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

Volume XV

February, 1912, to July, 1912

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DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

1912

INDEX

Abutilons and anemones, 23.
Acanthus, r1o*.
Adams, H. S., articles by, 78, 262.
Adam’s needle, 244.*
Anemone, 316.*
Anemones and abutilons, 23.
Angell, H. E., photographs by, 242, 313,
360.
I. M., article by, 93.
photographs by, 93, 94.
Annual Flowers, 128.
Annuals Best for Bedding, The, 364.*
for all purposes, 128.
cutting, 171,* 172.*
Aphis, root, on aster, 85.
Apricot tree, 12.*
Aguilegia, 116.
Arbutus, 307.*
Arden, Barbara, article by, 95.
photographs by, 95, 96.
Artistic Way of Using Shrubs, The, 169.*
As to Double Primroses, 104.
Asparagus, 26,* 27.*
Aster, root aphis on, 85.
Asters, 83,* 84,* 85,* I00,*
Auricula, 216.
Awards in the Children’s Garden Con-
test, 182.

TOP 21,

Bachelor Girl’s Vegetable Garden, A, 95.*
Back Yard, The, 202:
Bacteria, Fertilizing with, 382.
Baldwin, W. A., article and photograph
by, 97.
Balsam, 138.
Barnes, Parker Thayer, articles by, 79,
112, 363.
photographs by, 110, 363.
Barron, L., photographs by, 12, 169.
Bartlett, George D., Jr., photograph by,
10.
B. D., article by, 132.
Be Your Own Plant Doctor, 247.
Bean Planting Time, 192.
Beans, bush, 298,* 299,* 300.*
Beautiful Auricula, The, 216.
Bed of Foliage Plants, A, 326.
Bedding, best annuals for, 364.
Beetle, aster, 85.
Beginning a Rose Garden, 368.
Begonia, 18,* 28.
indoors, 19.
Bellflower, 104.
Best Bush Beans to Grow, The, 298.*
Better Fruit from Proper Pruning, 91.*
B. G., articles by, 138, 216.
Bleeding heart, 286.*
Blight, aster, 85.
Bloodroot, 308.*
Bluebell, 306.*
Boecklin, Werner, article and photograph
by, 165.
Boltonia, 304,* 306.*
Book Reviews, 56.
Border, shady, flowers for, 23.
Boyd, John, photograph by, 13.
Boyle, J. S., article and photographs by,
370, 372:
Brainerd, Jessie J., article by, 206.
Bridal wreath, 224.*
Bronze Birch Borer, The, 36.
Budding and Grafting for the Amateur,
Pies
Buffalo berry, 359.*
Buildings, new way to beautify, 244.*
Bulbs in fibre, 23.
Burroughs, Julian, article and photo-
graph by, 184.
Bush beans, 298,* 299,* 300.*
Butterfly pea, 180.

California Department, 266.

TO THE GARDEN

Volumen hecbiuanryor2. sto) July. 1912
Copyrighted, 1912, by DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO.

The asterisk (*) signifies that the subject is illustrated

California’s Fertility; Is It Soil or
Climate, 266.

Campanula, 104.

Canna raising in Texas, 54.

Carbon tetrachloride, 108.

Cauliflower, early, 136.

‘Cedar, red, 311.*

Centrosema, 180.
Chamberlin, John W., article by, 46.
Chandler, Warren J., article by, 240.
Charming Aubrietia, The, 132.*
Cherry tree borer, 28.

Trees as a Screen, 380.
Chester, Frederick D., article by, 382.
Children’s Garden Contest, Awards in,
182.
Gardens Everywhere, 24.
hild’s Garden, The, 97, 178, 253, 314,
367.
hoosing Fruits for the Home Garden,
ie

lark, Martha Haskell, articles by, 18, 30.
photograph by, 19.

arke, H., article by, 110.

Clematis, dwarf, 286.*

Climbing Lilies, The, 363.*

Color Harmonies in the Spring Garden,
236.*

Colt’s foot, 212.

Columbine, Naturalizing, 116.

Combination Gardens for Small Plots,
7/5

Concerning Colt’s Foot, 212.

Conover, M. Roberts, articles by, 128,
134, 175, 334.

Cost of Making a Perennial Bed, The,
165.7

Cotton, fertilizer for, 44.

Cowslip, 306.*

Crocus, 237.*

Cucumbers, 202.
climbing, 23.
how to grow, 134.
wild, 243.*

as a fence, 23.

Cultural Color Note on the Oriental
Poppy, 376.

Cutting, annuals for, 171,* 172.*

Cutworm, 106.

Cypress, Japan, 312.*

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Cc
Christmas rose, 48.*
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C

Dahlia buds dropping, 254.
Cuttings, How to Make, 52.
raising in Texas, 54.
Dahlias, Cannas, and Gladiolus in Texas,

in Southern Gardens, 22.

sprouting, 98.

Starting Early, 20,* 21,* 22.*
Daturas in a Small Garden, 208.*
Dicentra, 286.*

Diseases of plants, table of, 247.

Do These Things Now! 330.*

Doogue, Luke J., articles by, 26, 114.
photographs by, 26, 27, 116, 208, 368.

Duffy, Sherman R., article by, 161.
photographs by, 161, 162, 163, 164.

Dugmore, A. R., photographs by, 306,

308.

Duncan, Frances, article by, 158.
photographs by, 158, 160.
Dwarf Clematis, A, 286.*
fruit trees, 14,* 173,* 174.*
Tomato and the Small Garden, The,
239.*

Early Blooming White Shrub, An, 332.*

Earth worms, 180.

Eldredge, A. G., photographs by, 17,
78, 200, 219, 245, 246, 309, 310, 311,
312, 313, 354, 355.

E. L. D. S., article by, 106.

Ellwanger, W. D., article by, 38.

E. O. P., article by, 44.

Epigza, 307.*

E. S., article by, 376.

“Escaped” Bellflower, The, 104.

E. S. J., article by, 48.

Euonymus cuttings, 26.*

Eupatorium, 163.*

Evergreens, long-lived, 310, 311, 312, 313.

Exact Method for Planting Fruit Trees,
An, 186.*

Fall Fruiting Strawberries, The, 188.
February Work Among the Trees, 36.
Felt, E. P., article by, 36.
Fences, vines for, 254.
Fertilizer facts, 254.
for Cotton, 44. -
Fertilizing with Bacteria, 382.
Five Years’ Experience with Dwarf
Fruit Trees, 173.*
Flat for seed, 79.*
Fletcher, S. W., photograph by, 90.
Florida, Gardening in, 118.
Flowerbed, Sub-irrigation of a, 208.*
Flowers blooming indoors, 30.
for a Light Dry Soil, 243.*
Makeshift Greenhouse, 18.*
Foliage plants, how to use, 326.
For the Pacific Coast, 42.
Foxgloves, April cover.
From Adirondack Gardens, 200.
Fruit Garden, The, 184, 318.
pruning, 91,* 92,* 93.*
trees, dwarf, 14,* 173,* 174.*
Exact Method for Planting, 186.*
netting, 186.*
Fruits, how to choose, 12.*
Fuld, M., article by, 52.
“Fun” of Collecting Stonecrops, II.,
Ine, TEs”
Furniss, George B., article by, 266.

Gain, J., article by, 208.

Galtonia, 180.

Garden Book, A Really Practical, 262
Getting Character into the, 196.
Implements, 334.

Publications, 56.

roller, 336.*

tools for, 334.

Work for This Month, 97.*

Gardening Discretion, 235.
in Florida, 118.

Garraway, G. G., photograph by, 312.

G. D. B., article by, 116.

Gentianella, The, 224.

Georgia, Gladiolus in, 194.*

Geraniums, growing indoors, 19.

Gerard, J. N., photograph by, 360.

Getting Ahead of the Season, 218.*
Character into the Garden, 196.

Gifford, John, article and photograph by,

124.

Gilbert, W. R., article by, 278.

Gladiolus, 98.
in Georgia, 194.*
raising in Texas, 54.

Globe flower, 309.*

Gloriosa, 363.*

Good Points of Standard Roses, The, 38.

Grafting and Budding for the Amateur,
251.*

Grape Vine Roots that “Grow Up,”
184.*

Graves, Frances M., article by, 368.
Nathan R., photographs by, 1, 18, 22,

83, 102, 132, 170, 309, 353, 360, 361,
362, March cover.

Green, Stephen N., article by, 239.
photographs by, 239, 240.

MAGAZINE

Greene, M. L., article and photograph by,
314.
Greenhouse for sweet peas, corn, etc., 34.
Growing High Quality China Asters 83.*
Sweet Peas, 10.*
Palms from Seed, 112.
Grub, white, on aster, 85.
G. W. K., articles by, 40, 82.

Hard Work Continues, The, 380.
Hardiness of Shrubs, The, 46.
Hardy Border, The, 216.
shrubs for the Northwest, 357.*
Haxton, Fred, articles by, 224, 332, 380
photograph by, 224, 332.
Hedge, hemlock, 313.*
of rugosa rose, 98.
Helenium, 162,* 163.*
Helleborus, 48.*
Hemlock, 313.*
Hepatica, 306.*
Herbaceous Perennials that are Positively
Hardy, 305.*
Herrick, Elizabeth, article by, 353.
Hibiscus, 304.*
Hill, Anna, article and photograph by,

H. M. S., article by, 27.
Hollyhock disease, 180.
mallow, 200.*
Holman, Frederick V., articles by, 58,
368.
Homans, S. T., article by, 326.
Home Grown Rose Plants, 326,
Strawberry Bed, The, 302.*
Home-made Contrivances, 190.
hothouse, 218.*
Plant Table, A, 190.*
Honeysuckle, 359.*
Hotbed, 58.*
Any One Can Make, A, 42.*
Hothouse, small, 218.*
How a Strawberry Bed was Made, 322.
I Grow Cucumbers, 134.
to Choose Annuals for-Cutting, 171.*
Grow Muskmelons, 324.
Have Muskmelons All Summer, 204.
Make a Rubber Plant Branch, 276.
Dahlia Cuttings, 52.
Transplanting Improves a Plant, 370.*
H. S. A., articles by, 104, 200, 212.

Ideal Tomatoes for the Home Garden,
350.*

Improving the Garden Soil, 126.

Indoors, when flowers bloom, 30.
raising flowers, 18.
Starting Vegetables, 89.*

Ingraham, A. M., photograph by, 89.

International Press Photo Co., photo-
graph by, July cover.

Iris, 244.*
dwarf, 161.*

Irises in our Small Garden, The, 360.*
Solid-color, 48.

Jenkins, W. H., articles by, 177, 188, 302,
318.
photographs by, 177, 320.
Jerusalem cherry, 114.*
J. E. S., article by, 286.
Johnson, E. S., article and photographs
by, 20, 21.
Jones, C. H., photograph by, 13.

Kerr, G. W., articles by, 10, 83, 100.
photographs by, 11, 83, 85, 100.

Killing the Bugs, 106, 256.

Kimball, W. S., photographs by, 81, 91,
2, 93, 336, 368.

King, Mrs. Francis, articles by, 236, 376.

Koonti, 124.*

Kruhm, Adolph, articles by, 171, 298,
350, 364, 372.

photographs by, 171, 172, 298, 299;

300, 350, 351, 352, 364, 365, 366,

372, 374+

Label, 336.*

Labels for Rose Bushes, 368.*

Larkspur, 305.*

L. A. S., article by, 224.

Lavender, 162.*

L. B., article by, 85.

L. C., article by, 104.

Lemon verbena, 180.

Lenfest, L. A., article and photograph
by, 270.

Lettuce, 204.

Levison, J. J., article by, 36.

Lilies, climbing, 363.*

Little “Bleeding Heart,’ The, 286.*
Planting for February, A, 14.

Long, J. M., article by, 190.
Lived Evergreens for Gardens, 310.*

Love-in-a-mist, 171.*

Lyon, D. E., photographs by, 302, June
cover.
S. T., article by, 322.

McCollom, W. C., articles by, 12, 91,
251.
photographs by, 79, 90, 251, 252

McFate, Elsie, article by, 306.*

Madonna lily, 303.*

Making Gardens Between Houses, 270.*

“Pin Money” from Seedlings, 272.

Malva, 200.*

Manning, Warren H., article by, 196.

Marigold, 364.*

Marous, Charlotte, article by, 126.

Mason, F. H., article and photograph

by, 334, 336.

Mayflower, 307.*

Meller, C. L., articles by, 214, 305, 357-
drawings by, 214, 216.
photographs by, 305, 306, 358, 359.

Melons, when to spray, 206.

Mertensia, 306.*

M. G., article by, 286.*

Mildew on Roses, 368.

Miller, Wilhelm, articles by, 15, 169, 244,

310, 356.
Miniature Greenhouse for Sweet Peas.
Corn, etc., A, 34.

Mole, The, A Friend in Disguise, 206.

Money from Seedlings, 272.

Month’s Reminder, The, 9, 77, 147, 235,

297, 349.
Moore, Philip, photograph by, 241.
More About the Christmas Rose, 46.*
Remarkable Koonti Facts, 124.*

Moving large trees, 214,* 216.*

M. T. R., article by, 204.

Muskmelons All Summer, How to Have,

204.
how to grow, 324.

Musser, M. J., photographs by, 24, 25.

M. W. P., article by, 136.

My Home-Made Garden Roller, 334.*

Naturalizing Columbine, 116.

Necessary Garden Tools, 334.

“Netting” Fruit Trees, 186.*

New Insecticide, A, 108.

Way of Beautifying Large Buildings,

A, 244.*

Newest Balsam, The, 138.

Northend, Mary H., article and phcto-
graphs by, 27.

Nushka, article and photograph by, 264.

Onions, 204.
planting, 198.
Orange daisy, 172.”
Orchard, summer work in the, 318.*
Ostrich plume, 172.*
Our Enemy, the Cutworm, 106.
Native Shrubs, and What May Be
Done With Them, 166.
Overalls Versus Skirts, 264.*
Painted tongue, 172.*
Palms, growing from seed, 112.

INDEX TO THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Pandanus, 26.*
Pansy, 164.*
Pasture, how to make, 254.
Pear, Bartlett, dwarf, 173.*
Peony, 305.*
Pepper plant, 116.*
Perennial Bed, Cost of Making, 165.*
Phloxes Worth Growing, 353.*
Perennials for the shady nook, 308.*
hardy herbaceous, 305,* 306.*
Most Worth Planting for Flowers, 161.*
tall growing, 303,* 304.*
Personal Experiences, 208.
Phlox, 365.*
hardy, 353, 354, 355-
Pinks, 305.*
Plant diseases, table of, 247.
Sugar Cane Now, 34.
Table, A Home-made, 190.*
Your Onions Now, 198.
Planting between houses, 270.*
for Summer Harvests, 122.
Fruit Trees, Exact Method for, 186.*
idea, 98.
peach trees, 28.
Retaining Walls, 240.*
seedlings, 90.*
soil, how to make, 23.
strawberries, 177.*
table for native shrubs, 166.
Your Own Vine and Fig Tree, 158.*
Plants for wet places, 28.
Plowhead, Mrs. E. H., article by, 34.
Plumose Asparagus from Seed, 210.*
Pole Bean Trellis, A, 190.
Pomeroy, Eltweed, article by, 54.
Poppies, 98, 180, 244.*
Poppy, oriental, 376, July cover.
Porch, H. W., photographs by, 186.
Possible Salad Plant, A, 376.
Potatoes, new, 98.
Powell, E. P., article by, 118.
Practical Hints for Beginners, 52, 196.
Pointers for Moving Large Trees, 214.*
Preparing Spray Mixtures, 256.
Preventive Work for Early Summer, 318.*
Primrose, 18,* 161.*
double, 104.
indoors, 19.
Primula, 216.
Privet, 28.
planting, 254.
Proper Way to Trench, The, 278.
Prune shrubs, when to, 28.
Pruning fruit, 91,* 92,* 93.*
Pryal, W. A., article and photograph by,

2.

Pumpkins and Winter Squash, 260.
Purslane, 376.

Puschkinia, 238.*

Pusley, 376.

Raising Early Cauliflower, 136.
Raspberry, 13.*
Readers’ Experience Club, 23, 98, 180,
316.*
Service, 28. 254.
Reading, H. G., article by, 368.
Really Practical Garden Book, A, 262.
Recipes for Good Things, 27.
Red Berries for Next Christmas, 114.*
cedar, 311.*
Retinispora, 312.*
Rhoads, S. N., photograph by, 356.
Richardson, M. T., article and photo-
graphs by, 86, 88.
Rocap, George, article by, 186.
Rockwell, F. F., articles by, 89, 174, 198,
324.
Rose bugs, a lure for, 180.
Department, 38.
Garden, Beginning a, 368.
Growers, Troubles of, 174.
rugosa, 98, 358.*
Roses, 50, 368.
from slips, 326.
labels for, 368.*
mildew on, 368.
standard, 38.
trimming, 254.
Yellow, for the West, 58.

Ross, C. R., article and photograph by,
208, 210.
Rubber plant branching, 276.

School garden, 253.*
Gardens in Massachusetts, 97.*
Sedum, :15,* 16,* 17.*
Seed flat, 79.*
growing palms from, 112.
planting, egg shells for, 180.
Plumose Asparagus from, 210.*
Seedlings, how to raise, 79.*
making money from, 272.
planting, 90.*
Seeds not growing, cause for, 82.
Seymour, E. L. D., articles by, 9, 77,
96, 202.
Shade, perennials for, 308,* 309.*
Shaw, Ellen Eddy, articles by, 24, 253,
314, 367.
Jackson, article by, 315.
S., photographs by, 315.
Short Season for Tomatoes, A, 136.
Showy Bridal Wreath, The, 224.*
Shrubs, fragrant, 98.
Hardiness of, 46.
hardy, for the Northwest, 357.*
native, planting table for, 166.
The Artistic Way of Using, 169.*
Sinclair, Gladys Hyatt, articles by, 243,
HOBe
photographs by, 243, 244, 303, 304.
Sipe, Susan B., article and photograph
by, 179.
Slosson, Alice, article and photograph
by, 300, 301.
Small Greenhouse, The, 30.
Plots, Combination Gardens for, 175.
Smith, E. A., article by, 46.
Sneezeweed, 162,* 163.*
Soil, flowers for poor, 243.*
for planting, 23.
improving, 126.
liming, 28.
Solid-color Irises, 48.
Some Asters Worth Growing, 100.*
Troubles of the Aster, 85.
Southern Department, 118,
330, 380.
Sowing flower seeds, 78,* 79,* 80,* 81.
Vegetables for Succession, 93.*
Space, saving, 98.
Spiegel, Moe. articles and photographs
by, 58, 326.
Spireay 224. aggre esis oem
Spray melons, when to, 206.
Mixtures, Preparing, 256.
why and how to, 96.
Spring, Florence, article by, 300.
Garden, Color Harmonies in the, 236.*
Spruce, Norway, 312.*
Stack, G. M., article and photographs
by, 173, 174.
Staking and Pruning Tomatoes, 372.*
Star of Bethlehem, 308.*
Starting a Muskmelon Crop, 324.
Dahlias Early, 20.*
Vegetables Indoors, 89.*
Statice, 162.*
Steed; T. J., articles by, 22, 34, 122, 192
194, 260, 330, 380.
photographs by, 194, 330.
Stem rot, aster, 85.
Stonecrops, 15,* 16,* 17.*
Strawberry bed, making a, 322.
to Plant This Spring, The, 177.*
Strawberries, 302,* June cover
The Fall Fruiting, 188.
Sub-irrigation of a Flowerbed, 208.*
Succession, Sowing Vegetables for, 93.*
Suggestions for Very Littlest Plots, 202.*
Summer hyacinth, 180.
Sunflower, perennial, 163.*
Sweet Pea Contest, The, 178.
peas, 10,* 11.*
that are Worth While, 138.
varieties of, 40.
William, April cover.
Tall Perennials for Special
Bosna
TERS, Brio Bio

192, 260,

*

Purposes,

Taylor, John E., article and photograph
by, 258.
Taylor, Norman, articles by, 166, 308.
Texas, Dahlias, Cannas, and Gladiolus
in, 54.
Three Late Faithfuls, 50.
To Encourage Gardening, 328.
Tomatoes, A Short Season for, 136.
dwarf, 239,* 240.*
Staking and Pruning, 372.*
ten best, 350,* 351,* 352,*
trained to poles, 258.*
Tools, garden, 334.
Transplanted Summer Garden, A, 300.*
Transplanting, improving a plant by,
370,* 372."
wild flowers, 306,* 307.*
Tree and Garden Labels, 336.*
apricot, 12.*
peach, planting, 28.
work for February, 36.
Trees and Shrubs, 36.
moving large, 214,* 216.*
Trellis, A Pole Bean, 190.
how to build a, 202.
Trench, the proper way to, 278.
Trick of Sowing Flower Seeds, The, 78.*
Trillium, 309.*
Troth, Henry, photographs by, 114, 159,
308.
Troubles of Rose Growers, 174.
Tulip bulbs, left over, 28.
Tulips, 236,* 237,* 238,* February cover.
Tussilago, 212.

Unfamiliar Acanthus, An, r10.*
Unusual Plants for Indoor Culture, 26.*

Varieties of Sweet Peas, 40. ‘
Vegetable Garden, A Bachelor Girl’s,
Se
Vegetables, 134, 370.
for a Family of Seven, 86.*
Succession, Sowing, 93.*
planting table for, 87.
Starting Indoors, 89.*
Verbena, 366.*
Vines, attaching to walls, 180.
for fences, 254.

Wakerobin, 309.*
Wallis, E. J., photographs by, 15, 16.
Walls, Planting Retaining, 240,* i
W. D., article and photograph by, 186,
188.
Weed, Clarence M., article and photo-
graph by, 210, 212.
West, Yellow Roses for the, 58.
Wet places, plants for, 28.
What One Ought to Plant, 128.
When to prune shrubs, 28.
Whetzel, H. H., articles by, 247, 256.
Whitney, J. D., article by, so.
Whole Art of Raising Seedlings, The,
*
Why and How to Spray Now, 96.
Some Seeds Do Not Grow, 82.
Wild Flowers for the Home Garden, 306.*
Wildey, W. L., photograph by, 97-
Windflower, 309.*
Window Garden, The, 112.
Gardening Under Difficulties, 27.
Wistaria, March cover.
non-blooming, 28.
W. N. McV., article and photograph by,
190.
Wolfe, George E., articles by, 136, 138,
218.
photograph by, 218.
W. W., article by, 272.

Year’s Calendar for Flowers in the House
Conservatory, 30.

Yellow Roses for the West, 58.

Yew, Japanese, 310,* 313.*

Yews in Elizabeth Haddon’s Garden,
The, 356.*

Young People’s Club, The, 276, 328, 378.

Yucca, 244.*

Zinnia, 365.*

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Fesruary, 1912 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 1

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Large Berkshires
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Regular Fall Offering of pigs 8 to 10
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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

The Readers’ Service will give you
suggestion jor the care of live-stock 3

You Can Start With An 1800-E¢gg Hall
Incubator And Add Sections To It As
The Growth Of The Business Demands

The sectional principle of the Hall Mammoth Incubators is not a feature for

rare or exceptional cases of additions wanted —it is a necessity.
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Users of

Learn to recognize
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A SHETLAND PONY

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Box 15, Markham, Va,

Jersey Reds are Lively Growers

and lively yrowiny pigs are quick money-makers. Jersey Reds are the most
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A few pure bred cockerels for sale at reason-
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Have some choice offerings now. Satisfaction guaranteed
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Hardy vigorous stock of heavy laying strain.

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Milk
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The only pail that keeps dirt out
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‘Wigwarm”’ Specialties
For Poultrymen

‘‘Wigwarm’’ Setting and Brood Coop

and ker chicks and while she is sit-
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and other enemies.
Insures larger
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Uses the least oil of any brooder made. Storm
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TRADE N=:

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the stock is always

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These are houses that will grow with your

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$75. Additional sections $60 each.

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FeBRUARY, 1912

DOLLAR PER POUND
BUTTER

Made Users of

SHARPLES TUBULAR
Cream Separators Rich

The Darlingtons of Darling, Pa., got rich making famous

“dollar per pound” butter amd selling it to the most ‘fastidious
people, the people with a taste for the best butter and with
the money to buy the 3b

The
Darlingtons
Use Only
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Tubulars

Skimming
Force

F ifit’ e's not a SHARPLES it’s
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getting all the Sanit Tubules pay you “velvet” mn the form
of profits no other separator can get — profits you cannot
afford to lose. That’s why 100,000 en, in Iowa alone,
use Tubulars.

Rich people, willing to waste money, may not use Tubulars,
but those making fortunes at dairying do.

Write us now for Catalog 215. Learn how Dairy Tubulars
31 make more money for you because

~ i the i disks
al cr PGTAR Shy contain no disks and have
THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR CO.
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Cocker Spaniels

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Fall Bearing Strawberries

You can have strawberries from August until November from ‘Pan Amer-
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Emporium, Pennsylvania

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Delevan, N. Y.

The Postoffice Department by
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FEBRUARY, 1912

MUGISOO)
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Write us for the illustrated Good Roof Guide
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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

“You must know, sir, that I look upon the pleasure which we take in a
garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.”

—THE SPECTATOR.

Greater Simplicity in our Gardens

This is the key-note to be struck in The Annual Gardening
Number for 1912 of

Country Life
in America

A,

Published February 15th

@ Simpler taste in the Home Grounds.
@ Less complication and less work in the Flower Garden.
@ The Best Fruit and Vegetables by simpler methods.

@ Abolishing the idea of display and making the garden a
place of content, and gardening a relaxation, not a

labor.

‘ @ A useful and practical manual this will be, and beautiful
withal, with its superb reproductions in full color of the
lilacs and iris at Holm Lea.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

A Suburban Garden Six Years Old
By Marian Cruger Coffin
Is the Dahlia Worth While?
By Leonard Barron
The Use and Abuse of the Pergola
By Frances Duncan
The Soul of the Garden
By Elaine Goodale Eastman
A Spring Garden of Lilacs, Irises, and
Peonies - - - - - By Wilhelm Miller

Growing Strawberries by the Sea
By Martha Prentice Strong

A Backyard Garden that is Different
By C. F. A. Seidhof
Bees in the Greenhouse
By D. Everett Lyon
The Gardening Manual for 1912
By Thomas McAdam
What Twenty-five Years Have Done
for One Country Place
By Flora Lewis Marble
An Italian Garden in Miniature
By Cora Parker

Alluring Fraxinella - By Thomas McAdam

50 CENTS A COPY Published twice a month $4 A YEAR POSTPAID

Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, N. Y.

FEBRUARY, 1912

Fseprvuary, 1912

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

LONG TERM SUBSCRIPTIONS AND
WHY

A very good friend recently asked us, after
prefacing his remarks with kindly apologies
for making the inquiry, why we were willing
to give such low rates for long term subscrip-
tions for our magazines — did we need the
money so badly that we were willing to offer
so great a discount to get it.

The answer is this: We do not need the
money, for our subscribers, the booksellers,
and our friends the advertisers, supply us
with sufficient to run this business effectively,
with enough beside to afford us the comforts
of life; but we do need help in extending the
magazine’s subscription list among the kind of
people we want.

CO-OPERATION AND ITS ECONOMIES

We should be afraid to tell our readers
what it costs most periodicals to extend their
lists of subscribers; the waste of printed
matter and postage stamps is prodigious,
and the scrap basket becomes the grave of
many high hopes. Though we have never
been ‘‘circulation plungers,” our circulation
department uses up more than $2,000 a week,
and we could easily spend twice that amount
with perhaps but a small increase in results.

It therefore occurred to us some years ago

that perhaps our readers were as tired of re- -

ceiving renewal notices as we were of send-
ing them; they frequently delayed subscrib-
ing, missing numbers, etc., etc., because of
forgetfulness or the inconvenience of writing
and remitting; and we began to offer what
we called long term subscriptions at prices
low enough to make a real economy for the
reader, and at terms satisfactory to us be-
cause of the money we saved on postage,
stationery, and clerical labor. The plan
was successful, and a large number of our
subscribers now remit for two or three years
at once.

This experience having showed us that our
readers liked the idea has led us to

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which is really a co-operative idea—co-opera-
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For the first time, we offered in December,
1911, to split up these long term subscriptions,
so that one year’s subscription might be used
as a renewal for one’s own subscription, and
one or two more given toa friend. Or another
way by which the same purpose may be
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wish to continue and develop it; and your
co-operation is suggested, because if half of
our present subscribers took up and worked
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P. S. Our readers will readily see that we cannot
afford to pay an agent commission on the plan — the

reader, becomes his own agent, so to speak, and our
dealings must be direct.

ABOUT COUNTRY LIFE IN AMERICA

We are just going to press with The Garden-
ing Annual of this magazine. It will be ready
February 15th— about two weeks earlier
than last year, so that one can have plenty
of time to read and study and inwardly digest
this Annual in time for spring plans.

We wish we might reproduce here the frontis-
piece — a lilac and iris garden made by our
own specialist in color photography, repro-
duced by our own photo-engraving depart-
ment, and printed on our own color presses.

We hope the readers of THE GARDEN
MacaZzIneE who do not know Country Life in
America will add this beautiful and helpful
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If you will get two of your country loving
friends to subscribe with you, the cost is very
small and the joy of receiving it regularly,
we think you will admit when you come to
know the magazine, is very great.

THE GARDEN AND FARM ALMANAC FOR IQ12

Every year it grows larger and larger, and
this year many new features have been added
among them: :

Best Breeds of Cattle, Best Breeds of Sheep,

Best Breeds of Swine, Getting the Best of the
Insects, etc.

Prize Contest for recipes: $20 in cash and
other prizes.

PARTIAL LIST OF CONTENTS

Almanac, Calculation for 1912, with Calendar of
Months, etc. Aid to the Injured, First. Alfalfa,
How to Raise. Animal Diseases and their Remedies.
Antidote for Poisons. Bee Keepers’ Maxims. Book-
keeping for Farmers and Gardeners. Buildings, To
Protect from Lightning. Builders, Information for.
Bulb Culture — Indoor. Canning and Preserving.
Clouds and the Weather. Concrete, What a Farmer
Can Do With. Corn, How Deep to Plant; Planting
for Big Crop; Practical Hints for Growing; Rule for
Measuring; Selection of Seed. Cooking Time Tables.
Eggs, How to Preserve. Farm Water Supply, The.
Frosts, Facts About. Fruits, Best Varieties of for the
United States; Pruning and Grafting. Greenhouse,
Best All-round. Hotbed, Building a. Plants, Propa-
gating at Home. Poultry, Who’s Who In. Power
for the Farm. Road Building and Maintenance.
Seed, How to Test; When to Plant. Silo, How to
Build a. Vegetables, Planting Tables for. Weights
and Measures. Wheel Hoe and How to Use It. Wood-
lot, Care of.

The to12 Almanac is bigger and better
than ever before, containing many new feat-
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dred pages fully illustrated. Every subject
carefully indexed.

The price is 35 cents postpaid. Last year
and the year before the edition was exhausted,
and many readers were disappointed. A word
to the wise is effective.

A copy is given postpaid, with one new
subscription to THE GARDEN MAGAZINE for
$1.75 a year; three years $3.25.

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FEBRUARY, 1912

The Model Support For
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Until After Snow Flies

Just think of supplying your table from June to
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I Keane OF NotRGae So Profirable To Grow otc’: Sao

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How You Should not Make a
Garden

Eee are two ways to go about hav-
ing a garden. The first way involves
a decision at the last minute — say in May,
when you watch your neighbor set out his
lettuce and cabbage seedlings and sow his
peas and potatoes, and think that perhaps
you better have a little garden truck of
your own, afterall. You hastily and super-
ficially dig up a little ground, level it off
a bit with a rake, run down tothe grocery
store and buy some seeds probably of the
vintage of 1906, put up by a seed firm that
no one ever heard of, being particular to
order those kinds “that are cheap and that
will come up quickly and not need much
care.” These you distribute in a_ half
pulverized layer of nondescript soil and
leave them to their own devices — giving
your attention to “more important things”
until the crop is ready to harvest. The
chances are that the Millenium will come
just about as soon as good returns from
such a “garden.” I imagine that is the
way the Foolish Virgins would have gone
about the task of making a garden, or
the infinitely senseless family in the old
German fairy tale, but it is a way of
which any of us ought to be decidedly
ashamed.

And How You Should

meow for the second way to make a

garden —the tzue garden lover’s
way. It begins at once, if it has not al-
ready done so, by your ordering manure
and spreading it on the ground whenever
a mild, open spell comes along. A favorite
question with garden makers is ‘“‘ How much
manure shall I use?” The answer is
simple and always holds good — use all

you can get. Ona plot too by roo feet in
size, twenty two-horse loads are not a bit
too many. Of course the manure must be
well worked in in such a case, the deeper
the better. If it could have been spread
in the fall before the ground was plowed, it
should have been done, but don’t waste
time regretting that it wasn’t. Get busy
and work it into the soil as soon as you can.

Meanwhile you have planned the layout
of the garden, the succession crops, the

‘inter-cropping system, the most effective

use of the hotbed, the amount of seed you
will need and a host of similar details. If
you have had gardens in past years, let
every result be of assistance to you this
season, combining practical experience with
the tried and accepted rules, principles
and theories; if you have never had a
garden make the experiences of others, as
recorded in the back files of THE GARDEN
MaGazinE, help you out.

The seed question ought to be a familiar
one to you by now. The invariable pre-
cepts are: Buy standard varieties, from
well-known and reliable seedsmen. Don’t
ask for the cheapest, but for the best. In
the end the terms are synonymous.

Another point deserves mention. Of
course the best place for a garden is in the
back yard, just outside the door where you
can potter around and yet be near the house.
But what if you have no room between the
back door and the back fence? Then
borrow or rent a little space as close by as
you can, and grow your vegetables there.
If for any reason you doubt the economy
of a garden, even though you have to pay
for the land, read the article in the Septem-
ber 15th number of Country Life in America
on Economy in the Vegetable Garden.
Even the most conservative facts prove
that you can raise more good things to eat
than you can buy for the same amount of
money.

The next most important question is
that of tools. You will find the following
very essential by March, so you had best
begin to get them together right now.

Spade
Spading Fork

Hose and Watering Pot
Row Marker

Wheelbarrow Dibble

Rake Measuring Stick

Hoe Line

Trowel Wheel hoe and Seeder

Some will merely need cleaning up and
sharpening; others will have to be bought
new. And again, don’t try to economize
by getting cheap materials. Ten to one
it will mean buying more before the season
is half over.

Buy or make a lot of labels — one inch
by nine or ten is a good size — and spend a

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few spare evenings writing on them the
names of the varieties you are going to
plant. Not only will this save valuable
time later, but it will also serve to remind
you of all the crops you are going to sow,
and thus supplement your garden plan.

Make some flats, too, for starting seed-
lings. They involve only the very simplest
carpentry work. But you are much less
likely to pound your fingers these days
than if you try to “ knock some together ”
when you are in a hurry to use them.

You can buy ready made hotbeds if you
are willing to pay generously for them. But
there is no reason at all why you should
not make these also. If you enjoy working
with concrete make a permanent founda-
tion. Otherwise all you need is some two-
inch lumber and the ever-present shovel,
hammer, saw and nails. Detailed plans for
the construction of all these things can be
obtained from back numbers of THE Gar-
DEN MAGAZINE or direct from the Readers’
Service at any time.

Among the Permanent Garden
Crops

|Pyon lose sight of the necessity of
spraying and pruning the fruit trees,
rosebushes, grapevines, blackberries, rasp-
berries and currants before the active work
begins to crowd. The pruning should come
first for two reasons: there will be less wood
left to cover with spray after all the useless
parts have been removed; and it will be
easier to get into the centre of the bushes
and trees and cover every inch of surface
after they have been thinned out. If you
have heard of San Jose scale in the neigh-
borhood, don’t rest till you know whether
or not it has hit your plants. The fruits
are most liable to attack and of course can
be least spared; but roses are a favorite
haunt of the pest and any of the orna-
mentals may need attention. Note care-
fully the directions for winter spraying given
in the January, 1910, GARDEN MAGAZINE.

Look for the scale first on the smooth
bark of the young shoots. It shows more
plainly there and anyway it finds a better
feeding ground on the more tender tissues.
A single scale looks like a dark gray fly-
speck in the centre of a small area of reddish
bark. A bad infestation makes the branch
appear as if it were covered with a heavy
coating of pepper and salt; and by rubbing
the bark with a finger nail or a knife blade
the dry flaky incrustation of scale shells
can be removed and proven to be the
genuine San Jose. The oyster shell scale
is several times larger, of about the same
color, and is so true to its name that it needs
no other description.

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Growing High Quality Sweet Peas— By G. W. Kerr, “=.

A PRACTICAL EXPLANATION BY A LEADING EXPERT, ESPECIALLY FOR THE AMATEUR— THE PRIME
IMPORTANCE OF GETTING A PROPER AND EARLY START — QUALITY VARIETIES FOR THE HOME GARDEN

HE whole practice of sweet pea grow-
ing may be put concisely into these
very few words: Have the ground deeply
trenched and liberally manured, the plants
thinned and staked; do not allow a seed
pod to form; give copious watering, chang-
ing the liquid manure diet at each applica-
tion; keep the hoe going regularly.

A GOOD BEGINNING

An early start is the great secret of suc-
cess with sweet peas, for unless the seed is
got into the soil early the plants do not
teally thrive, unless the season is excep-
tional; and even then the results would
have been much better if early planting
had been done. For the latitude of Phila-
delphia early planting means as early in
March as soil conditions will allow. It is
not well to plant while the ground is wet
and soggy, but I would rather get the seed
into the soil even should it be on the wet
side than perhaps have to delay until well
into April, waiting for ideal conditions,
for never will sweet peas give first class
results if planted after the middle of
April. They may make abundant growth
and even produce buds in plenty but
fine flowers are invariably conspicuously
absent. Allow me to state here that I
decidedly prefer fall planting, but that of
course is out of the question at this date.

Ii the ground was not prepared in the
fall it must get attention now, at once,
just as soon as the frost is out of the land,
and it is dry enough to work nicely. Good
results with sweet peas may be obtained
by cultivating as for any ordinary garden
crop, but if you want (and surely you do)
the “‘best ever’ — flowers that will be
the envy of your neighborhood — a little
special preparation is necessary.

Select by preference a spot where the

vines will have plenty of light and air, on
no account under trees, or where branches
will overhang the plants; though a position
where trees or buildings at some distance
will shade the plants from the mid-day and
early afternoon sun, is ideal.

MAKING ALL FIT

Trench the ground eighteen inches to
two feet deep, and two feet wide where the
row will run. Should the bottom soil be
poor it must not be brought to the top, but
improved by turning it over in the bottom
of the trench and incorporating with it
rather long strawy manure, or the roughest
material of the compost heap, or garden
refuse —in fact anything that will lend
humus and tend to sweeten it. Over this
bottom spit put a layer of well rotted
manure (cow manure for preference), cover
with three inches of soil, giving this layer
a dressing of fine bone meal at the rate
of two ounces per yard run of the row.
On top of that add two inches of soil, and
then another layer of well rotted manure,
afterward levelling up the trench incor-
porating with the top spit freshly slaked
lime at the rate of four ounces per yard.
Let each layer of manure be three inches
thick. Just previous to planting rake
into the top of the trench, along the centre
where the seed will be sown, some acid
phosphate, at the rate of two ounces per
yard run of row. Consolidate the ground
by rolling or treading and you are ready
for planting.

Plant the seed about two inches deep —
not less. One ounce is sufficient for fifteen
feet run of row; but when planting new and
expensive varieties plant the individual
seeds from one to two inches apart. If
several rows are being planted let them be
at least five feet apart.

Give ample space between the rows — five feet.

Note how the vines spread outward at the top

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It often happens that after a few fine
genial days in March (during which we get
our seed planted) a very cold and damp
spell of weather sets in with the result
that the seed instead of swelling, rots in
the ground, the worst sufferers being the
white seeded and some of the lavender and
blue flowered varieties. This can be
guarded against very easily by the old
fashioned trick of soaking the seed, before
sowing, in tepid water for twelve hours
or so. ‘This treatment hurries germina-
tion, and if the seed once sends forth
the little embryo plant there is not much
danger of things going wrong subsequently,
no matter how cold and inclement the
weather may be.

SOWING IN POTS

There is still another and better plan
for starting sweet peas in the early spring —
sowing in pots. It is the one method for
the man who wants superlative results,
but it means more work, which however
is amply repaid by superior growth. I
have employed this method extensively for
a number of years—in fact all choice
novelties, advance trials and crosses are
planted in pots, my method being — ac-
cording to the scarcity of the variety — to
plant from two to five seeds in a three and
a half or four inch pot, using soil that is
not too tenacious or heavy. Fill the pot
to one inch from the top with soil, making
it fairly firm but not hard, plant the seeds
at equal distances and cover with half an
inch of soil thus allowing half an inch for
watering. Place labels in each pot so that
there may be no mixing of the varieties
when planting out. The best date for
sowing in pots being the latter part of
February.

The pots must be placed in a cool green-
house or coldframe, the former for pre-
ference. Do not over water but at the
same time the soil must be kept moist to
encourage germination. Much § artificial
heat must be avoided, and if the pots are
in a greenhouse the heat should range from
40° at night to 50° during the day. Too
great a heat is bad resulting in weak and
spindly growth, instead of dwarf and
sturdy. Wherever weather conditions will
allow the seedlings must have lots of air
night and day. When about two inches
high the pots should be removed to a cold-
frame inserting short brush in the pots that
the vines may have support and so induce
upright growth. Take off the sashes com-
pletely during the day in favorable weather,
and give a little air at night unless the
weather should be very severe, the idea
being to make the plants perfectly hardy
before planting out, which means that they
must be so hardened that they may be left
entirely uncovered for a few days previous.

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FEBRUARY, 1912

I endeavor to have the
plants set out by the middle
of April at least, according to
weather conditions, and if the
plants have been carefully
hardened off, it takes very
severe weather indeed to
harm them at all.

Place the pots twelve to
eighteen inches apart in the
row, planting each potful en-
tire, and if they were givena
thorough watering the day
before, it will be a simple
matter to turn the ball of
earth out of the pot without
disturbing the roots. Plant
firmly and if necessary give
the plants a thorough water-
ing to settle the soil about
the roots.

SUPPORT FOR THE VINES

Whatever may be the
medium for supporting the
vines, it should be put into
place immediately after
planting. Where good stout
twiggy brush can be had
don’t think about anything
else, as no other support will
give such good results and the
sweet pea vine appears to be
in its element when rambling
over it. If the stakes used
are not well feathered at the
bottom, some smaller pieces
may be inserted, to give
the young vines something
to cling to as soon as they
start growing. Insert the
sticks firmly in the ground
on each side of the row,
six inches from the plants,
the tops slanting slightly
from the plants (on no ac-
count meeting at the top like
an inverted V) as the bulk
of the sweet pea growth is
at flowering time at the top of the vine.
Failing brush as a support, the best
substitute is wire netting, six inch mesh,
attaching it to stout stakes driven about
twelve inches into the ground, wiring both
sides of the row at the distance recom-
mended for brush. Another method is the
use of soft jute twine, run to stakes inserted
five feet apart on each side of the sweet
peas, the twine running horizontally from
stake to stake, allowing six inches between
each line of twine.

THINNING OUT

It pays to thin out the rows just previous
to staking because the quantity of seed
given for sowing in the space is to allow
for all sorts of peculiar accidents. The
vines should be thinned out to stand from
four to six inches apart, afterward drawing
the soil up to them on either side so that
they appear to be growing along the centre
of a small furrow. The soil thus brought

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much larger than the old type.

GARDEN

The modern ‘‘Spencer’’ or ‘‘orchid-flowered’’ sweet peas have waved standards, and are

around the plants tends to keep them in
an upright position and also replaces such
soil as may have become loosened during
the thinning. But even when no thinning
out is required, I always draw the soil up
to the young vines when they are about
three inches high. The seedlings which are
thinned out may be used to fill up any blanks.

Sweet peas need not necessarily be
planted in rows, as, for the embellishment of
the flower garden, they can be used with fine
effect when planted in clumps at the back
of a herbaceous border, or where there are
recesses among shrubs.

Do not rest on your oars now waiting
on the flowers to open, but keep the hoe
going at least once a week (twice would be
better) between the rows and well up to
the plants, and should the weather be dry
and mild, copious watering (according to
soil conditions) will be most beneficial.
Always use the hoe after watering, as soon
as the surface soil drys off, to make a soil

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This photograph is actual size

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mulch, to keep off the drying

influence of the sun’s rays.
MULCHING AND FEEDING
When the buds show color

a mulch of half decayed
farmyard manure — two to
three inches thick — will be
relished by the plants; fail-
ing manure, hay or lawn
clippings may be employed,
but they do not contain the
manurial properties of the
former. And remember to
see that the soil is stirred
just before the mulch is given.

The plants will now be
coming into full flower — I
can imagine I see _ their
glorious colors, and inhale
their subtle, thrilling fra-
grance —and as our Queen
of Annuals provides a bounti-
ful harvest, do not cull with
a niggardly hand, but cut
for the house and for your
friends, remembering that
the more freely the blossoms
are culled the longer and
more profusely will the plants
continue to yield their best.
On no account let a seed pod
form (a friend of mine has
remarked that ‘“‘a seed pod
should be asa needle in a
haystack —undiscoverable’’),
for when the vines once begin
to set seed their flowering
season soon passes.

While the plants are flower-
ing, it is well to keep them
fed with liquid fertilizer.
Liquid manure may be ap-
plied in many forms, one of
the best being soot water
(Scotch soot) putting a small
bag — seven pounds or so
—jin a barrel of water, and
applying when it is the color
of weak tea; sulphate of pot-
ash, one ounce to a gallon of water; sulphate
of ammonia 1 ounce to two gallons of water;
acid phosphate 1 ounce to a gallon of water;
also liquid farmyard manure; any of the
above applied once a week will work won-
ders. But they should never be applied
when the ground is dry; let the manure
follow a thorough soaking with clear water,
or after showers. Dry soot might also be
dusted along the roots of the plants during
showery weather, this manure acting as a
perfect fertilizer, giving great brightness and
color to the flowers, and alsoasan insecticide.

AS TO WATERING

If the hose will reach your sweet peas
use it freely each evening, or at least two
or three times a week during hot, dry
weather; and if it has a spray attachment
to not forget an overhead bath after the
sun has gone down refreshes the vines
most wonderfully and also tends to keep
them free from aphis.

Choosing Fruits for the Home Garden —By W. C. McCollom, %%

AN EFFORT TO REALLY

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PECULIAR NEEDS— AN ENUMERATION OF THOSE THAT ARE OF PROVEN MERIT AND SAFE TO PLANT

ie WE are to plant out any fruit trees
this spring we must get down to business
now in making selections of varieties to suit
our special needs. It surely is worth a
little careful thought, for the planting of
a fruit tree is an investment for years.
Too little attention is given to the dis-
cussion of the merits of different varieties;
for as was said last month, it is not and

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cannot be absolute — individual pref-
erences count for much; still in the lists
offered by the nurserymen are always
many well-tried kinds that have stood
the test of time and are adapted to a wide
region. My selections following are made
from such. I do not refer to any new, as
yet untried, ones simply because I do not
believe in recommending such things to
others. Ifa perfectly reliable nurseryman
were introducing a new variety, I would not
hesitate to try it for myself, but I would
not recommend it to others until I found it
was really an acquisition. For every good
new variety there are twenty introduced
that are no real improvement over what
we have.

This apricot tree. in a New York City back yard, gives an abundance of luscious fruits every year

Be explicit in ordering your stock; state
carefully exactly what you want. Apples
are grafted on “seedling” stock. That is,
the nurseryman buys seeds from a cider
mill, sows them, and when large enough
he uses the plants as the stocks upon which
he grafts his salable varieties. These seed-
lings are all right for ordinary standard
trees, but if you want dwarf trees get

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them on “‘Paradise’”’ stock. This dwarfs
it, and the stock is much hardier than
the Doucin stock, which is also used
to dwarf apples. Pears are budded. If
you want dwarf pears get them on the
quince. Peaches and _ nectarines are
budded; but for dwarfs they should be
grafted on the cherry plum stock.

Cherries are dwarfed by working them
on the cherry plum stock. For open
orchard work they should be worked on
the Mahaleb or Mazzard stock. Plums
and apricots should be on the Myrobolan
stock if dwarfs.

Now as to actual varieties. The most
important fruits are apples. We want, if
there be room, several of the early sorts.

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These are: Sweet Bough, yellow and Red
Astrachan; but while both are good varie-
ties of this type, they are very little earlier
than Duchess of Oldenburg, a prolific bearer
of good size and first quality fruit. If your
space is limited and you do not have room
for all three varieties, plant Duchess.
Good fall apples are Fall Pippin, a beauti-
ful large, yellow; and Gravenstein, a red
apple of exceptional quality but having
one bad fault of dropping the fruit too
early. A little later are Alexander and
Beauty of Kent, of even better quality.
Alexander is a pinkish red, good sized
apple, one of the choicest of apples; Beauty
of Kent though larger and of about the
same quality, is not nearly so handsome.

In late varieties, Baldwin ranks high in
several essentials. It produces large crops
and is a good keeper. Ben Davis, another
good keeper, is the prettiest apple we have,
in my estimation, and the quality is fairly
good on a light soil. Newtown Pippin
still holds the lead, as a high quality late
keeper, but Rhode Island Greening is the
best keeping green apple to date. Rox-
bury Rust is the best russet apple and
keeps very late indeed. Twenty Ounce
is one of the extra large apples which is
not lacking in quality. Fallawater and
Beitigheimer belong to this class, but are
of lower quality.

When well grown, Northern Spy is per-
haps the best all around apple, but it is
fastidious about soils, requiring a deep,
heavy loam. It certainly will not do well
on sandy soils, where however Bismarck,
larger than Northern Spy and almost of
the same high quality, does quite well. As
dwarfs either for training or for open field
work, Bismarck, Beauty of Kent, Emperor
and Alexander are all good apples.

The best early pears are Clapp’s Favorite
and Bartlett. While these are not of
recent introduction, there are no new
varieties that even approach them in their
respective classes. Clapp’s Favorite is a
large fruit of beautiful color — yellowish
green with slight red markings —and a
better eating pear would be hard to find.
Bartlett is too well known to need de-
scribing; it is of the best quality and most
prolific. It will certainly outbear Clapp’s
Favorite.

In late pears Buerre d’ Anjou should be
your first selection. It is not what might
be called a pretty pear, but when ripe, is
excellent for the table, having a very
distinct flavor, the tree is a good bearer
and the pears are extra large. Sheldon
ranks high as a table pear; the fruit is of
fair size, brownish, of good shape and a
very good flavor. Duchess d’ Angouleme
should be given third choice. It is a good
all-round late pear, but lacks really dis-
tinctive quality. Seckel stands alone —it

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is so different from any other pear and
might suffer by comparison because of
its small size, but it should have a place
in every garden as it is a certain bearer.
The Worden Seckel is much larger than the
old-fashioned Seckel and is supposed to
be of just as good quality, but in my ex-
perience it is not quite up to the standard
of the old variety; perhaps it behaves better
in other soils than it does in mine (a light
soil).

Lawrence is the best late pear; it will keep
until well into the winter, it is a good
cropper and the fruit is of a good quality.

In some odd corner plant one crab apple,
a fruit deserving more attention, as there
is no jelly quite up to the standard of
that made from crab apples. The tree
is easily grown and produces freely. The
best variety is Transcendant, a beautiful
yellow. Yellow and Red Siberian are
also good varieties.

The quince does well almost anywhere,
and under almost any conditions. In
fact, some people seem to think that the
quince thrives on neglect; it will do better
than almost any other tree under adverse
conditions, but it will repay good care.
Quinces make the finest of jelly and they
are delicious when baked or boiled and
excellent for making marmalade. The
best all-around variety is Champion,
a strong grower with very large fruits of
good quality. Other good varieties are
Meech’s Prolific and Rhea’s Mammoth.

Plant peaches because they give good
returns so soon. The trees fruit fairly
well the third season from planting,

Peaches can be grown almost anywhere
if the care be given. The soil must be
enriched from time to time, as the trees
are rank growers and heavy feeders. Ten
years ago the farmers on Long Island used
to sigh and think of the fine peaches they
grew years before but couldn’t produce
any more. Some young man with up-to-
date ideas commenced growing peaches.
and the peaches produced from the middle
Island section for the last few years have
been up to the highest standard of quality.

Early and Late Crawford are both good
varieties. Elberta is another valuable

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variety, very similar to Crawfords and if
anything a trifle better; the fruit is round
while the Crawfords are slightly oblong.
One of the largest peaches is the Globe,
which possesses quality as well as size.
Another excellent yellow-fleshed peach is
the Crosby. ‘This is really the best yellow
peach in my experience. I place the
yellow-fleshed varieties thus: Crosby,
Elberta, Early Crawford, Late Crawford
and Globe.

The best white-fleshed peaches are
Alexander, a medium sized fruit of ex-
cellent quality: Stump the World, very
large; Mountain Rose, the prettiest fruit
of the white-fleshed type; and Champion.

Nectarines are merely bald peaches, but
are weaker and when grown out of doors
are very subject to all the ailments that
happen their family, such as curculio,
but if grown along a garden wall or in
some very sheltered place they can be
grown satisfactorily. The best varieties
for outdoor culture are Boston, Lord
Napier and Victoria. This last is really the
best variety but needs the most protection.

If you can afford the space and are not
north of New York try one of the apricots.
To be sure it will not grow as well here as
in California, but it can be successfully
grown here; and picked ripe from the
tree the fruit is very delicious. Plantina
sheltered place and a good rich soil. For
early, Alexander and Early Golden; late,
Harris and Moorpark.

There is no more prolific tree than the
plum and the fruit can be used for many
purposes other than as a table fruit. The
trees are strong growers and outside of
serving as a prey for the San Jose scale, a
condition easily relieved by spraying, the
trees give no trouble after planting. And
moreover you don’t plant only for your
children; as the trees bear in three to
four years. It is peculiar that the
Japanese varieties seem to do better than
our own and the European varieties. I
do not say that the quality is any better.

Abundance is one of the best of the
Japanese varieties, a free bearer and a
trifle earlier than the general plum crop.
Burbank is one of the largest fruited

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Raspberries and blackcaps from the home garden
have a lusciousness otherwise impossible

varieties. October Purple is the best late
variety. Other good ones are Wickson,
a remarkably good colored plum, carmine
red; Satsuma a handsome dark fleshed
sort like a beet. Among the others my
first choice would be Green Gage, not a
large plum, but when well grown and
thoroughly ripe, it is very Juicy and of
spicy flavor. Imperial Gage is a larger-
fruited variety but not so luscious. Brad-
shaw is anold standby of the red type,
and German Prune is a good dark-colored
sort.

Cherries are grouped into two classes —
the sweet cherry; and the cooking, or sour,
cherry. Cherry trees are all good sub-
jects as shade trees and are highly or-
namental in the landscape, besides serving
as bearers of delicious fruit.

Of the sweet cherries, the black varieties
are the highest-flavored, and as a table
fruit they excel. Black Tartarian is one
of the best; Schmidt’s Bigarreau is another
good sort; Mercer is a good dark red cherry;
Rockport Bigarreau and Governor Wood
are both light red varieties with little to
choose between them. Coe’s Transparent
is a very large light red; handsome, very
meaty, but not quite so luscious as some
of the others. Slikeman and Downer’s
Late Red are both worth consideration
on account of their lateness; the former is
the latest cherry we have; both are of
good quality.

Of the sour cherries Early Richmond,
dark red, one of the best, is very pro-
ductive. Montmorency is about ten
days later than Richmond and the fruit
is larger. Other good sorts are English
Morello, very dark-colored, and Late
Duke, a good late variety.

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Grapes are used for more purposes than
any other fruit, and there are few small
country or suburban homes that do not
boast of grape arbors.

Of the black grapes, the comparatively
new Campbell Early is the best all-around
variety we have, with Concord a close
second. Worden should have third place.
Of the red varieties I place Regal first,
the old Catawba holding second place,
and Brighton third. In white grapes I
like Niagara, but Green Mountain (much
earlier) presses pretty hard, while Moore’s
Diamond deserves third place.

Any place large enough and which can
afford the space should have a persimmon
tree. Nothing is more delicious than a
persimmon after the frost has ripened
it. But if you taste it before it starts to
shrivel, (which the fruit does as soon as the
frost strikes), it will take some time to get
your mouth straightened out. The native
American is the best to plant.

Another good fruit not highly prized
is the mulberry. But do not plant it near
any other fruit, as it is a heavy feeder
and soon robs the soil. Downing’s Ever-
bearing is the one variety to grow. Sweet
fruits are an essential about the home,
and especially for preserving and jellying.
Of them all the currant leads in general
utility. It is easy to grow and very pro-
ductive. In red varieties I consider Per-
fection far the best, with Fay’s Prolific
second. White Grape is the best white
variety. Of the black varieties Black
Naples takes first place for quality, with
Black Champion second.

Most people have a poor opinion of
blackberries, simply because they do not
know what a real blackberry is. When
not well grown the blackberry is but the
poorest imitation of a fruit, being all seeds
and with no flavor. But given good soil
—and then! Ah! Wilson’s Early, is a
good sweet berry, though not as large
as some of the others. For main crop I
see very little difference between Taylor,
Rathburn and Kittatinny. All are good
varieties and any one of the three can be
depended upon. For cropping Snyder
will outclass any of them, but the berries
are small.

Some people seem afraid to grow goose-
berries because they are subject to mildew,
but there are cures for mildew. The
gooseberry is a good table fruit besides
being excellent for preserving. The
English varieties, as table fruits, clearly
outclass the American varieties, the berry
being much larger and of a superior quality.
The only thing preventing their super-
ceding our own varieties is that they are
more susceptible to mildew.

The best varieties of the English type
are: Crown Bob, a good red of extra
quality; Whitesmith, the best white; but
the champion of all is Industry, a big dark
red fruit, the berries being as large as our
plums. All these varieties are covered with
long, soft spines which not only add to
their appearance but are a sure criterion
of quality. Of the American varieties

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Downing is easily the best. This is a
wonderful cropper and the fruit is of a
fair size and good quality. Columbus
would be my second choice and Smith’s
Improved third.

For profitable returns for time and
money spent I think no fruit equals the
raspberry. Its requirements are simple
and when once planted you can have
raspberries indefinitely. Of the red-
fruited varieties Cuthbert still looks best,
and is very productive. The new variety,
King, may be fully as good and in some
locations may do better, but with me it
was not as productive and the plants
were smaller. The third place I would
give to Miller’s Red, and I would surely
plant a few of the new St. Regis, an ever-
bearing variety which lives up to its reputa-
tion, bearing quite freely right up to frost.
In yellow varieties there is no other yellow
to approach Golden Queen. In the black
caps Gregg a good sized berry of high
quality comes first. Cumberland is very
hardy and productive. Schaffer is the
best flavored, though the berries are rather
small. The Lucretia dewberry or trailing
blackberry is worth a trial, for the fruit
is of a good quality and though not up
to the standard of the cane varieties, the
plant does well in very dry situations
where the cane blackberry suffers from
sun scald.

With strawberries location seems to
have a wonderful effect on the size and
quality of the various varieties. A variety
that is first class on Long Island may not
live up to that same standard in New
Jersey. I do not mean that an inferior
variety in one place would do better than
a good variety in another. A _ good
variety is good from New York to San
Francisco, but while Marshall might

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Dwarf trained fruit trees are most serviceable for

very small gardens; they occupy practically no space
at all and are quite picturesque

FEBRUARY, 1912

New York, Climax or some other good
berry may be a little better at San Fran-
cisco. The wise one selects strawberries
according to local experience. There is
no more to be said beyond endorsing the
following as most generally adaptable:
Excelsior, Glen Mary, Marshall, Sample,
Climax, New York, the Hunn and Parker
Earle. The curious persons will un-
doubtedly want to try some of the fall

fruiting varieties which yield crops in |

October and November.

A Little Planting for February

ig IS full time to think about planting,

even though a blizzard may be howling
outside the window this very minute.
Some cabbage, celery, lettuce and rad-
ishes may be sown in flats to be trans-
planted into the hotbed or coldframe as.
soon as it is ready. So, too, some of the
hardier ornamentals may be started in the
same way. ‘Try sowing cosmos, sweet peas,
dianthus, pansies, gaillardia, calliopsis sal-
piglossis, and Phlox Drummondi in flats;
and also the ornamental grasses and some
of the tender annual vines such as the
cypress vine, (Jpomea Quamoclit), the
butterfly runner (Phaseolus multiflorus
var. papilio), the Allegheny vine (Adlumia
cirrhosa), the cup-and-saucer vine (Cobwa
scandens) and the canary-bird flower (Tro-
paolum peregrinum).

Most people want lots of flowers in their
garden. ‘The trouble is that there are two
ways of getting them and a good many
persons choose the wrong way. By all
means plant all the varieties you can afford
to buy, whether you know what sort of
blossoms you are going to get or not. But
put the strangers and the sorts that you are
growing for cut flowers somewhere where
they will not clash with the real garden
scheme, or leave it desolate when they are
gathered for decorating the house. In
other words, use the plants you are familiar
with for your color schemes, perennial
borders etc., and have a little experimental
plot for trying out new species and varieties
of doubtful color properties.

Tighten up the wires on the grape trellis
and anywhere else that they are used. A
simple support for the cane fruits will prove
a tremendous advantage at picking time,
and when you have to cultivate, too. One
way is to sink a strong post at each end of
the row, nail a crosspiece to it and attach
wires to the arms of the crosspiece far
enough apart so that the canes can grow
up between them and rest on them. Some
growers advise the use of spring coil wire
which retains its tightness in all kinds of
weather. If there is no necessity for shift-
ing the trellises, iron posts will prove
economical in the long run. But good
locust posts, if treated with some pre-
servative when set, will last from thirty
to fifty years which is ordinarily long enough
to satisfy any one. Any form of creosote
or tar will serve this purpose.

Don’t forget to brace the end post of
any fence or trellis.

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The six-angled stonecrop (S. sexangulare), Showing the soft cushiony foliage and yellow flowers.

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An example of the terete, or cylindrical-leaved group

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MOSSY, EVERGREEN PLANTS THAT ANY ONE CAN GROW IN ANY SOIL—INVALUABLE FOR EDGING
PATHS, CARPETING ROSEBEDS, ROCK GARDENS, WALLS, SANDY SOIL, AND FOR WINTER BEAUTY

EN I wrote Sedum for Bailey’s
“Cyclopedia of American Horticul-
ture” in 1900, I knew as much about
stonecrops as a blind man knows about
color. Witness this banal bit of sopho-
moric humor; “Sedums are plants for
poor folks. The chief points against them
are that they have never been fashionable
and anybody can grow them.” It
is true that sedums are cheap, that
any one can grow them, and that you some-
times see a tin can filled with Sedum acre
in a tenement window. But fashionable!
There is not a king in Europe who does
not have sedums in his garden. The
list of beauties I saw in England is so long
that it makes my head ache to think of
the miserable thirty-nine species I for-
merly described from Masters’ respectable
monograph and from the most unimpeach-
able dead plants!

The standard works on gardening de-
scribe faithfully everything that is unim-
portant about sedums and are absolutely
dumb about their peculiar beauties and
roses. There are three main types of
beauty in the genus — the robust, creeping
and mossy — the first two of which were
treated last month in THE GaRDEN
MaGAZINE.

The mossy sedums grow only one to

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four inches high, have diminutive flowers
between May and July, and make ex-
quisite carpets of evergreen foliage which
is particularly attractive in winter, when
some of them take on bronze tones. ‘These
are the ones which I should like to put
in every garden in the land, because they
can destroy more ugliness and create more
beauty than any plants of their size I
know. And, in particular they can per-
form four great services for America.

1. They can turn great stretches of sand
and rock into carpets of living beauty.
For example, the wall pepper, will grow in
the poorest soil, even gravel, or on rocky
land where there is hardly an inch of earth.
In June and July it will give great patches
of yellow flowers. And in the winter it
will cover naked and ugly wastes with an
evergreen carpet, which is most comforting
to the eye for three or four months when the
grass is dead.

2. They will carpet rose and bulb beds,
furnishing a better background for the
flowers than dirt, and more winter beauty
than manure or litter. They are so shal-
low-rooted that they do not rob the other
flowers of much plant food or moisture.
Fancy your daffodils rising out of an
evergreen carpet in spring! Imagine the
bulb beds beneath your window clothed

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with a living green turf instead of dead
yellow straw! And how much better your
rose beds would look at all times of the
year!

3. Lhey will solve the great problem of the
American rock garden. ‘There are thous-
ands of lovely rock gardens in England;
why are there none here? Because our
summer climate is hot and dry. Yet these
sedums have been adapted by nature to
endure just such conditions. They will
grow in a pinch of soil on rocks that are
so hot you can hardly touch your hand
to them. Moreover these sedums do not
look like cacti and other desert plants —
thin and scraggly or else gross and pulpy.
They have the genuine alpine charm.

4. They will remove some of the new
look from gardens, and give in one year
some of the mellowness which age alone
is supposed to bring. You can plant
sedums in the stone steps that descend
to the garden, in the brick walks, in low
retaining walls built without mortar, and
on the top of the garden wall, where a
brick may be left out of the inner row
occasionally for the purpose of crowning
the wall with flowers. In a climate like
ours, that is not favorable to lichens and
mosses, how much it means to be able
to place the finishing touch that softens.

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masonry, hides bareness, and reconciles
the environment to a new garden!

The mossy sedums can be divided into
three groups, the yellow-flowered, white,
and pinkish. The first three species have
yellow flowers.

WALL PEPFER OR BITING STONECROP

The commonest of all the stonecrops is
the wall pepper or biting stonecrop (S.
acre), so called because of the acrid taste
of the leaves. (See page 17). This is
the one that makes enchanting patches of
yellow on the thatched roofs of English
cottages. I have seen brick walls crowned
with it for nearly a quarter of a mile, as it
is a common practice to leave out the
central row of bricks on the top of a
garden wall in order to establish this and
other flowers that have a genius for grow-
ing in a pinch of soil. In America it has
escaped from cultivation and often makes
a pretty picture in neglected cemeteries.
This is undoubtedly the best species for
naturalizing on a large scale, because it
is the cheapest and spreads the quickest,
sowing its own seed freely, like a wild
flower. Large clumps cost about six cents
each, by the hundred. I advise every
beginner to get a few plants of wall pepper
and, if he likes it, work up a large stock of
it — enough to cover a rose bed, or a
bulb bed, or to edge a garden path. A
ten-cent packet of seeds will do wonders.
Or you can simply break off the little
stems, stick them in the ground, and they
will grow as happily as geranium slips in
a bench of silver sand.

The carpet bedding fraternity affect
a “golden moss” (var. aureum), which
has showier tips in spring, the abnormal
color disappearing with the summer heat.
They consider the silvery-leaved form

The English stonecrop (S. Anglicum). one of the
prettiest of the white-flowered species. sometimes
tinted rose

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(var. elegans) less effective. The only
variety that interests a collector is var.
majus, which has flowers about three
quarters of an inch across arranged in a
two-sided cyme, whereas {the ordinary
type has flowers about half an inch across
in one-sided cymes.

A quaint old name for the wall pepper
is “love entangle.” The plant grows two
or three inches high, blooms in July, and
has foliage of a cheerful light green. The
leaves are only a quarter of an inch long

The blue stonecrop (S. caeruleum), an annual, is the
only one of its color among the mossy or carpeting
kinds

and look like little pickles. As a carpet
it has a rougher and harder texture than
the others, but this is not objectionable.

THE SIX-ROWED STONECROP

The six-rowed stonecrop (S. sexangulare),
is very close to the wall pepper, according
to the books, but in real life it has a wholly
different expression as you may see by
the picture—softer in texture and a
darker green. I first fell in love with this
at Gravetye, where I saw it carpeting rose
beds in William Robinson’s revolutionary
rose garden. It was not in flower, but
the reddish cast of the new growth was
charming. These passing spring colors have
no botanical value and never get into the
books but they are the joy of the gardener
who lives with his plants. The leaves of
these plants are, fortunately, tasteless, but
before you venture on a taste, see if they
are in six or seven rows instead of five,
and oblong rather than ovoid.

REFLEXED STONECROP OR STONE ORPINE

The reflexed stonecrop or stone orpine
(S. reflecum), is the only one I know with
leaves bent back, instead of being held
forward or at right angles. The whole
effect is that of some rich woodland moss
growing eight or ten inches high with soft
linear leaves about three quarters of an
inch long. These leaves are sharp at the

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Sedum rupestre, a British species, bears rosettes of
leaves at the tips of its barren, trailing stems

apex, while the other two yellow-flowered
species have blunt leaves. I have not seen
the silvery, glaucous, and dwarf forms (vars.
albescens, glaucum and minor). Bluish,
whitish and golden-leaved varieties are
to be expected throughout the genus.

A FOURTH YELLOW-FLOWERED STONECROP

Sedum rupestre, pictured above, differs
from all the mossy stonecrops, so far
as I know, by its extraordinarily long
flower stems which look somewhat floppy
and gawky in the picture. The house-
leeks, also, often have sprawling stems
and there is a Sempervivum rupesire, with
which our plant should not be confused.
Robinson says that Sedum rupestre and
reflexum are worth naturalizing on walls
and ruins, along paths, and on the less
important surfaces of the rock garden.
Unlike the other yellow-flowered species
S. rupestre bears its flowers in flat clusters
or corymbs.

THREE WHITE-FLOWERED STONECROPS

We now come to three white-flowered
species, the most exquisite of which is
dubbed ‘“‘worm grass”—Sedum album.
“Absolutely beautiful’’ I should call it,
if I did not know that beauty is entirely
subjective. Asa carpeting plant it seemed
to me one of the most refined in Mr. Rob-
inson’s garden, though not very distinc-
tive when out of bloom. But the bloom
of it is so airy, and lace-like that I fell in
love with it when it flowered in my own
garden. The blossoms are only half an
inch across, and the reddish anthers add
to the daintiness. It grows about three
inches high and blooms in June. This
plant is really quite inexpensive —a _ thou-
sand can be bought for about ten dollars.

Sedum Monregalense or cruciatum is
supposed to have flowers only a quarter
of an inch across or half the size of S. album,
but the plant I bought under this name
had flowers twice as large as those of album.
The only distinction between the two
species that I could get out of the books is
a very slender one, the buds of album
being oblong and those of Monregalense
roundish. The plant which I bought for
Monregalense had larger but fewer flowers
than album, and I liked better the delicacy
and grace of album.

The English stonecrop (S. Anglicum),
was not advertised for sale in America

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in r90eo and therefore I did not account for
it in Bailey’s Cyclopedia. According to a
prominent dealer in alpines at Rochester,
N. Y., it has pure white flowers which are
sometimes tinted with rose. It is said
to grow three or four inches high and
blooms in June or July. The plant which
I bought under this name turned out to be
a yellow-flowered species, so I cannot say
whether it has distinctive beauty or not.

THE PINKISH OR PURPLISH GROUP

We now come to four species that
normally exhibit some pink or purple in
their flowers, and of these the most highly
colored is the bird’s foot stonecrop (S.
pulchellum), so named because the flowers
are borne on several recurved or spreading
branches which suggested to someone a
bird’s claws. Some nurserymen describe
the color as bright rosy purple; others
call it lilac. In winter the foliage takes
on fine shades of red or brown. There can
be no doubt about this plant being adapted
to our climate for it is native to the United
States. Barr calls it “a lovely rock plant.”
It differs from the three species I am to
describe next in having green foliage,
with the apex of each leaf sharp, not blunt.

THREE WITH BLUISH LEAVES

There is something peculiarly exciting
about plants with bluish or gray leaves. I
grew fifty species of Sedum for two years,
and the one plant which every visitor
picked out as the most beautiful was
S. glaucum, a name which you will search
the Cyclopedia for in vain. Yet it answers
very nicely the description I wrote for

The wall pepper or biting stonecrop (Sedum acre) inan American rock garden, It is covered with yellow flowers about half an inch across in June and July

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S. Hispanicum, and I shall therefore
call it the Spanish stonecrop. It is a
minute gray-green plant scarcely an
inch high, indescribably soft, dense and
charming, while the color of the foliage
is positively unique — so much so that this
plant has been taken up by the carpet
bedding people. However, I do not be-
lieve they will spoil it, because Siebold’s
stonecrop gives more color for the money.
These inch-high plants are too precious to
entrust to the ordinary hardy border where
they might be overgrown by robust plants
like phlox or chrysanthemums. Like many
other alpines they do better on walls and
in the rock garden than in the level garden,
because they need perfect drainage. My
plants never bloomed but they are worth
growing for the foliage. The flowers are
half an inch across, according to some
authorities, while others say they are
inconspicuous. The only character by
which the true Spanish stonecrop may be
known is this — the floral parts are in sixes.

Two running mates of the Spanish
stonecrops which are offered by European
dealers in alpine and rock plants are
S. dasyphyllum and brevifolium. The only
way the collector may be sure of getting
what he buys is to study the anthers.
Those of Hispanicum are purple, of dasy-
phyllum, black, of brevifolium pink. S.
brevifolium has white petals with a pink

midrib; the others have pinkish white

flowers.

THE LYDIAN STONECROP

The Lydian stonecrop (S. Lvydium),
differs from the little charmers just de-

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scribed in having green— not glaucous

foliage. Yet two American nurserymen
advertise only “S. Lydium glaucum.”

Both plants disappointed me greatly for
one had yellow flowers and the other white,
whereas the true Lydium has a pinkish
flower only one-tenth of an inch in diameter.
Moreover, I saw the plant in the rose beds
at Gravetye and my note books says ‘“‘ The
flower is a quaint little thing and the whole
plant is full of character.” “The English
Flower Garden” says it is “a pretty little
plant from Asia Minor, scarcely an inch
high, similar to S. Hispanicum, except that
the tiny, crowded leaves are greenish and
tipped with red. For edgings or slopes
bordering footpaths it is one of the best,
and likes plenty of moisture. It roots oa
the surface with great rapidity, and may
therefore be speedily propagated. Very
small pieces put in the soil in spring soon
form a mass of rich evergreen verdure,
scarcely an inch in height and level
as turf.

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THE BLUE ANNUAL STONECROP

The blue-flowered stonecrop (S. c@ru-
leum), is the only plant of its color in the
genus, so far as I know. (See page 16).
Unfortunately it is only an annual, and
therefore, must be raised from seed every
year. It grows only two or three inches
high and the minute pale blue flowers are
borne in clusters about an inch arcoss.
It needs sandy soil. This is the plant
which Gray took as his “model flower,”
because it has all the parts that a typical
flower should have, and in their right
number and place.

Flowers for a Makeshift Greenhouse — By Martha Haskell Clark, Spice

SUCCESSFUL RESULTS IN AN UNLIKELY SITUATION, AND PRODUCING A CONTINUOUS SUCCESSION OF FLOWERS
FOR HOUSE AND TABLE DECORATION ALL THE YEAR ROUND—FLOWERS THAT ANY ONE CAN GROW

Y LITTLE conservatory certainly
4 qualifies as a makeshift. Strictly
speaking, it is not a greenhouse at all, but
merely a small room, eight feet square, sit-
uated in the southeast corner of our house,
and given over to the growing of plants.

The only attribute of a veritable green-
house that it could boast, when first built,
was an unlimited supply of sunlight.
In all other respects, its original, unim-
proved form, was woefully lacking, and
even now in the light of three years’ hard-
won experience, and many sadly needed
changes and additions, it leaves much to
be desired.

Window-strips have, to some degree,
modified the mistake of casement windows
with their inevitable cracks. Boxes, fash-
ioned like greenhouse benches, allowing
plenty of root-room, and minimizing the
labor and frequency of watering the plants,
have taken the place of the plain board
shelf that was our first provision for the
many inconvenient flower pots; a stand-
pipe and faucet have done away with the
daily necessity of bringing water across
two rooms—but double windows are
still a much-needed requirement for winter
nights.

But if the particular mission of any
greenhouse is to furnish its owner with
a healthful hobby, never-failing pleasure
and interest, and a sufficient quantity of
flowers and artistic effect to warrant its
existence, then my little makeshift green-
house has not been found wanting.

Three conditions stand out predomin-
antly as necessities in the success of any
accommodation for plants:

First, there must be enough humidity
in the atmosphere, or red spider will
prove an ever-present nuisance.

Second, the first appearance of green
aphis must be promptly discouraged, for

The Chinese primrose has the largest individual
flowers of the family

even a day’s neglect will see hordes of the
pests in unroutable possession.

Third, you must suit your list of plants
to existing conditions, and not to your
own desires or ambitions.

Two years of greenhouse beauty lost
through experimenting with plants unfitted
for my conservatory’s atmosphere, have
taught me to lay particular stress upon
this point: ‘‘Not what I want, but what
I can grow most successfully.”

The condition of humidity I have
fulfilled, by boiling a chafing-dish, half full
of water for one hour a day, or until the
windows are thoroughly covered with

Primula Kewensis. with yellow flowers is unusual
in color and slightly fragrant

steam. A flat pan of water is also kept
evaporating on the radiator.

The pest of aphis, is easily managed by
close attention, and the prompt use of any
of the advertised aphis remedies. Even
a powdering of common snuff is sufficient
to hold them in check, if applied in time.

The answer to the third stipulation, that
of the plants used, I have discovered from
my own experience, as far as concerns my
own needs. The plants of which I now
speak, will stand, with only slight loss;
great extremes of heat and cold, from nearly
ninety degrees in the full noon sunlight,
to almost freezing at night, and yet will
thrive, and give a good percentage of
blossom. To any owner of a “cool green-
house” or of merely a shelf window garden,
they will prove dependable friends.

VINES FOR COVERING WALLS OR TRELLIS

Nothing is so sure as the common
nasturtium. Seeds planted in the con-
servatory by the first of September blos-

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som by late January, and continue through-
out the spring. If given plenty of root-
room (not being planted in a flower pot)
the leaves will equal the size and general
vigor of those grown out-of-doors. Over-
crowding must be avoided. Three plants
are sufficient for a trellis six inches wide,
as they branch freely. A pretty effect is
gained by using one color to one trellis.
Concerning the different varieties that
I have tried, Lobb’s climbing hybrids are
the freest-blooming, although Madam Gun-
ter’s hybrids are a close second, and give
many unusual color combinations. The
new variegated-leaved, are not particularly
free in bloom, but the marbled foliage is
so beautiful as to make them desirable.
The ivy-leaved kinds are rather weak in
growth, and not at all lavish in blossoms.

BULBS THE SURE STANDBYS

Bulbs are among the most satisfactory
plants for any makeshift corner for plants.
Bulb culture is so well known that only a
word will be necessary here. The bulbs are
potted in fall and left in the dark, for a
period varying from six weeks to three
months according to the variety; one
thorough watering every two weeks suffices.
I plant mine in a modified florist’s “flat,”
fifty bulbs in a box. These are brought
into the light in succession to get a long
season of bloom from January on. Roman
hyacinths, Dutch hyacinths, narcissus
(trumpet and polyanthus) and crocus are
grown. :

The above, while by no means the only
satisfactory bulbs for conservatory cul-
ture, are by far the most satisfactory for
the amateur, or for any one who must
depend upon a window garden, or a make-
shift for their flowers.

Taking this list for your mainstay, how-
ever, it is always interesting and enjoyable
to try a few dozen bulbs of unfamiliar
kinds, merely for the fun of experimenting

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Of begonias, Gloire de Lorraine can be depended
upon to give a profusion of pink flowers

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Only a makeshift, but nevertheless a source of much real pleasure, and gives flowers all through the winter and spring months

Of other bulbs that can be mentioned for
this purpose are, Early flowering single
and double tulips, Peacock iris, Spanish
iris, anemones, ixias, gladioli, zephry-
anthes, Easter lilies, lilies of the valley,
ranunculus, and many others that you will
find listed in most florists’ catalogues.

Having tried nearly everything named
in the catalogues, from tea-roses through-
out the list of tropical plants, during the
first two years of my little conservatory’s
life, I have gradually been forced to de-
pend entirely on different species of be-
gonia, geraniums, primroses, and impa-
tiens for the plants that I am sure of grow-
ing successfully. I have accordingly spe-
cialized in these four, with the addition
or a few double petunias, stocks, and
calendulas, brought in from the outdoor
garden in the fall. These last named are
used for fillers, and can not be depended
upon except in the case of the petunias.
The others generally succumb to frost or
insects before the winter is over. I have
tried pansies, that do well for a few weeks,
but they are so susceptible to aphis, that
they have proved more bother than they
are worth.

GERANIUMS

All that I have tried seem to be satis-
factory. To my mind, it is more artistic
to use a single variety for the outer edge
of the conservatory, nearest the glass,

than to mix colors. Others may enjoy
making a collection of various colors and
types. One must be sure however, of
buying very small plants, in early fall, if
the plants are wanted for winter blooming.
The larger plants will not blossom satis-
factorily until spring, while the small
ones will begin as soon as they are well
established in their rew quarters (usually
about four weeks) and will continue all the
winter. I have depended on a single,
salmon-pink variety, Mrs. E. G. Hill,
for the past two years, as it is most free in
blossom.

BEGONIAS

The Gloire de Lorraine, and _ gracilis
hybrids, that come in shades of pink,
scarlet and white, are the only begonias
that I have found to be perfectly trust-
worthy in an uncertain temperature. These,
however, are a mass of blossom during
the entire year. They can be slipped very
readily, and one large florist’s plant of
each variety, bought in the fall, will pro-
vide many dozen plants for the conserva-
tory. The little plants bloom when very
young, and are rapid growers. Though
hardy, it is not best to plant them near
the glass, if the climate is severe.

PRIMROSES

These have proved by far the most
trustworthy plants in my conservatory,

and consequently I have made them my
specialty. I raise my own plants from
seed, in a shady corner of the yard, and
they require very little attention after
they have made the second pair of leaves.
Seed planted in pans in the house, in
early April, will provide plants that will
bloom from about December until late
spring. The following kinds are the ones
that I can recommend as entirely satis-
factory.

Of the Chinese or regular florists’ type,
the singles, in shades of pink, scarlet, white
and streaked, also one purple-blue variety,
are all easy to grow and most satisfactory.
They flower the earliest. The doubles,
in like colors, are good too. The fern-
leaved forms have graceful foliage and are
a welcome relief. The flowers are the
same as in the ordinary singles.

Stellata is a simplified form of the
Chinese, of pyramidal growth, and will
repay extra care in protecting and attention,
by its blossoms. These form a pyramid
about eight inches high, in shades of pink,
scarlet, lavender and white.

P.. obconica comes in shades of lavender,
scarlet, pink, and white, running decidedly
to lavender. The flowers are more grace-
ful than in Chinensis, and borne well above
the foliage. Equally freein bloom. They
are one of the stand-bys for conservatory
or house-culture. This species is poisonous
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in handling it if one is susceptible. Others,
of whom I am one, are not affected.

P. Forbesii (the Baby Primrose). Shades
of lavender, fading to almost white is the
freest flowering primrose known. Plants
of only three inches high will blossom if
allowed, but it is best to pinch off the
flowers from the seedling plants during
the summer if blossoms are wanted for
the entire winter and spring.

P. floribunda, resembling the obconica
type, but yellow. Very free in bloom, and
satisfactory. This, and the following are
the best, and most reliable of the yellow
forms for the amateur to grow.

P. Kewensis. A new hybrid, that adds

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fragrance to the list. Flowers quite freely
produced, in shades of yellow, with a bluish
or lavender reverse to the petals. The
fragrance is rather faint, but a number of
the plants grown together will pleasingly
scent a small conservatory.

IMPATIENS

Of this old-time favorite for house
culture, there are now a number of ex-
tremely beautiful hybrids. While none
of these are as free in bloom as the original
magenta-pink variety, they are much
more satisfactory. Of the varieties I have
grown, the following are the best.

Light-leaved salmon-pink. So distin-

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guished, as there is a dark-leaved variety
that is very scanty in blossom. The
light-leaved, however, can be bought in
all shades, and is very free in blossom.

White. This has a maroon eye, and is
not particularly free in bloom. Should
be included in a collection, however, as
the flowers are very beautiful.

Scarlet. A new hybrid, the exact color
of a holly berry. Very free-flowering, and
generally satisfactory. These plants are
extremely beautiful in the conservatory
in winter, when there is snow on the ground
outside.

A complete calendar of the year’s work
in the greenhouse is given on page 30.

Penn-

Starting Dahlias Early — By F£. 8. Johnson, 22%:

GROWING ‘‘GREEN PLANTS’’ FROM TUBERS, READY TO PLANT OUT WHEN THE GROUND IS WARM — IN-
CREASING YOUR STOCK OF FAVORITE VARIETIES AND SOME PLAIN TALK ABOUT AFTER MANAGEMENT

HE “green plants only ready in April,”

of the dahlia growers’ lists may be
made at home during February and March
by anybody who has a sunny windowsul
to spare in an ordinary living room. In
England many amateurs and their gar-
deners grow all their dahlias from early
spring cuttings; so that English lists fre-
quently print a rate for these, ready to
root, the prices being about half that
charged for dormant pot roots. (Field
grown tubers are not in favor with the
English dahlia growing public, and are
not sold except for propagation; i. e., the
growing of shoots from the “collar,” which
shoots are rubbed off carefully and dibbled
into sand to root, like a stem of coleus or
salvia or geranium.)

The use of green plants, instead of
dormant pot roots or field tubers, is espe-
cially favored by fanciers who want
mammoth blooms for exhibitions held
during the month of September. Possibly
the coincidence that green plants are set
in the ground in May with a very limited
root-system to feed from, and so come into
flower for the first time during the last ten
days of August or later, favors the general
belief that “green plants are what you
want for big prize flowers.” Personally
I can see no difference in flower or habit
in pairs of plants (first rate English
novelties which I procured last season in
dormant pot roots) one put in the ground
a rooted cutting with six leaves, and the
other, alongside, growing from the pot
root. Had either plant been trained to
the crown bud style of flowering, that
plant would have shown the one or two
or three mammoth flowers beloved of the
exhibitor.

My own use of the “green plants in
April” is penny-saving rather than vision-
ary. If I buy one field tuber or one
dormant pot root of a new or rare variety,
I order it early and multiply it at once,
without waiting a year for increase, or
wasting my substance on half dozens of

imported roots with accrued postage,
duty, etc.

In a bulb-pan, a deep cigar box, or in
4-inch pots, I firmly press down the dor-
mant roots into light, friable garden soil,
cover with a sprinkle of soil (and if the
roots are in the least mouldy a dusting
of sulphur and air-slaked lime). Water
well, make sure that the labels are firmly
inserted each to its own root, and place
over the boxes a pane of glass apiece.

An inverted glass tumbler is easier to
use on 4-inch pots than small flat panes,
and gives more air. The pots and boxes
should then be set in a warm window in
full light. Even in February or the first

Gondola, a tree-fiowering pink cactus in pillar form
with flowers coming on new root-shoots at the bot-

tom. Inflorescence wholly axillary, never terminal,
becoming short stalked on older branches

of March, heat and light will sprout the
small dormant pot roots, which would not
of their own accord start before the mid-
dle of April. Field tubers start more
readily, as they have been dry longer;
and whole field clumps, should you desire
to propagate plants from them, need only
be set in earth or ashes in the furnace
cellar, with one good watering and little
light, to produce splendid shoots.

After five days, some of your choice
pot roots will show white or pinkish sprouts
pricking through the ground. Others take
two or three weeks to make any growth.
Some pot roots, too, seem to have very
little “collar” and cannot develop any
second sprout if the first and only one is
picked off. In such a case, you have only
your sprout to depend upon; your dor-
mant root will be dormant forever, and
even if the cutting roots satisfactorily,
you are no better off than at first.

In view of this risk, it is worth while
to be cautious in removing the young
tops. If a root has one visible shoot, let
it grow an inch long; then remove the
cover glass, drip a gentle stream of water
on the soil so as to wash the top of the
dahlia root clean, and examine it very
carefully. (Do not confuse the white
hoary feeding roots, that grow out from the
sides and extremities of the tubers, with the
white shiny, scale-clad stem sprouts that
proceed from the neck or “‘collar.”)

If a tiny, pinkish, shiny eye shows at
one side of the inch-long sprout, or one or
two secondary sprouts are plainly under
way, remove the inch-long sprout, tearing
it carefully away from the corky base on
which it grows. But if no other sprouts
or eyes show on your original root, sift
on a new covering of soil, replace the glass,
and leave it for a second examination after
a week. The first may be the only sprout:
in this case let it grow naturally to six
or seven inches, then pinch out three inches
of the top for a cutting, just as you would
take a geranium slip, and your original

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Souvenir de Gustave Douzon, the ‘‘red sunflower’’
dahlia. The single-stem system is the only one for
zood long-stemmed flowers with these giant decora-
tives, Two (or three) root-sprouts are aS many as
should be allowed

plant will grow from an axillary sprout
sent out at the first pair of leaves.

The sprouts may be from an inch to
four inches long for rooting; they start
better if they are taken off before they
develop leaves and so increase their
evaporation. They should be pricked in,
right side up, in firm clean sand, kept
fairly moist, with or without bottom heat,
and stand in full light after three days,
with no glass over them. Early in April
— about the time when hyacinths are in
full bloom in sheltered beds on the south-
east side of the house — I am accustomed
to cut a third crop of sprouts from the
forced roots indoors and prick them in
between the hyacinths out in the cold
ground; and they root as well as do any
set in bottom heat. The basal tissue of
the sprout just at the point of junction
with the “collar” is amazingly ready to
make rootlets at any temperature that
does not fluctuate much; and the fatter
the original sprout, the greater, generally,
is its vitality in root-making when thrown
upon its own resources.

The cuttings, once rooted, begin to
throw one or two long thick roots laterally.
I have had a 3-inch stem with one 6-inch
and one 2-inch root. For this reason they
cannot be grown long in the propagating
sand, or they will tangle and break each
other. If tangled, they must be plunged
in water and washed free of sand and of
each other. They may then be potted up
in small pots of ordinary earth; or if the
season is far enough advanced I plant them
at once in the garden and cover up on
chilly nights at first.

The original pot roots, if grown four or
five in a small flat box, will have to be
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out. This does not annoy the dahlia at

all if the rootlets are given reasonable
care in handling and planting. Roots
started in individual pots may be jarred
out and set like a florist’s geranium that
you buy in the market; and like the
geranium, by the end of April will be
conspicuously pot-bound. It is advisable,
though not necessary, to wash out, or
otherwise unwind, some of the long white
roots of these pot-bound plants; if you
do not trouble to do it, the dahlia can soon
replace them with others just as good,
sprawling off hungrily through the soil
in all directions, while the pot-bound core
remains small and of no account in the
centre. In other words, root-tissue in the
dahlia —in the spring months particu-
larly —has all the nine lives of a cat.

And now some words as to the subse-
quent management of the dahlia:

1. Planting — Manure in the hills where
the plants are to grow, not in the
whole piece of ground to be planted.
Give a peck of stable manure and a tea-
cupful of bone meal to each hill. Work
into the soil wnder — not touching — the
tuber.

Set a stout stake at each hill, firmly
planted, and at least five feet out of the
ground. Plants expressly catalogued as
“dwarf” should be set in an outer row of
the bed with 33-foot stakes. (Cactus
varieties Britannia, Standard Bearer, T. G.
Baker, for example, begin to bloom at
two feet and rarely get above three and
a_ half.)

Plant one tuber to a hill, laying it
horizontally, with the sprout end toward
the stake. Cover two inches deep, or
less if the ground is stiff. No fertilizer,
sods, or decaying weeds should touch the
tuber, for they harbor mildew and attract
cutworms and wireworms. Insects and
fungus always attack a tuber at the sprout
end. If a tuber shows blue-mold when
you are ready to plant it, sprinkle it well
with powdered sulphur.

2. Growth— Keep all plants growing
rapidly. Do not allow any side shoots
till the plant is eighteen inches high.
Grow it tree form with one straight trunk.
After eighteen inches, leave one additional
sprout, pick out the next five in the leaf
axils as fast as they show; then leave
another and pick out five; and so on.
Keep the joints of the main stem long and
brittle by forcing the sap to a few points
at once. This stimulates roots, gives
large heavy foliage, and enables the plant
to grow vigorously through sudden hot
weather and drouths. Only when a plant
has three or four pounds of root system
should it have to sustain a large branching
head — that is to say, by the middle of
August for most varieties.

Keep the main stem and branches al-
ways erect, by cloth ties. It is not an
exaggeration to say that mo first class
blooms, and few blooms of any kind, ever
grow on a branch which has fallen down
and grown horizontally more than three
or four days. A bent branch will send up

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pairs of erect sprouts at every leaf-joint.
No leaning dahlia ever does its best:
the flowers are slow in growth, short
stemmed often paliid or lop-sided, Also,
an erect dahiia will live through twenty
windstorms, where a leaning plant breaks
with two.

After June 15th, allow each plant to
send up, from a joint near the ground, or
preferably from the “collar” underground,
one sprout. Treat this as a secondary
trunk, keeping it erect, rubbing out side-
shoots, etc., just as with the main stem
when young.

About August 5th or thereabouts, gen-
erally after a rain, the plant will branch
again from the bottom; train one more
of these sprouts. Two more may be
allowed in September on a strong plant,
especially if you are giving nitrate of
soda in water weekly through the latter
part of the month. But on all these
secondary trunks five sixths of the side-
sprouts must be kept cleaned out. On
all the upper branches five sixths of the
side sprouts should be rubbed out when
very small. A three-fold crotch, branch-
ing at the next level into nine more
branches, divides the sapflow too greatly,
dwarfs that bough, and grows a spinach-
like head of small leaves closely overlap-
ping, instead of bearing flowers. This
is a common affliction of dahlias; it is
variously laid to “disease,” ‘hot sun” and
“dry weather.” Pruning is the preventive;
and pruning is the remedy, too, if a plant
is otherwise healthy. Remember that
dahlias flower on new wood.

A free bloomer, but

Cactus dahlia, Phil May.
inclined to harden in the stalks and grow dwarfish
unless very thoroughly pruned. Good open growth
is shown here, in spite of two weeks of intense heat in

July. The plant has three secondary sprouts from
the root, beside the single stem originally allowed

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3. Insects — The rose bug, the striped
cucumber beetle, and the spotted cucum-
ber beetle, may appear in late June, eating
buds and young leaves. Spray with weak
arsenate of lead solution toward evening,
and repeat a week later if necessary.

Aphis, and a jumping insect called
locally “white thrip,” may appear at any
time. They poison the sap of young
plants, and injure foliage and flower buds
on adult ones. Use kerosene emulsion
as for rose bushes, early in the morning.
Spray from underneath, with fine spray
and much force. Three to a dozen appli-
cations may be necessary.

4. Cutting flowers —The more dahlias you
cut, the more your bushes will bear. Cut
good sprays, buds and all: the plant is
nothing but a factory for turning out
more, and, like a factory, if this week’s
output lies unwanted and useless on the
premises next week it will work only half-
time. Many a good plant of my garden
gives fifteen flowers a week cut in sprays
fifteen and eighteen inches long, two or
three unopened buds to the spray —- fifteen
flowers, that is, and thirty odd buds, per
week. A small flower-bud is no more to
a dahlia plant than a small leaf, and is
replaced somewhere on
the plant’s surface inside
of forty-eight hours. It
is a grave heresy to say
of your dahlias, “They
are short, because I didn’t
want to cut the buds.”
Cut buds and branch and
all; don’t have them
“short”; and you will so
prune the bush and stim-
ulate the sap that flower
stalks will actually
lengthen. This is not
theory; I practice it, and
I know. Also, for com-
mercial cut flowers, any
florist who does much dec-
orating through Septem-
ber and October will pay
$1.50 per hundred for
your freshly cut, long-
stemmed flowers, cactus,
decorative, or ball; and
not a picayune per bushel
for the most beautiful
6-inch-stalk cabbages you
can offer him. Special
orders for one color, or
for very large flowers, or
yard-long sprays (Jeanne
Charmet, Gustave Dou-
zon, or any extraordinary
giant white which is dur-
able in water), of course
command special prices.

5. Varieties —In buy-
ing from the catalogue of
a reliable dealer, the
average purchaser had
best choose varieties listed
as “free flowering” or even
“very free flowering.”
Some splendid exhibition

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dahlias are not worth their board in a
flowery flower garden. After freedom of
bloom, consider long flower stalks, color,
and price; these in the order named.
Size is desirable, but not an essential
either for garden effect or for cut flowers.

Dahlias in Southern Gardens
By T. J. STEED, Georgia

AHLIAS can be grown to perfection

in the South, either from roots or
seed. Those grown from seed are not as
large nor as early as those grown from
roots, but very fine flowers can be had.
By sowing seed you get a great assortment
of varieties, and possibly something en-
tirely new. The time for sowing the seed
is February, in hotbeds or coldframes. Be
careful not to sow too thickly, and trans-
plant to permanent quarters just as soon
as possible so that the plants will have
plenty of time to grow stocky, as weak,
thin-stalked plants (which are the result
of growing too close together or in the
shade) never amount to much, more
especially the first season. Be sure to

get good seed; cheap dahlia seed is ex-
pensive in the long run.

When they are flowered successfully dahlias are among the most pleasing of garden flowers.
The starry-rayed cactus varieties are the most esteemed

Fepruary, 1912

Select a sunny place for the plants anda
rich, sandy loam soil, if possible, and spread
a good quantity of cow or sheep manure
over it (if done last fall so much the
better) and spade it under deep, loosening
up the soil. Never plant dahlias on poor
soil without manure and expect results.

Good strong roots in good soil should
stand two and a half to three feet apart.
each way. And that is the kind to buy.
They cost more and they are worth more,
as they will produce more and bigger
flowers. Seedling plants should stand
eighteen inches to two feet apart each
way. Keep the beds free from weeds and
grass at all times by frequent shallow
cultivation. Allow only one stalk to a
root, and if very large flowers are desired,
prune and disbud as you would chrysan-
themums, allowing only from two to four
of the main central buds to develop.

If the season is dry when they begin
flowering, water should be given (a
gallon to each plant every afternoon,
or two gallons every other afternoon) in
trenches beside the plants. Cover the
surface with dry soil as soon as the water
has soaked in. Liquid manure applied
twice a week is also beneficial in producing
extra large flowers. If
liquid manure cannot be
had, dissolve one ounce of
nitrate of potash or nitrate
of soda in three gallons of
water and give each plant.
a gallon of water at a time.
This should begin just
before the buds begin to
appear and continue until
large buds have formed,
or until the flowers begin
to open. -

A mulch of green grass
is of great benefit to the
plants in the summer,
especially in the middle
and lower South. It pre-
serves the moisture and
keeps the soil cool. If
the grass is not obtain-
able, strawy stable manure
is a good substitute.
Stake the plants to pre-
vent high winds from
blowing them about. ‘Use:
strips of soft cloth one
inch wide for tying the
plants to the stakes. It
is a good plan to plant
dahlias in a spot which is
protected from the wind,
provided it is not in the
shade or where the soil is
penetrated by tree roots.

In the middle and lower
regions, dahlia roots keep
best in the ground where
they grow, if it is well
drained. I usually cut off
the tops in November and
cover the bed with strawy
stable manure, which is
dug into the soil in spring,

—— Se

FEBRUARY, 1912

(Epitor’s Note.—IWe want to know how suc-
cessful workers do things in order to put actual
experiences before our thousands of readers in all

paris 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.)

Bulbs in fibre

Having read that bulbs grown in fibre
produce earlier and better flowers than
those grown in soil I decided, last winter,
to try the experiment. The bulbs were
planted in moistened fibre in non-porous
bowls, put in a darkened, unheated
room, and the fibre kept moist. Growth
soon started, the root-growth being par-
ticularly vigorous, the roots in some cases
pushing up above the surface of the fibre.
Two Roman hyacinth bulbs decayed, prob-
ably owing to too much water, and two
Narcissus Horsfieldii bulbs were destroyed
by little white grubs. The rest grew finely
and produced many plump buds, but most
of the buds, when about ready to open,
gradually dried up and I had hardly any
flowers at all. I would be very glad if any-
one could throw any light on the causes
of these poor results.— H. C., New York.

Combining anemones and abutilons

Having some surplus roots of white
anemone several years ago, I filled in all
the space around a row of young abutilons,
intending to remove the plants later. The
latter were about six feet tall and of bushy
growth, so I was surprised to see the wind-
flower plants making a thrifty and vigorous
growth. They climbed right up through the
branches of the “trees” and several feet
above them, and as the anemone foliage is
completely hidden beautiful and rare ane-
mone flowered Japanese maple trees are glo-
rifying one corner of my garden. Even in
the space set apart for anemones, with their
best interests catered to it in every way I
have never had as lavish bloomers, or as
perfect blooms as my tree garden shows.
In the spring and fall, when it is necessary
to fertilize the shrubs, I lift the anemones
and later put them back in the bed without
being hurt in the least.— E. S., Cal.

Climbing cucumbers

Our garden space was very limited last
year, and as we were fond of cucumbers
and had no place for them in the garden,
we planted seeds of the Japanese climbing
variety by the back porch, just where they
would catch the drip from the refrigerator.

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At first they needed strings, but soon the
lattice around the porch gave them the
necessary support, and they grew in a most
astonishing manner, giving us all the cu-
cumbers we could possibly use — and more,
too.— D. R., Hl.

To control spreading

In order to control the spreading habit
of Achillea The Pearl and similar plants,
which increase by suckers and have no
respect for their garden neighbors’ rights,
plant them in a box and knock out the
bottom before sinking it in the border. I
have known this trick to be used with the
plume poppy (Bocconia), a similar of-
fender A. EB Penna.

Making house plants comfortable

Many people complain that they cannot
keep house plants through the winter on
account of gas. My experience has been
that it is not so much the gas in the house
as the dry, hot air. I had the usual diff-
culty but now by a careful study of condi-
tions I have flowers all winter. In a small
city house — one built on the tunnel plan,
with windows only in front and rear — it
is difficult to find a suitable place for
plants. It was because the bathroom
window faced south that I first thought of
putting some of my favorites there. This
proved the best possible place, not on ac-
count of being a south window, but be-
cause the plants had a moist atmosphere.
In addition to the free use of water by the
family I made a point every day of letting
the hot water run until the reservoir was
emptied, and the steam had given the room
the true greenhouse atmosphere. The
window-sill and two shelves above it were
filled with plants. I had twenty plants
of Chinese primroses; a fine plant of Prim-
ula Kewensis; oxalis, begonias, and among
others, what was new to me but a good
bloomer, Expatorium riparium.— A. H. B.,
Penna.

Making a planting soil

I have a little scheme for preparing the
soil in which seed is to be planted, and I
seldom fail to get a good stand of plants if
the seed is all right. I make a hand sieve
of convenient size about 14x 24 x 35 in.
using wire mosquito netting for the screen.
Through this sieve I pass sufficient garden
soil to give me three or four pails of sifted
soil. Ialso pass through the sieve the same
quantity of builders’ sand. I then thor-
oughly mix together the sifted soil and
sand. Passing it through a coal sieve a
few times will do the trick, although it can
be done witha shovel. The above quantity
is sufficient for an ordinary garden for one
season. After sowing the seed in a drill,
I cover with the soil-sand mixture and
thoroughly firm covering on the seeds,
usually by standing on a narrow board
placed over the planting. No matter how
hard it rains or how hot the sun shines,
the sand keeps the covering friable and the
seed-sprouts easily break through. If the
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the same as timothy seed does when a
handful is held up with thumb uppermost.
This facilitates equal distribution of the

covering. My plan takes less time in the
aggregate than the old way of picking out
the stones and pulverizing the soil by hand

as the seeds are covered. I use the mixture
on all seeds smaller than corn, beans and
peas. A heavy clay soil may need a larger
proportion of sand.— G. E. S., New York.

Wild cucumber as a fence

Desiring to cover an unsightly wire fence.
I sowed the seed of the wild cucumber
(Echinocystis lobata) late in October. The
first of June when the vines were up and
growing well, I set out in front of them
plants of the early-flowering pink cosmos,
which had been started in the house. The
cosmos commenced to bloom in July, and
the effect of the dainty pink blossoms
against the background of light green
leaves, was very pretty. But in August,
when the vines were a mass of feathery
white bloom, and the cosmos also blooming
abundantly the effect was charming. The
cosmos served to conceal the bare stalks
of the vines for the wild cucumber sheds
its lower leaves early.— R. V. S., Maine.

Flowers for a shady border

If one wants to have a border of flowers
in a shady place, it is very hard to find
bright colored flowers that bloom well.
But any of the following plants will make
pretty a shady place from the middle of
May until frost. For May bloom put to
the front of the border a lot of wake robin
(Trillium grandiflorum) and Spanish blue-
bells (Scilla Hispanica). The former are
white but turn pink before they fade. They
need no care after once started but it is
best to put leaf mold around the roots
when planting. The scillas come in blue,
white and pink. At the back of the border
a few bushes of Azalea Hinodegiri would
be a mass of red flowers in May — this is
a better color than the commoner amoena —
it is very hardy; but if too expensive bleed-
ing heart (Dicentra spectabilis) does well
in the shade and produces its pretty pink
flowers during May and part of June. It
grows two and a half feet high but dies
down later so should be put back of
plants that will bloom late in the summer.
For June dark red and white sweet
William planted in masses toward the
front of the border is very bright all the
month and into July, when the bee balm
(Monarda didyma) comes into bloom and
lasts till the end of August. Plant this
in masses also. Clumps of cardinal flower
(Lobelia cardinalis) are lovely for the end
of August and part of September. From
then till frost the Japanese anemones in
deep and light pink, and white are beauti-
ful. All these plants are perennial and
need little care. To fill any vacant places
in the border, tuberous begonias bloom all
summer and do well in shade, but the bulbs
have to be taken up in the fall. They are
low-growing, so are best at the front of the

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berder.— M. N., Penna.

Winter Gardening

SoM children will laugh when they
look at this title. Winter garden-
ing! Yes, indeed, there is such a thing
as winter gardening. And if you are a
true gardener and not a “make-believe”
one, you will do gardening not only from
April to October but all the year through.

The winter is the time to lay out plans
for the early spring garden. Not all
these plans can be held in your heads,
so they should be put on paper. Sup-
pose you have never had a garden before;
then first decide on the size of your future
garden. Perhaps your father says that
you may have the entire back yard. If it
is a large yard, do not accept this whole
offer, but only a portion of the offer and of
the yard space. It is wise to start modestly.
But if you have had a garden before, why
not either increase its size now or increase
its present efficiency?

