlocks.

Third, plant cheerful evergreens — not
gloomy ones. Plant white spruce instead
of Norway, concolor fir instead of European
silver fir, red pine instead of Scotch and
Austrian. Quick-growing evergreens soon
get shabby.

Fourth, plant shrubs with berries that
are attractive all winter, especially those
with red berries, since red is the cheeriest
color against the snow. Plant common
and Japanese barberry, high bush cran-
berry, multiflora rose, Regel’s privet,
white fringe, Viburnum Sargent.

Fifth, plant shrubs with brighily colored
twigs. They are full of warmth and color
as soon as the leaves drop off and are
briliant every sunny day until April.
Plant plenty of Siberian dogwood, silky
dogwood, salmon and yellow willow, green
twigged forsythia and kerria.

HAVE PERMANENT BOUNDARIES

As soon as you have drawn a diagram
of your property to scale, walk clear around
the boundary lines studying
these big items:

First, locate the unsightly
objects outside your property
which you wish to hide. The
permanent way to do this is to

Example of a permanent flower — ori-
ental poppy. Not resown every year

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Example of a permanent evergreen hedge—hem-
lock. Less permanent is Norway spruce

move large evergreens which may do the
work at once, e. g., red cedars. The tem-
porary way is to plant poplars or willows,
which are short-lived and ineffective in
winter.

Second, locate the beautiful objects
outside your property which you can
bring into view. If trees hide the view,
sacrifice as much as is necessary. If
the view is good in spots, frame those
spots and block out the rest. Probably
deciduous trees will do for this purpose.
They will be cheaper than evergreens
and perhaps you can afford to buy some
large ones so as to save years of waiting.
For example, sugar and Norway maples
are more permanent than silver or ash-
leaved maples.

Third, plant all the rest of your bound-
aries with a thick border of trees and shrubs,
grouping them informally. Such borders
are cheaper to maintain than hedges,
because you do not have to trim them to
a line three times a year as you must do
with privet.

Borders are more artistic than hedges,
blend better with the landscape, do ‘not
make artificial lines, and usually give more
privacy.

In the back row plant fall growing
shrubs, e. g. viburnums, lilacs, ninebark,
mock orange, hydrangea, forsythia.

In front of these plant medium-sized
bushes — those that grow three to five
feet high, e. g. barberry, Regel’s privet,
aromatic sumach, Van Houtte’s spirea.

HAVE A PERMANENT LAWN

Nearly all the rest of your place which
is not covered by buildings, drives and
other utilities should be in lawn.

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The lawn that costs least at the start
costs the most in the end, because you have
a great expense every year for fertilizers,
reseeding, and fighting weeds.

The most permanent lawns are the ones
for which the land has been most thor-
oughly prepared, by repeated plowings,
and harrowings and by heavy liming and
manuring.

If the top soil is bad, you can get a
permanent lawn only by carting on a
foot or more of good soil.

Your lawn will cost more to maintain
if you scatter trees and shrubs over it.
Leave the lawn open. Plant trees and
shrubs only at the sides. This way is
more artistic and the lawn can be mowed
and rolled more cheaply. If you want
to see how money goes for nothing watch
the men dodging trees on a lawn peppered
with specimens.

PERMANENT PLANTING NEAR THE HOUSE

The temporary style of planting round
a house is to use flower beds. Evergreen
borders are better. Beds are mud heaps
five-twelfths of the year. Evergreens are
beautiful the year round and the right
kinds last a lifetime.

The best evergreens for planting around
the foundations of a house are broad-
leaved evergreens, e. g. rhododendrons,
mountain laurel, American holly, mount-
tain andromeda, boxwood, Jlex crenata,
the Hinodigiri azalea, and the fire thorn.
They cost more than any other class of
plants, but they do more, because most of
them have attractive flowers or fruits
in addition to year-round beauty. The

Example of a permanent flowering tree— magnolia.
Only small trees are fit for gardens

Example of a permanent screen for unsightly ob-
jects —red cedars. Fine background for dogwood

first cost of making a suitable bed for them
is also greater than for other plants, but
the cost of maintenance is less.

The best solution is narrow-leaved ever-
greens. The cheapest and showiest plants
for the purpose are the golden and varie-
gated conifers and the retinisporas, but
they are short-lived. More permanent
and dignified are Mugho pine and Japanese
yew.

The first method is ideal if supplemented
with evergreen vines. The best climbers
are English ivy and climbing euonymus,
but they must not be used on wooden walls.
The popular idea is to plant climbing
roses or large-flowered clematis, but they
require more care than evergreen vines
and their beauty is shorter lived. Put
climbing euonymus on your walls and you
have the best possible foil for your rhodo-
dendrons, and other flowers.

The more permanent way to hide every
square foot of earth around your house is
to carpet your rhododendron beds with
running myrtle, English ivy, or Pachy-
sandra terminalis. But if you feel the need
of more color you can plant bulbs of the
permanent kinds of lily, e. g., madonna.
tiger (variety splendens), Henry’s, and
speciosum. The golden banded lily is more
gorgeous, but short-lived.

HAVE A PERMANENT GARDEN

Flowering trees are more permanent
than shrubs; flowering shrubs are more
permanent than perennial flowers: per-
ennials are more permanent than annuals
or bedding plants.

No garden can get along without a few
of these temporary flowers, e. g. poppies
and geraniums, but the economical thing

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Example of permanent winter beauties — black
alder, a shrub with red berries

is to make the bulk of your planting of
shrubs and perennial flowers. They cost
more at first but are cheaper in the end,
because they require less care, and labor
is the greatest item in gardening. Even
with trees and shrubs, labor usually costs
more than material.

The fewer trees in and near a garden the
better, because they rob flowers of moisture
and sunlight, the roots are sometimes
poisonous, and they increase your bill
for fertilizers. Bay trees or boxwood in
tubs will give height, but must be taken
to a shed in winter. The best permanent
trees for gardens are small ones, e. g.
flowering dogwood, Chinese magnolia and
its hybrids, silver bell, styrax, white
fringe. These should live longer than
white birch, laurel-leaved willow, Caro-
lina poplar and their relatives.

The best evergreen trees for gardens are
small, permanent kinds that are not dull
in winter. For example, red cedar is
more appropriate than arborvite; dwarf
hemlock than dwarf retinisporas; Mugho
pine, Pinus densiflora and Korean pine
than Swiss, Himalayan and umbrella pine;

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prostrate and Chinese juniper than Irish
or golden; dwarf Japanese and spreading
yew than English, Irish or golden.

The most valuable shrubs for gardens
are evergreens, especially the broad-leaved
kinds, e. g., box, rhododendrons, mountain
laurel, mountain andromeda, and Ilex cre-
nata. They are more permanent than most
deciduous shrubs. The only plant which
usually lives more than a century in
neglected gardens is box.

The best way to choose deciduous
shrubs is not to make a list of those famous
for their flowers, because they generally
have uninteresting foliage. Flowers last
a fortnight; foliage lasts seven months.
Famous flowers that have comparatively
interesting foliage and no winter value
are lilacs, hydrangeas, althea or rose of
Sharon, weigela, pearl bush, Tartarian
honeysuckle, mock orange, golden chain
and snowball. It is right to put some of
these in the back of the border where their
deficiencies will be obscured, but you should
also plant bushes that give more for the
money, especially viburnums and shrubby
dogwoods. Other bushes that have good
flowers and better foliage are white fringe,
Morrow’s honeysuckle and Japanese snow-
ball. Worth growing for foliage alone
are Aralia pentaphylla, Hercules club,
bayberry, silver thorn, aromatic sumach.

HOW TO PREVENT COLOR DISCORDS

One simple principle will enable you
to prevent nine-tenths of the most serious
color discords. One color is responsible
for nearly all the trouble, viz. magenta
and tones near it.

Therefore the best purchasing plan
for a beginner is this: Buy now nothing
that you have never seen which is catalogued
as purple, crimson, crimson-pink, or
mauve. Next year purchase whatever
colors of this sort you need, selecting the
varieties when you see them in bloom.

Another good buying principle is
founded on the fact that green and white
are the great peacemakers. Buy green-
leaved plants instead of variegated, or
abnormally colored, and buy white-
flowered varieties of plants that have
trouble-making colors.

For instance, instead of purple-leaved

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Example of broad-leaved evergreens —Kalmia. Best
permanent material to plant round a house

barberry, golden elder, variegated weigela,
golden evergreens, golden privet, and
other bushes margined with white or
yellow, buy their green-leayed or normal
varieties.

Whenever you wish a change from green
foliage buy gray, because it is quieter and
more harmonious than the strong colors.
For example, instead of Prunus Pissardit
buy sea buckthorn, Japanese oleaster,
silver thorn, and buffalo berry. Gray is
a peacemaker.

Buy white-flowered varieties of such
dangerously colored plants as peony,
phlox, chrysanthemum, foxglove, pyre-
thrum, Lychnis, pinks, Michelmas daisies,
Japanese anemone, rugosa rose, lilac and
redbud. Avoid the Anthony Waterer
spirea, desmodiums, etc. Buy Azalea
Hinodigiri instead of A. amena. ;

The following lists are designed to
help beginners analyze all their needs.
Two solutions are indicated in every case.
One costs less at the start but more in the
end. The other may cost more at the
start, but is cheaper to maintain. Choose
the permanent way!

PART IL--THE BEST PLANTS FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES

ALL YOUR SERIOUS PLANTING PROBLEMS CONVENIENTLY ARRANGED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER —
SHORT-LIVED AND COSTLY METHODS ARE ALSO INDICATED SO THAT YOU CAN AVOID THEM

AGE EFFECT QUICKLY GOTTEN

The wrong way is to plant ‘quick growers,”
e. g. poplars and silver maples. The right way is
to plant big trees of long-lived species, e. g. red,
pink, and scarlet oak, red cedar, sugar maple. It is
right to plant big evergreen shrubs, e. g., box, rhodo-
dendron and laurel, but don’t waste money on big
deciduous shrubs. The small ones will catch up in
three or four years.

ARCHES

Save three to five years by buying trained arches
of red cedar. They are better than privet.

AUTUMN ATTRACTIONS

The costly way is to try to keep up a floral dis- .

play in September and October by sowing of an-
nuals in June, etc. The economical way is to
plant trees and shrubs, "because all have attrac-
tive autumn colors and many have attractive
berries.

AVENUES

An avenue, strictly speaking, is a formal ap-
proach to a large building. Japanese yew is
probably best, if one can wait. The best
round-headed trees trimmed to balls and avail-

able in large sizes are usually sugar maples
and lindens. The worst is Catalpa Bungei. The
best columnar tree is red cedar; the worst Lom-
bardy, poplar.

BANKS AND BLUFFS

The costly way is to use grass, which is hard to
establish and cut. Use vines and shrubs, and if
necessary cheap trees, e. g. pitch pines. Rosa
Wichuraiana, which is nearly evergreen, propagates
itself without cost. Use Virginia creeper, Hall’s
honeysuckle, Indian currant, bayberry, red-
twigged dogwood.

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BEDS OF FLOWERS

The costly and inartistic way is to use tender
plants and annuals. The economical and artistic
way is to use hardy plants. For centrepieces use
low shrubs (e. g. hydrangea, Baby Rambler rose,
Japanese barberry, Magnolia stellata) or perennials,
(ec. g. peonies, bleeding heart, Miss Lingard phlox,
veronica, chrysanthemums). 4 For fillers use bulbs,
e. g. daffodils, tulips, lilies. See also Edging and
Carpeting.

CARPET EVERY FOOT OF GROUND

Instead of fighting weeds in your shrubberies,
why not plant trailers that will smother the weeds,
hide the dirt, and make an evergreen background
for flowers? The best are English ivy, trailing
myrtle, Pachysandra terminalis, wintergreen, part-
ridge berry, bearberry. Nearly evergreen are
Hall’s honeysuckle and memorial rose. Non-
trailers: Yucca, hardy heaths, e. g., Calluna, Galax.

CEMETERY

Buy perpetual care. Mounds unnecessary and
expensive. Grass levels cheapest to care for.
Small stone markers more permanent than ivy or
periwinkle. Plant long-lived evergreens free from
troubles, e. g. Japanese yew — not showy golden
evergreens. Avoid cut-leaved, weeping or varie-
gated trees and shrubs. Plant native trees, e. g.
oaks, beech, hemlock.

COOL EFFECTS FOR MID-SUMMER

Have running water. Have plenty of greenery.
Have some white flowers. Use some plants with
gray foliage, e.g. sea buckthorn, Eleagnus, pinks,
rock cress, gold-dust, woolly chickweed, lavender
cotton.

DRIVES

Border your drives with shrubs and after the
second year they will be cheaper than grass. When
the grass is dead you can get color from barberries,
viburnums, shrubby dogwoods, Rhodotypos, su-
mach, etc.

DROUGHT RESISTERS

Instead of spending a fortune for watering lawns
over gravel, or swamp-loving plants on upland,
use plants native to desert conditions, e. g. red
cedar, bayberry, pitch pine, yucca, blue wild
indie, lupines, butterfly weed, stone crops, house
eeks.

EDGINGS FOR FLOWER BEDS

Instead of tender plants (e. g. alternanthera) or
annuals, save money by using hardy perennials,
e. g. goldentuft, moss pink, rock cress, bugle,

Example of permanent ‘‘vine’’ for porch — forsy-
thia suspensa. Yellow flowers an inch across

‘able at night.

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tufted pansies, woolly chickweed, woolly yarrow,
Carpathian harebell, coral bells, hardy leadwort
or Napoleon III. pink.

EDGING FOR LAWNS

Avoid sharp edges of grass. They are expensive
to trim and even at their best are painfully neat.
Shrubbery is cheaper. These shrubs arch over and
meet the grass: Lemoine’s deutzia, Japanese bar-
berry, Thunberg’s spirea, Van Houtte’s spirea,
Stephanandra, yellow-root.

EVENING ATTRACTIONS

White flowers are the only ones visible on dark
nights. Fragrant flowers are particularly enjoy-
The following are permanent and
have white, fragrant flowers: white lilac, Azalea
viscosa, sweet pepper bush, wild clematis, Clematis
paniculata, poet’s narcissus, lily-of-the-valley.

FRAGRANT EDGINGS

Flowers appeal more to the imagination but last
only a week or two. Herbs are fragrant for seven
months, or whenever their foliage is brushed against.
Why not sow seeds or buy plants of these per-
manent materials for edging your garden paths?
Balm of Gilead, lavender cotton, lemon balm,
lemon thyme, lovage, mother of thyme, rosemary,
sage, spearmint, thyme, woodruff.

FRAGRANT FLOWERS

Most people rely on annuals, but labor is the
greatest expense in gardening. Why not save
labor by growing shrubs with fragrant flowers,
e. g. winter sweet, March honeysuckle, winter
jasmine, Mezereon, flowering currant, lilac, Caro-
lina allspice, roses of many kinds and odors, mock
orange, bush honeysuckles, sweet pepper bush.
Shrubs with fragrant foliage are bayberry, sweet
fern, aromatic sumach and sweet gale.

HEDGES

Privet costs the least at first but the most in
the end because it has to be trimmed three times
a year. Also it winter kills inland. Japanese
yew and Japanese barberry need not be trimmed,
and are longer-lived and more beautiful.

HILLSIDE GARDENS

Formal terraces are expensive to mow and keep
in order. Instead of steep grassy banks why not
have low, retaining walls of rough stone, without
mortar,and make a series of wall gardens as the
English do. While laying the wall put in alpine
plants, e. g., wall flowers, rock cress, woolly chick-
weed, wall bellflower, cheddar pink, goldentuft, etc.

NORTH SIDE OF BUILDINGS

The costly thing is to try to maintain a flower show
here, but permanent foliage plants are more
dignified and cheaper to maintain, e. g. English
ivy, climbing euonymus, boxwood, Japanese yew.
Tf flowers are necessary why not rhododendrons
and mountain laurel rather than fuchsias or tuberous
begonias?

PERGOLA

Plant a great variety of vines — not merely one
kind. A Crimson Rambler pergola has a short-
lived and gaudy beauty. Make your pergola
beautiful the year round by planting wistaria,
Hall’s honeysuckle, Dorothy Perkins rose, memorial
rose, Jackman’s clematis, trumpet creeper, wild
clematis, Henry’s clematis, panicled clematis,
bitter sweet, English ivy, climbing euonymus
(green, round-leaved variety).

QUICK GROWING TREES

The wrong kind are those of short-lived beauty,
e. g. poplars, willows, silver maples, box elder.
The right kind are the long-lived species, e. g. red,
scarlet, and pin oak, which will soon overtake the
above and last for centuries.

ROCK GARDENS

Do not make a mound of cobble-stones and plant
nasturtiums on it. Omit the rock garden or else
buy ‘‘Alpine Flowers,” by W. Robinson, make a
rockery according to his methods and grow flowers
you can grow in no other way, e. g. gentians,
primroses, edelweiss, rock roses, etc.

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ROSES

Buy field-grown plants two or three years old.
The stock that costs most at the start gives the
best results the first year and is less liable than
cheap mail-order plants to be killed the first
winter.

SAND-ENDURING PLANTS

Most of the popular flowering shrubs will prove
short-lived on sand. Use plants native to sand,
e. g., barberry, locust, pitch pine, red cedar, Vir-
ginia creeper.

SCREENS FOR UNSIGHTLY OBJECTS

The temporary and unsatisfactory way is to
use poplars and willows which are of no value in
winter and are short-lived. The ideal way is to
move large evergreens, of which red cedar is
cheapest. Big evergreens may seem costly but
they blot out ugliness at once and save ten to
twenty years of waiting. Cedars, hemlock and
white pine are cheaper in the end than Scotch and
Austrian pine or Norway spruce. Japan ivy will
hide more brick or stone wall than anything else.

SEASIDE

Red pine will stand the strong winds better than
Scotch, Austrian or white. Red cedar succeeds
and hemlock fails. White spruce does better than
Norway. Concolor fir is longer-lived and in better
taste than Colorado spruce. Mugho pine will
live longer than dwarf retinisporas. Pin, scarlet
and red oak will outlive English oak and are
easier to transplant than white oak. Bayberry,
beach plum, barberry, tamarisk, inkberry, holly,
bearberry, and marsh elder are native and fit.
Shrubs with variegated, weeping or cut-leaved
foliage are usually too gardenesque.

SHADE ENDURING PLANTS

Beware of silver maples and elms near gardens.
Nothing worth having will grow beneath them
permanently. You cannot maintain a_ perfect
hedge beneath these trees. The appropriate and
least expensive plan is to grow hardy foliage —
plants in deep shade — and not try to get flowers
there. Why not plant running myrtle, wintergreen,
mahonia, ferns? If you must have flowers, why
not shrubs native to shade (e. g., flowering currant,
shrubby dogwoods, or sweet pepper bush) instead
of garden flowers?

SHRUBS WITH TRIPLE ATTRACTIONS

The following are attractive in flower, fruit, and
foliage: Spice bush, Buffalo berry, cornelian
cherry, common and Japanese barberry, Regel’s
privet, Morrow’s honeysuckle, Tartarian honey-

Example of permanent way of getting flowers.
Shrubbery cheaper to maintain than flower beds

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suckle, slender-stalked honeysuckle, Ramanas

rose, wayfaring tree, cranberry bushes.
STREET TREES

The longest-lived trees and the cheapest to
maintain are the sugar, red and Norway maples
and the pin and red oaks. Elm seems doomed.
Box elder, silver maple and poplars are short-
lived. Horse chestnut and catalpa make too
much litter.

TEA HOUSE FOR CHILDREN

The Camperdown elm, formerly trained for this
purpose, is now subject to many insect troubles.
Weeping mulberry will doubtless live longer and
needs no spraying.

TREES WITH TRIPLE ATTRACTIONS

The following are attractive in flower, fruit,
and foliage: Flowering dogwood, cockspur thorn,

Ready-Made Planting Tables for Any Garden—By E. L. D. Seymour, *

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Washington thorn, European bird cherry, choke-
cherry, wild black cherry, garland crab, Japanese
crab, Siberian crab, swamp bay, large-leaved
magnolia, umbrella tree, cucumber tree, mountain
ash.

TROPICAL EFFECTS

The costliest to maintain and least appropriate
are tender plants, e. g., cannas, coleus, castor oil.
The long-lived and appropriate plants are the hardy
members of tropical families, e. g., hardy bamboos,
Aralia, honey locust, redbud, Siberian pea tree,
Cassia, wistaria.

VINES FOR YEAR ROUND BEAUTY

See Pergola. For winter attractions use English
ivy, climbing euonymus, native and Japanese
bittersweet. Hall’s honeysuckle holds its leaves
through November.

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‘WET PLACES

The wrong thing is to fill them. The right thing
is to make a water garden or peat garden, and plant
flowers that will grow nowhere else, e. g., lady-
slippers and other hardy orchids; pitcher plants
and other insect-eating flowers; Shortia and other
exquisite members of the heath family; and bog-
loving lilies, e. g., Liliwm superbum and Canadense.

WINDBREAKS ALWAYS NECESSARY

Few people realize the necessity of windbreaks.
They may save coal, make the kitchen garden
yield one or two months longer, make winter
playgrounds, and incidentally hide unsightly
objects. Why not save ten or twenty years by
transplanting large evergreens now?

Red pine will last longer than Scotch or Austrian.
White spruce will last longer than Norway. Per-
haps tall cedars and small hemlocks will be best.

New

TELLING YOU EXACTLY WHAT, WHEN, WHERE AND HOW TO PLANT YOUR VEGETABLE GARDEN TO GET THE GREATEST
EFFICIENCY ACCORDING TO THE SPACE AVAILABLE — PRINCIPLES OF PLANNING TO HELP YOU FIT YOUR OWN PLOT

A GOOD many so-called ‘‘vegetable” or
“kitchen-gardens,”’ would be better
described as small plots, on each of which
is grown a little of a few kinds of vege-
tables “because they are easiest.” A

o

The vegetable garden of a business man, from which nearly thirty dollars was saved last year.

few hills of potatoes use up much of the
ground most of the season and then yield
enough for perhaps a score of meals. The
rest of the space may produce some beans,
turnips and corn, in varying amounts,

ri

but probably all in one crop, so that after
several feasts, the supply of that vege-
table ceases till the next year.

Potatoes, corn and cabbage are actually

field crops and not suited to the very small

(See page 170)

APpRIL, 1911

garden; moreover, except for the corn,
they can be bought at any time, of per-
fectly good quality, and cheaply, whereas
many other kinds of “garden truck” are
obviously at their best and cheapest only
when obtained directly from the garden.
There is no more excuse for giving the val-
uable space of a small garden to potatoes
and cabbage, than there is for using
Tiffany cut glass and Limoges china in
place of Mason preserve jars and tin milk
pails.

In the accompanying plans, therefore,
I have made most important the utiliza-
tion of space, a variety of crops, and an
all season supply. You, who care to adapt
them, can further augment these features,
by additional plantings wherever you dis-
cover vacant spaces. The plantings and
successions that I have indicated, will, I
think, supply the general spirit of intensive
cropping, and the data with which to
work.

Dates are but suggestions in any plan

or table, so you cannot hope to follow them
to the letter. This year may be two weeks
earlier than last, or several days later
than next spring will be. But always keep
as near the first dates as possible; better
to have a crop grown and harvested before
the cold days come, than to have part of
it destroyed by frost because ‘‘the table
said that you didn’t have to finish planting
till-such-and-such a date.” The earlier
you get the seeds in, the more time you can
give to the other duties that will come
cropping up when you don’t expect
them.

The seed-bed is nothing more than a
small area especially well prepared. The
soil here should be lighter, and free from
stones, rubbish, etc., so that the seedlings
will have every favorable condition. If
you can substitute a hotbed on this space
you will be able to start the seeds earlier,
and have larger plants for later setting.
But primarily the plans that follow are
for “outdoor gardens,”’ from first to last.

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159

Granted that you are going to follow
the directions in the accompanying tables,
you are entirely relieved of all indoor plan-
ning work, and can start digging at once.
If the garden is small, after the manure is
spread thickly (that is, two to four inches
deep), spade over the whole area. Do
this thoroughly, taking out eight inches to
a foot of soil, and pulverizing and mixing
it with the manure. After spading, smooth
and rake the surface two or more times
until you have a fine, level bed, free from
stones, sticks, and any sort of weedy litter.
It is much easier to keep a garden weedless
than it is to make it so after the vegeta-
bles and weeds have started.

By a novel method of thinning you can
double the supply and lengthen the season
of onions, beets, and other roots. In-
stead of pulling all the small plants and
throwing them away, thin out first the
very smallest, useless seedlings, and later on
the larger. Use these, and the rest as
they mature.

[-—A Planting Table For a Vegetable Garden 15 x 30 Ft.

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Beans, Pole 30 | 10 | 18 | 4 pt. Seed
Beets (1) 12 12 | + oz. Seed
Beets (2) 12 12>] 4 oz. Seed
Cabbage 30 | r5 | 18 | Pinch Seed
Carrots 24 T2 sl) Oz Seed
Corn (1) ZO {| a5 |) ue |) eS jot Seed
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Cucumbers 15 36-| 402 Seed
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Kohlrabi 12 12) || oz Seed
Melons, Musk my |) 3 | 30 | + oz Seed
Onions (1) 15 12 || 4 pt. Sets
Onions (2) 15 r2 | 4 oz. Seed
Parsnips 15 r2 | 402 Seed
Peas (1) 30 24 | 1 pt. Seed
Peas (2) 15 18 | 4$ pt. Seed
Peas (3) I5 To.| 4 pt. Seed
Salsify 15 10 | EO Seed
Spinach 12 uD || Oz Seed
Spinach, N. Z. 5 mf || 2 OZ Seed
Squash, Late 15 3 sly 02. Seed
Tomato 15 | 8 a5 OZ. Seed
Turnip 15 12 | + oz. Seed
Lettuce (1) r2 | 16} 12) ¢ oz. Seed
Lettuce (2) ? 5 || 22 ? Seed
Radish ? ip 6 ? Seed

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Where When How Seeds To When (pene) First Remove by
(Inches)
Row 6 Apr. 20- Drills | 14 June 1o-_ {August 15
May 15 : 30
4 in. from May 20- Hills 36 July 20
Row 7 June to Aug. I0
Row ta Apr. 1-12 | Drills 3 June 1-10 | Aug. 30
Row rb May 15 Drills 3 July 15
Seed Bed May 15 Drills Row 6 July 15-30 24 Sept.
Row 2 Apr. Drills 2 July 15
Row 9 May 15 Hills 24 July 20-Aug. 1/August 30
Row 8 July to Hills 24 Sept. 15
Row 3a July 10 Hills 24 Row 3a | Aug. 15 24 Sept. 20
Seed Bed | May 1-10 | Drills Row 7b | June 10-15 July 15
Seed Bed May 30 Drills Row 8b | Aug. r 24 Aug. 30
Row 3a March 31 | Drills 3 June 1 Aug. 15
Seed Bed May 15 Drills I Row oa | June 15 60 Aug. 30
Row 4a May 15-31 | Drills | 14 June 1-15
Row 4b April 15— | Drills 3 Aug.
May t
Row 5a April 1-15 | Drills 2 Aug.
Row 7 by |March 15- 31] Drills I May 15-30 |June 1-10
Trellis
Row 8 April 15 Drills I June 10 July 10
Row 9 May 1 Drills I July 4 Aug. I
Row 5b |April r5—May} Drills 2 July 15
Row 1b | September 1 | Drills Nov.? Apr. | May 10
Bet. Rows] June 15 Drills July
6 and 7a
Seed Bed May 1 Drills 2 Row gb | June 30 60 Sept.
Seed Bed |May r15—June] Drills 2 Row 7a | June 15 24 Aug. 15
Row 3 July r Drills 3 Sept. 10
Row 3b | March 15-31] Drills 9 May 30 July x
Seed Bed | April-June } Dmnills 3 Vacant When 1 9 ? ?
Spaces in. high
Vacant Anytime With I 3—5 weeks
Spaces Carrots
Pars-
nips, etc

Tn all three tables the letters (a) (b) etc., indicate the subdivisions of the rows.

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160 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE AprRit, 1911

TOMATOES 7B PEAS

POLE BEANS

BUSH BEANS CABBAGE

PARSNIPS SA SALSIFY 5B

ON1oN (SETS) Zh ONION (SEED) 4 Bt

KOHLRABt CORN Sa LETTUCE TURNIPS SB

LETTUCE JA SPINACH BEETS Noy

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The plan of the 15x30 ft. garden, to be used with the table on page 159

II.—A Planting Table for a Vegetable Garden 30 x 60 Ft.

REQUIRED PLANT TRANSPLANT OR THIN HARVEST
|| 2 é Plants
VEGETABLES 8 =i ae FAMHOUnE or Spaces
6 |a81 33 Ce) What Where When How Seeds To When (aches) First Remove by
a Sia Eas Seed Apart
o | °o,|o08 (Inches)
& |Zolmz
Asparagus 14x5| 21 | 18 |21 Roots|| Roots Plot A March- |6’deep| 24 I4 mos.
April Or 2 yrs.
Rhubarb 12x5| 8 | 36 | 8 Roots/| Roots Plot B September | 3-4” 30 8 mos. or
or Cut- or April deep I yr.
tings
Beans, Bush (1) || 80 30 | I pt. Seed Row 8 April 20- Drills 13-3 June Aug. 15
Row oa May 15
Beans, Bush (2) 30 20) | Spt Seed | Row ob August rt | Drills 14 Sept.
Beans, Pole 30 || To | 36 | Z¢ pt. Seed | Row rob | May 1-15 Hills 36 ; Aug.
Beets (1) 20 TD || % OX Seed Row ra | Aprilr—r2 | Drills 3 | June 1-10 | Aug. 30
Beets (2) 25 12 || 5 OZ Seed Row 1b May 30 Drills 3 | Aug.
*Brussels Sprouts || 20 | 15 | 30 | Pinch Seed Bed C May 1-15 Drills 2 Row 8 | July 30 18 | Sept.
2’ apart |
*Cabbage 20 | 16 | 30 | Pinch Seed Bed C May 1-15 Drills 2 Row 8 | July 30 18 | Aug.
2’’ apart
Carrots 45 12 | 4 oz. Seed Rowz April 1 Drills 2 + July 15
*Cauliflower 15 | 12 | 30 | Pinch Seed Bed C May 1-15 | Drills 2 Row 8 | July 30 I5 | Aug.
2’ apart ;
Chards Ay || Dy || ats) || 2p OZ Seed Row 6a May Drills I2 July
Corn (1) 55 | 36 | 36 | & pt. Seed Row 13 April 15- Hills 18 July x | Aug. to
May 1
Corn (2) 55 | 28 | 36 | & pt. Seed Row 14 May 1-15 Hills 24 Aug.
Corn (3) 30 | 20 | 36 | ¢ pt. Seed | Row 11a July 1 Hills 18 ae 30-
ept
Cucumbers Ag || & || ZO || i Oz Seed Bed C June 15 Drills 4 Row 13b | July 15 36 Aug.
Eggplant 25 | 12 | 36 | Pinch Seed Bed C May 15-30 | Drills 2 Row 12a | July 10 24 Aug. 25-30
Kale 30 | 30 | 18 | F oz. Seed Row 6b September | Drills I 12 150 days
or April
Kohlrabi 20 12 | 75 Oz. Seed Row 3a March 31 Drills 4 July Aug. 15
Lettuce (1) 25 | 33 | 12 oz. Seed Row 3b April 15 Drills 9 May 30 When
gone sow
again till
July rst
Lettuce (2) 60 | 80 | 12] x oz. Seed See oa | April 1-15 | Drills 9 May 15-30] Aug. 1
an
Lettuce (3) 20 | 26 | 12 | 75 oz. Seed Bed e July Drills I ||Rowtabet.| Aug. 15- 9 Sept.
== Beets 30

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II.—A Planting Table for a Vegetable Garden 30 z 60 Ft.—Continued

161

VEGETABLES

Melons, Musk

Okra
Onions (Sets)

Onions (Seeds) (1)

Onions (Seeds) (2)

Parsnips
Peas (2)
Peas (2)
Peas (3)
Peas (4)
Pumpkins
Radish (1)

Radish (2)
Salsify

Sow

Spinach (z)
Spinach (2)
Spinach, N. Z.

Squash, Summer

or Bush
Squash, Winter
Tomato

Turnips

REQUIRED PLANT TRANSPLANT OR THIN HARVEST
> E
2 = Po Plants
3 |RE| eg casas What Where Whe H Seed T Wh Sidees Fi I
S 38 32 goad n ow Pec fe) en (Inches) irst Remove by
2 S K Bi) (Inches)
x2 || © |) BO || ay OZ Seed Bed C May 30- Hills 3 Row 13a | July 30 60 Aug. 30-
June 15 Sept.
B0) ||| 20 ||| 2A) LOZ. Seed Row 7b May I-15 Drills I 18 Aug.
20 TD | gy even Sets Row 4a | Marchr—15 | Drills I 2 June Replace
(Bulbs) as used
25 12 1 OZ. Seed Row 4b | April 15- Drills Some to July 3 July—Aug. Trans-
May Rows 9x plant
and 9xx thinnings
36 12 i oz Seed Plot A June 30 Drills 3 Aug.-Sept. Sow after
Bet. Rows end of as-
paragus
cutting
25 12) |e abe OZ- Seed Row 5a April 1-15 | Drills 3 Aug.-Sept.
30 Ao |] a [pike Seed Row 11b March 15 | Drills May 15-30, June 10
25 BO |) a 1k Seed Row 11a March 31 Drills June 10 | June 30
25 BO || [ko Seed Row 12a April 15 Drills June 25 | July to
30 BO || 3 101s Seed Row 12b May 1 Drills July 4 | Aug. 1
25 3 | 60 |20 Seeds|} Seed | Row 14a May 15 Hills 96 3 plants to hill Sept. |
30 6 OZ. Seed | Rowg yy | March 15-31,| Drills 1% April, | July 15
April 15, etc. May etc. |
be| twe Jen ajny rows ||12 inchljes or more} apart. Sow} a little} often
30 rD || & OZ Seed Row sb April 15- | Drills 2 July 15
May
20 12) ys 0 Seed Row 1b September | Drills I 6 Mar.-May | May 25
20 Te ee OZ Seed Row 3a August 15 Drills I 6 Winter | Mar. 31
25 DAG sOZ Seed Row 7a May 15 Drills I June 30-
July
25 8 | 36 | 4 oz Seed Row 10a May 5-30 Hills 36 5 plants to hill Aug.
25 4| 60] 4 oz Seed | Row 14b May 5-30 | Hills | 72-84| 3 plants to hill Sept.
3c | 10 | 36 | Pinch Seed Bed C April 15- | Drills | 2x2 || Row 11b June 36 Aug.-Sept.
May
25 12 | ¢ oz. Seed Row 3b July 1 Drills 4 | Sept. 10

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Il1].—A Planting Table For a Vegetable Garden 60 x 120 Ft.
REQUIRED PLANT TRANSPLANT OR THIN HARVEST
FRUIT AND E 2 s eee Plants
WRLCTR MEN LIDS a mel sa es What Where When How Seeds To When pense First Remove by
Re oa ec seed Apart (Inches)
o | oh 1 eR (Inches)
& |46|/ao
Grapes 60 | 8 | 60 Plants | Along N. March 96 18 mos.
Boundary
Blackberries 45 | 15 | 60 Bushes | Row Ar March 36 I5 mos.
Raspberries 90 | 30 | 54 Bushes | Rows Az March 36 r5 mos.
B and C1
Currants Ag || 2S || Sa Bushes | Row C2 March 36 I5 mos.
Strawberries 180 |120 | 36 Plants | Rows G March-— 18 I4 mos. | 40 mos,
HI April
Asparagus 126 | 63 | 18 Roots | Rows D1 March— |6”’ deep} 24 I4 or
Ex and Fr April 24 mos. 4
Beans, Bush (1) |/156 24 | 2 pts. Seed | Rows 15b| April 20- Drills | 1-3 June Aug. 15
16 and 18 May to
Beans, Bush (2) 126 24 | 14 pts Seed Rows 17 August Drills | 1-3 Sept.
and 23
Beans, Pole 126 | 42 | 36 | # pt. Seed Rows 20 May 1-15 | Hills 36 Aug.
& 21
Beets (1) 126 12 | 23 oz. Seed jRows x & 6| April 1-12 | Drills 3 June 1-10 | Aug. 30
Beets (2) 63 12 | 1% oz. Seed Row 2 May 30 Drills 3 Aug.
Brussels Sprouts 30 | 20 | 24 | Pinch Seed Bed AA May 1-15 | Drills 2 Row 15b| July 30 18 Sept.
2’ apart
Cabbage 96 | 64 | 24 | Pinch Seed Bed AA | May 1-15 | Drills 2 Rows 18a | July go 18 Aug.-Sept.
2” apart and 24
Carrots 126 12 | If oz. Seed Rows 3 April 1 Drills | 2 July 15
and 4
Cauliflower 30 | 24 | 30 | Pinch Seed Bed AA May 1-15 | Drills Row 18b | July 30 15 Aug.-Sept.
2” apart] -
Celery 126 | 250] 36 | 402. Seed Bed AA May 1-15 | Drills I Rows 25 | July 30 6 Sept.-Oct. |Cover and
2”’ apart and 26 : leave till
used
Chards 63 | 63 | 18 | x4 oz. Seed Row 12 “May Drills I 12 July
Gorn (1) 112 | 75 | 36 i pt. Seed | Rows 34 | April 15- Hills 18 5 stalks to hill July 1 Aug. 10
and 35 May 1
Corn (2) Tr12 | 56 | 36 4 pt. Seed Rows 36 | May 1-15 Hills 24 4 stalks to hill Aug.
and 37
Corn (3) 56 | 36 | 36 i pt. Seed Row 33 August 1 Hills 18 | 4 stalks to hill |] Sept.-Oct.
Cucumbers (1) 30 7 | 326 | 4 oz. Seed | Row 22a July 5 Hills } 54 3 plants to hill | Sept.
Cucumbers (2) 33 | 6 | 48] 40z. Seed Bed AA june 1 Hills 60 Row 22b July 5 | 3 plants to hill ; Aug.
Eggplant 36 | 18 | 36 4 oz. Seed Bed AA | May 15-30 Drills 2 Row 31a | July 10 24 Aug.
2° apart
Kale 63 | 42 | 24 £ OZ. Seed Row 13 September | Drills 2 18 150 days
or April
Kohlrabi (2) 63 12 te Oe Seed Row 5 March 31 Drills 4 June Aug. 15
Kohlrabi (2) 63 12 i oz. Seeds Row 6 July 15 Drills 4 Aug-Sept.
Lettuce (1) 63 | 84 | 12 4 oz Seeds Row 7 April 15 Drills 9 May 30 July 1
Lettuce (2) 126 |168 | 12 Hh Oye Seeds | Rows 17x &| April 30 Drills 9 June Aug. I
L7y
Lettuce (3) ? ? 12 |Sowseed|| in bed | and trans|plant to any] empty |spaces || as wanted] for late succession crops
Melon, Musk 26 5 | 66 |36 Seeds|} Seed Bed AA | May 15-30 | Hills | 2x 2 || Bet. Rows July 60 Aug.-Sept.
34a and 35a
Melon, Water 30 | 3 | 66 |15 Seeds|| Seeds | Bed AA | May 15-30 | Hills | 4x4 || Bet. Rows July 120 Sept.-Oct.
34b and 35b
Okra Be || 22 || 2a || 2 Ow Seeds | Row 15a | May 1-15 | Drills I ré Aug.
Onion (Sets) 63 12 | 15 pts.|| Sets Row 8 March i- | Drills 2 Replace as} used May
(Bulbs) May
Onion Seed (1) 189 iD || 2 OA: Seed Row 9 April r5= | Drills Rows 16x | July 30- 3 Transplant
May and r6y | Aug. 15 thinnings
Onion Seed (2) If mjore | are | wanted ||sow bet|ween aspajragus rows, |after cut|ting is|| discontinujed
Parsley 30 12 | Very Seed | Rows rob | September | Drills || 120 days
Little and 1tb | or March
Parnsips 48 12 § OZ. Seed | Row roa | Apri] 1-15 | Drills 3 Aug.
Peas (1) 56 36 | 14 pts. ||| Seed Row 32 March 15 Drills I May 15-30] June 10
Peas (2) 56 36 | 14pts. |} Seed Row 33 March 31 Drills I June 1-15 | June 3o
Peas (3) 119 36 | 23 pts. || Seed Rows 22 | April 1-15 | Drills I In Row 22] remove | plants to give June July 5-30
and 31 cucumbers | space
Peppers 20 | 12 | 36 | Pinch Seed Bed AA | May 20-30 | Drills 2 Row 31 b| July 10 18 Aug.-Sept.
Potatoes (Irish) x ||189 |126 | 36 | 10 lbs. || Tubers| Rows 24, | March 15- | Hills 18 June July 25
(Cut- 25, 26 30
tings)
Potatoes (Irish) 2 ||252 |126 |36 | 15 lbs. || Tubers| Rows 27, | April 1-15 | Hills 24 Aug.-Sept.
(Cut- | 28, 29, 30
tings) }
Pumpkin 5) || 3 || FO ge Cae Seed | Bet. Rows] April 15- Hills 120 Sept.-Oct.
36b and 37b] May 15
Radish (1) 63 6] 2 oz. Seed | Bet. Rows| April 30 Drills I May Aug. tI
17x and 17y

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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 163
III.—A Planting Table For a Vegetable Garden 60 x 120 Ft.—Continued
REQUIRED PLANT | TRANSPLANT OR THIN HARVEST
z |
FRUITS AND 212 |2 Plants |)
eee BEES S| she | ir ea ewer Where When How! || Seeds To When Beas First {Remove by
io) 6S =a Seed Apart (Inches)
» iv (3)
2 O71, |o¢ (Inches)
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|e ——||
Radish (2) 63 6| 302, Seed Row 12 April 15 Drills | Remove as| Chards | need room May
Radish (3) Plajnt s/mall} amount|js often | between al/ny two rows | where | there || is 10 i clear spjace
Rhubarb 20 | 12 | 36 Roots | Rows Dr | September Hills 36 || | 8 mos. or
and D2 or March | iyi
Salisfy 48 12| oz Seed | Row 1za | April r5— | Drills rs | 2 July
May *
Spinach (1) 63 12 2 oz. Seed Row 5 Aug. 15 Drills Winter Mar. 31
Spinach (2) 63 12} # oz. || Seed Row 2 September | Drills Mar. May 25
Spinach, N. Z. 63 24 I OZ. Seed Row 14 May 15 Drills I June-July
Squash, Bush 63 | 15 | 30] 4 oz Seed Row 19 May Hills 48 3 Plants to hill Aug.
Squash, Winter 26} 4| 72) oz. Seed | Bet. Rows May Hills 84 3 Plants to hill || Sept.-Oct.
36b and 37b
Tomato 56 | 18 | 36 | Pinch Seed Bed AA |April 20-May| Drills | 2x 2|| Row 32 |June15-30 36 July-Aug.
Turnips 63 12 | 4 oz Seed Row 7 July 1 Drills 3 Sept.

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Use this plan with the table that precedes it.

If you decide to take the accompanying
plans merely as hints the following points
will serve as useful principles in garden
planning.

(z) Run the rows north and south if
possible, to admit the maximum sunshine
to every row.

(2) Keep the perennial crops together
in one place which need not be disturbed
by the spring plowing.

(3) If there is any choice, put the tallest
vegetables at the north end. They don’t
shade the others there.

(4) In successions don’t follow one crop
- with another of the same kind, unless it
be lettuce or onions, both of which are
less seriously harassed by insects.

(5) Plant in long rows, not in beds, and
save time when cultivating with the wheel
hoe.

(6) Keep vegetables requiring but twelve
inches of space together, the same with the
eighteen inch ones, and so on. This
makes a neater, more convenient garden.

(7) Make the plan ¢o scale. Mark off each
foot of ground on paper. Then when plant-
ing, measure the ground just as accurately.

(8) Use the earliest varieties for both
very early and very late crops. Sometimes
you can get a crop of corn, radishes or
even peas, long after their orthodox season
has passed. But don’t try to count too
much on these successes. Build the plan
a little more conservatively, and let the

The fruit area (Row A-1) remains unplowed from year to year

special features and experiments be side
issues. Keep in mind that in the very
little vegetable garden, we are trying to
make the most of everything, and can
hardly afford experimental risks merely
for the sake of the fun they offer.

(9) In very small gardens, substitute
a wire or lathe trellis for the historic
bean-poles. It is more convenient, more
accessible, and more easily obtained by
the city or suburban gardener. In plan
No. 1, given above, the beans will be im-
mature while the pea vines occupy the
other side of the trellis, and will have
passed their prime by the time the suc-
ceeding tomato and cucumber vines cover
the support.

Balance in the Flower Garden-—By Mrs. Francis King, ‘

Mich-

PLANTING FOR THE MOST ARTISTIC EFFECTS OF MASS AS WELL AS HARMONY OF COLOR AND SUCCESSION
OF BLOOM THROUGH THE SEASON —WHAT THE AMATEUR SHOULD THINK OF IN MAKING THE DESIGN

AX the chance to arrange the plant-
ing of a formal garden of my own
fell into my hands about eight years ago,
I felt strangely the need of advice in what
I was about to do. Advice, however, was
not forthcoming, and at the outset I fell,
of course, into the pit of absurdity. With-
out any reason for so doing, I decided
to arrange the planting in this garden,
(a balanced design in four equal parts
with eight beds in each section) as though
the whole were a scrap of perennial border
a few feet wide and a few feet long. The
ridiculous idea occurred to me to have the
garden a picture to be looked at from the
house alone. The matter of garden de-
sign was to fade out of sight except with
regard to the few beds immediately sur-
rounding the small central pool. These
were planted more or less formally with
heliotrope in the four parallelograms
nearest the centre and iris and lilies in four
other spaces near the rest. I endeavored
to produce irregular crosswise banks of
color from the far end of the garden to the
part nearest the house; scarlet, orange and
yellow with a fair sprinkling of hollyhocks
in yellow and white on the more distant
edge; before these, crowds of white flowers,
gray-leaved plants and_blue-flowering
things, and nearest of all to the beholder,
brighter and paler pinks.

The result was nothing but an ugly
muddle; indescribably so when one hap-
pened to be in the midst of the garden
itself. For two or three years I bore with
this unhappy condition of things; indeed
nothing but the fact that the flowers con-
ducted themselves
in remarkably lux-
uriant and brilliant
fashion due to the
freshness and rich-
ness of the soil,
could have saved
me from seeing
sooner the silly mis-
take I had made;
when chancing to
look down upon the
garden from an up-
per window, the real
state of things sud-
denly revealed itself,
and from that day
I set about to plan
and plant in totally
different fashion.

With Mr. Robin-
son, I feel against
the wretched car-
pet-bedding system,
while I quite agree
on the other hand
with the spokesman
for the formalists,

Reginald Blomfield, who declared that there
is no such thing as the “wild garden,” that
the name is a contradiction of terms. The
one thing I do maintain, is that advice,
the very best advice, is the prime necessity.
For those who can afford it, the fine land-
scape-architect; for those who cannot,
the criticism or counsel of some friend or
acquaintance whose experience has been
wider than their own. The time is sure
to come when experts in the art of
proper flower grouping alone will be in
demand.

There is no doubt about it, our grand-
mothers were right when they preferred
to see a vase on each side of the clock!
With a given length of shelf and a central
object on that shelf, one’s instinct for
equalizing calls for a second candlestick
or bow! to balance the first. My meaning
may be illustrated by Mrs. Tyson’s beau-
tiful garden at Berwick, Maine. Charm-
ing as is this lovely garden-vista, with its
delightful posts in the foreground, re-
peating the lines of slim poplar in the
middle distance, it would have given me
much more pleasure could those heavy-
headed white or pale colored phloxes on the
right have had a perfect repetition of their
effective masses exactly opposite — directly
across the grass walk. These phloxes
cry aloud for balance, placed as they
seem to be in a distinctly formal setting.

So it is in the formal flower garden.
I have come to see quite plainly through
several years of lost time that balanced
planting throughout is the only planting
for a garden that has any design worth

The large increase of the lower growing plants, evenly repeated in each quadrant of the garden, give
it harmony of mass

164

‘the name.

It is difficult to conceive of
that formal garden in which the use of for-
mal or clipped trees would be inappropri-
ate; and these we must not fail to mention,
not only because of the fine foil in color
and rich background of dark tone which
they bring into the garden, but of their
shadow masses as well and their value as
accents. And that word “‘accents’’ brings
me to the consideration of the first import-
ant placing of flowers in a garden, which
like my own, is, unlike all Gaul, divided
into four parts.

Two crosswalks intersect my garden,
causing four entrances. To flank each
of these entrances, it can be at once seen,
balanced planting must prevail. In the
eight beds whose corners occur at these
entrances, this planting is used: large
masses of Thermopsis Caroliniana give an
early and brightly conspicuous bloom.
Around these the tall salmon pink phlox,
Aurore Boreale, much later; below this —
filling out the angle of the corner to the
very point—the blue lyme grass (Elymus
arenarius), gladiolus William Falconer,
and lowest of all, Phlox Drummondi, var.
Chamois-rose. None of these colors fight
with each other at any time, and the large
group of tall-growing things is well fronted
by the intermediate heights of the lyme
grass and the gladiolus when in growth
or in bloom. The four far corners of my
garden I also consider more effective when
planted with tall-growing flowers; in these
the Dropmore Axchusa Italica, first shines
bluely forth; this soon gives place to the
white phy te with phlox Fernando
Cortez blooming be-
low the slim white
spikes just men-
tioned; and last, to
light up the corners,
comes the mauve
Physostegia Virgin-
1¢a, var. rosea, whose
bloom here is far
more profuse and
effective than that
of its white sisters.
This grouping gives
almost continuous
bloom and very tel-
ling color from mid-
June to mid-Sep-

of green when they
occur are short, and
the vigorous looking
plants are not at all
objectionable before
they blossom. The
effect of balanced
planting in these
corners, I consider
good. The eye is

tember; the periods -

APRIL, 1911

carried expectantly from one angle to an-
other and expectation is fulfilled.

In the centre of this garden are four
rectangular beds, corresponding in pro-
portion to the size of the rectangular pool.
These, as forming part of the centre of
the garden, are always planted exactly
alike. Purple of a rich bluish cast is one
of the colors which bind instead of sepa-
tate, and purple it is which here be-
comes an excellent
focal color for the [Rae
Panden. ln tie)
middle of each bed
is a sturdy group
of the hardy phlox
Lord Rayleigh, sur-
rounded on all sides
by heliotrope of the
darkest purple ob-
tainable. This year,
however, I expect
to replace the helio-
trope with even bet-
ter effect by tall blue
ageratum which I
saw in one or two
Connecticut gar-
dens, as the paler
color is more telling
and quite as neutral
for such a position.
Speaking of this
ageratum I may
perhaps digress for
a moment to men-
tion a charming ef-
fect I saw on an
out-of-door dining-
table last summer,
obtained by the use
of this flower. The
color of the table
was a pale cool
green and most of
its top was exposed;
in the centre stood
a bowl of French or
Italian pottery, bearing a careless gay
decoration and at the four corners smaller
bowls. These were filled, to quote the
words of the knowing lady whose happy
arrangement this was, ‘‘with zinnias which
had yellows and copper reds with the
variety which resulted from an order of
salmon pinks and whites. We really had
almost everything but salmon pink.”

The zinnias, I who saw them can affirm,
made a most brilliant mass of color not
altogether harmonious; but all ‘was set
right by the introduction, sparingly man-
aged, of the lovely ageratum, Dwarf
Imperial Blue. The eye of her who ar-
ranged these flowers saw that a balm was
needed in Gilead; the ageratum certainly
brought the zinnia colors into harmony
as nothing else could have done, and a
charmingly gay and original decoration
was the result. What a suggestion here,
too, for the planting of a little garden of
annuals!

We are apt to think of balance in the
formal garden as obtained for the most

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part by the use of accents in the shape of
formal trees, or by some architectural
adjunct. I believe that color masses and
plant forms should correspond as absolutely
as the more severe features of such a garden.
For example, in practically the same spot
in all four quarters of my garden there
are, from perhaps four to six weeks, similar
masses of tall white hardy phloxes, the
blooming period beginning with Von

Repetition by twos of the main factors of the composition largely discounts
roofs which unfortunately intrude

Lassberg and closing with Jeanne d’Arc,
the white repeated in the dwarf phlox
Tapis Blanc in four places nearer the centre
of the garden.

For accents in flowers, the mind flies
naturally, to the use first of the taller and
more formal types of flowers. Delphin-
iums with their fine uprightness and glor-
ious blues; hollyhocks where space is
abundant and rust doth not corrupt; the
magnificent mulleins, notably Verbascum
Olympicum, might surely emphasize points
in design; and I read but now of a new pink
one of fine color, which, though mentioned
as a novelty in Miss Ellen Willmott’s
famous garden at Warley, England, will
be sure to cross the water soon if invited
by our enterprising nurserymen. Lilies
of the cup-upholding kinds, standard roses,
standard wistarias, standard heliotropes
are all to be had. The use of the dwarf
or pyramidal fruit tree in the formal garden
is very beautiful to me, recalling some of
the earliest of the fine gardens of England,

and (where the little tree is kept well’

165

trimmed) offering a rarely interesting
medium for obtaining balanced effects.

But the tall plants are not the only
available means for producing balanced
effects. Lower masses of foliage or flowers
have their place. They must be masses,
however, unmistakable masses. Thus, in
the illustration on the preceding page,
each of the large flower masses of baby’s
breath (Gypsophila elegans) — consisting
of the bloom of but
a single well-devel-
oped plant — is re-
peated in every
instance in four
corresponding posi-
tions in this garden.
There was too much
gypsophila in bloom
at once when this
picture was made,
but because some
was double the ef-
fect was not as
monotonous as the
photograph would
Imakellouts | injea
fine garden in Sag-
inaw, Michigan, de-
signed and planted
by Mr. Charles A.
Platt, balance is
preserved and em-
phasized in striking
fashion by the use
of the plantain
lily (Funkia Siebol-
di or grandiflora),
with its shining yel-
low-green leaves.
Masses of this for-
mal plant are here
used as an effective
foreground for a
single fine specimen
bush, not very tall,
of Japan snowball
(Viburnum plicatum)
The poker flower (Tritoma Pfitzeri) is
also used in this garden to carry the eye
from point to corresponding point; and
speaking of tritoma, which Mr. Platt in
this garden associates with iris, let me
mention again that delightful ageratum,
as I lately saw it, used below tritoma. The
tritoma must have been one of the newer
varieties, of an unusual tone of intense
salmony-orange, and while the ageratum
would seem too insignificant in height to
neighbor the tall spike above it, the use of
the lavender-blue in large masses added
enormously to the effect of the torches.

In the second illustration, the rather thin
looking elms seem to flank the garden
entrance rather fortunately. A certain
pleasurable sensation is felt in the balance
afforded by the doubly bordered walk with
its blue and lavender Michaelmas daisies
or hardy asters. It is surely the repeti-
tion of the twos which has something to
do with this; two borders, two posts, two
trees, the eye carried twice upward by
higher and yet higher objects.

the incongruous house

The Right Way to Buy and Plant a Fruit Tree—By w. Hi leaking

A LARGE percentage of the fruit

trees planted each year never lives
to bear fruit. Generally the loss is due
solely to wrong planting and subsequent
neglect. Of course the best beginning is
to get good thrifty trees.

Plant in early spring before the leaves
start. Buy your trees from the nearest reli-
able nursery, and preferably where climatic
and soil conditions are similar to your own.
This may not be practical, and you must
then rely on the established reputation
of a given nursery. Order what are called
No. 1, two-year-old trees. Culled trees
graded as Nos. 2 or 3 are usually crooked
and less vigorous. If you are near a
nursery go there and pay for the privilege
of making your own selections. If the
order is a small one have the trees shipped
by express; then there is no danger of
delay and injury from frost or drying
out.

Plan to have the trees shipped to arrive
when the soil is just right for working. If
possible plant the trees on the highest
ground on the place. A dry knoll or

Put a few spadefuls of fine surface soil in the bottom
of the hole

sloping land is generally perferable to low,
moist, rich soil; but even if the soil has
to be artificially drained and specially
prepared, have a few fruit trees, any way.
Land on which cultivated crops were grown
the previous year is best, plowed as early
in the spring as the surface soil will crumble
in the hand.

In the small fruit garden, where plowing
is not easy, trees are best planted by dig-
ging holes with a spade. For the family
orchard, plow and harrow, then open deep
furrows, so as to plant the trees in check
rows twenty to forty feet each way,
forty feet for apples, thirty for pears
and peaches, and twenty for cherries and
plums.

When the trees arrive, if you are not
ready to plant at once, unpack them and
“heel in,” keeping roots moist until per-
manently planted. This merely means
that the trench is opened, the roots put
in and loosely covered with earth. When
ready for planting take a few trees from
this trench and keep the roots covered
as much as possible while planting. First
root-prune — it is generally best to cut back
the longest roots at least one-third with a
clean slanting cut from below upward and
outward, so that the exposed surface
easily gets in contact with the soil. Also
cut off all broken roots. Spade out the
hole a little larger than the diameter of
the roots and scatter a few spadefuls of
fine, rich surface soil in the bottom of the
hole. Place the tree in the hole, scatter
more of the fine surface soil over the roots,
working it around them with the hand,
and lifting the tree a little to get the soil
all around the fine roots. When the hole
is partly filled press the soil down over
the roots with the feet. If the soil is
dry, pour a few quarts of water very slowly
into the hole, and shovel in soil around
the tree so that it is planted a little deeper
than it stood in the nursery, or just above
the place where the tree was budded.

Press the soil again around the tree with
the feet and place over it a mulch of
straw or something that will hold moisture,
perhaps a foot deep and three feet in
diameter, and hold in place with stones.
The last thing to do is to head the tree
back to the shape desired. One must be
governed in this, somewhat, by the shape
of the tree when received from the nursery.
Two to four feet is the best height for the
low headed tree in the family orchard,
for it is more easily pruned, sprayed, and
the picking is facilitated.

During the first summer keep watch
to see if the mulch stays in place around
the tree, and if the summer is very dry,
pour a little water on the mulch occa-
sionally. It is much better to grow some
crop between the trees the first year or
two, the cultivation and fertilizing re-
quired by the crop, putting the soil in good
condition for the root growth of the trees
in succeeding years. It is always safer

to protect young trees with a good fence,
for my experience is that some will be
broken down unless so protected.

Root-prune the tree before placing it in the centre
of the hole

Draw some soil over the roots to hold Then, place some fine surface soil
around the roots

the tree erect

the trunk
166

Firm well with the feet close around Slowly pour on a few quarts of water.

and mulch

The Story of aBoy’s Successful Market Garden—By Roger N. Perry, #0:

A BOY’S EXPERIENCE IN STARTING A BUSINESS— EIGHT YEARS OF GROWTH, BEGINNING
FEET FOR FUN, UNTIL NOW HE HAS A REGULAR TRADE

WITH A, FEW SQUARE

I BECAME a gardener nine years ago

when I was eight years old. Be-
cause of ill health, outdoor occupation
was necessary and as I was not strong
enough to play with other children, my
parents gave mea little garden of my own.
The large kitchen garden had
already been planted, but that
year, wherever I could find a
bare spot, I planted hills of
potatoes, corn, sunflower and
radish seed.

The next year, when I was
nine, I had a garden of four
rows twenty-five feet long.
When my vegetables were
large enough I thought it
would be fun to become a
peddler, so loaded up my ex-
press cart and went to a
neighbor who had asked me
to dig dandelion greens for
her. She bought of me and
encouraged me to go to other
neighbors.

At ten my joints were so
sore and stiff from rheumatism that I
could not use a hoe and I had to crawl
on my hands and knees, using’a trowel
to loosen the soil around my plants; that
year I had a garden 25 x 30 ft.

The next year my garden -area was
increased to eleven hundred square feet.
That same year a skylight was taken out
of my room and I used the window and
frame for a hotbed. The bed was made
two feet deep. I put the window frame,
which was two by three feet, over the hole,
sinking the south side five inches lower than
the north side to get all the sun possible.

We put a foot of fresh horse manure
from under the stable in the bottom of
the bed and covered this with six inches of
garden soil. I put the window on and let

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The young market gardener at work among his crops

it stay four or five days. The manure
heated the soil so that it was very moist
and the window was all steam. Then I
sowed cabbage, lettuce and celery seed,
and covered them with about one-fourth
inch of soil. If my hotbed seemed dry I

These hotbeds, made out of old window sash and rough boards, raised all the
seedlings

would sprinkle it, and as the days got
warmer, I would take off the window to
let the plants harden. If any of the nights
were cold enough to freeze through the
glass I would get an old blanket and cover
the window. When I was fourteen a man
gave me two windows six by four feet.
The soil was the same as I used in the
first hotbed except that I mixed in sand
where I sowed celery.

About this time I heard the Massachu-
setts Horticultural Society was offering
prizes for children’s home gardens. I
entered mine and took first prize. In 1906
I made a harness for my dog out of some
old straps and my grandfather made me a
real little dump-cart. I delivered my goods
to the neighbors and to stores in the town.

Which he

In 1907 my father bought an adjoining
strip of property and I had a flower garden
on part of it, growing such plants as bal-
sam, bachelor’s button, zinnia, candytuft,
stock, coreopsis and snapdragon.

In 1909 JI grew parsley. My pri-
vate customers could use but
little, but I found the hotels
and restaurants would use a
quantity. This opened anew
line of trade and the next
year the restaurants took all
the sweet corn I coud pro-
duce.

In 1908 I raised some flow-
ers. A neighbor ordered one
hundred aster plants.

I wanted my garden for 1909
to be the best ever! This was
the last year I could exhibit in
Boston, for I was fifteen years
old, so I increased my garden
to 5,000sq.ft. Sweet peas, nar-
cissus and asters were sold toa
florist, marigolds for medicine
and cut flowers for bouquets.

My seeds were given me until I was
twelve years old. Then I wanted a larger
variety to exhibit so bought more and
more each year until last year I paid out
four dollars for seeds. This is the record
of my eight years’ gardening:

|

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Year| Veg. | Flower | Flower | Veg. 20
Sales Sales | Prizes |Prizes ane Total | Age

ssay
1902] $2.50 | | $2.50! 8
1903 Ihave | no recojrdthis| year 9
1904 9.00 I.00 10.00] 10
1905 II.15 6.15 17.30] If
1906 22.48 8.00 30.48] 12
1907] 31.58 $4.10 | 7.40 43.08 | 13
1908 | 70.22] $1.93] 11.00] 4.50] $5.00] 92.65] 14
19090 57.21 7.00 7-50] 4.50 76.21] 15
Igio}| 32.01 22.905 2.50 57-46] 16

$236.15] $31.88 | $25.10 1$31.55| $5.00 $329.68

marketed successfully in a ‘‘dog cart’’

Some Old New England Gardens
Showing the Mellowing Touch of Aged Trees

The Low garden at Salem, Mass. Big masses of peonies and mature growth Time has overcome the neatness of newness and heavy masses give character.
of trees The old Hoffman garden at Salem, Mass. |

Sturdy old oaks and other trees and shrubs with well-clipped hedges lend Despite the modern bedding plants, dignity comes from this old tulip tree.
seclusion. Whittier’s garden, Danvers, Mass. : The old Peabody garden at Danvers, Mass.

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Hardy perennials, though newly planted, look old in the Poore garden at A hundred-year-old garden at Newburyport, Mass., where the original design
Newbury, Mass., thanks to the background of trees is yet unaltered

168 g

A Few Newer Gardens of the West
. in Which Masses of Flowers Are Dominant

At Glenco, near Chicago, Illinois, An effect made from absolutely nothing. A good beginning in a Dakota garden. The trees are yet young. Masses of
Only the water was there. roses in flower

Where irises are lavishly planted in a Madison, Wisconsin, garden. Every Naturalized daffodils are as much at home in Portland, Oregon, as in the
way equal to the East ; fields of New England

Formal gardening on a large scale in a garden at Grosse Pointe, Michigan. The setting of trees gives the note of permanency

169

Money in Backyard Gardening—By

E hear much about “‘the high cost of

living” these days. ‘True, it costs

tolive. But there are a number of chances

to save; we managed to save nearly thirty

dollars on vegetables last summer from a
garden 40 x 50 ft.

In May, 1910, we moved into a house
surrounded with ample room to have such
a garden. One evening I mapped it all out
and during the spring did the digging be-
fore breakfast and the hoeing after supper.

I now know the soil needs lime, what veg-
etables do best in heavy clay soil, and a
number of other things I could not have
learned except from actual trials. I also
expect to save about ten dollars more this
season from very early vegetables, by start-
ing in March and April. There are just a
few things which stand out boldly in my
memory as being especially noteworthy.

One of them was Swiss chard Lucullus,
a row of which was planted between the
tomatoes and beans and radish beds. I
never thought it possible to get so much
from a 15-foot row. Planted and treated
exactly like beets, the plants stood five
inches apart in the row. From thirty-
five plants we had fine greens nearly every
week from July till October.

Another one of my “leaders” was the
green-podded bush bean, Bountiful. Flat,
fleshy pods, stringless at all stages of
growth, and of delicate flavor, even when
old. Bountiful only “fell down” in the
late fall when Stringless Refugee came to
perfection. But for early spring and sum-
meér work in stiff clay soil and dry seasons
give me Bountiful. °”

Earliest Catawba corn has been called
“the only rival of the famous Golden Ban-
tam,” but I cannot quite agree. Earliest
Catawba showed tassel earlier than Golden
Bantam and we pulled very young ears
about three days sooner, dué Golden Ban-

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tam has a flavor all its own! Earliest
Catawba has handsome ears and the qual-
ity is tip-top, but I think Golden Ban-
tam is best for backyards.

I grew a few plants of the Giant Podded
pole Lima. They were whoppers. I can
still see Baby stand in the garden beside
me and say: “Daddy, that are beans.” I
took her picture with the beans (page 158).
I guess you'll agree with the baby. Sixty-
five pods on one plant, forty on another and
all were large, many seven inches long with
six beans to the pod. Shelled beans were
large, green, thin skinned, of finest flavor.

Adolph Kruhm, o

A final word about some of the tomatoes.
I think Coreless took the prize for large,
handsome, perfectly round fruits of un-
surpassed ‘“‘slicing” qualities, while Im-
proved Dwarf Champion yielded the largest
number of fruits per plant. This may seem
strange. But staking and pruning put
the dwarfs on the level with the tall sorts,
and clay soil must have agreed particularly
with Dwarf Champion. It made immense
bushes, some four feet tall and was less
affected by blight (on account of its
heavy foliage) than any other sort ex-
cept Dwarf Stone.

COsT DATE

SORTS OF VEGETABLES

OF SEED| PLANTED |DEVOTED

SPACE

Beans, Stringless Green Pod! $ .10 5-17
Valentine Red LO) 5-17
“~~ Longfellow .10 5-17
“~~ Bountiful 25 Does
“ Stringless Refugee 10 7-1
6 5-18, 6-15
Hardy Wax 125 Tae. oe
Lis, Fordhook (bush) 10 5-19
“Burpee Improved 10 5-21
“Giant Podded (pole) 5-20
BEETS, Detroit Dark Red IO 6-2
4 Crimson Globe 05 6-20
Swiss Caarp, Lucullus Ic 6-2
Carrot, Danvers 05 6-10
Corn, Golden Bantam 10 6-5
“Catawba 15 6-5
EnpIve, White Curled 05 5-21
Mustarp, Giant Curied 05 5-21
Lettuce, May King 05 5-17
: Wayahead to 5-17
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ONION SETS, white ae) 5-10
Pras, Prolific Market Io 6-1
“ Gradus 15 6-2
POTATOES, white 20 6-1
S sweet 6-5
Ravisx, Rosy Gem .05 5-17
Cin. Market 10 5-19
f Livingston’s Pearl .05 | 5-17, 30
os Scarlet Pamir 105 6-5
4 Cal. Mammoth .05 7-17
St Black Spanish .10 Fait 7
i Sakurajima 6-15
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New Zealand .05 7-3
TOMATOES, Globe
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Peanuts, Mammoth IO 7-3
$3.90
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ActuaL Cost $2.90

170

YIELD VALUE NOTES
to ft: -|' 3 qts. $ .15 | Blighted badly
ro ft. 2 qts. .Io | Gets stringy
20 ft. 4 qts. .20 | Gets stringy
60 ft. I bu. 2.50 | Best on trial
20 ft. 3 qts. .30 | Good latesort. Prolific
Does well in spring
4o ft. 18 qts. if, 25 aril (eal
5 Had to replant twice;
20 ft. |2 qts. sh’d. 30 cold, wet spring 2
5 Replanted one-half
toft. |x qt. sh’d. .15 GA Ime worl
6 hills |2 qts. sh’d. .30 | Secured only 2 plants
20 ft. 6 doz. .60 | Extra fine and sweet
to ft. 2 doz. .25 | Good, early and round
15 ft. | ro meals 1.00 | Finest ever, crisp and
30 ft. | ro doz. 1.00 sencler
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35 ft. 3 doz. AS ion ec yard gar
soft. | 41% doz. 1.00 | Very early
roft. | 12 plants). .50 | We cooked both to-
to ft. | 20 plants 225 gether like spinach
to ft. 8 heads .40 | Best early head let-
to ft. 7 heads). .35 tuces
te We prefer it to all
2oft. | 16 heads .80 others
Gave us the green
20 ft. 5 doz. .50 ror ibe
50 ft. 4 qts. .40 | Very free-bearing
Excellent pods, but shy
20 ft. 2 qts. .30 vielder
80 ft. t bu. .75 | Poor yield; were neg-
1o hills} 2 peck 25 lected; bugs ate vines
20 ft. to doz. 1.00 ws
4o ft. 15 doz. 1.50 | Good all round sort
Best of the White Icicle
20 ft. | 10 doz. 1.00 type
Planted too early for a
15 ft. 3 doz. . 30 summer sort
soft, || 10 roots: | "zo oy eee
20 ft. VY. bu. .50 | Best winter keeper
ro ft. 6 roots .30 | Averaged ro tbs. apiece
Good; d t st
20 ft. | 4 meals .40 he ot oe stand
ro ft. | 3 plants rio | Finest summer spinach
80 fruits r.50 |) All tall sorts were
40 fruits W715 more or less dam-
65 fruits 1.50 aged by blight.
oe 50 fruits |} 1.00 «Pruning and stak-
DC | cag faeethis 1.00 “ing was done. Plants
35 fruits 75 stood 214 feet apart
85 fruits 1.50 each way
to hills} 1 at. Not good for stiff clay
—— soil
$27.65 :

Arbor Day

RBOR DAY should be a real live

sort of day in schools. It should

be an active, doing day; not a day of
recitation only.

What sort of things shall we do? Let
us plan for outdoor work. Suppose it
tains! Then if it does let us have the
whole school meet together and each grade
can tell the others what its special piece
of work was and what it will do the next
pleasant day. For example: the boys
of the seventh grade were to plant trees;
then the whole piece of work may be told
by aid of blackboard and crayon:

Here is a list of some Arbor Day pieces
of work, and since the date of the day is
not the same in all states the list is a varied
one:

(1) Plant trees either in the school
yard or along the street. In choosing
the tree for the school grounds select one
of our native kinds. In choosing one for
the street keep in mind such points as
beauty, shade, rate of growth and bril-
liancy of foliage. Why not make out a
list of suitable ornamental and shade trees.

re

The back yard may be made beautiful by the children at slight money cost and some real labor

MAKING ARBOR DAY A LIVING
REALITY—METHODS OF CON-
DUCTING HOME GARDEN WORK —
A TALLY CARD FOR CHECKING UP
CHILDREN’S HOME GARDENING
EFFORTS

Conducted by
EDEN 2 DIDDY SHAW.
New York

Farmers’ Bulletin No. 173, “A Primer of
Forestry,” gives a good history of the
life of a tree. Send to the Department of
Agriculture at Washington for this. For
simple directions on how to plant trees
send to our “Children’s Gardens Corre-
spondence Bureau.”

(2) Clean up the school grounds, assign-
ing sections to different grades. Burn
all rubbish. Fill in all holes in the lawns.
Clean paths and gutters.

(3) Make a plan of the grounds as they
are to be with all improvements made.
Draw this plan to scale. Have it where
it may be constantly referred to. The
Government issues a bulletin on the sub-
ject of improvement of school grounds.

(4) Fix that old stone wall. Set posts
for the new chicken wire fence. Be sure
the boys know how to use the spirit level.
The making of a level is a piece of manual
work for you boys.

(5) The small boys and girls can beautify
unsightly objects with vines of nasturtium,
morning glory, scarlet runner beans and
cucumber.

(6) Dig dandelion and other weed roots
out of the lawn.

171

(7) Start a rose garden.

(8) Prune old wood from the trees and
shrubs.

(9) Set out some shrubs.
of shrubs as was done for the trees.

Make a study
Make

These morning glory vines made the summer camp
beautiful

out a shrub planting table telling: time of
blossoming; color of blossom; nature of
fruit; the kind of soil to plant in and
points of interest about the shrub.

(zo) Look around the town and see if
there is an ugly spot to be fixed up.

(11) Dig up the garden and manure
it properly.

(12) Plant whatever can be planted in
the garden.

(13) Send to the departments of educa-
tion in different states for a copy of their
Arbor Day manuals. New York State
always sends out to its teachers an attrac-
tive and helpful annual; so too, does Wis-
consin.

(14) Let us know what you did on Arbor
Day toward making a more beautiful
world.

An Arbor Day Garden

pe following is an account of two
lads’ real Arbor Day work by
Jessie J. Carpenter of Colorado:

“Arbor Day was a holiday in our town,
and the children celebrated by planting
a garden. The ground had been plowed,
and it took nearly the entire day to clear
off the rocks, pulverize the clods and
mark off the rows. But they succeeded
in getting the seeds into the ground late
in the afternoon. Radishes, lettuce and
peas were used.

The ground was so cold that it was two

172

weeks before the plants began to make
their appearance. The first Saturday
after they were all up so the rows were
clearly defined, the boys hoed their garden
thoroughly. This was done every two
weeks until the peas began to blossom.

Three weeks from the time the plants
were up we began to use the radishes—
delicious, little, round, red ones — and
had all we wanted for a family of four for
nearly a month, with quantities of crisp,
crinkly lettuce. From this little garden we
had ten quarts of peas which matured
all at one time.

The boys did not sell any of their gar-
den stuff, but if we had bought all that we
used it would have cost not less than $3.
But here is a photograph of morning
glories that these same small boys planted
and watered all summer, hauling the water
from an irrigating ditch nearby, using for
the purpose their little farm wagon and
an old milk can. (See preceding page.)

They built a trench along the front
and one end of the porch, driving stakes
at the ends and corners, one foot from the
wall to which they nailed a board one foot
wide. This made a trench ten feet long in
front, six feet long at the end, one foot wide
and one foot deep. They filled it with the
clay soil of the place mixed with a quantity
of barn yard manure and planted it thickly
with morning glory seed. When the plants
came up they were too thick to grow well,
so a good many of them were taken up
and transplanted on the west side of the
house. These were slow at first in getting
a start, but watering each day kept them

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Address

APRIL, 1911

North Andover Improvement Society
Home Garden Report.

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Care of Garden

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alive. The morning glories shown here are
on the south and east of the kitchen
porch. :

Home Gardens

ae back yard beautiful is beginning

to be a realization here and there
in our country. The best methods of
carrying on this home garden work for
children are to be earnestly sought out
in order that it may be of real benefit
to the child and the community.

Many schools would take up the work
gladly, but hesitate on account of the
summer supervision. For even the home
garden needs some supervision, and it
surely needs to be visited if the children
are to be given prizes for the work. A

A method of watering used in Oleveland, Ohio. The water pipe can be rotated so that the water jets
may be sent all over the garden at will

Second Visit

Mark answers by letter.

Third Visit

E— Excellent. G@—Good. F—Fair. P— Poor.

very good method of carrying on the
work is used in Andover, Mass. There
is a village improvement society in North
Andover. This society codperates with
the public school. During the summer
or school vacation season members of
the society visit the different home gardens.
Three visits are made to each garden dur-
ing the season. The North Andover
report card shows the points upon which
the child’s garden is marked. ‘This seems
an excellent and business-like method of
procedure. The parents may compete
also in these contests. When the fall
meeting of the children is called and the
prizes awarded it is understood that these
report cards are the basis of the ratings.
The prizes are given by the society.

Mr. E. K. Thomas, who has charge of
the garden work in Providence, R. L.,
sends the following about his work. This
is especially suggestive for schools: “‘ In
regard to the home gardens here, I have
had such a limited amount of time for the
work that no well organized system has
been developed. Early in the year when
talking up school gardens and receiving
applications for the same, I encouraged
the pupils to make home gardens as well,
and invited them to bring a sketch of their
home yards, drawn to scale if possible,
to the school on the day I was expected
there, also a sample of the soil. Then I
advised them what to plant or instructed
them in planting the crops they desired.

“‘Atthe State Normal School, these weekly
consultations were very interesting and
valuable. The teachers encouraged the
pupils to have questions ready, and the
intelligent way in which they were asked
and the nature of the questions proved that
they were really seeking information upon
the practical problems which must have
come up in connection with their work.

“Whenever time would allow, I would
visit some of the home gardens and take
pictures. In some places, the parents be-
came so much interested that they decided
to spade up the whole yard and have a
garden themselves.”

For further help on planning home work
write directly to the ‘Children’s Gardens
Correspondence Bureau,” care of The
Editor.

Apriu, 1911

(Epitor’s NoteE.—lWe want to know how suc-

cessful workers do things in order to put actual
experiences before our thousands of readers in all
parts of the country. Every reader is invited to con-
tribute a short nole on some interesting experience.
Just state the facts about some ingenious idea that you
have actually worked out yourself or have seen.)

After trying several methods of labelling
plants which would be inconspicuous and
at the same time sure and always avail-
able, I have found that, by putting the
label in a small glass phial and inserting
this in the earth at the root of the plant,
the glass protects the label and at the
same time the writing is always legible.
By using a tight cork the weather has no
effect on the label and also the phials can
be used indefinitely and for many pur-
poses aa ©. 1G. Me

Among many suggestions for a second
crop in the tulip bed I have never seen the
California poppy (Eschscholtzia) mentioned.
If given a little room between the tulip
rows, it will be ready to flower,by the time
the tulips have become unsightly; it will
continue to blossom until heavy frost,
and will resow itself indefinitely. I also
give the ordinary poppies liberty to come
up anywhere and everywhere, weeding out
what I do not want. They reward me by
all sorts of unexpected combinations. This
year they grew with the blue cornflower
and were enchanting. And the carnation-
flowered poppies covered my bed of annun-
ciation lilies as soon as the lilies were out
of bloom.— L. A. S.

For two years I have tried to get water-
cress started but without success. Once
on the margin of a beautiful clear brook,
I sowed it at intervals of two weeks from
February until late in spring, but not one
seed seemed to germinate; so last year I
tried another plan in another place. I
sowed my seed on damp ground and kept
it wet for weeks, and I also put some of
the cress seed in a coldframe. The seed
in the ground disappeared entirely, and
I was so discouraged that I paid no atten-
tion to what I had put in the coldframe.
Last fall the soil in the frame was hoed
up several weeks before it was actually
needed and in pulling up the second crop
of weeds, I was amazed and delighted to
find a sturdy crop of cress. The seeds must
have been dormant all summer, survived
the working of the ground and came up,
in the cool fall weather. — A. G. W.

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MAGAZINE

I have a better recipe for making bird
glue (or lime) than that which appeared
on page 296 of the January GARDEN MAGa-
ZINE. Fill an iron pot one-fourth or two-
thirds full of raw or boiled linseed oil.
Build a fire out in the open, away from
buildings, and boil the oil in the centre of
the fire. The oil will soon start to boil.
Let it boil for eight or ten minutes until
about half of the quantity is boiled away.
Have an iron cover or a stove lid handy,
and cover the pot. When cooled off the oil
will be thick like molasses, and may be
spread on short branches of birches or
other thin sticks and placed where the
birds feed. The oil should be pure linseed
oil; if adulterated with mineral oils it will
not thicken.— R. J.

Three years ago I bought a two-year-
old fig tree and planted it at the south
end of my house. Just to the north of
the tree is a porch which breaks the north
wind, and the tree gets the full sun against
the house and is protected by a stone wall
on one side and by a cement sidewalk on
the other, with a space of thirty inches
between. The roots are rather crowded
but have kept healthy. Michigan winters
are rather severe. The first two winters
I bent the tree to the ground and buried
it with earth and litter, but the third it was
so large that such treatment was not
practical, so I covered the roots quite
heavily with coarse manure, thoroughly
wrapped the tree with old carpet and bur-
lap, then set corn stalks all around it and
securely fastened burlap over all. This
treatment seems to be just as satisfactory
as burying it. I headed the tree quite
low so as to make it spread. It bore
quite a number of figs last season and
this year I expect a large yield.—W. L. S.

An experience that I have had here in
California which I want to pass on to other
amateurs is one with the much catalogued
achillea, The Pearl. The universal and
everlasting boom given this plant by
growers everywhere is easily accounted
for. Once a plant is started, they can go
right on digging and selling, for the supply
will never fail. If the plant gets well
started in a home garden, the roots are
there to stay and will twine around and
choke out everything near them. Even
if this achillea had great beauty, this
trait would be against it when it is planted
among other valuable plants. But the
flower is really ugly—a muddy white,
instead of a pure color — and in form not
even equal to the old-fashioned feverfew,
which was a nonentity. The Pearl is
ugly in flower, and an undesirable and
persistent “stayer” if given room. —
E. A. S. (This is only further proof
that the East cannot prescribe for the
Pacific slope, and vice versa. The Shasta
daisy of California is not half so good with
us, and despite our correspondent’s con-
demnation of “The Pearl,” it will be
considered as a worthy, pure white, hardy
perennial by us in the East. — Epiror).

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The water arum (Calla palustris) grows
wild and in profusion in a large swamp
near where I live in western New York.
I have found it growing in about
eight or ten inches of water in a rather
open place where the trees had been pretty
well thinned out. In my opinion this
calla ranks with Jack-in-the-pulpit, being
fully as attractive, with its pure white
spathe, contrasting yellow spadix and its
glossy green leaves just above or riding
on the water.— V. B.

I grew the vegetable marrow in my gar-
den in New Hampshire last year and found
it most delicious. We slice, salt and
press it; then dip it in egg and flour and
fry. We have it for lunch instead of meat,
and we think it far superior to the eggplant
in delicate quality, while retaining the
meatiness that gives it the name of mar-
row. The Japanese cucumber, which
scrambled over the rustic gate, was a most
artistic feature and furnished us with
long, pale green fruits of a delicate flavor
and crispness.— N. D. F.

In preparing bordeaux mixture I make
a saturated solution of blue vitriol putting
it in a 2-quart bottle, which holds slightly
under one pound of bluestone. I slack
two or three cans of whitewash lime (which
can be bought anywhere) in a stone jar,
and keep it covered with water. To
fill a 4-gallon spray pump I use about
one-third of the contents of my 2-quart
bottle, add two gallons of water, then stir
up my lime and dip out enough of this
so as to make about two gallons more.
I pour these together into the spray tank
and then test with a solution of ferrocy-
anide of potassium. If the mixture does
not change the color of the ferrocyanide
it is all right to use, but if it does add more
lime water. It should be a beautiful blue
color. By keeping the vitriol and lime
in solution a canful can be made in perhaps
three minutes. — E. P.

Do not be flattered by strong vigorous
sprouts from the roots of newly planted
tree peonies. They are a delusion and a
snare. The writer planted a collection of
Japanese tree peonies several seasons ago.
A few of them bloomed and they were
exceptionally fine. They made a vigorous
growth from the roots and the next season
failed to bloom. Another year came by
and they were getting to be quite sizable
plants. A number of fat buds unfolded
in April; and these peonies had. done a
chameleon stunt of changing color. They
were all alike, a dark purplish red. These
blossoms were not to be despised and the
plants are now fine bushes, but they are
not the beautiful colors they were their
first season. Since planting them I
learned that all suckers from the roots
must be suppressed, as these peonies are
grafted. And the public prints tell us
daily of the pernicious influence of grafting!
The choice varieties had been choked
out of existence.— S. R. D.

What Fuel Is Most Economical P
By MYRON T. SCUDDER, New Jersey

IF I could have my way about house-

work, I would have everything done
by electricity — the cooking, washing and
ironing, as well as the heating and lighting,
and the running of sewing-machines, dish
washers and vacuum cleaners. But at
present only the rich can afford this ideal
fuel. Cheap electricity will come, though,
so abundantly and so cheap that departed
spirits will gasp with surprise when they
compare its cost and convenience with
the gas they used at eighty cents or one
dollar per thousand, or coal at six dollars
and upward per ton.

If one cannot have electricity what is
next best? In some parts of the country
it would be natural gas. In others wood
is the staple, for in many places this is
still the cheapest and most important
fuel.

But I think we shall have to admit
that among all the fuels coal is “King.”
He may not be holding us down to “coal-
hod slavery ;’ we may succeed even in
banishing his black majesty from our homes
in the shape of actual lumps of pea, chest-
nut or stove coal; but he comes back in
the form of gas or of electricity and domin-

You can bake fish and cake at the same time in
this gas-range oven

ates the situation as of old. Yet in recent
years a formidable rival has appeared on
the scene and King Coal’s title is vigorously
disputed. This rival is petroleum, and
the contest is between coal on one side
and oil on the other. Oil, like coal, yields
valuable fuel-gas, kerosene giving blue
flame while gasolene gives carburetted
alr gas.

We are told in producing steam in a
steam boiler 1,000 pounds of coal will
accomplish approximately as much as
will one cord of wood, or 84 gallons of oil
or gasolene, or 20,000 cubic feet of coal
gas. That is, estimating coal at $6 per
ton, its power to produce steam is as great
as is $9 worth of wood at $4.50 per cord, or
$20 worth of oil at 12 cents per gallon,
or $40 worth of coal gas at one dollar per
thousand cubic feet. This would seem
to show that coal is the cheapest fuel.

Perhaps this is so in some cases. For
instance, with steam engines or with heat-
ing systems for houses — for we may as
well concede at once that coal is the most
practical fuel for the heater in the cellar.
Yet even in these cases petroleum is mak-
ing some gains. But it must be remem-
bered that in fuels like wood and coal
a large proportion of the heat, some say
go per cent., goes up the chimney or is
radiated into the room. A. ton of coal
may be able to do as much as $20 worth
of oil will if we can really capture all the
heat there is in it and place it where we
want it. But this is just what we haven’t
learned how to do. And if we lose 90
per cent. of the heat, then we are paying
our $6 for the ro per cent. remnant, and
it really requires $60 worth of coal to do
what $20 worth of oil or $40 worth of coal
gas can accomplish.

We can see now why gas and oil may
be far more economical as fuel than coal.
In cooking, for instance, see how time,
patience and money can be saved. In
gas and oil stoves the flame can be instantly
produced and as quickly put out, no
kindlings, no coal to carry, no ashes or
dirt or soot or dust, no waiting for the
fire to come up, no faulty drafts, always
ready at a moment’s notice, and no banking
the fire at night.

And there is saving again because your
fire is burning only when you actually need
it. Three or four hours a day of heat is
enough for cooking, isn’t it? Even half

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of that will do if you use a fireless cooker.
Think how many hours a day a coal stove
blazes away doing nothing but burn up
good money! Then the further saving
is effected because the heat is concen-
trated just where you most need it, on
the article to be cooked. Then see how
easily gas and oil are adjustable from slight
warmth to intense heat. Another great
saving, for, having brought the water to
a boil or the oven to the required tempera-
ture with the full flame you may turn the

A steel oven for oil stoves, which will bake an@
roast meat to perfection

flame well down, for a comparatively small
amount of heat will now keep the pot
a-boiling and the oven a-baking.

In warm weather, too, instead of the
superheated kitchen there is a refreshing
freedom from the excessive heat of the
coal stove. They tell us, too, that there
is less loss in weight in meat when it is
cooked over oil or gas, tests showing that
a ro-pound roast loses two pounds in a
coal range but only two or three ounces
when cooked by gas. With a few more
improvements in adapting gas to house-
warming systems, coal may be banished
from our homes even before electricity
comes.

In this matter of house warming, of —
course there are gas furnaces in natural
gas regions, but with artificial gas the
cost at present is greater than with coal.
As for the little portable heaters for
warming rooms, they should be used
sparingly and for as brief a time as possible,
for they burn the oxygen in the air which
you yourself need. Of course a coal stove

APRIL, 1911

consumes air in great quantities, but as
it is connectzd with a chimney the air
from which the oxygen is taken passes
out of the room and is replaced by air
that comes in through door, window or
cracks. With these little gas heaters,
the vitiated air stays in the room and
keeps getting worse and worse.

Can city people who live in flats and use
gas ranges economize with fuel? Cer-
tainly, by using an oil stove. There are
several makes, and I have used them all.
Beware of the old-fashioned wick stoves.
They are a nuisance. The wick blue
flame is particularly good. It is smoke-
less because a mechanical contrivance
prevents the wick from being turned too
high. It is better than the wickless in
that it starts quicker, has fewer parts to
clog and does not emit such a disagreeable
odor when it is put out.

Stoves, with oil at twelve cents a gallon,
burn at an expense of two-thirds of a cent
per burner per hour, whereas coal gas
at one dollar per thousand costs one and
one-third cents per burner per hour.
Oil, then, would seem to cost about half
as much as gas.

Kerosene and gasolene used in new ways
and in the latest appliances are a boon to
people outside the cities and large villages.
Wood is rising in value, coal is getting
more and more costly. Large areas of
the country cannot have either wood or
coal without importing them a long dis-
tance. But the petroleum fuels can go
easily where coal and wood are transported
with difficulty, and are able to do all that
coal could do under the same conditions
and even more. “Kerosene is recognized
as the coming fuel” has been said with
emphasis. Whether this be so or not
it is eminently the most economical cook-
ing fuel for people of moderate income,
and the wide-spread use of blue-flame
stoves and of oil-driven machinery would
seem to indicate that kerosene has a
far greater future than has been sus-
pected.

The best fuel for rural dwellers, however,
is gasolene when generated into gas. Take
the equalizing gas machine. It consists
of a tank for gasolene buried in the ground
a short distance from the building, con-
nected with apparatus in the house for
driving air over this gasolene, thus pro-
ducing carburetted gas, which then is

pessistetie e |

An “‘equalizing’’ gas machine, for lighting, cook-
ing, heating, etc.

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Wick blue-flame oil stove, smokeless, quick to start
and practically odorless when put out

distributed through pipes wherever it
may be needed. After the machine is
installed the operating expenses are very
low: “Cheaper and better than city gas:”
““Two dollars per month as against six
dollars per month for the same kind of
use in the city.” This machine furnishes
gas to cook the food, to light the house,
to run pumping engines and other kinds
of engines, run an instantaneous water
heater, and to do any number of other
useful things that the owner may arrange
for. It can also furnish fuel for the hot
water heating system.

Here then, is a fuel for the country
which bears the same relation to country
life that coal gas does to city life, and does
it at about one-third of the expense.

Plant for Winter Beauty

I WAS much impressed with the beauty
of my garden during last winter, as seen
from my window. All December there was
thick, deep, dazzling snow and on some
days there were twigs cased in ice, other
days thick masses of snow on all the trees;
and in the midst of this winter scene the
oaks were wearing all their thick foliage;
hardly a leaf had fallen from the scrubs
and the larger white oaks and red oaks that
mass in the valley. This foliage was in all
possible, wonderful shades of deep maroon
and tapestry tints; all the shades imagin-
able of purple and wine colors and dull red
browns, besides light tan that shows gold
against the sky in the sun and dark tan
and a rare ashes-of-rose color, and some
beautiful deep chestnut browns and cop-
per browns. Wonderful suggestions for
indoor color combinations if only such ex-
quisite tints could be obtained in manu-
factured articles! And I ask: Why do we
not plant more with an eye to winter
beauty and comfort?—L. L. D.

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Destroying Scales on Ferns

I HAVE a splendid great ostrich fern
which has been infested with scales
for three winters. It is kept in an east
window of a living-room, and because of
its great size is not moved except to be
taken in the spring to a sheltered porch and
brought back in the fall. It cannot be
sprayed in a room properly carpeted and
papered. The scale cannot be fumigated
to their Jast sleep, because my family
insist that cyanide gas is not their poison,
and carbon bisulphide gas is nasty. There-
fore, once a week, generally on Sunday
morning after breakfast, I take a small
sharp cutter or a penholder with a new steel
nib and scrape off scale bugs by hand.

I used to let the fallen enemy lie on the
field — that is to say, on the table edge
and the carpet. Some of the scales were
soft, juicy, and pretty colored; some were
bright, shiny brown hard-shell, full of white
powder and fine webs. In going over the
fern regularly once a week, I came to notice
that young scales were most numerous
where the fronds brushed the edge of the
table and lay upon the carpet, the stems
near the roots and the three feet between the
table and floor developing few new insects.
When a magnifying glass showed the white
powder of the grandfather hard-shells
to be little bugs, I began to suspect that
I was spreading scales as fast as killing
them. In their first stages they were able
to crawl, and I was helping them to new
pastures via the table edge. Latterly
I have been burning the old bugs and all
heavily infested twigs, and the birth rate
is going down steadily.

Pennsylvania.

Spinach Salad

| Bee ova food may often be “re-
made,” as it were, into very appetiz-
ing dishes. Spinach is particularly taste-
less when cold.

However, a delicious salad may be made
by chopping very fine a quantity of cold
spinach. Season to taste with salt, butter
and pepper. Shape into individual nests
and on each place the yolk of a hard-boiled
egg, cutting the white into strips. Garnish
with small, crisp lettuce leaves and stuffed
olives and serve with mayonnaise dressing.

Massachusetts. M. H.N.

Besoa,

A salad made from cold spinach, decorated with
boiled egg, lettuce and olives

Cucumbers for Six on Ten
Square Feet

T MAY seem hard to believe, but nevertheless
it is true, that one may grow cucumbers enough
for a family of six on a space of ten square feet.
When we saw the remarkable product last year
in a neighbor’s garden late in July, he said his
family had already consumed a great many, in
addition to having pickled a large quantity. There
were then on the vines at least a half bushel of
cucumbers, all sizes, and the vines were still bloom-
ing and fruiting. The leaves, too, were of good
color, indicating plenty of vigor.

This gardener had planted his cucumbers ten
inches apart, in a row ten feet long, in soil that
had been very highly manured with poultry
manure, mixed with wood ashes and lime. The
ground had been thoroughly broken with a spade
and the soil stirred two or three times with a dig-
ging fork in the spring before the planting. When
the plants came up he built a trellis ten feet square,
leaning at about 45 degrees angle with the ground
and toward the north. The low side was eight
inches from the ground and almost directly over
the row of plants.

As the latter grew he trained them to run on the
trellis, which was built of laths on a frame of one
by four boards. The laths were two inches apart.
In very dry weather he occasionally poured water
on the ground under the trellis, and, of course, being
shaded, the ground kept cool and moist, while
the vines had all the sunshine possible.

South Carolina. R. S. SHANNONHOUSE.

Planting Fruit Trees With
Dynamite

Ws you buy your fruit trees for growing
in the garden, get a good strong trunk, two
or three years old, cut it back to twelve inches from
the ground surface before planting, trim back
all roots to clean growth and set as follows:

Get the family crowbar —if the family hasn’t
one, take your largest poker and a spade, or even
the fire shovel — into the garden. Pick out your
location so that water will run away from it,
shovel off a circle of top earth and lay to one side.
With crowbar or poker, bore a hole into the ground
at least eighteen inches deep and one and a half
inches across. An old one-and-a-half-inch carpen-
ter’s auger will do the trick nicely. Cover the
hole up to keep dry.

Hurry down to your hardware man, and ask
him to give you a half stick of dynamite with cap,
and two feet of best fuse firmly attached. If
you understand working with powder you can do
it yourself. Get your dynamite home and lay it
in the sun to warm up until it pinches soft like
butter that spreads nicely. If you have no sun,
take the lid from the kitchen stove, cool enough
to bear your hand on, wrap your dynamite in
newspaper and let it lie outdoors on the warm
stove lid until it is sufficiently warm and soft.

Shut the family pup and the children in the
house, and carry your warm dynamite and attached
fuse and cap to your bored hole; drop it in gently,
urge it downward to the botton of the hole and tuck
in a little fine, loose dirt. Now pour in a bucket of
water, just blood warm. Light a bit of candle and
hold to the end of fuse above ground until the

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powder in fuse begins to spit at you like a big
firecracker. Now run, say twenty-five feet.

When you go back to that inch and half hole
after the explosion you will find your ground
nicely pulverized for several feet. Also you can
dig out the subsoil with your shovel and throw
it away. Put your scraped-off topsoil into hole
to fill to proper depth, depending on length of
root stock from graft to end of longest root.

The tree should be set with graft two inches be-
low the surrounding surface. I set a tree with
my bare hands, tucking each rootlet into nice
fine earth, until all is covered, and then I tramp it
viciously. Put on a little more loose earth, add
a bucket of water, and let it settle. Lastly fil
in with soft fine crumbly soil. If the top earth
packs, work in lawn cuttings. bedding from the
horse or even old leaves. But never let that top
ground get hard or caked.

I can assure you from experience that that tree
will make you the envy of all your friends and you
will need a hat several sizes larger!

The dynamite kills out all animal eggs and
pests, digs up your subsoil so that your ground
never dries out, and chemists claim it fills the soil
with nitrogen and other desirable fertilizer.

An apple orchard of four acres, set in this
manner two years ago, has not lost a single tree,
and is often mistaken for a five-year-old plantation.

Oregon. EsteLtte M. RAWLery.

Planting For Succession

EN PLANNING the rotation of crops for the
kitchen garden, the idea is never to let a foot
of the ground remain idle. For instance:

Sow peas in rows four feet apart. Between
these sow two rows of spinach one foot apart,
and radishes one foot apart. Both of these vege-
tables are ready for use before the peas. Harly
varieties of the latter, such as D. O’Rourke and
Nott’s Excelsior, are ready for use early in June.

They are succeeded by early celery, corn or
string beans; or, for instance, where early cabbage
was grown, fall turnips, rutabaga, etc., can be sown.
In July, sow onions in rows fifteen inches apart
and a space of two feet should be left at every
fifth row to accommodate three rows of celery
eight inches apart. :

As soon as the earthing-up process begins for
the celery, the two inside rows of onions can be
utilized for the table. Lettuce can always follow
any crop. Late cabbage can follow early beets
and carrots, so that as one crop is taken off another
is immediately put in. ;

New York. GEORGE STANDEN.

Root Pruning Before Starting

NE plant a tree or shrub without properly
trimming up the roots. It stands to reason
that they have been damaged in the moving and
there is some danger of the broken surfaces rotting
and giving trouble later. Take a sharp knife and
make smooth all ends of the larger roots by an up-
ward and outward cut. The illustration shows

exactly how this is done, although the operator
would find he worked far more easily if he used a

proper pruning knife with a curved blade. This
will ensure perfect contact with the soil and give
no lodging place for water. Also new roots will
spread out in a normal manner from this kind
of cut.

APRIL, 1911

Transplanting from the Wild

MONG the many wild shrubs which may be
easily grown in cultivation, and which cost
nothing but a trip to the woods or meadow, the
various dogwoods, viburnums, elderberry and the
barberry are prominent. The dogwoods and the
elderberry are very rapid growers; the viburnums
and the barberry are strikingly handsome, but do
not increase so quickly.

In the latitude of Boston the best time for lift-
ing and resetting such plants is in late April and
early May, before the foliage has made much
growth.

Plant firmly on a damp morning or evening,
after cutting back the tops until they have a spread

These native white pines, transplanted from the
woods years ago, have made rapid growth

not much larger than the roots. Water plenti-
fully until the shrub becomes well fixed, then
give judicious cultivation and fertilization.

Below I give a list of plants I know to be
satisfactory, rapid growers being marked with
a star:
Viburnums

Cranberry tree
Arrow wood

Elderberry*
Great flowering*
Alternate leaved*

Barberry Privet*
Hawthorn Sweet pepperbush
Sweetbrier Meadow rue*
Evergreens White pine*
Balsam fir Black or red spruce
American yew Hemlock*
Savin Larch*
Various ferns Waxwork
Clematis* Blueberry
Chokeberry
Massachusetts. HELEN W. Ross.

A Bit of Blue and White

N ONE corner of my garden, blue and white
reigns supreme from April to October with
no great effort, and I wonder if any one else has
ever tried my simple combination. Before the
snow has gone in early spring, snowdrops and
blue scillas are a mass of bloom. I have cut
bunches of snow drops (the giant Galanthus Elwesi)
when only the white bell was to be seen above
the snow and the stems were to be cut only by
plunging one’s hand deep in the snow. These
are succeeded by blue hyacinths and Narcissus
odorata and early single white tulips; before these
have all gone the hardy double blue violets and the
late white tulips come on. Then the delphiniums
—can enough be said in praise of the hardy kind?
Against an 8-foot trellis, mine often overtop it
by more than a foot. In front of these are white
Japanese iris.

The larkspur keeps on all summer, after the iris
is gone. In back of the iris is a row of white
annual larkspur that continues to bloom till frost
comes.

Pennsylvania. Mrs. N. B. GRAVES.

APRIL, 1911

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

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LANT out cannas now. Get good-sized
roots and you will have flowers from early
summer until frost. All varieties are pretty and
easy to grow, but if you want exceptionally large
flowers get strong roots of Pennsylvania and plant
them in a rich soil. The stalk grows very tall and
the flowers are from five to six and a half inches in
diameter, of a rich bright scarlet.

Very few plants produce a more beautiful
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As far north as Middle Georgia it will bear fruit
in the open. If you have such a plant, set out the
suckers now in a moist, sunny spot where the soil
is rich.

Don’t forget to keep the old flowers picked off
the sweet peas, nasturtiums and pansies, so that
they will continue flowering.

Plant lima beans now. Bush varieties are more
productive than either the large or small limas,
Fordhook being the best for the South.

li you have not already sown seed of tomatoes

The yard-long bean which grows from two to four
feet in length

for a main crop, do it at once. Ponderosa is the
largest of all and Dwarf Giant is the largest
'and best of the dwarf varieties.
Plant peanuts and chufas, or earth almonds.
Sow seed of sunflowers. Black Giant and Mam-
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Plant a few yard-long beans simply as a curiosity.

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180 The Readers’ Service enies anlormalion “rs Fy By NE AL 1D) By NIAC aC Alle NOLS Ana pe aonel

There are two varieties of this wonderful bean
or pea (I say “pea” because the plant and
the flavor of the pods when cooked are like the
cow pea). The pods of French Asparagus do not
usually grow over two feet long with me, but the

Strokum Stop S plants are very prolific. The seed is red. The
other variety is known as the Japan long runner

; a bean. The seed is black and with me the pods

Fi at er ill afr Ss grow from twenty-four to forty-two inches long.
p The vine makes very little foliage, but produces

great quantities of pods.

Don’t make the mistake of waiting until
the caterpillars begin to crawl before you

Profit in Sweet Potatoes

: ONSIDERABLE profit is made in the South
protect your trees. Band them with C by growing sweet potatoes for market.
Strokum now. They can’t crawl under While they are grown in the Northern States for

: ; home use, I don’t think it would pay to grow them
it—they won’t crawl over. Easy to ap- for market as.the northern season is short and

ply. Is not unsightly. Guaranteed not ue ep iol! not nee Ee to fully mature.

so : n the South they are profitable to grow even for
to injure your trees. One banding lasts hog and other stock food. Soil that would pro-
entire season. Easy to remove. Leaves duce only twenty bushels of corn per acre will

Hare figuring edences ise 3 ahge produce from fifty to a hundred bushels of sweet
Strokum isa finely shredded prep. potatoes.

26 COURTS see ese 2 Be month. Next may be too late. Send First make a seed bed in which to start the
extract harmful to the caterpillars lants. In a very sunny place in the garden
but absolutely harmless to the trees. y &

Saokumalleithecknks oF Bane. for booklet. dig a trench one and a half or two yards square

so Caterpillars can’t crawl under it. for each bushel of seed potatoes, and six or eight
They won’t crawl over it. :

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out in four weeks from the time the seed was
planted.

Sweet potatoes will grow on almost any soil,
HARROWS AND CULTIVA TE Ss, but their preference is for a rich, loose, sandy loam.

With Clarks’s Original “Cutaway” Double Action Green cotton seed and commercia! fertilizer used

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hundred pounds of fertilizer to every acre. If
cotton seed is not obtainable, use the fertilizer
alone at the rate of one thousand pounds per acre.
A fertilizer containing 8 per cent. phosphoric acid,
7 per cent. potash and 3 per cent. nitrogen is best.
Do not use stable manure alone as it contains too
much nitrogen, which produces vines and foliage
at the expense of the root crop.

Dig the soil early in the spring with a 2-horse
plow, making it fine and loose to a depth of twelve
or fourteen inches, and about three weeks before
: setting out the plants lay off rows three feet apart.
‘ Distribute the fertilizer in the furrow and run a

small shooter or shovel plow in the furrows to

Write for Our mix the fertilizer with the soil. Then ridge it

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F ree DOOK On row with a shovel or turn plow. It is not necessary
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It tells you how to select the Home Refrigerator—how to know the good from the | !eve! of the soil is sufficient. Set the plants two

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Don’t be deceived by claims being made for other so-called the soil. The best time for setting them out is
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‘There are no hidi = the same as the plants, but the cuttings form tubers
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South, they can be set out as late as the last of
«: July. one
a Give sweet potatoes a throough cultivation
every two weeks so as to keep the soil loose and
an) free from weeds and grass. After the vines cover
| the soil no cultivation will be necessary.

The Yellow Yam or Pumpkin Yam is the best
variety to grow as it keeps better and is sweeter
and better to eat than the other sorts.

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The “Monroe” is never sold in stores, but direct from the factory to you, freight | Dig them on a clear, sunny day when the soil is
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Sprayed
Good fruit on left
Wormy fruit on right

Prof le i year's e€X-
perience (and the year
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How to Prune a Shrub

HILE the work of pruning a shrub is simple,

some knowledge of the nature of the shrub

is necessary in order to do the work intelligently.
Specimen shrubs with few exceptions should carry
their foliage down to the ground and present a
full, round, almost “‘corpulent” appearance. One
sees so many shrubs trimmed to a few bare stems
sparsely foliated that one might conclude that the

Bad pruning. This lilac should have been headed
back to induce bushiness

fashion in shrubs were something on the order of a
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Good pruning. This shrub presents 2 full, round
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tains its balance. Root sprouts at a distance
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The time of pruning of course differs. The
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Spring Work for Every New
Englander

T IS not too late this season to do serious damage

in the ranks of the gypsy and brown tail moth
army, which is menacing the existence of our foliage
and fruit trees in northeastern United States.
But this is the last call for active spring work,
which is, by the way, the most convenient and
most effectual phase of this kind of fighting. As
long as the leaves are still in the bud we can easily
distinguish the unkempt winter webs of the brown
tails, and the neat, compact egg masses of the
gypsy. Let us sally forth, therefore, and destroy
them wherever they may be found, before the
increasing warmth quickens into devastating
activity the myriads of worm enemies in egg and
leafy nest.

A word or two as to the life habits of these pests
will explain the efficiency of the spring campaign.
The adult moths of the gypsy (Porthetria dispar)
appear from the middle of July to the middle of
August; of the brown tail (Euproctis chrysorrhea)
from July 1st to 20th, both depending on the season
and the prevalence of the moths. The female
gypsy cannot fly, but, crawling into some more
or less sheltered position lays, within a few days, a
mass of eggs. This would be approximately in
August, but the larve do not hatch out until the
following May. Of course the late fall, and any
time through the winter, when the snow is not
too deep, offer excellent opportunities for destroy-
ing these nests and the many hundreds of potential
worms in each one. But upon the supposition
that this task is one of those “easy, little jobs
that we can do any time,” and that, therefore,
it has been put off again and again, I want to stir
up some excitement now, before it is too late.

The most powerful weapon we have for use in .
this crusade is creosote, plain, undiluted; of
pungent, disinfectant odor, and persistent, caustic
power. Whether you have an orchard, a woodlot,
or merely a few shade trees, put some creosote ina
tin pail or wide-mouthed bottle, take a good,
strong brush, round, perhaps an inch in diameter,
then set out with an unflinching determination
to examine every tree on your place, thoroughly.
Pay particular attention to the white birch, the
willow, the cedars and the fruit trees, especially
the wild straggly seedling apples in pastures. The
moths seem to prefer a smooth area on which to
lay their eggs, but more valuable than this, they
deem a hidden crevice or a sheltered corner. For
this reason, look with extra care about the base of
trees right among the grass blades, in cavities,
(although there really should be no such refuge
for diseases and decay in your trees), under bits of
bark and, most of all, in the chinks and crannies
of stone walls and fallen trees or logs. I have
even found them in old tin cans and wooden boxes,
as well as on the under side of the top of a step
ladder left in the woods in egg-laying time. Paint
the mass thoroughly with the creosote, and those
eggs, at least, will give you no further trouble. If
the nests appear well up the trunk or on the
branches, attach the brush to the end of a light
pole; you can dab the masses sufficiently at long
distance. But if you do much of this up-in-the-
air work, wear automobile goggles. Creosote is
a most unpleasant substance in the eyes.

Any one who lives within the gypsy moth area
will know what the egg mass looks like. For
fortunate others I can say that it is an oval or

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APRIL, 1911
roundish, gray mass usually about one inch wide,
from an inch to two inches long, and possibly a
third of an inch thick. It looks like a bit of dirty
wet cotton wool molded into an egg-shaped lump.
then plastered down on the tree or stone. The
tiny, spherical, hard-shelled eggs are covered and.
hidden by this gray material which is composed
of the hairs from the abdomen of the moth.

THE BROWN-TAIL MANG@UVRES

The brown-tail moths, which I mentioned above,.
can fly; no doubt you have seen them in July
evenings fluttering about the street lamps.
Throughout many towns in Massachusetts they
completely cover the pole, hood, wires, etc., with
their pasty white bodies and wings. At such
times the small brown ‘“‘tail” area of the abdomen
is not apparent.

The females lay their eggs some time in late
July, on the under side (almost invariably) of
leaves. The masses resemble those of the gypsy
closely except in size, being rarely more than three
quarters of an inch in length, and three-eighths of
an inch wide. Then, too, they are more often
somewhat cylindrical rather than elliptical. There
seems but little choice as to the trees the brown-
tails infest. But they rarely overlook fruit trees,
alders, willows, elms, and such soft-leaved species.

The eggs hatch within a month, rarely in less

WEW ENGLID

_shewine areas infested b

THE GYPSY MOTH

(SPRING FIELD

“Mass eauserrs - from report
of 1909,
3) OTWER STATES - from

reporT of /907

Where the gypsy moth has become a menace

than twenty days, and the minute caterpillars live
for a time within the shell of abdominal hairs
covering the egg mass. They make forages out
among the tender leaves, and return to shelter at
night. Later, as they grow, they pull first one
leaf, then other leaves, about their original hiding
place, and fasten them into a nest with strong
silky webbing. Beginning about September, they
complete these winter webs in time to withdraw
into them before cold weather, being then about
one-fourth grown.

After the other leaves have fallen, these nests,
fastened by the silk to the twigs, remain as very
prominent, very ugly, and very ominous decora-
tions, mostly on the tips of the branches. It is
these which you can clip off and burn, at any time
during the winter, and which you must put an
end to before the new leaves hide them in the spring
or before the worms begin to renew their devas-
tations early in May or June. For this work, the
best thing I know of is the regular pruning pole,
with the moving knife blade worked by a handle.
The nests as cut can be put in a grain bag, and
later burned in the stove or furnace. This method
is much safer than burning them in piles on the
ground, in which case not a few of the worms are
likely to get away.

As I say, this winter and spring work is the most
effective and, especially on the small place, the
easiest, for other tasks are not so imperative at
this early season. There is nevertheless an. ad-
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This is the banding or burlapping of trees, from

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If you are planning to build, the Readers’
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When insects infest your plants learn first what

species they belong to—then buy an insecticide
Aphine is |

which is intended for their destruction.

effective against all plant sucking insects. You can

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An amateur relying on home prepared remedies

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} kill the insects. Aphine will kill the insects and
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Aphine is a concentrated liquid spraying material
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“Our outdoor roses were badly infested with aphis. With
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—John McLaren, Superintendent Golden Gate Park, San
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“T have given Aphine a very thorough trial on plants in- §

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*““T have used Aphine on orchard trees and ornamental plants §

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If you cannot obtain Aphine in your community
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Try your dealer first, but do not accept anything
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APHINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY,

MADISON, N. J.

HORSFORD’S

HARDY PLANTS
For Cold Weather

and

FLOWER SEEDS thatGrow

Try a few plants and seeds from Vermont,
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ters? Send up for a few of ours and see
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AN SOIR, Ge N es ID) 18), IN}

May sth or so until August. The growing
gypsy larve, after feeding all night, descend the
trees in search of shelter for the day. Many
retire under the strips of burlap and may be caught
and quickly despatched — with a knife, brick or
other missile. Later, many of the mature cater-
pillars choose this place for pupating, and at this
time you can often discover individuals of the
brown-tailed species. However, the burlap bands
are worse than useless unless carefully tended, for
they offer splendid haunts for other injurious species
as well. Visit every tree at least once in three
days, and do away with every caterpillar you see.

Occasionally you find under the burlap a beetle,
large and with a metallic lustre, or else small,
flat, and brilliantly colored with red, blue, and
yellow. In either case salute him with respect
and thanksgiving, and wish him well. For these
two are parasites on the gypsy-moth larve and with
a little fostering will become important allies in
your elimination work.

I have spoken particularly to New Englanders,
but I am not sure that New Yorkers and even
others cannot also look to their trees and gird
up their loins against the invaders. The accom-
panying diagrams are developed from a Massa-
chusetts bulletin of r909, and two Federal bulletins

a a4

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7 eae of
ay ' Cc
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NEW ENGLAND
~ Showing areas infested
6 BROWN=TAIL
MOTH
Massachusetts - from report of

AABOSTON

19°9-
Srem report of
1907 ~

Other states

Where the brown-tail moth has overrun

of 1907, and I am afraid the onward march of both
pests since those years has been continuous if
not rapid. Only by the codperation of the tree
lovers on the outskirts of the infected area as well
as those in the most severely affected sections,
can the spread of the moths be checked. In this
work not even the owner of half a dozen trees, no,
nor of one single specimen, can be spared from the
ranks. If you doubt it, listen:

One gypsy-moth egg-mass contains on an
average two hundred and fifty eggs, and a brown-
tail winter nest about the same number of hiber-
nating worms. I have found fifty such egg-masses
on six feet of the trunk of a single white birch
sapling! I have seen neglected apple trees on
which the number of brown-tail nests was checked
only when every twig had been covered!

Is it possible that you fail to see the eravity
of this situation, and the value of the destruction
of every nest? And can you in any way justify
a neglect of this comparatively simple task, whereby
you can assist in a great and an essential work?

New York. E. D. L. SEyvmour.

{[Epitors’ Norre.— Since the above was written
it has been reported that both the gypsy and the
brown-tail moths have been located in several
parts of New York State in the past year; but
that in each instance prompt measures on the part
of the authorities have checked the outbreak and
exterminated the pests in that locality. It is
by means of just such vigorous action as this, and
of public-spirited codperation between citizens
and authorities, that we can control isolated
appearances of these pests, and, let us hope,
effect their eventual extermination.]

MAGAZINE

APRIL, 1911

EUREKA

ENSILAGE

CORN

Our good seed makes a big
yield, 65 toms per acre.
Eureka Ensilage corn grows
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$50.00 gold prize for the
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Sheffield World’s
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Do not be deceived. This
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dry flint corn per acre, awarded
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We have the entire crop,
$10.00 gold prize for the
best 10 ears of this corn grown
this seascn.
The supply is limited.

Catalogue giving price of these and
other prize winning varieties mailed

free.
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39 Front St., Worcester, Mass.

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suggestions for the care of live-stock

I'GALLOWAY TERRA

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The material is strong and durable in the severest climate.
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DAHLIAS

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APRIL,1911

Preparing the Soil

AS SOON as the frost is out of the ground, and
the soil sufficiently dry to work, prepare
for this year’s garden. Clear the surface of all
the refuse and spread over it a generous supply
of good compost. This ordinarily consists of
stable manure, rotted straw, leaves and refuse
from the lawn or garden, cleanings from the hen-
nery, etc. The majority of plants cannot bear
being in close contact with stable manure, but
when it is spread upon the surface and subsequently
plowed under it is thoroughly distributed through
the soil.

Plowing serves another purpose aside from mix-
ing the manure and softening the soil so that the
plant roots can penetrate. It also aerates the soil

and stimulates root growth. Furthermore the
mellowing aids in draining and also in retaining
lf the water, after a rainfall, could

Stir the soil to a depth of four or five inches with
an ordinary plow

not penetrate the soil more than an inch or so,
it would soon evaporate. Mellow soil allows
much of the water to filter through and as soon as
the soil particles become packed together a portion
of the moisture rises again to the surface by capil-
lary attraction. Now, if the soil of the plant-
growing stratum is kept mellow its lack of capil-
larity hinders evaporation and the plants get the
benefit of the moisture.

The garden plowing should stir the soil to a
depth of four or five inches. Use an ordinary
one-horse plow. Make the furrows in a different
direction each successive year so as to maintain
the proper grade of surface. For instance, start

After plowing smooth the soil with a straight-
toothed harrow

on the outer edge of the tract and plow around it,
gradually approaching the centre, or lay the fur-
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centre and is best employed where the ground
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After plowing smooth the soil with a straight-
toothed harrow drawn over the ground two or
three times. A finer surface is secured by sub-
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After the seeds are planted and the first rain
has particularly evaporated the soil will form a
slight crust. It is gradually establishing capi-
larity with the soil particles below. Remedy this

APRIL, 1911

Rhododendron Hybrid

Best Varieties, 1’ to 4’
Rhododendron Maximum |

Fine Plants, 1’ to 8’ in car lots

Kalmia_ Latifolia

1’ to 3’, Choice Plants, in car lots
Koster’s Blue Spruce
5’ to 6’, write for price

Catalogs upon request. Correspondence solicited

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, ALSO SHRUBS,
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Established 1848

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Geo. L. Stillman, Dahlia Specialist, BoxC€, Westerly, R. I.

Mushroom Growing
Will Make You Independent

MEN AND WOMEN can raise them in
large quantities in cellars, stables, boxes,
sheds, etc. Crop sells fcr soc to §1.50 a lb.
Visitors welcome at our farm. Start now. |
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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

APRIL, 1911

If you want to grow peas earlier
than your neighbors and have them
all summer long—if you want sweet
peas that will grow 6 feet tall and be
such a mass of blossoms as you never
had before, you need to inoculate the
seed with Farmogerm, The poorer the
soil, the better the result can be seen.
You can grow peas in coal ashes by using
Farmogerm. If you expect to plant your
lawn, don’t fail to use some clover seed in-
oculated with Farmogerm. You will see the
wonderful results both in the clover and the
grass.

Ala., says: Rockaway,
“The peas that were says:
treated with your Farm- “This spring

fore saw such luxurious on.
vine, and for the first peas

garden peas until I got this year.”
tired of them.”

ogerm bore for three ceived from you Farmo-
weeks after the un- germ for peas
treated plot were dead. beans, and I must say spring plantings of peas the inoculated beans on
The peas tested were that I was surprised at and beans have been the 28th of June. The
the dwarf or early vari- the difference between entirely satisfactory. The uninoculated peas and
ety. I used Farmogerm those that I put Farmo- inoculated seed came up beans that were planted
on all the tall or late germ on and the seed very quickly and the two days later were ten
varieties and never be- that there were
I have never had thick and regular. The The yield from my in-
and beans
time in my life had duce as well as I have slow to germinate and was much heavier and

Acre size, $2.00. Garden size, 50 cents.
details about FARMOGERM and its uses for farm and garden and letters from
experiment stations and farmers. Mention this magazine.

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bP ne @ sph eon ip?

be Not Treated ie

YOU can have Earlier

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than any of your neighbors

Use Farmogerm

High Bred Nitrogen Gathering Bacteria

If you want to see one result of the scientific
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packing the soil before setting the plants. The
ideal soil has a red clay subsoil and is well drained,
though manuring and ditching or tiling will make
almost any soil productive. While new land is
more productive, it would be best to have it in
some cultivated crop for a year before putting
it to strawberries in order to kill the wire worms
and grubs of various kinds.

Whether you select plants from the field of a
neighbor or buy them from a nurseryman, re-
member that there are what is known as perfect
flowering as well as imperfect or pistillate plants.

The imperfect flowers will need the perfect
kinds in close proximity in order to fertilize them so
that they will set fruit, while the perfect flowering
will bear alone. It is desirable to have both of
these since some of our most valuable kinds are
imperfect bloomers. At least every fourth row
should be set to the perfect bloomers. Old plants
that have borne fruit are not fit to set out, and
these may be distinguished from the new plants
by having dark roots and the crown thrust above
the ground, while the new plants which have
just formed the previous season have clean white
roots.

When the ground has been prepared and the
plants selected you will determine on one of several
different ways of setting the plants — matted row,
hedgerow or single hill. Each has its advantages.
For the small bed where space is of some consider-
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as the rows may be as close as three feet and the
plants set eighteen inches apart. The plants are
allowed to root and mat across half of the space.
Where there is plenty of ground the hedgerow may
be used with the rows three and a half or four
feet apart, and the plants set two feet apart in
the row. They send out runners which should
be trained lengthwise of the row and the row kept
within the bounds of a foot in width. With the
hill system the runners are cut when they have
grown out to the first stolon and not allowed to
root. This system requires more work, but it
produces better fruit which is more easily picked.

Whatever the system of planting, the plants
must be set and cared for in a similar manner.
When ready to set the plants put them in bunches
and with a sharp pair of shears cut off an inch or
so of the tips of the roots, and if there seems to be
an unusual number of leaves, remove some of the
larger ones. The roots should be placed in as
natural a position as possible, and this may be
done by making a hole in the soil with a dibble
or trowel and setting the plant in place with the
roots distributed fan shape. If the weather is
dry pour a little water into the hole and after-
ward press the soil firmly about the plant.

As to the time of setting, this depends largely
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prefer April and in some cases a little later. For
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after the fruit has been picked and new runners
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Use plenty of stable manure on the ground be-
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items to success. Never allow the plants to suffer
for want of water, and give an abundance of air
on all favorable occasions. The best temperature
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and during the day 60 to 65 degrees.

String beans, bush varieties. Sow about the
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five to seven seeds to a pot, covering with one-half
inch of soil and firming well. Water rather spar-
ingly till the seeds germinate; then give an abun-
dance of water. Give air on all favorable occa-
sions. The best varieties are Early Mohawk,
Valentine and Early Refugee. For succession sow
every two weeks.

Pole lima beans can be grown in precisely the
same way as string beans, and a gain of two to
three weeks can be had in this manner. They
should be hardened off in coldframes before being
planted in the open ground. Grow Early Levia-
than, Dreer’s Improved, or King of the Garden.

Cauliflower. Sow in early March in flats. Make
drills about three inches apart and put the seed
about one inch deep, covering very lightly and
firming the surface with a piece of board or, brick,
watering thoroughly with a fine rose watering can
as soon as the seedlings have made their true
leaves. Transplant into 3-inch pots, or into flats
three inches apart each way. Shade the plants
for a few days and gradually harden off. Varieties:
Early Erfurt, Early Snowball.

Cabbage can be treated precisely the same as
cauliflower. If, after cutting the heads, a few
sprouts are allowed to grow out on the old stump,
you will have small and tender cabbage till hard
freezing weather. Plant Early Jersey, Charles
Wakefield. For succession sow every four weeks,
and for fall and winter use, from May 8th to r5th,
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Beets. Sow moderately thick in drills one inch
deep and three inches apart. Water thoroughly,
and as soon as the seedlings have made their true
leaves transplant into other flats. Or, if the
weather permits, they can be transplanted into
the open ground in rows twelve to fifteen inches
apart, four inches apart in the row.

Sweet corn. A gain of three weeks can be had
by sowing corn the middle of April. Put. six to
eight seeds in each 5-inch pot, cover lightly and
firm well. Water sparingly till the young sprouts
appear, as they are liable to rot if kept too wet.
Give an abundance of air on all favorable occasions,
and when the pots are well filled with roots harden
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Lettuce. In order to have good, crisp heads,
broadcast the seed in flats, covering lightly and
firming and watering well. Do not have the seed
too thick. The best varieties in my experience
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For succession, seed should be sown every two
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shade for a few days. After they are well rooted
transfer to frames or outdoors, according to the
weather, nine inches apart in rows, twelve inches
from row to row. I prefer pots, as when trans-
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Keep the surface soil constantly stirred and water
copiously when necessary.

Tomatoes. Sow seeds in pans or flats about the
middle of March in shallow drills one-half inch
deep and three inches apart, firming and watering
well. As soon as they have made their first set
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for a few days till the roots take hold of the new .
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plants of each will suffice for a moderately sized
family. They demand a good deal of heat and
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down red spider. The best varieties to grow are
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Parsley. Sow a few pots or a flat in March
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Onions. A few of the large mild varieties,
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New York. GEORGE STANDEN.

A Glassless Hotbed.

Me a small home garden would be the
richer for a small hotbed. But the cost
of sash is to be considered, the glass is always
breaking and, if not carefully tended every day,
the baby plants under glass are burned up.

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we happened to have, digging out to a depth of ,

eighteen inches. Fresh horse manure was tramped
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grow here until settled weather, we made the frame
twelve inches high at the back and eight at the
front, sinking it three inches and banking the out-
side a little. The frame for the cover was of
very light strips hinged to the back of the bed,
and upon this frame we tacked unbleached cotton
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World Over and
Worn by Well
Dressed Men.

es

Sample Pair, Cotton, 25c., Silk, 50c.
Muiled on receipt of Price.

GEORGE FROST CO., MAKERS
Boston,U.S.A,

Q will bring
you Hardy

WHOLESALE and RETAIL
Perennials,

Boone |OO

continuous display the entire season,

= 0) SSS

| 0 Summer-flowering Annuals, all
! Catalogue Free

Chas. W. Schneider, Little Silver, N. J.

pot grown stock. Don’t miss.

1840 1911

Old Colony Nurseries

HARDY SHRUBS, TREES, VINES,
EVERGREENS AND PERENNIALS

A large and fine stock of well-rocted plants grown
in sandy loam. Good plants; best sizes for plant-
ing very cheap. Priced catalogue free on appli-
cation. Wholesale and retail.

| T. R. WATSON Plymouth, Mass.

50 Aster Plants For
50 Cents, Prepaid

You can set these Aster plants any-
where the sun shines and they are
sure to furnisha profusion of blooms
all summer until frost. Vhese are
strong, healthy plants that will give
you flowers of beautiful red, pink,
white, lavender, purple and blue,
and are borne on strong stems—very
suitable for cutting. You will save
time by getting our Aster plants -so
much quickerand surer than plant-
ing seeds and waiting for them to
grow. Order to-diy, we’il send the
plants at the right time for planting
inyourgarden. We wat you to have
our tllustrated catalooue—a postal request oriigs tt.

Cushman Gladiolus Co. ¢7o%*:3%o.

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ADE for any latitude, of
special or stock designs
and in either modern or
antique styles, our Sun
Dials and Pedestals pos-
sess all the charm that
makesthe garden or lawn

1 more attractive. Moder-

ate prices.

SUN DIALS

Garden owners should write for our
beautifully illustrated booklet. It tells
the history of Sun Dials and shows
many exquisite designs in slate, brass
and other material.

OPTICIAN

103 East 23d Street, New York

BRANCHES:
New YoRK, LONDON, PARIS, MINNEAPOLIS, ST. PAUL

EMCO SEED GROW

Send for our Catalogue list and you will have in condensed
form all of the world’s Eest seed. We list only the best.

Send the names of several of your friends that love flowers
and I will send you a present for your trouble.

Get our list if you desire more and better flowers and vege-

tables than ever before.
THE EMCO, HAMILTON, OHIO

LAKE RIPLEY QUALITY BULBS

My little bulb book is interesting. It is FREE.
LILLESAND Cambridge, Wisconsin

DAHLIAS 20 kinds, my selection, $1. Satisfaction

guaranteed. Write for full particulars.
Catalogue. My dahlias were given the highest possible awards at
Pan American and St. Louis Expositicns.

H. F. BURT Taunton, Mass.

CHERRY:
TREES
for $1.95

This very special collection of 1o Hardy Cherry
trees will besent you for $1.95. The selections were
made by Mr. Green personally, as the result of
his 30 years’ experience as a successful fruit
grower. Here is the list—there is none better—
all gilt-edged, first-class, largest size, 2-year-old
trees, andall for $1.95.

One Dyehouse,three Early Richmond, five Mont-
morency, one English Morello. The true value of
these is $2.25 according to Green’s “Direct to you”
Prices, but others would charge you much more.

Here is another—a Plum—bargain: Six first-class
Plum trees, medium size, worth $1.50; Green’s
“Direct to you” price $1.00. The varieties are as
follows—1 Burbank, 1 Abundance, 1 Niagara, 1
Bradshaw, I Lombard, 1 York State Prune—Oinall.

DIRECT T0.Y0U.

There are many other Bargain Collections of
trees to be found in our 1911 Catalogue—larger,
finer and better than ever before. Every tree we
send you is first-class, thrifty, north-grown, triple
inspected and guaranteed true to name.

We sell direct—have no agents—and our prices
are only one-half what agents charge. Read this:

“My trees arrived in good share. They are
fine, better than some of my neighbor’s trees
which cost twice the price I paid.”

Send today for our 1911 Catalogue to convince

ourself. We will also send you free our souvenir
aoe. “30 years with Fruits and Flowers.”

Green’s Nursery Co., Box 7, Rocuester, N.Y.

NO TIME TO LOSE

There are Flowers and
Many Kinds of Plants
That You Must Attend to

wee IN THE SPRING
'S THE season

To learn all about the Special Value of
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We are very enthusiastic about having you know how our seeds have
been carefully cultured to germinate and mature into plants that show a real
pedigree source.

We would like to make a catalogue of this advertisement, but the
space does not permit. So we invite you to write us all about your garden
needs. We will cordially respond, and send you our new 144-page illustrated
catalogue free. We are introducing some seasonable seed novelties at a
special packet price.

J. M. THORBURN & CO.

(Dept. G) 33 BARCLAY STREET and 38 PARK PLACE, NEW YORK

Make Your Garden

FLOR IST More Attractive

We can help you. Our book, “Home Beautiful,” by Eben

E. Rexford, the well-known horticultural writer, gives

practical ideas, plans and valuable suggestions for

SPRING PLANTING. The

George

We shall be glad to send you a copy free of charge. /Wwittbold Co.

| Use coupon attached. 737 Buckingham Place
CHICAGO.

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tiful without cost to me.

We do all kinds of Landscape work.
We furnish complete drawings for new work or revision of old.
Send for catalogue on house plants, also your order for cut

I flowers. Plants and flowers shipped anywhere.

Start with the largest stock that can be secured !

What is a fair rental for a given

property? Ask the Readers’ Service Ab Jal E G A R D 1D) N M A G A Z I N 18)

APRIL, 1911

icine many possibilities in grouping Japanese Maples may be appre-
ciated by observing the distinctive result secuced by this bed

Rich Blood-Red Japanese Maples

Every one Meehan-grown—not one imported

Where bushy, vigorous Japanese Maples are wanted, with foliage of a richer, more in-
tense scarlet, there are no finer plants than those now growing on our nurseries.

This present grand collection has been raised after over thirty years of experience in
growing this particular class of stock.

In America we are the leading growers of Japanese Maples and our stock is in great
demand by nurserymen and dealers as well as among property owners.

Allexperienced gardeners know the shortcomings of imported plants and how far superior
are our freshly dug, bushy, vigorous specimens. They are accustomed to the climatic condi-
tions of this country, which cannot be said of stock raised in Japan.

This Spring our big collection is in fine condition for moving, and Spring, as you know,
is the very best period in which to transplant Japanese Maples.

The largest plants we have are at least twelve years old and all have been frequently
transplanted, pruned, and looked after.

Two years ago we sent some to England and we have a note to the effect that they sur-
pass any there in their rich coloring and general vigor.

Every property however limited has room for one as they occupy little space and many
large properties can make showy displays by grouping them.

Here are the sizes. Place your order at once and we will guarantee you'll be pleased
with the plants.

BLOOD-RED JAPANESE
MAPLES

14 to 2 feet - - - $1.25 each;
5 for $5.00; 25 for $20.00

2 to 21% feet, bushy - - $1.75 each;
5 for $7.00; 25 for $31.25

21% to 3 feet, fine - - $3.00 each;
5 for $12.00; 25 for $50.00

3 to 3% feet, 8 years old, - $4.00 each;
5 for $16.00; 25 for $66.25

31% to 4 feet, beauties - $5.00 each;
5 for $20.00

SUPERB SPECIMENS

4to5feet - - $6.00 to $10.00 each
If you are a garden owner, needing trees, evergreens, perennials
ARE YOU A and plants, send us 10 cents and we’ll send you our 100=page new

Spring price-list and mail you 3 big, interesting copies of our
GARDEN OWNER By Gander Bulletin. These are Sant triple the price.

SPECIAL OFFER

Plant a Japanese Maple Group
Very few people know the decidedly beautiful
effects possible in combining various varieties of
Japanese Maples in a group. The crimsons, greens
and yellows always harmonize. Set a group out on
your lawn and you’ll be delighted with the effect.
Here is a fine selection for the purpose :

2 Japanese Blood-leaved Maples 2 to 2% ft.
t Golden-leaved Japanese Maple 14 to 2 ft.
x Green Polymorphum Maple 3 to 4 ft.
2 Red Fern-Leaved Japanese Maples 1 to 114 it.
1 Green Fern-leaved Japanese Maple 11% to 2 ft.
t Ivy-Leaved Japanese Maple 2 to 3 ft.

These 8 fine, well-developed specimens, from
1 to g feet high, for $13.00.

THOMAS MEEHAN & SONS, Box 17, Germantown, Phila., Pa.

Plant for Immediate Effect

Not for Future Generations

years to grow such Trees and Shrubs as we offer.

We do the long waiting —thus enabling you to secure Trees and Shrubs that

give an immediate effect. Spring Price List Now Ready.

It takes over twenty

of fresh air. The cover was put snugly down at
night, of course, and during cold winds and rains.
The cloth cover became wet, to be sure; but the
slant of the frame —four inches in fifty-four —
drained off most of the water and no part of the
bed was too damp except about three inches at
the front. We took off the cover and stored it
when warm weather came, thus making it serve
for three seasons.

A fine arrangement for growing perennials, cut-
tings, etc., is a box nearly filled with rich earth.
It need not be sunk in the ground. Hinge the
cloth cover into place to protect the contents from
scorching sunshine, as the hotbed cover protects
from cold. The yard-square, hundred-pound flour
sacks, to be had at bakeries for four or five cents
each, make excellent covers.

There is scarcely a perennial plant desirable for
gardens in the frost belt that cannot be raised from
seed with comparative ease in such a covered box.
Sow the seeds any time after the spring rush is
over — the earlier, the better. Sprinkle the box
carefully when the soil looks dry, keep shaded
through the middle of hot days but open to the
air from late afternoon until nine or ten in the
morning. Thin the plants as they become crowded,
transplant to the garden when big enough to handle
nicely, and hoe them well.

Michigan. Guiapys H. SINctrarr.

Some Points About Celery

NEE celery can be stored in trenches
outside, the following plan can be used
with great saving of time and labor. Instead of
digging and storing, it is grown on an intensive
scale and protected where it stands. In small
gardens the old plan of growing celery in trenches
four feet apart requires too much room. On
this plan five hundred stalks can be grown on a
plot 6 by so feet. Besides, it is almost as
easy to hill up the bed as to hill a row. To
begin with, an early crop of lettuce and radishes
can be grown while the celery is still too small to
set out.

Make the bed six feet wide and as long as needed.
The soil must be thoroughly worked and well
enriched. It will take the loamiest and best soil
in the garden to make celery. A board five feet
long and one foot wide is laid off with notches six
inches apart along each edge. A garden line is
stretched the length of the bed, six inches from the
edge, and the end of the board is placed exactly
square with this line. Standing on this board the
gardener sets a plant at each notch across the bed.
The board is then moved, and the notches made
to correspond with the plants just set out. An-
other row is then planted, and so on down the bed.
In this way the entire plot is planted without
walking on the soft earth, and the bed stands,
when finished, perfectly uniform, with rows one
foot apart across the bed and six inches apart in
rows. The whole is then soaked, and-the plants
left, with occasional cultivation to keep out weeds,
to develop.

When “handling” time comes two cords,
several feet longer than the width of the bed, with
pegs at each end, are used. A peg is thrust into
the ground at the end of a row, a turn is taken
around each plant to hold it upright, and the
other peg is set to hold the plants until handled.
The other cord is used on the second row, and
enough earth shoveled carefully in to hold the
plants erect. This earth is drawn by hand close
to each plant, tight enough to hold it erect when
the cord is removed. The next rows are then
treated as the first until all are done.

When hilling time comes the same process is
repeated until the plants are ready for the final
covering. In the South celery does best during
the early fall and must not be hilled until then.
By hilling time the crop will be off the ground at
the side of the bed and plenty of earth is at hand
for hilling. Frosts improve the quality of celery
as nothing else will, but on the approach of freezing
weather about eight inches of earth is thrown over
all and the bed is well banked at the sides and ends.

The top of the banked bed can slope to shed water,
and straw and manure can be thrown over all as
a final protection.

North Carolina. Ce Baie

ANDORRA NURSERIES & piitaverpuia, Ba.

WM. WARNER HARPER, Proprietor

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Pedigree Seeds at the Bloomsdale
Farms, the “Home of Seeds”

2 is not without good reason that for over a century anda
quarter the Landreth farms and storehouses have been con-
sidered collectively as the ‘Home of Seeds.’’ It means satis-
fied patrons over a long period,— and a large number of them.
Whether it is for a child’s flower garden or broad acres, we sup-
ply the Seeds you need. They all have pedigree prestige, the re-
sults of our experiments and constant careful selection to insure
the survival of the fittest. Their cost is quoted within easy reach.

Our catalogue contains a most comprehensive listing,—so presented that
anybody can understand just what is meant in each description. Address—

D. LANDRETH SEED COMPANY, Bristol, Pennsylvania

While the Cup-shaped Calyx of the Apple Bloom is Still Open—that
is the time to spray with

SWIFT'S Arsenate of Lead.

The arsenate falls into this calyx cup and when it closes a few days
later the poison is there ready for the worm’s first meal any time there-
after, whether a day or a month. The use of Swift’s is insurance
against wormy fruit. The worm feeds upon this poisoned calyx and
never enters the apple.

In hundreds of orchards sprayed last spring with Swift’s Arse-
nate of Lead there was practically no wormy fruit. Before the
owners of those orchards took up spraying the codling moth
alone reduced their possible yield 20

to 40%.

Write for Our New Illustrated Book—Raising Apples. From Planting
the Trees, to Caring for the Crop, this Book is a True Guide.
Your former losses in fruits and vegetables will be reduced 90% by thorough spraying with Swift’s
Arsenate of Lead. Swift’s mixes readily with water. The fine particles remain a long time
in suspension and will not clog the pump. Only the heaviest rains can wash it off.

MERRIMAC CHEMICAL CO.

59 BROAD STREET, BOSTON, MASS.

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this Label
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IMPROVED BLUE SPRU

Picea Pungens Kosteriana compacta.

CE

This variety is a great improvement on the well known
Kosteriana, being more symmetrical and compact of
growth, with foliage of a rich silvery blue.

The Blue Spruce is one of the most beautiful and dis-
tinctive of trees and, owing to its extreme hardiness, will
thrive in the most exposed situation.

The illustration shows a block of these trees in our Nursery.

We offer 2% to 3 feet specimens at $5.00 each.

Place your orders now and shipment will be made
to suit your convenience during April and May.

COTTAGE GARDENS CO. INC. NURSERIES

QUEENS, NEW YORK

“The Readers’ Service will give
tirmalon Gbous cutrmebites Ie H E G A R D E N M A G A UL, I N E

APRIL, 1911

“HAMILTON-MADE”
GARDEN HOSE

How to get quality in garden hose.

N hose, quality is everything. Looks count for nothing.

You can’t tell the quality of rubber hose by examining it. You
must depend upon the maker, and the reputation of his hose.

Therefore always buy hose with the maker’s name on it.

If you buy Hamilton-Made Hose, you get not only the maker’s
name, but hisGUARANTEE. This is very important, for very few
makers will guarantee their hose to stand a specified pressure.

On every length of HAMILTON-MADE HOSE you will find
on the label the words “Guaranteed 600 pounds pressure,’’ or 650
pounds, or 750, according to its grade.

Our splendid ‘‘Hamilton’”’ brand, our highest grade, is tested
under.an actual pressure of 750 pounds to the square inch.

_ Do you think hose could stand such a pressure if it were poor
in any respectP

There’s a HAMILTON-MADE HoOsE for every different use,
each grade made BETTER THAN IS NECESSARY to meet the requirements |
for that use, and GUARANTEED to stand a SPECIFIED PRESSURE.
Whatever kind of hose you need, ask the dealer for HAMILTON-MADE,
and you will be certain of getting the BEST HOSE OF THAT GRADE
that is made.

Here are some of the
leading grades of
Hamilton-Made Garden
Hose. Note that every
label bears the words

HAMILTON-MADE SO

How to get the best hose
that is made

ME dealers do not sell the highest-grade garden hose.
‘They argue that everybody wants low-priced hose.
We know better, for we know that our stiff, strong, tough
““HAMILTON”’ brand hose is really the CHEAPEST OF
ALL, and that many wise buyers will be glad to get it. We
therefore make this offer to all who cannot buy it of a dealer:

Ti your dealer does not keep it, we will deliver to you any-
where in the United States, PREPAID, 50-foot lengths of
HAMILTON brand, our highest grade garden hose, com-
plete with standard brass couplings, for the regular price,
$12.50 EACH LENGTH.

This splendid hose stands a pressure of 750 POUNDS to
the square inch, and while it is our _ highest-priced
garden hose, it lasts so long that it is really the cheapest
hose made.

If hose of such extremely high resistance is not required,
we will send KENMORE (guaranteed 650 pounds) at $10.50,
or CYGNET (500 pounds) at $8.00, for 50-foot lengths.
Shipped same day order is received.

Hamilton Rubber Manufacturing Co.

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Growing Tree Tomatoes

HILE ordinary tomato culture is both sim-
ple and easy, tomato “trees’ seven to
eight feet high are another story. To have plants
of a good variety is the first essential. I grow the
Ponderosa which has the vitality to stand frequent
pruning, an essential in growing tree tomatoes. In
planting we put a half-wheelbarrow load of manure
beneath each plant. Horse manure is preferable as
it feeds the plant slowly all through the season.
When the plants were set out on May sth, they
were staked with 14-inch round, smooth, ash
stakes, seven feet long. When the plant was
twelve inches high, it was tied to the stake per-
fectly straight with two-ply jute twine, tying the
twine first around the pole in a hard knot, then
loosely around the plant. The time of setting
out the plants, of course, varies with the locality.
But do it as soon as the ground is workable and
there is no danger of frost.
Two weeks later all side shoots were clipped from
the main stalk close to the tree, slipping the string
up the pole. After a few days, we trimmed again.

Try growing tomatoes as trees; 400 pounds were
obtained from 16 trees in this field

slipping the string up the stake, cultivating the
ground all through the season. All branches and
some of the blossoms nearest the ground were
clipped off, the tree maturing strength of trunk
before its vitality goes into the fruit.

From sixteen trees, we picked about four hundred
pounds of luscious, rich, red, juicy, almost seedless
fruit, all of it sizable and smooth, each tomato
weighing from ten to nineteen ounces. Before
frost, we clipped the tree-top down to the pole,
and “bagged” it. October roth, we picked all
ripe fruit, leaving only green tomatoes which
would have been killed by freezing.

We then slipped a paper flour bag over each
tree, tying and winding it down to the ground.
Later we removed the bags and found most of the
remaining tomatoes ripe. All fruit not fully ripe
or matured was then picked and paper-wrapped
(like oranges) and packed away to ripen.

New York. L. H. NELson.

Getting Choice Petunias

ME HERE is perhaps no plant whose blossoms
show so great a difference in quality as the
petunia, some being decidedly plebeian, others
true aristocrats. I have a choice collection of
both single and double varieties and this is how
I have obtained it:

Early in the spring I sow seeds in frames of the
best variety I can obtain. When the weather
becomes warm enough they are transplanted to
the garden. In a few weeks they begin to bloom,

The Readers’ Service gives
information about investments

APRIL, 1911

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

For Verandas, Porches:

manufacturers began to make hammocks which looked like ours.
ufacturers’ lack of experience.

necessary, and that 12-ounce or 8-ounce duck couldn’t stand the strain?
that heavy thread was vital to durability?

E. L. ROWE & SON, Inc., Sailmakers, Ship Chandlers

The Great National Flower Show

MECHANICS BUILDING, BOSTON, MASS.

March 25th to April 1st, Inclusive

Under Auspices

Society of American Florists

In Connection With

American Rose Society, American Carnation
Society, National Sweet Pea Society, Gladiolus

Society, National Association of Gardeners,
Florists’ & Gardeners’ Club and the Massa-

chusetts Horticultural Society.

Applications for Space in Trade and Competition
Departments now receivable

Write for complete Premium List for the $10,000
in Prizes, and diagrams of floor space to

CHESTER I. CAMPBELL, Gen’l Mer., 5 Park Sq., Boston, Mass.

Lawns and Outdoor Sleeping — Made by Sailmakers — Holds Six Persons — Lasts Ten Years

If your neighbor has had a Rowe Gloucester Hammock, and you have had another kind, you
know their comparative worth. He will not need another hammock for ten years, while yours must
soon be replaced. The Rowe was the original Gloucester Bed Hammock — built after the model
which we made for years for the U. S. Navy. After we introduced this style of hammock, other
Purchasers paid for the man-
How could they know that 21-ounce (to the sq. yd.) duck was
How could they know
‘ How could they know the score of devices and
secrets for bracing and strengthening which forty-five years of sailmaking had taught us? There

Write for Descriptive Booklet and prices of different styles and sizes.

207

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is no useless show in our hammock —every cent goes for lasting service and comfort. A
cheaper hammock absolutely must be lacking at some point which time and usage will quickly
reveal. Our hammocks are the highest in price, but far and away the cheapest by the year
If you want a durable hammock, your only protection is to get the genuine Rowe. We
guarantee our Khaki absolutely permanent and not to soil the most delicate gown.
Don’t buy a hammock without first writing us. A very few high-grade stores are licensed to
sell the Rowe Gloucester Bed Hammock. If not convenient to deal with them, you should
order direct from us. We prepay delivery charges, and ship carefully packed, ready for
hanging.

Small silk name-label on every Rowe Hammock

462 WHARF STREET, GLOUCESTER, MASS.

RED

WHITE
SALMON
DARK PINK
LIGHT PINK

CARNATIONS

Plants from pots direct to you.

Hardy varieties—
carnations that flower
in six weeks and
bloom all the season
supplied on applica-
tion through our per-
sonal service plan of
selection.

VARIEGATED

EACH PLANT
PRODUCES
8 TO 12
FLOWERS

..-» Chrysanthemums

Yellow, Pink and White; sturdy, weather defying plants
that blossom large flowers from September to October,
may be secured through us at an attractive price.

Now is the time to put in your order. Keep ahead
of the rush of the shipping season and take advantage
of a first choice from our full quota of varieties. In-
formation furnished promptly on application. Ready
for shipment Apmil 15th.

Send $1.00 and get 12 Carnation or
Chrysanthemum Plants.

Hurane Floral Company, HEMPSTEAD,

NEW YORK

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Readers’ Service will aid you
planning your vacation trip

IP st 1B,

()UR Melon Frames make the handiest kind

of little portable cold frames.

You can tote

them about anywhere and use them in endless

ways, as starting early vegetable and flower
plants—forcing hardy flowers in bloom earlier.

For melons they are little wonders.
They cost only $1.35 complete—sash included.

Order some right now
and give things a boost.
It’s really amazing the way
they will help you to have
things early with the least
possible trouble.

There’syourrhubarb —
put a frame over a clump
and have "sauce" two to
four weeks in advance.
Three or more placed on
your asparagus bed will
give that a goodly boost.
You can take single frames
and plant one each to
lettuce, radishes, pepper
grass, swiss chard and so
on, and be smacking your
lips over the good things
weeks ahead of the regu-
lar garden planting. Then
of course there are your
melons and cucumbers —
these frames are a tre-
mendous advantage to
each, as the plants have
a chance to get thoroughly
started and strongly rooted

before hot weather begins to sizzle them.
Melons and "cukes" grown this way are a
certain crop. Melons then have that true

mouth-watering flavor.

Lord &

New York
St. James Bldg.

So much for the vege-
table garden—and think
of the help they would be
to your flowers! You
see they are so light and
handy you can tote them
around anywhere, and

put them over tulips or

Soe See daffodils and have blooms
The melon frames are 2214 x 251% inches and while the snowstill lingers
are made in the same careful way as our 5 ‘
Think of the cosmos—

Shipped knocked down.
the larkspur—the salvia

—the coreopsis — the
nasturtiums — you could
start in them and have
things blooming just that
much earlier. It’s great,
this gardening when you
have frames to help you.
Send for our Two P’s
Booklet—it tells all about
all the different kinds and
different sizes of frames
we make. There’s one
we call the Junior that is
a size between the melon
frames and the regulation
garden size. Perhaps you
would prefer it to the melon frames. In any
event, getyour orderin, because the robins are
already here and the crocuses are even now
peeping through the ground.

Burnham Company

Philadelphia
Heed Bldg.

larger frames.

The Junior frames are next in size to the melon
and take a sash 34 x 38 inches. We make

them for one, two, three or any number of sash.

Chicago
The Rookery

Boston
Tremont Bldg.

GARDEN MAGAZINE

APRIL, 1911

THENEW ENGLAND | f-

THIS BOOK sent free for the asking, is full of

reliable information concerning
Trees and Plants hardy in New England. It is well worth
sending for.

Our Stock includes a most complete line of Fruit and
Ornamental Trees, Shrubs and Vines, as well as a great
variety of Roses and Perennials, whose quality suits the most
discriminating buyer. We solicit correspondence relative
to any planting problem.

THE NEW ENGLAND NURSERIES, INC.
BEDFORD MASS.

when all but the finest are pulled up and destroyed.
Whenever I see at the florist’s a plant with an
unusually pretty blossom I buy it; or, if it hap-
pens to be in a friend’s garden, I beg for a slip,
which I root in damp sand or in a bottle of water.

In September two or three cuttings are taken
from each plant which I wish to reproduce the next
season. These are inserted about four inches
apart in a box of rich, sandy loam and a glass
placed over them to retain the moisture. The

cuttings are placed close together, as the idea is

Petunias make a fine display in the garden. Select
only the best seed from year to year

not so much to make a large growth as to carry
over to the next season as great a variety as possible.
The cuttings have rooted and have made some
growth. before it is time to take them indoors.
The box is then carried to a cool room which has
plenty of sunshine but no artificial heat. Here
the growth is slow and the tips are pinched out
to induce branching.

In February the box is brought into a warm
room and the plants are encouraged to make a
growth from which cuttings are taken about the
first of April, rooted in damp sand and potted
about four inches apart in boxes of light, rich soil.
These will be nearly ready to begin blossoming
by the middle or last of May, when they are planted
out in beds, in boxes—in fact, everywhere.
Nothing can be finer for a sunny window box than
a riotous growth of single petunias, and they will
also grow without direct sunshine if given plenty
of light. They will bloom and make a brave show-
ing long after frost has killed all tender things in
the garden.

New York. Mrs. E. E. TRUMBULL.

Grafting Wild Apples

HEN I went to my New Hampshire camp
last April to make our vegetable garden
there were a few days before the ground could be
worked, and in looking about for occupation I
discovered among the birches innumerable small
wild apple and thorn apple trees. The thought
occurred to me that possibly these could be grafted
with a choice fruit. On inspection I found the
thorn apple trees were such a haven for brown tail
caterpillars that I cut down and burned every
one I could find.