To increase the efficiency of a garden plot
simply means to make the soil work harder
and to have no waste places. Make a
plan for your garden that provides for
the use of every inch of space all the time.
Doesn’t that sound like power?

Now as to the plan! You have the
dimensions for the garden plot; the next
step is to decide on the scale to use when
the plan is to be put on paper. For surely
you cannot have a “‘life-sized” drawing
of the garden. So. decide on what fraction
of an inch shall stand for a foot. Let us
pretend that one eighth of an inch is to
represent each foot of space. If the
garden plot is sixty-four feet long, an

The beginning of a successful girl’s garden — April

LAYING PLANS FOR THE COMING
SEASON—HOW MUCH SEED TO PLANT
— THE STORY OF ONE SCHOOLGIRL’S
FLOWER GARDEN FROM WHICH SHE
REALIZED BIG MONEY PROFITS ON
SWEET PEAS, ASTERS AND SALVIAS

Conducted by
ELLEN EDDY SHAW
New York

8-inch line will represent the sixty-four
feet of length. If it is forty feet wide,
then the line on paper to represent the
width will be five inches or one eighth of
forty. So the paper plan will be eight
inches by five inches. This will make a
pretty small drawing. Make a plan large
enough to be of some help.

If there is a building, or large rocks anp
trees on your garden spot indicate these
on the plan. Such obstructions take space
and interfere with the placing of rows and
drills, so some account must be taken of
them on the plan.

After the mere outline of the plan is
drawn (and by the way use India ink or
some good drawing ink for this work), the
rows must be indicated. As far as possible
run rows and drills north and south.
It is far easier for a beginner to lay out
his garden in rows. Indicate the rows on
the plan by means of dotted lines; in-
dicate bushes and trees by means of
circles. Letter or number the rows. If
you print nicely you might letter in the
names of the vegetables and plants along
the dotted lines in the plan.

Be sure to indicate the points of the
compass on the plan and also mark the
scale you are using. When one looks at a
garden plan one should be able to interpret
it without a verbal explanation.

You may make out one plan in January
and decide you have made a good, efficient,
economical one, and then make it all
over again when February comes. The
time put on the first plan is not wasted.
It has helped you to work out another
far better arrangement of your garden.

Allow no space for the planting of let-
tuce, radish and parsley. These may be
sowed in between other crops. Sometimes
radish and parsley are planted together
in a drill. Suppose you have decided on a
given space set aside for the raising of
early peas. Then you must also plan
to put something else into this space later
after the peas have gone by. A crop sown
like this to succeed another and earlier
crop is called a “succession” crop.

Another piece of winter work is to choose
and order your seed. After the garden
plan is made you know just what kind
of seed you are to plant. By looking at
the dotted lines on the plan you see just

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how many feet of each kind of seed you
are to sow. Let us say that on your plan
is a line representing a length of 100 feet
and the word peas is printed along this
line. The question now arises as to the
amount of peas to buy in order to plant
100 feet of this seed. -

In picking out and planning for suc-
cession crops, or in estimating the quanti-
ties of seed necessary to buy, and in figuring
on distances apart to make rows on your
plan, use the following table:

NAME SEED TO SOW | DISTANCE BE-

100 FEET TWEEN ROWS
Beans (bush) . 1 qt. Pats
Beet ook: 2EOZ ie ait
Carrots I OZ. r ft
Corn 1 gill autte
Lettuce x OZ: pate
Peas Tate By ike
Radish . : I Oz. H rab
Squash (winter) 2 OZ. 8 ft.
Tomatoes . 2 OZ. Butte
Turnips (early) + OZ. in ite

Order your seeds early. Put them in tin
boxes so that mice will not have a feast.
Be all ready on planting day.

There are a few other things to plan for.
Are your tools ready? For a small garden
you will need a spading fork, hoe, rake,
transplanting trowel, and hand cultivator.
Are your labels, stakes and garden reel
made? These are pieces of work for the
manual training shop at school or for
spare time work at home.

This month be sure to make that garden
plan. ‘This story of a season in one girl’s
garden is worth reading. Follow ’ her

In June there are flowers for cutting

ake,

FEBRUARY, 1912

example and change your yard into a thing
of beauty and of profit.

One Season in a Girl’s Garden

M* GARDEN has been one grand suc-
cess this season. It has been a
mass of flowers from the thirtieth of May
until late October.

April was a very hard month for the
amateur gardeners here as the weather
was so cold and wet. There were heavy
frosts every night until the 22d. From
the 22d to the 30th, the weather was
favorable. My hotbed was so crowded
that the plants were really spoiling. But
I got my coldframe plants transplanted to
the garden. This
gave mea chance to
transplant from the
hotbed to the cold-
frame.

The picture of my
garden taken in
April gives you an
idea of the work I
had ahead of me.
My lily bed with
eight varieties of
lilies is in the fore-
ground, next is the
tritoma bed. In
front of my cultiva-
tor are India pinks,
just transplanted
from the coldframe.
The pile of brush
behind the pear tree
is for my sweet peas,
which are up and
looking fine. The
card on the apple
tree is my business
sign.

The June picture
shows my garden at
a time when the gar-
den supervisor, Miss Miller, visited it. The
August picture gives an idea of the beauty
of my aster beds.

I would like to tell you something about
all the flowers, a hundred varieties of
which I have in my garden. But I will tell
you about sweet peas, asters, and salvia.
Almost every garden has these flowers.
I planted one ounce of sweet peas on
February 22d. The seed cost me fifteen
cents. From these plants I cut 1,000
peas in June at fifty cents per hundred,
joo in July at thirty cents, and 500 in
August at thirty-five cents. So you see lL
made $8.85 from a fifteen-cent investment
in seeds. These were all long stemmed
with three and four blossoms on each.
You can see the pea vines in the June
picture. The vines grew over six feet high;
and I am more than satisfied, as this was my
first attempt with sweet peas.

As for my asters, they were among
the best in the city. I had nine varieties.
I think Lady Roosevelt and Mary Semple
are my favorites. I cut asters measuring
five inches across with stems thirty-three

The garden in aster time, August,

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inches long. I took a bunch of one hundred
to one of our leading florists, and he offered
me a special price for all I could furnish
him. The picture will give you a fair
idea of how they looked in August.

The salvia more than paid me for the
care I gave it. I sold sixty dozen little
plants and put in my garden the eight
dozen which I had left. The salvia bed
was one solid mass of red, standing three
feet six inches high and making a magnifi-
cent showing. ‘The seed I got from Africa.
The flowers are a deeper red and the
plants bloom more heavily than any I have
ever seen. | have many other flowers
that are worthy of mention but I think my
asters, peas and salvia were as near per-

fection as many of those produced by
professionals.
Cleveland, O. MABEL JANE MusseER.

California’s ‘‘ Garden City”

OrE acre of ground, plus seeds, plus
tools, plus boys and girls, equals good
citizenship. This is a mathematical equa-
tion worked out less than a year ago on the
campus of the University of California. The
problem is still reaching a correct solution.

This is the plan of our Garden City.
Over two hundred children, in age from
six to sixteen years, have individual garden
plots 6xo ft. on the college campus. As
ambition grows more land is given. A
space marked “Community Plots” has
been given over to illustrate the check
system of irrigation. A plot is allotted
to a child. Experimental plots are used
for experiments in fertilization and irri-
gation. We are working out a general
scheme of decoration for the garden as a
whole so that we shall have a beauty
spot as well as a useful one.

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These flowers brought money to one schoolgirl

25

Our plan has been to build around our
garden an embryo city. A constitution
patterned after Berkeley’s charter governs
the city. The officers are elected by
popular vote. A mayor and six council-
men are chosen. ‘These officers are of
course children.

When the gardens are full of vegetables
a market is established. Each Wednesday
afternoon is given to a mother’s market
day. With increasing financial friction
a bank will be found necessary. Plans
are now under way for the erection of a
building to house the same. The bank
will pay 4 per cent. interest on time de-
posits. Thus the embryo city will repeat
the civic life history of the race through
agriculture, the mar-
ket, and the bank.

What relation
does this Garden
City bear to the
Sitavenu lu mnismathe
laboratory for Cali-
fornia. What can
be accomplished
there can be done in
other places.

The agricultural
education division of
the university is try-
ing to further liberal
agriculture in the
elementary school,
through the organ-
ization of California
junior gardening
Clwiogss Ae wlaie
present time we
have 2,000 children
enrolled in one large
agricultural club.

Several clubs and
garden cities have
already beenstarted.
The Niles Garden is
flourishing under
Principal Vincent. Decoto, San Deandro;
the Washington and Franklin Schools of
Oakland; the People’s Place, the Parental
School in San Francisco; and the Franklin
School in Berkeley, are visited regularly by
our extension class composed of university
students. Besides these, organization has
taken place in the Le Conte School of Ber-
keley and other schools in the Bay region.

Berkeley, Cal. Cyrit A. STEBBINS,
Professor of Agriculture, University of California.

A Little Girl’s Bulb

I BOUGHT my bulb at school. All the
children who wanted to, bought bulbs.
I planted mine in a flower pot with soil
from the garden. Then I put the flower
pot out of doors in the garden. I covered
the pot with soil. Eight weeks later I took
the pot up and put it in a dark place for
a week or so. I watered it every morning.
One day I saw the buds. They grew,
and grew, and then they came out and they
were yellow. I am ten years old.
Worcester, Mass. HELEN PORTER.

Unusual Plants for Indoor Culture — By Luke J. Doogue,

HEN plants are grown indoors the
many cases of failure and discour-
agement are due principally to an unwise
choice of a plant and to its condition when
brought indoors. For instance, if a palm
is brought into the house just after it has
been potted the chances are that it will be
a long time before it starts to grow, or even
to recover from the shock of potting. A
palm should be almost pot-bound before
it may be expected to grow in the dwelling
house. Pot-bound means that the pot is
absolutely crowded with roots, when nine
out of ten persons would hasten to put the
plant into a larger pot in order to save it.
If the plant was to be kept in a green-

Asparagus plumosus and Sprengeri, with Pan-
danus Veitchii in the centre. To get a thick growth
of the asparagus cut it back frequently

house, repotting would then be the proper
course but as the plant is to be kept in the
dwelling, repotting would then spell failure,
for a pot-bound plant in the house, with its
abundance of strong roots, when properly
watered, can flourish under unfavorable
conditions for a long period.

The only thing to be avoided in caring
for plants in this condition is allowing them
to stand in water that has collected from
frequent waterings. Empty the receptacle
in which the plant stands every time you
water it. Stagnant water means quick
death to any plant and particularly to a
pot-bound one. I have palms that have
not been repotted for years and they are
still growing. Once in a while I scrape off
a little of the old loam from the top of the
ball and put in new, and when spring comes
I use a little plant fertilizer—I have no
preference as to any particular kind.

TABLE DECORATION

It is almost impossible to have a centre
piece of tender ferns look like anything
except a few sickly green stalks for any
length of time. Instead of ferns, one of the
best things for this purpose is the golden

euonymous. This may seem to. some
rather impractical but I have had on my
table for some time just such a centrepiece
and I know it is practical. I use very
small plants. If you happen to have
an old plant it will furnish hundreds of
cuttings which will root quickly in sand
in a shallow box. Put the little plants,
when rooted, into a small flat pan to be
placed inside the jardiniere. If the plants
grow too tall just pinch them back.

During the winter months give the plants
a daily sunning. Asparagus plumosus is
frequently used for table decoration. After
it is brought into the house it is apt to show
signs of dying, and before it has had a
chance to recover one is likely to empty the
dish. If this plant is used, give it time to
demonstrate what it can do. Don’t throw
it out even after it has shown signs of appar-
ently dying,but just cut it back and put it
inthesun. When it has once established its
root system it will grow,and grow well. Use
the scissors on it when it has grown too high,
thereby forcing new growth. Such a plant
will last for seasons, and its delicate foliage
—like lace-like fern fronds is always
welcome.

Another very decorative plant is Gre-
vellia robusta. The small plants are the
most decorative as the very large ones have
the bad habit of growing leggy. The
decorative foliage is cut into slender rib-
bons as it were and a very attractive
dressing can be made by putting six or
eight small plants into a large pot, placing
them so that the effect will be globular.

House plants, when really pot bound and plunged
out of doors in the spring, are apt tosend out their
roots like this

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A jardiniere filled with these plants is very
ornamental. Grow this plant yourself
from seed; just sow the seeds in a shallow
box and when the plants are large enough,
pot them. A large plant for a centrepiece
and small ones around it to cover the place
where the branches have fallen makes a
strikingly handsome decoration. This
plant also makes an excellent combination
with euonymus. The grevellia will thrive
in a house where most plants would die
and with care and a sunny window it makes
a most desirable and unusual house plant.

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Euonymus cuttings root very quickly. It is best
to pot small plants; they quickly take hold of the
soil and are easily handled

The screw pines (of which the variegated
Pandanus Veitchii is the most attractive)
are excellent for the house, but be careful
about watering. If you give them any
too much, they will die. The pandanus
plant wants just enough moisture to keep
if from going dust dry and never should
water be allowed to stand in the receptacle
that holds the plant. I have one of these
plants that has not been repotted for years.
I have it in the centre of a large pot with
asparagus about it. In the summer I cut
back the asparagus and plunge the plant
out of doors and it is always ready for the
house in the fall.

Of the true ferns, only a few really will
do well in the house. The small plants of
Lomaria gibba are decorative until the
spores show on the leaves, after which they
loose much of their beauty. However they
are unusual and are to be recommended.

Of the palms Kentia Forsteriana and
Balmoreana are the best. You will have
no trouble in keeping these growing if you
water judiciously. Keep them in as small
a pot as long as possible. If you feel that
you must repot don’t dig out the roots but

FEBRUARY, 1912

lift the plant, with the soil into a pot
a size larger, and press down hard the
loam about it.

Window Gardening Under
Difficulties
HE lack of a sunny window, coupled
with a slight leakage of gas which
no plumber has so far been able to cure,
has been enough to kill all but our sturdiest
house plant, an asparagus. But we have
a little glass wild garden which is a great
pleasure.

Everyone knows the fish globes filled
with partridge berries which florists sell.
The delicate little vines and their bright
flowers are so crowded that all beauty
of shape is lost. Even without this over-
crowding a fish globe is a rather poor
receptacle owing to its curving sides, which
force all the taller plants into the small
but higher central space and prevent
good grouping. We utilize a glass cover
like the ones used by caterers for covering
cakes. They cost from about fifty cents
to two dollars, according to size. We
invert it and cover it with a circular
piece of window glass which we have
cut to measure at any place where
window glass is sold. Be sure to get good
glass, rather thick, but clear and free from
flaws. The knob-like handle of the cover
may be accommodated by a little wooden
stand that has had a hole cut in the top
of it.

Moss is the first thing to put in; line
the bottom and sides with it. It will also
fill in the chinks, cover ugly gaps, and
protect exposed roots. A bit of moss-
covered wood once gave us a succession
of very small orange toadstools which
sprang up beside a delicate fern. Give
the garden a good watering when it is
made, and then —hands off! So long
as the moisture gathers on the glass there
is no need of interfering, and the chances
are that it will keep damp for months.

We have never been able to make violets
bloom, but their foliage is always good.
On the other hand, foam flowers have
bloomed, as well as Jack-in-the-pulpit,
although they were neither so sturdy nor
so dark colored as their brothers in the
woods. Once the gold-thread and par-
tridge berry deigned to bloom, and the
bloodroot. Hepaticas are the mainstay,
however. The only objection to them is
that they blossom too soon. This garden

Scalloped onions— an easy way to make this common
vegetable really delicious

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This plant has not been repotted for six years,
And it certainly does not look as if it needed larger
quarters

is primarily a winter one, but when we
have transplanted hepaticas in October
they have flowered around Thanksgiving.

Take care to get into your “glass gar-
den” as great a variety as possible, not
only in the shape of the leaves but in their
tint and texture. Nothing could have
been prettier than some sprays of Alle-
gheny vine which we were fortunate enough
to have one winter. This wild cousin to
the bleeding heart may have less showy
flowers than its garden relative, but its
leaf is decidedly more delicate. Another
plant which thrives under glass is the
rattle-snake plantain with its showy,
white-veined leaves. We have found that
most of our common ferns, such as spleen-
wort and polypody, do well. One year
we succeeded with the rue spleenwort or
wall rue; probably the moisture and shade
were just what it wanted. Then first,
last, and always, there is the partridge
berry, and the best use to which one can
put the small globes of these plants sold
by florists is to remove the contents to
the larger garden.

New York.

H. M.S. anp F. M. S.

Parsnip fritters— easy to make and very good to eat

Carrots and peas creamed together and garnished
with parsley

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Recipes for Good Things

HE following are my favorite ways
of preparing “‘old reliables.”’

Scalloped Onions: Boil onions in salted
water for forty-five minutes, then drain
and cut in quarters and arrange in a batter
baking dish. Have cracker crumbs rolled
very fine; put a layer in the bottom of a
porcelain dish and cover with a layer of
the cut pieces of onion, with batter, pepper
and salt. Alternate the layers of onions
and cracker crumbs until the dish is filled.
Bake in a moderate oven for about fifteen
minutes. A pretty garnish for this dish
consists of rings of onion filled with
chopped gelatine, which has been tinted
pale green with vegetable coloring and
flavoured slightly with onion juice and

arsley.

Parsnip Fritters: Cook parsnips in
salted water until tender; then plunge into
cold water and rub off the skins. Mash
fine, season to taste with salt, pepper
and butter and form into small cakes.
Dredge with flour, stew in butter, and
serve hot with a garnish of parsley.

Fried Potatoes: Pare good-sized pota-
toes and slice thin into a bowl of cold water.
Cut into squares, drain on a clean towel
and fry to a nice even brown in sufficient
hot butter or drippings to cover them.
Drain on brown paper sprinkle with salt
and pepper, and serve very hot.

Creamed Carrots: Scrape the carrots
and boil in salted water till tender. Drain,
cut into dice, and add one cup of canned
peas that have been heated thoroughly.
Moisten well with a white sauce made of
two tablespoonfuls each of flour and
butter, two cups of rich milk and season-
ing to taste.

Massachusetts. Mary H. NortHenp.

How to Dye Lace

pee method followed by modistes when

dyeing lace to match a gown is to pur-
chase tube paints at any art store, together
with a list of combinations for colors not
primary or not already mixed. A small
quantity of the shade desired is added to
gasolene, until by trial with a patch or
end of the material the tint is secured.
Then the article to be dyed is immersed.
Care must be taken to keep away from fire
or flame of any description. This method
gives quick results, and beautiful colors
and tints are more easily obtained than
in any Other way. — E. F., Penna.

Potatoes cut into squares and fried —a change from
the every-day French-fried potatoes

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Left-over tulip bulbs

What can £ do with 200 tulip bulbs left over
from last fall’s planting?— W. J. S., New York.
— The only thing you can do now with your bulbs
is to plant them in flats, giving them a lot of heat,
and thus force them into flower.

To follow sweet peas

T have five rows of sweet peas and want something
to plant in their place after they have gone. Can
dahlias be held back for July planting? Or can
they be cut back and transplanted at that date?
—W. A., New Jersey.

— We would suggest the transplanting of China
asters to each side of the sweet pea rows. Dahlias
are safely planted the first week in July and per-
sonally we prefer that time for doing the work.
We prefer not to cut them back if planted so late.

Liming the soil

With what quality of lime do you place the

refuse from acetylene gas machines in which car-
bide (calcium carbide) is used? Should it be
applied to sour land in larger quantities than
ground lime? — F. M. O’B., New York.
—The sediment from acetylene gas machines is
practically the equivalent of slacked lime, and is
subject to the same precautions in its use as a land
fertilizer. Applied in a thin coat it proves very
beneficial to many kinds of soil. On heavy soils
it may be applied at the rate of from twenty to
forty bushels per acre.

Planting peach trees

I expect to plant about one thousand peach trees
this coming spring and of course desire to get nur-
sery stock that is free from yellows. I understand
peaches grown south of the Virginia-Carolina line
are free from this disease. Has this been your
experience? Some of the northern nurseries claim
that southern-grown peach trees will winter-kill
in the north. Would there be much trouble from
that source here in Southern Pennsylvania, six
miles north of the Mason-Dixon line?—S. A. H.,
Pennsylvania.

—TIt is our experience that the liability of the
peach yellows is not a question of original stock,
as much as the conditions under which the trees
grow. Trees that have grown in a region where
peach yellows is unknown easily fall a victim to the
disease if planted in a locality where it is prevalent.
We have never before heard the statement made
that peaches grown south of the Virginia-Carolina
line are free from this disease, and we hardly think
it is true. The whole thing, it seems to us, is a
question of adaptation of relationship of North
to South and South to North, and this has been a
subject of considerable debate. In the Interna-
tional Conference of Plant Hardiness and Acclimi-
tization it was pretty clearly shown that the
inherent resistance of the given plant could not be
modified by changing its environment. Con-
sequently, we cannot consider southern stock less
hardy than northern stock. The southern stock

may be more susceptible to climatic injuries in the
North when brought north, because of the sudden
changes in condition. In other words, it might

be suddenly exposed to what would be equivalent -

to an extreme drop in temperature. We do not
think you will have any trouble in bringing peach
trees from the South to Southern Pennsylvania
if they are in a dormant condition when brought
north, and if the conditions of the two places are
nearly on the same level.

Privet and grass

Will grass grow close to the roots of privet?
Tf any, what are the unpleasant features of a privet
hedge?— J. McG., Michigan.

— Grass will grow close to the roots of California
privet except where it is prevented by actual shade.
An unpleasant feature of the privet is its liability
to occasionally winterkill down to the ground.
Also the color of the foliage is a yellowish-green
and there is the necessity of constant shearing in
order to keep the hedge trim; it grows very rapidly.

Cherry tree borer

In my garden there is a sweet cherry tree about

ten years old, which bears every season less than a
quart of fruit. A sticky substance oozes out from
many parts of the tree; when these spots are
opened and examined it is found that the bark is
eaten away right to the heart of the tree. In-
variably numbers of large black ants are found
in each soft spot. What ought I to do with such
a tree? —W. J. B., Pennsylvania.
— The tree has probably been attacked by borers
and it will only be a question of time before it
fully succumbs. Cut it down and plant a new one.
If you really want to try to save it, however,
thoroughly fertilize the ground around it, prune
the tree carefully, clean out all the diseased holes,
and inject in each of them a drop or two of
carbon bisulphide. Whitewash the whole trunk.
The gum which oozes from the tree is a natural
secondary product.

Non=blooming wistaria

I have a wistaria vine about nine years old that

is making a marvelous growth each year of wood
and tendrils, but blossoms practically not at all.
Two years ago, it produced a few rather small
flowers and once before that it blossomed,a little
more profusely. When a young vine it was en-
riched very freely, but has not been since wesus-
pected the strength was going entirely to wood.
Can the vine be made to bloom satisfactorilyPp—
M. F. T., New York.
— There are several possible reasons why a wistaria
vine does not bloom. The vine may be in an
unfavorable situation, or the buds may be injured
by a combination of sunshine and frost in the spring.
Then again, the failure to bloom may be due to
too excessive growth. Careful root pruning might
check this, but it is a dangerous thing for an inex-
perienced person to try. Possibly a dressing of
wood ashes would help. Is there any opportunity
of restricting root growth? There is the possi-
bility that the roots are running away to a rich
soil somewhere else.

Begoniasin porch boxes

What can I use in large quantities in porch

boxes that will be shaded by an awning all summer?
If begonias were slipped now would they be ready
to put outdoors in springe— E. W. S., Massa-
chusetts.
— If you want begonias for your purpose use the
Erfordi begonia. If you have a greenhouse you
can grow it from cuttings, which if struck this
month (February) will be ready for putting out-
doors in two or three weeks. They are usually
raised from seed, which is the easiest and cheapest
way. If you buy the plants in flats you can get
them for less than three cents each; but potted
up they will cost from five to ten cents per plant.

Plants for wet places

What flowering annuals or perennials, that will

grow from two to three feet high, can I plant along
the banks of a stream of brackish water on sup-
posedly fertile land which was thrown up out of
the river-bottom? The plants will have to with-
stand very ‘“‘wet feet”? and an occasional flooding
when the stream is high. Will any treatment of
the soil be necessary?— J. B., New Jersey.
—JIn all probability the turned-up soil is not
really fertile but only potentially so, and will need
composting. For information regarding soil con-
ditions write to your state experiment station at
New Brunswick. As to the plants, you will have
to be content with aquatics and sub-aquatics,
such as bullrushes, swamp mallow, horsetail rush
and wild flag. We do not know of any annuals
that can be recommended for such a situation.

Time to prune shrubs

What is the proper time to prune rambler roses,
wistaria, hydrangeas and lilac bushes? How are
they pruned, or what is the distance to cut them
from the main stem?— A. G. H., New Jersey.
— In pruning rambler roses cut off in the spring,
before the buds open, from one-fifth to one-third
of the previous year’s growth; also, in established
plants, any of the old, flowering wood which is
enfeebled. Do not hesitate, even if a part of the
trellis is laid bare. It is only by this method that
these plants can be kept vigorous. In summer
take out most of the old wood after it has finished
flowering and train new growths as desired, pinch-
ing out weak and objectionable shoots. Hy-
drangea paniculata and horlensis, and also most
of the other species, should be pruned in the fall
or the early spring, and the branches of the previous
year cut back to one to three pairs of buds, accord-
ing to the growth of the branches and the desired
size of the panicles; if only slightly pruned the
panicles will be many but small. Sometimes they
are cut back every year almost to the ground and
produce then enormous panicles, which, however,
usually need artificial support and lack the grace
of the less severely pruned plants. After blooming,
the inflorescence of the lilac should be removed
if possible and the pruning should be done as far
as necessary. Pruning in the winter or spring
would destroy a large part of the flower-buds for
the coming season.

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in the House Conservatory

January. During the month, bring up the later-
blooming (pink and light blue) Roman hyacinths,
and White Italian hyacinths forforcing. Look over
the pots of exhibition hyacinth, and bring up any
that are ready to be forced. Consult your con-
servatory note-book carefully, noting the past
year’s successes and failures, and make your plans
for the coming year. If you are planning to occupy
the house during the summer, you have the problem
of the conservatory’s attractiveness during the
summer months to consider. I have solved this,
by ordering early in January, 150 bulbs of tuberous
begonias. I buy a mixture of all types and colors,
and bought in so large a quantity, they make a
most inexpensive, as well as satisfactory display
during the entire summer and fall. Gloxinias, or
other summer-blooming bulbs, would doubtless do
equally well.

Flowers in blossom in January are: Freesias,
primroses in variety, Gloire de Lorraine and grac-
ilis begonias, nasturtiums (just beginning) white
Roman hyacinths, earliest exhibition hyacinths,
geraniums, and Impatiens.

FEBRUARY. Bring up any of the crocus, large
trumpet narcissus, or jonquils for forcing. Also
late exhibition hyacinths. Start sprouting twenty-
five or so of your tuberous begonia bulbs, in pans
of wet moss. When sprouted, so that you can be
absolutely sure which is the top and bottom of the
bulbs, plant the bulbs among your primroses, scat-
tering them widely over the whole conservatory.
Send in your order for primrose seeds for next
year’s plants.

Flowers in blossom in February are: Freesias,
primroses in variety, pink and light blue, Roman
hyacinths, white Italian hyacinths, nasturtiums, be-
gonias, exhibition hyacinths, geraniums, Impatiens.

Marcu. Bring up any remaining bulbs of the
above-mentioned varieties for forcing. Sprout and
plant another instalment of tuberous begonias.
Keep all faded flowers well picked off from blooming
plants. Put boxes of forced, large trumpet nar-
cissus in a cool corner of the cellar for ripening. Do
the same with crocus. Gradually withhold water
until the tops turn yellow. Then cut off the
tops, dig up the bulbs, and put away for planting
in the garden later in the spring. These are
the only bulbs that I consider worth the bother
of saving. The others do not repay the labor
spent on them.

These flowers are in blossom in March: prim-
roses in variety, Gloire de Lorraine and gracilis
begonias, nasturtiums, crocus, large trumpet
narcissus, jonquils, exhibition hyacinths, petunias
(just beginning), geraniums, Impatiens.

Aprit. If you have bulbs of gladioli, late tulips,
Spanish iris, etc., now is the time to start forcing
them. They will not succeed if forced earlier. Plant
primrose seeds in shallow pans or boxes, barely
covering the seeds with fine sand. As so few seeds
come in each packet, I find it best to take the
trouble to space them carefully and plant them one
by one. It takes more time at the outset, but saves
a great deal of labor and uncertainty later. At the
time of sowing, keep a record of the date, number
of seeds, and names of varieties. Finish sprouting
and planting tuberous begonias. Begin pulling up
any old primrose plants that are getting unsightly
or scanty in blossom. They are not worth keep-
ing for another year, as they seldom do well, and

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FEBRUARY, 1912

Dreer’s
Garden Book

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Everything that can possibly interest the flower enthusiast is treated in this volume.

Dreer’s Garden Book for 1912 is a comprehensive work of 288 pages, illustrated
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Full directions are given for the growing of almost every plant and seed. Among the
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require great care. Any special or unusual colors
or forms you may desire to save, may be spared for
setting out in the summer.

The flowers in blossom in April are: primroses
in variety, Gloire de Lorraine and gracilis be-
gonias, late bulbs in variety, nasturtiums, petunias,
geraniums, Impatiens.

May. Finish removing old primroses. Prim-
rose seeds should be up early in the month. Keep
seedlings out of hot noon sun, and keep moist, not

_ wet. At the end of the month, cover the windows

with sheets of thin blue tissue paper pasted to the
glass. This tempers the hot sunlight, and is neces-
sary for the comfort of the tuberous begonias.
Give the conservatory plenty of air, keeping the
windows open whenever possible.

Flowers in bloom in May are: Begonias, gladioli,
Spanish iris or other late bulbs, petunias, nastur-
tiums, geraniums and Impatiens.

June. By this time the tuberous begonias should
have begun to blossom. Stake all that need it,
with the slender dark green florist’s stakes. Dig
a spoonful of bone-meal around each bulb. Plant
out in the garden, in a shady spot, all begonias,
geraniums, petunias, Impatiens, etc. Prepare
long, narrow, shady beds with well-fined soil, and
plant out your seedling primroses. They should be
in complete shade, and should be set four inches
apart. Mark position of special varieties or colors.

The flowers in blossom in June, July, and August
are: Nasturtiums and tuberous begonias.

Jury. Keep the soil well stirred around seedling
primroses. In dry season water every evening.
Fertilize scantily with bone meal. Keep tuberous
begonias well watered and soil enriched. Sow
seeds, out of doors, of any annuals you wish to try
next winter in the conservatory.

Aucust. Take slips of geraniums, petunias,
Gloire de Lorraine and gracilis begonias, Impatiens,
etc., for the winter’s blooming. A flat box, filled
with danip sand, set in a moderately sunny corner
of the yard, and covered witha sheet of glass makes
a good propagating box. As soon as the slips
begin to grow, give air for several hours a day.
Old plants of primroses, set out in June, should be
divided into two or three little plants, and reset.

SEPTEMBER. Pull up the old nasturtiums that
have been in the conservatory all the year, and plant
new seeds. See that your winter bulbs are planted,
and stored in the cellar by the middle or end of the
month. Plant slips of geraniums and other plants
in the conservatory benches. Plant seedling prim-
roses in their winter positions, mixing the colors,
but keeping the varieties separate. The tuberous
begonias will still be in blossom, but the young
primrose plants can be planted among them. Pull
up any tuberous begonia bulbs that are through
blooming. Start polyanthus, and Chinese sacred
narcissus in bowls of water. Start freesias in pots
or boxes in full light. Remove blue tissue paper
from the windows.

The flowers in blossom in September are:
Tuberous begonias in variety, and a few Impatiens.

OcroBEeR. Pull up bulbs of tuberous begonias
that are through blooming. Bring in and plant
divided plants of the old primroses you saved from
last year. Bring in any annuals you wish to ex-
periment with. Dig bone meal around all plants.
Keep a watch for aphis and red spider.

Flowers in blossom in October are: Tuberous
begonias, polyanthus narcissus, Chinese sacred
narcissus, geraniums, and Impatiens.

NoveMBer. ‘Train young nasturtium plants
carefully on trellises. Pull up last tuberous be-
gonias. The tuberous begonia bulbs should be dug
up carefully, and planted in boxes of earth in the
cellar. Water should be gradually withheld until
the tops have turned yellow. Then the bulbs may
be dug up and stored in dry sand, in a cool place
for the next year. They can be used year after
year if care is taken in storing. Cultivate primroses.

Flowers in blossom in November are: Poly-
anthus narcissus, Chinese sacred narcissus, geran-
iums, Impatiens.

DECEMBER. Bring up white Roman hyacinths
for forcing. Watch out for insects; do the regular
greenhouse work of watering, fertilizing, etc.

The flowers in blossom in December should be:
Primroses in variety (just beginning), freesias
(just beginning), Gloire de Lorraine and gracilis
begonias, Impatiens, and geraniums.

New Hampshire. Martua H. Crark.

The Readers’ Service is prepared to

FEBRUARY, 1912 Ap H E G A R D K N M A G A Z, I N K advise parents in regard to schools 33

The Splendid Roots of My Fairfax Roses are
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WO years ago, I made a miniature green-

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arly in February the seed was planted; I pro-
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high that there was danger of the glass burning the
leaves. My sweet peas were in bloom at least six
weeks earlier than those of my neighbors.

Both grandiflora and Spencer varieties for trans-
planting were also started here. I made small
pots of tough water-color paper two and one half
inches high and two inches in diameter. In each
pot, I planted two seeds and placed all the pots in
two large shoe boxes in a cool, light, store room.
When the pots were filled with roots, I placed four
of the paper pots in a pound coffee can filled with
rich soil, and let them grow this way until the
weather was settled enough to plant outdoors. I
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itself, about one and one half feet apart. Those
made remarkably strong growing plants much
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I had such success with my sweet peas in paper
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I planted melon seeds in small pasteboard boxes
(the lower part of corn meal packages cut about
four inches high). When I put them out in the
garden, I cut out the bottoms but left the sides of
the boxes on, as they protect the roots from cut
worms. This spring our entire planting of melons,
except those in the boxes, was eaten by worms.

Idaho. Mrs. E. H. PLowHeap.

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OUTHWARD, from Macon, Ga. and Dallas,

Tex., one may risk planting a few early
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Sweet potatoes should be bedded during the
last half of the month, or if you have a glass with
which to cover the bed, they should be planted
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36 information about automobiles THE GARDEN MAGAZINE FEBRUARY, 1912
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About Your Sow seed of sage, horehound and other herbs;

Roses
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flower collections. We have been growing them for 25 years and
_,. know what varieties are suited to your conditions. Tell us the
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Gillett’s Ferns and Flowers

will give the charm of nature to your yard. These include not only hardy wild
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and dry woods. We also grow such hardy flowers as primroses, campanulas
digitalis, violets, hepaticas, trilliums, and wild flowers which require open sunlight
as wellas shade. If you want a bit of an old-time wildwood garden, with flowers
just as nature grows them—send for our new catalogue and let us advise you
what to select and how to succeed with them.

EDWARD GILLETT, Box C, Southwick, Mass.

also in the open seed of cabbage and cauliflower.

Plant out dahlia roots and prune rose bushes
and fruit trees at once, before they begin flowering.
If the fruit trees are to be sprayed, do it at once,
before the buds begin to swell.

The fig, one of our most delicious fruits, should
have a place in every Southern fruit garden. Plant
out the bushes now on a southward slope of a hill
or south of a building, so that the trees will be more
or less protected during very cold winters.

Georgia. THoMAS J. STEED.

The Bronze Birch Borer

{Pee bronze birch borer has destroyed many
silver birches in the western part of New York
State and has begun to be destructive in the east-
ern section. A serious difficulty in controlling this
insect is that the trees are usually beyond help be-
fore any injury is suspected. The borer is a rather
stout, olive brown, tapering beetle about half an
inch long. The eggs are deposited just under the
bark and the borers literally girdle the tree by run-
ning numerous interlacing channels through the
inner bark and sapwood. Frequently a series of
rather well marked annular ridges may be observed
on infested limbs. The destructive grubs com-
plete their growth in early spring, and the beetles
emerge early in June. The best remedy is the
rigid cutting out and burning of all infested trees
prior to May 1sth. E. P. Fett.

February Work Among the Trees

Removing the undesirables. In the October, rort,
issue of THe GARDEN MAGAZINE it was suggested
that you mark the dead and crowding trees as
well as the trees that were badly infested with
insects or disease. See, now, that these trees are
removed from the premises before the busy spring
season and before injury results to the nearby trees.

Tree planting. The frost will soon commence to
leave the ground and you may want to plant some
trees. If you have not already procured them,
now is the last chance to get your choice in the
nursery. Decide where you wish to plant, how
many plants you need and what kinds. The fol-
lowing lists give the more desirable species to
select from: :

Trees for the lawn. American elm, European
silver linden, European linden, pin oak, European
copper beech, Soulange’s magnolia, European white
birch (weeping var.), flowering dogwood, ginkgo,
Kentucky coffee tree, sweet gum, Oriental spruce,
Colorado blue spruce, Austrian pine, Bhotan pine.

Trees for screening. Hemlock, sassafras, osage
orange, mulberry.

Trees for the street. Oriental sycamore, Norway
maple, red oak, ginkgo, European linden, English
elm, American elm, pin oak, red maple.

Trees to be avoided. All poplars, silver maple,
sycamore maple.

Preparing to spray. In the latter part of May,
after the caterpillars have made their appearance
or after the elm leaf beetle has started perforating
the leaves, it is too late to start preparations for
combatting them. March is the time to think of
your spraying apparatus, material, and labor for
doing the spraying. A good barrel pump raised
on wooden wheels, with two lengths of 50-foot hose,
two bamboo rods and some vermorel nozzles, will
complete the outfit. Arsenate of lead containing

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at least 14 per cent. of arsenic oxide will give you
a satisfactory material to spray with.

Fertilizing. This is also a good time to fertilize
some of the weaker specimens on your lawn. Well |
rotted cow manure makes excellent fertilizing j
material for almost any purpose. A tree that
needs this treatment should have the soil dug
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of the branches, and a 3-inch layer of manure well
mixed with the soil. You can then put thesod back
again, leaving an opening about two feet in radius
around the trunk of the tree.

Watching for scale insects. In the case of several
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The Good Points of Standard
Roses

N THE issue of THE GARDEN MaGazIneE for

November, 1to11, appeared an article entitled
“Are Tree or Standard Roses Any Good,” signed
Thomas McAdam. With the article is published
an old photograph of a small bed of standard roses
in my garden at Rochester, N. Y.

The rose bed shown in the photograph was
established about five years ago and generally
blooms all summer long, with a good succession
of beautiful crops, until frost. Therefore, there
is sense in standard roses. They are not “un-
sightly,’’ nor do they ‘‘give a feeling of weakness,
poverty and pretense,” as Mr. McAdam states.
Quite the contrary. They generally offer a series
of beautiful, fragrant bouquets on graceful stems
and trim supports. Apparently Mr. McAdam
has had in mind the misnamed Hybrid Perpetuals
which, whether in standards, bush or dwarf, bloom
practically only once a year and are perpetual
chiefly in the memory. The wonderful new Hybrid
Teas and some of the old Teas are very different and
will repay their care,in whatever form they are used.

The advantage of fine standard roses for use
here, as well as in Europe, are many. Also, as
there are many varieties of roses, so there are many
kinds of standards. The English standard, on
which the various roses are grafted, is one thing;
the Dutch standard is another; the French and
German are different again. It is the wise rosarian
who knows which is the most successful in his
locality and how it may be used most advantage-
ously and cared for most properly and simply.
No rose of any kind, worth looking at or smelling
of or speaking of — not even a wild rose or a briar
— but calls for care and attention. Insects, bugs,
worms, sun and rain, frost and mildew — all
must be fought and guarded against.

A bed of standard roses for the small garden
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without back-breaking, to spray their heads, to
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and tidy. They are eminently the roses for a
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gardening “‘chore”’ for those who know how.

New York. W. D. ELLWANGER.

1912

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Varieties of Sweet Peas

HE improvement in sweet peas has been so

rapid within the last few years, so many
new varieties being introduced each season that
an acquaintance with varieties becomes of some
importance. In the following list I name those
that I have proven to be of outstanding merit.
There can be no question as to the superiority of
the new Spencer type, over the plain standard or
grandiflora class; the flowers of the former are
much larger, the standard and wings being most
attractively crimped and waved, while they also
produce a large percentage of three and four
flowered sprays.

The first of this magnificent type — Countess
Spencer — was introduced in 1904. The color of
Countess Spencer is a soft rose-pink, rather deeper
toward the edges, and must be included in all collec-
tions. Florence Morse Spencer (to be found in some
catalogues under the names Mrs. Hardcastle Sykes
and Princess Victoria) is a beautiful blush pink.

Mrs. Hugh Dickson is a rich pinkish apricot, the
ground color being cream, and is one of the earliest
and most continuous flowering Spencer varieties
in cultivation. The color combinations to be
found in Constance Oliver are exquisite, being
creamy yellow suffused with rose-pink throughout,
though rather deeper in tone toward the edges of
the petals.

The finest whites are White Spencer and Nora
Unwin.

In crimson there is still nothing to eclipse King
Edward Spencer, though the new Vermilion Bril-
liant is brighter, almost approaching scarlet.

George Herbert (synonymous with John Ingman)
might be termed the giant of the family, as it over-
shadows all in size of flower, five on a stem being
often found when well grown; the color is rich
rosy carmine. Marie Corelli is a very fine rose.
In primrose or cream colored varieties Primrose
Spencer still leads the way, and in creamy-buff
Queen Victoria Spencer.

Of the pale blues or lavenders — Flora Norton
Spencer has so far been supreme, but may now
be eclipsed by the new Margaret Madison. Flor-
ence Nightingale has proved to be the largest and
purest true lavender, although it has a strong rival
in Asta Ohn. In the deep maroon class Othello

Spencer easily leads the way, and in mauve or |

heliotrope Tennant Spencer. Helen Lewis — one
of the earliest selections from Countess Spencer,
has so far been the best bright orange-colored
variety but it is now closely pressed by Thomas
Stevenson a rich, glowing orange introduced in
tg11. The brightest and richest colored variety
in my opinion is found in Stirling Stent, the color
being rich salmon, a great recommendation being
its non-scalding qualities. Earl Spencer is another
fine salmon rather lighter in color than the former
and with flowers of better size.

In the picotee-edged section Daty Spencer
(svn. Elsie Herbert) white edged rose, and Mrs.
C. W. Breadmore (Evelyn Hemus) cream edged
rose are well worth including in any collection,
and the same may be said of Martha Washington
(synonyms Eric Harvey, Marchioness of Tweed-
dale and Paradise Apple Blossom) in the younger
stages it appears to be picotee edged, but the
flower is gradually suffused with rich rose as it
attains maturity. In addition I like Mrs. Rout-
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Spencer, white striped with reddish-crimson; W. T.
Hutchins, apricot suffused blush-pink; Senator
Spencer, pale heliotrope flaked chocolate and a
large attractive flower; Waverly Spencer rosy-
purple; Lovely Spencer, an exquisite shade of
pink, in color midway between Countess Spencer
and Florence Morse Spencer.

The foregoing list comprises only waved varieties
and to it might be added the following of the plain
standard type: Helen Pierce, white marbled
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Zarina, salmon pink; Rose du Barri, terracotta
(bright scarlet under artificial light) and Dorothy
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of the row will also keep them in check or the plants
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often resorted to hand picking. The pea louse, or
green aphis is, however, the worst foe the grower
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A Hotbed Any One Can Make

O OBTAIN a full measure of enjoyment out

of gardening, one must have some sort of a
greenhouse or hotbed. Generally speaking, the
former will, of course, give the best results; but
it is not every person, at least of the amateur
class, who can afford the luxury of a glass-house
in which to raise plants. Yet such a place may be
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there may be times when a hotbed, with one or
more glass-covered frames, will be a necessity. I
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paratus of the greenhouse, so determined to have
a small hotbed; we had had large ones and the
big frames and beds were still available, although
they had not been used for many years.

Having made up my mind that I wanted a place
with bottom heat, principally to strike dahlia
cuttings in February and to start some seed that
should be sown early in the spring, I cast about
for the material and was fortunate enough to find
all of it on the premises.

One of the first things I discovered was some old
boards an inch thick and one foot wide. I had
plenty of 6-foot sash, but it would have required
two of them to have covered a bed the size I wanted.
I found an old skylight sash 5 ft. 1 in. x 4 ft. 5 in.
that was just the thing; it had not been used for
a long time, but was in good condition.

To give the sash on the completed hotbed-
greenhouse the proper pitch, I decided to take
one of the 12-inch boards, cut it the length of one
of the sides, and then cut it diagonally in two
pieces. This did not waste any of it, and gave
both beveled or triangular pieces of like dimensions
which, when in place, would give the right pitch
to the sash. I cut three pieces one inch shorter
than the length of the sash, and two pieces 4 ft.
2¢ in. Of the long pieces, one was for the front
and two for the rear; the shorter pieces were for
the sides, forming the lower or ground boards with
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shown in the photograph. Pieces of 2x3 in.
scantling, cut a foot long, were placed inside the
frame at the front corners to give solidity. The
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feet long. were nailed in the back corners, so as to
hold it in place when it was raised.

Before the sash was glazed it was given a coat
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inches wide and of varying lengths. It was not
allowed more than a quarter of an inch overlap,
except the top lights, which ran over in some
cases nearly three quarters of an inch. When
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applied to the woodwork. As I did all the work
myself and had material on hand that could be
used, the total cost of making the hotbed was
five cents, for the putty!

Two cartloads of manure were dumped near
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FEBRUARY, 1912

The Case of
Richard Meynell

By
Mrs. Humphry Ward

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the frame. After the manure was well trodden
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I raised over five hundred dahlias from cuttings
inserted in seed-pans filled with a mixture of sand
and loam. I did not plant anything in the earth

In this little hotbed over 500 dahlias were raised
from cuttings, besides many other plants

covering on the manure. The second year this
soil grew a good crop of mushrooms of fine quality;
I did not require a hotbed the second year of my
operations. Besides the dahlias, I raised cannas,
tomatoes, petunias, eggplants, etc., besides seed-
lings of berries grown for experimental purposes.
The results of this little home-made contrivance
were indeed gratifying.

California. W. A. PRYAL.

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FERTILIZERS

Fertilizer for Cotton

HE old method of fertilizing for cotton was
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question of fertilizer and the soil more attention.
The soils of the northern and northwestern parts
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FEBRUARY, 1912

A Spot of Bright Color, ag:
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The Hardiness of Shrubs

GENERAL definition of the word “hardiness”

may be given which will apply to all sections

of the country, but it will not apply to all shrubs,

trees or plants. Hardiness is the ability of a plant

or tree to withstand the soil and climatic conditions

in which it may be placed, so that its vitality will
not be lower than its natural or normal condition.

Not enough care is exercised in applying this
word ‘‘hardy” to different trees and shrubs.
People of the East and South are especially in
error in recommending as hardy, various shrubs
and plants which, when transferred to the North
or some other locality, do not prove hardy at all.

Catalogues and magazines published in the East
and South have recommended the ever-blooming
hydrangea (H. arborescens var. sterilis), also called
snowball hydrangea, as being perfectly hardy.
This seemed like a very desirable shrub for the
Northwest. We commenced to propagate it in
the summer of 1907, but in the winter of 1908 all
the plants practically froze back and we were
obliged to discard it.

The Boston ivy, known as Ampelopsis Veitchii,
is recommended as being perfectly hardy, but with
us it frequently freezes back. There are many
ye when the tips of Berberis Thunbergii ireeze

ack.

The Amoor privet has been exploited and
recommended as hardy wherever shrubs will grow,
yet there are many places where it is not hardy.
The pompom chrysanthemum is quoted by some
nurseries as being perfectly hardy, yet the average
winter in the Northwest will kill half the season’s
growth.

Shrubs or plants are not necessarily equally
hardy in the same latitudes in the East and in the
West or Northwest. Mountains, snow, ocean
and lake temper the climate to a large degree.
In Northeastern Canada, peaches are successfully
grown; also many tender varieties of apples which
it would be useless to attempt to grow in the same
latitude as the Dakotas.

The question of tree hardiness is an important
one to all growers in this section of the country.
Some close observers have attempted to classify
it as being associated with the thickness of the
bark; others declare that it is not the thickness
but the close grain and texture of the bark; others
claim that hardiness belongs to those trees which
drop their leaves early in the season, thus giving
them time to mature; but I contend that these
reasons are not definite or satisfactory: they are
only straws and suggestions, and they may all be
controverted.

The buckthorn holds its leaves until late in the
fall, yet it is one of the hardiest shrubs we have.
The lilac frequently drops its leaves early, but it
is very hardy. The elm and ash, both hardy trees,
drop theirs early.

The bark of some evergreens such as hemlock is
very thick, yet they are not considered more hardy
than the white spruce or Jack pine on which the
bark is much thinner.

Should the attention be directed toward the
breeding of hardiness into trees? I believe that
hardiness may be bred into a tree as well as color
and quality bred into fruit. To plant a: tree with-
out hardiness in the North Central States means a
waste of time and money, and can only result in
discouragement to the planter.

Minnesota. E. A. SMITH.

[It is a fine point, open to debate, as to whether
an abstract quality like hardiness can be bred into
an individual or a species. That was the crystal-
ization of the International Conference on Hardiness
held in New York in 1906 and was never satis-
factorily answered. — Ed.!

More About the Xmas Rose

M ANY people are interested in the Christmas
rose (Helleborus niger), but it is so seldom
to be had or seen that the general knowledge of it
is quite small. While I have cultivated the Christ-
mas rose quite a long time I do not even yet claim
to know it well, though it is one of the most inter-
esting plants in my garden, The plants came to
me as a gift from a friend who kept a sort of old-
fashioned garden and it would be hard to trace it
beyond th>t g2rden. It is by no means the certain

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FEBRUARY,1912 THE

GARDEN MAGAZINE

Plant About Your
Home This Spring

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Ugliness is a crime. Bald, unsightly
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Its summer and autumn crops do
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Frepruary, 1912

The Ultima Thule in Roses!

To the Rose Lovers of America we offer two unusual specials.
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bloomer that it is sometimes said to be, though
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My plants stand at the foot of an old oak tree
in the back garden, not a very good place, but
the tree is practically dead and does not injure the
plants more than merely to shade them. Two
years ago the plants bloomed at their best, the
pure white petals, appearing much like overgrown
mandrake flowers, making a great show. The
next fall, though, the weather seemed not to be
favorable, for while the plants had grown well
through the summer most of the buds blasted.

The Christmas rose, which commences to bloom
when other plants are asleep for the winter

Last fall the flower stems came up fairly well and
produced a dozen fine flowers. The flower stems
seemed to enjoy the worst fall weather when it
was not too cold and grew the fastest just after a
cold rain, but it is a mistake to suppose that they
are to any degree frost proof.

The plant is stemless, but evergreen, the old
leaves disappearing in the spring when the new
ones come on, much as in case of the hepatica.
The scapes are from one to three flowered. The
photograph was taken on the roth of November,
before severe freezing weather had come on, but
on the night of the 13th a cold wave arrived, the
temperature going down to 18 degrees. While
this did not kill the flowers it took all the white
out of the petals, as I have observed that it did in
former seasons, leaving them a greenish yellow, in
which condition they remain till they disappear
in the spring with the old leaves.

Tf the flowers do not open before heavy freezing,
they will not open at all. One season I enclosed
a bunch in a box with a glass top, but it did not
save the late buds. If I had a coldframe sash
with double glass, or with single glass; banking
the plants with leaves, perhaps covering them in
entirely on very cold nights, [ think I could save
them well into winter. It is a great sight when
they bégin to open in November, when all other
plants are leafless and dormant.

New York. Joun W. CHAMBERLIN.

Solid-color Irises

N° GARDEN matter is more neglected by
growers, advertisers and catalogue-writers
than solid-color German irises. The two-color
varieties are beautiful sometimes, curious always;
but for outdoor charm, the self-colored sorts are
ten times as valuable. The German iris comes in
a week of few other flowers, a time of great scarcity;
no other plant makes any spread of color in the
garden; and yet how many people will buy five
new sorts of iris for every five new sorts of tulips
in a season? Either is a sure investment; the
iris is green ten months of the year, but the tulip
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look so monkey!” one amateur gardener exclaimed
in my hearing.

As a matter of fact, there are beautiful varieties
in self-tones. Florentina, and the old black- purple
which flowers a day earlier than the orris; a pale
skyblue slightly touched gray, also early; May
Queen, pink; Astrate or Garibaldi, both lilac-
pinks; the old tall straw color, scentless, which is
sold as Canary Bird or flavescens and probably is
neither; Celeste, skyblue; a rare tall Yale blue
with orange beard, for which I know no name;
and the tall blue or white forms of Orientalis, tall
and later than the Germanicas proper. Of Yel-
lows, Californica, Aurea of the Germanica section,
Mrs. Neubronner, and San Souci, give practically
solid colors although darker veinings on yellow
seem to be the rule with these plants. (There is
an Aurea of English catalogues five feet tall and
flowering in late June or July which should not be
confused with the German flag.)

The iris is by nature a meadow plant; and it
is prettiest to look at from a slight elevation,
two feet or so above the level of the beds for a
path, or three and a half feet for a garden bench.
The “falls” of many sorts do not droop until late
evening or not even then; and the charming ranks
of bloom, seen from above, assume a quaint regu-
larity of arrangement, like roof-tiles of old Nurem-
burg gables viewed from an attic window. If
the iris can be grown in a sort of regulated con-
fusion in a tiny meadow of their own, ten to twenty
sorts in great splashes of color each, running into
each other without noticeable paths and demarca-
tions, they make the prettiest kind of a sunken
garden to view from a porch or summer house.
But for such use varieties that “look monkey”
are very wrong; only solid tints are to be trusted
in this sort of ground-painting.

Pennsylvania. BOS. J.

Three Late Faithfuls

I TOOK a turn through my garden on the 11th
of last November to see what there might be
left. Somehow one flower at that time of year,
like the one sheep which was more prized than the
ninety and nine, gives more satisfaction than
many of the wholesale displays of midsummer.
It is nothing to have roses in June; but it gives
one a glow of gratitude, when autumn has struck
nearly everything down, to see one or two faith-
fuls still displaying their brave bits of color.

And by the law of the survival of the fittest,
what I saw seemed to me to be a lesson in what
ought to be planted. And the three things I saw
were things which for some reason are almost
never seen in the average suburban garden.

One was a stalk of larkspur — an exquisite dash
of blue in the brown of the withered border. The
second was a California poppy — bright yellow
against its foliage of silver gray. The third was a
clump of Gruss an Teplitz rose-bushes, still laden
with abundant blossoms — a brilliant red.

Larkspur in my garden sows itself and demands
little coddling. Under the eaves of the house
there is some that grows six feet high. The sky-
blue kind is a poem. Everybody likes larkspur,
and the wonder is that more people don’t plant it.
The cannas and the salvias, which are seen in
nearly every yard— but not in mine; a narrow
prejudice, no doubt, but one I cannot get over —
had long ago surrendered their flaming tints and
laid down their leaves in ashen, frost-bitten death.

California poppy is another flower that sows
itself. The one that bloomed in my garden last
November was part of next spring’s crop. I
have a patch of it in the yellow end of the garden,
and I grow light blue things behind it.

People are learning about the Gruss an Teplitz
rose little by little. It is unquestionably a wonder-
ful rose. We brought bowlfuls of the buds into
the house all through the fall. MKaiserin Augusta
Victoria, Mme. Caroline Testout, and several
of the other modern beauties kept along until the
last of October. Teplitz seems to have no feelings;
and the cold-grown blossoms were much fuller and
more exquisite, even if somewhat smaller. Bring
a dozen of them in and arrange them loosely in a
fish-bowl. Have them on the Thanksgiving table
and see your company’s eyes stick out at the idea
of roses from outdoors on such a day!

New Jersey. J. D. WHITNEY.

L912

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“If Huck Finn
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brother,
this is he’’

DANNY’S OWN STORY

By Don Marquis

‘*1 been around the country a good ’eal, too, and seen and hearn of some awful
remarkable things, and I never seen no one that was n’t more or less looney
when the search us the femm comes into the case. Which is a dago word I got
out’n a newspaper and it means: ‘Who was the dead gent’s lady friend?’ ’’

@ Danny enters upon the scene nameless, a baby in a basket, abandoned before
the door of Hank Walters, the blacksmith. From that very minute, the fun be-
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@ Autobiographically, Danny says: “There was n't nothin’ perdicted of me, and
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they all says: ‘Danny he done it.’ And like as not Ihas. So I gets to be what you
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@ The boy runs away presently with a peripatetic “ Doctor” whose mission is to
make known the wonderful powers of “Siwash Indian Sagraw;” and he
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Mlustrated irresistibly by E. W. Kemble. Fixed price, $1.20 (postage 12c.)

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FEBRUARY, 1912

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How To Make Dahlia Cuttings

O OBTAIN the largest number and the

strongest plants from an individual clump

of dahlias, it is essential that the clumps intended

for propagation should be carefully selected at

the time of lifting the roots and should be treated
separately from the rest of them. ;

The eyes of a dahlia root are located on the joint
of the individual tuber to the main stem which
is termed the crown. Now and then eyes are
found also on the stem two to three inches above
the crown. The clump or root should be kept in
storage in a place where the temperature is
about 45 degrees and should be carefully watched
so that it does not dry out. It should at all times
be kept in a healthy and plump condition.

About February first plant the clumps in a green-
house bench where the temperature is about 60
degrees during the day and 50 degrees during the
night. Bury the clumps in the soil so that the
entire crown is above the surface; in order to
accomplish this, even one inch or so of the tubers
is often above the soil.

After they are planted take care not to over-
moisten the soil as the tubers are liable to rot
before they start to grow. The bulbs will slowly
swell and the first growth will make its appearance,
though sometimes not for three or four weeks after
planting. Then increase the temperature during
the day and give more water. Do not make any
cuttings until three sets of leaves are fully formed.

The cutting is taken usually in the second joint
and care should be taken that the cut is made
directly diagonally across the joint; if cuttings
are made below or above, no tubers will form from
the plant during that season. Place the cuttings
in clear sand in a propogating bench which has
ample heat underneath it.

It usually takes from ten to twelve days to root
a cutting. From the bench they are potted into
23-inch pots, filled with ordinary soil, and placed
in a greenhouse of a temperature where carnations
are grown.

Between April 15th and May rst, remove the
plants to a coldframe where they can be carefully
hardened up. Do not set plants in the open
until every possible danger from frost is passed.

If you are growing any of the plants for exhibi-
tion purposes, one can easily figure about ninety
days from the time the roots are planted in the
open until the flowers are produced.

By taking the cutting from the second joint
and leaving the clump in the earth, new growth
appears as branches from the first joint. These
again can be used for cuttings. On an average
a strong clump of dahlias should produce from five
to ten strong, original eyes and, propagating again
from the branches of the first joint, the quantity
of young plants obtainable from a strong clump of
roots should be in the neighborhood of twenty.

It has been my experience that the first cutting
produces the best result and these should be kept
separately, for the roots are stronger and the
flowers better. The clumps from which they have
been propagated can also be used again by careful
dividing, and being hardened and cured before
they are planted outdoors.

By “hardening,” we mean they should be placed
in a coldframe, fresh air being gradually admitted;
and by ‘‘curing,” that the bulb should rest three
weeks before it is planted again in the open ground
to start new growth.

Pennsylvania. M. Fup.

THE

FEBRUARY, 1912

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| Dahlias, Cannas and Gladiolus
in Texas

ES THIS locality we have a sandy, fine and
porous, but very rich soil. The sand has not
had its fertility washed off by rain, as this is an
arid section and plants grow only when irrigated.
The soil will crust on top unless a large amount
of humus is plowed into it.

For several years I have been trying out dahlias.
I have experienced no trouble at all in getting them
| started and blossoming, but owing to the continual
sunshine, the plants become dwarfed. None of
my plants have grown over two feet high, al-
though they have been given a great deal of water.
On one plant, only two feet high, I have counted
forty blossoms either in full bloom or still in bud,
and yet blossoms have been cut off repeatedly.

Beyond growing cowpeas or velvet beans to
plow under, I have used no fertilizer on the land.
We have practically no winter here, and so, if
tubers will form in the ground, we should have more
and larger ones than growers farther north. Then
it is very easy to slip dahlias; just cut off a piece,
stick it in the ground, keep the soil wet and shade
for perhaps a week, and you will have a new plant.

I have been very successful with growing cannas.
From fifty plants bought a year ago, I sold 3,000
tubers this season, have fifteen or twenty fine
varieties and shall have 25,000 to 35,000 tubers to
sell next winter. They can be left in the ground
until wanted by customers, which means a quick
start.

Last year I also planted sixty gladiolus bulbs
along the banks of an irrigation ditch, thinking
it would be a good place for them. But I found
that they could not be cultivated and were watered
whenever water went down that ditch. I think
they got too much moisture, but they blossomed
beautifully and I got seventy bulbs and 295 bulblets,
losing some by not taking them up completely (as
the soil was hard on the ditch bank) and a few more
by storing in too damp soil.

From watching them carefully I made up my
mind that, in this warm climate, we could have two
growing seasons; that I could plant in February,
have them bloom in April and May, mature in
June, keep them out of the ground until the end
of July or the beginning of August, then replant,
have blooms in October to mature in December,
take up the bulbs and give them a rest until the
following February. We usually have a light frost
early in December but this would not hurt the
maturing bulbs.

Accordingly, I planted what bulbs and bulblets
I had, together with one hundred of the Butterfly
gladiolus, on February roth, and I planted them as
I would onions, in a double row about five inches
apart and about two inches deep. Each bulb
germinated and bore beautiful flowers, but those
that had been grown here for one season excelled
those planted for the first time, in size of flower,
texture and firmness of flower petals, and brilliancy
of coloring. They were exquisite. I do not know
whether this difference was due to the original
quality of the bulbs—one was domestic and the
other French —or to strong sunshine. But it
is my opinion that the colors, here in our almost
continual:sunshine, are more brilliant than they
were when I grew the same varieties in the North.

As the plants came up they were upheld by lines
of string along the sides of the rows, and blossomed
profusely, and when mature were dug up, with the
| exception of a few that were left to go to seed. I
did not know as much then as I do now about the
bulblets. I stored them where they would dry
out, the same as the bulbs, and few of them came
up. Then I-:planted them too far apart, so that
the slender stalks were not protected from breaking
down by the wind. But from eighty-five bulblets
I got fifty-eight bulbs and about one hundred bulb-
lets. From the one hundred foreign bulbs I got
133 bulbs and 1289 bulblets, and from the seventy
domestic with the addition of 295 bulblets, I
got 155 bulbs and 1233 bulblets. These bulbs are
now stored in a dry place and the bulblets are
in slightly moist sand. They should never be
allowed to dry out.

I intend to try planting some of the bulblets
in a flat of sand, putting them close together,
making very moist and covering with burlap so

FeBRUARY, 1912

The “Henderson” Method

All over the civilized world men are trying and testing
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This is the Flower Garden From Which
Wyomissing Nurseries Had Their Start

I love this picture because it links together my dearest possessions—family, friends and flowers.
In my book I call it ““A: quiet afternoon—the world within sheltered from the world without.” Wy-
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*You do Things in a Different Way
— as Though You Love Your Plants’”’

She had had experience with the plants of Wyomissing, and wrote from a conyiction that mine is
no common nursery—as; indeed it is not. It isa business that has developed from my love for grow-
ing things, and my desire to produce certain plants unusually well. From the modest groups of
plants and shrubs that I tended with loving interest in my spare moments, this business enterprise
has grown, year by year, until I have come to know hundreds of people who love the royal group of
hardy plants that I grow, and whose demands have literally forced me to increase my gardens again
and again, and abandon other interests to give this particular ““hobby”’ the proper care. That is the
“why” of Wyomissing Nurseries.

i Cordially Invite You to Write For
Farr’s Book of Hardy Garden Plants —

if you havea hardy garden or plan to make one. I have prepared a complete new book describing the gems of Wyomissing Nurser-
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Nurseries and my very earnest wish is to be of help to you im establishing a garden that will be the pleasure to you that mine
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BERTRAND H. FARR, Wyomissing Nurseries ‘iettise pessk.”

FEBRUARY, 1912

Yellow Roses for the West

I HAVE six bushes of Lyon Rose, which I

obtained the year it was introduced. None of
these bushes is over two feet and a half high.
Although I have treated them in all the ways I
know how to get growth and profusion of bloom,
I have failed.

One year I budded three standards on the
Rosa canina, and obtained a very satisfactory
growth and good flowers. I have already put
buds on bushes of the Manetti, and as soon as I
can get satisfactory buds from Lyon Rose, I
shall bud some more half standards on the Rosa
canina. The largest and best Lyon Rose I ob-
tained last season was from one of the buds on the
Rosa canina.

As to yellow roses: Harry Kirk grows well,
and is a fine color the morning it blooms, but by
night practically all the yellow has faded out of
it, even when I protect it from the sun with a
Japanese umbrella.

I find Franz Deegen, although not a large flower,
a very satisfactory rose. The best yellow Tea, or
Hybrid Tea, to maintain its yellow is Georges
Schwartz. It is classed a tea. I find Monsieur
Joseph Hill the best of all yellow Hybrid Teas. It
has fine foliage, and is practically free from fungoid
diseases. I have ten bushes of it. I have had a
number of roses this year which measured approx-
imately not less than six inches in diameter.

Mme. Melanie Soupert is one of the most magni-
ficent roses to bloom at Portland; of course, it is
only good as an opening bud, or as a partly opened
flower. I have had» some specimens this year
which were approximately seven inches in diameter.
The color fades out easily while M. Joseph Hill
seems to get a more intense yellow as the flower
opens.

From the habit of growth, the color and form of
the leaves, and a certain similarity in the color of
these two it is easy to see that Pernet-Ducher origi-
nated these roses from the same character of
hybridization.

I have tried several of the roses introduced in
1910. Those which have bloomed the most satis-
factorily are Mrs. Foley-Hobbs, Lady Pirrie, Ethel
Malcolm and Mrs. Maynard Sinton. I am some-
what disappointed in the Marchioness of Water-
ford; it has made a fine growth, and I have had
blooms from several bushes. So far as I am able
to judge, it is a rose very similar to Madame Caro-
line Testout. Mrs. E. J. Holland has bloomed
merely asa pink rose, without any special character-
istics. My bushes of Alice de Rothschild have
made fairly good growth, but have not had any
very satisfactory blooms up to this time.

Oregon. FREDERICK V. HOLMAN.

My Hotbed

HE illustration shows a view of my hotbed
taken about two years ago while it was
being cleaned before being stocked with the winter
crop of celery.
I always have a depth of five feet eight inches
of manure from the bottom of the pit to the sash
or glass at its greatest depth, which should be on

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the north side. The hotbed shown in the illus-
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bottom, a kind of construction necessary to the
maintenance of heat. The last two years I man-
aged to keep a temperature of seventy during the
months of March, April and May.

Pat’d June 2, 1903.

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60 THE GARDEN

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After the sash are ordered and received
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Thereafter, the two layers of glass do nearly all the work. No
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FEBRUARY, 1912

Grow fresh vegetables for your table
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BOBBINK & ATKINS
New Hybrid Giant-Flowering Marshmallow

HIBISCUS. The old Greek name for Marshmallow used by Dioscorides, 5
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VWE OFFER $200.00 IN FIVE PRIZES

To Amateur and Private Gardener Exhibitors at the American Sweet Pea Society’s Exhibition
To be held in Boston, Mass., July 13th and 14th, 1912

FOR THE “HENDERSON PRIZE” COLLECTION OF GIANT WAVED “SPENCER” SWEET PEAS
THE 15 VARIETIES—12 SPIKES EACH—OWN FOLIAGE—GROWN FROM OUR SEED

A FIRST PRIZE of $100.00 A SECOND PRIZE of $50.00
The Society's Rules to Govern and their Judges to Decide.

Detailed Information: How to Pack and Forward, Label Cards, Etc.

A THIRD PRIZE of $25.00 A FOURTH PRIZE of $15.00 A FIFTH PRIZE of $10.00

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All Intending Exhibitors Who Will Write Us by June Ist, 1912

The “Henderson Prize” Collection of 15 Giant Spencer Sweet Peas

Sweet Peas, gay and fragrant, are perhaps the most universally popular flowers
cultivated. Inexpensive, easily and quickly grown from seed, thriving in town or
country gardens, supplying an abundance of continuous bloom for months—an
adornment to garden, house or corsage. Is it any wonder that they are everybody’s
flowers, and have been for years and years, even though for a century and a half their
tardiness in developing improved varieties—without parallel among cultivated flowers
was marvelled at by botanists? Eventually, however, the physiological reason was
understood, and artificial cross fertilization was undertaken, then Sweet Pea ‘‘blood
was broken.”” New colors and forms began to appear in rapid succession, until finally,
about 10 years ago, a climaxing type appeared in the famous gardens of Earl Spencer,
Northamptonshire, England. This newcomer, extremely beautiful, the fairest-formed
and largest Sweet Pea ever grown, was named ‘“‘Countess Spencer’ and from this has
sprung the glorified modern race of Giant Waved “Spencer” Sweet Pea.

Henderson’s Great and Grand Sweet Pea

GEORGE WASHINGTON

This glorious crimson-scarlet self we believe surpasses all the World’s Sweet Peas
of similar coloring in size of flower, form, substance and in brilliant purity, untarnished
by burn or scald, though grown unshaded under most trying sun. The flowers of
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Asta Ohn Spencer. Soft Lavender and pinkish-mauve ne Be eres,
Aurora Spencer. Striped white with rosy-orange Ps 25C.
Countess Spencer. Soft pink, rose-pink edges : Bs 25C-
Flora Norton Spencer. Bright, light blue ; 35C-
Garnet Spencer. Large-wav ed purplish-maroon : e 25C.
Helen Lewis. Reddish-orange; wings rose-orange “ oF 25C.
John Ingman. Carmine-rose with deeper veins sf is 25C.

The characteristics of the Spencer Sweet Peas, grown under congenial conditions
are: robust growth, the plants attaining a height of from 6 to ro feet, requiring for
full development to be not less than 6 inches apart. The flowers are giants among
Sweet Peas, measuring 2 to 24 inches across. They are beautifully formed with huge
standards, open and upright and immense wings gracefully poised. Both standards
and wings are daintily waved, the undulations reflecting high lights and casting
shadows in the depths, thus showing a varied harmony of tones which greatly enhances
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strong stems, rendering them unsurpassable as cut flowers for vases, bouquets and
other decorations. Their long-continued profusion of bloom is phenomenal, but
accounted for by the fact that a majority of the flowers of true Spencers fall as they
fade—before the seed pod is formed—thus continuing the succession of bloom—for as
all know when Sweet Peas set pods, the flowering diminishes.

Henderson’s Great and Grand Sweet Pea

MARTHA WASHINGTON

A radiantly beautiful Spencer Sweet Pea, most daintily colored pearl-white from
throat to center, then appears a veiled flush of pink deepening in intensity as it
merges into the marginal zone of soft tyrian-rose. The standard and wings are adorned
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they face, in vase, bouquet or on the plant . . Pkt. toc.; Oz. 25¢.

Mrs. Routzahn Spencer. Apricot-buff, flushed soft pink ....
Primrose Spencer. Cream-yellow or primrose

Tennant Spencer. Rosy-heliotrope

Waverly Spencer. Purplish-maroon

White Spencer. Pure satiny-white

PRICE for the “HENDERSON PRIZE” COLLECTION of GIANT SPENCER SWEET PEAS $ | 00
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Marcu, 1912

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These Books Free

to Owners of Filomes

OU want the best plants, trees
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66 The illustrations suggest many
Hardy pleasing and varied forms of hardy
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Improved Double White Killamey (1912)
Ultima Thule in Roses

(the furthest point yet) this year, you must have all of the foregoing in your garden. We will send you fine healthy young
As stocks are limited, orders should be placed at once.

plants which will give you good satisfaction. n
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strictly in rotation, according to date of receipt.

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Every rose lover knows what a magnificent all round garden rose Killarney
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original Pink Killarney. That rose has created a great sensation, all the com-
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Killarney, also a sport, with double the petalage of the original White Killarney.
Usually such roses as these are offered only to the commercial cut flower growers
the first year — others not getting them until the second or third year.

Our New Departure

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healthy plants of the Improved Double White Killarney post paid at 75c
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a splendid variety.
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Nesting Time is at Hand

HERE are few occupations in human life that we put more heart into than in the building of a home;
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Rule for Measuring
Selection of Seed
Cooking Time Tables
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Farm Water Supply, The
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Mr. E. R. Philo, Elmira, N. Y.

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REAL CO-OPERATION

This plan having proved to be most suc-
cessful, we want to further extend it. The
saving in the expense of circular matter,
advertisements, clerk hire, postage, etc., is
given to the reader. Long term subscriptions
may be used in two ways:

(1) The subscriber may renew his subscrip-
tion to our magazines on the following terms:
The Garden Magazine
I year $1.50
3 years $3.00
Country Life in America
I year $4.00
2 years $6.00
3 years $8.00 ($8.50 after May ist)

The World’s Work
I year $3.00
2 years $5.00
3 years $6.00
(2) Because it costs us in advertising and
circulars so nearly all we get to start a new
subscriber, and because we wish to extend
the circulation of our magazines to others of
the same class of readers (in our unprejudiced
opinion, the best in the world), a present sub-
scriber may use a long term subscription to
renew his own subscription and give one or
two subscriptions to friends; or get one or
two friends to join him in a long term sub-
scription, thus making a two year subscription
into two subscriptions for two persons — one
a renewal; or a three years’ subscription into
three subscriptions to three persons — one a
renewal. As we have said, our advantage
comes in from the co-operation of our readers
to extend the magazine list among others of
the same interested class of readers.

IF THE IDEA APPEALS TO YOU
you need not wait until your subscription
expires. If you care to make these presents
to friends or get friends to join you, the long
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And go to ’t with delight.”—A xtony and Cleopatra

present expiration. The address tag on your
magazine wrapper tells when your term ex-
pires. All such subscriptions must be sent
direct to Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden
Citys Nee

ADVERTISERS’ SERVICE

A year or so ago we inaugurated a depart-
ment for helping our advertisers, or would-be

advertisers, in suggesting and originating
good copy. This department has done very
well, partly because we have a collection

of tens of thousands of photographs to draw
from, a photo-engraving department to make
plates and an experienced suggestion force.

The more we can help our advertisers to
make their copy successful, the better for all
of us. The service is free absolutely and if
you are interested in the subject, send any
material you have and let us make some
practical copy suggestions.

THE ALMANACS FOR I012

There are two, each, we feel, covering its
field well and completely. They are:

The Garden and Farm Almanac — ath year
and going strong. By mail, 35 cents.
The Business ‘Almanac — 1st year.
thing an investor wants to know.

cents postpaid. $1 in cloth.
For several years the Garden and Farm
Almanac has run out of print. Enough said!

ABOUT NEW SPRING BOOKS

Here isa list of the books in press for spring
publication. The dates are subject to change:

February Net
In Search of Arcady Nina Wilcox Putnam $1.20

Every-
Fifty

Red Eve . H. Rider Haggard 1.20
Ben Greet Sh akesped ire:

The Tempest

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Per vol. (ope Ae

As You Like It

The Merchant of Venice
One Hundred Masterpieces
Happy Humanity

March

Fairy Tales a Child Can Read and Act
The Real Fairy Folk . :
Counsel for the Defense.

The Foresters’ Manual

John La Farge 5.00
Frederik Van Eeden 1.2

Lillian E. Nixon 75
Louise Jamison 1.00

Leroy Scott 1.20
{cloth 1.00

Ree Thompson Seton, \ paper eS

Many Celebrities and a Few Others William H. Rideing 2.5°
The Radium Terrors ‘ Albert, Dorrington I.20
The Girondin ; Hilaire Belloc 1.25
The Recording Angel j ; Corra Harris” 1.25
The Spider Book ; i yhn Henry Comstock 4.00
New Demands in Education . James P. Munroe 1.25
A pril

Popular Garden Flowers Walter P. Wright 2.5

Far Quests. Cale Young Rice 1.25
The Guests of Hercules ‘Cc. N. & A. M. Williamson = 1 3

Saturday in My Garden E Hadheld Farthing 2.50

May
The White Waterfall

. James Francis Dwyer I.20

Colonial Architecture Frank Cousins 5.00
Series I., Fifty Salem Doorways

Birds of Eastern North America Charles K. Reed 3.00

A Personal Narrative of Political Experience
Robert M. LaFollette I.50
Mary Evans Francis 4.00

The Book of Grasses .
We have also some plans for new booxs
which have been taken over with the publish-
ing business of Messrs. Baker & Taylor Co.,
particulars later.
Any of these books will be sent on approval,
but better yet, ask to see them at your local

bookstore.

THE LIBRARY OF WORK AND PLAY

The readers of this magazine were recently
given an opportunity to secure the attractive
book issued by our Sales Department descrip-
tive of the new Library of Work and Play.
More than twenty-five thousand of these
books have been distributed, and if you have
not received a copy, we shall be glad to send
one on request.

COUNTRY LIFE STATION

The following trains from New York stop
at our own station on every week day:

Leave Leave Arrive at
Pennsylvania Flatbush Avenue Garden

Station Brooklyn City
7.02 A.M. 7.04 A.M. 7.44 A.M.
7.55 A.M. 7.59 A.M. 8.35 A.M.
9.32 AM. 0.33 A.M. TO.II A.M.
II.00 A.M. II.00 A.M. Ir.46 A.M.
2.00 P.M. 1.57 2.M: 2.45 P.M.
3.04 P.M. 3.00 P.M. 3.47 P.M.
3.34 P.M. 3.38 P.M. 4.21 P.M.
4.13 P.M. 4.09 P.M. Avs7 P.M.
4.44 P.M. 4.44 P.M. 5.20 P.M.

and these trains go from our own station every
week day:

Leave Arrive at Arrive al
Garden Flatbush Avenue Pennsylvania
City Bree Station
5-35 A.M. 6.11 A.M. 6.14 A.M.
8.18 A.M. 8.54 A.M. 8.53 A.M.
8.52 A.M. 9.29 A.M. 9.28 A.M.
9.41 A.M. TO.17 A.M. 10,20 A.M.
10.32 A.M. Ir.o8 A.M. 11.08 A.M.
1.19 P.M. 1.50 P.M. 1.54 P.M.
Th SiG) 1a 2.32 P.M. 2.30 P.M.
3.20 P.M. 4.01 P.M. 4.02 P.M.
5.20 P.M. 5.50 2M. 6.02 P.M.
5.58 E.M. 6,30 P.M. 6.39 P.M.
7.14 P.M. 7.55 P.M. 7.55 P.M.

Country Life station is the next beyond

Garden City.

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Marcu, 1912 VEO eGrACR DEON) SMVATG AZINE) aavise parents te resord te schools 15

Cover DrEsicN—WISTARIA nn ee ei ee ei en) em ee. Vathan R. Graves
PAGE PAGE
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2ee Montn’s REMINDER - - - - - - ------ 77 THE CHILD’s GARDEN - - - - - - - Ellen Eddy Shaw 97
THE TRIcK oF SowING FLowErR SEEDS - - - H.S. Adams 78 IRBADINES’ IESG (Cig 6 of 5 oo 6 6 so oo 5 6 98
Photographs by Arthur G. Eldredge
Tue WHOLE Art oF RalsING SEEDLINGS Parker Thayer Barnes 79 SomE AsTERS WorTH GROWING - - - - - G.W. Kerr 100
Photographs by W. C. McCollom, W. S. Kimball and others Photographs by the author and N. R. Graves

Way Some Sreps Do Nor Grow- - - - - - - - - -. 8 OURS NEM Tans CUDWORM 5 i=) ==) sth DS. TO
Growine Hicw Quatiry Cumna Asters - - -G.W. Kerr 83 AN UNFAMILIAR ACANTHUS - = - - - - - - H. Clarke 110

Photographs by the author, N. R. Graves and others Photograph by the author
SUMUEEPROUEBLES OF THE ASTER -=°- - 2. --=- - «Jf. B. 85 GROWING PAIMS FROM SEED - - - - - Parker T. Barnes 112
VEGETABLES FOR A Famity or SEVEN - - W.C. Richardson 86 Rep BERRIES FOR Next Curistmas - - - - L. J. Doogue 114

Photographs by the author Photographs by the author and H. Troth
STARTING VEGETABLES INDoors - - - - - F. F. Rockwell 80 GARDENING IN FLormpA - - - - - - - - E. P. Powell 118
Photographs by H. C. Ingram and others

Berrer Frurr From Proper Pruninc - - W.C.McCollom ot PLANTING FOR SUMMER Harvests - - - Thomas J. Steed 122
Photographs by William S. Kimball More REMARKABLE Koonti Facts - - - - John Gifford 124

SOWING VEGETABLES For Succession - - - J. M. Angell 03 PIRGHOE TED ID? GING eau:
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CHELOR GIRL’S VEGETABLE GARDEN - - Barbara Arden 4

Photographs by the author 9 How I GRow CUCUMBERS Sapo es ope ied ir armige meee Loe SA
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Bea ne

THE

New Lilacs

on Their Own Roots

F LATE years there has been a multi-

tude of new varieties of Lilacs grown

and many of them have very

beauty, but, unfortunately, almost all the stock
offered, both in this country and Europe,
has been budded on privet and is practically
worthless, for lilacs grown on this are cer-
Nurserymen bud
Lilacs on privet because they can produce a
large stock quickly and inexpensively, but
one Lilac on its own roots is worth a score

tain to die in a few years.

of budded plants.

NEW LILAC, MARIE LEGRAYE

GARDEN MAGAZINE

Marca, 1912

great

Alphonse Lavalle.
blue, shaded violet. $2.

A.W. Paul. Red, black, or flower whitish.

Bertha Dammann. Pure white; very large
panicles of flowers; fine. $2.

Charles Joly. A superb dark reddish purple
variety; double. $1.

Congo. Bright wallflower-red. $1

Dr. Lindley. Large, compact panicles of pur-
plish lilac flowers; dark red in bud; very
fine.

Dame Blanche. Double; white. $1.

Emile Lemoine. Double; very large flowers, of
fine globular form; rosy lilac; beautiful.

Geant des Batailles. Bright reddish lilac; in
Large trusses, 75 cts.

Grand Duc Constantine. Ashy lilac; double.

Jeanne d’Arc. Double, enormous spikes; pure
white flowers, large and full; buds creamy
white.

La Ville de Troyes.
flowers; fine. $1.

La Tour d’ Auvergne.

Double; large panicles;

Large, purplish red

Double; purplish

violet. $1.

Le Gaulois. Rosy lilac; a very lovely variety.
50 cts.

Lemoinei. Rose, turning to lilac; double.

Leon Simon. Double, compact panicles; flow-
ers bluish crimson.

LILAC, SOUVENIR pe LOUIS SPAETH

Price, Except Where Noted, $1.50 Each, $15 per Doz.

Madame Lemoine.
$1.

Madame F. Morel.
fine; single.

Madame Casimir-Perier.
lovely double.

Mad. Abel Chatenay.
$2.

Marie Legraye. Large panicles of white flow-
ers. The best white lilac. 75 cts.

Michael Buchner. Dwarf plant; very double;
color pale lilac: $1. :
Negro. Very dark violaceous purple.

President Carnot. Double; lilac tint, marked
in center with white. $1.

Rothomagensis. Violaceous lilac.

Superb: double; white.
Violet-pink; large and
Creamy white;

Double; milk-white.

35 cts.

Souvenir de Louis Spaeth. Most distinct and
beautiful variety; trusses immense; very com-
pact florets, very Jarge; the color is deep pur-
plish red.

Villosa Lutea. A late-flowering species with
deep pink flowers; extremely free-flowering
and effective. $1.

Viviand Morel. Long spikes; light bluish
lilac, center white; double.

Wm. Robinson. Double violaceous pink.

Amethystina. Very dark reddish purple.

We started growing choice named Lilacs on their own roots ten years ago and now havea very large

and fine stock and the only stock in America.

flowers of the double varieties are very lasting.

We have the largest, finest and most comprehensive stock of hardy plants in America, including three
hundred varieties of the choicest Peonies, one hundred varieties of Japanese and European Tree Peonies,
and also the largest collection of Japanese Iris in the world and an unsurpassed collection of named
Phloxes. Our illustrated catalogue describing these and hundreds of other Hardy Plants, Trees, Rhodo-
dendrons, Azaleas and Shrubs, will be sent on request.

“A PLEA FOR HARDY PLANTS,” by J. Wilkinson Elliott, contains much information about Hardy Gardens, with plans for their arrange-

ment.

Elliott Nursery

336 Fourth Ave.

These Lilacs are strikingly distinct and beautiful.

The

We have made arrangements with the publishers of this book to furnish it to customers at a very low price. Particulars on request.

Pittsburg, Pa.

The G

arden Magazine

VoL. XV—No. 2

PUBLISHED MONTHLY

MARCH, 1912

§ ONE DOLLAR FIFTY CENTS A YEAR
( FIFTEEN CENTS A Copy

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

March Manceuvres

HE amount of garden work you do in

March depends upon, first, the kind
of season; and second, the thoroughness
with which you did the February tasks.
This is the worst month of all for the piling
up of work. Get every job behind you as
quickly as possible. If conditions —
weather included — are of the best, these
are some of the wise gardener’s most
important March duties:

Finish spreading manure; plow or dig
up the soil to the depth of at least a foot.
Repeat this spading, leveling and raking
as often as possible until the ground is
needed.

Now is the time to improve poor soils;
add sand or fine cinders to heavy ones,
lime or wood ashes to sour ones, muck or
clay to sandy ones and well-decayed
manure, in generous doses, to all soils.
Manure and thorough working are the
foundations of a successful garden.

Plant fruits, trees, bushes, vines and
yearling plants, but only after the heavy
freezes have left the ground for the season.
Cut these back well and prune to clean,
unbroken roots before setting.

Prune, the brambles, fruit-trees and
summer-blooming ornamental shrubs and
vines before the buds are ready to break.

Do not prune forsythia, syringa, lilac,
and all spring bloomers or you will have
no blossoms this season.

About the End of the Month

LANT asparagus and rhubarb. Make
trenches or hills two to four feet deep,
half fill them with almost clear manure
adding soil gradually toward the top.
Start a few old plants toward early ripen-

ing by placing boxes or barrels over them,
and banking manure around these.

Remove the mulch from the rest of the
old beds and dig them over shallowly with
a spading fork.

Sow outdoors, using judgment: potatoes,
lettuce, radishes, peas, onions, spinach, etc.
Of course you may have some plants
nipped but the chances are equally good
for a successful, extra early crop.

Sow in hotbeds: lettuce, cabbage, Brussels
sprouts, cauliflower, squash, melons, cu-
cumbers, tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant.
The last three need extra heat; keep them
together in a bed where the temperature
can be kept high.

As these and earlier plantings grow and
become crowded “prick them out” to
other beds or frames, spacing them four
inches apart. Look out for the ‘‘damp-
ing off” disease caused by lack of venti-
lation excessive moisture and too high
temperature. In other words keep the
sashes raised as much and as continu-
ously as possible, without ever chilling
the plants.

Transplant seedlings on a warm, bright
day, but protect them from sunlight. The
slogan of transplanting is “‘Don’t let the
roots get dry.” Cut back to half the leaf
surface of very large plants when trans-
planting.

Don’t forget how easily seedlings can be
handled in paper pots, old berry baskets
and tin cans, and start some therein.
Make a note of saving such things for next
year’s use.

The Keynote of All Planting

| peed gardener who makes two plants
grow where one grew before, defeats
his own aims unless the two are of better
quality than the one. Never be satisfied
till your crops are of the best. The first
essential to this end is—good seed.
There is no excuse for using anything else;
it is not even economy. Buy of the well-
known, reliable seed firms; choose selected,
proven varieties, and don’t begrudge the
price you have to pay for them. Look
at this side of it: a cucumber vine from one
seed may bear twenty-five fruits worth
five cents each, a package of perhaps fifty
such seeds costs ten cents or so. Aren’t
you getting your money’s worth? Most
seeds involve much more expense than
cucumbers. Most of the cauliflower seed
comes from Holland, the best carrot, celery
and radish seed from France, nearly all the
sweet pea seed from California, and so on.
There is a tremendous difference between
well-grown and poorly grown seed, and

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the results therefrom. Don’t be “penny
wise and pound foolish,” buy the best.

In the Flower Garden

ERE the activities are much the same

as among the vegetables. Sweet-
peas, iris, pansies and other very hardy
sorts can be planted outdoors, but you
need not rush them yet. Others may be
started in flats or pots in hotbeds or in-
doors. All annual vines deserve, and
ornamental grasses require, this sort of
treatment.

A number of perennials will flower this
summer if sown now. For instance: Cam-
panula Car patica, Centurea montana, Dian-
thus plumarius, Erigeron glabellus, Papaver
nudicaule, and Penstemon campanulatus.

Remove the coarse mulch from hardy
perennial borders, around shrubs, etc.
Dig in the finer residue as a top dressing.

The Garden Record

Be really useful garden notebook is

a permanent affair that can be
referred to every year. A system that is
only slightly better than nothing at all is
that of marking on a wooden label at the
end of each row, the variety and the date
of sowing.

The best plan is to first plan the garden
on paper and then to have a sort of “day
book” ruled off to contain the following
facts for each sowing: kind of vegetable,
variety, dates of sowing, transplanting,
maturing and harvesting, space given to,
yield, length of bearing season and general
success. If you get your seed from various
sources note this, and if you can be at hand
constantly have columns for dates of
sprouting, blossoming, spraying, etc. Daily
climatic records are also interesting and
often very useful.

At the end of a month or a season copy
all data into a well bound ledger. Here
is a chance to figure out the actual cash
value of the garden and to discover ways
to reduce expenses and increase returns.

Note the Last Chance to

PRUNE dormant plants.
Spray with lime-sulphur for San Jose
scale.

Discover and destroy brown-tail and
gypsy moth nests.

Change the plan of your garden.

Divide established clumps of hardy
perennials — golden glow, phlox, larkspur,
rudbeckia — and other hardy perennials in
the same way that you handle old rhubarb
plants.

The professional gardener sows seeds through the
torn corner of the envelope to get even distribution

An easy way for the amateur is to place them in Very large seeds may be sown in a row one by one

the palm of one hand, scattering with the other

and about two inches apart, to save thinning

The Trick of Sowing Flower Seeds—By H. S. Adams &%.x

MAKING LIGHT WORK OF THE JOB —THE RIGHT WAY-TO HANDLE SEEDS OF DIFFER-

ENT SIZES

| Oe ei more often than not, grand-
mother’s way of planting seeds is
followed in this day and generation. Her
- way was to plant the seeds, in rows or
circular patches, wherever her garden
offered the space, the spot being marked
by the seed envelope impaled on a stick,
or strip of shingle. If the chickens were
likely to be running around loose, there
was a little protective fence of twigs.
With all due respect to grandmother,
this is not a very good way. No doubt
she, in her time, guarded against failure
—as she did in so many other concerns
of her well-ordered life — by “an infinite
capacity for taking pains”; but in this
day and generation the fewer flower seeds
planted in that fashion the better. Barring
the rare annuals, like poppies, that can not
be transplanted and certain very large
seeds, such as the four o’clock, it is wiser
not to fly in the face of Providence. The
soil may bake in the sun or the seeds wash
out in the rain, and while you can always
fall back on the time-honored complaint
that the seed was “no good,” the chances
are very slight that you will be right.
Not only because both of these adverse
conditions can be met successfully and the
seed cared for more conveniently, but

FOR GROWING WHERE THEY ARE SOWN

because a good start of the season is made,
a coldframe, or even a shallow box in a
sunny home window, is preferable. Being,
of necessity, a somewhat intermittent
gardener, my choice of the two is the
coldframe; it needs much less watching
in the matter of the soil baking. Far
from being at all particular as to the
style of coldframe, I temporize with
whatever is handy, pending the day when
I shall have a line of the real thing. I used
to get along with four old boards, laid on
edge and pegged, and a window sash or
two to complete the outfit. Now I have
gone a peg nearer to professional respect

by taking a shallow 3x6 packing box,

made of inch wood; knocking out the
bottom and sinking it a little way in the
ground. It takes two sash and answers
all ordinary requirements.

If there is any question of the drainage
being good, a thin layer of ashes is a proper
foundation for such a seed bed. The
filling, to within about three inches of the
top of the frame, should be good, rich soil
loosened, if need be, by the addition of a
little sand. Sift in the filling, to avoid
lumpy soil; reduce the surface to a rough
level and then pack firmly. I use an old
soap-stone, 6xg inches, for a_ packer;

OR FOR TRANSPLANTING LATER

but a piece of smooth board, about the same
size, and fitted with a wooden handle for
the hand to grasp when pressing, is better.

When the soil thus is made firm, the
actual sowing is done according to the
size of the seed. The finest seed may
be scattered broadcast after the man-
ner of the professional head gardener, who
tears off a corner of the envelope and
lets the tiny grains fall gently and evenly
through the opening. My own way is
to pour the contents of the envelope —
or as much of it as I think I shall need
— into the palm of the left hand and, with
the thumb and two fingers of the right,
take a pinch of seed and scatter it. In
the latter case, of course, both hands must
be quite dry; otherwise the seed will
stick to them. Usually I sift a little fine
soil on top and press once more; but some
prefer to leave the seed on the surface,
as nature does.

In the case of the general run of seed I
make shallow rows the narrow way of the
coldframe, sometimes the merest scratch,
and sprinkle the seed in either one of the
two ways mentioned. Then I sift a little
soil on top and press down. Very large
seeds, such as the morning glory and
nasturtium, I find it easier to place in the

Baking and washing of soil are most easily regulated
by watering through a piece of white cotton cloth

Two ways of shading a seed bed in summer; boards

for heavy, and slats for light, protection

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A shallow box, with the
bottom knocked out, is sunk in the ground

An improvised coldframe.

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diminutive trench one by one, about two
inches apart in the row — this to avoid
thinning out. Have wooden labels ready
and stick in the ground, close to the side
of the frame, as fast as each kind of seed
is planted.

The question of drying out and wash-
ing out I have reduced to a very simple
one by the expedient of cutting a piece of
white cotton cloth the precise size of the

The Whole Art of

= can be started in any window
garden. The temperature of the
kitchen or living room is usually just right
so that it is only necessary to provide a
shelf or a table at the window on which
the pots, pans or flats canbe placed. Here
they will be under
the watchful eye of
the grower all day
and can be given the
necessary attention
without unneces-
sary waste of time
orsteps. If agreen-
house is available
give a temperature
of 60 degrees at
night with a raise
of 10 degrees during
the day.

Annuals, perenni-
als and even shrubs
can be raised from
seeds. These latter
can be grown in the
garden requiring no
room in the house
for starting.

Certain common
annuals such as as-
ters, zinnias, and
such like are easily
grown, and indeed
everybody grows
them; but how
many of us have
tried to raise helio-
trope, begonias, dah-
lias, cannas and similar plants? Instead we
buy these each year at individual root rates.

The following are plants which are
annuals or which can be grown as such,
that is, from seed to bloom the first year:

Abutilon Gaillardia

Ageratum Geranium

Banana (Musa Ensete) Heliotrope

Begonia Lantana

Canna Lobelia Erinus and its
Castor-oil plant varieties

Nicotiana alata
Nicotiana Sandere

Cineraria maritima
Cigar plant

Carnation Petunia

Cosmos Salvia

Dahlia Torenia
Verbena

THE

seed board in use to “firm’”’

seed bed. When the seed is all sown, I
lay this cloth on the bed and wet it well
with a watering can. The cloth keeps
the ground moist and the soil is not washed
at all by the sprinkling. Until the seeds
begin to come through the ground all the
watering is done through the cloth, which
later may be used to lay on top of the sash
for shade.

Unless a great number of plants are

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needed, thinning may be done in the cold-
frame; a certain amount must usually be
done there in any case. If a considerable

stock is required, it is better to have a
second frame ready for transplanting.
If the weather turns warm, or in the

case of summer planted seeds, the sash may
be replaced by narrow slats, which keep the
soil from baking rapidly and at the same
time permit the necessary air circulation,

Penn-

Raising Seedlings — By Parker Thayer Barnes, 2",

HOW TO HAVE A BIGGER AND BETTER GARDEN AT A LESSENED EXPENSE. ANNUALS, PERENNIALS AND SHRUBS COM-
MONLY BOUGHT FROM PLANTSMEN OR NURSERYMEN THAT CAN BE EASILY RAISED AT HOME IN LARGE QUANTITIES

Have a good seed soil. One composed
of equal parts of good garden loam or
rotted sod, and leaf mold, with sufficient
sand to insure good drainage, will give
good results. If leaf mold is not avail-
able, get the soil from a piece of ground

A ‘‘flat’’ of seeds, in section, to show how coarse drainage material is provided at the bottom. The

which has been well fertilized for a couple
of years, and add sand. The amount of
sand will vary according to the character
of the soil. Never use a clay, because it
will bake, making it hard for the seeds to
break through the surface.

The seeds can be sown in pots, pans or
flats—the flats being soap or similar boxes,
and three inches in depth. For this work
I prefer pots or pans, preferably pans
(which are merely shallow pots). In the
bottom place some drainage, such as broken
pots, coal clinkers or stone. Over this
should go some rough material which can
be had by screening the seed soil through a

the surface after sowing fine seeds

mesh of a quarter or three eighths of an
inch. On top of this put about an inch
and a half of the screened soil and press
it down. This should bring the top of the
soil to within about a half inch of the top
of the pot or pan. In pots more drainage
will be necessary
than in pans or flats.
leRpretene a 1Six Or
eight-inch pan for
most of this work.

Where only a
comparatively few
seeds of a _ given
kind are to be sown
two kinds can be
sown in the same
pan, a division be-
ing made through
the centre with a
small, thin stick.
The seeds are scat-
tered around thinly
and covered with
fine soil. To get it
on evenly I use a
sieve which has a
mesh about the size
of mosquito netting;
such a sieve can in-
deed be made out
of a small box and
wire mosquito net-
ting. The amount
of soil covering the
seeds will vary ac-
cording to the size
of the seeds. An
eighth of an inch will suffice for most
seeds, but where the seeds are very fine,
such as petunia seeds, for instance, only
a very thin covering is necessary.

If the seeds are sown in flats, several
kinds can be put in the same one. The
flat can be divided as suggested for the
pans by means of thin sticks or the seeds
can be sown in rows.

After covering, the soil should be watered
to settle it. This can be done with the
coarser seeds with a fine-rosed watering
pot, but the fine seeds should be watered
by placing the pan in a vessel of water,
allowing the water to soak up from below.

A ‘‘pan’’ with seed sown and labeled

Watering the seeds until they germinate
is a particular, but not difficult, operation.
li a piece of glass is placed over the pot
it will prevent the rapid evaporation of
water, thus insuring a more even moisture
in the soil, and the less watering done be-
fore the seeds come up the better, provided
the soil is moist at all times.

As soon as the seed leaves appear above
the soil, the glass should be removed from
the pot or pan, and for this reason it is
better to sow the seeds in pans rather than
flats because all the seeds will not germinate
at the same time.

As soon as the little plants are large
enough to handle they should be pricked
out into flats or other pans and shaded
with a newspaper until they have taken
hold of the new soil and commenced to
grow. From this time their culture will
be the same as if they were asters, stocks
or zinnias.

The Abyssinian banana (Musa Ensete)
which is such a useful plant when one
wishes to make a tropical effect in the
garden, has large seeds which must be
sown early in order that the plant may be
of use; February or early March is none
too early. The seed soil already recom-
mended can be used, but the pots should
be kept in a warm place; if bottom heat
is available, so much the better. If
bottom heat is not available soaking the
seeds in warm water for twenty-four hours
prior to sowing and then keeping the pots
in a warm place, such as near the stove,
will greatly facilitate germination.

All seeds of a hard, flinty nature, such as
the canna, must be soaked in hot water
before sowing. My method of doing this
has been to pour over the seeds, nearly
boiling water, placing the vessel containing
the seeds where the water will remain warm
— on the pipes in the greenhouse, or on the
back of the kitchen stove — but the water
must not get so warm as to cook the seeds.

An equally successful way of treating
canna seeds is to file or cut through the
flinty outer covering, but not so deeply as
to injure the germ. It is only necessary
to cut through the covering sufficiently
to allow the expanding insides to break
through easily. If either of these methods
is not used the canna seeds will be very
slow to germinate.

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Begonia seeds are very fine and must
not be covered. The seed soil in which
begonias are sown should be of very
friable loam; the addition of leaf mold
is essential, and watering overhead should
be avoided at all times. I have always
been able to grow begonias from seed very
easily by using a seed soil which con-
tained equal parts of rotted sod, leaf mold,
sand, and a small amount of finely broken
charcoal, a handful of charcoal to a six-
inch pot full of soil being about the right
proportion. The pans should be prepared
as I have described, but the top soil on
which the seed is sown should be very fine.
Watering the soil by placing the pan in a
dish of water will settle the soil sufficiently
to cover the seeds; but I have taken some
dry spaghnum moss and rubbed it through
a fine sieve until a very thin layer of moss
covered the seeds. This will prevent the
hardening of the surface of the soil from
watering. Petunia seed is also very fine
and better success will be had in growing
the plants if the same methods are used.

Both begonias and petunias must be
pricked out when the plants are very small.

A covering of cloth to take the water prevents the
loss of fine seed

To do this successfully take out a small
portion of the soil containing the seedlings
with a knife blade, laying it on the work
bench, and break up the soi carefully so
as not to injure the roots. This can best
be done by dividing it with the knife blade
or the thin end of the dibble.

To pick up these small plants I use a
pair of forceps as they are too small to
handle comfortably with the fingers. These
forceps I make from a piece of barrel hoop
having the points fine. A dibble is indis-
pensable in pricking out the plants. I
make mine from a piece of pine about
three eighths of an inch square and three
or four inches long, making a flat point on
one end and a round point on the other.
The round point is used to make the hole
in which to put the plant and the flat point
or edge to break up the soil in which the
seedlings are, and also to firm the soil
about the little plant after it has been
placed in the new soil.

The soil in which I prick out the plants
is usually made from the same ingredients
and in the same proportions as the seed

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Marca, 1912

soil in which the seeds are started, but
to which a small portion of very well
decayed horse manure has been added.

In growing plants from seeds the amateur
must keep in mind the fact that species
will reproduce themselves from seed, but
that most varieties will not reproduce the
same kind of a flower as the parent plant.
When one has a particularly fine variety
it will be necessary to multiply the plant
from cuttings. Of the plants already
mentioned, the following can be expected
to come true, or nearly true, to the parent
plant; ageratum, banana, castor-oil, cin-
eraria, cigar-plant, carnation, cosmos,
gaillardia, heliotrope, lantana, lobelia,
nicotiana, salvia, torenia, and verbena.
The varieties or species of abutilon are
not usually offered by seedsmen, but you
can purchase from them packets of seeds
containing a mixture of choice varieties
and colors; but such delightful bedding
varieties as Souvenir de Bonn and Savitzii,
can be perpetuated by cuttings only.

The tuberous begonias which are especi-
ally fine for bedding purposes in shady
places can be purchased in single, double,
and the frilled forms; the seeds will come
fairly true to the name (type), but there
will be a wide variety in color, which will
make a very pleasing effect. Of the ever-
blooming bedding varieties, such as Erfor-
diz, Vernon, semperflorens, one can expect
the seed to produce plants true to the
name and color, but the habits of the
plants may vary somewhat.

Canna seed isa lottery; if the seeds were
saved from fine varieties you will get a few
worthless plants, a large number of fairly
good varieties, but which probably will
not be worth keeping, and possibly one
form (if you are lucky) which will be worth
naming and disseminating; there is always
this chance.

Dahlias, particularly the single sorts,
are far more fascinating to grow from seed
than cannas. Every plant will produce
flowers three inches and more in diameter,
and in all shades of color, from white and
yellow to deep red. The seedlings need
not be pricked out until the first pair of
true leaves is produced, or even a little
later. Then they should be put into two-
inch pots, and later shifted to larger pots
as the growth demands. To produce flower-

“‘ pricking out’”

These young plants are ready for
into more room

Marcu, 1912

ing plants the first year, the double sorts
should be sown not later than March, while
the single varieties will produce flowers
even though the seeds are not sown for a
month or two later.

The geranium has been so highly culti-
vated and hybridized that the various
named varieties do not come true to seed,
but perfectly pleasing forms can be thus
secured. As with the cannas, one always
stands the chance of raising something
very much worth while. This is just what
forms the inducement and fascination of
raising from seed many of these plants
which one ordinarily buys already started
from the florist. So strong a hold has this
fascination of producing new things on
some people that whenever you meet
them they have a new batch of seeds or
seedlings to tell you about.

The petunias have one peculiarity, or,
at least, it might be called that. When
the plants get large enough so that a
selection can be made, the larger and
stronger growing plants had best be dis-
carded; this is particularly true of the
double sorts, for the breeding of these
plants has been carried so far that the
plants that have the better flowers are
those which have the weaker constitution
when young.

Unlike the more common annuals, all
the plants I have named will transplant
into the open much better if grown in
pots. Having pricked them into flats
an inch or so apart, they should be trans-
planted again into pots just as soon as
they have made sufficient growth to cover
the ground. As fast as the plants grow
they will need to be shifted into larger
pots. The only exception to this is the
lobelia, and because of the large quantities
usually wanted, it is better to grow them
in flats and they can stand the shock of
transplanting much better than the other
plants.

Have you ever wished to have a big
display of irises, phlox, and the other
gorgeous perennial plants? These can be
grown from seed with as little trouble as
the common annuals. The time which is
commonly recommended for sowing these
seeds is in July or August, out-of-doors
in a cold frame, or in the open. But better
plants can be had by starting the seed in

Scatter the seed evenly over the surface before
“ firming’’

ECE

the house or greenhouse in February or
March, or in a hotbed or coldframe a little
later when the weather becomes warmer.
It is better to start these seeds under glass
where the temperature and moisture of
the soil can be absolutely controlled, and,
besides, the sooner the seed is sown after it
ripens the better it will germinate.