With the wild apple trees it was different.
These were clean and thrifty. I selected half
a dozen for my experiment. JI remembered having
seen — when a child—some pear trees being
grafted by my uncle’s German gardener, and I was
so piqued with curiosity that I pulled out one of
the cions to see how he had put it in — much to
the gardener’s wrath. But that incident, occur-
ring nearly fifty years ago, was my only teacher
now. I secured some grafting wax and melted
it in a can set in boiling water. I went to a neigh-
boring orchard where I had reveled in “windfalls”

APRIL, 1911

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the previous autumn, and secured from a Two
Pound Pippin and a Golden Sweet tree a large
pitcher of fruit-bearing twigs, or cions. There
is a difference between the fruit and leaf twigs —
the former grow from the sides of the branches
and the leaf twigs from the ends. I filled the
pitcher with water to keep the cions fresh and
was soon at work on my own wild apple trees.

I clipped the trunks clean of branches and
leaves to where the trunk of the tree was two
inches in diameter; then with a small saw I cut off
the top. These leafless trunks looked denuded of
every promise, but I took a sharp meat knife and
wooden mallet and slightiy spilt the ends of the
stubs. Then I took two cions about six inches
long and whittled the cut end to a wedge, each
cion having a bud left at the apex of the wedge.
These I inserted into the split of the tree stub in

such a way that the bud was outside and on a.

line with the bark where it was split. I bound
them firmly into their exact places with soft
grafting twine, and applied the soft grafting wax
to every cut and bruised place so that the tree
could not bleed. Each stub was treated in the
same way, and I waited for developments. After
I had clipped the trunks clean I was haunted with
a fear, for I realized too late that a tree breathed
through its leaves and that the wild trees leafed
earlier than the trees from which I had secured
my cions—a good thing for the growth of the
cions: if I had not deliberately taken the lives of
the grafted trunks.

But out of the six trees experimented with,
three are flourishing and are my pride; two more
are living but the cions died; the sixth met with
the same fate the German gardener’s did fifty
years ago, and when I saw some one had pulled
the cions from my grafted trees I felt the German
gardener was avenged!

Our state experimental station tells me that
from these grafted wild trees I will get a better
fruit than from the nursery trees I set out at the
same season, and that in two years these wild
trees should bear fruit.

New Hampshire. NusHKa.

Exhibitions Worth Seeing

GREAT national flower show will be held in
Boston March 25th to April rst. This
is the second national exhibition to be held by the
Society of American Florists and is in coéperation
with the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.
The exhibition will take place in Mechanics’
Building. Besides the organizing societies there
will be on successive days meetings of the various
allied associations, such as the American Rose
Society, the American Carnation Society, etc.,
with special displays of their particular flowers
all the week. The leading novelties of the season
will be on display at the combined exhibitions and
will afford excellent opportunities for amateurs
to see the very latest introductions.

The Massachusetts Horticultural Society sched-
ules the following exhibitions for the coming year,
in Horticultural Hall, Boston.

May 20th, 21st: May exhibition.

June t1oth, 11th: Rhododendron exhibition.

June 24th, 25th: Rose, peony, and strawberry exhibition.

July 15th, 16th: Sweet pea exhibition.
August roth, 2oth: Exhibition of flowers, fruits, and vege-

‘tables.

September 2d, 3d: Children’s exhibition, collectionsfof flowers
and vegetables from school gardens and children’s home
gardens.

November oth, 12th: Chrysanthemum show.

Visitors to New York City should not fail to
visit the monthly meetings and exhibitions of the
Horticultural Society of New York, which are held
in the American Museum of Natural History in
February, March and April. Other exhibitions
during the summer are held in the museum of the
New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park. This So-
ciety meets on the second Wednesday of the month.

The program of the Pennsylvania Horticultural
Society, at Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia, is as
follows:

Spring exhibition: March 21st, 22d, 23d.

Peony exhibition: End of Mayor in June. The National
Peony Society will hold its exhibition in connection with
the sweet pea show, late in June.

QOutdoor-grown rose show in June or according to season.

Dahlia exhibition: September roth.
Annual chrysanthemum show in November.

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The best flower is that which is both beautiful and useful. None
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APRIL, 1911

You should see our Portfolio of color
schemes before you paint your house

It is always difficult to select pleasing color combinations from
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This Portfolio, ““Color Schemes for Exterior House Painting,”
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send for and study our Portfolio, ‘““A Cottage
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Jackson T. Dawson, Second

White Medalist

(se Massachusetts Horticultural Society has
awarded the George Robert White Medal
of Honor to Mr. Jackson Thornton Dawson of
the Arnold Arboretum. The Director of the
Arboretum thinks that no man in his time and
probably no man in any time has raised so many
plants belonging to so many different species of
trees and shrubs as has Mr. Dawson.

The Arboretum is a sort of joint product of the
planning of Professor Charles Sprague Sargent
and the doing of Mr. Dawson, the one the direc-
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twenty-five years of labor they are now looking
ahead to the realization of their vision that the
Arboretum shall contain all the trees and shrubs
of all the countries of the world that will grow in
the climate of eastern Massachusetts.

Mr. Dawson by intuition seems to know what are
the affinities of a plant. Apparently he guesses
what to graft a plant upon or how to propagate it,
and he seems to guess right always. He was the
first man to raise the so-called hybrid rambler roses

by crossing the garden rose with the Japanese Rosa

multiflora. Two of the most beautiful hardy roses
ever raised in America he produced—the Wil-
liam C. Egan rose and the Sargent rose. He
has also developed many other roses, among
which are Lady Duncan and Farquhar. Several
medals have been bestowed upon him in the last
twenty-five years in recognition of his achieve-
ments in this line.

When but eight years old Mr. Dawson began
his career in the nurseries of his uncle at Ando-
ver, Massachusetts. His first medal came when
he made known to the world the Scottish heather
which had been growing wild in Massachusetts.
When Professor Sargent became director of the
Botanical Gardens of Cambridge, Mr. Dawson
supplied him with plants in exchange, sometimes
exchanging as many as 25,000 a year with differ-
ent institutions.

Nearly all the trees and shrubs in the Arboretum
were raised from seed by Mr. Dawson. In one
year he collected 50,000 native shrubs. Seeds have
been sent in quantities from Asia and from dis-
tant parts of the United States and from Europe,
and he has handled the spoils of various expedi-
tions which the Arboretum has sent into almost un-
known parts of the world. He showed the Massa-
chusetts nurserymen how to graft conifers; he was
the first to grow rhododendrons from seed in an
improved manner. Hard-wooded plants have also
succumbed to his skill in grafting.

This is the second award of the medal, the first
presentation having been made to Professor Sargent.

Massachusetts. F. L. BuLLarp.

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We want you to know more about our collection
L and we make this offer to mail to any Post
Office in the United States

TEN DAHLIAS FOR $1.00

Your selection as to whether they shall be Cactus, Decorative, Paeony-
Flowered, Show or Single. Our selection as to varieties, all with cor-
rect names, mailed to you for $1.00.

If interested in Dahlias or Gladiolus ask for our special catalogue. Over 1,000 varieties
to select from. Mailed free for the asking.

FOTTLER, FISKE, RAWSON CO.
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; trimmed. New growth starts from ends of last year’s branches and tips.
; Berries are borne on old and new wood alike. A hundred thousand vines
> came through our severe Michigan winter without an inch of deadwood
‘ ; and without the slightest winter killing. The berries are black, roundish,

1 an inch long, as good as strawberries—flesh solid all the way through.

They are so firm that they may be shipped and re-shipped. One man sold

$30.00 worth from two plants in their second year. We get ten tons an acre from

three-year old plants, and sell them all quick at sixteen cents a quart. We are

growers—and the original introducers in the East. Himalava plants grow best

when planted after the soil is warm. They can be successfully planted as late
as July 15th,

A Berry For Every Purpose

Himalaya is a perennial just the same as an apple, bearing on the
old fruit-spurs extremely juicy, lusciou; berries. They are delicious
when served uncooked for desert, and may be used for almost every
purpose for which herrles are adapted. Three times as much jam
or jelly may be made from Himalaya than with ordinary black-
berries. Last year we sent Giant Himalaya Berry plants to over
fourteen hundred different people, and everyone was satisfied.

1 have seen the Giart Himalaya Berry growing
and fruiting at the Berrydale Experment Gardens,
and consider it the best cropping blackberry I know
of. I noticed branches on which there were from
fifty to a hundred berries. These were jet black,
and the size of a Lawton berry. Its blossoms
come late. and crops are sure. It will stand
more frost than any berry we have ever har here. ©
I shall plant two and a half acres of Himalaya (aM ”,
next spring. C.K RAUS, Holland, Mich , Oct.1910 iF Pig)

The Himalaya berry plants received in the
very best shape. C. B. BILLINCS, Montana.

FHighteen months old plants that will fruit this

summer, One dollar each, prepaid.

P Get A Berrydale Rerry Book
4 Berrydale Berry Book isan unusual catalogue. It goea out of beat-
“Ges €D tracks. tells about several dozen good berries, and ia sent free.

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\ Grass Seeders and Fertilizer Sowers
These Two Machines Make

Beautiful Velvety Lawns

The “‘Velvetlawn” Grass Seeder puts the
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saves seed. The wind or rain cannot carry
the seed away, because it is all put in the
ground where germination and growth takes

te place quickly, the cutting action of the discs
opens narrow furrows in the sod, and the force feeds carry an equal amount
of seed into every furrow. The discs do not tear the sod, but relieve
it of its root-bound condition and let the AIR IN.

SAVE THE COST OF SOD
It is foolish to sod, because a BETTER LAWN can be had by drill-
ing pure-bred Grass Seed at one-tenth the expense. ‘“‘ Velvetlawn”
Seeders have proven their worth by the work they have done —by
the beautiful lawns they have made.

“VELVETLAWN” FERTILIZER SOWERS

will sow any brand of Dry Pulvy erized Fertilizer in any quantity de-
| sired and scatter it evenly over the ground. It does not waste the
Fertilizer because the cultivator teeth work the material in the soil.
This is the only hand-power So wer in the world that will do the
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INDISPENSABLE TO GARDENERS

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Protect
Your Trees—

They Add Dol-
lars to the Value
of Your Land

For every tree lost your land drops from
$50 to $z00 in value.

If you let the elm tree beetle alone for two
seasons it will ruin your trees; in three seasons it

will kill them absolutely.
You can destroy this and other insect pests and
save your trees and vegetables with the surest and

safest insecticide —

ELECTRO

Arsenate of Lead

(In Powdered Form)
It is 50% stronger than any other kind but is absolutely
harmless to tender foliage. Dust it on or use 1t as a spray.
It mixes instantly with water, sticks to foliage so rains can-
not wash it off, and is effective months afterward.

It is the most economical arsenate of lead — tr |b.
equals 2 Ibs. of any other kind and, being dry, you
don’t pay for water all pastes contain. Age
does not impair its strength.

Send for valuable folders on Electro Arsenate
of Lead. Electro Lime-Sulphur Solution is
the surest means to rid your trees of San
José scale and makes the best fungicide
for summer use.

Ly any eae hasn't Electro Brands,

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MAGAZINE 213

F The Readers’ Service 7 d ti
214 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE date RUF OE OREO Neowin, LOU

“Your Lawn and Garden”

is the subject of our valuable book-
let you should read before begin-
ning outdoor work this spring.

copy mailed Free for the asking.

Have greener lawns, finer flowers,
earlier and better vegetables. You can
do it with

ZAK

Trae BRAND Hark
Pulverized Sheep Manure

Produces most wonderful results quickly.

Contains just the natural elements necessary to

enrich the soil and force rapid, healthy

development in every growing thing.

Economical and convenient to use. Has

none of the faults of common manure.

No weeds or foreign grasses. No
adulteration or waste.

Just pure sheep manure—nature’s
best fertilizer. Unequalled for trees, shrubs,
vines and fruit, meadows and grain fields.

$ 0 Per Barrel,
7A Ki freight pre-
acy paid east of
Missouri river. Cash with
order. Ask for special
quantity prices.
Be sure to write for your

copy of ‘“Lawn and Garden. ’’

The Pulverized Manure
Company
19 Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Ill.

Wizard Brand is handled by first class seedmen

Cages to Protect Corn From
Crows

Ae Ss no mind to present to the crows our

few hills of extra early sweet corn, we in-
vented cages to put over each hill till the plants were
large enough to lose their “ crow-attractiveness! ”
Each cage required five feet of one-foot chicken
netting. They were made in the form of hollow
cubes, with the side that rested on the ground left
open. They were made of new wire and cost three
cents each. They are equally satisfactory and
cost less when made of wire that has been used be-
fore. These little cages were left on the corn
day and night, as there was nothing to keep
the sun and air from reaching the plants. It
is an easy matter to anchor them down with
small stakes or stones, if located where they are
in danger of being knocked over. A cage set over

A cage for protecting corn from crows, which costs
three cents to make

a newly transplanted plant as a support for bagging
or other covering, is a protection, not only from the
sun, but from chickens and from trampling until
the plant has taken a firm hold of the soil.

These cages are not the easiest things to store
away, but if turned upside down they may be used
as wire baskets in which to pack the various garden
odds and ends till the next season. They are also
useful individual covers for choice flowering plants
when frost threatens. Carpeting can be thrown
over them at night without bruising the plants
and they are lighter and easier to adjust than
other sorts of frost coverings. The blooming
season of many plants can be considerably extended
with a little protection from the first early frosts.

New York. I. W. ANGELL.

Nasturtiums in Mounds

NE of the best nasturtium tricks that I have
run across is the creation of a nasturtium
mound effect. Brush is laid on the ground so as
to form a loose pile that soonis completely covered
with climbing nasturtiums, which remain in good
condition until frost time.— B. G

APRIL, 1911

GARDEN MAGAZINE

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size you want. Brown’s Auto-Sprays are famous wherever eR | game
spraying is done. Whether you want a hand power, traction power :
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most durable outfit of its kind made.

We are the largest spraying machine manufacturers in the world, and have over
300,000 Satisfied customers. We will be glad to refer you to any number of our
customers in your section. We want to send you our bo6dk so you can read all about
Auto-Sprays and the letters from many prominent orchardists. You will be interested
to read about the great reliability of Auto-Sprays—their simplicity, their durability—
their capacity for doing the work as it should be done.

The Famous Auto-Spray No. 1

Auto-Spray No. x is the most powerful and most satisfactory of all small hand-power sprayers. Holds three gallons
cf solution and one gallon of compressed air. It is the only small sprayer equal to heavy work, and is just the thing for
the man who wants to spray five acres of potatoes or a few trees. It is just the outfit for a small orchard, white-washing
the poultry-house and handling kerosene or other fluid. It is the only small hand-power outfit good enough to be guar-
anteed to do the work RIGHT — in the shortest time — with the least expense. AUTO-SPRAY No. 24 isa barrel sprayer
with large capacity. Furnished with or without barrel and with orchard equipment and potato attachment, as desired.
No valves concealed and all working parts exposed. If you want to do heavy work by hand, this is the outfit for you.

BROWN’S HAND AND POWER

AUTO-SPRAYS

are also used and endorsed by practically every Government and State
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with it. For very large and heavy work we have the

Auto-Spray Traction and
Gasoline Power Outfits

Auto-Spray Traction Power Outfits have long been leaders for every use
in orchards, field and vineyards throughout the country.

The new Auto-Spray Gasoline Power outfits are equipped with an engine
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outfit is supplied as shown here or mounted on skids with cypress tank of any capacity and
provided with hood for covering engine and pump. We also furnish a complete outfit
which includes a truck. Made in capacities from 50 to 250 gallons. Our

Non-Clog Atomic Nozzle

is the only nozzle which cannot clog. Instantly adjustable, from a misty spray to a powerful stream. It
is the only nozzle suitable for all uses. Reaches centre of apple blossoms, for codling moth, best for all
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Stevens-Duryea

Model AA
Sia-cylindcr
Torpedo

95.8 H.P.

Look for this
on the yadiatcr
and on the hub.

OR supreme satisfaction in touring: the Stevens-Duryea Six. With
its “unit power plant” mounted on “three points,” it has the maximum
of power efficiency, the minimum of friction and strain, and a motor
flexibility that is truly delightful.

Our booklet about “three-point support” is really interesting—and different.
Stevens-Duryea Company

WM. M. CLARK
ARCHITECT, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,

Mailed on request.

Chicopee Falls, Mass.

Stain Your Shingles with .

Dexter Brothers’ English Shingle Stains

Dip Them Before Laying

Dipping gives absolute protection—where rain gets th ough
between and under shingles, as well as to the outer surfaces.
Whether applied by brushing or dipping, Dexter Brothers’
English Shingle Stains are better than paint. They protect
the shingles with preservative, waterproofing oils, yet f
retain the natural texture and beauty of the wood. The
pure English ground colors cannot fade. e

Write for stained ininiature shingles, so you can decide on
the right color combination. Also descriptive booklet with
letters from architects and owners.

Dexter Bros. Co., 110 Broad St., Soston, 1133 Bwy., N.Y.
Makers of PETRIFAX CEMENT COATING

AGENTS: H.M. Hooker Co., Chicago; John D. 5S.
Potts, 218 Race St., Philadelphia; F. H. McDonald,
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Atlanta, Ga.; Carolina Portland Cement Co., Birm-
ingham and Montgomery, Ala., Jacksonville, Fila.,

Charleston, S. C., and New Orleans, La.; F. S. Combs,

Halifax, N.S., AND DEALERS.

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where water gets
through to the
under shingles
and wet rots
them, Dipping
the shingles
two-thirds their
length prevents
is.

Newark

Write to the Readers’ Service for
suggestions about garden jurniture

A “High Standard’’—protected -
house; Color Scheme Ivory Body
and Trim; Roof Moss Green

When
You Insure
Your House

against fire you seek the company that
is highest in reputation and integrity—
not lowest in price. So when you paint,
which is weather and decay insurance,
you should seek the brand that wears
best and longest—gives best results—

Experienced users who insist on quality will
tell you that “‘High Standard’’ has reduced
their paint bills. Its lower ultimate cost is due
to greater spreading and hiding power, longer
wear and the smooth condition in which it leaves
a surface when properly applied, as proved by
practical competitive tests.

Mellotone—Aiat finish for walls and plaster,
offers quality, economy, wear-resistance and the
sanitary advantage of being washable. Costs
less than the kind of wall paper you would
want; wears longer; is fadeless.

Linduaro—on the woodwork is the ideal
enamel for beauty and durability.

Portfolio of ‘‘Good Homes’? showing interiors
decorated with Mellotone and other Little Blue
Flag products; also exteriors finished with
**High Standard’’ sent for 25c.—less than actual
cost. ‘‘Common Sense about Interiors’? and
“Harmony in Color,’’ free.

The Lowe Brothers Company
MAKERS OF
Paint, Varnish, Stains, Enamels—all of “ High Standard”’ Quality
455 E Third St., Dayton, Ohio
Boston New York Chicago Kansas City

Metal Rose Markers

Rustless

Imperishable

Paper and wooden markers soon become

illegible.

Send for samples and prices.

The Riker Company

APRIL, 1911

New Jersey

Cultivator and Seeder

Is a Perfect Implement for the Small Garden

It has every part necessary for all kinds of hill and drill seeding
and for both straddle and between the row cultivating and may be used
with one or two wheels. It makes gardening a pleasure for man,
woman or child, saves arduous labor and gives the best results.

For the family which has a small home in the country or in the
suburbs it is the ideal outfit. Its parts are easily adjusted and the con-
struction is the strongest. Adjusting three bolts changes it from seeder
to cultivator. A child can use it.

Ask your dealer to show you an Ames Cultivator and Seeder
and look for our name on the handle. It can be used with equal
facility in all kinds of soils in every part of the country.

The Ames Plow Company has been manufacturing small and
large agricultural implements for almost a century and knows what is
best for the garden. If your dealer does not carry it write us direct
and we will send you a catalog. In writing kindly mention your
dealer’s name. Address Dept. 1.

AMES PLOW COMPANY, BOSTON, MASS.

BULBS THAT BLOOM

Cedar Acres Gladioli are as Beautiful as
Orchids and as easy to Grow as Potatoes

O YOU know that the Gladiolus has been developed and improved until now it is, without exception, the most
useful and beautiful flower in the garden? Richness of coloring, delicacy of shading and profusion of bloom
have been secured without sacrificing the sturdiness of the plant. At Cedar Acres we have contributed much to
the work of making the modern Gladiolus the superb flower that has justly been called the ‘‘orchid of the garden.”
Some of the finest varieties have been originated at Cedar Acres, and for these and for our simple and efiective
methods of culture many awards have been made, as mentioned below.

As a Cut Flower

there is no plant in the garden that
deserves comparison with the Gladiolus.
If the spike is cut when the first flower
begins to open, it gradually unfolds,
flower after flower, and gives a suc-
cession of surprises for a week or
ten days. And you can grow them
easily -as easily indeed as
potatoes. It is simply a mat-
ter of buying good, strong
bulbs and following our in-
structions.

SPECIAL |
OFFERS

Dawn (Tracy’s). The most beautiful
shell pink Gladiolus ever offered. A
long graceful spike of magnificently
formed flowers, all open at one time.
The keeping qualities of this variety
surpass anything grown at Cedar Acres
and its color and texture make it indispen-
sable as a cut flower and for bedding. 25 cts.
each, $2.50 per doz.

Liberty. A bright red with strikingly marked

Cedar Acres Gladioli

command in the cut flower market a
price six times as high as the prevailing
market rates, because the flowers are
largér and finer. These flowers are
raised in our fields from Cedar Acres
bulbs, without stakes or watering, by
the same cultural methods we give to
our customers.

AWARDS

Bronze Medal, Massachusetts Horticultural Society, for superior culture,
Gladiolus fields.
oer Medal) Massachusetts Horticultural Society, for artistic display of
adioli,
ff Silver Medal, Newport Horticultural Society, for best display of Gladioli.
Certificate of Merit, New London Horticultural Society, largest and best
__ display of Seedling Gladioli.
Silver Medal, North Shore Horticultural Society, best display of Gladioli.
Silver Medal, Massachusetts Horticultural Society, display of Gladioli Seedlings.
Certificate of Merit, Melrose Horticultural Society, best display of Gladioli.
Sie ee Macs North Shore Horticultural Society, largest and best display of
Gladioli.
Certificate of Merit and First Prize, Massachusetts Horticultural Society, best
display of roo vases Gladioli.
Silver Medal, Vaughans, best yase Mrs. Francis King, Society of American
Florists, Rochester, roxo.
Silver Medal, Rawsons, best basket of America, Society of American Florists,
Rochester, ror1o.

SPECIAL OFFERS —

MIXTURES

Orchid Flowered Seedlings. Seedlings giving a wide range

of color at a reasonable price. To see them blooming is the only
way to give them adequate description. 50 for $1.00, 125 for
42.00, express prepaid. 4

The famous Cedar Acres Mixture gives a great variety of wide

open flowers of exquisite colors and marking and should be planted in

white throat. Strong habit and a favorite.
25 cts. each, 42.50 per doz.

Independence. A _ brilliant rose pink, with
richly marked throat. A long, strong spike
of wax-like flowers; one of the best. 10 cts.
each, $1.00 per doz.

Princess Sandersoni, Certificate. The finest
white variety, slightly pencilled crimson. A
beautiful variety for the home garden and for
commercial use. Flowers very graceful and
open. $2.00 per doz.

America. Joo much cannot be said of this
beautiful dainty pink. The flowers are of im-
mense size and of wax-like texture borne on a
very strong spike. $1.00 per doz.

Baron Hulot (Blue Jay). One of the finest
blue Gladioli. A deep violet blue with finely
shaped flowers. $2.00 per doz.

Augusta.
anthers. Strong spike, often
three branches. 50 cts. per doz.

Hulot.

Fine for table decoration.

A very fine paper white, with lavender
having two or

Sunrise. The finest clear canary yellow variety, with
no markings. Long spike of dainty flowers, making
an excellent combination with America or Baron

$2.00 per doz.

One each of the twelve named varieties for $1.50, two each for $2.75, post-paid; six each for $7.50, express collect.

WRITE FOR INFORMATIO

large quantities. 50 for $1.00, 125 for $2.00 prepaid. $12.00 per thou-
sand, express collect. 125 will plant a bed 4 feet square, giving a mass
of color and bloom from July to frost.
1911 NOVELTIES
Sanguine. A brilliant bright red, with stippled throat. A tall grower with im-
mense wide open flowers, from 5 to 8 being open at one time, splendid foli-
age, making it an unusually attractive variety. 50 cts. each, $5.00 per doz.
Mrs. James H.Lancashire. Large flowers, exquisite cream color, with car-
mine stripes on the lower petals. One of the most
THE GIFT BOX pleasing of the-light-colored varieties of the Ganda-
Just the thing to send to your suburban friend vensis type. 50 cts. each, $5.00 per doz.
to stimulate the love of the beautiful. Niagara.) Wakce Hower (colordelicalelc sa
‘i f ranged on a long spike, with very attractive foliage.
Box of Bulbs in two sizes, 50c. and $1.00 a
Express Prepaid

35 cts. each, $3.50 per doz.
u “ stab Dawn (Tracy’s). See description opposite.
With each box is sent full cultural directions,
and your card if so desired.

25 cts.

each, $2.50 per doz.
Une each of these four named varieties, $1.00 postpaid.

Jean Dieulafoy. A lovely cream color with carmine
blotch. Superb for bouquets. #2.00 per doz.

Harvard. My introduction of 1907. A perfect
“Harvard” crimson in color. Very popular as a
cut flower and especially effective for table decor-
ation with green foliage, because of its long grace-
ful spike of wide open flowers. Many open at
one time. $1.00 per doz.

Mrs. Francis King (The Original). A most beauti-
ful flame pink. Immense flowers ona spike grow-
ing 4 feet high with 18 to 20 flowers, 6 to 8 open at
one time. A magnificent variety. #1.00 per doz.

Klondike. Clear primrose yellow with crimson
markings on the lower petals. Large open
flowers. $2.00 per doz.

LET ME HELP YOU TO RAISE BETTER
GLADIOL] THAN ANY YOU HAVE EVER SEEN

For years I have devoted all my time and thought to improving the Gladiolus and raising better bulbs. It is both my business and my pleasure. I will
gladly answer any questions in regard to the “Orchid of the Garden,” its culture, the best varieties, etc. There will be no charge.

Send for beautiful illustrated booklet, describing many varieties and giving the real truth about each. The picture shows actual Cedar Acres Gladioli.

B. HAMMOND TRACY

Box 195

Cedar Acres Wenham, Mass.

THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS. GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK.

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visit us.

ROSES.
to place orders at once,
while we have several
hundred thousand in
choice, new and popu-
lar kinds. We are

Trees Growing
often sold out of many varieties, causing disappointment.
RHODODENDRONS. Many thousand of acclimated plants in Hardy Eng-

lish and American varieties are growing in our nursery.

FLOWERING SHRUBS IN A LARGE VARIETY. We make a specialty
of them and can do plantings or fill orders of any size.

BAY TREES. Our display of these fascinating trees is larger this season than
ever. We are growing many hundreds of perfect specimens.

ORNAMENTAL SHADE, WEEPING AND STANDARD TREES.
200,000 of these in al] kinds can be seen in our Nursery. We grow them for

» every place and purpose.

HARDY TRAILING AND CLIMBING VINES. We grow immense quan-
tities for all kinds of plantings.

OUR NEW GIANT FLOWERING MARSH MALLOW. A new and per-
fectly hardy Hibiscus for naturalizing or background effects and especially
adapted for old-fashioned and shrub borders or individual grouping. Flow-
ers are immense in size, sometimes measuring ten inches and more in diameter.
The colors range trom white to the most delicate and brilliant shades of crimson
and pink. They begin to flower in July and bloom profusely until late Autumn.

BOBBINK

Nurserymen, Florists and Planters

in Our Nursery

Dutch ee :
and nice oe

The largest growers of bulbs and plants in Holland
now offer you the opportunity of buying direct from their
American branch. ‘This is the first direct branch of any
Dutch grower in America—among the more than 20,000
sorts of bulbs we offer for your selection, at moderate
prices, are many novelties of rare interest to any flower

lover.

If you are interested in ‘securing better bulbs and
roots, full of vitality and true to name, write for our
catalogs on Dahlias, Hyacinths, Tulips, Daffodils, per-
ennial roots, nursery stock, etc.

All goods landed by us and delivered

to your address in original packages.

Gt. van Waveren & Kruijff
Branch House, 491 Bourse Bldg.
LOUIS BERGER, Mgr. PHILADELPHIA, PA., U. S. A.

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BOBBINK & ATKINS

World’s Choicest Nursery Products
April and May Planting

The proper way to buy is to see the material growing.
intending purchasers visiting our Nursery, and invite everybody interested in improving their grounds to
Our Nursery consists of 250 acres of highly cultivated land, and is planted with a choice selection
of Ornamental Nursery Products, placing us in a position to complete plantings and fill orders of any size.

It is important | LAWN GRASS SEED. Our Rutherford Park Lawn Mixture has given satis-

We shall gladly give our time and attention to all

faction everywhere.

HARDY OLD-FASHIONED PLANTS. Hundreds of thousands of new,
rare, and popular varieties of these old-time favorites.

EVERGREENS, CONIFERS AND PINES. More than 75 acres of our Nur-
sery are planted with handsome specimens.

BOXWOOD. We grow thousands of plants in many shapes and sizes.
Everybody loves the aroma of old-fashioned Boxwood.

DECORATIVE PLANTS. We have 250,000 square feet of greenhouses in
which we grow palms for Conservatories, house and exterior decorations.

TRAINED, DWARF AND ORDINARY FRUIT TREES AND SMALL
FRUITS. We grow these for all kinds of orchards.

HEDGE PLANTS. We grow hundreds of thousands of California Privet, and
other hedge plants, adapted for all parts of the country.

BULBS AND ROOTS. Spring, Summer and Autumn flowering.

TUBS. We manufacture all shapes and sizes. Ask for special list.

OUR NEW ILLUSTRATED GENERAL CATALOG NO. 25 will tell

you about the above and all our other products for Lawns and Gardens.
WE PLAN AND PLANT GROUNDS AND GARDENS EVERY WHERE.

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DAHLIAS

| SPECIAL OFFERS OF MY SELECTION | ‘

For the benefit of those who are not familiar with the names, colors,
and characteristics of the dahlia, and wish to have the selection made
for them, I make the following Special Priced Collections.

“$1.00
$2.00

SPECIAL COLLECTION No.1. Fifteen extra fine, named varieties, several Clee
my own personal selection, no two alike, and each one labelled . :

SPECIAL COLLECTION No. 2. Fifteen extra fine, higher priced Vanetien my own
personal selection, no two alike, and each one labelled .

SPECIAL COLLECTION No. 3. For $5 I will personally eile: not es tian fifteen
extra choice varieties of several classes, and assorted colors to the amount of w and $5 00
over. No two alike, and all labelled : O

SPECIAL COLLECTION No.5. For $10 I will Dersonallly select $15 soi of extra $10. 00
choice bulbs of various classes and assorted colors. No two alike and all labelled -

The above Special Collections are made up of varieties of which I have grown a surplus and are
made at this great reduction in order to even up my stock. J guarantee satisfaction to every customer.
Any of the above collections can be made up of all cactus dahlias if so desired instead of

assorted classes.

| BULBS BY THE DOZEN, YOUR SELECTION

1 Dozen any 10c dahlias, alike or assorted, your selection $1.00
1 Dozen any 15c dahlias, alike or assorted, your selection $1.50
1 Dozen any 20c dahlias, alike or assorted, your selection $2.00
1 Dozen any 25c dahlias, alike or assorted, your selection $2.50

$3.50
No PLANTS (or slips) of any and sent out.

| 1 Dozen any 35c dahlias, alike or assorted, your selection

RememBeER, I send FIELD GROWN ROOTS (or bulbs) only.
CUT FLOWERS FOR SALE in their season, 25c to 50c per dozen, at the gardens.

For the benefit of persons living, at a distance from my gardens, and who would like

to see samples of my dahlias, I will send a sample box containing 50 blossoms of differ-

ent kinds, all labelled with their names, for $1.00, to pay for labelling and packing.

GEO. L. STILLMAN, Dahlia Specialist

i Westerly, Rhode Island i |

May, 1911

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LET ME HELP YOU _
GROW BETTER DAHLIAS

GUARANTEED BULBS

For years I have devoted my time to
growing and improving Dahlias, and I take
pride in the success of amateurs who have
planted my bulbs. Dahlias are my hobby
and my business combined. The bulbs I
sell are solid and full of vitality, not forced
in unnatural surroundings, and therefore /
guarantee them to grow in your garden. 1 am
called ““The Eastern Dahlia King” because
of the extent of my Dahlia business—
4,000,000 plants, and over 1,000 varieties.

Every garden owner should
grow Dahlias. For late flowers
nothing is so satisfactory or so
beautiful. Beginning in August
and lasting through the long
autumn when other flowers are

How Any Qne Can
Grow Mushrooms.

Delightful Occupation — Delicious Delicacy for the >

Home Table and a Good Income if you Wish oe AES OPER

The Eastern Dahlia King

I have been growing mushrooms for over
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Growing mushrooms is really no more difficult
than growing radishes.

It’s just a matter of knowing how.

Every failure in the mushroom business
can be traced to poor spawn and unreliable
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I have shown thousands of men and women

profit and making a good income without in-
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that a mushroom bed will be as common as
vegetable gardens.

I have written a little book which gives
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grown, how to have a mushroom bed in your
cellar, etc. Italso tells about spawn and how
to secure really reliable spawn. I shall gladly
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If you have never tried mushroom growing,
or if you have tried and failed because of the
causes of which [ have spoken, write for my
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past their prime, the Dahlia is a

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18 superb Cactus Dahlias, all different, $3, postpaid

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how to grow mushrooms successfully. Most all the shadow of a doubt that you can have a fine
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Jackson Mushroom Farm
6124 North Western Ave.

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FARR’S DAHLIAS
THAT WILL BLOOM

In offering my collection of Dahlias to the public, I have made a sweep-
ing cut-out of every variety that is in the least doubtful as to its blooming
qualities, or that shows any marked tendency to “run-out.”

Many of the finest exhibition varieties are poor bloomers, and while the
enthusiast may be willing to grow many plants for a few choice flowers,
the average gardener with limited space will prefer to confine himself to
the list of Dahlias that can be relied on to give the very best results. In
this respect my collection stands uniquely unparalleled.

Get “‘Farr’s Hardy Plants’’
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Wyomissing Nurseries, 643d Wyomissing Ave., Reading, Pa.

Plan For A Succession of
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Vase of

Gladioli My Meadowvale Gladi-
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WhenFirst quantities of superb

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July and August, when 5
sweet peas and pansies and all the other early things are gone and the flowers of
autumn are not ready, you will miss the fresh bouquets for indoor and veranda decoration
— then a wealth of glorious Gladioli blooms, such as you can have if you plant my choice
bulbs now, will delight you constantly.

A succession of Meadowvale Gladioli, blooming from June till frost, can be had by
planting my bulbs at intervals, during April and May. If room is scarce, the bulbs may be
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Now or Not at All

|e vital duties of May are planting

and cultivation. Peas, lettuce,
spinach and radishes should have been
planted some time ago and the musk-
melon hills prepared by the end of April.
Tf not, do these things at once.

Were you planning to transplant any
shrubs or trees this spring? This is the
last call. Deciduous kinds cannot be
moved safely after their leaves open, but
the evergreens will move better in May —
or just as growth begins. Hemlocks,
spruce, cedar—all make splendid wind-
breaks, and a very attractive little shrub
that you can move now is the holly-leaved
barberry (Berberis Mahonia).

Begin cultivation as soon as you have
anything in the ground — not deeply, but
just a surface scratching to yank the
newly sprouted weeds out of the soil. If
you prevent the first crop of weeds from
going to seed, you will eliminate the source
of a great deal of future weed troubles.
There is usually plenty of moisture at
this season, but applications of nitrate
of soda on the more advanced lettuce, peas
and spinach will be rapidly assimilated
and appreciated. ,

Begin sowing in earnest the first of the
month. Plant carrots, turnips, kohlrabi,
beets and onions every two weeks, begin-
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beans by the tenth, and sow still another
row or two the end of the month.

It may not always be safe, but it is
always wise, to sow a little corn the first
week in May. If not nipped by the frost,
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two later. Mix half a barrowful of
manure in every hill, spaced from five to
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roots. If the rhubarb develops seed-
pods it is getting tired of its lodgings.
Make a memorandum to dig up the bed
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Determine not to be without vines this
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Practically every annual flower can be
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The Whole Subject of Dahlia Culture

A THOROUGH THRESHING OUT OF THE REASONS THAT MAKE FOR SUCCESS OR FAILURE IN THE
GROWING OF ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR OF GARDEN FLOWERS—THE BEST VARIETIES TO PLANT

An Editorial Investigation

HAT is the trouble with the dahlia? That question has been asked again and again by growers of this marvelously
beautiful, and marvelously varied, flower. More especially has this been the case the last few years, when complaints of ‘“‘too
much foliage: too few blossoms” have come from many a garden.

Last September a representative of THE GARDEN MAGAZINE set out to get at the root of the matter. He visited the Dahlia
Show in New York and also several gardens that, in the aggregate, offered a comprehensive study of the growing of this flower on both
a large and a small scale. Everywhere he asked question after question. The result of his search for an answer to the query as
to what is the trouble with the dahlia may be summed up in two absolutely contradictory replies of one word each. “Everything,”
said one contingent; “nothing,” affirmed the other.

Paradoxical as it may seem, both answers are quite correct. Everything is the matter with dahlias and, with like truth, nothing
is the matter with them. It all depends on whose dahlias they are. Thus the investigator saw some of the finest dahlias in all his
experience on that little flower pilgrimage and also he saw some of the very poorest.

Where there was much trouble there was much running of the plant to leaf. Where there was no trouble care had been taken
not to have the soil too rich, the tubers had been well separated, and there had been rigid pruning. In other words — for here is
the net result of the investigation — there are three essentials of success with dahlias and they are all to be found in the preceding
sentence.

These three great points cannot be too strongly emphasized. George L. Stillman, the dahlia specialist, who grows some 400
varieties of this flower at Westerly, R. I., laid stress on all of them when he was interviewed at the Dahlia Show. He seemed rather
astonished to learn that there was any “trouble” with dahlias; he has none himself, he said. He suggests as a remedy for run-
ning to leaves the stripping off of not only some of the foliage but extra stalks; he would even sacrifice, if it was found to be necessary,
a few of the flower buds, as there will be bloom enough anyway. Mr. Stillman is a late planter, but only as a matter of convenience,
and for the same reason he does not separate the tubers until he is ready to put them in the ground. He plants June rst, one “eye”
to a hill, four to six inches deep and lays the tuber down flat. He uses some cow manure on his land and occasionally a little fertilizer
in the hill, or row.

Another professional grower said that he had grown dahlias successfully on the same piece of ground for seven consecutive years
without any manure at all. As he grows for roots, not flowers, however, his testimony is of less practical value to the home gar-
dener. In any event the effect of manure on the dahlia must be settled largely by individual experiment, as garden soils vary quite
as much as garden folk. An English observer of American dahlia conditions says that in England this flower is fed heavily; it even
can be planted on a manure heap. His observation of the lovely cactus-dahlia here is that it gives good blossoms early, miserable ones

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An ideal growth of dahlias, as seen in a Connecticut garden last year. The plants are seven feet high, vigorous, and laden with flowers

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in summer and none at allin autumn. He thinks that one trouble is ‘‘too good soil’’ and has found that stripping off leaves and shoots
helps but does not entirely remedy matters.

While that is the dahlia situation in a nut-shell, and is quite sufficient to set right the gardener who is all wrong in the growing of
a deservedly popular flower, it was thought best to pursue the subject still further and endeavor to elicit more detailed information
from some of the commercial growers of dahlias on a larger scale. For the purpose of comparison as to the matter of unanimity of
opinion the several answers to each of the sixteen questions are grouped by themselves. The answers are from (1) Walter M.
Gray, Maplewood, N. J.; (2) J. R. Alexander, East Bridgewater, Mass; (3) W. D. Hathaway, New Bedford, Mass., and (4) E. S.
Brown, East Moriches, N. We

Why do dahlias run to foliage? s
1. Early planting and too much watering "

during hot spells. as

2. Often caused by planting too many | : as,
’ tubers in a hill and in many cases by over- |. 4

fertilizing when tubers are first set out. I
find that a large percentage of divided
stock sold is over-forced before the amateur
‘receives it and this in over half the in-
stances is without doubt the trouble more
than anything else.

3. Too much dressing at time of planting.
Too early planting when the ground is
cold makes woody growth; then the
plants are all foliage and no flowers.

4. In my experience, covering many
seasons, in different locations, with dif-
ferent soils and different conditions of
atmosphere as to inland and near the coast,
also with many and various ways of
using fertilizers, I have come to the
conclusion that there are two _ surely
proven reasons — first that the soil can
be too rich; and second, that the time of
planting has been altogether too early in
the spring.

Why do cactus dahlias give good early
bloom and then peter out?

1. For want of thinning out and feeding.

2. Because they are planted too early.
May 30th is early enough to plant in
this section of Massachusetts.

3. Because not fed as season advances,
and too little cultivation.

4. Too rich soil and too early planting
give not only too profuse foliage, but a
mass of early bloom, with such loss of
vitality that the blossoms continually
grow smaller, imperfect, and less in evi-
dence. Again weather conditions are not
always what one could wish.

What weather conditions make the most
favorable dahlia season?

1. Damp weather and a little sunshine.

2. Medium. The principal trouble with
amateurs is that they are very much
afraid to use a hoe around their plants
during the growth of them. :

3. Cool, cloudy weather. They bloom
best late in the fall.

4. For full development of flower and
tuber, from planting to harvesting of - fg
tubers, a rather even temperature, with a =
now and then a shower, but neither too
wet nor too dry.

What soil is best for dahlias ?

1. Any kind with rock or clay founda-
tion.

2. Any soil is suitable. We have dahlias
growing on all kinds of land. If grown
on heavy soil, it is not wise to use much eS i,
stable dressing. It is much better to use Dahlias as annuals. Sow seed in April, and in September you can have plants like these

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A ‘‘show’’ bloom, regularly quilled. A ‘‘fancy’”’
is similar but with tips darker than base

a little ground bone meal or some good
fish and potash fertilizer.

3. Very light, porous soil, with good
drainage.

4. Sandy loam.

What condition of soil as to moisture?

1. Keep cultivating until beds are well
formed and then scufile.

3. Moist soil, but good drainage. When
watered with hose, should be cultivated
next day.

4. Not so wet as one would suppose.
In fact, so long as not too dry would not
water artificially at all.

What amount of
fertilizer will they
stand?

1. At rate of one-
half pound bone-
meal to each plant
or one-half pail of
cow manure.

2. Unwise to use
too much when
planting. A small
handful after cover-
ing the tuber is
enough. If stable
dressing is used it is
best to top-dress be-
home tilessio ules
turned over. Noth-
ing else should be
used until plants are
a foot or two out of
the ground. Then
you can use as
much as you like
and nothing will
prevent getting fine
flowers.

3. Not mien

The cactus type. The most modern varieties have

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narrower petals with the ends sharply upcurved

when planted. Feed as they grow, a little
every week or two.

4. After repeated experiments with
special formulas and mixtures of chemicals,
commercial brands of fertilizers and stable
manures, I find nothing equals well-
rotted stable compost, and that not to be
used at any time during the season of
growth. This I thoroughly incorporate
in my fields every other season. I pro-
cure it by the carload in February, cart
it on the land at once and let it lie until
the frost comes out of the ground. In
early spring, as soon as possible, I plow
it under and use at the time of harrowing

In this backyard garden, chock-full of plants, some of the finest prize blooms of last year were cut

May, 1911

Grand Duke Alexis. The “‘ decorative ’’ class includes
flowers other than cactus, ‘‘show,”’ etc.

a dressing of acid phosphate, which is
thoroughly worked into the softened soil.

What general culture do you advise?

1. Dig soil deep four weeks before
planting.

2. We cultivate about twice a week
until the plants get so large we can not
get through with a horse, and after that
they flower without any trouble.

3. Cultivate at least once a week;
twice if you can.

4. I mark off my fields with a drag
corn harrow, allowing four feet between
rows. I furrow deep, using a heavy 2-horse
plow, going up and
down the same fur-
row, and then use a
narrow i-horse cul-
tivator, working the
furrow flat at bot-
tom. The tubers are
dropped two feet
apart in the furrow
and as near a true
line as possible, but
to get the best gar-
den blooms would
extend the distance
to three feet.

What cultural dis-
tinctions, if any,
should be made as to
the several types of
dahlias?

2. None. Use them
all alike.

3. Same for all.

4. I make no dis-
tinctions.

What is the best
twme to plant, stating

May, 1911
whether latitude of Washington, Phila-
phia, New Vork, or Boston?

1. Washington and Philadelphia, June and
July; New York or Boston, May and June.

2. May 3oth is plenty early. (Mass.)

3. In eastern and southeastern Massa-
chusetts, the best time is from May 15th
to July ist, the latter part of this period
for late blooms.

4. Here — fifty miles east of New York
City — May 2sth to June 25th. I would
recommend that any one
having enough tubers to
do so should plant a part
of each variety every
week, leaving spaces in
the rows, and then note
which planting gives the
best results. I think that
those planted in June will

be found the best.

How deep should tubers
be planted?

1. Six inches.

2. Six inches, sure.

3. Six to eight inches.

4. I am a firm believer
in deep planting, at least
six inches, but not all at
once. I drop a tuber into
the furrow and cover as
little as possible; simply
enough to keep the sun
from scalding the root. I
then cover gradually, us-
ing a one-horse cultivator,
eventually leveling down
the furrows. In the gar-
den, where I plant new
and choice varieties more
by hand, I do the same,
covering so carefully as
not to conceal the sprout,
or eye, as this gives it a
chance to harden.

Should more than one
(that is one eye) be planted
im a place?

TINO:

2. Only one. If two
eyes come it does not ma-
terially check the plant so
long as there is not too
much bottom root in the
first place.

3. No.

4. I never allow more
than one eye. As soon
as the eye has two sets of leaves I
pinch off the top. I then cultivate at
least every ten days. Thus the entire
surface is gradually leveled and surely
kept clean and there is a practical guaran-
tee against injury by drought. At the
base of these two sets of leaves will develop
branches which may be pinched out in
turn when they have made two sets of
leaves; thus insuring a stocky bush that
will withstand wind better, furnish more
beauty of form and be more convenient
for gathering the bloom.

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Is it best to lay the tuber down flat?

tees:

2. Yes: do not plant it any other way.

3. Yes.

4. Usually I have never stopped to
see whether the tubers were flat or upside
down; so long as they lay so that when
they grew they would have the stems all
as near a line as possible. With special
trials of new varieties I use a little

more care, making sure that the eye is

By

This kind of growth is possible for any amateur. These plants, eight feet high, were grown

in a city backyard

in a good position to push upward at
once. In the latter case I use a protec-
tor, made of cardboard or an old tin
can, to guard against injury of the
shoot by breaking or by cut worms.
These destructive worms were very
numerous with me last season, and by
this means I saved many valuable new
varieties.

Do you advise encouraging tubers to
sprout before planting?
Tee Wess

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2. Does not injure stock be.ore plant-
ing, and often saves skipped hills.

3. Always have the tubers show a sprout
before planting.

4. Yes, if I wish to get all the plants
possible in a clump; also so that there will
not be more than one stalk in a planting.

Do you separate tubers before planting?
Tt, WES,
2. Always; but use a sharp knife.

3. I begin to cut up in
February, having so many
tubers. When planting in
your own yard separate at
time of planting.

4. Most positively, yes.
Tonce had a large part of
an order sent back be-
cause the tubers had only
one eye. I planted them
myself and was pleased to
show that same person
the following fall my suc-
cess with what he had
rejected.

Do you advise planting
by themselves?

te, MAGS

2. Makes no difference
where you plant them. If
properly treated they will
do well anywhere.

3. Not necessarily.

4. I prefer to ke2p
classes and varieties by
themselves.

Do you advise changing
location every year?

1. No. Trench ground
every four years to depth
of eighteen inches or more,
if soil is good and deep.

2. It is well. | find they
do fully as well, and I
think a lot better.

3. No. I plant on the
same ground year after
year with good results.

4. Before locating here
my trial grounds for a
series of years were on
rich truck lands in New
Jersey and dahlias were
planted on the same lots
season after season, with
generally good results.
Here for nine seasons we
have planted in the same lots with like re-
sults. It is generally claimed that the line
of all crop success is a general changing and
resting of the soil; but — with my plan I
nevertheless get perfect dahlia bloom. I
plow, furrow and plant alternately, that is
north and south one season and east and
west the next, thus in reality getting fresh
soil every year. Yet I planted a 2-acre lot
for three seasons without any special ferti-
lization, because it was in sod and had
been idle a long time. But I heartily rec-
ommend fertilization well in advance of

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Kaiserin Augusta Victoria dahlia, white ‘‘decora-
tive.’’ grown as a pot plant for indoor decoration

planting and also am convinced that plow-
ing the fall before will be helpful.

A CONCRETE VIEW

The reply to the same queries from J. T.
Lovett, Little Silver, N. J., came in the
form of the following letter:

I think that the chief cause of dahlias
not blooming is due to the fact that during
recent years a number of varieties have
been introduced that have very fine
flowers tut are naturally shy bloomers.
Under the most favorable conditions these
varieties would bloom but sparingly at
best. I refer to such varieties as Master
Carl, Pius X, etc.

In addition to this, we have learned that
the dahlia, in order to flower freely, re-
quires a porous soil, and if the soil is very
fertile the plants will develop too much
stalk and foliage and not bloom freely, be-
having in this manner as rapidly growing
young fruit trees. One firm known to
all found that it could not grow flowers
upon its dahlias at the home location,
the soil being of a cold, clayey nature. It
is now having its dahlias grown in another
county, where the soil is porous and light.
When going through the grounds last season
there were pointed out to me a number of
varieties that were blooming beautifully
there, but which would not flower at all
at the old place.

It has been ascertained definitely that
upon clayey soil, where dahlias flower
sparingly, much improvement is effected
by a liberal addition of sand or coal ashes,
in fact, anything to make the soil more

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porous. I have learned from tests here
at Little Silver that varieties which
bloom sparingly upon very fertile soil
will give very much better flowers and
more of them upon soil that is only mod-
erately fertile.

The Best Dahlias For The
Average Home Garden

What with the varieties running up
into the hundreds, the catalogues of the
dahlia specialists are nothing short of

THE BEST DAHLIAS OF ALL

May,1911

bewildering to the home gardener who
must of necessity limit his enthusiasm
to a comparatively few well-chosen sorts.
The great dahlia shows likewise are be-
wildering; for how shall one choose be-
tween forms and color tones that are so
nearly alike? One certainly has proved,
by experience, to be better than another
for the average home garden; and if the
following four lists may not be accepted
as final, they at least offer a very valuable
line of suggestions to the pardonably
perplexed.

CLASSES FOR AN AVERAGE

HOME GARDEN

(Selected in twelve colors of each class)

E. STANLEY BROWN’S LIST

COLORS FANCY SHOW CACTUS DECORATIVE
White Souvenir La Favorite Schawn Perle d’Or
Pale Pink Olympia A. D. Livoni Vesta Mme. Van den Dael
Rose Progress David Johnson Mabel Tulloch La France
Magenta T. W. Girdlestone | Constant Varin Flieder Mme. Aymard
Crimson Comedian Dr. J. P. Kirtland | John Burns Jumbo
Bright red Dazzler Merlin Starfish Auguste Nonin
Deep red Dandy Crimson King _ Beacon Lord Lyndhurst
Plum Frank Smith Victor Libelle Clarabel
Lilac Geo. Barnes Chieftain Clara Blue Oban
Light yellow Gaiety R. T. Rawlins Sterne C. W. Bruton
Amber Matthew Campbell} Norma Goliath Old Gold
Deep yellow Mrs. Saunders Pluton Master Carl Mme. Mary Collett
COLOR POMPON SINGLE PEONY FLOWERED
White Snowclad White Century Queen Wilhelmina
Pale pink Blush Gem Pink Century Glory of Baarn
Rose L. P. Struthers Twentieth Century Dr. van Gorcom
Magenta Portia Deegens Reese Wilhelm Petzold
Crimson Crimson Queen Cleopatra Germania
Bright red Scarlet Gem Scarlet Century Lady Saville
Deep red Red Indian Cardinal Solfatare
Plum Darkness Paragon Souvenir de Franz Liszt
Lilac Tom Borrowdale Imperialina Mrs. Alistair Gilroy
Light yellow Yellow Bird Aurora King Leopold
Amber Klein Domata Emily Barkway Helen Baxter
Deep Yellow Buttercup Yellow Century Geisha
W. D. HATHAWAY’S LIST
COLOR SHOW FANCY CACTUS DECORATIVE POMPON
White Mme. Henri- Mr. Constant | Snowstorm Mont Blanc Elaine
etta Scalabre Varin
Pale pink Mme. Marika | Les Amour de | Dorothy Lucy Fevrier Nerissa
Anagnostaki Madame
Rose Pink Dandy Mme. Ed. Noel | Mme. Martin | La France Pauline
Magenta Thomas Hobbs | S. Mortimer Libelle Jacques Welker} Revenge
Crimson Pleasance Hugh Austin Advance Auguste Nonin | Palmira
Bright red Lydia Mrs. N. Hall Ignea Monsieur Bacchus
Henri Menier
Deep red Surpasse Col- Memorial; Le Geant Red Indian
osse Marguerite
Plum Gloire de Paris | Queen Mes- Purple Friar Papa Vietor Hercules
singer
Lilac Acquisition Prof Fawcett Mr. Seagrave Sylvia Achilles
Light yellow Imperial Mandarin Carodoc Mme. Victor | Mary Kirk
d’Austerlitz Vassier
Amber Norma General Grant | Crepuscule Monsieur Burel | Amber Queen or
Little Mabel
Deep yellow Esmond Miss Ruth Glory of Wilts | Yellow Colosse | Orpheus

LEE, GARDEN

WALTER M. GRAY’S LIST

Miss Browning } Prince of Yellow

CACTUS

Iceberg
Aurora
Kriemhilda
Mars
Beacon
Flamingo

Floradora
Lustre

Etna

T. G. Baker
Harbor Light

J. K. ALEXANDER’S LIST

May,1911

COLOR SHOW FANCY
White Dreers’ White | Andra paque
Pale pink A. D. Livoni Jeanne Charmet
Rose Mad. Moreau | Colonna
Magenta Solferino Ruby Queen
Crimson Crimson Bell Sylvia
Bright red Hussar Mrs. N. Hall
Deep red J. L. Toole Frank Smith
Plum Black Douglas | S. Sickman
Lilac Acquisition Keystone
Light yellow Yellow Duke Lucy Faucett
Amber Amazon’ Penelope
Deep Yellow R. Y. Rawlings

COLOR SHOW FANCY
White Storm King Puritan
Pale pink Mme. Maureau| Progress
Rose Fascination Pink Lucy

Faucett
Magenta Thelma Frank
Smith
Crimson Emperor Hercules
Bright red Merlin Gold Medal
Meteor
Deep red Standard; Dorothy
James Vick

Plum Prince Bismark | George Barnes
Lilac W. P. Laird La Siam
Light Yellow Queen Victoria | Sunset
Amber Norma Polly Sandall
Deep yellow Muriel Lucy Faucett

How I Grow My Prize Dahlias
in a Back Yard

By A. RicHenz1, Hartford, Conn.

MY’ BACKYARD is 50 by 150 and I

manage to grow 105 different vari-
eties of dahlias, and arrange to carry off
a dozen or so prizes at the shows each
year. I am not a gardener, having only
my leisure time to devote to the plants,
yet they get two hours a day of my time.
Most people think that by taking a clump
of dahlias in the fall and putting them in
the cellar until spring, and putting them
back again in the same place, they can
grow dahlias to perfection. This is not
the case.

In the spring when I plant my dahlias
I select one bulb for each variety. I dig
a hole twelve inches and loosen the ground
around. Before I put the bulb in, I put
in a handful of bone meal and wood ashes
and cover the bulbs two inches. When
the plant is above the ground, I put in a
little sheep manure and level the ground
over. Some dahlias require more fer-
tilizers than others.

Most people say dahlias ought to be
planted three feet apart, but when your

CACTUS

White Swan
Ambassador
Ella Kramer;
Mrs. McMillan
Mary Service

Libelle

The King;
Floradora
Standard Bear-
er; Fred
Cobbold
J. H. Jackson;
Mrs. Geo.
Castleton

Brunhilda
Princess
Jeannette;
Volker
Master Carl;
Genesta
Mrs. de Luca

Single dahlias of the

DECORATIVE

Mont Blanc
Delice

La France
Papa Charmet

Catherine Duer

Souv. de G.
Douzon
Navajo
Invincible
F. L. Fassett
Yellow Colosse
Source de Feu
C. W. Bruton

DECORATIVE

Perle de la
Tete d’Or

Jeanne Char-
met

Dolly or
Sylvia

Wilhelm Miller

Juno

Souvenir de
Gustave
Douzon

Black Prince;
Minos

Miss Barry
Himmlische
Mme. Victor
Vassier
Prince of
Orange
Clifford W.
Bruton

“Century ’’ typo.

MAGAZINE

POMPON

Snowclad
Little Beauty
Marguerite
Red Indian
Brunette

Belle of Spring-
field

Darkest of All
Darkness
Achilles
Catherine
Amber Queen
Buttercup*

POMPON

Violet;Snow Clad
Star of the East
Shalii
Fascination
Rosebud

May Clift
Arthur West
Sunbeam
Darkest of All;
Raphael

Bobby
Pure Love

Ideal; Catherine

‘Amber Queen
Ariel

These are the largest flowered and most vigorous singles.
grown easily from seed and come in a variety of colors

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land is limited like mine you have to
use space to the utmost. I plant only
eight inches apart, allowing one stalk to
each plant, and to let in air I cut off all
the bottom leaves. Under such con-
ditions I grew a Frank Smith (which is
one of the most beautiful fancy), ten
feet high, and I could have picked twelve
blooms any time. The same thing with
Suzanne: I picked fourteen blooms in
one day.

Dahlias require a good deal of water,
especially when they start to bloom.
From my own experience, they never have
too much water, especially in the flowering
season.

Good results are obtained by topping
young plants, as this will make the young
plants grow stronger and bushy.

Great care should be taken when the
bulb is taken out. I leave my bulbs in

the ground until there is one inch of frost
and then I put them in the cellar, stump
down, and I have never lost one in my six
years’ experience.

Can be

1. The wrong place for flowers or color is the middle of the lawn, because it is

distracting and isolated

:

2. The right place for flowers is at the sides, where hardy flowers will blend
with shrubbery and trees

A Symposium on Flower Beds and Bedding Plants

GOOD AND BAD TASTE—THE LAWS OF COLOR HARMONY — LESSONS
FROM AN INSTITUTION WHGHICH IS FIFTY YEARS AHEAD OF THE TIMES

I.— Good and Bad Taste in
Bedding

By WitHELM MILLER

I DO not set myself up as an authority
on matters of taste. I am simply a
student. And even if I were an authority,
I should never wish any one to do anything
because I said so. My ideal in conduct is
reason —not authority. Now the com-
mon opinion about bedding plants, and
flowers, and even landscape design, is
that such things are matters of taste and
authority. On the contrary, I believe
that 90 per cent. of all such questions
are matters of law and reason. ‘Therefore,
to start a discussion, I shall try to state
these laws and I shall try to set forth the

3. The worst color is that of tender foliage plants, especially coleus and others

with abnormal hues

best and worst ideals. If I am mistaken,
I wish you would correct me. These
columns are open for a discussion.

THE LAW OF SIMPLICITY

Simplicity is better than great elabo-
vation.— The reason for this is that every
school of art has passed through three
periods — simplicity, elaboration, decay.
It will always be so, because it is human
nature to pursue a good idea to the end.
Excessive elaboration invariably brings
on decadence, provokes a reaction, and
a new school is born. ‘Therefore, beds
of simple shape are in better taste than
beds of complicated shapes. Therefore,
beds of few colors are in better taste than
beds of many colors.

spe A

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THE LAW OF SELF-RESTRAINT

Self-restraint is better than self-indul-
gence.— The reason for this is that grati-
fication of unreasonable desire invariably
brings disgust. The rich man can have
everything he wants, except immunity
from this law. He can put a line of
scarlet sage 300 feet long in his front
lawn, and near his house a mass of hy-
drangea forty feet across. But people
will say he is vulgar, and some day he
will know it. It is wrong to indulge the

spirit of show; it is right to indicate

self-mastery as the ideal in home life
and gardening. ‘Therefore, showy bed-
ding plants should not be exposed to
the public gaze, but put inside a high-
walled garden. :

4. The best color is that which comes from hardy flowers, set off by green

foliage

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Ms Pe a
ets

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5. The wrong shapes for beds are complicated, fancy, geometrical.
a circle for its own sake

THE LAW OF COLOR HARMONY

Adjacent colors harmonize by similarity;
opposite colors harmonize by contrast; inter-
mediate colors are discordant.—The easiest
way to prove this is to arrange a dozen of
the main colors, progressively in a circle.
You will then see that red harmonizes with
orange, and orange with yellow, because
these colors are closely related. You will
also discover that you can make a thrilling
contrast with yellow and blue. Now the
spirit of yellow journalism in gardening
is to give your friends a series of shocks.
Therefore, it is bad taste to have too many
color contrasts. It is better taste to get
harmony by similarity, as a rule, than by
contrast.

THE LAW OF ECONOMY

The garden that is relatively cheap to
maintain for a century or more is better
art than the garden that is costly to maintain.
— The reason for this is that waste in-
evitably seems wrong. Fancy beds cost
more than simple borders, and tender
plants cost more to maintain than hardy
ones. Therefore, no one ought to project

7. The worst economy is temporary beds for show.

Never use

6. The right shapes are simple, preferably rectangular.

Make them fit the

ground and environment as this one does

a garden on a scale which his children
cannot keep up. The second generation
will not love a place that was built for
show, but it will consider as a sacred
heritage a garden that is full of the person-
ality of parents who stood for self-mastery
as opposed to the gratification of every
heart’s desire.

RULES FOR THE SHAPES OF BEDS

There may be other fundamental laws
of good taste, but I do not know them.
Everything else seems to me only practi-
cal application. Now the briefest way of
stating a practical application is a rule.
A. rule is never absolutely true, but it pro-
vokes discussion, and as I am eager to
learn, I shall make a rough attempt to
state the most important rules as I see
them in the hope that you will show us
better ones.

1. Make beds of the simplest shapes — not
complicated ones.— Use rectangles; avoid
stars, crescents, flags, lettering, carpets and
all fancy patterns.

Make all beds fit the environment. Use
rectangular beds unless some other shape is

They cost more and do 8.

not harmonize with the climate

absolutely necessary.— Never make a circle
for its own sake; use circular beds only
around circular features, e. g., a circular
sundial, or water basin, in the centre of
a garden.

RULE FOR POSITION OF BEDS

It is difficult to harmonize geometrical
design with the flowering, irregular lines
of nature. It is difficult to harmonize
great masses of color or flowers with the
restrained hues of trees and shrubs. It is
difficult to harmonize tender plants with
hardy ones. Therefore:

3. Put flower beds where they will not inter-
fere with the landscape.— Never put a flower
bed in the middle of the lawn. Instead of
this, have hardy flowers in a side border.
Put flower beds in a high-walled garden or
sink the parterre below the level of the
lawn.

RULE FOR MATERIAL

Tender plants can never harmonize
with a Northern climate and vegetation
as well as hardy plants, because they stand
out in bold contrast, and the ideal is to

The best economy is to plant as permanently as possible. Hardy plants
cost less and harmonize better

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blend with native trees and shrubs. There-
fore:

4. Try nine times to find a hardy plant
that will do the work, before using a tender
one, even in the garden.— This is easy if
you will refer to the planting lists given
in The GaRDEN MaGazInE for May, 1909,

pages 218 to 220.

RULES FOR COLOR HARMONY

Simple color schemes are better than
complicated ones. Complicated schemes
may be successful in a long, hardy border,
but they will not do in a garden. The
simplest scheme I know, and the best for
the greatest number, is:

5. Keep magenta entirely out of your
garden.— Magenta and the colors near it
cause nine-tenths of all color discord.
Never buy flowers advertised as crimson,
crimson-pink, mauve, purple, or maroon
until you have seen them.

6. Wherever you use strong colors, use
“peacemakers” as fillers or ground covers.—
The only peacemakers are green and white.
Green foliage is not enough. Use 30 to
50 per cent. white flowers, for they are
the only ones that will harmonize with
every other color.

Therefore, edge all beds of strong colors
with white flowers, or else carpet the
ground with gray-leaved plants, e. g.,
lavender cotton, woolly thyme, Cerastium
tomentosum, etc.

7. Use green foliage in preference to highly
colored.—Avoid abnormal and variegated
leaves. Never use coleus, acalypha, achy-
ranthes, perilla, or crotons, if you can
avoid them.

8. Use single-hued flowers — rarely flow-
ers of many hues.—Use self-colored pansies,
verbenas, phlox, in preference to the
variegated. Single colors are purer, strong-
er, quieter, richer than those that are
mixed or variegated. They centre the
interest; variegated plants distract. One
class is restful, the other restless. Avoid
nemesias, lantanas, Joseph’s coat, etc.
Use heliotropes, lobelias, scarlet sage,
tufted pansies of yellow or violet, Salvia
patens, white geranium.

9. Have only one flower in a bed at one
time, or two at most; not more— The
wrong kind of boarding-house has too
much variety at any one meal and not
enough from week to week. The right
kind has relatively little variety at any

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one meal, but plenty during the week. So
with your flower beds and garden.

RULE FOR ECONOMY

The wrong way to economize is to go
without a garden and run up doctor’s
bills; to do without a designer, and have
to rearrange the whole place; to beat
down the nurseryman or buy of irrespon-
sible concerns that do not maintain a
national reputation by advertising. There-
fore:

10. Have the best of everything that 1s
permanent, even though the first cost be
greater, for it 1s cheaper in the end.— Simple
beds and hardy flowers are cheaper to
maintain than fancy beds of tender plants,
and the biggest item in gardening is labor.
The ideal material to plant around your
house is a bed of rhododendrons and
mountain laurel — not a flower bed. For
bedding, evergreens are preferable to
shrubs, shrubs are preferable to peren-
nials, perennials to annuals, and annuals
to tender plants.

WHY “SHAW’S GARDEN” IS AHEAD

The highest ideals in flower bedding, so
far as I know, are represented by the
Missouri Botanical Garden, an institution
in St. Louis, affectionately known to hun-
dreds of thousands of people as “‘Shaw’s
Garden.” I will not say it is the best
garden, for the buildings shown in these
pictures seem to me (and I know Doctor
Trelease will pardon me for saying so) in
doubtful taste. It may be right that the
Botanical Garden should preserve those
buildings, because they accurately present
the taste of another period.

Pre-Raphaelite pictures are very bad art,
but the galleries must have them, because
they show the history of art. Everything
that was characteristic of the Victorian age
is abhorrent to the rising generation. But
intolerance is bad. Let us destroy most
of the bad old art that is perishable, but
let us save the most important and perma-
nent examples that are instructive to the
human race.

The bad old kind of bedding is present,
as well as the good, new kind. And I
think Doctor Trelease does right to keep
some of those old things that seem to him
and to me almost excruciating. For in
no other way can he be faithful to his trust.
There is no question that Mr. Shaw liked

May,1911

that sort of thing and those buildings. One
proof is that this sunken garden is part
of his old home. Another is that he made
provision for the perpetuation of carpet
bedding on a big scale. He wanted it for
the people. They liked it then as they
do now, and they always will. The more
cultivated people become the more they
rejoice in form, the more ignorant they
are the more exclusively they are devoted
to color.

Why, then, is Shaw’s Garden fifty years
ahead of the times? Because, as far as
possible, it stands for simplicity, self-
restraint, and color harmony. Whether it
recognizes any such rules as I have given
above, I don’t know, but I drew up those
rules from a study of that garden. I will
not hold Doctor Trelease or his colleagues
responsible for anything I say, or anything
you find beneath the pictures, but the
great practical lessons we all have to learn
from Shaw’s Garden, it seems to me, are
three.

First, let us try to discover the laws of
good taste and beauty and eagerly obey
them, instead of trying to over-ride them
or following instinct, heart’s desire, or
authority. And let us discuss these things
openly and without heat or personal-
ities, for progress is impossible without
criticism.

Second, the ‘“‘fun”’ of the bedding game is
originality. The wrong way to exercise
it is in making elaborate designs and big
shows. The right way is to find new
forms and colors in plants.

Third, the only sure way to success is
to have a trial garden. You must test
a new variety a year before you know
whether you can trust it amid formal
surroundings. Every plant has serious
limitations and it takes a year to find them
out. Your trial garden is in an out of the
way place, enclosed by a high board fence,
where a plant that gets shabby after bloom-
ing does not destroy a beautiful picture.
There you may grow plants cheaply, be-
cause they are in straight rows. And
there you may find and propagate an
occasional good thing, unknown to parks
and florists, which is new in color, form, or
pictorial quality.

Let us have no more blind following of
authority in matters of taste, but let us have
a good, rousing discussion — preferably with
pictures t

Il—Some Different Styles of Bedding—By William Trelease, ™i2aranae””

Te conditions under which plants are
grown in a botanical garden are en-
tirely different from those that prevail in
any other kind of establishment, though
they are nearer those of a commercial
seed-raising house than anything else.
The real or fancied need of keeping any-
where from 5,000 to 25,000 distinct kinds
of plants under cultivation is, perhaps, the
pivotal point.

The typical old-time university garden

has long since solved the riddle economically
and with a measure of success by the adop-
tion of small beds for the different kinds of
plants, with paths intersecting at right
angles or otherwise between them, as in
Fig. 9. The need of connecting label
data with each of the many species and

varieties, and of preventing these from in- -

termingling, practically dictates a distinct
bed or, as the seedsman does it, a row for
each kind. Even then, it is rare to find

a gardener who knows anything like even
a thousand species well enough to be sure
of their names, though he may recognize
the appearance in a familiar place of some-
thing different from what he has been
accustomed to see there, and he may have
a tenacious memory for some alias under
which a plant has been introduced.

The large botanical gardens provide
for a great part of their collections in this
same way; but usually they also have a

May, 1911

more or less park-like general treatment, and
they then combine with the condensed
nursery or school garden a considerable
area of woodland, shrubbery and flanking
or interspersed herbaceous planting, giv-
ing a natural effect far more pleasing in
some ways than can be had from condensed
beds. Very frequently, too, strictly decor-
ative bedding is resorted to in some part
of the grounds, as a means of displaying
florists’ plants as such, or of carrying
out architectural ideas connected with

ie feats

9. A portion of the grass garden, showing small rectangular, raised beds, the
most economical and satisfactory way of cultivating small numbers of a great
variety of plants, especially if they are unsightly, and can be screened from
general observation. It is easy to keep each bed free from weeds

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the plant-houses and other buildings (see
Fig. 10), or of appealing to popular expec-
tation of pleasing effects in form and color
design. Our experience in the Missouri
Botanical Garden has led as far as possible
to the separation of these various kinds of
gardening —all of which have proved
necessary. The park effect, with tree
and shrubbery flanked by herbaceous plant-
ing, is sought in limiting masses, and has
been secured in a twenty-acre section de-
voted to a representation of the North

Aa ullii\ a

American flora. See Fig. 11. Better than
anything else it gives the restful effect of
nature and avoids an inevitable result of
bedding in any of its forms, bare ground in
winter; though even here it is far from
perfect, and when native plants are used
exclusively, it is found hard to secure a
satisfactory persistence of color through
the season under our conditions of soil and
climate.

Space is found for a very limited area
given over to bedding proper — chiefly

10. A formal garden of straight lines seems necessary here in order to har-
monize with Mr. Shaw’s old plant houses. The central building is the sort of
thing that was used in the Victorian era to shelter bay trees, hollies, and
other nearly hardy plants that require little light and heat

11, The park-like portion of Mr. Shaw’s garden, where trees and shrubs are 12. Illustrating the value of seclusion. The peoplu would not enjoy these

arranged according to botanical relationship, but always with an eye to land-
scape beauty. Nine times out of ten what a beginner really ought to have is

shrubbery, instead of bedding

et

13. The sunken garden, which was Mr. Shaw’s delight, and the pavilion, a
curious survival of Victorian taste. The foreground illustrates the one-kind-
in-a-bed treatment. In the background is a general view of the hedged-in

beds, shown larger in the next picture.

flower beds half as much if they were visible from the street. That belt of trees
is an invaluable enclosure.

You rest your eyes by looking at the greenery, and

when you look at the flowers again they are bright r by contrast

14. This is one of the largest collections of hedges in the world. The hedg-
ing is part of the geometrical plan of the garden. The flowers are arranged
by families for educational purposes. but look exceptionally well because every

bed has a green background

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in a sunken garden fronting the plant-
houses, and the approaches from the en-
trance gate. See Fig. 12. Necessarily
geometrical, this has been maintained al-
ways in its original design of formal beds
edged with turf and separated by gravel
walks. Nearly everything customary in
bedding has been tried here, more or less
satisfactorily; the beds being massed with
tulips in early spring and given over to
other flowers or bright foliage through the
summer. Though the bulbs and such
formal plants as pelargoniums have given
most satisfaction when planted solidly,
(Fig. 13) the most pleasing effects have
comejfrom the combination in each bed of
a taller central type such as Phyllanthus,
Acalypha, Salvia, Lantana, Croton, Vinca,
Coleus, Talinum, Stevia, Plumbago, Nierem-
bergia, or Caladium marmoratum, and a
lower flanking form of finer texture such
as Santolina, Alyssum, Cineraria, Agera-
tum, Achyranthes, Alternanthera, Peris-
trophe, etc. Patterns in simple lines are
commonly used flanking the approaches
from the gate — necessarily in the low
growing compact foliage forms that bear
clipping well, sometimes with relief here
and there by the use of a single kind of
Croton, Acalypha or the like taller type.
Very pretty effects are produced by the

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two-species treatment of individual beds, the
ideal in which is harmony through the
entire garden and especially a lack of dis-
cord in form, texture or color in each bed.
A few of the best combinations are:
Acalypha and Alternanthera; Salvia,
Plumbago and Cineraria; Talinum patens
and Alternanthera. For the working out
of a simple pattern to be viewed from a
distance, I have never seen anything
more delicately beautiful than Ageratum
and Stevia. Aiming at presenting infor-
mation as well as pleasing the eye, as an
educational garden must, we have adopted
the plan of labeling each component of
such combinations, using a small unob-
trusive zinc marker, exposed for reading,
but scarcely evident except on close ap-
proach.

Though less justifiable technically, sim-
ilar masses of a single kind, or of two sup-
porting kinds, have been used rather ex-
tensively at intervals in a carpet of turf
separating walks in certain parts of the
garden; pansies, daisies or other early an-
nuals precede them, as bulbs do the others.
Nearly the entire gamut of flower and
foliage has been rung on these — few more
delightful plants having been found than
the very dwarf varieties of pomegranate
and crepe myrtle. It is needless to say

May,1911

that a plant having been attractively in-
troduced once is sought in vain elsewhere;
the purpose here being to present as many
kinds as possible. In a private garden
even better effects in color would be se-
cured by the far simpler use of a smaller
number of these varieties at any one time,
massed in abundance, and varied year
by year.

One compromise between the school
garden and the bedding plan of growing
herbaceous plants, chiefly perennials, has
been worked out in the presentation of
some hundreds of attractive and in-
structive “botanical” forms in classified
sequence between low hedges which form
a part of the geometrical plan of the
grounds. See Fig. 14. The species are
singly clumped in ovals or circles cut in the
turf. The idea involved is somewhat that
which makes an art collection more in-
structive when distributed through a
succession of rooms than gathered into a
single hall; and the pleasure of wander-
ing through and examining a sequence
of interesting or beautiful objects is
greater to some people than the once-
and-for-all burst of beauty offered by a
massed presentation in which individual
attractiveness is lost in the collective
impression.

III.—How to Grow Bedding Plants—By H. C. Irish and Otto Bogula

[He aim of bedding is to maintain an un-
interrupted display from early spring
until autumn frosts.

The ideal bedding plant is one of grace-
ful habit, healthy foliage, showy and, if
a flowering plant, with continuous and full
bloom.

From a landscape standpoint flower
beds do not serve any useful purpose.
They may be valuable when separated
from the landscape so as to be a special
feature in themselves, e. g., in a sunken
garden or one shut off from the lawn by
high hedges.