Fresh seeds from last year’s crop can
be purchased at the present time, and
should be sown just like the annuals.
Many of these seedlings, however, are
more delicate when they first come up,
and to reduce the likelihood of their being
attacked by the “damping off” fungus
add a shovelful of finely broken charcoal
to each bushel of soil. This fungus
suddenly makes its appearance, rotting
the stems near the surface of the ground,
causing the young plants to fall over and
die. Should your seedlings, by any chance,
become infected, immediate measures must
be taken to stop the disease, otherwise
all the seedlings may be killed within an
hour or two. Hot sand is a very effec-
tive check. Put some sand on a shovel
in the furnace and when it becomes hot

To prick out, lift out a chunk of soil with a few
seedlings

put it in a fine screen and sift it over the
plants, until a very thin layer has accumu-
lated on the surface of the soil. The sand
must not be hot enough to burn the plants
of course.

Most of the perennial seeds will germinate
in from one week to two months. When
the seedlings have made two characteristic
leaves in addition to the seed leaves, they
must be pricked out. It is very unwise
to delay this for any length of time for the
plants will become drawn and weakened
which will necessitate weeks of nursing to
get them back into proper condition. This
is really the most critical period in their
life.

- All the coarser growing perennials should
be pricked out into three-inch pots;
the smaller growing kinds, such as the
alpine, arabis for instance, will have
sufficient room in a two-inch pot. Instead
of pricking the plants into the centre of
the pots, as is the usual custom, better
success will be had, particularly with the

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Take up each individual seedling with a stick or
knife and transplant to new quarters

tender-rooted kinds, if they are placed to
one side of the pot. Having been pricked
out, they should be watered, placed in the
greenhouse or window, and shaded.

The best temperature at which to grow
these until they have become firmly es-
tablished in the pots is fifty degrees at
night and sixty or sixty-five during the
daytime. They can then be grown in a
cooler temperature and hardened off pre-
paratory to being placed out-of-doors.
By the time all danger of frost is past and
the ground in the garden is in good work-
able condition these plants will be of
sufficient size to plant directly in the
open.

Seeds which have come from a great
distance, or old seeds, will require more
attention than fresh seeds. Above all
things do not overwater them. I have
found that such seeds, if very sparingly
watered after being sown, and kept on the
dry side will germinate readily, whereas.
if given an abundance of water they rot.
There is an axiom among gardeners that
seed packets that come from abroad should
never be opened until the seed pan is ready
for the seed to be sown at once and covered.
Whether this is true or not I cannot say,
for I have always followed it religiously.
Friends, however, have told me of ex-
periences which confirm it.

If, for any reason, the seeds do not come
up within the time specified, do not be-
come discouraged; water the soil carefully
as it requires, and when hot weather comes,
plunge the pan in a coldframe out-of-doors
where it can have some shade. There
are some perennials which take much
longer to come up; Ranunculus Lyallii,
which is probably the finest of the genus,
is reported as having taken two years to
germinate!

The only perennial with which I have
ever had any trouble is the gasplant (Dic-
tamnus). ‘The first time I tried to germin-
ate this was shortly after I had been given
charge of a garden. Two years I bought
seeds and sowed them, but they did not

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come up. Then I hunted up a gardener
friend and asked him why. The reply
was that if I had sown the seed as soon
as ripe and left it alone the plants would
have come up nicely the following spring.
I followed the advice and found it was
So.
The peony can easily be grown from seed
when new varieties are wanted They
should be sown as soon as ripe, but the
seedlings seldom appear above the ground
the first year for all the strength of the
young plant goes to make roots.

The shrubs are just as easy to grow from
seed as are the annuals and perennials.
There are, however, very
few shrubs grown from
seed as a rule, because
the nurserymen find, with
few exceptions, that they
can raise shrubs more
easily and cheaply from
cuttings. However, that
need not deter the ama-
teur. In walks through
the woods or fields you
will undoubtedly come
upon’ some desirable
shrub. If the seeds are
ripe, pick as many as are
wanted, take them home,
and plant them at once.
Almost without exception
shrub seeds must not be
allowed to become dry. If
they do they will either
not germinate, or will
take two or three years
to come up. Seeds which
have no fleshy pulp
about them can be sown
directly in the ground,
but seeds like barberry,
dogwood, viburnum, and
privet, should be soaked
in water until the pulp
has become sufficiently
softened so that it can
be easily separated from
the seed. After cleaning
the seed can be sown in
the open ground. Shrub
seed should be sown in
beds not over six feet
wide; if they are wider
than that weeding is inconvenient. The
rows in which the seeds are sown should
be six inches to one foot apart. Put
them a half to three quarters of an inch
deep.

Any good garden soil will serve as
a seedbed, but should the ground be
clayey work into it peat or leaf mold, or
put on a thin mulch.

Seed that cannot be sown at once is
“stratified” to keep it from drying out.
This consists of mixing the seeds with
damp sand in boxes and storing them in a
damp place so that the sand will not dry
out. Large seeds can be stratified in a
pit in the garden. They can then be sown
in the spring. Some shrub seeds will not
need stratifying but the seeds of the follow-

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ing genera must be stratified if they are
not sown in the fall. Berberis (the purple-
leaved barberry, can also be grown from
seed as a large percentage of it comes true);
Ceanothus; Cornus (usually does not ger-
minate until the second year); Corylus;
Daphne (very slow to germinate); Euony-
mus; Halesia, Ligustrum (sometimes two
years necessary to germinate), Lonicera,
Pavia, Ptelea, Rhamnus, Ribes, Rubus,
Sambucus, Spiree (when sown the seeds
should be covered only slightly with soil),
Staphylea, Styrax (usually dormant the
first year), Symphoricarpos, Viburnum.

All the rose species such as setigera,

Start seeds now and by the end of summer you can have a border of perennials that
will become better and better as time goes on

Wichuraiana, Carolina, lucida, can easily
be grown from seed, sown at once upon
maturing, or they may be left in the hip
on the plant until spring. Nearly all the
genera in the heath family (Ericaceze)
such as Azalea, Adromeda, Clethra, can
easily be grown from seed if sown as
soan as ripe in pots or pans in peaty
soil and placed in coldframes. Azalea
seed need not be sown until early spring
when the seeds should be sown thinly in
a sandy, peat soil without covering and
kept moist and shady. The young plants
will need to be pricked out into boxes in
a sandy, peaty soil and placed in cold-
frames where they can be shaded and
stored the first winter in a light, well-
aired, frost-proof pit.

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Why Some Seeds Do Not Grow

By G. W. K.

peek stands of vegetables are usually
due to one of two things — the seed
having rotted in the soil, because of cold
weather following early planting, or low
germination because of the dust-dry con-
dition of the soil when the seed was sown,
followed by a long spell of hot, dry weather.
This may be avoided sometimes by soak-
ing the seed in tepid water for twelve hours
before planting. This is specially applicable
to peas, corn, beet, spinach, beans, etc.

Be careful not to plant too deeply. Large,
strong-growing seeds such
as peas, beans, and corn
should be planted from
two or three inches deep;
asparagus, beet, cucum-
bers, etc., one inch deep;
carrot, mustard, lettuce,
radish, turnip, cabbage,
and other similar seeds,
half an inch.

Prepare the seed bed in
the usual way by digging,
make the surface very fine
by the use of the rake,
smooth and make firm;
then sow the seed thinly
on the surface. Spread
evenly over the seed, one
quarter to one half an inch
deep, according to the size
of the seed, a mulch of
thoroughly rotted, mealy
manure sifted through a
half-inch sieve; then give a
thorough watering. Should
very old manure not be
available, substitute leaf
soil. ‘This method is ideal
for perennial seeds, many
of which lie dormant a
long time.

Sow choice seed, such as
coleus, geraniums, helio-
trope, lobelia, pentstemon,
etc., in seed pans or flats
with proper drainage. A
good soil is two parts loam
(or good garden soil) with
onepartleaf mold, to which
is added a 6-inch potfull of
sand to each bushel of the mixture. The
leaf soil must be put through a 3-inch sieve
to exclude undecomposed leaves, sticks, etc.
Fine seed, such as lobelia, should only be
pressed into the soil with a smooth piece
of board. After sowing, water carefully
with a very fine rose and place the seed
boxes in a greenhouse, frame, or sunny win-
dow, covering with paper to prevent the
top soil from drying off too quickly. Be
careful when watering the seedlings previ-
ous to transplanting, for they are very
liable to damp off. Sow begonia, primula,
calceolaria, cineraria, ferns, and the choice
double petunia in pots. Water the soil, and
after it has dried off a little sow the seed
and press it into the soil; cover each pot
with a sheet of glass.

A fantastic form of the flat rayed or globe aster
with convolute rays (Electric)

The reflexed form with short, flat rays /
(Pink Beauty)

A progressive type of globe aster with long, flat
rays (Orego or Comet)

Penn-

Growing High Quality China Asters — By G. W. Kerr, St

START NOW TO HAVE PLANTS THAT WILL GIVE FLOWERS FROM MIDSUMMER UNTIL AFTER FROST —
AN ANALYSIS OF THE TYPES AND AN APPRAISAL OF THE BEST VARIETIES FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES

HE China aster has taken a strong
grip on popular appreciation because

of all the annuals it gives a greater return
than any other in massiveness of individual
plants and in the variety and immensity
of its flowers. It is equally useful for
planting in the garden, in beds, and in bor-
ders, for growing as a pot plant for house
decoration, and as a source of flowers for
cutting. The immense variety of color
and form has resulted in the introduction
of some hundreds of varieties. Not by
any means its least important character-
istic is its late-flowering quality, giving
(from spring sowing in the open) blooms
when most other annuals are passing away.
The aster resembles the chrysanthemum

Single plant of the Victoria type. 18 inches high.
Plenty of flowers for one root!

in many respects but comes into bloom
somewhat in advance of the latter and
endures until frost. In color the aster
gives us blue, red, pink, purple, and white;
a few but little grown varieties show a
slight tendency toward yellow. Its season
extends from the end of July from outdoor
sowing or from early in July from seeds
started under glass, or indoors, in March.

TYPES AND VARIETIES

The original single aster is a daisy-like
flower with a yellow disc, measuring per-
haps a couple of inches across. In its
improved double forms we have flowers
as large as five or six inches, with the rays
either flat or quilled or the two forms
combined as in the anemone chrysanthe-
mum. They may be analyzed thus into
two divisions and four groups:

A. Flat rayed: 1, incurved or ball-
shaped (Globe asters); 2, flat or reflexed.

B. Tubular or quilled, in which only
the outer rays are flat; 3, inner florets
short; 4, all the florets long and quilled.

The most important forms and _ prac-
tically the only ones really worth growing
are included under the first division (A),
which is the oldest type.

The Globe asters include the types
offered in catalogues as Truffaut’s, Peony-
flowered Perfection, Semple, Triumph,
which are of the late-flowering, branching
type.

The flat or reflexed group includes the
Chrysanthemum - flowered, Washington,
Mignon, Victoria, Queen of the Market,
Crown and Comet types, which last is the
earliest flowering and best for use in the
flower garden.

The third group, the quilled asters,

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include Dwarf Bouquet and Shakespeare,
useful as dwarf plants for bedding, growing
six to eight inches high.

The fourth and last group, with all the
florets elongated and quilled, is represented
by the Lilliput and Victoria Needle types.
The plants are medium to tall and have
the same general habit as those of the first
and second groups.

A discussion of the finer points of what
I regard as the best of the more popular
varieties of the day will be found on
page I00-

There is no royal road to success in aster
growing — the way is open to ali; but to se-
cure typical plants with a plentiful supply
of magnificent flowers rivalling the indoor

The dwarf Waldersee aster, only six inches high,

for bedding and edging. One plant

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grown chrysanthemum,
the soil must be thor-
oughly prepared and well
enriched.

Asters adapt themselves
to practically any soil,
though best results are
obtained when grown in
a rich loam, not too heavy
and retentive, and where
the temperature is cool;
though with a little extra
‘care in providing moisture
and a cool soil, they can
be most successfully culti-
vated in almost any sec-
tion of the country.
Turn over the soil to a
depth of at least twelve
inches, at the same time
ineorporating a liberal
quantity of well-rotted
farm-yard manure — you
can hardly give too much
—and rake into the sur-
face soil a dressing of acid
phosphate at the rate of
four ounces to the square
yard.

Although good results
are obtained by sowing
the seed in the open
ground, those who have
space in their green-
houses or frames should
certainly start the seed
under glass, asa good and
even germination is more
likely to result and trans-
planted asters invariably
make much finer plants,
being more shapely and
producing better and
larger flowers than when
sown directly where
they are to bloom, and bloom is also
had earlier.

In the greenhouse sow the seed in shallow
boxes containing carefully prepared soil,
consisting of equal parts of rich sandy loam
and leaf mold; if the loam is heavy, add
sand to lighten it. A very early start is
no advantage as the plants may become
too tall and leggy ere the weather is fit for
plantingintheopen. The middle of March
is a suitable date for sowing aster seed
indoors in the neighborhood of Phila-
delphia to plant out in May. Sow broad-
cast and cover with not more than one-
quarter inch of fine soil.

After sowing the seed, water carefully
with a fine rose and cover with paper so
as to conserve the moisture and hurry
germination. Indiscriminate watering is
often the cause of poor stands. Give
water only when the soil actually requires
it, and use a fine rose on the watering can
to prevent the top soil (and seed) from
washing.

The moment the seedlings begin to
break the soil, remove the paper shade.
When the seedlings are from one to two
inches in height, transplant to other boxes,

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As with most annuals. asters are best used in rich masses of one color.

garden color and for cutting

or better still, into a mild hotbed, or even
a coldframe, setting them three inches
apart. Shade the transplanted seedlings
for a day or two until they show signs of
making fresh growth. At that time the
sun will be very powerful and air must be
given whenever possible, by lifting the
sash on the side opposite that from where
the wind comes, and as the season ad-
vances gradually harden off the plants by
removing the sashes entirely during the
daytime.

When the trees are coming into leaf
the plants may safely be set out in the
beds or borders. An hour before trans-
planting give the plants a thorough soak-
ing of water which will enable you to lift
them with a good ball of soil adhering to
the roots.

Ii the seed is sown in frames the same
general procedure will, of course, be fol-
lowed except that boxes will not be required,
the seed being planted directly in the soil
in the frames, the rows being three inches
apart. About the time for setting the
plants in the open a second sowing of
seeds should be made for late flowering,
either in frames as before or where the

Marca, 1912

plants are intended to
bloom.

In sections where the
flower buds are apt to
blight during the heat and
drought of midsummer,
plant the seed in a frame
or cool greenhouse dur-
ing March, transplanting
the seedlings when they
are about one inch or so
in height to stand three
inches apart; or they may
be potted singly into small
pots, kept in a rather cool
place so that they may
make sturdy growth, and
planted in the open when
all danger of severe
weather is past, a fairly
safe guide being to plant
when the trees are com-
ing into leaf. Plants
grown by this method will
give bloom much earlier
than when the seed is
sown early in the open
ground, and generally will
avoid both blight and
the attacks of the aster
(black) beetle. These evils
may also be escaped by
late sowing in the open
—early June. At that
period, however, the
weather may be very dry
and watering must be reg-
ularly attended to until
the seed has germinated
and the seedlings thinned
out or transplanted. The
plants from this late sow-
ing come into flower safely
during the cooler early
fall days.

When planting into their permanent
quarters, give each plant ample space to
develop itself. This is to say for the tall
varieties eighteen inches apart and for
the dwaris eight inches. And after plant-
ing keep the hoe working between the
plants and water thoroughly during hot,
dry weather. See to it that the top soil
is always loose; never allow it to become
hard and baked, as that prevents the:
admission of air to the soil and immediately
checks growth — and a check in growth
invites attacks of aphis.

Just about the time when the plant is
approaching maturity. it sometimes hap-
pens that the central growth.becomes yel-
lowish and shrivelled, due, as believe to an
insect, and sometimes called the “blight.”
Now I do not believe in aster blight, a
conclusion based on extended experience of
my own and the opinions of the large aster
seed growers of New York State. The
trouble, whatever it is, can be controlled
if growers will spray their plants with arsen-
ate of lead and kerosene emulsion at least
once a week from the time the plants are
four inches high until they come into
flower.

Useiul alike for

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Some Troubles of the Aster
By L. B., New York

HE blue root aphis is one of the worries
of the aster grower. It seems to be
almost inseparable from growing asters and
may be found equally on strong growing
plants and on those that are sickly and
weak. It undoubtedly weakens the plants
on which it is found in any quantity. The
point of attack is around the stem just at
the union of the stem and root, and slightly
below the ground level. Heavy dressings
of wood ashes seem to make the ground
uncongenial to the pest and mulching with
tobacco stems is also recommended. The
liability of attack is much more marked
on hot, dry ground than on moist, wet
soil.

Another trouble all too familiar is the
aster blight, the exact nature of which is
not recognized. Its effect on the plant
is too well known. This has been called
the yellow blight because of the general
appearance of the plant which makes a
bright yellow, straggling growth. The
parts affected do not die or wilt but the
flowers are affected and the growing tip
becomes greenish yellow instead of dark

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green. The flowers are imperfectly formed
and the color becomes yellowish like that
of the affected leaves. It seems the only
thing to do is to pull up and burn the
diseased plants, for when once the trouble
appears it seems to be likely to crop out
here and there from time to time among
otherwise healthy plants. Good sturdy
growth in the beginning and proper atten-
tion to cultural details will almost ensure
plants against attacks of this disease.

The stem rot or wilt is another trouble
occasionally appearing and this is due to a
fungus which enters the plant near the
ground line and cuts off the water supply.
At the ground line the stem is plainly
rotted so the trouble is easily recognized.
Here again the normal color of the flower
changes to yellowish green and the plant
shows a fading or blighting over a portion
of it, usually one side. Pull up and destroy
any affected plants as soon as the appear-
ance is recognized.

A sudden wilting of the entire plant is
often due to the appearance of the common
white grub, the immature form of the May
beetle. Of course, if the plant is pulled
up and the grub is seen at work, there is
no doubt as to the source of the trouble.

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Here again the tendency to attack is more
marked on dry soils. The remedy that
has been ‘successfully used of late with
the same grub where it attacks straw-
berries may be used — that is, pouring a
teaspoonful of bisulphide of carbon on to
the ground right in contact with the collar
of the plant.

The aster beetle, dull black with hard,
shell like wings about an inch long and
rather narrow, is, it must be confessed, a
terrible pest in some localities. It does
not trouble the plant until the flowers
appear and then, if it is not shaken off, it
devours the petals by wholesale. I have
tried all the insecticides in general use
without any good result. The only way
to avoid this attack is to go over the plants
every day, knocking off the beetles into a
vessel containing a small quantity of
kerosene. The attack ceases as suddenly
as it commences and may be dodged some-
what by getting the flowers extra early or,
on the other hand, late.

None of these diseases should be regarded
as So serious as to cause the abandonment of
the cultivation of the China aster. Rather
their possibilities should urge us to thor-
ough attention to proper cultural methods.

A typical plant of the branching type (Semple).

The branching asters are most useful for cutting because they have long stems and bloom freely.

There are

early, dwarf, and late kinds which are efféctive for borders, etc.

Vegetables for a Family of Seven — By M. T. Richardson, i

A COMPLETE PLANTING TABLE FOR THE HOME GARDEN,
SHOWING WHAT CAN BE DONE ON A PLOT 52x86 FEET

HEN we moved to the suburbs we
boldly determined to have a garden.
City born and bred, we knew absolutely
nothing about the ways of growing things;
but this did not deter us. We engaged an
old German, who recommended himself
highly, to plant and cultivate, at $1.50
a day. The first year Fritz managed
the garden entirely, and the results were
disappointing — or would have been to
any but ultra-urbanites used to dried-up,
grocery-store vegetables! Even we saw
its shortcomings, but we forgave much for
the taste we got of tender peas and un-
thinkably sweet corn. It was just a taste,
for Fritz believed in planting once and for
all. His idea was to plant seeds in the
spring and let them grow, hoeing out the
worst of the weeds when absolutely nec-
essary. Any interference with such natural]
forces as bugs or blight was ridiculous.
When the squash vines suddenly wilted,
and I demanded the reason.
“Bucs,”’ was the laconic reply.
“But can’t we do something?” I urged.
Fritz shook his head. “It would be
no juse,”’ he declared. ‘“‘The wetter iss
too dry. The wines grow goot, comes
bucs und dry wetter, und they die. An-
udder year we might couldt get squashes.”

A GOOD DETERMINATION

We. determined that another year we
would get squashes, if we had to care for
the garden ourselves. And that is just
what we did do, perforce, as even old
Fritz was not available. Meanwhile we

fell to studying catalogues, books, maga-
zines — everything we could get on the
subject of garden.

By the time fall came we had learned
our a-b-c’s, and in October we started our

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next year’s garden by clearing our 52 x 86
foot plot and burning all refuse. Then we
had a good layer of manure spread on the
ground and ploughed in. Through the
winter we planned the garden, drawing
a plan to scale. It takes careful planning
to make less than one eighth of an acre
supply vegetables for a family of seven,
but it is quite possible. We succeeded in
raising a bountiful supply for ourselves,
with plenty left over to give to our friends
and neighbors. Of course, we discrimin-
ated in planting vegetables, omitting those
we do not care for. We did not plant
potatoes, which can be bought as good as
they can be raised; we did not raise egg-
plant, cabbage or brussels sprouts. But we
planted strawberries and an asparagus bed,
and of peas, beans, corn, tomatoes, beets,
carrots, melons, squashes, cucumbers, let-
tuce, parsley, onions, okra we had more
than we could use. As we have neither
hotbed nor coldframe, we bought tomato
and cauliflower plants, but all the other
vegetables were started from seed in the
open ground. We made several plantings
of most vegetables, a little seed at a time.
That lesson, too, Fritz taught us. He had
put in six rows of string beans, with the
result that by July not only we, but our
neighbors on every side, paled at the sight
of a bean! This time we planted one or
two rows at a time, and had plenty of
tender. young, stringless beans all summer,

THE FIRST PLANTING

We began planting on April 1st. As the
ground had been all ploughed in the fall,
we had only to rake it and make our rows
with a wheel hoe. We put in radishes,
spinach, peas, lettuce, carrots. After the
planting was done, an hour a day kept

A border of herbaceous plants and roses at one end of the vegetable patch gives flowers for the house

86

the garden in good condition, though two
hours would have been better, if we could
have spared the time. The wheel hoe
proved a great time saver.

AND A LESSON

The mild weather lured us into planting
some things too early. We put in corn the
tenth of April, and it did not germinate.
We found that peas, lettuce and spinach
can hardly be planted too early, but noth-
ing is gained by trying to hurry in corn,
melons, squashes or lima beans. Our
own mistakes, as well as Fritz’s, taught
us much. Another year we will not plant
so many of the little “first early” peas,
which are not nearly so sweet as the
larger ones. We will make only one plant-
ing of Early of Earlies, and thereafter use
Gradus, Telephone or Champion of Eng-
land.

SUCCESS WITH PEAS

An old farmer of our acquaintance told
us his method with peas, and it was such
a success that I give it here. Make a
trench about four inches deep with the
wheel-hoe and scatter in it a thin layer of
well-rotted manure. Sow the peas, rather
thickly, directly on the manure and cover
with soil. This sounds dangerous, but
produced bumper crops for us. We did
not use the manure for plantings later than
June ist. Be generous in sowing peas, if
the vines are thick they seem to do better;
while corn must be planted thinly, or else the
young plants must be thinned to one or one
and one half feet apart in the row. |

The last of April or the first of, May is
time enough for the early varieties of corn,
of which Golden Bantam is (to us) the most
delicious. Stowell’s Evergreen for a main
crop is sweeter and tenderer than Country
Gentleman.

Spinach can be planted early, and it is
well to have several rows, four at least, as
jt takes a good deal to make a ‘“‘mess.”
We cut ours three times, then took it up
to make room for another crop. For
later planting of spinach use the New
Zealand, which will stand the hot weather.

BEATING THE CUTWORMS |

The tomatoes taught us another lesson.
Two dozen plants, set out the last of April,
died. The cold weather in early May
discouraged some, while the rest were
neatly cut off just above the ground by the
cutworms. On May 15th we set out
more plants, and around each one we put
a circle of pasteboard, lapping the ends,
and pressing it into the ground about an
inch, leaving an inch above the ground.
As the cutworms work on or near the
surface, this simple device saved our
tomatoes. When the plants were two
feet high we trained them to a single stalk,

Marcu, 1912

or two at the most, and tied them to stout
stakes four feet high. Through the sum-
mer we tied the tomatoes several times,
as their weight pulls them down. We
used rags, instead of string, to tie them.
Squashes, cucumbers and melons require
much the same treatment. They must
not be planted too early, particularly
squashes and melons. Our muskmelons
were such a success that we felt more than
paid for the trouble we took. We first
prepared the hills carefully, putting a
shovelful of well-rotted manure in each
hill and covering it with soil. Then we
planted ten seeds to a hill (some on May
toth, the rest on May rsth) and covered
each hill with a cheesecloth-covered frame
— just a soapbox with the bottom knocked
out and cheesecloth tacked over it. These
boxes we left on the hills until the vines
filled them, and thus evaded the striped
beetle. The boxes are not absolutely
necessary, but are the best way to keep the
vines clean and healthy. Some hills were left
uncovered, and we kept down the beetles
with hellebore and by putting wood ashes
around the hills. We also planted some rad-
ish seeds near these, as a sort of decoy for the
beetles. When the vines were two feet long
we pinched them back (carefully, for melon
vines are tender) and began spraying with
Bordeaux mixture and arsenate of lead.
We sprayed frequently during the summer,
about every three weeks, and as a result

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our vines were healthy and _ vigorous
when our neighbors’ were suffering from
blight and bugs. When they blossomed
we gave them nitrate of soda — a solution
of one eighth pound of nitrate of soda to a
pail of water. This we did again when
the fruit set, and once more just before it
ripened. As a result we had an abundance
of delicious melons nearly up to frost.
Every morning we picked cool, dewy melons
for breakfast.

In the accompanying table the vege-
tables marked with an asterisk we did
not raise, but the data for them comes
from a reliable source, and is included
to afford a comprehensive table for the
reader to work from. All the rest of the
table is the result of actual experience.

Our 52 x 86-foot garden supplied us with
an abundance of vegetables until frost,
with beets, carrots, onions and parsnips
and canned tomatoes and corn for winter
use. On September 15th, for instance,
we picked two baskets of tomatoes, twenty-
four ears of corn, eight melons, two cucum-
bers, two vegetable marrows, two bunches
of beets, five carrots, three quarts of lima
beans. We could have had okra, spinach,
and Cos lettuce also, but did not pick them.

To make a small garden pay well four
things are necessary: careful planning,
plenty of fertilizer, frequent cultivation,
and brains, and these are not always to be
had at $1.50 a day.

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Onions
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Cucumbers

_Cos lettuce
Spinach. Late lettuce
Spinach, Late lettuce
Spinach. Late beang
Lettuce. Late beans

Corn

Corn

Early sprnach, Late corn

Early spinach. Late corn Early peas. Late corn

Main corn crop
40 hills 3ft, each way

Early peas, Late corn
Early carrots.Late lettuce| |
Early carrots. Late beets

1Row bush limas

Melons
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VEGETABLE VARIETY DATE OF PLANTING QUANTITY CROP MATURED REMARKS
Asparagus Palmetto, Colossal April 1, or fall 50 roots Not cut for 2 years Plant in trenches, 3 feet apart, roots 3 feet
apart. Fill trenches gradually. Use
plenty of manure on bed.
Beans, lima Burpee Im- | April 20 to May 1 1 row{ to 4 pkg. | 45 to 60 days Plant 2 inches deep, 6 inches apart in rows
proved Bush | | 2 feet apart. Crop, 4 bushel.
Burpee’s Giant | May 15 24 poles to pt. | go to 120 days Set poles 4 feet apart, plant 5 beans to
Podded each pole. Pinch off when vines reach
| top of poles. Crop, 2 bushels.
Beans, string Bountiful | April 15 2 rows, # pt. | 60 to go days Plant 2 inches deep, about 4 inches apart
Hudson Wax May 1 I row, 3 pt. | in row. Best to plant frequently a few
Bountiful | June r 2 rows, # pt. | at a time. Plant every 2 weeks if de-
Wax | June 15 I row, #? pt. sired. Crop, 16 quarts.
Bountiful | July 15 I row, 3 pt.
Beets Crimson Globe April 15 2 rows, I pkt. | 60 to go days | Plant seed thinly in drill 1 inch deep.
May 15 I row , > pkt. Thin by pulling largest beets each time.
June 15 I row , ¢ pkt. Winter in sand. Crop, 2 bushels.
July 15 2 rows, 1 pkt.
Or about 3 ozs. for
all planting |
*Cabbage Early Jersey May 15 24 plants, 2 rows too to 150 days | Buy plants, or start seed indoors: early
Late Flat Dutch June 15 24 plants, 2 rows | var. March ist; late, May rst.
Cauliflower Dwarf Erfurt , May 15 | 24 plants, 2 rows 1oo to 115 days | Buy plants or start seed indoors March rst.
Carrot Harbinger April 1 | 2 pkt., 1 row 70 to 100 days | Plant seed thinly 34 inch deep in rows.
April 15 | + pkt., 1 row Thin out by pulling largest for use.
Half Long May 1 | > pkt., 2 rows | Winter insand. Crop, 1 bushel.
|
Corn Golden Bantam, April 24 4 rows, i pkt. go to 100 days | Plant early and late varieties (Golden
Holmes Delicious May 10 | 4 rows, 1 pkt. Bantam, Holmes Delicious, etc.) in
Stowell’s Evergreen May to | 50 hills, z pt. | rows 2 inches deep, 2 feet apart in rows.
Stowell’s Evergreen June r 1o hills, 4 pt. Main crop in hills, 3 stalks to hill, hills
Stowell’s Evergreen June 15 to hills, 4 pt. 3 feet apart. Remove suckers. Abun-
Golden Bantam July « 4 rows, 1 pkt. dant supply from July 25 to frost.
Cucumber Cool and Crisp May 1 5 hills, > pkt. 50 to 75 days Hills 4 feet apart. Spray with Bordeaux
| Cool and Crisp May 15 5 hills, } pkt. | and arsenate of lead 3 or 4 times. Crop:
White Spine | June 15 5 hills, > pkt. | about 25 to 50 to a hill

* Were not planted in garden described in text.

+ “A-row,” as shown on the plan, is twenty-five feet long.

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OF SEVEN — Continued.

REMARKS

Plants 2 feet apart.

Transplant to make head. Shade with
cheesecloth in hottest weather. Crop,
25 heads to row.

Plant in hills, 4 feet apart each way, 12
seeds to hill. Thin to two vines to hill.
To elude striped beetle cover each hill
with box with cheesecloth top, or plant
radishes with melon seeds. When vines
are 2 feet long, spray with Bordeaux and
arsenate of lead every two weeks until
fruit ripens. Pinch vines back when
3 feet long. Crop, about roo fruits.

Plant sets 2 inches deep in rows 2 feet
apart. Crop, $ bushel

Soak seeds; cover lightly with soil. Slow

to germinate.

Scatter seeds thinly in rows, or thin after
plants start. Crop, about 100.

For early peas (up to May ist) scatter
manure in trench, sow peas directly on
this manure and cover 3 inches. For
succession, make new planting when the
last one is 2 inches high. Crop: about 4
bushel to each planting.

Hills 6 feet apart.

Plant seeds 4 inch deep. Short crop —
plant between rows of longer crops.

One inch deep, rows 13 feet apart. Cut
first planting 3 times, then remove (June
15th) to plant corn. Let New Zealand
grow all summer.

Plant in hills, 4 feet apart, 12 seeds to hill.
Thin to 2 vines per hill. Crop, 50 each.

Set plants 3 feet apart. Pinch back to
one stalk, tie to stakes or trellis.

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VEGETABLE PLANTING TABLE FOR A FAMILY
VEGETABLE VARIETY DATE OF PLANTING QUANTITY CROP MATURED
*Egegplant Black Beauty Put out plants in 6 plants go days
May
Lettuce Wayahead March 31 I row, z pkt. 40 to 50 days
April 15 I row, ¢ pkt.
May 1 I row, + pkt.
May 15 I row, ¢ pkt.
Cos June 1 I row, z pkt.
July 1 I row, 7 pkt.
Muskmelon Emerald Gem May 9g to 15 25 hills, ¢ pkt. each go to 120 days
Fordhook according to variety
Long Island Beauty weather
Onion Prizetaker April 4)
Repall aa I pt. sets, 2 rows too days
JParsley Triple Curled April 15 i row, 4 pkt. 60 days
Parsnip Hollow Crown April 15 2 rows, 4 pkt. After frost
Peas Early of Earlies April 1 2 double rows, 1 qt. 50 to 60 days
Gradus April 1 2 double rows, 1 qt.
Telephone April 15 2 double rows, 1 qt.
Telephone May 1 2 double rows, 1 qt.
Gradus June 1 2 double rows, 1 qt.
Gradus June 15 2 double rows, 1 qt.
Thos. Laxton July 1 2 double rows, r qt.
*Pumpkin May 15 10 hills 15 weeks
Radish Cooper’s Spark- April 1, and every I row, 3 pkt. 25 to 4o days
ling 2 weeks
Spinach Boddington’s Im- March 31 4 YOWS, + OZ. 35 to 40 days
proved April 15 4 rows, + Oz.
New Zealand May 1 4 TrOws, ¢ OZ.
Viroflay August 15 4 YOWS, ¢ OZ.
Squash Vegetable Marrow May 15 | 6 hills, } pkt 50 to 60 days
*Hubbard May 15 6 hills, 3 pkt tro to 120 days
Tomato Earliana
Beefsteak 4 May to 24 plants go days
Golden Morn
*Turnip Early Milan, white April 15 I row, 3 pkt. 60 to 90 days

* Were not planted in garden described in text; all else is an actual recast of last year’s work.

Half-inch deep.

One day's harvest. September 23. An ample supply for the family’s needs

Looking across the strawberry patch on June 25. The peas are in the background

Con-

Starting Vegetables Indoors — By F. F. Rockwell, si

LENGTHEN THE GARDEN SEASON THIS YEAR BY MAKING A BEGINNING NOW, WITHOUT A GREENHOUSE —
RELIABLE VARIETIES THAT HAVE STOOD THE TEST OF YEARS FROM THE SEED PACKET TO THE GARDEN

ANY managers
of small gar-
dens lose six weeks
garden dividends
every year because
they do not realize
that early plants
can be successfully
started without a
greenhouse, or even
a hotbed.

An early start
means not only that
your garden re-
turns will begin
weeks earlier, but
that later crops, by
becoming well estab-
lished early in the
season, have a
longer season in
which to mature,
and are in much bet-
ter condition toresist
prolonged droughts.

Neither a costly
greenhouse nor a
cumbersome hotbed is essential. And the
fact that you will probably require only a
few hundred plants gives you a distinct
advantage over the large-scale gardener,
because you can make use of ready-to-hand
conditions which would not be adequate
for his use.

SELECTING THE RIGHT VARIETIES

In the first place, order your seeds at
once. But don’t do it in such a hurry as
to do it thoughtlessly. Getting good early
stuff depends largely upon selecting the
right varieties; and let me urge you keep to
the known reliable kinds for your mainstay.
Here is a list of the vegetables you will
want to “start” early. The varieties sug-
gested have stood the test of time and
“made good.” I have grown them all
myself, and can give a recommendation
first-hand. If your seedsman does not have
the identical varieties he can supply you
with something of the same type that will
be equally good. The proper time for sow-
ing indoors is also given in the table below:

SOW FEBRUARY IST TO MARCH IST
Cabbage. Wakefield, Glory of Enkhuisen.
Cauliflower. Burpee’s Best Early, Snowball.
Onion. Prizetaker, Ailsa Craig, Silverskin.

SOW FEBRUARY I5TH TO MARCH I5TH

Beets. Crosby’s Egyptian, Early Model.
Brussels Sprouts. Dalkeith.

Celery. White Plume, Golden Self Blanching.

Lettuce. Grand Rapids, Mignonette, May King.
SOW MARCH IST TO APRIL IST

Cucumber. Davis Perfect, Fordhook Famous.

Eggplant. Black Beauty.

Pepper. Ruby King, Chinese Giant.

Potatoes. Bovee, Noroton Beauty, Irish Cobbler.

Squash. Hubbard, Gregory’s Delicious.

A shallow box on a table in front of a window is an excellent arrangement for starting seeds indoors.
Sow each kind separately in shallow drills. Use a sharp-edged board as a marker, pressing it into the soil

Tomato (early).
Tomato (late).

Earliana, Chalk’s Early Jewel.
Matchless, Dwarf Giant.

SOW MARCH I5TH TO APRIL I5TH

Corn. Golden Bantam, White Cob Cory,
Crosby Early.

Melon, Musk.
Hoodoo.

Netted Gem, Emerald Gem,

There is no magic about a greenhouse,
in itself, that makes plants grow. If you
can provide the same conditions of tem-
perature, moisture, and light, that you
find in a greenhouse you can start your
plants just as well without it as with it.
Where plants are to be grown by the
thousand, the matter of convenience alone
makes the greenhouse a necessity. But
for the home gardener, who wants but a
few dozen plants of a kind, results as good
can be obtained without one. You can
grow your own plants cheaper than you
can buy them, and more important still,
you can grow better plants, as a rule.

STARTING PLANTS IN THE HOUSE

There are very few houses indeed, where
there is not some room with a sunny
window or two, in which the night tem-
perature, after February 15th, can easily
be kept up to 45 or 50 degrees.

Now this suggestion need raise no
immediate cry of “muss” and “dirt.”
You can buy a few yards of nice neutral-
toned, self-colored, sheathing or building
paper, to protect floors or rugs. ‘There
is probably an old table available for use!
If not, it is a matter of no great ingenuity
to construct a temporary shelf, just below
the level of the window, which will support
a number of “flats.” So two of the three

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requisites —light,
heat, moisture—are
provided almost be-
fore you've begun
to think about the
thing!

“Moisture” does
not mean keeping
the soil in your seed
boxes and flats drip-
PM oeaw elt. da hye
proper amount of
water for the soil
will be suggested
later, but the condi-
tion of the air in the
yoom is one of the
most important fac-
tors in this growing
Oh pla mus mim athe
house. A hot, dry,
stale (deoxygenized)
atmosphere will
very likely prove
fatal to your efforts.
Steam heat and fur-
nace heat rapidly
deprive the air of what moisture it may
contain. So the air in the room must be
kept “fresh” by giving ventilation at all
times when the outdoor temperature will
allow it, and also by keeping bowls or
saucers of water evaporating on all radi-
ators or registers.

Coal or illuminating gas in any percep-
tible quantity will also destroy plant life.

PREPARING SOIL FOR SEEDS AND PLANTS

If you have no good soil about that is
not frozen solid, the quickest and simplest
way to provide the necessary soil will be

. to get a bushel or two at the nearest florist.

If that can’t be done, take the crow-bar
or pick-ax and break up a few lumps in
the garden. Leave these for a few days in
a box—for five cents at the grocers,
you can get a cracker-box which will hold
about a bushel — near the furnace or stove.
Let the dirt not only thaw out, but dry
out until it will not stick together when
compressed in the hand. (If you happen
to possess a woodshed with a dirt floor,
just the sort of soil you want can be
scraped up there — light “chip-dirt” full
of rotted bark, chips, and sawdust.)

To this garden soil add about a third
each of old, thoroughly rotted manure
and coarse sand. “ Leaf-mold”’ — the light
spongy soil formed from decayed leaves
and twigs — may be used in place of the
manure. It is to be had ~n any fence-
corner or hollow where leaves collect and
rot. If you are too lazy to get the leaf-
mold, you can buy either that, or “ cocoa~
nut fibre,’ at a florist’s. The idea in
adding the sand is to “cut” the mixture,

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The young seedlings may be

**pricked out’ to give more room to each little plant.

A coldirame

outdoors is ideal for this

making it more iriable; and the rotten
manure makes it more spongy, light and
porous. These various ingredients should
be sifted through a screen of quarter-inch
mesh — an ash sifter is just the thing —
and well mixed together.

This preparation of the soil will save
much disappointment and may explain
past experiences in “bad seed” as you
thought. Bad or dead seed is a very
unlikely thing as a matter of fact.

STARTING THE SEEDLINGS

The “flats”” mentioned are simply shal-
low boxes, two to three inches deep. Save
up a couple of cracker boxes and bottom
them, leaving cracks a quarter of an inch
wide, or bore half a dozen half-inch holes.

Select one or two of the two-inch deep
ones, and cover the bottoms with coarse
material, such as the screenings from the
chip-dirt and soil. Then fill to within half
an inch of the top with your prepared soil
and give a good thorough soaking. Put
on about a quarter of an inch more of
soil, level it off, and mark off lines about
three inches apart. Sow the seed thinly
— six to twelve to the inch in these, and
cover very lightly. Do not water the sur-

face of the soil. The surplusage of water at
the bottom will soak up, and ina few
hours will have given the seeds a more
thorough and even application of water
than you could possibly give with a water-
ingcan. Istart thousands of seedlings this
way every spring, and always get better
results than I did with the oid method.

Now cover each flat with a pane of glass.
(This may not be necessary with seeds
of quick, strong, germination like lettuce
and cabbage, but it is the sure way.) This
miniature greenhouse roof retains the
moisture evaporated from the soil, and at
the same time admits the light.

Do not water again until the surface
of the soil becomes dry. With the glass
covering this should not be necessary
until after the seeds have sprouted — two
to ten days, according to variety and
temperature.

To get things started quickly, the flats,
immediately after planting, may be given
“bottom heat.’ In the house, the back
part of the kitchen range, at night, or near
it, or on a piece of plank on a radiator, will
do to supply this extra heat. Another
good plan is to make a little framework
support to place over a radiator, so that

Or the seedlings may be raised in small boxes indoors or in a frame and later on transplanted directly
to the open. after hardening

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the “flats” may be held at some distance
above it. Do not let the boxes come in
direct contact with a hot dry surface, as
it will warp them and dry the soil very
quickly.

This extra heat should be given only
until the seeds begin to germinate — not
half a day longer. Then move them to
where the temperature will be as near as
you can give it to the normal.

Water early on bright mornings, only
when water is needed, as indicated by a
drying out of the surface, and then water
thoroughly, but keep flats in the sun so
that the foliage will be dried off by night.

The most insidious enemy of seedlings
is the dreaded “damping off” !—a black
rot attacking the frail stems at the sur-
face of the soil. Keeping the leaves and
soil dry, and giving fresh air whenever
possible, I have found to be the most
effective precautions against it.

Keep the little seedlings ‘growing on,”
giving an airing every day the outside
temperature permits (but never letting the
draught strike directly upon the plants)
until they are ready for “pricking off,”
or transplanting. They are ready for this
operation about the time the second true
leaf forms.

Fill some of the three-inch flats about a
third full of old manure, and then add
about another third of the prepared soil.
(Soil enriched with bone-dust, a good
handful to a flat, will do if no manure is
at hand.) Then soak thoroughly and fill
level full with soil.

The little seedlings are taken as gently
as possible from the seed box, removing
a clump at a time, earth and all. Held
gently between thumb and forefinger of
one hand, they are lowered into a hole
prepared for them with the forefinger of
the other, or with a “dibber’” —a small
pointed stick. This hole should be large
and deep enough to take the little bunch
of roots and half to two thirds of the stem.
Then with both thumbs and forefingers
the little plant is “firmed” into place.
They should be put from two to four
inches apart each way: fifty in a 13 x 21-in.
flat, being a good number.

Give a gentle watering, and keep shaded
at least during the middle of the day for
two or three days, until they take hold.
Then give all the light and air possible,
watering as before on bright mornings.

MAKING ROOM

Now by the time the second sowing oi
seeds, tomatoes, etc., has reached the
transplanting stage, the earlier cabbage
and lettuce will be ready to go outdoors.
A coldframe is just the place for them.
But if you haven’t one, a few boards and
old window sash, or light frames covered
with “protecting cloth” (which is to be
had for a few cents a yard) will answer the
purpose. They will stand a little freezing,
but should be thawed out in the shade.

For several nights before time for
setting out in the garden they should be
“hardened off” by being left unprotected.

Better Fruit from Proper Pruning — By W. C. McCollom, i

Long

SOME THINGS THE AMATEUR CAN DO NOW TO ENSURE BIGGER AND BETTER
FRUITS AS WELL AS TO KEEP THE TREES AND BUSHES IN PROPER CONDITION

RUNING is the most important work

in the fruit garden during March;

for, remember that if it is not attended
to now it must be left undone until next
year. I prefer March to December for
pruning established trees because, normally,
the vitality of a tree is at its lowest in
midwinter and severe weather in late
winter will often’, kill back the wood be-
hind the cuts, which means simply that
all the work must be done over again.
Don’t wait until: April when the sap is
flowing because’then strength will be need-
lessly wasted on the’ wood which is to
be removed...In general we prune to
remove surplus wood and to give proper
shape and balance to the tree. But there
is another consideration for fruit trees.
The pruning one season causes an out-
crop of twigs the next. We remove these
to keep an open centre — to let in light and

air. Different trees require different hand-
ling according to their kind and their
vigor.

The pruning of an apple tree is an im-
portant factor in its fruiting proclivities.
All poor, weak interior shoots should be
entirely removed. Use a saw for this
work and cut the branches clean. Leave
no shoulder and always paint the wound
afterward. This is the work of but a
second and is a very good habit to form.
Whether the tree is an apple or an oak,
painting the wounds keeps the wood from
decaying. Generally about one third of
the current season’s growth should be
removed, but under no circumstances cut
back on the previous season’s growth, as

Cut right down at the ground line when removing
the old wood from gooseberry bushes

that is where the fruit buds occur. This
treatment, of course, refers to young

trees that are spending most of their effort
growing, and are about to the fruiting age.
On older trees the growth is less rank, most
of the force being spent in the production
of fruit. Then, necessarily, less pruning
needs be done. With trees in bearing, a
general thinning out of poor, weak inner

— = . } rt

This tree was top-worked last April by cleft graft-
ing to change it over to a better variety. More grafts
were put in than needed. It is time to thin out now

shoots and sufficient thinning of the other
branches to admit air and light will suffice;
but it is proper training in the young stage
that produces good healthy wood in old
age.

The pear requires very much the same
treatment as the apple; but being of
dwarf habit a little less pruning suffices.
Pear trees are naturally good bearers, and
while they will do reasonably well without
pruning, the fruit is improved in quality
if the tree is intelligently pruned. All the
interior branches of the pear should be
removed and when young the trees can be
pruned quite severely. Cut back the new
growth about one half and watch the wood
for the development of spurs; when this
occurs the pruning can be lessened, but
you can always safely remove a surplus

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of branches. If the tree has begun to
fruit but also continues to make rank
growth, cut it back. I have some pears
which are trained horizontally and I cut
back each season the previous season’s
growth to within three or four eyes. These
pears bear abundantly. They have de-
veloped spurs like a grape under this
severe pruning.

Apricots, nectarines and peaches are
much alike — they all fruit on new wood
and the object of pruning should be to
cut out any old wood that is «incapable
of producing good healthy young wood.
Always cut out severely from any tree
that shows a tendency to ‘overcrowd itself
with branches, as all these trees (but
especially the peach), will actually kill
themselves by overbearing, if allowed to.

The plum might perhaps be classed
with the peach, but I think that it re-
quires much more pruning even. It fruits
all over, from the main stem to the tips
of the growth, and to get plums of quality,
heavy pruning is essential. Cut back each
season’s growth at least two thirds, even
though you thereby remove a number of
fruit buds. Always cut out any interior
branches and cut out any that are crowd-
ing one another.

Grapes fruit on new wood and when
once up to the fruiting stage the current
year’s growth should be cut back to two
eyes. This will produce fruit of a much
higher standard than you get from a lot
of scraggly shoots. Keep the suckers
removed and never allow a plant to sup-
port more than three canes.

The old, useless wood of a currant bush is in the

centre. Cut it out

We)
chS)

Tots

This young tree, almost ready for bearing, is carry-
ing too much wood and needs attention

Cherries fruit on spurs and when once
arrived at the fruiting stage they require
but little pruning —merely a_ general
treatment to keep up good health, which
consists in removing any old wood that
has outlived its usefulness and a proper
controlling of any tendency to overcrowd
by removing shoots as seems desirable.

Quinces require less pruning than any
of the so-called tree fruits. They are
dwarf, short-jointed growers, and this in

The young wood that starts on the inside of a fruit
tree must be cut out yearly

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Raspberries before pruning. Remove all side shoots
and reduce to three canes

a measure accounts for their great fruit-
ing propensity. All new wood is avail-
able because it is of the right kind. To
use a gardener’s term the tree makes no
“grass”; to gardeners grass is a useless
article that requires lots of cutting.

The cane fruits (raspberries and black-
berries) require very severe pruning, but
it should be done later in the season, and
if attended to regularly at that time the
spring work will be much easier. But if

The raspberries shown above, after pruning

Marcu, 191%

A companion tree to that shown on the left, but
it has been properly thinned out

it has been neglected in the first, you must
attend to it now. The tendency is to
produce too many canes to a root. Better
cut back all but three shoots on each plant,
and cut them off right at the ground. Cut
out all the old canes, of course; they can
easily be distinguished by the bark. The
older the cane the more the bark -peels,
while the bark on the young canes is
smooth and of a much brighter color. If
the canes have been thinned out the pre-

The lower hand shows where last year’s pruning
was done. Cut this year where the shears are

Marcu, 1912
ceeding season, it is merely necessary in
the spring to cut back the tips of the
growth about one quarter, also removing
any side shoots. Canes that were not
touched after fruiting last year would re-
quire similarly cutting back, although they
will not have made so strong a growth.
Currants and gooseberries are very
similar in their requirements—a_ good
thinning out of all old wood that has be-
come too old to bear with freedom. If
this is attended to yearly very little other
pruning will be necessary. In removing

Sowing Vegetables for Succession — By I. M. Angell, %:

THE

old wood from these two bush fruits, cut
right to the ground and give the preference

7
{ *

Leaf buds, long and slender (bare hand).
buds are short and stout (gloved hand)

Fruit

GARDEN MAGAZINE 93

to the young growth that you will notice
pushing its way up through the centre.
Any wood that has lost its brightness and
is a dull dead color at the base had best
be removed. If, however, the bushes have
been neglected for several years it would
not be advisable to cut back all the old
wood in one season. If you did so you
probably would not have any bush left.
In such a case, cut out one half the old
shoots one season and the balance the
next. A new lot of young canes will
spring up to take their places.

York

A PRACTICAL SCHEME FOR MAKING THE MOST OF A SMALL PLOT, AND KEEPING THE TABLE SUP-
PLIED WITH FRESH VEGETABLES ALL THE SEASON — USING THE SAME SPACE THREE TIMES OVER

AKING one and the same small

garden plot serve for three succes-
sive gardens in the one «year — sowing
at three different times — was one of the
best gardening experiences we have had.
It showed the possibilities of “intensive”
culture on city lots, and gave us really
fresh young vegetables all one season
while laying the foundation for several
crops in the next — that. is the third
sowing was designed to relieve the usual
spring rush and actually gave us results
ahead of the same things sown in earliest
spring.

The spring sowings had yielded their
full, or at least were past their best by
August first. After re-fertilizing and dig-
ging, the midsummer garden was sowed,
from which we gathered some fine
vegetables when neighboring gardens were
on the wane. The second harvest out of
' the way by the middle of October, the
ground was manured and dug for fall
sowings.

THE SPRING SEEDING

The most important seeds in garden
number one were those that entirely out-
lived their usefulness before the end of
July, because from those we received the
full value of our time and money, but the
others which were pulled up while still
in bearing (to make room for the later
sowings) gave enough return to make it
worth while to sow. In the former class
were extra early potatoes, peas, lettuce,
kohlrabi, radishes, extra early corn, chard
(sowed for greens only), onion sets (sowed
to use small), carrots and beets (also to
use small).

Those that were removed while bearing
included cucumbers, parsley, and bush
string beans. Although carrots, beets,
onions, and chard would have continued
in good condition if left in the ground, we
place them in the first list for the reason
that they had such excellent qualities
when used while very small, that after a
trial there were few left to clear off when
August arrived. Spinach and_ turnips
would probably have been found equally

satisfactory. Here follow the details of
each crop:

Peas —a first early and two second
early varieties were sown at different times,
from the end of March to the first of May.
All were out of the way before the first of
August.

Potatoes —A very early variety was
planted the end of March and dug at
intervals from the end of June to the end
of July. These would have been consid-
ered rather small, perhaps, but were very
acceptable, coming while new potatoes
were almost a luxury.

Radishes —Sown at various times up
to the middle of June. All were out of
the way before the ground was wanted for
a second planting.

Carrots — Sown early in April and pro-
duced tender young roots from the second
week in June until the end of July.

Chard — Provided greens, from an early
April sowing, which supplied the table

from the middle of June until time to
replant the plot in August.

Beets —Sown the second week in April,
they attained the size of plums before the
middle of June and by the end of July all
had been used. A sowing made as late
as May 2d produced roots of cookable
size for a month before the ground was
required for midsummer seeding.

Lettuce — A sowing made the second
week in April yielded heads of good size
from the middle of June to the middle of
July. Even the May 16th sowing was out
of the way before the end of July.

Onions — Seeds were sown on April
first. By the end of July they had formed
fine young onions an inchthick. These
were all pulled to use as scallions. Sets
planted April 1st were pulled from the end
of May to the end of July.

Kohirabi, began yielding the third week
in June and kept up the supply for more
than a month. This was sown April first.

This is the garden in August after having yielded its first crops. Plan for succession this year

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SOWED | FIRST PICKED LAST PICKED
SPRING SOWING
Potato, Bovee . March 31 June 24 July 30
Peas, First of All March 31 June 8 June 24
Peas (late) : April 28 July 3 July 28
Lettuce, Crisphead . April 1 June 16 July 13
Kohlrabi . hike she April 1 June 20 July 21
Corn, Golden Bantam . April 4 July 16 July 30
@hard' (for greens) =>) April 1 June 16 out*
Onions (seeds) Prizetaker . April 1 July 31 out
Onions (sets) April 1 May 30 July 31
Carrots, Chantenay April 1 June 14 out
Beets, Eclipse April 12 June 15 out
Beets, Eclipse May 2 June 30 out
April 27 (trans-)
Parsley, Early curled dwarf planted from -| June 30 transplanted
house) f
Bush string beans, Fordhook . April 29 June 27 July 16
SUMMER SOWING
Bush beans August 1 October 7 October 23
Carrots August 5
Lettuce August 3 October 7 (heads) out
Beets August 1 September 28 out
Endive August 1 October 16 out
Corn August 1 eee I 54 é
transplanted for
Parsley August I ; nes
iReasmamar August 1 September 17
Radishes . .August I August 28 October 15
Spinach August I October 15 out
Turnips August I October 16 out

*The word “ out” is used in the last column to indicate a crop that would continue to bear if left in
the ground, but which we preferred to pull and use young.

Corn — An extra early sort, sown a
month ahead of corn weather, bore from
the middle to the end of July.

Bush string beans—An early variety
sown the end of April, yielded from the
end of June to the middle of July, and
were pulled out before they started in on
their second yield.

Parsley —Sown indoors, and _ trans-
planted to the garden April 27th; leaves
were picked as needed from the end of
June until it was transplanted to make
way for later sowings.

THE MIDSUMMER SEEDING

Garden number one having been cleared
off, the ground, manured and _ redug.

was ready to be replanted. At first glance
it would seem that there are not many
vegetables on the list that could be suc-
cessfully sown as late as August rst, but
those tested by ourselves form quite an
array. Bush beans, carrots, lettuce, beets,
endive, corn, parsley, peas, radishes, spin-
ach and turnips all gave satisfactory re-
sults when sowed in August. They were
put in as near the first of the month as
possible, to make all the growth possible
before frost. The hardy ones caused no
anxiety, as they endured several light
frosts. These were carrots, lettuce, beets,
endive, parsley, spinach and turnips. The
tender sorts, such as bush beans, cucumbers
and corn were saved from the cold by

Vegetables, picked before they get old and tough, are the priceless advantages of the home gardener

Marcu, 1912

a covering of old rugs and similar mate-
rial.

Bush beans — From an August first sow-
ing we made good pickings of first quality
beans before frost caught them. Those
sowed August 1oth yielded from October
7th to October 23d.

Peas — The August 1st sowing of peas
yielded full sized pods in less than seven
weeks. These were an extra early sort.
The crop, however, was not nearly so
heavy as from spring sown seed. In an
unfavorable season they probably would
not bear enough to pay for sowing.

Carrots — Very small roots were the result
of seed sown August 1st. These were of
good size for pickling and for soups, etc.

Lettuce, planted in early August bore
leaves large enough to use before the mid-
dle of September, and well formed heads
from the first week in October until the
ground was cleared.

Corn — An extra early sort sown August
1st, matured by the middle of October.

Radishes, sown at various times in August
are out of the way for the fall sown seeds.

As we could not duplicate the cool, moist
conditions of spring for the germination
of our August seeds, we did the next best
thing and firmed the soil well after sowing.
This helps to draw the moisture in the soil
where the seedlings can use it. When they
had made a start the surface was stirred
to form a mulch.

THE FALL SOWING FOR SPRING

Last on the list was our fall planted
garden. It was no hardship to spend a
mellow October day in sowing these seeds.
To do the same thing on a raw day in March
or April would have been far less pleasant.
Although some were winter killed and
others produced the same results as from
spring sown seeds, there were still others
that showed a decided gain on seeds sowed.
in April. Lettuce, chard, parsnips, carrots,
and celery gave us the best return.

Lettuce, sown the last week of October
began to produce small heads the middle
of May and was in full bearing by the
middle of June. This was a gain on the
spring sown seed.

Chard yielded stalks large enough for
cooking in early June. At this time spring
sown chard was yielding leaves only.

Parsnips were not used till fall. They
made an early start and by the middle
of June the tops measured over a half yard.

Carrots — Produced roots of useful size
at the end of June.

Celery — Yielded excellent stalks the
following fall.

All these seeds were sowed the last week
in October. As soon as the ground was
frozen we covered the fall sown seeds
with straw and manure. The rows were
made as far apart as space permitted, to
allow freedom in working the soil in the
spring. When planted too close it is
harder to cultivate and the weeds are more
likely to get ahead of us. The mulch
was taken off in March and the soil stirred
as soon as the ground was sufficiently dry.

A Bachelor Girl’s Vegetable Garden—By Barbara Arden, \*,

SHOWING THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE ORTHODOX BACK YARD PLOT—FRESH VEGETABLES FOR THREE
PEOPLE ALL SUMMER AND PLENTY OF CANNED PRODUCE FOR WINTER ON LESS THAN 700 SQUARE FEET

AM living in a cottage of most modest

dimensions, with a garden covering an
area of not even a thousand square feet,
and yet have experienced the delights of
farming.

Three years ago, we (mother, sister, and
I) decided to make our home in the country,
and I at once became a wild enthusiast in
gardening. I forked, I spaded, I hoed, I
raked (oblivious of any Judge passing by),
I planted, and — I learned and profited.

My first year’s experiences were some-
what strange and amusing. At the sight
of aphis or louse pests, I writhed, earth
and cut worms made me shudder, and when
I found a long, wooly caterpillar in my
sleeve, I almost went into convulsions.
Once I made bold to ask some agricultural
persons how to protect cauliflower plants
and was curtly told to “‘put paper collars
on them.” I did. Although long since, I
can still hear the “ha, ha’s,” of my inform-
ants, when next they saw my plants with
dainty little Dutch collars of white sketch-
ing paper, carefully pinned tight around
each plant!

But I have become a staunch follower
of THE GARDEN MaGazINeE and am rather
vain of last summer’s fruition. I started
manipulations on the seventeenth of April
and planted in succession, spinach, onion
sets, lettuce, radishes, peas, beans, lima
beans, corn, potatoes, celery, parsley, and
chives. Oh, yes, I smilingly bade a
neighbor “good morning” one day and was
rewarded with a great clump of mint.
No, I did not know he was transplanting.
True to my femininity, I was only curious
and diplomatic. With another neighbor,
who owns chickens, I swapped bread
crumbs and stale bread from the table for
some rhubarb, English vegetable marrow,
and a gooseberry bush —thus heaping
nineteen varieties of vegetables in my
garden. I planted beans at eight different
times; peas three times; corn four times;
spinach, Swiss chard, lima beans, onion
sets, twice; lettuce and radishes, three
times. It necessitated scheming and
manceuvring to get in all I wanted, but I
utilized every inch of ground. I planted
in rows eight feet long, in between rows,
and again in between these. As soon as a
plant had outlived its usefulness, out it
came, and in went something else.

My garden plan varied each month.
For instance, Section I started with six
rows of peas, and four rows of onion seis.
In between the peas were planted three
rows of the first planting of radishes, and
three rows of the second planting of spinach.
Between the first two rows of onions, one
row of the second planting of radishes:
between the next rows, one row of the
second planting of spinach and one row
of the second planting of corn. When the

peas, radishes, spinach and onions had
matured, two rows of the second planting,
and two rows of the fourth planting of
corn occupied that section. Two rows of
celery were planted back of the fourth
planting of corn. On the ridge separating
the celery, I transplanted lettuce. Be-
tween the second row of celery and the
rows of corn, I sowed the eighth and fifth
planting of beans.

In Section II, were planted one row of
onion sets and five rows of the second
planting of peas. When the peas and
onions were rooted out, there stood the
potatoes which had been planted be-
tween the rows, and then the seventh plant-
ing of beans went in between the potatoes.

I commenced harvesting during the
week of May 21st, and from then through
the season there was not a day when I
could not harvest something. We were
never fond of beans until we had them

KIND VARIETY QUANTITY | COST
{ Bountiful Bush

Beans MREReeE \ 4 pts. 68c
Beans Henderson’s Bush Lima | tr pt. 20C
Cabbage Early 12 plants roc
Celery Golden Self Blanching 25 plants r5c
Chives rt clump roc
Corn Golden Bantam I pt. 20
Lettuce Big Boston pK bs roc
Mint
Onion Potato White sets 3 pts. 40C
Parsley Moss Curled
Peas Nott’s Excelsior I pt. 25¢
Peppers Sweet, Bull Nose 1 doz. roc
Potatoes Green Mountain I qt. roc
Radishes Scarlet Globe 2 pkts. roc
Rhubarb Linnzus 2 plants
Spinach Long Season I Oz. roc
Swiss chard I OZ. roc
Tomatoes Acme, Ponderosa, Dwarf | 32 plants 50C

from our own garden. I never saw such
beans — (and certainly never ate any
like them before), five and six inches long,
tender and meaty. The peas, far from
enough to satisfy our individual inward
longing, were delicious. Another year,
I shall plant peas eight times at least.
The corn, Golden Bantam, is I verily be-
lieve “the sweetest corn on earth.” ‘You
can’t buy corn like that,’ commented a
neighbor who was presented with some.
I was told I planted my stalks too near
each other and to each row. True, but
nevertheless from the two rows of the fourth
planting, I got thirty-two ears. Another
neighbor who was given a small basketful
of potatoes, said, “I did not know you
could grow potatoes here, in so small a gar-
den. I shall have to plant some next year.”

The tomato plants vied with each other.
I trained them to one stalk and the result
was pounds and pounds of smooth, solid,

NO.
aa PLANT- | YIELD COMMENTS
tone | NSS

5r Eight | 1509 ats. This variety’s good enough

12 Two 17 qts. Pole limas in the future

3 One 12 heads They do get so buggy

3 | One 20 heads Shall try again on a farm

One Used ten times in salads, etc.

20 Four 213 ears “Tm satisfied”

o | Three 19 baskets* é
§ Used nine times for sauces.
i Supply never exhausted

to | Two 361 onions Like the potato sets so much

2 One | 17 bunches Supply is never exhausted

15 Three | 9g ats. I know a more satisfactory

I One 36 Till frost

7 One to qts. My first trial.

6 Three 35 bunches
{ In fine shape for next season.
~ None picked owing to trans-
( planting.

7 Two 4 basketst

li Two 17 basketst __| Picked till frost

Io One fx52lbs.red \ Till frost.

\ 35 lbs. green f

*These baskets were large grape baskets

7Large peach baskets

Only 687 square feet, yet the garden gave all the vegetables needed by a family of three
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fat tomatoes, all the way up the plant.
There were plenty of radishes, baskets of
lettuce, spinach, and Swiss chard, and
notwithstanding several disappointments,
the garden thrived and proved a source of
profit, economy and much pleasure. The
last to be planted were rows and rows of
the Refugee bean, with occasional rows of
Swiss chard. The surplus of the vege-
tables gathered was canned for the win-
ter, and the shelves of the cellar had jars
of beans, tomatoes, sauces, and relishes.

You don’t know what really sweet corn is unless
you have gathered and at once cooked it

Could more have been
square feet of ground?

Much of my time has been devoted to
the gardening early in the morning or late
afternoon. Nor did I neglect the flowers,
and a fresh bouquet was gathered every
morning.

Here is a tabulated statement of the
details:

done with 687

ieeane PAID FOR
Beass Depts wince $.25
Ojalon SHS, 1 Cle of fo eo a £25
Onion ySetswpcap lena ear ieae peli
SHOMMAY, T OAs ois oe 6 .10
Swiss chard, 1 oz. Sn MESO .I0
Corn tery opt es Rin einen) ne aires rN 5855
BEAN Sy aap US Seley wate Ch Ne ree ce ua ASG
SiBeans Trp temas Lome heme 2h
Ibook ANT GClley oes 6 6 .40
sRiadisheste2ai KtSee mney Mee ne .10
IDSUTONES, @ Wt Go owe 20
Potatoes, 1 qt. al A aes CA .10
Plants $2508
t doz. Acme tomatoes . . . $.25
6 Ponderosa tomatoes . . .~ .15
6 dwarf tomatoes. . . . . 43)
rt doz. cabbage oat ae ya aa .10
in \GloyAy ola oyaeioy gs 2g bg | eh a) ot
25 celery dete MeLiiae a Me a bai
Ghavesi (Sy) Oo ease ety Pe mn ea pa eas)
a eS
Manure LO usc Se ae ALR 2.50
Lela yet ose Man aneilntea aime a .50
Insecticider yrs omenmh eae nie .60
$7.23

And I have left over seeds to the value
of more than half a dollar.

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Marcu, 1912

Why and How to Spray Now

By, Fi i. D.

WV spraying is worth while for
three good reasons: convenience,
economy, and effectiveness. It is a con-
venient practice because between October
and April other farm and garden work is
at a standstill and because the trees, having
shed their leaves, can be more easily cov-
ered with the spray mixture; economical,
because it involves the use of but one, or
at most, two kinds or sprays, namely, lime-
sulphur and oil preparations; effective,
because lime and sulphur, if thoroughly
applied, is a certain destroyer of the peach
leaf curl fungus, the oyster shell scale, and
the San Jose scale—that second most
injurious pest of our fruit trees.

If you have a dozen or twenty trees —
half an acre or less in all — you need only
a knapsack sprayer costing from three to
ten dollars, according to the type. If you
have as many as five acres of trees, you
can well afford a twenty or twenty-five
dollar barrel outfit mounted on wheels or a
sled. If you have ten acres in fruit and pos-
sibly more to come, buy a power sprayer.

Integral parts of any outfit are good
nozzles (the Vermorel and Mystery, Jr.,
types give excellent, fine sprays) ; sufficient
hose to permit work around the trees; and
protection for the sprayer and team, if
you use one. Thick gloves, well treated
with oil, and overalls are essentials.

Lime and sulphur is the dormant spray.
Others are merely different ways of trying
for the same results. The various oil
preparations are perhaps a little pleasanter
to use; in fact, for the home garden, they
are, after all, the most convenient, but for
a thorough clean-up nothing beats the sul-
phur mixture. If you use use the small
outfits mentioned above you had better
buy the prepared concentrated lime and
sulphur mixture and avoid all the bother of
home mixing. This preparation and the
prepared miscible oils all cost a little more,
but by using them you can economize on
time and energy, which are the true meas-
ure by which to judge values.

But if you have to use three or four
hundred gallons of spray you will save
by making the material at home. A good
sized apple tree will use four gallons, and
even a peach tree will require two or more.

There are a number of formule for
making lime and sulphur, but undoubtedly
the best gives a concentrated solution as
follows: Eighty pounds clean lump lime,
forty pounds flowers of sulphur, fifty
gallons of water. Ordinarily, this mixture
will make the final spray cost about nine-
tenths of a cent per gallon. Commercial
mixtures come to about one and three-
quarters cents per gallon—a negligible
difference on a small scale.

For making the mixture at home, a
cooking outfit is necessary. This can
be bought for from ten to forty dollars,
the latter amount providing a steam

New
York

Seymour,

cooking outfit which really gives the best
results. However, an ordinary feed cooker
can be used provided it gives room for the
boiling up of the material. The process of
making lime and sulphur is not difficult.
Put ten gallons of water in the boiler and
start the fire. Add the lime, and as soon
as slaking begins vigorously, add the dry
sulphur, stirring thoroughly meanwhile.
Unless the sulphur is of very good quality,
it will be well to strain it. Boil this
mixture for about an hour, adding suffi-
cient water to keep the final mixture at
fifty gallons. If steam is used, this addi-
tion will not be necessary. Stir occa-
sionally in order to prevent the accumula-
tion of sediment on the sides of the tank.
If correctly made, the preparation should
become a brilliant orange color; the cooking
is completed when all the sulphur is seen
to go into solution. The material may
be used at once, being poured or strained
into the spray tank, or it may be stored
in air-tight receptacles indefinitely.

Commercial concentrated lime and sul-
phur should be diluted about ten times.
The only way to get accurate results with
the homemade mixture is to test it with a
hydrometer. This instrument, consisting
of a graduated tube and an enlarged
weighted base, can be bought of any firm
that supplies chemical apparatus. The
mixture should be placed in a vessel deep
enough to permit the sinking of the
hydrometer as far as it will go.

The degree on the long, narrow neck
to which the liquid rises should then be
read, and recorded. Hydrometers are
marked in one or bothof two ways, viz., the
specific gravity or the Beaumé scale. The
former is by far the more convenient for
this work, although reduction tables com-
bining the two scales can be obtained when
the hydrometer is bought.

To get the correct degree of dilution,
divide the fraction of the amount recorded
as above by the specific gravity of the final
spray mixture desired. This will give the
number of dilutions necessary. For in-
stance, if the concentrated mixture tests
1.24 and we desire to spray with a mix-
ture testing 1.03, we have the following:
24 — 8, i.e., the addition of seven volumes
of water will be necessary.

The strength of the spray mixture is
determined by the use for which it is
desired. Specific gravities of 1.03 and 1.04
mark the usual strengths for dormant
spraying for San Jose scale; on peach and
plum trees and other tender species, the
specific gravity should not be higher than
1.02 to 1.01. An additional advantage
of this concentrated mixture is that it can
be used for summer spraying if diluted
to a specific gravity of 1.003. It is not
essential that the commercial mixtures
be tested, but it is certainly advisable
where the hydrometer is available.

Marcn, 1912

School Gardens in Massachusetts

HE school garden movement was
4 started in Massachusetts by Principal
Clapp of the George Putnam School,
Boston. Mr. Clapp had been one of the
leaders in the teaching of nature study and
in trying to make this nature study more
real. He encouraged his pupils to bring
ferns and wildflowers from the woods and
plant them in fence corners of the city
school yard.

Later, as the interest increased, this
garden of wild plants was supplemented by
a vegetable and flower garden. I speak
here of the way in which Mr. Clapp intro-
duced his garden work because it is in many
ways typical of the manner in which gardens
have been introduced into our Massachu-
setts schools.

Usually these gardens were started first
in city schools, spreading later to village
and country schools. They have been
most popular under city conditions though
I believe that they have been most pro-
ductive of good in the country.

Little by little the school garden had been
making its way but in 1907 its status in
Massachusetts seemed to many educational
leaders of the state to be still somewhat
uncertain. It appeared to some of the
friends of the school garden that the time
for such uncertainty had passed. We,
therefore, planned a school garden meeting
to be held in Tremont Temple, Boston, on
February 15, 1907. The foreword of the
programme was as follows:

“Many superintendents of the state
have expressed their belief in the school
garden movement and their desire for
suggestions as to how to conduct such
school gardens. This meeting has been
planned with the idea of bringing together
those who have had experience, and those
who have had none, for full and free
discussion.

“The topics for discussion were as
follows: 1. The school garden in the vil-
lage. 2. The school garden in the city.
3. The school garden in the country.
4. Children’s home gardens.”

THE

GARDEN

The plans for the meeting were con-
sistently carried out and the results were
about what was expected. From that day
there has been no question regarding the
standing of the school garden as a desirable
form of school activity.

The present status of the school garden
in Massachusetts, judging from letters
recently received from a variety of people
in different parts of the state, seems about
as follows:

1. Whereas ten years ago only one
normal school in the state was doing such
work at present every normal school but one
is training its pupils in school garden work.

2. In many cities and towns the work
is getting on to a more rational basis and
less showy but more substantial work is
being done.

3. In a few places the work has proved
disappointing and has given place to
something else.

4. The state authorities are encouraging
the establishment of a few agricultural
high schools and of departments of agri-
culture and horticulture in high schools.

it also
Easily

A garden marker insures straight drills:
saves time when marking out many beds.
made at home

Only a few have yet been established and
the whole matter is in the experimental
stage. ;

5. Considerable enthusiasm is being
aroused by the establishment of corn and
potato clubs which receive their encour-
agement from the Amherst Agricultural
College.

6. Much is being done by way of prizes
for exhibits of the products of children’s
school and home gardens offered by the
State Horticultural Association, by county
agricultural fairs and by local organizations
of citizens and women’s clubs.

The school garden movement has taken
many forms such as the improvement of
the school grounds, the cultivation of
ground on or near the school grounds for
flowers, vegetables, bulbs or vines, the care
of home gardens, the improvement of
home lawns, the establishment of courses
of agriculture including horticulture and
poultry raising, the establishment of corn
clubs and potato clubs.

There is a strong sentiment in Massa-
chusetts against the trade school type for

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children in the grades. It is not, therefore,
our purpose to teach school garden work
for the sake of making farmers. We aim
rather to so enlarge and enrich the expe-
riences of the children, that their sym-
pathies may be broadened, and they may
become better citizens.
Hyannis, Mass. W. A. BAtpwin,
Principal State Normal School.

Garden Work for This Month

OYS and girls require just the same

directions and rules for seed planting
as their fathers and mothers receive. Be-
cause of this I wish you would read this
month’s issue of the magazine right through.
It is just cram full of things you wish to
know. There are three articles which
will be of special interest to children who
garden. One article is about starting
vegetable seed indoors. The other two
articles are on the art of sowing flower
seeds. One of these is written by H. S.
Adams, the other by Parker Thayer Barnes.
Also look on page 83 and study the vege-
table planting table.

It seems to me that after a boy or girl
has planted annuals for a season or two
the next step should be to work into the
garden some perennial plants.

Perennials may be sown in August
and the next garden season they will spring:
up and blossom. Or they may be started.
in boxes or in hotbeds now and _trans-
planted into the garden later in the season..
One of the loveliest of perennials is the
delphinium or larkspur. Phlox, snapdra~
gon, columbine, carnation, forget-me-not,
pansy, pentstemon, petunia, and verbena
are all perennials.

Such perennials and biennials as _ ver-
benas, Chinese pink, pentstemons and
pansies are often started indoors very
early under glass.

Certain seeds may well be started in-
doors at the present time. Celery, toma-
toes, cucumbers, kohlrabi, radishes, lettuce,
and peppers may all be started indoors.
Try larkspur, asters, pansy, zinnia, sweet
alyssum and petunia seeds in flats or under
glass. Usually about the middle of March
sweet pea seeds may be planted outdoors.

The Hyannis Normal School garden at planting time.
The students work with the children

(Eprror’s NoTteE.—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 note on some interesting experience.
Just state the facts about some ingenious idea that you
have actually worked out yourself or have seen.)

A planting idea

For the last eight or ten years I have
planned my garden a month or two before
planting time, and to economize and make
the very most of my space I have followed
this plan: I plant on one side of my
garden seeds that require the greater part
of summer in which to grow and mature,
such as beets, parsnips, parsley, etc.
Quick-growing crops, such as lettuce, radish
and onion sets, I plant side by side and
follow with cucumbers, tomatoes, etc.
When I plant the larger crops — melons,
potatoes, etc.— I make the rows three feet
apart and use every other row for the vine
crops. The same plan works well with
sweet corn and squashes or pumpkins.

jo Ce Von Ove,

Sprouting dahlias

Last spring was my first year of plant-
ing dahlias. I let the tubers sprout before
planting, then separated, and planted two
or three to a hill, first cutting off sprouts.
The soil, which originally was a stiff red
clay, had been fertilized the fall before
with cow manure and another dressing of
well rotted manure was worked into the
soil in April. The tubers went into the
ground on May ist. I dug a large hole,
filled it with water, set in the tubers and
covered them with about four inches of soil.
I watered regularly the first two weeks.
On June 2d the first shoot made its ap-
pearance and by July 6th I had fine plants
covered with immense yellow dahlias. I
did not stake the plants nor prune them;
they were covered with blooms until
frost killed them. When I dug up the
plants last fall there were from ten to
fifteen tubers in each bunch.—N. Z. F.,
North Carolina.

Gladiolus and poppies

For the last two years I have tried plant-
ing gladiolus around my Oriental poppies.
If two successive plantings are made the
gladiolus may be had in bloom quite late.
I plant the bulbs the first thing in May,
before the poppies have made a very large
spring growth. In the middle of June,

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or later, when the poppies have ceased
flowering, I cut the plants, leaves and all,
back to the ground. Then the gladiolus
can have plenty of sunshine. Last spring,
in planting the bulbs, I found that I had
not dug up the old ones the fall before.
They had lived through the winter and had
made considerable growth by the middle
of May.—S. T. H., New York.

Rugosa roses for hedges

In a recent number some one com-
plained of the rugosa rose being straggly.
It is not so in my garden; I have a large
hedge of a number of kinds, which is
trimmed down about a fourth every March.
The plants are bushy from the ground up,
a mass of bloom in June and a great deal
of bloom all the rest of the summer. The
June sprays are cut off. Blanc Double de
Coubert is the most prolific bloomer and
best shape.— Mrs. D. P. L., Wisconsin.

After the bulbs flower

The leaves of daffodils are a nuisance
after the flowers fade, if the bulbs are in
a border awaiting other plants. I either
tie the leaves in a loose knot close to the
ground, or fasten them into compact
bundles with raffia, so they will fall into
one place and not interfere with other
plants. Tuberous begonias are fine for
following daffodils. I sprout them in
pots or boxes and set them out as soon as
the daffodils begin to die down.— F. H.,
Illinois.

Saving space

Planting time for tender annuals last
season found us in temporary quarters
in which two kitchen windows — one on
the east side and the other south — were
the only ones available for my “flats.”
With care this was sufficient space until
the seedlings were large enough to be
promoted to separate pots. The following
scheme for saving space was a great suc-
cess. I set the pots in boxes as deep as
the pots were high, after putting drainage
in the bottom of the flat and the pots. I
then filled box and pots level full — but
lightly — with fine potting soil. The seed-
lings were transplanted into the pots and
into the spaces (even the triangular out-
side ones) between the pots. When it
came time to set out the plants the pots
were lifted and emptied first, and the
remaining plants were standing in clods
of earth as firm and as easy to handle as
the balls from the pots. But — the plants
grown between the pots, having had so
much more room for their roots on account
of the tapering down of the pots, were
without exception bigger and stronger than
their pot-grown brethren. It may not be
a new idea to cover the flats as soon as the
seeds are sown, with sphagnum moss. By
keeping this sprinkled the soil had no
chance to dry out and the moss was a
protection against washing. It was re-
moved, of course, as soon as the seedlings
appeared.—C. P. B., New Jersey.

Marca, 1912

New potatoes on May 18th

Last year I had new potatoes ready for
use on May 18th, from seed planted in
March. I bought one peck of Early Rose
potatoes, cut them in pieces, leaving two
or three eyes in each piece. I had pre-
pared a small coldframe, putting in it
only a moderate quantity of well-rotted
stable manure, with four or five inches of
garden soil covering it. In this frame, on
March 3, I put the whole peck of potatoes,
laying them close together and covering with
a glass frame. I let them stay until they
were well sprouted and then transplanted
them into the garden in three rows, each
forty feet long. Fortunately they escaped
frost and grew rapidly; on May 18th we
began using them for the table, and they
supplied a family of five until the later
crop had matured— M. F., Maryland.

Fragrant shrubs

In a late number of THE GARDEN
MAGAZINE a writer names the sweet brier
as the most fragrant shrub of his section —
the New England States. And I agree
with him. In my little California garden
I brush against the orange, lemon, walnut,
lavender, sweet bay, and the choysia,
with its pungent odor, with a keen appre-
ciation of each and all. But down in a
corner of the garden is a clump of Scotch
sweet brier; and I know that if I had to
choose only one fragrant thing for my
garden it would be this plant. In my
opinion nothing else that grows is so
perfectly satisfying. My impression is
that it is universally hardy, and I have
seen it growing along country roadsides
in ground as hard as flint. Yet it is seldom
that one comes across it in gardens, at
least in this section, and it is rarely men-
tioned in garden publications. The variety
known as Scotch Brier is, in cultivation,
a strong, tall grower and soon spreads into
a clump.— S. E., California.

Poppies for the bulb beds

I have a bed of narcissus and tulips
2x15 ft. When it was in full glory last
year I lightly scattered over it Shirley
poppy seed; the poppies began to bloom
in June and bloomed profusely. The
roots did not go deep enough to injure
the bulbs left in the ground. As every
one knows who likes Shirley poppies and
has observed them, the new blooms open
about an hour after sunrise. To keep
the bed blooming it must not be allowed to
go to seed. So cut all the flowers at once
—there will be plenty more the next
morning. The Shirley poppy self sows;
the spring after the seed is sown the bed
will be so full of plants that they will have
to be thinned. Give each plant a square
foot (or a foot square) and it will show a
score of blooms. In the fall sprinkle a
little strawy manure over the bed which
must be raked off before the plants start
in the spring. In this way one can have
beautiful poppies four inches in diameter.
—H. C., New York.

Marca, 1912 THE

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Some Asters Worth Growing

ITHOUT exaggeration there are hundreds of

names for aster varieties in the trade to-day.
Now all these are not different from each other and
in a great many cases where differences do exist
they are so minute that they are hardly worth
while considering. Each grower has introduced
a great many of his own varieties under his own
names and they more or less parallel introductions
of other people. At the same time there are dis-
tinct types and well recognized varieties in those
types that are standards and in the selection that
I now give I have followed very largely my own
judgments from the experience of a good many
years with all the varieties of the principal types;
but I believe these include all those that are really
most worth growing. The main groups and divi-
sions of the China aster family are given on page
83 of this number of THE GARDEN MAGAZINE.

In the present place I consider the varieties in
their period of flowering. The earliest to flower
are the Express Comet varieties. All the Comet
types have extremely elegant and graceful flowers
of large size, resembling the feathery Japanese
chrysanthemum. The height of this variety
averages about twelve to fifteen inches.

The next in season of blooming is Queen of the
Market, of spreading habit and very free flowering,
the flattish shaped flowers being of good size and
produced on long stems, excellent for cut flower
purposes. Following these are the beautiful
American raised Comet-like varieties White Fleece

A single plant of the Daybreak type of Globe aster
(Pink Beauty), showing the great profusion of bloom

and Lavender Gem, the former having a very
branching habit and light feathery blossoms which
often average five inches in diameter. They grow
about eighteen inches high.

Following these in season come the beautiful
Daybreak, or Purity class, also Truffaut’s Paeony-
flowered Perfection, and Victoria. The Day-
break type is of American origin and now includes
a number of very fine varieties, the plants being
of upright and bushy growth, averaging eighteen
inches in height and so free flowering that the
plants become perfectly smothered with flowers
two and one half to three inches in diameter,
which have broad, smooth petals slightly in-
curved. Among the best of these are Daybreak
avery pale pink; Purity, pure white; Pink Beauty,
soft shell pink; Lavender Daybreak, pale lavender;
Sunset, bright pink; Salmon King, rich salmon-
pink; and Lemon Drop (Yellow Daybreak), lemon
approaching yellow.

The Victoria and Paeony-flowered types growing
eighteen inches high, are also of upright habit,

Marcu, 1912

I Measure Rose Value Not
Alone By The Size of The

Plant, But By Its Vitality

Size alone, in a rose plant, counts for little. It may be forced
into a spindliiig growth, but if so,it will either die when planted
in your garden, or else dwindle along until you have lost all
patience with it.

The successful Rose — the one that adapts itself to whatever
conditions it is transplanted into — must have within it what I
eall “plant character” — a rugged, sturdy vitality that comes from
careful and intelligent breeding. The plant that you get must be
right, and it must be propagated from a long line of other plants
that are right, too.

Now, there are only a few places where such roses as these can
be started successfully — and I am located in one of them.

Why This Section is Ideal For Rose Culture

We have a splendid climate for rose-growing. Fairly warm
summers, winters cold enough to check all growth, and making it
easy to transplant them anywhere. But we have a very long grow-
ing season. ‘That enables me to put more growth and vitality in-
to a plant of given size, than is possible for growers in colder
climates, though my plants are as hardy as any. You can prove
by comparison that one of my Fairfax Roses in two or three-year
size is larger and better-developed than one produced where the
growing season is shorter.

Fairfax Roses noted for Size and Quality

No plant is forced, but it is made to develop steadily and per-
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with that there comes a thrifty cane-growth, which expert pruning
develops into a good blooming top. ‘That's why my Fairfax Roses
come to you ready to begin blooming.

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Marcu, 1912

Sausages

HE season for our sausages is almost over,

because we only make sausages during
the cold weather. But if you have felt that
hankering for real farm sausages that the
“farm style” varieties fail to satisfy, you
still have a month or so for enjoying Jones
Dairy Farm Sausages.

Get our sausages from your grocer. If he
sells them at all he gets several fresh ship-
ments every week. If he doesn’t sell them,
write us and we will fill your orders direct.

HAMS, BACON & LARD

Ifsome kind relative, living on a mid-Western farm,
cured his own hams and bacon in a smoke house and
rendered his lard in a big open kettle over a wood fire
and supplied you with these things, you would know
what few but farmers ever know, the rare flavor of
genuine farm products.

For those who own no farm and have no such rel-
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sides of bacon and rend a very fine, dry lard.

Jones Dairy Farm Hams are tender because they
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bacon are smoke cured from embers of green hickory
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Your grocer should be glad to order Jones hams,
bacon or lard for you. If he hesitates drop us a line and
get our little booklet. When we send it we’ll write you
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the former having large, flat, slightly recurving
flowers with broad flat petals, the flowers of the
latter being incurved which, when well grown,
form into almost perfect globes. The upright
branching varieties somewhat resemble the Vic-
toria aster in habit but make a taller growth.
The Crego type, which originated in America, will,
when its beauty and merit become known, be
grown by everyone who plants asters. . The flowers
often measure over five inches in diameter, are
borne on long, stout stems, are thoroughly double
and of feathery, Comet-like, artistic form. The
plant grows two to two and one half feet in height,
with a graceful branching habit.

The American Late Branching types are un-
doubtedly the most popular asters of to-day, these
being offered under such names as Semple’s Branch-
ing, Invincible Branching, Carlson’s, etc. The
plants attain a height of from two to three feet
according to soil and climate; their habit is strong

The old-fashioned
original single aster
(Callistephus Sinen-
sis) has again come
into favor and is
available in many
colors

and branching, the flowers being thoroughly double,
very large, often over five inches in diameter, and
are unsurpassed for cutting. In this class Mary
Semple (soft shell pink), is the favorite, but the
white, rose, pink, crimson, lavender and blue
varieties are all excellent.

Violet King, another variety of a late branching
type, is similar to the foregoing in habit, height
and free flowering qualities but the flowers are
quite distinct, the petals being narrow and partly
quilled, the color being a pleasing shade of violet.

Rochester, a variety of Mikado, might be termed
a very fine form of branching type of Comet; it
is also of American origin. The plants run about
eighteen inches in height, the flowers being very
large, the petals beautifully twisted and curled, and
the color a beautiful soft shade of lavender-pink.

The variety Electric marks quite a departure
in this family, the petals being long, very narrow
and almost thread-like, the color pure white. The
flowers average four inches across, the plant at-
taining a height of fifteen inches.

A new and distinct type of bedding aster is
found in Waldersee, although it is valueless for
cutting purposes. The plants are very dwarf,
averaging a height of six to eight inches and be-
come a perfect mass of flowers, which last for quite
an extended period.

Other fine bedding varieties are the Dwarf
Queen and Dwarf Chrysanthemum-flowered. The
old German Quilled aster is rapidly losing favor,
no doubt on account of its stiff and formal shaped
flowers. On the other hand the oldest type (Sinen-
sis), the single flowered, is gaining in popularity.
It has been greatly improved of late years, and
many charming colors may now be obtained.

Although the dwarf forms are primarily of use
only for bedding, the tall varieties also can be used

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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

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for that purpose with telling effect. In exposed.
positions, as on open lawns which are apt to be:
wind swept, the bedding varieties ought to be
used. The Crego, Semple’s Branching and Mikado
types make splendid dot plants for the herbaceous.
border.

The Express Comet varieties, which are the
earliest of all, if started under glass in March,
will bloom early in July; sown outdoors in May
they will bear flowers at the end of July. Queen of
the Market started indoors at that time will bloom
the middle of July; sown outdoors, early in August.

White Fleece and Lavender Gem, started in-
doors, will bloom in early August, and toward the
end of the month if the seed is sown outdoors.

Paeony-flowered, Victoria, Daybreak or Purity
class, and Electric will bloom the middle of August
from seed sown indoors in March; outdoors, early
in September.

Tall Branching, Crego, Rochester or Mikado,
Waldersee, and the Single blossom from the middle
to the end of August if the seed is started under
glass in March, and from early September onward.
from seed sown outdoors during May.

Pennsylvania. G. W. Kerr.

As to Double Primroses

CARE little for double flowers as a rule and

even have been wont to look with pity on
those who would double the primrose. But I
confess that I have had to back water since I have
come to be the owner of a double white primrose.
In May, 1909, I purchased one plant of Primula.
acaulis alba plena, just to show how right I was,
and got my first blossoms a year later. The May
following found the plant the daintiest imaginable
cushion of soft green studded with more than fifty
beautiful white flowers as double as double could
be and —TI was converted on the spot. So long
as I have a garden there shall be a place for this
charming flower, which is admirably placed near
the yellow of my P. vulgaris and the mauve of what
I bought for P. Cashmeriana but I believe is P.
denticulata. I have another double primrose that
doesn’t know whether it is rose or magenta and has
a way of getting along with just enough petals to
keep it out of the single class. Though I hate to
throw it away, it is scarcely worth garden room.
The next time that I am in England I shall hunt
for the famous old double red called Pompadour —
it will come high, but I must have it to go with
my white. I have found the double white prim-
rose most easy of culture and inclined to form new
crowns with a fair degree of rapidity. I give it
full sunshine in spring but shade in summer. The
soil must be well drained and the bed raised a few
inches above the garden walk.

New Hampshire. eee

The ‘‘ Escaped’’ Bellflower

T IS rather singular that the bellflower that

probably has been longest in cultivation here
is not only among the least familiar but is known to
few by name. This is the European bellflower
(Campanula rapunculoides), once a favorite in
gardens but now seldom seen excepting as an
“escape.” In fact I can recall no garden other
than my own where I could be sure of finding it,
though I know of plenty of old dooryards where it
still seeks a haven by a fence. Once in a while it
is found straying out to the very roadside. We
call it “bluebell” in New England. I think, how-
ever, that the old name was rampion. At any
rate I can distinguish no difference between this
and the Campanula Rapunculus whose roots are
edible and which is much liked in France; where
its name in the vernacular, raiponce, sounds so
much like réponse, that manger des raiponces is
used as a play on words. I have never eaten
rampion, but I do like this time-honored bellflower
that so long has been an outcast.. It is an excel-
lent border plant, if kept within bounds, and by not
allowing it to go to seed one may be sure of its
graceful spikes of purplish blue blossoms through
the summer and into October; it is a most per-
sistent bloomer. An excellent place for it to grow
unrestrained is by a wall and nowhere does it look
better; or it may be naturalized, either in full
sunshine or partial shade.

New York. H. Sy AC

Marcu, 1912

California Privet Makes
Thoroly Efficient Fences

Privet will last as long as you need fences. May be
grown any height — thick enough to turn sparrows, strong
enough to hold hogs or horses. Trimming once a year
(costing $2 a mile) is all the repairing needed. Live fences
cost less than posts and wire or rails, and are much the
best after the second year. Around the house the hedge
may be high for screens, or low to avoid cutting off the view

GET OUR 1912 CATALOG

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Get our catalog, which tells how to plant and care for live
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Send 50 cents, rebated on first $5 order, for our book
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We wiil pay your hotel bill while here. .

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Main Ave. Berlin, Maryland

Valuable farms for sale — write us.

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An effective insecticide to destroy insects on leaves and
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A favorite in chicken houses, and for killing insects in the

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dp H E G A R D EK N M A G A 7. I N K suggestions about , arden furniture 105

In Search of
Arcady

By Nina Wilcox Putnam

ROM the moment RET

of the arrival of

Cecil Fitz-Williams,

Earl of Chamboyne,

in America, under

the guidance of Lady HyI-

liary, the best-laid plans for

the capture of an American

heiress seem to go persistent-

ly awty. Truth to tell, the

young Earl is somewhat

ashamed of being fired

headlong at Miss Barbara

Chichester, heiress, and side-

steps the matrimonial issue

by going off to visit an old

college chum in Massa-
chusetts.

It is in the open country of New England tha a very romantic little
tale unravels itself, for the young Scotchman quite loses his heart to
Lolli Plashta, a gypsy, and the proprietress of one of the quaintest little
travelling carts that dispenses millinery and notions to the New England
countryside.

How the Earl, in quest of Arcady, becomes an itinerant vendor of
summer cottage furniture and how the search leads him into the pictur-
esque gypsy camps makes a very enjoyable story.

Four illustrations in black and white and tint hy F. Scott Williams
Fixed Price, $1.20 (postage 12c)

Garden City DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. NewYork

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our wonderful Bright Light Burner. 50 candle power invisible and unbreakable
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The Readers’ Service gives
information about insurance

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Marca, 1912

7

VELVET CREAM

The wealthiest, most particular and discriminating
people on earth use the dining-car service of the
great New York Central R. K., and that is why
Tubular-made cream alone is served and satisfies the
management of that R. R. It costs them more
money, and Mr. Geo, H. Sweet’s dairy at Hast
Aurora, N. Y., with a Tubular at the head of it, gets
the benefit in big profits.

The Canadian Pacific R. R., with its ocean-to-ocean
trains, gets Tubular cream forits diningears from Mr.
J. McFadyen, Parkbeg, Sask., and both the R. R. Co.
and Mr. McFadyen profit from velvety Tubular cream.

THE SHARPLES

Tubular Cream Separators
MAKE GREATEST PROFITS

for the keenest, best informed dairymen
everywhere. They know they must have
Tubulars to get perfect cream and to get

it all. Disk-filled or otherwise compli-
cated separators lose
cream, spoil its quality
and give what is termed =
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flavor to it.

Dairy Tubulars contain
no disks or other contrap-
tions and produce velvety
cream of perfect flavor
which brings fancy
prices.

Tubulars have twice
the skimming force of
others, skim twice as
clean, wear longer and
run easier.

If it’s not a Sharples it’s not a 5
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Large 80-page illustrated catalog
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104 Centre Street
NEW YORK CITY

Our Enemy, tne Cutworm

AST year became famous for its cutworms —
never before have they been so destructive;
let us hope for a better fate this year.

There was a time when we recognized but a
single kind of cutworm. To-day most entomol-
ogists and some gardeners realize that there are
close to fifty distinct kinds! Thirty named'species
at least infest the state of New York alone, and
there are as many more caterpillars that so closely
resemble cutworms in habits and appearance that
for all practical purposes they, too, may be
included.

However distinct these are in some respects,
they are closely related to the following extent:
They are all larve of certain moths of the family
of “‘owlet moths” or Noctuide; they are all naked,
dull black, brown, or gray, with various markings,
which in some cases have given the groups their
names, as the ‘‘yellow-headed,” ‘‘dark-sided,”
“well-marked,” “‘spotted-legged,”’ and the like.
They invariably eat during the night, hiding day-
times in the ground or under bits of wood, stones,
etc. All are under an inch and three-quarters
in length. The adult moths, too, are dull brown
or rusty black; they fly mainly during the night,
feeding upon the nectar in flowers. To many of
us they are more familiar than the worms them-
selves, although we do not realize it, for practically
all the “moth-millers” that flutter about our
lamps on summer evenings, are noctuids, and the
majority probably adult cutworms.

Now as to the differences between the various
forms. In the matter of appearance these depend
upon rather inconspicuous spots and lines as I
have mentioned above. The appetites of all the
species are satisfied with almost any sort of tender
succulent plant tissue. But their habits and life
histories differ considerably. Some gnaw through
the stems of seedlings just at the surface of the
ground; others half an inch above it; another
“wise old owlet”’ cuts the stem and drags the
severed end back into his burrow where he con-
tentedly drinks the juices from the cut surface,
safely out of reach of the gardener’s roving eye;
| still other species have done much injury by climb-
ing bushes and even trees, devouring leaf and
blossom buds. However, it is now believed that
any cutworm will exhibit this climbing habit in
the absence of sufficient food on or near the ground.
| The variation in the life histories of cutworms
is the source of much inconvenience both in group-
ing and in fighting the species. Ordinarily the
moths appear in June, July and August, during
which months the eggs are laid. In some cases
these hatch in a few days; in others, not for several
weeks. Most forms spend the winter as _ half-
grown larve in small earth cells; but several are
known to hibernate as pupz, the moths emerging
in the spring; in yet another species the eggs are
laid in the fall but do not hatch until the following
spring; and in at least one case the mature moth
lives all winter, laying her eggs, to the number
of four or five hundred, early in May, or in April.

All these individualistic tendencies render the
campaign against cutworms complicated and con-
tinuous. And yet it is perfectly possible to reduce
the numbers of this pest and of its injuries to an
insignificant minimum if we will but apply ourselves
assiduously to the task.

Most cutworms, we note, are hatched during
July and August when the gardens and fields are
rich in food for them. Hence their depredations

Beautify Your
Grounds

Roses, flowering plants and vines for sale,
also 500,000 apple, pear, plum, peach,
cherry, quince and shade trees. Green’s
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used to beautify many magnificent es-
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licious fruits they bear and excellent shade
they afford, combine to make them the
most desirable trees for the modest
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Est. 33 years. Capital$100,000.

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We hold exclusive sales rights to many of Luther Bur-
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These Will Grow Almost Anywhere

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Send for Photo Pictures and prices of
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Gasoline Going Up!

Automobile owners are burning up so
much gasoline that the world’s supply
is running short. Gasoline is 9c to r5c
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Woe

Suggestion No. II
From the Advertising
Suggestion Department

T. W. Higginson once said, “Originality is
simply a pair of fresh eyes,” — or words to
that effect.

By this same token, any “originality” we
are able to infuse into the advertising sug-
gestions, furnished free to our patrons, is due
to the fresh light in which we see the products
to be advertised. Our service is of value to
the advertiser, because, figuratively, we are
looking at his goods through the eyes of our
readers; i. €., we go a shopping for them, not
to buy, but to present in an attractive way
the thing they may wish to buy.

Knowing our readers, we are equipped to
tell what is interesting in a manner to prompt
their attention.

If you are a new, old, or a prospective ad-
vertiser, little or big, in THE GARDEN MaGaziInE,
and feel that our help will benefit you— it is
yours for the asking.

Write, giving particulars and sending liter-
ature, etc., etc., to Jay Vee Lamberton, also
known as

The Advertising Suggestion Department
Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, N.Y.

Fruit and Ornamental

Hedges, Shrubs, Roses, Vines,
Berry Plants, etc. Direct from
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Hardy, guaranteed West-

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Big money in right kind ofoats. Here’s your chance. Imported
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seed oats farm in Canada. New, clean land. Genuine Regenerated
Swedish Select went 116 bushels to acre; Early New Market 110
bushels to acre. Farmers who bought this seed from us last year
raised as high as7s to 100 bushels in this country and found out that
their old seed was inbred and runout. Seed from us went double
and in many cases three times. Change your seed. Try some of this
new seed. Sample free, or ro cents for large packet. Will also send
our free book entitled “Big Money in Oats and Howto Grow Them.

GALLOWAY BROS.-BOWMAN CO., Oats Specialists
1482 Y. Galloway Station WATERLOO, IOWA

A WOMAN FLORIST

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GEM ROSE COLLECTION
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NEW

THE

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GARDEN MAGAZINE

FOR 50 CENTS

we will send prepaid the following
seeds which, if sold separately, at our
retail prices of 10 cents a packet, would

cost $1.90.

One Packet each of the following
Giant Orchid-flowering

SWEET PEAS

New White Spencer. Best White.
Countess Spencer. Pink.
King Edward Spencer.
Scarlet.
Captain of the Blues Spencer. Bright Blue.
Aurora Spencer. Best Striped.
Primrose Spencer. Pale Yellow.

Brilliant

To induce you to take
advantage of this very
attractive seed offer with-
out delay,we will include
one packet of the New
and very Popular Afri-
can Golden Orange
Daisy, a charming an-
nual that is easily grown.

One Packet each of new Giant-flowering

NASTURTIUMS

Dwarf Beauty. Light Scarlet.
Dwarf King Theodore. Scarlet Maroon; dark foliage.
Dwarf Luteum. Light Yellow.
Tall Schulzi. Scarlet.
Tall Pearl. Cream White.
Tall King Theodore. Scarlet Maroon; dark foliage.

We are headquarters
for the Jatest Novelties in
seeds and everything in
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on One Packet each of the following

Remember that for VW
ASTERS

only 50 Cents we will send
you all the seeds mentioned

Violet King. Beautiful Deep Violet.
Early Snowdrift. Earliest White.

in this advertisement value
$1.90.

Improved Crego Pink. Giant pure Shell Pink.
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All the above varieties are
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120 pages, telling all about seeds,
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The Home of Wholesome Food

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Send for Our Free Book on Home Refrigeration
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one. It tells all aboutthe ‘‘ MONROE ’’—describes its wonderful lining and
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A Germless Food
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The “MONROE?” is sold direct to you—
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The ‘‘MONROE ’’is the ONE REFRIGERATOR with each food
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Start a Fernery

Brighten up the deep, shady nooks on your lawn, or that dark
porch corner—just the places for our hardy wild ferns and wild
flower collections. We have been growing them for 25 years and
__ know what varieties are suited to your conditions. Tell us the
a" kind of soil you have—light, sandy, clay — and we will advise you.

Gillett’s Ferns and Flowers

will give the charm of nature to your yard. These include not only hardy wild
ferns, but native orchids, and flowers for wet and swampy spots, rocky hillsides,
and dry woods. We also grow such hardy flowers as primroses, campanulas
digitalis, violets, hepaticas, trilliums, and wild flowers which require open sunlight
as wellas shade. If you want a bit of an old-time wildwood garden, with flowers
just as nature grows them—send for our new catalogue and let us advise you
what to select and how to succeed with them.

EDWARD GILLETT, Box C, Southwick, Mass.

NEW and RARE SHRUBS, VINES and
BULBS from CHINA

CLEMATIS MONTANA, rubens. See illus
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Plants from 31% in. pots, each 75 cents; doz.
$8.00. Plants from 214 in. pots, each 50

cents; doz. $5.00.
AMPELOPSIS THOMSONII. Beautiful tri-
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each 75 cents; doz. $8.00. Plants from 2!4

in. pots each 50 cents; doz. $5.00.

LILIUM MYRIOPHYLLUM. Blooms in
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LILIUM SARGENTIAE. Blooms in Aug-
ust. Enormous flowers, white shaded
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doz. $15.00.
Do not fail to procure our Spring Catalogue
which contains many new plants offered for

the first time.

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9S South Market St., Boston, Mass.

are rarely noticed, especially since they find the
weeds and grasses fully as desirable as the more
mature garden crops. Therefore:

Rule t.— Plow unused land in July if possible,
or in August, and keep it in clean cultivation until
the latest possible date when you can sow a winter
cover crop. This will remove a vast amount of
food and result in the starving of many young
worms, besides destroying myriads of eggs laid
upon grass stems, fallen leaves, etc.

In the spring, after a winter spent in a half grown
state, the worms are ravenous; at this time, too,
food is scarce until we set out tender lettuce, cab-
bage and tomato plants. Little wonder that they
are attacked. Fortunately the worms prefer bran
even to young seedlings. Therefore:

Rule 2.— Mix a pound of paris green or its
equivalent of some arsenical poison with a bag of
bran (or a tablespoonful to a quart), moisten the
mixture slightly, and scatter a little around each
newly set plant, the same evening that it is trans-
planted. This rule may be varied to the extent of
using freshly cut clover soaked in or sprayed with
a poison solution. The pith of the matter is,
provide a poisoned bait.

In a garden devoted solely to vegetables this
should suffice to save the crops from destruction.
And yet, lest you tempt providence too far, sow
your seed generously so that even if a few seedlings
are taken you will not have to mourn a serious loss.
If you grow fruit, especially peaches, and follow
Rule 1, which removes much of the food of the
young worms, those that survive the winter will
probably attack your fruit buds before the vege-
table season begins. Just when they are tenderest,
the marauders will sneak up the trees about ten
o’clock in the evening, feed and destroy until nearly
dawn, then, taking a flying leap to the ground, will
scurry to a hiding place just below the surface.
To combat this manceuyre, practice

Rule 3.— Band each tree with some sticky sub-
stance that will not dry out, or wrap around
it a strip of cheap cotton-batting about eight
inches wide. (To make this most effective, wrap
it with the smooth side out, and tie it tightly around
the bottom; then pull the upper part down over
the tied portion making a cone-shaped protector
that maintains its shape for a long time, quickly
drying out after rains.) Then scatter around the
foot of each tree some of the poisoned bran. Events
should proceed like this: Some of the worms will
find the bran on their way to the tree and will
refuse to go farther; these will be soon accounted
for.

Others, more venturesome spirits, will climb,
encounter the band and waste their obstinate
energies trying to cross it. Now you can either
smite them there, with a stick or a heavy glove,
or you can leave them to eventually climb down
in hungry disgust, find the bait and, literally, gorge
themselves to death.

Oftentimes a satisfyingly large number of worms
can be destroyed if you will take the trouble to dig
around the base of each tree. The worms con-
gregate within a foot of the trunk and rarely, if
ever, more than an inch under the surface.

All this handwork and close application might
become both tedious and expensive upon a large
farm attacked by the pest. But in the small
garden such methods easily become part of the
daily routine.