As a rule it is better to have one variety
in a bed, especially if the bed is small;
otherwise the varieties may be combined.

It is often advantageous to make a bed
flanking a group of shrubs, in which case
such plants as cosmos and hollyhock could
well form the background, intermingling
with the shrubs and forming a pleasing
connection between the shrubs and the
larger mass of lower bedding plants in
front. By an alternating mixture of holly-
hock and cosmos in such a place a most
satisfactory succession of bloom is pro-
duced.

SPRING BEDDING PLANTS

English daisies, sweet-william, pansies,
and violas are grown from seed sown in
shallow boxes in coldframes the latter part
of August and transplanted to the cold-
frames as they become large enough to
handle. During winter the frames are
covered with hotbed sash and during the

coldest weather the sash are covered
by boards. Every warm day a little
ventilation is given and with the ad-
vent of spring the sash are gradually
removed to harden the plants. Early in
March when the ground is in workable
condition the plants are placed in beds.
Many of them will be in flower and a few
warm days will bring out the others. As
a rule the daisies and sweet-william begin
to dwindle the latter part of May and must
be removed early in June. Pansies and
violas usually remain good a little longer
if we persistently pick the older blossoms.

Stocks are grown by sowing seed in a
plant-house early in February, transplant-
ing to 3-in. pots, which are at first kept
in the greenhouse and later moved to
hotbeds until bedded out the latter part
of March. These are most satisfactory
against walls or buildings.

Tulips are planted in November, after
the summer bedding plants have been
removed, one variety in a bed. The bed
is spaded and holes are made about five
inches deep, into which a little sand
is placed and the bulb dropped on the sand.
The bed is raked over and a little later
they are mulched with medium fine manure.
Their blooming period varies a few days
from season to season, according to the
weather. Ordinarily the early ones are
at their best early in April. These are
closely followed by the Darwin type,
and still later the mixed bed of Parrot
tulips produce a brilliant display. After
the tops ripen the bulbs are lifted, cleaned

and stored in a cellar. The same bulbs are
used for many years. The early varieties
are numerous, running into many colors.
Among the best are Pottebakker White,
Pottebakker Yellow, Cottage Maid, Ver-
milion Brilliant, and Keizerskroon.

Hyacinths are good bedding plants, but
there is more risk, as the spikes are easily
broken over by storms and the display ©
ruined. The expense for bulbs is greater
and they deteriorate in a very few years.
They are not, therefore, popular as bed-
ding plants with us.

There is a showy yellow violet which
lasts longer than pansies. This is Vzola
lutea, var. splendens.

FLOWERS FOR SUMMER BEDDING

The varieties we use most are given
below, trade names being given for the
convenience of beginners.

Ageratum: Blue Perfection, Stella Gurney

Alyssum maritimum, Sweet alyssum

Althea rosea, Hollyhock:
Various colors, separate.

Antirrhinum majus, Snapdragon:
Red and yellow varieties, distinct.

Begonia semperflorens, var. ‘““Vernon”

Canna: Austria, Express, Niagara, King Hum-
bert.

Celosia cristata, Cockscomb:
Dwarf red varieties

Celosia plumosa, Feathered Cockscomb:
Thompsoni, magnifica

Cosmos: Early and late in various colors.

Cuphea platycentra, Cigar plant

Eschscholzia Californica, California poppy:
Yellow varieties.

Geranium: S. A. Nutt, dark red. Forest Park
Beauty, pink. Heterauth, scarlet. La Fav-
orite, double white.

May, 1911

Gomphrena globosa, Globe amaranth:
White, red and yellow varieties.

Lantana: Craigi, Ultima.

Nicotiana afinis, Flowering tobacco

Nicotiana Sanderae.

Nierembergia frutescens, Cup flower

Petunia hybrida: Single varieties

Phlox Drummondi: White, pink, and dark red
varieties.

Portulaca grandiflora, Rose moss or Sunplant

Salvia splendens, Scarlet sage: Bonfire, Zurich.

Tagetes erecta, African marigold

Torenia Fournieri, Wishbone plant

Tropeolum minus, Dwarf nasturtium

Verbena hybrida, Various colors, separate

Verbena erinoides.

Vinca alba, and var. rosea

Zinnia elegans, Youth and old age: various colors,
separate.

FOLIAGE PLANTS

Abutilon: Savitzi, Souv. de Bonn, Thompsoni
Acalypha tricolor
Achyranthes. See Iresine
Alternanthera paronychioides. Also vars.
nana, rosea nana, and brilliantissima
Amaranthus tricolor, Joseph’s Coat
Caladium marmoratum
Centaurea gymnocarpa, Dusty Miller
Coleus: Golden Bedder, Verschiaffelti
Colocasia antiquorum
(Caladium esculentem, Elephant’s ear)
Croton: Many forms, bunched
Echeveria secunda, var. glauca
Eranthemum albo-marginatum, atropurpureum and
tricolor
Iresine (Achyranthes) Lindent, var. brilliantissima
Lindent, Emersont, Borbonica
Oxalis corniculata, var. atropurpurea
Peristrophe angustifolia, var. aurea variegata
Piqueria serrata, var. variegata (Stevia).
Santolina Chamecyparissus, Lavender cotton
Sedum acre and Kamtschaticum, var. variegatum.
Stevia. See Piqueria
Talinum patens, var. variegata

ACCORDING TO HEIGHT

aurea

The plants used for carpet bedding,
strictly speaking, are in the first group:

Why Not Grow Nuts? By Robert T. Morris,

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

4 to 8 im.—Achyranthes, Alternanthera, Echeveria,
Oxalis, Peristrophe, Santolina, Sedum.

8 to 12 in.—Ageratum, Alyssum, Begonia, Cuphea,
Lantana, Nierembergia, Phlox, Torenia, Ver-
bena.

1 to 2 ft.—Antirrhinum, Celosia cristata, Eschschol-
zia, Geranium, Gomphrena, Petunia, Salvia,
Tagetes, Tropzolum, Vinca, Zinnia, Abutilon
Savitzi, Caladium marmoratum, Coleus, Eran-
themum, Iresine, Piqueria, Talinum.

2 to 5 ft.—¥For subtropical effects the following are
used: Canna, Croton, Caladium esculentum,
Musa and Pandanus.

SOW THESE OUTDOORS

Seeds of the following can be planted
directly in the beds, and as the plants
grow they should be thinned. If, how-
ever, they are wanted very early, or the
beds are filled with spring flowers, they
must be started indoors:

Amaranthus Antirrhinum

Eschscholzia Gomphrena

Phlox Portulaca
Tropezolum

START THESE UNDER GLASS

The following are invariably started
under glass and handled once or twice to
two or three inch pots before setting out:

Ageratum Alyssum
Begonia Celosia
Cosmos Nierembergia
Nicotiana Petunia
Salvia Tagetes
Torenia Verbena
Vinca Zinnia

WHEN TO SOW

The season for sowing seeds of plants to
be set out as early as the weather permits
is about as follows at St. Louis:

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Feb. 1 to 15.—Begonia.

Feb. 15 to 28.—Alyssum, Salvia, Ageratum, Esch-
scholzia, Verbena, Antirrhinum, Petunia,
Phlox.

March i to 15.—Cosmos, Torenia, Vinca, Gom-
phrena, Tropzolum, Nierembergia.

March 15 to 31.—Celosia, Portulaca, Zinnia, Ama-
ranthus, Tagetes, Nicotiana.

GROW THESE FROM CUTTINGS

These plants are grown from cuttings
made from stock plants brought in the
fall before:

Cuphea, Alyssum (double), Geranium, Lan-
tana and most of the foliage plants. Salvia is
usually treated in this way. Verbena and Portulaca,
to be sure of desired colors, are grown from cuttings
of the seedlings.

STORE THESE BULBS

Cannas, Caladium marmoratum and
Colocasias are stored under benches with
some soil and in February and March are
divided, potted and started into growth
on greenhouse benches.

WHEN TO SET OUT PLANTS

Some of the collection can be set out
in the beds very early even when all
danger of frost is not past, others are
very sensitive even to cold nights and
must not be set out until summer weather
prevails and the ground is warm, or about
June t.

Early. — Alyssum, Antirrhinum, Centaurea,
Eschscholzia, Nierembergia, Oxalis, Petunia,
Phlox, Santolina, Sedum, Verbena.

Second group.— Cuphea, Nicotiana, Portulaca,
Tagetes, Torenia, Tropzolum, Vinca, Zinnia.

Late.—Ageratum, Begonia, Canna, Celosia, Ger-
anium, Gomphrena, Lantana, Salvia, and the
foliage plants not mentioned before.

Connec-
ticut

THE AWAKENING INTEREST IN A BIG POSSIBILITY —VALUABLE FOOD CROPS THAT CAN BE GROWN
EASILY IN ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY —WHAT WE OUGHT TO DO TO GET PROPERLY STARTED

[Eprtor’s Nore.—The author of this article, Dr. Robert T. Morris, devotes his leisure moments to the development of nut culture, and if an active factor in

promoting the present-day interest.

E IMPORT into the United States
every year several million dollars’

worth of nuts and nut products which
could be furnished at home as well as not.
We might raise in fact very large quanti-
ties of nuts for shipment abroad. North
America is particularly well supplied with
indigenous species and varieties of nut
trees, and most of the species and varieties
from all parts of the world may be grown
on various soils in our climates, latitudes,
and altitudes corresponding to those from
which foreign trees are brought. In some
parts of the world nuts of various kinds
furnish the staple supply of food for the
people, practically taking the place of
the potato, but in North America as yet
nuts are grouped rather among the luxuries.
Within a comparatively short time large
nut orchards have been developed in this
country, chiefly in the Gulf States and on
the Pacific Coast, where the pecan, the

walnut, and almond bring a very respect-
able revenue, which is increasing with
rapidity, thousands of acres each year
being set out to orchards of grafted nut
trees of desirable kinds. Farther north,
chestnut orchards have been established,
and large annual incomes are derived from
a few such orchards.

The work of nut culture is rapidly
becoming organized, and several books and
periodicals are devoted wholly or large-
ly to the subject. The National Nut
Growers’ Association, with its annual meet-
ings, bulletins, and committee work, takes
charge of the subject as a whole, and
the Northern Nut Growers’ Association,
recently established, has for its aim the
development of nut growing as a profit-
able industry in the more northern parts
of the country. Dr. F. C. Wilson, of
Poulan, Ga., Secretary of the National
Nut Growers’ Association, and Dr. W. C.

At his country home he has been collecting and growing various nuts for years past, and he writes with authority.]

Deming, of Westchester, New York City,
Secretary of the Northern Nut Growers’
Association, are engaged in disseminating
information to all applicants who are
interested in the subject.

The walnut (Juglans regia), which is
hardy as far north as southern Ontario
in Canada, and which thrives on properly
selected grounds, is perhaps the most
widely distributed of the nut trees now
being grown in the world. Coming from
Persia originally, this species of tree has
been carried to practically all parts of the
temperate world in both hemispheres, and
through selection of types has been made
to adapt itself in a very cosmopolitan way,
although much work remains to be done
in breeding the walnut for development
of desirable types for cultivation in North
America. We have several indigenous
walnuts, the common black walnut, the
butternut, the California black walnut,

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Siebold’s walnut is a really ornamental tree, but
allied species are better for nuts. Seven years old,
25 ft. high

and its near cousin, the Arizona walnut,
but none of our walnuts has as yet been
developed for high-class market purposes.
The common black walnut promises much
through selection and breeding for thin
shelled nuts of more delicate quality than
those furnished by wild trees. One of the
Japanese walnuts of excellent quality, the
heartnut (Juglans cordiformis), will in all
probability be grown largely in orchard form
in this country, but unfortunately an infe-
rior Japanese walnut, the Siebold, has
become established first, because of the
remarkable beauty and rapid growth of the
tree, which is almost tropical in its luxuri-
ance of foliage and beautiful blossoms, and
under favorable circumstances grows four
or even five feet in height per year. The
heartnut is nearly as beautiful and rapid
a grower, but has only recently been
brought forward as a desirable orchard nut
tree.

Among the hickories, the pecan is cul-
tivated over the largest area in America,
and while the tree is hardy as far north
as Massachusetts, the great bulk of tender,
highly flavored, delicate pecan nuts
must come from the Gulf states. The
shagbark hickory promises to take the place
of the pecan in the northern and eastern
parts of the country as soon as grafting
methods and selection of desirable types
are applied as well as they have been with
the pecan. Closely allied to the shag-
bark hickory is the Carolina hickory.
The shellbark hickory belongs to the
Mississippi Valley and is at its best in the
Middle West. It is a very much larger
and coarser nut than the shagbark or
Carolina hickories, but nevertheless is
a delicious nut, and selection of thin-
shelled types, or of hybrids with the shag-
bark, will furnish a large source of revenue

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eventually without doubt. Three or four
other species of hickory furnish edible nuts,
but apparently we are to look to our dozen
species of hickories as timber producers
chiefly, with the exception of the species
quoted. 5

We have four distinct species of chestnut
indigenous to North America, the sweet
chestnut, the chinquapin, and two species
of Castanopsis. All of these have close
relatives in other parts of the temperate
world, which thrive with us when intro-
duced, but these chestnuts for the most
part, with the exception of some from
northern China and Japan, are much larger
and coarser than ours. These large coarse
chestnuts, however, are very valuable for
food purposes, and bearing early, sometimes
at two or three years of age, furnish a quick
source of income and food supply. Further-
more, the Asiatic chestnuts seem to be more
or less immune to the blight, Diaporthe
parasitica, which is now devastating our
American chestnut forests and spreading
with great rapidity. It is not improbable
that this blight originally came from the
Orient, where the chestnuts, through
survival of the fittest for ages, have
adapted themselves to conditions, and
resist the blight.

We have a parallel demonstrated in the
hazels. Our native hazels, two in number
of species, resist a blight which attacks
only weaker individuals, but which has
a tendency to destroy at once all of the
very fine filbert and cob nut plants brought
to this country from abroad. By selection
and breeding we shall undoubtedly develop
native hazels of high quality and large
size, and the author already has certain
varieties under way which promise to be
more valuable even than the European and
Asiastic sorts of hazels which bring such
good incomes to foreign orchardists.

Our beechnut, by selection of types,
will in the end give individual trees of
value for propagating purposes.

Some of the white oaks will furnish a
large food supply of edible nuts in the
future, but the oaks are not cultivated
for acorns to any extent as yet, except
in China and some parts of South America,
we believe.

In the tropical parts of North America
we can raise practically all of the tropical
nuts of the world, and there are few tillable
acres of the continent, from the rocky
pastures of New England to the hot sands
of the Florida peninsula, which will not
yield at least one hundred dollars’ worth
of nuts per acre per year. Not only the
acres of land above water will grow nuts,
but acres of land beneath the surface of the
water will raise such nuts as those of Lotus,
and Calthrops, which are used largely
for food in other parts of the world. Very
few plants will give a larger return per
acre, and with less trouble, than orchards
of nut-bearing shrubs and trees, and the
time is coming when the New England
farmer, exhausted by his efforts at paying
taxes on poor lands, can sit on the porch
during the day with the leisure of the

May, 1911

Brazilian coffee planter, and see nature
attend to his crop for the most part. He
will not do this, however, until he is driven
by desperation to wake up. This does
not mean that nut orchards do not require
attention. They will do better under
neglect than most other orchards, but on
the other hand they respond very promptly
to the touch of the scientific or loving
hand, and there is hardly any limitation ~
to the amount of care which can be given
with profit to nut orchards.

At Cornell University there is a per-
manent exhibition of the edible nuts of
the world, and the first course in nut culture
to be established in America is at that
institution. Prizes are offered every year
for indigenous nuts of remarkable character,
in order that trees may be located, to be
used for propagating purposes subse-
quently. Professor John Craig, who is
in charge of the work, finds much enthu-
siasm among his students in this special
field.

Aside from the usefulness and profit in
nut culture, we have few more beautiful
trees than the ones belonging to this
group. The majestic pecan, growing some-
times to a height of one hundred and
seventy feet, is one of the noblest of all
trees. The wide-spreading chestnut, the
sturdy shagbark hickory, the lofty black
walnut, the beautiful royal walnut, are
all a source of joy to lovers of the beautiful,
and the time is perhaps coming when trees
of these sorts will largely replace the use-
less though ornamental trees which now
line our roadsides and fill our parks. It
is quite as easy to set out a tree which will
bear an average of five bushels of nuts per
year, worth five dollars per bushel, as it
is to set out a poplar or willow. There is
one chief reason why it has not been done
generally: People did not think about it.

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The Japanese chestnu' bears at a very early

age. This three-year-old tree for example carries
about one hundred burrs

Growing Strawberries for What’s in Them-—By H. E. Angell 3%

THINGS THE HOME GARDENER OUGHT TO KNOW IF HE WANTS TO GET THE
UTMOST OUT OF THE BERRY PATCH—IT’S ALL VERY SIMPLY AND EASILY DONE

WO hundred dollars a year is a fair annual profit to expect Cultivation, with a small one-horse cultivator or harrow should

from each acre of strawberries, although $500 clear profit begin almost at once. The ground must be kept loose and free

has been reported in a few cases. There are two primary things from weeds. Here is one of the secrets of success — after having
to consider before going into the strawberry business: (1) The the proper fertility available.

soil should be light and well drained, yet hold f Cultivate about once a week all through the season from pick-

plenty of moisture. Sandy loam with a clay subsoil ing time till frost. Some growers advise not cultivating at all
is the ideal. (2) The farm should lie close to a quick in spring, before the fruiting season, arguing that the tender root-
shipping point — one through which large quantities lets, which run as far as twelve inches from the plant, will be
of berries are going is desirable — this insures prompt cut off and the supply of nourishment decreased, with a
shipment. Two or three miles is considered a long ‘onsequent loss in the size of the fruit. This sounds
enough distance to cart the berries; many, how- plausible and there seems to be no reason why their
ever, are carried successfully, twice as far. advice should not be followed. If you can give a
mulch in spring, do so. It pays.
About two weeks after setting, the plants
should be fertilized. A high-grade article
is well worth the additional cost.
Some growers place fertilizer
under the plants when they are set
out, preferably bone meal. This
is largely a matter of personal
taste. There are no figures

PREPARATION OF THE SOIL

When the location has been settled and
the land is ready for preparation the
first thing to consider is the value
of the soilitself- This should be care-
fully tested and any fault corrected
just as in any other branch of gar-
dening.

Before the plants are set, the ground to prove that any one
must be thoroughly pulverized. Ona method is better
large scale, first a two-horse plow another —
should be used, then a disc harrow follow the
should be run over two or three plan that
times. This should be followed by is most
a smoothing harrow, which should ate
cover the ground twice at to you. 4

> Early in
the spring,
before the
plants begin to
blossom, straw
should be scat-
tered plentifully
along the rows,
as a mulch. The
plants will come
up through it and
the berries will be kept
up out of the dirt, which
makes them far better eating.

least. After that a “plank”
should be run across diago-
nally, then the smoothing
harrow again and finally
the “plank” again,
run across its former
tracks. This series
of operations should
put the ground in
splendid condition for
planting. Frequent spad-
ing and turning will do the
same thing on a small scale.
Flat cultivation has been proved
to be the most satisfactory. Plant-
ing the vines along the top of a
ridge has been tried, but as
each year the vine sends out
roots about an inch higher
than the previous, it was
found that after the first year
the plants could not stand con-
tinued dry weather.

THE PICKING SEASON

This is the busiest time of
the year for the strawberry
grower, and preparation must
be made well ahead of time.

The necessary number of crates
should be estimated and bought;
better have too many than too few. Pickers

must be engaged and packing sheds constructed.
Five or six good pickers will be needed per acre.
They are paid generally a cent for each quart
picked and they will average 150 to 200 quarts
a day.

If you are growing for market, honest packing
goes for much; the baskets should be well filled,

little skill, but is a great time and labor saver. One can but not more than three-eighths of an inch above
be bought for $55. The plants should be set out twelve the top of the basket, or they will be mashed in
to fifteen inches apart in parallel rows thirty inches apart. A the crates. There are thirty-two quarts to a crate, and from 125
moist spell should be chosen in which to do this work. If to 150 crates will be picked from each acre.

PLANTING AND. CULTIVATION

Plants may be set out at
any time of the year but best in
spring. If ten acres or more are plant-
ed a planting machine is practically
necessary; this requires intelligence and no

planted by hand, shallow furrows may be turned out where Strawberry vines will bear profitably for two or three years, after
the lines are required, the plants set in and the earth turned which they should be plowed under and the land devoted to some
back again, tramping the soil firm. other crop— cowpeas, for instance, in the South, which can be

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cut in September. It is well to use the
land a year or two for other crops before
being put back to strawberries, and re-
member, strawberries should not follow pas-
ture, because the white grub, which lurks
in the grassy ground, is a serious pest of
the strawberry. If plants wilt from its
attacks pour a tablespoonful of carbon
bisulphide over the crown. It will kill the
grub surely.

After the berries are picked, a disc
cultivator, with each pair of discs set to
span a row of plants, should be run through
the field every few weeks to cut the runners
and destroy them. Those in the row, be-
tween the plants, should be cut by hand.
It is important to keep the runners from
taking vitality from the plant.

RAISING NEW PLANTS

If home-grown plants are preferred to
bought ones, runners from the one-year
old plants should be set out in spare ground

Extending the

i IS of very small interest to your

true lover of the strawberry to know
he can get hothouse berries in December,
or Floridas in February. To him the
strawberry will never be ‘in season”
excepting during those rare few weeks of
the year when he may either gather them
ripe from his own garden patch or secure
them from a nearby point.

The only real strawberry problem, there-
fore, is to extend the local season. A
distinct, new note has been sounded by
the introduction of the so-called alpine
strawberry, which has made its way across
the ocean so quietly that few are aware
of its presence.

It was within a week of the close of July
last year when I came upon a large bed of
these berries. I was on a flower quest
that hot and sultry day, and I confess
that the last thing I expected to be offered
was strawberries. But I was offered some,
right from the plants, and ate thereof with
a satisfaction that was a satisfaction.

Then I began asking many questions;
I ascertained, first of all, that these long
rows of very flourishing strawberry plants,
with a considerable amount of ripe and
ripening fruit on them, were all seedlings.
The seed had been picked in Switzerland
by the grower, from plants of the “Quatre
Saisons” type. This is the small straw-
berry that is so abundant in Paris, where
it is no uncommon sight to see the little
hand-carts of street vendors piled high
with the much admired fruit. It is simply
one of the alpine varieties bred up in size
and general perfection.

I found also that from this patch of
“Four Seasons” the family had been kept
fully supplied with fruit all through July
— the alpines coming in when the ordinary
garden berries gave out. The fruit, which
is a sort of glorified edition of the American

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and cultivated just as ordinary plants.
These should not be allowed to fruit, the
blossoms being destroyed before they open.
This will send all of the vitality into the
runners and it is these runners that should
be used for the new plants. In this way
several dollars can be saved each year.

Taking one acre as a basis, these are
the items of cost of production:

Setting . $ 5.00
Cultivation 12.00
Fertilizer Ve uae 14.00
Straw and scattering 6.00
Crates (150 at 25c) . . 37.50
Picking (at 1c per quart) 48.00
Packing and delivery to ship-

Pers i ee eee 15.00
$137.50

150 crates at $2.25 $337.50

Cost : : 137.50

Profit $200.00

This does not count in the initial cost
of new plants, taking it for granted that

Strawberry Season —

wild strawberry, has the same concentrated
sweetness, but more of it. Being different
from the ordinary cultivated strawberry,
it has the advantage of coming to the
table with a note of freshness — inaugur-
ating a little season of its own rather than
extending a season already, perhaps, be-
ginning to pall on the appetite.

The plants, which run about eight
inches high, began to bear last year on the
twenty-third of June and were picked
for the table every day for four weeks.
So that, if they are not strawberries of
“four seasons” literally, they have an
unusually long fruiting period. They are
very prolific, and very hardy. In short,
they seem to have everything to recom-
mend them to the average home garden,
with nothing to be said adversely.

This strawberry is grown in somewhat
lighter soil than the ordinary kind. Plenty
of manure is used when the plants are
first set out, and then no more until a new
bed is made. The plants fruit the first
year, but much better the second. They
are good for three years. By setting out
runners every year, after the first, a com-
plete succession of prime bearing plants
is insured.

While seed may be used to get a stock
of plants started, runners are a better
means of perpetuation after that. Sow
seed in early spring! With the American
winter asit is, very littleis gained by autumn
sowing and always there is danger of mice
injuring the plants. Im either case the
seed should be sowed in a coldframe;
but it may be sown outdoors in well pul-
verized soil in April or May. Sowina
greenhouse in January. There are some
varieties of alpine strawberries that have
no runners; these must be perpetuated by
dividing the plants or by seed.

Of the “Quatre Saisons” type alone

By H. S. Adams

May, 1911

home-grown plants are to be used. If
they are bought then, the price in spring is
quite low —one and a half cents each.
Bought in August, pot-grown plants, which
are the only ones to be used are worth
several times this price, but they can be
fruited the next year under high cultiva-
tion.

CHOOSING THE VARIETY

In every locality there is one variety
that is the leader. In the Chadbourn
belt of North Carolina, Lady Thompson
is used almost entirely, for it is a heavy
producer, excellent shipper and has a sea-
son of five to six weeks just when the
demand is at its height. Lady Thomp-
son plants cost $1.50 a thousand and
nine to ten thousand are required per
acre. About the Irvington District of
New Jersey, Marshall is a favorite.
Always find out the local preference of
the variety.

Connec-
ticut
there are several varieties. In the exper-
ience of the grower of the strawberries
referred to these are the best of them at
one time or another. They are the most
reliable, and that is the main point.
One of the finest of the improved “ Four
Seasons” type is, he says, the Louis
Gauthier —now popular in France. It
is large, whitish and very sweet. There
are some alpines very rich in flavor, actu-
ally white rather than merely whitish,
and they are quite as easily grown.
After a trial in both the Berkshires and
central Connecticut, the grower mentioned
(Mr. J. F. Huss) has abandoned the variety
known as St. Joseph. It has fine fruit but—
for his use; others may do better with it
— he says that it does not bear abundantly
enough to warrant the time and space
given to it. This early variety is between
‘the alpine and garden types and is, I
understand, synonymous with Fragaria
rubicunda. It is practically “perpetual,”
fruiting from June to September when the
conditions are ideal. An improvement
on it is called St. Antoine de Padoue. It
has a musky flavor and some do not care
for it on that account. In England Belle
de la Perrandiére is very highly recommend-
ed by one of the best authorities. It is
an alpine and there fruits in September.
The St. Joseph and the St. Antoine de
Padoue are sold in this country, each with
the claim that it bears fruit of fine flavor,
color and size, and in abundance. Two
other varieties offered are Leon XIII and
La Constante. They cost more than the
ordinary garden berry — one dollar a dozen.
Seed of the ordinary “red alpine” straw-
berry is quoted at ten cents a package.
Alpine strawberries ordinarily ought
to be sweet enough to eat without sugar.
If anything is put on them, it would better
be a little claret.

Garden Operations

|) USE are certain points in garden
work to be gone over each season.
Follow this summary and see if it helps.
Cut out each section and paste in your
garden diary. Leave spaces between and
fill in from your own experiences.

TimE TO GARDEN—Do not begin too
soon, for nothing is gained. If soil, when
taken in the hand, sticks together this
means it is not yet time to garden. If
it falls apart then the soil is mellow enough
for work to begin.

Toots—Have your tools all ready. Do
not use play tools. You will need a spad-
ing fork, rake, hoe, trowel and weeder. The
total cost is $2.90, as follows:

Spadinewfork sy. 2. sw + & © - Ph.75
Rakem(osteeth)i i 5S ae ks 50
DWutchwhoew es i ee Ie ere 40
Transplanting trowel . ..... =. oily
NVCCCCHM EI Ue Sud le ees .10

In a school or community garden plan
for a trowel and weeder for each child, one
rake and one hoe for each group of six
children, and three or four spading forks for
the entire garden.

GARDEN ACCESSORIES—Make a dibble to
use in transplanting and cultivating. Cut
off a twelve-inch piece from an old rake,
hoe or spade handle. Point the end.
Make plenty of small wooden labels.
Whittle them out of any soft wood. Six
inches is a good length.

The rake handle used as a measuring rod

STEPS IN THE MAKING OF A CHILD’S
GARDEN — COST OF ‘TOOLS — COLOR
SCHEMES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS TO TRY
OUT—LISTS OF VINES AND SHRUBS
FOR THE PLAYGROUND BEAUTIFUL

Conducted by
ELLEN EDDY SHAW
New York

Some large garden stakes will be needed.
These may be twelve inches long and one
inch thick. Point one end; make a notch
near the other end for a cord to pass about.
The foot length gives a foot measure for
work. Two of these stakes with a cord be-
tween is the line for drill making.

Mark off foot lengths on the rake handle.
One foot may be divided into inches. Use
black paint or wax crayon for this work of
marking. The rake handle now becomes
the measuring stick for the garden.

Make a wooden garden reel. If this is
made from hard wood it will last through
numberless garden seasons.

Tue Pran—Main paths should be four
feet wide. Make other paths either
eighteen inches or two feet in width. Have
a narrow path all around the garden.

Garden plots ought to be just wide
enough to work over comfortably.

Run the garden rows north and south,
although this is modified by the general
lay-out of the entire garden. Plan to
have the sunlight as evenly distributed as
possible throughout the day.

Put tall plants in the background so as
not to shade the other plants. Use the
low-growing plants as border plants.

PREPARATION—Settle on the place for
the garden. Stake it off. Clean up rub-
bish. Burn or cart away. Pick up stone,
putting it in piles to carry off.

Spade the plot if it is small, plow it if it
is’ large. Work in old, rotted manure.
Rake over until the soil is quite fine.
String off the garden beds and paths. Then
sow from paths on to the beds; then roll
the paths.

PLANTING SEED—Seeds are planted in
one of three ways, broadcast, hill or drill
planting. Very small seeds, like petunia,
poppy, grass seed and parsley, may be
sprinkled on the surface of the seed bed
and lightly covered with soil. This is
broadcasting. Large seeds; like corn, beans
and squash, are planted in hills. A hill
in this sense does not mean a heaped-up
mound, but means planting in isolated
spots as distinguished from a continuous
row. The surface might be quite level.
Several seeds, usually five, are planted in
each hill. Medium-sized seeds, like radish,
lettuce, beet and carrot, are sown in drills.
If much soil is taken out and cast to one

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side in this operation the resulting trench
is called a furrow.

Make drills with the hoe and the line as
a director or guide for straight courses.
When the seed is planted, cover with soil

ES <n : eo ‘

Firm the onion sets carefully in place, pointed
ends up

and firm by means of the hoe blade or your
hand. Put a marker at the ends of the
drills.

OUTDOOR PLANTING TABLE

For |Furrow| Seed |Planting| Time to

Seed 100 ft. \Distance|Distance| Depth | Maturity

Row in feet | in feet | (inches)| in days

Beans (bush)| 1 pt. | 3 2 2 40-65

Beets 20z. | I \y I 60-80
Carrot roz. | 1% 4% Y% | 75-110

Corn V4 pt. | 3 3 1% | 60

Lettuce Voz. | i X% Y% | 60-90
Onion LOZ, |) 5 wy |\1 1130-150
(Ga) ect || a 1% | 1-2 | 90-120
Parsley Vf oz. | 1 4% \% 90-120
Pepper %oz. | 14 1% 1% |100-140
Pumpkin VY oz. | 8-12 | 8-12 | 1-2 |100-140

Radish Tey |) as 4 4 | 20-40
Tomato 1% oz. | 3 3 VY |100-140

Turnips Woz. | 1% Vy Vy 60-80

CuLTIVATION—Keep constantly stirring
the soil, so that the top surface will always
be a loose dust, called a mulch. Mulching
is better than watering, as it keeps the
moisture in the soil.

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Thin out the seedlings until they stand
at proper distances apart.

Reduce the hill-planted seedlings to two
sturdy plants to each hill.

Transplant when the second pair of true
leaves appear. Do this on a cloudy day.

Schemes for Small Gardens

I? IS rather interesting to have a one-

color garden — that is to have a gar-
den of several kinds of plants all of one
color. One must consider two things in
such a garden: height of plants and sea-
son of bloom.

Suppose one chooses a blue garden. It
must bloom the first year. Let us choose
for the border plant the blue star ageratum,
which grows six inches high. Then a
Victoria aster, which grows eighteen inches
high, might come next. And last plant
cornflower. It grows rather bushy and
so forms a fine background plant, although
it does not grow very tall.

A yellow garden is another choice. First
put in dwarf snapdragon of six inches in
height, next dwarf nasturtiums twelve
inches high, beyond these African mari-
gold twenty-four inches in height, and sun-
flowers or cosmos, both tall annuals, might
form a background.

Here is a red garden: double scarlet rose
moss, corn poppy, mammoth zinnia and
giant snapdragon.

If you have a poor, rough piece of ground
make a yellow garden of Tom Thumb nas-
turtiums, California poppy and calliopsis.

Another point to keep in mind when
planning the flower garden is that of dur-
ation of bloom. In some cases it would
be well to plan for a succession of bloom,
in other cases for continuous bloom.
When I look up sweet alyssum, for instance,
I find that it blooms twenty weeks. Is
there any other plant which can keep up
such a steady bloom? Cornflower blooms
until frost, dwarf lobelia blooms all sum-
mer, and so does Tom Thumb ageratum.
Still further, I find that some flowers start
blooming in May, some in June, some in
July, and so on for the summer. This
same cornflower begins its work in May,
ageratum in June, alyssum in early July,

A home-made contrivance which insures straight
even drills

and China asters in August. So here is

another point to hold in mind.

BLOOM BY MONTH

NAME MONTH
Calliopsis May
Cornflower es
Annual phlox June
Petunia s
Shirley poppy :
Snapdragon &
Sweet alyssum July
Larkspur BS
Stock ne
Verbena e
China aster August
Everlasting si
Cosmos September

The Playground Beautiful

T WOULD seem as if the public play-
ground and the children’s garden ought
to be a good combination. It is a rare
one. We seem to have lost sight of the
good, old-fashioned balance of play and
work. The idea seems to be a fixed

one that it is quite impossible to beautify
any place which children use as a play-
ground. Could we combine these two it
would be a financial saving as well as a real
benefit to the child. A playground super-

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May,1911

visor or director should have a certain
amount of training along the garden line.

What are the lines along which play-
ground gardening should tend? Perhaps,
first, along decorative lines. This sounds
almost absurd when the picture of the
usual dirt-packed, ugly playground comes
tomind. But the picture may be changed;
the fences may be covered with vines as
the first step. What vines are best to
plant? Scarlet runner beans, wild cu-
cumber, morning glory, moon flower, climb-
ing nasturtium and gourds are good annual
ones. The hop, clematis, honeysuckle,
Virginia’ creeper, and Dutchman’s pipe
are excellent perennial vines. The last
named has big leaves and an interesting, if
small, pipe-like blossom. Perhaps the
Japan clematis is the most satisfactory
of all perennial vines.

A few shrubs in one corner or at the en-
trance to the garden add considerable to
the general effect. The best for the pur-
pose are deutzia, Van Houtte’s spirea, mock
orange, Anthony Waterer spirea, sweet
pepperbush, althea, rose of Sharon, and
hardy hydrangea, all of which bloom from
June to September. If one wishes beauty
in winter add to these barberry and dog-
wood. Poplars are quick-growing trees to
be used for the playground. Privet or box
keep in mind for hedge purposes.

The garden proper is the other side to
consider. This may be decorative, too.
Where shall this garden be placed so that
it may be most sheltered from harm?
One corner may be fenced off. Cover the
fence with vines and make an attractive
gateway as an entrance to a formal treat-
ment. Or lay off into beds, or as one
long border, a strip of land all about the
playground, or on three sides of it. This
is the plan: First, a vine-covered fence
about the playground area; then a strip of
ground partly devoted to vegetables and
partly to flowers. The playground in the

centre may also have a vine-covered chicken-

wire fence around it.

A third arrangement is this: Cut one-
third right off the playground; between the
playground and garden have a four-foot
path. Set cedar posts on both sides of it
and make a long vine-covered pathway.

Begin work by clearing the garden of all rubbish and stones, placing them first of all in the path, to remove later

Vinca for Outdoors and In
By L. J. Doocur, Mass.

seg are undoubtedly planning now

for this season’s veranda and window
boxes. Remember that the prettier boxes
—ones in which the flowering plants
appear to the best advantage — are those
having plenty of trailing vines hanging
gracefully over the sides. For this purpose
there is nothing better than the vinca,
but it is usually so poorly grown that
it detracts rather than adds to the beauty
of the whole. When planted in the box
each root should have quantities of long
streamers, each streamer being thickly
leaved.

Vinca is very easy to grow and the best
way to get a stock is to start with some old
plants, and grow them indoors through the
winter. These can be divided so that
each one will easily make from six to ten
small plants. To do the dividing just
break the plant apart, leaving some roots
on each piece. Put each one into a small
pot and when the weather is warm enough
plunge them into the ground to be left
all summer. By fall these will have made
surprising growth and, if you want to have
them as house plants during the winter,
just take them up and pot them. Other-
wise they should be packed away in boxes
and stored until the spring.

Before storing, cut off most of the long

When putting vinca in veranda boxes use only plants
having a number of streamers, each thickly leaved

streamers, pack the plants in boxes of
earth, and store them in some damp-
proof place where it will not be too cold.
Early in the spring take these out and
start them into growth by potting and plac-
ing in the sunlight. They like warmth
and moisture; the length of the streamers
that they make will of course depend
on the place where they are kept. Even
if they do not make very much growth
while in the house they will be fitting them-
selves for a mighty effort when put out
of doors. After the boxes have served

An old plant is ‘‘divided’’ by being simply broken
apart, each piece being well supplied with roots

their purpose this summer, take some of the
old plants and pot them after cutting off
the long growth within a foot of the pot.
Put them in the sunlight and new growth
will soon start. The shortening of the ends
will force a branching growth, while from the
centre of the plant new stems will push up.

There is one thing to be remembered
when using vinca in this way. After it
is repotted the soil must not be allowed
to dry out until the plant has thoroughly
established itself. It wants moisture, un-
like most house plants, and warmth to
do its best. A careful watch must also
be kept for green fly, which if neglected
multiplies surprisingly. Spraying every
two weeks with tobacco water will hold
this pest in check.

Q43,

A Handy Repairer

O REPAIR old handles, broken
umbrella handles, canes, dishes that

are not to be placed too often in water,
and broken rubber shoes or rubber
boots, there is nothing that works to

Adhesive plaster is a pretty good household repairer

greater advantage than the inch-wide
surgeon’s or adhesive plaster. It comes
on a metal roll, costs but little, and
lasts months without deteriorating. A
rubber shoe that leaks can be easily patched
with this plaster.

Do not mistake this plaster for the or-
dinary electric tape. This is uncleanly
and soon loses its usefulness and should
never be used where the surgeon’s plaster
can be had.

Massachusetts. PrERcIvAL Moore.

Housekeeping Discoveries

4 ae next time you have potato salad

add some _ sliced cucumbers. I
recently used them as a substitute for
celery when the latter was not to be had,
and the salad was greatly improved.
Crisp, young radishes are also an addition.
—C. M. A.

If the ice cream freezer springs a leak
in seam and there is no time to send it away
to be mended, put some lard over the hole
on the outside. If you put your cream
in when it has cooled off, you can freeze
it with safety and have no fear that the
cream will leak out or that the salt will
[eal tin=— (Go lke

Always wash brushes in cold water
to keep the bristles stiff. If you use
warm water for your hands, rinse your
nailbrush in cold water and it will last
much longer.— M. C.

A Wild Flower With Many
Merits
{2 WOULD be hard indeed to find a perennial
giving a more effective May-flowering display
than the wild sweet-william (Phlox divaricata).

After a four years’ test in my hardy garden, I
unhesitatingly give the place of honor, among the
May-flowering class, to this native of the woods.
And deservedly so, for I find this plant to be
unusually rich in the characteristics that are most
valued in plants of the garden or border

Outranking all other merits of Phlox divaricata
is its perfect reliability in producing flowers each
year. Far too often the snow-white arabis, candy-
tuft, gay-colored primroses, and other spring-
flowering perennials greet one with but a half-
hearted smile because of a belated frost. Frost
and cold apparently hold no terror for the blossoms
of the wild sweet-william. Again and again,
while in full bloom, my plants have been weighted
to the ground with snow, and have become stiff
with frost, with no evident harm or check in growth.

The_blossoms are.soft and velvety in texture,
star-like in form, and appear generously in large
spreading clusters. The color is exquisite—a
deep lilac-blue, yet a shade so delicate in tone that
it is readily brought into perfect harmony with
the various other colors in the garden!

The blossoms begin to unfold during the last
week of April here in Illinois, and from this time
until the first of June the plant presents a glorious
display. Surely, four weeks of uninterrupted
spring bloom is to be coveted for any garden!

All these excellent points, however, are not the
only ones recommending the wild sweet-william

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for general culture. It has yet another qualifi-
cation — unusual adaptability for different plant-
ing purposes in the yard or garden. This versatility
of use is due largely to the fact that it succeeds
perfectly in either sun or shade. In massed plant-
ing in the open garden or border its exquisite
loveliness is hard to surpass. The plant interferes
in no way with later-blooming perennials, as its
roots remain very near the surface and, after the
flowering season is past, the low-spreading foliage is
soon covered by plants of taller and stockier growth.

Group planting of Phlox divaricata is always
pleasingly attractive. .I know of no lovelier color
combination than that created by the mingled
blossoms of the delicate lavender phlox with those
of the dainty white arabis and pale pink shooting
star. As an edging for walks and borders wild
phlox gives excellent results, the foliage remaining
evergreen and attractive throughout the season.
I have also found this plant to be the most satis-
factory perennial for planting under a shady per-
gola, as well as the best carpeting variety for
shrubbery beds and borders.

Illinois. ADELINE THAYER THOMSON.

Growing Roses in Pails

/\ETHOUGH located in the north middle part

of Wisconsin, I determined to have tea
roses for their continuous flowering, range of color,
and exquisite fragrance, so two years ago I pur-
chased a quantity of hybrid perpetual and
tea roses. Previous to the date of arrival of the
bushes I bought empty candy pails for each of
the teas from the local grocer at about sixty
cents a dozen. In these I planted the bushes and
sunk them in the ground with the hardy roses.
They grew splendidly, bloomed continuously, and
at the first touch of frost I had them lifted, pail
and all, and placed in a cool cellar.

This operation I have repeated now for two
years. The bushes not only furnish beautiful and
fragrant flowers, but bloom without any cessation
all summer long and much more profusely than
the other varieties do in June. This spring I am
ordering one plant each of all the teas listed by
one of the largest rose dealers.

This little stunt is worth doing by all who have
cool vegetable-cellar accommodation for their roses
during the winter. The only change I shall make
in my programme this spring is to substitute 12-
or 14-in. pots, which, although forty to eighty cents
apiece, are more permanent than the candy pails.

Wisconsin. A. C. GILBERT.

The wild sweet-william (Phlox divaricata), in its flowering season from April until June, is a mass of
delicate color

May, 1912

A New Celery Culture

ROWING celery indoors is not such a “stunt”

as it may seem. Get your groceryman to
bring you a good sound barrel with plenty of
hoops, saw it across the middle, and in the bottom
of the lower half bore several holes for drainage.
Take an old stove pipe which has a number of

‘holes in it, place it in the centre of the tub and

sprinkle a layer of rich dirt a foot or so deep at
the bottom and around the pipe. Of course it is
presumed that you started your celery indoors
in a box. Sas

When transplanting select the strongest plants.
and set them in the bottom of the half-barrel
midway between the pipe and the outer edge,

A novel scheme in celery growing on a small scale
in a back yard

and about six inches apart, also a double row if the
barrel is large enough. The purpose of the pipe
is to moisten the soil evenly when water is poured
into it from the top. As the plants grow add more
rich soil until they are “banked” sufficiently high.

The number of stalks you have will, of course,
be gauged by the size of your barrel. The recep-
tacle can be moved from place to place or set in
some out-of-the-way corner where the plants will
receive sufficient sun and air.

Tennessee. J. W. BiccErs.

A Blue and Yellow Combination

| Pee March until May the Virginian cow-
slip or blue bell (Mertensia Virginica) is in
its glory. I have it in my garden planted under
a group of Forsythia Fortunet, its blue bells con-
trasting pleasantly with the golden bells of the
overhanging Forsythia. As the foliage of the
Mertensia fades soon after the blooming period
is over, it cannot be used in masses where vacant
ground during the summer months is undesirable.
In the situation above mentioned I have overcome
this objection; by the time the foliage of the Mer-
tensia has turned brown and the plants need no
more sunlight, the drooping branches of the
Forsythia hide them from sight. The Mertensia
may, however, be grown in semi-shady beds in
masses, if vacant spaces — say a foot in diameter
— are left two feet or more apart, in which strong-
growing plants like the tobaccos, spider plant, or
the late-branching garden asters may be placed
or seed sown. But in this case one must be willing
to put up with the sight of brown and dying foliage
for a time, for the plants need the ripening off for
their future development. They are hardy
perennials, and in favorable positions not only
spread at the roots, but young plants come up
quite freely. They should be planted in August
or September, as they are dormant then. There
is a white variety, not as pleasing as the type,
whose unopened buds are a lively pink and the
open petals a robin’s egg blue. As the flower
stalk carries buds and matured blooms at the same
time, the effect is charming. My group is near
the edge of a ravine. and, by self-sown seedlings,
the colony is creeping slowly down the bank. It
must contain now about two hundred plants.
Illinois. W. C. EGAN.

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“HAMILTON-MADE”
GARDEN HOSE

U.S. A. Uses Hamilton-Made Hose.

The Government knows which garden hose gives the best serv-
ice. It tests it thoroughly. Buying is done scientifically, not by
looks or guess-work.

That is why you will find Hamilton-Made Hose in use in every
Government building and lawn in Washington, including the
White House, Capitol grounds, the Treasury, the State, War and
Navy Building, the Pension Bureau, Post Office, Printing Office,
Supreme Court, Zoological Park, Botanic Garden, etc.

Get hose with the maker’s name on it. All our hose has on it a
guarantee that it will stand a certain pressure.

The Government demands the hose that gives the most for the
money. Will your

There’s a HAMILTON-MADE HOSE for every different use,
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Discoveries of a Southern
Amateur

SUPPOSE there is no trade that fosters such

a generous fellowship as gardening. Fish
stories and hunting yarns surely inspire no better
feeling among the tellers about the camp fire at
night than passes, with the interchange of plans
and methods, over the back fence between gar-
deners. My garden 60x70 ft. was surprisingly
successful last year and a list of the things grown,
with quality and quantity indicated, would en-
danger my standing as a sober gardener and range
me almost with the fishermen. And these are
some of my “stunts” :

In tomato culture the following method will
insure large fruit in abundance, and long life to
the plant even in drought. A study of the plant
shows that the main root system forms a mat,
very near the surface of the soil. In the South,
especially, this shallow growth often results,
during August, in the death of the plant from heat
and drought. The plant would shield its roots
with its suckers, but these cost the plant too much
and must be pruned to conserve the strength for
the main stalk and for fruit.

In watching some Italian gardeners I noticed
that they had developed a system of deep planting.
The soil is well dug and deep trenches, or furrows,
run three or four feet apart. In these furrows near,
but not at, the bottom the young plants are set.
Gradually, as the growth allows, the earth is drawn
to the plants so that when the hilling is done the
rows are slightly raised. The roots now rest eight
or ten inches below the surface and new roots form
as the earth is drawn to the stalk. A little nitrate
of soda applied gradually in this process will work
wonders in the plant. So treated the bearing
season runs until frost.

For generations the tradition in asparagus
culture has been for a bed. By far the better
method is to plant it in along doublerow. In the
old system the bed was made wide and short,
and the crowns matted close together. The
rich, deep soil was too good for grass to miss,
and the roots of this struck down and became so
intertwined with the asparagus roots that it was
practically impossible to get them out. Besides
this it was necessary to walk on the bed whenever
the stalks were cut.

In the new method the crowns are placed in a
double row that can be easily worked with a wheel-
hoe. There is no treading on the soft earth in
cutting the sprouts. My row extends clear across
one end of the garden. It is three feet from the
fence so as to allow a row of sweet peas to climb
the fence by way of ornament. Such an arrange-
ment has the asparagus safely out of the way in
plowing time.

In preparing this long bed all the care of the cld
method is used. The first layer of surface soil
is thrown out, and the subsoil is deeply dug and
well mixed with quantities of stable manure,
gravel, and commercial fertilizer. A little soil
is then thrown back. It will never do to set a
plant in contact with the hot fertilizers. The
crowns are then placed evenly, about four inches
down, and eighteen inches. each way in a double
row. The rest of the surface soil is then carefully

| thrown in and a top dressing of well rotted manure

spread over the bed.

On a bed eight feet wide and twenty feet long
I raised over two hundred fine eggplants. Noth-
ing I grew the whole year did quite so well. I used

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May, 1911

a modified form of the culture suggested above for °
the tomatoes. I did not attempt to get the roots
nearly so deep but made the bed much richer and
fed the plants a little high grade fertilizer each
time they were worked. They came into bearing
the middle of August, and were bearing in fine
order when frost came in November. Enough were
then brought in to last for two weeks longer.

Salisfy requires such a long time to mature that
I cannot afford, in my small garden, to let it use
its space alone. I grew four hundred splendid
roots in four rows, fifty feet long, between the
corm. The corn was planted first and was worked
thoroughly until its tassels began to show. Then
the soil was deeply spaded between the rows and
the salisfy sown. When the corn had finished
bearing the stalks were taken out, root and all,
and covered in the compost heap. The salsify
had prospered in the partial shade and now grew
apace. But the corn rows were spaded thoroughly,
without disturbing the salsify, and a late crop of
potatoes put in. The salisfy supplies fresh stuff
from the garden even in winter.

North Carolina. CHARLES E. RAYNAL.

The Southern Summer Begins

Sow cabbage seed during the month for use
in the late summer and fall. Drumhead
and Flat Dutch are excellent varieties. Better
sow also some seed of the red sort for making
cole-slaw and salads. Be careful to keep the
cabbage bed watered during dry weather. Seed
of collards may also be sown now, but cabbage
is much better and just as easy to grow. The
southern gardeners can, and should, have headed
cabbage in their garden every month in the year.

Yard beans and lima beans should be staked now.
Oak poles, with a little brush left on, will last
through the season. Have them about one and a
half or two inches in diame-
ter at the bottom and nine
or ten feet long. Lima
beans make heavy foliage
and require strong support.

Set out tomato plants
during this month. Keep
careful watch over the
white potato patch for the
striped potato bug. Spray
with Paris green when it
appears just before sun-
down, as there is then no
danger of the sun scalding
the plants.

Be sure to sow at least
a few sunflower seeds. They
require no attention, give
pretty flowers, good shade
for poultry and the seed
makes excellent poultry
food.

If the madonna lilies are
not already in flower, give
a liquid manure and have
blossoms. The same ap-
plies to dahlia plants which
should commence to flower
this month. Stake them in order to prevent the
stalks from breaking during high winds. Keep
all old flowers cut off—sweet Williams, pansies
and sweet peas—so as to prolong the flowering
season.

It is important to keep both the flower and
vegetable garden well cultivated during May and
June. If the grass gets a start now, it will be
hard to control.

Plant pumpkins and winter squashes now.
They are excellent in pies during the winter and
should be more generally planted in the South.
Thin out late fruits now if they are crowded.

Continue to set out sweet potato plants. A
friable red clay soil makes sweeter potatoes than
a sandy soil, and they keep better. I got twenty-
five bushels of yam potatoes from about five
hundred feet of rows. The plants were set out
in June after oats were harvested; on another
patch three times as large, but with a sandy soil,
planted in April, I had only thirty-five bushels.
Therefore, it seems that a soft, red clay soil is the
best generally for sweet potatoes. I expect to plant

Yard-long beans are
good eating

May, 1911

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some on both kinds of soil again this season, to
see if the red clay is really better for them.

Continue to sow peanuts, sorghum cane and
chufas, or earth almonds. Keep runners cut
from the strawberry bed and the plants will grow
larger and stronger.

House plants should be taken outdoors where
they can get fresh air and sunshine, but not too
much sunshine, especially the tender ones. Don’t
allow them to flower during the summer, if you
want the best flowers next winter in the house.

Sow seed of okra at once if you have not already
done so. The young pods give a pleasant flavor
to soups and can be used either green ordry. Okra
plants do not require any special attention — give
the same cultivation as to beans. White Velvet,
Perkin’s Mammoth and Kleckley Favorite are
among the best varieties.

Georgia. Tuomas J. STEED

Raising Corn with Dynamite

Y BREAKING his land to a depth of four
feet with 150 pounds of dynamite, a farmer
in Fairforest, S. C., last year raised 200 bushels
of corn on land that had heretofore produced from
20 to 30 bushels. The land was prepared in
March. Into holes two feet deep, at intervals of
five feet each way, a half stick of dynamite was
dropped, which was exploded almost simultaneously.
Actual test showed that the ground was thor-
oughly pulverized to a depth of four feet. After
this, his mode of culture differed but little from
the ordinary way, except that the hoe was not used.
(For directions as to how to use dynamite in plant-
ing, see THE GARDEN; MacGazme for April, 1911,
page 176).

“Dynamite farming,” as this method is pop-
ularly called, has two advantages — the clay is
thoroughly pulverized and the phosphates made
available; and the pulverized clay is exceedingly
porous and will hold surprising quantities of water.

As proof of the second, the corn on the land that
had been prepared with dynamite was as green and
luxuriant all year as if it had been grown on a
river bottom, while at times that but a few hundred
feet away and otherwise grown under the same
conditions was suffering from lack of moisture.
Even in the driest times the clay two feet below
the surface of the ground was saturated with water.

Preparation of the land cost just $35 per acre.
$30 for dynamite and $5 for labor. A manufac-
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on the market a quality prepared especially for
agricultural purposes and so the same results
can be obtained at a cost of not more than $10
per acre, exclusive of labor. When land is once
broken in this manner, it is never necessary to
repeat the operation.

South Carolina. ARCHTE RICHARDSON.

Jelly Glass Gardening

HAVE no coldframe — ignominious confession

—so when a number of small rose plants were
delivered — at my own request — too early to be
set out unprotected, I had to evolve some scheme
to save them. The frost was out of the ground
all right, so I planted the bushes in their permanent
places, and covered each with a quart Mason
preserve jar. They all grew nicely although we
had some pretty hard freezes later. Last year
I saved in the same way several roses that had
nearly succumbed in the spring to too heavy
mulching with too fresh manure.

Then I tried what could be done for seeds. I
planted tomato, pepper and eggplant seeds in the
open ground long before it was safe to do so—
the last week in April, to be exact — covered them
with glasses borrowed from the preserve closet,
and had very nice plants ready to transplant when
the weather settled.

Lettuce can be hurried along by the same
method, and is extremely tender. A pint jar is
the right size for a head of lettuce.

Of course, slips of all kinds can be started under
jelly glasses, and the glasses and jars are easily
cleaned and returned to their legitimate uses when
the gardening season is over. Besides, cracked
ones will do just as well in the garden.

New Jersey. A. C. BROWN.

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How to Move Big Evergreens

HERE seems to be two periods in the year
when evergreens will stand more abuse

in transplanting than at other times — the first
half of May and the first half of September. The
exceptions to this are when we have a very early
spring and when the first part of September is
very hot and dry. In this section of north-
eastern Connecticut we have even successfully
planted evergreen trees in late October. In
fact, we find there is really no time in the year
when an evergreen cannot be moved successfully,
excepting when the young growths are new and
soft. At that time the sudden interruption of
an ample supply of sap from the roots will cause
the new growths to flag or droop, and in this con-
dition the sun will burn them. My experience
has been in favor of the springtime, however, for
the purchase of evergreens, but rhododendrons suc-
ceed better by being shipped and planted in the fall.
The two essential conditions to be observed in
transplanting evergreens are that the roots must
neither be badly broken nor allowed to become dry.
If you can attend to these two things, the trees will
receive no check and will grow the following spring
as if nothing had happened. It is only occasionally

These trees were moved from a distance of half a
mile and suffered no check

however, that we can be so successful, owing
either to stony ground or a tap-root that it is
impossible to get out whole.

When there are only a few trees to be moved, it
is best to wait for cloudy weather and no wind,
but when a large number must be handled, one
cannot wait for ideal weather conditions. We
moved the trees shown in the illustration from a

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May,1911

Your Trees Will Thrive
| and add the greatest artistic value to your place if
your selection is made from the numerous speci-

mens of Hardy Evergreens, Trees and Shrubs at the

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distance of about half a mile. We thoroughly
soaked the roots by running a 14-inch hose from
a water cart on the trees the day before the
digging commenced.

A trench was first made in front of each tree, at
a suitable distance from it, continuing downward
until clearly below the lowest of the roots. The
outside bank was then cut down to a slope, making
a rise of about one foot in three from the bottom
of the trench to the surface. We then cut a tunnel
about three and a half feet wide and eight or nine
inches deep underneath the tree below the roots.
Progress was rather slow because only two men
could work at one time, but the tunnel eventually
reached under the tree to its centre.

A stone drag or float, made of oak planks, was
driven as far under the tree as it would go, two
stout planks were placed side by side underneath
it, some short pieces of 14-inch iron pipe being
put between the drag and the planks for rollers.
A large circular trench to surround the tree was
then immediately begun, as many of the men
working at it as could do so conveniently, in order
not to lose any more time than was absolutely
necessary before getting the tree to its new lo-
cation. The loose soil on the inside of the trench
next the tree was carefully removed with forks,
so as not to damage the fibrous roots, until the
tree was left in the centre of an immense hole,
the roots in a compact solid ball resting halfway
on the drag.

Wet burlap was then wound around the ball
several times and bound to it securely with strong
ropes. Another rope was passed loosely around,
and between it and the ball of earth we inserted
a quantity if birch brush cut to about eighteen
inches in length. This second rope was also tied
tight enough to hold the brush in place.

A long lug chain was passed around the whole,
the hook being put at the side. Then a pair of
horses was hitched to the end of the chain, which,
being passed over the hook at the side, slowly
whirled the tree forward until it stood in the centre
of the drag. Next the chain was slipped off and
the horses hitched to the drag. The horses pulled
very slowly and steadily, while the men kept the
rollers between the drag and the planks under-
neath it, and the tree, though weighing possibly
3,000 pounds, was brought out of the hole with
comparatively little effort.

The drag with the tree was then loaded in the
same way, by rolling on planks, on to a specially
constructed low-wheeled truck, not more than a
foot high and having very wide-banded wheels
to prevent its cutting into the ground. The hole
which was to receive the tree had been prepared
with two sloping sides, opposite each other, so that
the drag might be drawn right through the bot-
tom and rest on the up-slope, thus giving it a
strong tilt. The horses were then unhitched from
the drag which, of course, had been rolled from
the truck before being drawn into the hole, and
the log chain passed around the ball as before,
the hook being at the side. Adjusting the chain
in this way gives the tree a whirling motion, and
not only makes the draft much easier but also
causes the chain to exert an even pressure all around
the ball instead of at the rear only, as would be
the case if a straight pull was attempted.

After the tree was in place the ropes were taken
off and the burlap unwound. The roots were
carefully separated and the soil worked in between
them, the hole being filled in gradually and the
soil made thoroughly firm. When the roots were
all covered and the hole filled to within three or
four inches of the top, the soil was given a final
thorough treading and tamping, and the hole
was filled to the top with water. A heavy mulch-
ing of half-decayed leaves was put on just before
winter and left on until late in the spring.

I have moved trees year after year in this
way, and have generally been successful.

Connecticut. RICHARD BARTON.

The Best Low Conifers

WWE does every nursery have the European
juniper and savin, which are tender, while
their American equivalents are hardy? If you want
the best low conifers for a ground cover insist on
having Juniperus communis, var. Canadensis and
J. Sabina, var. prostrata. W. M.

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

The Burlington Venetian Blind

will make your rooms shady and your porch cool and
comfortable. It can be raised or lowered at will,
and can be adjusted to any angle to suit the height of
the sun.

Enclose your porch and see what a change it will
make in your whole home. It will giye you a cozy,
secluded room. The air will circulate freely and you
will get all the advantages of open air; at the same
time you will not be subjected to an inquisitive public
gaze. The Burlington Venetian Blind will give youa
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to play, too,

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Burlington Venetian Blind Co. , 327 Lake St., Burlington, Vt.

** THE ROSES OF NEW CASTLE”
The Famous Rose-Scented Rose Book
Fragrant, beautiful, valuable; sent to any address

on request. It prices and describesthe best Roses
to plant and tells how to grow them.

Heller Brothers Co., Rose Specialists, Box 21, New Castle, Ind.
a Se eee ee

Purchase your Peonies at the one right
season from TRUE Peony specialists

WE GROW PEONIES
—NOTHING ELSE

Our reputation has been built on the
quality of our stock.

FALL SHIPMENTS ONLY. We advertise extensively
then. Peonies should be moved at no other season.
Distinctive catalog annually in August.

MOHICAN PEONY GARDENS
Box 300, Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania

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Amazing ““_DETROIT” Kerosene Engine
shipped on 15 days’ FREE Trial, proves
kerosene cheapest, safest, most powerful
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Gasoline Going Up!
Automobile owners are burning up so
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is running short. Gasoline is gc to 15¢
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_ Allsizes, 2 to 20 h. p., in stock ready to ship. Complete Enzine tested
just before crating. Comes all ready to run. Pumps, saws, threshes,
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May, 1911

THE GARDEN

The Readers’ Service will give injormation ee
about the latest automobile accessories 25!

MAGAZINE

SIMPLEX
IRONER

It will pay you to know that all plain clothes, table and
bed linen, curtains, doilies and flat pieces can be ironed
with a better finish with the Simplex Ironerthan by hand
and done in much less than half the time.

NO BACK-BREAKING LABOR

_A child can operate it with ease. Inexpensive to heat;

simple, durable, efficient. Hand or power. Low in price.
A 30 Days? Free Trialof the Simplex will convince you of its
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$ 3 09 will bring you California Privets 1 00
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== 2-3 feet high; will make you
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The Finest Evergreen Ground Covers

Andromeda floribunda, Leucothoe catesbaei, Galax
aphylla, Mitchella repens and others. Best plants

for Rhododendron beds. Catalogs.
are ae HARLAN P. KELSEY, Owner
in Carolina Mts.) Hardy American Plants,

and Salem Nurseries. alem Mass.

GROW CACTI
the strangest and most fascinating of all plants. Endless
variety of shapes and species, bearing exquisite flowers in
scarlet, yellow, etc. Easily grown indoors or out. We are
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We will send you a rare Golden Cactus, bears immense gol-
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The Preservation of Timber
Ready for free distribution.
Contains considerable information on the simplest and best means
of preveniing the decay of shingles, porches, etc., as also details
about the cheapest wood preserving paint for farm buildings.
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191 Franklin St, - New York, N. Y.

Power for Country Homes

I H C Gasoline Engines are simple and easy to operate,
besides being economical, durable, and reliable. e ideal power
for pumping water and operating machines on the farm or estate. |
White for catalogues of facts and figures. Address

INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY OF AMERICA
(Incorporated)
Chicago US A

IWAN POST HOLE AND WELL AUGER

Best for fence, telephone post holes and wells. Makes hole
smoothly and quickly, empties easily. Three full turns com- §
plete post hole. Special price to introduce.

Agents wanted where dealers do
not handle. Ask dealer for it.
Be sure Iwan Bros. is on handle
casting. Write for ‘‘ Easy Digging” book free.

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It tells you how to select the Home Refrigerator—how to know the good from the
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know before selecting any Refrigerator.

Don’t be deceived by claims being made for other so-called
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Easy Payments We depart this year from our rule of all cash with order
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Just say, “Send Monroe Book,” on a postal card and it will go to you by next mail. (10)

MONROE REFRIGERATOR COMPANY, Station 13, Lockland, Ohio

Watson OSPRAYMO 4-ROW High Pressure
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The genuine ‘“CUTAWAY” tools are used and endorsed by successsul orchardists from coast to coast
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In orchard work the driver can cultivate under the trees and below the low limbs, the horses not inter-
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farm work the gangs can be drawn together.
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Box and Bay Trees

Dignify the entrance to your place
with these famous evergreens, plant
them in decorative masses on the
lawn, use them on the piazzas. Noth-
ing is so indispensable to fine plant-
ing effects.

Vigorous,
trees.

Symmetrical Box-
Each in artistic, mis-
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? 5 «4 . .
re rg + Bush Box, 18 in. high, $1.75
; ea.; pair, $3.00

Bush Box, 24 in. high, $2.50 ea.; pair, $4.50
_, Above are fine, broad oval-shape trees.

Pyramidal Box, 24 in. high, $3.00ea.; pair, $5.50

Pyramidal Box, 30in. high, $3.50 ea.; pair, $6.50

West of Rockies shipped not planted to reduce expense.

Wagner's Superb Bay Trees from $3 to $29.
Planted either in tubs or mission plant-boxes.

_ Our catalogue “Plants and Plans for Beautiful Surround-

ings’ shows Wagner's Box and Bay Trees in all sizes. Wet

us send you this book.

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Nurserymen, Landscape Gardeners
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Florists,

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A course for Home-makers and
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WhyD , Water?

Avoid it—even though you live a hundred miles from city waterworks.

You can use the water from your present well or cistern,
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Single Chrysanthemums Treated
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A GOOD many years ago when I was a small

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I saw in October in the florists’ windows, and one
spring, with the hope and ignorance of youth, I
tried to raise these same from a packet of seed
labelled: ‘Double chrysanthemums, Chrysan-
themum coronarium fl. pl.” It has taken twenty
years to obliterate the disappointment I felt
when the little yellow and white button blossoms
appeared. But it is all gone now, for I am happy
in having raised chrysanthemums which will
satisfy my soul, raised them in a single summer
from seed and had them bloom in my garden
as I had planned those others should so many years
ago.

These, however, are not the great fluffy balls,
one to a plant, in cold climates raised chiefly by
florists under glass, but a race of single daisy-like
flowers recently developed from the big’ Japanese
chrysanthemums and blooming outdoors in Septem-
ber and October with dozens of flowers on plants
never over three feet high. These had been grown
for a year or two in England where they had been
introduced by their raiser, W. Wells of Merstham,
but it was not until last spring that I saw the seed
listed in American catalogues and decided to try
chrysanthemums from seed again. Sown in
nice, fine, open soil in a seed flat, the last day of
April, they quickly germinated, grew apace and a
month later were put about eighteen inches apart
in the garden, where they have since needed no
care other than the occasional weeding, watering,
and cultivation which all annuals must have to
get good results. Briefly what they ask is the
treatment given to asters and you will get loads of
flowers, coming just as the asters pass out and
lasting well into October. Moreover, they seem
to be very healthy and resistant, having given
flowers in New Jersey after 10 degrees of frost
had visited the garden. This lateness is probably
their greatest claim to notice, for our fall gardens
sadly need their bright reds and pinks at a time of
the year when the blue Michaelmas daisies and
yellow perennial sunflowers furnish most of the
color.

Let me describe some of their characteristics.
In growth they vary very considerably, some being
dwarf and compact, not over a foot high, almost
balls of bloom; others taller and more free and
graceful, a few almost three feet high and what
might be called rangy in habit, and one or two so
weedy I pulled them up. I might add here that
as they early show their habit of growth, the taller
ones can be put where they will look best and the
dwarfs used as edging. In form, too, the flowers
vary from those having a single row of petals to
those having half a dozen rows, the former being
the more graceful, the latter lasting better in the
hot sun. Here there should and undoubtedly
will be considerable improvement in the shape and
finish of the individual flowers and in the reduction
of the size of the yellow centre. Average flowers
are about an inch and a half to three inches in
diameter, but let them not be despised for their
size, for on an undisbudded plant it is easy to count
a hundred open flowers at once besides many
buds to come. The color range is remarkable—
from pure white through pale lilac and rose pinks
to crimson, and from pale yellow through orange
and bronze to terracotta, besides many delightful
combinations of yellow and pink and yellow and
red, and some quite like cinerarias in that the
rose-petalled flowers have an aureole of white

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surrounding the yellow disk. My fifty plants
bordered a path, and I can truthfully say that the
interest of watching them come into bloom ex-
ceeded even that of the first flowering of a fine
strain of seedling larkspurs or long spurred
columbines.

As these chrysanthemums cannot be obtained
true to color or habit from seed and there is about
a month between the first flowers of some of them,
they cannot be used for pattern beds on lawns;
but, planted in masses, I have, in addition to the
witness of my own eyes, the trained judgment of
an artist neighbor in stating that the colors har-
monize beautifully. Should a magenta pink
appear and offend, it is quite possible to lift the
plant with a good ball of earth and put it among
white ones where its color will cause no distress.
The fact that under the favorable conditions of
a dull day and care they may be moved even when
coming into bloom, makes them especially useful
for filling in spaces in the hardy border, or as suc-
cession plants where early tulips or annuals gone
by have left bare beds in the fall garden. Indeed,
if space in the flower garden is valuable, I see no

Have single chrysanthemums follow asters and you
will have loads of flowers through October

reason why the plants should not be grown in
an out-of-the-way place and, when they show
color, be transplanted to where they will be most
effective.

As cut flowers they last very well and their
dainty sprays are as becoming for corsage wear
as they are charming in the decoration of the
dinner table or the house. In some places
they are more appropriate and more decorative
than the large doubles, and such a range of
color is available that many uses for them will
be found.

Of course, being perennials, it is quite possible
to propagate any fine variety by taking cuttings
in early spring, but except in the South or on the
Pacific coast, the plants would not live through
the winter outdoors and the old roots would have
to be kept under the benches of a greenhouse or
possibly heeled in in sand in a cellar. But the
man who has what our English friends call “a
bit of glass” is not being considered here, for this
pean is in praise of the single chrysanthemum
treated as an annual to make our smallest gardens
everywhere last longer and our dullest houses more
cheerful in autumn.

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Candytuft for Edging

HE common hardy white candytuft ([beris

sempervirens) is one of the very best edgings
for garden walks where durability, cheapness and
ease of keeping within bounds are prime con-
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flowers when they are not overabundant and then,
if the seed stalks are cut off, makes a compact
evergreen border, varied by a sparse fall bloom.
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This is also a most desirable plant for carpeting,
giving fine results the second year from seed. The
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reliable as to hardiness.— B. G.

May,1911

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MAGAZINE

259

Twenty thousand of them, a composite, living,
overwhelming argument. Each reason — reason
enough, convincing and satisfying, yet, were it
possible for you to investigate, question, prove
each separate reason, you would probably find
some new point of interest to rivet your attention
and create in your mind a like desire to own the
car that could stir up such enthusiasm and scatter
broadcast such satisfaction.

It is easy to write upon paper mere statements, to
waste the public’s time and abuse its patience by
wearisome reiteration of platitudes that have
been dished up in rhetorical display over and over
again, talking the merits of this and that car,
with the same old jaded adjectives. But, in
the name of the great Automobile Industry,
let us get down to the tangible, living thing that
has the red blood of sincerity in it, the personal
gripping interest that shines in the eyes of men
as they talk face to face about the great thing
they have put their hearts and faith in.

Reasons clothed in flesh and blood. And there
is no argument like unto this argument —
produce any man, no matter what his birth or
breeding, whether he moves in high society or
not, so long as he be honest in his opinions, strong
in his convictions, has stood the test of experience
and found out that it is infinitely better to
“know” than to “believe: that man has a right
to stand upon his feet and have his say, and
nes more to the point, the world will surely
isten.

Proudly and confidently we introduce you to
twenty thousand such men. In a moment, as
if were, we can usher you into the charmed circle
of a great living friendship that with twenty
thousand tongues will affirm one concrete ab-
solute fact, in twenty thousand different methods
and words of expression, each and every one
enthusiastically endorsing the same truth —a
unity of “reason why” such as the commercial
world has never before seen.

Twenty thousand E-M-F “30” owners. They
are our reasons. Each one a thinking, separate
personality — each one with likes and dislikes
that differentiated him from all the others,
for no two out of all that immense number ap-
proached the question of “shall I buy” or “I
will buy” an E-M-F “30” from quite the same
reasoning point. One, had to weigh carefully
the question of first cost; another, the “after
buying cost” of upkeep. One, never considered
price, but was attracted by quality; another,
having a bent toward mechanics, saw quickly
the perfect chassis. One, considered the financial
stability of the Company behind the product;
another that same Company’s good faith and
so on — ad infinitum.

But they all reached the same conclusion. There
was some unanswerable argument presented,
some fact of mechanical supremacy that could
not be denied, some record of enduring quality
that appealed, some enthusiastic owner that
“boosted,” which compelled each and-every one
of these 20,000 men to buy an E-M-F “30.”
Through the maze of all other rival cars for sale
they found their way to the one car that expressed
to them in terms of power, speed, reliability,
comfort and serviceability the “ideal” each
and every one possessed. That in buying an
E-M-F “30” they proved their judgment to be
correct, is now a matter of record.

“Satisfaction.”

20,000 REASONS

WHY YOU SHOULD BUY AN E-M-F “30” — $1,000

These men are representative of all that is best

and constructive in our great commonwealth.
E-M-F “30” owners form a democracy of
varied interests, among them being Bankers
who know the value of money and its purchasing
power—Lawyers who are skilled in discovering
the weak points in any argument—Tradesmen
who know how to buy for profit—Farmers who,
as a class, are the most careful purchasers of
automobiles—Business men in the great pop-
ulous centres, who had every opportunity to draw
comparisons and weigh the merits of rival cars —
Doctors who demand the kind of car that must be
always ready — at a moment’s notice — to go
anywhere over any kind of a road — every trade
and profession — millionaires and men who live
upon modest incomes are all represented in the
great army of E-M-F “30” owners.

But there is one reason why you should buy an

E-M-F “30” that is greater and more convincing
than any one of those 20,000 reasons that made
men choose an E-M-F “30” rather than any
other car at any other price. And this, what we
call “the unanswerable reason” has been get-
ting stronger and bigger every day, from the time
the first E-M-F “30” passed into the hands of the
first owner, until this very moment; in fact, now,
it is like some irresistible power, moving all over
the land and sweeping everything before it:
we call this invincible “reason” by a simple
name everybody knows.

That’sit. Each and every man
who owns an E-M-F “30” is satisfied. They
are all subscribers, as it were, to the enthusiasm
and interest about that proved, enduring quality
and record-breaking price, which have made the
E-M-F “30” the most talked of automobile
in America, perhaps, in the world, because, and
we say this without fear of contradiction, there
is no car made upon which so many men abso-
lutely agree. These 20,000 satisfied owners will
tell you one story, simple and convincing, that
they own a car they are proud to drive, to
“boost,” to endorse, a car, that not only backed
their judgment, but above all, taught them the
lesson — that it isn’t necessary to decorate a
check book with a lot of fancy figures and rob
a bank balance to buy an automobile whose
quality is in the chassis, where it belongs.

The history of this universal satisfaction which, by

the by, will sell another 20,000 E-M-F “30”
cars tuis year, is the history of the E-M-F
Company, an organization that revolutionized
the automobile industry, not alone in values,
but in methods of manufacture; that gave the
buying public a car which has literally defied
competition and sold itself. The E-M-F Com-
pany has always been a year or two in advance
of the times. We make practically every part
of our car, cast our own cylinders, forge, stamp
and heat-treat our own steel and make our own
bodies. Mr. Flanders’ forecast, published in
March, 1908, that “we can manufacture more
automobiles of a better quality at a lower cost
than any other concern now in existence,’ was
a prophecy that has been magnificently fulfilled.

Why? Why was Flanders’ prophecy fulfilled?

Ask any one of the twenty thousand owners of
an E-M-F “30.” He will show you his car and
say, ““There is the reason.’ So you look at it,
examine it, ride in it, listen to the owner re-

Send for Booklet G.

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We will visualize it for you.

counting its prowess, its mileage, its speed,
what it has done and the magnificent way it has
stood the “gaff.” Because an E-M-F “30”
is such a glutton for service, it sort of lures a
man on to give it hard usage. Automobiles
have their particular kind of personalities. You
get to “know” a car. What may be expected
of it under certain conditions; and an element
of pride and friendship is established. So when
Mr. Flanders’ determination “‘to make a better
quality car at a lower cost” than any other con-
cern made or sold, took shape in an E-M-F “30,”
then also was created the “reason” of the
enormous sales and colossal growth of the E-M-F
Co. The car fulfilled the prophecy. That’s
why you can’t purchase a second hand E-M-F
“30.” Men don’t sell “automobile satisfaction”
when they “know” they own it.