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and shrubs, it killed scale and was found not very
poisonous to the higher forms of animal life; m

Marcu, 1912 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 109

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An Unfamiliar Acanthus

[AMONG the new plants which have been intro-
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last few years, Acanthus montanus is one of the
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having been collected in western Africa in 1865.
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leaf. Each lobe terminated with a long spike-
like point. The leaves were of a dark olive green

Acanthus montanus is one of the most attractive of
plants recently introduced into garden cultivation

and marbled with a bright yellowish green, the
midribs being somewhat brighter than the other
markings. The flowers were borne in a narrow
spike about a foot long. They were set rather
closely together, were rosy white in color with
purple veined bracts.

The plant illustrated was about fifteen months
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soil. The plants will ultimately need a 9- or 10-
inch pot in which to flower.

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Growing Palms from Seed

Vp palms are among the best plants that can
be grown in the window garden, or for home
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room better than many plants. They are green
the year around; all that is necessary to keep the
foliage bright and green is reasonably careful
culture and the frequent sponging of the leaves.

The easiest way to get palms for home decoration
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the packets holding from ten to twenty-four seeds
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The big growers usually sow the seeds on benches
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heat, but the window gardener must content
himself with sowing them in pots. A 6-inch pot is
a good size to use. There should be an inch of
drainage in the bottom of the pot, and the pot
nearly full of good seed soil — one made of equal
parts of a good loam and leaf mold with a little
sand and charcoal to insure drainage will give
satisfactory results. The seeds should be covered
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You cannot expect palm seeds to germinate as
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If a greenhouse is at your command a temperature
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To avoid frequent waterings when starting palm
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this will obviate breaking the roots, which is very
liable to happen if you dig out the plants as you
e ounse would take out the seedlings of annuals.
JU ST _ A good soil into which to transplant the seed-
lings can be made from well rotted sod, leafmold,

well decayed horse manure, and sand, but if these

O ji IT various ingredients are not available any good
or e e en S e well drained garden loam will answer. You will
find when potting these seedlings that the deep

pots will be much better than the ordinary flower
pots; a deep two and a half inch pot will be
B plenty large enough for most of the palms. Be

very careful not to break the roots when potting
the plants, for it is an injury from which the young
palms do not readily recover.
After the plants are potted, water the soil to
LEROY SCOTT settle it, place the pots in the window garden and
shade them with a newspaper. If it is convenient
to use the Wardian case made from a box, as pre-
viously suggested, a moist atmosphere can be
Author of = = ™ | maintained about the plant which. will be more
conducive to their rapid recovery from the shock of
C ‘T H é h H h” eile: peel as it will create a more con-
-| genial atmosphere.

Oo im T at at After the plants have once taken hold of the new
soil and are growing they can be removed from the
66 ° ' case and given the same treatment as the other

The Walking plants in the window garden. When the plants
99 have filled the pots with roots, shift them into a

i larger in di ing
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Seeds of the date palm can be secured by buying
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of her fem thinkable, and the girl confronts public derision as I with red berries at CHHlHaaAETatafereeae
inine charm well as an apparently hopeless case. One of her bit- ee the pret and mere things
a : > - shown during the last winter in the florists’ stores,
in the or- terest opponents 1S the ardent reforming N€WSpape,r | vere the pepper plants (Capsicum annuum) and
deal: editor — with firm convictions as to the proper sphere | Jerusalem cherry (Solanum pseudo-capsicum). The
of woman —and the relation between these two pro- | ©! of the bright and glossy red fruit was so

duces a situation of romantic and dramatic power.

Frontispiece in colors by Charles Chapman
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strikingly appropriate for the Christmas season that
the demand far exceeded the supply of both plants.

The pepper plant, while not new, has still the
element of novelty. In order to have it for Christ-
mas, One must commence preparations in the early
summer. The plants are readily grown from seed.
Sow the seed in shallow boxes during March and
keep warm until germinated; afterward prick off
the seedlings into thumb pots and after successive
shifts plunge out of doors during the summer.
Take them into the house as late as possible in
the fall and keep in a sunny room. ‘The plants
should be in fruit before Christmas and will last
for weeks.

Instead of leaving the fruit on the plant it may
be cut for decorative purposes. A mantle decora-
tion of branches of peppers carelessly arranged

Sed

Give the pepper plant plenty of room when growing.
Crowding will make it run high

among maidenhair fern is striking. It would be
well to lay the ferns on their sides so that the
pots could not be seen. Large plants for this pur-
pose are the best as they show up better. The
cut stems laid around a dining table, by the in-
dividual plates, make a pretty display and a centre-
piece made of the peppers is also striking.

The old but deservedly popular Jerusalem cherry
can be similarly grown from seed by starting in
February or March. The plant practically takes
care of itself.

The pepper and the cherry and an abundance of
ferns certainly solve the question of appropriate
Christmas decoration at very small expense.

Massachusetts. L. J. DoocueE.

Naturalizing Columbine

N THESE days of naturalizing, more attention

should be given to the possibilities of the
columbine. For the native red columbine (A qui-
legia Canadensis) a rocky place, preferably with a
little shade, is best; but, failing that, an excellent
effect may be created by letting it loose in thin
grass. There is one place on Long Island where
it does well in fairly thick grass, having made itself
at home on both sides of the country pathway,
which is glorified for a little distance by the hun-
dreds of nodding red flowers. As the plants are
near a dwelling, they are probably “escapes”
from a garden. Quite as striking an effect in the
wild, but easily duplicated by naturalizing, is
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columbine (Aquilega chrysantha) in the thin grass.
The cultivated blue, purple, pink and white varie-
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small grove of such spindling trees as the white
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Gardening in Florida

Wye I first went to Florida gardening was a
puzzle, nor can I say that it is fully ex-
plained as yet. I found after awhile, however, that
we were to plant not all things at one time, but
some things nearly every month. The wet season
is the summer and the dry season the winter of the
South. During this dry season irrigation must take
the place of showers; that is, from November first
until the first of June. It would be folly to under-
take to grow sweet potatoes in the dry season.
I also found that we were to plant a good many
things to hit the Northern market — that is, get
into New York and Boston ahead of Georgia and
Virginia with our strawberries and our cabbages
and lettuce.

For these reasons we plant potatoes in January;
our first celery we put in in October or a little sooner;
the next planting in January and the next in April.
Melons are planted in March or April, and we be-
gin to harvest them the last week in May, although
last summer I had watermelons from June ist to
September 15th— muskmelons will cover even a
longer period. With extra care there is no reason
why they should not be had until November.

My chief trouble is that there is, for me, no way
of marking the seasons. I have to think before
I know whether it is summer or winter. I found
a peach tree in blossom in September, evidently
getting ready for 1912; not a mere bunch of
flowers out of season, as an apple tree will some-
times break out in the North, but the whole tree
coming into blossom. E

Clearly it had forgotten the time of the year.
When I first reached the state, about November
I, 1910, there were several peach trees in my or-
chard in bloom, and they went on to set their fruit
in midwinter. Some of these gave me ripe fruit
in March. The loquats act a little sheepish about
their work, blossoming from July to January, but
they do not undertake to set fruit from their early
blossoms. They go on flowering till the proper
time comes, and then the trees will be loaded with
pear-like golden fruit — unless about that time a
frost nips them. How this fits in with excess of
bloom I do not know; but it is true that the same
bush will blossom twice as long in Florida as in
Massachusetts. The Judas tree, which in the
North never thinks of more than three weeks’
florescence, here goes from one solid bloom into a
second, and the leaves impatiently begin to develop
before the flowering is ended. Crepe myrtle,
which is our Southern lilac, blossoms over and
over again for three months, completely covering
its bushes with pink or purple or white.

Wild flowers have to take their turns as they can.
After a very close succession of lavender and blue
flowers, in which there is a wild pea fully the size
and glory of a sweet pea, the partridge pea lifts
itself up and covers whole counties with its brilliant
and beautiful shades of red and yellow. All under
the pine woods this sensitive foliage shrinks from
touch and from rain drops. A legume, like most of
the rest, it is part of Nature’s provision for fat-
tening the soil. All through the year this succes-
sion of wild plants and flowers crowds, crowds
crowds. The little lakes are rimmed with yellow
and then with white and then with purple. Oranges
blossom in March, but they are not satisfied and
blossom more or less in May. The lemon has a
monthly growth, and each month’s growth has its
own flowers and fruitage. Mulberries do not
continue fruiting on the same tree month after

Marcu, 1912

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like the uplands. They will absolutely cover great
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ward, droop them here in such a way as to shade
their own roots. To this Nature adds a simply
indescribable superfluity of creeping plants. These
cover every square inch of the soil, and being al-
most always legumes, they put nitrogen into the
ground. If plowed under they make humus with
immense rapidity.

Everything in Florida should be mulched. No
tree should ever be planted without a heavy dressing
of pine needles or other waste stuff. This must be
renewed frequently, and the old stuff gradually
worked into the soil as more humus. Composting
is, of course, a necessity. Compost your muck
with lime, compost your legumes and every par-
ticle of vegetation that will rapidly decompose,
only always add lime. The velvet bean grows
fifty feet in a season, and cowpeas fifteen; inviting
frequent cuttings for hay, while the balance can be
plowed under late in the season. Florida is the
greatest hay state in the Union, yet two thirds
of the hay that is used is imported, simply because
the people have preferred to grow something else.
New grasses are being tested, and some of them are
proving very satisfactory.

Of insect enemies we have the curculio and the
peach tree borer, and some others with which we
are familiar in New England. With these we have
unfortunately the root gall, and in a very bad shape.
The grape leaf-folder has a capacity for mischief
that I hardly ever saw equalled. The gopher or
ground squirrel is a fellow of amazing shovel power,
who puts his talents for mischief out at interest.
He is a real squirrel, with pouched cheeks, only
he does his work underground. Sober old turtles
of a foot in diameter lug themselves around our
gardens, tramping a good deal, and eating our
sweet potato vines. Two or three years of garden-
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gophers and turtles.

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Plant all kinds of beans now in the middle and
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Continue to sow seeds of beets, turnips, radishes,
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More Remarkable Koonti Facts

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root crops would starve without the application of
fertilizer! _ No wonder the red water from the
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Improving the Garden Soil

BOUT three years ago we moved to the suburbs
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Illustrated with many exquisitely colored
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Price in box, $1.75 net. At all booksellers.
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tor-Victrola

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will gladly play any Victor music you wish to
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HARDY AMERICAN PLANTS AND
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The most exquisite and lasting material for Landscape, Wild or Formal Gardens.

We have the largest collection of rare Native Plants in existence. Rhododendrons,
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These dainty things are easily grown, if you do it right. A beautiful catalog (free)
gives expert information.

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For information about popular resorts

128 write to the Reader's Service THE GARDEN MAGAZINE Marcgz, 1912

Plan

now for
Perennial

Effects

f and prevent haphazard

planting—so often the

last resort of the

unprepared.

What One Ought to Plant

\ 71TH so many easily grown annuals to choose
from it is worth considering a little that we
may get something that really fits into its place and
fulfils the purpose in view. Unsightly gaps in the

-| garden may occur or there may be a bare fence
or wall that needs hiding. For this annuals offer
an immediate solution, if we take pains to se-
lect proper ones. We must not be careless as to
color and form, for at their height of bloom they
should make delightful combinations with the
longer lived plants in the garden.

Avoid seed mixtures unless you know just what
colors are used, for frequently there are, in these
mixtures, colors that are either garish or mediocre
when used with neutral or vivid tones. Petunias,
zinnias and phlox are sometimes most disappoint-
ing when grown from mixed seeds. It is better
to buy distinct varieties and plant them in the
desired contrast.

Coreopsis, cosmos, poppies, and most annuals
of simple form are very effective in broad plant-
ings. Field effects are charming indeed.

Flowers borne in racemes are peculiarly striking
against walls, dark hedges, or in corners. Low
plants of compact habit are very useful as path
outlines. Wild-flower types are at their best in
colonies.

The following is a classification of certain annuals
with regard to their location in the garden and the
proper distance apart to plant:

The elemental delights
of gardening are trebly

- enhanced when a well
alsin formulated scheme is fol-
lowed. The various processes by which the finished garden is developed are factors of intense
interest and add zest and active pleasure to the undertaking.

If you have in mind a new garden or wish to change the old, this is the time to complete your
plans. And we offer our co-operation. Our success in the nursery field is due to the interest we take
in each customer’s problems. Whenever we are in a position to advise—sound and helpful suggestions
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We specialize on perennials and shrubs—and we have a large list of regular customers. Write us
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of nothing in the fruit line quite so profitable. Weare also headquarters for Plum Farmer,
Idaho and Royal Purple Raspberries, Early Ozark Strawberry, Watt Blackberry, Hastings
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labor and expense Prince Bismark (sal-
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Vv 1 d than with ao ordi Calliopsis Golden Wave 24 in.
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i i ooming rs
be bigger—earlier sa sh wen
- a J 5 Globe Amaranth (Nana compacta) 24 in. :
With Sunlight DoubleGlass Sash, youdon’t can begin gathering while they css still a Godetia Rosamond (rosy pink)|/12 or 15 in.
have to cover and uncover the frames with luxury onthe market. So order now! Princess of Wales May be grown
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at all Seasons

Mushrooms Growing in your Cellar

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GARDEN MAGAZINE

The Readers’ Service will give you
suggestions for the care of live-stock

Make Your Garden Work Easy With
AMES WHEEL HOE

It can be used as a single or double wheel implement at

will and is easily adjusted.

\ It can be adjusted so that
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double wheel hoe it’s a straddle row weeder.

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It has 1 pair Long Bladed Hoes, 1 pair Short Bladed
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Personal service by letter. If you take real interest in gar-

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Save space, money, and time by a practical planting plan.
Write

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Your Garden Three Weeks Earlier

If you will start your lima beans, sweet corn, melons,
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Salary wanted consistent with service given. References, photo, etc
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Dexter Brothers

Peitrifax Cement Coating
should be used on all cement, brick, and stucco

exteriors.
to penetrate,

Without it rain and dampness are sure
causing unsanitary conditions and

perhaps damage.
Petrifax waterproofs the surface, will not crack,

chip or peel,

and is unaffected by climatic changes.

Made in white and several colors. Write for booklet.
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SENTS.— H. M. Hooker Co
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Some of the characters in

DANNY’S OWN STORY

Danny

Autobiographically, Danny says:
“There wasn’t nothin’ perdicted of me,
and _I done like it was perdicted. If they
was devilment anywhere about that
town they all says: ‘Danny, he done it.’
And like as not | has. Sol gets to be
what you might call an outcast.”

Old HankWalters and
Doc Kirby

“Look at me,” and he swells his
chest up. “You behold before you the
discoverer, manufacturer and proprietor
of Siwash Indian Sagraw. You don't
know what disease you may have.”

Mis’ Rogers

Who comes to share in a neighborly
way the grief at Hank’s sudden death
in the cistern.

“All of a sudden, a live fish come
a whirling out of that hole and it lands
kerplump into Mis’ Rogers's lap.”

George

“A bareheaded old nigger with a game

“Tse mos’ ingin lly notice a thing
do settle hitse’f arter a while.”

Dr.

“ The man with an idea.”

Julius Jackson

“The glorious, humanitarian idea
of taking the kinks and curls out of the
hair of the Afro-American brother at

so much per kink.”

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anny s
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By Don Marquis

{] Danny enters upon
the scene nameless, a
baby in a basket aban-
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of Hank Walters, the
blacksmith. From that
very minute the fun be-
gins — such real, de-
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only Mark Twain and
O. Henry have hitherto
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|] The boy runs away
presently with a peri-
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mission is to make
known the wonderful
powers of “Siwash In-
dian Sagraw’; and he
plunges into the kalei-
doscopic life of the
patent-medicine fakir,
small circus shows, and
so on, with a zest in life
and a human philoso-
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ting humor that are
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Illustrated irresistibly by
E. W. Kemble

Fixed price, $1.20 (post-
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Published by

Doubleday, Page & Co.
GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK

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SEND US HIS NAME AND
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PLANTING TABLE — Continued

: DISTANCE
SPECIES PREFERRED VARIETIES ad
Zinnias Tall Double Varieties] 18 in.
Scarlet
Carmine
Rose
White
Dwarf Double I2 or 15 in.
Lilliput Scarlet Gem
(white)
Marigold Eldorado 18,in.
Lemon Queen
French Tall Dark
Brown
Snapdragon Coral Red 15 in.
Fairy Queen (white and
and gold)
Delilah (white and Car-
mine)
Amaranthus Caudatus (Love-lies} 24 in.
bleeding)
Tricolor (Joseph’s
Coat)
For Fall Back-
~ ground Masses
and Corners
Ricinus (castor oil] Mixed Varieties 36 in.
plants)
Cosmos Lady Lenox (shell pink) | 18 in., in sunny
Klondyke (orange location
colored)
Mammoth Perfection
Varieties
Conchita (crimson)
Erlinda (white)
Rosita (pink)
Io or 12 in.
Salvia splendens
(scarlet)
Sunflower (Helian-}] Double Chrysanthe-| 36 to 48 in.
thus) mum
Flowered
Low Bedding
Effects
Verbenas Mammoth Rose] to or 15 in. each
Queen way
Defiance (scarlet)
Clarkia Double Rose t2in. May be
Double white grown in par-
tial shade
Phlox Drummondi | Grandiflora alba 12 in.
Grindiliors Chamois-
ose

Crimson
Isabellina (yellow)
Single bedding - varie-
ties
Countess of Ellesmere} 12 in.
Howard’s Star
White

Petunias

VINES

For Urns and
Vases
Climbing Nastur-}] Queen Wilhelmina,
tium (rosy scarlet)
Crown Prince of Prus-
sia (blood red)
Lucifer (dark scarlet)
Golden Queen
Gracilis (blue)
Lindleyana (rose)
Kermesina (crimson)
Alba
Walls, Trellis, or
Arbor

Cypress vine Plant in open
ground in
warm spring
weather ro or

Erinus Lobelia

I2 In. apart
Morning Glory Coccinea (scarlet] Plant 2 feet
flowers) apart
Heavenly Blue
White
Japanese Morning
Glories
Sweet Peas (trellis Spencer Varieties Thin to 2 or 3
only) inches apart

A satisfying mass which fills in well along hedge
lines or which may be used along fences or to lend
interest to a winding path is formed by planting
summer cypress (Kochia) in rows, four rows deep,
spacing the plants about twenty-four inches apart.
A border of dusty miller or of sweet alyssum makes
a fine contrast. The cypress foliage turns from
light green to fiery red as the season advances.

ANNUALS FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES

Portulaca is very satisfactory if planted over a
broad area in a dry location near a path. The
seed should be sown quite thickly when the ground
is warm in spring.

The following combinations of annuals are very
pleasing in the given locations:

A bed below a terrace in a formal garden: Crim-
son snapdragon surrounded by sweet alyssum
(Little Gem).

Long narrow beds (3 feet wide) above a sodded

. The Readers’ Service gives
MarcHu, 1912 dl H E G A R D E N M A G A ty I N E “pe tenis fakow : asthe nts 131

There is

Seeds, Bulbs,| A oad ln a) gm Waiting

in the

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MAGAZINE

MarcuH, 1912

To Make Quick-Growing Plants
Grow Quicker; and Slow—-Faster

USE
Bon Arbor

It is a complete plant
food. Feed your plants; get
results; do it now.

Bon Arbor is favorably
known everywhere it is
used and itis widely used.
Such gardens as those of
the Capitol at Washington, D. C., and the Parlia-
ment Gardens, Ottawa, Canada, and the Royal
Windsor Gardens, England, on the one side, and
over 2,000 country estates and farms on the other,
represent the field supplied. Show flower and
vegetable growers find Bon Arbor indispensable.

Bon Arbor is put up as follows:

“

30 s 2 Ee
150 = Exp-extra . $1.80

Prices on quantities of 50 pounds and upwards on
application.

4 pound package, making 15 gallons, by mail : 30c

Ask your dealer or write direct

BON ARBOR CHEMICAL CO., Paterson, N. J.

Write for descriptive catalogue, new 1912 Edition. We manu-
facture also Radix Worm Eradicator, Insecticides, Weed Killer
and all agricultural chemicals. Special priceson large quantities.

Collections to Make
Your Garden Shine!

I specialize on collections of thrifty, well-grown
evergreens, perennials.and shrubs. By growing these
in quantities and giving them extra care, I can afford
to quote very low prices and give exceptional values.
TEN LITTLE EVERGREENS for $2.50 Postpaid.
All different, interesting, leading sorts, 8-12 ins. high
PERENNIALS, Choicest Kinds, carefully grown,
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SHRUBS, Deciduous and Half-Evergreen. Selec-

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Write for my 1912 booklet, free to intending purchasers.

RALPH E. DANFORTH, Box 1i4-A, EAST JAFFREY, N. H.

Mrs. Elsie McFate, practical artist-gardener of
Pittsburgh, sends out a very neat little catalog
from her hardy plant nursery at Turtle Creek, Pa,

Those who desire this interesting list of plants
should address request to

HILLSIDE HARDY FLOWER GARDENS
Turtle Creek, Pa.

Hardy
Plants

Try @

few now,

and flower
seeds too,
and see how
well they Ill do!

My new catalogue offers
a long list of kinds that have

stood many Vermont winters.

Hardy plants, shrubs, trees

etc. Wild flowers, hardy ferns, lilies.
You should write for a copy now.

F.H.HORSFORD, Charlotte, Vt.

terrace: Pink snapdragon surrounded by dusty
miller as a narrow border.

Along an old ience: Masses of cosmos.

Along a very low stone wall: Masses of poppies;
beyond a field of wild carrots.

On either side of a winding walk leading to
distant fields: Broad plantings of Eschscholtzias
or California poppies.

On the cool side of a stone wall: Bed of pansies
three feet deep.

In a mass against a hedge: Salvia shlendens and
white cosmos Erlinda.

Low mass against a green hedge: Marigold,
with a low border of sweet alyssum.

For low beds: White candytuit and scarlet
verbena in the foreground.

In a mass against evergreens: shasta daisies and
the white and gold snapdragon Fairy Queen.

Annuals must depend, for their perfect develop-
ment upon rich, mellow soil. Soil rich enough for
a good crop of vegetables is about right for annuals.

Hardy annuals — Godetia, erinus varieties of
lobelia, marigold, mignonette, pansy, phlox,
poppy, snapdragon, zinnias, sweet peas, candy-
tuit, ragged sailor (centaurea), sunflower — may
be sown as early in April as the condition of the soil
will permit.

Tender annuals, however, such as nasturtium,
petunias, salvia, salpiglossis, cypress vine, morn-
ing glory, castor oil plant, portulaca, stocks, ver-
bena, scabiosa or cosmos, balsam, ageratum or
asters, must not be sown in the open ground until
all danger of frest is past. For early effects these
should be started indoors.

New Jersey. M. RoBerts CONOVER.

The Charming Aubrietia

TKE all flower-lovers who visit England in the
spring, I succumbed completely to the
charm of the purple rock cress, or false wall cress
(Aubrietia deltoidea), which I had never seen before.
T usually look in vain for it in American gardens,
though, so far asI can see, it is hardy enough. I
bought one plant of the ordinary hue and despite
the fact that it was weakened, spindling and yel-
lowed by overmuch crowding under glass, it per-

A plant not usually seen in American gardens—
the false wall cress (Aubrietia deltoidea)

sisted in living even with a faulty location added
to these adverse circumstances. Fearing that the
chances of life were against it, I twice gave it too
much shade. Its third location is in the sun,
where it is flourishing and already has given me a
number of cuttings. It may also be increased by
separation. If you want 7,000 plants for spring
bedding, as is the case at Belvoir Castle, seed is
better yet. Sow it early so as to get strong plants
before the cold weather sets. Hendersonii, Eyrei,
Graeca, and Leichtlinii, the last a rosy carmine,
are all good varieties. The plant is an evergreen,
resembling closely in general growth Arabis albida
but with much smaller foliage tufts. It is excel-
lent for rockwork; in the border care should be
taken to plant it a few inches above the level of the
walk.

Massachusetts. B.D:

50 Aster Plants
for 5Oc Prepaid

Set these Aster Plants any-
where the sun shines and they
are sure to give a profusion of
bloom all summer until frost.
Strong, healthy plants. Flowers
of beautiful red, pink, white,
lavender, purple and blue
borne on strong stems—very
suitable for cutting. Save time
by getting Aster Plants—so much quicker and
surer than planting seeds and waiting for them to
grow. Order to-day, we'll send the Plants at the
right time to plant in your garden.

. We want you to have our illus-
trated catalogue—free on request

CUSHMAN GLADIOLUS CO.
Desk 18. Sylvania, Ohio.

Strong, Healthy, Choice
Nursery Stock

We offer for Spring of 1912 the largest and finest
assortment of Nursery Stock we have ever offered.
A full line of small fruits, tree fruits, ornamental
trees, plants and vines, all grown on our home
grounds, guaranteed healthy and true to name.
Our goods will surely give satisfaction. Get our
prices before placing your business elsewhere. We
also do landscape gardening in all its branches.
Write to-day for our catalogue, it’s free.

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Orange County Nurseries
P. O. Box 4 CORNWALL, N. Y.

LADY ROOSEVELT

Aster Seed 222 =e

ASTER. MIXTURE, 12 BEST, 10c and 25c packets

WEAVER’S Famous Perfection Head Lettuce, 15¢ and 25c¢ packets
JOHN S. WEAVER, DEPT. 20

Glen Mawr Seed Farms, - Kinzers, Pa.

Asters Dahlias Gladiolus

No flowers ever grew in any garden to equal these three

specialties. _We have the finest collections in the world
too Aster plants finest cut-flower varieties mixed - - - $ .50
12 Superb named Dahlias no two alike = - Sas
25 Grand Gladiolus in assorted types and colors - - - tr.00
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Ask for our catalogue and prices on larger quantities.

NATIONAL CO-OPERATIVE SHOW GARDENS
Box 1000 Spencer, Indiana, U. S. A.

Luther Burbank’s
NEW GLADIOLUS

Offered for the first time, with other new and rare bulbs
These new Gladioli are a revelation, and are without doubt
the largest, most brilliant and most varied ones growing on
this earth, and of a new and distinct type, and are especially
rich in scarlet, salmon and crimson shades. Illustrated folder
free, also lists of other catalogs, etc.

W. A. LEE, Agent, Dept. M.. Covina, Cal.

For a Most Beautiful Lawn

Sow KALAKA. It is specially selected, specially tested grass
Seed, and pulverized menure—the ideal combination to grow
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Marcwh, 1912

Moth - Proof Cedar
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A Piedmont Southern Red Cedar Wardrobe Couch

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Many Styles LAWN and FARM FENCE Low Prices

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The Right
Spray-Pump
plus
Quality Spray
Materials

10 STEEL
EELS 1k 1M

One is not sufficient, you must have both of these essential
factors, if you would spray most effectively and profitably.

The “One-Man” Spray-Pump

Have you tried the bucket-pump and
found you did not have encugh hands?

Has your small compressed air sprayer
burst in the midst ofspraying operations?

Have you tried the barrel-pump and
found it too hard to operate?

If you have experienced these troubles,
you will find them overcome in Sherwin-
Williams “One-Man” Spray-Pump. It is
the first pump on the market which can
be operated successfully by one man on
tracts ranging from a small garden patch
to full-grown orchards of two to four
acres. A few minutes’ easy pumping
compresses sufficient air to spray with-
out again touching the lever for fifteen
or twenty minutes at a pressure which
will spray to the top of the tallest or-
chard-trees. It is simply constructed
and so arranged that a breakdown is
practically impossible. With the “One-
Man” Pump you can save half the cost
of labor and produce far better crops.

Effective Spray Materials

Many are paying exorbitant prices for
the choice Western-grown fruit when
they have full-sized fruit trees on their
own grounds. The remedy is simple.
Adopt the same methods of culture and
spraying and you will have just as good
fruit as is produced in the West.

The quality of the spraying materials
should be considered. Cheap materials
may kill the worms, but generally injure
the fruit and burn the foliage, whereas
the highest type—Sherwin - Williams In-
secticides and Fungicides—will produce
clean, healthy crops.

The Line consists of S-W New Process
Arsenate of Lead, Lime-Sulfur Solution,
Paris Green and Bordeaux Mixture
(Paste), which will cover practically
every requirement of the orchard or
garden, producing the best results ob-
tainable at a minimum cost. “How to
Spray,” contains a lot of valuable infor-
mation on fruit and vegetable spraying.
A copy will be mailed for the asking.

If your dealer cannot furnish the pump, do not delay, but send $30,
together with your dealer's name, and we will ship direct, freight
orepaid. Write for descriptive literature.

THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS Co.

INSECTICIDE AND FUNGICIDE MAKERS

657 CANAL ROAD 1204

CLEVELAND, OHIO

ties. One and two-year-old roots for sale.
know they will please you.
Special prices on large orders.
in growing asparagus.

ARTHUR J. COLLINS,

ASPARAGUS ROOTS

My tor12 stock of asparagus roots is unexcelled.
6 of the strongest, healthiest and thriftiest varie- - 06
We Heritage varieties.
Place your order now.
There is big money

STRAWBERRY PLANTS

You should know about my own fine, heavy bearing vari-
eties. For $1.00 I’ll express 100 plants of Norwood or
Try them. I have dozens of other
standard varieties. Big yielders and strong, healthy plants.
They are guaranteed true to name. I am a strawberry
specialist. The success of my berries is my success. You
will do well to plant them.

All shipments are packed with skill and care and reach destination in excellent condition.
Free catalog of Trees, Dwarf Fruit Trees, Small Fruits, Vines, and Spray Pumps, FREE.

Box T, MOORESTOWN, NEW JERSEY

We sell best quality trees, shrubs and plants at lowest fricesand PAY FREIGHT, | “
f Rochester is the tree center of the world, and plants from this locality are always
W healthy and hardy.

Write to-day for our wonderful new catalogue containing a big list of unequalled nur-
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save you money.

WRITE TO-DAY.

PLANTS

All orders guaranteed. :
RICH LAND NURSERIES, Box 115, Rochester, N. Y.

Rochester is the tree center of the world.

Don’t buy till you’ve read this catalogue,

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Marca, 1912

Se va al

YOU NEED TREES THE YEAR ROUND

The first hints of spring call attention to the
desirability of having plenty of trees and shrubs
and vines about the home. The early days of
summer accentuate the need of this form of
home decoration. Fall comes and adds horror
to the premises where landscaping has been
neglected. Winter gives still further the ap-
pearance of neglect to the place where trees
are wanting.

LANDSCAPES WITHOUT WAITING

We make a specialty of perfecting landscapes, and of
furnishing big, healthy, robust trees and shrubs that have
many years of growth stored within them. Our book
“Landscapes Without Waiting,” tells how we are able to
make you a landscape at once. Free if you live within
500 miles of Chicago and have home grounds to plant—
otherwise 50 cents a copy.

SWAIN NELSON & SONS COMPANY
755 Marquette Building, Chicago, Illinois

Two Things You Need

FIRST: The only Sanitary method of caring
for garbaye, deep in the ground in metal
receiver holdiny heavy galvanized bucket
with bail. Garbage cannot freeze. Avoid the
battered can and scattered refuse resulting
from removal of frozen contents. Health
demands it.

Underground Garbage Receiver
Underfloor Refuse Receiver

SECOND; This clean, convenient way of
disposing of ashes from furnace or hot water
heater, cellar and yard refuse. Fireproof.
Flush with floor. Abolish the old ash barrel.

Nine years in practical use.
IT PAYS TO LOOK US UP
Sold direct. Send for circulars on each

C. H. STEPHENSON, Mfr.
40 Farrar Street, Lynn, Mass.

Opens with the foot

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Easy to sweep into

How Would You ?
Heat This Home

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Residence Ardsley-on-Hudson.

Architect.

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might consider a Hot Air Furnace. You
But why not

Hering,

You
might consider Steam or Hot Water.

consider a
KELSEY “air” GENERATOR

It affords advantages that over 40,000 Home Own-
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“Achievements in Modern Heating.”

KELSEY HEATING COMPANY

Main Office: 116 East Fayette St., Syracuse, N. Y.
Neu York Office: I56R Fifth Ave.

How I Grow Cucumbers
[z IS folly to try growing cucumbers on a clay

soil. If you succeed in getting them at all,
they will be misshapen or will scald and yellow
badly. What this vegetable needs is a mealy,
loamy soil, rich in humus and with as much
additional plant food as it can hold.

When I grow cucumbers in my garden, I usually
put two large shovelfuls of fine rotted manure in
each hill and two handfuls of some good fertilizer,
if I have no fish scrap or fish (usually obtainable
in this locality).

In the language of an old farmer, the plants are
great feeders. Plenty of old rotted manure, fish
scraps or tankage, dried blood and bone meal are
favored articles of diet to this voracious vegetable.
The earliest and finest cucumbers I saw last season
were grown upon moist, well-drained soil, each hill
being surrounded by four fish buried to a depth of
about six inches.

Here is a formula for a good fertilizer for cucum-
bers, and which can be used on the melons, peppers,
squashes, beets, asparagus, and celery with equal
advantage:

Muriate of potash . 15 lbs
Dried blood . : nse
Nitrate of soda TOmes
Sulphate of ammonia TOM
Ground bone. 1) 55
Acid phosphate at A Shee

If more convenient one may use ten pounds
more of the acid phosphate and omit the ground
bone.

If the hill method of planting is used, five or six
seeds in a hill is enough, having the hills about
three feet apart. Do not put theseeds deeper than
an inch or so. Another planting method used by
farmers in the field and equally adaptable to the
garden is to plant the seed about eighteen inches
apart in rows three feet apart. It is better to drop
two seeds in each place and, after the plants have
their second leaves and are established, to cut
out the superfluous ones with a small pair of
scissors. Hill plants should be thinned down to
three plants.

The proper planting time is in established spring
weather. Frost will kill the young plants. How-
ever, south of New York, gardeners aim to get
them in by May first, sometimes making another
planting a few inches from the first four or five
days later. If the first planting is successful it
is but a few minutes’ work to cut out the others
with a hoe.

Young cucumber plants are easily effected by
long cold storms at the time that they are
just breaking through the ground. If possible
protect with pieces of glass until the storm is
over.

Almost as soon as the second leaves have grown
and the tender centre of the plant is unfolding,
the striped squash beetle will appear. It is a
slender creature with stripes of black and yellow
on its wings and perforates the leaves in a short
time. It is impossible to poison them but the
gardener can make their eating very inconvenient
by sifting land plaster over the leaves especially
about the tender parts of the plant. As the plants
increase in size, their susceptibility to this pest
diminishes.

When the vines are large enough to run, an
application of nitrate of soda is a good stimulant.
A tablespoonful on the surface of the ground about
each plant is enough. It must not touch the stem
or foliage nor be in such quantity that a shower

RO

WE’S

GLOUCESTER

BED HAMMOCK

The Hammock That’s Made to Last

When you buya bed hammock for your veranda this summer,
be sure it is sightly and comfortable, but above all be sure that
It is made to last. Cheap imitations soon look delapidated and
unattractive, because they lack the material and skill in making
so-necessary to service and lasting comfort.

Rowe Gloucester Bed Hammock is made by skilled sailmakers
who are trained to sew canvas sails strong and true for every wind
that sweeps the Atlantic. Itis made of duck weighing not less
than 21 ounces to the square yard, reinforced at eyery point of
strain—others use 16-oz., 12-oz., and even 8-oz. duck single
thickness.

Rowe’s Hammocks have consistently given ten years of contin-
uous outdoor service. We have never had one returned to us as un-
Satisfactory. They are firm, strong, comfortable. They present es-
sential advantages of which other makers have not even learned
the need.

Write for catalog and name of dealer nearestyou. If you are
not so located as to deal conyeniently with the dealer, we will
supply you direct. Before you buy a hammock, be sure to
see ours or send for illustrated book and prices

E. L. ROWE & SON, Inc. 138 Wharf St., GLOUCESTER, MASS.
Sail Makers and Ship Chandlers

Removable Steel
carvanized) CLOTHES POSTS

Fit into sockets driven level with the
\ ground. The posts are held rigidly but
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lawn free for mower or other purposes.
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Rewards and Fairies

“In this book Rudyard Kipling has done some of his best
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The stories shimmer in that wondrous
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Philadelphia and several American heroes
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The volume also contains the remarkable
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Four illustrations by Frank Craig $1.50

Also in the Leather Pocket Edition,
Net, $1.50 (postage 8c.)

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Garden City, New York

Marcu, 1912

Cabbage, Jersey Wakefield easonable
Cauliflower, W. & D.’s
Svowhell eeds to be
W. & D.’s Ailsa Craig Own now
Onion

Radish, Earliest Car-
mine forcing

Tomato, The Don
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mixed
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tiaca

Petunia, Rosy Morn De Luxe
Salvia, W. & D.’s Ex. F
Plant Fe) Bash Collection
Weeber Verbena, Mammoth postpaid

mixed for

Zinnia, Giant Flow-
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Seeds. We are headquarters for all, and in addition

for Tools and Horticultural Requisites. Consult

our register if in need of Gardeners or Farmers.

Send for 1912 Catalogue

WEEBER & DON

Seed Merchants and Growers
114 Chambers Street New York

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information about automobiles 135

Every Man With Red Blood
Wants A Garden «2

but he does hate the drudgery of it. Don’t keep
on with that idea of garden work, but find out,
at once, all you can about the tools shown in the
engravings.

Write for copy of Iron Age Farm & Garden News
and read other men’s experiences with these tools,
how they became really interested in growing things
with the help of the Creator and

IRON AGE

They hoe, cultivate, weed, level, open furrows
and cover them, plow in many soils, sow seed
accurately in continuous rows or in hills at any
distance apart. Mark the next row, and soon. All in an
upright position. Women and children work them as
well as men (if the men give them a chance). There
are 38 or more combinations to choose from, at prices
ranging from $2.50 to $12.00. The simplest forms build
up into complete machines. One year’s use in a fair
sized garden will pay for any of the tools in several
ways.

Ask your dealer to show you these
tools, and write us at once for
special booklet covering them.

Garden Drills
and

Wheel Hoes

16-inch easy running steel wheels, steel tube
frames, easiest and quickest scouring side
hoes, are some of the things to think about in connection with this line.

BATEMAN M’F’G CO.
Box 535, GRENLOCH, N. J.

Complete line of
Farm, Garden and Orchard Tools

Just Issued

New Book

A book that tells. plainly and briefly what
everyone who grows vegetables wants to know.

Vegetable Gardening

By R. L. Watts

Professor of Horticulture, Pennsylvania State College

This complete, concise and authentic
book covers every phase of vegetable gar-
dening. It is equally valuable as a text-
book and as a hand-book for practical
growers. The author’s experience as a
teacher and practical market gardener
has admirably fitted him to present this
matter in a popular style. The book
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will wash it over the plants as it will surely yellow
and kill them.

Lousy plants snould be burned at once or
washed in an infusion of tobacco stems. Plants
badly affected are rarely profitable even though
they survive.

Cucumbers require regular, even cultivation
but when they have begun blooming it is wiser
to disturb the plants very little when working about
the hill. A rather unusual garden implement but
one especially useful in this case is a long-handled
scraper such as is used about the fireplace. By
lifting the vines carefully and drawing this over the
surface of the soil about the hill each week, weeds
will be prevented from gaining a foothold.

Overgrown cucumbers should not remain upon
the vines as their growth and ripening will check
the vines’ bearing.

The everbearing and the White Spine varieties
are general garden favorites, being crisp, tender and
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A Short Season for Tomatoes

NORE having made repeated efforts with
growing tomatoes, I decided that the only
thing to do in this climate (northern Minnesota)
was to try and get on the vines as many large
tomatoes as possible, and pick them just before
the fatal frost which comes here about August 22d.

Tomato culture with me therefore, begins in
March in the house. My problem is how to hurry
the plants along, and get enough fruit to pay for
the time and labor expended.

We have frosts in June; tomatoes cannot be
set out in the garden until June first at the very
earliest, but by careful handling of young plants
in the house we can have them in bloom by that
time.

Last summer I planted fifteen hills of a very
indifferent grade of tomatoes in hills about two feet
apart both ways. The soil was very poor, so I
dug out the hills and filled in with made soil, which
was quite rich. In these hills the tomatoes were
planted, and when they began to lag, I took quart
tin cans (such as we get canned tomatoes in) made
an opening as large as a half a dollar in the bottom,
and removed the tops entirely. These cans I
filled half full of the richest barn yard manure
I could find, and sunk them into the ground about
half their depth, one beside each tomato plant.
When I watered the plants, I poured the water
into these cans, and it filtered through the manure
and carried the nourishment down to the roots.
The summer was very dry, and I would have had »
to carry an immense amount of water if it had been
applied in the usual way: but by giving it in the
manner stated, every drop reached the roots and
carried food with it.

From fifteen hills of this very commonplace
variety, we picked two bushels of green tomatoes,
of all sizes, many four inches in diameter, which
ripened in the cellar.

Minnesota. GrorGE E. WOLFE.

Raising Early Cauliflower

I MAKING the change from city life to farming,
if it is important rhat the farm yield a profit,
one of the most important things to learn is the
demand of the local market. Experience is the
only sure method of mastering this lesson.

We had had some little success anticipating the
market on early peas. If early peas and summer
squashes bring a special price, we thought, why not
early cauliflower?

We bought fancy seed, raised them in our hotbed,
and in due time transplanted them into the open
garden. Last spring cutworms were more than
usually active. To prevent loss from this pest,
around each plant as we transplanted it we put a
collar. For this purpose we used heavy paper —
fourteen inches by four and a half — which we had
bought to make paper pots. We pinned the ends
of the paper together with ordinary pins and placed
this circular collar around the plant, putting about
two and a half inches below the surface of the
ground. We did not lose a single plant from the
cutworms.

The season was dry. With my own hands L

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Marcu, 1912

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watered those cauliflower plants and brought them
to heads — some of them — by the middle of July.
With pride we offered them for sale. To our amaze-
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| one said.

We sold a few for the summer boarders. We
bartered with the city people who summer at the
top of the hill, taking in exchange some vegetables
on which we had failed. We gave a few to our
automobile visitors. Our own table was bounti-
fully supplied, but to us it did not look like a money-

| making venture. Meantime some of the plants

were passing.

Suddenly, about the middle of September, we
were fairly deluged with orders for cauliflower.
The butcher, the grocer, the blacksmith’s wife, the
laundress, and the farmers’ wives all wanted cauli-
flower. Afewinquiriessolved the mystery. Every
body for miles around used “one large cauliflower”
in, making mixed mustard pickles.

We could not begin to supply the demand, but
we can this year, rain and sunshine permitting.
And more, we will plan to have the plants mature
first when the thoughts of the thrifty housewives
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sweet peas. I prepare a bed for sweet peas during
September, all flowers and vegetation being dead by
that time. I rarely use the same ground for two
successive crops of sweet peas; but if it is nec-
essary to do so, I take out as much of the old soil

| as possible, replacing it with the best soil I can get,

mixed with well-rotted cow manure.

The bed is deeply spaded, highly fertilized (about
one half manure) and then leveled down until the
top is about one inch lower than the surrounding

' surface. I buy the best seeds I can get and never
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and thus avoid any possible disagreeable clashes.

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On March tst, sometimes even before the snow
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pared bed. This is done on a comparatively warm
day, and by night the bed is soft mud to a depth of
three inches. Just before sunset I scrape the mud
to one side and put in my seeds — about three to
an inch, and in the case of white-seeded varieties,
even thicker. Then the mud is piled back on the
seeds and the snow shoveled back on to the bed.
The whole thing freezes up tight, and remains
that way till spring comes in earnest. The snow
goes; the peas come up and blossom two weeks
earlier than my neighbor’s, which are planted in
the spring when the soil gets dry enough to work.

Five-foot poultry netting as a support is put
in place as soon as the peas come up, and the plants
are trained at once to cling toit. When the plants
are about a foot high, I take as much soil as possible
from the top of the bed, without exposing the roots
of the plants, and bank up the row with well rotted
manure. The rain sinks down through this and
all the water is applied on top of it, and the peas
make a marvelous growth. We often have stems
a foot long with four blossoms on them (each blos-
som larger than a quarter) while stems with fewer
blossoms than three are cut off as failures.

Daily picking is very important. I practice
close picking, and often take quite a length of the
plant with the stem. This is a kind of pruning
that seems to please and encourage the plant.

Minnesota. GrorcE E. WOLFE.

The Newest Balsam

CO of the latest of the flower novelties of
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CHILDS’ SPECTACULAR ROSE

The most novel and beautiful
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PERPETUAL BLOOMING
CHRYSANTHEMUM

A genuine perpetual bloomer,
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Has received a certificate of merit
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CANNA, EXTRA-EARLY DWARF
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20 cts.; quart 35 cts.; 2 quarts for 60 cts.; 4 quarts for $1.10; peck $2.00.

evs Radish,— Burpee’s “Rapid Red.”

The quickest growing of all the “cherry-stone”’ red radishes. Delicicusly crisp, solid little
radishes, three-fourths of an inch in diameter; are ready to eat from fourteen to eighteen days
from the time the seed is sown. See colored plate and full description in BURPEE’S 1912
ANNUAL. Per pkt. 10 cts.; oz. 15 cts.; 14 lb. 40 cts.; per Ib. $1.25.

uo. Lomato,—Chalk’s Early Jewel.

If asked ‘“‘which is the best tomato for family garden’ where only one is to be used we
should answer CHALK’s EarLy JEWEL. The reasons are: It produces uniformly solid,
smooth, bright scarlet tomatoes of good size and sweet, rich flavor, beginning unusually
early (within a week or ten days as early as Spark’s Earliana), and continues to bear
a splendid crop throughout the season. See page 89 of THE BuRPEE ANNUAL advertised
below. FORDHOOK-GROWN SEED: Per pkt. 10 cts.; 14 oz. 25 cts.; per oz. 40 cts.; 4 lb.
$1.10; per pound $4.00.

For 25 cts. “° will mail one regular sized packet each of the above “Four oF
* THE Finest.”’ Purchased separately these four packets would
cost just socts. It is our desire that every one who has a garden should have these *
“Four of the Finest” Extra-Early Vegetables, and can well afford to make this special
offer to extend the popularity of these most justly FAMOUS FORDHOOK FAVORITES.

“THE SEAL OF
QUALITY.”

Pods, Natural Size, of
THE NEW “ BURPEE-IMPROVED”’ BUSH LIMA.

SWEET PEAS

Six Superb Spencers

Burpee’s Annual for 1912
“The Leading American Seed Catalog”

will be sent immediately upon application (a postal card will do) to every one
who appreciates QuaLity IN SEEDs.

This SirentT SALESMAN (and we employ no “talking”’ salesmen to solicit
orders) tells the plain truth about The Best Seeds That Can Be Grown.
Besides colored plates of Burpee-Specialties, this bright book of 178 pages
shows hundreds of the choicest vegetables and most beautiful flowers, illus-
trated from photographs. It is almost indispensable to all who garden, either
for pleasure or profit.

The “‘ House or Burpee” is known the world over not only as Experts
IN SweEeET Peas, but also as SEED Specratists. No other American firm has
ever introduced so many novelties of sterling value,— and no other growers
supply seeds annually direct to so many planters. It might be to your
interest to read THe Bureee Annuav. It will cost you only one cent for a
post card to send us your address, and you are under no obligation to buy.
We never annoy applicants with “ follow up” letters.

Shall we mail you a copy? If so, kindly write to-day.

For 25 cts. “¢ will mail one regular packet each

of FLorence NicutTinca.e, the larg-
est and best lavender;— Constance OLIVER, rich rose
pink on cream;— Marie Coretui, beautiful brilliant
rose; PRIMROSE SPENCER, the best primrose; — SENATOR

SPENCER, claret flaked on heliotrope; —and W. T.
Hutcuins, apricot overlaid with blush pink. The Six
Superb Spencers are shown painted from nature on

pages 109 and 110 of Burpee’s Annual for 1912. Pur-
chased separately they would cost 65 cts., but all six
packets, with leaflet on culture, will be mailed for
only 25 cts.; five collections for $1.00.

W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., Burpee Buildings, Philadelphia

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1912 Native Shrubs and How to Use Them Perennials That Are Really Hardy
Little Backyard Gardens Dwarf Fruit Trees

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COUNTRY LIFE

IN AMERICA

BOBBINK & ATKINS
New Hybrid Giant-Flowering Marshmallow

HIBISCUS. The old Greek name for Marshmallow used by Dioscorides,
the famous Greek physician and botanist living about the year too A.D.
The Marshmallow, or Rose Mallow (as it is sometimes called), has been
known ever since the discovery of America and has always been admired
by all lovers of flowers. But it was not until a few years ago that we
conceived the idea of improving this old-fashioned hardy plant and
began to carefully study the possibilities of creating an entirely
new family of Hibiscus, and those who have seen our plants in
flower know how well we have succeeded, as many days last Sum-
mer we estimated that not less than one hundred-thousand flowers
were open at one time.

The first year we hybridized several thousand flowers and
produced some very. wonderful Hybrids. Since
that time we have constantly improved the
original Hybrid until now, we believe, we have
them at the highest state of perfection, many
flowers measuring 10-12 inches in diameter
and varying in color irom the purest
white to the darkest crimson.

We can highly recommend
our New Giant-Flowering Marsh-
mallow for all kinds of plant-
ings; they appear to be _per-
fectly at home in every kind of
position, growing with the same
amount of vigor and health in
swampy or dry places. They are
perfectly hardy and well adapted
for naturalizing or back-ground
effects and for growing as indi-
vidual specimens, suitable for lawn
and other planting effects; for
grouping in the border and along
the edge of shrubbery. One can
produce wonderful effects for screening and
in sub-tropical plantings, as they are more
vigorous than the type. For planting near
streams, ponds and lakes they produce wonderful
effects with their large, handsome flowers and foliage.

Their average height is five to eight feet.
They are very floriferous and bloom from
the beginning of July until late Autumn.

Red, Pink and White, 3 year old plants

Each $1.00 $10.00per doz. $50.00 per 100

Red, Pink and White, 2 year old plants
Each 75c. $7.50 perdoz. $35.00 per 100

BOBBINK & ATKINS

World’s Choicest Nursery and Green-
house Products

SPRING PLANTING
We invite everybody interested in improving their
lawns and gardens to visit our Nursery to see our Pro-
ducts growing. This is the most satisfactory way to
purchase. We shall gladly give our time, attention and
any information desired. Our Nursery consists of 300
acres of highly cultivated land, and 500,000 square feet of
Greenhouses and storehouses, in which we are growing Nursery and
Greenhouse Products for every place and purpose, the best that exper-
ience, good cultivation and our excellent facilities can produce. placing
us in a position to fill orders of any size.

A flower of our New Hybrid Marshmallow, about 4 the size

ROSE PLANTS. We grow several hun-
dred thousand that will bloom this year.
Order now from our Illustrated General
Catalogue for Spring Delivery.

RHODODENDRONS. Many_ thousands
of acclimated plants in Hardy English and
American varieties are growing in our
Nursery.

HARDY OLD FASHIONED PLANTS.
We grow thousands of rare, new and old
estoued kinds. Special prices on quan-
ities.

DECIDUOUS TREES AND FLOWER-
ING SHRUBS. Many acres of our Nur-
sery are planted with several hundred
thousand Ornamental Shade Trees and
Flowering Shrubs. It is worth while to
visit us and inspect them.

TRAINED, DWARF AND ORDINARY
FRUIT TREES AND SMALL FRUITS.
We grow these for all kinds of fruit gar-
dens and orchards.

HEDGE PLANTS. We grow hundreds of
thousands of California Privet, Berberis
and other hedge plants adapted for all
parts of the country.

EVERGREENS, CONIFERS AND PINES
More than 75 acres of our Nursery are
planted with handsome specimens. Our
plants are worth traveling any distance
to see.

BOXWOOD AND BAY TREES. We
grow thousands of trees in many shapes
and sizes.

PALMS. DECORATIVE PLANTS FOR
CONSERVATORIES, interior and exter-

ior decorations.

HARDY TRAILING AND CLIMBING
VINES. We grow them for every place
and purpose. Ask for special list.

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.

PLANT TUBS, WINDOW BOXES AND
GARDEN FURNITURE. We manufac
ture all shapes and sizes.

OUR ILLUSTRATED GENERAL CATALOGUE NO. 25, describes our Products; is comprehensive, interesting, instructive and helpful to intending
purchasers. Will be mailed free upon request.
We Plan and Plant Grounds and Gardens Everywhere

OUR PRODUCTS give permanent satisfaction because they possess the highest qualities created by our excellent standard of cultivation.
VISITORS, take Erie Railroad to Carlton Hill, second stop on Main Line, 3 minutes’ walk to Nursery.

BOBBINK & ATKINS

Nurserymen, Florists and Planters RUTHERFORD, N. J.

APRIL, 1912 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 141

Every home should
have a Victor-Victrola

because

this instrument satisfies the love of music
that is born in every one of us; touches
the heart strings and develops the emotional
part of our nature; freshens the tired mind
and lightens the cares and worries of every-

day life.

because

the Victor-Victrola brings to you the best
music of all the world and gives you a com-
plete understanding of the masterpieces of
the great composers such as you can acquire
in no other way.

B because

YG the Victor-Victrola places at your command
the services of the world’s greatest opera
stars, who make records exclusively for the
Victor, besides a host of famous instru-
mentalists, celebrated bands and orchestras
and well-known comedians and entertainers.

Victor-Victrola

Mahogany or
quartered oak

because
the Victor-Victrola is universally recognized as the world’s
greatest musical instrument, occupies a place of honor in
homes of wealth and culture everywhere, and has awakened
millions to a proper appreciation of music.

because
with Victor-Victrolas, ranging in prices from $15 to $200 and
Victors from $10 to $100, no home can afford to be without one
Victor Viehola IV, $15 of these wonderful instruments.

Oak because

any Victor dealer in any city in the
world will gladly play any music you
wish to hear and demonstrate to you
the Victor-Victrola.

Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N. J. U. S. A.

Berliner Gramophone Co., Montreal, Canadian Distributors

Always use Victor Records played with
Victor Needles—there is no other way

to get the unequalled Victor tone.

— 1 ae
Victor Steel Needles, 6 cents per too “HIS MASTERS VOICE. a

Victor Fibre needles, 50 cents per 1c0 (can be repointed REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.

Victor-Victrola IX, $50
Mahogany or oak and used eight times)

Ss Sei ee = RIAN = accor ate Wee Aho as eecot . ——

28th of each month

New Victor Records are on sale at all dealers on the

Write to the Readers’ Servi
142 for sal ormaina abou he eeck T H E G A R D E N M A G A Z I N K

APRIL, 1912

O get good prices you must deliver your
crop when it is prime. Often you can’t
do it with your horse and wagon system
of hauling to railway station or dock. Ow-
ing to the time it takes on the road with a
team, you haul to the nearest market.
Frequently you are compelled to use your
team in the field, delaying fruit shipments,

losing money by “‘spoilage.’’ You must travel

the rough roads for tiresome, valuable hours.

Why not haul to the town where you can get

the biggest price? Why not get fruit there in one

third the time? Why not keep your team in the
field instead of spoiling them by road work. The

International Auto Wagon

has solved the problem for fruit growers and gardeners. It is always ready,
summer or winter, regardless of roads or weather, to take you anywhere. It’s
simple enough for your wife or boy to drive.

It will make three times as many trips as a horse, in the same time.

The International Auto Wagon will do all your road work in less time and at
less cost than it can be done with a horse-drawn delivery

The International Auto Wagon is built for
hard service. The wheels are high enough to give
ample road clearance; the tires are solid rubber
—preventing delays from punctures and
blowouts; the engine is air-cooled—it does

not freeze in winter.

Whenever desired, the International Auto
Wagon can be converted into a two-seated pleasure
vehicle by adding a rear seat and top.

Investigate the International. Write for facts
and figures to show what it is doing for others.

Importantas

2@seaa

International Harvester Company of America
144 Harvester Building (Incorporated) ChicagoUSA

The Readers’ Service gives
information about gardening

The Readers’ Service gives
information about Real Estate

Plant a Privet Hedge

It will give your place a finished appearance and add
value as well'as beauty to your home. I am making
this very low special price to my customers and their
friends for immediate orders.

For 9 Cents per Yard

I will sell you enough California Privet plants, (two-
year heavily rooted stock) to go around your place,
planted six inches apart, packed and delivered to Rail-
road Station at Salisbury, Md.

Only 9 Cents per Yardand No Charge for Packing

If you order $5.00 worth or more of Privet at above

rate and mention Garden Magazine, I will add free of
charge

2 Spirea Van Houttei, 2 Weigela, 2 Mock Orange
Order today; this stock should be planted early.

W. F. ALLEN, “sktissury. mp.

Colonia! Franklin Fire
Places

May be used for wood or coal.
Easily installed and made to last.

Every home needs one, it makes a home more
homelike.

Brass Balls and Rosettes Grate or Andiron

Janes & Kirtland

725 6th Avenue, N. Y.
Send for Circular G

Removable FLAG STAFFS

Twenty feet above ground. Made
in three pieces of high carbon steel
tubing filled with cement. Hasily
removed and housed. The sockets
are permanent and driven level
with the ground. This requires
no skill. Same principle as the well
known

Removable Steel Clothes Posts

Don’t disfigure your lawn with
wooden poles or posts that soon decay,
when you can buy Steel Flag-Staffs or
Clothes Posts that are both ornamental
and removable, cost much less and
last a lifetime.

If your dealer hasn’t them write us
for full particulars about Flag-Staffs
(Folder B) or Clothes Posts (Folder A).

MILWAUKEE STEEL POST CO.
Milwaukee, Wis.

Are you interested in

Hardy Northern Grown Evergreens

and deciduous Trees and Shrubs that will grow?
Let us send you our illustrated catalogue.
T. C. THURLOW’S SONS, Inc.
West Newbury, Mass.

“Handy asa Pocket
in a Shirt”

Everybody has to “pry into things’’occasionally, and
when they do, they need Bonner’s Household Utility
Tool to help. This has the combined virtues of a tack
hammer, nail puller, crate openerandice pick; and, be-
sides, does a score of odd jobs that can’t becatalogued.

BONNER

HOUSEHOLD UTILITY TOOL

is a sturdy little helper, of fine quality steel and well temper-
ed. Drop forgedand nickel plated. Every well organized
household needs one. Handy in an office, necessary in a work-
er’s kit. Sizes: 714 inches at soc and inches at 75¢. Ask your
dealer and don’t be turned off with a ‘just as good." If not
with him, send us his name and we will ship tool prepaid,
upon receipt of price. 4
Cc. E. BONNER MFG. CO. Champaign, Ill.
Also makers of Bonner Victor” Chain Pipe 4 rench
and other “special purpose’ Tools.

Aprin, 1912

To Make Quick-Growing Plants

Grow Quicker; and Slow—-Faster

Bon Arbor

It is a complete plant
food. Feed your plants; get
results; do it now.

Bon Arbor is favorably
known everywhere it is
used and it is widely used.

- Such gardens as those of
the Capitol at Washington, D. C., and the Parlia-
ment Gardens, Ottawa, Canada, and the Royal
Windsor Gardens, England, on the one side, and
over 2,000 country estates and farms on the other,
represent the field supplied. Show flower and
vegetable growers find Bon Arbor indispensable.

Bon Arbor is put up as follows:

$ pound package, making 15 gallons, by mail . 30c
1" a “ 80 “ “ poe eee
a is Sto O EEX ex tra el :S0

Prices on quantities of 50 pounds and upwards on

application. 7 Aine
Ask your dealer or write direct

BON ARBOR CHEMICAL CO., Paterson, N. J.

Write for descriptive catalogue, new 19/2 Edition. We manu-
facture also Radix Worm Eradicator, Insecticides, Weed Killer
and all agricultural chemicals. Special priceson large quantities. j

More Fruit, Finer Vegetables,
Finest Flowers

All plant life requires food. Proper food increases vitality
of plants and increases yield of fruit and vegetables.

U-TREE-T-ME

is a Concentrated, Odorless, Available plantfood that produces
marvelous results. Equally good for shrubs, lawns and flowers.
Invaluable for house plants. Promotes healthy growth and
eradicates disease. Ask for free booklet. 5 lbs. bag contain-
ing sufficient amount to treat 500 feet lawn, vegetable or flower
garden, or 300 feet young hedge, or 300 plants in four- inch pots,
Or 130 rose bushes will be sent to you express prepaid for one
dollar. We want a satisfied customer or money refunded.

Send it Today.

THE PLANT & LAND FOOD CO., - BALTIMORE, MD.

Mow Your Hedge 22"

The Unique Hedge Trimmer does it in 14 the time it takes with
shears. No skill necessary to operate. Blades cut both opening and

closing. Mowsa 1x3 inch swath.

The Unique
Combined Hedge
Trimmer and Cutter

has extra cutting tooth which
cuts individual twigs up to %
inch in diameter, besides
blades for mowing the hedge.
Either tool sent express pre-
paid on receipt of $5.00 to
any address in the U.S.
Money refunded if dissatisfied
after one week’strial. Refer
to any bank in Philadelphia.

Send for free booklet, “SUCCESS WITH HEDGES”
Fountain Cutlery Company, 2403 Locust St., Philadelphia, Pa.

ARD Brand Pulverized Sheep Manure

is wonderfully effective—economical and con-
yenient—superior to bone or chemicals for home
fertilizing. It makes

A Beautiful
LAWN and GARDEN

because it is nature’s best fertilizer in
concentrated form—is unequalled for
lawns — flowers — vegetables — trees — r
fruits—meadow and grain land. ~/ ONE
per large barrel freight Bap 5

$400 paid east of Omaha—cash 2 ARREL Equal:

i with order. Ask for quantity WAGON LOAD
prices and interesting booklet. \
The Pulverized Manure Co.

19 Union Stock Yards - - Chicago
Wizard Brand is sold by first-class seedsmen. —™

The Readers’ Service is prepared t
TER GAU DIEING WIUAUG: A ZINE) adosasearenstvin' regard so schools 143

Why Experiment With Roses?

Since when you plant “Peterson Roses,” you are sure of success.

And the reason’s plain.

My Roses are born and reared out of doors— grown and rested in nature’s own way.
They have never even seen a greenhouse.

That’s the chief reason why they’re so phenomenally successful — why this business,
eight years young, leads them all.

“A LITTLE BOOK ABOUT ROSES,” tells you the whole story.

It’s the most beautiful, captivating, and helpful little book of its kind ever published
and it’s sent free to intending purchasers.

Want it? You would if you knew.

GEORGE H. PETERSON, Rose and Peony Specialist. Box 50, Fair Lawn, N. J.

FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK, Catoosa, Okla. “Your rose catalogue is the best I have everseen. It is a
work of art and the illustrations are true likenesses of the varieties they represent. If I had had a copy of your
‘LITTLE BOOK’ when I first began to grow roses and adopted it for my guide, I would have saved myself
many disappointments and much expense.’”’ A. E. Henry, (Cashier)

Franklin, Pa. “Your 1912 Rose Booklet is a gem of the first water. I read every word from cover to cover without
stopping for breath or refreshments. . . . Your roses too, are the best I have ever obtained and I have
purchased from at least twenty of the best sources I know of. H. G. REapine.

go Worth St., New York. ‘‘Since the death of , I have known of no commercial florist on whom I felt I
could depend until your ‘LITTLE BOOK’ came into my hands. On first reading it. I was so much impressed
with the truthfulness and honesty of your descriptions, that I could do nothing else but recommend my friends to
try your plants, with the assurance that if they did so, after a careful reading of your catalogue, they could soon
have as fine a rose garden as it has taken me twenty years to obtain.” S.C. Hiccms.

Direct from Holland. Catalog full of vital facts FREE. -
Write tc-day to 2 :

(Ss PARK ROSE GARDENS | "DUTCH BULBS and ROOTS
ao;

Send for Photo Pictures and prices

. Gt Wi ij
a \ ZA of our beautiful roses. FREE, “| American Branch ee averen a See aol an
PARK ROSE GARDENS Altoona, Pa. See detail advertisement on page 220

MOTT’S PARK
SPECIALTIES

WE ISSUE SEPARATE
CATALOGUES OF
DISPLAY FOUNTAINS

ELECTROLIERS FOR
DRIVEWAY LIGHTING
FLOWER VASES, EN-
TRANCE GATES, ETC.

Address Ornamental Dept.

The J. L. Mott Iron Works

Fifth Ave. and 17th St., NEW YORK

For information regarding railroad and steam-
ship lines, write to the Readers’ Service

144 THE GARDEN

MAGAZINE

APRIL, 1912

Poultry, Kennel and Live Stock Directory Information about the selection or care of dogs,

| Address INFORMATION DEPARTMENT, THE GarpEn Macazine, 11-13 W.
SS ee ee ee eee

“Kellerstrass” White Orpingtons

THE BIGGEST P AYERS Because PROVEN TO BE THE
BIGGEST WINTER LAYERS

Kellerstrass Strain
“Crystal” White
Orpingtons

Are the GRANDEST UTILITY birds on record
today, and as to their FANCY QUALITY they
won first at Madison Square Garden, New York,
1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910; also at Crys-
tal Palace, London, England, and Chicago and
Boston. If you need some birds to IMPROVE
YOUR STOCK or for the SHOW ROOM write
us. We have them, and the KIND THAT
WINS, as our past record shows. STOCK and
EGGS for sale at all times. Remember, we are
the ORIGINATORS of “CRYSTAL” White
Orpingtons, and breed only the one kind. We
devote our whole time to this one breed

THE FAMOUS HEN ‘‘PEGGY’”’

First Prize Winner at New York, Chicago. St.
Louis, Kansas City and Jamestown Exposition

KELLERSTRASS POULTRY FARM

Originator of Crystal White Orpingtons

9154 Westport Station, Kansas City, Mo.

Life Members American White Orpington
Club and the American Poultry Association

Send For Our FREE Catalogue

S.C. White Leghorns

If you want Single Comb White Leghorns
with pedigrees that mean utility, get them at
the PEERLESS FARMS, where every bird
is backed by generations of performance.
Hens that do not lay more than 175 eggs in
their pullet yearare discarded. Our rigid
selection leaves only the best. Write to-
day for free circular and prices,

Peerless Farms,R.F.D.9, Northport, L.I., N.Y.

BLUE SWEDISH DUCKS

Best in the United States. New York, Chicago and
Kansas City winners. Eggs, Pen No. 1, $5.00 for
11; Pen No. 2, $3.00 for 11. Descriptive circular.
MRS. GRACE G. DUNMIRE
Scotland South Dakota

should be kept
ad ENS in your flock.

It is worse than
p money wasted,
it isinhumane. Infected chickens can only lose you money.
Why not keep your hen house clean, sanitary. Make it con-
ducive to health, vigor—egg production. Avenarius Car-
bolineum will do it. Easily applied, permanent,cheap. Write
today for free Bulletin on “How To Keep Vermin Away.”

Carbolineum Wood Preserving Co., 191 Franklin St., New York City

FREE

Make money breeding squabs. Read in our 19712 free d00k how
Etwinoma Farms (Vt.) sells thers for $6. doz. Started with 25 pairs
of our Extra P. R. Homers two years ago, multiplied now to 800
pairs. John Ludwig (Cal.) 75 years old, making $25. week. Oscar
Maerzke (Wis.) $4000. yearly shipping squabs to Chicago. Big
western demand. 5000 squabs wanted daily by only one N. Y. firm.
See what they say in ational Squat Magazine (monthly) specimen
copy from us 7ex Cents, one year, $1. All about pigeons and squabs

handsomest, largest, unique, original, practical.
PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB CO., 322 HOWARD STREET, MELROSE, MASS,

MAMMOTH IMPERIAL PEKIN DUCKS

Afton Farm Pekins are market toppers and prize-winners.
This year at New York, they won tst on Old Duck, ist on
Young Duck, 2nd on Young Drake, 2nd on Pen of Ducks, 4th
on Old Drake. At Philadelphia, they won 1st on Old Duck,
Ist on Pen of Ducks, 2nd on Young Duck, 3rd on Old Drake,
4th on Young Drake.

They dress 10 lbs. to the pair at 10 weeks old. That
means higher quality of meat and lower cost of production
per pound. Their laying records speak for themselves. Last
year, a flock of 500 hens laid 74,529 eggs, or an average of over
149 eggs per hen.

Afton Farm Mammoth Imperial Pekin Ducks are un2x-
celled. They are money makers; they are the kind of ducks
you want; they will more than satisfy you. Write today for
our free book, ‘‘Facts from Afton Farm.”

AFTON FARM, Box D-2, YARDLEY, PA.

Learn this immensely rich business
= 1 we teach you; easy work at home; Be

everybody succeeds. Start with our
Jumbo Homer Pigeons and your success is assured.
Send for large Illustrated matter. Providence

Squab Company. Providence, Rhode Island.

“Mammoth Imperial Pekin Ducks

32d Street, New York.

poultry and live stock will be gladly given. |

BABY CHICKS OF QUALITY

Guaranteed to reach you in good condition

You can’t count your chickens before they are
hatched; so why bother with setting hens and in-
cubators? Let me assume all the risk. I will
send you by express, healthy, sturdy Fishel
Strain White Plymouth Rock Baby Chicks, utility
ot exhibition; also Fishel White Indian Runner
Baby Ducks. Order now, as winter hatch-
ings are the most vigorous. Prices reason-

f able and satisfaction assured. Send 6 cents for
my splendid chick catalog.

R. C. CALDWELL,

BOX 1025 LYNDON, ROSS CO., OHIO.

Greider’s Fine Catalogue

My book has helped people make fortunes in the poultry business— will
do the same for you. Low prices forstock. Eggs for Hatching, Incubators
and Brooders. 200 pages containing over roo illustrations
—many in natural colors—gives list of 72 varieties of Pure
Bred Fowl—gives complete information about eggs, stock,
incubators, etc. This book is a marvel and only 15c. Send
today read it through and if you don't feel fully satisfied
that it is worth many times that much, return the book and
get your money back. Price list free.

B. H. GREIDER,

Box 84, Rheems, Pa.

BUSINESS BARRED ROCKS

Write for our free illustrated Catalog de-
scribing our common sense, practical poultry,
the result of 74 years’ experience breeding egg-
layers. Settings from our strain of early matur-
ing, large, healthy Rocks, $2.00 a dozen.

Danolds Farm, R.F.D. 10, Albion, N.Y.

HATCH

Crystal White Orpingtons

KELLERSTRASS STRAIN
The Ideal Fowl for City or Country. The Secret of
Winter Eggs? White Orpingtons! Cockerels, Pullets, Trios,
Pens from prize winning stock. Large white massive
birds. Write me your wants. Stock shipped on approval.
Eggs $5.00 per I5.

F. E. JORDAN,

Stop 1, New Hartford, New York

NEW BREEDS or GREAT MERIT

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Big Crops from Little Trees

Dwarf Fruit Trees Solve the Problem of Fruit Growing in
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The First Million
Mark Now Reached

What
CORRA HARRIS

says of

“The Harvester”

N a remarkable review a

page and half long in The
Independent, Cora Harris,
Author of “The Circuit Ri-
der’s Wife” and “The Record-
ing Angel,” thus defines the
extraordinary charm of Mrs.
Porter’s book:

“Mrs. Gene Stratton-Porter’s
new novel is an illustration of the
harmony and intimacy which does
rightly exist between a man and
a forest. In “‘The Harvester’ she
has not only dramatized, but
proved the purifying and preser-
vative forces that are always pre-
sent and predominant in such a
situation. This is why the story
is so popular. It is utterly simple,
nothing in the plot to appeal to
morbid interest or curiosity. We
really prefer what is good and
clean in man and in nature if we
can get it portrayed in fiction.”

“There is not a financier in
Wall Street, not an artisan, nor
grocerman, nor clerk in any city
who reads this story who will not
discover in himself some dim rela-
tionship, buried beneath the dry
and dead leaves of commercialism,
to this medicine man, who lived
with his dog in a cabin in the
green shade upon the banks of his
singing water. A vacation like-
ness to be sure, for few men of
to-day are sufficiently hardy in
mind or body to endure such an
existence longer than three weeks.
But that is the fault of our kind
of civilization, not of the life por-
trayed in “The Harvester.”

@ The first million copies of Mrs.
Gene Stratton-Porter’s great nature
romances have been sold.

@ This milestone has been passed
at full stride. ““Ihe Harvester,’ we
firmly believe, is just beginning.
Every day its unique appeal is being
made to hundreds of readers who
are glad to get into the refreshing
outdoor atmosphere and wholesome
spirit of this story. In its fifth large
printing, ““The Harvester’ has reach-
ed 172,100 copies, and a sixth edi-
tion, now going to press, will send

this figure well beyond 200,000.
@ This is a seven months’ record!

q “Freckles”? and “A Girl of the
Limberlost,’’ the other members of
this delightful trio, are selling better
to-day than when they were published
six and three years ago, respectively.

@ Another 500,000 will be added to
Mrs. Porter’s record for 1912.

@ Are you in the advance guard or
the reservesP —the one million or

the 500,000 P

Many Celebrities and A Few Others | Where Half the World is Waking Up

By WILLIAM H. RIDEING

A bundle of reminiscences of a charming kind which take
in nearly every one of prominence in America and England

for a half century.

By CLARENCE POE

A most interesting and timely volume on the East of to-day
and the great changes taking place.

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

APRIL,

Books by
Helen A. Clarke

The Poets’ New England.
Records the charm of New
England scenes which have
been celebrated by the poets.
Uniform with Hawthorne’s
Country and Longfellow’s
Country. 8vo, 350 pages,
fully illustrated, frontispiece
in color, boxed, net $2.50.
(Postage 25c.)

Hawthorne’s Country.
Describes and identifies the
scenes around which Haw-
thorne’s books were written.
8vo, 24 illustrations, cloth,
boxed, net $2.50. (Postage
25C.)

Longfellow’s Country. De-
scribesthe scenes andsources
whence Longfellow drew his
inspiration. 8vo, 32 illustra-
tions, cloth, boxed, net $2.50.
(Postage 25c.)

Ancient Myths in Modern
Poets. On the use of the
great classic myths by the
English poets. 8vo, 12 illus-
trations, net $2.00. (Postage
200.)

A Guide to Mythology. For
Young People. Defines the
myth and traces its develop-
ment in all countries and
periods. 12mo, illustrated,
cloth, net $1.25.

Browning’s Italy. Describes
the episodes and places in
Italy from which Browning
derived material for his
poems. 8vo, illustrated, cloth,
net $2.00. (Postage 20c.)

Browning’s England. Re-
veals how greatly Browning
drew on his native country
for inspiration. 8vo, illus-
trated, cloth, net $2.00.
(Postage 20c.)

Illustrated. Net, $2.50 (postage 25c.) Forty-two photographs. Net, $1.25 (postage | 2c.)

New Demands in Education

Happy Humanity

By DR. FREDERIK VAN EEDEN By JAMES P. MUNROE
PRACTICAL REAL ESTATE METHODS

By Thirty New York Experts

A most interesting discussion of modern Educational
methods in the light of present and future needs.

Net, $1.25 (postage | 2c.)

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The autobiography of Holland’smost distinguished novelist,
poet and playwright, andthe story of his social ideals.

Net, $1.25 (postage ]2c.)
Buying, selling, leasing, renting, improving, develop-

ing, and financing real estate — these and kindred
topics are discussed by men of ability and knowledge.

New York

Net, $2.00 (postage 20c.)

The Readers’ Service gives rs
information about insurance 151

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

APRIL, 1912

“Grace S. Richmond has woven
another of her stories of rare

beauty and sweetness.
—Omaha World-Herald.

Red

Pepper
Burns

By GRACE S. RICHMOND

The story of a girl who
dared and won

By Leroy Scott

Author of
“The Walking Delegate,” etc.

Counsel for
the Defense

MAGINE a young girl returning to her home town in the West on the eve of a civic
celebration in honor of her father, only to find him indicted for bribery and the
evidence so strong that no lawyer will accept his case. This is the dramatic situ-
ation into which Katherine West unconsciously steps. Fresh from an Eastern

college and the possessor of a diploma in law, she resolves, after a vain endeavor to
secure counsel, to undertake the case for her father. ‘To the old-fashioned towns-people
of her native place a “‘lady lawyer” is something unthinkable, and the girl confronts
public derision as well as an apparently hopeless case. The story has a tremendous
appeal both on account of its dramatic strength and because of its vigorous championing
of a woman’s right to take her place in the vital work of life.

Fixed price, $1.20 (postage 12c.)

@. The romance of a
country doctor. Mrs.

Frontispiece in colors.

Richmond makes a
highly lovable hero of
this impetuous, whole-
hearted young physi-

Pleasure S By Juliet Wilbor

Tompkins

cian. er bas clearly and
studied her hero from oes
life, and few living Palaces Illustrations
authors could have Being a Tale of By

d : th su ch the Home-Mak- Howard
portraye wi ing Adventures of Chandler
charm the old - fash- Marie Rose Christy

ioned characteristics
of American life. The
love story is charm-

ing.
Illustrated. Fixed price, $1.20

pressed a button or commanded a waiter. So when she was beguiled by Cousin Sara Dugmore

into trying home-life in an apartment, with the invaluable Miss Salter as housekeeper; and when
this perfidious lady failed to arrive as promised the first evening—why Marie Rose found herself staring
starvation in the eye though surrounded by bountiful supplies and a city of shops. If you wish to be
really diverted, come and behold this dangerously attractive young person making a first acquaintance
with the unyielding nature of a can of soup when she has never had to distinguish between a can-opener
and an ice-pick. Her temporary neighbor, Galen Ward, engineer, miner and camper, was hugely excited
when he first came to the rescue. And that was the beginning of the story—which is as bright and

M oes ROSE had never seen the inside of a kitchen: meals came, in her experience, when you

(postage 12 cents)

OTHER BOOKS BY MRS. RICHMOND

On Christmas Day in the Evening.
Illustrated. Fixed price, 50c.

On Christmas Day in the Morning.
Illustrated. Fixed price, 50c. (postage 5c.)

A Court of Inquiry.
Illustrated. Fixed price, $1.00. (postage 10c.)

Round the Corner in Gay Street. Illustrated. $1.50
The Indifference of Juliet. Illustrated. $1.50
With Juliet in England. Illustrated. $1.50

The Second Violin. Illustrated. $1.50

(postage 5c.)

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GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK

amusing and as full of real humor as any you'll run across in a long course of contemporary reading.

Border Decorations on each page

a GIy, DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO.

. Fixed price, $1.20 (postage 12c.)

NEW YORK

THE DOG BOOK

By JAMES WATSON

Covers every phase of the sub-
ject with full accounts of every
prominent breed. 128 full-page
pictures, complete in one volume.

Net, $5.00 (postage 35c.)

Doubleday, Page & Company
Garden City, New York

The Fireless Cook Book

By MARGARET J. MITCHELL

This book explains in a simple way how to make
and use this invention, which has only recently be-
come known, but has already proved itself a real
labor-saving, economical implement.

Including, as it does, 250 receipts, the volume must
soon becomea necessity to all up-to-date housekeepers,
Nineteen pen-and-ink drawings.

Net, $1.25 (postage 12c.)

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO.

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK

THE FIRST MILLION

We have been publishing nature books
almost since the very beginning of our business
— and it is probably true that the first volume
of our Nature Library (Neltje Blanchan’s
“Bird Neighbors’’) has had a wider circu-
lation than any other similar book. But the
hundred odd thousand copies of this guide
seem small in comparison to the circulation
of the three volumes of nature fiction by Mrs.
Gene Stratton-Porter — ‘“‘ Freckles,” “A Girl
of the Limberlost,”
and “The Harves-
tn? “tireelklles”
has had since 1904
the unique record
of reaching a wider
circulation each year
than in any previous
year, with the pros-
pect of continuing
this for 1912; and the
first million copies
of these unusual
tales of outdoor peo-
ple and things has
apparently only
whetted the public
appetite for more.
In amonth or so we
shall have ready a
companion volume
which shows the
author at her best as
a scientific, yet al-
ways _ illuminating
and popular, student
of nature— ‘‘ Moths
of the Limberlost.”’ This is a sumptuous vol-
ume of Mrs. Porter’s own wonderful photo-
graphs, many of them in color, which will turn
every reader to this fascinating side of nature.

OTHER OUTDOOR BOOKS

Some other notable outdoor books of this
spring are “The Spider Book” by Professor
John Henry Comstock, whose “Manual of
Insects” is almost a classic; “‘The Forester’s
Manual,” a ‘handy guide to the trees and their
uses by Ernest Thompson Seton, Chief Scout of
the Boy Scouts; and a charming introduction
to nature for little folks called “‘ The Real Fairy
Folk,” wherein the lonely little girl in the big

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

ss ==

“To business that we love we rise betime
And go to ’t with delight.” —A ztony and Cleopatra

willow tree is told the secrets of the life about
her by the birds and animals themselves.

A TRIP TO LATIN AMERICA

Mr. William Bayard Hale, of the World’s
Work staff, has sailed with Secretary of State
Knox on the Cruiser Washington, to visit
Mexico, Panama, and South America. Read-
ers of the World’s Work may look forward to a
series of brilliant articles on American rela-
tions with Latin republics and on new phases
of the work at Panama —its personal and

The Farm Conference at the Country Life Press, January 15th, 1912

human stories, and its vast significance to
all nations.
THE FARM CONFERENCE

The World’s Work Farm Conference was
held at the Country Life Press at Garden City
on the 15th of February. A score of visitors
were present—the industrial agents and
agriculturists of the great railroads, state
secretaries of agriculture, and distinguished
national leaders in agricultural development.
Six hours of discussion showed a profound
interest in the World’s Work’s undertaking to
give conservative advice to farm seekers and
a unanimous faith in the success of this
enterprise.

APRIL, 1912

TALK: OF: THE - OFFICE: |

Se

VS N

Beh) ots ay
Nee eh SS us
AS

TEN YEARS OF COUNTRY LIFE

Country Life in America has just entered
upon the eleventh year of its existence. There
weren’t any fireworks that we noticed, but that
was doubtless an oversight on somebody’s
part.

We are all of us naturally inclined to attach
undue importance to our own birthdays; but
if it is a common human weakness, perhaps a
magazine may be pardoned for indulging in it.
If we don’t make a noise about it, appar-
ently nobody will.

It may seem ego-
tistical to set apart
these ten years as
having any special
significance; but as
a matter of fact,
this first decade of
the new century has
seen some rather re-
markable achieve-
ments and advance-
ments in the broad
realm of country life.

Of course, we
can’t pretend that
we have been the
cause of it; rather,
we have been one of
the results. Country
Life in America was
established as the or-
gan and mouthpiece
of a new movement.

So perhaps our
Birthday Number, to
appear April 15th,
(which ‘the advertising department optimis-
ticaily christened in advance the “ Inch-thick
Number’’), is not such a presumptuous affair,
after all. We shall talk a little about ourselves
and a great deal about larger matters — pro-
gress in agriculture, horticulture, plant breed-
ing, architecture, outdoor sport, forestry, ani-
mal and poultry breeding, game preservation,
the vacation habit, suburban development, the
automobile, nature study. Among the authori-
ties who have contributed these articles are Pro-
fessor L. H. Bailey, Thomas Hastings, Walter
Camp, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Hays,
U.S. Forester H.S. Graves, George T. Powell,
Dr.W.T.Hornaday,and Dr. Woods Hutchinson.

The Readers’

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about motor boats

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Armin, 1912

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Practical Books for the Home-Maker

Amateur Gardencraft
By EBEN E. REXFORD

A careful description of the desirable varieties of trees, shrubs, vines
and species of flowers and of ornamental plants, arbors, summer houses,
pergolas and new garden features, as well as the requisites for a velvety
lawn, are given particular attention, also the elimination of insect pests.

Profusely illustrated. 12mo. Cloth $1.50 net. Sent postpaid $1.65.

Garden Design InTheory ana Practice
By MADELINE AGAR

This book for garden architects is devoted entirely to the design and
layout of gardens, everything of a purely horticultural nature being omitted.

Tilustrated in color and line, with numerous diagrams throughout the text.

Small 8vo.
INDOOR GARDENING

By EBEN E. REXFORD

Decorated cloth, gilt top, $2.00 net. Postpaid $2.15.
THE HOME GARDEN

By EBEN E. REXFORD

This new book coversa variety of subjects
such as: Soil for Pots, What Windows to
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“Tt tells all about vegetable and small
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The Small Country Place
By SAMUEL T. MAYNARD
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Landscape Beauty Affects Your
Happiness and Your Purse

If you live in a home without shelter-belts, evergreens, shade trees, shrubs,
roses, or live fences, you are missing a world of good things—their absence costs
happiness and money, because without them you will be less and do less than
you would have done under better conditions. The heat of the sun is tempered
by the cool shade of the maples; the blizzard or windstorm reminds one of
the protection given by the belt of pines and spruces; the heavy rains bring
forth growth and bloom on shrubs and roses.

Landscape beauty insensibly produces an effect upon even the most practi-
cal person. Daily living with such “common” things as pine and spruce and
maple trees affects one’s temperament and increases one’s energies. It is the

quiet influence of these
things which grow that
counts, and the magic
works when we surround
ourselves with the plants

we fancy or that suit
our place.

Hill’s

1912 Planting Guide
is Free

Tells what trees will thrive
in your location and look
best about yourhome. It is
a valuable book, showing
seven plantings in full
colors. If you need trees or
shrubs, send us your ad-
dress, tell us what you are
interested in and we will
send a copy at once,

D. Hill Nursery Co.,

Evergreen Specialists

Douglas Ave., Dundee, Ill.

re The Readers’ Service will aid you
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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

APRIL, 1912

Four Times Transplanted. Three Times Transplanted. Twice Transplanted.

Photo-engraving of three Hemlock Spruce, each 3 feet high, with ball of
earth shaken out to show results of frequent transplanting. Note the in-
creased mass of fibrous roots, also increase of fatness of tops.

The same results may be seen in all kinds of our trees and shrubs, and accounts
for the fact that we have received orders from one man for 46,000 trees in nine

ie A Word About Prices

It will be readily seen therefore that stock transplanted frequently to produce sufficient roots
to move in safety, will require extra labor and consequently the price would be somewhat increased.
But one might better pay double for a tree which is sure to grow than for those of which he is likely
to lose 50%, as he not only loses the cost of the trees, but a year’s time which is of more value that
the first cost. Special prices on large lots.

Write for Catalogue No. 30. It is free to intending purchasers.
inspect the stock and see for yourself whether our points are well taken.

Then meet us by appointment to

Attractive Seed Offer

For 30 Cents

We will send prepaid the following seeds,
which, if sold separately, at our retail prices
of ro cents a packet, would cost $1.90.

One Packet each of the following Giant
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Countess Spencer. Pink.

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To induce you to take advan-
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We are headquarters for the
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Remember that for only 50
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All the above varieties are
described in our 1912 catalog
120 pages, telling all about
seeds—which is sent free.

Rosedale Specialties

While we grow a general line of hardy trees, shrubs,
etc., we specialize on Roses, Evergreens and Hardy Per-
ennials, including large sizes for immediate effect. Believing
most people are anxious to procure the best, we spare no pains to
produce the

Highest Quality of Trees

A tree is no better than its roots.’ Trees, like horses, are of
little value with poor feet, no matter how fine the appearance. A
horse may be fair, fat.and foxy, but will be worth little unless he
can go. In buying one should consider three

Important Requisites of a Tree

1st. That they are free from disease and insect pests.

and. That they have been trained to shapely tops.

3grd. That the roots are many and fibrous, as it is the fine
fibers which take in the nourishment from the soil.

The number of these fibers is greatly multiplied every time a tree is trans-
planted. Now, if a tree is planted in the nursery row and left for a number
of years without transplanting, the top may look well, but the fine feeding
roots will be at the end of the root system, several feet away, and will be left
in the ground when the tree is dug for sale; whereas, if the tree were trans-
planted at the proper time, not only most of the roots would be saved, but
many new fibers would be produced by the time the tree was ready for sale.

Trees are often balled and burlapped. This is well; but if there are few
roots in the ball, the tree may utterly fail just the same.

Every kind of Plant has a time and requires conditions most favorable for trans-
planting: e. 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 supplement the catalogue in every way in our power
for those who send their problems early.

Rosedale Nurseries

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

Landscape Dept.
63 Hamilton Place

Gladiolus “Glory”
With Ruffled Petals

; The Gladiolus is fast becoming the most popular

. a. decorative flower in thousands of homes of elegance

ee > and luxury. Both for borders and backgrounds in

fe the garden and as a cut flower of superior lasting
qualities it is unsurpassed.

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We have long had a very complete range of
color in the Gladiolus but now we have more.
This novelty Kunderdi “Glory” marks the
beginning of a new ciass which promises in a
few years to develop all the shades and colors
possessed by the older and plainer types. Its
distinctive feature is its wonderful variation in
form of petals, these being ruffled and fluted on
all sides and yet thick and of much lasting
substance. These ruffled edges, like narrow
flutings, in the buds and with wider graceful
curves in the open flower, give a most artistic

effect.

The body of the flower is of a soft creamy flesh

tint, while the midrib of each petal is striped with

attractive crimson unique in flower coloring. From three

to eight of these handsome flowers are open at one time,

making a magnificent display in the border; the cut flower

indoors in jars or vases lasts for many days as a splendid
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PLANTING Your Own VINE AND Fic TREE - Frances Duncan 158 AWARDS IN THE CHILDREN’S GARDEN CONTEST- - - - - 182
Photographs by the author and H. Troth GRAPE VINE Roots THAT “Grow Up” - Julian Burroughs 184
PERENNIALS Most WortH PLANTING FOR FLOWERS Photograph by the author
Sherman R. Duffy 161 An Exact METHOD For PLANTING Fruit TREES- - W.D. 186
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Starting the Planting Season
Right

THE COURSE OF EVENTS

OW — before you do any real garden-
ing for 1912, start a diary. Next
comes planting, all important in April.

In the vegetable garden ©

1. Spread manure thickly.

2. Plow or trench the ground deeply
and thoroughly.

3. Harrow or rake it, leaving it as level
as possible. In planting, prepare only as
much ground as you want at any one
particular time.

4. As soon as the soil stops freezing, but
before corn planting time, sow: Peas, bush
beans, lettuce, spinach cabbage, kale,
cauliflower, radish, turnip, beets, salsify,
carrots, parsnips, onions, potatoes.

5. Get whatever cultivators, sprayers,
fertilizers, spray mixtures, etc. you may
need before you really have to use them.

6. Collect pea brush and bean poles.
Plant the latter firmly before you sow the
beans.

7. Transplant cabbage, lettuce, and
other hardy vegetables from the hotbed,
but cover them with newspapers every
night for a while. To outwit cutworms,
sprinkle some poisoned bran among the
newly set seedlings. For details see the
January, 1912, GARDEN MAGAZINE.

8. About corn planting time you can
sow lima beans, melons, cucumbers, squash,
and pumpkin. An individual frame over
each hill will help these along wonderfully.

g. About two weeks later sow tomatoes,
peppers, okra, and eggplant outdoors.
Watch out for these; they are the tender-
est of all.

to. Dress old asparagus and rhubarb
beds with nitrate of soda.

11. Don’t forget to label every row you
plant unless you are following absolutely
a plan that is all down on paper.

Around the grounds

t. Rejuvenate the bad spots in the lawn.
Scratch them with a rake, sprinkle over
them some new soil and some seed; then
roll and water.

2. Sprinkle some fertilizer over the rest
of the lawn and dig out dandelions as soon
as they appear.

3. Plant deciduous trees, shrubs, peren-
nial vines and roses; also evergeeens, taking
care that their roots do not dry out at all.

4. Do any odd jobs of draining and level-
ing, so that you can get vegetation started
in such places before warm weather.

5. Prune summer and __fall-flowering
shrubs but not syringa, lilac and rambler
roses. Bush roses can be pruned now.

6. Trim borders. Repair paths and
drives; by May they will have dried out
and settled so as to make repairs very
difficult.

7. Start improvements that will make
your place handsomer and more homelike
than it was last year.

8. Plan to let the children have gardens
of their own, as well as tennis courts and
croquet grounds.

g. Dig around hedges, shrubs and trees.

Among the flowers

t. Put the potted house plants outdoors
for a few hours each day. When they are
well hardened, plunge them

canes, the raspberries, blackberries and cur-
rants. As soon as the leaves unfold, sprinkle
them with Paris green or pyrethrum.

3. Finish up the pruning of all fruit
trees completely, before growth starts.
But don’t overdo it on old neglected trees
the first year. Clean out, wash with some
germicide, and fill with concrete, all
cavities in main branches and trunks.

4. Spray with lime-sulphur or kerosene
emulsion if the buds have not opened; if
they have, use bordeaux mixture with
arsenate of lead.

5. Plow under the cover crop. Burn
all pruning rubbish and keep the ground
under the trees cleaned up.

TO CORRECT A WRONG IMPRESSION

There is a more or less widespread
idea that the directions and suggestions
published in THE GARDEN MAGAZINE are
purely local and have no general applica-
tioa. The accompanying map from the
U. S. Crop Reporter helps to prove the
fallacy of this notion. As the average dates
for corn planting show, there is far more
difference in garden operations as one
goes from North to South or, vice versa,
than there is between points three or four
times as far apart from East to West.
The average planting seasons are more
synchronous, for instance, in Boston and
Pierre, S. D., than in New York and Fair-
fax, Va. The note at the head of this
page provides for an adaptation of dates
according to latitude, and for longitudinal
differences you need only refer to the map
below, to ascertain the allowance required.

in an out-of-the-way border
for the summer.

2. Root slips of geranium,
etc, in pots or boxes.

3. Plant pansies, sweet
peas, gladioli, and all the
hardy annuals by April 15.
Save the tender sorts like
dolichos, nasurtium, salvia,
canna, etc., until all danger
from frost is over.

4. Divide clumps of peren-
nials. Fill in any empty
spaces in the borders.

5. Put up trellises for
vines, brush or wire for
sweet peas, and wooden or
wire stakes for dahlias, gladi-
oli, etc.

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1. Rake the mulch off the
strawberry rows.
2. Cut back to a few strong

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Showing corn planting time in the Eastern United States

Sheltered corner where bulbs bloom earliest.

The shelter makes life possible for many plants which otherwise could not endure northern New York winters

Planting Your Own Vine and Fig Tree — By Frances Duncan, Btpaix

THE JOY THAT COMES TO ALL OF US WHO MAKE A GARDEN TO SUIT OUR OWN WHIMS, WITHOUT UNDUE REGARD
TO THE LAWS OF DESIGN AND HIGH ART— GARDENING IN THE BACK

\\) VEO would thoroughly enjoy
sitting under his vine and under his
fig tree should plant them himself. To buy
a place with these already set out is not
the same. To hire a man to plant them
destroys the peculiar charm. When one
has settled the fine earth about the roots
with his own fingers, pressed down the
soil and then raked smooth to obliterate
the footprints and make the bed look as
if the newcomer had always been there,
one is on terms of intimacy with a plant
that nothing afterward can shake.

It is intimacy and fellowship that one
craves with a beloved object, not that there
should be acres of it.

To know just where to look in the dead
brown grass for the sharp little points of
crocuses; to spend blissful afternoons in
late February pruning your roses, taking
all the time you like to decide which branch
should come off and which should stay,
instead of turning the poor thing over to
a hireling who may not know a sucker
from a graft and cares only to get through
the job as soon as he can; to know that
in the little brown stumps of stems you
leave (which your unlearned friend would
hardly stoop to glance at), lies sleeping a
wealth of beauty and June loveliness just

ready to awake —it’s the firm conviction
that the mother has of her child’s excel-
lence though to all else the infant is an
uninteresting looking specimen. All this
is a pure happiness with which the size
of the garden has nothing to do. Your
empire may be a six-foot long bed or
sixty acres — the joy is the same.

Who, but the one who has planted and
watched them, knows the sheltered places
where the snowdrops come up first, where
crocuses bloom the earliest and the first
faint blossoms of the Jasmine will show
themselves even in late February. A
garden of annuals is but a makeshift, be-
cause precisely at the time when one most
craves a garden, it isn’t there. Annuals par-
take of the nature of the summer boarder —
there is by no means the permanent sat-
isfaction to be had in them that is in the
bulbs and shrubs and perennials to whom
the flower-bed is a settled home.

The most exquisite happiness to be had
in this out-of-door world is in the wonder
and the hush of awakening life. When,
on a warm March morning, you lift the
covering from hollyhocks and larkspurs
and columbines as carefully as if you were
lifting a blanket from a sleeping baby;
when the sharp points of daffodil and

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hyacinth poke their way through the soil;
when the life is all in the ground, and the
color all overhead — in the faint pale gold
of the cornel-tree, in the airy red of the
scarlet maple, in the dazzling whiteness of
magnolia blossoms— while the crocuses
and snowdrops under foot seem not so
much a part of the summer herbage as
sprites and fairies sent up from the under-
world to see how things are. For the
gardener, it is the most wonderful moment
of all the year — this, when the earth is
again Eden, before the lurking Serpent in
the guise of cutworm or other worker of
iniquity has entered into his Paradise.
And in this wonder and happiness has not
the gardener part and lot? Has he not
helped his garden to “‘come alive?”
Probably if we had had the ordering
of the matter, we should have ushered in
spring with a blare of trumpets — with
flaming azaleas, with tulips in crimson and
gold and great horse-chestnut flowers over-
head quite bravurain manner. But Mother
Nature goes about it diferently. Swift
the movement is, opening of exquisite light-
ness and delicacy, but fast and faster—one
loveliness breaking in upon another like
the chorus of birds on an April morning.
Not allegretto is the time, but scherzo.

APRIL, 1912

Fragile, yet with no touch of weakness
are the early-comers. It is a frail and
spiritualized loveliness — from the snow-
drops underfoot, thrusting boldly their
hard, white-tipped spears, to the red of
the scarlet maples overhead — the most
ethereal red in nature. It is this fleet
exquisite moment that is missed out of
most gardens, because the flowering trees
and the shrubs that could bring it are
unbidden and only horticultural enthu-
siasts know how fair they are.

There has been so much made of the
technical side of gardening —of color
schemes, of planting in masses, of broad
effects; scientific names of plants are
administered to us in such heavy doses,
that to make a garden has come to seem a
formidable undertaking, very much as the
literature on child culture is enough to
appal the boldest parent; yet affection
and a fair degree of intelligence is apt to
do the trick; the planting impulse also is
one of the simplest, most natural, most
elemental of instincts.

Considering how long the race has been
at it, we ought to be born knowing how to
make a garden. The simplest way to
begin is to plant what you want where you

THE

want it. Neither is it so irrevocable a
thing: if after a year or two, the shrub
you have set out offends you, it is not
necessary to pluck it out and cast it from
you — you can dig it up and transplant it
to a less conspicuous position and have
gained in garden wisdom by the experience.
Our grandfathers planted orchards simply
because they wanted the fruit; they set
out trees to the north and west to keep
off the wind and planted lilac bushes for
the sake of the lilacs in the mother country.
Simple as the planting was it brought a
real happiness and such of it as has come
to us has both character and charm.

To my mind the thing which more than
anything else deters folk from planting,
is the lack of garden seclusion which with
us is almost universal. It is well enough
to have the street side unfenced, devoted
to lawns and shrubs and trees —if that
is the custom of the town. But to have
any real enjoyment from your garden —
to be able to live in it —it must be en-
closed. One cannot enjoy living in a
garden open to the street and the neighbor
any more than one would enjoy living in a
show-window. And why this natural re-
luctance should be construed as an affront

GARDEN MAGAZINE

(as it often is) to good neighbors and
friends, is difficult to understand. None
of us is forced to live in a glass house. We
pull down shades of an evening without
considering that we may interfere with
the vision of any one who chances to be
standing, like /ittle Mabel, with his face
against the pane. Besides who of us wants
his maiden efforts (possibly unsuccessful
ones) exposed to the cold criticism of the
passer-by. To invite a sympathetic friend
to see limp and insect-worried little plants
— that is another matter. But the hard,
unfriendly stare of a stranger, who would
not shrink from it? What garden fancies
can possibly thrive in bare uncompromising
limelight.
“Tell me, where is fancy bred,

In the heart, or in the head?
How begot, how nourished?

Reply, reply.

It is engendered in the eyes . .
says Shakespeare who evidently thinks
fancy has something to do with vision.
The fancy of the Elizabethan songsters
is as full of garden imagery as a bobolink
of music, and out it comes in the same
joyous abandon—and theirs were en-
closed gardens! But what chance has

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A garden where one may work in peace and seclusion

Making the new house feel at home

fancy in a garden, which however well
beshrubbed, lies bare to the public gaze?
Would the lovely quietness of Andrew
Marvell’s ‘‘green thought in a green shade”
have sprung there? Nay verily. And
green thoughts are pleasant company.

Though they may not realize it, it is
nothing but this lack of privacy that
makes so many Americans hesitate to go
a-gardening. It explains also why we
have so few pretty little gardens in city
and suburb. In a secluded garden a man
is more apt to have the courage of his
convictions and plant what he likes, not
what he thinks he ought to like. Hence
his gardening has a chance of individuality.

Beside this psychological reason, a tall
hedge or a green clad wall makes a frame
against which even a slight growth is
charming. Moreover an enclosed garden
can be made safe for birds, secure against
cats and dogs or the hen who, for the flow-
ers, is worse than the fabled dragon for
distressed damsels.

Aside from the semi-public nature of our
gardens, the excessive lawn space is another
habit of ours which hinders the proper

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

enjoyment of a garden. Many a worthy
commuter has his interest in horticulture
slowly and surely killed by the weekly
task at the lawn-mower. He may gain
thereby, it is true, a useful appreciation
of the weariful monotony of woman’s work,
but enthusiasm for horticulture — never!
The joy of creation is not in it, nor the joy
of achievement. The tyranny of the lawn-
mower explains why so few men wish to go
a-gardening; no man who so employs his
scant leisure has a chance to see any but
the seamy side of the craft.

Now when Israel contemplated this
prospect —that of sitting, every man
under his vine and under his fig-tree, no
small degree of common comfort was
presupposed. To sit under a vine, implies
an arbor; to sit under a fig-tree, presumes
aseat. It would be seen then, that in the
Prophet’s gardening, primitive and utili-
tarian as it was, comfort was one of the
first considerations. Herein, one thinks,
lay wisdom. Whoever makes for himself
a comfortable place to sit out-of-doors, is
very sure to do a bit of gardening —
simply to delight his eyes, and by degrees,
without any great effort, the place grows
to be altogether pleasant and lovable.
Just as one takes up his abode in a house
(or if a New Yorker —in an apartment).
He doesn’t buy every detail outright from
a department store at one fell swoop.
Instead he (or she) encamps in a place
makes himself comfortable at first, and by
degrees makes the rooms livable, harmoni-
ous, and, if he have the gift, even artistic.

Not only may the garden afford a pleas-
ant place in which to sit and lounge with
a pipe and a book, if one is a man, or with
tea and a friend, if one is a woman, but it
may even be comfortable to care for.

We have a tiresome habit of dividing

That it is the owner’s work lends a personal charm to this type of garden. There’s real enjoyment in it

APRIL, 1912

the fruit and vegetable garden from the
flowers as if we were separating the sheep
from the goats. Yet if the vegetable
rows are finished off with a row of flowers,
the garden peas with a row of sweet peas,
the plot well spaced and balanced (which
is a matter of no expense) the kitchen
garden can be very goodly to look upon
and the wheel hoe cares impartially for
both Ceres’ interests and those of Flora.
There is an abundance of flowers for the
house, and the kitchen garden becomes
delightful with the buxom, homely pretti-
ness of the country-maid (of romance),
Unpretentious as it is, it is very gay, and
the gardener is not worried in the least
for fear his show beds are not looking their
best. He can plant tulips in his straw-
berry beds, German iris by his grape-
vines. and, when he brings in a basket of
vegetables, he will bring flowers in with
them.

Tf he has a lawn, then early flowering
trees will make a delightful boundary and
afford seclusion as well. If naturalistically
inclined, in front of these he will plant
perennials in groups and tuck in bulbs
to heart’s content. This is a far happier
arrangement than the more usual one of
packing tightly with shrubs the space
beneath the trees. It is better for the
eyes; the outline of the young trees is
graceful and should not be obliterated;
the perennials are barely in evidence when
the trees are abloom, while later, when
their own season has come, the trees serve
as background. It has also a material
benefit; the roots of neither bulbs nor
perennials go as deeply as those of shrubs,
therefore they are not likely to quar-
rel with their neighbors over the food
supply. In winter, the trees afford pro-
tection and the mulch given to bulbs and
perennials benefits all. Which excellent
instance of all things working together is
a source of satisfaction to the gardener.

In fact the flowering trees and natural-
ized bulbs make the easiest possible gar-
den to care for. The lilacs still bloom and
the daffodils come up when those that
planted them have been dead for fifty
years. It is a pity they are so little
planted for they would make a suburb a
flowery Paradise in April and early May.

We Americans (except for the South)
have been a nation of sojourners. We
live in apartments and hotels and boarding
houses; we spend our summers in hotels
also. The only element of stability among
our possessions is in the furniture which
year after year remains in storage. But
now, either drawn by the siren inducements
of garden magazines, or impelled by
Colonel Roosevelt’s exhortations, or driven
by the terrors of cold-storage, the altitude
of the price of eggs to flee the city as Lot
fled from Sodom — folk are going country-
ward as never before. After long centuries
the ideal of peace and security is coming
again to be that of the captive Israelites,
that every man “‘shall sit under his vine and
under his fig-tree and drink water from his
cistern; and none shall make him afraid.”

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Polyanthus and Siebold primroses. The latter is worth growing for its foliage

alone

These dwarf sirises (J. pumila) will one day come to their own.

White grape
hyacinths behind

Perennials Most Worth Planting for Flowers—By Sherman R. Duffy, ©

THIRTY PLANTS THAT WILL GIVE A MAXIMUM OF BLOOM FOR A MINIMUM OF LABOR AND INCREASE

YEAR BY YEAR—THE GOOD POINTS OF EACH AND WHY THEY

[sae D NEIGHBOR is going to start
a perennial border this year. He has
confided this fact to me with a request for
assistance and codperation in the way
of any surplus I may have this spring. He
has nourished his esthetic nature on my
border for some time and his appetite
has grown. Friend Neighbor is a ‘real
estater” and he assures me that a hardy
border will add an appreciable percentage
to the selling value of property. He re-
gards well-kept grounds with hardy bor-
ders and shrubbery as a sort of trade
secret. “A bright flower garden makes a
house look attractive whether it really is
or not,” he informed me.