There it stands!
A five-passenger touring car, graceful in body
lines, with that “straight away look”’ which is
a symbol of strength, elegance and comfort.
Not a fad or furbelow to cumber it with useless
appendage. Under the hood, a 30 horse power
noiseless motor that has won distinction upon
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rest of the chassis that it creates an absolute
unit of mechanical efficiency. To the expert
engineer the chassis of an E-M-F “30” suggests
the limit of scientific construction. Every
owner it has proved it — proved it by enduring
service, for no E-M-F “30” has ever been worn
out. The ninth car built, shipped by us a little
over two years ago has travelled some 73,000
miles, which means nearly 15 years of actual life
crowded into the thirty months of its existence,
and it is mechanically ready for 73,000 miles
more. The life story of “Bullet,” this famous
car, can be had for the asking. When you buy
an E-M-F “30,” the confidence you put into
your purchase is returned to you a hundred-fold.

The investment of $1000, in an E-M-F “30”

will be the wisest expenditure you ever made,
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to 8% interest. But here is the car at the price
any man can afford. And to own a car is the
ambition of every man. The automobile is
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means recreation, the banishment of the doctor
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it is a necessity. An E-M-F “30” will meet
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The other day, we read in an advertisement that

“you can buy a real automobile now for as low
a price as $1500.” We can take $500 off that
price and say the same thing, for you can buy
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May,1911

Plant Gladiolus Now

PX SVOSB can grow gladiolus successfully.

They will lend themselves to any decorative
color scheme, the colors ranging from white to the
deepest crimson and purple, through every shade of
pink, yellow, heliotrope, mauve, and purple-blue,
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not less than twenty-five bulbs in each clump.
A strip of ground 30 x 5 ft. will grow three hundred
of them and furnish a wealth of bloom from July
until October.

Gladiolus will grow in any good garden soil.
Cow manure spread liberally on the soil in the fall
and spaded under in the spring is the ideal fertilizer.
If you do not use that, apply pulverized sheep
manure and bone meal in the spring.

As soon as the ground can be worked, spade it
deep and plant your first bulbs. For a succession
plant every two or three weeks until the first or
middle of June. Large bulbs should be planted deep
not less than six inches, though I like eight inches

Be sure to have gladiolus in your garden this year.
The flowers endure well

better. Our soil is a sandy loam and is just right
for this deep planting. This gives a much stronger
stalk and does away with staking. Put smaller
bulbs three to four inches deep, planting either
in rows or in masses. If in rows, three inches
apart is the proper distance, making the rows
twelve to eighteen inches apart. If in masses,
put the bulbs four to six inches apart each way.
Keep the soil well loosened and free from weeds.

If the season is dry, you can have larger flowers
by watering as soon as the flower buds show.
Give the water at night after sundown.

No other flower that I grow lasts so Jong as a
cut flower. Cut the stalk as soon as the first
two or three blossoms are fully open and all the
rest of the buds will expand in the house in water.
If the old blossoms are picked off and fresh water
kept on them, they will last well for at least a week.

As to varieties, buy only from a reliable dealer,
and get the named sorts. Try growing a few new
ones each year. Some standard named sorts can be
bought for five cents each in nearly all colors, and
if properly treated will increase rapidly by cormels.

Tn the fall after the first frost, take up the bulbs
and remove the tops. You will find the corm you
planted with a new one — or sometimes two or
three of them — on top of it, and according to the
variety, more or less smaller ones. The new bulb
(or corm) after drying, should be removed and
stored in a cellar that is perfectly frostproof. If
you save and plant the bulblets you will have after
a year or so a nice lot of young blooming bulbs.
Young bulbs give the most perfect blossoms.

Michigan. Grace RE SHORE.

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1910, GARDEN MAGAZINE, is easily obviated by
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Early Summer Reminders

JAS MID-APRIL often brings with it the last
useful rains of the season, the California
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keeping his soil fairly moist and loose. If, com-
bined with tillage, coal ashes and vegetable refuse
of all kinds have been incorporated in his adobe
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watering or irrigating should be followed by a
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very bright and windy days as they make the
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Chrysanthemums can still be propagated, the
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Dahlias enjoy so well the cool, foggy summer
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able and the summers are not too hot, succession
crops of other vegetables, such as lettuce, radishes
and peas can also be sown.

California. SYDNEY B. MITCHELL.

A Hardy Annual for Cutting

ote basket flower (Centaurea Americana) is a
hardy annual that would be met with in gar-
dens more frequently were it bettter known. It
runs up to the imposing height of three feet or more
and the lilac blossoms, four inches across, are very
fine for cutting. The plant, which makes a bush of
picturesque form if given the necessary elbow-room,
is a native of the Southwest. A.C. A.

May, 1911 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 265

| OUT MAY 15TH

ee Cl
Little House Number )

Edited by JOHN M. CARRERE »

The late John M. Carrére was consulting editor
of this special number of Country Life inAmer-
ica. Mr. Carrére, who was fatally injured in
a taxicab Fecidenton February 12th, was un-
questionably one of the greatest archi-
tects in this country, and his good taste in
matters of house design was second to none.
Fortunately, Mr. Carrere had completed his
work as consulting editor before his accident, and the first arti-
cle is from his pen, and is illustrated with the work of his firm.

Country Lite
im America

This issue will include the following illustrated features:

The late J. M. Carrere

“Better Taste in Small Houses,” by John
M. Carrére.

“The Essentials of Small-House Plan-
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‘A Small House Giving a Large Effect,”
by PhilM. Riley.

“A Modest Summer Home on a Large
Estate,” by Paul M. Randall.

20c. on all news stands.

“Building Materials, and Which to
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“Summer Cottages, Good and Bad,” by
Francis Arnold Collins.
“Portable Small Houses,”
Collins.

“A Kitchen Which Solves the Servant
Problem,” by C. C. Leffingwell.

24 issues a year for $4.00

by Francis A.

Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, New York

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Berger’s Success Collection of Vines
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Prices include

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Planting Fruit to Advantage

N ALMOST increditable amount of fruit
can be grown on a small city block. Sup-
pose your plot is 40 x 100 ft.; dwarf cherry, plum,
or pears, as well as a few peach trees, might be set
along the side fence or boundary, and in the shade of
these, currants and gooseberries. Strawberries do
well when grown between grape rows, as do currants
and raspberries, for the vines will make little
shade early in the season. There may be walks
which it is desirable to shade, and it would be as
well to plan to have a canopy of grapes there. A
dwarf tree will grow and produce a quantity of
fruit if planted against a wall where it can expand
in only one way. Plum and cherry trees do even
better on hard ground than on cultivated land.

In planting a place of this size to the best ad-
vantage, select four apple trees of the standard
size to range from early to fall or winter vari-
eties, or have. six or eight of the dwari apples,
planted ten feet apart. From two to four each of
cherry, peach, and plum trees would complete the
selection of trees unless it was in a latitude where
apricots or quinces were better adapted than
grapes and berries. For the middle or southern
latitudes, blackberries, dewberries and raspberries
should occupy considerable space. Have the
fruit trees in two full rows the length of the lot,
all except the apples, standing 15 to 20 feet apart.
Plant currants and gooseberries between the
rows. For several years, while the trees are
getting their growth, strawberries may be grown
in the tree rows, and after that between the rows
of grapes. Two rows of grapes half way the length
of the lot and dewberries to finish out will take
the space on the other side. Any of the brambles,
as blackberries, will grow in the shade though not
so well as currants and gooseberries.

A backyard of this size will be ample for 11 trees,
50 vines each of blackberry, gooseberry, currant,
dewberry and raspberry, 12 grapevines and 200
strawberry plants, if arranged as shown:

CURRANTS BETWEEN ROWS OF TREES

GOOSEBERRIES ON NORTH SIDE OF TREES
RASPBERRIES BLACKBERRIES

DEWBERRIES

STRAWBERRIES BETWEEN GRAPES

Missouri. H. F. GRINSTEAD.

Pruning Blackberries

yA mee bear in mind that pruning black-
berries is one of the most hazardous of gar-
den occupations. When bent away from the
pruner and carelessly released, the heavy canes
are liable to give him a cut across the face or
hand and bury one or more thorns in his
flesh. The greatest danger is to the eyes. Hven
if the pupil providentially is missed, a thorn
driven through the skin just above the cheek
bone will bring about a good case of black eye.
And, somehow, as I know from experience, it is
only a waste of words trying to explain in town
that the disfigurement came from a blackberry
bush in the country, T. B. E.

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

‘CONSULTING FORESTER

May, 1911

Erected fur Mrs. F. H. Lovell, Madiscn, N. J.

$250 Buys This Greenhouse
Price includes everything —
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Taking Care of Your Tools

ie IS hard and often impossible to do garden-
ing with poor tools. The tools may have been
good when they were bought, but if they are rusty

_ they are now poor instruments with which to

work, and are liable to break. 2
The first move is to get off the rust. The usual
method is to soak the rusty parts in kerosene.
There is nothing known that is better to loosen
up rust than common kerosene oil. After-
wards clean the rust off with an old brick.

| You will have to rub hard and long if the rust

has eaten in deeply. A better method is to put
the kerosene-soaked tool on the grindstone, if
you have one, but best of all is a carborundum
wheel. It will do more and better work than a
whole wagon-load of bricks. One man I know
of has a 6-foot grindstone to sharpen his tools.
It takes two men to turn the grindstone and another
to grind the tools. You can buy a carborundum
wheel with a bicycle attachment for seven dol-
lars, and with it one man does the whole job.
The machine is fitted with two wheels, one me-
dium and one fine. The man sits and pedals,
holding the tool against the wheel at the same
time. For less money one can buy the carborun-
dum wheel without the bicycle attachment; they
only cost from three to five dollars depending upon
the size selected. It takes two men to work it.

When the rust is all off take some of the cotton
waste (which you should always have around)
or an old cloth and clean the tools from all dust

| and grime. Then oil the tool. Don’t use a vol-

atile oil, such as kerosene. Common machine or
lubricating oil is just the thing. If you have an
engine or steam pump, the waste oil that runs out
from the engine will do very well. With tools
that are to be used at once’or in a few days a light
application of oil will be sufficient. If, however,
they are to be put away for the season or for the
winter, oil them thoroughly, being particular to
cover every vulnerable spot of metal. If you are
going to put them away in a damp cellar or if it
is an especially damp or tropical climate, dip the
tools in melted tallow and the rust just can’t get
at them. The tallow may be melted on the stove
in an old kettle kept for the purpose and the tools
dipped in the tallow while it is still hot. This is
only necessary in extreme cases. Usually a good
oiling with lubricating oil on a clean tool will
keep off rust almost indefinitely.

After the tools are once thoroughly cleaned,
insist that they be kept so. Keep old cloths or
cotton waste conveniently in the tool room so
that every tool may be carefully cleaned before
it is put away after each using. It pays on a
large scale; it will also pay in our home gardens
to keep tools clean.

Where several men are employed interest can
often be stimulated in clean tools by giving each
man a hoe, shovel, spade, and trowel for his own
use. The men will usually take pride in keeping
their own tools clean and bright.

The best place to keep tools is one which is dry
and at the same time convenient. Don’t use a
damp cellar if you can help it. If you can locate
your tool room or tool closet close to a boiler or
furnace, do so, as it may save you lots of time in
cleaning off rust. Have your tool room one which
can be locked. Young and irresponsible members
of the family form habits of borrowing valuable
tools, and borrowers are usually slow to return.

Tf the place is a large one and the tools many, so
that hoes, rakes, shovels, and so on that are used by
the dozen or half-dozen, have racks built along the
walls wherein the whole bundle of one type of
tool can be placed and so that each type can have
a rack to itself. Put all the different kinds of
hoes in neighboring racks and all kinds of forks
or spades close together, so that you don’t have to
look all about your tool room to pick out the
tools you need.

If the place is small and the tools few, an excel-
lent plan is to arrange them so that they can be
hung up vertically on nails, and to have a separate
place for each and every implement. The prob-
lem then is how to show just where each tool
belongs, what nails to hang it on, so that it can
always be found in the same place.

Probably the simplest plan is to take a flat
pencil and mark out the outline of each tool as it

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Melon Frame, 1914 x 2014 inches

Garden Frames at

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or 10 for

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THE GARDEN

Plant Frame, 1114x1313 inches

a Bargain

$3.50
$6.75

$5.00

5 Single Row Frames for $5.00
or 10 for

OU couldn’t

buy the mate-
rial alone for that
price, to say noth-
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putting them to-
gether, and glaz-
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them.

Every one is made of cypress, bolted
together by strong cast iron corner
braces. Bolted mind you, not nailed.

The Melon and Single Row
Frames have movable sash; the
Plant Frames sliding glass.

The Melon Frames are big enough
to start two hills of melons, a clump
of rhubarb, some asparagus, or use
them as regular little cold frames.

The Plant Frames are also a handy
size for starting melons, cucumbers,
cauliflower, lima beans and such, or
for coaxing along early single plants of any kind.
They will help you in a dozen different ways.
10 for $5.00. Think of it.

The Single Row Frames are just the finest
things for setting over the rows of vegetables or
flowers planted right out in your regular garden

Single Row Frame. 3 feet long, 1114 inches wide.

Cast iron corner brace that bolts
the frames together, not a nailused

$9.50

plot. It is the sim-
plest, easiest way
yet to get things
early without hav-
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Beans a month
sooner are just one
of the things they
make possible.
How can we afford to make these
frames at such ridiculously low
prices? Answer: They are made
from short lengths of cypress such
as we have always burned, until this
happy thought came into our heads.

All we now ask you to pay is the
bare cost of the labor of making
them, to which is added the price
of the cast iron corner braces, and
ameagre five per cent profit.

We are making the plant frames
at the rate of 500 a day, and selling
them in ‘‘bunches.’’

If you want prompt deliveries, you can readily
see the necessity of ordering at once. State whether
we shall ship them by freight or express.

P. S. No less than 10 of the Plant Frames sold
in one order—it wouldn’t pay usto pack any less.

Lord & Burnham Company

New York
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Boston
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» 9 Grapevines $1.00

Strong, Hardy, Three-year-old Vines

Any five of the fcllowing well-known varieties :
(Red)—Brighton, Delaware, Lindley
ite)—Niagara,
(Black)—Concord, Worden, Moore’s Early, Wilder
These vines will grow anywhere and will bear the year after planting.
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Grapes are easily grown and should be in every garden.

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GRAPEVINE SPECIALISTS

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Established 42 Years

MAGAZINE

May, 1911

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hangs on the nail. The outline may then be
filled in with paint and will quite clearly show
Just where each one belongs. This method is
the one which shows missing articles the plainest
and which works best when the men employed are
ignorant and careless— and that is the kind of
men on most places. Any one can see where a
tool goes when a life-sized silhouette of it in its
place is painted on the wall.

But some persons do not like the appearance
of the painted ghosts on their tool house walls.
They regard them as ugly and decidedly unes-
thetic. For them there are other but more diffi-
cult methods. These consist in different systems
of numbering the tools. They all call for a cata-
logue or list of the tools giving the name and
number of each, so that, if any are lost, they can
be looked up and new ones supplied from the
description on the list. That is rather simple;
the difficulty arises in trying to put numbers on
the many different tools.

HOW TO NUMBER TOOLS

The numbers may be of paper and pasted on.
If you decide on this, don’t laboriously cut numbers
out of old calendars but spend ten to twenty-five
cents and buy at any large stationer’s a complete
set of paper cut-out numerals. They come either
in black or white and in several sizes, all with
gummed backs so that they can be easily pasted
on. The trouble with paper numbers is that
they usually rub off the first time the tool is used.
This may be prevented to some degree by being
careful that the number is pasted where the least
handling is given and also by shellacking or varnish-
ing over the numbers.

A second method is to stamp a number into the
tool. Steel stamps can be bought for twenty
cents a numeral, and they can be used on either
wood or metal by the simple method of hitting
them with a hammer. A full set of ten costs two
dollars, and with them any combination of num-
bers can be made. The difficulty with this kind
of marking is that the numbers are small and not
readily seen, so that mistakes’ in hanging them
up are very frequent.

Probably the best way of labeling tools is to
put the number. on with paint by means of a
stencil. A circular stencil giving all numbers
and letters can be bought for a dollar. The
circular stencil makes easy work of getting the
numbers straight; the painted numerals are easily
seen and the paint stays on much longer than paper.
If you are careful to put the numbers where there
is the least wear, they will last a year or so before
they will need to be freshened up with another
coat.

All your tools should be identified by your
own mark on them. One way to do this is to have
a burning brand with which all wooden-handled
tools can be marked. This is an iron, one end of
which is made to form your initials or your name.
It is heated red hot and pressed into the wood,
making a permanent brand. A brand of five
letters or less can be made for one dollar and a half;
extra letters cost twenty-five cents each.

Perhaps a better way and certainly a cheaper
way is to decide on a color or kind of mark for your
own. With this color all articles should be painted.
For instance, if your color is red, put a red circle
around the handles of all tools. This can be seen
from any point, is easily put on, and is a good
identification. We know of a community in
Massachusetts where all the farmers do this, each
farm having its own mark for tools and implements
of all kinds. It even extends to harnesses and
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there is a check in its place showing who is respon-
sible. This method has been very successful
where work is being done on a large scale, but will
hardly be found worth while when only a few men
are employed.

Maryland. B. H. CROCHERON.

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How to Make Beds and Borders

INCE beds and borders are intended solely
for the purpose of accommodating living
plants, they should be made so that they will
furnish everything that a plant demands of the
soil. Not only should the soil be of such a nature
as to supply abundant food for the roots, but it
should also be of sufficient depth and of proper con-
sistency, and free from undesirable constituents.

You are breaking virgin ground, say a piece of
old pasture. The main lines of the garden plan
are staked out and you are about to make the beds
and borders. The soil consists of a top-spit of
brown loam overlying a clayey subsoil. If the
latter is a stiff clay, and insufficient surface soil
overlies it, you face the necessity of importing
additional material. But if the consistency of
the subsoil is not so hopeless, the proper procedure
is to bring soil and subsoil into intimate admixture,
so that one may temper the other, and to do so
to such a depth as the ordinary requirements of
gardening demand. In most _ circumstances
this may be taken as two feet or thereabouts.
This is best done by the operation. known as
“trenching,” a term applied strictly to spade work,
which has for its object deep tillage, as distinguished
from ‘“‘digging,” by which the surface layer of the
soil only is turned over.

Trenching is best done in early spring or late
fall when the weather is open. It is conducted
in various ways according to the results required
and to the previous condition of the ground. In
“full-trenching” the process has the effect of re-
versing the relative positions of the upper and lower
layers of soil.

This complete reversal is admirable treatment
for ground which has long been in tillage, and there-
fore already broken up to the trenching depth,
but it is inadvisable in the case of new ground,
the subsoil of which has not seen the light perhaps
for centuries. On such ground the subsoil is
compacted and unsuited to plant growth.

In such a case you can only “half-trench.”
This consists in removing the surface soil in sec-
tions, then breaking up the subsoil with a fork,

Trenching affords a good opportunity for properly
enriching the soil

and subsequently replacing the surface soil. A
better method is to more or less completely mix
the soil and subsoil to the desired depth. The
operation is conducted as follows:

The ground is opened up to the full depth by a
trench cut across the border as shown by the heavy
line in the illustration, which represents the trench
in cross-section. The soil removed is carried to
a position near the far end of the border. Then
proceed to fill up the trench at A with soil taken
alternately from B and C, D and E, and so on
until you reach the end of the border, when the
space left is filled in with the soil that has been
taken there for the purpose. If the land is old
pasture, take care to bury the turves, so that they
will rot.

The primary object of trenching is to produce
a workable soil of sufficient depth, but it inciden-
tally assists drainage and aeration, and gives
opportunity to properly incorporate manure.
When making beds and borders in a new garden
this should not be neglected. As the work pro-

2 i» GEREN 40 S53 secs a -------
oe Pegiics NER: X iCK RUBBISH

Draining; for heavy clay soils have the lowest layer

of brick rubbish

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May, 1911

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ceeds add manure to the soil at a regular rate,
until the whole border has been treated. This
must be done so that the manure will be well
distributed in depth, and not merely added to
the new surface layer.

Once made in this way, the border will not need
trenching again for some years. The annual

| digging and manuring will serve to keep it in

efficient condition.

With beds and groups of beds of compact shape
trenching as just described is hardly practicable.
The better method is first to remove the top-spit
over the whole surface of the bed, heaping it close
at hand; then to do the same with the lower
layer, making a separate heap of it; after which
the bottom is forked over and the soil thrown back,
mixing well together that from the two separate
heaps, and adding manure as in ordinary
trenching. With very light or very heavy soils
some tempering material must be added.

On heavy clay soils use sand, fine gravel, ashes,
and vegetable matter. Or you may even make
the lowest layer of brick rubbish with ashes
overlying. This ensures good drainage. Ofcourse,
at least two feet of soil must be put above the drain-
age layer. The cost and trouble may be more
but the results will repay.

Borders prepared in this way do not suffer
from waterlogging, even during wet winters. In
hot summer weather they neither bake nor become
dry for any great distance down.

On light soils, which usually owe their lightness
to an undue amount of sand, or may consist almost
entirely of sand, we may add stiff loam and clay
to give it greater body and a more retentive char-
acter. As such soils are usually deficient in
humus, vegetable matter also may be added with
advantage.

Whether the treatment is designed to render
a heavy soil lighter or a light one heavier, the aim

| of the garden-maker should be to secure a well-

drained bed or border, the soil of which, to a depth
of at least two feet, is of a workable consistency
and not likely to suffer from extremes of weather,
either in the direction of drought or continued
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In soils of the heaviest kind it may be necessary
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intervals over the whole of the ground—not
merely beneath the borders.

On stony land the operation of trenching affords
opportunity for removing excess of stones. Screen-
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is actually an advantage to the soil, helping to keep
it loose and workable. W. S. RoGERs.

Peas, Sparrows and a Hoodoo

[pe English sparrow being a gypsy rogue, is

superstitious. Some time ago an old negro
gardener taught me this, and how to use the fact
in saving my early peas. Uncle Ben says it will
work every time, and I have tested it to my own
entire satisfaction.

The garden peas and sweet peas are among the
very first things to come up in the garden in spring,
and the sparrows think their tender green sprouts
are delicious! After having had three successive
plantings eaten off clean to the ground, I was
I had breathed out
threatenings and spread poison, but the sparrows,
day after day, poised themselves daintily on my
brush trellises and nipped off the peas.

Then old Uncle Ben took charge. “Jest give
’em white strings to run on,” he said, “and de
sparrows won’t light near ’em.” He fixed stout

poles, four feet high and ten feet apart, in the
rows of newly sown peas, stretched a wire top and
bottom, and with a ball of white wrapping twine
in his hand, wound the twine up and down over
the wires, crossing it to make a lattice work. The
sparrows never went near that trellis.

In the South negroes stretch white twine about
a watermelon patch to ward off birds. The crow
is epecially wary of a white string so placed. I
suppose the sparrows regarded Uncle Ben’s pea
trellis as some sort of snare, but Ben said it is a
hoodoo and he may be right!

North Carolina. CHARLES E. RAYNAL.

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If you have a garden, or raise fruit, you ought to
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Dandelion Greens for Spring

Ni cultivated plants become weeds when

they are “out of place,” and some common
weeds assume the importance of culinary plants
when cultivated. No garden green that I grow
or buy is more acceptable in the spring than the
young leaves of the dandelion.

In 1909 I bought a packet of seed from a Toronto
seedsman and sowed them on May 2oth. Earlier
planting would have been better, but circumstances
did not permit. The seeds were sown in two
continuous rows ten inches apart on one side of the
garden, and in eight weeks the leaves were ready
for use. The photograph was taken on July 31st;
it shows that part of one row has been harvested;
the remaining leaves have passed the best stage for
cutting.

To have quick growth and leaves as tender as
possible, sow the seed in deep rich soil, and, after
the plants appear, hoe frequently. The leaves
may be blanched by tying them together or by
banking them with boards. Locate the patch

2

Cultivated dandelion plants photographed on July
81st. These leaves have passed the cutting stage

where the plants will not be disturbed if it is de-
sired to grow them for more than one season.
For commercial purposes seed should be sown
every year, but in the home garden there is no
reason why the same dandelion plants cannot
be made to give satisfactory results for a number
of seasons, provided the plants are not allowed to go
to seed and thereby scatter and become a nuisance.

Late in the season the plants were attacked by a
mildew (Erysiphe cichoreacearum). I cut off all
the leaves close to the ground but above the crowns.
Little or no growth was made during the rest of
the season, but the plants wintered well and
commenced growth the following spring as soon
as the frost was out of the ground. The first
cutting of leaves was made on April 25th. Later
harvestings were taken during four weeks, as often
as required — two crops being taken off the same
plants last season. When the mid-ribs of the
leaves became ‘‘woody” the plants were allowed

to grow at will. All blossoms were removed as,

soon as formed to prevent spreading. Although
usually it is best to treat this crop as an annual,
my plants will again be carried over winter in order
to see what they will do through their third season.
Canada. A. B. Curtine.

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Lasts a
Lifetime

May,1911

Can be

used in

When insects infest your plants learn first what
species they belong to—then buy an insecticide
which is intended for their destruction. Aphine is
effective against all plant sucking insects. You can
depend on it for positive results without fear of
failure or dissatisfaction.

An amateur relying on home prepared remedies
will in nearly every case injure his plants but not
kull the insects. Aphine will kill the insects and
invigorates plant life.

Aphine is a concentrated liquid spraying material
easily diluted with water. It can be applied to
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“ We know of no insecticide which has more quickly demon-
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“Our outdoor roses were badly infested with aphis. With
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“T have given Aphine a very thorough trial on plants in-
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“T have used Aphine on orchard trees and ornamental plants
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1911

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Nasturtiums as a Screen

I ONCE heard a man say that his wife wanted a
lot of nasturtiums right against the front of
their house where it was sunny, but that he was
unable to gratify her wish because of the fact that
there was not enough loam there to hold any seeds.
I suggested that he use boxes to hold the loam but
he disapproved. Shortly afterward I visited his
home. There was a lattice in the front of the
house that rose from the granolithic pavement to
the flooring of the veranda. This would be an
ideal place for the vines but there was no loam.
Then came the happy thought: Why not plant
the seeds underneath the veranda and lead the
tendrils through the lattice to be strung on chicken

These nasturtiums, by the end of summer, had |

completely covered this lattice

netting in front of the lattice? Success was still
doubtful, for the space under the veranda was
found piled high wich boards and when these were

| removed the loam looked anything but healthy.

But we dug it over and were delighted to find
enough good loam there to answer our purpose.
Manure was applied before the seeds were sown
in wooden boxes. When they were about three
or four inches high they were transplanted to just

) behind the lattice under the veranda and left to

themselves. The plants grew rapidly; the pro-
tected spot where they were put served as a sort
of hotbed as it had a southerly exposure. The
vines pushed through the lattice and quickly
attached themselves to the wires.

Before the end of the summer the front of that
porch was a mass of green.

Massachusetts. LUKE J. DoocueE.

Anemones—A Note From
England

Aes reading Mr. Wilhelm Miller’s article

on anemones in the January, 1911, GARDEN
Macazine, Mr. William Robinson of London,
England, the author of “The English Flower
Garden” writes us as follows:

“There seems to me no reason in stating that the
blue wood anemone is an American variety. I
first saw it at the base of a wall in the Oxford
Botanic Gardens many years ago. The curator
gave me some roots of it and told me that he had
gotten it from a friend in Ireland. It has now
spread to almost everywhere that hardy flowers are
thought of. I have noticed that in Irish woods,
with gritty and free soil, the wood anemone varies
a good deal and one may see several forms of it
in one piece of woodland. This form, I think,
arose in the same way. Hereabouts in our weal-
den soil the wood anemone keeps to one pale form.
There are various forms of blue and purple wood
anemone in our country, but none of the clear
color of Robinsoniana.”

Your Last Chance 7,0 wisi"
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POULTRY SECRETS DISCLOSED

We offer to all poultry raisers the essential knowledge and secret methods of many of the most successful
poultrymen of America. As a rule these secrets have been guarded with extreme care, for it is on them that
the great successes have been built. They have cost years of labor and thousands of dollars. They will cost
YOU only a trifle and a few minutes to write us. i

HOW WE OBTAINED THESE SECRETS

Michael K. Boyer, Associate Editor American Poultry Advocate, has had exceptional opportunities and
the closest friendship with poultrymen all over the country. They have freely told him many of their most
jealously treasured secrets, many others we have bought, and this scattered material, together with several of
Mr. Boyer’s own valued methods, hes now been collected in book form. It must be clearly understood that
every secret printed has been obtained in an honorable way.

“POULTRY SECRETS”

First published in 1908, this collection of the carefully guarded secrets of famous poultrymen created a sensation
in poultry circles. It has run through thirteen editions, and is still selling at a lively rate.

READ WHAT PURCHASERS SAY

I received Farm Journal and “Poultry Secrets,”
and am very much pleased with both. The secrets are
worth their weight in gold. Why, I paid $5.00 for the
sprouted oat method. You certainly give a fellow

CONTENTS

SECRETS OF FOWL BREEDING—Burnham’s Secret of Breeding. Felch’s
Mating Secret. Mendel’s Secret of Heredity. Secret of Alter-
nating Males for Fertility. Secret of. the Philo System. The over his money’s worth.

Grundy Method. Curtiss’ Secret of Hatching More Pullets than Andrew F. G. Morey, Utica, N. Y

Cockerels. Davis’ Secret of Raising Every Chick. Babcock’s eats 4 eS

Secret of Developing the Spike on a Rose Combed Fowl. , ——

I purchased a copy of “Poultry Secrets” and find
many helpful ideas in it, especially Dr. Woods’ Egg

Hatching Secret.
Mrs. F. T. Darnell, Westfield, Ind.

SECRETS OF FEEDING—Secret of Feeding Grains. Dr. Woods’ Laying
Food Secret. Feeding Linseed Meal. Feeding Meat and Salt.
Proctor’s Salt Secret. Brackenbury’s Secret of Scalded Oats.
Feeding Charcoal, Grit and Oyster Shells. Secret of Green Feed.
Secret of Feed at Fifteen Cents per Bushel. Sprouted Barley Se-
cret. Smith’s Secret of Preserving Vegetation in Poultry Runs.
Important Feeding Secret. Miscellaneous Feed Pointers. Chick
Feed Secrets. Seely’s Secret of Dry Bran Feeding. Gowell’s Fat-
tening Secret. Gray’s Fattening Secret. Greiner’s Corn Feeding
Secrets. McGrew’s Secret of Feeding During Moulting.

By putting within our reach these ‘‘Poultry Secrets,”
you are doing a more philanthropic work than giving
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for us to make both ends meet. es

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SECRETS OF HOUSING AND CARE—Secret of Successful Yarding. Se-
cret of Telling the Laying Hen. Secret of 200 Eggs per Hen per
Year. Jawney’s Secret of Insect Killers. Secret of Successful
Moulting. Zimmers’ Secret of Securing Foster Mothers. Broody
Hen Secrets. John Robinson’s Secret. Secret of Chicks Dying in
Shell. Secret of Scaly Leg Cure. Secret of How to Hold a Fowl.
Blanchard’s Secret of Stopping Cocks from Crowing at Night.

Received your book of ‘‘Poultry Secrets.”’ It’s an
exceptionally instructive work, and worth $10 to any
progressive poultryman. J would not care to take
that for my copy if I could not get another. —

Robt. F. Kingsland, Montville, N. J.

EGG SECRETS—Brown’s Secret of Preserving Eggs. Secret of Killing
the Fertility of Eggs. Secret of Obtaining Winter Eggs. Secret of
the Angell System. Secret of Eggs All the Year. Secret of Having
Perfect Eggs. Kohr’s Secret of Selecting Layers. Kulp’s Secret i : z area
of Producing Great Layers.’ Professor Rice’s Fat Hen Secret. Secrets” also arrived, all of which I was very glad to
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MAGAZINE JUNE, 1911

A Little
Garden of Summer Books.

TALES OF OUTDOOR LIFE

ROLF IN THE WOODS By Ernest Thompson Seton

Author of “Two Little Savages,” “Boy Scouts of America,” etc.
_ A new Boy Leather-stocking tale centring about the War of 1812. _ Profusely
rps and with marginal decorations by the author. Fixed price, $1.50 (postage
15 cents).

JOYCE OF THE NORTH WOODS By Harriet T. Comstock
SECOND LARGE PRINTING
“As vigorous a piece of writing as has appeared in some time.” —Chicago Tribune.
An exceptionally fine story.”—N.Y.World. Illustrated. Fixed price, $1.20
(postage 12 cents).

THE CABIN By Stewart Edward White
Author of “ The Pass,”’ ‘Camp and Trail,’ ‘‘ The Rules of the Game,” etc.

A blithe chronicle of the building of a cabin home, in a forest-girdled meadow of
the Sierras, 6,500 feet up toward the mountain summit. This book is full of
nature and woodcraft and the sheer delight of outdoors. “California John,” that
satisfying figure of “The Rules of the Game,” enters these pages with his shrewd
philosophy. Indeed, Mr. White gets very close to the heart of things and to those
essentials of human existence which are materials of daily life in city or woods.
Decorated Wrapper and Illustrations. Fixed price $1.50 (postage 15 cents).

TWO ON THE TRAIL By Hulbert Footner

SECOND LARGE PRINTING

A romance of the great North-Western wilderness.
the eager and romantic spirit of youth.” — Hartford Post.
price, $1.20 (postage 12 cents).

A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST By Gene Stratton-Porter
A romance of the Indiana woods which has sold by hundreds of thousands
throughout the country.

FRECKLES By the Same Author

A charming nature romance of the same country. Both volumes illustrated;
uniform binding. ach, Fixed price, $1.20 (postage 12 cents).

THE RULES OF THE GAME By Stewart Edward White
FIFTH LARGE PRINTING
“A big, clean, splendid story.” —Lexington Herald.
“A capital story.” — N. Y. Tribune.
“A straighforward tale of adventure.’’ — Chicago Evening Post.
Illustrated. Fixed price, $1.40 (postage 15 cents).

“A corking yarn, full of
Illustrated. Fixed

BOOKS OF FUN, MYSTERY AND ADVENTURE |

POTASH & PERLMUTTER By Montague Glass

“Rapidly becoming a classic ’’”

The phenomenal interest aroused by the tales of these two gentle-
men of the Ladies’ Cloak and Suit industry makes the new edition of
this book a noteworthy event. Mr. Glass’s stories are inimitable
character-sketches, full of humor and a sense of the ridiculous.
Illustrated. Fixed price, $1.20 (postage 12 cents).

“813” By Maurice Leblanc

The reader is carried on, breathless with delightful suspense, from
one surprise to another. It is the most terrific duel of Lupin’s
career, this struggle with the secret, monstrous Louis de Malreich,
in whose footsteps is death. Tllustrated. Fixed price, $1.20
(postage 12 cents).

WHIRLIGIGS By O. Henry

One of the last things O. Henry did before his
death was to select the stories for this volume. It
is probably the most representative of all his
books and one finds the old touches of fine skill
and delicate and broad humor. Fized price,
$1.20 (postage 12 cents).

LET ME FEEL YOUR PULSE
By O. Henry

This is the last bit of inimitable humor which

_ O. Henry put his hand to. He was able to see
the ridiculous side to his own ill-fated search for

_ health and you will chuckle and laugh aloud over
Illustrated. 50 cents.

“7 », his genuine fun-making.

THE VANITY BOX By Alice Stuyvesant

A tale which suggests a strange case that recently thrilled
English society. Lady Hereward is found mysteriously murdered
in a ruined tower. An important clue is a little gold vanity box,
and in unravelling the tangled threads there are many exciting
scenes and unexpected dénouements. Illustrated. Fixed price,
$1.20 (postage 12 cents).

A COMEDY OF CIRCUMSTANCE

By Emma Gavf

An unusually clever and interesting tale. A girl upon a street
corner recognizes a friend upon a street car and calls to her un-
successfully. A young man undertakes to catch the car and
deliver the message. The result is a romantic complication of
fun and adventure. Illustrated. Fixed price, $1.00 (postage 10 cents).

THE GREEN CURVE By Ole Luk-Oie

Declared to be the most vivid, the most awe-inspiring pic-
tures of war in its grandeur and its terror in recent literature.
“The Green Curve” has much of the weird, sinister power which
made Poe’s tales famous the world over. Fixed price, $1.20
(postage 12 cents).

THE HOLLOW NEEDLE By Maurice Leblanc

The adventures of Arséne Lupin in a mysterious cavern on
the coast of France. There is a secret of the French Crown
involved in this stirring tale of the great detective.
Illustrated. Fixed price, $1.20 (postage 12 cents).

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 287

| TALES OF ROMANCE |

THE GOLDEN SILENCE By C.N. & A. M. Williamson
SECOND LARGE PRINTING

“The Golden Silence” is a powerful tale of Algeria, full of the wonder and

mystery of the desert. The action is dramatic and the descriptions are done with

rare power. ‘The story will bring a new type of Williamson novel to all those

who love tales of mystery, romance and adventure. Illustrated. Fixed price, $1.35
(postage 14 cents) .

ACCOUNT RENDERED

SECOND LARGE PRINTING

By E. F. Benson

The fearful consequences of a great lie, entailing a sublime sacrifice, form the
groundwork of this romance. Far beneath the gentle satire and humor one finds
those revelations of human nature in its charms and its foibles which it is Mr.
Benson’s unique art to give us so vividly. Fixed price, $1.20 (postage 12 cents).

THE COWARD OF THERMOPYL
By Caroline Dale Snedeker

This is a tale of Greece in its Golden Age. The narrative has exquisite charm
and as it unfolds this intimate record of a human spirit in that far-off day, one is
conscious of the supreme and simple beauty of Greek life and of all that great
train of dramatic events which made Thermopyle a name forever. TIlustrated
and decorated. Fixed price, $1.20 (postage 12 cents).

THE MILLER OF OLD CHURCH By Ellen Glasgow

Miss Glasgow’s art has deepened steadily with each new novel since she electri-
fied the literary world over a dozen years ago. This story unfolds itself among
contemporary people whom she knows and depicts with searching sureness, sym-
pathy, and humor. Wrapper in color. Fixed price, $1.35 (postage 13 cents).

FENELLA By H. L. Stuart

This story of a love abandoned in blindness and saved through its own undying
faith will rank with the finest-wrought of modern fiction. Paul Ingram, mystic
and dreamer, is a figure that will live, and the story of his love for Fenella, that
stanchest of souls, pure of vision, and unworldly wise, sounds the very depths of
the human heart. Fized price, $1.20 (postage 12 cents).

THE ROOT OF EVIL
SECOND LARGE PRINTING
The splendid strength of this tale lies in the conflict between James Stuart and Nan
in which love and desire of luxury struggle for mastery. It is Mr. Dixon’s best
book. Tilustrated. Fixed price, $1.20 (postage 12 cents).

PANTHER’S CUB By Agnes and Egerton Castle

The love story of an opera-singer and an English lord is an old tale. In this
case the lord loves the daughter, and has to reckon not only with the frantic pro-
test of his own family, but also with the jealousy and bitter resentment of “ La
Marmora,” the mother. Illustratedincolor. Fixed price, $1.20. (postage 12 cents).

By Thomas Dixon

BOOKS FOR A QUIET HOUR

RECOLLECTIONS OF ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS

“The Prisoner of Fort Warren.” Edited by Myrta Lockett
Avary. Containing the Prison Diary of Mr. Stephens.

“A heart-melting record” is the term applied by a reviewer in the New York
Times to this book. He continues: “Of the true stories of literature, we know of
none more touching and appealing than this book.’ The only companion Stephens
had in his confinement was a mouse. In his diary occur such touching entries:

“Saw nothing of my mouse to-day. If he is about he kept close, though I
noticed that a piece of potato which I placed on the floor for him, should Le seek
food while I was asleep, was gone when I got up. Whether Geary [the soldier
who was detailed as his attendant] “or the mouse removed it, I do not know. I
will bait my mouse again.’’ And again: “Unless the little mouse is eyeing me
from his hole, I have no other companion.” And this unconsciously pathetic
touch: “I think he is about somewhere; he may not bealone.”’

Photogravure frontispiece. Net, $2.50 (postage 35 cents).

LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON By J. S. Bassett, Ph.D.

The authoritative biography of Jackson and the political
history of his period. Professor Bassett is the only bio-
grapher or historian who has used the large collection of
Jackson letters, lately for the first time made accessible.
This new material has been thoroughly used: and many
new lights thrown on the character of Jackson and on the
political history of the time. This work, therefore, super-
sedes all previous treatments of the subject. 2 vols. boxed,
Net, $5.00 (postage, 50 cents).

THE PASSING OF THE IDLE RICH
By Frederick Townsend Martin

A strong and illuminating volume upon the follies of the
Four Hundred by a man who knows society and has lived
his life in it. It is a book of constructive ideas and the
author draws some startling conclusions.
a om epee Jllustrated. Net, $1.00 (postage 10 cents).

MEMORIES OF A MANAGER

Being most interesting recollections of plays and players for the past quarter-
century. Thirty-two illustrations from original photographs of actors, scenes,
and other dramatic subjects. Net, $1.00 (postage 10 cents).

OPERAS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW

By Dolores Bacon

By Daniel Frohman

This work covers the story of the opera and the most interesting events in the
life of the composer, while snatches of the melody are interposed here and there
in the text. As an interesting feature the names of the original casts are given.
It is written in a simple, understandable style, suitable for young and old, and
gives a thorough knowledge of some of the world’s favorite operas. Decorated.
Net, 90 cents. (postage 10 cents.)

LIFE AND LETTERS OF MOSES COIT TYLER

By Jessica Tyler Austen

Few more interesting figures are to be found in the
course of the nineteenth century than that of Moses Coit
Tyler, essayist, clergyman, journalist, lecturer, historian
and Professor of American History at Cornell University.
The chapters are trebly delightful for they are as so many
windows upon the literary and public life of the most inter-
esting period of the last century. Tllustrated. Net, $2.50
(postage 25 cents).

MAKING LIFE WORTH WHILE
By Herbert W. Fisher

Mr. Fisher’s volume is a mental tonic. He has a
precious faculty of cogent reasoning which, so to speak,
makes you hold up your hands while he relieves you
of your prized conceits in many points of common-sensed
living. It is the clearest headed and most refreshing
book in a long while. Net, $1.20 (postage
12 cents).

288 | THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

JuneE, 1911

| PRACTICAL GARDEN BOOKS |

WHAT ENGLAND CAN TEACH US ABOUT
GARDENING By Wilhelm Miller. Ph. D.

This is the first attempt to check the literal copying of Old World gardens and
to lay the foundations of an American style of gardening. It is the spirit of
English gardening we should copy—not the materials. Dr. Miller illustrates in
great detail the right and wrong spirit m gardening. Eight illustrations in color.
Net, $4.00 (postage 35 cents).

THE AMERICAN FLOWER GARDEN By Neltje Blanchan

An authoritative work on everything pertaining to the garden. It covers
adequately the needs of the amateur whose garden is either extensive or the
reverse, and every fact among the thousands is made quickly available by a
fourteen-page index. The pictures are printed as inserted plates and form, we
believe, the best collection ever attempted in a book about gardens. Over 80
illustrations. Net, $5.00 (postage 35 cents).

THREE NEW VOLUMES IN THE GARDEN LIBRARY
Each, Net, $1.10 (postage 10 cents)

VINES, AND HOW TO GROW THEM By William McCollom
A practical volume dealing with all kinds of climbing and trailing plants.

Many illustrations.
CHRYSANTHEMUMS, AND HOW TO GROW THEM

A complete manual of instructions for growing specimen plants.
attention is given to amateur work.

By I. L. Powell
Special

GARDEN PLANNING

Especially designed to help the maker of a small garden.
and plans.

By W. S. Rogers
Many sketches

BOOKS OF THE OPEN

ADVENTURES IN CONTENTMENT
ADVENTURES IN FRIENDSHIP

Two volumes full of the quiet, cheery spirit of country life. They are the har-
vest of a quiet mind. Beautiful colored frontispieces and many black and white
drawings by Thomas Fogarty. Uniform Edition. Hach volume, Fixed price,
$1.20 (postage 12 cents).

MUSIC OF THE WILD By Gene Stratton-Porter

Author of “Freckles,”’ ‘“‘The Harvester,” ““A Girl of the Limberlost ,’’ etc.

In this volume, Mrs. Porter has done that tremendously difficult thing of really
putting into pages of a book the charm and the call of Nature. In three sec-

By David Grayson

NATURE'S GARDEN By Neltje Blanchan
Net, $3.00 (postage 30 cents).

PRS NEIGHBORS By Neltje Blanchan
$2.00.

BIRDS THAT HUNT AND ARE HUNTED
By Neltje Blanchan $2.00.

BIRD HOMES
Net, $2.00 (postage 20 cents).

" THE BUTTERFLY. BOOK bByDr. W. J.
ollan Net, $3.00 (postage 30 cents).

THE ae BOOK By Dr. W. J. Holland
Net, $4.00 (postage 40 cents).

THE INSECT BOOK By Dr.L. O.
Howard Net. $3.00 (postage 30
cents).

THE MUSHROOM BOOK By Nina
L. Marshall Net, $3.00 (postage 30

THE TREE BOOK By
Julia E. Rogers Net,
$4.00 (postage 40 cents).

THE FROG BOOK By
Mary C. Dickerson

Net, $4.00 Naa
40 cents).

BOOKS OF NATURE AND NATURE'S HEART

THE REPTILE BOOK By Raymond Ditmars
Net, $4.00 (postage 40 cents).

MOSSES AND LICHENS By Nina L. Mar- Part I.
shall Net, $4.00 (postage 40 cents).

THE SHELL BOOK By Julia E. Rogers

“It is a book scientifically arranged, care-
and beavtifully illus-
trated. — New York Times. Net,
(postage 40 cents)

GUIDE TO MUSHROOMS
Taylor Cole Net, $1.50 (postage 12 cents).

COLOR KEY TO NORTH AMERICAN
BIRDS By Frank M. Chapman

By A. R. Dugmore fully indexed,

Every bird illustrated in color.
(postage 20 cents).

NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS’ EGGS By
cents). Chester A. Reed Illustrated. Net, $2.50
(postage 25 cents).

FLOWER GUIDE. WILD FLOWERS EAST
OF THE ROCKIES By Chester A. Reed
Illustrated. Flexible sock cloth. Net, $0.75
(postage 5 cents); Flexible leather, Net,

$1.00 (postage 5 cents).

Doubleday, Page & Co.

‘gx. . GARDEN CITY

tions: “The Chorus of the Forest,” “Songs of the Fields,’ and “The Music of
the Marsh,” this book gives exquisite descriptions of life among the trees, of
familiar voices of the field, and of the wonders of lowland and marsh. Mrs.
Stratton-Porter has placed in her book 120-photographs, the fruits of untiring
labor with her camera, and they are as rare and fascinating, as her knowledge of
nature. Illustrated. Net, $2.50, (postage 35 cents.)

CAMERA ADVENTURES IN THE AFRICAN WILDS
By A. Radclyffe Dugmore, F.R.G.S.

Over 100 photographs of wild life. It is a wonder-book of African game. Net,

$6.00 (postage 35 cents).

By Chester A. Reed

In Two Parts

New Edition. Water and Game

Birds; Birds of Prey, Illustrated. Flex-

ible sock cloth. Net, $1.00 (postage 5

cents). Flexible leather, Net, $1.25 (post-

age 7 cents).

Revised Edition. Land Birds
East of the Rockies. From Parrots to
Bluebirds. Illustrated, Flexible sock
cloth. Net, $0.75 (postage 7 cents). Flex-
ible leather. Net, $1.00 (postage 10 cents).

Parts land II, bound in a single volume.
Illustrated. Flexible leather. Net, $2.25
(postage 17 cents).

GOLDFISH — AQUARIA — FERNERIES
By Chester A. Reed Illustrated. $0.50.

GUIDE TO TAXIDERMY By Charles K.
and Chester A. Reed. Illustrated. Net,
$1.50 (postage 15 cents).

WILD FLOWERS By Chester A. Reed
320 flowers illustrated incolors. Net. $2.50
(postage 15 cents).

BIRD GUIDE

$4.00 Part II.

By Emma L.

Net, $2.50

JUNE, 1911

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

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SPRING IN GARDEN CITY

For the first time we feel ready to receive
visitors, with comparatively few things to
apologize for. It took a short time to erect
the building for the Country Life Press,
but it has taken a long time to get all the new
machinery necessary for the complete opera-
tion of all the departments. The last to be
put in order is the color department for
photo-engraving, so that we now make our
own plates for colored covers and illustrations.
The very latest machine is the binder which
is being installed to put a magazine together
so that the World’s Work will be open flat
instead of being wired with rigid staples,
which permit of only half opening it.

An early fall and a late spring have held
up much of the planting out of doors, but
much of-the work was done in April, after
five months of outdoor inactivity, and by
the time these lines get into print we hope
everything will be green and attractive.

At all events, such as the place is, our
friends and neighbors will be made welcome.

TALK: OF - THE

“To business that we love we rise betime
And go to ’t with delight.”"—A ntony and Cleopatra

Please note that the telegraph station in
our building is the Western Union. Do not
use the Postal Telegraph to Garden City —
it means delay.

The Garden and Farm Almanac has been
entirely sold out and no copies can be supplied
until the r1grz Almanac is ready next
December.

The Sweet Pea Society has an exhibition
on our grounds in June — 150 varieties of
bloom.

The American Booksellers’ Association held
its convention in New York and a train load
visited us at Garden City on May oth,
greatly to our pleasure.

April saw more than 8,000 trees, shrubs,
and flowers planted on our grounds.

BIND YOUR COPIES OF “‘THE GARDEN
MAGAZINE

May we suggest again the value of the
bound volume of The Garden Magazine? It is
valuable as a book of reference, it is interesting
as a magazine to read; you will find that if
you go back and study the bound volume,

- OFFICE:

when you are in the mood, there are number-
less suggestions and ideas which you missed
in reading the monthly issue.

For some years we had trouble to get the
magazine properly bound in cloth; now
we bind it ourselves, and we hope to the
satisfaction of our readers.

If you send back your own numbers in
good condition, we will exchange them for
the bound volume for 75c. We will furnish
binding cases, so that your local binder can
do the work, for soc, postage 7c extra. You
can purchase back volumes, if you care to
complete your set, from the small stock we
have, at the following prices:

Vols. 1.— DT. . . $5.00 per volume
Volse VeVi ee Sar Sor ie
Vols: sEX.=- ox Ts Zico = 2
Vol. XIII. ‘ it as

Volume XIII is the last and it was finished
in February, torr. You can, if you choose,
do the business personally with any of our
offices as follows:

Main Office: Garden City, L. I.

New York Bookshop; Pennsylvania Station.

New York Advertising Office: 11-13 West
Thirty-Second Street, New York.

Boston Office: Tremont Building.

Chicago Office: 150 Michigan Avenue.

BOOKS FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR
The Garden Library
This new series of “little monographs” marks a
new era in garden literature. It is the first series of
low-priced, practical handbooks on home gardening
with beautiful illustrations that has ever appeared

in America. Each volume illustrated. Size, 54 x 8.
Cloth. Postpaid, $1.20; net, Sr.1o.

Roses, AND How to Grow Tem. By Many
Experts.

Ferns, AND How To Grow Txem. By G. A.
Woolson.

Lawns, AND How To MaKe TuHem. By Leonard
Barron.

Darropits — Narcissus, AND How To Grow

Tuem. By A. M. Kirby.
WaATER-LILIES, AND How To Grow THEM. By
Henri Hus and Henry S. Conard.
Hovusr Prants. By Parker Thayer Barnes.
ORCHARD AND Fruit GARDEN. By E. P. Powell.
THE FLOWER GARDEN. By Ida D. Bennett.
Tue VEGETABLE GARDEN. By Ida D. Bennett.
Vines, AND How to Grow THem. By William
McCollom.
CHRYSANTHEMUMS,
By I. L. Powell.
GARDEN PLANNING.

AND How to Grow THEM.

By W. S. Rogers.

Write to the Readers’ Service for
290 suggestions about garden furmiture T H E G A R D E N M A G A Z I N E

Dutch Bulbs and Plants
direct from Holland

Have you ever seen a real Dutch Bulb catalog —a
catalog of Dutch Bulbs issued by the house that grew them?
Do you understand the difference in sizes and
qualities that exist in Dutch Bulbs —
do you realize that your lack of success
with these Harbingers of Spring may
be due to the fact that each Fall you
are planting culls, instead of real firsts?

JUNE, 1911

on your Drives, Paths and Tennis Courts can be

permanently done away with by making one
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Impelled by the increasing American demand for the choicest
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at the price of the best—

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will hereafter sell direct to the consumer from their American Branch
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— though the same firm has branches in other leading countries.

Our catalog will appeal to all flower lovers— to the man who
buys ten tulips, hyacinths or daffodils, and the man who buys ten
thousand — to those who want Spring flowering bulbs outdcors, as
well as those who want the best for forcing indoors.

Our shipment of Dutch Bulbs for Fall Planting is now being made up. We suggest
that you order early—as it will be impossible to fill orders after this American allotment
is sold. A few prices which show what real first quality bulbs cost when bought direct:

Hyacinths Tulips Narcissus (Daffodils) Crocus
$2 per 100 up $1 per 100 up 75c per 100 up 40c per 100 up

SHALL WE SEND THAT DUTCH BULB CATALOG ?

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Home offices and nurseries, SASSENHEIM, HOLLAND.

Other branches, MOSCOW, RUSSIA LEIPSIC, GERMANY
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Farr’s Bulbs Imported to Order
Special Discounts to Early Buyers

Many inquiries have been received from customers who desire to obtain
rare bulbous Irises and the other plants not usually offered in American
catalogues.

Others, who have been pleased with the superior quality of the plants I
have supplied them, have asked if it would be possible for me to furnish
them with Daffodils, Tulips, Hyacinths, etc., for fall planting.

To meet this demand, I have prepared a new little Bulb Booklet which
lists all of the standard favorites, in addition to many new and rare ones.

These will be imported direct on customers’ individual orders only; by
this means larger and finer bulbs may be secured at prices less than usually
are chacged for bulbs ot average quality.

A SPECIAL DISCOUNT OF 10 PER CENT ON ALL
ORDERS RECEIVED BEFORE JULY 1st

As the finest bulbs can only be obtained by placing orders in advance,
it is of the greatest importance both to me and to you that you specify your
wants as early as possible; and for this reason a special discount of 10%
will be granted on orders received before July rst, torr.

Booklet ready now. I'll be glad to send a copy if you wish it.

BERTRAND H. FARR
A New Edition of My General Catalogue of Hardy
Plant Specialties Will Be Ready September Ist

Wyomissing Nurseries 643D Penn St., Reading, Pa.

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How to Make the Reminder
Really Remind

qe reminder will just about double

in usefulness if you resolve to read
it once every week and check off the items
that you have already attended to.

Bare ground in the vegetable garden in
June is a disgrace to a real gardener.
Make every inch of soil contribute to
the improvement of some crop.

Every yegetable that can be planted
should go in some time this month. It is
warm enough for beans, squash, corn
and melons, and cool enough for lettuce,
peas and spinach. Sow all these once a
week until June 30th.

Take away all shelter and frames from
melons, cucumbers, etc., that have already
been transplanted. Spread out the vines
and gently peg down the main stems.

Bring tomatoes, eggplants, peppers and
okra out of the frames or hotbeds.

Don’t let the frames remain idle after
being emptied unless they are the collaps-
sible kind and can be stored away. Let-
tuce, radishes, beets, onions and all the
quick growers will do finely in the frames
all summer if watered and shaded.

Maybe some of the earliest cauliflowers
can have their leaves tied up over their
heads pretty soon now. Be sure the heart
is dry and clean when this is done.

Train tomatoes to one or two strong
stems. Support these well on stakes or
trellises. Then pinch off all other shoots
as they appear.

Transplant the late cabbage, cauliflower,
broccoli and Brussels sprouts plants to
their permanent locations.

There should be plenty of ripe vegetables
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By the way, let up on the asparagus bed
about June 5th, and by the 15th, stop
cutting entirely.

Beet thinnings are fine in place of, or
mixed with, spinach or dandelion greens.
Mixed? Why not? We mix divers things
in the delectable Irish stew. Why not
these closely similar delicacies together?

There will be lots of other thinning to
do — carrots, parsnips, oyster plant, turnip
— in fact, any plant that is too close to its
neighbor for comfort must come out.
Many of them can be transplanted; others
devoured.

As soon as the earliest pea vines have
borne throw them on the compost heap,
and get something else growing where they
came from.

Scatter nitrate of soda, dry, or pour a
solution along the rows of New Zealand
spinach, lettuce and all crops that are to
stand all season.

The bringing up of the fruit trees and
bushes determines their crop. This is
their period of adolescence. Care for
them in their impressionable youth.

Begin summer pruning — that is, rub-
bing off suckers, pinching back random
shoots, thinning fruit that has set, and
cutting out crowded growth. There’s more
about this elsewhere in this number.

Dwarf varieties on trellises need lots
of care and training this month.

All fruit should be sprayed. Use Bor-
deaux mixture with arsenate of lead
before the blossoms open and after they fall.

Dig up strawberry beds that have
borne for two years or more. Manure,
dig over, and level the land and use for
late crops of vegetables.

Cherries and strawberries will be the
more plentiful and the less pecked if
covered with mosquito netting.

Every flower that will thrive in your gar=
den can be planted in May or June-==
if not before. How many have you
planted?

Take up all spring-flowering bulbs from
the borders, dry them in the shade, and
store them away in a dry place. This
does not include crocus, snowdrops, etc.,
scattered about the lawn.

Fill any empty beds that result with
annuals from the frames or indoors.
Perennials are better yet and will save
much work next season.

Sow perennial seed everywhere out-
doors. The plants will not bloom this
summer but they will next season.

Stake all tall-growing plants that are
likely to be broken by the wind, e. g.,
gladioli, dahlias, cosmos, and lilies.

293

Loosen the soil in every foot of every
bed often. The seedlings will come up
more easily, and the moisture and plant
food go down more easily to their roots.

Give hardy perpetual roses a gallon of
liquid manure per plant once a week after
May 25th.

Move indoor, potted plants out into the
sunny or shady border, depending upon
their natures. Cut flowers are the true
house decoration in summer.

Every shrub that has flowered by this time
should be trimmed lightly now ==and
now only. This is all the pruning
they need.

You can still do great things to an un-
satisfactory lawn. Renovate bad spots
with a little soil and good seed. Use this
same mixture for replacing all the promi-
nent dandelions, mulleins, docks and plan-
tains that you can remove. Mow the lawn
once at least, before any smaller weeds
can go to seed.

If you want a real “quality” lawn,
top-dress with nitrate of soda (a quarter
of a pound per too square feet), or bone-
meal and wood ashes (five pounds to the
same area). Apply either just before a
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The “Fun” of Collecting Anemones, II.— By Wilhelm Miller, ¥%

THE ‘“‘GARDEN WINDFLOWERS,”’ WHICH GLORIFY THE FORTNIGHT BETWEEN SPRING
AND SUMMER AND ARE PARTICULARLY FAMOUS FOR THEIR GORGEOUS REDS AND BLUES

(Ep1tor’s Note — The “‘ Fun of Collecting” series is designed especially for beginners who would like to become experts.

collecting, instead of airing botanical pedantry.)

OR the love of Heaven,” writes a
Chicago enthusiast, “tell us how
to grow garden anemones! Ever since
I saw them growing wild by the million
in the Riviera I have bought the tubers
every fall, but they are the meanest roots
I ever saw. I can never tell which side
is right side up. But surely no one can
possibly get them a// upside down! Why,
then, do I never get a flower?”

This is one of the most fascinating
problems that any lover of gardening can
take up, for the garden anemones are
probably the most gorgeous flowers that
come between the tulips and the poppies,
and although they are very much admired
in England they are practically unknown
in America. Indeed, I must confess that
I have never seen a good bed of them in
the United States. They grow about a
foot high, and have saucer-shaped or starry
flowers, about two inches across, in every
important color save yellow. The flowers
are set off by delicately cut foliage, and
they are particularly beautiful when stirred
by the wind. No tulip or poppy has a
purer or more vivid scarlet. No larkspur
or aster has a richer blue. And, to cap
the interest, they are probably the originals
of the “rose of Sharon.”

Thousands of Americans who have taken
the winter cruise to the Mediterranean
have been enchanted with these flaming
wild flowers in the Holy Land, where they
completely carpet the Plain of Sharon.
The prevailing color there is a deep red,
and there is another famous flower so
much like it that tourists do not distin-
guish it, and it is doubtful whether the
Bible does. This other flower is the
Asiatic buttercup (Ranunculus Asiaticus),
which has given rise to the Persian and
turban ranunculuses, equally celebrated
in European gardens and unknown in
America. In the gardens they are dif-
ferent enough because the Anemone never
has a good yellow and the Ranunculus
never has a good blue. But if you go to
Palestine next March you will find the
wild originals nearly the same shade of
red, and you can distinguish them by the
involucre which is present in Ranunculus
but absent in Anemone. The best account
of these wild flowers that I know of was
written to the Gardeners’ Chronicle for
April 28, 1906, by Mr. Arthur W. Sutton,
who says that “the apparently endless
variety of flowers present a _ spectacle
which JI suppose cannot be surpassed
elsewhere in the world.” He also states
that on Mt. Carmel the anemones are
often four inches across.

The mystery of countless failures in

America with these two famous flowers is
easily explained by climate. In the Holy
Land they bloom in March and April
after a dry winter. It is the spring rains
and spring heat that make the desert
blossom like the rose. Then comes the
hot summer sun and the flowers vanish.
Under such conditions flowers are gen-
erally bulbous. But in America we have
rain both in winter and summer, which is
very distracting to a poor bulb or tuber
that has settled itself for a long winter’s
nap.

In California and the Southwest the
anemones ought to do well, but east
of that they are betrayed by November
rains, or winter warm spells, into making
a premature growth, which is infallibly
nipped by the next hard freeze. And
in the summer, when they ought to be
ripening their tubers, this all-important
process is delayed or partially thwarted
by summer rains. It is too bad the
climates do not gibe, for these anemones
can never become universal favorites here,
as they are in Europe. And, as luck
will have it, the great buttercup family
reaches its climax, from the garden point
of view, in these highly bred descendants
of the rose of Sharon.

But what discourages the beginner is
a joyous challenge to the lover of garden-
ing who has had some experience. The
problem is essentially the same as with
the cushion and bearded irises from the
Holy Land. Millions of words have been
written on it, but it all boils down to this
—how to keep the roots dry in summer
and winter, but let them grow in spring.
No ideal sclution has been invented.
The standard way out of the difficulty
is to grow them in coldframes, and after
blooming time lift the bulbs, dry them
in a shady place, and replant them in the
autumn.

Unfortunately, flowers in coldframes
look like prisoners, and those who have
the finest taste in pictorial effects put
portable frames over their beds of
cushion irises so that they may bloom
right in the garden when the time comes.
This trick is highly successful with ixias,
and I should like to see it tried with a bed
of scarlet or blue anemones. Any one
who wants to have something unique
in America, and set all the garden
lovers in this country to wagging their
tongues, ought to try this, and if he
succeeds he ought to have a color pho-
tograph made as permanent record of his
SUCCESS.

The best directions for cultivating these
flowers are given in “The English Flower

294

It explains the pleasures and methods of

Garden.” Plant the tubers in October
or November, setting them two or three
inches deep and six or eight inches apart.
The soil must be light, rich, warm, and
well drained, as the roots perish over
winter in heavy clay or in any soil where
water is stagnant. Select a spot that is
protected from cutting winds, as the
foliage is easily ruined in early spring.
Cover with a mound of ashes to shed the
rain, and over the ashes put enough long
manure or litter to keep out frost. Manage
the covering so as to get a late and hardy
growth. During the growing season never
let the plants get dry or they will not flower
that year. Shade them during the hottest
part of the day. After blooming, lift the
tubers, ripen them thoroughly, and store
in dry sand until fall.

The most artistic way to use anemones
is to have a rectangular bed of blue, an-
other of scarlet, another of white, etc.
In England they can be grown in hardy
borders, either singly or in clumps, but
I dare not recommend this practice here.
Another pretty scheme is to use them for
edgings, especially of rose beds. In rock
gardens they are said to look well, and there,
if anywhere, the tubers might be left in
the ground permanently. For spring bed-
ding they are as unsuitable as the English
irises, because they bloom so late as
to interfere with summer bedding. Mr.
Sydenham thinks that the colors are
“infinitely better mixed,” but the general
opinion is that a bed should be only one
color, and the common practice is to put
each color in a bed by itself. Gardeners
take a good deal of pains to select and
keep true only the best forms, largest
flowers, and brightest colors.

But it is as a cut flower that the anemone
is most famous. Before the winter bloom-
ing carnation came, the anemone and ran-
unculus were -florists’ flowers of high
standing. To appreciate this the student
should see dozens of colored plates pub-
lished in The Florist (London, 1840 to
1884) during the first two decades of
which the standards of perfection in such
flowers were the most exacting the world
has ever known. Anemones were then
in demand practically the year round.
To this day they are occasionally forced
for March bloom, and the English people
can have these flowers outdoors from
spring to fall without a break. The
winters are so mild that they can usually
plant the tubers every month from Sep-
tember to April. By spring, however,
the vitality of the tubers is considerably
reduced. Experts declare they can raise
anemones from seed as easily as annuals,

JuNE, 1911

and many treat them as such, but this
is not practical for beginners.

THE POPPY ANEMONE

The poppy anemone (Anemone coronaria)
doubtless takes its name from the poppy-
like brilliancy of its scarlet varieties, but
it can be had in maroon, mauve, rose,
lavender, flesh, white, pink, scarlet, blood,
and crimson; single or double; and
striped, zoned, or variegated. Moreover,
there are two types of doubling, one pro-
duced by the stamens turning into petals,
and one produced by pistils turning into
petals. In either case they are beautifully
set off by what the old florists called a set
of “guard petals.” The largest flower
of which I have heard measured five
inches. There are two places in the world
where these flowers are grown to per-
fection—St. Brigid, in Ireland, and Caen,
in Normandy. The trade is not agreed as
to which place produces the better strain.

THE SCARLET WINDFLOWER

The scarlet windflower (A. fulgens)
is celebrated for the vivid scarlet of its
starry blossoms. It differs from the poppy
anemone in having black stamens in-
stead of blue, and in having what the
beginner would call narrower “petals.”
The botanists, however, declare that there

a re notrue petals in the genus anemone, .

and that the parts which look like petals
are really sepals. The dazzling effect of
this wild flower in the Pyrenees suggests
the ideal way to use it—viz., to naturalize
it in woodlands, on banks, and in grass
orchards.

Barr declares that this can be done
in England, and that if the roots are
planted in August, flowers may be had
from Christmas onward. He recommends
a southwest exposure and shelter from
ground winds. The plants should be
shaded from the hottest summer sunshine,
or else the roots will ripen too soon, and
start to grow in the fall. The roots must
never be planted while the ground is wet.
The single variety is more attractive in
form, but the double makes a more massive
effect in the garden and lasts longer.
The true double is hard to get, as Chapeau
de Cardinal, a variety of the poppy
anemone, is often substituted for it. The
most striking form is the variety annulata
grandiflora, which has scarlet petals, with
a yellow base, and jet black stamens.

THE PEACOCK ANEMONE

The peacock anemone (A. hortensis
or stellata) is difficult to explain. Hor-
tensis, of course, means “‘of the gardens,”
and some writers use this to include all
the varieties descended from coronaria
and fulgens. I prefer, however, to follow
Davis, who treats it as a native to southern
Europe distinguished from coronaria by
its narrow petals, and from fulgens by its
brownish violet stamens, the flowers being
about an inch and a half across. Barr
calls the peacock anemone “the starry
windflower of the Riviera” as distinguished

THE GARDEN

from “the starry windflower of the Pyre-
nees,”’ which is fulgens. This is the famous
wild flower that fills the vineyards and
hedgerows at Nice, in spots where it is
“not blown to pieces by the winds. The
color range is given by Davis as red, rosy-
purple, or whitish. There is no standard
nomenclature in the trade, and the name
hortensis has almost disappeared from
bulb catalogues.

THE CAROLINA ANEMONE

Since the garden anemones are unrivaled
during the latter half of May, the great
question arises, “Can they be adapted in
any way to American conditions—e. g.,
by hybridizing them with some Ameri-
can species?” The most closely related
anemone we have is the Carolina anemone
(A. Caroliniana). Doubtless this species is

MAGAZINE

295
much inferior to the garden anemones,
and whether it could inject any great
amount of hardiness is dubious. Britton

describes it as a purple flower, varying to
white, attaining an inch and a half in
width, and with a tuber only a third of
an inch in diameter. It blooms in April
or May, and grows four to ten inches high.
No one offers it for sale, unless A. decapetala
of European catalogues should chance to
be the same thing. It grows wild from
Illinois to Nebraska, and south to Georgia
and Texas.

ANY ONE CAN GROW SYLVESTRIS

We now come to an exquisite flower
that any one can grow, the snowdrop
anemone (A. sylvestris). This is a pure
white, fragrant, nodding flower an inch
and a half across. Everybody who knows

The snowdrop anemone (A. sylvesiris). a fragrant. waxy flower on a long. wiry stem

296

it loves it for its
waxy, saucer-shaped
flowers, long, wiry
stems good for cut-
ting, ability to grow
in sun or shade, the
jolly big clumps it
makes without
spreading too much,
and the long sea-
son of bloom, for it
sometimes gives
scattering flowers
from spring to frost.
It is thoroughly
satisfactory as far
north as Ottawa,
where it blooms
about May 19th and
June roth.

Here we have
clearly the first sug-
gestion of the sum-
mer type of wind-
flower — the white
blossoms that make
the dogdays cooler
in the garden and
lend enchantment
to the woods, but
from these sylves-
tris differs in having
only one flower on
a stem, sometimes
two, while the Penn-
sylvania or Cana-
dian windflower has
several. It differs
from the garden
anemones in color
and in having a
creeping rootstock
instead of a tuber.
The most garden-
esque variety of it
is Eliza Fellman, a
double form, which
is said to produce
fewer but longer
lasting flowers.

The snowdrop anemone in the garden
produces so many offsets in garden culti-
vation that these must be removed occa-
sionally, or the flower will deteriorate.
The loveliest way to use this flower is to

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

The poppy anemone (A. coronaria) may be had in many colors either single or double

colonize it along woodland walks where
it will get plenty of diffused light.
There is no prettier idea to be gotten
from a study of European woods during
its season. The roots can be bought in

JUNE, 1911

the fall from the
leading American
bulb dealers, and
cost about $3.50
per hundred.

ANEMONES FOR
COLLECTORS

On the Pacific
Coast there are two
representatives of
this group, A. Grayi
(or Oregana) with
blue or purplish
flowers, and A. del-
toidea with white
flowers. Neither
is catalogued, and
I do not know
their season of
bloom.

A. Baicalensis has
been tested at Ot-
tawa and is consid-
ered a variety of syl-
vestris.

The cyclamen-
leaved anemone (A.
palmata) sounds
interesting because
it is the only yellow
anemone of May
and June. Whether
it looks too much
like a buttercup I
cannot say, but Mr.
Robinson calls it a
“charming plant,”
and Mr. Perry says
it has flowers as big
as half a dollar.
Though native to
Northern Africa, it
is hardy in England
and is said to in-
crease fapidly.

Abov/. twenty-five
named varieties of
the garden anem-
ones can be bought
from American and European bulb dealers
in the fall. The chrysanthemum-flowered
strain is interesting as having the petals
regularly overlapping, as in an aster or
chrysanthemum.

Washing-

A Rank Heresy That Pays—By H. J. Wilder, st"

UNUSUAL CROP MANAGEMENT THAT IS MORE PROFITABLE THAN THE ORTHODOX PRACTICE —A ROTATION
FOR NEW ENGLAND FARMERS WHO CANNOT COMPETE WITH THE GRAIN PRODUCERS OF THE WHEAT BELT

@ ere principal method of crop rotation
in the northeastern part of the
United States is the time-honored one
of corn, followed by oats, then wheat,
then grass. This system may still yield
a profit, under good management, on
farms with medium to heavy soils; that
is, heavy loams, silt loams, and clay loams.

In the North Central States, also in

Iowa and in parts of the states which
adjoin her in the mid-Mississippi basin,
where the great majority of soil areas are
of the class mentioned, this standard
rotation has paid, and where the valuation
of land is not too high this plan of soil
management brings fairly good financial
returns at the present time. In fact the
returns there are so good that farmers in

New England, New York, New Jersey,
and Pennsylvania — states containing a
much higher percentage of lighter soils
and others that give poor yields of cereals
—find it impossible to compete in the
production of oats and wheat with the
Middle Western States, where soil and
other conditions are better adapted to
the production of these cereals.

June, 1911

While looking over thousands of farms
in the Northeastern States in the course
of a soil examination for the United States
Department of Agriculture, I have asked
hundreds and hundreds of farmers what
plan of crop rotation they follow. The
standard answer is the usual rotation,
but some omit the oats and sow “corn-
stalk” wheat, while others sow grass
seed with the oats because wheat ‘does
not pay.” A minority vary the rotation
by introducing some money crop such
as potatoes.

In nearly all cases corn and hay are
said to pay, but outside some special soil
districts, such as the limestone valleys
of Pennsylvania, the farmers are few
who will say that any money is made in
growing either wheat or oats. Then
in reply to the direct questions as to why
he grows them the average farmer almost
unfailingly answers, ‘““Why I have to in
order to get my land back into grass,”
or “I have got to grow something.”
There is, to his mind, no other practical
way to get corn ground back into sod.

I grew up on a farm where neither oats
nor wheat paid, and none has_ been
grown there for at least forty years. I
now own another farm on which conditions
are the same. So when I meet a farmer
whose only reason for growing oats or
_ wheat is to use them as the easiest stepping-
stone to get land back into sod, it is not
unnatural to ask such a man why he does
not sow grass seed in the corn at the last
working. The time that was required to
convince him of the practicability of the
plan finally led me to suggest it only in
rare instances, but here it is:

In cultivating corn level culture must
be practised, because hilling leaves the
ground too uneven to run a mower over
smoothly. This, however, is the best
practice in all events, as it conserves
the moisture to the best advantage. For
this purpose any of the cultivators of the
Planet Jr. or Iron Age type, either riding
or walking, are very satisfactory. The
cultivations should be sufficiently frequent
to keep the corn, at least, fairly clean.
It is desirable to have the field free enough
from weeds so that it may be worked
the last time when the corn is only waist
high and a hand-seeder worked over the

ye i i

Sen a ie fe ea

Type of harrow used for working the seed. Costs
about five dollars

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

tops of the corn. For those of the older
generation who have the skill to sow
the seed evenly by hand the corn should
be just so high that the hand can be swung
back and forth comfortably above it. In
actual farm practice, however, work is
sometimes so pressing that the cultivation
is delayed until the corn has grown above
this height. Even then the seed can be
sown uniformly by hand if only one inter-
row space is covered on each side of that
in which the sower is walking.

Two objections to this method of seed-
ing are commonly made by those who
have not tried it. The first is that some
seed is wasted by falling in the roll of the
corn leaves, and the second that the seed
can not be uniformly sown. After the
seed is sown the field should be gone over
again in check rows with a spike-toothed
cultivator. This shakes practically all the
seed off the corn plants, levels the ground,
and covers the seed to the right depth.

The type of harrow used for working
the seed in is shown in the accompanying
illustration to the left, costing about #5 at
retail. An implement just as effective is
shown in the other illustration, and can be
made in odd hours by a handy farmer for
about fifty cents paid the blacksmith. If the
farmer has a small forge so that he can
do the iron work himself, the cost is prac-
tically nothing. A set of teeth from a
“worn-out” spike tooth harrow set in
three pieces of planed 23 x4 in. scant-
ling; a cross-piece of similar dimensions
in which several holes have been drilled
that the spread of the implement for rows
different distances apart may be adjusted
from the back; a shorter piece of strap
iron to serve as a clamp and allow for the
spread at the front; a straight green
hickory pole about one inch in diameter
and bent to a f\-shape and ends sawed
off so as to give the right height of bow
for easy holding, and fitted into two holes
in the cross piece at the rear and tightly
wedged; a short piece of strap iron for
bolting the front ends together; a piece
of iron bent into a whiffletree hook with
two bolts for attaching the trees; one
long bolt to hold the three pieces of wood
in the form of a letter A; and the imple-
ment is complete. Worn-down teeth are
better than new ones, because being not
so long they cover the seed to a more
desirable depth.

The next bugbear objection is that
the cornstalk stubs will interfere with
the cutterbar of the mower the following
year. But by spring the stubs are so
decayed that a light roller will break them
down so low that the cutterbar will pass
over them for the most part and the knives
escape being clogged or dulled. This
rolling should be done just as soon as the
ground is settled in the spring. If done at
that time the hoof prints work no injury.

There is nothing new or original about
this method of cropping. It has been

practised for nearly a half century on
the expensive lands of the Connecticut
Valley in the states of Connecticut and

An effective home-made harrow which costs a mere
nothing to make

Massachusetts, and the reason for present-
ing it here is simply to suggest an alter-
native to the large number of farmers who
think it necessary to grow small grains
merely as crops to seed with, even though
they do not find such crops profitable.

A very desirable feature of this method
is the insurance of a good stand of grass
in a dry year. The occurrence of a severe
dry spell just after the wheat or oats is
gathered leaves the tender grass plants
exposed to the hot sun of midsummer,
with roots insufficiently developed to
reach any moist earth, and the stand is
much injured or even completely lost.

The same year the moisture in a corn
field, if it has been conserved as it should
have been by frequent cultivation and the
maintenance of a dust mulch, is sufficient
to sprout the seed and maintain its growth.
This is aided, of course, to some extent
by the partial shade which the corn crop
affords throughout the season.

With so many factors in its favor, and
supported, as it is, by the results of long
experience on high-priced land, it seems
passing strange that this plan is seldom
practised in all that part of the North-
eastern United States where oats and
wheat do not yield a direct profit.

Prepare for Pests

[ote rose bug. Spray, about June 7th,
roses, grapes, asters, and all plants
with large, juicy buds or blossoms, with
arsenate of lead, one pound n ten gallons
of water (or Bordeaux mixture). Repeat
about June 14th. Meanwhile pick off every
bug you see.

Potato beetle. Don’t look, at first, for
a hard shelled bug, but for a soft, repul-
sive, red and black worm. Spray arsenate
of lead on potatoes, eggplant, and toma-
toes as soon as he appears.

Aphis, thrips, and leaf-hoppers will
bother the flowers, roses especially. Use
whale oil soap or kerosene emulsion, May
21st and June 2oth.

Mildew and all other fungi:. Bordeaux
mixture every two weeks will prevent,
and should cure. Potassium sulphide will
do on roses, and copper sulphate may be
substituted for vines, etc., where there
is danger of staining.

Bringing Wild Flowers Into the Garden—By Elsie McFate, #3:

Pennsyl-

SOW SEEDS OF THE NATIVES AND GIVE THEM THE SAME TREATMENT AS THE EXOTICS
AND YOU WILL HAVE STRONG, ENDURING PLANTS—KINDS THAT GIVE GOOD RESULTS

HE wish to add the wild flowers of
the wood and field to the hardy
border inside the garden is common to
many of us, but the realization would ap-
pear to be beset with difficulties if we are
to judge from the failures seen. These
are all due to starting on a wrong tack, and
I have proved that the wild flowers can be
successfully introduced and that they will
grow as vigorously as anything else. The
wrong method is by going into the wild
and digging up entire plants whenever
they are seen. The right way is by going
back to first principles and starting your
plants from seed. Moreover, it is easy
to obtain quantities in this way ‘and the
native haunts are not desecrated or van-
dalized.

I owe no apology to my friend the botan-
ist. Together we climb the Pennsylvania
mountains very pleasantly until he shuts
between the leaves of his herbarium the

Into such an informal border as this, our native plants can be introduced as fancy may dictate.

lovely, breathing flowers about him. My
specimens — alack — are “introduced
into cultivation.”

Public favor is fast reclaiming many
beautiful flowers, hitherto known only
as flowers “common in waste places of the
United States of America.” Many wild
flowers are most beautiful under cultivation;
but there are conditions which govern their
common use. They must be propagated
from seed, layers or division, grown under
cultivation, given a sturdy constitution
and finally moved in good clumps to their
permanent places in the border. My
experience is that a hotbed is unsuit-

able for the germination of wild-flower

seed.

I prefer to sow the seed in flats in Febru-
ary or March, placing the boxes in well
protected coldframes that have been kept
well covered at night and during very cold
days with straw mats. I use an ordinary,

light, open seed bed soil just as is common-
ly employed for celery, tomatoes, etc. A
slight frost in the frame will not kill the
seedlings if they are properly hardened.
Seeds sown in this manner produce plants
of the most vigorous constitution.

During “open”? weather the seedlings
are ‘‘pricked out”’ into the frames from the
boxes and by the beginning or middle of
April are in fit condition to be placed in
open ground. In this manner I have
grown wild flowers from seed for many
years and although propagation by divi-
sion offers an easier method of increasing
stock, I always find more vigorous plants
are obtained from seed.

It is not wise to buy plants of this char-
acter in pots. This is the most unnatural
and disastrous way a wild flower can be
handled. I quote from Miss Jekyll: “I
have a great dislike to growing hardy
flowers in pots. The roots become pain-

Here they will develop without hampering restraint and will
take on a beauty and vigor unknown in the field

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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 299

JUNE, 1911

FOR EARLY SPRING BORDER

fully cramped and distorted and require AMONG BULBS

the most careful manipulation.”

There are many flowers so common
along every woodland byway that it is
not worth while to shelter them. Notably
in this class grows Geranium maculatum,
whose soft clouds of lavender are fine for
mass planting. This is of great value
planted in connection with iris, as it blooms
at the same time and may be used most
effectually to relieve the solid mass of
iris flower and foliage which is so con-
spicuously ugly along herbaceous bor-
ders in the gardens of most of our city
outskirts.

The sweet Cicely (Myrrhis odorata) which
came to our woods from over seas is a fine
plant where fern-like foliage is desired. Its
flowers are valuable for cutting, belonging
in the decorative line of gypsophila. It holds
its graceful leaves all summer if occasionally
cut back. Although the stems and roots
possess a sweet aromatic flavor, it is not
safe to taste them unless you are quite
sure, as their counterpart is the deadly
poison hemlock. For this reason alone
the sweet Cicely should never be col-
lected, but grown from nursery stock or
seed.

I grow Phlox divaricata in nursery rows,
as by regular hoeing a heavy root can be
obtained from a small offset in a single
season. In a sunny border it shows forth
in great beauty, but to me it seems best
to catch and hold the light in deep shade.
Its keeping qualities, when it is cut, are
excellent, and its fragrance commends it
for house decoration. In my rock garden
I grow it in combination with snow-in-
summer (Cerastium tomentosum), asI like
the soft, gray foliage and white flowers
with pale lavender. Its growth is some-
what stunted among dry rocks unless the
soil receives deep preparation.

For dry, poor soils in sunny borders
nothing equals the butterfly weed (Ascle-
pias tuberosa). I use it in connection with
tritoma, meadow lily (Lilium Canadense),
scarlet bee balm (Monarda didyma), with
full green background of eulalia. This
gives the most brilliant combination im-
aginable, the butterfly weed outrivaling
all other flowers in gorgeous coloring.

Herein lies a suggestion to color lovers
who buy, plant, dig, store, and annually
lose hundreds of cannas. Butterfly weed,
meadow lily, and scarlet bee balm gain in
beauty for at least fifteen years and in
occasional instances outlive a generation.

A border of asters is easy to arrange.
The roadside gives the keynote. Among
asters introduce boltonia, Joe Pye weed,
bouncing Bet, iron weed, and Eupatorium
ageratoides. Make this bed a well spaced,
carefully staked collection of choice Amer-
ican, late-flowering perennials.

Among tall native flowers in general,
free use should be made of grasses, among
the best of which are found spike grass
(Uniola latifolia) and Dactylis glomerata,
var. aurea elegantissima, which, however
incomprehensible its name, is really a very
pretty border grass.

COMMON NAME

STANDARD NAME

COLOR

PROPAGATION

Celandine
Dutchman’s

breeches
Bloodroot
Wild sweet wil-
liam

Bluebells

Liverwort

Chelidonium majus
Dicentra Cucullaria

Sanguinaria Cana-

densis
Phlox divaricata

Mertensia Virginica

Hepatica triloba

Yellow
White
White
Lavender
Lavender, shad-

ing to pink
Lavender, white

Seed or division

Div. of bulbs in |

spring or fall

Div. in spring
or fall
Div. in spring

Div. in spring
or fall
Div. in spring

|
| Valued for early foliage

Foliage dies in summer.
Supplement with hardy
ferns

Foliage dies in summer

Evergreen, creeping foli-
age. Fragrant flowers

Foliage dies in summer.
Do not transplant often
Hand-
early

Evergreen foliage.
some border for
bulbs

FROM MAY UNTIL JULY — COLOR SCHEME: LAVENDER, WHITE, PURPLE, AND YELLOW

COMMON NAME

Crane’s bill

Double butter-
cup

Early meadow

rue

Common blue

flag

Great Solomon’s
seal

Canada violet

STANDARD NAME

COLOR

PROPAGATION

REMARKS

Geranium maculatum
Ranunculus —_acris,

var. fi. pl.
Thalictrum dioicum
Iris versicolor
Polygonatum gigan-

teum
Viola Canadense

Pale purple
Yellow

Purplish
Purple
Greenish white

4

White, pale
purple

Diy. in spring
Div. in spring or
fall

Division only
Div. in spring or
fall

Division or seed

Div. in spring

Most useful in iris border

Escaped from
Spreads rapidly.
for cutting

Excellent for mixed hardy
border

Grows freely in common
soil

Handsome drooping flow-
ers. Showy foliage
Makes good edging.
for common soils

Europe.
Good

Best

JULY AND AUGUST—A GLORIOUS COMBINATION

COMMON NAME;

Butterfly weed

Bee balm

Cardinal flower

Tickseed

Meadow lily

Tiger lily

STANDARD NAME

Asclepias tuberosa

Monarda didyma

Lobelia cardinalis

Coreopsis lanceolata

Lilium Canadense

Lilium tigrinum

COLOR

Orange-red

Cardinal-red

Scarlet

Yellow

Red-Yellow

Orange

PROPAGATION

Seed

Div. in spring;
never in fall

Divide shoots
every year. Old
plant biennial

Seed or division

Bulbs in fall

Bulbs in fall

AT THE CLOSE OF THE SEASON

COMMCN NAME

Star wort

False dragon’s
head

Joe Pye weed

Iron weed

White snake-
root
Pearly everlast-

ing

STANDARD NAME

COLOR

PROPAGATION

Aster spss.

Physostegia Virgin-
iana

Eupatorium pur pur-
eum

Vernonia Novebora-
censts

Eupatorium ager-
atoides

Antennaria Margar-
itacea

Lilac, purple,
white
Rose, purple

Palle purple;
shading to rose

Showy purple
White

Pearly white

Div. in spring
or fall
Div. in
Seed

spring.

Div. in
Seed

Div. in
or fall
Div.

spring
or seed

Division or seed

spring. |

REMARKS

Flowers keep two weeks
in water. Plant in dry
soil

Fine for massing.
grow in any location
Will grow in good garden
soil

Will

One of the best flowers for

cutting. Blooms con-

tinuously

Best lily for common

border

Var., splendens best
REMARKS

Feed heavily. Stake care

fully
Handsome tall spikes of

flowers. Plant in back-
ground
Four to ten feet high.

Keeps well for large de-
coration

PEt ieetive sins banege
| clumps

| Desirable for cutting.
| Keeps long in water

| Can be kept all winter

| if cut early and dried

|

Of all permanent flowering vines, the Chinese wistaria (W. Chinensis) is the best. It flourishes in most situations, but early spring, injury to the buds or poorly

ripened wood causes its failure.

Best to prune not at all

The Showiest Permanent Flowering Vine—By Susan J. Homans, %%

A MATURE plant of wistaria, grown as

a tree or standard, is when in full
bloom, one of the handsomest sights im-
aginable. Such a tree as illustrated above
is well worth travelling many miles to see.

The plant does not grow very tall in
the standard form — that is, in comparison
to other trees. With careful pruning it
will attain the height of twenty feet and
have a trunk six inches in diameter.

To grow the wistaria as a tree one must
begin when the plant is young, and before
it has developed too decided a vine habit.
I have a tree which I raised from seed,
but that is too tédious an undertaking
to be very generally attempted, particularly
when it is so easy to procure a plant from
any nurseryman, either small enough to
do all the training one’s self or as a small
tree already started.

I had tried for several years to obtain
a plant from the old wistaria vine which
had grown for so many years against our
old house in the country. Nothing in
the way of layerings or cuttings would
succeed. The layerings were unsuccessful
owing to winter depredations by small
boys than which there are few things more
destructive.

One spring I found coming up in the
grass several small seedlings of wistatia. It
had never occurred to me to sow the seed,
but when I found it had been done for
me so successfully, I was much delighted
and cleared away the grass from around
the little plants and helped them all I
could to make their way in the world.
When we later moved to the country,
where we could stay all the year round,
the little wistaria plants came with me.

Some of them have grown into vines,

and it is curious to see how many feet will
be added to the length in one short season.
One I planted in the corner of the lawn and
kept the trailing branches well cut back
and trimmed the shoots away from the
trunk. Nine years after its first appearance
as a seedling, I was rewarded by one cluster
of flowers and was as proud of it as though
it were something I had accomplished
myself.

The next year when it was ten years old
it had grown to be about five feet high
and was a beautiful sight, covered with the
delicately shaded lavender blossoms.

In beginning to train a wistaria plant
into a tree, it is better to give it some
slight support to keep the slender stem
straight until it becomes strong enough to
maintain its own uprightness. It can be
trained in whichever way one elects, though
it is better to let it have only one main
trunk.

An effective way is not to let the tree
branch at all except directly at the top,
when the branches will spread out in the
shape of an umbrella. I let mine branch
further down, but it is none the less beauti-
ful when in bloom.

When it has been decided what shape
it is to assume, it requires constant pruning
and trimming to keep the young trailing
shoots well cut back to the woody branch,
as it never loses its tendency to become a
vine. Sometimes after only a few weeks
of unretarded growth, you will see the
pretty bronze leaves of a baby branch
trailing off, several feet long. The little
branch is trying to find some support to
help it to climb, twining back and twisting
about itself if no other help is near. They
look so pretty with the tender greens and

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bronze of the young leaves that one almost
hates to cut short their aspirations, but
it pays and the end more than justifies
the means. Cut it back ruthlessly to
within two or three eyes of the branch
from which it grew.

After the plant has flowered and the
blossoms have fallen, cut the flower stem
off to within about two inches of the
branch. If it is left on it tends to make
the flowers poorer next year. You will see
if you look close that at the base of the
flower stem, half a dozen or more of the
eyes or spurs are beginning to put out little
leaves. The flowers of next year will grow
here. They always grow on this year’s
wood.

The Japanese prune back their wistarias
very severely and in consequence have
clusters of flowers two or three feet long.
The wistaria which the Japanese make the
most point of growing is W. multijuga.
It must be their climate or because the
Japanese are such natural gardeners, for
we never seem to attain just the same
perfection in this country.

The wistaria most generally grown in
America is the Chinensis. For many years
after its introduction it was grown as a
greenhouse plant until by accident it was
found to be hardy. The white variety,
var. albiflora, was introduced some years
later. With one exception the wistarias
are all native to China and Japan. We
have in this country a native wistaria,
W. speciosa, which, is common from Vir-
ginia to Illinois and southward. It has
small bluish purple flowers. There is also
a white variety of the same. All the
wistarias are easily propagated either from
seed or by layering.

|
|

Practical and Impractical Ideas from England—py w. Miller, 3.

IF YOU HAVE TO BUILD A LOW RETAINING WALL, USE NO MORTAR BUT PUT A
LITTLE EARTH BETWEEN THE STONES AND LET ALPINE FLOWERS COVER THE WALL

Impractical. This wall is covered with large double roses; above are Canterbury bells, edged with hardy pinks. Our summers are so hot that large double roses
should not be trained directly against a wall which is exposed to full sunshine

Practical. Instead of a costly formal wall why not use a rough, dry wall wherever it is strong enough and fill the chinks with hardy pinks, stonecrops, silver-
leaved chickweed. rock cress. houseleeks, ete. Let them root in the bank

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How a City Man Revolutionized the Selling of Farm Products

By (Ge Je, Jeronnn, Jie, se

BUSINESS PRINCIPLES AND MODERN SELLING METHODS ON A SUMMER FARM

\ N 7 HEN we as cityites settled on Pleas-
ant View Farm in the Adirondacks
to begin the business of truck gardening, it
was our purpose to establish the business
with as little delay as possible; for, having
resorted thither to recuperate after too
strenuous work in the city, our stay was
to be limited to the time required to enable
us to get such a hold on good health as
would warrant our returning to the city.
In keeping with this purpose it was
necessary to introduce such methods as
would commend our products to pros-
pective buyers and reduce to a minimum
the competition of our neighbors. For
competition there is, among farmers as
well as among merchants and manu-
facturers. As the patronage we sought
was that of the summer visitors in the
numerous cottages in that locality, perhaps
it was our good fortune to cater to a class of
people who are used to, and have a just ap-
preciation of, progressive business methods.
Farming is a business, and if one is to
be successful as a farmer he must conduct
his business on strictly business lines.
The great quest in the commercial world
is to “find the buyer,” and having found
him to retain him as a permanent customer
by furnishing reliable goods, by fair treat-
ment, and by enterprising methods. Yearly
tens of millions are spent to make known
the merits of what is produced in the
manifold industries that support the race.
An army of trained men, keen, foresighted,
aggressive, yet suave and diplomatic,
is engaged in introducing to the public
the products of mills and factories and
mines and every conceivable sort of busi-
ness that engages the effort of mankind.
Examine into the workings of any long
established and successful business enter-
prise, and it will be found that the utmost
pains is taken to attract people, even to
cater to their whims, and to win confidence
in the various wares for sale. That concern

in any business line honestly using the
greatest ingenuity to draw trade will, other
things being equal, forge to the front.

' The farm nestled in a valley of the Adirondacks,
with summer residents nearby

Now, of course, no farmer or truck
gardener would even dream of ever spend-
ing money on such a scale as the merchant
or manufacturer to build up his business.
But of the principle here involved, getting
trade and retaining it, he must have an
understanding if he would make steady
progress. That is, he must strive to have
the most reliable produce, to prepare it
most attractively for market, to win trade
by just treatment and a courteous and
persuasive manner, to employ such methods
of taking orders, delivering goods, and keep-
ing accounts as shall best serve the conven-
ience of customers and enable them to
know at all times what they owe, and to
be prompt and dependable in meeting
all engagements.

For us as newcomers to succeed in secur-
ing a large volume of trade in a short time,
it was necessary to adhere closely to the
principle enlarged upon above.

Plans were made during the winter,
long before the opening of the season. It
was necessary first to make up a trade list,
that we might be assured of patronage
from the start. To do this, inquiries were
made of the postmaster, at the village
stores, and in casual conversation, for the
names of all persons who might be desir-
able customers, with the out-of-town
addresses of all who were non-residents.
These names were arranged alphabetically.
To each of the prospective customers was
then sent an announcement, stating the
nature of the business to be carried on
and soliciting his patronage. This an-
nouncement was of the following form:

Pleasant View Farm,

Jonestown, N. Y. —

Mr. Joun Dor,
Boston, Mass.
Dear Sir:

From Pleasant View Farm during the coming
season will be furnished vegetables, small fruits,
berries, poultry, cream, and specialties for the table.

There will be regular deliveries, and the service
will be prompt and efficient.

Your patronage is respectfully solicited.

An acknowledgment in the stamped, addressed
envelope enclosed will be appreciated.

Yours very truly,
RICHARD ROE.

March to, 19 —

As replies were received the names were
checked on the list, a tentative customers’
list thus being made ready for future use.

Knowing now that there positively
would be a demand for the products of
Pleasant View Farm, time and energy
could be expended in planning and working
with the encouraging assurance of favor-
able results for all our efforts. Seed boxes
and hotbed were of course assiduously
attended to, and timely preparations made
for a successful start with the garden.
The next step in the selling campaign
was the issuing of weekly bulletins. This
was begun as soon as the earliest vege-

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tables were ready, and was continued
throughout the season. The bulletin
would be issued every Saturday afternoon,
and on it would be listed everything that
was to be ready for delivery the following
week, and any special announcement was
included. The bulletins were mailed at
such time that they would be in the hands
of customers early Monday morning. Here
is an illustration of part of one sent out
after the season was well advanced and
there was a long list from which to choose.

PLEASANT VIEW FARM

During the week of September 6th we shall be
prepared to deliver the following:

VEGETABLES

Tomatoes . . 45cpk. Celery . . 5cbh,
New cabbage - 10¢ ea. Young green peas . 65cpk.
Summer squash . . 5c Green peppers. . . 3C ea.
Stringless green beans ge cle Sweet corn. . 20¢ dz,
Yellow wax beans. Beet greens . 30c pk.
New beets. .. . es ape Lettuce. , - bd.
Young carrots . . 5c “ Cucumbers.

Gtr 5 46 6 « Se (pickling) . a6 eee
Spinach . 30cpk. Parsley 5c bh.

Special prices on tomatoes for canning.

Other offerings include poultry, jellies, and
canned fruits, flowers, etc., a total of 31 items.

Deliveries will be made in the afternoons of
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. Orders for poultry
can be accepted as late as 9 A.M. of the day de-
sired, but it will be much more convenient to
receive them the day before.

Local Phone. RiIcHARD ROE.

These bulletins were a great convenience
to our customers. In many cases the last
bulletin was tacked up in the kitchen for
ready reference. The housekeeper or cook
could plan ahead for a whole week, know-
ing what was to be had, and telephone
or mail the orders before the first delivery
day. With not only the family to provide
for, but a house full of guests as well, this
meant no small item in the household
economy. The bulletins were quickly
and cheaply made with a duplicating ap-
paratus. One-cent stamped envelopes were
ordered in quantities from the post-office
with the card printed in the corner, and

System was introduced into all the operations of
the farm and the fancies of customers respected

June, 1911

with each bulletin would be sent a postal
card addressed to Pleasant View Farm to
facilitate the mailing of orders.

When, after several weeks, by sending
out: these bulletins, we had succeeded
to a certain extent in directing trade our
way, then a public announcement was
inserted in the local newspaper, in a con-
spicuous place in the column devoted to
Local Items, worded somewhat as follows:

Pleasant View Farm.— During the coming
season we shall be prepared to furnish vegetables
poultry, small fruits, berries, and cream. Prompt
attention to inquiries and orders, and best of
service. 7

Local telephone.

It was intended by this newspaper ‘“‘ad’”’
to reach all those who had not received
the bulletins. In addition to this adver-
tising, wherever it was possible, personal
interviews would be had with persons
who would be desirable customers.

Now we were confident the field had been
pretty well canvassed. Much valuable
time and effort which otherwise would
have been expended in peddling and per-
sonally soliciting orders could be devoted
to the garden. Orders would come in
by telephone and mail, and the delivery
clerk could receive them on his rounds, for
he was provided with a bulletin.

In preparation for getting out orders
as expeditiously and attractively as pos-
sible, the sugar house was converted into
a work room, and an old kitchen stove
was there set up. Rough tables were made
of boards, for sorting the vegetables and
dressing the poultry. A supply of paraf-
fine paper and good quality of wrapping
paper was ordered. To avoid any waste
of produce or of time and effort in gather-
ing it, a Distribution Sheet was devised
for listing the orders and classifying the
various items they contained. As soon as
received the names would be entered on
this sheet and the items distributed by
quantities in the different columns ar-
ranged to show the total required of each
kind of vegetable, poultry, and other
articles. On the morning of a delivery day,
after entering items from early orders,
received in the first mail or by telephone,
the columns were footed up. Thus it was
known just what quantities to gather of
each kind of vegetable, and the number
of chickens to be killed and dressed. (For
most of the poultry ordered was broilers,
and these would be killed the day of de-

THE GARDEN

livery, to be used by the customer the
following day). By this use of the Dis-
tribution Sheet, the work of gathering
the produce was intelligently directed,
no more was gathered than orders called
for, and consequently there was no surplus
of dried-up and useless vegetables to be
thrown away at night as we learned had
been the case where a wagon load of truck
was sent out by a predecessor to be peddled
off. Moreover, the sales would have been
no greater by sending out a peddler’s
wagon, for all whom we desired to sell
were notified well in advance of every-
thing we had to offer, so that every one
had abundant opportunity to order what
was required by telephone, by mail, or
through the delivery clerk. As it might be
necessary to change the delivery route
frequently, because of some “‘rush” orders,
the route for each day was indicated on
the Distribution Sheet. (See below).

The next care was the work of actually
getting out the orders. Early in the morn-
ing on a delivery day, the fire had been
started in the stove in the sugar house, and
three or four pails of water were put on
to boil. A hose from a tap in the garden
kept several pails full of cold water for
washing the vegetables. As the latter were
brought in fresh from the garden they
would be thoroughly cleaned in water and
set aside on a general supply table. Then
the chickens, killed by cutting off the heads,
were deposited in a basket near the stove.
Two men, sometimes more, would work
together on the poultry. As each fowl
was taken from the basket it was dipped
into a pail of boiling water, to render
plucking easier. After immersion, the
fowls were plucked clean, and then turned
over to another man to be dressed. The
latter would deposit the dressed fowls in
a tub of clean water, to be washed later
and have all pin feathers removed.

The vegetables all cleaned and the fowls
washed, the stock was ready from which
to fill orders. With the Distribution
Sheet posted up above the general supply
table little time was consumed in pre-
paring the produce for delivery. The
vegetables on each order were carefully
wrapped in white manilla paper and tied,
each kind in a separate package, and the
package marked with name and set over
on the delivery shelves. After decorating
each fowl with a piece of parsley, it was
wrapped first in paraffine paper, then

DISTRIBUTION SHEET

; VEGETABLES POULTRY
SH NAME Saee. CELERY | BEETS Ses PEPPERS} CORN |LETTUCE]| BROILERS Isr. CHKNS.

V |Chidwick, W. B. 9-7. Tel.|| t pk. | 2 b. 6 -| 2 doz. 2 small

V |Smith, K. 9-8. Mail 2b. I 2h. I

¥ |Jones, L. 9-9. Tel. 3 doz. 4 large

¥ |Allwind, S. 9-7. Mail 3 b. 3 h. || 4 large

¥ |Cotwick, M. 9-9. Mail 3 b. 2 I2 |1doz.

¥ |Bulyon, J. 9-8. Tel. 2 pks. 6 4 h. I

¥v |Candelo, W. 9-9. Tel. tb 3 | 1 doz. 4 small

Vv |Jelletoe, T. 9-7. Mail 2doz.| 3h. I

¥ |Barnwold, A. 9-7. Tel. 2b. 4 2 small

Route: Pine Cottage Colony,

both labor and material

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303

in manilla wrapping paper, and set on the
delivery shelves. When all the orders
were complete and had been checked off
on the sheet, the wagon, standing outside
in readiness, was loaded in accordance
with the delivery route for the day, as
indicated on the Distribution Sheet. The
packages were arranged in the order of the
calls, those to be delivered first being in
the rear, where easily accessible.

From the Distribution Sheet charges
were made in the Sales Book, for with few
exceptions all produce sold was charged,
both for our own convenience and that of
our customers. Our trade was select,
and it would have been an annoyance to
collect for each order. During spare
time the Sales Book was posted, and bills
detailing every purchase for the month
and showing total amount due were ready
to be mailed the evening of the last day
of the month. Before the tenth of the
following month settlements of most open
accounts had been received. Our books,
of course, were kept by double entry, and
monthly trial balances assured us of the
correctness of our work and enabled us to
keep track of the general run of business.

The entire procedure of handling the
trade and preparing the orders has been
described in detail, because it was owing
to the methods employed that we were
able to work up the trade in a short time
and give perfect satisfaction. Everything
reasonable was done for the convenience
of customers. The neat, even attractive
way of doing up the orders appealed at
once to cooks and housekeepers. Of this
we had a striking illustration when a
horrified housekeeper described how six
broilers had been delivered on a “hurry”’
order by one of our competitors, wrapped
all together in a newspaper, contrasting
this with the attractively dressed fowls
received from Pleasant View Farm.

The methods in use at Pleasant View
Farm became an object lesson to neighbors
when they found that cityites had stepped
in and secured the cream of the trade in
one season. Yet nothing underhanded was
done. Simple business methods were
employed and the constant effort was to
please the buyer. Under conditions exist-
ing, competition was overcome, not by,
intimidation, deception, or combination,)
but by producing a first-class article and’
gaining the good-will of customers by fair
treatment and enterprise.

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This Distribution Sheet was the keynote of the system. Only such quantities being gathered as were actually called for in advance.

This meant economy of

“Open lawn on one side only, where the outlook is across the harbor, the three remaining sides are designed in a perennial border which gives a succession of

flowers through the summer months”

One Woman’s Summer Garden—By Mary H. Northend, “%

A SUGGESTION FOR A VACATION GARDEN THAT IS PERMANENT AND GROWS A SUCCESSION OF

FLOWERS DURING JUNE, JULY AND AUGUST —HARDY PLANTS TH

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| PUEHCeLuPs the accompanying sketches and photographs which bought, and even the perennials are raised from seed sown

show what has been accomplished by one woman will in boxes and
be an inspiration and a help to others.
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is on the shores of New England, and
has attained its present growth in a matter
of three years. Open lawn on one side
only, where the outlook is across the
harbor, the three remaining sides
are designed in a perennial bor-
der which gives a succession of
flowers through the summer
months. Early spring effect is
not sought for. It is essentially
a summer and a
vacation garden,
and perennials are
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uncovering during the early days of spring. None but the owner’s
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until well into June,
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ied, is mainly pink, white and
blue, yellow being introduced
merely in the light of an ac-
Sees ’ cent to emphasize the dominant
PATH colors.

Back of the gravel path, with
a narrow space between (where sweet alys-
sum grows), is a row of sweet William in
white, pink, and deep red. This runs en-
tirely around the garden, except near the barn,
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| clumps of gaillardia bloom until frost.
These and a clump of ranunculus near

, the corner by the barn are the only

yellow flowers seen
June.

The touches of blue seen throughout
the garden are given by clumps of
delphinium behind the foxgloves. Sweet
rocket and early white phlox are also
found and there also the shrubs, snow-
berries, and a spirea take their part in
the harmony.

About July 15th the sweet alyssum
begins blooming, and just behind it pink

in the garden in

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

the delphinium and all through the gar-
den wherever the effect of its flowers
is needed. The feathery, soft pink
blooms of the cosmos anda clump of
pink poppies, with the hollyhocks in the
background, are the chief attraction
in the garden at this season. The yellow
California poppy is scattered throughout
the garden wherever there is space left
and flowers are done blooming. Blue
platycodon is seen in two groups near the
house, and behind the sweet alyssum near
the Lack fence is another touch of blue
in a line of heliotrope.

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dragon, merging with the blue of the
heliotrope, forms a charming bit in the
garden.

The only additional bloom in Septem-
ber is Clematis paniculata, which trans-
forms the end of the rear fence into a
mass of feathery white. On this same
fence is a bitter-sweet, and on the side
fence there is planted each year some
annual vine. White is, of course, the
general harmonizer and the white Richard
Wallace phlox is a prime favorite for the
purpose.

And here is a cultural point. Water

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A hardy border which blooms constantly for three months, delphinium, foxglove, phlox, snapdragon, and Canterbury bells furnishing a wealth of blossoms

snapdragon takes the place of the line
of sweet William. Where in June the
Canterbury bells bloomed, there are
now tuberous begonias in white and
pink and red. The delphinium _blos-
soms three times during the season and
is cut down after each blooming. The
second and third times it does not at-
tain such height as at first, and to pro-
vide for the loss of the tall growth,
pink cosmos is sown around and among

Nearly all the July flowers continue
to bloom through August. The holly-
hocks remain well into the month, and
sometimes even until September. Then
dahlias take their place as a background;
there are also tall sunflowers and golden
glow. Masses of phlox and of physostegia
and two clumps of the white boltonia
continue the general pink and white color
scheme. During this month the delicate
coloring of the pink phlox and pink snap-

is not largely used, reliance being placed
on the dry mulch given early in the season
—that is, a thorough raking, and keeping
at it continually when the weeds are be-
ginning to grow. Can it be? Well look
at the growth shown by the photographs.
When winter approaches a layer of well-
rotted manure is put over the top and
over that a thin layer of leaves. Later
on this is all covered with a thick layer
of leaves which makes all snug.

The Multiple Uses of the Guava—By John Gifford, ®

THE FIFTH IN A SERIES OF ARTICLES ON
TO THE WARMEST SECTIONS OF OUR COUNTRY.

i THE goat is the poor man’s animal,

the guava is his fruit. It has been
called the “apple of Florida.” When
frozen to the ground or burnt by fire
spreading from the forest to grass-grown
clearings, it springs Phcenix-like from its
root, soon yielding again an abundant
supply of its welcome fruit. I believe the
guava could be dried and cheaply shipped
to all parts of the world. If so, it would
be the cheapest dried fruit on the market.
Guavas fit for jelly are usually worth one
cent a pound.

The smell of the ripe fruit disgusts
newcomers. Sometime ago some Northern
people claimed that there was a dead
rat under their floor. The smell grew
worse from day to day because it was all
due to a guava tree by the dining-room
window ripening a heavy crop of fruit.
Now the whole family is eating the fruit.

Many are the stories told which hinge
upon the smell of the plebeian but useful
guava. A man once shipped a crate of
this fruit to a friend in the North and
labelled it ‘“Guavas.” When it reached
its destination the agent sent a card saying
“Come get your guavas. I think he’s
dead.”

We have a bad smelling fungus here
which some people call “buzzard fooler.”
A friend has suggested that this would be
an appropriate name for the guava.
Strange, indeed, how soon one can become
accustomed to smells which are at first
nauseating. I have heard it said that the
Arab and one or two other races can’t
stand the smell of even a clean white
man.

The odor of the guava and a few other
tropical fruits, such as the ti-es and genipap,
is mild in comparison with some cheeses.
I have heard that the mangosteen, claimed
by some to be the prince of all fruits, has at
first a repelling odor which is soon counter-
actedby the lusciousness of the pulp.

The nose and the palate soon adjust
themselves to strange smells and flavors.
The first time I ever tried sour-sop-ade
it tasted like cotton wool soaked in cider
vinegar. Now it belongs in the same
category with limeade and crushed pine-
apple.

The guava, although completely dis-
tributed throughout the tropics in both a
wild and cultivated state, is undoubtedly
an American fruit. It has a fine name of
Indian origin, guajava in Spanish, agree-
ably shortened to guava in English. In
Porto Rico the guava tree is always called
guajava while the term “‘guava” is applied
to a large leguminous tree much used for
shading coffee.

The home of the guava is probably
Mexico and Central America, but birds
and other animals carry the seeds long

THE SERIES

distances and, since it will grow almost
anywhere in a warm climate, its distri-
bution is wide. It is plentiful everywhere
and countless varieties exist. It comes up
quickly in abandoned clearings, which
exist, strange to say, even in new countries,
and when there is neither native nor jelly
factory near, it furnishes food to many
wild animals. I think it is generally
considered the greatest of all jelly fruits,
and guajava dulce holds a high place
among Spanish-American peoples. The

Cattley guavas somewhat resemble rose apples and
are about the size of ordinary plums

sale of this jelly brings many dollars to
Florida, and I have seen cases of it on the
platforms of backwoods stations consigned
to almost every state in the Union and
even to Canada and Europe.

They say when a Northern man gets
stranded in Florida he does usually one
of three things: he opens a law office, a
real estate office, or a jelly factory, and I
know of one man who combined these
three industries in the same shop!

In addition to the common guava there
are several other species of the genus
Psidium which yield fruits of more or less
value. In addition there are fifty or more
species of fruits in South America be-
longing to the order Myrtacee closely
related to the guava which are still await-
ing the skill of the horticulturist. We
are now trying Fezjoa Sellowiana, a guava-
like fruit from Uruguay. The fruits are

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Flor-

THE TROPICAL FRUITS THAT ARE ADAPTED

BEGAN IN AUGUST, 1910

greenish, containing a rich pulp, and “so
highly perfumed that baskets having held
them will retain their perfume for weeks.”
The flowers are showy white and crimson
and the petals are edible. I have heard
it said that the flowers are fertilized by a
bird. I believe it has fruited in Cali-
fornia. My plants have flowered but
have formed no fruit.

The genus Eugenia alone, although
it gives us the delicious Cayenne or Surinam
cherry (Eugenia pitanga) and the rose
apple (Eugenia Jambos), has twenty or
more fruit-yielding species. Closely re-
lated to the guava is the rose apple, the
fruits of which have such a sweet rosy
aroma that they are sickening to some
people, as is the odor of the tuberose and
of certain flower odors in the tropics,
which seem to overburden the atmosphere
on moist, still nights. Enter a narrow
tropical valley in a thicket of rose apple,
with rose apples on the ground and rose
apples in abundance on the trees, and it
will smell the way I suppose an attar of
rose factory smells. Caryophyllus Mal-
accensis, the large rose apple or Malay
apple, with long, dark green leaves, white,
purple or red flowers, and apple-odored,
fine-flavored fruit, or the Malacca apple or
the Java plum, I have not seen in Florida,
but the rose apple is at home and is grow-
ing wild along water courses in the West
Indies. In fact the rose apple (Eugenia
Jambos), called pomarosa in Spanish-
American countries, has been planted
for fuel in the neighborhood of sugar
estates. For this purpose it is as good as
eucalyptus, grows equally as fast, looks
like an eucalypt in general appearance
but yields a fruit besides and seeds big
enough to see and feel. The seeds of some
eucalypts and melaleucos are so small that
the slightest breath of wind will wait
them away. Ants love to carry off these
little seeds so that one must have legs
on the seed boxes and have each leg rest-
ing in a can of kerosene. Otherwise you
do nothing but feed the ants, some of
which are so smart that a friend of mine
declares that when they find the legs of a
table in cans of kerosene they will climb
up the walls to the ceiling and then drop
down upon the table.

The rose apple and the guava have a
great future before them, although both
are high smelling fruits, one highly sweet
and rosy the other foetid. We know the
names of these tropical fruits and forest
trees, though even this knowledge is
imperfect; but as yet know practically
nothing as to their characters, idiosyn-
cracies, likes and dislikes. A banker or
merchant in a town would soon be bank-
rupt if he knew nothing more of his custo-
mers than the names they are known by..

What Planting About a House Can Do—by S. H. Bullock ™:

WHEN I look back and make a mental

comparison between things as they
were and things as they are to-day, I am
filled with wonder that more people do
not attempt a little something in improv-
ing the surroundings of their new homes.
The nurserymen make it so easy for us,
too, offering assortments of desirable shrubs
which one can plant to fit any special
place or you can by the aid of their cat-
alogues make your own special selections
from among those things that catch the
fancy. The accompanying pictures show
a striking comparison of results in our
own place.
the plain masonry!

When we moved to the country four
years ago we bought a house on an acre of
ground in one of the suburbs of Philadel-
phia. The house was not finished when
we got possession and the ground was
simply part of a field.

It was especially interesting as we could
only do a little at a time and each thing
we planted we felt the need of before we
put it in the ground, so notwithstanding
the fact that we lost the usual percentage
of trees and shrubs, I do
not think we made any
mistakes as far as locating
them went.

The first thing we did
after planting a hedge
around three sides of the
place and a row of sugar
maples across the front, 5 :
was to tiedown the house, /iaage@eneaiaencs
as the saying goes. This [yay
I cannot sufficiently em-
phasize; it was the sugges-
tion of a friend who had
preceded us in the pilgrim-
age countryward about
four years. At her sugges-
tion I bought ten dollars’
worth of shrubs of differ-
ent varieties and planted

The house completed. It stood on the ground with a strange appearance of
not having a proper right there

How bare and uninviting is

them one cold November day in beds
around the house, leaving just a foot of sod
between the stone wall and the bed to
prevent the mud splashing on the stone in
heavy rains. Now the house nestles in
shrubbery from April to November with a
succession of bloom on the various kinds.

I feel as if I should not speak as one hav-
ing authority, as, after all, how little one
can learn in four years, but in my opinion
there are just a few ways of planting. I
am now referring to a small place. First
tie down the house by planting around it
and secondly plant around the boundaries
and screen everything unsightly. Avoid
beds in the middle of your lawn. The
only thing needed to break the sweep is
an occasional evergreen or specimen tree.
The character of the border planting can
be according to your individual taste —per-
ennials with the hedge as a background, or
a shrub border with perennials in front.
After developing your place to the utmost,
a hardy garden can be started in the rear,
if the garden mania still continues; but first
of all, plant around the house.

In planting around the base of our house,

LURE ENE

The front piazza was set off by the free use of flowering vines

307

But four years later, when the shrubs around it had become established, it
had all the appearance of a cosy home

Pennsyl-

we used white althea, white, pink and
variegated weigelas, Forsythia Fortunet,
and a couple of large Rhus Cotinus, which
grows to such enormous proportions that
it is wise to plant it at the ends or corners
where it will have ample room to spread.
In front of these taller shrubs we planted
Spirea Van Houttei, and an occasional
Hydrangea paniculata, var., grandiflora,
with Berberis Thunbergi and a few dwarf
Deutzia gracilis on the front, making the
whole graduate to the edge of the bed,
along which we planted nasturtiums.

The same idea was carried out all the
way along the side of the house to the
kitchen window, a mock orange, Japanese
snowball and Rosa rugosa being added at
intervals so that there would be a con-
tinuation of bloom all summer.

Ten dollars covered the cost of those
used in front and at the sides of the
porch, and now it keeps us busy cutting
them back so they will not look rank and
untidy. This should be done immediately
after the blooming period of each shrub.

On each side of our place we have an irreg-
ular border about a foot and a half away
from the hedge. On the
back line of this bed are
afew shrubs for a back-
ground, and in front of
these are peonies, Japan-
ese and German iris, sweet
William, and various bulbs
(such as Narcissus poeti-
cus and daffodils), with an
occasional clump of for-
get-me-not and primroses.

At first our borders had
larkspur, phlox, coreopsis,
hollyhocks, and rudbeck-
ias in addition to those
already mentioned, but as
the plants grew I moved
these last out of the bor-
der into the hardy garden
in the rear of my house.

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(Epitors’ Note.—_We want to know how suc-

cessful workers do things in order to put actual
experiences before our thousands of readers in all
parts of the country. Every reader 1s invited to con-
tribute a short note on some interesting experience.
Just state the facts about some ingenious idea that you
have actually worked out yourself or have seen.)

Peas in wide trench

After planting peas in double rows six
inches apart for years, I tried THE GARDEN
MacazinE plan of planting in furrows
the width of a spade and four inches deep.
The crop was a third greater than that
which the double rows produced, and the
weeds were fewer.— M. O. N., Illinois.

Growing kohlrabi

Most people transplant kohlrabi just
as they do their cabbages. I plant them
in a seed bed, thin them out to three inches
apart, and let it goat that. The “bulbs,”
or whatever the edible portion is called,
become, for me at least, as large and tender
as those transplanted.— F. H., Illinois.

Keeping cut flowers

I notice on page 26 of the February
GaRDEN MacGazIneg, in a paragraph on
“Keeping Cut Flowers,’ the statement
that the suction area of a stem is increased
by cutting the stem diagonally. I cannot
see that this affects the suction area a
particle; only so much water can enter
the sap vessels whether they are cut square
across or on the diagonal. Here is a
point, however, that may not be gen-
erally known: If the stem is cut under
water the flower will keep better because
there is no chance for air bubbles to enter
the sap vessels and stop the passage of
the water.— W. R. W., California.

Peas for succession

The accepted rule, “Plant peas two
weeks apart for a succession,’ does not
work in Glenview, Ill. Once in a while
it will, but generally, owing to a cold wet
spell or a hot, dry one, two or more plant-
ings ripen at the same time, making us eat
more peas than we would like to, in order
to ‘“‘save them.” Last year a successful
woman gardener, whose pea crop always
is continuous, told me to wait for the
second planting until the first was up two
inches, and make the third planting when
the second was two inches tall. I did this,
got five plantings, and had a perfect suc-
cession. Others who have tried it report
the same results— W. H. J., Illinois.

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Planting limas

Here is a little kink about lima beans:
When planting push the seed into the hill
or drill, as the case may be, with the eye
downward, so that when the root emerges,
it goes downward and forces the cotyledons
straight up, instead of in a circle, as will
be the case if planted on the flat side or
other edge upward.— I. T. C., New York.

Where to plant altheas

After losing altheas for several winters,
while they were hardy far to the north
of my Chicago suburb, I learned that
they were not harmed when planted in
light, well-drained soil. Therefore I
mixed coal ashes with my black earth,
put cobblestones a foot deep two feet
below the roots, and have had no further
trouble.—R. J.

Watermelons without water

I live out on the prairies where the
farmers depend entirely upon what the
soil will produce. This past year there
was a severe drought, but a friend of mine
had the best crop of watermelons and
marrows he had ever raised. When asked
how much water he gave them, he replied,
“None, but I gave that ground a heavy
dressing of manure last year and the year
before, and kept it in good cultivation.”
—C. B., Nebraska.

Try some endive

I raised endive last summer for the
first time and it was a great success.
Caution must be used in warm weather
not to tie the leaves too tightly when
blanching, or it will rot, but as the weather
grows colder in the fall it can be tied up
closely or even covered with boxes or bur-
lap, which will blanch it nicely. By
protecting it this winter we had endive
until January 15th.—K. L. R., New York.

Sod edging for beds

I wanted to carry out a certain plan
for a formal garden, and for an edging to
the flower beds had to have something
that would hold them in shape for the
curved ones. I was unable to get boards
that would stand the strain of bending,
and a grass edging would necessitate more
time than I could spare to keep it in order.
So the beds were first made the desired
shape and raised about five inches. Then
I had strips of sod placed grass side down
against the sloping sides of the beds,
pressing them firmly and filling the spaces
or cracks between the sods with earth.
The sod was thick and firm and held the
earth in place as effectually as boards could
have done. _This edging has withstood
the heaviest rains without washing and the
garden looks well cared for with but little
attention. The first year I had some
trouble with top edges of the sod which
would insist on bobbing up serenely in
little tufts here and there, but by cutting
as close to the roots as possible without
destroying the sods, I soon overcame this

«slight difficulty — I. M. C., Minnesota.

JuNE, 1911

Seedling shrubs

Under a Japanese barberry planted
years ago I found last year a hundred
or more seedlings three or four inches
high. These were growing in several
inches of leaf mold, and a slight pull
lifted them for transplanting. They
thrived wonderfully in the dry summer
of 1909, and were a foot high by fall. In
1910 they reached three feet, and
frequent pruning had made them stocky
and well branched. Nice seedlings also
were found under a wayfaring tree (Vi-
burnum lantana) and under an alder
buckthorn (Rhamnus frangula). A shrub
grown from a seedling interests me more
than one I purchase.— J. M., Illinois.

Sweet brier for fragrance

In reading through THE GARDEN MAGA-
ZINE I came upon a paragraph entitled
“Fragrant Foliage.” In it the writer
says, “‘We can think of only three shrubs
that have it— candleberry, aromatic sumac,
and sweet fern.” Has this writer never
known sweet brier? I think not, or he
would be sure that there is nothing — in
New England, at least —that holds so
exquisite a fragrance. It is not the small,
pale blossom of a rose, but the tender,
newly opened leaves that give it its right |
to be classed among fragrant shrubs. The
sweet brier will bear transplanting and
will live and thrive contentedly in the
same border for years. The perfume is
elusive, yet lingering. If worn in the cor-
sage, the faint fragrance stays for days
after the faded leaves have been thrown
away.— H. W. R., Massachusetts.

Training tomatoes

My way of training tomato plants on
barrel hoops and sticks may interest other
amateur gardeners. Last year we trained

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them in this manner — have little foliage,
and very fine, large fruit. Some of the
tomatoes weighed twenty-two ounces.—
B. B. A., Indiana.

PLANS FOR MAKING A ROOF GARDEN
A REAL SUCCESS —SEEDS BEST TO
PLANT — HOW TO TRANSPLANT WITH
EVE RLE SHOCK TO) SEEDEINGS — A
GIRL’S TRITOMA BED AND WHAT SHE
MADE FROM IT—THE SCHOOL GAR-
DEN CONTEST FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

Roof Gardens

ARDENING in crowded cities and
even in less congested sections
often must take the form of a roof garden
or a box garden. The roof garden is
usually a collection of boxes placed upon
the roof. These boxes may be just soap
boxes or cracker boxes. But a box the
size of the ordinary window box is a better
kind to use. Such boxes placed along the
edges, and through the central portion of
a small roof give the effect of a real gar-
den. The paths or passage ways between
the rows of boxes may be sanded or covered
with pebbles. This adds to the reality of it.
It is necessary to have good rich soil
and good drainage in the boxes. Put
into the bottom of a box about an inch
of broken pot, charcoal or even stone, if
no better material than this latter is
obtainable. This gives a good drainage
area. Over this layer the soil should go.
Make the soil rich with rotted manure.
If this is not available buy sheep manure.
The plants will grow better if they are
watered once a week with liquid manure.
Of course do not do this until the plants
are of some size. I knew one man who
soaked up the refuse of fish and watered
his roof garden with this solution. He was
a fish man and so had the wherewithal
to make this fishy drink for his plants.
In such an outdoor box garden one may

A simple and effective decoration.
ton People’s Garden Exhibit

This yard took first prize in the Washing-

Conducted by
ELLEN EDDY SHAW
New York

plant almost anything if sunlight is plenti-
ful. Trailing nasturtiums make good vines
to drop over the edges of the boxes.
Petunias, zinnia, candytufts, asters, mari-
gold and cornflower will do well in this
sort of garden. Even dahlias and rambler
roses will flourish.

The roof garden is not a dream if one
is willing to spend some thought, time and
money upon it. It is a possible garden
for many schools where ground space is
limited and sky space is the only available
place. If the box is to go in a shady place
try pansy, fuchsia, geranium, begonia,
godetia, phlox and English ivy. Some
might like to plant a few boxes to vege-
tables. Radishes, parsley, lettuce and
beans may be tried. The boys in this
picture showing a roof garden tried corn.
This planting of corn did not yield a satis-
factory crop but the boxes of green corn
were a delight in one crowded district
of New York City.

Transplanting

RANSPLANTING is a sort of an
operation which gives a shock to
a little seedling. A seedling is growing
nicely when suddenly some one takes it
from its quarters and places it in entirely
new ones. Because of this shock one
should transplant with as little fuss and
disturbance as possible.

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A roof garden on one of New York City’s school roofs.

Those little wooden seed labels which
were made in the manual training shop
are good instruments to use in transplant-
ing. Lift carefully several seedlings at
once from the earth. If the soil is watered
a little some time before, quite a bit of
soil will adhere to the roots of the plants.
With a label make a hole in the new plant-
ing spot. Water this hole. Lower into it
three or four seedlings. Firm the soil care-
fully about them.

These groups of plants, if shaded a bit
from the strong sunlight, should thrive.
If one or two die some are still left in each
group. After several days weed out all
but one seedling from each group. Of
course you will chose to leave the sturdiest
of the plants.

Transplanting is not so critical if done
by this group plan. Remember to trans-
plant when the second pair of true leaves
appears.

School Correspondence

RYE years ago my father bought three
tritoma roots, paying fifty cents for
them. One plant father gave to a friend.
The remaining two he planted about the
first of May. The plant he gave to his
friend died, so he gave him another. This
left one plant in our garden.

The next spring, about the last of April
or as soon as the eyes began to sprout,

The only garden these
boys could have

Seedlings as they are thinned out may be trans-
planted elsewhere in the garden

the plant was lifted and broken into eight
parts or eight plants which bloomed finely
all the next summer and fall.

The third spring I went through the
same process of lifting and dividing them
and planted a bed of forty. This I take
great pride in calling my tritoma bed.
Itis7x8ft. From this bed I sold twenty-
three plants at ten cents each. The fourth
spring I sold six dozen at one dollar a
dozen and exchanged some for peonies,
rose bushes, and lily bulbs. The fifth
summer, which was 1g10, I disposed of
seven and one-half dozen at one dollar a
dozen and sold one dollar and twenty cents
worth of bloom at two and one-half cents
each. I displayed about three dozen cut
flowers at the Cleveland Garden Festival
which won for me the first premium.

Why shouldn’t my tritoma bed be the
pride of my garden, as it is the most attrac-
tive, most showy, and the best money-
maker there? Tritomas require but little
care. No worms or bugs seem to bother
them. The plant is a hardy perennial and
has most attractive flowers.

In my little bed of forty plants I had
one hundred and twenty blooms and buds
at one time. They commenced blooming
August ist, and I cut my last flower
November 1st, giving about three months
continuous bloom. Now is there any way
by which a person can have more pleas-
ure and get better results from a fifty-
cent investment?

Cleveland,O. Masire JANE Musser.

This makes my third year with a garden
and I am much interested in it. My first
year I had but a small place about 20 x 10
ft. Last year my father enlarged it for
me. I now have a garden which is
36 ft. square and of which I am very
proud. I will do my very best to win a
prize and hope I shall be successful. This
is my first year taking THE GARDEN MacGa-
ZINE and I like it very much.

Last year in my garden I had twenty-
one tomato plants from which I picked
enough for eating purposes for our family

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of five, besides giving some to my
neighbors. Finally my mother put up
twenty-seven quarts of them. Besides
this we had seven rows of corn in my
garden. I planted Stowell’s Evergreen
fora late corn and without exaggeration
the majority of the ears were from ten to
twelve inches long with beautiful large
kernels. You may enter me in Class I. of
the contest.

Detroit, Mich. RoBert L. PLUEs.

These are the dimensions of our garden
summer house shown in the picture. It is
10 feet long, 8 feet wide and 8 feet high.
It has a cottage roof which is 4 feet high
from the plates to the centre of the ridge.
Scantlings 2 inches by 4 inches and lattice
work 13 inches wide, placed the same dis-
tance apart, were used. For roofing we
used siding which we lapped 15 inches. The
door is 6x3 ft. There are two windows
in front and two at the side. We have the
roof painted green and the sides white.

Ontario, Canada. H. M. Gayman.

Garden Hints

| [eSe are a few suggestions for your
small gardens. These may help some.

1. An inch of mulch or earth stirring
is quite sufficient. Do not neglect to do
this. It is a sort of watering scheme.
The mulch cuts off the escape of moisture
from the lower part of the ground. It
also gathers and holds the evening dews.

2. Do not forget to label the rows of
plants and vegetables. This helps you to
know your seedlings from weedlings and is
also a guide to the garden.

3. When this magazine reaches you it
is not too late to start garden work. Put
in some radish seed, lettuce, beets and
onion sets. Before school closes you will
have radishes, lettuce, beet tops ‘-for
greens, and small but very tender young
onions.

4. Study the special weeds which spring
up in your garden. Do more than this,
root them up.

5. Send to the Department of Agri-
culture at Washington, D.C., for a pam-
phlet called “Garden Operations.”

This summer house in a Canadian school garden
was used as a resting place and tool house

JUNE, 1911

6. You can keep right on sowing seeds
in the coldframe to use for transplanting
purposes.

7. Plant sunflowers.
good food for squirrels.

8. Here is another garden plan. Plant
alternate rows of vegetables and flowers.
As the school children take out the vege-
tables, the flower rows are left. So at
no time is the garden or any section of it
completely despoiled. This is a good
plan for schools, especially where it seems
to be desirable to plan for only early
summer and late fall crops. The vege-
tables may be early, for example, radishes
and lettuce. The flowers may be for
fall effect, say asters, zinnias, marigolds
and corn flower. Sweet alyssum and
mignonette fit into this arrangement.

9. This is a good time to plant cannas.

1o. After the young plants are up four
inches begin to thin out. Thin so that
they stand at the proper distances apart.
Be sure to keep the sturdiest.

11. Note the following distances for
thinning some of the most common garden
flowers: Alyssum, 6 to 12 inches; aster,
1 foot; canna, 2 to 6 feet; marigold
(African variety), 15 inches; French mari-
gold, to inches; and dwarf, 6 inches;
zinnia, 2 feet; poppy, 9 to 18 inches.

12. It would be well this year to slip
a few perennials into your gardens along
with the annuals. Hollyhock, perennial
phlox, larkspur, foxglove, and harebells
are worth having for fixtures in the garden.
_ If you start certain perennials very early
they will bloom the first year. It is too
late for that now but write this list in your
diaries and start a few anyway: Sweet
William, snapdragon, perennial coreopsis,
larkspur, Iceland poppy and forget-me-not.

13. Consider, therefore, as you work
out the flower garden color, the time and
duration of bloom. Add these facts to
your garden diaries. Note what effect the
season has on both. One may often make
a second sowing of annuals and so keep
the garden constantly blossoming.

14. A garden bench or a garden seat,
a summer house and tool house covered
with vines, add to beauty and fill a need
in the garden. :

ContESsT BULLETIN — Do not delay en-
tering the children’s garden contest. If you
have not received a contest poster send
directly to us for one. This poster tells
all about the classes of entry and the
prizes too. These latter are sets of books,
single books and free subscriptions to THE
GARDEN Macazine. ‘The books are gar-
den and nature books, which will help you
garden better and more intelligently. You
willunderstand the outdoor world better too.

This contest is not only for individual
boys and girls but it is for schools as well.
Your entire school may enter. The prizes
are sets of books for such good team work,
as schools do in their big gardens. Com-
munity gardens are not left out of this
either, for these may enter on..the same
footing as the school gardens. Make
your entry at once. j

The seeds are

Vegetables for Next Winter

By M. Roserts Conover, New Jersey

ANNING vegetables is not a difficult
process —in fact, it is exceedingly
simple. Perfect cleanliness and long cook-
ing are the two secrets of success. And
to ensure their keeping until winter, have
a cool dark store room.

It is a safe rule never to use for canning
any vegetable that has passed its perfec-
tion. Peas that have begun to harden,
tough asparagus, beets that are stringy
or beans past the tender brittle state will
hardly repay one. Asparagus should be
canned early in June as there is frequently
a tendency to grow bitter later in the
season. Follow with peas, tender young
onions, string beans, beets, tomatoes,
corn, lima beans, etc.

For vegetable canning use glass jars
and thick rubbers. The older Mason and
Lightning types are satisfactory for peas,
beans, and small vegetables; but with as-
paragus and whole tomatoes, the newer,
wide-mouthed, straight-sided jars are more
convenient.

Wash and rinse the jars, immediately
before filling, in scalding water. Incline
the cans so that the water runs into them
as soon as the outside surface comes in
contact with it, and roll them over quickly.

With a few exceptions the raw vege-
tables are placed in the jars; cold water
enough to fill them is poured in; the covers
are laid or screwed on loosely and the jars
then set in a tank of cold water which
should boil for three hours. The water
in the tank need not be higher than three
fourths of the height of the jars, but the
sides of the tank should be at least four
inches above the tops of the jars. The

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tank should be covered during the boiling.
Cloths laid around and under the cans
will prevent their breaking.

When the cooking is within half an hour
of completion, pull the tank to the back
of the stove, remove the covers, and refill
the jars with boiling water. The rubbers
are placed in position and the jars sealed
and allowed to continue cooking to the
end of the required time. When the jars
are cold, give the screw tops an extra twist.

Asparagus. Wash the asparagus thor-
oughly. Cut the spears to a length to
stand upright in the jars. Add a little
salt to each jar and fill to the rim with
water. Cover, set in a tank of water and
cook as described. Or, cook the asparagus
for ten minutes in salt water. Drain off
the water. Arrange the asparagus in
jars as described and cook. This method
is best if the asparagus is bitter.

Peas. Gather them before they become
the least overgrown —a day too long on
the vines will spoil them. Shell and place
immediately in jars. Add salt, fill the jars
with water and cook the same as asparagus.

Wax and green beans are delicious if
taken in the tender, brittle state before the
young grains have grown. Remove the
strings, wash and cut in half inch pieces.
Put into jars, pressing down tightly. Fill
with water and add a half-teaspoonful
of salt to each jar. Boil as usual.

Young onions. Remove the tops and
the outside skins. Wash them and fill the
jars. Let them cook about two hours.
Add two tablespoonfuls of boiling vinegar
and a little salt to each jar before sealing.

Beets. Young beets are delicious if
pulled when less than an inch and a half
across. Wash them and cook until tender
in boiling water. Skin and slice rather

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The kettle for cooking should be at least four inches higher than the jars When canning tomatoes, keep the kettle of cooked vegetables at the boiling point

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thin into jars. Lay the covers over
them and set at the back of the range in
a pan of boiling water. Pour over the
beets a boiling hot liquor made from one
quarter part vinegar and three quarters
water agreeably salted. Seal the jars and
set them aside to cool.

Tomatoes. These should be thoroughly
ripe. If green near the stem, they develop
a disagreeable acidity in cooking. Be
careful what kind of “utensil you use for
cooking tomatoes. Aluminum vessels are
preferable; do not use tin and cheap grades
of enameled ware. Pour boiling water
over the fruit and draw off the loosened
skin. Cut the tomatoes in half. Put
them over the fire in a stewing kettle with
water enough to float them and cook
until tender. Have the jars in readiness.
Dip in scalding water. Set on a warm,
damp cloth, adjust the rubber at the top
and fill with the cooked vegetable. Dip
the covers in boiling water. Adjust them
and seal. When cool, tighten the covers
of all screw tops. Tomatoes will not keep
if exposed to the light.

Tomatoes canned whole are especially
nice. Use wide-mouthed jars which admit
the fruit without crushing. Have the
jars scalded. Fill with tomatoes. Pour
boiling water into the jars and seal. Let
them stand in a covered kettle of boiling
water for fifteen minutes. Cool and store.

Corn. Use well-developed corn that
has not begun to harden. Cut it from the
cob with a sharp knife and pack it into
jars, pressing it down tightly until the milk
overflows the jars. Addnowater. Adjust
the covers, fasten them, and cook as is
usual with the other vegetables.

Lima beans. Cook tender, place in jars,
seal, and cook thus half an hour longer.

Something About Corn

@EVERAL years ago, I was not able to geta

portion of my garden plot ready for planting
until late in June owing to unfavorable weather
and soil conditions. This land had a thick growth
of scarlet clover, standing two feet high, which was
plowed under, disked and planted, neither manure
nor fertilizer being added. On June 25th I planted
seven varieties of sweet corn —one row of Peep
o’ Day, two rows of Golden Bantam, two rows of
Seymour Sweet Orange, two rows of Howling Mob,
four rows of Crosby’s Early Twelve Rowed, four
rows of Burpee’s White Evergreen and four rows
of Country Gentleman.

Exactly two months from date of planting the
seed, on August 25th, I picked seven ears of the
Peep o’ Day, and used this every day for a week
before the Golden Bantam was ready. I also
contrived to gather ears from this first row for
about ten days after the first ears were ready.
These rows were about 175 feet long, one stalk in
a place and a foot apart in the row. This planting
alone supplied three families with all the ears they
could use, with donations to neighbors after the
later four rows came on until the latter part of Oc-
tober when I had a large basket of good ears which
we were eating every day in the shape of corn
puddings, etc. These were gathered from the stalks
of the White Evergreen and Country Gentleman
before the stalks were cut off and removed that the
land might be seeded with a cover crop of winter
rye on the 25th of October.

Plantings of the Burpee Improved and the Ford-
hook Bush Lima were also made on June 25th
which gave us a large supply of fine beans, begin-
ning about the second week in September; and late
seedling plants of the Chalk’s Early Jewel tomato
set the same day, gave us a great many bushels
of fine fruits during September and October, being
still loaded with fine fruits when cut down by frost.
A quantity of fruit was taken from these tomato
plants, when frost seemed likely to destroy them.
They were placed under sash in an empty coldframe
and from these I had an abundant supply until
Thanksgiving Day.

Owing to my absence from home during the
greater part of September I was unable to get
exact dates regarding the time when the different
varieties of sweet corn were ready for use with
the exception of the Peep o’ Day.

Pennsylvania. 1 1DS ID

The Oyster Plant

EPs years ago, while walking through a New
England Jane, late in summer, I was at-
tracted by an unfamiliar plant that had gone to
seed just inside of the fence. So I picked three
of the long brown seeds, carried them home and
the following spring planted them in one of my
hardy borders. They all came up and last year,
at the end of May, these plants began to blossom.
Imagine my astonishment then to find, through
a random inquiry of one with more botanical
knowledge than I possess, that I was actually
harboring the oyster plant, or salsify, in my flower
garden. But Tvragopogon porrifolius is right
welcome there, for I am quite taken with its
graceful whitish green foliage and its large com-
posite flowers of dull purple, each borne high on a
single stem and closing by noon. The vegetable
is a biennial that, it appears, has been naturalized
in not a few places. ish Sy AY

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A Novel Trap for Insects’ Eggs

SIMPLE and effective way to destroy the

eggs of the elm-leaf beetle, the gypsy moth,
and other injurious insects, is to spread at the base
of the tree where they have appeared a mat or
blanket of soft hay or grass-cuttings laid on in
a rather thick mass about a foot wide. Do this
in June when the mature beetles come down to
deposit their eggs, and allow to remain on undis-
turbed until into July. The beetles will nest
beneath this grass-mat, and lay their eggs therein,
believing it to be a safe place.

In July, upon lifting the mass carefully, the eggs
will be found through and beneath it, just as ants’
eggs will be noticed distributed in an ant-hill.
It needs only a match to settle the pests, and a
little extra rubbish to make the flames sharper
will make the extermination more certain.

This method will apply to trees too large and
high to be sprayed easily, or without incurring
considerable expense. Last year the base of a huge
elm and its trunk, this last as high as could be
reached, were scrubbed with strong soapsuds and
kerosene mixed, applied with a broom, with good
results. This year, without labor, this simple
grass-mat and a few matches, as described, made a
neat extermination of eggs by the thousands
which would otherwise have developed.

Connecticut. VirciniA HULL.

How to Make a Space-Saving
Bean Trellis

AST summer we were so disgusted with
unsteady and unsightly bean poles that had
been in our garden that we concocted a firm and
simple trellis from four poles set in a straight line
and about a foot apart. The tops of the two inner
ones were made to touch and the two outer ones
were set at a greater angle, so that all four could
be firmly tied together at the top. This fanlike
trellis was a great improvement on the old single
pole method, for more vegetables were raised on a
given space and cultivating and picking are easy.
We used to set one pole every four feet; now we
place four poles in a 3-foot space.

Pole beans were not the only vegetables raised
on this sort of trellis. Four tomato plants were
so grown in the space usually given to one. The
plants were well pruned and neatly tied as far as
the top where they were cut, making a compact,
attractive looking trellis, especially as the tomatoes
were of different fancy varieties. Another ad-
vantage that this sort of trellis has is that the poles
are tied and sawed off at a height that is easily
reached by the picker, which does away with the
vegetables ripening out of reach and thereby
shortening the season. Straight poles were
selected to give a trim appearance and the whole
row is made even in height. Make a trellis

like this for your beans this summer and see how
much neater the garden will look.
I. M. ANGELL.

New York.

A four-pole bean trellis which saves space in the
vegetable garden

JUNE, 1911

A Vigorous Anemone

I USED to think that the beautiful Japanese

‘anemone (A. Japonica) was in the “hard
to grow” class. Now it seems to me that it would
not be easy to kill it. All it asks, I find, is moder-
ate moisture and many years between moving days.
The most vigorous Japanese anemones that I have
ever seen have not been disturbed for a decade,
for which reason also they bloom earlier. Al

though these are growing with a full exposure to
the sun, my experience is that, for the ordinary

Japanese anemones _like these demand a fairly
moist soil and years of undisturbed growth

home garden, partial shade is better. It is not
only less difficult to keep the ground moist, but
if, as in my case, the shade is from overhanging
tree branches it is unnecessary to watch out for
Jack Frost. For winter protection I use only a
moderate amount of leaves. Queen Charlotte,
single pale rose; Whirlwind, semi-double white;
and Alba, single white, are, in my opinion, the
sure winners. I have been very successful with
planting offshoots in summer, but spring is the
safest time, by all odds.

Connecticut. TBE.

Color Near the House

HE following arrangement for continuous

and harmonious bloom in front of the house

has proved quite effective with us. Close against

the house Spirea Van. Houtiei, a white cloud of

small blossoms early in the spring, forms an effec-
tive background of green for the rest of the season.

Planted rather thickly in front of the spirea are
Tulipa Gesneriana, var., major, edged with Arabis
albida, followed by many plants of rich crimson,
ever-blooming sweet William (Dianthus latifolins,
var. atrococcineus), which lasts until hard frost.
Lilium speciosum, var. rubrum grows among the
spireas and blends beautifully with the crimson
flower of the sweet William.

Gladiolus — America, and other varieties in deli-
cate pink with crimson blotches — are planted at the
back of this bed for late bloom, and the edge of the
bed is bordered with sweet alyssum Little Gem.

This summer I expect to try some plants of
Nicotiana Alaka, so that we may enjoy its perfume
in the evening, while we are sitting on the porch.

Minnesota. Mrs. S. A. GILL.

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set

What Has to Be Done Now

VES vegetables are ready for harvesting dur-

ing this month, among them being onions
and white potatoes. Peas are usually through
bearing, and something should be planted in
their places. Plant late corn and melons now:
also sow seed of cucumber for pickles. They are
easily grown on almost any soil.

The yard long beans should be ready for use now.
Tf the pods are gathered young (that is, when about
half a yard in length) and cooked like snap beans
they are good, but when they are much longer
than that they are fit only for cow peas. If you
are growing these beans, save the seed from the
most prolific plants, and in a few years you will
have a fine strain of beans. Keep the pods picked
off the other plants, not allowing any to make
seed, and they will bear until frost.

After harvesting oats, sow cow peas and sorghum
cane for hay, or plant Early Prolific corn. Use a
peck of sorghum and three pecks to a bushel of
cow peas per acre. Clay cow peas are best, as
they make the most foliage.

Continue to sow collards, which are excellent
after being touched by frost. They are also an
excellent food for chickens in winter.

Sweet peas are usually through flowering by
this time. But try sowing a few seed during the
month for flowers in the fall and early winter.
Nasturtiums can be planted any time up to the
last of July.

If there is not a canning factory in your section
where you can dispose of your superfluous fruit
and vegetables, get a small canning outfit and can
them, rather then let them go to waste.

Don’t allow cannas to make seed. “They cannot
do two things at the same time —make seed and
produce fine flowers.

Plant some more strong gladiolus bulbs in rich soil
during this month. Strip the sage plants of their
longest leaves, dry in shade, and when well dried
put up in tin cans.

Sow seed of tomatoes at once for late crops.
The old plants will usually continue fruiting, but
the tomatoes will not be as good as those from
young plants.

Seed of late varieties of garden peas may be
sown during the month in moist places. Cuttings
from sweet potatoes and tomato plants may be se’
out during the month when the weather is favor-
able. Do not cut the vines of sweet potato plants
too close. Sow rutabagas from the first of June
to the first of August, but only when there is
plenty of moisture in the ground.

Watch for potato bugs on the eggplants. They
destroy them in a very short time.

Don’t allow over-ripe fruit to remain on the trees.
Take it out of the orchard; it is just as im-
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clean, as it is your poultry yard and poultry. It is
also important to keep the orchard free from
weeds and grass.

Georgia. THOMAS J. STEED.

Flowers for the Fall

AS excellent hardy flower for September and
October cutting is Catananche caerulea, which
looks like a blue-flowered oyster-plant on onion-
like stems, rising from a dense rosette of needle-
like leaves. It is hardly strong enough for a mass
effect in the garden, but cut flowers during the
last week in October are not to be despised by
people who have no greenhouse.

Going abroad? Routes, time-tables, and all sorts of
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June, 1911

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How to Make
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MOST serviceable

dibble, and one
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a piece of an old buggy
spring, the older the
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Take the top spring
and get a blacksmith to
cut it off about eigh-
teen inches in length.
In nine cases out of ten
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spring, at exactly the
proper place for a screw.
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as shown in the illus-
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A dibble made from part.
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Nature-Made Rock Gardens

Ros plants have a peculiar interest for many
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The Illinois, Rock and Fox rivers

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MAGAZINE 317

Get the Most From
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‘“‘“GARDEN
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THE SELF-SuPPORTING HomME
Intensive vs. Extensive Culture
The Danger of Undercapitalization
The Consumer Coming Into His Own
Money IN THE BACK YARD
How toMake Twenty-four Tomato Plants Hand You Fifty
Dollars
Does Hoeing Pay? Well, Rather!
What a Garden Did for an Invalid

What the Square Yielded

Suggestions Worth Money
A Practical Working Calendar

SuccEssFuL GARDENS You CAN HAvE
Twelve Hundred Per Cent. Profit from 20 x 27 feet of Ground
Bean-strings — Cheaper and Simpler than Poles
Expenses One Dollar, Minus; Returns, Fourteen Dollars, Plus!
What Science Has Done for the Gardener
The Redemption of a 28-foot-square Back Yard

What One Woman Can Do With Ten Dollars

Gettinc THE Most Out oF FRAMES AND HoTBEDS
The Difference Between “ Coldframes”’ and ‘‘ Hotbeds”’
How to Build a Hotbed
A New Method for Hardening Hotbed Plants
Hotbed Mats
A Home-made Straw Mat
Building the Coldframe
The Entire Management of a Coldframe

A YEArR’s CYCLE IN THE GARDEN
The Planning Season: December to February

A New Kind of Economy in the Garden

Plant Early and Smile at Your Neighbors

The Versatile Hotbed

Growing Plants in a Chicken Brooder

Hotbed Results — Without a Hotbed

How to Grow Vegetables Before You Plant Them
Modern Success — With Old-Fashioned Methods
Getting Better Seed

The “ Best” Potato and How to Obtain It

It’s Never Too Late to Garden

A Garden Planted After the Fourth of July
Discovered! The Real Use for a Back Fence

One-filth of a Ton of Tomatoes from 300 Square Feet of Ground
Getting Along Without Manure

Making Tomato Plants Perennial

Making Your Own Springtime

How to Double the Cabbage Crop in Yield and Quality

Tales of Three Gardens and Three Hundred Dollars

What the Man “‘ Without Any Time” Can Do

A New Chapter in the ‘ Book of Friendship”

Transplanting — One Way to Save Space

A Ten-Minutes-A-Day Garden

Five Crops on One Foot of Ground

What Your Garden Can Grow

Combining Succession and Rotation

Exploring the Unknown— A Plea for Unfamiliar Vegetables

Boys — and Girls— and Gardens

A Fourteen-Year-Old Boy’s Garden That Produced Seventy
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The Thorough Gardener and His Reward

The Need of Garden Records

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Wild pentstemon, blackberry, and bunch grass on a
sunny ledge

beautiful wildlings that anyone can grow for the
trouble of collecting.

During June and July one of the prettiest and
most effective of the native wild flowers that adorns
the rocks and flourished there is the wild pent-
stemon (Pentstemon pubescens). It grows on the
drier ledges and does not seem to care particularly
whether it has any copious moisture at its roots
or not. Growing on the prairies it is a ratber
straggling plant, the racemes being often two feet
tall. On the rocks, the inflorescence is compact and
rarely ever a foot in height.

This hoary pentstemon, together with colum-
bines and the harebell (Campanula rotundifolia),
furnish the showiest of the rock plants of late May

A typical Nature-planted rock garden along the
Illinois River 4

and June along the Illinois rivers. Later come the
asters, and there is seldom a little ledge or crevice
that has not been preémpted by some sort of an
aster. Occasionally a fringed gentian appears in a
shaded, moist nook, but, like the harebell, they are
usually found on a ledge below an outward bulge
of the rock and are inaccessible for photographs.
The accompanying photographs show bits of
the natural rock gardens along the Illinois River.
Illinois. SHERMAN R. DUFFY.

Growing Arabis from Cuttings

RSes cress (Arabis albida) grows so readily from
cuttings that I don’t find it worth my while
to bother with seed. In the early summer I simply
pull off as many of the shoots as I want plants,
stick them into the ground up to the first leaves,
and see that they do not dry out. If pinched
back they will make stockier plants. By fall
they are well enough established to move into
the border. One such shoot will grow enough
in three years to cover about a square yard of
ground.— A. C. A.