He further averred that everybody ought
to plant something to give them some
object for needed exercise as well as to
increase their interest in their home.

Another reason was that it would in-
terest the kiddies and keep them from
running out into the streets looking for
excitement. In fact, Friend Neighbor
found so many reasons for starting a border
that I didn’t see how he had restrained
himself so long. This, he explained, was
because he had mine to look at.

Next time he saw me he elaborated his
plans. Friend Neighbor is one of those
positive sorts of characters; he wants
what he wants when he wants it, and he
wants not what he wants not just as en-
thusiastically and perhaps even more so.

“First of all,” quoth Friend Neighbor,
“the contour of my fair domain shall not
be sullied by golden glow. If anybody
tries to give me any golden glow, I'll
throw it at him.”

Having agreed heartily in the condem-
nation of golden glow, Friend Neighbor
proceeded to outline what I was to do for
him in the way of starting his border.
“T want you to pick out my plants for me.
I want mostly fuzzy stuff like you have.”
I smothered a few objections to such a
characterization of some of my pet plants
long enough to find out Friend Neighbor’s
ideas. “I want a lot of that pink fuzz,”
he continued, “and a lot of that light
purple fuzz and some of that white fuzz.
You know what I mean. I want a lot of
stuff that I can look at without hurting
my eyes. I don’t want a lot of stuff I
have to see every day in everybody’s yard
along the street. And last but not least, I

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don’t want a lot of ‘dope’ plants making
an anarchist parade on my premises such
as you have in your yard in May and
early June.”

This last remark was directed at a fine
patch of oriental poppies which were a very
sore spot with Friend Neighbor. He
used to admire and wonder at them, but
one day he took one to his office in the
city and none of his associates would be-
lieve that it was areal bloom. They told
him it was made out of tissue paper and
that probably he stole it from his wife’s
last spring’s hat. Since that time the pop-
pies have been in great disrepute.

“JT want that fuzzy stuff,” reiterated
Friend Neighbor, “ because it’s easy to look
at and doesn’t rise up and swat you in the
eye every time you turn in its direction.
It’s restful and soothing. Also, I don’t
want a patch of yellow in August that will
hurt my eyes and make the sun look twice
as hot as it really is. Something soft,
restful, and soothing. My temperature
goes up two degrees every time I go by
one of those infernal golden glow outrages.”

Some order to fill —fuzzy, not blatant,
restful, soothing. Yet I felt complimented

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that my border fulfilled some of Friend
Neighbor’s ideas. Knowing that I was
confronted by a most persistent individual,
I started to work at once. Here is the
list which I submitted to Friend Neighbor,
and one from which I think any one can
select the foundation of an excellent per-
ennial border. These perennials seem to
me as essential to a hardy border as salt,
sugar and flour are to a grocery store. They
will form a framework or skeleton around
which may be built a multitude of beauti-
ful pictures:

Foxgloves. 8. Peonies.
Peach bells or g. German iris.
platycodon. to. Shasta daisies.
3. Columbines. tt. Phlox.
4. Larkspurs. 12. Hardy chrysanthe-
5. Oriental poppies. mums.
6. Grass pinks. 13. Hollyhocks.
7. Sweet william. 14. Coreopsis.

15. Gaillardias

First of all, these perennials will survive
the winter without protection. They are
less susceptible to drought, and surer to
bloom, and are less subject to disease
and insect pests. There are no plants in
this list that are weedy or increase so
rapidly that they become a nuisance.
This last condition bars the perennial
sunflowers and asters, although, personally,
I should include them for myself.

He looked it over carefully while I ex-
plained to him my theory, using the grocery
story simile above. ‘‘ Well,” said he, “Ill
run my border on the delicatessen store
plan.”” Whereupon he eliminated about half
of the list and clamored for the “fuzzies.”

By “fuzzies” Friend Neighbor meant the
little flowers, those which please by the
number of their bloom and give misty
effects. I have a lot of them in my border
and perhaps prejudiced my neighbor in

The sea lavender (Statice latifolia) is valuable for

mingling with coarser flowers. Lasts when cut, too

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their favor. I do not think a perennial
border is complete or finished without
them, yet they are not sufficient in them-
selves to make a border. However, I
find more real pleasure in the little posies
than I do in the big fellows whose appear-
ance I can tell exactly long before they
come into bloom. Friend Neighbor had
the same idea although, for a gentleman
claiming such a breadth of estheticism,
the word “fuzzy” was a bit jarring.

After several post mortems on last
year’s border, Friend Neighbor agreed

to the following list of fifteen plants which -

he would use with such of the original
fifteen as pleased him after he had sub-
stituted sunflowers for oriental poppies:

1. Iris pumila. g. Statice latifolia.

2. Primroses and to. Gypsophila panicu-
polyanthus. lata, var, fi.pl.

3. Heucheras. 11. LEupatorium agera-

4. Perennial asters toides.

5. Columbines. 12. Heleniums.

6. Veronicalongifolia, 13. Hardy salvias.
var. subsessilis. 14. Cerastium tomento-

Eryngiums. sum and Bieber-
Tufted pansies. sleint.

15. Hardy candytuits.

ook

These fifteen perennials have furnished
.me with more enjoyment than any similar
group I have ever grown — not that they
are in all cases particularly beautiful in
themselves, but they lend themselves so
well to producing beautiful groups or
as Friend Neighbor says, “something rest-
ful and easy to look at.” I. wouldn’t
be without the fifteen standards for any-
thing and neither would I want to give
up any of the second fifteen, but of the
entire thirty I should like least to part
with Iris pumila.

This little three-inch iris is my original
friend among the perennials, as the York
and Lancaster rose is among the shrubs.
Both enjoy a ripe old age. The rose has
been handed down for generations in my
own family, and the iris had enjoyed a
similar ancient lineage before it was given
to me thirty years ago. These are not
mere plants; they are personalities.

There are volumes written about the
daffodil and its wind-taking charms but
the dwarf irises, which contribute an equal
share of beauty in windy March and
showery April, get scant mention. Some
day the race of dwarf irises, which quietly
has grown into a populous tribe, will get
its just dues. I know more would be heard
about them if the beauty of a patch of these
little purple fleur de lis were seen backed
up by a mass of white grape hyacinths and
in front of them a mat of Munstead poly-
anthus of white and cream shades. I
have over a dozen varieties, ranging from
three to twelve inches in height, which
come along with the daffodils and early
tulips and contribute a series of purples,
blues, yellows, and whites with an endless
variety of veinings, flecklings, and varie-
gations. One little fellow, iris Bal-Ceng
Harlequin, has a white ground flecked
with opalescent green with bronzy shadings.
A whole garden could be made of these
little irises.

APRIL, 1912

The rich-red brown of the improved sneezeweeds give
a fine touch of color in fall (var. Riverton Beauty)

Another combination I like is the purple
type of Iris pumila with Empress daffodils.
This is only one of a great variety of uses
to which they can be put. They make a
good edging and keep back the encroach-
ing sod. This perennial met with the most
enthusiastic approval of Friend Neighbor
who has watched for the purple flags spring
after spring. He already had a few of
them but is going to get more.

Next to the irises the primroses and poly-
anthus met with most enthusiastic ap-
proval. There is nothing finer for an
early spring display than the Munstead
strain of polyanthus. The individual
flowers are huge and come in a beautiful
assortment of yellows, ranging from almost
brown to pure white with central stars
of various shades. They are of the easiest
cultivation and hardy as rocks. The
deep crimson polyanthus makes a fine
companion-piece, but I do not like them as
well as the yellows. They are so much
more easily grown than the true prim-
roses that it is a waste of time to bother
with the latter except for sentimental
reasons. However, I want both. Next to
the Munstead polyanthus I do not know
of any more beautiful early spring per-
ennial than the Siebold primroses. The
colors range from shades of pink to deep
magenta with various tints, and the
edges of the flowers are often beautifully
cut and crimped. The foliage is the
handsomest of all the hardy primroses.

Then comes Primula denticulata and I
think Friend Neighbor likes it the best
of all the primroses. It is a dainty little
flower in shades of blue and purple. It
must have a subtle attraction for I lost a
lot of mine last spring in a most singular
manner. A lady lunatic escaped her keeper
and wandered through my yard. With
hundreds of daffodils, tulips and other
flowers in bloom she seized upon the
denticulata primroses, dug them up, took
them down the street and planted them
in front of the door of a small cottage.

APRIL, 1912

Of the perennial sunflowers, the variety Miss
Mellish commands attention, but it must be kept
under control

Friend Neighbor says she proved her
sanity.

Friend Neighbor was unusually demon-
strative over the “pink fuzz” which was his
characterization of alum root (Heuchera san-
guinea) and some of the newer varieties.
This perennial is a little gem and the only
plant with which I can compare it for
delicacy is the lily-of-the-valley. It makes
a beautiful bouquet with a few sprays of
asparagus, and the newer varieties, such
as Pluie de Feu, are wonderful advances
over the old type which was beautiful
enough, it seemed to me. Heucheras
are easily raised from seed, the only
trouble I have found with them being that
if they were allowed to go too long without
division, the root stems became too long
and were apt to rot at the top during
severe weather. However, when the top was
killed, new shoots generally appeared from
the roots but they did not bloom for a
year. They have a longseason of bloom
and their foliage is unusually attractive.

The perennial aster for which Friend
Neighbor put in a plea was a tiny little
flower. I lost the label of the plant when
I secured it in a collection some time ago
and have forgotten its name, but it was
one of the vimineus section. It is a fine-
leaved, wiry plant growing about two feet
tall and blooming in early September. It
is covered with tiny white blossoms with
a dark centre, the entire blossom turning
to a light pink as it ages. ‘‘That’s one of
the best fuzzies you’ve got,’”’ was Friend
Neighbor’s comment as he restricted himself
to this one for the present. It has one good
quality — it does not send runners under-
ground to steal territory to which it is not
entitled. It is a most orderly little plant
and unusually attractive. There are a num-
ber of these tiny flowered asters and any
of them are exquisite, much handsomer to
my way of thinking than the coarse New
England varieties.

THE

Columbines were included in both the
staple and the special list, for Friend
Neighbor and myself are unanimous in the
belief that a better hardy perennial for
its season does not grow than the colum-
bine, particularly the long spurred var-
ieties. There are several strains of im-
proved columbines and all are good. I
gave my columbines plenty of room for
the first time last year. They need
room so that the branches may spread and
show the graceful habit of the plant. The
rose and salmon varieties, such as Rose
Queen, are the most attractive. I’ve
tried to plant them according to color
but it is an impossibility to raise them
true from seed. However, it seems im-
possible to produce a discord among
them, no matter what the colors.

Of the short spurred columbines, the
variety Helenae is one of the very best
and is the earliest to bloom. It is show-
ing color with deep blue sepals and a white
corolla by the time the daffodils are
gone.

“Veronica longifolia, var. subsessilis —
what’s that all about and what is it?” de-
manded Friend Neighbor, when he con-
fronted this name on the list. I explained
where it was located in my border. ‘“‘ You
can call it a speedwell,” I volunteered.
“Tt’s a good name,” he opined. ‘‘You’ve
got to speed up to say it all in one breath.
Yes, that for mine.”’

This speedwell is a newcomer in my
border but it has come to stay. I was
rather doubtful of its hardiness but it
has proved a good resister of thaws and
furnishes one of the finest summer blues I
have. It is associated with white snap-

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163,

dragons and nothing is showier during
August than this particular section. With
clean, attractive foliage and a spike six
inches long which remains in bloom a long
time, it surely is one of the most deserving
perennials, and, besides, it is “fuzzy!”
The stamens protrude, giving a feathery
effect to the spikes and relieve them of
any suspicion of stiffness. I had such bad
luck with Anchusa Italica “ Dropmore”
variety, that I gave it up and the veronica
is a more than acceptable substitute. The
anchusas blossomed themselves to death
every time I tried them.

If anybody asked me why I ever planted
an eryngium I’d be forced to confess
that I didn’t know. I can’t truthfully
say I think these sea hollies beautiful,
yet, I insist on having them. There is
something so singular about this strange
cousin of the parsleys that it wins a
place for itself in my border, and Friend
Neighbor avows it is such a freakish
looking thing that we are the only ones
that will grow it. My first eryngium
was the native Eryngium yuccefolium.
I dug it up and took it home under the
impression that it was some sort of a lily,
judging from its parallel-veined, narrow
root leaves. When it sent up a blossom
spike with what looked like green clover
heads I was surprised, and was still more
astonished when I took it to school and
endeavored to trace it through a key
and kept arriving at the parsley family.
I refused to consider it possible until my
instructor informed me it was correct,
although the inflorescence is not an umbel.
J kept the yucca-leaved sea holly for
some time and then a few years ago secured

The native eupatorium solves the problem of the bulb beds and gives white sheets in summer

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E. amethystinum, with globe thistles and
gypsophila, because I saw pictures of them
in ‘Colour in the Flower Garden.” It
makes a most attractive group, but my
eryngiums never grew amethystine enough
to justify their name, so I added to the
group in an experimental way until now
I have a planting of which I am very
proud and which is to be reproduced bodily
by Friend Neighbor as the ne plus ultra
of “fuzzy restfulness.”’

The single Gypsophila paniculata had such
a Short season of bloom that the effective-
ness of the group was spoiled before it got
fairly going, so I substituted the double
variety when it was first offered for sale.
Although, as a rule, I like a single better
than a double flower, this is one case
where I think the doubling is a decided
improvement, as the flowering period of
the double gyp is almost double that of the
single.

But while all the praise is being lavished
by horticultural authorities upon the gyp-
sophila, I see no mention of another beau-
tiful cloudy effect that can be so easily pro-
duced by planting a sea lavender, Statice
latifolia. I have grouped the statice with
the gypsophila and the mingling of the mul-
titudes of fine flowers is exquisite. The
pale lavender of the statice harmonizes
nicely with the eryngiums and globe
thistles and gives a note of pale coloring
that was lacking. Statice latifolia seems
to have all the good qualities of the gyp-
sophila in its multitude of dainty bloom
with the one drawback of coarse foliage,
but as the leaves lie flat upon the ground
during the flowering season this objection
is overcome.

My advice to planters of perennials is
this — whenever any one says plant “gyp-
sophila,” add “and’statice with it.”

Tufted pansies are to occupy a prom-
inent position in the new border. I have
had them for two years and can grow
them readily where the ordinary pansy
refuses to take up its abode. I like the
small-flowered ones with “

sassy’ faces,

Though massive in effect, the sneezeweed (Helen-
ium autumnale) seems indispensable to the border
in fall

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which an English friend insists are violas.
They look like the old-fashioned Johnny-
jump-ups and bloom continually. It seems
a much sturdier plant than the pansy,
and it is easy to grow as many plants as are
wished by taking cuttings from the scores
of shoots which spring from the roots.
Taken all in all, the tufted pansies were one
of the most satisfactory perennials I had.
They started blooming in early spring and
kept at it until I cut them down in mid-
summer and as soon as they had sent up
a fresh growth, furnished a sheet of bloom
until freezing weather.

It may seem strange to include Eupa-
torium ageratoides —I1 don’t know any
good common name, and refuse to call so
pretty a flower by the misnomer of “but-
ton snakeroot’”’ — in a collection of fifteen
especially desirable perennials, but I am
convinced that this humble native be-
longs there. Give it a chance in any
shady corner and plant a few groups of
Actea Japonica for variety and watch
the results. You will find a snowy sheet
of feathery heads with an occasional plume
of actea carrying the fluffy whiteness up
to heights of three and four feet. I saw
several paths through the woods last
summer lined as evenly with solid masses
of eupatorium as though it had been
planted by a gardener. It is much more
delicate than its over-used namesake the
Mexican ageratum. This is the “white
fuzz” that Friend Neighbor regards as
one of the salient features of his prospective
border.

As it is a woodland plant and used to
clambering up through various obstacles
until it reaches the free air, the eupatorium
has proved particularly useful in solving
a bulb problem. It occupies ground jointly
with a thick planting of Emperor daffodils.
After they die away, up comes the eupa-
torium which has been struggling to get
by for several weeks, and there is another
crop of bloom without the trouble of
touching the ground.

September is the month of purple and
gold composites. Unfortunately, a large
number of them are coarse and weedy until
they conceal their foliage with a mass of
bloom, but against the heleniums no such
complaint can be lodged. Of all the golden
composites, the giant sneezeweeds (Helen-
ium autumnale, var. superbum) is quite the
most golden. Waving great heads of pure
yellow buttons surrounded with slightly
toothed ray flowers, it is one of the hand-
somest of the early fall flowers. Riverton
Beauty and Riverton Gem make a mag-
nificent trio of refined and highly colored
bloom. These are the only perennials, clas-
sified as “blatant” that Friend Neighbor
will countenance, but he says they have
“‘some class.”” They require no particular
attention and are sure to respond with a
great display when their season arrives.
The dull red of Riverton Beauty and the
pale yellow and dark cone of Riverton Gem
afford a fine dash of color in the border.
These, with the Miss Mellish sunflower, are
the only yellows allowed at this stage.

APRIL, 1912

The «:

Grow pansies, by all means.
blooms longer than the bedding kinds

tufted’’ type

Sunflowers are a genuine nuisance; but
Miss Mellish has such refined bloom (for
a sunflower), with gracefully twisted petals,
that I really can’t get along without her.
She will endeavor to occupy the entire
border and has to be dissuaded by force,
but a few of these stately plants, given
three feet of room in which to develop,
are well worth the trouble.

The two hardy salvias (S. farinacea and
azurea var. grandiflora), are rarely seen in
these parts but they are exceptionally fine
plants and have proved very satisfactory
for the purpose of furnishing a display
when there was nothing else.

Salvia azurea var. grandiflora is much the
showier of the two and in late August
and early September, when there is a
general lull before the riot of composites,
produces branching spikes covered with
azure blue flowers and forms a solid sheet
ofcolor. Itis absolutely hardy and blooms
the first year from seed. The foliage is
rather insignificant, but it is a sure in-
vestment for its particular time of year
and redeems a seedy looking border.

The silver sage (Salvia farinacea),
wouldn’t elicit a second glance from any-
body until October. Then it is in its
glory and will battle for existence even
with killing frosts. It has clean, bright
foliage and makes a fine bushy plant from
three to four feet tall. I surround my
eryngium-gypsophila planting with these
salvias and when the former are cut down
the silver sage reaches over and covers
the vacancy.

This salvia earns its name of silver sage
because the entire flower spike is covered
with a silvery powder. There is con-
siderable variation in different plants;
in some the entire spike is blue, while in
others the spike is blue and the calyces
white. There are occasional forms in
which both the spike and the flower
are pure white. It sends up a terminal
spike at first which will be disappointing.
Then it branches from every joint and by
October the entire plant is covered with
blue. It is hardy in dry situations, but
will not survive on level ground where
water is likely to stand. It reaches its
full development the first year from seed
and self-sows so freely that it may be
regarded as perennial once it is established.

APRra, £912

Last on the list are the delight of Friend
Neighbor’s heart, and of mine as well —
“those little things that creep and nestle
around and cover themselves with glory
whenever they have a chance.” These
are the cerastiums and the hardy candy-
tufts.

The blue-green tamarix, (7. hispida, var.
estivalis), growing out of a solid mat
of Cerastium tomentosum and waving its
rose-pink plumes above a carpet of gray
leaves dotted with the white stars of this
little perennial, was the very best bit of
planting I did last year. This little gray-
leaved creeper makes a fine bed, whether
it is used with the shrubs or as an edging
to the border. Five cents’ worth of seed

THE

will establish a fine mass of it in a year,
and it is a little beauty when at the height
of its flowering season.

Another plant that covers the ground
and rambles around, in and out, and pokes
up its snowy heads as a foil for more
brilliant bloom is the hardy candytuft,
Tberis sempervirens. My Darwin tulips
were never so beautiful as when they
sprang from a mat of this candytuft with
its dark, evergreen foliage. A liberal
supply of candytuft seed has been sprinkled
over Friend Neighbor’s tulip bed. Jberis
Gibraltarica is not so hardy and has pale
purple heads.

It is the little things that count in mak-
ing a border; even the little plant louse

The Cost of Making a Perennial Bed

T IS vain to expect good or even
ordinary results from a cheaply pre-
pared perennial bed. Cheap materials,
cheap labor, skimp quantities are not con-
ducive to lasting qualities. If you have
reached the age of wisdom you will say
“give me the best or else I will go without.”
A recent experience of mine will show the
foolishness of preparing flower beds on the
short measure principle. Four large formal
beds had been made in a garden. The
work was done under the direction of a so-
called “gardener.” Flowers there had
been none, or practically none, for two
successive years. I secured the consent of
the owner to make over the beds and found
them to be only one spade deep, made of a
very poor clay soil with practically no
humus and with a slight coloring of manure
at the bottom. The beds were in the open
and baked throughout the summer.

> > ia
RE $53

After all, the success of a bed or border depends on the proper preparation. Dig deeply

Two feet deep is little enough for a
perennial bed and since I do my work in a
neighborhood where materials are ex-
pensive, I limit the depth to this amount.
Of course everything is conserved so far
as possible, for when top soil costs $2.50 a
team load, manure $2.50, and labor $2.00
to $3.00 per day people are not inclined
to rush into garden work without carefully
considering the expense.

So when I started on a large perennial
bed I saw that the sods and top humus,
about 8 inches in all, was carefully placed
to one side and kept separate from the
clay subsoil. With labor and materials
at the amounts named I found the itemized
cost as shown below:

This is equivalent to $0.064 per cu. foot of
bed or $0.128 per square foot.

These unit prices are convenient and
although not applicable to all conditions

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counts, and heavily at times! And while
it does not seem like orthodox gardening
to encourage any one starting a border for
the first time to ignore the commoner and
almost indispensable species, I am not at
all sure but that more genuine enjoyment
can be attained by watching the develop-
ment of the little perennials, which never
give exactly the same effects two years in
succession, than from watching for the
foxgloves and Canterbury bells and others
of more stately growth, which present an
identical appearance year in and year out.

In all the borders I know of there isn’t
enough attention paid to occupying all
the space. And there are so many tiny
plants just waiting for a chance!

—By Werner Boecklin, ¥%

are a great help in arriving at a near
approximation to the cost of a proposed
piece of work.

Area of Bed, 546 sq. ft.; depth of bed, 2 ft.; 8
inches top soil, and sod 16 inches stiff clay. Ma-
terial excavated, 1092 cu. ft.

Labor, including excavation, refilling,

mixing manure and finishing $36.94
10 loads manure at $2.50 . 25.00
Bone meal, 160 pounds . . 3.66
2 Loads finishing soil at $2.50 5.00
Total $70. 30

In the bed here considered six inches
of manure was placed in the bottom and
some of both the clay and top soil, with
all the sods, were then thrown in and
thoroughly mixed with the manure. Top
soil was kept for the upper layer and
some screened soil was finally spread over
the top.

and give good soil for the roots

Our Native Shrubs and What May Be Done With Them

Curator of Plants,

By Norman Taylor, Brooklyn Botanic Carden

N HOW many of our gardens can

one find any attempt to grow the
wild shrubs of the countryside? The
scramble for something new, something
startling, has almost overshadowed the
quieter beauties, the softer harmonies cf
the shrubs that grow close at home.

The accompanying table has been made
up from an actual planting list used at the
Brooklyn Botanic Garden of the Brooklyn
Institute in the installation of the shrub
collections of the wild flower garden.

It will be noted that under each
month group the names are arranged in
botanical sequence so that allied plants
are brought together. All the ninety-four
species are offered for sale in American
nurseries. Those in the column “Remarks
and Notes” as well as about twenty others
not included, must be collected in the wild.
Wherever possible the writer will be glad
to send information as to the sources of
supply.

A word now as to cultivation and care.
Most of the shrubs, except those so noted,
can be planted either in spring or fall, as
this is a matter that should be determined
by the planter’s convenience. In digging
the holes make them twice as wide and
deep as the size of the roots apparently
demand. Note carefully the column “ Pre-
ferred Habitat,” so that the shrubs may
find congenial surroundings. Pack the
soil well around the roots, water thoroughly,
and frequently if the weather is dry and
windy. The first winter or two a heavy
mulch of leaves, or leaves and manure
mixed, to be dug in the following spring,
will well repay the expense and trouble.

It will be noted that some of the shrubs
are marked with a dagger (7). These all
belong to the heath family and require
special treatment. A soil composed of
rotted sods and leafmold, about half and
half, is most essential for the successful
cultivation of these plants. They re-
quire peculiar acid soil conditions well
approximated by the above mixture, and

a mulch, preferably of red-oak leaves, or ~

the leaves of the mountain laurel if avail-
able. Never disturb the roots of these
plants by digging in the mulch, which is
better left on indefinitely. Soils with much
lime in them must also be avoided when
growing these heath-family plants.

OTHER WAYS TO USE THE TABLE

It is often somewhat difficult in ar-
ranging a shrubbery planting to group the
plants according to the color of their
flowers. For the greater ease in using
the larger table, and so that one can arrive
at the relative frequency of the various
colors desirable for use in the scheme, the
following table is appended. The num-
bers refer, of course, to those in the table
below. The figures given in parenthesis
is the total of plants in each division.

By color of flowers. Yellow-green (10): 1,
8, 9, 10, 30, 31, 36, 44, 49, 86. Brown-
greens |(TO):s2 3504) Lesbo er ApeTiCeme 7,
39. Yellow (5): 5, 25, 41, 84, 92. Pink-
purple (4): 7, 74, 75, 83. White (35): 6,
17; 18, IQ, 20, 21, 22, 24, 28, 29, 32, 49,
42, 43,45, 46, 47, 51, 55, 57, 58, 59, 69, 70,
71, 72; 79, 78; 795 80, 81, 82, 88, 89, go.
Green-white (11): 16, 23, 33, 50, 52, 63,
64, 65, 66, 87, 94. Pinkish-white (10):

26, 37, 38, 54, 56, 61, 67, 73, 77, 93. Pink

(5): 34, 60, 62, 85, o1. Lilac @)engs:
Violet-purple (2): 48, 68. Orange-red
(1): 53.

It often happens, too, that we have some
definite spot, such as a small stream or
swamp, a dry hillside, or a shaded wood,
that we wish to beautify. Therefore:

By preferred habitat of shrubs. Moist
places (19): 1, 2, 4, 9, 15, 17, 30, 36, 42,
50, 75, 78, 82, 83, 84, 85, 87, 88, 89. In-
different (32): 3, 5, 6, 7, 12) 14; 2A4szonia2,
35, 37, 38, 41, 43, 45, 47, 48, 51, 52, 59,
60, 61, 62, 68, 70, 71, 72, 79, 80, 81, 90, Or.
Shaded woods (13): 8, 16, 23, 25, 26, 27,
31, 63, 65, 67, 69, 74,92. Dry places (19):
10, 13, 18, 20, 21, 22, 34, 39, 46, 40, 53,
54, 56, 58, 64, 77, 86, 93, 94. Swamps
(6): 11, 40,.55, 66, 72) “76.9 dihickets
(1): 19. Cool woods (4): 28, 33, 44, 57-

In planning a screen for an unsightly
fence or building, or to cover up some small
landscape importunity, it is often essential
to know, ex masse, the heights of shrubs
for such purposes. The following table
gives the dimensions of the shrubs, normal
individuals averaging about midway of
the extreme heights given.

By height of shrubs. One to four feet
(13): 2, 6, 21, 27, 34, 56, 62, 75, 77, 83, 84,
QI, 93. Two to five (24): 10, 11, 13, 16,
22, 25, 31, 36, 37, 42, 44, 53, 57, 60, 61,
65, 67, 69, 73, 81, 82, 85, 90, 94. Three
to nine (29): 3, 4, 8) 02) ees eeyeeco:
26, 28, 32, 33, 35, 38, 39, 41, 43, 45, 48,
54, 58, 59, 7°, 72, 74, 78, 80, 86, 88. Six
to fifteen (21): 1, 5, 7, 18, 19, 29, 40, 46, 47,
49, 50, 52, 55, 64, 68, 71, 76, 79, 87, 89, 92.
Ten to eighteen (7): 9, 23, 24, 30, 51, 63, 66.

COMMON NAME

March=April
1—Pussy willow
2—Dwarf willow
3—Hazel nut
4—Alder

5—Spice bush
6—Red chokeberry
7—Red bud
8—Fragrant sumac

April=May
g—Shiny willow

10—Prairie willow
11—Sweet gale
12—Bayberry

13—Sweet fern

BOTANICAL NAME

Salix discolor
Salix tristis
Corylus Americana
Alnus rugosa
Benzoin odoriferum
Aronia arbutifolia
Cercis Canadensis

Rhus Canadensis
(aromatica)

Salix lucida
Salix humilis

Myrica Gale

Myrica Carolinensis

Comptonia asplenii-

folia

PLANTING TABLE FOR OUR NATIVE SHRUBS

HEIGHT| COLOR OF PREFERRED

(FEET)} FLOWERS HABITAT
7-12 | Yellow-green Moist places
1-4 Brown-green Moist places
3-6 | Brownish-yellow] Indifferent*

5-9 | Brownish-green | Moist places

6=15 Yellow Indifferent
2-4 White Indifferent
4-15 | Pink-purple Indifferent
3-8 | Yellowish-green | Rocky woods
to-18 | Yellow-green Low places
3-6 Yellow-green Dry places
3-6 Inconspicuous Swamps and
bogs
3-8 Not showy Indifferent
3-5 Golden-brown | Dry hillsides

REMARKS AND NOTES

Flowers before the leaves come out. S. cordata, a larger bush,
with broad leaves is worth cultivating. Not in the catalogues.

Useful in masses. Can be made to grow in all sorts of places.
One of the very earliest flowering shrubs.

Nuts edible and much gathered by squirrels. The catkins out
before the leaves. European hazel nut is a better plant.

Will grow in other situations. The fruits, not very strong,
stay on all winter. Useful in masses along brooks. ‘

Flowers much before the leaves, very fragrant. Near N. Y.
usually not over to feet, larger southward.

Common from N. Y. southward. A. atropurpurea, with black
fruit is worth while. A. arbutifolia has red fruit.

Magnificent masses of color before the leaves appear. Some-
times almost a tree. Rare asa wild plant but easily cultivated.

Will grow in unlikely places and an excellent shrub for wild
effect. Flowers half hidden by compound leaves.

Will grow almost anywhere. S. myrtilloides a shrub 3} feet,
not in the trade, is handsome with yellow catkins.

Will grow almost anywhere. Flowers out much before the
leaves. Useful only in mass effects.

Ash colored fruits effective all winter.
situations besides the preferred one.

Grows equally well in sand loam, or swampy places. Leaves
shining green, long persistent. Fruits whitish; all winter.

Golden catkins very showy before the leaves. Whole plant
very fragrant. Can be grown almost anywhere.

Will grow in many other

*The term “indifferent” in this connection is used to signify that the plant will adapt itself to average conditions.

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PLANTING TABLE FOR OUR NATIVE SHRUBS — Continued
COMMON NAME BOTANICAL NAME GEE) eae See a REMARKS AND NOTES
14—Beaked hazel nut Corylus rostrata 3-6 Brown-yellow Indifferent Along streams it makes effective screens and borders. The
long beak quite distinct from No. 3. Occasionally 8 feet.
15—Hoary elder Alnus tncana 4-9 | Greenish-brown] Moist places | Leaves pale green beneath. With Nos. 3, 4, 14, and 80, it can
be used effectively along shores of streams and ponds.
16—American black Ribes Americana 3-5 Green-white Shaded woods | R. lacustre and R. rubrum, the latter with reddish purple flowers
currant are very fine. Neither in the trade.
17—Juneberry Amelanchier Botrya- 5-12 White Moist places | As individual plants very shapely, but rather ungainly in close
piwm formation. A. spicata (1-4 ft.) good, but not in the trade.
18—English hawthorn Crataegus Oxyacantha } 5-15 White Dry hillsides | The May. Much cultivated and now run wild. The American
C. rotundifolia common on L. I. and N. J., but not for sale.
19—Scarlet thorn Crataegus coccinea 5-15 White Thickets The closely related C. mollis, with scarlet fruits is effective in
autumn. Not in the catalogues.
20—Dwarf thorn Crataegus uniflora 2-8 White Dry sandy place | Quite indifferent as to locality when cultivated. C. macracantha
with long spines is often 10 to 15 feet. Not in the trade.
21—Beach plum Prunus maritima 1-4 White Sandy places |} Fruit makes excellent jelly. Very successful near the sea.
P. cuneata better grown near moist rocks.
22—Sand cherry Prunus pumila 3-6 White Dry places Splendid in masses or small hillocks. Will grow in almost pure
sand. P. Gravesii not in the trade.
23—Prickly ash Xanthoxylum Ameri- | 6-18 Green Shaded places | Will also grow in ordinary garden soil. The large compound
canum leaves gives splendid foliage effects.
24—Bladder nut Staphylea trifolia 6-20 White Indifferent Usually about ro feet in our latitude. The showy pods stay on
most of the winter. Flowers not showy.
25—Leatherwood Dirca palustris 2-5 Yellowish Shaded places In masses under trees or along shaded walks it is most welcome.
Useful in a shaded rockery.
26—Pinkster flower Azalea nudiflora 2-7 | Pinkish-white Shaded wood 7} A blaze of color when planted in masses with other Azaleas.
Can also be grown successfully in the open.
27—Deerberry Vaccinium stamin- 1-4 | Purple-green Dry woodst{ | Flowers not showy, but purple fruits are attractive. Best not
eum disturbed or transplanted after setting out.
28—Red-berried elder Sambucus pubens 3-10 White Cool woods Easily grown in the garden but most successfully under trees
or along the north side of the house.
29—Black haw Viburnum pruni- 5-18 White Indifferent After becoming a small tree. A magnificent snowy shrub in
folium the spring. Fruits black.
May
30—Silky willow Salix sericea 6-15 | Yellow-green Moist places | With the other willows useful for filling in low moist places.
Leaves ashy beneath. Catkins showy.
31—Wild gooseberry Ribes Cynosbati 3-5 | Greenish-yellow | Rocky woods |} Better grown in the shade and in rich soil. The bristly fruits
are odd persistent features of this shrub.
32—Black chokeberry Aronia nigra 3-8 White Indifferent Shiny black fruit stays on until December or January. Some-
what scraggy, except in masses.
33—Mountain holly Ilex monticola 4-10 | Greenish-white Cool shade Flowers not showy but the red fruits showy all the autumn.
Do not attempt to grow in hot, dry places.
34—Blue huckleberry Vaccinium vacillans 1-4 Pink Dry soilt The profusion of tiny bell-like flowers appearing with the leaves
make this attractive. Fruits purple-black.
35—Common lilac Syringa vulgaris 4-10 Lilac Ordinary garden| Cultivated everywhere and sometimes escaped from gardens.
soil There are scores of attractive hybrids and forms.
36—American fly honey- | Lonicera ciliata 2-4 | Greenish-yellow | Moist woods | Easily grown in ordinary garden soil, but prefers shade. Best
suckle planted along shaded walks.
37—Fly honeysuckle Lonicera X ylosteum 2-6 | Pinkish-white Indifferent Sometimes an escape from cultivation. ‘The scarlet berries are
showy in the early fall.
38—Tartarian bush honey-| Lonicera Tatarica 3-8 | Pinkish-white Indifferent L. oblongifolia with purplish-yellow flowers in May and June
suckle is attractive. Not in the catalogues.
May-June
39—Chinquapin Castanea pumila 5-8 | Brownish-green Dry soil Apt to be affected with the chestnut blight. The long catkins
: and fruits are interesting but not showy.
40—Magnolia Magnolia glauca 4-10 White Swamps and | Can also be grown very well on dry ground and in any garden
bogs soil. Fruits rose red.
41—Common barberry Berberis vulgaris 3-8 Yellow Common gar- | After an escape from cultivation. The well-known scarlet
den soil berries showy in autumn.
42—Virginian willow Itea Virginica 2-4 White Moist places | When massed either alone or with Clethra alnifolia it makes
attractive patches of white.
43—Syringa Philadelphus corona- | 4-10 | Cream-white Indifferent Many horticultural forms of this are in the trade. All are
Trius useful. Fruits brownish.
44—Fetid currant Ribes prostratum 3-6 | Greenish-yellow |Cool moist places} Not easily grown as it grows naturally on the cool mountain
slopes. Fruits red.
45—Opulaster Spirea opulifolia 3-9 White Indifferent Splendid masses of flowers as it is a profuse bloomer. Aften
from 3-6 feet wide and very bushy.
46—Cockspur thorn Crataegus Crus-galli 6-14 White Dry soil One of the most commonly cultivated of our native shrubs.
Very thorny and a good hedge plant.
47—Pear haw Crataegus tomentosa 4-12 White Indifferent The dull red fruits cling on most of the winter. A profusely
flowering shrub.
48—Bastard indigo Amorpha fruticosa 4-10 | Violet-purple Rich soil A gorgeous flowering shrub, which in masses is unrivalled. Re-
pays good cultivation and care.
49—Staghorn sumac Rhus typhina 6-15 Green Dry places Autumnal coloring magnificent. Ona low hill very effective in
large masses.
50—American holly Ilex opaca 6-15 | Greenish-white | Moist woods | Best transplanted in the spring when all the evergreen leaves
should be knocked or clipped off.
51—Buckthorn Rhamnus cathartica 8-16 White Indifferent This and No. 52 both European shrubs that have run wild in
this country, Neither is showy in flower.
52—Alder buckthorn Rhamnus Frangula 4-11 | Greenish-white Indifferent Its natural home is in swamps and bogs, but generations of
garden culture has made it at home.
53—Flame azalea Azalea calendulacea 2-7. | Orange-yellow, Dry woods} | The showiest of all our native shrubs. Not very common in the
red wild state.
54—Mountain laurel Kalmia latifolia 4-10 | Pinkish-white Dry woods} | In masses under the shade of trees a wonderfully effective

shrub. Prefers rich soil.

Plants marked thus (+) belong to the heath family and require special conditions as indicated in text.

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PLANTING TABLE FOR OUR NATIVE SHRUBS — Continued

COMMON NAME BOTANICAL NAME ay ae eee sap REMARKS AND NOTES
55—Swamp huckleberry Vaccinium corymbosum| 6-15 White Swamps and wet} Flowers not very showy but the fruits are the finest of the tribe
woods} Will not tolerate dry places.
56—Low blueberry Vaccinium Pennsyl- I-4 Pinkish-white |Dry or sandy} Often grows in almost pure sand in the pine-barrens. Neither
vanicum soil flowers nor fruit showy.
57—Hobble-bush Viburnum alnifolium | 3-6 White Cool, moist shade] The outer circle of flowers in each cluster very much larger
than theinner. Does not like hot places.
58—Dockmackie Viburnum acerifolium | 3-8 White Dry woods Looks like a small maple tree. Useful as it will grow almost
- anywhere. Fruits black.
June=July
59—Hydrangea Hydrangea arborescens| 4-9 White Indifferent Thoroughly hardy and often easier grown than the more showy
exotic species.
60o—Meadow rose Rosa Virginiana 2-4 Pink Indifferent Along paths and roadsides it scrambles everywhere with ap-
(6landa) parent cultural indifference.
61—Sweet brier Rosa rubiginosa 3-6 Pinkish-white Indifferent Well repays good treatment when it often becomes a bushy
shrub 4 to 5 feet in diameter.
62—Pasture rose Rosa humilis 1-3 Pink Indifferent The beautiful large petals very evanescent. It can be best
grown in a moist place. Showy.
63—Water ash Ptelea trifoliata 6-18 | Greenish-white Shade Flowers inconspicuous but the compound leaves make it a good
foliage plant. Wood very brittle.
64—Black sumac Rhus Copallina 5-15 | Greenish-white Dry places The large compound leaves a beautiful scarlet in the autumn.
Profuse bloomer and fruits persistent.
65—Inkberry Tlex glabra 3-6 Greenish-white | Moist woods | The more rare J. mucronata of swamps is interesting botanically
but must be collected from the wild.
66—W interberry Tlex verticillata 6-18 | Greenish-white Swamps Splendid scarlet fruits cling on in large clusters most of the
winter. Often easily grown in the garden.
67—Strawberry bush Euonymus Americanus | 3-7 Greenish-pink Low woods Flowers small and inconspicuous but followed by red fruits that
last until December. A slender plant.
68—Burning bush Euonymus atropur- 8-15 Purple Indifferent European shrub much cultivated and now widely established
pureus as a wild plant. Fruits red and showy.
69—New Jersey tea Ceanothus Americanus | 2-6 White Shade Effective as massed plantings. The leaves the source of tea in
: Revolutionary times. A profuse bloomer.
7o—Kinnikinnik Cornus Amomum 3-10 White Indifferent Purple twigs effective in winter. The reddish-twigged C.
asperifolia effective but not on sale.
71—Red osier dogwood | Cornus stolonifera 3-12 White Indifferent Twigs reddish-purple; and fine in masses for its winter color
(miscalled kinnikinnik) harmonies. Easily grown from cuttings.
72—Cornel Cornus alternifolia 3-10 White Indifferent The bright green twigs which keep their color all winter make
it attractive grouped with Nos. 70 and 71.
73—Swamp honeysuckle | Azalea viscosa 3-6 | Pink and white Swampst Rather shy of dry places but easily replaced in such places by
the A. canescens, which must be collected.
74—Rhododendron Rhododendron maxi- |4-18 | Rose-white- Woodst Old plants, almost tree-like, should never be disturbed. Be
mum purple careful to nip all fruits as soon as they appear.
75—Sheep laurel Kalmia angustifolia 1-3 | Purple-crimson | Low, moist The rare K. glauca, not in the trade, is very much worth while.
placest Neither is happy in open dry places.
76—Leucothoé Leucothoé racemosa 5-12 Cream-white Swampst The glossy practically evergreen leaves make an effective winter
showing. Can be grouped with Nos. 74, 77, and 78.
77—Stagger bush Pieris Mariana I-4 Pinkish-white Sandy soilf Isolated plants are apt to be sprawling, but when massed the
delicate flowers make attractive patches of color. oe
78—Privet andromeda Xolisma ligustrina 4-9 White Moist places{ | Leaves partially evergreen, and dark glossy green in color.
A profuse bloomer with persistent fruits.
79—Elderberry Sambucus Canadensis | 5-15 White Indifferent In large clusters most effective as a screen. Will grow very
well along a stream or pond. Fruits ‘“‘mussy.”
80—Cranberry bush Viburnum Opulus 3-12 White Indifferent Profuse masses of flowers and large clusters of scarlet berries
make it most useful all the year.
81—Withe rod Vibrurnum nudum 2-8 White Indifferent The C. pubescens of rocky woods equally good but not offered
for sale. Fruits blue-black.
82—Appalachian tea Viburnum cassinoides | 2-8 White Moist places V. Lentago with black fruits useful, but must be collected.
Leaves of V. cassinoides glossy and dark green.
July=August
83—Hard hack Spiraea tomentosa I-4 Pink-purple Low ground | The ashy underside of the leaves, contrasted with the pinkish-
purple flowers is a novel combination.
84—Shrubby cinquefoil Potentilla fruticosa 2-4 Yellow Moist places | One of the few yellow flowered shrubs that are used. Some-
times winter kills near New York.
85—Swamp rose Rosa Carolina 4-7 Rose colored Moist places Can also be successfully grown in ordinary garden soil, well
manured. Flowers soon withering in open sunlight.
86—Smooth sumac Rhus glabra 3-12 Greenish Dry places Grouped with Nos. 49 and 64, it gives a wild touch to the land-
scape. Autumn color gorgeous.
87—Hercules’s club Aralia spinosa 6-15 White Low ground Large compound leaves 3 to 4 feet long, make this the foliage
= plant par excellence. Flowers inconspicuous.
88—Sweet pepperbush Clethra alnifolia 3-8 Cream-white Low ground Fragrant flowers followed by persistent fruits, a sturdy habit
and bushy outline make this a favorite.
89—Button bush Cephalanthus occi- 5-15 Cream-white Moist places | Best not attempted much away from water, and in such sit-
dentalis uations often becoming almost tree-like. Flowers fragrant.
go—Snowberry Symphoricor pos 2-6 White Indifferent The flowers are not showy but the conspicuous white berries
racemosus stay on all winter, thus valuable for winter effect.
o1—Coralberry Symphoricarpos 1-4 Pink Indifferent Much like the preceding but the red fruits are not so persistent.
vulgaris Forms a wide spreading bush.
Septem ber=
December
92—Witch hazel Hamamelis Virgini- 5-15 Yellow Moist shade | Flowers later than any other native shrub, often after all the
ana leaves have fallen off, and the first frosts arrive.
093—Heather Calluna vulgaris I-2 Pinkish-white | Sandy places | Rather shy in its few American localities. Near the coast from
Massachusetts to southern New Jersey it should do well.
94—Groundsel tree Baccharis halimifolia | 2-5 Whitish-green Dry soil Best transplanted in the spring as its late flowering makes

autumnal activity too great for easy transplanting then.
a a Na aaa i
*Liants marked thus (+) belong to the heath family and require special conditions as indicated in text.

Shrubs are better than flowers against a building because the flowers are too
Shrubs give flowers or color

small to support it and have no winter value.
enough and last longer

This picture shows an application of Rule 1.

This

Hide unsightly objects.
shrubbery completely screens a high wall. Mr. W.M. Johnson’s, Hackensack,
New Jersey. J. T. Withers, landscape architect

The Artistic Way of Using Shrubs — By Wilhelm Miller, %%

SHRUBS ARE BETTER FOR FRONT YARDS THAN FLOWERS, AND A BORDER IS BETTER THAN A HEDGE — ANY
BEGINNER CAN PLAN BETTER HOME GROUNDS BY USING THESE SIMPLE RULES AND CONVENIENT TABLES

F YOU cannot afford to engage a land-
scape gardener you should rejoice at the
foregoing admirable lists of shrubs by Mr.
Taylor. For they will enable you to plan
much better grounds than you see gener-
ally, and without extra cost. Everywhere
you see three kinds of yards which look
good to a beginner but are unsatisfactory
after a year’s experience in gardening.

The first kind of yard you see everywhere
has flowers around the base of the house
or in beds in the lawn. But flowers are
not tall enough or permanent enough to
give support and dignity toa house. They
give only color and they have no value in
winter. Shrubs can do all these things
better than annuals or perennials.

The second type of yard you see every-
where has grass and privet hedges. (There
are 10,000 examples at the seashore.)
These yards are neat, but monotonous
and artificial. It is a waste of money
to trim hedges. An informal border of
shrubbery is: more artistic because it is
more natural and blends your place with
the landscape. It has more variety and
interest every day of the year and it costs
no more.

The third kind of yard you see every-
where consists of showy trees and shrubs
scattered over the lawn. To scatter shrubs
is distracting; to group them at the sides
of the lawn is artistic. To use cut-leaved,
weeping, and variegated plants is gaudy;
normal varieties are showy enough and in
better taste.

All these in artistic ways come from con-
sidering only flowers or color. The artis-
tic way is to consider everything. The
artistic yard is private — not exposed to

the public gaze. It shuts out unsightly
objects. It is sheltered from wind and
dust. It has a pretty view — something
better than passing automobiles. It is
attractive the year round —not merely
in summer or when roses bloom. It is
planted with permanent materials, not
tender plants or flowers that must be
renewed every year. It is cheap to main-
tain compared with a show place. And
it need not cost one dollar more than a
yard peppered with Colorado spruce, gol-
den elder, purple-leaved barberry, and
cut-leaved Japanese maples.

Where can you see such yards? In
Winnetka, Ill., which is perhaps the most
artistic suburb in America. There are
twenty-seven small places in that suburb
of Chicago designed by Mr. O. C. Simonds.

I will tell you just how a great landscape
gardener designs home grounds. You can
do it yourself — not as well as the pro-
fessional — but well enough to produce a
hundred times as much comfort, beauty,
and pleasure as the ordinary place shows.

RuLeE 1.— Hide unsightly objects. Per-
haps a few extra-large shrubs will hide
outbuildings or a fence. Probably you
will need evergreens or vines to hide barns
or walls. Put stakes in the ground where
these screen plants are to stand.

RULE 2.— Surround your property with
an irregular belt of trees and tall shrubs.
This is to protect you from thieves, ani-
mals, wind, dust, germs, and curious eyes.
It is to give the children a winter play-
ground and allow the family to work, read,
rest, sew, eat, and live outdoors as privately
as indoors. Also it is to be a background
for flowers. Therefore, select first your

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trees and put a stake where each is to
stand. Then consult the list of tall shrubs
for fillers.

RULE 3.— Frame the best views. Do
not break this precious belt of shrubbery
except where there is a chance to see some
beautiful object in the distance, e. g.
mountain, hill, lake, river, brook, meadow,
church spire, or beautiful building. Carry
your tall shrubs right down to the front
sidewalk, but allow one glimpse of your
house from the street. Study the point
from which your house appears to the best
advantage and put a stake there. Select
low shrubs for that point so that people
can look over them and see part of your
house — not all. For as Mr. Simonds says,
“A glimpse is better than the whole thing.”

Rute 4.— Provide year-round interest.
There is no trouble about spring and fall,
because most shrubs bloom in spring, and
in the autumn their leaves are as brilliant
as flowers. Therefore choose from the list
a few shrubs that bloom in July and August.
For winter beauty choose shrubs with
brightly colored berries or twigs, e. g. bar-
berries, high-bush huckleberry, multiflora
rose, golden and salmon-barked willow.

RULE 5.— Have 95 per cent. of your
material native to America. Such plants
as a class, live longer and cost less to
maintain than European plants or horti-
cultural varieties. The American plants
will make your place blend with the envi-
ronment; foreigners and abnormal varieties
will make it stand out in violent contrast.

WHAT I WOULD AVOID

Personally I would carry these prin-
ciples still farther, e. g. I would —

Illustrating Rule 2.

THE GARDEN

Surround your place with an irregular border of trees and tall shrubs and leave

the lawn open

Avoid all double-flowered varieties be-
cause they are more artificial. The single
snowballs and hydrangeas do not bloom
as long but they are more beautiful because
more characteristic in form. Double hy-
drangeas are top-heavy and gross by
comparison.

Avoid all abnormally colored shrubs, e. g.
golden elder, purple-leaved barberry and
everything you see in the catalogues

kaon

marked “‘variegata”’ or “fol. var.” Com-
mon red-berried elder and common bar-
berry are showy enough. Green-leaved
plants never get monotonous because they
are not gaudy.

Avoid all cut-leaved shrubs, e. g. elders,
and brambles. I do not want artificially
shredded foliage. When I need fine-leaved
plants I use species that are naturally fine-
leaved, e. g. sumachs, tamarisks, aralias.

2 =
oh: z
eo eee

The only kind of garden you can leave for a summer without seriously impairing its beauty is a shrub-
bery garden, Mr and Mrs. Charles Hutchinson, Lake Geneva. Wis.

MAGAZINE

APRIL, 1912

Avoid all magenta and near-magenta
flowers and berries, e. g. summer blooming
spireas, red bud, rose of Sharon, mezereum.
If you omit these you cut out nine tenths
of the color discords.

Avoid short-lived material, e. g. orna-
mental cherries, peaches, Japan quince,
English hawthorn and garden roses. Gar-
den roses belong in the garden, not in the
shrubbery or front yard.

WHAT I WOULD PLANT

For fall trees I would choose from white
pine; hemlock; red and sugar maples; pin,
red and scarlet oaks.

For small trees I would use flowering
dogwood and a great variety of magnolias.

For tall shrubs I would use mostly
shrubby dogwoods and viburnums. Have
a great variety of Cornus and Viburnum.
They are the most valuable genera because
they give you color thrice a year — flowers,
fruit, and autumn foliage.

For medium-sized shrubs I would use
our native sumachs, hydrangeas, barberry,
bayberry, sweetscented shrub, sweet pep-
per, prairie rose, elder; the flame, tree and
Vasey’s azalea; button bush, red choke-
berry, white fringe, hazel, and the medium-
sized dogwoods and viburnums.

For Jow shrubs I would use largely
yellow root.

The indispensable foreigners to me are:
lilacs on their own roots, mock orange,
weigela, Van Houtte’s spirea, forsythias,
Magnolia stellata, dwarf horse-chestnut;
Rosa rugosa, multiflora, and Wichuraiana;
the single white althea, the single hy-
drangea, Aralia pentaphylla, red-twigged
dogwood, honeysuckles, Regel’s privet, and
Japanese barberry (Berberis Thunbergii)
— the best low shrub in existence.

But I do not ask you to accept my per-
sonal taste. Just follow those five simple
rules as far as you can, leave the centre of
the lawn open and you will have all the
benefits above mentioned and more. For
your place will get finer every year. You
can have two gala seasons, spring and fall,
when you can invite a lot of friends. You
will never have a rush season, as you do
with annuals and perennials, for the main
work is pruning and you can do that a
little at a time. Your place will be more
dignified and attractive the year round than
by the other three systems above men-
tioned. And this is the only kind of garden
which you can leave for a summer without
its being seriously impaired.

If you must economize buy small-sized
shrubs and in three or four years they will
attain their full beauty.

The list I have given is plenty large
enough for 999 out of every 1,000 beginners
in city, suburbs, and country.

Why poison the landscape with a gigantic
outdoor chromo — crazy quilt of golden
elder, purple barberry, blue spruce, blood
maple, and all manner of cut-leaved,
variegated, and weeping trees and shrubs?
Why copy the worst taste of all countries!
Come on! Let us plan something artistic
and American!

How to Choose Annuals for Cutting—By Adolph Kruhm, o

THE TEN MOST EASILY GROWN ANNUALS THAT GIVE FLOWERS WHICH LAST LONGEST IN WATER
WHEN CUT— WHAT THE HOUSEKEEPER WANTS TO KNOW IN PLANTING FOR INDOOR DECORATION

LL flowers may be divided into two

broad classes according to their use-
fulness; they are grown either to ornament
our gardens as growing plants or to beautify
the home when cut. The principal points
that should guide us in the selection
of varieties for either purpose are: for the
first, the length of their blooming season
outdoors; and for the second, the lasting
qualities of the flowers after being cut.

In order to prove suitable for cutting,
flowers must possess one or all of the follow-
ing characteristics in a greater or less
degree: 1. Long stems; 2. Harmon-
ious colors; 3. Pleasing shape and form;
4. Fragrance.

Please note that the point usually em-
phasized most — fragrance —is really the
least important when it comes to the final
test. Of what use would be a fragrant
dandelion? It has none of the other most
essential characteristics. But look at the
aster —it presents the strongest kind of a
combination of the other three important
features and no one, on that account,
looks for a fragrant aster!

Another desirable, though not essential
requisite of a cut flower, is its adaptability
for use with other flowers. It often
greatly handicaps an otherwise splendid
flower to be of unique color, especially
if that color is rather vivid. I have in
mind the only serious objection that
existed against the golden orange daisy,
Dimorphotheca. Its lustrous golden
orange flowers would not “blend” well
with anything but white, and if white
flowers of the proper character were lacking,
the finest lot of orange daisies would go
begging. A great collection of Dimor-
photheca hybrids is now on hand to lessen
the difficulty.

To be confronted with inquiries about
flowers for specific purposes soon creates
the tendency in one’s mind to consider
definite standards. The classes and var-
ieties named below have come up to the
requirements of good cut flowers with
thousands of planters throughout this
country. Allowances must be made for
statements in the tabular record on ac-
count of variations in soil and climate
in different states; but the average holds
good, and I feel I may safely assert that,
all things considered, the amateur is
likely to get more satisfaction under
trying conditions out of the collection recom-
mended below than out of any other ten
easily grown annuals for cut flowers.

Asters deservedly head the list by
reason Of theic merit. Varieties considered
here are the Comet asters, Paeony Per-
fection and Branching asters. Of these,
the lastly named hold up longest after
being cut. However, the Comet asters
are the most graceful, and more free-

flowering than either of the other two.
In every class is found a complete assort-
ment of colors, so that every taste may be
satisfied. The almost total crop-failure
of aster seeds in Europe should enable
us to become more intimately acquainted
with our magnificent American asters.
To help us over the loss abroad, quite a
number of most beautiful new creations
in asters will be found offered in seed cata-
logues this year.

Celosias are included in this assortment
because of the massive character of their
flowers. They are useful to create effects
not obtainable with any other annual
flower. A single plant of the ostrich
plume type (the only one considered here)
will make a magnificent bouquet by
itself. Two or three, displayed in a large
vase will prove a very brilliant object,
They last for a week, if water is changed
several times. One sort named Pride of
Castle Gould, is excellently adapted for
growing in pots.

The giant flowering sweet sultan, Cen-
taurea imperialis, | am tempted to call
an ideal annual for cutting. With a long
blooming season it combines unusually
free flowering qualities. The flowers are
of beautiful shape, run mostly in delicate

light and lilac colors, and are carried on
substantial stems which are the delight
of the florist. Good keeping qualities
and a pleasing fragrance top off the good
characteristics of this improved member
of the cornflower family. For best effects,
centaureas should be displayed in con-
nection with other flowers which furnish
foliage or undergrowth. Try them com-
bined with baby’s breath (Gypsophila), or
other flowers of a like character.

The annual coreopsis (calliopsis) deserves
mention for two reasons: it blooms freely
and faithfully, and in the one known as
Drummondii we have about the only
really long-stemmed yellow annual avail-
able throughout summer and fall. Cal-
liopsis will prove most pleasing, displayed
by itself in tall, slender vases. The pretty
daisy-like flowers show charming combin-
ations of yellow and brown, both colors
being often found in the same flower.
Calliopsis lasts for a week or more after
cutting, even during the hot summer
months.

When most other flowers have' forsaken
us, when the garden begins to look bleak
and dreary, and the chill of winter is in
the air — then the cosmos rules supreme.
It pleases us with beautiful flowers in

Love-in-a-mist, a somewhat neglected plant, but always interesting. Blue flowers and finely cut leaves

171

Comes in a remarkable variety of
color blendings

Painted tongue.

white, pink and crimson, supplemented by
artistic, fern-like foliage with the fragrance
of delicate herbs about it. Of late, several
early flowering kinds have been evolved, so
that now we may enjoy cosmos from
August until frost. The variety Lady Lenox
marked a big step in advance when in-
troduced a few years ago. In it we have
great size of flowers, a lovely illuminating
shade of pink, stems several feet long,
and a lasting quality after cutting not
surpassed by any other annual.

The golden orange daisy (Dimorphotheca)
has only been known in this country for
about four years, but its merit instantly
brought it deserved recognition. The stems
of Dimorphotheca average 10 to 12 inches
long and are strong and substantial. Some
new hybrids contain sufficient color combin-
ations to satisfy everybody, while the shape
of the daisy-like flowers makes them most
pleasing. The absence of fragrance is more
than compensated by their remarkably long
flowering season and the durability of flow-
ers after cutting. In hottest August weather
they will last a week without losing their
lustre, if the water is changed frequently.

That old time favorite, Love-in-a-mist
(Nigella) is one of the most striking an-
nuals in existence. The bright blue (or

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white) flowers are enveloped by dainty,
finely cut foliage which is responsible for
another name this lovely flower does
not deserve — Devil-in-the-bush. Nigellas
are so easily grown, and so entirely dis-
tinct in every way that they deserve more
attention. Strong healthy bushes about
two feet tall bear the long-stemmed, artis-
tic flowers which in themselves form an
ideal color combination, blue and green.

Painted tongue (Salpiglossis) belongs
to the same class botanically as the petunia.
The peculiar “sticky” character of foliage
as well as shape of flowers strongly remind
one of this fact. Flowers are borne on
splendid stiff long stems, usually six to
ten branching out from one strong centre
stem. They are funnel-shaped and afford
the most brilliant color combinations im-
aginable. Usually the funnel is of a rich,
velvety color, lined with heavy veins of
strongly contrasting shades. The newer

types of salpiglossis are a revelation in
floral beauty.

The ostrich plume has very strong colors, but often
fits well into decorative schemes

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APRIL, 1912

The newer hybrids of the orange daisy, in many
light shades are especially welcome

Mourning bride (scabiosa), is one of the
most easily grown and most appreciative
annuals in cultivation. For furnishing an
abundance of beautiful cut flowers during
a long season, it is in a class of its own.
Scabiosas have long, strong (but not stiff)
stems, come in a dozen or more attractive
colors, almost ball-shaped and possess
a delicate fragrance. All these character-
istics make scabiosa one of the few “ideal”
cut flowers. For decorative purposes,
used alone or combined with stiff-stemmed
flowers they are unexcelled.

Sweet peas might be called the ideal
cut flowers for all. Unfortunately they
deteriorate rapidly during the hot summer
months, though a special study of the sub-
ject may teach you how to keep them at
their best the longest. Great strides toward
perfection have been made with this
lovely flower during the last few years.
Every desirable color and shade has been
evolved and the most beautiful color com-
binations in one flower are found in sweet
peas. Eight years ago, when the “Spen-
cer” type arrived, many thought the goal
of sweet pea perfection was reached.
But behold! — 1912 brings us a brand new
type again, the “Duplex” Spencer with
magnificently waved double standards.

ANNUAL FLOWERS THAT LAST LONG AFTER CUTTING

COLOR REMARKS
Various Fine for bedding
Mostly yellow and | Self seeds freely
crimson
Light and lilac]| Good mixed in herbaceous
shades border
Yellow and brown | Splendid for massing among
shrubs

White, pink and
crimson
Orange-yellow, and
lighter hybrids
Bright blue

Fine for backgrounds
Unsurpassed for bedding

Excellent for centre of small
beds

INCHES INCHES 2 DIAMETER LASTING
COMMON NAME BOTANICAL NAME DEEP TO SOW] APART TO HEIGHT BEGOMING FLOWERS | QUALITIES
SEED TRANSPLANT (FEET) SEASON (INCHES) (DAYS)
China aster Callistephus Sinensis a I2 ri July-Oct. 3-4 6-I0
Ostrich plume __|Celosia argentea, var. 2 2 3 uly to frost 4-6 4-8
6 8 3 J
Giant sultan Centaurea imperialis t Io 2 July—Sept. 2-3 7
Calliopsis Coreopsis tinctoria t age) I July to frost 2 5
Cosmos Cosmos bipinnatus 3 12 5-8 Aug.to frost 2-4 7
Orange daisy Dimor photheca aur- a I2 I June to frost oe 7
g ) ; 8 J 7
1aca
Love-in-a-mist | Nigella Damascena $ 6 ty June—Aug. 13-2 5
Salpiglossis Salpiglossis sinuata 2 Io 2 Aug. to frost 23 4-6
pis g 5 = 2
Mourning bride |Scabiosa atropur- t I2 2 uly to frost ai 5-8
g 8 S 2 5
purea
Sweet peas Lathyrus odoratus 2-3 6 or 12 4-6 June-Aug. 2-25 4-7

Various Create splendid effects mixed
in herbaceous border

Various Create splendid effects mixed
in herbaceous border

Various Grow as a hedge on trellises

Five Years’ Experience With Dwarf Fruit Trees

Y OBJECT in planting dwarf fruit
trees was to secure a variety of the
best apples and pears within as small a space
as possible. Our vegetable garden was
the only desirable place at hand and if
any'trees were to be
planted they must
be of a size that
would not shade
the ground to an
extent that would
be detrimental to
the vegetables.
Why not plant the
whole garden to
dwarf trees and se-
cure both fruits
and vegetables off
the same ground?
This was done five
years ago. I or-
dered 100 dwarf
apples and am so
satisfied with the
results obtained
from these trees
that I am doubling
the size of my
orchard this spring.
The trees were
planted ten feet
apart each way be-
cause I wanted to
use some of the
space for vege-
tables and also to
allow for horse cul-
tivation; otherwise
they could have
been put closer.

The nurserymen could not supply me
with all the varieties desired, so I
purchased one year old trees of such
varieties as they offered that would make
a strong growth on the Paradise or dwarf
stock, these to be top worked with cions
of the desired varieties after they were
established. Baldwin and Greening were
bought in the greatest numbers and only
a few of Red Astrachan, Alexander,
Stayman’s Winesap, Spy, Russet, Wealthy,
Duchess, and Fameuse.

Still other varieties were offered but
as I wanted several varieties not found in
the lists I concluded to secure the cions
from local orchards and grow my own
trees by top working the common varieties
at hand. Yellow Transparent, Gilliflower,
Lady, Twenty Ounce, McIntosh, Sweet
Bough, Talman Sweet, Fall Pippin, Ben
Davis, Gravenstein and Spitzenberg were
thus added, and I still have other trees
to be made over. The pear trees were
purchased, in only four varieties; Bartlett,
Seckel, Clapp Favorite, and Duchesse
d’Anjou, and all seem to be making good
growth.

Bartlett pear in frut the
same year as planted

By G. M. Stack, ee eut

By top working your own trees you can
secure trees of known quality. For ex-
ample, I visited the best orchards in the
locality and selected grafts from the best
trees of certain varieties in the locality.
That it pays to select your parent tree, I
think, is quite proven from the fact that
the trees raised in this manner are a year
ahead of the others in bearing.

By “top working” I mean this: The tree
I buy has its top of some known variety
(Baldwin or Greening, for example) on
Paradise roots. I change this top over
to whatever variety is desired, either by
budding or grafting on to the branches
of the Baldwin or Greening, as the case
may be. Northern Spy worked this way,
also Gravenstein and Fall Pippin, I find
give much better trees than if grown direct
on the Paradise stock.

There are two methods by which to secure
the new varieties on the trees,and I use
both. The first is to bud the trees in Au-
gust on the new wood formed the same
season. The second, to graft the new
wood the following spring.

I prefer to bud the trees in August be-
cause I can place the buds where they are
needed to balance the tree and if they fail
to grow I still have a chance the following
spring to graft them. I watch the trees
for the time when the bark will separate
from the wood and then set about to top
work my trees. There is not the amount of
work in budding that is encountered in
grafting, and if the buds fail to grow the
branches are not damaged to the extent
that they are by grafting. Again some
varieties, like the Lady apple, give poor
grafting material because the wood is
so short jointed, and budding is therefore
easier.

I select budding material from thrifty
trees that are in fruit and gather the
budding wood from the annual growth
and not from the water sprouts. The pro-
cess is ordinary budding as has been pre-
viously described in THE GARDEN Maca-
ZINE. Two buds are used on each branch
and always placed to the outside — one
three inches above the other, and not in
line. If one bud dies there is still a
second chance of the branch having the
new variety on it. The portion of the
branch of one year old wood above the bud
is cut off in the spring if the bud has
survived. I have had but little trouble
in budding trees in this manner but have
had considerable trouble with splitting the
trees in spring grafting.

The trees that were grafted in the spring
were whip grafted. I like to have the
stock a little advanced toward sending
out the buds before attempting this work.
The cions are secured the year before and
packed in sawdust during the winter and
if they are kept slightly moistened they

173

will be in the right condition for work at
any time when the weather permits graft-
ing. The whip and tongue graft is the
easiest to make because there is more
than one chance for the wood to unite
and if the corresponding layers of bark
of both stock and cion are brought to-
gether and securely held by waxed twine
they will grow. The place where the
graft is made should be waxed over
and also the tip of the cion; if this
is not thoroughly done the cion will not
grow.

The trees in my orchard have been
pruned severely each year, in order to
secure a well shaped tree that would bear
fruit on stout branches, because I wanted
to make my trees before securing the fruit.
The Bismarck apple trees had fruit on them
the second season and have been in fruit
every year since. Last year the trees
averaged one peck to a tree and I could
have harvested more if they had not been
thinned. The other varieties have yielded
from a dozen fruits to a peck to a tree.
McIntosh, Yellow Transparent and Red

x 3
Ses

This tree is ready to be ‘‘ top-worked ’’ to any desired
variety by grafting or budding (2 years old)

174

Vegetables and bush fruits between the trees. Fruits
pay the entire cost as the orchard grows

Astrachan have yielded more than Baldwin,
Spy and Gravenstein.

The varieties that have succeeded best
are Greening, Yellow Transparent, Bis-
marck, Red Astrachan, Gilliflower, Fall
Pippin and Fameuse.

Gravenstein, Spy, Duchess, Wealthy
and Lady are slow growers and have not
produced fruit enough to be of importance.

Baldwin is a fast growing variety but
has not produced a proportional amount
of fruit.

Pears bear even at an earlier age than
the apples; Bartlett bore fruit the first
year set, and every year since; Seckel
was covered with blossoms, but has set
no fruit as yet.

All my trees are budded on the Par-
adise stock and were received from the
nursery when only one year from the bud,
and branched. These trees were planted
in their permanent location and pruned
back to three or four buds to a branch to
produce stocks for top working. I have
top worked as many as a dozen such

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branches by budding, and have changed
the entire top of the tree without the loss
of a single bud by failure to unite with the
stock. The trees that were to be left
without top working received the same
treatment in pruning the first season,
except that they were again summer
pruned to start the formation of fruit
spurs.

It has been my experience that summer
pruning promotes fruit spurs and I have
pruned the trees severely with this aim in
view. This work can be done in summer
simply by pinching off the shoots with the
fingers. These are pruned back to three
or four buds in the spring, always having
the top bud one that grows to the outside
of the tree. I remove the shoots that cross
and bind each other in the tree.

The currants and gooseberries planted
between the trees have borne enough
fruit to pay for the entire cost of the
orchard and if there is a crop this coming
year it will be clear profit.

How about the vegetables? The same
amount of vegetables has been grown each
year as was grown before the orchard was
planted, yes, and more indeed! Before
the trees were planted the space was left
idle after the vegetables were exhausted;
but now I try to make the best use of the
space by successions and the joy of being
in the fruit garden induces me to give the
whole more care and attention in spraying
and cultivation.

By my little experience with dwarf
fruits I have found that they can be grown
to better advantage in connection with
vegetables than standard trees, that they
will yield fruit of superior quality because
they can be cared for more easily and that
they offer best possibilities to the man
with but limited working space. Plant
some dwarf trees this spring!

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BEHAVIOR OF VARIETIES

ae VARIETY RESULTS
Apples
Bo) Baldwin Four fruits to tree third
year. Six each last year.
5 Greening . Fruit each year.
5 Russet . A peck per tree last year.
x Spy . . . Produced only one apple.
4 Falawater Five large apples two

years ago; four to tree
last year.
Top worked two years
ago; fruit buds now.
Fruited same yearplanted;
peck to tree last year.

Bi McIntosh

5 Bismarck .

3 Yellow Trans-
parent . Half bushel third year;
peck to tree this year.
re Sweet Bough No apples.

2 Talman Sweet Twelve apples last year.

3 Lady . . Three toa tree last year.

2 Spitzenberg Twelve to a tree last year.

Io Red Astrachan Peck to tree last year.

Si Gilliflower. A half bushel per tree.

ae Twenty Ounce One apple.

Sa Fall Pippin A peck to a tree last year.

oe Lemon Pippin Two to a tree last year.

aa Fameuse . One top worked tree pro-
duced a peck of apples.

5 Alexander. Two apples to one tree.
(Other trees none).

5 Wealthy No apples yet, but have
fruit spurs.

4 Duchess Two apples to entire four
trees. $5.

5 Stayman’s eka

Winesap Fruited two years, eight
apples to tree.

Te Early Harvest A peck Jast year.

ites Ben Davis Fruited three years. A
peck last year.

Se Gravenstein Fruited three apples to
tree two years ago;
twelve to tree last year.

Pears

5 Bartlett Fruited every year. Six to
a tree last year.

5 Clapp’s Favorite Three to a tree last year.

5 Seckel . No fruit but has blossomed
each year.

5 Duchess Commenced bearing two
years ago. Six pears
last year.

* Top worked.

Troubles of Rose Growers

EFERRING to the rose trouble men-
tioned in THE GARDEN MAGAZINE
for December, 1911, on page 222, I have
long since given up growing Francesca de
Kruger for the same reason as that of your
correspondent. I thought it was our
moist climate but it is not that which was
against it. A rose growing well is no
proof that one will get good roses. “‘Dig-
ging sheep manure about the roots of roses
several times until June rst” seems to me
comical in its badness.

Our rose growers should stand more on
their own feet and depend less on the trade.
The trade are concerned only for the stock
of one year and getting rid of it, and there-
fore have no opportunity of knowing how
well a rose may do after several years’
growth.

There seems no means of eliminating
poor kinds like this. Large catalogues are
full of pitfalls; rose shows, too, because a
nurseryman with a large area of one kind
can show blooms that are no proof of the
variety being any good in the garden.

England. Wa. RoBrnson.

Combination Gardens for Small Plots— By M. R. Conover, %,

New

SUGGESTIVE PLANS FOR COMBINATIONS OF FLOWERS AND VEGETABLES IN THE AVERAGE SUBUR-

BAN GARDEN WHERE

HERE the garden space is not large
and both flowers and vegetables are
to be grown, a planting scheme which
unites the two is not impossible, but it
needs some forethought. Vegetables have
in themselves ornamental possibilities
which we usually ignore. Lettuce, pazsley,
cabbage, pea vines, corn, etc., present
variations in color which are really lovely
if we consider them. Of course, we cannot
arrange our garden vegetables for contrast,
nor in effective masses, as we do our flowers
or ornamental plants; yet we need not
feel that this part of the garden must be
concealed nor considered remote from our
flowers if convenience demands its proxim-
ity. Firm, straight rows, clear of weeds and
bearing evidence of superior culture, are
an excellent foil for some flower gardens.

The accompanying plans are intended
to suggest modes of combining the flower
garden with the vegetable areas so as to
present an attractive whole, restful and
pleasing to the worker or ‘the leisurely
inclined. The plans as given are for gar-
den plots 60x 60 ft., but can easily be
adapted to tracts of different form and
size, and are reproduced from actual
gardens that have given real pleasure to
their owners. I do not urge that these
plans are ideal or the best possible; but
only that they please, and may help other
owners of small lots to solve what often
is a hard problem.

Plan No. 1 provides for flower beds
through the middle of the tract with
vegetables on either side. The vegetable
areas give a total of 2,610 sq. ft. for vege-
tables. Some: space is saved within these
plots by running the rows lengthwise of
the patches.

The main entrance is arbor-like in its
effect but in re: lity is merely a vine-covered
arch. Genuine arbors, however, are pro-
vided at the termination of the shorter
walks. They are not only convenient rest-
ing places but are essential to the garden
picture. A dial where the paths intersect
and a seat or a bird font at the termi-
nation of the long paths are attractive
adjuncts.

Planting dwarf evergreens at the corner
of each flower section, nearest the centre
of the garden, gives an agreeable emphasis
to the garden’s centre, effective both in
winter and summer. Four dwarf evergreen
trees are planted along the edge of each
flower section nearest the vegetable areas.
The dwarf globular arborvite (Thuya
occidentalis, var. compacta) may be used
here, or the common American arborvite.

Sixteen dwarf evergreens will be required
for planting along the edges of the flower
sections. For the groups at the inter-
section of the paths, thirty-six specimens
of very dwarf evergreens planted eighteen

References: 1. Dwarf evergreens: 2, double white holly-
hocks; 3, canary yellow hollyhocks; 4, hardy yellow lark-

spur; 5, Formosa Giant blue larkspur; 6, yellow German iris

Darius; 7, lavender German jris Freder: ck: 8, Triumph for-
get-me-not (everblooming); 9, Little Gem sweet alyssum; ro,
Yellow trumpet daffodil Henry Irving; 11, purple China asters;
12, double white asters; 13, double white daffodils; 14, pansies
between border planting and daffodils; 15, wistaria; 16, morn-
ing glory Empress of Japan; 17, honeysuckle.

1.— Central flower garden

inches apart will be required, or twenty
specimens if planted two feet apart.

These flowers will give the desired color
effects in purples and yellows: Double white
hollyhocks (Althea rosea, var. Snow White),
twenty plants in each group; hollyhock,
canary-yellow, for use in the groups near
the centre of the garden; hardy yellow
larkspur — Zalil, a sulphur yellow — sixty
plants; giant blue larkspur (Delphinium
formosum), sixty plants; yellow German
iris Darius, six or eight bulbs for each group;
lavender German iris Frederick, six or
eight bulbs for each group; forget-me-not
Triumph; sweet alyssum Little Gem; yel-
low trumpet daffodil Henry Irving, four
dozen bulbs; pure white double narcissus
(Alba plena odorata), or double poet’s
narcissus, four dozen bulbs; purple and
double white China asters; pansies, Tri-
mardeau Giant, Lord Beaconsfield (purple)
and Trimardeau Giant Golden Crest;
wistaria, four plants; morning glory Em-
press of Japan; Hall’s Japan honeysuckle.

In plan No. 2, the garden tract is di-
vided in half, the foreground being planted
with flowers and the space beyond with
vegetables. A path leads to the vegetable
area through an arbor overgrown with the
Wichuraiana or Memorial rose.

The spaces on the right and left of the
path are symmetrically planned.

Except for the rose trees planted about
the spaces and along the walk, and the
crocus in the grass, the flowers used in this
garden are white. A privet hedge three
feet high surrounds the flower garden and
affords. a background for its flowers. On
either side of the arbor are planted castor

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NEITHER UTILITY NOR BEAUTY ARE TO BE SACRIFICED TO EACH OTHER

oil plants (Ricinus) and Caladium escu-
lentum). Flowers are massed in the border
beds. The space about the rose trees is
sown with lawn grass and regularly mowed.
This area is interesting in early spring
because of the crocus in the grass.

Summer cypress and ornamental grasses
and the foliage of the plants themselves
furnish the only foil of color for the garden’s
bloom. Tall growing plume grass is used
by way of contrast in the flower borders,
nearest the seats. Hardy perennial white
phlox is massed at either side of the walk
near the entrance.

This garden requires the following varie-
ties of flowers: Hardy white perennial
phlox Joan of Arc or Mrs. Jenkins; ricinus,
six plants; Caladium esculentum, four
plants; Snow-white double hollyhock;
kochia or summer cypress; plume grass
(Erianthus Ravenne); pure white German
iris Florentine, twenty-four bulbs; Canter-
bury bells (Campanula Medium, var. caly-
canthema, or Campanula pyramidalis, var.
alba); German cosmos, large-flowering and
early; single pure white, fragrant Wichu-
raiana rose; white foxglove (Digitalis pur-
purea, var.); snapdragon Queen Victoria;

phlox; 2, ricinus
and Caladium esculentum; 3, double white hollyhocks; 4,
Kochia (summer cypress); 5, plume’ grass (Erianthus
Ravenne); 6, white German iris Florentine; 7, Canterbury
bells; 8, white Early cosmos; 9, Wichuraiana (Memorial)
rose; 10, white foxglove; 11, snapdragon Queen Victoria;
12, ten-weeks stocks Mt. Blanc; 13, Shasta daisy; 14, tube-
rose; 15, crocus; 16, yucca; 17, columbine; 18, white candy-
tuft; 19, white dianthus; 20, white daffodils; 21, dusty mil-
ler (Cineraria mariima); 22, double white balsam; 23, white
peonjes; 24, yuccas; 25, sweet pea Mt. Blanc; 26, roses
trainea to tree form.

References: 1, Hardy white perennial

2. — Foreground of flowers and lawn

ten weeks’ stock Mt.
daisy; tuberose Double
crocus Mt. Blanc (white) and David
Rizzio (heliotrope), 400 of each; Yucca
filamentosa or Adam’s needle; columbine;

Blanc; Shasta
Dwarf Pearl;

Aquilegia vulgaris, var. alba; candytuft
Empress, or Giant White MHyacinth-
flowered; Margaret carnation, double

References: 1, Bermuda lilies; 2, crocus; 3, dwarf cedars;
4, Annunciation lily; 5, Crown Imperial; 6, golden-rayed
Japan lily (Lilium auratum); 7, white and pink peonies;
8, poet’s marcissus; 9, pansies; 10, tiger “ily; 11, German
iris; 12, cannas; 13, gladiolus 14, dahlias; 15, hardy white
perennial phlox; 16, hardy pink perennial phlox; 17, scarlet
sage; 18, white China asters.

3.—The garden in four sections

white; white daffodils (Narcissus poeticus) ;
Cineraria maritima, or dusty miller; bal-
sam, double white; Chinese peonies; sweet
peas Mt. Blanc; roses trained to tree form,
Baroness Rothschild, Crimson Baby Ram-
bler, Dorothy Perkins, Magna Charta, La
France, General Jacqueminot, two of each.
In plan No. 3 a sodded walk divides
the garden into four sections. The flowers
are confined to narrow beds 3 feet wide
leaving 2,448 sq. ft. in all for the vegetables.
The dial is at the extreme end of the
walk opposite the entrance and rustic
benches are at the termini of the side paths.
Small cedar trees are planted along the
fence line in the rear of the dial and they
are also used in the border on either side
of the rustic seats where they bring into
fine relief the annunciation lilies and the
golden rayed Japan lilies planted near them,

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References: 1, Rhododendron maximum; 2, privet; 3, holly-
hocks; 4, cedars; 5, tulips; 6, privet; 7, rose Gen. Jacqueminot;
8, Oriental poppies; 9, cosmos; 10, May pinks; 11, snapdragon;

12, chrysanthemums; 13, May pinks; 14, lily-of-the-valley;
15, Japanese anemone; 16, sweet William; 17, coreopsis;
18, sunflower (Helianthus); 10, sunflower (Heliopsis); 20,
Spiraea Thunbergii; 21, white lilac; 22, arborvite (dwarf);
23, Shasta daisy; 24, Hybrid Perpetual roses.

4, — Vegetables in centre, flowers around

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On each side of the walk near the
entrance are planted Bermuda Easter
lilies. From this point, plantings of hardy
white perennial phlox extend half way
toward the centre of the garden. Scarlet
sage lines the rear of these borders to the
plantings of cannas at the turn. At the
intersection of the walk, the plantings are
similar — cannas in the background, white
peonies before them and poet’s narcissus
at the outer edge.

Following the path toward the dial, the
flower borders are planted with gladioli,
pansies and pink hardy perennial phlox,
white China asters and —on either side
of the dial —the Bermuda Easter lily.

In the beds along the side paths are
dahlias, German iris, tiger lilies, crown
imperial and Japan and annunciation lilies.

The varieties which may be used to make
this arrangement effective are: The Ber-
muda Easter lily, thirty-six bulbs; crocus,
mixed spring flowering, five dozen; dwarf
cedars, sixteen small ones planted two feet
apart; the annunciation lily, sixteen bulbs;
Crown Imperial, twenty bulbs; Lilium
auratum, or golden rayed lily of Japan,
twelve bulbs; peonies, ten roots each of
alba superba (cream white centre and
rosy border), Queen Victoria (pink); poet’s
narcissus, four dozen bulbs; pansies, Morn-
ing Dawn (vermilion and yellow), Mauve
Queen, and Psyche (rich violet); tiger
lily, twelve bulbs; German iris, Mrs. H.
Darwin, three dozen; cannas Chautauqua
(scarlet) and Jupiter (vivid red); gladiolus
America (soft pink), to be used near the
white China asters, and Cardinal (red) to
be used in the borders near the entrance;
dahlias Jack Rose and Mrs. Roosevelt
(pink) twenty roots of each; hardy peren-
nial phlox Joan of Arc (white), and Belvi-
dere (pink), twenty plants in all; scarlet
sage (Salvia splendens) Scarlet Dragon;
white China asters, Empress Comet.

Plan No. 4 is the simplest of the garden
combinations. It is convenient as it gives
direct access to the vegetable garden.
Here flowers form the setting, and being
planted about the vegetable area, they
greet the eye on every side. Walk and
flower border are of equal width as here
given but may be changed to suit individ-
ual preference without marring the effect.
This arrangement gives 1,764 sq. ft. of
space for raising vegetables.

An effective planting scheme for the
flower border consists of a combination
of shrubs and flowers. At each corner
the garden is a red cedar. Plantings
of hollyhocks near the boundary with
Rhododendron maximum in the foreground
are features of the right and left bor-
ders as one proceeds from the entrance.
At the corners are plantings of Japanese
anemones. Near the margin of the beds
in the nearer corners are tulips and in the
farther corners, lily of the valley is used
as a marginal planting. Two specimens
of the Spirea Thunbergii are planted about
fifteen feet from each corner on the nght
hand side and two specimens of white lilac
occupy corresponding positions on the

APRIL, 1912

left. Cosmos, roses, pinks, daisies, an-
tirrhinum (snapdragon) and chrysanthe-
mum are given room in the side borders.
In the border section opposite the entrance
are planted coreopsis, helianthus, heliopsis,
and sweet William. Two specimens of
dwarf vitea are planted in the border fifteen
feet from each corner.

The necessary varieties are: Rhododen-
dron maximum, eight plants; hollyhock
(double deep rose and double white); tulip
Queen of the Netherlands (rosy pink),
four dozen; poppies double fringed (white
and pink); cosmos Early White Giant and
Lady Lenox (pink); May pinks (Dianthus
plumarius); snapdragon Giant Scarlet;
hardy chrysanthemum, Sunset (yellow),
and Prince of Wales (white); lily-of-the-
valley; white Japanese anemones; sweet
William in variety; coreopsis El Dorado
or Harvest Moon; Spiraea Thunbergii;
white lilac; dwarf arborvite; Shasta daisy;
Hybrid Perpetual roses, Magna Charta,
Her Majesty, Baroness Rothschild and
Black Prince.

Plan No. 5 allows about 3,500 sq. ft. of
vegetable area. The flower garden com-

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References (all roses): 1, Baby Rambler; 2, Gloire Lyon-
naise; 3, Yellow Maman Cochet; 4, Golden Gate; 5, Marie
Guillot; 6, Dorothy Perkins; 7, La France; 8, Hermosa;
9, The Bride; 10, Gruss an Teplitz; 11, Killarney.

5.— Vegetables dominant, but with ample rose bed

prises about 4oo sq. ft. and is planted
with roses. The path leading to the flower
garden is bordered with a privet hedge
which also surrounds the flower garden.
The entrance is arched with privet, and
privet arches just within give access to the
vegetable garden.

The area embraced by the circular path
in the inner garden is ornamented by a
dial or bird font and planted with roses
of the Baby Rambler type. Ten bushes
are required for this. In the surrounding
beds are two plants each of Gloire Lyon-
naise, Golden Gate, Yellow Maman
Cochet, Marie Guillot, Hermosa, The
Bride, Gruss an Teplitz and Killarney;
four of La France and two of Dorothy
Perkins over the entrance. For preferred
vegetable varieties the reader is referred
to earlier issues of THE GARDEN MAGAZINE.

The Strawberry Bed to Plant this Spring— By W. H. Jenkins, ‘%

F YOU do not have a large supply of

home grown strawberries for five or
six weeks every year you are not living
up to your opportunities. And _ besides
having all you can eat in their season,
you can eat them canned all the rest of
the year!

I want to present a vision of strawberry
culture with but very little knee and back-
bending work, or finger weeding, but
mostly good healthful exercise, in which
you can stand up straight, push a wheel-
hoe, or set plants, and get enthusiasm so
you really enjoy the work. Begin now —
not to-morrow, but to-day — to look for
the best place for them in your garden,
and for plants for the bed. For more
than thirty years I have not failed to grow
every year a large supply of good straw-
berries, and give my testimony that it is
not strenuous or disagreeable work.

If you have a plot of nice mellow, well-
drained soil, so much the better, but don’t
be deterred from planting, if the soil is
somewhat heavy or stony. The main
thing is to start, now. Probably there is
some portion of your place where you grew
a cultivated crop last year, where the water
does not stand after a rain, that was kept
clean of weeds, and it is in good tilth.

Tf the soil is not sufficiently rich to grow
a large crop of corn or vegetables, apply,
preferably, animal fertilizers that do not
contain weed seeds. If you have hen
manure and wood ashes put on each,
separately, without first mixing. Barn-
yard manure if used should not be coarse
or contain much straw, and it would be
better if partly rotted. A high grade

Planting is best done by two people. Remember to
make the plant really firm in the ground

commercial fertilizer would be my last
choice, and I would want to use it in some
rotation that I could plow under cover
crops to supply the humus needed.

After getting on the fertilizer, plow or
trench the ground, no deeper than it has
been in past years, but very fine, cutting
narrow furrows, and plow when the sur-
face soil crumbles in the hand, and early
in April if possible. I am assuming the
preparation of the soil for planting is done
by horsepower, but the principle is the
same if done on a little’plot with spade fork
and gardenrake. Thorough pulverization
of the soil, before setting plants, will make
it possible to do the best work with the
horse and hand-wheel garden cultivators.

After plowing, when the soil is well
dried out, I harrow the ground. The last
harrowing is done with the Acme, or a
similar implement which pulverizes all
the lumps and leaves the surface level.
I finish with the plank drag or roller that
firms the soil for setting the plants.

Now you are ready for setting the straw-
berry plants, which should have been
ordered from the nursery, if nursery plants
are used, so as to arrive when your ground
is ready for them. The only right time to
transplant strawberry plants, in the climate
of Eastern New York, is in the spring when
the leaves of the plants are an inch or two
high, and there is considerable moisture
in the soil.

The question of variety is largely a local
one. If some one near you has a variety
that you know is desirable, you are safe
in planting it. In southeastern New York
I have tried many kinds, and among the
few I have retained are Brandywine, Wm.
Belt, Gandy, and Marshall. Mitchell will
give you a few small berries three or four
days earlier than those mentioned, and
Gandy bears a moderate crop of large
sweet berries a little later than the others,
i. e., there are large berries yet on the Gandy
plants when other varieties run small.
Brandywine is a good all-round berry for
general culture, and the Marshall and
Wm. Belt are best grown by the hill sys-
tem in rich soils. A rather heavy clay
loam seems well adapted to the Marshall.
If more varieties are wanted I suggest
President, and the old Bubach for the
home garden.

All I have named are bisexual or stamin-
ate, and it is not necessary to plant pistil-
late varieties to pollenize them, but it is
a question if even these are not better
fertilized when two or more kinds are
planted near together, and I advise doing
so. Varieties of the pistillate class, like
the Bubach, etc., will not set perfect
berries unless adjacent to bisexual or
staminate varieties.

If you like to experiment with new varie-
ties, try out the new fall bearing varieties.
Ripe berries —real strawberries in late

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fall, are a sensation! And you can have
them sure enough by planting the right
kinds now.

If you get nursery plants to set out
puddle the roots when they arrive, heel
them in a shallow trench, and shade them,
until you are ready for planting. To set
the plants rightly and easily you want a
garden line, a marker, and a sharp spade.
The marker can be quickly made by
nailing a handle to a thick piece of
board six or nine feet long, boring holes
through and putting in some pegs to
mark the rows. The marker is the most
needed when plants are set in check rows.
First decide which system of culture is
best for you. I advise either the hill
system or the narrow row, sometimes
called the hedge row system. Probably
the latter is best for most amateurs. The
hill culture (cutting off all the runners),
requires very close attention to the plants
all summer, and thorough mulching of
plants in winter.

For the hill system make the rows 2}
feet apart and the plants 25 feet apart
in check rows. For the hedge row plant
3 feet apart, and lining the plants the
other way as above.

When ready for setting plants take up
a few and shake the most of the soil off the
roots. Press the spade down in the soil,
and have a boy or some one to help you
who will insert the plant in the opening
with the roots spread out fan-shaped, and
the bottom of the stem just even with the
surface of the ground. Withdraw the
spade and let the soil fall around the plant.
When you have set a row in this way
walk back over the row and press the soil
with the feet so tightly around the plants
that you cannot pull them up without
breaking off the leaves.

Almost as soon as you are through
setting the plants, begin to cultivate, and
the deeper the cultivation, early in the
summer, the better.

The hedge row system of planting will be the most
satisfactory for the home gardener

The Sweet Pea Contest

OME oi the boy and girl readers

of THE GARDEN MAGAZINE may not
know that there is a society called the
National Sweet Pea Society of America.
It is to encourage the culture of sweet
peas. Prizes are offered for grown ups and
for children, too. THE GARDEN MaAc-
AZINE offers a prize in this contest to
the boy or girl making “the best display
by an individual child in any class” Our
prize is called THE GARDEN MAGAZINE
Achievement Medal. It is a_ beautiful
silver medal, the sort you will always be
proud to have won. This sweet pea con-
test will be held in Horticultural Hall,
Boston, Mass., July 13th and 14th. Send
for the full schedule.

It is not too late to start sweet peas
when you receive this magazine. Presi-
dent William Sim of The National Sweet
Pea Society of America sends this word
to the boys and girls:

“Sweet peas do best where they have a
long cool period to grow before the flower-
ing season. To give them this advantage
the most important part of their culture
is to get the seeds into the ground in the
spring, at the earliest possible moment.
This should be done immediately after
the frost is sufficiently out of the ground
to work the soil. The soil should be deep
and rich. If a row of sweet peas is to be
planted dig or fork over the ground as
deep as possible, forking in a good quantity
of well decayed manure. If this cannot
be procured buy some pulverized manure
at a seed store.

“Roots of sweet peas may go down as far
as the vines go up, so that it is essential to
dig deep. The ground should be dug over
two or three times before the seed is sown
so that the manure will not be left in layers.

“The seed should be sown in a dnill
four inches deep, running lengthwise of the
ground. It is better to grow vines three
inches apart of the choicest varieties, than to
buy the cheap seed and sow it so thickly
that the plants smother each other when
they grow up. More failures are caused by

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too thick sowing than from any other cause.
Have some way of supporting the vines
for they must be kept straight while
growing. Birch boughs six feet long are
the best, but if they cannot be procured
use straight stakes driven in the centre of
the row every three feet, with string run
each side of the row, and tied to the stakes.
Strings should be put on as the vines grow.

“Ti the above directions are carried out
there will be no insects to contend with
unless a spell of hot, dry weather comes,
which might check the plants’ growth.
In dry weather water twice a week, apply-
ing water enough to reach the lowest
down roots.

“Pick the flowers as they mature, unless
seed is wanted. The plants cease growing
when forming seed. Stir the ground on
top once or twice a week, whether there
are weeds or not. If you like flowers
of all shades sow a mixture of varieties;
but the best way 1s to buy separate colors,
in the choicest varieties. A ten cent
packet of a kind will give all the flowers
needed of one color.”

For varieties of sweet peas see page 40
of the February GARDEN MAGAZINE.

Garden Work for April

AST month you paid special at-

tention to looking through the en-
tire magazine and reading certain articles.
This month do the same thing, as all the
practical articles are just what you, too,
want at this time’

You are beginning to be impatient now
and wish to plant outdoors. But do not
begin to plant in the open until the ground
is in the right condition. This means
that the soil must be nice and mellow and
light. If it is heavy and wet wait until
the sunshine dries it out. Go out into
your garden and take some of the soil
into your hand. If you can mold out of
this a compact, damp ball, the soil is not
ready to plant in. But when the soil is
mellow sow out of doors, beets, kohlrabi,
radish, onions, lettuce and turnips. This
planting will probably come between March
15th and April rst.

Do not think that you can plant your
flower seeds so early. Leave these, except
the sweet pea seeds, until the middle of
April. Here is an experiment worth try-
ing. Sow some flower seeds as early as
you can in a nice sunny spot in the garden.

Choose the warmest place you have. Later
HEIGHT
NAME COLOR (inches)
African marigold Yellow 2
Ageratum Blue ate)
Alyssum White 6
California poppy Yellow 12
Candytuft White 6
Cornflower Blue 2
Dwarf lobelia Blue 6
Mignonette Greenish 12
Mammoth verbena Pink 12
Mammoth zinnia Red 20
Stella sunflower Yellow 36
Ten weeks stock White 15
Dwarf nasturtium Yellow; red 12

178

APRIL, 1912

plant the same kind of seeds in a more
shaded spot. You will get a succession
of bloom in this way. See how much
earlier the plants in the sunny spot blos-
som than those in the shaded corner.

Plan also for a wild flower succession of
bloom. Did you know that arbutus, skunk
cabbage and hepatica are March bloomers?
Keep this in mind for your wild flower gar-
den. Anemone, bloodroot, saxifrage, jack-
in-the-pulpit and marsh marigold are April
bloomers.

Just after spring recess seems to be the
time when teachers and scholars begin to
get actively busy at work on the school
grounds. The school garden area should
be either ploughed or spaded. Fertilize
it well if the soil is poor. Two inches of
rotted manure spread over the surface of
the ground is not too much. Before
planting sprinkle on some commercial fer-
tilizer, and rake it in.

Have a path all around the garden,
also around individual plots. If possible
the garden should have a southern ex-
posure with the rows running north and
south. It is easier for children to sow small
seeds in straight drills than in any other
way. Make the drills about a foot apart;
then the children can walk and cultivate
between the drills. Small seeds may be
sown right from the package. Children
usually plant seeds too thick and too near
the surface of the soil. The preparation
of the garden plot and the making of
drills is as much a part of the garden
lesson as the mere act of sowing seed.

Consider as you work out the flower
garden color, the time of bloom 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.

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.

The table shown below may e of use as
all these plants are easy to grow from seed
and can be planted as soon as the ground
is warm:

Some of the best annual vines are morn-
ing glory, Japanese hop, gourd, cypress
vine, nasturtium, moonflower, and canary-
bird vine. Use these for screens to ugly
spots.

See page 182 for a list of the prize win-
ners in the 1o11 children’s garden contest.

DURATION OF

BLOOM (weeks) USE

Twelve Mass effect: cut flowers

Ail summer Cut flowers and borders
Twenty Edgings and mass effects

Four Edgings; cover for rough ground
Four Edgings; cover for rough ground
Until frost Cut flowers

All summer Cut flowers

All summer Mass effect; cut flowers

Ten Cut flowers

Fifteen Mass effect

Ten Cut flowers

Ten Cut flowers

Twelve Cut flowers

APRIL, 1912

What Washington School Chil-
dren are Doing for the Capital
City in Gardening

HE Treasurer of the School Garden
Association asked me to write on
“What Washington is Doing for School
Gardens,’ but the children are doing so
much more for Washington than Washing-
ton is officially doing for school gardens
that I feel justified in changing the title.
School yards are extremely small in
this city and until, through civic pride,
the children began to improve them, they
were most unsightly. Congress appro-
priates the money for school buildings.
This appropriation has always been so
meagre that after the interiors of build-
ings were finished there has been little
left for the outside surroundings. Under
the direction of their teachers, the chil-
dren have done practically all school
ground improvement that has been done.
They have hauled manure and good soil;
built a fence of broomsticks when a more
up-to-date one was out of the question;
bought all the bulbs and seeds and most
of the shrubbery, and in many places
cared for the yards in summer time. The
school yards are not all beautiful but they
are strictly the work of children. A
simple plan is followed:—that of a
narrow border around the playground, re-
ducing the play space but little and mak-
ing the playground pleasing. Every class
in a building has a portion of this border
assigned it, so if the teacher carries out
the instructions given her, every child
puts a bulb into the grade garden in the
fall and seeds in the spring, which the
children pay for. Therefore the children of
the public schools are property owners. The
city authorities furnish a load or two of
soil to each building annually, but this
is a small amount when compared with
what the children have hauled, hence my
reason for changing the title of this article.
Bulbs and seeds are bought for home
planting at moderate rates from a local
seedsman. His sales this fall have been
phenomenally large, so there are thousands
of home gardens planted every year by
the children. Summer heat is intense
at the capital, consequently the number
of gardens that are brought to completion
_ is much smaller than the number planted.
Then, too, there is quite an exodus from
the city to escape the heat, so the gardens
suffer from neglect but approximately
60 per cent. of the gardens planted grow
until the frost cuts them down.
Washington is a city of enclosed back
yards — yards enclosed with hideous board
fences six feet or more in height. Lima
beans have been extremely popular with
the home gardeners as a fence cover,
serving the double purpose of hiding an
unsightly object and affording financial
returns. From one back yard fence, a
family of eight had fresh lima beans
throughout the summer. The planting of
vines is one of the doctrines preached in
the public schools. Arbor Day is some-

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times changed to Vine Day for trees grow
everywhere on Washington’s streets but
vines do not.

There are four community gardens in the
city where elementary agriculture is taught.
These are for the most part cultivated
by sixth grade boys while the girls of that
grade are at sewing school. In the spring
and summer of to1r two hundred and
fifty boys received such instructions, each
boy owning his plot for the time being
and controlling all the products that he
raised. Only one of these gardens, how-
ever, is on land owned by the schools.
The others are on land that may be
used for building improvements at any
time. The location of one garden was
changed every year for four successive
years. The greatest loss of land suffered
by Washington gardens was that on the
grounds of the Department of Agriculture.
Upon the recommendation of Dr. B. T.
Galloway, chief of the Bureau of Plant
Industry, the Secretary of Agriculture,
James Wilson, five years ago, ordered three
acres of lawn to be plowed and put into
condition for children to cultivate. For
three years about three hundred and fifty
children had gardens on the grounds at-
tached to the office buildings, but the
construction of new buildings and green-
houses made it necessary to withdraw
this privilege. Through Dr. Galloway’s
efforts, the student teachers in the Wash-
ington Normal School are instructed in
plant culture in one of the Department’s
greenhouses and are thus enabled to supply
schoolrooms with potted plants and win-
dow boxes throughout the winter.

The children at the capital have con-
quered much that was unsightly but

there are worlds of the same kind still
to conquer. I feel safe in saying to school
gardeners all over the country that Wash-
ington, with great rapidity, is becoming
the most beautiful city in the world for
the public school children are assisting
The Congress of the United States in
making it so. Susan B. Sipe,
Washington, D.C. Supervisor of Gardens.

A Boy’s Second-Year Garden

I HAVE a much larger garden this year
than the one I had last year. It is
45 x 55 it. and an extra space of 20 x 30 ft.
From this ground I cleared off burdocks
and planted soy beans for my cow. I
had a good crop of beans. The ground is
rich, and the vines were well loaded with
beans.

I had about eight quarts of peanuts,
I should think. My beets also turned out
well. I have nearly two and one half
bushels. Many of them were very large
being eighteen inches in circumference.
I had a fair crop of broom corn: but it
was attacked by some insect that was new
tome. It never appeared on anything that
I had grown before. The bugs were light
colored and ate the leaves and killed some
of my plants. I put in three rows of beans
each fifty-two feet long, but they did
not fill out very well, on account of the
dry weather. I kept the ground well
worked and the garden stood the dry
weather pretty well.

I set out sixty strawberry plants and
hope to tell you more about them next
year. I had plenty of radishes and lettuce
by sowing at different times.

Ardonia, N. Y. FeErris MALcoLM.

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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.)

Lemon yerbena

The lemon verbena (Aloysia citriodora)
is not only one of the most fragrant plants
of the garden when in its growing state,
but the leaves and stems when dried
preserve their odor for years. Indeed,
no other leaves I have ever tried make
such permanently fragrant sachet bags.
All through the summer we pick the
yellowing leaves and save them for the
purpose, and in the winter the plant,
which is not hardy, is pruned before being
committed to winter quarters in a frost-
proof cellar and all leaves and twigs dried.
When the lemon verbena is grown indoors
in the window garden, it seems usually to
be of a deciduous habit and reduces itself to
leafless stems.— A. H. B., Pennsylvania.

Centrosema or butterfly pea

For several years I have been experi-
menting to find the right vine to cover one
of those 5-foot solid board fences which
enclose and disfigure a city yard. My
latest acquisition is one that is little
known; in fact, I had never seen Centro-
sema till I planted the tiny beans in my own
garden. It is a perennial, but the seeds
germinate with the gratifying readiness
of an annual. If sown very early it may
bloom the first year. Mine did not begin
to bloom until the middle of August; the
flowers are large, an inverted pea-flower,
held well out from the foliage. There
are said to be at least three shades —
reddish violet, white, and the lavender
which I possess. The vine is a slender
grower so that the plants may be set
quite close together. Do not sow it where
a bushy growth is required, but for a
delicate tracery on a board or wall and a
background to a flower-bed it certainly
is very pleasing. Mixed with mine is the
white-flowered cypress vine, whose ex-
quisite filmy foliage helps out any de-
ficency of the Centrosema:—N. S. T.,
Pensylvania.

The hollyhock disease

Answering the inquiry of M. H., Penna.,
in the January, 1912 number of THE
GARDEN MAGAZINE, as to how to save
hollyhocks from the deadly disease of that

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plant, use the following mixture. Put
3 0z. copper carbonate in one quart
of ammonia, agitate till dissolved, spray
with ordinary bucket sprinkler, diluting
in proportion of one quart of mixture to
thirty-five gallons of water. It will keep
indefinitely. I raise hundreds of plants
every year from seed planted as soon as
ripe, shading from the August and Septem-
ber suns with double black mosquito
netting, and get good plants the same fall.
I use the same fungicide on roses and
grape vines.— J. E. T., Indiana.

The summer hyacinth

The summer hyacinth (Galtonia candi-
cans) is so little known and grown in Amer-
ica, although a favorite in England, that I
venture to call its merits to the attention
of your readers. It is hardy in our climate
provided that in the autumn the old flower
stalk is removed and the hole left in the top
of the bulb corked up. The flowers con-
sist of tall, graceful racemes of white,
drooping bells, which harmonize perfectly
with delphiniums and gladiolus. The
summer hyacinth makes an abundance of
seeds, and I am now growing a colony of
small bulbs from them; but, like all things
in the garden, they require patience and
time, as they take three years to bloom
from seed. The bulbs may be had, ready
to bloom luxuriantly, for about eight cents
each. — H. W. F., Connecticut.

Earth worms and onions

Every spring I have trouble with earth
worms which pull out my onion sets. I
plant the sets just below the surface; and
for two or three days after a rain, if the
sets have not taken root, large earth
worms (night crawlers, the fishermen call
them) may be seen with one end of their
bodies against the sets pulling them along
over the ground and into their holes. They
do not get the larger ones under ground,
but I have to go over my onion sets sev-
eral times to reset. I have often seen
hundreds of the large worms stretched out
over the ground pulling onion sets. I did
not believe at first that the mischief was
done by worms, but have seen them so
many times since that I have now no
doubt about it. Can anyone suggest a
remedy? — A. C. B., Illinois.

Poppies for cut flowers

My poppy bed last summer was most
satisfactory. The bed had been prepared
and seed sown the previous autumn, ‘but
it did not germinate. (I have tried autumn
sowing several times with the same result.)
A second sowing was made on June sth,
the seed being mixed with sand to prevent
crowding. In spite of this precaution
the young plants were very close together,
but I did not thinthem. They commenced
to bloom the first week in August. The
seed sown was the Improved Shirley. The
colors were wonderfully beautiful, ranging
from delicate shades of rose and salmon
pink to brilliant scarlet and vermilion.
The blossoms were very large and many
of them were fluted. Late each afternoon

APRIL, 1912

I cut all the blossoms and in the morning
the bed was again a mass of bloom. This
continued till the first week in October,
when the weather became suddenly cold,
arresting the development of the remaining
buds. On October 7th, I cut a quantity
of the largest buds, plunged the stems in
boiling water, and wrapped them in
paraffine paper. It was thirty-six hours later
that they were.placed in cold water, and ev-
ery bud, but one, opened.—R. V. S., Maine.

Egg shells for seed planting

Egg shells make excellent miniature
flower pots in which to plant seeds of tender
plants. Open the eggs at one end instead
of in the middle and trim the edges as
smoothly as you can; fill with potting
soil well mixed with sand, and place in
shallow boxes of earth. Then place one or
two seeds in each shell. When the shell is
filled with roots, lift it and crush the bottom
of the shell or cut an opening with a sharp
knife and place it in the pot or bed in
which you wish it to remain. The roots .
will grow through the openings in the
bottom and the plant will never know it
has been moved.— C. L. S., Virginia.

Attaching vines to walls

Surgeon’s adhesive plaster is useful to
attach vines such as ampelopsis to foun-
dation walls, but has any one called atten-
tion to the use of court plaster in training
vines indoors? It is not as strong as the
adhesive but coming in different colors
it can be chosen to harmonize with paper
or woodwork. Young stems of English
ivy or Madeira vine can be held neatly
in place about mantels or window casings
with its assistance. It is much less con-
spicuous than merely twining vines on
string— P. P., New Jersey. at
A lure for rose bugs

Last June, in looking over a patch of
1,500 American Pillar roses, I noticed that
they were entirely clear of June bugs (or
rose chafers) although there were thou-
sands of blossoms for them to feed on.
This was a surprise, as nearby beds of
climbing roses were badly troubled. I
then discovered that cannas planted near
the American Pillar roses were covered with
the rose bugs. The idea came to me that
perhaps as long as the June bug has a
canna flower to feed on it will not trouble
the roses. They adhered to the canna
flowers as if they were glued there. If,
by planting a few cannas near your rose
beds you can, by the loss of the otherwise
worthless first blossoms of the cannas,.
save your beautiful June roses, would
you not think it worth while? The June
flowers of the cannas seldom amount to
anything, and after July 8th or roth the
season for June bugs is over for the year.
Then the cannas bloom again, and from
July to frost you will have exquisite blos-
soms. This, of course, is not a cure for
the June bugs, but simply a lure; the canna
blossoms seem to stupify the insects so that
they can easily be picked.

A. W., Pennsylvania.

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APRIL, 1912

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plot 25x50 feet with a reasonable amount of cultivation
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It is a well established fact that, during the summer season,
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Awards in the Children’s Garden
Contest

|
Ig11, saw the close of our third
garden contest for children. We hold this
contest annually to encourage children to garden
and to garden intelligently. Each year a “better
quality of work is submitted, one of the rules of
the contest being that children and schools must
send to us written records of the gardens, as well
as pictures. The pictures might be far better.

APRIL,

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When a photograph is used for magazine purposes
it must be very good for in reproduction it loses
much of its detail and many of the snap shots sent
in are of no use.

Helpful gardening books and GARDEN MaGazINE
subscriptions are offered as prizes. There are
three groups or classes in the contest. Class I.
is for individuals; first, second, and third prizes
are given in each section of this class. The first
prize is three books — “The Flower Garden,”
“The Vegetable Garden,” and “House Plants and
How to Grow Them” — taken from the Garden
Library. The second prize is “‘The Flower Gar-
den” and “The Vegetable Garden.” The third
is a year’s subscription to THe GARDEN Maca-
ZINE.

Classes II. and IIT. are for schools, and but one
prize is given in each. Class II. has for a prize
The Nature Library. To be sure this is not on the
subject of gardening but includes nature subjects
in general. If two schools in this class are tied,
each school receives The Garden Library. This
library is also the prize offered in Class III.

The prize winners in the contest just over are
as follows:

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1. MABEL JANE Musser, Cleveland, Ohio.
2. IRENE Lrncoitn, Marlborough, Mass.
3. No award.

Brown’s Non-clog Atomic Nozzle for large sprayers,
throws powerful stream or fine spray. Keepsworking
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The best flowers in a school garden:

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THE E. C. BROWN CO., 34 Jay St., Rochester, N. Y. t. ABRAM Kvnms, Lancaster, Pa.
' _ , : 2. KARL VANDROFF, New Rochelle, INSSYS

3. Maser Morris, ‘Jersey City, N. Me
I. The greatest variety of vegetables:

1. No award.

2. RoBrert PiLues, Detroit, Mich.

3. Byron Pattripcer, Highland, N. Y.
F. The greatest variety of flowers:
1. RoGeErR Newton PERRY, Worcester, Mass.
2. JAcoB Biock and IRENE RitEy, New Rochelle,

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the result of exhaustive tests has Be 2. E. WriNsSLow Stratton, Marlborough, Mass.
an anti-corrosive paint containing 657% of 3. No award.

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CLASS II

A. The finest looking garden of three years’ or

more cultivation:
No award.

B. The finest looking garden of less than three
years’ cultivation:

Sterling Street Garden, Boston, Mass.

C. The greatest improvement of school grounds
or unsightly spots directly under the care of
contestants:

1. Under city conditions:
a. St. Mary’s Park School Garden, New York
City.
b. The Riverside Garden, Brooklyn, N. Y.
2. Under country conditions:
Ardonia School, Highland, N. Y.

CLASS III

A. The best display of garden products:
Roger Williams’ Park Garden, Providence, R. I.
B. The greatest variety of annuals:
Marlborough School and Home Association,
Marlborough, Mass.

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APRIL, 1912

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Grape Vine Roots that ‘‘ Grow
Up »?

OR several reasons grape vines have a ten-
dency to work up on top of the ground, thus
exposing their roots to damage from the plow and
hoe, to say nothing of the weakening effect on the
vine itself. I have seen grape vines that literally

| climbed out of the earth altogether, the lower bud

or ring of roots being six inches above the surface
of the soil, only one of the smaller roots being fast
to the ground.

The first thing to do to prevent this is to set the
vine deeply when planting, putting the lower roots
a foot under ground. This, of course, means a
deal of hard work shoveling out the hole for the
young vine, and lazy hired help cannot always be
trusted to do this. The team and a big plow are
used in setting large vineyards, thus reducing the
hand work very much, though in old vineyards
and home gardens the shovel and chisel-bar must
do it all.

Last spring I set five hundred two-year old
vines, digging the holes all by hand, making most
of them over a foot deep and two feet square, by
hard work digging five holes per hour. The vines
were then put in, the ends of the roots trimmed

Showing how a grape vine will work up out of the
ground. Trim and bury the roots

slightly, then some good surface soil was packed
about the roots, then two handfuls of 2-8-10
fertilizer, and the holes filled in with the yellow or
bottom soil. A 4-foot stake was set with each vine
on which to tie it the first two years. These vines
grow well and the roots almost never get in the
way of the plow.

Where a vine has worked up, something can be
done by trimming the ends of such roots as are
entirely on top of the ground and burying them
again, pointed downw ard, sw ung around out of the
way of the plow. A very choice vine that has lost
roots can be strengthened by allowing some shoots
or “suckers”? to grow one season and the next
spring, before the buds start, burying these suckers
as deeply and as close up to the vine as possible,

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THE GARDEN

MAGAZINE

APRIL, 1912

IFTY years ago the Pony Express
became the most efficient messenger
service ever known.

Pony riders carried messages from
Missouri to California, nearly two thou-
sand miles across mountains and des-
erts, through blizzards and sand storms,
constantly in danger of attack by
hostile Indians.

Fresh horses were supplied at short
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the record-breaking time of seven and
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Railroad and telegraph took the place

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of the Pony Express, carrying messages
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have done more, for they have bound
together ranch and mine and camp and
village.

This network of telephone lines,
following the trails of the Indians, con-
nects with the telegraph to carry mes-
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By means of Universal Bell Service
the most remote settler is no longer
isolated, but has become a constantly
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Novel, but practical, and intensely interesting. Require less room.
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VARIETIES:—Duchess of Oldenburg, yellow, striped red; Winter Maiden’s
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putting them also in the row — that is, out of reach
of the plow. Then by training up a shoot from the
roots and, after it is well established, cutting out
the old vine, you will have a new vine where the
old one stood without losing a year’s crop. Roots
at the surface of the ground make troublesome
hand hoeing, and the best way to avoid it is to
set the vine deep enough in the beginning.

Further, the best time to set out grapes is in
the fall. Set as in the spring except that the vine
above ground is not cut then in any way. Cut it
back to four or five buds early in the spring.

New York. JuLIAN BurRouGHs.

- Netting” Fruit) iixees

1 THE spring, just as soon as the blossoms ap-
pear on my plum tree, I completely cover the
whole tree with netting which has been dipped in
slacked lime. After I get the blossoms and all the
branches covered I wrap the netting around the
main part of the tree several times and sew or tie

Place netting over small fruit trees to keep sting-
ing insects from injuring fruits

it fast. This not only protects the tree from pos-
sible snow or hail storms but also prevents stinging
insects from injuring the fruit as it forms. The
tree always yields abundantly where otherwise
there might at times be a poor crop of fruit.

After a hard rain or a wind storm I darn the
netting where holes have been torn by the limbs.
The netting also prevents the blossoms from being
blown off before they should and being strewn
about the lawn. If you have a small fruit tree
on your lawn, try covering it with netting this
spring just to see if the fruit won’t be better and
more plentiful.

New Jersey.

An Exact Method for Planting
Fruit Trees

O SET an orchard in regular rows, the rows

running true in both directions, I use the
following method: I buy two or three balls of
very stout linen twine and to it, at regular intervals,
I attach little brass rings, each ring representing
the distance between a tree and its neighbor.
Locating the ends of the first row of trees. I stretch
the cord tightly between these points and press a
little stick into the earth beside every ring. The
first row has now been located. To lay out cross
rows at right angles nail together in the form of a
triangle straight strips of wood nine, twelve and
fifteen feet in length. If the ends are exactly

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APRIL,

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matched there will result an exact right-angle
where the nine and twelve-foot strips meet. Lay
one side of this frame along the line of the first
row, and the other will point along the line of the
first cross-row, which is staked out as before.
The location of the other rows is simply a matter
of measuring again with the cord and rings. Each
little stick must be removed when digging a hole
for the tree. To be sure that the tree occupies the
exact location in the hole that was marked by the
stick, take a light strip of board, ten or twelve feet
long, and cut a V-shaped notch in one side at either
end, and one exacily at the middle point between the
other two cuts, and on the same side oi the strip.
When ready to dig a hole, place the strip of
board upon the ground with the stick resting in
the middle notch. Place two other sticks so that

This method of planting fruit trees ensures an
exact distance between all the trees

they will rest in the two end notches of the long
strip. The middle stick, where the tree is to stand,
can now be removed and the hole dug ‘“‘both deep
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the subsoil in another. To set the tree in the
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Place the tree in the hole with its trunk resting in
the middle notch. The tree is held firmly in place
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The Fall Fruiting Strawberries

HE question of growing fruits out of season is,
of course, a personal one. Do you want
them? If you want strawberries in August, Sept-
ember and October, there is no question but that
you can have them, as I know from my own ex-
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all summer long, the fall-bearing varieties are cer-
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For the past two years I have seen at the New
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of the foliage were also shown, which indicated
healthy and vigorous plants.

The history of the fall strawberries, in brief, is
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observed to have the characteristic of blossoming
and bearing a little fruit all summer, and so it was
called the ‘“everbearing” strawberry. Growers
became interested in these fall-bearing straw-
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Frances and Americus, the latter being the best
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but it needs very high cultivation.

The usual plan is to set these strawberries in the
spring the same as any other kind, and the pick off
all the blossoms up to within three or four weeks
of the time when berries are desired. A great
point with these berries is that they bear the first
year.

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A Home-made Plant Table

TARTING flowers or vegetables in the house
each spring is quite a problem. The earth-
filled seed flats are heavy and dirty and, when
several are put on an ordinary table, it requires
time and labor to shift them properly for cleaning,
watering, weeding, etc. A plant table, similar to
the one shown in the accompanying illustration,
overcomes all the ordinary difficulties encountered.
It can be moved to any desirable window, changed
about so that all the plants get an equal share of
light and air, moved easily when necessary for
cleaning, wheeled out on fine days and brought
indoors again if frost threatens. When the time
comes to plant in the open the individual flats can
be taken out as needed, or the whole table can be
wheeled into one’s garden and moved about at will.
This table cost me less than two dollars to make.
The lumber consisted of odds and ends of 3-inch
dressed pine. The wheels, bought from a baby
carriage repair shop are 14 inches in diameter and

A movable two-dollar plant table eliminates many
of the troubles of raising plants indoors

have rubber tires to save the floors, and the braces
were three pairs of japanned shelf brackets. The
table, or tray, is 48 x 30 in., 2 inches deep, and is
18 inches above the floor. Each seed flat is 11:
x14$x 3 in. The table is lined with a heavy
building paper (zinc would be better) and is stained
to match the trim in the room where it is most
frequently used. The reason for keeping the table
so low is that one may work while seated, thereby
saving backache and fatigue. The width of the
table should be governed by the size of doors it
may have to pass through.

New York. W. N. McV.

A Pole Bean Trellis

N EXPEDIENT I used this year as a trellis
for pole beans proved very successful. I
planned to raise two hundred hills of lima beans,
but could get only one third that number of poles.
Sometimes the method is followed of planting the
beans in a circle round a stout pole, letting them
run up strings to the summit, but I like to have
everything in rows, as far as possible, so I can use
my little wheel cultivator, which is a great labor-
saver.

The pian occurred to me of setting the poles six
feet or more apart in the row, and planting a hill
at each pole and two between. Ona rubbish heap
was a lot of old wire that had come round bales of

APRIL, 1912

For Your Friend Who
Loves a Garden

Innumerable love gardens, old and new,
live for those who love them in the pages
of Lena May McCauley’s delightful book,

The Joy of Gardens

Illustrated with many exquisitely colored
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Make Your Garden Work Easy With
AMES WHEEL HOE

It can be used as a single or double wheel implement at
will and is easily adjusted. It can be adjusted so that
it can be used by a child as well as an adult. As a
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It has 1 pair Long Bladed Hoes, 1 pair Short Bladed
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It makes gardening a pleasure
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Makes Green Grass Grow and Trees Put Forth Leaves

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Nitrate of Soda

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hay. This I disentangled, hooked together the
ends, and make a strand from pole to pole twisting
it around each one about a foot from the ground.
A second strand I placed on the poles as high as I
could reach. Probably any stout twine that would
not shrink and stretch with the weather would do
as well. Isupported the last pole in each row with
a stay of wire running down to a stake. At the
hills between the poles I ran a piece of stout twine
vertically from one strand to the other as a support
for the climbing vines where there were no poles.

Five beans were planted to each hill, the plants
being afterward thinned to two or three. With
lima beans it pays to place each seed with the eye
downward, as otherwise the large seed-leaves some-
times get tangled in trying to turn over, and will
blight the young shoot. It seemed to me that the
vines climbed the strings even better than the poles,
and the whole made a handsome screen of green
vines with thick clusters of pods. The poles need
to be stout ones and well stayed, or the weight of the
foliage and pods will bend over the trellis.

After the season is over, it is little work to un-
twist the wire strands, make a coil of them and put
them under cover for next year.

Washington, D. C. J. M. Lone.

Bean Planting Time

ONTINUE to plant out cannas, dahlia roots.
and chrysanthemum plants as late as the
first of June, but remember the earlier they are
put into the ground the better the results will be.
Press the soil firmly about these plants and roots.
to promote earlier growth and help retain moisture
in the soil.

All kinds of beans may be planted now, in-
cluding edible cow peas; also corn, melons, cu-
cumbers, summer squash. This type of squash is
very easy to grow and is very prolific, a few plants
furnishing sufficient for a good sized family through-
out the summer. Put the plants six feet apart

| and keep the fruit cut off when young.

Continue to plant seeds of annuals. Every one
likes sweet peas, but if you have not sown any it is
too late now to doit. However, its close rival, the
nasturtium, can be planted at this time, and there
are many other annuals equally as pretty as the
sweet pea.

Do not neglect the common sunflower. Once
started, it will choke or smother weeds, and its
seed furnishes an excellent poultry food.

Continue to set out tomato, egg and pepper
plants, and sow seed for main crop if you have not.
already done so.

Plant cotton very early in the Lower South;.
remember that it pays to use the improved seed,
and make sure of getting this by securing it from a
reliable source. There are two very distinct types
of upland cotton — the big boll and the little boll
—and some varieties of each type have four and
five locks. The latter are preferable, as is the
big boll type, so far as picking is concerned, for
it is usually easier to pick. The little boll sorts,
having small seed, usually turn out more lint
cotton.

Set out sweet potato plants whenever the soil
is well moistened: Remember that the sweet
potato is a lover of humus as well as of potash.

It is not yet too late to plant roses. Be careful
to thoroughly firm the soil around the roots.

Caladium bulbs should be planted at once. Give
them plenty of rich manure and water.

Georgia. Tuomas J. STEED.

APRIL, 1912

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

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dealer cannot supply you, write to us for full informa-
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The best Asters in the world are
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We also raise many other Vege-
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Everblooming, deliciously fragrant, perfectly hardy, splen-
did for cutting, a show plant for every garden; grows 4144
feet high. Planted now, it will bear continuously from this
June till the snow flies, its long spikes of beautiful claret-
colored blossoms having a rare new fragrance like the blend-
ing of the lilac and the heliotrope. A single plant of the

Everblooming Fragrant Butterfly Bush

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any lawn or border. Strong plants (will bloom the first season)
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Gladiolus in Georgia

LADIOLUS are among the easiest flowers
to grow; although they prefer a rich, loamy,
clay soil, they will thrive in any good garden soil.
Almost any color or combination of colors can be
had. The bulbs are cheap, too. Some successful
growers and specialists recommend planting from
five to six inches deep, but I usually plant about
four inches deep, and my experience has been that
sometimes the bulbs will rot if planted any deeper,
especially if the weather in the spring happens to
be cold and wet; the right depth all depends on
the soil—the lighter the deeper.

The best flowers usually come from the earliest-
planted bulbs; therefore, it is important to get
the bulbs into the soil early, but not until all
danger of hard freezing is past. A light frost will
not usually do any harm. Select a sunny place
for the bed and make successive plantings every
three or four weeks until the first of August, to
keep up a succession of bloom. If the bulbs are
planted in rows, the rows should be from eighteen
inches to two feet apart and the bulbs from four to
eight inches apart in the rows. Keep the rows
free from weeds by frequent weeding, which is
about all the cultivation necessary. Remember
that it pays to fertilize them liberally with rich,
well decayed manure mixed with the soil at least
ten inches deep. The earlier you get the manure
into the soil the better it will be, as it helps to
conserve the winter rains. At the same time it

Gladiolus cannot be excelled as cut flowers.
last for over a week

They

thoroughly decays and becomes more available
as plant food, thereby producing more rapid growth
and earlier flowers. Here, in the South, it is not
necessary to move the bulbs to a new place every
year, but, if it ever should be, it must not be done
until after the winter. In fact, if the soil is well
drained, the bulbs keep better over winter if left
right where they have been growing.

New bulbs are formed on tops of the old ones,
and therefore each year they work up nearer the
surface of the soil. If you want them to grow in
the same bed for more than one year, plant the
bulbs deeper than four inches. To do this, mix
the manure with the soil to a depth of twelve to
fifteen inches, place the bulbs in the bottom of
trenches, that were made six to eight inches deep,
and cover with four inches of soil. After the
seedlings have grown above the level of the soil
fill in the trenches.

In my own garden I have found America one of
the best varieties for general purposes. The
flowers are very large and of a beautiful lavender
pink. Other excellent varieties are Sulphur King,
a clear yellow; White Lady, white; Augusta,
white with a little blue; Columbia, orange scarlet;
Philadelphia, dark pink with white on the ends of
the petals; Attraction, dark crimson with white
throat; Cardinal, cardinal scarlet.

When flowers are wanted for indoor decoration,
cut the spikes just as soon as the first two or three
buds have opened and place them in water in a
cool dark place. I have kept flowers in good
condition in water for over a week.

Georgia. TuHoMAS J. STEED.

Arpritn, 1912

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HE shrub and shrubby vine are essential to
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because no other woody plants offer so great a
range in variety oi fruit, foliage, outline, size, and
adaptability to varied soils and conditions. For
the smallest bit of ground, in the smallest home lot,
a suitable shrub or vine can be found.

In the use of shrubs one seeks to accomplish
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because he has to, and the esthetic purpose of giving
a place a pleasing character, because he wants to.
In doing this, if the work is done successfully, then
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place all beautiful without sacrificing convenience.

The distinctive character of a place may be
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emphasize, not impair, this original beauty.

The place may have such an unattractive or
commonplace character that all work must be new
work, and in such work nothing is more serviceable
than shrubs and small trees, especially in small
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points, these plants will immediately frame them.

The character of a place may be determined by
the house upon it, which if of the bungalow type,
will have the horizontal lines most pronounced.
If the designer of the grounds desires to carry out
these dominant house lines into his foliage, he will
seek such plants as the native thorns of the cock-
spur or scarlet type, the pear-leaved viburnum,
Japanese snowball, stephanandra, and Regel’s
privet.

There may be a very tall and narrow house with
limited grounds, where narrow foliage masses are
essential to relieve tall, bare wall spaces, and
provide screens and landscape frames in narrow
soil strips. For this, such plants as the Lombardy
poplar, Douglas thorn, panicled dogwood, white
lilac, buffum pear, Siberian crab, red cedar, and
Irish juniper, would be selected.

It may be desired to have a color scheme of gray-
ish green and soft and fleecy foliage texture. Here
the single tree might be the gray leaved royal
willow, or the narrow leaved Russian olive, with
the sea buckthorn, tamarisk, and Lonicera Alberti.

There might be a preference for a special family
or for a particular genus, of which there are several
that offer enough species with a sufficient variety
to meet the requirements of the average home
grounds.

In thus establishing a character for the little or
the big landscape, either flowers, fruit, or foliage
may be incidental, the choice for the landscape
composition being determined by the general
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For example, an owner may prefer to accept poor
soil and shrubs that will go well therein, even though
slowly, rather than to incur the expense of good
soil preparation. It very often occurs that there
are several varieties, either one of which would
have a suitable outline and aspect for the land-
scape composition. From these a selection would
be made to fill each one of the months of the year
with the few varieties that are most effective in the
color or form of flower, autumn foliage, winter
fruit, or twig.

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THE GARDEN

Plant Your Onions Now

Ox of the biggest ‘“‘secrets’ in successful
onion growing is to get an early start.

The very first day in the spring that the soil in
the garden is dry enough to work, a section of it
for onions should be plowed or spaded up, and the
seed got into the ground without the least delay.
Two years ago, a sudden rain-storm prevented my
finishing the sowing of the entire onion bed. As
it was early in April I did not think this would make
much difference. We did not get another rain
for a couple of weeks, by which time the part of the
field first planted was well up. Although soil,
fertilization, and seed were identical on both parts
of the field, the portion first sown maintained a very
perceptible lead all through the summer, and at
harvest time the crop was at least 20 per cent.
heavier.

So plan to get your onions sown the first day it
is possible to do so; even snow, and light freezing
of the soil after sowing, will not injure them.

While heavy, wet, or “mucky” soils will some-
times produce very large bulbs, they are always
of inferior cooking and keeping quality. Onions
grown on such soils are coarse-grained, tough, and
watery, or “soft”; they frequently do not “‘bot-
tom down” and make bulbs in the fall, but stay
green and run all to neck.

An onion of really good quality should be firm-
fleshed, well dried-off at the top, bright in color,
and have the outside skins almost as thin as paper.
To grow such onions, make the “bed” in a rich,
sandy loam, such as constitutes a good garden soil.
Have it well drained, in order that it may be in
shape to work the first thing in spring, and that
it may never remain water-logged after heavy
rains.

If manure is used it should be old and thoroughly
well rotted; green, lumpy, strawy manure will
not do. Well-rotted, fine manure not only furnishes
plant food in readily available forms, but adds
“humus” or a certain moisture-absorbing and
retaining quality to the soil. Put the manure in a
pile and allow it to heat sufficiently to sprout
any weed seeds it may contain; then spread it
three to four inches thick and plow under five to
six inches deep.

If commercial fertilizers are used, apply broad-
cast after plowing, and harrow in. Use a complete
fertilizer, analyzing about 4 per cent. of nitrogen.
8 per cent. of available phosphoric acid, and ro
per cent. of potash, at the rate of 8 to 10 pounds to
every 100 square feet of surface, or about half
that amount if used with manure. Wood ashes,
hen manure, bone dust, and such special fertilizers
are also good.

The beginner with onions seldom realizes how
thoroughly pulverized and fine the soil in the bed
should be made. After plowing or spading,
thoroughly pulverize it with a harrow or a spad-
ing fork, and then rake it over by hand with an
iron rake until it is smoothasatable. Nota stick
or stone should be visible.

Just as soon as it is in this condition, and before
the surface has time to dry out, proceed with the
planting. The seed should be fresh, and the best
you can buy. Sow in rows twelve to fourteen
inches apart, and half an inch deep. Plant with
a regular seed-drill if possible, or else use a board
twelve or fourteen inches wide to kneel on while
sowing and covering the seed, which should be
sown thinly, eight to fourteen seeds to the inch.
After covering, press the soil down firmly with the
edge of the board, both to insure germination and
to mark the rows.

The so-called new onion culture is starting the
seedlings early, under glass, and transplanting
out of doors, three or four inches apart in the row,
during April or May. It is not too late to try this
method now if you will sow the seed immediately.
Fill the seed box with a compost of old manure and
light soil, and cover with an inch of clean sand, in
which sow the seed in rows three inches apart.
As the tops reach a length of eight or ten inches,
cut back about a third, and repeat this cutting as
often as necessary. When setting out, the roots
should be trimmed back at least two thirds.

To get good results, after all this care, the weeds
must never be allowed to get a start. Weed the
rows themselves as soon as the little onions are big
enough to be distinguished from the weeds. Culti-

MAGAZINE

APRIL, 1912

Refuge from the Summer Sun

When the heat of the sun becomes unbear-
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—you can always go on the porch and be
cool and comfortable, ifit is equipped with
Vudor Porch Shades. There you can

receive your guests, have luncheon and re-
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interfering with your outward view. They shut
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take a nap.

Country Life in America isn’t complete without
Vudor Porch Shades. They harmonize with any
surroundings and are easily put up with a screw
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for the Vudor name plate. It is your guarantee
and assures you that the shades will last seasons
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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, a 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
elad 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. Se Se B Sg mG

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THE. GARDEN MAGAZINE

APRIL, 1912

The
Ben Greet

Shakespeare

FOR YOUNG READERS
AND AMATEUR PLAYERS

Edited and with stage directions by
MR. BEN GREET

F ONE were asked to select the ideal man to edit Shakespeare for the
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the onions are maturing, are profiting by the
cultivation resulting from the growing of the
lettuce and by the occasional applications of
nitrate of soda between the rows, and will be ready
by fall, the entire expense of raising them being
paid for (and more, too, most likely) by the sale
of lettuce.

Nearly all the small-growing vegetables and
root crops can be adapted to such schemes as these,
which are but suggestions. This sort of intensive
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expenses are, of necessity, low; whereas everything
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to find how many quarts, pecks and bushels a
backyard garden is capable of raising.

New York. E. L. D. SEymovur.

How to Have Muskmelons All
Summer

M USKMELONS are such a satisfactory crop
for the home garden that it is_ strange
that more amateur gardeners do not raise them.
They require special care, but one is well repaid
with the abundance and quality of the crop when
it has been properly cultivated. From a patch
30 x 50 ft. it is possible to supply a family of seven
with a plentiful supply of melons almost until
frost.

Tirst, procure good seed. The Emerald Gem is
a fine melon for the home garden, sweet and of
fine flavor, yellow fleshed though not very large.
Long Island Beauty, a green-fleshed variety,
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There are many others, probably all good, par-
ticularly the Jenny Lind and Nutmeg strains, but
the big Montreal melons have always failed with
me. Can any one tell me how to succeed with
them? :

The preparation of the soil is the next considera-
tion. If possible, manure the melon patch in the
fall and plow or dig it up. Early in the spring
dig and manure it again, using well-rotted stable
manure and adding wood ashes if you have them.
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well fertilized soil. Continue to work over the
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desire, but I have not found this necessary or,
indeed, particularly advantageous. Melons are
a late crop, and mature better at their proper
season than they do when forced.

Before you plant the seeds prepare a number
of boxes as follows. Knock the bottoms from soap,
or other wooden boxes, and nail cheesecloth over

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them. A box should be placed over each hill,
when the seeds are planted, and left in position
until the vines outgrow them. These boxes are
not absolutely necessary, but are most useful,
and but little trouble to make. They help the
seeds to germinate, act as a slight protection on
cold nights and keep the greatest enemy of the
melon-raiser, the striped beetle, from destroying
the young vines.

When the vines are about a foot long, carefully
pinch off the ends. Melon vines are very tender
and must not be roughly handled nor trod upon.
Keep the vines pinched back throughout the
season.

WHEN TO SPRAY

Another of the melon enemies is blight, and this
must be fought by systematic spraying. Begin
when the vines are a foot long and spray with
Bordeaux mixture, adding arsenate of lead for the
bugs. Spray every two weeks, omitting the
arsenate when the fruit ripens. Cultivate the
melon patch, keeping it free from weeds, until the
vines cover it. When the blossoms come, give
each plant a quarter of a pailful of nitrate of soda
solution, made by dissolving two teaspoonfuls of
nitrate of soda in a pail of water. Do this two or
three times as the melons develop, or alternate the
soda solution with liquid manure. It is wise to
place a shingle under each young fruit to keep it
off the ground and circumvent the wire worms.
Some growers advise mulching the melon patch
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New Jersey. Mot R.

The Mole, a Friend in Disguise

WO years ago, when we discovered numerous

unsightly mole burrows running here and
there through our flower beds, we said, with a sigh
“What next? Cutworms, tomato worms, black
flies and mildew, and now moles.”’ So last spring,
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had eaten them during the winter, and vengeance
was vowed accordingly. The difficulty was that
the more we looked into the matter, the harder it
seemed to wreak vengeance on the moles, who,
in the meantime, were making themselves at home
all over the garden.

Then the happy suggestion came to us to apply
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answer was startling and illuminating on the sub-
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mere prejudice. Moles, according to the Govern-
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similar dainties. They are, therefore, better for
the garden than much poison and cultivating.
The only real drawback is they do often choose
for the scene of their labors the soft soil where
bulbs or young plants have been set out. This is
trying to the gardener’s soul, but let him stamp
the plant back into place and think of the havoc
a cutworm or two would have made with those
same young plants!

The moles positively will not eat the roots. In
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of constant use was directly at the root of a thrifty
peony, but the plant showed no signs of distress.
And as for the loss of plants during the winter so
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the less hardy perennials, and they were not all
infested by moles by any means.

The Department of Agriculture explains how to
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shall not suspect any danger.

The best friend of the mole cannot claim that his
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Daturas in a Small Garden-

Y GARDEN space is but ten by twenty feet.
a I cannot devote much time to it but what
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snapdragon arranged in clumps; every garden has
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to emphasize the attractiveness of the main feature,
which consists of six plants of datura placed in the
middle of the bed. These plants I have grown from
small ones, keeping them over from season to season
until now they are sturdy and well branched, giving
hundreds of beautiful flowers that are revelations
to people who have always regarded this plant as

A bed of daturas was the most attractive and re-
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commonplace. Last summer a lady purchased one
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hoping it would be prohibitive but which she paid
without question. The price was $25.00.

Daturas practically take care of themselves. I
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and store them in the cellar away from frost until
the following spring. I bring them up early in the
spring and give them a good start ina sunny window
before setting them out of doors. If I were not so
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a few hundreds of dollars in a season growing these
plants and selling them in different sizes.

Massachusetts. J. GAVIN.

Sub-irrigation of a Flowerbed

[2 REMODELING our house, we found it
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APRIL, 1912

Hicks Trees

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plant these asparagus seedlings to a partially shaded
place in the outdoor garden where the soil is rich.
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dow boxes or flower pots for indoor growth as you
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They are particularly useful for fern-dishes; place
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Massachusetts. CLARENCE M. WEED.

Concerning Colt’s Foot

a first colt’s foot (Tussilago farfara) that I
ever saw was in one of the New York parks.
Curious to know what it was, I inquired of the
gardener, and he not only gave me the information
but told me where I could get all I wanted of it
without so much as saying by your leave. Not
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fence around the extensive grounds, which were
six feet below the street level, was removec. There,
on the bank thus disclosed, colt’s foot had run wild
for years and had crept up to within a iew teet of
the sidewalk. Doubtless it had “escaped” from
the garden of the homestead. As it was spring
there could be seen only the scaly scapes, many of
them crowned with a single yellow blossom, very
like that of the dandelion, only much smaller. [
dug some roots and planted them in my garden,
where I have found the source of ‘“‘colt’s-foot
rock”? rather attractive. Very early —this year
it was the third of April — the blossoms give the
border a pleasing touch of yellow and when they
are gone, there comes foliage that keeps in good
condition until frost. Of the two I prefer the
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The only trouble with colt’s-foot in the garden is
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seed, that it must be watched carefully. If one
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It is supposed to prefer wet places and a clayey
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many a spot that now is needlessly bare.
New York. H. S. As

APRIL, 1912

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Vy

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Practical Pointers for Moving
Large Trees

Be moving of a large tree often presents
more difficulties in contemplation than in
the work itself. There is no need for complicated
machinery.

First of all dig a circular trench around the tree
to be moved so that plenty of soil will be left about
the roots. This trench should be far enough away
from the tree to make it unnecessary to cut any
roots that are thicker than a man’s finger. Like-
wise, the trench will need to be wide enough to
permit a man to stand in it and to dig with some
degree of comfort. Undermine the earth surround-
ing the roots to a depth a little more than the width
of the earth surrounding the roots. Just before
undermining, fasten a rope to a strong crotch in
the tree and so pad it with burlap that pulling
will not injure the bark. Stakes driven into the
ground at a convenient distance, or trees, tele-
graph posts, etc. will also afford means of fastening
the rope in bending the tree from side to side.
Where a direct pull on the rope does not give
sufficient power to swing the tree from one side to
another the help of block and tackle will make
this part of the work very easy.

After having dug in under the tree as far as
possible without loosening the earth from the roots,
burlap should be tucked in and tied firmly under
the ball of earth and also be continued up around
the side.

After this has been done
some loose earth is to be
filled in under the burlap and
the rope so adjusted that the
tree may be tipped over in
order that the other half of
the ball may be cut from its
foundation. This, too, is to

Tip the tree from side
the roots and wrap the to side and fill in below
ball the ball

Dig a hole all around

be bottomed with securely tied burlap and earth
filled in underneath. Now we have the tree with
a large ball of earth about its roots standing ina
hole in loose soil.

The next step is to bring that ball of earth to the
top of the hole without shaking the soil from the
roots. Here the rope comes into play. First
tip the tree over to one side as far as may be and
fill in with soil under the side tipped up. Put
just enough soil into the hole so that the tree may
be readily tipped over to the opposite side when
soil is to be again filled in. This method of pro-
cedure will finally bring the roots to the ‘top of the
hole and, moreover, helps to pack the soil that is
thrown back into the hole so that there will be
little or no settling afterward, especially if, during
this filling in, the soil be also tamped.

Construct a strong platform of
sufficient size to hold the mass of
roots and soil, which may be placed
on the platform by inclining the

Work to the top of the Upon a platform on rol-
hole and slide it out lers to facilitate moving

APRIL, 1912 THE

Easter Gifts tor Your
Flower-loving Friends

Flowers occupy a large place among the
gifts made between friends at Easter-time
—but their beauty soon fades and the donor
is forgotten in a few short days. Why not
send a gift that will give pleasure for
months rather than days?

For those of your friends who love the
out-doors, and who grow flowers, a box of
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Your order will be forwarded according to your directions a day or two before Easter
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I shall be glad to supply other varieties if you desire. These may be selected from
my catalog which tells just how to grow these magnificent flowers and also shows
many uses for them, both in the garden and indoors. Write for a copy today.

My new variety, “‘Peace™

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Box 102, Berlin, N. Y.

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APRIL, 1912

Sound Living
Tree has a money as
well as a_ sentimental
value, therefore it is too
precious to neglect.

The Davey Tree Experts
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tree as before to one side and pushing the plat-

form underneath.
position so that when the
tree is standing erect it
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can in this manner be
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as gradual as possible,and

block securely to prevent
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Pulling up this incline
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This method enables
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The Beautiful Auricula

i 1909 I made up my mind that I could grow the
auricula (Primula auricula) if I tried, despite
a reputation that has kept it out of most American
gardens. I bought one plant in May and in
October had the good luck to receive a present of
nearly fifty seedlings. Some of the latter were
not over half an inch high but every one pulled
through the winter in the open border with no
protection save a few loose leaves under a bridge
of cornstalks. They gave me only one solitary
bloom the next May, even the larger purchased
plant failing me, but a year later I had most en-
couraging floral reward. In fact any one of the
single stalks of bloom was beautiful enough to
reward me for the little labor that I had expended
upon the plants, which had then withstood two
winters without mortality. The chief care was
seeing that they did not get too dry insummer. I
found that I had given them too hot a place at
first; so I moved the entire lot. Most of them are
now in raised beds where an apple tree shades them
in hot weather but does not shut off the sun when
they are coming into bloom. Raised beds are
necessary, as the plants must have good drainage.
I am not sure that I have yet found the ideal
conditions for auriculas to make themselves thor-
oughly at home in a southern New England garden,
because some of my plants still refuse to make leaf
growth that is necessary before the bloom is normal.
I think, however, that I can bring these around by
next May if I use a little fertilizer. Auriculas —
the alpine type is used for the garden— may be
taken up after blooming and planted in rows in some
shaded spot for summer growth, but what I am
trying to do is to get them so they will stay in one
spot like my other hardy primulas. Meanwhile I
hope that my success so far will encourage others
to take up the culture of a remarkably beautiful
hardy plant that is widely honored in England.
Connecticut. B. G.

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Getting Ahead of the Season

Y LITTLE hothouse cost exactly four dollars

to build, and from it we have had fresh

vegetables before the gardens in the neighborhood
could even be planted!

The hothouse was built as an addition to a
small poultry house. In this locality we keep
a fire all winter in our poultry house. This hot-
house was to be a “lean-to” addition, as IT had
the north wall already constructed.

To attach the new part, I nailed a 12-foot piece
of 2 x 4 in. board, lengthwise of the poultry house,
eight and a half feet from the ground; and another
piece of the same dimensions six inches from the
ground. The first one was to attach the roof of
the hothouse to the poultry house; and the second
one was to have the floor of the hothouse nailed
to it.

I then laid the foundation timbers (two 12-foot
hewn sticks, 6 x 6 in.) parallel with the lower piece
of 2x4 in.x12 ft. board, nailed to the poultry house.
On this foundation I laid a floor of rough boards,
8 feet wide and 12 feet long and leveled it by putting
blocks under the stringers. I was then ready for
the walls.

The hothouse has a southern exposure with the
south wall 6 feet above the floor. As the floor

was 8x 12 ft. I planned to have the highest part
I cut three 6-foot pieces

of the roof 8 feet high.

This hothouse, which cost four dollars to build, was
an addition to the poultry house

of 2 x 4 for uprights for the south wall, and
three 83-foot pieces of 2x4 for two rafters, one
from each of the three uprights to the first piece
of 2x 4 that was nailed to the side of the poultry
house.

These I put in place, spiking them securely to the
floor and to the poultry house wall. I used the
storm windows from the house, as these were
always removed in the spring. These windows
were about 23 x 43 ft.; two were put in south wall,
end to end, horizontally; four made the roof;
and one in west end, placed horizontally, to let
in the afternoon sun. These windows were fast-
ened to the uprights and to the rafters, and all the
space left was filled in with two layers of rough
boards with a sheet of tar paper between. The
entrance was at the east end.

The cost of the house was about four dollars,
but this did not include the windows. The first
layer of boards on the walls, roof and floor may be
any kind of old rough lumber. The outside layer
Provide
a door at one end. I cut a hole in the side of the
poultry house and put the stove pipe through into
the hothouse, and let it run horizontally the full
length of the house and out the west end.

With the flowers I grew in this little house I
had wonderful success. I had pansies that meas-
ured three inches across, and had stems six inches
long. Back of the pansies was a bench of parsley,
radishes, lettuce, Swiss chard, fox-glove, dahlias,
and forget-me-not plants, and across the end was
a deeper bench full of three-year old roses. I cut
some blooms five inches across from a Frau Karl

| Druschki plant.

Minnesota. GEORGE E. WOLFE.

APRIL, 1912 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 219

Country Life
in America

at ee Life
in AME LC f

1 Ten Years of Country bite e rz :

An Amazing Record of Progress by Authorities
in Various | PepELtnnea of Country Living

41 of the great country life movement which has swept over
|| this land since the opening of the new century, you
|| will find a wealth of interest in

The Anniversary Number

Country Life
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An Historical Document for preservation in your
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Out April 15th

The Spread of the Country Life Idea - - - - By the Editors

The Autobiography of “Country Life in America”
By Frank N. Doubleday

Country Life
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True Progress in Country Life - - - - By L. H. Bailey
Have We Progressed in Gardening? - - - By Wilhelm Miller
A Decade of Domestic Architecture’ - - - By Thomas Hastings
Progress in American Sport - - - - By Walter Camp

Plant Breeding During the Past Ten Yecre - By Leonard Barron

American Forestry—A New Movement to Meet a Growing Need
By Henry S. Graves

Dodging the Deadly Habit of Industry - - By Woods Hutchinson

What the Back-to-the-Land Movement Really Means
By George T. Powell

The Government’s Work in Animal Husbandry By Dr. A. D. Melvin

: 4 The Past, Present, and Future of Wild Game Conservation
| By William T. Hornaday

The New Agriculture - - - - - By W. M. Hays
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What Ten Years Have Done for Photography - By Wilfred A. French
The 1912 Automobile and its Elder Brother of 1902 By Julian Chase

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Tells how to know fungous diseases and

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Orchardists, Grow Bee:
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The roots Sot fruit trees occupy only about a
quarter of the ground space for the first twelve or
years. No: business man would think of

his capital to lie idle for
“Th lere is just as good a mar-
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Berry plant is a briary vine that
or winter-kill an inch.
erow thirty feet a Old and new wood
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for a hundred years, and ten tons of
berries per acre is the average yield

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The Best Berries to Grow
Berrydale Exper riment Ga ardens has tested th
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very best dozen or so are described in the Berry-
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mon ker, is given specia al d deta aile
Send i for our book.

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A. MITTING, Owner Garden Avenue, Holland, Mich.

“» THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

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APRIL, 1912

Have you ever seena real

Dutch Bulb catalog—a catalog of Dutch Bulbs inte by the

| house that grew them?

Do you understand the difference in sizes and qualities that ex-
ist in Dutch Bulbs— do you realize that your lack of success with
these Harbingers of Spring may be due to the bulbs you plant,
rather than to any fault of your own?

All these points are explained in our

1912 Catalog of Dutch Bulbs

This catalog will appeal to all fower-lovers—to the man who buys ten tulips,
hyacinths, or daffodils, and the man who buys ten thousand.

It lists and describes the newest varieties; gives combinations that have been
prov ed satisfactory for bedding purposes, andl for forcing. It suggests the varie-
tes to plant in combination more accurately than would be possible, if we did not
maintain at our Sassenheim Nurseries unique testing beds for this very purpose.

Now, while your Bulb beds are in bloom, is the time to get this book
and make comparisons. Write to-day.

Gt. van Waveren & Kruijff

American Branch House, 140 North 13th Street
LOUIS BERGER, Mgr. PHILADELPHIA, PA.

PITCHER PLANTS

(Sarracenia Purpurea)

Also called Side-Saddle Flower; Hunts-
man’s Cup; Indian Dipper.

This strange and beautiful perennial is a
native of the cool, wet and mossy bogs of
Maine and is perfectly hardy from Labrador
to Florida. It is one of the few carnivorous
plants of North America. Its leaves are
true pitchers, some holding a wineglassful
of water. Will thrive in a bowl of water in-
doors or out and is a most welcome addition
to the fernery or aquarium, furnishing end-
less interest to the whole family, while in al-
most any wet or swampy place along a brook,
river or pond or in or near a spring it is per-
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A fine specimen sent postpaid for 25 cents
or three plants for 50 cents.

MAINE PLANT Co.

No, 27 NORTH MAIN ST. ROCKLAND, MAINE

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As You Plan for Summer’s Flowers

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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 effective
methods of culture many awards have been made.

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 po-
tatoes. It is simply a matter of
buying good, strong bulbs and
following our instructions.

SPECIAL
OFFERS

Dawn (Tracy’s). The most beau-
tiful shell pink Gladiolus ever offer-
ed. Along graceful spike of magnifi-
cently 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 indis-
pensable as a cut flower and for bedding.
25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz.

Sanguine. A brilliant, bright red, with stippled
throat. A tall grower with immense wide
open flowers, five to eight open at one time,
splendid foliage, making it an unusually
attractive variety. 35 cts. each, $3.50 per doz.

Mrs. James H. Lancashire. Large flowers,
exquisite cream color, with carmine stripes on
the lower petals. One of the most pleasing
of the light colored varieties, flowers open at
one time, and of excellent keeping quality.
$5.00 per doz.

Liberty. A bright red with strikingly marked
white throat. Strong habit and a favorite.
25 cts. each, $2.50 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.

Cedar Acres Gladioli

won four firsts out of five entries, at the
American Gladiolus Society’s show at
Baltimore, Md., August, 1911. Other
awards, last year, include silver medal,
Mass. Hort. So.; four firsts at Newport,
three firsts at Rochester. In the cut
flower market, they command a price
six times as high as the prevailing
market rates, because the flowers are
larger and better. These flowers are
raised in our fields from Cedar Acres
bulbs, without stakes or watering, by
the same cultural methods we recom-
mend to our customers.

SPECIAL OFFERS

MIXTURES

Orchid Flowered Seedlings. Seedlings giving a wide range
of colo: at a reasonable price. To see them blooming is the
only way to give them adequate description. 50 for $1.00,
125 for $2.00, express prepaid.

The famous Cedar Acres Mixture gives a great variety of wide
open flowers of exquisite colors and marking and should be plant-
ed in large quantities. 50 for $1.00, 125 for $2.00 prepaid.
$12.00 per thousand, express collect. 125 will plant a bed 4 feet
square, giving a mass of color and bloom from July to frost.

Augusta. A very fine paper white, with lavender anthers. Strong
spike, often haying two or three branches. 50 cts. per doz.

Sunrise. The finest clear canary yellow variety, with
no markings. Long spike of dainty flowers, making
an excellent combination with America or Baron
Hulot. Fine for table decoration. $2.00 per doz.

Mrs. Francis King (The Original). A most beauti-
ful flame pmk. Immense flowers on a 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.

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

THE GIFT BOX

Let us send it, with your card, to a friend who
loves flowersand has a garden. It is ideal asa
gift, because it means months of beauty and en-
joyment to the recipient.

5O0c box contains 12 selected bulbs
$1.00 “ zp “ “«

Full cultural directions with each box.

America. Too much cannot be said of this beau- cut flower and especially effective for table decor-
tiful dainty pink. — The flowers are of immense Baron Hulot (Blue Jay). One of the finest blue ation with green foliage, because of its long
size and of wax-like texture borne on a very Gladioli. A deep violet blue with finely shaped graceful spike of wide open flowers. Many open
strong spike. $1.00 per doz. flowers. $2.00 per doz. at one time. $1.00 per doz. i

One each of the twelve named varieties for $1.50, two each for $2.75, post-paid; six each for $7.50, express collect.
LET ME HELP YOU TO RAISE BETTER
WRITE FOR INFORMATION taniou 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, ete. 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.

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CEDAR ACRES BOX 295 WENHAM, MASS.

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The hero of the tale is a recluse about
whom gossip has been busy for many
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is the lovely face of Mary Grant which
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The Showy Bridal Wreath

HEY christened it the “button bush”? —

the children of the neighborhood — because
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little buttons. But it is really the bridal wreath
(Spirea prunifolia, var. flore pleno) although its
common name has been misappropriated by the —
single bridal wreath (Spirea Van Houttei). You
will find it in old-fashioned gardens, mostly, for
in these days the favorites of long ago seem to be
neglected.

Spirea prunifolia has one remarkable feature
—it will thrive absolutely without: care. Once
planted and well established, it will increase in
beauty each year. In deserted door yards, where
it has been without attention for a generation, it
blooms each year. The shrub shown in the picture
has been growing in heavy sod for fourteen years,
and during that time it has not been pruned or
given any other attention.

Prunifolia reaches a height of six feet and has a
more erect habit of growth than most of the spireas.
A single specimen will reach a width and breadth
of ten feet. The flowers, which are of the purest
white, are less than a half-inch in diameter, but

The double bridal wresth thrives without any
great care and is a mass of white when in bloom
(Spiraea prunifolia, var, flore pleno)

they are very double, layer upon layer of petals
making them a quarter of an inch thick. They
make up for their small size by being so numerous
that they almost touch all the way along the
branches, and a bush in bloom appears as a mass
of white.

The flowers come before the leaves, as is the case
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the spring show of flowers and helps to bridge the
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The bush is not particularly attractive in foliage,
but it gives a distinctive touch to the landscape at
all times, and is particularly attractive in winter.

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are disappointed to find that the annual issue

of THE GARDEN AND FarM ALMANAC is, as the
booksellers say, 0. p., or out of print. It costs
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1912 edition was the most successful and
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COMING

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of that famous rendezvous of the world.

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increased this year over last from 10 to 30
per cent., for all of which we are profoundly
grateful.

IRIS IN THE GARDEN

These paragraphs are usually devoted to the
modest statements of achievement, or near
achievements in connection with publishing
ventures; but we should like to speak of one
matter of perhaps greater importance. In May
we hope those of our readers who are within
striking distance of Garden City will stop in
at Country Life Press to see one of the most
interesting little collections of Iris. It is not
so large as it is choice — about 1,200 speci-
men plants, the gift of our esteemed contem-
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May, 1912

The Tale of

“Old Hickory”

were man’s shelter and

For ages the trees
They were a part

abode. He lived in them.
of his being.

But in the van of civilization, the trees dis-
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sprung up, where once the forest swayed.
Civilization did its work. The poetry of the
wilderness was gone.

But—the desire of man to live in Nature did
not go. The rough bark of trees, the blue
skies, still hold their appeal.

So he went back into the wilderness, and
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rough barked trees therein.

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Gardening Discretion

(as is the one time of year when the
gardener should work slowly and cau-
tiously.

Watch for clear, still nights, when the
coldframes must be tightly closed and the
transplanted seedlings carefully covered.
Newly set lettuce should also be shaded
during the hottest part of the day.

Unless you have individual frames, i. e.,
bottomless boxes a foot square with glass
tops — your melons, squashes, etc., will be
safer if not planted till about May sth.

Cutworms are likely to break in and steal
—or at least destroy —as soon as frost
dangers lessen. Mix bran (a quart),
Paris green (a teaspoonful) and water
(enough to make a paste) and leave a little
among newly set plants. Put a ring of the
mixture around the base of the best fruit
trees. Re-read the March GARDEN MacGa-
ZINE for details.

Sow late celery, cabbage, kale, turnips,
parsnips and potatoes about May tsth.
But if you have time start some of the
first three under glass now, using them to
fill in cleared spinach or pea rows later on.
Lettuce and radishes will temporarily fill
up between rows.

Nip the blossoms off strawberry plants
set last fall, and one year berry bushes.
Don’t cut a one-year asparagus bed at all.
Dress it twice in May with salt, a pound to
twenty square feet of ground.

A little nitrate of soda will help along
the crops that are already up and doing.
But in general and for corn and squash,
especially, use plenty of manure. Keep
it near the surface for the former, the roots
feed only about four inches deep.

Blister beetles and aphides may bother

the seedlings. Use kerosene emulsion.

Jot down these thinning distances: beans,
turnips, leeks, 6 inches; corn (in rows), car-
rots, beets, onions, salsify, 3 inches; kohl-
rabi, parsnips, 4 inches; lettuce, okra, 9
inches; potatoes, corn, cabbage, tomatoes,
12 to 30 inches; vines 3 to tro feet.

Get new strawberry plants by rooting run-
ners in small pots plunged near old plants.

The accompanying map, reproduced
from a chart issued by the United States
Weather Bureau, is a good subject for
study. Of course averages may be de-
ceitful, but you should know whether or not
it is an average season in your locality, and
don’t plant tender things too soon!

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Bulbs that have bloomed should ripen
for a few weeks before being dug up to
make way for other plants.

All the hardy annuals can be trans-
planted from frame or flat by May sth.
The tender sorts had best be delayed a
fortnight longer.

Until May 20th, perennials may be
shifted and even shrubs and fruit bushes
planted provided they are continually
kept moist till well established.

Plant out carnations. Buy rooted chry-
santhemum cuttings if you are not rooting
your own.

THIS MONTH’S MOTTO:

Fight frost, wipe out weeds, obliterate
bugs, destroy diseases, maintain moisture,
stir the soil.

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The average date of the last killing frost in spring as observed for above 30 years is shown by this map.

The lesson for the gardener is:

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Don’t plant tender things too early

Color Harmonies in the Spring Garden —By Mrs. Francis King,

Mich-

NOW, WHEN THE SPRING BULBS ARE IN FLOWER, IS THE TIME TO STUDY THE NICETIES
OF THEIR COLOR DISTINCTIONS — MAKE NOTES NOW FOR YOUR FALL ORDERS OF BULBS

N THESE words, Spring Flowers, there
is very music. There is a delicious
harmony in all of Nature’s colors, and par-
ticularly in the colors of all native spring
flowers, as they appear with each other in
their own environment. If any one doubts
what I say, let him look at such pictures as
are found in Flemwell’s “Flowers of the
Alpine Valleys,” let him take up Mrs.
Allingham’s “‘Happy England”’; or let him
in May wander in the nearest woodlot and
see a lovely tapestry of pale color woven of
the pink of spring beauties, the delicate
lavenders of hepatica, and the faint yellow
of the dog tooth violet — thousands of tiny
blooms crowding each other for space, but
all very good.

Perhaps, next to the snowdrop, crocus
is the earliest of the cultivated bulbs: to
bloom in our wintry region. The matter
of color mixtures here comes to the fore. I
admit this to be a question of personal
taste; but it is one on which discussion
should be agreeable and fruitful. It hap-
pens that I object to a mixture of colors
in crocus, or, for that matter, in anything.
Not long ago a well known landscape

gardener, a woman, remarked that a border
of mixed Darwin tulips was one of the most
successful of her many plantings. In such
a hand, this I am sure was so. If such
planting were done exactly as it should be,
with sufficient boldness, a sure knowledge
of what was wanted, and great variety of
colors and tones of those colors, the result
would surely show a tapestry again thrown
along the earth—a tapestry grander in
conception and more glorious in kind than
the one woven of the tiny blossoms men-
tioned above. But with the average
gardener, a mixture so-called, is a thing
of danger. What more hopeless than a
timid one! “Be bold, be bold, but not too
bold”? — Shakespearean advice holds here.

To return to crocus. A while ago in the

‘borders of this small Michigan place of ours,

there was in one place'a most lovely carpet
of colonies of pale lavender crocus Maxi-
milian, with grape hyacinth (Muscari
azureum) running in and out in peninsulas,
bays, and islands. Tall white crocus Reine
Blanche, in large numbers, was near by, its
translucent petals shining in the sun beyond
its more delicately colored neighbors.

I believe I have before expatiated in
these columns on the great beauty of Cro-
cus purpurea, var. grandiflora, carpeting large
spaces of bare ground beneath shrubbery,
principally used in connection with great
sheets of Scilla Sibirica which blooms so
very little later than the crocus as to make
the two practically simultaneous. These,
in order to get a telling effect, should be
planted by the thousands, and this, I beg to
assure the reader, is a less serious financial
observation than it sounds!

Hepatica that year bloomed with Iris
reticulata. Asan experiment I arranged the
following spring some groups of this smart
little iris, with hepatica plants threading
their way among the grass-like leaves of the
iris, and nearby a few hundreds of Muscari
azureum. The cool delicate pinks of the
hepatica were in most lovely accord with
the rich violet of the iris, yet affording a
striking contrast in form and a full octave
apart in depth and height of tone. Is there
a valid objection to thus using imported
and native plants side by side? I know
Ruskin would have hated it, but the great
mid-Victorian man probably never had a

Rembrandt and Darwin tulips as they grow in their country of origin.

236

The first-named next to the walk, are distinguished by absence of vellow

NEACY bo 1e

chance to see the thing well done. You
recall what he wrote of English flower
gardens:

“A flower garden is an ugly thing, even
when best managed; it is an assembly of
unfortunate beings, pampered and bloated
above their natural size; stewed and
heated into diseased growth; corrupted
by evil communication into speckled and
inharmonious colors; torn from the soil
which they loved, and of which they were
the spirit and the glory, to glare away their
term of tormented life among the mixed
and incongruous essences of each other, in
earth that they know not, and in air that is
poison to them.”

I should like to bring Mr. Ruskin back
to life again, show him some color achieve-
ments in flower gardening in England and
America to-day, and hear him say “A
new order reigneth.”

But, back to the crocus! Where drifts
of Crocus purpurea, var. grandiflora were
blooming under leafless Japanese quince,
blooming quite by themselves, a fine show
of color of the same order was had, really
only a transition from one key to another,
by flinging along the ground, planting where
they fell, heavy bulbs of hyacinth Lord
Derby. The full trusses of this superb
flower made the most lovely companions
for the just-about-to-fade crocus. How
can I adequately describe the color of Lord
Derby! Never, no never, in the words of
one of the Dutch growers who calmly says,
“Porcelain blue, back heavenly blue.”
May I venture to ask the reader what im-
pression these words convey to him? To
me they are as sounding brass and tinkling
cymbals. They mean nothing. From my
own observation of the hyacinth, I should
say that its blue in the early stages of devel-
opment has a certain iridescent quality
which makes it uncommonly interesting,
almost dazzling when seen beyond the
green of the fresh grass of May; and in full
bloom it shines out with a half-deep tone
of purplish-blue. Crocus purpurea, var.
grandiflora blooms with this hyacinth; the
two tones of purple are distinct from each
other and extremely interesting together.

Is, or is not Puschkinia little known?
How distinct it is from most of the smaller
spring things, and how lovely in itself with
its tiny bluish white bells, pencilled with
another deeper tone of blue. And so re-
warding, coming up valiantly year after
year, without encouragement of the com-
post or replanting! A little colony of it is
here shown (page 238) very badly because
rather too tightly planted. Puschkinia
could be associated with Jris reticulata
most beautifully; or its slender bluish bells
would be delightful growing near Tulip
Kaufmanniana. The bloom of all these
bulbous things may be quite confidently
expected at the same time.

Another illustration shows practically
nothing but crowds of the fine white crocus
Reine Blanche, grown as naturally as pos-
sible below Pyrus Japonica. Here they
dwell calmly and seem to sleep year after
year, except for the time when they show

THE

GARDEN

MAGAZINE

237

Bulbs make an effective carpet under shrubs. Crocus Reine Blanche (white) growing beneath Japan quince

their shining faces to the sun of April.
The most dreaded enemy of the crocus to
my mind is a wet snow. The petals, once
soaked and weighted, never recover their
beautiful texture and when one fatal April,
as my notebook shows, our hectic climate
brought in one hour upon these charming
but tender flowers rain, hail and snow, the
wreckage may be left to the imagination
of the tender-hearted.

Nothing, to my thinking, can exceed for
beauty the picture made by the majestic
Tulipa vitellina, with its beautifully held
cups of palest lemon color when supported
by the lavender trusses of Phlox divaricata
—and the stems of that in turn, almost
hidden by the fine Phlox subulata, var.
lilacina. Long reaches of these three
flowers happily planted, or a tiny corner
against shrubbery —it matters not one
whit which — “and then my heart with
pleasure fills!” What a wonderful thing
to see below the glowing buds and blossoms
of the Japanese quince clusters of tulip

Tulips are best planted in large masses of individuai varieties.

La Merveille or —but not and — tulip
Couleur Cardinal. La Merveille, with its
tremendously telling orange-red hues puts
dash into the picture: Couleur Cardinal,
sombreness, richness. No one could think
for one moment of allowing these tulips
to appear near each other. Crocus and
early flowering things below and among the
shrubs to bloom when the quince is leafless,
tulips toward the grass, to show when tiny
points of green and the red quince blossoms
make a fiery mist above them.

The lucky householder or gardener who
has sometime placed a group of the
glorious shrub, Mahonia, on his ground,
may like a planting which has seemed
good to me against the shining dark green
of its low branches. Narcissus poetaz, var.
Elvira, to bloom with the lavender hyacinth
Lord Derby or Holbein; with the gay tulip
Vermilion Brilliant nearby, and some groups
or colonies of tulip Couleur Cardinal asso-
ciated with these. The fine Darwin tulip
Fanny used with masses of Phlox divaricata

For names of those shown here see text

238

and Phlox subulata, var. lilacina below it,
is a marvel of color. Mr. Hunt’s descrip-
tion of Fanny I give: “Clear, rosy pink,
with white centre marked blue. Not a
large flower but one of exquisite color and
form.” I have never yet made a May
pilgrimage to Montclair, but I know I
should be a wiser gardener if I might, for
Mr. Hunt’s blooming tulips must be worth
many a league’s journey.

Nothing I have ever had upon our small
place has given me more spring pleasure
than the planting which I next describe.
A shrub, two tulips, and a primula. The
shrub was Spirea Thunbergii, with its
delicate white sprays of flowers. Below
and among these spireas are the great tulip
La Merveille, orange-scarlet, and the old
double Count of Leicester, in tawny orange
shades — and before the tulips lay low
masses of the Munstead primrose. On
this primrose which fares so well with me
I have enlarged so often and so volubly
that I fear the reader is weary of my
praises. But to me it is an essential of
the spring. With this primrose, with the
hardy forget-me-nots, and arabis, the
lemon-colored alyssum, the lavender
creeping phloxes and with a charming
low-growing thing whose name is Lamium
maculatum (the gray-green leaves have a
rather vague whitish marking upon them,
and the flowers are of a soft mauve
—grow tulip Wouvermann back of
these, I beg!) — the most delightful effects
may be had.

As for tulips again the loveliest of com-
binations under lilacs, or immediately
before them, would surely ensue, if groups
of tulips Fanny, Carl Becker, Giant and
Konigin Emma were planted in such spots.
And speaking of tulips — the ones just men-
tioned I got of the Dutch, the origin-
ators of the Darwin and Rembrandt
tulips and who thereby have made all
bulb-growers their eternal debtors. The
photographs of tulips that accompany
these notes show how exhibition beds may
be made. beautiful — they are pictures of
the Haarlem (Holland) Jubilee Show in the

The little Puschkinia, not often seen, has a flower
of bluish white, lined with deeper blue

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Tulipa Kaufmanniana, clear yellow. is a dainty
flower to associate with Puschkinia

spring of 1910. The Rembrandt tulip,
whose characteristic from a color standpoint
is that there is no yellow in its varieties,
is a so-called flamed and feathered tulip,
with almost the effect of stripes. In the
picture on page 236 the first row, nearest
the walk, is made up of groups of Rem-
brandts: the striped varieties in other
parts of the border are also Rembrandts.
All the others shown are new seedling Dar-
wins, mostly unnamed. I like the ar-
rangement here of the gay upstanding
flowers against the numbers of dark little
conifers.

In the other tulip picture, page 237, the
blackish group of tulips in the right hand
middle distance is La Tulipe Noire — “‘the
blackest of all the tulips.” The circular
group in the centre distance is Edmée, a
bright cherry-rose color, also Darwin, and
at the extreme left L’Ingénue, a fine white
Darwin, slightly suffused with pale rose.
In every case they are Rembrandts. It
is rarely one sees such fine photographs
of tulips, as are here shown, and they
give the true tulip-lover a case of Dutch
nostalgia. If the pictures bewitch one
so, what must those flowers themselves
have been!

I have a friend, what a friend, who visit-
ing this very show at Haarlem bethought
herself as she gazed of me, and of my pen-
chant for these things. Instead of writing
me some such platitude as ‘‘ You should
have seen the Darwin tulips,” this dis-
criminating and valuable person made notes
on the spot of the varieties which seemed
most good in her sight, and sent the list
posthaste across sea and land to Michigan.
““Many women have done excellently, but
thou excellest them all.”

Mr. Krelage gave last autumn to one of
his English friends, a list of the Darwin
tulips he considers the best. These are
the ones: Clara Butt, salmon pink; Cre-
puscule, pinky lilac; Faust, deep violet;
Giant, deep purplish crimson; La Candeur,
ivory white; La Tristesse, slaty blue; Mme.
Krelage, rosy pink; Margaret, soft pink
almost blush; Mr. Farncombe Sanders,
rosy crimson; Prince of the Netherlands,
cerise carmine; Raphael, purplish violet;
and Haarlem, a giant salmony orange-red.
Five of these I have grown; the rest I hope
to see as you are reading these lines. The
man to whom this list was given, a distin-

May, 1912

guished judge of flowers, comments on the
eivdent partiality of Mr. Krelage for the
rich deep purples, as shown by these choices
of his own.

Last spring Miss Jekyll wrote of her
pleasure in some beautiful varieties of tulips
Darwins and Cottage both, sent her as cut
blooms by a well known grower. And I
was so charmed with her description of
these, especially with what she said of the
purple and bronze tones of some of them,
that I cleared out a lot of shrubbery to make
room, and planted last fall the following
groups: Ewbank and Morales together,
Faust, Grande Monarque, Purple Perfec-
tion, and D. T. Fish. Bronze King,
Bronze Queen, Golden Bronze, Dom
Pedro, Louis XIV; Salmon Prince, Orange
King, Panorama, Orange Globe and La
Merveille.

I am not a collector; but, how readily,
save for one reason, could I become one, in
ten different directions in the world of flow-
ers. Tulips should be one of my choices;
narcissus another; no one could pass by
theiris. The collecting of tulips is, I fancy,
simple beside say that of daffodils. The
varieties of the daffodil are so many, the
classes not as yet quite clearly defined;
while the tulip is simplicity itself, except
when it comes to tulip species — there the
botanist comes to the front and no un-
learned ones need apply. Tulips are un-
failing, certain to appear. No coaxing is
necessary, nor do they require special posi-
tions. They may, for instance, grow
among peonies; they are delightful, as was
suggested some years ago by a writer in
THe GARDEN MAGAZINE among grapes.
While the narcissus may not flourish among
peonies because of the amount of manure
needed by the latter, tulips come gloriously
forth. The question was put to me some
time since by Mr. Miller, as to the prob-
ability of injury to or failure of narcissus
when planted among peonies, on account
of the amount of manure generally used
among such roots, the statement made
originally, I believe, by some English
writer. May I give here the opinion of an
English authority on daffodils in his own
words?

“As to daffodils among peonies — well,
if you don’t get manure (new) among their
roots, and only top dress with farm yard
or stable manure, using bone meal under-
ground, I think many daffodils would do
very well: but you should try them from
more places than one when you buy. Like
humans and others, a rich diet coming on
top of a long drawn out poor one upsets
matters.”

Crocus collecting, judging from what Mr.
E. Augustus Bowles writes of it, must have
charms indeed. I confess to the germ of
the fever in the shape of several of Mr.
Bowles’s delightfully readable articles safely
put away in a letter file. Each time I take
these out to re-read them, I grow a little
weaker: and by next July when fresh lists
of crocus species lay their fatal hand upon
me, I expect to be a crocus-bed-ridden
invalid indeed!

The Dwarf Tomato and the Small Garden—By Stephen N. Green, 0

GETTING THE MOST FROM THE GARDEN—SOME VERY GOOD REASONS WHY THE DWARF
TYPE IS THE BETTER FOR THE HOME GARDEN—A COMPARISON OF ACTUAL YIELDS

HE most un-
ruly member
in the average
garden is the
tomato. Indeed
young stocky
plants set in
rows beside'beets,
radishes and corn
look fine for a
time, but soon
the tomato gets
its roots into the
rich soil and be-
gins to “grow.”
Oh, yes, it grows!
_ It falls over and
blocks cultivation and is a tangle of vines
extending four to six feet each way. Very
few seem to have the patience to stake, tie
and prune the vines. It takes time and
skill and is not the most pleasant job to
properly train the tomato and so it is
usually a disgrace to the otherwise well
kept garden. It is in the small home
garden that the dwarf tomato shines.
The dwarf tomato is of very recent
origin. The original plant is supposed to
have been found as a “sport” in a field of
vining tomatoes near Chateau de Laye,
France, in 1862. From this one plant, by
selection and crossing has descended all
our present varieties of dwarfs. Quoting
Prof. Bailey, ““This curious race came sud-
denly, without premonition, and the same
thing ‘has not originated a second time.”
The dwarf tomato listed by our seeds-
men to-day may be divided into two groups,
classed according to size of fruit, into
“small” and “large” kinds. The former
type may be represented by the old Dwarf
Champion and the later by the Dwarf

Dwarf and ordinary to-
mato plants at trans-
planting time

The cluster of fruits on the large fruited dwarf is
full and compact

Stone or Giant Dwarf. These large fruited
sorts (which will soon be catalogued in all
colors and kinds of foliage) mark a new era
for the dwarf tomato. The dwarf is now
a rival to the old standard tomato. The
small fruited sorts may well be classed as a
curiosity for amateurs to experiment with,
but the large fruited dwarf, equal in every
respect in size and other good qualities of
the tall tomato, makes it worthy of con-
sideration by the up-to-date gardener.
Then to, the dwarf has quite a number of
points of excellence above the older kinds.

If you should ask the average gardener
how to grow the dwarf tomato, his reply
would doubtless be — “‘just like any other
tomato.” This is partly right; but this
kind of an answer does not satisfy the care-
ful gardener, because there is such an ap-
parent difference in their growth, and this
alone should make considerable difference
in their cultivation and management.

The advantages of the dwarf plant are
many, and more apparent as they are care-
fully studied. The moment the dwarf
appears above the ground in the seed box,
it attracts attention by its sturdy stocky
growth. ‘This growth allows closer plant-
ing of rows and longer standing in the seed
box without injury. Dwarf plants are
much easier to handle when transplanting;
and again, in the transplanting bed, may be
set closer and allowed to stand longer than
is possible with tall varieties. This saving
of space and allowing more latitude in sea-
son is very Important to greenhousemen
and there is less danger of injury to the
plant from neglect that it usually receives
from the small grower.

This attractive plant growth has created
a special demand for the dwarfs, so that
you can now find them on sale by the most
progressive growers. I know of a gardener
who grew nice potted dwarf plants and
retailed them at 25 cents each, seemingly on
the strength of their splendid appearance.
The small grower will find a ready market
for such a novelty and will be able to add
considerably to his profits by its sale.

The dwarf plant fits perfectly into the
scheme of the village or city garden or small
farm, where space is valuable and rows are
placed close together. The dwarf plants
stand upright until heavily loaded with
fruit while the standard tomato begins at
once to vine and soon clogs up the narrow
row and gives the garden an unsightly
appearance unless considerable expense
and labor is taken to train them up.

Even in the usual field culture the large
fruited dwarf is being grown by some of the
largest commercial growers and as soon as
its special advantages are known its plant
ing will, I am sure, become general. The
dwarf plant carries better in transplanting,
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compact growth allows cultivation to be
begun at once and extend longer than with
the vining sorts.

On an average soil the dwarf plant can
be planted as close as (if not closer, than)
24 x 35 feet where the usual distance of
4 x 4 feet is given the tall sorts, this allow-
ing nearly double the number of plants to
the acre, or a ratio of 8.73 to 16. This
point of close planting is very important
when growing dwarfs is considered. What
this means in total yield is best shown in the
following table which gives actual yield of
the Dwarf Giant as compared to the average
of six of the best tall kinds in a careful field
test where every precaution was taken to
insure accuracy.

Yield Plants Yield
per plant per acre. per acre.
“Dwarf Giant ” 5-9 4978 585 bu.
Aver. 6 best tall varieties 8.1 2722 440 bu.
Gain in total yield per acre in favor
of Giant Dwarf............ 145 bu.

This plainly proves that the total yield
of a plant may be less but the total yield
from an acre can be greatly increased by the
use of the large fruited dwarf tomato and
no loss in size or appearance of fruit.

Close planting is the secret of success
with dwarf tomatoes. The additional cost
of plants and their setting is far over-
balanced by the greater total yields. As
land becomes higher prices the gardener
must get greater returns.

In general the cultivation of the dwarf
is the same in the field as the tall sorts.
Thorough cultivation is one of the secrets

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You can comfortably plant dwarf tomatoes in pots.
Note the relatively large size of the fruit

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of successful tomato culture.
Never allow a crust to form
on the ground, but always
maintain what is called the
“dust mulch.” Needless to
say this is not obtained by two
or three cultivations a season.
Cultivation should follow
every rain that lays the dust.
Right here a good word may
again be said in favor of the
dwarf plant. Because of the
“build” of the plant cultiva-
tion can begin as soon as trans-
planted and kept up much
later than with the ordinary
varieties and the upright
plants allow much closer culti-
vation to the plant and both
ways of the row so that weeds
can be kept better in check
and less expensive hand work
required. The moisture is
thus better maintained in the
soil and with the tomato, soil
moisture is an important fac-
tor. It has been said that
“cultivation is manure” so
the dwarf has the advantage
in this respect.

However cultivation is not
manure in the sense of adding
more fertility to the soil, it
only releases a part that would
otherwise be unavailable. The
gardener must apply manure
and commercial fertilizers if
the largest crops are to be
expected. In raising dwarfs
I have found a liberal appli-
cation of nitrate of soda to be
very profitable. This fertili-
zer should be used heavily
only where the soil has re-
ceived a heavy application of manure, or
other food elements are found that will
balance it. It can be sown broadcast near,
but not on the plants at the rate of 200 to
400 pounds per acre, this amount to be

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applied in two or three different lots during
the growing season of the plant. Nitrate
of soda used in small gardens should not be
applied in quantities of over an ounce per
plant as excessive amounts are injurious.

Though individual dwarf plants yield less than individual tall ones, yet the yield
to a given area is greater because you can plant nearly twice as many

May, 1912

This chemical is a very con-
centrated food and care should
be taken in its use. If your
soil is only of moderate fertil-
ity, be sure to balance the
nitrate with the other food
elements, or the results will
be disastrous. Nitrate of soda
seems to stimulate plant
growth and bring fruit to
earlier maturity.

Another point I have found
of value in growing dwarfs is
the practice of mulching the
soil with manure or straw.
This is applied at last culti-
vation and is always a good
investment. The growth of
the dwarf plant allows this at
the proper season, thus an-
other advantage over the tall
sort. Mulching while adding
fertility to the soil tends to
keep the moisture in the soil
at the time it is most needed
and as the tomato is ashal-
low rooting plant this is most
important. It also aids in
keeping the fruit clean if the
plant is not staked.

The dwarf is much easier to
stake and train than the tall
sorts. So much stake is not
required and much less prun-
ing, or tieing.

The convenience of picking
the dwarf tomato is very
marked. The fruit is bunched
closer to the centre of the plant
and quickly found. ‘There is
no hunting around in a tangle
of vines to find a tomato and
one has to cover less territory
to pick a bushel.

Once in the basket you cannot tell
the “dwarf” from the “tall”; unless
over the average tomato it is firmer,
better flavored and the fruits average
better in size.

Planting Retaining Walls—By Warren J. Chandler, %%

THE NEW IDEA IN WALL GARDENING—MAKING THE PLANTS COMFORTABLE BY CONSTRUCT-
ING THE WALL WITH ROOT ROOM AND PROPER SOIL—PLANTS THAT MAY BE USED

Leak aes gardening consists not
alone in one’s ability to get plants
to grow but also in converting surroundings
into a harmonious whole by judicious
selection of materials to fit the special loca-
tions. The accompanying photograph,
showing how a most necessary retaining
wall was made use of, illustrates this idea.
Retaining walls are essential where steep
grades are encountered, and the problem
has been how to make them as attractive
as possible by planting.

The simplest method is to plant at the
base of the walls self-clinging vines like
Boston or Japanese ivy (Ampelopsis

Veitchii), Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis
quinquefolia), English ivy (Hedera Helix),
the evergreen Euonymus radicans and others
of similar habit. A variant of this is seen
in the planting of trailing plants at the top
of the wall, allowing them to drape its face.
These might include such things as
Wichuraiana rose and its many hybrids,
the snowberry, drooping golden bell (For-
sythia suspensa), etc.

Though the effects from such plantings
are good, yet they are not characteristic,
merely repeating what is seen elsewhere,
in quite different situations.

The opportunity is presented for a dis-

tinct type of garden effect by utilizing the
actual face of the wall and planting directly
on it, between the stones, specially selected
plants. To get the best results from this
scheme the plan should have been in mind
at the time of constructing the wall, building
it with a view to the plants’ requirements.

Success depends on good soil and suffi-
cient moisture. To secure these two
essentials, the following suggestions will be
found helpful: Build the wall slowly,
setting the rocks carefully. Place the
first layer a little below the level, and
spread some good garden soil over it to
the depth of three to four inches.

May, 1912

At this point, if plants are procurable,
they should be planted at points where
crevices will be formed when the next layer
of rocks is set. To prevent the roots of
these plants from becoming crushed by the
rocks which are placed on top, place a
couple of small stones on each side of the
roots of each plant. Trail the roots back
just so far as they will go so as to insure
their firm hold of the soil, and prevent their
unduly drying out. At the same time see
that the rocks of each tier incline back-
ward, thus directing the drainage to the rear
of the wall and so conserving moisture.

In the setting of each layer, see that the
surface of the wall recedes. This will avert
toppling in the event of settling, which
usually occurs.

The soil in the pockets should at all times
extend back to that at the rear of the wall,
or it will become too dry to support the
plants. Actual connection with the sup-
porting soil ensures a constant supply
of at least some moisture.

Be careful in striving to satisfy the plants,
needs that the wall is not weakened. The
pockets where the plants are set should not
be too large, and as there will be some set-
tling the rocks must be selected with some
intelligence, and again in placing them.

This method of construction and planting

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may not only be applied to retaining walls
but is as practical for use in constructing
steps leading up from rock gardens, sunken
gardens, dells, etc.

The best side for a wall to be planted in
this way is seldom a matter of control, but
when we have a northeastern or north-
western exposure, or any intermediate
point, we may count ourselves lucky as
success is then assured. Some slight shade
is also desirable. A specimen tree or two,
of spreading character, will give protection
to some of the shade-loving plants, which
may be grouped at a point where they will
enjoy the advantage.

The ultimate success of a wall garden
depends on the selection of the plants used.
It is impractical to consider any but those
belonging to the rock garden group— plants
which do not make a rank growth and
require quantities of moisture and soil.
Of such there is a large assortment from
which to choose.

To classify them most satisfactorily a
grouping according to color is best, as the
periods of bloom are not extended over
long seasons, the majority flowering in
the spring and early summer. The follow-
ing are among the most easily grown:

WuitE FLowers.— Early in April,
almost before the snow has left us, the white

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moss pink (Phlox subulata, var. alba) is in
full flower, making a carpet of pure white.
At about the same time the rock cress
(Arabis albida) and snow-in-summer (Cer-
astium tomentosum) are giving forth quan-
tities of flowers of the snowiest white.
These are both low-growing plants. The
popular hardy candytuft (/beris sempervi-
rens) it is almost superfluous to name —
everyone knows it.

PINK AND Rep FLOWERS. — Foremost
in this color group comes the true moss pink
(Phlox subulata). This is a splendid car-
peting plant. Better get its improved va-
riety rosea, however, because of its pure
color and because of the multitude of oth-
ers that run into sickly magenta-maroon.

Before this is to be seen, however, some
of the saxifrages send up their brave cluster
of fragrant pink flowers. Frequently the
flowers open while the snow is yet on the
ground.

All the epimediums that flower in April
and May are satisfactory, being dwarf
in habit. They come in pink and white.

From June on until fall, the crown vetch
(Coronilla vera) displays its lovely pink
flower heads. It is at its best of course in
June.

One almost wonders how the soapwort
(Saponaria ocymoides) can bear so many

Build it with ample soil pockets and plant rockery-plants in the interstices

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flowers and yet continue to grow. The
plant in July is almost smothered with its
pink blossoms. It does not grow over six
inches high.

Heuchera sanguinea, well named coral
bells (which is better, by far, than the other
popular name of alum root), has bright coral
flowers borne on long stems resembling
lilies-of-the-valley.

The livid red flowers of Callirhoé involu-
crata are larger than those of the usual rock
plant and they continue from July until
October, which alone makes it a desirable
thing.

YELLOW FLoweErs.—First to mind comes
the English primrose (Primula vulgaris)
with its pale sulphur yellow flowers in April
and May and the attractive clump of pleas-
ing foliage.

For bright effects the compact, hardy
alyssum is quite useful. The Iceland pop-
pies must not be forgotten. These come
in white and yellow and bear their delicate
flowers on graceful stems. All summer long
they give forth a wealth of bloom.

Where most moisture is to be had plant
the double buttercup (Ranunculus acris,
var. fl. pl.) and not only have the benefit of
the beautiful flowers but the glossy foliage
as well.

Though you may not admire the cactus
leaf, put in some plants of Opuntia Rafines-

wall. At Nantucket, Mass.

qui and the large bright yellow blossoms
will repay you in their season.

The large-flowered evening primrose
(Oenothera Missouriensis) must not be over-
looked. The blossoms frequently measure
three to four inches in diameter.

Lotus corniculatus will be a pleasure to
many because of its wealth of globular
flower heads. It blooms all summer and
frequently into the fall and never gets
much over six inches high.

Lastly in the yellows are the stonecrops
— many of them — for details of which see
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE for January, 1912.

BiuE FLowers. — Blue flowers are not
over plentiful and are really absent in the
early part of the season. In June and July
the dwarf blue aster (A ster alpinus) displays
its large, showy flowers.

Though a little difficult to get established
in exposed positions, the leadwort (Cera-
tostigma plumbaginoides) is well worth a
trial, and its foliage alone is worth while.

The dwarf growing veronicas should not
be overlooked, those which are especially
worth being V. rupestris, flowering in May;
V. circaeoides and V. spicata, var. nana, in
June; and V. candida in June and July.
The last named has silvery foliage.

Various Cotors. — The columbines are
true rock-loving plants and can be had in
almost all colors. Of the most desirable,

alate:

The way to treat an ordinary boundary wall, without soil to back it, is by vines to clamber over it, English ivy, growing in

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Aquilegia chrysantha is the best yellow;
A. cerulea, blue; A. vulgaris, var. alba, and
A. flabellata, var. nana alba, whites. Red
with yellow centre is seen in A. Canadensis.

Many of the real dwarf irises are quite
satisfactory for use.

Teucrium Canadense deserves to be
planted for its beautiful foliage which is
rich and glossy and almost evergreen.

If you are drawn to plants with history
do not overlook the famous edelweiss of the
Alps (Gnaphalium leontopodium). It will
do almost anywhere among the rocks.

Frerns.—There is a rich lot of material
here, for the more shaded portions of the
wall. The tall-growing forms are available
at the base of the wall, such as the cinnamon
and ostrich ferns.. In among the rocks may
be planted the maidenhair, the brakes and
the polypods.

One final word: look well to the condition
of the plants for the first season. Make
sure that they are getting the water they
need; be on guard lest a drought strike
before they gain a foothold.

It is always possible, indeed practical,
to supplement the original planting by a
sowing of seeds of some good rock plants
the spring following. These will tend to
find intervening crevices which are often
impossible to plant at the time the wall
is being built.

Flowers for a Light, Dry Soil—By Gladys Hyatt Sinclair, §:

Mich-

THRIFTY, SHOWY FLOWERS THAT WILL GIVE THEIR BEST IN SANDY SOILS, WITHOUT EXTRA FEED-

ING, AND THAT DO

17 Sie women and children there are
who love flowers and would willingly
work for them, yet give up because their
garden soil is poor and lacks water.
To the ordinary garden rich soil and water
are necessary. It is folly to try to grow
roses and lilies, dahlias and chrysanthe-
mums in light, dry sand. But there are a
few plants that revel in just such a situa-
tion; and more that, while preferring easier
circumstances, make an excellent best of
what they can get in the way of food and
water. Since perennial plants are so much
fuller of comfort than annuals it is fortu-
nate that the list of ask-but-littles holds
twenty perennials to ten annuals.

To begin at the front of the border and
the front of the season: among perennials
that do not care to live high, rock cress
(Arabis alpina is the earliest, coming into
its white sheet of bloom just after the snow
goes. It grows in spinster-neat tufts about
six inches high and its little four-petalled
blossoms are as welcome as the robins.

For edging paths, planting around pools
or seats or bird baths where mowing is
annoying, or for carpeting poor ground in
shady places, use “myrtle,” the periwinkle
with clean, shining evergreen leaves and
lavender blue flowers that come so early.
In rich land this plant is apt to become a
nuisance in time, as dwellers on old places
in Maryland can testify. But it is a boon
to the poor-soil garden.

If you want a silver leaved plant that
will fend for itself and draw water from a
desert use woolly leaved chickweed (Ceras-
tium tomentosum). It is often misused
in perennial carpet bedding but is really
excellent to outline with where grass will
not grow, edge a walk or bound a flower
bed or border. It grows less than six
inches high; and though its white, oxalis-
like blossoms come later, it grows bright
and pretty with the first warm days.

Doronicum is a taller April bloomer.
Leopard’s bane is an old name for it. Its
long-petalled golden yellow “daisies” on
eighteen inch stalks are beautiful massed
in the garden or cut for the house. Daisy
formed flowers are plentiful later, but they
are few in early spring so these are especially
valuable.

The prettiest carpet weaver of May is
moss pink (Phlox subulata). It has im-
proved much in the hybridizer’s hands. The
old magenta has given place to a really
delicate pink variety, rosea. It creeps
close to the ground and blankets itself with
bloom in early spring after the hardy, dainty
fashion of the old sort.

Two worthy white varieties are alba and
Nelsoni. Just back of this should grow
the clove pinks. They flourish in light soil,
making beautiful gray foliage all summer
and spicy blossoms that last well into June.

NOT DEMAND CONSTANT ATTENTION — SOME

The improved sorts from seedsmen are
lovely and fragrant but ii one wants the true
old clove pinks of grandmother’s days it
is best to get a few roots or a handful of
seed from some old garden.

Behind pinks in the garden of May plant
German iris. It will do well in sand.
There are many varieties in blue, white
and yellow, all beautifully marked. They
stay in bloom all through the month and
ask but little, though grateful for the suds
on wash day in blooming time. To make
a fine show they should be set in clumps.
Back of these or among them set lupines.
They are lilac-blue, and planted in masses
are more effective in May than many things
more pretentious. Sturdy, free-blooming
and showy, they are well worth planting
where food and water are scarce.

Sweet rockets make good in the garden
of limited resources. Their sizable heads
of white or lavender flowers stretch up in
showy groups, last a long time and are
valuable because they will bloom in shade
as well as sun. Another May bloomer that
asks little and gives much is valerian —
the old sort with large pinkish white heads
of tiny flowers that will perfume a whole
house. It grows three feet high and I have
seen it hold its own behind German iris and
bloom in utter neglect for years. Cultivated
and given room, it increases rapidly.

If there is a gravelly place where nothing
else that is pretty will grow, a hot bank that
refuses to entertain aught but sand burrs,
plant bishop’s weed (A°gopodium). Its

The wild cucumber will quickly cover a fence or
trellis and flowers freely in summer

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THINGS YOU CAN SOW NOW

green and cream, three-partite leaves as
large as those of a maple grow six inches
high and completely cover the ground. It
makes pretty edgings too, but must be
strictly disciplined to keep it within bounds.
This little plant is, in a way, quite curious
and interesting. It seems to be hardly
known nowadays, and is spoken of but in
few books or catalogues. Yet it is in all
really old-time gardens and seems to carry
the atmosphere of the Colonial with it.
Perhaps its variegations in these days of
pure taste have rung its knell.

Thrift (Armeria) is a June blooming
edger that will grow in poor soil as well as
in rich, and is very pretty. Its prim ever-
green tufts make a good defence against
grass and its bunches of pink or white flow-
ers, something like single geranium blossoms
come, off and on, from June to September.
Sweet Williams are favorites in the June
garden and make a fine display if good colors
are chosen and thickly set. The rich reds,
clear whites and red-and-whites are espe-
cially good.

Beside them grow Shasta daisies. Don’t
be afraid of the name — not only are they
three times as large as their grandmothers
of the field, but they have developed home
keeping traits, that must astonish their
relatives. About of the same height is a
June blooming soapwort that does well
in sandy gardens, Saponaria officinalis or
bouncing Bet. Don’t judge it by the
scraggy wild specimens you see competing
with burdock and June grass. It responds
wonderfully to room and cultivation and
the double form is as beautiful as the
choicest stocks.

Two of our annuals join the procession
in June — nasturtiums and California pop-
pies. Nasturtiums will give more flowers
in poor soil than elsewhere and they run to
leaves when watered too freely. They are
excellent for children’s gardens; the little
ones like to pick their flowers. An edging
of dwarf nasturtiums sown of two colors,
say bright red and cream, is much finer
than a mixture. Plant six inches apart
early in May.

For a low-growing, self-sowing, cheer-
bringing riot of yellow and white, sow
California poppies. Their finely cut gray
leaves are beautiful, their flowers are limit-
less if seed pods are picked and the blos-
soms are lovely in bowls, opening morning
after morning. Like all the poppy family
they are very hard to transplant success-
fully, and should be sown early.

July brings the true poppies in gorgeous
array to the garden of limits. Poppies are
short of season; three weeks see their com-
ing and going; but they are brilliant weeks,
and anything in annuals prettier or daintier
than a bed of Shirley poppies is yet to be
found. Scattering seed among perennial

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May, 1912

German iris will flower year after year with ever so
little encouragement

plants is a good way to have poppies with
no bare spaces afterward; or the pink and
white ones can be grown with blue corn-
flowers (bachelor’s buttons). The corn-
flowers go on blooming until cold weather.
Sow poppies and cornflowers as thinly as
possible, just as early as the ground can be
worked.

Among annual vines for poor soil, morn-
ing glories and wild cucumber (Echinocystis
lobata) are the best. They will grow any-
where, anyhow, and furnish shade or a

pretty screen by the Fourth of July. Both
do better if sown in the fall.
In front of poppies sow godetias. They

are of poppy-like bloom, satiny of texture,
in reds, pinks and whites. They make
bushy little plants about a foot high and
do best in poor soil, beginning in July to
bloom all summer. Beside these, annual
pinks are really charming things to grow;
so generous of bloom. Sown in April or
May, they bloom from early July till snow
and often live over winter.

Portulaca is the ground cover to bloom
from July till frost and one of the best

A New Way of Beautifying Large Buildings — By Wilhelm Miller,

Plant Shirley poppies in mixture for light colors.
They are not easily transplanted

annuals for garden color. Refusing to
grow in rich soil, it will riot over the hottest,
driest, sandiest spot in a blaze of yellow,
white, red and pink; its single and double
rose-like flowers closing their petals at
night but laughing open again to meet the
sun. Portulaca should be sown late in
May when the ground is thoroughly warm,
where it is to bloom as it does not like
transplanting. Early sowing in cold ground
only wastes the seed.

Of perennial plants for this month, hardy
coreopsis should be grown behind perennial
gaillardias. Both are open yellow flowers
on the daisy order, the gaillardias marked
with maroon. The petals are broad and
notched and the flowers very showy. Both
are hardy foragers, content with little.
The gaillardias will go on blooming till snow.

July brings the yucca’s bloom to the
sterile garden and no more stately thing
blooms anywhere. Its spiky, tropical,
evergreen leaves are decorative the year
round and its four-foot candelabra-stalks of
waxy creamy bells like miniature magnolia
blooms are magically beautiful.

Adam’s needle (Yucca) thrives on dry, hot soils.
It is essentially a desert plant

Pardanthus, called blackberry lily be-
cause its seeds look like blackberries, is
showy in July and August. Like most of
the plants mentioned here, it can be easily
raised from seed which can be sown as soon
as ripe or in early spring.

August will find pinks, portulaca, ar-
meria, California poppies, gaillardias, nas-
turtiums and godetias at their best in the
garden of not-much-riches, and will add
annual chrysanthemums.

Hardy asters bloom lavishly in Sep-
tember and October, growing from eighteen
inches to six feet high, according to kind.
They succeed in any soil. White, all
shades of lavender and purple and many
blues are represented in named varieties
and it cannot be denied that very late
flowers are as much treasured as very early
ones.

Hardy asters are best planted with
goldenrod against fences or buildings at
the very back of a border. If set thickly,
they make an October show that surprises
every one and furnishes flowers for decora-
tions by the armful.

New
York

PLANT SHRUBBERY NEAR THE WALL, NOT AGAINST IT — EASIER TO HANDLE COAL, PAINTING, WIN-
DOWS, AND SNOW, GIVES LIGHT TO THE BASEMENT, PREVENTS DAMPNESS, AND LOOKS BETTER

PE old way of beautifying large
buildings, such as schools and fac-
tories, is to plant shrubbery against the
walls. The up-to-date method is to plant
the shrubs away from the walls. The new
idea was worked out by Mr. Harlan P.
Kelsey, landscape architect, for a state
normal school at Salem, Mass.

The practical advantages claimed for the
new plan are that coal, painting, windows,
and snow are easier to handle, the base-
ment gets more light and air, dampness

is prevented; and areas are more easily
kept clean and sanitary.

It is important to be able to get close to
large buildings with wagons, and the new
method provides a wide space, shown in
Fig. 1, which may save the expense of
bringing in coal by hand. Driveways are
usually eyesores, yet one like this can be
hidden almost completely from the side-
walk. Piping and conduits entering and
leaving the building are usually difficult
to locate when overgrown with plants

and even more difficult to open and re-
pair properly. Everyone who uses a gar-
den hose will appreciate what it means to
be able to reach the sill-cocks with ease
and do the watering from the inside.

In the case of wooden buildings the new
method has decided advantages, for wood
has to be repainted at frequent intervals,
and expense is reduced if the painters do
not have to clamber over and around
bushes. Moreover, shrubs planted directly
against a frame building tend to make a

May, 1912

house rather damp, especially on the north
and west sides, because shrubbery holds
moisture after a rain longer than bare, well
drained soil and sometimes prevents ade-
quate ventilation of basements. For the
health of patients it is important that
hospitals should be dry and airy about
the foundations — not damp and close.
Again, wood tends to decay, when subject
to freezing and thawing, especially when
wet. Shrubs planted next to a wall catch
the drip and hold their wetness directly
against the wood.

The snow problem becomes more im-
portant the farther north one goes, and
even in the Middle States, it is sometimes
necessary to pitch heavy loads off the roof.
Under the old arrangement, the snowfalls on
the sidewalk and has to be handled again,
or it falls on the shrubbery and breaks the
bushes. By the new arrangement, the snow
falls on a grassy space, where it may usually
be left without rehandling or without flood-
ing the cellar when it melts.

Now, let us consider beauty. The ob-
ject of planting shrubbery against a wall
is to make a transition between architec-
ture and nature. The essence of the prob-
lem is to hide the right angle made by wall
and lawn. This angle and the straight
foundation line are, somehow, two of the
ugliest facts with which a landscape de-
signer has to deal. Now, if you plant your
shrubbery ten feet away from the wall, it
serves to connect architecture and nature
quite as well as by the old method, as you
can see by Fig. 3, which shows the effect
from the sidewalk. Notice how the shrub-
bery blends with the vines. The new idea
does not do away with vines on the wall,
for they are often more important than
trees in hiding ugliness and connecting the
building with the landscape.

Indeed, the new arrangement looks bet-
ter than the old, because the shrubbery
beds seem wider than they did before.
Look at the shrubbery masses and you
get the impression of a border twelve to
sixteen feet wide, yet the border may be

me

Fig. 2. Before planting. showing what violence every large new building, no
matter how good, does to the landscape until trees, vines and shrubs are
planted in such a way as to connect architecture and nature

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only six feet wide. Here again is a saving
of plants, top soil, manure and labor if
you can get the depth and richness of a
sixteen-foot border by planting only six
feet.

Moreover, the new arrangement adds
a garden to the grounds without additional
cost. For example, consider the row of
lilacs in Fig. 1. Teachers and scholars
now have a lilac walk, which is far prettier
than if the same number of lilacs were
crowded against the wall. Both sides of
the bushes can now be seen, instead of one.
And, instead of a hard, narrow, artificial
path, there is a broad, pleasant, nature-
like strip of lawn to walk upon. Imagine,
how beautiful it must be when the lilacs
are in bloom!

Fig. 1. The new way of beautifying large build-
ings by planting shrubbery away from the wall

instead of against it, Lilacs at right. Ampelopsis
Engelmanni on walls, Forsythia intermedia at left.
From the street these lilacs look as if they were
planted against the wall

245

Important as these improvements are

they suggest something else far more
important, viz., every large building

ought to have a comprehensive plan of
its outdoor surroundings made by a first-
class landscape architect. It is the
only way to provide for every conve-
nience and to harmonize every outdoor
feature.

For example, the biggest fact about a
big building, as a rule, is that it makes a
frightful discord with the landscape. Take
this school building in Salem for example.
I dare say it is all that a school should be
as to architecture and management, and
probably the people of Salem swell with
honest pride whenever they see its huge
bulk, but to me it is a big yellow blotch on
the landscape. The reason why big new
buildings look painfully crude and raw is
that they make a violent contrast with
their environment. The first thing to do
is plant vines, because vines will grow high
more quickly than trees. Moreover, even
mature trees can only hide ugliness, while
vines have the power of transmuting ugli-
ness into beauty. The chief vine on this
building is Englemann’s creeper (Ampelop-
sis Engelmanni), which was introduced to
cultivation by Mr. Kelsey. This grows more
quickly than the common Virginia creeper
(A. quinquefolia) and is showier in autumn
because the foliage turns scarlet instead
of claret. And notice particularly that it
is a perfect “‘clinger” to smooth brick,
stone or concrete surfaces while its proto-
type the Virginia creeper has undeveloped
discs which are too weak to support the
vine in this manner.

The truth is that the only right way to
finance a large building is to allow about ten
per cent. of the total cost for outdoor
features. Then, before you choose the
architect or buy your land, call in your
landscape architect because his judgment
on sites and finances is invaluable. Then
you may have ground enough to give a
building dignity; convenient drives and
walks, instead of meaningless serpentine

Fig. 3. View from the street, showing how the shrubbery seems to be planted
against the wall. In reality there is a wide, grassy passageway which admits light
and air to the basement windows and gives the children a pleasant garden walk

246

curves; and a place of beauty which chil-
dren will love all their lives and which will
eventually make our coming citizens as
loyal to primary, secondary and vocational
schools as they now are to colleges. And
is not this principle just as important with
respect to its effect on inmates of hospitals,
asylums and even corrective institutions?
Then you will have money enough to buy
top soil and manure enough to make trees
and shrubs grow happily instead of sulking.
All honor to the men who gave Mr. Kelsey
the opportunity to create these beau-
tiful grounds, because they have done
so much better than most school boards,
yet how much better everything could
have been done, if planned from the
beginning, instead of being an _ after-
thought, because the funds are then totally
inadequate!

There is nothing new about screening
unsightly objects. Every landscape archi-
tect will try to do that every time. But
it is very pleasant to see on the borders of
these grounds a lusty plantation of poplars,
willows, locusts, sumachs and Hercules’
club. And it is better still to see these
quick, cheap plants used as nurses for
nobler and longer-lived, but slower-grow-
ing trees, such as pines, oaks, and thorn
apples.

The ‘‘turn around” is a problem which
is not satisfactorily solved once in a
thousand times. Flowers and _ bedding
plants are too trivial. Trees are usually
objectionable when they hide the curve
because a horse thinks he is going into a
blind alley and gets frightened. Fig. 4
shows one of the best turn arounds I have
ever seen. It has mass enough to support
the building, and is interesting the year
round. The bulk of the planting is ever-

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green, the centre being composed of
Rhododendron maximum and Catawbiense.
There are a few hybrid rhododendrons in
front of these to give variety of color.
Azalea Vaseyi and arborescens have the
advantage of this evergreen background.
The bed is edged with yellow-root (Xan-
thorrhiza apiifolia) to keep the children out.
The fillers are tall yellow iris (vis Pseu-
dacorus) and lilies (Lilium superbum, Can-
adense, and speciosum).

Tam sure that Mr. Kelsey loves children,
because he has provided a note of welcome
for them when school begins. It is not
practical to have a lot of flowers in the
school yard in September, as a rule. Some
faithful teachers inspire their children to
raise flowers around the base of the build-
ing, but that is no place for flowers. Drip
is bad enough, but the main reason is
that flowers cannot hide the foundation
line and they are too small to give any
support to a large building. Shrubbery is
more dignified, costs less to maintain, and
the bushes with attractive berries will pro-
vide enough of color in autumn and winter
to give that note of cheery welcome which
every schoolyard in the land should radiate.
Photography cannot show these berries
well. Fig. 5, indicates only one of many
shrubs with brightly colored fruits — the
snowberry. When I saw this school in
September, attractive bits of color were
furnished by such berries as these:

Aronia arbutifolia, scarlet.

Aronia nigra, black.

Japanese dogwood (Berberis Thunbergit),
red.

Dutch honeysuckle (Lonicera Belgica),
red.

Snowberry (Symphoricarpos racemosus),
white.

Fig. 4. A better turn-around than flowers or trees.

with lilies and irises as fillers.

Attractive the year round and helps

Rhododendrons and azaleas edged with yellow root,

““support”’ the building

May, 1912

Fig. 5. A note of welcome when school begins is
given by shrubs with brightly colored berries, e. g.,
snowberry (Symphoricarpos racemosus)

Highbush cranberry (Viburnum Opulus),
red.

Arrow-wood (V. dentatum), blue.

-Wrinkled rose (Rosa rugosa), red.

Winterberry (J/ex verticillata), scarlet.

Regel’s privet (Ligustrum Ibota, var.
Regelianum), blue.

Panicled dogwood (Cornus paniculata),
white.

Rhodotypus
brown.

In addition to these I noticed a double
row of Viburnum tomentosum, which is
designed to make almost a covered walk.
This bush has showy white flowers in May,
followed in September by interesting red
berries that turn black.

Mr. Kelsey is not entirely opposed to
using shrubs against buildings. Indeed,
he uses Forsythia intermedia as a feature oa
the walls of this school, planting entirely
around the building between basement
windows and areas. Of course, yellow
flowers would not show well against a
yellow building and therefore he provided
an evergreen background by the free use
of Euonymus radicans, a vine which is
hardier than English ivy and bears red
berries that last all winter. Forsythia
intermedia is one of the best plants to plant
against a wall because it takes as little
room as a vine and has both upright and
arching lines, the former harmonizing with
architecture, while the latter bend over to
meet the grass. The marvellous shower
of golden bells in early April from such a
liberal planting of Forsythia makes a warm
good-bye to vigorous winter and a joyous
promise and welcome of spring.

It takes an expert to harmonize all the
necessary and beautiful outdoor features.
A school board cannot do it. It pays to
have a first-class landscape gardener, for
it is the only satisfactory way, and in the
end it is the cheapest.

(Rhodotypos kerrioides),

Be Your Own Plant Doctor—By H. H. Whetzel,

Plant Pathologist,
Cornell University

A NEW KIND OF TABLE, DESIGNED TO HELP THE AMATEUR TO RECOGNIZE THE COMMONER
DISEASES AFFECTING HIS PLANTS, SO THAT HE MAY APPLY THE PROPER REMEDY PROMPTLY

{[Eprrors’ Note.— The
tables, or ‘‘spray calendars,”
working from the known to the unknown,

description of the cause; and from these the name of the disease is arrived at.
A synopsis of remedies and their modes of preparation follow the tables.

measures.

following tables are unique.
assume an acquaintance with what may be causing the trouble or disease.
First of all the plant is given, then the gross apparent character of the trouble, the time of observation, and the general
The remaining columns tell of the immediaie remedies and general preventive
A similar table, prepared by Dr. E. P. Fell, and covering the insects,

was given in THE GARDEN MaAGazINE for May, 1909, page 221.]

RACTICALLY every plant is injured
more or less by parasitic fungi, but not
in every case is the resulting loss sufficient to
warrant the expenditure of time and money
for its prevention. For this reason the fol-
lowing tables are not absolutely compre-
hensive, and it is probable that the grower
will notice on his plants lesions of a type
not described in them. However, there will
be little loss and no cause for alarm in most
of these cases. The tables treat of all the
important diseases of the plants listed, and
the control measures recommended are in
every case those which have in actual prac-
tice proven most efficient and at the same
time least troublesome and expensive. For
lack of space in the column labeled “‘control
measures” very little detail could be given,
but the full data is given on page 256.

It is one thing to know what fungicide
to use, and another to know just how to
make and exactly when and how to apply
it. The tables will supply the first.
Fungicides, more often than insecticides,
are used primarily to prevent injury, rather
than to cure that which has already taken

place. In other words the fungicide serves
as a protecting armor to the plant.

In many cases after the fungus once
gains entrance to the host it is too late and
absolutely useless to spray. However,
in a few cases this is not true. The
powdery mildews of roses, hops, lilac,
cherry, etc., live for the most part on the
outer surface of the leaves and can be
entirely destroyed (even after they have
attached themselves) by spraying with po-
tassium sulphide or dusting with sulphur.

Not all methods of disease control have
to do with spraying. Pruning out of
diseased parts, seed treatment, soil sterili-
zation, crop rotation, application of various
substances to soil, drainage, complete
eradication of alternating host plants,
destruction of insects carrying disease
germs, etc., are some of the other remedies.

In the above tables no superfluous pre-
cautions are suggested and the grower
will find it necessary to follow the direc-
tions closely if he hopes to get good results.
In many cases the delaying of the appli-
cation of a spray for a day will render it

DISEASES OF VEGETABLES

Nothing of the kind has yet been put before the gardener in such an easily wnderstood way.

Most
In the present case the remedy is arrived at by

wholly useless. For this reason the imple-
ments for spraying should be always in
condition for use, and the application of a
spray on short notice should be possible.
No grower who hopes to obtain clean crops
should fail to have in readiness the means
for combatting the many fungus foes which
are sure to assail his crops.

The owner of the small garden and most
amateurs to whom gardening is merely a
relaxation and a side issue, will find it
much to their advantage to rely upon the
ready prepared articles which are espe-
cially manufactured for their needs.