June, 1911

| SUTTON & SONS,

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are famous for their wonderful per-
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Pruning Fruit Trees in Summer

SUE pruning is as necessary in the

training of trees and vines as winter prun-
ing. It preserves the general improvement
established by winter pruning. Peach, apple,
pear, plum, etc., derive the chief benefit from it
while the trees are young. The grape, however,
demands some attention of this kind each year of
its life.

Summer pruning is accomplished by rubbing off
buds, shoots and superfluous fruits with the thumb
and finger. This does not bruise or mutilate the
surrounding bark, and the juices of the plant are
not wasted but at once begin their work of healing.
In some instances where shoots have been removed,
the process may have to be repeated to remove
growth arising from supernumerary buds. Only
the tender shoots can be removed in this way,
however, as wood that has hardened is too rigid
and too closely connected with the sap flow of the
tree to be removed until after the growing season.

Summer pruning ought to begin with early
growth in May and continue until late in the
summer as occasion requires. The nature of the
plant’s growth must be considered in each instance.
Blackberries, whose rampant growth produces
long canes, are made to give a better fruit yield
by simply pinching the tip of each cane at the
desired height and also the tips of the upper
branches. In the case of the quince, however,
which fruits from the terminal buds, this treat-
ment would diminish the crop of fruit. Apples,
pears, plums, and peaches bear fruit laterally.

The summer pruning of the grapes consists in
removing buds below the arms and superfluous
buds along the arms supporting the fruiting canes.
In the case of young vines, all fruit clusters are
removed from one-year old vines, one cluster is
allowed to remain on each cane of the two-year
old vines, and two on each cane of the three-year
old vines. Prune by pinching out the tiny cluster,

—— rs

Summer pruning, as necessary aS winter prun-
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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE June, 1911

leaving the surrounding leaves. In the case of
the one-year old vines these may be removed while
yet in the blossom, but in older vines they are
allowed to develop to well-defined berries before
pinching.

The young peach and plum trees need to be
looked after as they have a tendency to send out
shoots along the trunk. As soon as these shoots
announce their coming by tiny leaves, rub them off.

Certain varieties of plum, peach and pear
require a careful thinning of fruit as well. For
this, wait until the set is established and has

the eee types shoes here, and i in a saauker. of ‘different ate
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_ Sample pair postpaid— cotton, 25 cents; silk, 50 cent
The clasp always has the name ‘‘ Boston Garter” and “ Velvet Grip”’ stamped upon
GEORGE FROST COMPANY Makers

After the first year do not prune grapes until the
berries form

withstood one or two good winds; then go to work
| . with a pole having a short hook or two wire prongs,

Ma . es : _ | and thin out the fruit to what the tree can mature.
See In this process give the tool an upward rather than

a downward motion as there is less danger of
THE CLIPPER

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Landscape Gardening | There are three things that destroy New dency: me °°
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A course for Home-makers and Plantain and Crab Grass. In one The Kansas Gay Feather
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the height of the hardy border in summer with a
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Place a sundial in your garden or
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Write us for free booklet of

Sundial Information

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The Kansas gay feather (Liatris pycnostachya), par-

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Of these ZL. elegans and L. spicata are especially
good. I find that the gay feather does well in
ordinary garden soil, but with me it has a tendency
to rot at the roots.

New York. H. S. A.

June, 1911

Erected for Mr. F. H, Lovell, Madison, N. J.

A Full Fledged Greenhouse
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The Readers’ Service is prepared to
advise parents in regard lo schools

JUNE, 1911

A SHARPLES

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Equip Your Garden
for All Seasons

< S 3 Remember in Summer that Fall,
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Os OS and Cold-frames the new sash that needs no mats or
Fe other covers. Have plants, violets
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(free) and Prof. Massey's booklet on cold frames (4¢ in stamps).

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Plum Trees In the Poultry Yard

N NEW YORK STATE it is a fact that Euro-
pean and Japan plums are, with the same
culture ordinarily given apples, sour cherries,
pears, and other hardy tree fruits, a much more
uncertain crop. I have planted European and
Japan plums in Southeastern New York in the
same orchard with other hardy fruits, and many
of the plum trees in the last ten years have died,
or become diseased and are not productive. The
European plums are still our main dependence
for dessert plums of high quality, but they are
not at home in the climate and soil of New York.
They generally bear well for a few years, then
show signs of weakness and decay, and become
infested by the black knot and curculio.

The only place where one can grow an abundance
of European and Japan plums without the “eternal
vigilance” required for orchard culture, is in the
poultry yard. In order to keep a plum tree
vigorous and bearing, it needs good feeding,
frequent cultivation, and the total destruction of
the curculio and black knot. There is no place
where all these can be done so easily as in the
poultry yards.

When feeding the poultry, shake the trees so
that the curculio will fall off and be eaten by the
fowls. At the same time, if black knot is
starting on the trees, cut it off immediately. Keep
the soil in the poultry yard loose by spading or
plowing. Then scatter some grain in the soil
around the trees, cover it with soil, and the
fowls will, by scratching, keep the surface con-
stantly stirred. The droppings of the poultry,
supplemented with wood ashes or potash in some
form, are a better fertilizer than one can buv.

There is a right way to plant plum trees in the
poultry yard to get best results. Order two or

three-year-old, No. 1 trees from the nearest repu-
table nursery, and plant them early in the spring. .
When the soil is sufficiently dry, plow it.

After

Plant plum trees in the poultry yard and have
healthy trees free from curculio

plo .w.e plant the trees in straight rows, at least
fifteen feet apart. The plow will open up a deep
furrow. Root prune the trees. by cutting off
broken roots, and shortening others to about
one-third the length, with a clean slanting cut.
Place the tree in position, so that it will stand a
little deeper than in the nursery, and scatter fine
rich surface soil over the roots. Press it around
them with the feet; then draw in more soil, and
press down again until the roots are covered a
little above where the tree was budded, or grafted.
Place small stones around the tree,. to prevent the
hens from scratching away the soil, and prune it
to balance the roots, but do not head the tree
quite so low as for orchard culture. Three or four
feet is about right. As the trees grow prune them

= The
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but none of its discomforts, are realized in

The Burlington
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In your windows it makes your room delight-
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The Burlington Venetian Blind can
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The Burlington Venetian Blind is made to order only.

Our illustrated catalog, telling about the various styles,
will be mailed to you on request.

Burlington
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| Hune, 1911 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

JUNE, 1911

PEARLINE vsPoppen pownuns,

This picture shows simply an exaggera-

ted case of what happens when
Powder is made by the new method.

Each Grain of Soap Powder is POPPED
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THIS ’PHOTO SHOWS SIXTY KERNELS
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60 KERNELS OF UNPOPPED CORN WEIGH
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WEIGHT REMAINED THE SAME—VOLUME
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APHINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
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to the upright vase form, watch for black knot,
and spray with Bordeaux mixture to prevent leaf
blight. A frequent plowing or spading of the
yard will help to keep the trees growing, and,
as everyone knows, a vigorous, thrifty tree best
resists disease.

When selecting varieties of plums for planti
one must be governed by location. In Southeast-
ern New York, the best European varieties which
will thrive under the conditions I have described,
are Reine Claude, Damson, the prune varieties,
Bradshaw, etc. Lombard i is the easiest to succeed
with, but the fruit is not first quality. A few Japan

Shropshire Damson, a little larger than the com-
mon Damson and the most popular of its type

plums are desirable for canning, as they produce
large crops, Burbank, Abundance, and Red June
being among the best. The native American
varieties of the Wild Goose type will live longer
than any mentioned, but they are so hardy they
can be grown successfully under the same condi-
tions as ‘the apple or pear.

The principles of plum culture are the same
whether the trees are grown in poultry yards or
in an orchard. My points are that it is easier
to succeed with them in a small way if the trees are
planted in the poultry yards; that maximum
crops of the best dessert plums can be grown with
a minimum of labor or attention; and that people
who would otherwise neglect the trees will take
care of them if they are planted in places where
they can be seen daily.

New York.

A Self-Supporting Hobby

F YOU have a specialty —some good, easily
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garden decoration and cut flowers —and if you
have a better selection of varieties than is offered
for sale in your locality (which is often not difficult),
you have only to let your plants be seen in bloom
to book many orders for roots to be delivered at
planting time. I know one man who took orders
last summer for fifteen dozen dahlias, orders
attracted solely by the flowering plants in his
wayside garden at a California summer resort.
I think he had lots of fun selling them, too, for
his flowers gained all the admiration a gardener
could crave. I, myself, in the suburbs of a large
city in Eastern Canada, raised and sold fine English
larkspurs and hybrid columbines, but my greatest
success was with my specialty at that time, the
tall bearded or German iris.

Since my sixth year when I “planted” a cake of
chocolate because an older boy told me chocolate
grew, I had always tried to garden but had for
the most time dwelt in city blocks where the

W. H. JENKINS.

| most general ideal of a back garden was a small

June, 1911

_The Readers’ Service gives
injormation about investments

ee)
ho
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ine \KE your ceed feo
cool from the street, and
make it a pleasant, shady
place to sit on hot, dusty days
by equipping it with

Komi Green Painted
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made of Japanese bamboo in sizes
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pat u your dealer cannotshow

uthe ‘‘Komi’’ Curtains, write us
BE the name of a dealer near you
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little it costs to make your porch
a delightful outdoor living room.

R. H. COMEY CO., Camden, N. J.
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and the oval shape of the cake is as handy
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space well paved. About the time I finished
college a friend offered me the use of a vacant
lot next his suburban home, an offer I quickly
accepted, for though it could never be a real garden
I could grow things on it, in particular a collection
of the German iris of which I was very fond.

No one but the collector can know the joy I
got out of carefully selecting the first three dozen
varieties, or the virtue I felt in cutting out those

| I couldn’t afford. Finally;they came from their

respective nurseries and were planted by moon-
light, not for luck but because I was very busy
and that suburban lot was far from home. After
that was done I made a card for each variety giving
its name, description, source, and plenty of room
to indicate its worth and its likeness to other
kinds. Then I waited for spring and, in spite of
the oldest inhabitant, I will always believe that
was the longest winter we ever had, but at last
it came and by June most of those irises were in
bloom and receiving as much attention as the
prettiest girl in that community. In August
I added a few new ones and then something hap-
pened —a man who called himself my friend
gave me a catalogue with over a hundred varieties
of iris I had seen and could never pay for without
stealing. That I remained honest is largely due
to the first plants I bought, for by their increase
I paid for all additions to my collection from that
time. They were now fine large clumps, and the
fine show they made growing on that vacant lot
and as cut flowers in the homes of my friends
brought me so many inquiries as to where they
might be obtained that some other advertising
I had planned proved unnecessary. I now learned
for the first time that many flower-lovers, mostly
women, never look at a nursery catalogue but
will readily give orders from flowering specimens,
especially if directions for planting and future
care are promised.

I soon found the most satisfactory way was
to accept no order for less than a dozen plants
(price two dollars), varieties to be of my choosing,
but to include any specially asked for. In late
August I took up the clumps, separated them into
single roots, labelled the varieties, made up my
orders and delivered them myself in a suit case.
This often enabled me to suggest the most suitable
place fer planting, but in every case I enclosed
with each lot the following typewritten instruc-
tions: “‘Plant these irises at least eighteen inches
apart to allow room for growth, and do not bury
the thick, fleshy rhizome, but only cover it with
sufficient soil to nearly hide it. Preference should
be given to a light soil, but any fair garden loam
will do. Richness is not necessary, but if manure
is used, let it be well below the roots as with bulbs,
never in contact with the rhizomes. Unlike the
Japanese iris these are not water-loving plants
but prefer rather dry, raised beds in a sunny
position; they even enjoy a good roasting in mid-
summer. Transplant only when crowded or to
increase your stock, and this is best done about
the middle of August as the new growth beginning
at that time will enable them to get established
by winter. Leaves are the best winter covering.
If your iris are ever attacked by the bacterial
disease which causes the stems to rot off, remember
that a few days of sunshine will stop this, but if
badly damaged the best thing to do is to take off
the young outer growths and start a new bed.”

I append a list of the dozen varieties most
often selected, and I cannot recommend a better
lot for the beginner as all are quite distinct kinds,
good growers, free bloomers, and together they
cover a wide range of color. This list does not
include the glorious pale blue Pallida Dalmatica,
the royal purple Asiatica or the dainty blue and
white Victorine as these increase rather more
slowly. Germanica, blue and purple, early and
vigorous; atropurpurea (Kochii), dark reddish
purple, early; Florentina, almost white, early;
Flavescens, pale, creamy yellow; Celeste, a sky-
blue pallida variety; Queen of May, beautiful
lilac pink; Jacquiniana, Queen of the Gypsies or
Dr. Bernice, similar varieties in copper and maroon;
Madame Chereau, white, frilled with blue;
Gracchus, yellow with purple, white-veined falls;
Darius, pale yellow with lilac falls; Mrs. H.
Darwin, dwarf white slightly veined violet; Hanni-
bal, lavender with purple falls.

Canada. SS: B. MoM.

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

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JUNE, 1911

BULBS THAT
BLOOM

Fifty cents, post-
paid, containing
12 bulbs. $1.00,
postpaid, contain-
ing 25 bulbs. All choice varie-
ties and first class bulbs.

Gladiolus

Gift Boxes

It is not too late to plant Gladiolus.
Splendid flowers can be grown by
planting now, and nothing is better
for ‘filling in bare spots in the herba-
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garden.

For special offers of Gladiolus, see
back cover of April Garden Magazine

B. Hammond Tracy, Cedar Acres, Wenham, Mass.
EE er ae Sa ee

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Vick’s Giant Superb—Flowers mammoth; colors strikingly brilliant;
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Vick’s Masterpiece Mixture. Our sorz selection from European
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Packets 30 cents; 4g ounce $100. _- Pictured in natural colors on cover of

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Sown this month produces blooming
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We Grae Peon
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REMOVING LEAVES FROM BULBS

Does it injure hyacinth and tulip bulbs to pull off
the leaves if they have only partly turned yellow,
or should this be delayed until the leaves are
entirely yellow and dropping?

Wisconsin. H. O. K.
—The flowering stalk should be cut off immediately
after the flower fades as it merely absorbs matter
from the bulb. The leaves, however, must be
left, though the entire bulb can be lifted when the
foliage begins to turn yellow and the bulbs can
be laid out in rows — sort of heeled in — in some
partially shaded place to fully ripen. If the foliage
leaves the bulbs easily and is fairly well yellowed,
the leaves can be removed with safety to the bulb.

VALUE OF WOOD ASHES

Is there any difference in the value of ashes
from old lumber and from new lumber? How
should such ashes be applied to oe land?

Ohio. B. McC.
—There will be some slight aineeneee in the ashes
made from burning old lumber and that from new
lumber, for some of the soluble matter will have
been washed out from the surface cells in the
old lumber. But as the fertilizing value consists
of the mineral ash, the value of the fertilizer, from
a practical standpoint, will be the same. Ashes
should be broadcasted on the land, for they will
do little toward fertilizing the soil unless used
in large quantities.

WOOLLY APHIS

On a 3-year-old apple tree planted last fall,
all places where the bark has been damaged or
branches cut off are covered with a white mouldy-
looking growth which, when rubbed off, leaves a
dark brown stain. What is this and what is the
remedy?

Pennsylvania. H. K.
—Your apple tree is troubled with the woolly
aphis, which in winter descends the trunk of the
tree and lives on the roots. Spray the trees above
the ground where it appears with kerosene emulsion.
We have known of cases being completely cured
by removing the soil from around the roots and
covering them with tobacco dust, replacing the
soil over the roots.

A BRANCHING DAFFODIL

Is it an unusual thing for an Empress daffodil
to have on one stalk three perfect trumpets, most
beautifully and fully developed, all three blossoms
of the same size, and all the white petals free and
not crowded?

Wisconsin. AY HISIRe
—Such a phenomenon is not an unknown thing.
That there is a potency in daffodils for a branch-
ing or multi-flowering inflorescence, is seen by
the fact that some species normally produce cluster
flowers. Narcissus poeticus, frequently produces
either or both types. We doubt if a branching
Empress could be perpetuated from the bulb which
you have, though possibly it might be done. It
would be interesting to know whether the many
flowers are due to the true branch, or whether the
extra flowers are due to the cohesion of three separ-
ate scapes. We have seen the doubling of the parts
of the flower due to such cohesion while the flower
itself is geometrically perfect, all the parts being
double. Twin scapes of that character are not

; at all uncommon.

|| June, 1911

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CLOVER SEED

How much clover seed can be raised to the acre?
Arkansas. W. W.D.
— An average yield of clover seed is one to two
bushels per acre, although five to six bushels are
sometimes obtained. The second crop of clover
is the one that is used for seed, because the first-
crop heads are seldom well filled out. For seed
purposes the clover should be cut when the heads

or blossoms are well browned or ripened.

HARDY BULBS

Why is it necessary to lift hardy bulbs every
year and store them over winter?

Wisconsin. . H. F.
—The reason for taking up hardy bulbs every year
is that the standard of quality may be kept up
by sorting out the flowering size each year for
replanting. They may, of course, be left in the
ground if one wishes to do so, but they are apt to
get too thick and the size of the blossoms conse-
quently decreases and new, or offset, bulbs may
not flower at all!

RENOVATING NEGLECTED APPLE
TREES

I have on my farm a few seedling apple trees
which have been neglected and are full of suckers.
Would it pay to trim, fertilize and graft them?

Vermont. F.M.B.

— It certainly would be profitable to treat the
trees in the way suggested. The method of doing
this depends on the size of the trees. If they are
small, top work the whole tree. All the nursery
stock of named apples is formed from common
seed stock grafted over with the named varieties.
By all means, try the experiment. Read ‘“‘The
American Apple Orchard,” by F. A. Waugh.

COAL ASHES

When coal ashes are suggested for lightening
the soil, should hard or soft coal ashes be used?

Jowa. H.L. AF.
—It does not really matter whether the ashes are
from hard or soft coal. There is more or less

sulphur in any ash, but in well-burned ash, most of |
the volatile matter has been driven off. The |

amount of phosphoric acid and potash in coal
ashes is very small, and therefore they have little
value asa fertilizer. Soft-coal ashes contain more
potash than those from hard coal, but it is held in
such a firm combination as to be of but little
value to the soil.

APPLES FOR ALL YEAR

I want to plant an apple orchard in Connecticut;
what varieties shall I use?

Connecticut. G. H. L.
—For early apples, plant Benoni, Bough, Chenango,

Early Harvest, Barly Joe, Garden Royal, Gola |
ed |
Astrachan, Williams, Yellow Transparent. Mid- |

Sweet, Jefferies, Maiden Blush, Porter,

season varieties: Dyer, Fall Pippin, Fameuse,
Gravenstein, Mother, Oldenburg, Rambo, Tomp-
kins King, Wealthy. Late: Rhode Island Green-
ing, Bailey, Baldwin, Esopus, Grimes, Hubbardson,
Jacob Sweet, Jonathan, McIntosh, Northern Spy,

Tolman, Wagner, Yellow Bellflower, Sutton.

BULBS NOT BLOOMING

Narcissus and jonquils planted a year ago last
fall bloomed freely and satisfactorily last spring;
but this spring, although they came up thriftily,
there were only two or three blooms. What was

the cause of this and how can I prevent its re- |

petition?

Kansas. J. AS Es
—The reason that your bulbs did not bloom
freely this spring is that you planted fully de
veloped “mother” bulbs which, after flowering,
broke up into smaller bulbs. These will have to
be grown on for a few years before they again attam
flowering size. If bulbs are planted very thickly —
that is, so that they crowd each other — they are
inclined to split up and in this case, also, the flower
is lost. Bulbs planted too deeply will not flower
either. The best way is to plant them from two
to four inches deep, according to the size of the
bulb, putting a little sand in the bottom of the
hole for the bulb to sit on.

: I ish information about d
June, 1911 HEB eeGeAunD BN) MEAG APU INE 9 Veweo tne Readers service 333

Our June Bargains
™ We have a Limited Surplus
of choice Bulbs and Tubers,
which we offer far below val-
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Dozen 100
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JuNE, 1911

A Gardening ‘‘Costume’’ for
Women

yA EHS several seasons of experiment with
all sorts of outdoor working dress, I have
finally come to the conclusion that any sort of a
skirt is an abomination. No matter what one
. does one should wear a fit and comfortable costume
at least it should not hamper one’s efforts, whether
planting, weeding or hoeing. The inevitable
feminine skirt gets in one’s way. Perhaps that
is an argument against woman’s working in the
soil, but if a woman’s health and happiness lie
in such occupation the outer woman at least may
be allowed a privilege as to wherewithal she shall
be clothed.

I, for one, have doffed petticoat and skirt in
favor of a long coat; it sounds stylish and up-to-
date to call it a “Russian” coat. Under this
coat I wear riding breeches, varying in weight
according to the weather. They are to be had
in brown linen at the department stores for a
trifle under three dollars. Those made of khaki
cost a little more, but are most comfortable in
early spring. The only sensible footwear is
riding boots. I have the stiffening left out of the
tops of mine; they are comfortable, walking or
kneeling on the ground where one naturally spends
considerable time. They protect the leg as no

shoe could possibly do, and as they come well up
over the riding breeches, which button around
the calf, they complete a perfectly modest get-up.

Five yards of brown holland linen is sufficient
to make the coat. Measure the length from the
top of the shoulder to the length desired. I cut
mine to reach two inches below the top of my boots.
Cut three lengths, one for each front and one for
the back. For the fronts lay a pleat on each
shoulder about one and a half inches wide. Slope
the shoulder seams to fit, and cut out a round neck.
Lap the right front well over the left. Place the
other width across the back, cut out as you did
the front, omitting the pleats on shoulders. Now
pin the back to the fronts in a perfectly straight
seam under the arms; the strips that cut off under
the arms will make the sleeves. Close the seams
under the arms to within ten inches of the bot-
tom. This gives freedom to the skirt of the coat.
Cut the sleeves coat fashion, rather full, and
finish with a cuff or band that buttons. I prefer
the latter. as I can roll them up if occasion demands.
I also finish the neck with a simple collar band
and wear soft high stocks, or turn-over linen
collars when the days are warm. When very hot,
I discard collars and turn ina V neck. I also sew
flat on the front widths two large pockets, which
are indispensable for convenience.

Another advantage of this costume is its abso-
lute comfort, no tugging belt lines to bother one.
If the days are cool, a soft shirt can easily be worn
under the coat, and heavier underwear under the
breeches. Although made of heavy holland
linen, the coat is at all times cool and protects
my neck and arms from the burning sun, hence
no freckles or other sun-made hieroglyphics. A
large drooping straw hat completes a simple out-
door dress that insures comfort and protection.
The coat is easily laundered and I advise shrink-
ing the material before cutting.

It may not be amiss to suggest, for working
gloves, those sold at the department stores called
house-maid’s gloves. They are made of cotton
flannel and cost ten cents a pair with or without
gauntlets. They wash easily and wear better
than rubber or leather.

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causing disappointment. during the summer.

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OUR SPECIAL JULY |
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ANIU red, pink, white, strong, $6
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big plants, $6 per 100. ENGLISH DAISIES, pink and white,
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WAX or ICE PINKS, in bloom, $5 per 100.

2. CHRYSANTHEMUMS, for fall blooming; plant now our
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Keeping Weeds Out of Paths

JES GARDENING one may, by the merest acci-
dent, happen upon a method of doing work
which ordinatily requires twice the time and labor.
So with keeping weeds out of paths and gutters.
A pile of hay, accidentally left lying in the gutter,
was set on fire to get rid of it. The fire effectually
killed the weeds underneath and they did not again
spring up as freely in this burned-over area as
they did in stretches that had simply been hoed.
Therefore, whenever I want to get rid of garden
rubbish, and at the same time fight persistent
weeds in path and driveway, I rake the litter on to

A path overgrown with weeds, before burning

the path, permit it to lay there for a few days so
that the weeds underneath may be partially
suffocated and the litter will have an opportunity
to thoroughly dry out. I then set fire to the
pile or windrow, and often use the ashes as fer-
tilizer. The accompanying pictures were taken
within an hour of each other. The hay which
was only six inches deep, and very loosely piled,
did not have time to smother the weeds. The
longer and the more intense the fire the harder
the ground will be baked, and the more difficult
it will be for weed seeds to germinate. Place
the rubbish and watch it carefully while it is
burning so that the grass bordering the paths and
drives will not be injured, or at worst the injury

The same path after burning. No weeds in sight here

will be so slight that the grass will quickly recuper-
ate. Each subsequent burning adds to the time
in which the ground is proof against the future
germination of weed seeds.

I have also tried to conquer weeds with a con-
centrated solution of iron sulphate sprinkled along
the gutters so that the ground was practically
coated with this salt, but somehow or other the
weeds did not die out as I had hoped, nor did the
sulphate even keep them down for as long a time
as a good hoeing did.

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After nearly a year of more or less dis-
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THE NEW YORK OFFICE

has moved from our old building, 133-137
East 16th Street, to our new quarters, a floor
in the Tobey Furniture Company’s building,
11-13 West 32d Street.

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Department, representatives of the Whole-
sale Book Department, and the Syndicate
Department, and through them may be
able to make direct connections with Garden
City. This office is only about five minutes’
walk east from the Pennsylvania Station, and
the Pennsylvania Station is only forty min-
utes away from our own station here at
Garden City.

IN CHICAGO

we have moved into the new People’s Gas
Building, 150 Michigan Avenue, where our
Advertising Department is located. The
office is in charge of Mr. Edgar G. Criswell.
The other departments do no business through
the Chicago office.

IN BOSTON

we have a fixed abode in the Tremont Build-
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Here, also, only the Advertising Department
is represented.

Meanwhile, things at Garden City look
better and better; our magazine output
exceeds 15,000 a day; and we print and bind
more than 5,000 booksaday. We have had
a wonderful housewarming on May 23d
with nearly 1,000 friends to wish us luck.
Several thousand friends have visited us at
other times, the latchstring is still out, and
we hope to have many thousand more before
the summer ends.

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We have constant complaints that people
cannot find THE GARDEN MAGAZINE on the
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If you prefer you may order it in advance
and have it at the news-stand ready for you
when publication day arrives. People who
do not for any reason wish to subscribe are
urged to interview a good news-dealer in their
town, call his attention to this notice, and
the magazine will be regularly delivered.

The same thing is true of Country Life in
America and The World’s Work.

THREE NEW VOLUMES OF THE GARDEN LIBRARY

After a very long period of preparation,
we have just published and are sending out
to our customers the three new volumes which
were needed to round out The Garden Library:

“Vines, and How to Grow Them,” by
William McCollom. A manual of climbing
plants for flower, foliage, and fruit effects,
both ornamental and useful, including those
shrubs and similar forms that may be used
as vines.

“Chrysanthemums, and How to Grow
Them,” by I. M. Powell. A complete
volume of instruction on the growing of the
Queen of Autumn in the garden border, and
for specimen plants and blooms under glass.

“Garden Planning,’ by W. S. Rogers.
Especially designed to help the maker of
small gardens, who wants to start properly
in fitting his desire to the conditions and
situations.

The books are extremely well illustrated.
The price is $1.10 net each. They will be
sent to you on approval if you would like to
have us do so.

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The Post Office Department at Washing-
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tain portion of the semi-monthly and monthly
magazines will be handled by post freight
instead of the post mail service and that this
may result in a delay of from three to six days.

We shall do our best to get our magazines
into the mail as early in the month as possible
and we hope that our readers will not suffer
any inconvenience.

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After three years of preparation, the first
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they have been adopted for school use and
approved by the most advanced and careful
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Following are the titles of the volumes:

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Working in Metals. By Charles Conrad
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Carpentry and Woodwork. By Edwin
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Housekeeping. By Elizabeth Hale Gilman.
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The Garden Magazine

Vou. XIII—No. 6

PUBLISHED MONTHLY

JIONENG, BHO

[For the purpose of reckoning dates, New York is
generally taken asastandard. Allow six days’ difference
for every hundred miles of latitude.]

The Gardener’s Golden Rule

OU must have known what it is to
be out in the full sunshine of a
scorching July day; and with what an
exquisite sensation of gratitude and con-
tent you found yourself in a comfortable
chair, on a shady veranda, with a glass of
cool, ice-tinkling moisture at your elbow
—or your lips. If so, you know what
the plants feel whenever you give them
a thorough soaking. Duplicate the com-
fortable chair by keeping the soil of the
beds loose, airy and congenial.

And the plants will appreciate some
shade on the hottest days — especially
lettuce, large-flowered chrysanthemums,
and the house plants plunged in the border.

Shade beds with cheap cloth screens,
light lattices, or, in some cases, newspapers.

Whenever you cut your lawn decide
where the grass cuttings will do the most
good. They may be (a) left where they
fall, as a light mulch, (b) spread thickly
on rose and other perennial beds, around
shrubs or the small fruits, or (c) added to
the compost heaps, where, too, should go
all old pea vines, useless beet, carrot, and
turnip tops and any kind of decayable
animal or vegetable waste. Perhaps it
will pay to rotate, applying the cuttings
to each use every third time.

Vines need comparatively little water,
while in flower. But it is absolutely
essential while they are growing. This
means, for the spring-flowering sorts,
now and all summer; for the late flowering
species, all the time until their buds open;
for evergreens, whenever they seem to
call for a freshening up.

Remove flower spikes the moment the
blossoms wilt. Do this on roses, lilacs,
and all plants from which you don’t take
the blossoms sooner for cut flowers.

Clip your privet hedge this month.
Keep the pansies and sweet peas picked
clean.

Study the Fruit to Improve It

HE more healthy the fruit trees the

more fruit they will set and the more
thinning they will need. Peaches, plums,
pears, and early apples need this.

Pinch or clip back canes of the grapes,
blackberries, and raspberries.

Substitute hellebore for arsenate of
lead when spraying ripening crops. Am-
moniacal copper carbonate is the fungicide
to use under such circumstances.

Kerosene emulsion will conquer oyster-
shell scale, aphis — black, green, brown, or
wooly, and various tree- and leaf-hoppers.

Every female gypsy or brown-tail moth
killed before she lays her eggs means a
reduction, by several hundreds, of the
pests next year. Loose bark, crevices
in stone walls, old shingles thrown about,
tin cans, rough tree trunks, and decay
cavities — all these are her favorite nests.

On all unused land and around all fruit
trees and bushes sow a cover crop about
July 15th. The best crops are crimson
clover, cowpeas, vetch, peas and oats,
barley, rye, and buckwheat. The last
is the best for poor soils where nothing
else will do well.

Vegetables That Are Growing

EEP these cultivated all the time.
Water them as often as you can.
Apply nitrate of soda now and then.

Corn, tomatoes, eggplant, beans, squash,
and melons need especia!ly the culti-
vating and watering.

You must not cultivate beans while
they are wet. Anthracnose will land on
the thoughtless gardener who does.

Lime on cabbages, melons and squash,
arsenate of lead on tomatoes, eggplant,
and potatoes, and hellebore on others
that need it, will disappoint the bugs.

Bordeaux mixture is bad for blight,
leaf spot and mildew, but good for cucum-
bers, strawberries and all plants that are
subject to fungi.

Just because you are not cutting as-
paragus, don’t forget the plants. Salt,
5 pounds, and nitrate of soda 1 pound, to
roo square feet, will repay you well next
year. Cultivate to keep the weeds down.

Celery needs attention from now till
fall. Water, nitrate of soda and bleach-
ing spell attention. Bleach by hilling, by
means of boards, or (individual plants,)
with pieces of drain tile; but, however

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you do it, keep dirt out of the heart of
every head.

Support the tomato vines well; also
the heaviest eggplants.

Vegetables to Plant

| PIE aue es you have just ‘moved
in.” Don’t worry, you can still
have a garden. See another page of this
issue for a planting table of July-sown
vegetables. And look back to THE GARDEN
MacazineE for July, 1906, for the com-
plete story of a Fourth of July garden.

Now you begin to realize how many
celery plants you can use. Transplant
them from the seed bed or frame to every
bit of land that becomes vacant. (If it
seems poor, it will be better to sow a cover
crop on part of it.)

Cucumbers will ripen, or be just right
for pickles, if planted by July rsth.

The reason more people don’t succeed
with late-sown peas, lettuce and corn, is
that they don’t realize that summer con-
ditions are very different from those of
spring. The sun is hotter, the soil more
dry, water more scarce. Remedy these
defects by watering, spraying and culti-
vating thoroughly, and you can sow those
crops all the month.

Crops to Harvest

Ky (Cees show when they are

ripe by parting from the stem at
the slightest touch. They know best;
don’t try to hurry them.

Eggplants, too, are often picked too soon.
Wait till there is a suggestion of softness,
as well as a rich color.

Tomatoes ripen and color very evenly
if picked while firm and placed in a sunny
window, or on a shelf in the hotbed.

Onions are ripening. Cut the tops
when they become yellow, or just before
and spread the bulbs on the ground to
dry for a day or two.

Notice—

Row attractive a pond, stream, bog gar-

den, or other bit of water would be
these hot days. See if you cannot arrange
for one, for next year.

The vines and shrubs that are blossom-
ing now in neighbors’ gardens. Resolve
to have some another season.

Where certain plants are doing better
than others of the same kind elsewhere,
and study out why. Then try to provide
the same favorable conditions wherever
you want that special plant.

On June 22d, the first blossom appeared. It was white, and permeated the
atmosphere with a very decided pineapple scent

By the latter part of August, the plant had developed eight leaves, the largest
being about four feet in diameter

Gas Heating for Victorias Outdoors—By E. T. Harvey, om

A NOVEL SCHEME FOR GROWING THE GIGANTIC AMAZON WATER LILY IN ORDI-
NARY POOLS —REALLY EASY METHODS OF HANDLING THE TROPICAL RARITY

HE Victoria has a wondrous individ-
uality. The flower reposes on the
water like a true water lily and its bloom
the first night and the next morning is
not excelled for beauty and delicacy
by anything in the water lily line. It
looks very much like a gigantic, very
double NV. odorata, but of more shining
texture.

The flower is very coy and uncertain
about opening. The first indication is
by the round bud being borne well up upon
the top of the water and the calyx slightly
open to show a little white. If, for some
reason Madame Victoria should change
her mind and postpone her appearance for
a day, she retires into the water again to
come up the next day. As the flower
begins to open after sunset, the odor of
pineapple is very noticeable all about the
garden and gets stronger as the flower
is opening. From about nine o’clock
that evening until the following morning
about nine it is in full glory, but it seems
to be especially magnificent at night by
artificial light. The second night the
flower is quite as extraordinary, but no
longer delicate or even beautiful. After
that it closes up and sinks into the water
to grow and form seed, a prickly, shape-
less mass, something like an immense
thistle.

My plant two years ago was so late in
blooming that it did not have time to ma-
ture its seed. It takes ten weeks or more
to do this. So last year I planted, with
considerable misgiving, the seed of the year
before. The first indication of germination
is a little thread-like filament that is
followed afterward by arrow shaped leaves.
The plant has to be transplanted several
times before the character leaves appear,
and it seems almost incredible that the

delicate little seedling would grow into a
giant water lily that has a spread of over
twenty feet on the water. To any one
who has the facilities and patience, I
recommend starting from the seedling.
One period of growth is quite as interesting
as another.

In January, 1909, I got five seeds by
mail, and started them in a tank in my
greenhouse. I have two tanks, one of
copper and one of galvanized iron, three
feet square and one foot deep. Under
each is a small gas heating burner. The
tanks have wooden sides, and are partly
covered on the bottom, leaving just room
enough for the heater. The seeds took
just four weeks to germinate. One only
came up, and that was watched and tended
henceforth like a baby. When I came
home in the evening, the first thing to do
was to see if the temperature was right;
and that was also the first thing to be
looked at in the morning. I tried to keep
the water as near 85 degrees as possible,
but as we have natural gas here, it would
fluctuate in spite of all precaution. Some-
times I found the water so hot that it
seemed the plant must be cooked, but
the plant grew right along. The variety
was that known as Victoria Cruziana, or
Trickert, which is said to require a lower
temperature than the Victoria Regia.

About the time things began to be
springlike out of doors, my Victoria had
grown so as to nearly fill the tank. That
is, it had three or four leaves as large
as dinner plates. As I had quite a variety
of tender lilies in the same tank, it re-
sembled the young cowbird in the oriole’s
nest that I have read about. I began
to study how to accommodate it in my
pond.

My pond is entirely artificial, dug out

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and cemented on sides and bottom, and,
like the greenhouse, has been added to
and changed very often. As a result it
has a number of partitions that are con-
cealed when the water is up to the level
of the outer rim. I would hardly recom-
mend the plan to one about to build a pond,
but it certainly has advantages. I think
it gives strength, for one thing; then
the dividing walls are useful to walk upon
when getting in among the plants, and
save wading on the bottom in deep water;
also, I can drain one section at a time,
and take good care of the fish. Gold
fish and sun fish are among the attrac-
tions of the pond, the latter being my
favorites.

The north end of the pond was selected
for the Victoria for several reasons. This
part has almost a full sun exposure, and
could be better adapted to the required
conditions than any other place. It had
to be enlarged to give space to float the
big leaves, and the cement box in it that
had been used for the nympheas was
much too small and shallow. Also, to
be sure of success, some arrangemen was
necessary to keep the plant from getting
chilled the first few weeks after planting
out, as the weather is very uncertain here
and a cold snap would set the plant back
to far to recover that season. But the
real enthusiast is not discouraged by a
few difficulties, and planning and carry-
ing out a new idea is one of the joys
of gardening.

As soon as the weather permitted, a shal-
low rim three feet wide and one foot deep
was added to the dimension of the circular
north end of the pond. Then a round
basin, six feet wide and four feet deep, was
made in the centre of that section, the
walls on a level with the other partitions,

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which are covered when water is up to
its full level. Until the plant was well
established the water would be confined
within this inmost basin. So far, this
was comparatively simple, but when it
came to heating the water, I was “up
against it.” The plan of a boiler and coils
of pipe was too elaborate and expensive
to be thought of. At last it occurred to
me that since I could get hot water in the
bathroom from a heater in the kitchen,
a plan of that kind might be practicable
outside. From the greenhouse to the
lotus pond there was an overflow pipe to
carry off water from the roof, and inside
of this I had a gas pipe placed, carrying it
across to the bank within a few feet of
the Victoria basin. There I built a cement
box, partly below and partly above ground,
to furnish a receptacle for a gas water-
heater. The box was open at one end,
that I might get down inside when nec-
essary. The part above ground formed a
seat.

From the gas heater run two pipes,
partly under the ground and partly through
the water, open, with strainers at the ends,
right into the inside basin, that taking the
place of a tank. When I had the heater
in working order, I got four short boards
and rested them on the circular walls of
the Victoria tank, to square and somewhat
reduce the opening. Upon this I placed
an old greenhouse sash I happened to have,
about six by five feet; thus I had a covered
warm tank in the centre of a water space
about eighteen feet in diameter.

The scheme worked perfectly, and the
expense was trifling. The Victoria was
planted out on the 15th of May, and did
not seem to feel the change at all, but
grew right along. I had to go Fast in
the beginning of June, and returned home
on the 22d. The heat had then been
turned off for some time. The plant was
much crowded in the small space, and the
first thing to be done was to remove the
cover, fill up the pond, and give the plant
the freedom of the open space. A bud
was already above water and actually
opened the same evening, June 22d.

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Plan of the Victoria pond, showing how the central
basin is fed with heated water

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The gas-heating arrangement is concealed under
this box which, in summer, serves as a seat

With one or two short intervals of rest,
the plant bloomed until checked by cold
weather in October. The great leaves
were aS much admired as the flowers.
Some of the blossoms were exhibited in
Cincinnati.

In addition to the Victoria, I had an
unusually fine display of more than a
dozen of the tender nympheas, including
a plant of Nymphea gigantea, var. Casperi,
the Australian water lily, which fairly
rivaled the Victoria. A tuber of the
N. gigantea, var. Hookeri that came to
me direct from New South Wales received
almost as much care as the Victoria, but
after starting well and making considerable
growth it refused to become acclimated
and sulked into a tuber again..

However, I did not repeat this Victoria
feat the second year, though perhaps I
might have done so had I taken all the cars
and precaution I did at first. I had a
great number of plants that came up from
my own seed, so did not have to be so
particular. I selected the largest, though
it was not quite as big as the single one
I had the year before, and planted it out
about the middle of May. Soon after
it was necessary for me to be away from
home for over five weeks and when I got
home the first week in July, the plant had
but two leaves of moderate size. When
a third would appear the older one would
die off. After waiting for a week or so,
I turned the heat on again in the inner
basin. The pond was filled up at this
time and overflowed the division when
the Victoria was planted. But it responded
immediately to the warmth at the roots
and seemed to be anxious to make up for
lost time. The first flower appeared the
last of August and from that time it
averaged two blossoms a week. When
the plant was finally killed by frost it had
five leaves; the one the previous year
had eight.

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Some Water Lily Details
By Luxe J. Doocur, Massachusetts

HETHER water lilies are being

grown in a small lily pond or in
barrels or tubs, the soil in which they are
planted must be a good heavy loam well
mixed with old cow manure. Sunshine is
also essential. Water lilies are not diffi-
cult to grow, and if their habits and re-
quirements are studied a little they can be
handled almost as
easily as geraniums.

My little water
garden consists of a
half barrel or tub.
This was filled to
within six inches of
the top with soil and
plunged in the
ground. A couple of
plants were put in
the tub and six
inches of water was
kept over them con-
tinuously. They
made a_ splendid
showing during the
summer with com-
paratively little care.

Hardy lilies may be
planted out around
the first part of May, but the tender varie-
ties are best held until the latter part of
May or the first of June. After the sum-
mer the tubers are taken up and put in
a cool cellar, where they will be dormant.
all winter.

In the spring, if it is found that
the plants have become too large for
your purpose, they can be divided, and
by potting the side shoots, placing two or
three in a pot, flowering plants can be had
in the ‘summer,

Tender lilies are easily grown from seed.
I sow the seed in the spring in small pots
and cover lightly with sand. I then put
the pots in water, about two or three
inches of water being over the pot, in a
warm place where the sunlight can fall
upon them. When the first leaves are
formed, the plants should be given one
shift before being planted out in June.

A water lily plant after
being divided

This plant can easily be divided and the side shoots
will make good plants

Summer-Flowering Hardy Vines—By W. C. McCollom,

New
York

CLIMBERS THAT ARE BEAUTIFUL IN LEAF AND FLOWER AND BRIGHTEN UP TRELLISES AND WALLS
ALL SUMMER— WHAT TO GROW IN DIFFERENT SOILS AND HOW TO PRUNE FOR MOST FLOWERS

[PRESS is one important point in the
growing of summer-flowering vines
that must not be lost sight of. With few
exceptions, these vines flower on the
current season’s growth, and if there is
dry weather during the growing season
previous to flowering, they should be
freely watered at the roots.

In their beauty and freedom of bloom,
their extreme hardiness and their adapt-
ability to dry impoverished soils, the
honeysuckles are the most useful. They
can stand more abuse and neglect than any
vine I know of. Don’t neglect them, how-
ever; they are quick to repay any attention.

The honeysuckles twine and will ascend
any suitable support. They are all good
growers, are never troubled with insects
or disease, excepting under very unfavor-
able conditions, and once established they
are there to stay. They are not tall
growers, twenty-five feet being the extreme
limit. Although they delight in sunshine,
they will do quite well in a moderate shade,
and will grow and flower in locations so
dry that other plants would perish.
Honeysuckles flower on new wood; not,
however, on the terminal growths. Cut
back severely to produce long shoots of

The Japan clematis will flower freely in semi-shade
and is not particular as to soil

flowers; but for effect as a vine prune
lightly. In both cases, the right time is
early spring. Honeysuckles can be trans-
planted either spring or fall, and young
plants raised in quantity by layering.

For mixing in with green-leaved vines,
for screens to break up a heavy effect, or
for planting separately where good yellow
color is desired, the best vine is the golden
Japan honeysuckle (Lonicera Japonica,var.
reticulata). Besides being a good foliage
plant, it has very attractive flowers whch
fade from yellow to white. A form which
is an excellent ground cover —but not
among shrubs, as it will climb them —is
the dwarf golden Japan honeysuckle (L.
Japonica, var. flexuosa). This plant has
a bad habit of rooting too readily when a
shoot touches the ground.

For covering old stumps and boulders,
the Belgian honeysuckle (L. Periclymenum,
var. Belgica) will please the most critical;
it is a dwarf grower, becoming somewhat
bushy, and its long, drooping spikes of
fragrant, red flowers, which are borne in
profusion all summer, add color to any
situation. For a situation that demands
winter foliage as a screen, and where
flowers would lend attractiveness to the
spot in summer, the vine that stands out
most prominently is the evergreen honey-
suckle (L. Japonica, var. Halliana). The
small, dark-green foliage of this vine
would warrant its use even if it never
flowered; but fall finds it with long,
drooping spikes of pale yellow and white
flowers, when fragrant flowers are scarce.
For a conspicuous lamp post, or a much
frequented summer house, use Heckrott’s
ever-blooming honeysuckle (L. Heckrotiz).
This plant is covered the entire summer
with clusters of fragrant, reddish flowers.
The honeysuckle that grows to the
greatest height of all is the native L. hirsuta.
It has little else to recommend it, however.
A good dwarf variety that does not make
itself obnoxious by continual suckering
is the trumpet honeysuckle (L. sem-
pervirens). This is covered all summer
with orange-red flowers, but lacks fra-
grance. The best honeysuckle for shady
spots is the woodbine (L. Periclymenum),
a good, free bloomer. The flowers are
yellowish-white and very fragrant. The
only pure white honeysuckle is L. longi-
florum, which is tender and needs pro-
tection in the latitude of Long Island.

If you want a natural climber to cover
the side of a stone or brick building, lamp
post or dead tree, where it is freely exposed
to the sun, there is nothing to surpass the
trumpet creeper (Tecoma radicans). Its
gorgeous masses of glowing red tubular
flowers — produced during the very hot-
test period of the year, a time when flowers
are scarce — give a wonderfully brilliant
effect. Its foliage is also worth while.

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In situations where it has plenty of light,
the foliage is produced in feathery sprays
right down to the ground. Without the
sun it will become bare at the bottom.

As it flowers in clusters on the terminal
growth of the current season, prune hard
in early spring. Another point is training;
the vine is very apt to become bare at the
base, in which case bend a shoot down to
the base. With good, rich soil and a
southern exposure, the trumpet creeper
will climb to a height of forty feet. It
climbs by rootlets; it can be transplanted
either spring or fall, but the former is the
better time. Young plants can be raised
by layering.

The variety atropurpurea is identical
except in color, being deeper. There is
also a bush, or standard form excellent
for a conspicuous place on the lawn (7.
vadicans, var. speciosa).

FOR FLORAL DISPLAY

For floral effect alone the Chinese trum-
pet creeper is much superior, because the
trumpet expands more, showing the inner
color of the flower better, and moreover
more flowers are open at one time. The
best colored form of this is 7. grandiflora,

The trumpet creeper grows anywhere but only
flowers when in full sunshine

Juuy, 1911

The true climbing hydrangea is a worthy vine,
climbing on brick and reaching twenty feet

var. atrosanguinea with flowers a very
deep shade of scarlet.

Where a big display of flowers is more
important than a foliage screen, nothing
surpasses the clematis in beauty and
individuality. Unfortunately, the clematis
is a rather unsatisfactory grower. In no
case should it be used as a screen, as it
lacks foliage. It is, in short, to the garden
what the orchid is to the greenhouse.

The clematis needs have a good light
location and protection from heavy winds,
as it is easily torn from its supports. It
clings to almost any kind of an openwork
trellis, and on poultry wire is perfectly
at home. Good soil to start with and a
yearly application of manure is advisable.
Water freely when in growth. Although
clematis can be transplanted spring or
fall, spring is the better time. But do
not move it unless absolutely necessary,
as it is slow to re-establish.

SMALL FLOWERS FOR MASS EFFECTS

The most easily grown clematis, and the
only one that will flower in semi-shade, is
the Japanese (C. paniculata). The pure
white flowers, an inch or so across, come
late in August. Nor is this vine to be
despised for later effect, as the seed pods
are very attractive in September. It
requires good, hard pruning; cut back
at least one-third of the previous season’s
growth in early spring and remove all
very weak shoots. It will attain a height
of twenty feet. Ff

Very similar, but demanding full sun- .

light, is C. Flammula. A more vigorous
grower than either is the ‘‘traveler’s joy,”
or “old man’s beard” (C. vitalba), but the
white flowers are smaller.and less showy.

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 347

It blooms in July. With full sunshine,
and in good soil, it will climb as high as
thirty feet.

Valuable for rockeries, or anywhere
for rough, natural effect where there is
plenty of sun, is the wild clematis (C.
Virginiana). This is another small-
flowering, white variety. It will attain
a height of fifteen feet, but seems to be
more at home when allowed to scramble
over stumps and low hedges. Prune all
these in spring.

LARGE-FLOWERING CLEMATIS

For real splendor and showiness, the
enormous masses of bloom of the large-
flowering clematis are unique among vines.
Unfortunately, even more than the small-
flowering kinds they lack a vigorous habit
and free bloom; but a plant once estab-
lished and doing well, will outflower any
other vine.

For a deep violet effect, where a big
burst of that color is desired in midsummer,
C. Jackmani is unique. It has flowers
which measure as much as six or seven
inches across. Another good variety of
the same color is C. Devoniensis.

A good white variety that has stood the
test of time and can be relied upon is C.
Henryi with flowers six inches across. The
only really good crimson variety, and a
rather shy one at that, is Madame Edouard

Andre. The best pink variety is Madame
Baron Veillard.

FLOWERING ON THE NEW WOOD

Because when killed to the ground it will
spring up and bloom again, I recommend
the Viticella group of clematis. Although
the flowers are not as large as in the fore-
going, the plants of this group make just
as good a display from adistance. The
blooms are about two inchesacross. The
type is blue, but there are numerous
hybrid varieties to be had inall colors.
A fine light blue is var. lilicina-floribunda.
The best deep blue is Lady Bovill, and the
best purple is Othello.

The best clematis flowering on new wood
is Madame Grange, violet. Star of India
is the best purple, and C. Viticella, var.
venosa the finest reddish purple. These
must be pruned in early spring; but don’t
cut a double clematis as you would a maple
tree. They are slow growers, and all the
pruning that is necessary is the removal
of any very poor shoots and about one-
quarter of the previous season’s growth in
early spring. This will give several strong
shoots for flowering from each shoot cut.

CLEMATIS THAT FLOWERS ON RIPENED WOOD

The varieties mentioned below flower
on mature wood and should be pruned
lightly. After flowering, remove all very

Clematis Flammula flowers in July earlier than the Japan clematis, but’ demands full sun

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lor a large white-flowered vine blooming in sum-
mer plant Clematis Henri

thin, weak shoots. The best and most
popular of the double-flowered is Duchess
of Edinburgh. This is a free grower and
the double white flowers are produced with
great freedom in midsummer; another
good double white is Snowdrift. A de-
sirable double blue is Countess of Love-
lace, and Louis van Houtte is a pleasing
shade of rosy white. Among the singles,
the best are C. cerulea, var. Standishi,
light purple; Miss Bateman, pure white;
C. florida, white, barred with purple; and
C. florida, var. bicolor, a variety with
purple predominating. The great draw-
back to all the groups is the likelihood of
losing the season’s flowers by a heavy
late frost.

OTHER VINES

For a piazza vine,
in abundant sun-
light, you cannot
find a more attrac-
tive plant than the
white jasmine (Jas-
minum officinale). It
blooms all summer
and its fragrance is
delightful, especially
on a still evening,
when its sweetness
will penetrate to the
innermost rooms of
the house. The
plant is a twiner,
| but must be assist-
“ed, and if sprayed
occasionally during
the summer it will
grow much better.
Ina hot, sunny loca-
tion it will climb to
a height of twenty
teow

The nurserymen

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

have frightened people away from growing
the white jasmine, as they fix the latitude
of Philadelphia as its northern limit. The
plant can be grown in the latitude of New
York, by covering the tops with mats and
hilling up about the base before frost,
mulching all after the first good freeze.

For a combination of foliage and flowers,
and also for making a permanent, heavy
screen, the actinidias are excellent. ‘Their
small, green foliage is particularly attrac-
tive from a distance when the sun is shin-
ing on it. The actinidias are remarkably
free from the attacks of insects, excepting
the San Jose scale which is quite partial
to them.

Actinidias delight in a sunny location.
They are good growers, twining close to
their support. Do not prune severely
for the first two seasons after planting;
rather let the plant become thoroughly
established. After that, however, in
spring cut back at least one-third of the
previous season’s growth to produce flowers.

Because of its robust growth and dark
green foliage, the best vine of this family
is A. arguta. The flowers are creamy
white, with black anthers, and are produced
in small, drooping clusters. The foliage
is always attractive. Under good con-
ditions this plant will attain a height of
seventy-five feet. The only reason for
growing A. polygama is that it flowers in
early July, a time when flowering vines are
scarce. The foliage of this is a lighter
green, and the plant attains a height of
only thirty feet. A. Kolomtkia is similar to
A. polygama, but a much sparser grower.

THE AMERICAN WISTARIA

For bluest effects in early spring, plant
the wistaria. When pruning in spring,

remove all very weak, thin shoots, and do

A combination of vines used for screening. Honeysuckle on the west: akebia on the south; akebia and

native wistaria on the east

Juty, 1911

The star-like flowers of the large-flowered
matis are always effective, but the plants are the
least sturdy of all vines

cle-

nothing else. Those specially interested
in wistarias should read last month’s
issue of THE GARDEN MAGAZINE.

On places where there is but a small
strip of lawn between the house and high-
way, it is not infrequently a hard matter
to find something to break up the monotony
of the stretch of plain, green grass. It
is too small a space for a flower bed, and
just the place where a specimen shrub
or tree looks stiff. The plant for such
a location is the short-clustered wistaria
(W. brachybotrys). This is very dwarf,
six feet being the limit, but, grown in a
good, sunny loca-
tion, as a headed-in
standard, it is un-
equalled. The flow-
ers are light purple
and are freely borne
about the middle of
July. There is also
a white form (var.
alba) and a beautiful
red one (var. rubra).

The climbing hy-
drangea (H. petiola-
vis) is a slow vine
to establish itself,
but, once worked
up to the flowering
stage, there are few
vines to approach
it. In its masses of
small, white flowers,
it slightly resembles
the clematis, but it
is the better of the
two for some pur-
poses, as it is a nat-
ural rootlet climber
and can be used for
stone or brick build-

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ings. It will not cling to wood. This
plant requires a little coddling at the
start, as it dislikes moving. For this
reason it should not be transplanted except
when very necessary. Don’t let it bloom
for the first two or three seasons. Prune
in early spring and remove all the very
thin, weak shoots and cut back far enough
on good wood to produce fine growth.
In case of flowering wood appearing, cut
it off. It should have a light, but rather
sheltered location, and protection by
wrapping in straw or burlap for the first
two winters, at least. Under good culti-
vation it will grow to a height of twenty
feet.

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The unfavorable attitude toward this
plant is due to its being confused by dealers
with another Japanese climber, Schizo-
phragma hydrangeoides, which is sent out
under the same common name and which
is a mere weed by comparison. It can
be distinguished by the foliage, which is
deeply lobed, while the leaf of the true
plant is entire.

THE POLYGONUMS OR KNOTWEEDS

The immense drooping panicles of beau-
tiful rose-colored, feathery flowers of
Polygonum Baldschuamicum make this vine
a very desirable one for low trellises and
fences. It quickly establishes itself and

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will flower freely the second year from
planting, but needs a light location, as
it is a quick, soft grower and runs up to
a height of ten to twelve feet in a single
season. It kills to the ground in severe
winters, but when protected, will become
woody at the base. It should be cut back
to live wood in early spring.

Another good climbing knotweed tor
quick effect, flowering the second season
from planting, is P. multiflorum. WU is
a heavier grower and the flowers are dis-
persed all over the plant, appearing from
the axils of each leaf and not in a panicle
as in the former variety. Also, it flowers
one month later, in September.

Making Water Effects a Feature—By W. S. Rogers

SIMPLE WAYS OF USING AN ADJACENT STREAM FOR CHARMING GARDEN EFFECTS
— HOW THE GREATEST RESULTS ARE TO BE HAD FOR THE LEAST TROUBLE

HERE is something so delightful
in the living, moving presence of
water in the landscape that gardeners
may be excused their desire to introduce
it into their flower ground. In a garden
of limited size the effect which appeals
to us amidst natural surroundings is
practically unrealizable. At the same
time water can be introduced
without appearing to be too
artificial a feature.

The making of a water gar-
den is a simple matter com-
pared with its efficient mainte-
nance. The gardener should
prepare to give unremitting
attention to his water plants
and to their artificial homes.
This implies frequent chang-
ing of water and cleansing of
ponds.

In the case of a garden
bounded by a stream at its
far end, the probability is that
the gardener would have no
rights over the water, but also
that no objection would exist to his divert-
ing some of it through his garden. He
might excavate a backwater, say with an
extension in the form of a bay, as shown
in the illustration.

By this means he would obtain running

FORMER

Fig. 1.

Showing a provision for a still lagoon (B),
with moving water at A

water (A), and a piece (B) more or less
stagnant. The depth need not exceed
eighteen inches. The island (C) would be

useful for treatment with bold waterside
plants and the margins of the backwater
and pond could accommodate others of
less sturdy growth. Clear spaces should
be left for access to the water’s edge and

that the soil is water-logged for some dis-
tance from the water’s edge, and is there-
fore in a condition for supporting a colony
of semi-aquatic plants.

When a stream intersects the garden,
the general treatment should be such as
to considerably expand the water area,
and this may be done by adopting an
arrangement like that illus-
trated in Fig. 2, in which a
lily-pond is made beyond the
brook, having inlet and out-
let. Bays should be formed
on the near side. Communi-
cation across the stream may
be by a simple bridge, or by

Methods of margin treatment of artificial water effects (C and D).

connecting pools are shown at A and B

to permit of the plants being seen. A
small collection of dwarf hybrid nympheas
may be established in the pond (B) and
in the backwater, with which might
be associated the common native pond lily.
Other plants may be added if space per-
mits, including such subjects as the pic-
kerel weed, the flowering rush, and water
buttercup. Typha and swamp mallow
might be planted along the fence line at B.

Irises will thrive at the margin of the
water, as well as phlox, trollius, spirea,
and a host of others. When all is com-
plete and the plants are established keep
the entrances clear and remove all rubbish
which may find access to the water. De-
ciduous trees or shrubs should not be
placed near the water.

In excavating the water bed the sides
should slope gently to the edge, or trouble
will ensue by the banks breaking away
and fouling the water. This also insures

Drainage and

stepping stones if the depth
of water is shallow. Resist
the temptation to give a “rus-
tic” character to the bridge.
It should be a plain affair well
and firmly built, as befits its
purpose, and provided with a
hand-rail on either side.

The first consideration will
be the planning of the ponds,
for such they are, and in that we must be
guided by the levels in the garden.

If there is a distinct slope in the garden
surface, so much the better; it will help

Fig. 2. Making a pond of a flowing stream, with
a bridge over the main channel

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to a simple arrangement for running off
the water, which must be done from time
to time to keep the ponds clean.

The waste or overflow from the pond
or series of ponds must be provided for,
and when the garden slopes toward the
house the most convenient way is to carry
it into a gully in connection with the house
drainage system. When the slope is in
a contrary direction the best expedient
is to make a “soak-away” drain. This
is merely a pit sunk in the soil and filled
with rubble, into which the overflow pipe
is conducted.

Fig. 3 shows both the mode of forming
the bottom and of building up the sides.
If rock orrubble sides are used, as in D,
they must be built in cement, and the
joints made watertight. The floor may
then be made with six or eight inches of
concrete, faced with cement. The surface
should not be finished to a dead level,
but with a slight fall toward the outlet,
to facilitate running off the water.

If the pond sides are built of cement
the scheme shown at C must be followed,
making the edges battered, and finishing
them neatly at top with a rounded nosing.
Fresh cement of good quality should be
used, using one part of sharp sand to
two parts cement.

Pipes for inlets and outlets should be

The Most Rugged of the Hardy Evergreens —By C. L. Meller,

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inserted when the sides of the pond are
being made. If a single pond is installed
it will only be necessary to carry a waste-
pipe from its bottom to the drain, a
straight line, if possible, to facilitate
unstopping in case of obstruction. The
most suitable piping is 13-inch iron gas
pipe. A plug must be provided to close
the inlet, and this may be a simple cone
of wood.

When two or more ponds are made,
they should be connected by piping into
a single system, the waste-pipe connecting
the one nearest the drain to the latter.

Tf all ponds stand at the same level, the
connecting pipes may enter and leave
at the bottom; but if the levels are stepped,
as would be the case on sloping ground,
the overflow from each pond to the next
lower one of the series must be placed
at the water-line, otherwise the water would
all flow to the lowest pond. This point
is made clear in the diagrams A and B.
The filling up and renewal of the water
may be done conveniently with the garden
hose.

A constant movement of water is quite
unnecessary. Water lilies will thrive in
perfectly stagnant water which has not
been changed for months.

When the gardener has done his work,
he should fill up the ponds, mark the

JuLty, 1911

water-level, and allow them to stand for
a week, noting whether there is any leak-
age which would show itself by a drop
in the surface level. If all is satisfactory,
the water may be run off and the ponds
will be ready for planting.

The soil may be a compost consisting of:

Pond mud . 2 parts
oamy 2 I part
Leaf-mold ys Gk leat I part
Road scrapings . ... . I pact

If the first ingredient cannot be obtained
double the quantities of loam and leaf-
mold. A layer of drainage material
(broken tile or brick rubbish) should be
spread upon the pond floor, on which
the compost is heaped to the water-
level height at the points where the plants
are to be placed. The water should
stand for a couple of days to assume the
temperature of the atmosphere. The
plants may then be inserted in their
mounds, which by this time will have
settled down considerably below the water-
level.

The water may be run off and renewed
every two weeks. ‘Twice a year the ponds
must be thoroughly cleansed.

Goldfish are useful in restraining un-
desirable vegetable growth, water-snails,
and they also devour the larve of the
mosquito.

North
Dakota

A DOZEN TREES THAT WILL POSITIVELY WITHSTAND THE WINDS OF THE PRAIRIES AND THE
COLD OF THE NORTHWEST — WINDBREAKS AND SCREENS FOR EXPOSED PLACES IN ANY SECTION

M°E than any other section of our
country does the Northwest need
the cheer of evergreens. It is not so
much a matter of soils or of tempera-
ture, this growing of evergreens in the
Northwest, as it is a question of winds
with their resultant evaporation. The
dry winds, as they sweep across the miles
of unobstructed prairies, absorb moisture
at a tremendous rate, a vital matter to
an evergreen with its large evaporating
surface active throughout the entire year.
The windy month of March is the severest
in this respect, for then there are days
when the moisture is fairly sucked out of
the foliage, while the roots, in ground as
yet frozen, are powerless to replenish the
loss. Under such conditions an evergreen
may turn brown as if scorched by fire.
Nevertheless, we find enough hardy ma-
terial to enable us to bring warmth into
our winter landscape and to add a touch
of coolness to our summers.

For specimen planting there is no pine
available. Only two of the larger pines

are reliable on the prairies and these,.

unhappily, are the poorest of all as far as
landscape work is concerned. The bull
pine (Pinus ponderosa) is a large tree with
dense foliage and a somewhat coarse
character throughout. It will endure ex-
tremes of drought, while no degree of cold

Other trees

The Black Hills spruce on the left.
are the Norway spruce

seems to affect it.
makes success in transplanting very un-
certain. Naturally, the smaller the plants
set out the better are the chances of getting
this evergreen to start. It makes an
excellent windbreak, which loses not in
effectiveness by eventually overtopping the
buildings. For enclosing a formal garden
out on the prairies nothing surpasses it,
though the compact wall of green which
it is capable of producing requires years
of growth. The bull pine bears its long,
coarse needles in groups of both twos and
threes, a feature whereby it may be recog-
nized. Out in the western part of the

Its Jong tap root

Dakotas this tree grows to sawlog size.
The jack pine (Pinus divaricata) is fully
as hardy as the bull pine and transplants
more readily, though its sparse, open top,
which nearly always presents a wind-
tousled appearance, precludes its use in
landscape work. As a windbreak it is
serviceable, but by no means the equal
of the bull pine. We must not infer,
however, from the fact that we at present
have only two pines reliably hardy in the
Northwest that this establishes a hard and
fast limit, for some of the other pines have
not as yet received a fair trial.

Thus the dwarf mountain pine (Pinus
montana, var. Mughus) is proving itself
hardy. These trees are exactly what the
Northwest wants —low, compact globes
of green that with their dark needles seem
cool in the heat of summer and warm as it
were in the snows of winter. At an angle
of a path or flanking the steps to either
side they are splendid. Where the limited
extent of a lawn makes a more or less
formal treatment necessary the use of the
dwarf mountain pine is advisable, even,
perhaps, to the exclusion of everything
else, for such a lawn will be neat and
attractive from year end to year end.
There are a considerable number of hardy
perennials that bloom joyously after the
frost has defoliated trees and shrubs, and

Jury, 1911

anything that will afford a green back-
ground for these flowers is worthy of
diligent care. If the trees come to you
with a ball of native earth well burlapped
around their roots they are certain to grow.

In the matter of spruce, we in the North-
west are as fortunate as the more favored
sections of the East. A feature worthy
of note is that all our spruces are compact
growers, while the only one that shows any
openness in its growth cannot be classed
as reliably hardy. The white spruce
(Picea alba) is a rather slow grower, some-
what stiff in the carriage of its branches,
with the shade of its green possibly a bit
lighter than that of the Norway spruce.
In its ability to bear crowding, it resembles
the ash, and like the ash should be used
where a large number of trees is desired
on a small area. The prettiest of all the
spruces is a native variety of the white
spruce, commonly known as the Black
Hills spruce (Picea alba, var. compacta).
It is compact in its habit of growth,
more decided than other forms in its
shade of green and altogether the
proper tree for a specimen evergreen on a
lawn. Individual plants will take on
color as marked as that of a Colorado blue
spruce, though they are of a more steely
blue and more suggestive of refinement.
In both the white and the Black Hills
spruces the needles are shorter, the twigs
more slender and the growth more com-
pact than in the blue spruce. A Black
Hills spruce has a tendency to carry its
branches and twigs at right angles to its
trunk, producing much the same layer-
like effect with its foliage that is such
a marked feature of the Colorado blue
spruce. Both the white and the Black
Hills spruce transplant readily.

The vexatious thing about a Colorado
blue spruce (Picea pungens) apparently
more pronounced in the West than in the
East, is the uncertainty concerning its
color. I know of a specimen that did
not show a particle of color until it was
twenty years old. Equally, three-foot ma-
terial that I planted as blue is now plain
green, while some of those originally green
are turning blue, within three years.
Concerning its hardihood there is no
question, and transplanted with the least
care one need not lose a tree. This spruce
cannot well be used in mass planting,
not so much because of its striking color
for there are green ones enough to be had,
but there is never any telling how these
may turn out. In a planting of consider-
able extent, where there is sufficient green
to set off its color, a Colorado blue spruce
can be used with excellent results; but
where a spruce is desired in a planting
of limited area, a green specimen of
the Black Hills spruce is to be preferred.

The Norway spruce (Picea excelsa)
requires shelter on the prairies and in
itself will not produce a dependable shelter
belt against our sweeping winds. On the
grounds of the Agricultural College of
North Dakota there is a well developed
hedge row of these trees, twenty-five feet

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The dwarf juniper is valuable for fronting down. It seems to be quite indifferent as to soil

tall and twenty-five years old. Protec-
tion has made them possible. Trees from
this very hedge row, grouped out in the
open where the prairie winds can reach
them, are fast failing; as the outer ones
die and are removed the inner ones, lacking
this protection, also fail. The soil in which
the exposed group was planted is exactly
like that of the hedge row. Norway
spruce is apt to fail in soil in which the
white, Black Hills and Colorado blue
spruces do well. This spruce possesses
neither the drought-resisting nor the wind-
combating qualities of the others and can
not be recommended for extensive planting
in the Northwest; and as none of the hardy
spruces droop as the Norway does, we
must forego this effect in our landscape.
As an auxiliary to a deciduous windbreak
the Norway spruce might be considered,
though even here the white or the Black
Hills spruces have the advantage, being

far more rugged and, of course, fully as
effective in holding back the surface wind
during the winter. A well developed
spruce with its low spreading branches
is about as good a playhouse for children
as can be devised.

The firs and the hemlocks are out of the
question in the Northwest. Arborvite
(Thuya occidentalis) will grow well, and the
reason that most persons experience such
trouble with it is that they do not fully
understand its requirements. It should
be borne in mind that this evergreen is
native to cool, wet soils and, where dry
soils and a lack of rainfall prevail, young
arborvite can scarcely be watered too
much. It appears not to be a matter of
cold or of winds, but merely a matter of
sufficient moisture that determines failure
or success with an arborvite. However,
when the grace and beauty and hardiness
of a red cedar (Juniperus Virginiana) are

Sverre

The white cedar or arborvitze needs moisture and therefore is not so useful as the red cedar. Jack pine
at the extreme left

352

considered, it would seem needless to
bother with an arborvite.

Out in the Badlands grows a variety of
the red cedar which, with its feathery
grace and silvery sheen, produces an
exquisite effect. A few catalogues list
it under the name of silver cedar, or Juni-
perus Vurginiana, var. glauca, though as
a rule, nurserymen are unfamiliar with it.
It is slow of growth and in winter its green
is a bit rusty. It endures shearing well,
being the equal of arborvite in this respect,
though to shear such a tree is like cutting
a bird’s plumage. Carefully planted, with
a sufficient supply of moisture during
the first year or two, the trees can be
grown-6n the open prairie and will endure
any subsequent neglect. In the Badlands
these trees attain some size, though in
landscape work they are to be regarded as
rather dwarf material with an average
height of from three to eight feet. It
should be borne in mind that a species so
widely distributed as our native red cedar
is likely to produce some very marked
variations, especially in fitting itself to
such unusual conditions of both soil and
climate as one finds in the Badlands.

The common, low-spreading juniper
(Juniperus communis), is a weed for growth
and persistency, and of all our evergreens
the most indifferent to soil. It is a shrub
with a distinct front and back and there-
fore well adapted to hillsides where it
will thrive on exceedingly little moisture.
It ought not to be omitted from evergreens
on a hillside for, in a way, it acts as a ground
cover and its green is always fresh. Once
established, it tends to spread of its own
accord. There is a little trailing variety
of this juniper, a little creeping vine that
serves well among rocks. What Latin
appellation is it to have I doubt if the

The Colorado spruce is a valuable hardy tree, but
not so dense as the Black Hills spruce

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botanists have as yet determined. With
the development of the Northwest along
horticultural lines there will be found a
number of varieties of evergreens so distinct
from the species that some varietal name
will have to be given each. This is the case
with our Black Hills spruce and our Bad-
lands cedars, trees of distinctive character
that as yet lack satisfactory variety names
by which they may be known.

The foregoing are all the evergreens on
which any reliance can be placed in the
Northwest, though as already stated the
list is not conclusive; as this section of
our country demands more landscape
material, other evergreens from all manner
of sources will be brought in of which some,
no doubt, will prove hardy. But aside
from their value as landscape material,
pines and spruces serve an eminently
practical purpose as windbreaks. Win-
breaks there must be around the homes
of the prairie farmers; a shelter belt of
deciduous trees, fronted with low branch-
ing evergreens, makes the ideal wind-
break.

Transplanting an evergreen is, by most
people, undertaken with trembling and
doubt, altogether without reason, for
nothing is more certain to grow than an
evergreen planted with a ball of native
soil about its roots. When the buds
of an evergreen start in spring its roots
are still dormant and remain so until
the beginning of summer; consequently,
an evergreen transplanted has in spring
an evaporation in excess of the capacity
of the roots to absorb moisture, for these
can as yet draw only upon the soil moved
with them and not upon the soil in which
they have been placed. To overcome
this difficulty transplanted evergreens
should be sprayed a few hours during the
hottest part of the day. An evergreen
handled thus can be moved at any time
of the year except when the ground is
frozen. Shipping trees a long distance is,
of course, another matter for which pur-
pose midspring and early fall are best.
However, as far as the Northwest is con-
cerned the emphasis ought not to be laid
upon the time of planting but upon the
proper handling.

The matter of soil is another phase of
evergreen culture that unduly vexes peo-
ple. Spading sand into the ground in
the hope of thereby making it more con-
genial to an evergreen is a waste of sand.
An evergreen will grow in gumbo. An
abundance, even a surplus, of manure may,
however, be spaded into the soil. Manure
is unequalled for breaking up a stiff clay
and, moreover, nothing will give the soil,
light or heavy, a greater water-holding
capacity than the humus thus added.
On the other hand, the roots of an ever-
green will not endure being brought into
contact with fresh manure. The food
that manure adds to the soil is not half
as important as its influence upon the
physical texture of the soil. Spading in
manure after the trees are planted is a
hindrance rather than a help.

Juty, 1911

The Black Hills spruce (Picea alba var. compacta)
makes a dense growth and has a black color

Evergreens should be bought only from
the man who raises them. The proper
way to start an evergreen out on the open
prairies is to plant it in the midst of de-
ciduous shrubbery; this will provide the
protection it requires. When the fall
is dry it is a good plan to send the
evergreens into winter quarters with a
heavy watering. Merely turning the hose
on the trees for a few minutes will not do.
Whenever it becomes necessary to water
an evergreen the ground about its roots
as far out as the branches extend should
be soaked until it refuses to absorb any
more water. Nor should the ground be
permitted to bake about an evergreen,
but be kept well stirred. And in fall,
just before the ground freezes, mulch with
straw. Evergreens, as a rule, can take
care of considerably more water than
nature provides in most parts of the
Northwest, so there is little danger of
overwatering them.

The following list gives the evergreens
which thus far have proven themselves.
hardy in the Northwest. It may be super-
fluous to add that we can boast of no
broad-leaved evergreens:

POPULAR NAME BOTANICAL NAME

Bull pine Pinus ponderosa

Jack pine Pinus divaricata

Dwarf mountain pine Pinus montana, var.
mughus

Tamarack Larix laricina

White spruce Picea alba

Black Hills spruce Picea alba, var.
compacta

Picea pungens
Picea excelsa

Colorado blue spruce

Norway spruce

White cedar (arbor-
vite)

Red_ cedar

Badlands cedar

Thuya occidentalis

Juniperus Virginiana

Juniperus Virginiana, var.
glauca

Common juniper or
(dwarf juniper)

Trailing juniper

Juniperus communis

There appears to be no
authoritative name that
would distinguish this
from the preceding

An Inexpensive Water Lily Pond—By Lena Smith Ford, &:

OST of the water gardens described
in garden literature are elaborate
naturalistic ponds or formal pools of
masonry, beautiful but costly and quite
unattainable to the modest gardener;
the case of the amateur seems to be limited
to tubs and cemented tanks. We did
not doubt that beautiful water lilies could
be grown in tubs or tanks, but we wanted
a small, naturally outlined pond (about
twelve feet long) with no cement edges
showing and we wanted to locate it in a
low, unmown spot at one side of the lawn,
where some young hemlocks would be
a protection for it. We were the veriest
of beginners in gardening and desperately
afraid of doing something ridiculous;
mistakes might be ‘‘stepping-stones to
higher things,” but a misfit lily pond
would be very uncomfortable to have
ever before one’s eyes.

However we determined to follow our
own ideas. We believed that the honest
expression of the best that is in one might
be permitted, at least, in the privacy of
one’s back yard, and that a garden of one’s
own making, mistakes and all, would give
more joy than the perfectly correct pro-
duct of another. After staking out the
curving outlines of the pond, we dug
out the soil to a depth of two feet and
three inches, saving the good top loam
to put back later into the finished pond.
The sides were slanted to an angle of
45 degrees, and both the bottom and
sides were lined with stones about six
inches thick. A three-inch layer of cement
(three parts of coarse sand to one part of
cement) was laid over the stones, the top
rim being cut under the turf in order to
hide the cement edge. The pond was
fortunately located over a cellar drain
and we merely had to cement a pipe into
this drain to provide for emptying. After
a thorough drying of the cement, it was
necessary to soak out its caustic properties

that there might be no damage to plants
and fish.