These proprietary articles are made from
definite formulas and although they may be,
in some cases, somewhat less efficient,
volume per volume, than the freshly pre-
pared article, still their convenience and
their known efficiency justify their use.
In some cases, particularly with some of the
tobacco extract preparations and other
contact poisons that are used for insects,
the ready prepared commercial article
will be found distinctly superior to the home-
made.

PLANT SYMPTOMS TIME DISEASE CONTROL MEASURES REMARKS
Asparagus..| Reddish or. black pustules on] Summer and] Rust... ... Spray with bordeaux 5-5-50, containing a] Fertilize and cultivate thor-
stem and branches........... autumn. . sticker of resin-sal soda soap, once or twice] oughly. During cutting season
aaRWiee ky alls east eins sees tenors aictetessrciexeleacs permit no plants to mature
along road way, etc.
Beaneee. 53. Circular, brown or purplish spots] Summer. ...| Anthracnose} Plant clean seed obtained by sorting for ab-| Spray when plants first appear,
on pods, stems and leaves... . solutely clean pods. Spray with bordeaux] when first pair of leaves are
aS aay ORS Peet Piers wn Pres ees yah ccc seas he expanded and when _ pods
have set.
Bea: =<... Large dead spots on leaves.| Summer....| Blight (bac-| Spray with bordeaux as for anthracnose..... Difficult to control.
Watery spots on pods......... terial)
SCF Te ate alee Rusty spots on leaves........ Summer and} Rust....... Burn old leaves and vines each year........... Plant resistant varieties.
autumn. . =
Rene. Sones White moldy growth on pods} Summer....| Root and] Good drainage, liming of soil. In greenhouse} Not of sufficient importance to
and at base of stem........ stem-rot. . sterilization of soil with formation.......... arate soil treatment in
the field.
IS Dae Circular spots on leaves, with} Summer and] Leaf-spot...} Spray early with bordeaux s5-s—so. After-| Most important disease of the
gray centre and purple border. autumn. . Weil QUERY Wen GRRE oossobctscovxcd0done beet.
IEC popebad Base of leaves black, root rotted] Summer and] Root-rot ...} Good drainage and liming of soil reeommended.| No satisfactory treatment.
and cracked at crown......... autumn. .
CUS tee, ors Warty and scabby spots on} Summer and] Scab....... IPracticeRcropeLotationner reer art ae: No treatment effective.
MOUS omeccodcacsurohgopoeae autumn. .
Cabbageand| Leaves yellow, then black on} Early part| Black-rot|] Treat seed in mercuric bichloride 1~1000 for} Plant on clean soil, practice
cauliflower} margin, later fal! off. Heads} of season (bacterial) DAG Me TTAIT egeree payee bore ictoreSc (esha Saree te care ed crop rotation.
TOE VOMMNSS 5 Souoconusoaoues up to ma-
tunity ss:
Cabbageand| Plants stunted and unhealthy] From _ seed] Club-root...} Plant only healthy plants, use no manure con-| If necessary to use infected land
caulitlower| looking, roots much deformed. bed to taining cabbage refuse. Practice crop ro- apply lime 2-5 tons to acre
time of tation. Avoid clubbed plants for trans-| previous fall or earlier.
maturing. PLAnitin Caer ease sake erat teins his eve ele
Celery......| Yellowish spotted leaves. Often] Early sum-| Early blight] Spray with ammoniacal copper carbonate] Destroy diseased plants and re-
MO SCEUMMEAS Se eiye alenetelere crests WAGs 5 one 6-3-45, make about eight applications, begin fuse. Spray often enough to
when plants are in seed bed............. keep new growth covered.
Celery 7 Yellowish, spotted leaves. Often| Late sum-| Late-blight .! Spray as for early blight, but continue to] Have good drainage.
BW SEOLAP Ca menace pve sisctete tise LLG Loree lnAInTeSUINe WES oconcro MoobosocGoneaeaUUe
Cucumber. .| Yellow leaves later drying up. .| About fruit-| Downy mil-] Spray with bordeaux 5-5-5o, every two] Burn diseased plants in fall.
ing time .| dew (“‘the]| weeks from time plants begin to run.......
blight’’). . =

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248 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE May,1912
DISEASES OF VEGETABLES — Continued
PLANT SYMPTOMS TIME DISEASE CONTROL MEASURES REMARKS
Cucumber..| Plants wilt down rapidly....... Throughout | Wilt (bacte-| Destroy striped cucumber beetles, or spray] Gather and burn all wilted leaves
growing| fial)...... with bordeaux 5-5~-so, to drive beetles out.) and vines at once.
season ...
Lettuce ....| Sudden wilting of plants, espe-| Throughout] Drop...... Steam sterilize soil to depth of two inches or| If sterilization not feasible, use
cially in greenhouses ......... growing sea- MOTE: eer ear ee eee clean soil.
SON): Sjiae
QOnionee-eee Wilted plants, gray mildew on} When plants] Mildew... .| Spray with bordeaux 5-5-50, begin when} Repeat spraying every ten days.
LEAVES! asec cones Seale AO me are half plants show three leaves: ...............- Add sticker to spray.
grown to
time of
maturity -
Ontonteseee Black pustules on leaves and] Throughout] Smut... ... Practice crop rotation. Drill into rows when} Onions from sets planted in
pul bsieys sere yee ee eee season ... planting seed, sulphur and lime, equal parts} clean soil rarely suffer.
Otonmalingsolutions = see eee
rotatos acer Scabbyqmicubelsaee eee eee During grow] Scab....... Treat tubers before cutting in formalin solu-| Plant in clean soil. Avoid for
ing season tion, 1 pt. to 30 gal. water for 2 hours........ several years diseased land.
Do not lime potato land.
Potato......} Leaves spotted and blackened.| A b o u t| Late blight} Spray with bordeaux 5-5-5so. Begin when] Make about seven applications.
Tubers show dry rot ......... blooming plants are six inches high and repeat every
time Aug. tenidays see Use cleamtubelssi eee
and Sept.
Potato .....| Small brown spots showing con-} Throughout] Early blight} Spray as for late blight...................... Plant resistant varieties.
centric rings on leaves. ....... season ...
Rotatoyneee Falling over and wilting of tops.| Throughout] Dry-rot ....| Select seed which shows no brown ring, treat] Burn all diseased and discarded
Tubers show brown ring at] season... as for scab and plant in clean soil........... tubers.
cutting across stemend.......
Tomato..... Numerous minute angular spots} About mid-) Leaf-spot...] Spray with bordeaux 5—5—so every week or] Stake and tie up When setting
ONWleaVeSsee ane aes ee summer. . ten days from time plants are set out........ out seedlings pinch off lower
leaves.
TEENS ce occ Plants stunted and unhealthy,) During sea-| Club root. ..| Same as for club root of cabbage above........ Application of lime several years
the roots much deformed...... SOnM cer: ahead of planting best.
hurnipseeee Soft slimy rot of root........... Inautumn .| Soft-rot} Plant resistant varieties; practice crop ro-| White turnip more susceptible
(bacterial) CatiOD 15.28 ee ee eee PEE than yellow.
Sweet potato] In seedlings black spots on roots] Growingsea-| Black-rot. . .| Practice rotation of crops . Avoid diseased] Have dry conditions in storage.
and stems. Badly rotted old] son...... Toots /asnseed ase poratameeee
TOOES see ya neni ee ee tees
Squash..... Plants wilting down rapidly.. ... Growingsea-| Wilt (bacte-| Spray with bordeaux 5—s—so, to drive away] Gather and burn all wilted leaves
SOG See GIL) See MESS ON AMINES; o5scccanseousecgongsescse and vines at once.
Squash..... Yellow leaves, later drying up....| Summer. ...| Downy mil-] Spray as for downy mildew of cucumbers. ..... Destroy all dead plant parts in
dew....:. fall.
DISEASES OF SMALL FRUITS
PLANT SYMPTOMS TIME DISEASE CONTROL MEASURES REMARKS
Cranberry..}| Numerous red galls on surface} Spring and} Scald...... Withhold water from plants during winter... . .
Ofsplan tints eae na mies summer. .
Currant ....| Leaves spotted, turn yellow and] Late spring] Anthracnose] Spray 3-5 times with bordeaux mixture] If currant worms present add
al eae at ocean etins au Baa /nicho and summer 5-5-50. Beginning as soon as leaves ap-| paris green, r lb. to roo gals., or
| OLCS7) Ne ce ere a ee Art eer egy cr 3 arsenate of lead, 2 Ibs. to 50 gals.
Currant....| Leaves spotted, spots lighter! Late spring] Leaf blight] Spray with ammoniacal copper carbonate] Afterward use bordeaux 5-5-5o.
COloriin CANE cocscecosescac and sum- rag Ga WeIRVESIECL 6 occ ecedsccocsuoess
RNG cease
Currant ....| Leaves rusted on under side... .. Summer Rustico Destroy currant leaves and neighboring white] Disease not yet common in this
PINE) coco pee ae eed ey co ee ieee Ree country.
Currant ....) Canes showing dead and dis-| Summer Cane-blight | Begin when plants are small, and cut out and] Go over plantation three or four
Colloyryel AWS. coseoccdnodsur purnvalliidiseasedicanesae eee eae times every summer.
Gooseberry | Fruit and leaves covered with] Summer....| Mildew. ....| Begin when buds are opening and spray with] Land should be well drained,
dirty, white} moldi=ss--- ea: potassium sulphide every 7-10 days until] kept free of weeds, and have
fruitsis; gathered Sac. (er. does ode oon circulation of air.
Grapes Spots resembling birds’ eyes on] Early sum-] Anthracnose} Before buds open apply strong iron sulphate] Later spray with bordeaux
young leaves and berries...... Mens ee solution. Repeat after three or four days 555% and burn diseased
wood.
Grape:eea- spots on leaves yellow above,] Summer. ...} Downy- Spray with bordeaux 4-4-50 before rains be-| Spots on leaves are indefinite in
with white mildew below. ..... mildew...| ginning about time fruit sets............... outline, and turn dark brown.
Leaves fall early.
Grapenerree Circular brown spots on leaves} Spring and] Black-rot. ..| Spray with bordeaux 4-4-50 when third leaf} Spray with ammoniacal copper
and berries, later turning} Mid- has expanded, when fruit is set, repeat every} carbonate when fruit is nearly
black. Berries shrivel but do} summer. . 2 or 3 weeks until fruit is nearly full grown. . . mature.
notsfall ora ee
Grapeneeee|: White mildew on leaves and} M idsum-| Powdery mil-| Dust with flowers of sulphur, use machine... . . Often causes shedding of fruit.
PLU SEEMSy eee Mtoe sec dewansea
Raspberry | Bright orange-colored powdery} Spring... .. Orange rust| Dig and burn all diseased plants as quickly] No spraying treatment valuable.
and SHOUSOMEAWES, 55 s6¢cagcuse- asi discovered! iso hsten te ccc: noeiue ey cae
blackberry
Raspberry Small purple spots on canes,| Summer. ...| Anthracnose] Before buds open strong iron sulphate solution] After buds open bordeaux 4-4-50
and later turning gray, sinking and cutout diseased!caneS = 32.0. ..8. ss oer every two weeks.
blackberry imandicrackingsey see ae
Raspberry Large, irregular knots on the] Summer and] Crown gall. | Never set plants on infested lands, nor set} No treatment. Plants should
and roots and at the crown under-| autumn. .| (bacterial) plants showing root-knots...........-..... be carefully inspected before
blackberry) |meecnound spear sete eee planting.
Strawberry.] Spots on leaves, red or purple] Spring and] Leaf-blight | Spray with bordeaux mixture 1, when growth] Mow and burn leaves just after

with white centre when old.

summer. .

begins, 2, when first fruits are setting, and
ahiiee idee ION osu ogo ouuol oueneo.

fruiting season.

May, 1912

THE

GARDEN MAGAZINE

DISEASES OF ORCHARD TREES

249

TIME DISEASE

CONTROL MEASURES

REMARKS

PLANT SYMPTOMS
ADPIE:. c=. Brown spots on leaves and black
scabby spots on fruit... .......
Apple....... Blighting, wilting and blacken-
ing of leaves and tips of shoots.
Cankers on limbs, bark de-
ECSSEC chains secre donsiwvacsnrareianches
Apple....... Black rough cankers on limbs
and trunk. Bark cracked
open, and is swollen out.....
Apple... 2% Cankers on limbs and _ trunk.
Bark dead, fallen away; wound
marked by concentric callouses
Apple....... Circular brown pits on fruit......
APPleon <.<.2/e.< Circular brown spots on fruit.
Spots when old with minute
black elevations at centre... ..
LS) eee Fruit at ‘first with brown spots.
Later black and rotten. Scab
/\y0) he a See Scab like blotches on fruit
Brown specks on leaves.......
AD pIeS 2 2 =: Yellow spots on leaves, rusty
DELO Wenev acter metal ccos ean aise
Apricot..... Fruit rotten and covered with
brown powdery mold.........
Gherry. ....| Black knots on limbs.........
Cherry. ....| Fruit rotten and covered with
brown powdery mold.........
Cherry. ....| Leaves covered with reddish
brown spots, fall prematurely.
Cherry. ....| Leaves reddish, wrinkled, curled;
witches brooms on limbs.....
Cherry. ....| Leaves curl and show white
raalhy mall. - peccounseouns ae
Peachy. =... - Fruit rotten and covered with
brown powdery mold.........
each: .2 7: : Leaves distorted and curled,
dropping in early summer... ..
FES Te aoe Sickly yellow leaves, prematurely
: MOC! WA oy coecosueoadsn
Peaches. --: Dark blotches on fruit, some-
HMeSmera CKEG a nmey en yaere ter
each... 2. =. White mildew on leaves and
Ie CHKSZ tors be eh Alene eae ence oh ROO Ene 7
eaten .c Leaves blacken, fruit remains
on, twigs killed, cankers on
limbsvand trunks eee ae oe
eat ss 6. Brown spots on leaves and
scabby cracked fruit..........
eat 2 Spots with dull red centre on
leaves, red to brown spots on
RULER a ner Roe oe
Beate 2: Yellow spots on leaves, yellow
horn-like projections beneath. .
| PCH er casieas Small angular spots with whitish
GEROKS OM IEBES oo oecsecoss
Plame 22 :... Black knots on limbs and twigs . .
HM Byes Fruit rotten and covered with
brown powdering mold......
Bleisn oie cs Leaves with small reddish brown
spots and falling prematurely.
Bhiniys2:.: Leaves wilting and black, twigs
Jal ake & oyras cas choca hae ea
limi. Fruit badly deformed and stunted
Plum: 2.- Leaves showing dirty white,

mealy mold, and curling... |

Summer and] Scab fun-} Spray with lime-sulphur 1-40 or bordeaux

autumn. .

Summer....] Fire — blight

(bacterial)

Summer. ...] N. Y. apple

tree can-

Summer. ...} European
apple tree
canker. . .

Baldwin
fruit pit
or “‘stip-
ON” ooce

Baldwin

fruit spot.

Autumn....

Autumn...

Summer. ...| Bitter-rot.. .

Summer. ...} Apple blotch
Spring and] Rust.......
summer .
Summer. ...| Brown rot. .
Summer. ...] Black-knot. :
Summer. ...} Brown-rot..
Summer. ...} Leaf-spot. ..
Summer. ...] Witches
broom...
Summer. .. .| Powdery mil-
dewAneeer
Summer and} Brown-rot. .
fall ees ae
Spring... .. Leaf-curl...
Spring and} Yellows....
summer. .
Spring and] Scab.......
summer....
Spring and] Mildew... .
summer. .
Spring and] Fire blight
summer. . (bacterial)
Summer and} Scab.......
autumn. .
Summer.. .}| Leaf blight..
Spring and] Rust.......
summer. .
Summer. ...| Leafspot...
Summer....} Black knot
Summer. ...| Brown-rot. .
Summer. .. .| Leaf-spot. ..
Spring andj Fire blight
summer (bacterial)
Spring... .. Plum _ pock-
Aigicocads
Summer Powdery mil-
ewer

3-3-50. Add arsenate of lead to either
(2-3 Ibs to 50 gal.) as insecticide............

Make systematic inspection of trees several
times a week during growing season, prune
out and destroy all blighted twigs, disin-
fect with corrosive sublimate and paint with
gastar. (Not profitable on old trees) ......

Avoid injury to bark. All.cankers should be
pruned out, cut surfaces disinfected and
painted over with gas tar. Spray in spring
before buds open with lime-sulphur 1-9. ... .

Avoid injury to bark, treat all cenkers as
AD OV. Creates tom ee icaes laste lati mua aan meiatapoeet

This is a physiological trouble, and no treat-
ment has proven effective. ................

Spray with bordeaux 4—4-50 beginning when
fruit is half grown. Baldwin especially
SUSCED LID ese riemer te arca yc eee cores

Spray with bordeaux 4-4-5090, first about forty
days after petals fall, then every two weeks. .

Spray as for bitter-rot
Destroy all neighboring juniper trees..........

Plant resistant varieties. Spray with self-boiled
lime-sulphur (Scott formula) 8-8—50, to which
is added arsenate of lead, 2 tbs. to sogals....

Prune out and burn all knots before leaves
AYOVOCLVE Mi KOAING 5 oconndscsoncaspaaaccg0s

Sameasonchenwabovense rece aaeerie ee

Spray with lime-sulphur 1-40 or bordeaux
EEStor a cris CGO RS eC cre i
Prune out and burn all witches’ brooms. Spray
WAIN lOIREEATION G—F—FoO, osu cobeccacnscana0s
Dust heavily with sulphur or spray with
potassium sulphide 1 oz. to 3 gals. water. ....
SAME AS MOMCHELAVRA DOVE dase ween ae eee

Spray trees once before buds swell with lime
sulphur 1-9 or bordeaux 5-5-50............
Dig out and burn all diseased trees as soon
ASNCISCOMeLe Caters ete eas serie amacer a aeceer
Spray with Scott’s self-boiled lime-sulphur
8-8-50 as for brown-rot.................

Spray with potassium sulphide, or dust with
SUP MUTE eek ee pees arena avatar
Inspect every few days, beginning when blos-
soms fall. Cut out and disinfect all cuts
with corrosive sublimate I-1000. ..........
Spray as for apple scab above................

SHON? AS WOW ERIE SCD, oo odooccodgccs0c00nds

Destroy all neighboring juniper trees..........
SORA AS wOr EAP SCADs oocacsocaccdocconus

Prune out and burn all knots before leaves
AVOCA i SHINY, acouscusousvovodoces0n"

Spray with lime-sulphur (Scott’s self-boiled
8-8-so containing arsenate of lead 2 lbs.
to 50 gals.)

Spray with self boiled lime-sulphur or bordeaux
3-3-50. Make first application ten days
gic loloscoanss vile 3 oo cocondeaucnouseude

Spray trees once before buds begin to swell
Wailea) (pyeyelenbb< GFF), os aocceocuvcovocdgs
Spray with potassium sulphide 1 oz. to 3 gals.
WHEE cadovoocrbbonpotoocaogeourooDonyaed

Spray 1, before buds open and as
they are swelling (lime-sul-
phur 1-9). 2, as blossom buds
open. 3, after petals fall. 4, ten
or fourteen days later.

Remove all cankers on limbs
with a sharp knife, disinfect
and paint over. Cut well
below infection in every case.

When spraying soak body and
limbs. This disease common
on Twenty Ounce.

Paint over at once all injuries
from hail, etc.

Most common on Baldwin, also
on Twenty Ounce Pippin,
King and Spy.

Early sprays are not necessary
for this disease alone. Most
common in New England.

Tissue of fruit near decayed
portion bitter. Cankers on
limbs sometimes found.

A destructive disease through-
out Southwest.

No other treatment
mended.

Spray first about time shucks are
shedding from young fruit.
Make 3 applications to days
apart.

See that knots are removed from
all plum and cherry trees in
neighborhood.

Peach, apricot, and plum also
affected.

recom-

Make four applications. First
as shucks are falling.
Make two applications, first

just as buds swell.
Often serious in nursery stock.

Use Scott’s self-boiled lime-
sulphur.
Easily controlled by this one
spray.

No other means of control.

Avoid low sites, remove wind
breaks, prune to give free ac-
cess of air.

Commonly found only on young
nursery stock.

The disease is even more severe
on pears than on apples.

Especially severe on Flemish
Beauty.

Disease also attacks quince.

No other treatment.

Bartlett very susceptible, Kieffer
immune.

Remove all similar knots from
neighboring cultivated or wild
cherry or plums.

Make three applications first
about time shucks are falling
from young fruit. Other appli-
cations at intervals of three
weeks.

Do not spray Japanese plums
with bordeaux.

This disease not common on
plum.
Other applications of little value.

Not often as serious on plums
as on cherry.

250 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE May, 1912
DISEASES OF ORCHARD TREES — Continued
PLANT SYMPTOMS TIME DISEASE CONTROL MEASURES REMARKS
Quinces....] Blighting, wilting and blackening] Spring and} Fire blight] Same as for fire blight of apple; see preceeding] This disease very common also
of leaves. Tips of shoots die} | summer.. (bacterial) | ypages ana so eae eee ee Or ree on apple and pear.
@uincessee- Round reddish brown spots on} Summer and| Leaf and | Spray with bordeaux 3-3-50 as for apple] Spray three times during season
leaveseandeinultanemeremeiaee autumn. . fruit. spot. SCA Het ci rene es ee oy Sa a hee ee
Quince Fruit rotting, covered with minute] Summer and| Black-rot. ..| Spray early in spring before buds burst with,| Prune, clean out, disinfect and
pimples. Cankers on limbs.. . autumn. . [breaS GEllNIe TA, sec ceccedssnegocsue se paint over cankers.
@Ouincesacer Yellow spots on leaves, rusted) Spring and) Rust....... Destroy all neighboring juniper trees......... No other treatment necessary.
below. Fruit also with bright summer. .
yellow, mealy rust...........
DISEASES OF ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS AND VINES
PLANT SYMPTOMS TIME DISEASE CONTROL MEASURES REMARKS
Barberry ...| Yellow, somewhat swollen spots} Summer....] Rust....... Spray with bordeaux as soon as leaves have} The rust on wheat, oats, etc. is
on leaves with little cups on expandeds.-7.2i%c 4 hes s,s eho EE Oe another stage of this fungus.
Winer GOW; ccopsbecocetooscc
Five-leaf ivy] Dirty white mildew on leaves,| Summer and] Powdery, Apply flowers of sulphur to vine. Use hand} Spraying with potassium sul-
(Virginia with minute black dots in| autumn.. mildew... dustingemachinesee peer Pies eee phide, 1 oz. to 3 gals. water,
creeper) MAINS 6 Sooocseoatoovsadee also recommended.
Five-leaf ivy} Circular dark spots on leaves. .. .| Summer and] Leaf-spot...| Spray with bordeaux 4-4—50 beginning when] Boston ivy also attacked.
autumn. . leaves have expanded. Gather and burn
leaves and fruit in autumn.
eilace eee Dirty gray mildew on leaves,) Summer and| Powdery) Spray with potassium sulphide, 1 oz. to 3 gal.| Destroy leaves in autumn.
numerous minute black dots} autumn. . mildew... water, or dust with sulphur, hand duster... . .
InZaUtumM Der eee eee
Hawthorn..| Wilting and blackening of tips| Spring and] Fire blight) Prune out blighted branches 6 to 8 inches be-| Disinfect all cut surfaces with
of shoots and leaves. Cankers| summer..| (bacterial) low evidences of disease, and burn. Go corrosive sublimate sol. 1—-
on limbs or trunk........... over trees carefully and often............ tooo. Paint over with gas tar.
Hawthorn ..| Yellow, swollen spots on leaves.) Spring and} Rust....... Destroy all neighboring juniper trees as fungus} No spraying treatment recom-
summer. . winters) onv theses 5 ieee eros mended. Seldom destructive.
Rhodo- Rust spots on under surface of| Late sum-| Rust....... Destroy all neighboring fir trees.............. No treatment known.
dendron|ipleaviess=) eee eee eee eeee meLeeeee
Rose....... Dirty gray mildew on leaves...| Summer Mildew... .| For greenhouse roses keep pipes painted with| Outside roses should be dusted
paste made of equal parts of lime and sul-|_ with sulphur or sprayed with
phur) with! waters. <3 coo ace eee ee potassium sulphide 1 oz. to 3
gals. water.
ROSS copedc Leaves with black spots, falling) Summerand} Black leaf) Spray with bordeaux 5-5-5o. Make first] Repeat spraying two or three
ena, oo ccccaccoctce: autumn. . spot... .. application as soon as spots appear... ...... times at intervals of ten days.
Destroy leaves in autumn.
DISEASES OF THE FLOWER GARDEN
PLANT SYMPTOMS TIME DISEASE CONTROL MEASURES REMARKS
ASter seta. So little is known and literatureJon subject solindefinite, no/recommendation is attempted.
Carnation ..| Soft rot of stem below surface] Spring and] Stem-rot In field change location of plants annually.| Avoid over watering. Stir soil
OLNSOLL one eee Oe summer. .|(Rhizoctonia) njbenchysterthizessol] Sree eae et annenaee often.
Carnation ..| Plants die slowly, branch at a] Summer....} Stem-rot Same as for Rhizoctonia stem-rot............. Often serious in greenhouse.
LIME se eee en ee iarea ae (Fusarium)
Carnation ..| Brown, powdery pustules on| D uri n g} Rust....... Spray with copper sulphate, 1 fb. to 20 gals.| Take cuttings only from healthy
StemlandileaveSsae erent e growing water. Use resistant varieties............ plants.
season ...
Carnation ..}| Round gray spots on stem and ase green|-sleat-spote. | ssalme sass tOGMmnUS bee erect err eee terete eens Keep foliage free from moisture.
JEaVES Nati Aiscehcrer ee ee ouse. ...
Chrysan- Small round spots on leaves ..... In green-| Leaf-spot...] Spray with bordeaux 5—5—5o0 every ten days.! Ammoniacal copper carbonate
themum.. house... less effective.
Chrysan- Brown, rusty spots on leaves.....} In green-| Rust ..... Samevas) for leaf’ spotiecsen oe eerie Avoid wetting foliage when
themum.. house. . . watering.
Gladiolus ..}| Yellow leaves, rotted bulbs...... In | storage] Bulb-rot....| Plant only healthy bulbs, practice crop rota-| Application of lime to soil may
most evi- 11 (0) | eRe A cary A te ee Cara Der ur oe prove beneficial.
Genter
Hollyhock..| Red and brown swollen spots on| All season..| Rust ...... Spray with bordeaux 4-4-50 throughout sea-| In late fall destroy all diseased
leaves and petioles.......... SOD) sh estatecteas «eevee etree asc tiee Oren eet parts
Hollyhock..} Dead brown spots on leaves and) Summer and} Anthracnose] Spray as for rust.......................... Plant resistant variet
petioles;sacee 7d fee ayaa autumn ..
Larkspur ...| So little is known and literature]so indefinite |no recommen|dation is attempted.
Reonyaererr Unopened buds turn brown and] Spring... .. Botrytis Thorough spraying with bordeaux as soon as| Fungous disease.
failitoopeniann ce meee ees bud rot.. leaves and buds appear...................
CONV arr: Rather small, dark, dead spots] Summer....}] Leaf and | Spray with bordeaux before spots appear.... . Tungous disease.
in leaves and stems, often stem spot
With ered bord eGunaeen eer
EOI coone Large areas in leaves turn brown] Usually af-| Botrytis leaf| Spray thoroughly as for bud rot, repeating] Fungous disease.
Eh iXG (Gl emer aat's Guo ina sO Oc ter blos-| blight.... again after blossoming..................
soming
timnen en
IPnloxmererr Leaves, stem and blossom clus-| Summer and] Mildew ....| Spray with potassium sulphide, 1 oz to 3 gals.| Cut and destroy diseased tops in
ters coated with white mildew,| fall...... Dust with sulphur as.soon as disease begins} autumn.
later turning brown and dying. CO JAPPEATe Ach. coere nc wleleeic ee ote ere eenee ecrer
Wiole ties Plants stunted, roots abnormal] In — green-| Root-rot ...| Sterilize soil or use new soil. Thoroughly) Maintain proper moisture con-
AG pinkawithinw seen ee house... draineand seul envatenrta creer eererene ditions.
Wioléteesnce Circular spots on leaves......... In green-| Leaf spot...] Spray with ammoniacal copper carbonate .....

grafting; cleft grafting; side grafting; whip grafting

Grafting and Budding

Whip grafting, the commonest way. On
the left the graft has been tied and waxed

HE average amateur looks upon the
process of grafting with wonder and
admiration, as something that is apart
from him, and only for a specially trained
specialist. As a matter of fact, I know of
no branch of the gentle art of gardening
that offers more fascination as a recreation
to the busy man, for there is no arduous
labor involved and the interest in achieve-
ment is keen. It is work for the special-
ist if speed is a consideration, but other-
wise it merely needs the attention to
detail that can be given by any intelligent
person.

Grafting (and budding is essentially the
same), is the transferring of a small
part of the top of one plant to another’s
roots and in such a way that the live tissues
just under the bark in each case are brought
into close contact. That’s the place of
union, and the only one.

The reasons for grafting, or budding,
may be many. Certain varieties of
fruits, for example, bear better when graft-
ed on to some stock which retards their
own rank growth of wood and throws this
energy into fruit production; on the other
hand, it may be desirable, in some cases,
to graft on to a stock with an extensive
root system to induce rank growth. Graft-
ing offers one means of restoring to vigor
old orchards, by working over the old tops
to newer and better varieties of more recent
introductions. To the nursery-man graft-
ing is a necessity, as it enables him to more
quickly work up a stock of some new or
desirable sort; he can cut up into many
pieces the growth of his one specimen and
get each piece to grow as a separate plant
by joining it to the roots of an allied, but
inferior, variety. Thus he sows apple
seeds and grafts the seedlings with cions
taken from a selected tree of known quality.
All the named kinds of our orchard fruits
are thus propagated. His seedlings would

for the Amateur
By W. C. McCollom, i:

be a much mixed lot of unknown, and
most likely undesirable crabs.

Trees and shrubs which are sometimes
not hardy enough to stand winters in
some locations can be made to endure
by grafting on some stock with a hardier
root system. A great many novel (and
freak) forms can be had by grafting. The
“tree” rose and all other “standards” of
strange forms, the Camperdown elm, the
weeping mulberry, etc.

You cannot graft trees and shurbs indis-
criminately, however. The stock and cion
must have a natural relationship. In other
words, you cannot graft an apple on a
maple tree, but we can (and do) graft a
pear on the quince, to keep it dwarf; a
peach on the plum, to gain hardiness; and
lilac on privet, because it is an easy way
to increase a stock, and privet is cheap.

The amateur, by grafting, may enrich
his collection of varieties and keep right
up to date; any one will exchange cuttings
with you.

There are several well recognized methods
of grafting employed, each one having its
good and bad points and each one its special

Oleft grafting. The stock should be about two
inches in diameter. Use a sharp knife or chisel

Q51

Cleft grafting, after the wax has been
poured on the grafts

advocates. But the condition of the plant
is, after all, more important. The one to
be used as the stock must be healthy and
vigorous. It need not necessarily be a
rank, heavy grower, but it must be in good
health, because the cions must gather from
it what nutrition is necessary for their up-
keep until a union is established. Always
graft with a purpose in view. You can
graft six different apples on one tree, if
you must, but in the long run it will not
be for the best because of the different
periods of ripening. Better have six dif-
ferent dwarfs of the kind described in last
month’s GARDEN MAGAZINE.

The time of year when the grafting is
done is important; spring is preferable for
all ordinary work. The proper time is
immediately before growth starts (with me
that is April rst to 15th). I have known it
done earlier and while the advocates of
such early work claim that the graft gets
a better start, there is also the danger of
the wood shriveling because of drying
winds and the limited amount of sap avail-
able. Watch the condition of the tree to
be grafted and graft just as the buds start
to swell. The flow of sap is then good and
strong, and a quick union will result. Bud-
ding can be done at almost any time when
good mature buds are available, there
being so little necessary for the upkeep of
the bud. But, even so, spring and early fall
(September) are the accepted time.

Grafting and budding in the greenhouse
can be done at any time of the year because
it is possible to give each plant separate
treatment and the conditions that are
essential; but in all cases mature wood,
which has been retarded, must be used,
or in other words, the stock must be farther
advanced in growth than the cion.

In selecting the cions select stock that is
a good average size and healthy. The wood
should not be abnormal in any way; if so,

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it is apt to shrivel too quickly — before it
gets support from its new source. It should
also not be unduly hard as it then takes
considerably longer to establish a union.
The cions may be gathered in the fall
and put away in a cool cellar in sand or
damp moss to keep them from shrivelling.
This is what the nurseryman does, and
when any great amount of grafting is to
be done, I think it is the really practical
method. But we are not all so far sighted,
and very often we do not think of grafting
until spring comes. You can have just as
much success from spring planted cions.
Cut the cion early in the spring — as early
in the spring as possible — but even if they
are not gathered until a couple of weeks
before grafting time they will be all right.
But they must be gathered before the buds
swell, and then buried to retard them.
There are special grafting tools, but they
are not necessities. The most important
instrument is a good sharp knife. If you
have any budding to do use a budding
knife; the knife used must be sharp and
cut clean. I carry a very small oil stone
with me and whet my knife occasionally.
For cleft grafting you also need a chisel
and a mallet or hammer for splitting the
stock. The chisel also must be sharp so
that a clean cut is made and no rough
jagged edges are left on either stock or cion.
Grafting wax and tying material are also
necessary. Raffa is the best material for
tying and it canbe secured at any seed store.
The wax can also be bought, but if you
prefer to make your own this is how to do
it: Melt together 1 pound of tallow, 2
pounds beeswax, and 2 pounds resin. Pour
the melted liquid in some vessel and when
partly hardened it should be pulled until
it works freely. It can then be put away
until wanted for use. When using wax for

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cleft grafts, I always heat it until it is a
liquid and pour it on the graft. It then
fills all crevices.

When top working a tree of any size,
size up the tree before you start. Then
ascend the tree and cut off the branches
where you intend to graft. Cut off enough
to have a good symmetrical tree after the
grafts take; because after the grafts take
it will be necessary to gradually remove all
other growth. This takes from two to
three seasons with a large tree. Cut the
branches back until you have about two
inches of wood to work the graftson. After
you have cut off all the branches upon
which you intend to graft, split them with
the chisel in the centre and down about
three inches from the top. Place a wedge
in each to keep it open and then place your
cions in position, one on each side. The
cions should have been previously shaped
and if they don’t fit perfectly, shape them
again. Don’t be careless about this, as
it is very important. The bark of the cion
and stock must fit together perfectly, and
the scion should extend at least one and a
half inches into the stock. Im setting the
cions be sure to get a bud just below the
top of the stock and although this will be
covered with wax it is the most promising
bud of the lot and will push its way right
through the wax. Cut off the cion three
buds above the graft and then cover with
wax. Pour the wax right in the cavity of
the stock and cover the outside with wax.
The wax can be partly hardened for this
and worked on with the hands, which should
be greased with lard. This cleft grafting
is, I think, the only practical method for
top-working old trees.

Whip grafting is perhaps the most
generally practical method of grafting as
it ensures a perfect union because both

May, 1912

stock and cion are the same size; in cleft
grafting the woody parts never unite.

For whip grafting select cions the same
size as the stock and cut through each
diagonally. The cut should be about two
inches long and care should be taken that
the bark is not loosened in making the cut.
Place the stock and cion together and tie
securely, after which it should be thorough-
ly covered with wax.

Saddle grafting is very similar to whip
gtafting only in this case a V-shaped chan-
nel is made in the stock and the cion
trimmed on three sides to fit. I see no
advantage in this over the whip grafting,
and it is not so easily done.

Budding is simpler than grafting, it differs
only in that no wood is taken—only the bud
in the centre of a shield of bark. Select
good strong buds which should be cut with
part of the adjoining bark adhering, and
after making a cross-shaped cut in the bark
of the plant to be used as the stock, loosen
the bark with a piece of wood rounded on
the end and made thin, or the end of a
budding knife. Pry open the flaps and
insert the bud. Now tie it securely.
I would advise the beginner to place a lit-
tle wax around the bud to exclude the air.

If it were not for the time involved side
grafting would be more popular, I am sure.
This system makes a good union and if two
sides are grafted at one time it makesa good
practical job. For side grafting the cuts
are made V-shaped, deep at the top and
gradually tapering off to nothing at the
base. Fit the cions perfectly and tie and
wax securely.

After all is made snug an extra precau-
tion that often pays is to cover the stock
with a heavy paper bag until the union: is
formed. This keeps the sun and wind
from shrivelling the bark.

Budding is shown in the left.

that the inside of the bark on the bud lays against the woody part of the stock.
Tight, side grafting showing the shaping and fitting of the parts.

First, bud tied in position.

Note the bud just above the graft.

The separate bud with ‘‘shield’’ of bark is ready for inserting.

In the centre, whip grafting, showing how the parts are tied together.

The flaps of bark on the stock
are turned back by the knife for inserting the bud, The bud should be very thin and have at least three fourths of the wood removed on its inner surface so

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CONDUCTED BY ELLEN Eppy SHAW

Work of the Month

— is a busy month in gardens. It is
the most active time of all in the school
garden. It is possible that some of you
have not yet started your garden work.
Perhaps the garden spot is damp. If so
dig down for two feet and put in several
inches of broken pot or stone. This will
form a drainage area and convert the damp
area into a dry garden spot.

Sowing of seed is really a continuous
performance. This is true because the wise
gardener does not have space lying idle in
the garden. Sohesowsandresows. Seeds
may be classified as small, medium size and
large seed. Small seed, such as lettuce,
should be sown one fourth inch deep;
medium sized seed, as beet seed, one half
inch deep and large seed, like beans one
inch deep. Beans, corn and melons are
usually planted in hills. This is so that
a better and deeper root area may be pro-
duced and be less affected by dry weather.

In order that there may be always a
tender, new crop of lettuce, radish and
carrot, sowings must be made frequently.
When the first lettuce plants appear above
the ground make a second sowing and so
on. Plant radish and carrot seed every
week. Pick radishes when they are about
one half inch in diameter, after that the
radish begins to get pithy and stringy.

Do not plant the seeds of tender vege-
tables until about the middle of May or
until all danger of frost is over. The tender
vegetables are beans, corn, cucumbers,
melons, peppers, pumpkins, squash, sweet
potatoes and tomatoes. About this same
time plant outdoors seeds of Oriental
poppy, phlox, petunia, nasturtium, sun-
flower, aster, balsam and coreopsis.

There are certain things to watch out for
in May. Some day you may see a plant
all collapsed from no cause apparently.
This is the work of our old enemy, the cut-
worm. If some plants get frosted shield
them from the heat of thesun. Spray them
with cold water, this treatment may bring
them to. Never cultivate the garden im-

THE

mediately after a rain. When you see
flower buds appearing on the rose bushes
push things along by watering the plants
once a week with liquid manure. Do this
until color is seen in the bud. Then stop.
When shrubs are through blossoming cut

out all the old wood. Cut this old wood

way down to the ground.

Plant bulbs of cannas and dahlias. An
excellent vine to plant at school is the
gourd. Interesting gourds for children to
raise are the dish cloth, snake, bottle, apple,
and gooseberry. The cucumber and bal-
sam vines are worth the planting.

Would you like a red garden, a brilliant
one too? If you wish to have a dash of
red color appear in April you can have it
by beginning next fall. Plant Artus tulips
next October. They will bloom the follow-
ing April. Shrubs of flowering almond
carry on the effect in May. The Oriental
poppy helps out in June. Hollyhock is a
good one for July. The nasturtiums and
phlox begin their good work too. Firefly
snapdragon is in a blaze of glory in August.
The red-hot poker or tritoma is a good
flower for the September garden and the
Japanese lantern plant shows its red fruit
in October. A part of this effect can be
produced this year.

This month add to the wild flower garden
columbine, lady’s slipper, violet, quaker-
lady and forget-me-not.

St. Mary’s Park School Garden

ayes school garden, occupying a quar-
ter-acre of unimproved park land,
in New York City is under the care of boys
from seven neighboring schools.

The first planting last year was done on
Arbor Day, May sth. One hundred and
eighty-eight boys received a model lesson

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in planting and then each planted his
4x8{ft. plot with seven vegetables. A
few days later a row of flower seeds was
added to each plot.

Late in June three of the four sections
of the garden were cleaned up by the
farmers, each boy proudly displaying his
fine crops to the visitors and then carry-
ing home the results of his labors.

The fourth section was left undis-
turbed, and formed a model for the vaca-
tion school class, which took possession on
July roth.

Plantings in the three sections were
made on July 12th, 14th, and 19th. To
give some idea of the yield in these small
plots, 947 radishes were pulled in one of
the quarter sections, and only one row
of radishes was planted in each plot.

Several plots were devoted to unusual
vegetables, such as okra, sweet potato,
broom corn, flax, peanuts and about ten
other kinds of plants.

The Nature Study Club of the 23rd and
24th districts, of the Bronx, has financed
this garden, space for which was kindly
granted by Park Commissioner Thomas
J. Higgins, formerly a member of the
Board of Education and a great friend
of all school children.

One boy announced that his radishes
brought six cents a bunch, they were so
fresh, and another said a neighbor gave
fifteen cents a head for all the lettuce he
could spare, but his father said it was too
fine to sell.

Two boys of the summer class have urged
their parents to move where they can have
their own gardens and feel confident that
they can keep the household supplied
with several! fresh vegetables.

; ANNA Hitt,
New York City.

Garden Supervisor.

St. Mary’s Park garden (New York City) suggests the use of public land for children’s gardens

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reader.

All that is necessary for the reader to do is to send an inquiry by mail, and every effort will be made to give a

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advice that the editors of the magazine can procure.
We cannot, for instance, undertake work that properly belongs to expert professional

There are some things we cannot do.
We cannot supply plans for garden design or for garden making or for buildings, because this really requires intimate

service.

Through this service each reader of THE GARDEN MacazineE, therefore, has the advantage of the most expert

knowledge of the special conditions and a personal inspection; nor can we make complete planting lists for individual purposes.
We are, however, in such cases ready to give references to people who we think could adequately serve the inquirer.
We are always ready, however, to answer specific questions and to make suggestions regarding garden designs or planting

plans that may be submitted to us.

Vines for fences

I want a clinging evergreen vine that will require
little care and is suitable for permanently covering
a board fence.— H. A. W., New Jersey.
— There is only one vine which will answer these
requirements — the English ivy — and it may not
thrive in the situation you have available. Hall’s
honeysuckle is a hardy, free-growing vine, but it is
not self-supporting.

Ivy on oak trees

English ivy is growing on a few of my specimen
oak trees; in one case it is even up to the top of the
tree. Is there any danger of the trees being lost?
—S. E. P., New Jersey.
— A small tree would certainly be injured by hav-
ing a large vine growing over it, while an ordinary
vine on a large tree would probably do no injury.
There would be no harm to the tree from a moderate
growth of the ivy but do not allow it to grow so
vigorously as to cover all the branches.

Planting privet

How should the soil be prepared for California
privet?-— F. C. E. P., New York.
— In planting California privet dig a deep trench,
put in a layer of manure and then some soil. Place
the plants so that they will stand in the soil two or
three inches deeper than they were originally, and
below the ground level. As cultivation is given
the trench will gradually be filled up.

How vines twine

What is the difference in direction in which hop
vines and bean vines twine? Do all vines twine
in the same direction? — B. W. F., Alabama.
— The hop vine twines in the same direction as
that in which the hands of a clock move. Some
vines twine in one direction, others in another;
but each species always twines in the same direction.
The bean vine twines against the sun and the hop
in the opposite direction.

Supporting vines

What is the most approved method of support-
ing vines, climbing roses, etc.Pp—C. T. H., New
Jersey.
— Vines can be supported by driving staples into
the side of the house. This, of course, does not
apply to the climbing varieties. Roses that are
not too large can be supported in this way; but
for twining vines, the most practical thing is a
trellis of poultry wire stretched on a frame made of
gas pipe.
Dahlia buds dropping off

Why do dahlia buds drop off, breaking close up
to the bud, soon after they commence to grow? —
M. G. T., Maryland.
—The dropping off of dahlia buds is a common
trouble. It is due to some local condition, and in
some regions can be overcome by not planting until
the beginning of July. If the plants are too far
advanced when the extremely hot weather sets in,
they are sure to go wrong.

Trimming roses

How and when ought roses, like the Hermosa, be
trimmed?— G. E., Ohio.
— Prune roses in the spring before growth starts.
Cut back according to requirements. If you want
large flowers, cut back very severely; if you want
a profusion of smaller flowers, thin out rather than
cut back. The rose flowers on new wood and the
stronger you can induce the new wood to grow the
better flowers you will have.

Seeds of perennials

What is the best time to plant perennial seeds
for next year’s blossoming?—A. M. R., Connecticut.
— We prefer to sow perennial seeds in August —
that is, as soon as the seeds are ripe. By waiting
until the following spring the seeds are likely to
become over-dry and germination is slower. Of
course if you sow in August seed which is a year old
you are in a worse predicament than if you had sown
seed in April, because you did not get the necessary
current year’s growth.

Fertilizer facts

What are the comparative merits of manure and

commercial fertilizer? Which is the less expensive
and more beneficial to use on land rented for one
season only, and which has a more lasting effect
on the soil and should be used on land permanently
producing and needing to be worked a second year?
— B. R., New Jersey.
— The question of expense depends on the avail-
ability of the two fertilizers. If you have stock on
the place the manure will certainly be cheaper than
any of the commercial fertilizers at $25 to $40 per
ton. The manure is a balanced fertilizer, con-
taining all three of the elements of plant food —
nitrogen, potash and phosphoric acid — but are
in a less available form than in a commercial
fertilizer and therefore give results more slowly.
On land rented for one season the self-interest
method would be to use a quickly available fer-
tilizer, such as nitrate of soda, muriate of potash,
etc. Crops will immediately assimilate these but
there will be no addition to the fertility of the soil
for the coming year. In using manure the greatest
benefit will be derived by crops sown the second
year after the application of the manure. The
texture of the soil is a factor in determining this.
On light, sandy soils manure will give greater mois-
ture-holding capacity, but the commercial ferti-
lizer will give bigger crops the first season.

Yellow flowers for all summer

I want to have a bed of yellow flowers all sum-
mer. What shall I plant?

New York. AviC 1B:
—For the earliest spring bloom the beds should
have been filled in the fall with bulbs, such as
crocuses and narcissus. These can be left in the
beds all summer. When the flowering season is
past, fresh manure may be lightly forked into the
soil without disturbing the bulbs. Let the leaves
of the bulbs ripen well before they are finally cut
off. The other plants will soon cover the ground,

Address all inquiries to The Garden Magazine Readers’ Service, Garden City, Long Island, N. Y.

hiding the foliage of the bulbs. The suggestions
are for planting from the centre outward: (1)
Canna Austria; Helianthus debilis, var. Stella;
coleus Golden Bedder; Celosia pyramidalis, var.
aurea (or feathered cock’s comb). (2) Celosia
pyramidalis; Calendula Prince of Orange (old-
fashioned marigold); canna Buttercup; coleus
Golden Bedder or Yellow Verschaffeltii. (3) Core-
opsis lanceolata; Gaillardia aristata; any of the
Helianthus family; hardy chrysanthemums in
variety.— J. T. S.

Making a pasture

I have a plot of ground now covered with weeds.
Can I prepare the soil and plant grass seed so as
to pasture cows on it this year? — J. H., Missouri.
— You cannot plant grass seed and have it ready
for pasture this year. Barley may be sownas early
as possible, followed by four or five sowings of oats
and peas at weekly intervals. The oats and peas
will serve as soiling crops for July. When the last
sowing of oats and peas is made, sow corn, or corn
and sorghum, for use in August and September.
The ground occupied by the oats and peas will be
free by the end of June; sow millet and barley for
use in late September and early October. ;

Flowers to follow hollyhocks

What good perennial plants — preferably tall
growing — can I use to follow hollyhocks in bloom,
which will grow well in the partial shade of the
large leaves of the hollyhocks? — F. R. C., Penn-
sylvania.

—There are no plants which will grow in the sit-
uation described. The only practical way to keep
a succession of bloom is to transplant flowers in
pots to the border after the hollyhocks have
bloomed. There is nothing that will grow in the
constant shade of the hollyhock leaves. If the
hollyhocks are spaced well apart you could put in
Helenium, chrysanthemums and other composite.

Fertilizing with poultry manure

What is the most efficient method of utilizing
poultry manure as a fertilizer? With what, and
in what proportion, should it be combined? —
G. C. B., Massachusetts.

—Hen manure furnishes fertilizing elements in
more concentrated form than any other manure.
Owing to this fact, it should be mixed with some
less active material to increase its bulk. The
character of the material to add depends on whether
the soil is light and sandy or a heavy clay. For
either light or heavy soils it may be mixed with
wood ashes if it is to be used at once, using three
parts of the manure to one of wood ashes. For
light, sandy soils with little humus, mix with three
or four times as much leaf mould or loam. For
heavy soils use a sandy loam in place of the leaf
mold, or road dust or even ashes. Lither of these
composts may be applied as top dressings or directly
to the plant. If the hen manure has not been
properly cared for during the winter by being
composted, it is probably of very little value now as
it rapidly loses its ammonia through decomposition.

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Preparing Spray Mixtures

Fo® the control of the plant diseases mentioned
in the preceding pages (247-250) there are
certain standard fungicides which have been tested
and approved. All the ready-to-use preparations
on the market are based on these same formule
because the actual necessities of the case are well
understood and there are comparatively few
substances which fulfil the requirements.

Home mixing is troublesome but at the same
time interesting, and in the hands of a careful
operator, the results are sure. But on the other
hand, the purposes of the application are sometimes
completely defeated through careless preparation.

The most important fungicides are bordeaux
mixture, concentrated lime-sulphur, Scott’s self-
boiled lime-sulphur, ammoniacal copper carbonate,
potassium sulphide, copper sulphate, sulphur,
corrosive sublimate, and formalin. No one of
these can be used in all cases, but each has its use
and when properly applied will prove effective.

Bordeaux mixture is the fungicide most generally
used. The strength varies according to the plant
to be sprayed. It may be prepared by putting
4 pounds of copper sulphate in a bag of coarse
cloth and hanging this in an earthen or wooden
vessel containing 4 to 6 gallons of water. Then
slack 4 pounds of quick lime and add thereto 25
gallons of water and mix equal parts of the two by
pouring ,the solutions together in a third vessel;
stir and keep stirred while spraying. A weaker
solution may be made by using 2 to 3 pounds of
copper sulphate and 3 pounds of lime to 50 gallons
of water. The weaker solution may be employed
wherever the other proves too strong. For peaches
and Japanese plums do not use bordeaux mixture.
Use instead self-boiled lime-sulphur. A _ plain
solution of copper sulphate; 1 pound in 15 to 25
gallons of water, may be employed before the
buds break, the weaker solution being used on
peach. Ready to use bordeaux can be had in cans.

Concentrated lime-sulphur is made by using 40
pounds of good lump lime, 80 pounds of sulphur and
50 gallons of water. Heat about ten gallons of
water in the cooking vessel and use it to slack the
lime. To avoid losses of materials by spilling
over the lime should be added in small quantities
at a time. As the slacking commences empty in
the sulphur, and keep the mixture well stirred to
break up the lumps of sulphur and lime. When the
entire amount of lime has been slacked, add the
full amount of water. A sufficient quantity should
also be added to provide for evaporation by the
cooking so that at the completion of the boiling
there will be approximately fifty gallons of mixture.
Boil the wash vigorously for one hour in which
time the sulphur should be completely dissolved.
This concentrated solution should be diluted accord-
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already given in the preceding pages.

Scolt’s self-boiled lime-sulphur is not a boiled solu-
tion as might be inferred from the name. It is pre-
pared by placing in a barrel 8 pounds of good
stone lime to which is added a small quantity of
cold water to start slacking. Eight pounds of
sulphur worked through a sieve to break up the
lumps is then added slowly to the slaking lime,
which is kept from burning by the addition of just
enough cold water so as not to drown it. The
slaking mixture must be stirred constantly. Just
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May, 1912

THE GARDEN

How Any One Can
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Delightful Occupation — Delicious Delicacy'for the Home

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One Acre of Standard Berries

—The plants, planting and care will cost you about $60.
This is all the expense till harvest time.

—lt is understood that you give good care.

In fifteen

months your first berries are ready to be sold.

—You may expect $100 return one year in five; three
years in five the acre should produce $250, and the other
year it should bring $400.

—This is with standard varieties of Strawberries, Rasp-
berries, Blackberries, etc. Himalaya berry, and the new
Currants and Gooseberries, will double the figures given.
—You will enjoy the time you put on the berry patch,
and you will get food that tastes good and makes for
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sieve of 20 meshes to the inch. It must be agitated
constantly while being applied, as it settles rapidly.
There are commercial ready-to-use counterparts
of this.

Ammoniacal copper carbonate may be prepared

| by making a paste of 5 ounces of copper carbonate

with a little water, and diluting three pints of
ammonia with 7 or 8 volumes of water. Add the
paste to the diluted ammonia and stir until dis-
solved. Then add enough water to make 45
gallons. Allow the mixture to settle and use only
the clear blue liquid. This preparation loses
strength on standing. It may be used instead of
bordeaux mixture in late spraying and thus avoid
the risk of injuring the appearance of the fruit.

Potassium sulphide (liver of sulphur) is used at
the rate of 1 ounce to3 gallons of water. This
preparation loses its strength on standing and should
therefore be used immediately. It is particularly
valuable for surface mildews.

Iron sulphate, a saturated solution, with one
part of commercial sulphuric acid to every 100
parts of water, is valuable for grape anthracnose,
the dormant vines being treated by means of
sponges and brushes. This solution should be
prepared just before using.

Formalin made by mixing one pint to 30 gallons
of water is frequently used for the prevention of
potato scab.

Corrosive sublimate, 1 ounce to 7 gallons of water
is also effective for potato scab. It is used as an
antiseptic solution, also in treatment of cankers on
trees.

New York. H. H. WHETZEL.

Training Tomatoes to Poles

sie reason that I always get more satisfaction
from tomatoes than anything else that comes
out of my garden is undoubtedly due in part to
the fact that I usually have nice, ripe, luscious ones
from two to four weeks ahead of my neighbors.

First I want my plants long, and what most
people would regard as spindling. From eighteen
to twenty inches high is about right to put into the
ground the very last of May. In setting them out I
dig a little trench, cut all but the last few leaves
from the plant, and lay them down so that only
the crown shows above ground. This reduces the
leaf area so that there is very little tendency for
the plant to wilt and suffer a check in growth.
Another advantage is that the stem that is put un-
derground immediately starts throwing out an ex-
tensive root system.

Pruning is the next step to insure plenty of fruit.
By picking out each lateral shoot as it appears,
between the leaf and main stem, the sap flow of the”

Grow tomatoes on poles and be from two to four
weeks ahead of your neighbors

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plant is kept concentrated on the crown bud. This
strengthens the blossoms in some way and causes
those early clusters to fruit, when under ordinary
conditions they would be barren. As soon as they
get top heavy at all, I set poles and train the single
vine up and around, tieing with bits of rafha. By
July roth, we usually have ripe tomatoes to eat and
from then the supply is continuous until frost.

With the tomato vines trained to poles it is
possible to keep up the cultivation and maintain a
dust mulch, so that there is no suffering from lack
of moisture, even in the dryest ofseasons. It
sometimes happens, though, that I wish to plant in
ground that is deficient in humus. In that case I
supplement the ordinary water-holding capacity
by means of some old tin cans. These have their
bottoms punched full of holes, and are set into
the ground near the middle of the root system. In
that way no water is lost through evaporation, and
there is no tendency for the soil to bake up hard
around the plants after watering. Liquid manure
may also be applied in the same way, and to this
treatment I have had tomatoes respond wonder-
fully.

Maine. Joun E. Tayior.

Panes and Winter Seah
Es is the month for planting

pumpkins and
winter squash. Both should be more popular

in the South than they are. They furnish fruit from

July to frost with very little trouble or expense.

Sow some gourd seed. The vine, as well as the
fruit, is quite ornamental. Do not plant the
pumpkins and squash close to the melon patch,
particularly if you expect to save some of the melons
for seed.

Sow peanuts and chufas (or earth almonds) at
once if you have not already done so.

Millet, sorghum cane and other similar forage
crops should be sown now.

Plant another crop of white potatoes some time
during the month. Also okra up to June 15th.

Continue setting out sweet potato plants. Last
year I had a crop of half a ton of potatoes from just
three rows thirty-five or forty yards long. This
season I am going to give better fertilizer and more
attention to cultivation, etc., and expect even a
larger vield.

If you want to have some extra large specimens
of egg plants, tomatoes and peppers, give the plants
liquid manure. Be careful when applying it; if the
soil bakes hard around the plant it will do more
harm than good. Be sure that the plants get
plenty of fresh water. To get the largest fruits
plant Chinese Giant pepper, Ponderosa tomato,
and New York Improved egg plant. I have also
grown some Black Beauty egg plants weighing
over six pounds. That variety is a little earlier
than the New York Improved.

Watch out for the black squash bug on the
watermelon vines. Hand picking is the only
successful method of getting rid of them.

Sow cabbage seed now, in order to have cabbages
for use in the late summer and early fall.

Continue to sow seed of edible cow peas, yard
long beans and lima beans. Fordhook and Wood’s
Prolific (or Improved Henderson) are the most
prolific bush sorts, I find, for the South.

Keep the cultivator going; don’t let the grass
and weeds get large, and while you are busy in the
vegetable garden, do not neglect the flower beds,
for weeds and grass will grow there, too, and be
harmful to the plants.

Georgia Tuomas J. STEED.

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Ordinary porches can be equipped for from $3.50 to
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May, 1912

Bie look well
really shade—
wear so much better

Brenlin has the soft, dull finish now so
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The difference in material is what makes
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Brenlin is nof expensive. There is scarcely
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Look closely for this mark— BRENLIN perfor-
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TIME AND THE
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A lawn should not be raked after
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May, 1912

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PAINT IS THE HALL-MARK of
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How about your town? How about your
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A Really Practical Garden Book

HEORETICALLY all good gardeners, like
all good housewives, are supposed to know
precisely where everything is. In practice this
does not always work out, especially in an age
when the gardener and his or her garden bear —
more’s the pity! —a less intimate relation, speak-
ing generally, to each other than in bygone days.
A garden record, on simple lines, has at least
wisdom, if not actual necessity, in its favor. For
my own part I would grant both the wisdom and
the necessity, and then add pleasure and education.
When, in the course of garden events, all these
considerations took hold of me with a certain
degree of insistence, I thought that I could have
a better time making my own record book than
trotting around trying to buy something that,
after all, might not quite answer my purpose.
Here is how I set about it. For a dollar and
forty cents I bought a patent ring binder with a
stout cover of gray canvas, selecting the 1144 x 914
in. size as the most convenient. (The lesser
dimension is the width.) Then I figured out very
carefully just what information I wanted to keep
on record and laid out a blank form for the sheets
of the loose leaf system that I proposed to use.
The more I thought of it, the more I was convinced
that I might as well keep the record as complete
as possible, so I decided upon a printed form that
should provide space for not merely the Latin
and common names, the usual class, height and
color designations and the place of planting, but
the garden whence a plant came or, if purchased,
the name of the firm and the price, with the date
in either case; the botanical order and family,
the country of which it is a native, the general
habit, to what it is best suited, how it is propa-
gated and also any remarks that I might care to
make. As all this printing could easily go on the

| upper half of the sheet, it struck me that it would
| bea good idea to leave the lower half blank so that
| an illustration could be pasted on it. At a cost

BOTANICAL NAME fue Grocencees variety Amex Chercanr
ORDER SJridnezas FAMILY Jute NATIVE OF Exnrpe
COMMON NAME Leaman de 5 Slrote- de-4cer-
CLASS frenmal nasit heck cham HEIGHT 9 FEET

BLOOMING PERIOD Early June? CoLor hte edge pried, ae
BEST SUITED banda, frdereroPrcation BY Akfearatine—
WHERE AND WHEN OBTAINED ie og Theunre,

WIZ Cneow Bene 7, 1908.

WHERE PLANTED Ee £ tarder, Ktetine 2
NOTES Cas sf af fla named verieti.

A really practical record of one’s plants and flowers
can be thus kept every year

of less than a cent apiece, I had two hundred and
fifty of these sheets cut to the proper size, printed
and perforated with the three necessary holes to
fit the binder. The total expense, therefore, ran
a little above four dollars, which may seem a great
deal at first glance but is not, as the record will
last a lifetime. Personally I have found that the
convenience warranted my investing in a second
book when the first got crowded, and now I use
Volume I. for perennials and Volume II. for
annuals, biennials, shrubs, herbs and wild flowers.

If the amateur protest that this record is too
elaborate, I answer that it is simplicity itself.
No sheet is, of course, put in the binder until it
represents a plant, or plants, in the garden; but,
if time presses, only the botanical and common
names may be filled in at first, though, lest memory
fail, it is well to add at once the source and also
the location in bed or border. The rest may be
the work of long winter evenings or —it may be
left undone. The essential thing is the record
of varieties and the place of planting.

I use the loose leaf system because it is elastic
and therefore incomparably better than a bound
volume. Besides it is self-indexing. I find it
easier, in placing the sheets in the binder alpha-
betically, to follow the Latin names, which rarely
vary as do the common names. It is not difficult
to memorize these and, inasmuch as every amateur
should know them, the record serves a good
educational purpose in that point alone; the mere

May, 1912

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act of writing down the Latin names associates
them with the common ones and helps materially
to fix them in the mind.

Two records could go on a page, or both sides
of the sheet may be printed, but my preference
is that each leaf should have its own individuality.
For purposes of convenience, especially in the
way of personal observation, I even allow an entire
leaf to a distinct variety. Thus, while I am grow-
ing only two species of trollius, I have ten named
kinds and I find it better to record them separately.
So, too, with the fraxinella and the perennial
pea, where in each case the white offers a greater
problem than the pink; they are best kept
apart.

All this, however, is merely a matter of one’s
own desire or the time that can be spared, and the
final test of the practicability of the record is that
it is readily adaptable to the needs of any gardener
who finds that his memory, no matter how good
it may be, is likely to slip a cog once in a while.

As to the desirability of pasting in pictures,
such illustrations have a certain value in asso-
ciating form with name, and even from the decora-
tive point of view they are worth while. Nowa-
days good ones are not hard to find, and here and
there a color print may be picked up. Women
gardeners with lots of time at their disposal would
certainly find the pictures appealing and one might
fancy them writing suitable poetical quotations
on the reverse side of the leaves. Nor is the
poetry undesirable — nor anything else that gives
the record the personal touch. Like the garden
itself, the record is one’s own, and to do with it
as one pleases is no small part of the charm.

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that will accommodate any desired amount of
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May, 1912

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California’s Fertility: Is It Soil
or Climate?

HE growing of vegetables and flowers for the

seed market is becoming an important in-
dustry in California. Winter. rains are copious
and the general soil is retentive of moisture. The
winter is mild; snow appearing on the mountains
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! go per cent. of the world’s market for lettuce seed.

The Editor of THe GARDEN MAGazIne has re-
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plants of Southern Europe, which refuse to grow
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States. Equally the native California plants with
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Western United States, Pacific Coast, plants
similar to Europe generally.”

I have been convinced from my experience with
Tris pavonia that California’s advantage in plant
propagation has been in climate rather than in soil
conditions. This tiny flower, whose recurved
petals have the crisp whiteness of Narcissus
poeticus is also known as the peacock iris, this
name being given it because each petal is blotched
with delicate shades of blue.

The first year after I planted it, a grasslike
foliage came up and died down. The bulbs were
new to me so I wrote to the eastern firm from whom
I had purchased them, and was told that Iris
pavonia is a native of Southern Europe, that it
refused to naturalize and, moreover, defied experts.

Later, upon digging up the bed, ‘the bulbs were
found to be much larger than when they were
planted. Some of the bulbs had easily split their
outer shell and there within were bulbs of the size
of peas and of about the size as originally received.
The root growth was peculiar. Instead of being
at the base, the roots branched out from the side
of the spherical bulb like a white runner, and at the
end some four to six inches away terminated into
a well-sized bulblet. There was the solution —
blooming sized bulbs had not been received. The
bulbs were carefully planted again and the next
season a prolific bloom followed of flowers two inches
in diameter upon stems eight to ten inches long.
The bulbs have continued to multiply both from
division of the mother bulb and root terminal.
There is some tendency for the flower to seed, in-
dicating three different modes of propagation.
The bed is of a heavy, sandy soil, well drained and*
in full sunshine. These bulbs appear to have
responded to mild winter conditions as the root
growth starts in the fall without watering.

Around San Francisco Bay and some other parts
of California, the peony rarely flowers while the
foliage will be luxuriant. In these localities the
freezing point is reached but several times during
the winter. In other parts heavy frosts prevail,
also thin ice, and warm summers follow. There
peonies do well. The explanation seems to be

May, 1912

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The University of California has just completed
a three years’ experiment upon “‘Soil and Climatic
Factors Influencing the Composition of Wheat”
(Bulletin No. 216). Soil was taken from Maryland
and Kansas. From the latter state the soil was
taken in layers of six inches to a depth of three feet
and were replaced in California in the same order
as obtained so that the bottom soil would occupy
the same position it did in Kansas. This was
placed in a hole lined with cement so as to prevent
lateral root growth. A similar plot was dug

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Then
wheat native from each place was planted in a
similar position in each one of the plots. From
the ‘“‘results it would appear that a normal soil
has little, if any, influence upon the nitrogen con-
tent of the wheat kernel, but that climatic factors
are the controlling ones”? and furthermore that
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and that some climatic factor is sufficient to en-
tirely overshadow the soil factor. It may be that
certain physical factors enabling the soil to hold
moisture better at certain periods of the plant’s
growth are responsible for the difference.”

My experience would indicate importance of
soil only so far as concerned its physical factor
for holding or releasing moisture. Soil must
contain a certain amount of fertility — plant
food — but over and above this food necessity,
climate seems to control the result. Italian and
Portuguese truck gardeners will take sand dunes,
even salt water beach sand, level them off, and, with
green manure and water, change a desert into an
oasis of vegetables. The manure seems to act
more as a mulch than as a fertilizer. In many
instances it would seem that water is the only
factor. In our great valleys, vast stretches of
barren land lay sparse of vegetation although
winter rains are abundant; yet with the intro-
duction of irrigating systems, they have been trans-
formed into diversified productivity. Again, in
sections of Oakland where there is sandy soil,
so porous that no matter how copious be the water-
ing or rain, it immediately sinks into the soil, irises
of the Siberian and Spanish types will reseed them-
selves. Iris do well in all sections, but will not
reseed. This appears due to the physical nature
of the soil as related to climate conditions rather
than to fertility. The cineraria is sensitive to
frosts, yet protected by a shady place such as on
the north side of a house and in a heavy clay soil,
called adobe, it will run riot in both bloom and
reseeding, in the winter season. It is not so in
sandy soil. Geraniums, pelargoniums, nastur-
tiums and sweet peas hardly require the scratching
of the ground to take root. The first two will grow
on the rubbish heap and the first in the most sterile
potter’s clay. Once plant nasturtiums and one is
ever after getting rid of them. Last summer we
found perfect specimens of sweet peas, with stems
ten to twelve inches long averaging four flowers,
which had grown in an adjoining lot having been
pitched there with the previous year’s vines. The
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Portland, Ore., is often called the ‘Rose City.”
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distinct crops in a year. Ulrich Brunner, Frau
Karl Druschki, Caroline Testout, Hugh Dickson
and many Teas are especially responsive to winter
crops. Heavy soil and climate seem to be the
necessity. Ordinary rains are not detrimental.
The manure serves as a mulch; otherwise, the
adobe soil quickly crusts over and cakes.

This discussion indicates that climate is the
important factor; next water, as moisture; and
thirdly, soil, in its physical or mechanical prop-
erties rather than its nutriment. In placing nutri-
ment last, I am inclined to the theory that in root
growth a plant excretes or throws off substance
poisonous to itself. The action of fertilizers, or
rotation of crops, neutralizes or causes the soil
to become neutralized to such poisons. More
damage is done with fertilizers than without; there
isa medium. Successful gardening means a study
of each plant to find its ‘“‘climate”’ — its exposure
requirements, indoors or out; also its water or
moisture necessities.

California. Gero. B. Furniss.

Making Gardens Between
Houses

N VERY large cities, the space between houses

is so narrow that it is usually cemented over
and does not give any opportunity for the gar-
dener’s art. But in small cities and suburban
towns where the space between houses is never less
than twelve feet, we have a fine opportunity for
beautiful effects. But a casual glance will reveal
that not one owner in fifty has done more than try
to raise some sickly-looking grass or plant a long
stiff rows of callas. The front of the house may be
artistically planted with shrubs and annuals, but
the space at the side is dreary and uninteresting.

Some imagine that, because the space is in the
shade of two houses, nothing will grow there, but
there are many trees, vines, shrubs, and annuals
which will grow luxuriantly in just such a situation.
Here is an excellent opportunity for a hardy peren-
nial border, for there are many perennials which
do well in semi-shade. Acanthus and wood-
wardia ferns make an excellent greenery for plant-
ing in with foxgloves, German and English iris,

Fuchsia, diosma, Wichuraiana rose and thrift were
used in this side space

wallflowers, St. John’s wort, calceolarias, lantanas
and aquilegia. If the shade is not too deep, holly-
hocks, Shasta daisies, golden glow, and brown-
eyed Susans will do well.

On many of the side plats in this city, a bare
board fence divides the front and back yards.
This offers a support for vines. Any of the iy*s
will do well; English ivy is so rampant, however,
that it becomes a nuisance when planted near the
house. Boston ivy and Virginia creeper, Mewh-
lenbeckia complexa, honeysuckles, jasmine (both
white and yellow), wistaria, and white Banksia

May, 1912

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roses are all suitable and thrifty growers. For
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and gives an interesting point upon which the
eyes may rest. In front of this low shrubbery,
annuals and bulbs may be placed.

One charming “‘between-houses”’ garden had
the board fence covered with Hall’s honeysuckle,
Virginia creeper, and Meuhlenbeckia, which being
evergreen all the year, combined well with the
Virginia creeper which is so bare in winter. Planted
against the fence was Arundo donax, serving to
break the long space; in front of this were bambusa
and woodwardia ferns, intermingled with pink
and white single hollyhocks and foxgloves, before
which were clumps of white iris, ferns, and acan-
thus. In the foreground were white feverfew,
Scilla Sibirica, Narcissus poeticus, and daffodils.
This combination might be infinitely varied for
other situations; laburnum, white paper birch,
Pittosporum eugenoides or Escallonia rubra might
take the place of the arundo. Cytisus proliferus,
var. alba, though not particularly choice, has the
merit of being in bloom nearly the whole year.
If this were chosen, a bed of blue and white
aquilegia, foxglove, and narcissus would be a thing
of beauty in the spring. If one desires a yellow
color effect, calceolarias with lantana, wallflowers,
daffodils and primulas are good.

Fuchsias, in variety, make an ideal garden. The
tall old fashioned red fuchsia forms an excellent
background. It is, however, like English ivy,
somewhat of a nuisance when well established.
Its suckers have been known to run thirty feet under
a house and come out on the other side. If it is
kept well pruned, however, it is all right. If used
for a background, the foreground may be made up
of Storm King and Baby fuchsias.

Another treatment of a side space is to plant
it so thickly as to forma carpet. Honeysuckle and
St. John’s wort lend themselves to this. Our
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forming a thick growth. Tradescantia will grow
in the deepest shade and is especially fine where
the space is narrow and few other things will grow.
The dainty white periwinkle is also pretty in leaf
and flower, but unless one wishes endless trouble,
do not plant the large-leaved, blue-flowered variety.
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For luxuriant and pleasing growth there is
nothing finer than native shrubs most of which,
in their native haunts, grow in northern exposures.
One of the daintiest of these is the wild currant,
with its fine fringe of pink flowers in early February.
There is no situation too shady for this, provided
it has plenty of water. The wild plum, Islay cherry,
tassel tree, dogwood and calycanthus all will
flourish and give a well kept air to the barest and
ugliest space. The beauty of these shrubs is that
they need very little care beyond an occasional
pruning and thinning out.

California. LELA ANGIER.

Making ‘‘Pin Money” from
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| ee spring, when I sowed my seeds for my own
garden, a neighbor requested that I grow her
some aster plants to the proper size for setting out.
This gave me an idea: Why not grow more plants
for other neighbors, solicit a little trade, and see
what I could do toward earning some pin money?
Every year I had some extra plants which were
either given, or thrown away, and I then and there
determined to make those extra plants pay for
their existence.

My stock in trade consisted of ample space for
working, a dozen or so empty flat boxes, some good
soil, a small quantity of sheep manure, and at
least two hours of leisure each day. Besides these
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May, 1912

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Poultry, Kennel and Live Stock Directory

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the seed. The few extra boxes I needed, be-
sides those I had on hand, were kindly supplied
tome by my grocer. For lack of benches the boxes
were placed flat on the ground, or on other boxes.
I was not overly particular about the soil in the
bottom of the boxes, simply mixing with it a small
amount of manure. I took the precaution, how-
ever, to screen the top soil to the depth of about
two or three inches.

Then came the planting. Since I had only a
limited quantity of seed, I decided to sow it very
thinly in shallow drills. It would have been easier
of course, to have sown it thickly and then thinned
out the seedlings afterward, but I wanted to make
every seed count. Two packages of pansy seed
were the first sown and all the seeds germinated
well. Then columbine followed, larkspur, Shasta
daisies, and pinks. My columbines were very slow
in coming up but, once they had appeared they
grew rapidly.

I aimed to get at least half my seed into the
ground as early as possible so that I might not
have more work than I could handle when it came
time for the transplanting. In March I sowed
first a. package of gaillardia seed, then one of
coreopsis, and then three varieties of cosmos.
Toward the last of the month salvia and aster
seeds were planted.

After all my seeds were finally in the boxes and
some were far on the road to becoming real plants,
I began-my campaign for selling. At first I spoke
to my friends about my plants and received from
them many orders. But I soon found that only
my annuals were selling. The reason was that
most of the perennials were only names to my
friends, and even when they actually knew the
flowers themselves, they did not connect the names
with them. Something was needed to educate
the public!

I had in my own garden some plants of the long-
spurred yellow columbine, a fine bed of Shasta
daisies, gaillardias, and some coreopsis. During
the month of April, the columbines, gaillardias,
and Shasta daisies all came into bloom. I picked
the choicest of their blooms, placed them on exhibi-
tion in a bookstore window, and put with them a
notice that good plants for setting out would be
furnished on certain dates, the plants being guaran-
teed to give similar blooms the following year. My
name, address, and telephone number were printed
on the card and it was not long before the orders
began to come in. Before the end of the season
I had sold all my plants but I could promise that
more orders would be filled in the fall.

For in the meantime I had worked steadily with
my seedlings. As soon as they became crowded
in the boxes I set them out into a square of open
ground. In this way they received good growth
and even the weak plants were given a chance.
Whenever possible I tried to sell them late in the
afternoon so that they would have the night in
which to recover from their change of place. In
selling the plants or delivering them, I put them
into rather heavy pasteboard boxes. In a few
cases I sold them in small fruit boxes.

RETURNS FROM ONE SEASON

My active season of work lasted from February
15th to May 15th, three months, and during that
time I took in, as nearly as I could figure, $70.65.
My original outlay was $3.20 and subsequent
ones were no more than $5 so that I had, in round
numbers, $70 to represent my three months’ labor.
When I consider the small amount of time spent
upon the work, and my lack of experience in many
details, I am convinced that my plants of that
spring paid for their existence.

Here is a tabulated account of one season’s
labor:

Asters, 6 pkgs. $ .60 24 doz. plants,$ .35 $ 8.40
ss go Ss Fey Ata Nik ou a .50 6.00
Cosmos, Sie 136% etSras rs 635 5.25
Shasta daisy, 1 pkg. .10 OG i: 1.00 6.00
Pansies, 2 pkgs. .40 yy (3 .50 4.00
Pinks, 1 pkg. 05 Pig tee T.00 4.00
Salvia, ree .10 pate 3 I.00 5.00
Larkspur, Te es 125 Shore I.00 5.00
Coreopsis, TA sabe TXO LO me “ I.00 10.00
Gaillardia, » a ote) Gs i 1.00 6.00
Columbine, 3 “ pease eles I.00 20.00
$3.20 $70.65

California. W. W.

May, 1912

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How to Make a Rubber Plant
Branch

{pe quickest way to induce a rubber plant to
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teen inches of the ground. New shoots, which will
appear in a short time, will transform the stub into
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the growth of the old plant by pinching out the top
bud. Another thing is to make a slanting cut in
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soil. Put it in a shaded place for a few days until

the roots have taken hold of the soil.

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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE,
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Evergreens as grown for specimens at Andorra Nurseries

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The Proper Way to Trench

IGGING and trenching must be done in
either the fall or spring, when the beds or
borders are vacant. Do it in the spring, if possible,
before heavy rains saturate the ground, especially
if the soil is heavy, as rain and slight frost are
valuable ameliorators of such soils when in a
roughly dug state.

Digging is the turning over of soil one spade (or
spit) deep, and is suitable only for well worked soils.
If soil is never dug deeper than that, growth will
be restricted, because the plants can only gather
food to that depth.

Trenching is the turning over of the soil two or
more spits deep. Where time and circumstances
permit, trench three spits deep. This is “deep”
trenching and is essential to the cultivation of
prize flowers and vegetables, but ‘‘bastard”’
trenching, two spits deep, will work marvels on
badly tilled soil. By stirring the soil we let in air
and water, and at the same time provide better
drainage, rendering the soil warmer in winter and
moister in summer.

When trenching be careful not to bury the top
soil and bring the lower or sub-soil to the surface.
The lower soil in untrenched ground is inert and
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bottom soil below.

If it is a large plot, open a trench across one end
two feet wide and one spit deep, put the soil in a
wheelbarrow and cart it to the other end of the
plot and place it on the path or in some place
where the soil is not to be dug. It will be wanted
for filling in the last trench. Or else the work can
be lessened by halving the plot lengthwise and
taking out the trench across one section only;
depositing the removed soil just off the adjacent
strip where the work of trenching will end. The
plot can also be quartered on the same lines if it
is of great width, a short trench being less tiring
to work than a long one. Having got out the first
trench, stand in the bottom, take out another one
foot wide and one spit deep, and form a second
heap with the soil near where the trenching will end.
We have now a step-like arrangement — surface;
trench one spade deep; trench two spades deep.

To deep trench the soil, take a fork and dig up
the bottom of the lowest trench to the full depth
of the tines; this done, a layer of any vegetable
refuse or a strawy manure can be spread over the
dug surface. Now stand on the step above and
proceed to turn the soil over on to the refuse. This
finished, spread another layer of manure over the
new surface. We have now reversed the step
arrangement; in front is a trench two spits deep,
at the back is a step of dug soil having a refuse
layer sandwiched below it and a layer of manure
above waiting to be covered. We now mark out
on the plot another strip a foot wide and commence
to dig this up and throw on to the top of the manure
lying on the removed soil in the first trench. This
done, we find we have trenched a one-foot-wide
strip of our plot to the depth of three feet and
double manured it, and that we have now the
step-like arrangement of trenches waiting for a
repetition of the operations. By repeating this
process we slowly, but surely and thoroughly, work
our way to the end of the plot.

New or little used spades and forks should be
used in order that the full depth of soil be lifted
each time. Clay soils are best attended to in early
winter, and the surface left as rough as possible
for frost to act upon; light soils are best trenched
in early spring. Also, in the case of light soils,
do not manure the bottom trench, but between
the upper and lower spits and on the surface. ‘This
is because of the greater freedom with which water
filters through light soil, carrying away with it
manurial properties. Pigsty and cow-shed manure
are best for light soils, and stable manure for heavy
ones.

Vegetable gardens should be so arranged that a
third of the area is trenched annually, the whole
being thus turned over two spits deep every three
years. Herbaceous borders can have similar treat-
ment by lifting the occupants, placing on a square
plot close together, covering with mats, etc., if
necessary, trenching and manuring the soil, and

then replanting.
Canada. W. R. GILBERT.

May,1912

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has taken the greatest photographs ever made of the wild Newfoundland
caribou, of which the picture reproduced below is a good example. It
took six years of patient waiting to get these photographs. Again and
again this intrepid camera-hunter visited Newfoundland and lived for days
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Country Life

For May 15th For May 15th

CONTENTS

Glimpses of a Brick-
walled Garden

By Wilhelm Miller

The Exhilaration
of Mountaineer-
ing

By Mary M. Vaux

At Home with the
Chipmunk

By Howard H. Cleaves

Are There Bigger
Oaks than These?

By Mabel Burke Egan

in America —

CONTENTS

The Thrilling Sport
of Making Caribou
Portraits

By A. Radclyffe Dugmore

Cutting Loose from
the City

By Bertha Kellogg Tyler

The Farmhouse
Fever

By Sawyer Cumming

Power Yachting, The
Automobile, Home
Furnishing and Deco-
rating, Garden and
Grounds, Gardening
under Glass, Stable and
Kennel.

Copyright, 1912, by A. Radclyffe Dugmore

The Landing of the Herd

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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

WE’S.

GLOUCESTER

BED HAMMOCK

Order Dutch Bulbs,
NOW—

Direct from

Holland . al y, yr

For Porches, Verandas and
Outdoor Sleeping

The only Genuine Gloucester Hammocks are made by
E. L. Rowe & Son, Inc., and bear our small silk name

label.

We made them first for the U.S. Navy forty years ago.
They have since then become the most popular piece of
porch furniture all over the world. Don’t judge them by
the imitations made with light-weight canvas and unskilled
workmanship.

The Rowe Gloucester is made of duck weighing 21 oz.
to the yard (lighter weight is too weak). It is made by sail-
makers—no other class of workmen know how to sew and
fit and handle sail canvas so that it will wear well and not
sag or lose its shape.

Rowe’s Hammocks have consistently given ten years of
continuous outdoor service. We never had one returned to
us as unsatisfactory. [hey are firm, strong, comfortable.
They present essential advantages of which other makers

have not even learned the need. Hine sae

are named below.

Some of the dealers selling Rowe’s Gloucester Hammocks
If you are not so located as to deal con-

veniently with them, we will supply you direct. Before you
buy a hammock, be sure to see ours and look for our
name on the label.

E. L. ROWE & SON, Inc.

Sail Makers and Ship Chandlers
138 Duncan St.,

Boston, Mass.

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Scranton, Pa.
Sioux City, Ia.

St. Louis. Mo.

St. Paul. Minn.
Terre Haute, Ind.
Toledo. O.
Washington, D. C.

Send for illustrated book and prices.

Gloucester, Mass.

List of Dealers

Jordan, Marsh & Co,

John Wanamaker

Marshall Field & Co.
Frederick Loeser & Co.

Van Heusen, Charles Co,
O'Neill & Co.

Wm. Hengerer Co.

Robert Mitchell Furniture Co,
The Sterling-Welch Co.

F. G. & A. Howald

The Rike-Kumler Co.
Newcomb, Endicott Co.
Brown, Thomson & Co,

L.S. Ayres & Co.

Gilmore Bros.

Emery, Bird, Thayer Co.
Fred W. Keisker & Son

C. W. Fischer Furniture Co.
New England Furniture & Carpet Co.
Miller, Stewart & Beaton Co.
McCreery & Company
Loring, Short & Harmon
The Shepard Company
Duffy-Powers Co.

Weeks Hardware Co.

The Pelletier Co.

Scruggs, Vandervoort, Barney Co.
Schuneman & Evans

Root Dry Goods Co.

Lasalle & Koch Co.
Woodward & Lothrop

We want an exclusive agency in each city. Correspondence solicited.

Haarlem Tu-
lip has beau-
tiful carminy rose blooms
this size.

Direct from the house that grew them, that has established a
world-wide reputation as the largest growers of high quality
Dutch Bulbs.

Direct from these highest-grade Holland Nurseries to your
own home in original packages—eliminating the chances of
dissatisfaction from mixed and misnamed varieties.

Better bulbs at the same—or lower—prices. Solid bulbs full of
vitality, instead of the large but flabby sort grown in the lower
lying districts of Holland.

If you want to know the difference between bulbs—if you want
to know the latest proven varieties for all purposes—if you want
highest satisfaction at moderate cost, write fo-day for our Dutch
Bulb catalog.

Put us to the test—compare results from W.& K. bulbs with the
best you can buy elsewhere at the same prices— we'll get all your
orders after you see the vast difference in results.

Gt. van Waveren and Kruijff

American Branch House: 140 N. 13th St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Louis Berger, Mgr.

Home Nurseries, Sassenheim, Holland. Other branches in Russia, Argentine
Republic, Germany, England, Sweden

What is a fair rental for a given
property? Ask the Readers’ Service

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

JUNE, 1912

The Aermotor with the auto-
matic regulator stops when the
tank is full and starts

when the water is

lowered 4 inches. You

gasoline engine has to
ine started and stopped and
oiled and attended almost con-
stantly, and you have large ex-
pense for gasoline and oil. Th
wind is free.

: 5 We make gasoline engines (ex-
ceedingly good ones) but, for the average water
supply for the home and 150 head of stock, an
8-foot Aermotor with a storage tank — which is
a necessity with any kind of water supply—is all
that is needed and is by far the more economi-
cal. The supply of wind for the Aermotor is more
to be relied upon than the supply. of gasoline,
batteries and repairs for the gasoline engine.

The cost of gasoline, oi!, batteries and repairs
in pumping for 150 head of stock with a gaso-
line engine, will buy an 8-foot Aermotor every
year, and you are still to the bad the amount
of time you spend over the gasoline engine.

But the gasoline engine has its place on the
farm notwithstanding the fact that 100 people
are maimed or killed with gasoline where one is
injured by a windmill, and that 100 farm build-
ings are burned with gasoline where none is in-
jured by a windmill. For the water supply the
Windmill is the thing. Thousands of farmers
who have done their first power pumping by a
gasoline engine have become tired of it and are
buying windmills. That is one reason why our

windmill business increases from year to year.
We can furnish you much testimony like the
following:

Devine. Tex.. Dec. 16, 1911.

I am sending you a plioro-
graph of one of the oldest
windmills in this country —
it being the first Aermotor put
up in Medina County—and is
used to furnish water for! un-
dreds of head of cattle. It was
put up in the year 1889 and is
owned by Mr. Murdo Mon-
roe. The only repairs this
mill has ever needed are one
small gear and a rocker arm,
the total cost of which was
$2.so. This Aermotor is still
running and doing good ser-
vice, furnishing water for
cattle and family.

LOUIS GACONET.

Find, if you can, a state-
ment like this regard-
ing gasoline engines.

Of course, there are places where a ainamill
cannot be used. There you will have to use a
gasoline engine, with all of its disadvantages.
We will furnish for that place a small engine
which costs but $37.50 complete, so it can be set
to pumping in 30 minutes. Or we will furnish
you a pump jack—the best made— for $6.00,
to do pumping with a larger gasoline engine.

Send for catalogue giving full information
about water supply. Aermotor Co., Chicago.
Branch Houses: Oakland, Cal.; Kansas City,
Mo.; Minneapolis, Minn.

DUTCH BULBS and ROOTS
Direct from Holland. Catalog full of vital facts FREE.
Write to-day to

Gt. van Waveren & Kruijff

140 N. 13th St, Philadelphia

nn page 285

A Plan Book $1

50 Designs Low and Medium Priced Houses
25% Discount on all Plans in book

Write for Information

W. F. Barlow, Jr., Architect
80 No. Main Street,

BROCKTON, MASS.

BOOKBINDING

If your books are shabby and need

binding or repairing consult

HENRY BLACKWELL
University Place and Tenth Street, New York, N. Y.

The Little ‘‘ Bleeding Heart”’

East year I let the plumy “bleeding heart”
into my hardy garden and I must say that
I like it mighty well. Unlike its big relative, it
does not distress me by turning yellow while the
summer is still young. On the contrary its really
beautiful foliage, finely cut, stays fresh until
frost-time and as for blooming, you simply can’t
stop it; it begins in the spring and stops in the fall.

The flowers are a sort of dirty pink, but the general
appearance of the plant is good. Growing only a
little more than a foot high, it is especially desirable

The plumy bleeding heart (Dicentra formosa) keeps
its foliage green until frost and blooms all the season

for the border’s edge or when allowed to run at
will where a naturalistic effect is sought. It is
anything but slow to run. My fifteen cents’
worth of plant I divided into three plants when I
set it out and the largest is now a shapely clump
more than two feet across. And I have given away
several pieces besides. I bought it for Dielytra
(Dicentra formosa) but I suspect that it sometimes
masquerades as D. eximia in the catalogues, and
vice versa. I don’t know that I particularly care
which mine is; I like it and that is the important

thing.
Connecticut. Uy 108 Ss

A Dwarf Clematis

N INTERESTING native plant that is only
waiting to be invited to come through the
garden gate is the erect mountain clematis (C.
vaia). It is a compact little plant eighteen inches
or so high that in May blossoms out with an abun-
dance of small purplish bells. Wood gave its
range in the wild as North Carolina to Florida;
it is now defined as southeastern United States.
Massachusetts. M. G.

The erect mountain clematis. native. grows only
eighteen inches high and blossoms in May

Bring Back the Birds

While you S working out your
ideal in the garden, why not
provide a home for the birds
that help to make life in thr
country really worth while? A “=~
rustic house placed in a tree or
on a pole will make an excellent
home for the birds and add to
the attractiveness of the sur-
roundings. We have them in
all sizes and shapes to suit
any style of architecture.

10 Inches High

LOG CABIN No. 1, One-Family ,
10 Inches Deep
10 Inches Wide

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10 Inches Wide

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Just drop usa postal for our new 1912 Catalogue which tells ALL
about Rifles, Shotguns, Pistols, and Rifle Telescopes. Address

J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL COMPANY
The Factory of Precision. Dept. 286, Chicopee Falls, Mass.

Unusually well - bred

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There’s Money in P oultry

Our Home Study Course in Practical Poultry
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GEORGE H. PETERSON
ROSE AND PEONY SPECIALIST
Box 50. FAIR LAWN, N. J.

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Beautiful Walks, Good Library
MRS. NORMAN WHITE, ORLEANS, MASS.

FRE Dahlias

should send us. today, a post card for our New
Dahlia _ Catalogue, entitled “New Creations in
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plain truth about the best Dahlias that bloom.
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The Dahlia without a fault. Mailed postpaid 75 cents
each. Special trial _ offers. To demonstrate the
superiority of our Dahlias we will send the following
strong field roots, each labeled absolutely true to
Mame: 3 show. 30c; 3 decorative, 30c; 3 cactus. 40c;
3 Paeony Flowered, 50 cents; 3 New Century. soc. The
5 sets complete postpaid for $r. 75. Including Dorothy
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Write today.

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DOROTHY

JUNE, 1912

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Encompassed by navigable rivers and placid lakes. Hedged about by
healthful pines, golden groves and scenic beauty. Hunting preserves of
ample proportions. Best fishing grounds. Winter cruising on our beautiful
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investment.

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$1 or $2 per Acre per Month

Buys a Sanford celery farm. Flowing artesian well
guaranteed. Sub-irigation, fine drainage, good sub-
soil, proven district, no interest; water and rail transpor-
tation. Our liberal contract allows six years to pay out.

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COMMERCIAL ORCHARDS

All in Bearing and in Some of the Best
Proven Fruit Sections of Virginia

First. Contains 1100 acres. Rich mountain soil, mainly
Porters Black Loam, considered the very best for apples and
peaches. There are 137 acres in apples, 6 to 11 years old,
principally Albemarle Pippins and Winesaps. 13,000 peach
trees, 1 to 10 years old. Orchard just beginning to bear but
crop for last four years has averaged $10,671. Trees excep-
tionally fine and land remarkably smooth for mountain land.
Power spraying outfit can be used on all of it. Most desirable
property. Price $75,000 for the whole property, including
personalty, or will divide to suit purchaser,

Second. Contains 288 acres, nearly 15,000 apple trees, 11 to
15 years old, and within one mile of 2 competing railroads.
Elevated land, good air, drainage, within 5 miles of large city.
Cheap property. A few good crops should pay for it. Can
be bought for about $120,000.

Third. 324 acres in 2 tracts, 5500 Albemarle Pippins and
Winesaps; 2600 from 15 to 40 years old, 2200 8 years old.
Six miles from station, 12 miles from one of the largest cities
of Virginia. Fine prospect for bumper crop. One of the
most noted orchards in Virginia. Good buildings. Price, in-
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Property, $75,000. Terms liberal. WILL SUBDIVIDE.

Fourth. 400 acres in Augusta County, Va., 9 miles from
Staunton (45 minutes in automobile), 2 miles from station;
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Quick examination advised. Price $32,000, $5,000 cash,
balance in 5 payments.

Fifth. 250 acres mountain land. Over 2,500 apple trees,
one-half beginning to bear. Some of the land is rough, but
the trees are well grown and very thrifty. Four and one-half
miles down grade to station. Price, $10,750. THIS IS A
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JUNE, 1912

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VISITORS

This is the first spring at Garden City
that we have felt at all “settled down”
and we should like to have subscribers,
advertisers, book-buyers and friends gen-
erally come and look us over. The gar-
dens are all abloom, the machinery is
buzzing and it is a good time to visit the
Country Life Press at Garden City. Our
station is just beyond the regular station
at Garden City —it is called Country Life,
and it takes about forty minutes from
New York by train or motor car.

A NEW WILLIAMSON BOOK

This year it is not a motor story, but
a careful and accurate picture of Monte
Carlo, one of the most curious and interest-
ing places in the world with the strangest
collection of people foregathered from all
parts of the globe; some of them amusing,
some of them tragic, but all alive and
absorbing.

Mr. and Mrs. Williamson know Monte
Carlo as few visitors know it. They have
built a house near by on the Riviera and
in ‘“‘The Guests of Hercules” they have
depicted the life in a story as delightful
and charming as their novels always are.

“PRECKLES”’ ON THE STAGE

After some months of preparation,
“Freckles” has gone on the stage, and
several companies are performing it; in
due time it will be perfected and come to
the larger cities. Meantime, the book is
selling larger this year than last, although
in tg11 it sold over 150,000, and as it was
born in t905 it has had a remarkable
record for any book.

A first edition of 100,000 copies of a
50 cents edition of ‘‘The Girl of the Lim-
berlost” has just come from the press;
and Mrs. Porter’s book published last
August, ‘‘The Harvester,’ has been for
the last three months the best selling book
in America. Over 200,000 have been

THE: TALK: OF -THE - OFFICE:

“To business that we love we rise hetime
And go to ’t with delight.”,-—A xto..y and Cleopatra

printed and it is still “going strong.” If
you have not read these books you have a
pleasure before you, which any bookseller
can help you to realize.

Scores of letters come to the author and
publisher from readers of ‘‘The Harvester.”
Last month we printed one from a man
of affairs. Here is an extract from a
lady who by her own confession is
not an experienced letter writer, but she
has the poetic instinct and makes clear her
ideas:

“T wish I could express in better language
what I think, but I have not been educate
in American School. Am Swiss by birth,
only learn English from my children going
to school and have pick’t up some in
traveling around. So you must look
over bad spelling and worse language.

“T do love the woods, the hills and all
the flowers that our God created, but I
have never read in fiction anything that
describe those things as you have done.
You cannot know how much good you
have done us. My husband is a Scot-
man and been brought up on the border
of Switzerland in to Italy among the Hills
of Saint Bernard and a lot of the Flowers
and Herbs you mention grow where he
came from. - How I wish I could tell you
all I have in my heart, all you have stirred
up that I supposed to be sleeping. And
the Harvester, He is sublime. A Man
and Woman.

TWO NEW VOLUMES OF THE NATURE
LIBRARY

Atter more than a dozen years we
believe that we have now completed the
Nature Sliibrary, in all theres arena,
volumes, thousands of illustrations, hun-
dreds of color plates and the most expert
and effective authors chosen for each
volume.

The two new books are: “ The Spider
Book,” by Prof. J. H. Comstock, a most
remarkable book, the result of years of

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labor and the last word on the subject, and
“The Grass Book,” by Mary Evans Fran-
cis, an equally full and adequate work and
all that one would expect of the latest
volume in the Nature Library.

If you are interested in these books the
price of which is $4 each, order them from
your bookseller or send to us. Sent on
approval — pay if you approve and
return if you do not.

Particulars of the Nature Librafy sent
on request.

ABOUT THAT FARM

The Garden Magazine’s big brother maga-
zine, The World’s Work, has been devoting
time and study and energy to finding out
about people who want to break loose from
city life and to own a farm. It has had
some remarkable experiences discovering

some thousands of people who want
farms and finding farms who want
owners. If you are thinking on this sub-

ject, send for a sample copy of The World’s
Work (Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden
City, L. I.) and read a single number in
which these subjects are discussed, or
better yet, send $3 for a year’s sub-
scription.

This Forward-to-the-Land Movement
is the great economic and social fact of
our decade — the new era in farming, the
new kind of man on the soil, with new
methods and new tools. Small wonder
the price of farm land doubled the last
ten years and keeps rising. The World’s
Work’s peculiar service in the movement
is this:

(1) It finds men who want land.

(2) It directs them where and how to
find the kind of land they want.

This may sound easy and commonplace;
but, if you stop to think of it, you will
realize that thousands of communities
are seeking such men and find it a very
difficult task. Perhaps this magazine can
help them.

JuNE, 1912 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 289

THESE BOOKS ARE FOR YOU

Whether you own a window box, a suburban home or a vast country estate. If
you grow things or hope to you need

THE NEW GARDEN LIBRARY

Twelve volumes crammed full of interesting and valuable information and instruction on the
making and maintaining of Flower, Fruit, Vegetable and Window Gardens.

House Plants and How to Grow Them—2z, pe. T. Barnes

A Manual of the best foliage and flowering plants for home cultivation ; their raising from seed and propagation in
the window garden.

Roses and How to Grow Them—zy many expPErRTS

The only recent book on this most popular of flowers, which deals directly with American
practice both outdoors and under glass in all sections of the country.

The Flower Garden—2s;y pa pv. BENNETT

“A clear and concise summary of every possible sort of information that might be desired by
any one interested in gardens.” — Scientific American.

The Vegetable Garden—sy 1pa v. BENNETT

This book deals fully with the various vegetables that form the
; staple of the small garden and contains excellent chapters on fertilizers,
insecticides and garden tools, all thoroughly up to date and full of the
}| most practical information.

“~ Orchard and Fruit Garden_sy«. Pp. poweLi

Deals with the choice planting and cultivation of fruit, fruit-bearing
trees and bushes. ‘“‘This thoroughly practical volume embodies all
the latest developments and sums up all avail-
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—New York World.

Ferns and How to Grow Them
By G. A. WOOLSON
The contribution of a nature student who
has successfully solved the problem of grow-
ing the native ferns of our Eastern woods.
With table of synonomy.

Lawns and How to Make Them

By Leonard Barron

The only volume that
treats of the making and
maintenance of the orna-
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purely practical stand-
point. For the first time
the whole truth about
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Fre)
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It is necessary to see fhe books to
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Daffodils—Narcissus and
How to Grow Them

By A. M. KIRBY

All that is really worth while about these most popular of spring
bulbs written from the standpoint of American conditions.

Water-Lilies and How
to Grow Them

HOUSE
PLANTS

By H.S. CONARD and HENRI HUS

A practical garden knowledge of the best SP a ES
water-lilies and other aquatics by America’s great anon on
the family; with cultural details and making of ponds and small
gardens.

Vines and How to Grow Them
By WILLIAM McCOLLUM

A practical volume dealing with all
kinds of climbing and trailing plants for
garden effects. It covers not only the ?
hardy annual vines and permanent woody vines for pergolas,
etc., but many of the beautiful exotics which are grown for cut
flowers in greenhouses.

The planting sea-
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Garden Planning
By W.S. ROGERS

Especially designed to help the maker
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“tt Chrysanthemums and How to Grow

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Save 20% on Holland Bulbs
By Ordering Before July Ist

The high quality of the bulbs will remain unchanged—the stock will be obtained from the same reliable growers who have supplied us for the past sixteen years.

Thus, without sacrificing quality in the least, we will now be able to save you more than 20 PER CENT. over former prices; we will be 1elieved of the
details of handling, packing and carrying surplus stock. The following list, representing as it does the highest quality obtainable—which is the only kind we
secure for our select clientele—will convey a hint of the exceptional values we offer:

TULIPS Per 100 NARCISSUS Per 1000
Artus ee cer . $ .90 ; Poeticus Mother bulbs . $. $ 5.00
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La Reine ORME: ean ets ae Noi tO) Bicolor Victoria ‘‘ y CBD 22.00 Second
Murillo—Mother bulbs . . 1.25 0}, Van Sion 3 “te 5 (Gb 28.00
Darwin’s—Fine mixed . . 1.50 eames Dowubleyheadsp-amseeane 22.00
Vermilion Brilliant. . . 2.00 SS Sale Wen -5 >. 20 17.50

Parrots, extra fine mixed . 1.00 Hyacinths, $18 per 1000 and up.

JUNE, 1912

To facilitate the handling of our bulb orders, we announce
import prices on bulbs to order, and that orders must be in our
hands by July Ist. These will be shipped to our customers at
the proper time for planting.

Our object in adopting this new course is to relieve ourselves
of the details of recounting and rehandling at a time when the
attention of our entire force is needed for the Nursery and Land-
scape Departments of our business,

CROCUS Per 100 Per 1000
Mammoth Size . . . . $1.00 $7.50

20.00 First -, fe PURE en est 7/5) 6.00
= OCW 5 « ad 5.00

IMPORT PRICE LIST READY JUNE 1st

Bills will be rendered upon delivery of bulbs in the fall.
References will be expected from new customers.

Visit our Magnificent Display of Peonies at Rosedale

This famous collection of superb varieties will be at the height of its blooming period during
the week commencing June 13th. Each year many of our friends come to see this grand exhibit
of color. All readers of the GARDEN MAGAZINE and their friends are invited to visit us during that
week; the marvelous showing of flowers—including many prize winning varieties—is a sight not soon to
be forgotten. Our Nursery is at Hawthorne, on the Harlem Branch of N. Y. C. R. R., one hour from
New York. Here you will be welcome at any time and have an opportunity to choose Darwin Tulips
and Iris in great variety in May, Peonies and Roses in June, Japanese Iris in late June, Phlox from July
to September, and Columbines, Larkspurs, and other flowers in their season. Fall is by far the best and in
many cases the only time to plant some varieties,

S. G. HARRIS, ROSEDALE NURSERIES, 63 Hamilton Place, TARRYTOWN, N. Y.

Counsel For

The Defense

The Marriage of Convenience

I says to B. Gurin yesterday, Mawruss, why
don’t he get married to a girl mit money, and he
says money don’t figure at all with him.
“Where’s the harm.”’ I says, “‘ supposing a girl
does got a little money.”

“What is the use talking, Mr. Potash?’’ he
says. “I am sick and tired of looking. Believe
mc, I ain’t lying to you, if I looked at one I
must of looked at hundreds. The fathers was
rated at the very least D to F first credit, and
wl at isit ? The most of ’em I wouldn’t marry,
not if the rating was Aa 1 even, such faces they
got it.”

Which it only goes to show what a fool the
feller is, Mawruss, because girls which they got
D to F fathers. don’t got to have faces.

FROM

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By Montague Glass
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Being the Home Making Adventures of Marie Rose

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ARIE ROSE had never seen the inside of a
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If you wish to be really diverted, come and behold
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JUNE, 1912

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THE Montn’s REMINDER - - - - - - - . - - = 207
THE Best Bush BEAN To Grow - - - Adolph Kruhm 208
Photograph by the author

A TRANSPLANTED SUMMER GARDEN - - -
Photograph by the author

THE Home STRAWBERRY BED - - - - W.H. Jenkins 302
Photograph by D. E. Lyon

TALL PERENNIALS FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES
Gladys Hyatt Sinclair 303
Photographs by the author
HERBACECUS PERENNIALS THAT ARE PosITIVELY HARDY
CDE Meller 305

Alice Slosson 300

Photographs by the author

Witp Flowers For THE HomME GarDEN -_ Elsie McFate 306
Photographs by A. R. Dugmore, N. R. Graves and others
PERENNIALS FOR THE SHADY Nook - - - Norman Taylor 308
Photographs by H. Troth, N. R. Graves and others

Lonc-LiveD EVERGREENS FOR GARDENS - Wilhelm Miller 310
Photographs by A. G. Eldredge and others

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THe City’s GARDEN - - - - - - Ellen Eddy Shaw 314
Photographs by M. L. Green, W. S. Kimball and others

READERS’ EXPERIENCE CLUB - - - - - - - - - - 316
PREVENTIVE WoRK FOR EARLY SUMMER - W. H. Jenkins 318
Photograph by the author
How A STRAWBERRY Bep Was Mave - - - S.T. Lyon 322
STARTING A MusKMELON Crop - - - - F.F. Rockwell 324
Younc PEOPLE’s CLUB Siete neta cat im ol) 138

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AN Earty Bioominc WHITE SHRUB - - - Fred Haxton 332
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Thomas J. Steed 330

NECESSARY GARDEN Toots - - - - - WM. Roberts Conover 334

My HoME-MADE GARDEN ROLLER- - - - F.H. Mason 334

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TREE AND GARDEN LABELS - - - - - Charles C. Whedon 336
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About Gardening miner, Pa.

pak is a book by Dr. Miller, Horticul-

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Dr. Miller went abroad with the object of
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292-296 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE June, 1912

FROM NOW UNTIL

July Ist
Not Later

There is no more useful garden material than what
are known as Dutch Bulbs, Hyacinths, Tulips,
Narcissi, Crocus, etc. They give for a small outlay
of time and money an abundance of flowers in the
house from December until April, and in the garden
almost before the snow is off the ground in the
spring until the middle of May. These Bulbs are
grown almost exclusively in Holland, and in enormous
quantities, where they are sold at very low prices.
Usually they pass through the hands of two dealers,
and more than double in price before reaching the
retail buyer in America.

By ordering from us now instead of waiting
until fall, you save from 20 to 4o per cent in cost,
get a superior quality of Bulbs not to be obtained
at any price in this country, and have a much
larger list of varieties to select from. Our orders
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Lots of Work and Some Reward

IGILANCE and care are now the
watchwords. Cultivate often for three
Teasons:

1. To hasten growth.

2. To conserve moisture.

3. To kill weeds.

But take warning: Don’t cultivate or
touch in any way beans while there is
moisture on them. Anthracnose germs are
nearly always present under moist, warm
conditions, and the cultivation scatters
them broadcast.