When all was ready we covered the bot-
tom of the pond with one foot of loam
enriched by one-third rotted cow manure,
planted this with nymphea roots and
aerating plants, and top-dressed the whole
surface with two inches of seasand. There
remained a foot of depth for water, but
only four inches were put in at first.
After the first floating leaves appeared
upon the nympheas we began letting
in a little water each day until the
pond was full. Three large gold fishes
were added for their beauty and use-
fulness.

The nympheas chosen were of the hardy
varieties: the handsome NV. Marliacea, vars.
chromatella, alba, and candidissima, and
the white Chinese Pygmy (JV. tetragona).
We also planted a few roots of pickerel
weed and arrow head from a nearby brook,
and anchored a small clump of water
hyacinth at one side of the pond. A
potted umbrella plant (Cyperus alterni-
folius) was added with good effect. Both
the lilies and the wild plants bloomed
beautifully and continuously all summer.
The nympheas were of the varieties bound
to succeed, and surely nothing could be
easier than raising water lilies if these
sorts are chosen.

The margin of the pond -was not very
extensive, but we wanted to make the
most of it. The side toward the lawn
was left open so that we could see the
lilies from any part of the lawn or garden;
the remaining sides and back were planted
thickly among stones and grasses with
plants of the following kinds:

Near the edge, forget-me-nots, English
daisies, and tiny ferns; back of these,
iris (German, Japanese and common blue
flag) Hemerocallis flava and Dumortieri,
Funkia, cardinal flower, closed gentian,
turtle head, and some phlox. Back of

Connec-

all were the young hemlock trees. The
forget-me-nots grew right out into the
water a foot and were a sheet of bloom
for a long time. All the other plants
did well here, as the place was naturally
somewhat moist and one only had to
flood the pond a little to give them an
extra drink. Every three or four days
we sprayed the pond to replace the
water lost by evaporation, but the
amount of water used increased our
water bill less than a dollar for the
whole season.

All summer long something delight-
fully interesting was happening in and
about this little pond. Three green-brown
frogs came to live in it; toads laid their
eggs in long strings to the overhanging
forget-me-nots, and soon the bottom of
the pond was covered with little gray
tadpoles. We supplied our own garden
and the whole neighborhood with plenty
of toads. Soon, too, young gold fishes
began to hatch by the hundreds and by
the end of summer many of them had
changed their color from brown to gold.
But most charming of all were the waxy
flowers and hronze-green leaves of the
nympheas. They bloomed continuously
until the frost finally froze the half open
buds.

In late fall we took out the fishes,
drained the pond, covered the nymphea
roots with manure and filled the whole
opening with hay and cornstalks, bring-
ing the mulch out two feet over the
edge to protect the sides from cracking
by the frost.

Considering the happiness our little
pond brought us in its first summer
alone, its cost seemed very trifling.
We had only stones, cement, plants and
fishes to buy and the expense of all
came under twelve dollars. There was
no labor to pay for as we did the work
ourselves.

The back-yard water garden was made at a cost of twelve dollars and successtully accomimodated water lilies and other aquatics, besides goldfish, etc.

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The “Fun” of Collecting Anemones, III—By Wilhelm Miller, ¥

THE ‘“‘SUMMER WINDFLOWERS”’ WHICH MAKE THE HOT PERIOD SEEM COOLER, HARMONIZE
COLOR DISCORDS IN THE GARDEN, AND LEND ENCHANTMENT TO COMMONPLACE WOODLOTS

(Eprrors’ Note.—The “Fun of Collecting’’ series is designed especially for beginners who would like to become experts.

It explains the highest and lowest

ideals in collecting, and instead of airing botanical pedantry, tries to show the peculiar beauty of each species, its special use, and honestly reveals its limitations.)

Bees oe knows the Japanese
anemone, which glorifies the autumn
with its chaste, white blossoms, but very
few people know its summer-blooming rep-
resentatives, of which the Canada anemone,
here pictured, is a fair sample. They will
not give as many flowers for the money, or
as large ones, but they perform three ser-
vices for which we ought to be thankful.

First, they help to make the hot days
seem cooler, because they are, as a rule,
white flowers. A good way to make a
garden hot and stuffy in July and August
is to have long lines of scarlet sage, or
big masses of red and purple flowers. The
coolest colors are green and white. Of
green we usually get enough from foliage
and grass, but of white few gardens have
enough in summer. In our hot climate,
about one-half the summer flowers in a
garden ought to be white, or near-white. It
is a bad plan to look at the thermometer
when the mercury is in the nineties. So,
too, if you look at hot-colored flowers you
will feel hotter. But if you have white-
caps to look at, or white flowers, you
feel more comfortable.

Secondly, these summer windflowers
help to give a garden that precious quality
— color harmony, because white flowers
are the only “peace-makers” we have,
except green foliage. Nine hundred and
ninety-nine gardens out of 1,000 are full
of color discords, because people do not
know any way of keeping them out with-
out too much fuss and pother. Put
there is a very simple way — let about
half of your flowers be white. Use them in
every part of your garden, for everywhere
will bob up those wretched magenta flowers
which cause nine-tenths of the color dis-
cords. Who wants a simpler plan than this?

Third, these summer windflowers have
a genius for giving mystery and charm to
commonplace situations — especially wood-
lands. This may shock my readers, for
woods always sound alluring and every-
body would like to own some. But, if
you go to buy any piece of woodland
near a large city you will find that prac-
tically all romance has fled from it. You
can look right through the woods because
the underbrush has been cut out and
therefore there is nothing to stimulate
the imagination. Cows have got in,
or the trees are so far apart that there is
grass every where and few flowers. Or, if
you are lucky enough to have a big show
of hepaticas, bloodroot, spring beauty
and the like, the chances are ten to one
that you will not have one good mass of
flowers after the trees leaf out until the
asters come in the fall—only dots of
bloom here and there. Therefore, the

great problem with pleasure woods is how
to restore wild flowers and charm with-
out undue expense or any sign of human
effort. And in this we get considerable
help from summer windflowers which are
sturdy enough to hold their own against
deep shade and hungry roots and delicate
enough in their beauty to please a dryad.
For, there is nothing so exciting in summer
woods as to glimpse white flowers at a
distance. You cannot make out what
they are, and hasten eagerly to discover
this mystery in the heart of the woods.

THE BEST FOR NATURALIZING

The most familiar of the summer wind-
flowers is the Canada anemone (Anemone
Canadensis, but known to the older gen-
eration as A. Pennsylvanica). It has pure
white flowers about two inches across,
blooms in June, and gives scattering
flowers until midsummer. This is the
favorite for garden or border cultivation.
My friend Mr. R. B. Whyte has thrown
it out of his garden, on the ground that it
seems a bit weedy there. But for naturaliz-
ing in woods or meadows it is the best of
all the species here described, and is one
of the few flowers that really seem to do
equally well in sun and shade. Imagine
a thousand of these starry white blossoms
swaying on their slender stems in those

hie ds 5 ad
The cut-leaved anémone or red windflower (Ane-
mone multifida)

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woods you know which are now too open.
You can buy too collected plants for only
$5, or get a dozen nursery-grown plants
for $1.50. Or, if you have no woods,
they are strong enough to serve as a
ground cover in your shrubbery.

THE CHEAPEST WINDFLOWER

The cheapest species, as a rule, is the
one most abundant in your locality.
Why not search for and collect the tall
anemone (A. Virginiana)? I am opposed
to the extermination of wild flowers, and
think it shameful to move them from the
deep woods to the open garden. But here
is a species that is in no danger of exter-
mination, has an enormous range, and
generally grows in good sized colonies.
If it is abundant in your neighborhood,
there is no harm in hiring a farmer to
bring a wagon load of it from his woods
to yours. Itis the tallest of the summer
windflowers, often growing three feet
high, while the Canada anemone attains
only twelve to eighteen inches. The
flowers are white or greenish and about
an inch and a half across. No nursery-
man offers it, for I dare say it is a bit
weedy for the garden and does not bloom
long enough. But the wild garden is
just the place for such things, since they
must be strong enough to take care of
themselves and you do not mind a short
period of bloom for any particular flower,
since it is easy to get a succession.

THE NARCISSUS-FLOWERED ANEMONE

We now come to the species suitable
for the rock garden, and one of the most
interesting cf them is the narcissus-flowered
anemone (A. xarcissiflora), which can be
recognized at once whenever it has five
or more flowers in a flat-topped cluster,
or umbel. Unfortunately, you cannot dis-
tinguish these summer windflowers by the
number of blossoms, for every species may
have from one to five in an axil. The
average is about three. Nicholson calls
it ‘‘an extremely variable and beautiful
species.” The flower is usually cream-
colored, but sometimes purplish outside,
while the plant varies from six to eighteen
inches in height, and the flowers from one-
half to one inch wide. It is a European
species, but is hardy at Ottawa. Unfor-
tunately it isa hard plant to multiply, com-
pared with the Japanese anemone which
is easily propagated by division. In Eu-
rope it blooms in May, but in our Northern
states we should perhaps expect it in June.

THE CUT-LEAVED ANEMONE

The cut-leaved anemone or red wind-
flower (A. multifida) has, perhaps, the

Jury, 1911

greatest range of color among these sum-
mer windflowers, including white, yellow,
and red, though the red is rather dull and
the other colors greenish. The flowers are
about an inch across and the plant grows
about a foot high, though it is reported
two and a half feet high at Ottawa. Curi-
ously enough this species grows as far
north as Hudson Bay and is also found at
the Straits of Magellan. Like all the
windflowers it has a wooly fruit-head,
which is rather pretty. The expression
“wild and woolly westerner”’ is literally
true of this flower.

THE LONG-FRUITED ANEMONE

The long-fruited anemone (A. cylindrica)
is chiefly remarkable for its pencil-like
fruit-heads about an inch long, which are
in marked contrast to the globose heads
of the Canada and cut-leaved anemones.
It is practically unknown to cultivation.
It has the smallest flower of the group
(one half to three quarters of an inch)
and inhabits open places, generally grow-
ing a foot or two high.

A BOG-LOVING ANEMONE

The most exquisite of these summer
windflowers is the riverbank anemone
(A. rivularis), which has white flowers,
shaded outside, with rose or blue, and about
two inches across. Like many other
plants from the Himalayas it has blue
anthers. It is hardy at Ottawa, but I
doubt if it could be treated as a border
plant in the region of variable winters.
Reginald Farrer gives it a choice place in
his bog garden and praises it highly in
his “Alpine and Bog Plants.”

THE GIANT ANEMONE

Even more tender, I fear, is the giant
anemone (A. Fannini), a native of South
Africa, which sometimes attains the as-
tonishing height of five feet, bearing
fragrant, white flowers three or four inches
across in June. Like many other flowers
from the Cape it has numerous linear
petals —or “sepals,” as the botanists
say in this genus—twelve to thirty of
them, whereas an ordinary anemone has
about five. The foliage, also, is inter-
esting, the leaves being sometimes two
feet long, with stalks a foot or two long.
Truly a giant among anemones!

THE NODDING WINDFLOWER

Last, but not least, is the nodding wind-
flower (Anemonopsis macrophylla) which
is practically a small, summer-blooming
edition of the Japanese anemone, growing
only a foot and a half high and bearing
white flowers, shaded with pink, and about
an inch and a half across. The foliage
is quite unlike any anemone, but resembles
Actea or Cimicifuga, since the leaves
are ternately. Moreover, anemones have
erect flowers, while these are drooping
or, at least, nodding. This plant must
have well drained soil and partial shade.
Occasionally you hear of its being a suc-
cess in an ordinary border, but I should

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The Canada anemone (Anemone Canadensis or Pennsylvanica) is the best of the summer windflowers
for naturalizing

not trust so precious a plant outside the
rock garden. This genus comes from Japan
and has only one species. Its large clus-
ters of waxy flowers are clearly forerunners
of the glorious plant which I hope to
describe in the autumn.

HINTS TO COLLECTORS

Collectors will find other names of
summer-blooming anemones but if there
is any good reason why we should part
with our hard earned money to get them
I do not know it. The collector is sure
to stumble upon A. dichotoma, which
sounds interesting, but the European
nurseryman thinks it the same as our
old friend the Canada anemone. Dr.
Britton says the true dichotoma is a Si-
berian species differing from Canadensis
in having glabrous, ovate achenes instead
of pubescent, orbicular ones. It may
be worth growing, but I want to be
“shown,” for there is not much human
interest in achenes, and Anemone Can-
adensis is so lovely and cheap that I hope

all my readers will grow it or, at least,
learn to know it this month.

CULTURE

All the anemones here mentioned should
be planted in spring rather than in au-
tumn, but now is the time to study them,
while they are in flower, and arrange for
buying or collecting them in sufficient
quantity for pictorial effects next year.
They can be raised from seed, and it is a
good plan to mark now any anemones that
are in flower and note the localities, so
that you can gather the seed in early au-
tumn. You can label a colony in the
woods; otherwise, you may forget all about
it or else lose it entirely.

No one American nurseryman offers all
these species. Some can be procured from
specialists in native plants and collectors
in New Jersey, Colorado, North Carolina,
etc. Others must be imported from Eng-
land or Scotland. The Readers’ Service
will help any beginner by suggesting where
rare plants of any kind may be secured.

Vegetables for

July Planting—By W. C. McCollom,

NAME

Bush beans, green
(as 73 “ce

oe “wax

VARIETY

Early Mohawk
Black Valentine
Imp. Black Wax

Pole beans
Bush beans

Beet

Brussels sprouts
Cabbage

Carrot

Cauliflower

Celery

Swiss chard

Extra Early Jersey Lima
New Wonder

Any variety; Electric Eclipse or

Edmands

Long Island Imp. Dwarf
Buchin Castle

Jersey Wakefield, Early Spring

DISTANCE TO THIN

WHEN CROP WILL

Long
Island

REMARKS

Keep crop growing fast by good cultivation
Plant rows 1 ft. apart so as to protect from frost

Use plenty of seed and thin out because germina-

Keep well watered during warm weather

This crop is no good until frosted a bit to give

Scarlet Horn, Danvers
Guerande

Extra Early Erfurt
Early Snowball

Golden Self Blanching

Lucullus

Use early sorts: Golden Bantam,

Keep well watered to prevent club root

Sow every 2 or 3 weeks for succession. Make

Do not make soil too rich and when they start
to head feed with liquid manure for quality

Keep well watered and hilled all the time

OR PLANT MATURE

6 inches Aug: 20

6. © Aug. 30

Oui Aug. 30 onward for later sowings

3 inches 7% | Sept. 15 onward Ise | (

On Sept. 7 onward tion is poor at this season
4 inches Sept. 1

2 inches Oct. 15 6 Glawos

18 inches Oct. 1

4 inches Sept. 1 onward last sowing Aug. rst for winter
18 inches Oct. 15 caward

6 inches Nov. 1 onward

8 inches Sept. 1 onward

8 inches in rows

4 inches

Don’t thin out; sow
thin in rows

Thinly broadcast

Sept. 10 onward

Sept. 15 onward

Aug. I

Oct 1

Cone Early Minnesota, Metropolitan
Corn salad Large Seeded
Cc Extra Curled, Upland
HESS Plain Leaved
Cress Water
Gticumber pate ney. White Spine
Wadive Batavian, Green Curled
White Curled
Dwarf Purple
Kale “~~ Green
: Early White Vienna
Kohlrabi 6 Purple 73
May King Cabbage
Maximum type
New York \ Crisp
Wonderful heading
Heine Black Seeded \ Loose
Simpson heading
Cypress \ Cos
Paris White type
Chinese
Mustard White London
; White Bunch, Queen
Onions Adriatic Barletta
New York Market
Peas Nott’s Excelsior
American Wonder
Potato Nee Beauty
Radish -Any variety either summer or
winter type
- Long Island Imp.
ena Imp. Purple Top
Victoria
Spinach Long Standing
Viroflay
TNEni Early Milan, Strap Leaved
arp Golden Ball, Scarlet Koshyr
Herhe Sage, Thyme

Dill, Fennell

Hills 4 ft. apart,

Sept. 10 onward

Keep well watered

Keep well cultivated. Plant in rows 2% ft. apart
so protection can be given in fall

Sow for succession. Protect for spring use

Sow every ten days for succession

Keep well watered

Keep sprayed with Bordeaux mixture

3 in hill
12 inches Sept. r onward Cover with boards to bleach when large enough
O Needs frost to flavor.
2 feet Ge 1S Cover with hay and it will keep all winter
E S Better as a fall vegetable than a summer crop
6 inches Eptyse Gets mild and tasteful during cool weather
This crop should be kept cool nights
: Plant in open in plenty of air and not under a
12 inches Sept. 20 onward building
Shade during the day will help it
oom ty Sept. 1 Keep well watered for good flavor
Don’t thin De Ip So
Don’t thin: 2 in BANG. 15 For green onions onl
: i Oct. 1 & y
Don’t thin ‘ P ‘
Sate awe are Sept. ro onward Keep well watered and if weather is dry mulch
: with rough manure
1 ft. wide
: Keep well cultivated and use plenty of fertilizer
12 inches Oct. 1 qe plamiime
Aug. to for summer] Sow summer radish thinly; don’t thin out. Winter
Oct. 15 for winter radish 6 in.
8 inches Nov. 1 No good until frosted a little to give flavor
Sow thinly in rows; Gea Sow every two weeks for succession; what is too
don’t thin out eDeosd small to use cover during winter for early spring
6 inches Sept. 15 Make two sowings during the month
6 inches Nov. 1 Cut and store before heavy frosts

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Water Effects in the Garden

NOTHING ADDS TO THE QUIET CHARM OF A GARDEN IN THE WAY THAT WATER DOES—IT ALSO LARGELY
INCREASES THE OPPORTUNITY FOR GROWING DIFFERENT KINDS OF PLANTS AND FOR MAKING PICTORIAL EFFECTS

Water used as an ornamental feature. The reflec-
tions emphasize the lights and shadows

The central piece of statuary, used as a foun-
tain, concentrates interest and gives life in heavy A natural stream may be utilized for aquatics
surroundings along the banks

An elaborate, but perfectly natural, treatment
for a water garden. Only available on large areas,

however

A frankly formal treatment, where the whole
idea is to accommodate water plants, Such con-
struction is quite inexpensive

Statuary used as this centrepiece of a garden is
greatly improved or justified if it takes the form
of a fountain

absence of any visible escape for the water
gives a sense of unfitness to this basin

The basal treatment here is appropriate; provision An artificial pool in a small garden that, however. The
is made for water to run off looks natural and has a rich collection of plants

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REWARDS AND PRIZES FOR CHIL-
DREN’S WORK —COMMON GARDEN

PESTS AND HOW TO FIGHT THEM
—METHODS OF CONDUCTING A
COMMUNITY GARDEN FOR BOYS
AND GIRLS

Conducted by
ELLEN EDDY SHAW

Garden Prizes

VERY child enjoys the incentive

of working for a prize. It does

not matter if the prize is a small one;

there is still the joy of working toward a

definite goal. We all love to run races.

We all prize highly the mark of our
attainment.

Some people think that working for
a prize detracts from the higher object
of the work. So it might if the prize
offered were a large sum of money. But
few of us would think of offering this.
To be sure some of the horticulural
societies give small sums as Ju1zes for
the children’s work, but these rarely amount
to more than three dollars for a first prize.
The usual range for money prizes is from
twenty-five cents to three dollars.

But there are prizes, not of money,
which represent actual garden helps to
the young gardener. It seems as if the
prize is worth while which places in a
child’s hands the means toward better
gardening. This is the reason why we
offer as prizes our magazine and certain
garden books.

The South End Industrial School in
Roxbury, Mass., presents bulbs, garden
tools and magazine subscriptions as prizes.
A child going home with fifty tulip bulbs
or an order for the same is perfectly sat-
isfied. One girl with a large, green water-
ing pot was the envy of an entire group
of girls.

Sometimes just a ribbon or card is
given as the prize. North Andover,
Mass., gives ribbons plus a small sum of
money. A first prize is a blue ribbon
and fifty cents; second prize, a red ribbon
and twenty-five cents. School prizes are
given, too. The number of ribbons won
by the children of a given school count
so many points toward the prize. The
school having the
highest number of
points wins a large
framed picture.

Cleveland, Ohio,
gives premium cards
which represent cer-
tificates for the prizes
which are given after
the exhibit time is
over.

Potato beetle

New York

One school in Scotland gives for the
best plants raised such simple, childlike
things as dolls, balls, and pocket knives.
A civic improvement league in an English
city presents small sums of money ranging
from twopence to five shillings.

Some places depend entirely on the
prizes this department offers. If a school
or child wins, then the success seems
the greater since the contest is national
and not local.

The disagreeable features of compe-
tition disappear if the contest is managed

properly.

Garden Pests —

jee our garden seedlings seem to be
doing well when suddenly some
pest appears. From now on we must
keep persistently at it; with bugs. and
weeds the time will be fully occupied.
Often this question
is asked concerning the
pests one is most likely
to have in the garden
and what is to be done
in each case. Well,
there are the big cat-
erpillars, such as the
celery caterpillar, the
cabbage worm, and:the
cutworm.
The celery caterpil-
lar is a large, gréen

Celery caterpillar

band on each ring of
its body. It attacks the celery plant and
is so large that it can be seen easily and
picked off by hand.

The cabbage worm is green, too, but
is much smaller than the celery cater-
pillar. This pest may be destroyed by a
resin-lime spray, or by a spray made from
one ounce of white hellebore powder
dissolved in three gallons: of water.

The cutworm is a different proposition
for one so rarely gets a peep at it. Cut-
worms are known by their deeds. They
cut off the tender stalks of bulbs, the
young tomato plants and even the violets.
If you ever see one, it will look to be just
a rather dull, grayish, striped caterpillar.
To be rid of this pest first buy five cents’
worth of hellebore powder at any drug
store. In late afternoon go out to the

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fellow with a black.

garden and with your
finger make a ring in
the soil about six
inches from the stalk
of the infested plant,
- The ring should circle
the -planft, stalk,”
Sprinkle hellebore
powder in this ring.

The dews keep the

powder in place. An-
other way is to put a paper collar about
the plant stalk and some two inches from
it. Sink this collar into the ground to
the depth of an inch, and the same dis-
tance, or a trifle more, above the ground,

The potato bug, a black and yellow
striped beetle, also attacks the tomato
plants. These bugs appear in May and
stay through the season. A spray of Paris
green or Bordeaux mixture should be used.

The squash bug, a dark brown, evil
smelling chap, feeds on both the squash
plants and the melon vines. This bug can
be picked right off and easily kept down.

Many plants may have aphis or lice
during the season. An emulsion of strong
soapy water and kerosene or whale oil soap
is effective and easy to apply.

Of course, there are many, many other
pests but these are more common than
many of the others. Careful, clean cul-
tivation helps to keep down the bugs.

| Garden Hints

T E following are suggestions for.
- this month’s outdoor work:

(1) It isnot too late
to plant dahlias. In
fact when this number
of the magazine comes
to you it is just the
right time. Plant one
bulbous part to a place.
Plant in the school gar-
den ready for the fall.

(2) Do not forget
that the toad is a gar-
den friend. Have a few
stones and bits of wood
in the garden as shel-
ters for him.

(3) Before certain
flowers run out, which
happens during the

Squash bug

Cutworm

Jury, 1911

FIRST PREMIUM

GARDEN FESTIVAL

September 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 1910
At Brownell Auditorium
Class B
No. /8

Premiums Payable at the Brownell
School Oct. 15, 1910, at 3 P. M.

Exhibitors No. 70
Parsnips

A premium card used at an annual exhibit by the
Home Gardening Association, Cleveland, Ohio

summer, make sowings of other seeds.
Try marigolds, mignonette, wallflower, and
coreopsis.

(4) Thin out the plants if they come
up too thickly. Stir the soil constantly.

(5) The little wooden seed labels are
excellent as cultivating sticks for the small
boys and girls.

(6) Schools would do well to make out
and place their bulb orders before the
school closing time.

(7) Sink the school-house plants, pots
and all, in a shady place in the garden.

(8) The following list represents a wild-
flower garden of constant bloom: For
April or earlier: Anemone, everlasting,
spring beauty, hepatica, blood-root; May:
Columbine, Jack-in-pulpit, wake-robin;
June: Buttercup, Solomon’s seal; July:
Butterfly weed, bouncing bet; August:
Elecampane, Joe-Pye, cardinal flower, tur-
tle head; September: Blazing star, cardinal
flower, boneset; October: Fleabane, golden-
rod, starwort, sunflower, witch hazel.

(9) Foxglove is good to use for back-
grounds and for mass effect, too.

(ro) Do not forget to register in our
garden contest before the close of school.

~A Second Year Garden Experi-

ence

AEE following is taken from a contest
report sent in by William Wildey,
supervisor of this garden:

“T opened a garden school
in Eastman Park, Poughkeep-
sie, N. Y., on Saturday, May
14, 1910, for a committee of
four influential people in that
city. They took it upon
themselves to continue the
work of the previous year,
which was the first year of
this work.

“T visited the garden every
Saturday and Wednesday,
directed and supervised the
work in every detail. The
committee furnished assist-
ants to carry on the work
when I was not there in
person.

“Two hundred boys and
girls, ranging in age from nine

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to thirteen, reported for duty and were
given individual gardens. About three
times the number registered. Space being
limited, the remainder had to be turned
away, disappointed, I assure you. A
few gave up their gardens during the
season. These were given to other boys
or girls.

“Very few gardens changed ownership
during the year. We cared for all gardens
when the owners were sick for two weeks,
and gave them the first vacated one when
they came back if sick for more than two
weeks. If a garden was neglected for two
weeks it was given away.

“The ground had been ploughed and
harrowed and well fertilized with wood
ashes and horse manure. The manure
was obtained from the street cleaning
department before the time of opening.
We found it best to carefully spade and
rake the ground before it was ready to
plant.

“On the opening day, May 14th, we
laid out the gardens in beds or plots
4x10 ft., with a path 14 feet running
each way through the gardens. A large
circle, about 8 feet in diameter, was set
with potted plants which gave the gar-
dens a touch of life from the very be-
ginning.

“The committee furnished the seeds.
The work of marking and planting was
begun the first day. Each pupil assisted
in marking and planted his or her own bed
with radishes, lettuce, beans, onions,
carrots, beets, and turnips.

“Besides about one hundred and eighty
individual gardens, nearly one-eighth of
the available land was set aside for flowers
and such vegetables as were not grown in
the individual gardens. The flower gar-
dens had in them transplanted potted
plants, plants from seeds and _ bulbs.
Such vegetables as peas, tomatoes, peppers,
cauliflower, cucumbers, sweet corn and
popcorn were planted and grown in ob-
servation gardens. All the children worked
together in caring for these beds. They
proved a very attractive as well as in-
structive part of the garden work. Beds
of peanuts, cotton, hemp, flax, alfalfa,

Foxglove, planted thus as a background, shows to great advantage

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The havoc worked by these cabbage worm shows
plainly on the leaves of the plants

wheat, millet, and buckwheat were grown
for observation purposes.

“One of the committee, furnished and
assisted in planting enough herbs of the
most useful and familiar kinds to make a
very fine assortment. This bed proved
very attractive and interesting. Each pupil
who assisted in caring for the observation
beds was given such products from them
as they liked best, after the work was
finished each day. Some of the vegetables
from observation beds were sold and pro-
ceeds turned over to the garden com-
mittee. This was a favorite idea with the
children in general.

““A new plan was adopted which aided
much in attendance and general interest.
The committee purchased a pretty Ameri-
can flag and staff. The whole garden
was divided into four sections. Each
section elected a president and secretary.
Two or three of the business men of the
city were invited each Saturday afternoon
to decide which section was in the best
general condition. All walks, borders, and
gardens in general were considered. The
flag was placed in the best section for one
week. Each section chose a president and
secretary from their own number. These
officers kept the divisions up to the mark.

“The gardens were closed on the last
Saturday in August. Each
child gathered and took home
what vegetables he or she
had raised. The observa-
tion beds were cared for by
volunteer assistants and in-
terested children until the
frost spoiled the pretty flow-
ers. The flowers were cut
freely and given to children
who cared for them. Many
were sent to sick members,
some to hospitals and even
to cemeteries.

“Each child was furnished
with a book and _ encour-
aged to keep a memorandum
of what he did from day to
day. Many did this and
have accurate records of their
work.”

(Epiror’s Note.—lWVe want to know how suc-
cessful workers do things in order to put actual
experiences before our thousands of readers in all

parts of the country. Every reader is invited to con-
tribute a short note on some interesting experience.
Just state the facts about some ingenious idea that you
have actually worked out yourself or have seen.)

Cabbages bursting

I was lamenting to a farmer friend the
fact that last year about half of my cab-
bages, and the very best ones, burst open
and were almost a total loss. I espe-
cially lamented the large, perfect one with
which I was planning to take the first
prize at the county fair, and which, only
a few days before the fair opened, split
straight across the centre. “I can tell
you how to prevent that,” he said, ‘just
pull each cabbage, not clear up, but
enough to break part of the roots. Then
the cabbage will remain alive, and keep on
growing a little, but not enough to burst
it open. The pulling is to be done as
soon as the heads have become solid.”
—Cr 5. De south Dakota:

Transplanting in summer

When you are obliged to set out in mid-
summer something that offers a great
deal of risk, such as a piece of shrub that
has not a strong independent root growth,
this plan is a good one: Fill the hole up
only partially and then put in a layer of
green grass—TI pull it fresh by hand,
but lawn clippings will do. After water-
ing well, add the rest of the soil and then
a mulch of grass. Pieces of shrubs and
old-fashioned roses, chopped off with little
root, and small plants of box I have
planted in July and August in this way
with success. Not a piece of the box
was lost, though the plants were taken up
with little soil on the roots and then
separated.—H. S. A., Connecticut.

Watering hanging baskets

Every one who has had to water hanging
baskets knows that to pour water over
them means the washing out of a certain
amount of soil each time, and a com-
paratively small part of the water soaks
in, the rest running off rapidly; and that
the immersing of the entire basket is a
laborious process. I use a siphon of small
copper tubing with the outlet end squeezed
so that the water comes out no faster
than rapid dropping. With the short
leg of the siphon, say ten inches long,
set into a quart bottle, the longer leg of
the siphon twelve inches in length, and

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a wire hook around the neck of the bottle,
the apparatus may be hung over the basket,
and for three-quarters of an hour there
will be a steady, fine spray falling over the
foliage, giving a thorough soaking. Rub-
ber tubing may be used, if care be taken
to keep a long curve at the bend where it
leaves the bottle-—J. E. W., Pennsylvania.

The Milla uniflora again

Like your correspondent H. S. A., I
have grown for several years in my garden
a flower which I bought under the above
name. It is exceedingly beautiful, ‘white
with a faint lavender stripe on each petal,”’
and exactly like the illustration in his
article. It blossoms so profusely that the
foliage is almost hidden under a bank of
snow. Every one admires it greatly.
But the perfume! Alas, it has a strong
odor of garlic, as I found to my sorrow
when I made a button-hole bouquet for
a young man who was going to a dance.
The heat of the room soon developed the
obnoxious odor, greatly to his mystifi-
cation. I have not totally condemned
the flower; it grows and increases and we
enjoy it at a respectful distance. But is
it this climate that has wrought a change
in the scent? Since my discovery I have
wondered that none of the florists who
list the bulb in their catalogues mentions
this drawback.— I. H., California.

Transplanting poppy seedlings

To raise Oriental poppy seedlings that
will transplant successfully, try starting
the seeds in a tin can, having first removed
both ends by placing the can on the coals.
Fill this with finest rich soil and bury it
in the garden. By early fall, with the
trowel placed well down at the side of the
can, raise it carefully and you will find
numerous long single roots even below
the can. You can slip out the whole mass
and separate each little seedling and plant
in its permanent place. By using a dibble
you can make just the right sort of hole.
Press the soil firmly into place—H. E. M.,
Connecticut

Shade for roses

Everblooming roses do better for me
with moderate shade. I give it by plant-
ing Ramblers in the centre of each clump
of tea roses, and pegging down the ends
of the rambler canes. They take root
where they are fastened to the ground,
but bloom just as well and keep the hot
sun off the more tender ones. The im-
proved Crimson Rambler, Rubin, is a
beauty.—- J. D. C., Illinois.

New ideas in labels

To label plants I use lnotype metal
slugs, with the lettering cast in the line.
They are indestructible, and there is room
on each line for a descriptive word or two.
The description is convenient when mov-
ing plants for mass or color effects. For
use in the perennial border they are at-
tached to a six-inch wire, which is thrust
into the ground. The metal soon loses
its polish, and is invisible except to the

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one looking for the name. These labels
may be “set” almost everywhere, at a
cost of about a cent apiece. I steal
mine.— M. J., New Jersey.

The surplus seedlings

If you have grown more seedlings than
you need, and are tired of transplanting
the surplus, just lift them up by spadefuls
and put them in the ground. They will
stand the winter, in nine cases out of ten,
and may be transplanted the next spring
to fill gaps. Gardening enthusiasm is
higher, too, when the weather is not hot.
— K. L. C., Massachusetts.

Screening the porch

If you have a screened-in porch and
want to cover it with vines, place poultry
netting, or, preferably, heavy, diamond-
mesh field fencing, in front of the screens.
Run iron rods or heavy wire through the
top and bottom meshes, and fasten these
with hammock hooks to the top and
bottom of the porch. Cut the wire short
enough so it will be taut when the fasten-
ings are in place, and the wire always will
look well, give the best support to the
vines, and come down conveniently in
the fall, when it is necessary to remove
the screens. The netting can be replaced
without disturbing the vines, or if the
plants need protection, they may be rolled
up with the wire and covered with leaves.
—— Fe Ey illinois:

A run=wild border plant

Sweet rocket, or dame’s violet (Hesperis
matronalis) always wants to own a border,
where, after all, only the white variety
is particularly desirable and that in only
a limited quantity. If the grounds are
large enough, remove some of it to a
place where it can run wild, and a really
beautiful naturalistic effect will be created.
Even the deeper of the two pink shades
takes on beauty in this way. On Long
Island there is a dooryard of an unoccu-
pied house where the long grass is full of
sweet rocket and it has strayed through
the fence, across the sidewalk and street
to the edge of the road, making a charming
sight when in full bloom.—B.S., New York.

The Pearl Achillea again

In the Readers’ Experience Club for
April, t911, E. A. S. makes some scathing
remarks about the Pearl Achillea, which
the Editor has annotated by saying that
while E. A. S.’s. criticisms may be very
well for the West, “it (the Pearl) will be
considered as a worthy, pure white, hardy
perennial by us in the East.” I have
found exactly E. A. S.’s faults with
The Pearl — ugly color, poor form, and
a really terrible propensity for spreading,
and for creeping in among the roots of
other plants—and have spent three
years trying to get rid of it. Boltonia
asteroides, however, has fulfilled my wildest
dreams of a good white flower for massing
and cutting, as well as for a background.
—M. Y., Long Island.

Fruit Juices for Hot-Weather
Drinks

By M. Rogerts Conover, New Jersey.

N THE middle of summer, when hot
and thirsty, how refreshing is a
drink made from fruit syrup! And if
the syrup was made from fruit which had
been grown in one’s own garden, one
quickly forgets, in the pleasure of the
moment, the trouble it was to make the
syrup. Unlike the orange, lemon, and
lime, the juices of the apple, pear, peach,
etc., require heat to make them taste just
right and to ensure against fermentation,
and are therefore more or less of a trouble
to prepare.

The necessary utensils are an acid-proof
preserving kettle, an earthen bowl, a
jelly or fruit press (or an enamelled col-
ander and flannel bag), asbestos mat to be
used beneath the kettle, and silver spoons
and porcelain cups for handling the fruit.
Aluminum kettles are the best. If, how-
ever, an enamelled one is used it must
be well coated and the inside surface free
from cracks of any sort. Fruit juice must
never come in contact with tin or iron.

Select only fruit that is perfectly sound
and thoroughly ripe. If it has not the
melting sweetness of maturity it will
yield sour juice. Gather it the day be-
fore it is to be used and keep it in a cool
place. Soiled or dusty fruit which cannot
be pared, must be washed by floating in
water and draining in a colander.

The juice may either be squeezed from
the raw fruit with a press or the fruit may
be heated to the boiling point and the
juice drained from it.

The juice that has been pressed from the
raw fruit should be strained through cheese-
cloth and put at once over the fire. It

For present use, put the syrup in a covered stone
crock. For future use, seal in jars

should boil for about fifteen minutes,
sugar being added. Sweeten to taste, the
sugar being added about five minutes be-
fore the liquid is bottled. The juice of
the Concord and kindred varieties of
grape require very little, if any, sugar.

Juice expressed by boiling the fruit is
deeper in color than that which is pressed
out. Put the fruit over the fire in a kettle
with water enough to float it. Boil until
tender in the case of peaches, apples and
pears, and until the skin bursts in the case
of cherries, currants and grapes. Re-
move at once from the fire and pour or
dip it into an enamelled colander, using
the porcelain cup or dipper. Let it run
through into a stone or crockery vessel.
Stir it slightly, but do not mash the fruit.
Strain the juice through the flannel bag
previously scalded and return it to the
fire to boil fifteen minutes. With pears,
peaches, cherries, and the smaller fruits,
half a teacupful of sugar will be required
for each quart of juice.

In bottling or canning dip the bottles or
jars in boiling water immediately before
filling and fill to the very brim with the
juice so as to leave no air space at the top.
Delay in covering will often result in fer-
mentation. Be sure to thoroughly seal..

Syrup intended for immediate use miy
be placed in a covered stone crock in the
refrigerator or on the cellar floor.

Pears, peaches, apples, etc., must be
pared before boiling. The skin may be
cooked separately and the juice there-
from added to the other liquid. The
pulp remaining may be used for jam or
preserves.

An essential quality in serving these
fruit syrups is to have them very cold.
These are some recipes which I use
every year:

Apple nectar.— To one quart of apple
juice add a bit of orange peel, letting it
boil about fifteen minutes. Remove the
orange peel and stir into the liquid three-
quarters of a cupful of strained honey.
Remove it from the fire, flavor with
grated nutmeg, and chill.

Rhubard syrup.— To one quart of the
liquor from stewed rhubarb add half a
teacupful of scraped maple sugar. Stir
it well, and set it in a cold place for four
hours before serving.

Strawberry cream.— To render it per-
fectly clear this syrup may require twice

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straining. To one pint of strawberry
syrup, add one quart of sweet cream.
Chill, and whip until frothed.

Pear and lemon sherbet—To one quart
of pear syrup add the juice and a little
of the grated rind of a lemon and a small
piece of green ginger root. Boil fifteen
minutes. Serve very cold in sherbet cups.

Pear and pineapple sherbet is made by
adding one cupful of shredded pineapple
to the sweetened syrup and letting it
stand several hours to allow the flavors

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Ice-cold apple nectar for a real hot day

to blend. Serve with cracked ice. An-
other agreeable blend is made by cooking
a few quinces with the pears before the
juice is drained.

Raspberry sherbet.— One quart of rasp-
berry syrup and one-half a cupful of
currant syrup or dissolved currant jelly.
Sweeten, chill and pour into glass cups.
Just before serving, top each cup with
a tablespoonful of whipped cream. Black-
berry and currant juice may also be served
in this way.

Peach cream.— To one quart of peach
syrup add one teaspoonful of almond
extract, sugar to taste, and one quart of
thick, sweet cream. Chill, whip until
frothy, and serve.

Grape juice is really at its best when
taken without additional flavors. If it
is too rich water may be added in the
proportion of one-third water to two-
thirds of the juice, letting it stand a little
while before serving. Grape juice and
lemonade is also an agreeably refreshing
combination.

Fruit sherbet is made from equal parts
of raspberry, strawberry, currant, and
cherry syrup. This is served very cold
with cracked ice.

‘““Corner”’

ior (Celery

| RSs two years while I was in high school I
worked a garden and several acres besides
for one of the families of the village. The agree-
ment was that I was to live with the family for my
board, have just as good a garden as I could;
that the family were to use all the produce they
needed for themselves, and for the boarders that
were kept during July and August, and that if
I could raise more than was needed, I was to have
half the proceeds of what was sold.

I succeeded in having one of the best gardens
in the village, and sold enough to keep me in
clothing, books, and pay all other necessary
expenses the rest of the year.

I really had two gardens each summer— an
upland garden and a lowland garden. A part of
the land lay along a small stream that ran into
a bay a short distance away, and which was
bordered by a strip of lowland meadow. The
soil from the bank was carted over this meadow
to make sufficient land for two garden plots
100 x 100 ft. Here I raised onions in great abun-
dance, and planted especially those vegetables
that require the most moisture duplicating in many
things the upland garden so that dry or wet I
would not fail of a crop. The celery I grew in the
lowland garden.

I bought 250 plants of the large-sized Giant
Pascal celery and set them about one foot apart
in rows about one hundred feet long. I set the
plants in a trench about six inches deep after
manuring the bottom of the trench with well-
rotted cow and horse manure.

I set the plants during the latter part of July.
It proved to be a very dry season. The rows
were four feet apart but the celery grew so fast
there wasn’t sufficient soil between them to bank
and bleach the mammoth stalks. I had to put
up boards and get additional soil.

The season was so dry that almost all upland
celery failed. We decided that half a row would
be enough for the family use, and that we would
sell the remainder — two full rows. I buried it
all in a trench on the upland, and sold my portion
at Thanksgiving time, peddling it from house to
house through the village; I sold it at from fifteen
cents to twenty cents a root. Each root was a
great cluster as large as the bunches usually con-
taining several roots. I received an average of
eighteen cents per root, or $18 for my row. The

other row I dug up and sold off at Christmas time
at about the same price.

Long Island. Dante H. OvERTON.

A Remedy for Wire Worms

HAD a rather interesting experiment with

Papaver orientale last summer. It was with
one of the hybrids, the beautiful salmon-colored
Princess Louise. Just as it was about to flower
with eight or ten splendid looking buds of promise,
two of the smaller flower stalks wilted over one
morning in a most dejected manner. Looking
closely at the base of the plant, I found the inevi-
table skipjack (the better name for wire worm).
At my touch he coiled up his shining brown length
and lay quiet, looking like a sleeping snail out of his
shell. I took away some earth and found many
more of the creatures. The poppy’s main root
was attacked, and had turned to a horrid, black,
oozy mass part way through. It seemed a fatal

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malady, and the whole plant looked doomed. I
could not bear to think of waiting a whole year
for these great silky petals to again flaunt them-
selves, for only one flower was out at this time and
the other buds held such promise. I determined on
desperate measures.

As the soil around the plant was no doubt
full of baby skipjacks, I gently excavated a
quantity from around the stalk, then cut away
with my pruning knife much of the soft, oozy
part of the stem and root, going several inches
under ground. I dusted sulphur all around the
stem and applied some soil fumigant, called ap-
terite, a red powder which had been sometimes
successful though never tried in such an advanced
case as this. Then a quantity of absolutely new
soil was clapped into the cavity and the plant
watered well. Next I sheltered the whole injured
side with a newspaper gently pinned in place.
This occurred about nine o’clock in the morning
of a hot June day. Off came the bandage at night,
so that Nature and her healing dew could continue
the cure. Back went the bandage next morning
and in two days the thankful Princess Louise, to
the joy of her anxious owner, announced herself
well. Out came every glorious swelling bud in
due time, their salmon-colored satin petals more
beautiful than ever.

Of course, such tragedies do not happen to my
sturdy red scarlet ones. I would have preferred
to have had the surgical case on a plant less
precious, but as it was successful, it makes me
bolder. As the saying goes, ‘‘All that is done, is
done by daring.”

Pennsylvania. Frances E. McILVAINe.

A Wheelbarrow Extension

O INCREASE the capacity of my wheel-
barrow I have made what might appro-
priately be called a wheelbarrow ‘‘extension.”
It may be described as an oblong box with one
end and half of the bottom knocked out, although
this is not strictly accurate as the sides are placed
at the same slant as those of the wheelbarrow

_ proper so that they may fit against the wheelbarrow

side boards when in position.

I use half-inch boards twelve or fourteen inches
wide, cutting one piece to fit across the handles
close to the wheelbarrow box. This is for the
bottom, and, if properly fitted, will give the slant
for the sides. Now cut the end piece for the ex-
tension one inch shorter than the widest side of
the bottom board, and the two side boards long
enough to extend well into the wheelbarrow box.
Nail the side pieces to the ends of the end piece,
then nail on the bottom and the contrivance is
completed. Be sure that the side pieces are close

which greatly
increases the holding capacity of a wheelbarrow.
Easily and cheaply made

Two views of an ‘extension ”’

Jury, 1911

enough together at the open end to slip snugly inside
the sides of the wheelbarrow box.

This is easily made, easily removed when not
needed, and for carting ’ vegetables from the garden,
or bulky materials like leaves, will be found very
convenient.

Virginia. SEAS

How I Propagated Roses

I HAVE in my garden forty-nine little rose bushes

growing in 23- and 3-inch pots, which are
the result of a few minutes given now and then
during the summer to setting out the cuttings.

The cuttings were taken from time to time from
the big rose bushes. At first jelly and drinking
glasses were used to cover the cuttings, several
being frequently placed under the same tumbler;
but when the house supply was finally exhausted,
a wooden frame a foot square and four inches deep,
covered with a pane of glass, was substituted.
The frame being in full sunlight, a thickness of
newspaper nearly covering it was laid on the
glass to prevent sunburn. The cuttings covered
by tumblers were usually set on the north side of
sparsely planted rose beds where they had partial
shade.

In most cases the two-eye cuttings were taken
from the flowering stem, the lower leaf and half
of the upper being removed; but any hardened
wood of the present year’s growth was taken from
Hybrid Perpetuals as their first bloom was over
before the attempt to propagate them was begun.

Successful cuttings were made from Prince
Camille de Rohan, Abel Carriére, Coquette
des Alpes, Mrs. John Laing, Frau Karl Druschki,
Margaret Dickson, and the climbing Dorothy
Perkins.

Among the teas and hybrid teas are rooted cut-
tings from Mrs. B. R. Cant and Beauty of Rose-
mawr. The latter was especially beautiful in
September and both were almost constantly in
bloom from June till frost. Cuttings from Virginia
R. Cox, General McArthur, delightfully fragrant,
Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, Souvy. de Jean de
Cabaud, Killarney, Duchess of Albany, La F Trance,
Marie Van Houtte and a dozen others also give
promise of roses next summer.

Connecticut. C.

A New Way to Water Melons

OV’ THE farm in Pennsylvania where I grew

up lived an old ex-slave from Virginia,
who could raise fer melons than any brought
from the South. He did this by the use of liquid
manure; he puttered round the vines night and
morning while the sun was low, with the mixture,
although I never actually saw him watering the
vines.

Years afterward, when I tried to imitate his
methods, I succeeded in doing nothing except to
cause the ground to bake when the manure water
hardened on the surface. To prevent this I dug
a hole in the centre of each melon hill and poured
the mixture into it, only to coax the feeding roots
up to the surface of the ground, so that if the
supply of water was not frequently and regularly
renewed the plant withered.

Finally I hit upon this plan: To plant my melon
seeds in a circle, reserving the middle of the hill
for an old two-quart lard pail, having half-a-
dozen holes punched in the bottom. [I sink this
four inches into the earth before the seeds are
planted, so as not to disturb their roots. If this
pail is kept filled with liquid manure after the plants
begin to run they will grow with wonderful rapidity.

Squashes and pumpkins thus stimulated may
have a handful or two of rich earth thrown over the
vine where each of the first three or four leaves
springs from the main vining stem. Rootlets
will strike down at these points and help to sup-
port the heavy leaves. Muskmelons will bear
the same treatment, and I believe watermelons,
citrons and cucumbers will also respond, although
I have not yet tried it. A further advantage of
this treatment is that the vines will not be seriously
injured if attacked by the melon vine borer, a
pestiferous enemy in some places

Pennsylvania. Witiiam F. GIBBONS.

Juuy, 1911

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ANT. ROOZEN & SON

Bulbgrowers

OVERVEEN, nr. Haarlem,

HOLLAND

The day has come when the knowing bousewife
will no longer be satisfied with any of the screw
top, glass top and other old style and unsani-
tary jars.

All rubber ring jars are a thing of the past.

The public has decreed that they are
unsanitary, and pure food commissioners
have denounced zine caps as unhealthy
and dangerous to use for home can-
ning.

The

only ab-
solute air-
tight, sani-
tary home can-

=F Z ‘y, ning jar is the ECON-
F id OMY JAR. WHITE
p C
Ge

RYSTAL GLASS—

ts WIDE MOUTH.
f T Light or heat does not af-
fect contents as air is excluded.

The Economy uses no zine cap or

uneyen, leaky glass top, but instead

uses a gold enameled cap impervious to

action of any food acid, with this patent

y airtight sanitary gasket, and is recommended
and endorsed by all health authorities.

After you have used the Economy Jar once you will say:

“I can keep them all in the Economy airtight Jar. No other

jar like it. I will tell my neighbors. The Economy is the

only jar by the use of which I can have fresh vegetables from

my own garden all through the winter months, coming to the

table tasting just as fresh and sweet as though they had been

freshly picked.

WHY KING’S HALL SILVER,
1066, IS SUPERIOR
After these spoons are silver
plated in the ordinary way, fifty
per cent more silver is added to the
three spots where spoons receive the
most wear, the handle, the tip and the
reverse siae of tne bowl. This added
sectional pla.ing makes every spoon wear
many years longer. It costs is a lot of
money to do this, but we believe the extra value
is good advertising.

The Economy is the only jar in
the world that uses no rubber
Ting. It has a patent airtight
composition gasket, taste-
less, odorless and sanitary,
which seals AIRTIGHT
and as no other jar has
ever been sealed.

If your dealer is out
of Economy Jars be
sure to write to us.
We will refer youtoa
dealer who has a stock
on hand and send you
a booklet of valuable

recipes free.

Cultivator and Seeder

Is a Perfect Implement for the Smal] Garden

q Ithas every part necessary for all kinds of hill and drill seed-
ing and for both straddle and between the row cultivating and
may be used with one or two wheels. It makes gardening a
pleasure for man, woman or child, saves arduous labor and
gives the best results.

@ For the family which has a small home in the country or in
the suburbs it is the ideal outfit. Its parts are easily adjusted and
the construction is the strongest. Adjusting three bolts changes
it from seeder to cultivator. A child can use it.

@ Ask your dealer to show you an Ames Cultivator and Seeder
and look for our name on the handle. It can be used with equal
facility in all kinds of soils in every part of the country.

@ The Ames Plow Company has been manufacturing small and
large agricultural implements for almost a century and knows
what is best for the garden, If your dealer does not carry it
write us direct and we will send you a catalog. In wniting kindly
mention your dealer's name. Address Dept. 1.

Ames Plow Company, Boston, Mass.

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“HAMILTON-MADE”
GARDEN HOSE

What our mark on hose means.

‘“Hamilton-Made’’ means superior quality in general, and one
thing in particular. The ‘‘one thing in particular’’ is this:

On every length of Hamilton-Made Hose you will notice a mark
not found on any other hose—'‘Guaranteed 750 lbs. pressure’’, or
700 OF 500, etc., according to the grade. On our ‘‘Hamilton”’
brand, every length has been tested under pressure of 750 lbs. to the
square inch. Any piece showing defect is rejected. 7solbs. is five
times the usual pressure in steam boilers. Think of it! Do you
wonder that this hose is strong; that it is stiff and will not kink?

‘‘Hamilton’’ Brand, our highest grade hose, selling at 25 cents
a foot, will last six to eight years: it will stand four or five times as
much wear as ordinary hose. As often happens, the high grade is
the cheapest.

There’s a HAMILTON-MADE HOsE for every different use,
each grade made BETTER THAN IS NECESSARY to meet the requirements
for that use, and GUARANTEED to stand a SPECIFIED PRESSURE.
Whatever kind of hose you need, ask the dealer for HAMILTON-MADE,

and you will be certain of getting the BEST HOSE OF THAT GRADE
that is made.

Here are some of the
leading grades of
Hamilton-Made Garden
Hose. Note that every
label bears the words

HAMILTON-MADE So

How to get the best hose
that is made

ME dealers do not sell the highest-grade garden hose.
They argue that everybody wants low-priced hose.
We know better, for we know that our stiff, strong, tough
““HAMILTON”’ brand hose is really the CHEAPEST OF
ALL, and that many wise buyers will be glad to get it. We
therefore make this offer to all who cannot buy it of a dealer:

If your dealer does not keep it, we will deliver to you any-
where in the United States, PREPAID, 50-foot lengths of
HAMILTON brand, our highest grade garden hose, com-
plete with standard brass couplings, for the regular price,
$12.50 EACH LENGTH.

This splendid hose stands a pressure of 750 POUNDS to
the square inch, and while it is our highest-priced
garden hose, it lasts so long that it is really the cheapest
hose made.

If hose of such extremely high resistance is not required,
we will send KENMORE (guaranteed 650 pounds) at $10.50,
or CYGNET (500 pounds) at $8.00, for 50-foot lengths.
Shipped same day order is received.

Hamilton Rubber Manufacturing Co.

Trenton, New Jersey

Juty, 1911

Points for Water Gardening

OTHING gives such a finish to a garden as
some water feature. For a very small
garden the pool should be about two and a half
feet, but in larger suburban gardens it may be from
four to eight feet across. Have the pool correspond
to the style of gardening —if formal, then have
the pool round, oblong or square, with a stone or
cement rim, in preference to letting the grass grow
right down to the edge. Never let the planting
round the margin be too thick or too high; in
small gardens the marginal planting should be
very low and there should be very little of it.
Never put a pool on top of a hill or terrace, but
have the ground slope toward it as much as pos-
sible. A circle of grass outside the cement or stone
circle will add greatly to and soften the general ap-
pearance if the pool is surrounded by gravel paths.
My own pool, though very small, was made by
the coachman in less than a week’s time and cost
only the price of the cement. After the hole was
made it was filled with broken stone, which we
took off the hill-side. The sides of the hole were
smoothed off, coarse gravel was thrown in and the
cement laid on. To shape the pool we put a round
wooden tub in the centre of the hole on top of the
cement bottom. This left a space of two inches
between the tub and sides of the hole, which was
also filled with cement. For the outside rim a
wooden shape was made and filled with the cement.
This was easily knocked away when the cement
was hard, but the tub stuck fast and had to be
broken apart.
As to keeping the water fresh in small pools,
evaporation will be enough with a good sized
bucketful of fresh water put in every other day or

so as necessary. Always flush the pool when
filling it. Gold fish are a necessity, as they eat
mosquitoes and keep the water sweet. Never
overcrowd the pool.

My first attempt at a pool was two years ago
in a barrel. I knew nothing about lilies or how
they should be planted, so I simply stuck the bulb
—the pygmy lily—%in the bed of the barrel,
covered it with about six inches of water and left
it alone. In a few weeks tiny leaves appeared
and as they grew the water was increased to the
top of the tub. The plant bloomed from about
the middle of May until I took the tub into the
house the first of November, during which time
it had over thirty-four blooms. This water lily is
the smallest species in cultivation; the flowers are
white with deep yellow stamens and greenish-
brown, heart-shaped leaves. There is also a yellow
variety. Of course, this species would only look
well in a small pool, for which it is ideal.

Mary EVANS.

Water Weeds

OnE of the serious things to contend with in
shallow ponds is the growth of water
weeds. Water must be six feet or over to prevent
a growth that will appear on the surface, and even
in that depth some water lilies will occasionally
push their leaves tothe air. Particular care should
be taken in shallow ponds not to introduce weedy
plants. The Nelumbium speciosum, for example,
not infrequently takes full possession and the
same is true of the western Nymphea tuberosa.
Do not permit any plant to continue if it shows a
tendency to be too rampant in its growth.
Massachusetts. W. H. M.

Juuy,1911
GEE a ee

Suburban

residences

are often without sufficient police
protection and for this reason you
need a Smith & Wesson revolver.

TRADA

MARY

An interesting booklet telling the entire history of the
revolver is yours for the asking.

SMITH & WESSON

MANUFACTURERS OF SUPERIOR REVOLVERS
419 Stockbridge Street

SPRINGFIELD, MASS.

ATLANTIC
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The Burlington Venetian Blind
will make your rooms shady and your porch cool and
comfortable. It can be raised or lowered at will,
and can be adjusted to any angle to suit the height of
the sun.

Enclose your porch and see what a change it will
make in your whole home. It will give you a cozy,
secluded room. The air will circulate freely and you
will get all the advantages of open air; at the same
time you will not be subjected to an inquisitive public
gaze. The Burlington Venetian Blind will give youa
place to read, sew or entertain—a place for the children
to play, too.

Write for our illustrated booklet; st
will tell you about the various styles

Burlington Venetian Blind Co., 327 Lake St., Burlington, Vt.

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

If a problem grows in your garden write to 365
the Readers’ Service jor assistance z

Ordinary Low-water
Flow, 180,800 cubic
feet per second.

Niagara Average Flow,
222,400 cubic feet per
second,

What Power Users
Now Want, 56,000
cubic feet per second.

o the Real Owners of Niagara:

If you are willing to help in permanently preventing further

injury to Niagara Falls, write or telegraph today to your
Senators and to your Representative in Congress, urging the pas-
sage unamended of Mr. Burton’s Senate Joint Resolution 3, contin-
uing during the life of the Waterways Treaty the provisions of the
Burton Bill. Get your friends to do likewise.

The Waterways Treaty with Canada has established a MAXIMUM limit of diversion from
Niagara for power production of 56,000 cubic feet per second. This is 25 per cent of the average flow
and 30 per cent of the ordinary low-water flow. BUT the treaty puts no limit on the taking of water
from Niagara ‘‘for sanitary and domestic purposes.’? There are power schemes now being pushed as
drainage canals which would further deplete and more seriously injure the Falls.

FOR the Falls “have unquestionably been seriously in-

jured by the diversions already made,’’ says the report of the Chief of Engineers
of the United States Army, and “additional diversions now under way will add
to the damage.’? (See appendix FFF, page 940, Report of Chief of Engineers, 1909.)

In places, the American Fall is very thin. The Bridal Veil is considerably lessened in volume.
West of Terrapin Rock hundreds of feet on the brink of the American part of the Horseshoe Fall are
barely covered. Portions of the Rapids are much less impressive. One great power-house, right at
the foot of the Horseshoe Fall, has been doubled in length.

‘THE Burton Bill, passed by Congress in 1906, and ex-

tended in 1909, was more than fair to the power companies. It gave them all
the water they could then use, or were actually preparing to use. It did not stop
a single wheel, nor check any going enterprise. Ws® IT EXPIRES June 29, 1911.

Seizing the opportunity, the power companies insist that they must have at once the full maxi-
mum limitation under the Treaty, which would INCREASE THE DRAIN on the already ‘“‘seriously
injured”? cataract by SIXTY-EIGHT PER CENT BEYOND PRESENT USES. They also want all
limitation removed on the transmission of power from Canada. The reason is plain. At average
resent rates, their INCREASED INCOME from the water they want to take FROM THE
GLORY OF NIAGARA would be OVER FIVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ANNUALLY.

NIAGARA as a world wonder draws 1,000,000 visitors

each year, who spend fully twenty-five millions of dollars there and on the
way. This vast travel income will increase if the Falls remain as a great spectacle.
It would surely be bad business to destroy the source of such an income!

Permanent protection of Niagara against further depletion for private power advantage can now
be secured if the people, who actually own America’s greatest scenic possession, will act promptly
and with vigor upon the members of the Sixty-second Congress, now in spetial session.

Write for further information to the organization that first called President Roosevelt’s attention
to the national ownership of Niagara, that pushed the Burton Bill through Congress, and that now
stands against the aggressions of forty millions of power-company capital. Send us copies of all
letters you get from Senators and Congressmen. Use a little of your time and a dozen two-cent
stamps to protect your own interest in, and ownership of, Niagara Falls.

(o HORACE BREAN eure American Civic Association

RICHARD B. WATROUS, Secretary : cet
WILLIAM B. HOWLAND, Treasurer 914 Union Trust Building, WASHINGTON, D. C.

Present Power Use,
34,000 cubic feet per
second,

Plant for Immediate Effect

Not for Future Generations

Start with the largest stock that can be secured! It takes over twenty
years to grow such Trees and Shrubs as we offer.

We do the long waiting —thus enabling you to secure Trees and Shrubs that
give an immediate effect. Spring Price List Now Ready.

ANDORRA NURSERIES °& paivavevenia, Pe.

WM. WARNER HARPER, Proprietor

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366 suggestions for the care of live-stock

Make your porch a pleasant
outdoor living room

Make it a pleasant, shady spot where

you get the benefit of all the breezes
that blow, yet the heat of the day is
shut out. You can do this by using

K © Green Painted
Om Porch Curtains
You can see outthrough them, yet outsiders
cannot see you—you have perfect privacy.
Ask your dealer to show you the ‘‘Komi’”’
Curtains and tell you how little it will cost
to fit out your porch with them. If your
dealer cannot do this, write to us for the
name of a dealer near you who can.

R. H. COMEY CoO., Camden, N. J.
Chicago, 2440 to 2448 Washburn Ave.

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Don’t cut it—save time.

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in one fifth of the time.
Workmanship and material
indefinitely guaranteed. If not satisfactory after one week's
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Refer to any bank in Philadelphia.

Write for booklet.
Fountain Cutlery Co : 926 Filbert Street

Hardy
Flower Seeds

sown in July and August
will be big and sturdy plants
by Fall, ready for transplant-
ing to permanent quatters.

receipt of $5.00.

Dreer’s
Summer Catalogue

lists all the standard varieties
of hardy perennials, and the
novelties that have been
tested at our trial grounds,
and found worthy of being
disseminated. Write fora

copy.

Henry A. Dreer

714 Chestnut
Philadelphia

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Juuty, 1911

[oa

What to Do for the Flowers

A FAR as this year’s flowers are concerned,

comparatively little can now be done except
to water regularly and well, and take such means
as surface cultivation and mulching to keep the
water where it will do the most good. Sprinkling
is worse than useless, flooding is good but expensive
and necessitates after cultivation. Probably for
most purposes the slow running of water along
shallow temporary ditches made among your
plants is best, filling these in again when the water
has thoroughly permeated the soil underneath.
Some few annuals, such as baby’s breath (Gypso-
phila elegans) and the dwarf sunflowers (Helian-
thus cucumerifolius), so useful for cutting, may
still be sown in the cooler parts of the state and
flower quite nicely. Dahlias and chrysanthemums
will be improved by a judicious thinning of shoots
and removal of surplus buds, and other plants
given a longer lease of beauty by keeping the seed
pods picked off.

While one cannot raise quite the same enthusiasm
for hardy herbaceous perennials in California as
in the East, chiefly because during their dormant
season we cannot lose them from sight beneath
snow banks but must gaze on their dishevelled
remains or the bare spot above their roots, still
I, for one, feel that many of them are still very
much worth while, though I more often choose to
put a large group of some variety in one place rather
than attempt the impossible task of making a
herbaceous border beautiful for twelve months
of the year. Columbines, larkspurs, pyrethrums
and polyanthus primroses are all nice if given
considerable water through our dry summers, and
in the case of the last two some shade does no
harm. Oriental poppies are easily grown and
the perennial gaillardias and coreopsis, even in
the blazing sun, will return you a succession of
crops of their bright flowers. All these may be
sown now and the young, vigorous plants will
flower well next spring and summer.

The biennials, too, are indispensable for spring
gardens and while they have to be raised more often
they can be cleared out of the way when over.
Try a corner of foxgloves with sweet Williams in
front, a border of Canterbury bells, a mass of
wallflowers or a carpet of forget-me-nots. The
seed of all these should be in by September rst,
and if you start considerably earlier you have
the advantage of large plants.

Except on the coast, where cool fogs abound in
summer, pansies only do well during the months
from February to June, so it is useless to begin
raising plants in spring. August is the month
I generally sow my seed, though September is
not too late. Don’t use cheap seed, as you can
easily get a hundred plants from a good twenty-five
cent mixture and more satisfaction than from
ten times as many low-grade ones. It is just as
impossible to raise prize pansies from seed collected
from your neighbors’ wornout plants as to raise
bench show dogs from the mongrels who follow
you home. For carpeting the ground underneath
bulbs and roses self colors only should be used,
making sure that they will harmonize with the
other plants, or you will feel hurt every time you
see them.

For pansies, perennials and biennials I prefer
to sow seed in boxes, prick out into other boxes
after they have a couple of characteristic leaves,
and get them nicely into their permanent beds
before the heavy rains come in December or
January. Of course, nice beds of fine soil in a
semi-shady place would be as good as boxes, but

fastening.
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And get the Kant-leak Kleet— the approved roof-
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after you have
, once pumped it.
Throw away the
obsolete wooden
pump. Install one
to force the water
where you want it.

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We make pumps for every
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“Water Supply for the Home”

It is full of suggestions
on the subject.

The Goulds Mfg, Company
§2 W. Fall Street
Seneca Falls, N. ¥.

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Power for Country Homes

I H C Gasoline Engines are simple and easy to operate,
besides being economical, durable, and reliable. The ideal power
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Write for catalogues of facts and figures. Address
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(Incorporated)

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ENTURY SUPPLY CO., 62State St., Rochester, N.Y.

Pennsylvania School of Horticulture
for Women Ambler, Pa.

A school for theoretical and practical instruction in gardening,
and other branches of horticulture. Special attention given to
the practical side of the work.

Fall Term opens September 6th

Miss M. O, COLLINS
Principal

Incoming class limited to twelve
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MAGAZINE

with |
Swift’s Arsenate of Lead

ON’T putter around with a stick and old
tin pan, but get all the bugs and get
them quick and easy.

Swift’s Arsenate of Lead mixes readily with water,
does not settle quickly, can be applied with any
pump.

It sticks to the foliage through ordinary rains —
one spraying lasts as long as three or four with the
old-style mixture.

Use it on your vegetables and fruits, and get the
yield your land can produce. It is fatal to leaf-
eating worms and insects.

MERRIMAC CHEMICAL CO.
59 Broad Street, Boston, Mass.

REG. TRADE man

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WAGNER’S BEAUTIFUL
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IGNIFY the entrance of your place with
these famous evergreens. Use them on
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In artistic mission boxes.

Bush Box 18” high, $1.75 ea.; pair, $3.00
Bush Box 24’ high, 2.S5Qea; pair, 4.50
Above are fine. broad, ovail-sha pe trees.
Pyramidal Box 24’ high, $3.00 ea.; pair,

$5.50

Pyramidal Box 30” high, $3.50 ea.; pair,
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Hundreds praise its great efficiency. Cheaper, goes further than
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West of Rockies shipped not planted
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368 suggestions jor the care o) live-stock

The Good Road
For Universal Service!

Every man’s home faces o11 a road which
connects with every other road and leads
to every other home throughout the whole
land.

Main highways connect with cross-roads
so that a man can go where he chooses,
easily and comfortably if conditions are
favorable. Butthe going is not always the
same; some roads are good—some are bad.

The experts in the South illustrate the
difference by showing four mules drawing
two bales of cotton slowly over a poor,
muddy cross-road, and two mules drawing
eight bales of cotton rapidly over a first-
class macadam highway.

The Bell Telephone lines are the roads
over which the speech of the nation passes.

The highways and byways of personal
communication are the 12,000,000 miles of
wire connecting 6,000,000 telephones in
homeson these highways. Steadily the lines
are being extended to every man’s home.

The public demands that all the roads
of talk shall be good roads. It is not
enough to have a system that is universal;
there must be macadamized highways
for talk all the way to every man’s home.
A single section of bad telephone line is
enough to block communication or confine
it to the immediate locality.

Good going on the telephone lines
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the former method makes for ease in handling.
In any case shade from the sun until they germinate
and then protect the young seedling from the
birds by mosquito netting. When they are larger
and tougher they will offer no further temptation.
California. SYDNEY B. MITCHELL.

Design for a Lath House

N SOUTHERN California, the continual
sunshine makes a lath house almost a neces-
sity to the ambitious gardener. I experienced a
dismal failure in my seed crop the first year of my
residence in that locality, and was determined it
would not happen again. With this end in view,
I strolled around to see how the lath houses in the
neighborhood were constructed.

Many people appeared to have designed their
lath houses according to their own ideas of beauty.
rather than for any consideration for the plants
within. Some had massive concrete pillars to
support the fragile roof of laths. Others had
supported the laths on so slender a frame that one
might easily imagine it would be unstable in the
gentlest zephyr. But what puzzled me most
was the variety of directions in which the laths
were placed. Some had the roof laths running
north and south, some east and west; some had
the laths at the sides vertical, others horizontal,
many slanting, and a few criss-cross. The open-
ings were at all points of the compass.

Now, the main object of a lath house is to give
seedlings and tender plants alternate periods of
shade and shine. Logically, then, the only sensible
direction for the roof laths is north and south.
The laths on the east and west sides of the house
should be horizontal, while those on the south side
should be vertical. Except, perhaps, in the very
height of the summer, the north side, I think,
might be entirely open. With regard to the
arrangement of the laths, the roof laths and those
on the south side should be fairly close together,
while the laths on the east and west sides may be

A lath house should be so made as to give alter-
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considerably farther apart. Thus, the cool morn-
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then, as the sun approaches its zenith, the rays
come slantingly through the larger spaces and
little sunlight is admitted. As the sun declines,
the same operation is reversed.

Mine is a small house, 3x8 and 6 feet high,
designed to bring on seedlings and resuscitate
faded ferns and house plants.. The frame consists
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resting on two sills, 3 by 4, on edge. The uprights
are joined at the south end by three strips of wood
2 by 1 in. placed two feet apart, and by similar
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two-foot angle braces. The laths on the east and
west sides hold the uprights in position. On the
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they are spaced two laths apart. The north end
is entirely open, but I have planted canary-bird
creepers at the corners, which will be trained to
provide shade during the height of the summer.

So. California. F. H. Mason.

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factorily for us on strong pieces of brush set well into
the ground; this provided endless twigs for the
tendrils to take hold of. The vines spread well over
the brush and hid it from sight.

We have also had very successful crops from
cucumbers raised on a 3-foot netting trellis.
No doubt the vines would have covered a still
higher trellis, for the meshes are conveniently
close for the tendrils that are always reaching out
for support. One season the vines were trained
on strings over the back porch. Barrel culture,
also, proved satisfactory, serving the purpose of
raising the plants above the ground level, where
they could receive more attention and where they
could be kept well supplied with soapy water from
the laundry.

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The seeds were planted in a spot where the ordin-
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where a partial screen was desirable. The type
of ricinus selected was not of the rankest growth,
so that the shade was not too heavy for the beans.
An overabundance of shade was likewise avoided
by planting the castor beans a good distance apart.
Neither seemed to interfere with the other and it
was proved that our limited space was put to
good use.

The castor beans were sowed first, for in spite
of their rapid growth of three feet in a month,
the pole beans would have been too quick for them.
When the ricinus was a foot high the beans were
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tallest of the castor beans measured eight feet in
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House Plants By Parker Thayer Barnes
Orchard and Fruit Garden
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A Camp Necessity

Transplanting Zinnias in July

L AST year we had planned an effect of dwarf
4 zinnias of many varieties and colors for mid-
summer and autumn blooming. Some alterations
which we were making to the house had dragged
along into the hot July weather. The middle of the
month saw our grounds still in disorder and car-
penters and painters tramping over the ground
where the flowers should have been.

The seeds had been sown in a corner. of tne
vegetable garden. The seedlings, left long after

_the usual time for replanting, had grown tall and

slender and most of them were in bloom. Former
experience led us to doubt the widsom of disturb-
ing zinnias at this stage of their growth, for as

July-transplanted zinnias which owe their lives to
profuse waterings

every one knows, zinnias lack backbone and grit.
They suddenly collapse and droop their silly heads
at the slightest provocation and when they have
shrivelled and dropped their leaves one, by one,
they stand in all their nakedness and seem to say
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moved. All the earth was shaken from the roots
as they had grown so crowded together. The
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until late in the afternoon but no protection was
given to the plants. If cut flowers with their stems
in water will last for days without wilting, why
may not one expect plants to do even better if put
in the ground and kept very wet?

The zinnias were watered in the early morning
until the water ran in little rivulets around them.
This was repeated at ten or eleven o’clock when
the heat was intense, and again at sundown. The
slightest indication of wilting was a signal for more
water, until at the end of a week or more the plants
had become well rooted and showed no further
signs of drooping.

New Jersey. H. C. ANDERSON.

A Rose of Two Seasons

HERE is one rambler rose that should be
planted not merely for its blossoms but for
its fruit as well. This is the ordinary single white
rambler, which, doubtless because it is endowed
with neither color nor multiplication of petals,
is not seen so often as early summer would find
to its advantage. Both when in flower and in
fruit, this is a most valuable rose for walls, fences,
and banks, but nowhere have I seen so fine an
effect created with it as by the use of a single plant
by the side of a gray boulder, about six feet high
and wide. The rambler inclined naturally to the
rock and though not particularly conspicuous
in early summer, was strikingly showy late in
September. Then a larger loose cluster of small
scarlet fruit terminated each shoot of the old wood,
from which the foliage had fallen, and over this
blaze of réd the new growth made an irregular
lattice of green.

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Juty,1911

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CONFESS that I

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Juty,1911

A Hardy Cape Bulb

\ eee a toss-up whether you buy it as Montbretia,
named after M. Montbret, or Tritonia,
which refers to the weathercockiness of the stamens
and not the god of the “wreathed horn”; but by
either appellation here is a charming cape bulb
that has been proved to be hardy. It has been
found perfectly hardy at Lenox, Mass., and even
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the winter when planted eighteen inches deep.
This much has been gleaned for a certainty out
of a mass of conflicting opinion and is quite enough
to warrant considerable experimentation with a
bulb, or rather corm, that may be had in named
varieties so low as thirty and forty cents a dozen.
The Tritonia — that is its accepted name now,
according to Bailey — wants rich, but light and
deep soil, good drainage and plenty of sunshine.
Plant three to six inches apart in-clumps. It
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the soil is badly drained raise the height of the bed.
Despite the evidence offered, however, this is
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according to circumstances. The great point is
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flowers may be his own court of last resort. That
is to say, the cheap ones are cheap enough; some of
the new large-flowered hybrids are so costly that
a 3x6 ft. bed of them that I saw last July repre-
sented an expenditure of $60 and the corms
had been planted fairly well apart at that. The
blossoms were superb in size and yellow tones,
but not that much more so than the forty cents
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hardy, but he advises against taking the risk with
expensive varieties. He gives them gladiolus
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of New York and Massachusetts, but to winter
them indoors “in damp (not wet) earth.” —
Though Bailey gives preference to this treatment,
he adds that tritonias may be planted permanently
and protected by mulch in cold weather. Henderson
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T. crocosmeflora, which is also T. Pottsii crossed
with the pollen of the closely allied Crocosmia
aurea and is the source of the many beautiful
named varieties in cultivation. Two growers call
tritonias hardy, but one adds, to give them a
heavy covering of leaves or litter. One says
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garden of the late C. Wolley-Dod, they were taken
up religiously every autumn, potted three to a pot,
placed in a sheltered spot, covered with litter,
kept well watered until March, and then replanted
in the garden. There the annual increase was four-
fold. Some English growers maintain that Jifting
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summer are these:

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Elegans, bright yellow.
Météore, salmon red.
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Phare, orange scarlet.
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or a centre, of a different tone.

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ular vest pocket type, there is the safety type,
which may be carried in door pocket of your car in
any position, and cannot spill or leak. There is also
the safety ink container, which may be carried for re-
filling. No other pen can give the same accurate service as
Waterman’s Ideal. Pen pcints supplied to suit every hand.

Mr. A. L. Westgard’s special emphasis on the particular
utility of Waterman’s Ideals to Motor Tourists will in-
terest you—read his letter:

New York, Feb. 20th, 1911

L. E. WaterRMAN Company,
173 Broadway, New York City.

Gentlemen:

In my endeavor to record for the benefit
of Motor Tourists a most convenient and
comfortable course across the continent
from one ocean to the other, I found my
Waterman’s Ideal Fountain Pen so
satisfactory and convenient, that I
feel called upon to write you a line
of appreciation.

My experience shows that a
good fountain pen is practi-
cally a necessity to every
automobilist.

It affords me great
pleasure to forward you
these few remarks
which I trust may be
of some interest to
you. Yours very
truly,

A. L. Westgard

In Camp out of Albuquerque, New Mexico

L. E. Waterman Co., 173 Broadway, New York

8 School St., Boston 17 Stockton St., San Francisco
New No. 115 South Clark St., Chicago Kingsway, London
6 Rue de Hanovre, Paris L. E. Waterman Company, Limited, Montreal

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