If showers are scarce water copiously
now and then, not morning and evening,
just enough to lay the dust.

Quality in vegetables is the result of
quick, unchecked growth, and this means
plenty of water at all times.

Pull radishes just as soon as they are
big enough to bite. Pick peas when well
filled out, but before they grow firm and
begin to turn light colored. Spinach is
delicious only in direct proportion to its
youthfulness.

Nitrate of soda, scattered along the row
dry, or dissolved in the water will work
wonders. Use a teaspoonful to a watering
canful at least.

Rose buds and rose bugs arrive about
the same time. The latter cause trouble
among the grapes, too. So far, no better
treatment than pressure between the thumb
and finger and immersion in kerosene has
been discovered. What is your plan of
action?

Flea beetles bite holes in the leaves of
tomatoes, dahlias, etc., and in sufficient
numbers are a real pest. But kerosene
emulsion, tobacco dust, or pyrethrum effect-
ually dispose of them.

The aphides’ feeding and breeding seasons

are practically all the time. If you can-
not find them clustered on the tender tips
of any of your vines, bushes or plants,
you are indeed lucky. Use a _ proper
spray for them.

Remember, the one year old asparagus
bed is forbidden ground, no matter how
attractive the stalks may look. Even a
bed in full bearing should not be cut for
more than six weeks. An expensive lux-
ury? Well, yes, if you are very short of
space. But you can grow onions, lettuce
and radishes between the rows.

By the way, is the asparagus knife bright
in readiness?

Planting must of course, go on briskly.

Lettuce, corn, radishes, peas, beets, kohl-
rabi, all these in small quantities every
two weeks. New Zealand spinach, for
cutting all through the summer. All the
ultra-tender melons, cucumbers, peppers,
eggplants, tomatoes and okra can come
out of the frames now. And late potatoes,
turnips, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, etc.,
can now be planted.

Don’t wait for the beetles to appear on
the early potatoes before you spray.
Cover the foliage with paris green or arsen-
ate of lead as soon as the plants are six
inches high and prepare a deadly morsel
for the first comers. It will help in other
ways, too, for:

Some paris green on young pertaters
Keeps bugs from eggplants and termaters.

Now is the time to decide how you are
going to support the tomatoes. You can
train them to single stems and keep these
tied to strong stakes, one to a plant; you
can make a circular fence of barrel hoops
for each vine or support them on a trellis
of wood or wire running the length of the
row. Or, if you don’t care much, you can
leave them unsupported to roam over the
ground. But you will not get as much
fruit, nor as good nor as early from this
method.

A strawberry bed that has borne for two
seasons has passed its greatest usefulness,
as far as high quality berries is concerned.
The third year you may get a good crop
but the berries will be small. So plan if
you can for a rotation in which straw-
berries will bear for two years and then
be plowed under in time for a summer
crop.

Two of Loudon’s rules for gardeners that
are especially applicable at this season are:

“In gathering a crop take away the
useless as well as the useful parts.”

“Let no plant ripen seeds, unless they
are wanted for some purpose, useful or

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ornamental, and remove all parts which
are in a state of decay.”

If your fruits don’t set, especially plums,
grapes and pears two solutions are possible:
Either you have varieties that are self-
sterile (cannot be pollinated by their own
pollen) or there are lacking bees, breezes or
other agents of fertilization. The latter
trouble can be remedied by buying a colony
of bees which is not only easy to take care
of, but will bring you in a little cash now
and then if you can bring yourself to dis-
pose of genuine, home-made, comb honey.

Not a few persons ask us how they can
store hen manure so that it will be avail-
able for the garden. One way is to sprinkle
the dropping boards with dry dirt or land
plaster every morning and clean them off
every three or four weeks, when the manure
can be harrowed in between the rows with
good results. The droppings may be saved
in barrels or boxes (out of reach of the
weather) if an absorbent is used. When
applied all lumps must be broken and the
whole mass pulverized.

If you can leave the hardy bulbs where
they are all summer and winter they will
bloom about two weeks earlier next spring
than if they are dug up and replanted.

If you must take them up, let them
ripen for a fortnight or more after they
have bloomed, then brush off all dirt and
let them. dry in a free circulation of air be-
fore storing them away in a cool, dry place.

Gardening for the Late Comer

PERTAES you have just moved in and
have almost given up the idea of a gar-
den this year. Don’t doit. You can not
only start perennials for next year’s effects,
but also get some splendid results this
season.

These annuals will bloom abundantly be-
fore frost: Alyssum, California poppy, cali-
opsis, candytuft, love-in-a-mist, mignonette,
nasturtiums, phlox, portulaca, and scarlet
sage. But for good results don’t let the
blossoms ever go to seed.

These perennials may bloom this year,
and if you use pot-grown plants from the
florist instead of seeds, they surely will:
Campanula carpatica, Centaurea montana,
delphinium, dianthus, gaillardia and Pent-
stemon campanulatus.

Buy some potted vines, too. You save
all the delays and possible dangers of the
germinating and early tender periods. Clem-
atis, morning glory, hop (Humulus lupulus),
English ivy, trumpet, canary-bird, and cup-
and-saucer vines are especially quick growers
if well fed and given a good support.

aPUsUUUAENAOBENESE GEE

ey 3)
Mu. FOS “

Hardy Wax is perhaps the best all-round wax bean.

its prolific nature

The photograph shows

Bountiful, a high ranking flat green pod bean.

Earlier than others and very
prolific

The Best Bush Beans to Grow—By Adolph Kruhm, ou

[ Evrrors’ Note.— Mr. Kruhm, is a worthy successor to the late E. D. Darlington who gave us in his time the best articles on varieties of vegetables we have ever

seen.
costly trial grounds.
not facts.

HERE are four main types of bush
beans: first, flat green podded; sec-

ond, round green podded; third, flat wax
podded; and fourth, round wax podded.

Stringless The

Keeney’s
largest plant of the present selection and excellent
for fall use

Refugee, green pod.

Nevertheless our duty is to give our readers the best of everything.

Of recent years the demand has been
strongly in favor of the round podded types.
There are reasons for this. With few ex-
ceptions, the round podded sorts are free
from strings, while some flat podded sorts
have defied all efforts of the breeder to
eliminate this unpleasant feature, and still
save those characteristics which make the
flat podded beans worth while. As the
result, the proportion of round podded
sorts to flat podded sorts in cultivation
to-day is as three to two, and it is safe to
predict that another decade will see still
greater changes in favor of round pods.

The cardinal points in favor of the round
podded sorts are their handsome appear-
ance, great fleshiness, small seeds while
in the eatable stage, and, with few ex-
ceptions, entire absence of strings.

The favorable points of the flat podded
sorts are that they average longer than
their round podded brethren; they are,
perhaps, slightly more prolific and (as in
the case of a few wax podded sorts),
they hold up well on market, presenting
a better appearance after hours of display,
than the round podded sorts which wilt
more easily. The reason for this is the
larger amount of water contained in the
round podded and the larger amount of
fibre contained in the flat podded sorts.

The preference for either wax podded
or green podded beans is altogether a
matter of personal taste. While the waxy
yellow beans present a more appetizing
appearance when served, the green podded
beans seem to have a greater number of
followers who claim for them flavors not
to be found among the wax-podded sorts.

My great fondness for this vegetable
has led me to grow nearly all sorts fit to
grow in the home garden during the past
three years. I have failed to discover any
vital difference in flavor among green beans
and yellow beans. It’s perhaps a matter
of sentiment in favor of the green pods

998 - .

It is impossible for any amateur to give the comparative merits and limitations of varielics accurately because the facts can be learned only on large and
Of course, horticulture is not an exact science; the variety that suits one place or purpose may not suit another; and opinions are judgments,
The readers of THE GARDEN MAGazIne are able to make their own allowances.]

because they are the kind “grandmother
used to cook.” But some of those old
kinds never could begin to compare with
some of our up-to-date wax beans which

New Kidney Wax is better than the old-time Ward-

well. Resistant to rust and has a long season

JUNE, 1912

have every quality that could be desired
in a bean, plus appearance when served.
But that again may be only a matter of
personal appreciation, or prejudice.

After carefully testing nearly a score
of the best new and old varieties of green
and wax podded beans of both types, I
have selected the following:

FIVE BEST GREEN PODDED BUSH BEANS

1. Burpee’s Stringless Green Pod. For
more than twenty years this has been the
favorite in American gardens. It is early
and bears freely, is stringless, round, about

> inch in diameter, averages 43 to 5 inches
~ long and is slightly curved. A handsome
sort, borne on a healthy plant which stands
dry weather well and rarely ever disap-
points.

2. Bountiful. The only flat podded
green sort I have retained in the assort-
ment I grow every season. For the second
time in two consecutive years, Bountiful
proved the earliest of all bush beans, pro-
ducing pods 5 days sooner than Stringless.
The second picking of 15 foot rows gave me
two quarts of Bountiful pods against one
of Stringless. Bountiful is as nearly string-
less as the breeder has been able to make
a flat green podded bean. Its pods con-
tain a little more fibre than a Stringless of
like age; but they average larger and are
entirely stringless until they become longer
than 5 inches.

3. Giant Stringless Green Pod. Pods
closely resemble those of Burpee’s String-
less. While they average nearly an inch
longer they are produced about four days
to a week later. A good, perfectly string-
less, round podded sort with many dependa-
ble qualities.

4. Fordhook Favorite. The latest ad-
dition to the round green podded sorts and
one that is bound to make many friends.
In general appearance it resembles string-
less green podded, one of its parents, but the
dry beans are pure white — hence elegant
as a shell bean for winter use. Fordhook
Favorite is a few days later than Burpee’s
Stringless, has slightly curved pods, averag-
ing 5 inches long. A prolific bearer, with
a long season. It is stringless until too
old to snap, free from fibre and of delicious
quality.

5. Keeney’s Stringless Refugee Green Pod.
The latest variety as to season in the
assortment and quite distinct in many
ways. Plants grow to much larger size
than those of above four sorts, are of spread-
ing growth and have a smaller foliage.
One of the best sorts for fall use if planted
July ist. Pods average 43 to 5 inches
long, are semi-round, stringless, and of a
distinct light green color — showing the
true Refugee blood. Of excellent quality,
brittle and tender. One of the most
prolific sorts ever produced.

FIVE BEST WAX PODDED BUSH BEANS

1. Hardy Wax, is in my estimation, the
best all round wax podded bush bean yet
evolved. Four to five inches in average
length, always stringless and tender, round

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as a pencil, slightly curved pods of beautiful
lemon-yellow color. It’s a pleasure to
prepare Hardy Wax for the table — such
smooth, uniform, brittle pods. Good early
or late in the season. It’s the earliest
sort I know, but does equally well planted
in summer for fall use. Plants are thrifty,
healthy, everbearing and hold their heavy
loads of pods well above the ground.
“Why can’t we buy beans like these on
market,” is invariably the question with
which friends confront us alter tasting
them. Best solution — grow them yourself!

2. Pencil Pod ‘Black Wax is the best
type of Black Wax Bean ever developed.
Pods grow to be 5 to 7 inches long, are
round, perfectly stringless, meaty, tender,
brittle; all good qualities desired in a bush
bean are found in this sort. About a
week later than Hardy Wax and perhaps
not as free a bearer. Requires better soil
than Hardy Wax to do its best.

3. Stringless Refugee Wax is the wax-
podded brother to No. 5 among the green
pods. The characteristic growth of the
plant and its purple blossoms proclaim it
a true strain of Refugee. Pods do not
exceed 43 inches in length but are produced
by the handful. You are never done pick-
ing this sort. A fifteen foot row will yield
a quart every other day for weeks at a
stretch. Beans are semi-round, stringless,
meaty, free from fibre, and of top-notch
quality. ‘“‘Klein aber fein” (small but fine)
is what the Germans would say about it.

4. Sure Crop Stringless Wax is one of
the latest pets of this country’s foremost
bean breeder — Mr. C. N. Keeney of New
York State. It well deserves its place
among the “five best,” although there is
still room for improvement. Plants are
exceptionally hardy (sure crop in cold

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Wardwell’s Old Kidney
Wax, now surpassed by
an improved form

Stringless Refugee
Wax, a worthy brother
to Refugee Green Pod

weather), have thick leathery leaves (sure
crop against blight) and require less mois-
ture to do well than any other sort I tried

Two newer beans worth notice.
and small grains.

Fordhook Favorite on the left, a new green pod bean with solid meat
On the right, Sure Crop Stringless Wax, a very hardy kind

The author’s bean trial ground where the best of
good cultivation is given

this season (sure crop during drouth).
Pods average 6 inches long, are flat but
fleshy and of excellent quality while young.
Tf allowed to get too old, they will show a
slight string and some fibre when being
prepared for the table. Remedy against
this: Pick them regularly and clean the
bushes of everything that’s ready. Sure
Crop Stringless Wax will find its place.

A Transplanted Summer Garden--By Alice Slosson, 3%

THE GARDEN

5. Burpee’s New Kidney Wax is a flat
sort of many sterling characteristics. Those
who have stuck to old Wardwell’s for
decades, should try a row of this bean
alongside. Thrifty, healthy plants, with
clusters of handsome pods, averageing 63
to 7 inches in length. Flat but thick
through, tender and brittle at all stages of
development. Of best cooking quality
and one of the finest for making bean salad
on account of its great tenderness and
superb flavor. Bears freely and during a
long season, is remarkably free from blight
and rust. A trade winner on market and
a praise winner at the table.

AS TO GROWING BEANS

Here are the essential points in bean
culture; they are few and so easily grown
that there is no excuse for a failure:

Always plant beans in rows, dropping the
seed about 5 inches apart in drills 3 inches
deep. Place rows 25 to 3 feet apart and
hill slightly. This will insure proper drain-
age and keep the beans off the ground.
Pick as soon as enough pods are 4 inches
long to make a meal. Continuous picking
insures prolonged bearing. Pick carefully

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JUNE, 1912

Stringless Green Pod has been a reliable bean for
more than twenty years

so as not to disturb young forming pods and
blossoms. Cut the stems of beans with
your finger nails, as jerking the plant is
apt to disturb important feeding roots.
Never pick when bushes are wet, as this
will cause blight and rust. For a suc-
cession of crops, for a family of 5, plant
30 feet of row every two weeks up to
August tst.

New

THE PRACTICAL WAY OF COVERING UP BARE SPOTS IN THE FLOWER BORDER—
THE SUCCESSFUL MOVING OF PLANTS IN FULL FLOWER DURING THE SUMMER

Pe time was June 20th. The place
was Northern Vermont, and the
dramatis persone myself and the “hired
man” (see New England vernacular),
whose chief recommendation was a readi-
ness to do at once whatever he was told
to do, and this without any counter-sug-
gestions of his own. I mention this last
for the appreciation of those, like myself,
who have striven with another kind of
gardening assistant. They will know the
real importance of this seemingly insigni-
ficant fact, without which the transplanted
garden would never have been.

An eight weeks’ illness had kept me
three hundred miles from my garden so
carefully planned the season before, and
this at the time most crucial in perennial
borders, namely, mid-April to mid-June.
A year previous in June, after prolonged
and feverish selection from many cata-
logues and authorities, no two of which
held the same opinion in the matter, the
seeds were sown’ of such old-fashioned
perennial flowers as seemed best suited to
constitute a strictly up-to-date garden.
There were in all twenty-three varieties.

All but three kinds came up freely, and
in early August were transplanted to cold-
frames where they could be properly pro-
tected until spring and a final transplanting
to the open borders. The severity of the
Vermont climate makes such protection
of seedling plants absolutely necessary
during their first winter. Afterward they
seldom winter-kill. This acclimatization
may be effected also by sowing the seed

in November and allowing it to lie in a
covered coldframe all winter. If it does not
rot before spring, the resulting plants will
be as hardy as those which have come
through a winter in plant form. This
is worth noting and profiting by, unless
the seed is too choice to chance losing.
My coldframes are covered with old floor
matting, or else with building paper.

The final resting place for those twenty-
three varieties was prepared late that fall,
as nearly in accordance with the rules of
the game as the weather and my purse
would permit. (The ground froze un-
seasonably early; I omit purse particulars.)
The result was a border bed about 70
feet long and bayed in curves, giving a
width of from four to ten feet.

As I came up the driveway in the late
afternoon of that 2oth day of June, a
year later, the first thing to be seen was
that bed, enclosing the west side of my
garden in all its pristine nakedness of
bare soil and muddy contour. Then, back
of the house, I came on my nursery beds
beyond the orchard. The coverings had
been taken off the frames in April, but no
attention had been given to the poor things
inside, and the unpremeditated result was
gorgeous. I think everything had lived.
A dense wilderness of buds and blossoms
rose out of the knee-deep grass surround-
ing it. on all sides. MHollyhock spires
already showing color made the back-
ground for an army of foxgloves, some of
whose lower bells were almost out. The
Oriental poppies were past, but a few

lingering blossoms glowed beyond the
long-spurred columbines. Packed like sar-
dines in their section of frame, the count-
less blossoms of these last hovered like a
swarm of many-hued butterflies above the
leaves. Many of the sweet Williams were
in bloom; more still green in bud. The
same with the larkspurs. Stokesia, Mich-
aelmas daisies, of course; gaillardias and
later sorts were not so far advanced, but
the clove pinks were at their best, and the
ever-blooming carnation top-heavy with
fat buds. It seemed hopeless.

Everyone assured me that nothing could
be done “because even if the plants lived
through a transplanting now, all the buds
would blight.” But with that awful
empty bed spurring me on, I transplanted
everything, except the columbines. .They
were too wonderful to touch. And noth-
ing blighted.

Someone has said that “Most of sterling
worth is what one’s own experience
preaches.” Nothing in gardening is more
true, and the preaching of my own suc-
cessful experiment is that you may trans-
plant what you will and when you will,
provided only that you do it in this way,
and not when the wind is blowing.

Having first removed the nozzle, I
attached the hose to the garden stand-
pipe, turned the water on full, and let
it run for nearly twenty-four hours through
the whole section of plants to be trans-
planted, moving the open end now and
then so as to flood the entire place as
evenly as possible. At the end of that

JUNE, 1912

time, I had a fairly good swamp with a
brook running through it.

Now it is a fact that all florists stand
marketable flowers to their necks in water
for twenty-four hours before shipping.
They will absorb enough water in this way
to keep them for a long time. These
plants of mine proved to have absorbed
more than they could“ sober up” under in
a week. By means of plank path-ways,
we tied up each plant with lengths of
rafha, just above the crown, and again
near the top, being very careful to keep
every part straight. The tyings were not
taken off until a week later, that the
plants need expend no energy in holding
themselves up. We moved them all, a
wheelbarrow load at a time, in two days,
turning the water on again during the
intervening night. They came out of the
ground, even the biggest, as easily and
slimily as can be imagined, every bit of
earth clinging to the roots as only mud
can cling.

About four days after setting out, I gave
them a strong nerve stimulant in the form
of a half-inch of wood ashes spread over
the entire surface of the bed, well-raked and
well-watered in. There is nothing better
for fainting fits in the vegetable world!

And now, knowing what can be done,
my garden no longer has those unsightly
gaps in the perennial borders, against
which one has had to resort to successions
that seldom succeeded at the required
times. In my nursery garden, the “left-
overs” are used for this very purpose and

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served up accordingly as “entrees.”
When larkspurs are cut back, I set the
intervening spaces with the tall variety of
white snapdragon in bud and even in
blossom. The more slender second bloom
of the larkspurs will allow this without
over-crowding, and later on, when they
catch up, the two will go on blooming
together. Or, when the carnations are
past, set out among them the single petunia
Rosy Morn, and keep that part of your
garden, otherwise without a flower, a
thing of beauty for the rest of the season;
with the French pink of that petunia’s
blossoms against the green-blue of the
carnation foliage. Even the Shirley poppy,
most fragile of growing things, may be
handled with impunity and entire success
in this way.

Many advisers say, “fill in all bare
spaces with poppy seed, sown broadcast.”
This makes pleasant reading. It calls up
a mental picture of a garden so filled in that
would be gratifying if realized. But no
one begins with bare spaces. ‘They occur.
And there is a horrid interval of earth and
tiny plants which are always too thick here
and too thin there, and whose reluctant
bloom comes so long after as to find itself
in turn surrounded by the empty places of
a past generation. No, an immediate need
of this sort cannot be met with a packet of
seed and future conditional flowers.

Last July I set out Shirley poppies by
the hundred, just as the first flower bud
was pushing up from the centre. It was a

case of wanting what I wanted both when

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and where I wanted it, and having it too!
To begin with, the poppy seeds had been
mixed before sowing with a cupful of dry
sand, and the seedlings thinned unsparingly
until the plants stood at least four inches
apart. Equipped with a_ thin-bladed
trowel, a large tin tray and a package of
tissue paper, I wrapped each plant as lifted
from the mud in a single sheet of the paper,
which formed a surprisingly tough little
paper-case, and for all purposes of trans-
planting, turned the seedlings into “pot-
grown” plants, with the difference that
these are set out just so, without removing
the paper cases. They adhere most tena-
ciously, and there is no falling away or
loosening of the earth from the roots to
shock the over-delicate fibres.

Once in the ground, a few days will rot
the tissue case completely out of existence.
The tin tray is used for moving them. As
each plant is taken up, it is stood against the
rim of the tray, until enough have been
taken up to reach all the way around the
edge, never letting any two touch each other.

All small annuals may be transplanted in
this way to advantage, and will repay
the extra trouble, especially stocks and
asters, the quality of whose bloom depends
greatly on an unchecked growth from seed
to flower. And yet they require trans-
planting to give vigor!

One last warning: Do not try to move
anything when the wind is blowing. Fly
kites, or sail boats, or employ yourself in
any of the other ways that nature provides
for such times; but don’t transplant!

All the flowers shown in this picture were transplanted successfully in full summer by being careful to thoroughly soak them with water before their removal

and tending till established

The Home Strawberry Bed—By W. H. Jenkins, 3

NOW IS THE CRITICAL TIME FOR THE NEWLY SET BED —WHAT YOU MUST DO THIS YEAR IF YOU

WANT BERRIES AS GOOD AS CAN BE GROWN NEXT YEAR — ROUTINE WORK ON

[- IS of the greatest importance that
the new strawberry bed for fruiting
next year (and which was set this spring),
be kept free from weeds. Begin cultiva-
tion before the weeds appear. Do not
wait for the ground to bake hard, but start
the cultivator while the soil is mellow. A
garden wheel hoe, with large wheels, hav-
ing such attachments as plows, rakes,
cultivators, teeth, etc., is the best tool
to use. For the first cultivation put on the
plows and run the wheel hoe both ways
between the rows of plants, which should
be at least two feet apart each way and in
check rows. Cut the soil quite deeply
between the rows each way to aerate and
mix the fertilizer with it. Next put the
rakes on the wheel hoe and pulverize and
level the little furrows left by the plow.

If you lack space for garden vegetables
and wish to do some intensive gardening,
sow a row of vegetables, such as early
lettuce, radishes, spinach, or some quick-
maturing crop, half way between the rows
of strawberries. Put the rows of straw-
berry plants and the vegetables at least
one foot apart. A very good way is to
mix lettuce and radish seed and sow them.
The radish will germinate in about a week;
then one can continue cultivation with
wheel hoe. Put on two cultivator teeth
on each side of the hoe
and run them on either
side of the row of vege-
tables, i. e.,, straddle it.
Clean out all these early
vegetables in June, so as
not to-obstruct the cul-
tivation of the strawber-
ries. If one has elsewhere
in the garden plenty of
rich soil prepared for veg-
etables, do not plant any
crop in the strawberry
TOWS.

During midsummer cul-
tivate so that there will
be a dust mulch —a fine
layer of soil on the surface
—that will cause the
moisture to rise by capil-
lary attraction. The best
way to do this with the
wheel hoe is to use the
cultivator teeth as soon
as the soil dries out after
a rain, then finish with
rakes, using the hoe to
cut off all weeds as soon
as they appear. Only a
little hand hoeing will be
needed close around the
plant. If you keep a
horse or can get one eas-
ily, horse cultivation with
a cultivator having sev-
eral small teeth is best and

easiest, but this should have been planned
for when setting the plants by making
long rows two and a half feet or more apart.
I have sometimes cultivated the long way
of the bed with the horse and the short
way with a wheel hoe. This makes the
soil so mellow that the wheel hoe runs
very easily.

The method of clipping and transplant-
ing runners, if any are left to grow, will
depend on the plan of culture you have
decided upon. For best results in_ hill
culture, put the plants in check rows not
over two feet apart each way; eighteen
inches is better for light soils, and for the
non-stooling varieties. Hill culture is the
highest culture and the plants require
more attention. The runners must be
clipped every two or three days all sum-
mer, the plants watched closely for
white grubs which eat off the roots of
the plants; then the bed requires good
mulching in the fall to keep the plants
alive all winter.

If the white grub appears try the carbon
bisulphide remedy. Just pour a tablespoon-
ful of the liquid on the crown of the plant,
letting it soak into the soil.

Probably your best plan will be to prac-
tice a hedge row system, which is to cut
all the runners until about July rst, when

Success with strawberries»lies in keeping the bed in perfect condition.

and keep down all weeds

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THE OLD BED

bed one or two of the strongest runners on
each plant in the rows so as not to interfere
with running the cultivator one way.
After this try to keep all runners cut, and a
dust mulch around the plants and the
weeds destroyed when they first germin-
ate.

It is very bad practice to dig plants from
the fruiting bed to make a new bed in the
spring. It is, however, a good thing to
make a little propagating bed quite late
in the spring, when the leaves are so large
that you can distinguish the different
varieties, using those which have proved
most desirable. One can bed all the strong,
early runners at one end of a row, placing
them around the mother plant like the
spokes in a wheel and holding them down
by little stones or soil. Keep the bed
clean and late in the summer thin out the
plants so that they stand two or three
inches apart. I prefer to make the prop-
agating bed apart from the fruiting bed,
so that I can practice horse cultivation
and can cultivate the whole length of
the row.

Probably the strawberry bed that is
fruiting this year is weedy and must be
cleaned out to mature a good crop and to
save the bed for another year. If it
was kept well weeded last year and well
mulched the work of
weeding is easy. If there
are too many weeds re-
move the mulch, culti-
vate well between the
rows of plants hoe out
the weeds left and then
replace the mulch _ be-
tween the rows.

In order to keep the
berries from getting
very sandy, place a layer
of green grass between
the rows after the weed-
ing is done. It is a mis-
take to think, as many
do, that weeding the
fruiting bed of straw-
berries will injure the
plants. Shallow cultiva-
tion is good for the plants
all summer, and even up
to picking time. With a
heavy mulch there will
be fewer .weeds and
less evaporation of mois-
ture. When the berries
are picked, mow the
plants close to the ground
and cultivate between
the rows to start a new
root growth and a new
growth of foliage so as
to have new plants in-
stead of old ones for
fruiting next year.

Cultivate often

Almost a quarter of a century in one place! The Madonna lily is best planted in August and will increase without further trouble

Tall Perennials for Special Purposes — By Gladys Hyatt Sinclair

FAVORITES THAT MAY BE USED FOR SCREENS AND BOLD EFFECTS

A FEW EASILY GROWN

COMMON

Mich-

IN BORDERS — SOME SUGGESTIONS THAT WILL HELP OUT COLOR SCHEMES, AND WHAT TO AVOID

| Sa places for tall perennials are many
and tall perennials are many; yet
tall perennials that just fit their places
are all too seldom seen. Haven’t people
even a speaking acquaintance with the
numerous tribe of hardy graceful things
with long backs and lovely faces, that
shrubs must usurp the perennials’ places
and annual sunflowers stare impudently
from hardy borders? Truly it would seem so.

Perhaps the formal borders and isolated
plantings cry for suitable tall perennials as
loudly as any place. For these, that must be
in best bib and tucker every day, hardyreeds
are excellent decorators. The great reed,
Arundo Donax, is the giant of the family;
with all it wants to eat and drink it will
grow twenty feet high. Its slim straight
stalks and slim long leaves with its great
height make it an ideal dweller in the
centre of formal round beds, at the back of
formal borders, in specimen groups on a
lawn, at the end of a walk or the corner of
a building. If you live where winter is
severe be cautious about planting the newer
variegated form of Arundo. It is beautiful
though, growing only about ten feet high
at its best, but it is far from hardy.

Of the same class of hardy grasses is the

hardy pampas grass (Erianthus Ravenne).

The true pampas grass we of the colder
north cannot have, but this cousin leaves
little room for regret. It grows higher
than the true pampas (about twelve feet);
its plumes sway just as lazily, it often has
thirty to the plant and is very resistant to
cold. What more could we ask? Another
fine thing about hardy pampas is its decora-
tive value in winter. I recently saw. a
clump of it planted to soften the angle
of an arbor. It had been left standing
at the fall clean-up and every graceful
drooping leaf and every wonderful plume
was white and glittering with hoar frost;
that group of grasses was a thing to re-
member.

The plume poppy (Bocconia cordata) is a
tall perennial especially suited to single
clumps. Its large, poppy-like grayish
leaves, its well clothed, seven-foot stems
crowned with great creamy pyramids of
tiny flowers; its gr7ceful growth and eager-
ness to do its best make Bocconia a treasure.
It needs nothing especial except plenty
and plenty to eat. To be sure, Bocconia
increases by suckers — “spreads under
ground” — but not so rapidly as to be
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glad to take your surplus roots after seeing
your plants in July and August.

Where blue can go with white in the
formal bed or border set delphiniums with
the plume poppy. King of Delphiniums,
Mme. Violet Geslin, and Rembrandt are
highly valued hybrids, all tall and with
long spikes of beautiful flowers. But
unless well stocked, the wisest investment
is a reliable mixture of plants at a dollar
and fifty cents a dozen, rather than a third
as many named plants at the same price.
A delightful thing about delphiniums is
their ready fashion of growing from seed.
The care that will grow pinks will grow
delphiniums.

In the formal spot that you wish to be
most ravishing, plant Madonna lilies in
front of delphiniums. The two will be
indivorcibly wedded in your thoughts
ever after and their daughter you will
name Delight. Nowhere else, except pos-
sibly in front of clipped evergreens, do
these lovely white lilies so show their love-
liness. Good bulbs of the Madonna (Lil-
ium candidum) cost but a dollar and fifty
cents a dozen and they increase from year
to year. They require only rich light soil
and good drainage, though they and their

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Boltonia asteroides. A single plant will give a
shower of bloom in September and October. Valu-
able in connection with shrubbery

blue consorts will thank you for water in
plenty at blooming time. Take the pre-
caution to shake candidum bulbs in pow-
dered sulphur before planting in August,
and remember that this lily defies all lily
traditions by taking shallow planting;
three or four inches is enough. Once
planted, they are beauty for generations.
The new hardy sunflowers resemble
dahlias, single and quilled, more than the
tin pan affair of old times. These modern
ones add a stately note much desired in
formal borders. Daniel Dewar is about
the first of the season. It has single yel-
low flowers in July. Plant the double
orange-yellow Meteor for August, Miss
Mellish with her single, curly-petalled
blossom for September and the cluster
blooming Maximilian for cutting in Octo-

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ber. All these grow five to six feet high, are
easily raised from seed, and require only
abundance of food.

The question of backgrounds is a puzzling
one in small or new gardens and the wise
gardener will plant tall perennials to shut
out and shut in, to display lower growers
and to help make pictures while shrubs
and trees are growing. Golden glow is a
firm friend to the background painter.
Common, yes; but thrifty and willing,
handsome and clean. Set it in great ranks,
pile on the fertilizer spring and fall, and
that background is assured.

Delphiniums grow bushy and_ their
handsome foliage displays shorter plants
well. Being blue, they can grow harmon-
iously with golden glow. Hibiscus or
hardy mallow is invaluable for backgrounds.
The variety militaris or “halbert-leaved”
I have seen as a veritable shrub holding
its wonderful pink chalices far above my
head. The photograph shows swamp rose
mallow and a hybrid, Crimson Eye. I
could not reach around the lovely pink
and pure white blossoms with both hands.
Hibiscus needs heavy soil and plenty of
water; not necessarily a low place, though
a swamp dweller by nature.

Boltonia is a plant oddly unappreciated.
When I saw the one in the illustration
blooming away in gravelly sand last
September I thought of the Irishman who
laid one feather between his head and a
stone and said, “Begorra, if one feather
lays as hard as that what would a thousand
do?” If one untended boltonia plant
looks like that, a thousand—even a
hundred — would be a floral snowdrift.
There are two species of boltonia. Be
sure to get the white one, B. asteroides.
The more you have of the hateful magenta,
B. latisquama, the worse off you will be.

Most of the hardy asters, valuable as
they are, grow too low for real backgrounds

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but there is one, Tataricus, that stands
between five and six feet with fine large
bluish violet blossoms. It blooms in late
September and October and is a treasure
among tall perennials.

Chrysanthemum, or Pyrethrum uliginosum,
is splendid anywhere and especially in the
background. In poor soil it grows three
and a half feet; in rich soil nearly five.
Daisy shaped blossoms are universal
favorites and these plants are a riot of
daisies, their clusters of three to seven often
covering the plants. All pyrethrums are
great eaters.

Pond banks, the edges of pools, bridge
approaches and brook sides need tall
perennials of a different class. Cat tails
are most appropriate and handsome; so
are the reeds. Eulalias, cousins to the old
time ribbon grass, only from four to six
feet high, are indispensable here. The
variegated form (Miscanthus Sinensis, var.
variegatus, called in catalogues Eulalia
Japonica) has its white or yellow stripes
running lengthwise and the showy variety,
zebrinus, has broad bars across its leaves.
Plant with these M. saccharifer for its
shining green growth and graceful frosty
looking plumes in summer.

Wild parsley with its beautiful leaves
and great white corymbs belongs near the
wet places too; so does the tall native
Helenium autumnale, var. superbum with
its cushiony yellow daisies in the fall. Two
of our goldenrods add brilliance here in
late summer; Solidago Canadensis, five
feet high in August and the giant S.
altissima, ten feet, in late October.

For thick screens to shut out the hideous
and shut in the happy, plant golden: glow,
hardy asters, bocconia, hibiscus, hardy
sunflowers and hardy pampas grass, either
as separate lines or in a mixed hedge. A
mixed perennial hedge has unfailing charm.
With these can be used polygonum — giant
knot-weed — but be careful. It is like
the camel in the Arab’s tent, fain to take
full possession —a most serious drawback
to its undeniable white beauty.

Tall perennials make excellent accents
in the hardy border; to emphasize a curve,
to draw attention to some especial grouping
or to break the monotony of lower growers.
Set reeds against the big rock just where
the path bends sharply. Common holly-
hocks at regular intervals will accent your
straight bit of trim border as nothing else
can. Only delphiniums can “put over”
the whole beauty of that yellow corner.
A group of eulalias will separate roses from
lilies that must inhabit the same plot,
while boltonia, standing at the end of a
bed of pale asters, looks like a lovely girl in
a white gown watching over a flock of
little sisters.

Borders of blossoming shrubbery should
be oftener lightened and brightened by tall
perennials planted among them. With
spring blooming shrubs they are especially
good, keeping the line bright all the season.
Bocconia can hold its own here and is a
distinct addition. So is Arundo, poly-
gonum, boltonia and the tall golden rod.

Herbaceous Perennials that Are Positively Hardy —By C. L. Meller, iii.

North

POPULAR GARDEN FAVORITES THAT EVERY ONE MAY HAVE — SOME ACTUAL EXPERIENCES IN THE TRYING

NORTHWEST IN FINDING EFFECTIVE IRONCLAD PERENNIAL PLANTS THAT SURVIVE MOST TRYING

[Eprtors’ Note. — The past winter proved a very trying one, and shook confidence in many “‘really hardy” plants.
The exact conditions should be noted as to soil, moisture,

glad if our readers will favor us with any actual observations that seem lo run counter to normal experiences.

elc., in sending in any records.]

HE word ‘“‘hardy”’ as applied to per-

ennials is relative; that which the
gardener in Virginia finds hardy, the man
in the Northwest will find just the opposite.
We feel that up here in North Dakota we
have found a more restricted application
of the word “hardy” —have brought
it, as it were more nearly to its
precise definition — and designate the
following perennials as hardy because
they have passed unprotected through
winters in which zero weather continued
for weeks at a time and then through
summers when rain was almost unknown.
A plant that lives through these con-
ditions may well lay claim to being
“hardy.”

For the extreme difficulty with which
roses can be grown in the Northwest, we
are compensated in a measure by the ease
with which the peony will flourish. It seems
to be alike indifferent to cold and heat,
shade and sunshine. No plant responds
more readily to culture and manure; the
man who desires immediate results for his
efforts should plant peonies. As far as
the Northwest is concerned, a fortune
awaits him who can bring forth varieties
of this perennial so as to extend the bloom,
for, let ussay, another month. The market
awaits such and a grower can sell them at
his own price. According to my note book,
peonies start into bloom out here in the
Northwest about June 4th and on June
25th are very near their last blossom.

Equally as hardy and equally as prolific
in its bloom is the German iris. There is
scarcely a location where one cannot grow
this plant. Its only drawback is its
somewhat restricted period of bloom,
especially since the Japanese iris is an
altogether unreliable bloomer in the
Northwest. The iris even more than the
peonies tend to crowd themselves out, and
will need to be lifted and thinned out
every fourth or fifth year for best results.

A peony the fourth summer from planting a two-

eyed root, It had practically no after care

Larkspur flourishes and its blue color is a welcome
note in June

The iris and peony may be used together
provided there are other factors in the
composition. The peony will then carry
the floral display two to three weeks farther
into the season. The iris can be counted
on for but very little after the first week
in June — June 12th I find as a definite
date in my note book.

The tiger lily, being a native, is conse-
quently hardy. It is a plant that you
may abuse as you will, stick it in clay or
sand, in sunshine or shade. It looks
equally pretty when peering out among
the foliage of the shrubbery group or when
massed together against the green back-
ground of shrubs and trees. It isa summer
bloomer;. the hotter the sun, the more
joyous seems its color. The bloom is at
its best when the early phlox makes its
first appearance. When the last forlorn
iris drops from its stem, the yellow lilies
begin to unfold their petals. They are
earlier than the tiger lilies. Holding their
flowers well above the foliage, the effect
they produce is distinct from that of the
tiger lilies whose equal, however, they
are in rugged vigor. It is surprising in
what tough soil both these lilies will thrive.
A weed could scarcely show a more rugged
constitution.

Dianthus furnishes two species that
laugh to scorn the winters of the North-
west. These are sweet William and gar-
den or grass pinks. Both are in their full
floral array around the middle of June.

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FROSTS

Strange vagaries occurred, and we shall be

Where the average plant will grow, these
will grow, in clay or sandy soil, and be little
the worse for an extended period of drought.
The oriental poppy nears the end of its
bloom just when the garden pinks, the
sweet Williams and the yellow lilies are in
their prime. It strikes one as somewhat
odd that this plant, with its tender looking
foliage and its tropical intensity of color,
should be hardy in a climate as rigorous
as that of the Northwest. At times a
trifle hard to start, if once established it is
in the garden to stay. When the oriental
poppies drop their large red petals, they
are followed by the larkspur. They are
some of the tallest perennials of which the
Northwest can boast and afford a welcome
addition to the somewhat rare blue tints
of summer. Larkspurs start into bloom
around the 18th of June when the colum-
bines are about at an end with their
blossoms. These latter are native, flour-
ishing alike in partial shade and full
sunlight. They work in well with ferns
to the north of a house where the morning
and evening sun reaches them. The
untidy appearance of the herbage after the
plant is out of bloom should be hidden by
more enduring foliage of other plants.
Phlox, North America’s very own flower,
seems to be especially at home in the North-
west. Flame is the Greek meaning of the
word phlox and taking the family as a
whole, annuals and perennials, this name
is suggestive; the floral flames of the South
moderated to the North, as it were. When
the tiger lilies are at their best, the earlier
phloxes begin their bloom which lasts
until Jack Frost arrives. They are in
flower when the woodbine is in fruit and
some are still in bloom when the foliage
of the vine is turning crimson. Much
the same note that the peony brings into
early summer, the phlox brings into fall.
Any garden soil and almost any situation

Garden pinks are among the most reliable low
growers, doing equally well in all kinds of soils

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suits them, provided they have sunlight
for a part of the day. The dwarf phlox,
moss or ground pink, will often live over
the winter but cannot be regarded as
positively hardy.

Golden glow comes as near to being a
weed as a respectable plant dares without
losing its character. Ii there is anything,
short of actually digging it up, that will
stop this plant from growing and flowering,
that something is certainly not poor soil,
summer’s drought nor winter’s cold. Set
out a small clump, and in a few years it
will cover an area three feet in diameter.
The native wild sunflower produces much
the same effect but with a suggestion of
refinement that the golden glow lacks.

In spite of its tender appearance, the
bleeding heart, once established is per-
fectly hardy and while a bit more sus-
ceptible to adverse soil conditions, is in
other respects as rugged as any perennial
thus far mentioned.

The plantain lily or funkia has a faculty
of taking care of itself that recommends
it to the gardener with little time for
gardening. Its bloom is not particularly
conspicuous but its foliage is ornamental
throughout the season which makes the
plant excellent material wherewith to
edge the perennial border. Yucca is
hardy but it seems to be deprived of its
faculty of bloom by being buried under
snow for any length of time.

Wild Flowers for

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For almost a month in early fall the Boltonia
gives its bloom. It increases without any care and
grows in most soils

When the vines hang bare and trees
stand naked, we still have blossoms to
cheer our Indian summer — that vague but
most delightful period of all the year.
Aster ericoides will brighten the barest
hillside in fall with the airy bloom of its
tall wand-like flowers. On an exposed
slope where the water flows off almost

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JUNE, 1912

before it reaches the plant’s roots and
where the frost penetrates deeply, this
aster will flourish. A bit more particular
as to soil but in other respects equally
as hardy, is the New England aster,
another plant that should find a place in
every garden. It must be a frost, a very
strong frost, that can blacken the bloom
of these asters.

There is a rugged plant, the boltonia,
almost weedy in appearance, that deserves
to_be known and grown much more than
it is. The daisy-like flowers are held fully
four feet above the ground and for nearly
a month they gladden the autumn land-
scape with rugged cheer. The plant will
grow as readily as a dandelion and is not
a bit more particular as to soil or location.
Set out in spring, it blooms the following
fall but does not attain its full height
until the third summer. One three-year-
old clump will furnish more than twenty
plants and need not be carefully divided
at that.

These, then, are hardy perennials; hardy
attached thereto. With
them one can have bloom from spring
into late fall. Moreover, these perennials
relieve the gardener of constant care and
afford him time to enjoy his garden in
leisurely contemplation. With such a gar-
den you can go off on a vacation and on
your return find it none the worse for your
absence.

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Pennsyl-
yania

By Elsie McFate,

SOME COMMON PLANTS OF OUR WOODS AND FIELDS THAT RESPOND TO CULTIVATION — EXPERIENCES
WILD AND SUGGESTIONS FOR THEIR PROPER USE AROUND THE HOME

IN TRANSPLANTING FROM THE

F YOU will notice a foreign list of her-
baceous plants, you will be amazed at the
prices put upon our most common wild
I have before me an English

flowers.

Hepatica triloba blooms in earliest spring, even
under the snow. and defies dust. grit and other
unkind conditions

catalogue wherein I find the _ liverwort
(Hepatica triloba) listed at eighteen cents
each. This seems a great price to pay for
a little flower which we may buy at home for
four or five dollars a hundred and possibly
twenty-five dollars a thousand; but when
we consider its many uses, small wonder it
seems to be prime favorite. It will bloom
among smoke and cinders, grit and dust.
Its handsome leaves make a delightful
carpet under a ground-robbing beech. In
fact, it takes so kindly to starvation, that
we usually find the best specimens wedged
in among the roots of a greedy beech tree.
Therefore, the answer to the question of
what will bloom under a tree, quickly
resolves itself into Hepatica triloba. No
rock garden is complete without this dainty
spring flower, which will bloom in sun or
shade and whose foliage remains green over
winter. There is a vast difference between
this and the acute leaved species which

demands a humid atmosphere and an
abundance of moisture. Hepatica even
lends itself to society and _ gracefully

submits to house culture. A few clumps
carried in a frame or away from frost,
and brought into heat in mid-winter
will quickly bring forth a promise of
spring by its dainty blossoms. I cannot
endorse its merits as a cut flower,

but a bowl of these sweet blossoms will
bring a remembrance of childhood and the

Virginian cowslip or bluebell (Mertensia V irginica)

likes a moist situation. Its coming in spring is full
of rich color and attractive form

JUNE, 1912

woods from which we carried little
bunches, loving them for many days.

Contrary to public opinion, I find that
trailing arbutus (Zpig@a yepens) may be
safely transplanted from the mountains or
frame. Bear in mind that it must always
be lifted with its root system absolutely
undisturbed. Herein lies the secret of its
obstinacy. We take it up after a soaking
rain, with mud, stones, moss or whatever
surrounds it, and, as carefully as possible,
shift it to a sheltered place and cover it from
sun and wind for a whole season. A suc-
cessful method of transplanting a quantity
of arbutus sods may be carried out in the
same manner in which the gardener moves
his cucumbers from a frame: carefully lift
and tightly fit it into a paper pot, or straw-
berry box, so that its removal may not jar
the soil from the roots. Remove the box,
sod and all, until the final uncovering a year
later, when the visible remnant of the box
may be removed. In like manner it may
be shipped a long distance, if carefully
boxed, so that the plant may remain firm
in its position.

Contrary to the common idea, colonies
of arbutus creep out into the open. These
are the most desirable for removal, as they
have become hardened by wind and
weather. When established, arbutus makes
a quick growth. Wintergreen (Gaultheria
procumbens) may be treated in the same
manner.

The great laurel (Rhododendron) and
mountain laurel (Kalmia) are perhaps the
most popular evergreen shrubs in cultiva-
tion, and are largely planted in masses,
but instead of giving them a natural
ground cover of arbutus or wintergreen,
they are usually heaped together with an
unattractive mulch which detracts much
from their possible beauty.

I have quite an area grown over with
common wood violets (Viola palmata, var.
cuculata). My soil is of a stiff, dry texture
—yet by an annual application of wood
ashes, the stems of the violets are unusuaily
long and the flowers large and handsome.
This effect may be seen in woodland which
has been burned over, and offers a sugges-
tion for the gardener.

Fire pink (Silene Virginica) is a rock
plant of rare merit. Some years ago I
wanted a large quantity of it so I sum-
moned my crew, consisting of a rousta-
bout and two boys and went to a railroad
cut where I had seen some fine specimens.
After lunch on the rocks and an hour’s work
we found we were in the animated region
of copperheads. Immediately my crew
deserted me to a man, and I was obliged to
finish the work alone. What a glowing
picture those two thousand blooming fire
pinks make along the sunny hillside of the
city park to which they went! I hope they
are overhung with huckleberry and laurel.
I have seen Silene Virginica light up a dark
laurel ridge like a thousand fires, and this
planting by nature I commend to those who
wish to grow a glorious rock picture on a
grand scale. The culture of this plant is

THE

very simple, its only requirement being
perfect drainage. Robinson tells us that
the best plants are grown from seed, but I
find that equally good plants come from
division. It responds so well to cultivation
that a small root will grow into a good clump
in one season. It will thrive upon a hot
rock, sending its long root down a crevice
to gather moisture and go on doing double
duty by growing a handsome tult of ever-
green foliage.

I have never been able to grow our lovely
dog tooth violet upon my dry hillside and
have never used it in my smail rock garden,

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Its handsome leaves contrast well with
bleeding heart (Dielytra spectabilis) and
plants of tall, showy growth. Adversity
will not subdue it, when grown about
dwellings. It is good to plant along a
common path where one may brush against
it and sometimes tread upon its fragrant
roots.

NURSERY VS. COLLECTED PLANTS

There are several reasons why nursery
grown native plants should always be pre-
ferred to plants from the woods. First,
no pains should be spared to keep our wild

The trailing arbutus, or mayflower (Hpégaea repens) may be safely transplanted if the roots are not dis-

turbed.

as I like it best where I find it — along
meadow brook or in their marshy woodland.

There is a companion to this flower in its
moisture loving nature that must not be
overlooked — the Virginian cowslip or blue
bells (Mertensia Virginica). Gertrude
Jekyll has painted it in her woodland
pictures so exquisitely that I have asked her
kind permission to quote from ‘‘ Wood and
Garden.” “The Virginian cowslip is the
very embodiment of early spring. The
sheaf of young leafage comes almost black
out of the ground, but as the leaves develop,
their dull, lurid coloring changes to a full,
pale green of a curious texture, quite smooth
yet absolutely unreflecting.”

To me it is a pleasant surprise to come
suddenly upon the aromatic fragrance of
wild ginger (Asurum Canadense). The
plant is so modest in growth that it may
be quite overlooked in midsummer. It
seems to me best in groups among rocks
or as an edging to spring flowering borders.

Better take pieces that have run into the open

flowers where nature grows them; when we
copy her excellent methods of planting we
have no right to rob her gardens of valuable
treasures. In the second place, a nursery
grown plant, by reason of constant cul-
tivation, has developed a sturdy con-
stitution not likely to be disturbed by
removal. Again, it is cheaper to buy
plants than oft-times to travel many miles
and spend much time without finding a
single specimen, as I have done to my
disappointment.

There is genuine pleasure in growing wild
flowers from seed, and in many instances
thisis highly recommended, as_ stronger
plants are often grown from seed than by
division.

Dealers in American flower plants offer
seed with directions for their culture, there-
fore, it is a simple matter to become familiar
with our native flowers, many of which
will soon be lost by the onward march of
civilization.

Perennials for the Shady Nook—By Norman Taylor,

Curator of Plants
Brooklyn Botanic Garden

NEARLY FIFTY PLANTS THAT WILL FLOWER WITHOUT FULL SUNSHINE — USE THIS LIST AND REDEEM
THE NORTH SIDE OF THE HOUSE WHERE MOST OF THE WELL KNOWN

HY = should
we always
have ferns, and
nothing but ferns,
for the shady
nooks of our gar-
dens? Why this
monotonous riot of
finely dissected
foliage? I protest
against it. Not
that ferns are not
fitting decorations
for places that ap-
parently wiil grow
nothing else, but
why not occasion-
ally have flowers
as well? It can be
done with as little trouble, or less, than
the cultivation of ferns.

In choosing flowers for shady situations
what more natural than to take those
that grow normally in the shade? And it
will be seen, from those suggested below,
that most of them are plants whose original
home was the woods. No matter how
much horticultural practice may have
changed their colors and forms, they will
always respond to an environment approxi-
mating their ancestral homes. The north
side of the house, under the shade of
some trees, and along the shady sides
of walls —all these are especially appro-
priate places to start our shady-nook
garden. And a succession of bloom will
reward the gardener who plants with dis-
crimination and care.

The bloodroot is attractive
in both foliage and flowers

To have a succession of flowers from the
earliest trace of real spring up to the end
of April, the following may be planted:

White - flowered. The common _blood-
root of our woodlands (Sanguinaria Cana-
densis) has special charm for the lover of
our native plants. It will thrive best in
good rich leafmold, and in the most
shaded places. Grouped with, or near,
it the white dog’s-tooth violet (Erythron-
zum albidwm), requiring similar treatment,
makes an effective accompaniment. Where
they can catch an occasional gleam of sun-
light, the mitre-wort (Mzitella diphylia)
and our beautiful native hepatica (Hepatica
triloba), which often shows traces of a
delicate violet in its flowers, will do exceed-
ingly well.

Yellow-flowered. Among numerous yel-
low flowered herbs, few bloom early in the
spring and fewer still are at home in the
shade. The jonquil (Narcissus jonquilla)
and its many varieties can be successfully
grown in such situations, especially if the
soil is not too dry. The native dog’s-
tooth violet (Erythronium Americanum),
grouped with the jonquil, or some of the
white flowered sorts, makes a quiet but
beautiful showing. From seed this so-
called violet plant takes three years to
produce flowers, all the single-leaved and
double-leaved plants being respectively
one and two years old and flowerless. It
spreads rapidly when once established.

Purple and blue-flowered. Under trees
or shrubs, or along the north side of walls
groups of the very early flowering Bulboco-
dium vernum, with beautiful rose-purple

The European Star of Bethlehem runs freely in pastures and under the shade of trees

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FAVORITES WILL NOY THRIVE

flowers, can be freely used with splendid
effect. The bulbs should be planted in the
fall and covered with leaves during the
winter. For shady places it is more de-
sirable than the crocus, a near relative.

The beautiful azure blue of one of the
wood flowers (Anemone mnemorosa, var.
Robinsoniana), makes its cultivation for
the shady nook especially desirable. Ordi-
ary garden soil, moderately rich, will
maintain a splendid growth of what is per-
haps the only early blue flower that will
stand deep shade.

FLOWERS OF MAY

Most of the following begin and complete
their flowering during May. Some few
continue on into June, but nearly all are
true spring flowers, and, unfortunately,
do not last more than a week or two.

White-flowered. Some of these thrive
in ordinary garden soil, and although shade
plants, do better for an occasional glimpse
of the sun. The European Star-of-
Bethlehem (Ornithogalum Narbonense), with
a stem scarcely two feet tall, and often
supporting a cluster of 40 to 80 flowers, is
unique among its bulbous relatives. Bulbs
should be planted in the autumn, and
weathered over winter with leaves and
manure.

The snow windflower (Anemone sylvestris)
with only one or two large nodding flowers
is especially suited for moist places. The
flowers last well into June and July. Then,
of course, there is the beautiful, but sadly
overworked, lily-of-the-valley. “Pips,”
planted in the fall make good plants. with
reasonable care.

Six of these white, May-flowering herbs
are typical woodland plants and for suc-
cessful culture demand a good mixture of
leaf mold and rotted sods. The less cultiva-
tion they get the better, and it is profitable
to let decaying leaves work naturally into
the soil. The shy may-apple (Podophy-
llum peltatun) grows naturally in the
deepest woods and will thrive best in situa-
tions approximating the forest (leafmold,
undisturbed growth, and deep shade).
Less exacting are the red, and also the
white baneberries (Actaea rubra and A.
alba). Both may be grown in partial
sunlight, but should be grown in leaf mold.
These close relatives are distinguished by,
and take their names from, the red and
white berries which stay on well into
August. Perhaps the most beautiful of
our native plants is the foam-flower
(Tiarella cordifolia), and its natural home
on moist shaded banks, makes it easy to
grow in the shady nook of the garden. Less
showy, but botanically interesting, is the
solomon’s seal (Polygonatum biflorum) re-
quiring similar conditions, and, with the
foam-flower, being partial to leafmold.

JoNnE, 1912
Without this necessary soil, also, the
nodding wake-robin (Trillium cernuum)
can never be successfully grown. Left to
themselves plants of the latter will de-
velop into beautiful patches of nodding
white, and purplish-white color.

Purple or violet flowered. Without much
special soil preparation the wonderful
European dog’s-tooth violet (Erythronium
dens-canis) can easily grow to be a delight
in a suitably half-shaded place. It spreads
rapidly and from a few bulbs great results
may be attained. Contrasted with the
rose-purple flowers of this little known
foreigner our native lungwort (Mertensia
Virginica) makes a harmonious contrast.
It also requires half-shade. Moist situa-
tions, too, are preferable, not only for the
lungwort, but also for the great Russian

violet. The latter, a perfectly hardy,
double-flowered favorite, all too little
known in this country, has splendid

fragrant blossoms.

More difficult of cultivation, as they
require the woodland conditions of undis-
turbed growth, and deep shade, is our
violet wood-sorrel (Oxalis violacea) which
will make a beautiful carpet of rose-purple
flowers. Growing naturally with it in the
woods one would find the erect wake-
robin (Trillium erectum) and another sort
(Trillium recurvatum). The first with
purple-pink, and the latter with dark pur-
ple flowers are excellent additions to our
list. The recurvatum has its flowers half
hidden among the dark green foliage, while
in erectum, as its name implies, the flowers
stand straight up. All these will thrive
best away from the sea-coast.

Yellow or orange-flowered. From Siberia
comes the orange globe-flower (Tyrollius

The European globe flower, lemon yellow. One of
the best of the few summer bloomers in shade

THE

foliata), also yellow.

Asiaticus) which will thrive in any rich
shaded garden soil, and may profitably
be allowed a little sunshine. From nearer
home we get the yellow clintonia (Clintonia
borealis) and the bellwort (Uvularia per-
Both are from our
native woodlands, and both require a fair
imitation of forest conditions for successful
culture. The clintonia is partial to eleva-
tions of 1,000 feet or greater, but the bell-
wort may be grown anywhere.

JUNE FLOWERS

A half-dozen June flowers do their best
in just such situations as are outlined above
for clintonia. The shooting star (Dode-

catheon Media) with white flowers, and also
the most popular of all trilliums (7. grandi-
florum) make a wonderful showing in a
Of botanical interest, also
the

year or two.

white-flowered, is curious cohosh

The wakerobin, the best of all the trilliums; flowers
in June and will increase rapidly in shade

(Caulophyllum thalictroides) allied to our
common barberry. Its delicate three-
leaved foliage and long spike of flowers
are welcome additions to the host of shady
nook favorites. Less noteworthy are the
cucumber root (Smilacina bifolia) with
only two leaves and tiny white flowers,
and the taller, almost weedy, meadow-rue
(Thalictrum dioicum), useful where wild
effects are sought. The latter will stand
almost any amount of shade, while it
is accommodatingly at home in the sun-
shine as well. The wonderful yellow
ladies’-slipper (Cypripedium hirsutum) is
especially well worth cultivating, but is
difficult to establish. Only large clumps
should be attempted, and it will always
prove advantageous to buy them from some
dealer, rather than to collect them. Never
cultivate them, nor otherwise disturb the
leaf-covered soil.

All of the following June flowers may be
grown in ordinary garden soil.

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The snow windflower is the spring counterpart of
the Japanese anemone. Prefers a moist soil

Purple or scarlet-flowered. Among the
wind flowers few equal the great scarlet
species from France, Anemone fulgens, and
since it is practically the only plant of
this color which may be grown in the shade,
it is unique for our collection. Not many
American dealers carry this, and unfortu-
nately it does not seem able to endure any
length of time. The Himalayan Delphinium
Cashmirianum with purple or rose-purple
flowers is especially attractive, but should
not be attempted below elevations of 2,000
feet. For the country place in the mount-
ains it should prove excellent. Our com-
mon twisted stalk (Streptopus roseus) is
also partial to higher elevations, but may
be grown lower down, if the situation is
not too dry and windy.

Blue-flowered. Jacob’s ladder (Pole-
monium reptans) can scarcely be grown
anywhere but in the deepest shade and
with its splendid bright green foliage, over-
topped by a cluster of deep blue flowers it is
an attractive acquisition. From the Old
World comes the Siberian lungwort (Mer-
tensia Sibirica) a beautiful purplish-blue
relative of our native species. It is not
very common in the American trade but
very generally carried abroad. The monks-
hood (Aconitum Napellus) the bluest of all
its large family should be in every shady
garden. Because of its violently poison-
ous properties keep the children and the
household pets away from it. Few plants
equal it and its many varieties are dressed
in various hues of white, and blue and
white, with every degree of variegation.

SUMMER FLOWERS

Very few of our shade plants flower dur-
ing July and August. Two white flowered
forms, requiring again, the best imitation

310

of the woodland obtainable, are the showy
ladies’-slipper (Cypripedium regine) and
the snakeroot (Cimicifuga racemosa). The
former is not easy to grow and without
a good start, with a number of plants, it
is impossible to get it established. The
snakeroot, having spikes 3 to 4 feet tall,
is much more easily grown. Another
native plant, the harebell (Campanula
rotundifolia), with blue flower and slender
linear leaves, is useful. It will thrive best
among rocks or on rocky ledges.

For the shaded corner few plants excel
Lyon’s turtlehead (Chelone Lyoni), a
plant rarely more than a foot in height
with wonderful red or rose-purple flowers.
The variety speciosa with pink flowers is a

Long-Lived Evergreens for Gardens—By Wiihelm Miller,

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pleasing form well worth cultivating. From
Europe we get the globe-flower (Trollius
Europeus), with delicate lemon-yellow
flowers and leaves not unlike our common
buttercup, to which it is related. The
globe-flower will be at home in most garden
soils, preferring somewhat moist situations
for choice. In similar situations and
responding to similar treatment, the Asiatic
woundwort (Stachys grandiflora) will easily
thrive. Its large showy flowers of bright
violet will add a pleasing dash of color to
our shady nook. It frequently flowers
well into September and is the last of the
plants suited to these conditions to main-
tain color in our garden.

By following the outline given above,

JUNE, 1912

with suitable grouping of species, such as
suggests itself to gardeners of taste and a
sense of harmonic values, one can easily
transform the conventional be-ferned shady
place into a real flower garden.

If you are still wedded to the foliage
idea vary the monotony with the dark,
kidney-shaped leaves of the wild ginger
(Asarum Canadense) or the shining tiny
leaves of the periwinkle (Vinca minor).
if you live south of Philadelphia the galax
leaves (Galax aphylla) make a pleasant con-
trast with their copper-colored foliage. The
red berries and small leaves of the part-
ridge-berry (Mitchella repens) will make an
interesting carpet underneath most of the
perennials mentioned above.

New

SOMETHING BETTER THAN THE CHEAP, SHOWY, QUICK-GROWING

KINDS WHICH ARE SO UNSATISFACTORY

INCE evergreens cost more than other

plants it is well to consider them first.
The common way of selecting them is to
go toa nursery and pick the most attractive
specimens. Unfortunately the most at-
tractive evergreens in nurseries are, as a
class, short-lived. The evergreens which
appeal most to a beginner are those which
have the showiest colors and the most
unusual forms. To the first class belong
all the blue, golden and variegated ever-
greens, of which the most famous is the
blue Colorado spruce. To the latter class
belong all the pendulous dwarf and colum-

ese

nar evergreens, e. g. weeping hemlock,
dwarf spruce, red cedar; and all the ever-
greens of remarkable texture, especially
the Japan cypress, or retinisporas, which
imitate threads, fans, feathers, ferns, club-
moss, heaths, and other striking forms.
Unhappily the popular choice means
bad economy. For the showiest evergreens
are so short-lived that we ought to think
of them as temporary bedding plants,
which may be satisfactory from five to
ten years. Even the wealthiest people
are wont to grow tired of renewing these
costly plants as soon as they become

The most valuable dwarf evergreen, the Japanese yew. See also the illustration on page 313

IN THE LONG RUN

ragged. It is better economy to plant
long-lived evergreens.

Moreover, the popular choice means bad
art. I grant you that these plants may
be perfectly beautiful in themselves, and
I have no quarrel with people who plant
them in a garden that is enclosed by a high
wall or hedge. For, these horticultural
varieties originated in the garden and there-
fore the most appropriate place for them is
the garden. But the great trouble is that
we Americans fill our yards with these
showy foreigners which make our homes
stand out in gaudy contrast with the
environment, whereas native American
evergreens would make our homes harmon-
ize with the landscape.

Therefore, blue, golden, and variegated
evergreens should be confined to gardens.
But even there, longer-lived evergreens
are in better taste, because they cost less
to care for. The more temporary plants
we employ the more our garden will sug-
gest extravagance and waste. The most
artistic garden materials are those which
cost the least in the long run.

The ideal way of selecting evergreens
is the landscape gardener’s method, i. e.
to consider the various purposes for which
we need evergreens and select the best
kinds for each purpose. For example, we
should consider: first, whether our garden
needs a windbreak; second, how we shall
enclose it; third, how to get the finest views
from and in the garden; fourth, how to
make it attractive the year round; and fifth,
how to connect house and garden.

EVERGREENS FOR WINDBREAKS

Every garden needs a windbreak to
protect it from cutting winds and frost.
You can have vegetables a month or so
earlier in spring and sometimes two months
later than your neighbors in the autumn if
you are sheltered from the prevailing win-
ter winds. The ideal windbreak, usually,
is an eight-foot wall of brick or stone, but

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the first cost of this is usually prohibitive.
Perhaps the house will shelter the north
side and a wood the west. If you can
afford to move large evergreens so as to
get shelter immediately you may perhaps
solve your problem with a dozen white
pines § feet high and 5 to 8 feet wide for
about $140. If you are willing to wait
three years you would better buy a dozen
pines 5 feet high for $20. You will be
tempted to buy the cheapest and quickest-
growing evergreens, which are usually the
Scotch and Austrian pines or the Norway
spruce. These were once planted by the
million for windbreaks but at thirty years
they get thin and ragged and then become
eyesores. Pay more and plant the longest-
lived evergreens native to your region, e. g.
above Cape Cod, the white spruce; in the
latitude of New York, white pine or
hemlock. These usually grow rapidly
enough. If not, perhaps you can mingle
with them some tall-growing deciduous
trees, for a dozen red or sugar maples 8
feet high will cost only $6 or $7. If these
hints are insufficient send to Washington
for ‘‘ Windbreaks,” by C. G. Bates, which
is Bulletin 86 of the Forest Service. Or
consult Bailey’s “Principles of Fruit
Growing.”

EVERGREENS TO SURROUND GARDENS

The ideal garden has good views. Even
if you have eight-foot walls you can see
over them from the middle of the garden
and it is pleasant to see a beautiful house,
a church steeple, or some fine trees. If
you plant a single row of evergreens on
two sides of your garden you will spoil
the view, because straight lines of one
kind of tree make a hard, artificial, mono-
tonous sky-line. Therefore, groves, groups
and shelter belts are more artistic than rows.
And if you blend the evergreen and decid-
uous elements, each will set off the beauty
of the other, and you will have more
variety the year round.

The noblest tree that can be seen from
a garden is, in the opinion of the Old World,
a majestic cedar of Lebanon — the most
famous example of longevity in the world.
But each region may well prefer the best
tree of its own. In the East the noblest
evergreen may be white pine, hemlock,
white spruce, or red pine. In the Pied-
mont section it may be Carolina hemlock.
Among the Western mountains it may be
Douglas or Engelmann’s spruce, or the
concolor fir. These are longer-lived and
more dignified than the showy evergreens,
such as Colorado spruce. And, if you
wish, for variety’s sake, a few foreign trees
of proved merit, choose them from an
allied climate, not a hostile one. For
instance, let Easterners choose evergreens
from the Caucasus, Japan and China, e. g.
Oriental spruce, Nordmann’s fir, etc., not
the silver fir. Scotch pine and other trees
of Europe.

Fortunate are those who may view a
natural wood from their garden, for this
is perhaps the ideal. Some, however,
would say that the richest sight is a collec-

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What a site for a garden! Red cedar for a windbreak, to frame vistas, and to act as a background for

flowers.

tion of evergreen trees in a great variety
of colors, outline, and texture. Nothing
is more picturesque than old evergreens.
nothing is more symmetrical than young
evergreens. And it is pleasant to have
both types of beauty. Few realize the
value of old evergreens. I know a certain
white pine for which the nurseryman asks
$500. This is 47 ft. high, has a spread of
33 ft., and will save somebody half a
century of waiting. For $100 you can get
a 20 ft. white pine, white spruce or Nord-
mann fir, which means a saving of about 25
years. A good many Americans are now
willing to pay $100 for a fine tree to be seen
from the garden, and the twenty-foot
specimens above mentioned are better bar-
gains than a Norway spruce at $40 or a
Scotch pine at $20.

EVERGREENS FOR HEDGES

Most beginners believe that the ideal
enclosure for a garden is an evergreen hedge
about eight feet high. In my opinion a
brick or stone wall is more efficient, per-
manent, artistic, and in the long run
economical. For, hedges get bare at the
base and it is difficult to patch them; they
do not keep out thieves and animals as
well; they finally sicken from being cut
back to an arbitrary line; they rob the
garden and increase the cost of feeding,
watering and trimming, and finally they
present a relatively uniform background for
flowers, whereas a wall covered with ivy,
climbing euonymus, trained fruits and
vines has greater variety of surface.

However, there is no arguing against
heart’s desire, and most Americans who

At Oyster Bay, Long Island

have visited England have set their hearts
on a yew hedge, because of its dark polished
leaves and its air of venerability, which is
largely due to the rich modelling of its
foliage masses. European yew does not
thrive in New England, and our nearest
substitute is the Japanese yew (Taxus cus-
pidata). But any yew involves a longer
wait than most Americans are willing to
endure and the common substitute for it
is hemlock, which has leaves of similar form
and texture. In Canada, arborvite is
considered the best evergreen hedge, but
only because it is hardier, for the winter
color of hemlock is much livelier.

If you are inclined to be irreverent about
old things may I ask how you would value
a hemlock hedge forty years old? Suppose
you had a perfect one 8 ft. high, 8 ft. thick
and 160 it. long. You might ask $2240
for it, or $14 per lineal ft. delivered and
guaranteed, provided it is as good as the
hedge I know. This hedge has been root-
pruned many times, and is divided into
numbered sections. There is no hole in the
base where a cat may get through and the
top has been trimmed to a point so as to
shed the snow. Some day a millionaire
will come along and buy that old hedge to
give the mellowness of forty years’ growth
to his new garden.

Personally I should prefer to wait for
Japanese yew, because of the richer texture
and modeling, and because the slower a
plant grows the more centuries it will live.
I have all the time in the world and the
older I get the less I hurry. I am never
impatient any more because slow-growing
evergreens are so small, since there is no

A dwarf Japan cypress known as Retinispora ob-

tusa. These cypresses are the showiest and most
popular of all dwarf evergreens, but are short-lived

satisfaction in this world like that of plant-
the right kinds of trees —the ones that
will thrive for centuries after the cheap,
quick, gaudy kinds have perished. But I
should plant Japanese yew only for dividing
lines between the compartments of an estate
not in the garden, for the weight of English
authority is against yew in the garden,
because it robs the soil and, therefore,
increases unnecessarily the yearly cost of
maintenance.

EVERGREENS FOR GARDEN VISTAS

The smaller a garden the fewer and
smaller should be the trees in it, since trees
rob flowers of food, drink and sunshine.
Consequently the columnar evergreens are
especially valuable because they take little
room and cast no harmful shade. The
most famous of these is the Roman cypress
which does indifferently in our Southern
states. Our best tree for the purpose is
red cedar and next comes arborvite. The
great temptations are Irish yew and Irish
juniper, which are so effective in Europe,
and so short-lived here.

Perhaps you can frame the best vista
from your garden by means of two groups
of red cedars — say threeina group. But,
before you decide, ask some artist whether
your view should be framed by vertical
or horizontal lines. Perhaps white pine
would be better because of its marked hori-
zontal branches. The ideal, if your climate
warrants, is cedar of Lebanon or its equiv-
alent, e. g. Sargent’s hardy form of it or the
Mt. Atlas cedar.

Most gardens, however, have no good
outlooks, and therefore the vistas inside
the garden become doubly important.
The finest object in the garden eventually,
will probably be the tallest evergreen tree,
like the deodar in the centre of a famous
Southern garden. You will often see small

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-houses dwarfed by tall trees, and small

gardens spoiled by a tall Norway spruce in
the centre. A tree of medium height is
usually in better proportion and a pair of
Japanese yews may be the ideal. This
thought is suggested by the venerable
pair of English yews at Haddon Hall of
Haddonfield, N. J. These trees are over 200
years old and are the heroes of the garden.

Another way to improve vistas within
the garden is to have some beautiful object
terminate every walk. Here you want
some object at about the height of the eye,
e. g. a fountain, arbor, seat, or some low
evergreen of richest texture, like Fortune’s
yew (Cephalotaxus Fortunei), Japanese
arborvite (Tuya Japonica), mugho pine,
umbrella pine, or Chinese arborvite (Thuya
orientalis). But be sure you have the right
conditions of sun, shade, shelter and
moisture for these aristocrats.

A third way. to improve the vistas is to
consider the skyline. Break up monotony
by means of arbor, summer house, vines on
the wall, or evergreens at the four corners.

A fourth way to multiply vistas inside
a garden is to use arches. The normal
material for an arch is a vine, but I have
never seen an arch of evergreen vines in
the north and doubt whether it is practical
to use English ivy or climbing euonymus
in this way. Within the last decade red
cedars have been trained to arches. They
have been used by Dr. and Mrs. Peter B.
Wyckoff at Southampton, Long Island.

EVERGREENS FOR YEAR-ROUND BEAUTY

The special value of evergreens is that
they make a garden beautiful and com-
fortable in winter when we need extra in-
ducement to exercise outdoors. Unfortu-
nately there are cheerless and dismal ever-

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Norway spruce, another type of the short-lived
evergreens which are irresistible to beginners be-
cause the cheapest and prettiest in the nursery

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This garden would be very tame without the tall
hedge of arborvite that surrounds it. Pink petu-
nias and box edgings at the Peters place, at Islip,
Long Island

greens, as well as cheerful ones, and many a
garden is ugly in winter because they are
overhung by climatic failures, e. g. Norway
spruce, and the Scotch and Austrian pine
which get thin, brown, ragged, and sickly
in twenty or thirty years. The cheerfullest
evergreens in winter are the healthiest and
most robust ones, e. g. white pine, concolor
fir, Douglas spruce, red pine, Carolina hem-
lock, Nordmann’s fir, and Japanese yew.

Unhappily our own red cedar and arbor-
vite get rather brown and dingy in winter
and therefore it is a mistake to use them
exclusively as many do. Moreover, lovers
of symmetry and color are naturally
attracted to the dwarf varieties of the
arborvitae, e. g. the silver, golden, globose,
pyramidal, pendulous, and crested. I
once saw twenty-five varieties of arbor-
vitae, all very showy in the buying season,
but dull and dead-looking in winter.

The most surprising winter colors are
produced by the Japan cypresses or retinis-
poras, for some of them take on steely grays
and blues while others run through various
shades of bronze. The climax of showiness
is the dwarf golden Chinese cypress, called
by nurserymen Biota nana aurea, which
achieves a bright red near New York, but
at a certain cost in hardiness. Indeed the
bronzing of evergreens is generally a sign
that they are near the limit of their hardi-
ness, and therefore they are more or less
unhappy. Therefore, while I yield to none
in admiration of retinisporas, I would have
few or none in my ideal garden, because they
are inclined to look shivery in winter, as con-
trasted with warm, lusty and longer-lived
plants mentioned under the next heading.

DWARF EVERGREENS FOR BEDDING

Mr. Bowditch of Boston is said to be
chiefly responsible for the popular taste
in dwarf evergreens as he introduced the
practice of using beds of gaily colored ever-

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greens in front of houses, at entrances, and
in the parks. Here again the favorites
are retinisporas and fancy kinds of arbor-
vite. Nothing could be more symmetrical
or brilliant while these plants are young,
but do you and your heirs wish to renew
them every five or ten years? They will
fill your garden with color the moment
they are planted, and color is appropriate
in a young garden. Also they last longer
than many flowers. But the older you grow
the less stress you lay on color and the more
you value dignity, permanence, ease of
maintenance. Then you will come to love
the long-lived set, e. g.

Trailing yew, or ground hemlock (Taxus Cana-
densis).
Japanese yew (Taxzs cuspidataand var. brevifolia).

Canadian juniper (Juniperus communis, var.
Canadensis).

Procumbent Chinese juniper (/. Chinensis, var.
procumbens).

Mugho pine (Pinus montana, var. Mughus).

The list is small but I cannot conscien-
tiously increase it. Perhaps the nursery-
men will some day add a dwarf fir, spruce,
and hemlock, and arborvite that are long-
lived under ordinary conditions.

EVERGREENS FOR DECORATIVE EFFECT

By “decorative” we mean symmetrical,
formal, architectural. The larger a garden,

Hunnewell place at Wellesley, Mass., showing at the left the short-leaved variety of J apanese yew (Taxus cuspidata, var. brevifolia).
hardy in New England gardens, and the Japanese yew promises to be the longest lived and most valuable evergreen

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The hemlock is the best native counterpart of the
yew hedge of the Old World

the greater the need for evergreens in re-
ceptacles of the same material and color
as the house, so as to connect house and
gardens. Also, the greater the need for
evergreens trimmed in geometrical shapes,
e. g. dome, pyramid, cube, pillar, globe, etc.
To select such material it is necessary to
visit a large nursery, but amid its distrac-
tions it is well to keep firmly in mind the
following principles.

The less trimming there is to do every
year the better. It is more artistic and
economical to select plants that naturally

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approximate a dome or pillar, and trim
them little or not at all. Thus you get
rich modelling and the appearance of age,
instead of stiffness.

Choose only simple forms. Fantastic
forms, e. g. birds, fish, men, etc., suggest
the grotesque, ludicrous, extravagant. The
Hunnewell Italian garden is the oldest
example of topiary work in America.
Nothing more elaborate than that is needed
in America.

People of wealth let their enthusiasm
for such things run away with them. A
garden filled with pairs and quartets of
plants in tubs suggests extravagance and
makes what is called a ‘“‘checkerboard” or
““chessboard garden.”

And, do not forget the picturesque, little
Japanese evergreens in jars and_ vases.
Possibly you need something of the sort
on the garden wall, steps, verandah or
terrace.

Finally there is another class of ever-
greens, viz., the broad-leaved kinds, such
as box, rhododendrons, laurel, and holly.
These plants are even more sumptuous and
costly, asa rule, than conifers, because many
of them produce gorgeous flowers or bril-
liant fruit. But they generally require
special soil and other conditions. There-
fore we have left these to be treated at
some other time.

The English yew is Dot

CoNDUCTED BY ELLEN Eppy SHAW

Connecticut’s Contribution to the
School Garden Movement

ERY early in the school garden move-

ment, Connecticut established a gar-
den at the Willamantic Normal School.
For twelve years, the Hartford School of
Horticulture has continued to give to the
boys of the Watkinson Farm School (on
adjacent property) and to about a hundred
city children, boys and girls, school garden
instruction; to Hartford Teachers in Sat-
urday classes, and, recently, to New
Britain Normal School students in visiting
classes, training in school garden work;
and to adult men and women of Hartford
at nominal fees small plots of ground, use
of tools, seeds and expert advice in plant-
ing them. This school (in charge of Mr.
Stanley H. Rood) was founded and endowed
by the Rev. Dr. Francis Goodwin primarily
for the benefit of the Farm School boys.
For them, there is a graded course in
horticulture of four or five years. City

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children, who continue their gardens for
several seasons, follow in a general way this
course. Their individual plots vary from
10 Xx 20 to 10x50 ft. This was the first
school garden in the East, if not in America
to demonstrate that every garden should
aim to possess, even though on a very small
scale, individual plots, observation and
experimental ones to contain typical flow-
ers, vegetables, decorative and economic
plants; that there should be plant group-
ings (whether as annuals and perennials,
as plant families or colonies, etc.); and,
wherever possible, that there should be
small fruits, tree nursery, grape culture,
and culture under glass. This garden
like many European ones, keeps bees.

In addition, the City of Hartford sup-
ports from April to October two school
gardens for some 300 children. They are
taught by public school teachers who are
selected from a list of those who have
attended the School of Horticulture.

The Connecticut State Agricultural Col-
lege at Storrs offers a summer school course
in agriculture and nature study with
practice in the children’s gardens.

New London in 1912, will have in con-
nection with her public schools five gardens
each accommodating about 30 children of
the second and third grades. The Oral
School for the Deaf, Mystic, has a school
garden somewhat like the Trinity Garden
School, New Haven, in its general scheme
of planting and that stress is laid upon its
decorative side.

Inspired by hearing that the Oral chil-
dren were to have a garden and encouraged
by their visiting teacher of drawing, the
children of West Mystic, Poquonnock,
Noank and Monument School, Groton,
took up gardening. Noank school had a
garden and there were in all some 280
home gardens.

Gardening interest in New Britain cen-
tres more in home gardens since they prefer
to keep the front of their school grounds

New Haven Orphan Asylum garden; 36 children with vegetable gardens, 6x8 ft.; flower gardens, 3x3 ft.

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JUNE, 1912

for flowers or shrubs and the rear for
playgrounds. However, the principal of
the East Street School has had a garden
for 250 children the past season.

Waterbury has two large gardens for the
use of the regular classes in her public
schools to the number of between 700 and
8o0o children.

New Haven has from 200 to 300 children
interested in home gardens through the
prizes offered to school children by the
school garden committee of the Civic
Federation. The gardens are inspected
by Normal School students.

Trinity Parish, New Haven, has for the
last two years conducted a school garden
in connection with its summer work at its
Vacation Cottage at Morris Cove, some
few miles out of the city. The garden
accommodates some 7o to 80 children.
The garden is laid out with large, cool
cement summer house, with rustic per-
gola and with a large number of flowers
and economic plants. A large cottage
garden adjoins the children’s 8 x 16 ft. plots.
Informal instruction upon the life in the
garden is given. It has interested many
of the Cottage visitors and others from the
summer colony and elsewhere. The chil-
dren of the Morris Cove Public School are
admitted.

The New Haven Orphan Asylum has a
compact 8o x 8o ft. school garden for 36 of
the older children (under 18) with 6 x 8 it.
“farms” and 3x3 ft. “flower gardens”
for each child. In its borders are many
flowers and a considerable number of the
economic plants of which the children hear

in school. M. Louise GREENE,
State Chairman of National School
Garden Association.

New Haven, Conn.

for this Month’s

Work

OW seeds of beans, beets, radishes,
peas, lettuce, sweet corn and cucum-
bers in June.

(2) In the flower garden sow seeds of
ten-weeks stock and pansy. It is well to
consider the appearance of the garden in
August. Late August is usually a shabby
time in the flower garden. So make a
second sowing of such annuals as marigold,
phlox and nasturtium.

(3) As soon as the weather is settled
the house plants may go out doors. Put
the pots and all into the ground in a rather
shaded part of the garden. This is a
good way to provide for the school house
plants during the long vacation. But
ferns do far better if left within the school
house to be cared for by the janitor, if this
be a possible arrangement. Ferns get
badly wind tossed.

(4) If the house plants and the outdoor
plants need a little extra stimulus try ni-
trate of soda. One teaspoonful to three
gallons of water is the right proportion
for use, or put a pinch of the salt into a
quart of water. Use this once a week.

Suggestions

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(5) If you are making a water pond
this year you will find arrowhead, water
cress, blue flag and sweet scented water
lily satisfactory plants to use. These
flower in June. Where several different
kinds of plants are used in one pond it is
well to plant each kind in a separate box
or partition, and sink this contraption. In
this way the roots of the different plants
do not intermingle and the stronger kinds
choke out the weaker. If you cannot
build a fine cement pond this season
try a barrel one. Cut a barrel in two.
Sink the lower half in the ground, nearly
fill it with earth, then fill in water. Plant
in this pond water hyacinths. Their
roots will strike down into the mud.

(6) Add to the wild flower garden these
June bloomers buttercup, lupine, wild
geranium, daisy, soapwort, and great
Solomon’s seal.

(7) How would a rockery look in the
school yard? If you make one be sure
to have the soil right and plenty of it.
A good soil receipt to use for the rock
garden is two parts of garden soil, to one of
sand, to one of leafmold. The cigar plant,
vinea, ferns, begonias, portulaca, candy-
tuft, baby’s breath, clarkia, and nastur-
tiums do well in a rock garden.

(8) An outdoor window box adds to
the looks of the house. The box should
be 8 inches deep, otherwise make it to fit
the window. Use { or inch lumber and be
sure to paint the box. Add to every half
bushel of soil you use in filling these window
or porch boxes one cup of bone meal. This
adds extra goodness to the soil, much
needed under window box conditions. If
the box is to be in the shade, Boston ferns,

Home-made hanging basket for the porch; simple
and effective

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GARDEN

Square boxes may be used in place of these molds
and thus reduce expense of the sundial

fuchsias and begonias may be used and
for a trailer use ‘“‘little pickles.” For the
sunny exposure box use Vinca minor or
tradescantia for trailers; nasturtiums for
a climber; alyssum, verbenas, heliotrope,
petunias, snapdragon and geraniums for
body effect. Lemon verbena adds a de-
lightful odor to the little garden.

(9) As you transplant seedlings from
place to place in the garden, try taking up
very small ones in groups. After the little
group of seedlings has become at home in
its new spot thin out until only the strongest
plant of all is left. The ordinary little
wooden label is a first class instrument to
use in this work. Also use the same little
label for drill making and cultivating
between plants. Cut back the leaf area of
lettuce seedlings one half. This method
reduces the work the leaves have to do and
gives the root system a better chance to
work without heavy drain. Shelter the
seedlings in the first days after transplanting.
The sun’s rays are too strong for them just
at first.

If you are interested in doing some garden work,

read Lady Greensleeves’s letter on page 328.

Another Home-made Basket

Some of you girls might like to make
a hanging basket like the one J
made. To make this little plant basket
shown in the picture cut eight stakes twelve
inches long and make the centre exactly
the same as the one for the gathering basket.
(For the directions turn back to your De-
cember GARDEN MAGAZINE where I gave
them when telling about my gathering
basket.) After this has been done take
No. 1 weaver and do the regular over and
under weaving. It may be woven up as
far as one wishes, being sure to shape the
basket as you weave. The edge is made
the same as that of the gathering basket,
only be sure to put the handle in before
making the edge.

Do not forget and cut off the stakes
beside which you insert your handle. Then
‘bind in your handle so it will not come out,
and the basket is completed. Your basket
may be stained any color you wish. It
looks better when you stain it. There is
a regular wicker stain which can be procured
at any paint store. -

Newton, Mass. M. E. S.

MAGAZINE

How To Make Your Own Sun-
dial Pedestal

OME of you boys and girls might like
a sundial in your gardens, and make
the pedestal at home as I did.

The first thing to do is to get the molds.
The top and bottom molds are shown in
the picture. The shaft mold is a piece
of sheet iron about two feet high, rounded
like a stove pipe, smaller at the top than
at the bottom. The top measure is eight
inches, the bottom measure is eleven inches.
This mold any tinsmith can make easily.
The height of your mold is four inches.

When these molds are all ready the
next thing to do is to get your sand, gravel,
and cement. The proportions for mixing
are one quart of cement, two quarts of
sand, and three quarts of coarse gravel.
This rule is commonly known as “one,
two and three.”” Mix materials thoroughly
together while dry. After they are mixed
add water. Do not make this mixture
sloppy. Make it more like soft clay.
After this is done fill the molds. Make
cement enough in the proportions of the
table. Let the molds full of cement stand
about three days. Then they will be ready
to take apart.

Before filling put a small block of wood
on the top and bottom molds. Have the
block about 13 inches square. Be sure and
put the block in the centre of the mold.
In the pedestal put a block in both top
and bottom. The holes the blocks make
are to put the cement in when joining the
shaft to the top and bottom pieces. If
any boys cannot afford these molds, they
might use square boxes about the same size
as my moulds.

The height of the pedestal is about three
feet when it is all put together.

West Newton, Mass. JACKSON SHAW.

The sundial and pedestal standing on the edge of a
cement lily pond

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House plants outdoors

For the last two summers I have kept my
pots of house plants in a place which has
proved ideal — a shelf supported on strong
brackets running the full length of the outer
wall of the kitchen. It is so high from the
ground that the foliage and flowers are on a
level with my eye, and a quick glance along
the line as I pass by enables me to detect
promptly any disease or insect trouble. A
cleat along the front edge prevents the pots
from being knocked off, and the slope of the
shelf is enough to make the water drain to
the further end, where a small hole sends
it through a near-by drain. This shelf is
on the east side of the house, and the plants
receive only a little of the morning sun on
account of a grape vine which is trained on
a trellis across the cement walk to the roof
of the kitchen. Most of the plants enjoy
this shade; those which require more sun
are placed on the end of the shelf which is
beyond the shadow of the vine. It cer-
tainly is convenient to have all the plants
kept together in a position where they can
be tended without stooping and where
they do not dry out fast on account of the
shade.— A. H. M., Pennsylvania.

Flowers for shaded porch boxes

On the readers’ service page of the
February GARDEN Macazine, E. W. S.
asks about flowers for shaded porch boxes.
My boxes do not get over an hour’s sun-
light a day. I use only single tuberous
begonias, starting them in the house
in February or March in flats, in a rather
cool room. I have used these for years,
and do not see any other porch boxes that
I consider prettier than mine. I find that
the cheaper priced begonias give me prac-
tically as good results as the higher priced
ones.— T. A. B. J., Michigan.

Beating the squash borer

One day last summer I found the leaves
of the squash vines in my garden wilted
and some of them turning yellow and
dying. During a few days’ absence the
squash borer had gotten in his fine work.
I knew that if let alone the vines were
doomed, so resolved on heroic measures.
From the puncture each borer had made in

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the stem I split the bark over their tunnels
and removed every one I could find, then
covered the cut stems as well as I could
with soil. The vines brightened up at
once and matured a fair crop of squashes.
—= Ji 18}, Joly, Olay

A morning glory decoration

If one wishes to have a genuine surprise
for the family some morning at breakfast,
make a centre piece for the table of morning
glories. Select large, pointed and spirally
twisted buds the evening before they are
needed. Arrange them loosely in a vase
or bowl, allowing some of the branches of
the vine, with a few good buds, to trail
over the table around the bowl. Give an
abundance of room for the flowers to expand
which they will do in the night. Put
in a few upright twigs of shrubbery to
which the vine is attached. The effect
is very pretty.— A. F. C., Colorado.

Picking lima beans

It is a good idea, when picking lima
beans, to have two baskets. All dried or
yellow pods should be pulled off and put
into one basket, while those intended for
immediate use are, of course, thrown into
the other. The mature beans should be
shelled, exposed to the sun for a day or two,
and then put away in tin boxes (empty
cracker tins are convenient) for use during
the winter or for seed if so desired. Soak
the dried beans several hours before cook-
ing. The addition of a small piece of salt
pork or bacon lends a pleasant flavor to
the beans.— E. A. S. P., New York.

A secret about asters

I find that aster plants grown in the open
ground from seed sown the first of May give
better satisfaction than those grown in
flats or the greenhouse and that they are
less liable to disease; in fact my loss from
stem rot has been less than one per cent.
since using plants grown in the open. My
troubles from plants being killed by root
lice I find has been overcome by dressing
the bed before setting out the plants with
wood ashes, working them in to a depth of
about three inches. Being the owner of
only a small city lot, I was much discour-
aged when others who had raised asters
told me that they could not be successfully
raised twice on the same ground; but rather
than give them up, I decided to rotate my
crops. Where I had a bed of asters three
years ago, the next year I had a bed of
cannas and the next year a bed of dahlias,
both root erops, and last year I had as fine
a bed of asters as any one could want in the
same place as the original bed. Next year
I shall rotate with gladiolus and the follow-
ing year with some other bulbous plant,
thus demonstrating that though a person
may have only a small garden, at the same
time they may have a bed of asters each
year.— C. G. M., Indiana.

Laths for shade

In Australia they grow strawberries
under laths. Not only does this protect
them from the intense heat of summer but

JUNE, 1912

it is claimed that the flavor is improved
thereby; a fairly reasonable hypothesis in
view of the fact that wild strawberries,
which are somewhat shaded by the herb-
age as well as their own foliage, are more
delicious than any cultivated ones. Orange
cuttings and all kinds of seedlings also are
grown in Australia under laths, which are
placed the width of one of the strips apart.
Here the idea might be worth while to
prolong the strawberry season slightly. It
already is known here as a good way of par-
tially shading cuttings and, ona larger scale,
of protecting palms and other tropical
plants in summer.—H. N. T., Connecticut.

The Pennsylvania anemone

Last May a nurseryman told me that he
was relegating to the compost heap his
entire stock of the Pennsylvanian anemone
(A. Pennsylvanica). Why? For the sim-
ple reason that no one thereabouts would
buy it; he could not even give it away. I
confess that I felt sorry to see converted
into an outcast a flower that, more than a
thousand miles from home, I had grown
fond of in the wild and had just introduced
in my garden at an expenditure of fifteen
cents. Now that I have known the plant
intimately for a year, I am sorrier than
before. Thanks to separation at the time
of planting, my little clump has become
a big clump with a perfect wealth of white
bloom above the beautiful foliage. The
effect is cool and refreshing on a warm June
day and always, I think, I shall like to have
some of it in the hardy border — or at any
rate until I have a place of sufficient size to
see at large the ideas as to naturalization
that I have been accumulating. For that
is the best way to use the Pennsylvanian
anemone, whose name is as insufficient
geographically as Aquilegia Canadensis. In
the border it spreads with astonishing
rapidity. H. S. A., New York.

The Pennsylvania anemone naturalizes easily and
shows its white flowers in June

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|B NS June and July, when vegetation is
growing rapidly, keep in mind the need of
cultivation to aerate the soil and let the sunshine
through to sweeten it and prevent acidity. Cul-
tivation also mixes together the soil and fertilizer
and pulverizes it so that it will hold more moisture.

With raspberries, blackberries, currants and
gooseberries in rows from seven to ten feet apart
(as they should have been planted), go through
them with a horse and cultivator several times dur-
ing the summer. The hand wheel cultivators are
less serviceable for these and tree fruits. A culti-
vator having several small fine teeth is best, al-
though any ordinary one-horse cultivator will do
very well. If the soil is baked hard between the
rows, go through them first with a light plow ana
plow the ground between the rows but not deep
enough to disturb the roots. The one-horse culti-
vator widened out into a V-shaped harrow will do
this very nicely. After a hard rain and before the
soil bakes, go through the rows again with the
cultivator. If you have some young trees, follow
the same general plan, except that it may facilitate
the work to use a small harrow instead of the
cultivator if there are no crops or fillers planted
between the trees.

With a few exceptions, it is of course best to do
all the pruning of tree fruits when dormant, but
cane fruits must be pruned and thinned in their
growing season. The sucker varieties of rasp-
berries (red and yellow) and blackberries, if left to
grow in rich soil without thinning or pruning, will
make a thick matted row of tall canes and will bear
small berries. If you have hardy varieties of rasp-
berries and blackberries, train them to tree form.
Thin out the plants in the rows, leaving the strongest
ones an average distance of one foot apart. When
these canes are about four feet high, pinch off the
tops to cause lateral branches. Canes grown in
this way need some support; set posts along the row
ten feet apart and nail arms horizontally on the
posts about three feet from the ground; then fasten
wires to the ends of the arms, on both sides of the
row. Ina cold climate where there is uncertainty
about winter-killing, the best way is to thin the
canes in the summer but not to shorten them, as
Jong, unpruned canes are more easily laid down and
covered.

Currants and gooseberries are better pruned
when dormant. Strong-growing varieties of grapes,
in rich soil, are apt to produce too much wood, and
a little thinning in early summer will prevent the
vine from setting more fruit than it can ripen. Do
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or to wires. If the renewal system is used, which
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Early summer pruning of fruit trees is reconi-
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though not always, it has the effect of making pro-
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As soon as all the berries had disappeared the
vines were cut with a sickle close to the ground, and
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Starting a Muskmelon Crop

INN] (EONS, although the most delicious
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This is largely due to the fact that they require
special care in the way of planting and fertilizing.

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love a light, warm, sandy soil, and if a spot with
a gentle slope to the south or east can be found

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“lightening” material with the soil before replac-
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slightly elevated but kept flat on top.

The manure you use for growing melons should
be thoroughly rotted. Mix a good big forkful
into the soil at the bottom of each hill, first
digging out the hill to a depth of several inches.
Cover this over with the earth removed and, to
give the plants a quick start, mix into each hill
before planting, a handful of cotton-seed meal,
bone flour or tankage, or a combination of these.

For planting in the open, wait until all danger of
frost is past — May 15th to June rsth, according
to locality. Put not less than ten seeds in a hill;
you will want only three or four plants, but some
will not come up, and the striped beetle or other
pests are pretty sure to get some of them. The
seed costs only a few cents an ounce, sufficient to
plant 40 or 50 hills.

One of the reasons why melons are not more
commonly found in the home garden in the north-
ern states, is that early frosts frequently spoil a
big part of the crop. An extra early start, and,
incidentally, a much surer one, may be had in one
of two ways, both perfectly practical. The first
is to start the seed in the house, greenhouse or
frame. Melons and cucumbers do not readily
stand transplanting, and must be moved without
disturbing the roots. For this purpose, I prefer
the common square, paper pots, but in lieu of
these, however, old quart berry baskets, or sods
cut into pieces four or five inches square and
turned bottom side up, will do very well. Plant
eight to ten seeds to a pot, or box, using dirt made
light and rich by the addition of chip-dirt and old
manure, and as soon as the plants begin to crowd,
thin out to three. Harden off before setting out
in the garden.

The second method is to use “melon-frames,’’
which may be bought at a very reasonable price
and will last for years. Ihave found it satisfactory
to make my own, however. I use pine boards
about one third of an inch thick and eight inches
wide. These are made up into boxes just large
enough to be covered by 16 x 24 or 16 x 20 double-
thick glass, and held in place on three sides by small
nails driven part way in and bent over. This
makes it possible to slide the glass out part way
on hot days, or when it rains. A still simpler
method is to cover the wooden frames with cheese-
cloth, but this is not as satisfactory and will not
forward them as quickly.

The most dangerous enemy of the muskmelon
is the small striped cucumber beetle. I have tried
practically every advertised and home “remedy”
for these persistent little pests. Mechanical pro-
tection, given by tacking mosquito netting or wire
over the frames, or on similar bottomless boxes
is after all the only sure way. In this way the
intruders can be kept off entirely until the vines
begin to run, and after that, if one takes proper
care in giving frequent cultivation, and keeps the
vines in good form by pinching out the running
ends when a length of eighteen inches or so has
been attained, the result should be a good crop of
melons.

For later attacks of the striped beetle — that is,
after the vines get so large that the frames must be
removed —I have found arsenate of lead and
tobacco dust the most effective things to use.

Connecticut. F. F. RocKWELL.

June, 1912 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 395

One Million Copies

of Mrs. Stratton-Porter’s nature romances that have
been sold during the past few years have made her
work familiar to readers all over the United States,
and have given her an undisputed position at the
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Known chiefly as a writer of absorbing fiction —
as the author of “Freckles,” “A Girl of the Limber-
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more securely on her intimate knowledge of nature.

It 1s therefore with pride that we announce the
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CONTENTS OF THE ISSUE

The Joy of Horseback Riding, Three Poisonous Plants........... By Charles Monroe Mansfield

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A Bed of Foliage Plants

T LAST I have achieved the desired effects
with salvias, cannas and the castor oil
plant in a bed in the lawn. It seemed as if I
couldn’t get the right heights; I would get the
varieties either too large or too small. The heights
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foliage bed or centrepiece in a lawn.
The distance apart the plants are put in their

| permanent place has considerable to do with

density. I find it best to give them lots of room.
My bed was an oval about sixteen feet in long
diameter and I used only three ricinus plants for
the centre. Cannas were put about two feet apart
in the row, three and a half feet from the ricinus
and three feet from the salvias. The salvias were
set eighteen inches apart in rows and the same
distance from the sod.

I found it a good idea to stake the ricinus for
they grew very rapidly. I have also tried to
plant them an inch below the first leaves to insure
erect growth, but the stakes are better and soon are
hidden by the density of the foliage.

Sprinkle nitrate of soda around on the soil at
intervals during the summer before or shortly
after showers. A half pound is enough for a
season. Keep it away from the foliage.

Salvias are started about the middle of March
in flats and are more successfully grown in a
temperature of 70 degrees. Then pot up in 3-inch
pots with a good mixture of leaf mold and sandy
loam. The splendens variety of salvia does not
have as large spikes of flowers as the dwarf varieties;
they are shorter and more compact than either
Bonfire or Burning Bush.

My cannas are about two-inch long pieces, cut
from stools that have been kept over the winter
in a dry cellar. The end piece of every stool will
start to take growth more rapidly than other
sections of the same stool. A sandy loam and
4-inch pots, placed under glass about April rst,
make nice plants to be set out the first week in
June. Cannas, if started early, are most generally
true to height. I find that the splendens variety
of canna is best for a 3-foot height. I also used
Harry Laing variety which grows about five feet
in height, and has flowers of orange and scarlet.

The red-stalked castor oil bean (Ricinus san-
guineus) which grows about eight to nine feet
high, has very thick blood red stalks. The leaves
do not crack or rip with the first heavy rain storm
as does R. Philip pinensis which also does not spread
as symmetrically nor as uniformly at the top. I
start my castor oil beans under glass about April
Ist in 3-inch pots of very porous soil, as the beans
have a tendency to rot if not given sufficient
drainage. They generally lose their first two
leaves, but new ones come on very rapidly.

New York. Moe SPIEGEL.

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WO years ago, I planted some rose slips taken
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infected leaves and burned them in the house; then
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On my return from a visit what was my distress
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given me, and whose names I do not know. The
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apparently to be the white roses which are most
easily affected. I have been wondering whether
the slips inherited this disease from the parent
plant, or whether it was due to the wet weather that
we had last summer.
New York. S. T. Homans.

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4MOTHS OF THE
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By Gene Stratton-Porter

HERE is no portion of the country which has been made more

familiar to hundreds of thousands of readers than the Limberlost
Swamp, that woodland and marsh which has been the setting of
Mrs. Porter’s wonderful novels, “Freckles,” ““A Girl of the Limber-
lost,’ and ‘‘The Harvester.”

It is about this very bit of Indiana that Mrs. Porter has written
her new book,‘‘Moths of the Limberlost,’’ and it is the most unusual
and interesting nature book ever imagined. It is a story of the
“Moths” of the Limberlost which every reader of “‘A Girl of the
Limberlost” will remember. Mrs. Porter pictures and describes the
moth; hunted by Elnora, and in
these chapters there is one of the
landscapes over which she
hunted, much of the swamp, and
the very bridge under which she
was working to cut loose a cocoon
when Philip came up the stream,
fishing. There is also the log
cabin in which Elnora lived. The
text is just scientific enough to
give the name and description
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right then and there set your teeth in a juicy
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Haven't you longed for some thin-skinned, meaty
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Haven't there been times when you felt that pretty
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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

JUNE, 1912

To Encourage Gardening

EAR Gardening Folk:

I was so pleased when the postman began
leaving letters on my desk from boys and girls who
read my letter about our Garden Club last month.
I knew there were a great many young folks who
wanted to have a garden this summer and that
mothers and teachers were all eager to help them,
but I did not realize how many boys and girls
wanted to earn money to buy seed, plants and
tools until all your nice letters came to tell me.

Our ‘‘Young People’s Garden Club” is fully
organized now with boys and girls from many
states as members, and in dozens of towns you will
find groups of young gardeners busily intent upon
having better gardens than they have ever grown
before. Some of our boys and girls have tormed
neighborhood clubs under the direction of their
mothers or a favorite teacher and are happily at
work on spare ground near their homes, while boys
and girls who are members of school gardens are
joining our Club so as to earn a full purse with
which to help improve the school gardens.

Tf you have only a small plot or even a window
box, it will be lots of pleasure to plant and care for
your favorite flowers; while if you have a nice plot,
you can do wonders.

Just think, too, you can earn money to buy all the
seeds, plants and implements for the garden your-
self. And it is mighty nice to be able to earn
money. é

Six of our girl members in Springfield, Mass.,
have commenced a neighborhood club, and are
working out a lovely idea. They have agreed
to make their back yards beautiful this summer, and
each girl is working hard to see who can earn the
most money with which to buy plants.

I should like to have all my boys and girls write
me about their garden plans this summer.

Here is a letter from a young gardener out in
Ohio:

“ DEAR LaDy GREENSLEEVES:

“My mother and I read your letter about the
Young People’s Garden Club. You said you
wanted to help boys and girls to have gardens.
Well, I want to have one this year, but I have no
ground (our house takes it all up). I can rent for
very little the lot back of our house and four of my
chums will help me plant and take care of it if we
only could get enough money to doit. Miss Landis,
our teacher, says she'll help us plant it. Will you
tell us how to get enough money to do it? We
want to become members of your Club and will
thank you if you will tell us how to do so.

Yours truly, RoBertT Moore.”

You may be sure that I wrote to Robert at once
and told him how to earn the money he and his
chums needed for their garden.

You are invited to join our Club, too. Boys and
girls, teachers and mothers, who love “green things
growing” and who want to know all the wonderful
secrets of Mother Nature are invited to write me
this very hour and let me tell them all about our
Club. Ido not want a single boy or girl left out of
our Club and shall hope to have your letter asking
for membership right away.

Yours for a lovely garden,
Lapy GREENSLEEVES,
Younc PEoPLE’s GARDEN CLUB,
GarDEN Macazine, Garden City, N. Y.

JUNE, 1912

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Do These Things Now!

PURE is probably the best time for sowing col-
lard seed, the most popular winter vegetable
of the South. Plant the improved, white-heading
sorts, easy to grow and very tender. The seed may
cost a few cents more than the ordinary kinds, but
it will be money well spent.

Sow rutabaga seed this month, too, in rich, moist
soil.. Plant in the onion field after the onions are
harvested.

Sow cow peas for hay in the corn rows at the
second plowing, or in the Middle South at the last
plowing. Even if no peas are gathered, the vines
and roots enrich the soil with nitrogen and humus.

Sow seed of nasturtium, marigold, aster and
Ehlox Drummondi for fall flowers. Pansies may
also be sown, but there will be no certainty of their
flowering this year. However, the plants will
certainly blossom in the winter or very early spring.
The flowers should then be extra large, too, on ac-
count of the size, age and strength of the plants.
Remember that it requires plenty of sunshine in the
winter to bring forth blossoms.

Cut small grain just as soon as it is ripe, and im-
mediately after one crop is off the ground, plant
another, such as cow peas and sorghum cane for
hay, white potatoes for a fall and winter crop, or
corn. Spanish peanuts are also suitable for plant-
ing after small grains, but the finest crop of sweet
potatoes that I have ever grown was planted after
oats. The plants were set out June grd. I used

“Ten thousand saw I at a glance
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.’

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It’s quite the most popular and
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Special advance order import

Narcissus are as follows:
100 for 75c. 250 for $1.75
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an 8-3-4 fertilizer at the rate of 1500 pounds to the
acre, and the patch yielded at the rate of 250 bushels
of potatoes an acre. The soil was fairly good and
the plants were cultivated three times during the
season; they were harvested during a very dry spell
the latter part of October before frost. Always let
the potatoes get thoroughly dry before storing.
One advantage of planting potatoes after oats is
that the oat stubble furnishes humus, which potato
plants must have to succeed well. In planting

sweet potatoes after the first week of June, it is best
to use pieces of the vine instead of plants, although
it won’t pay very well to cut the vines very close.
Keep a close watch for insects and destroy all you
find.

Look out for your house plants, especially if they

Be sure your name is on our list for the fall Garden Guide.
It will be mailed to you free, the middle of August.

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340 West 14th Street New York

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Gardens designed and drawn to scale.

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These sweet potatoes, planted after oats, yielded a
crop of 250 bushels to the acre

JUNE, 1912

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m Palisade
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Farr’s Fancy Bulbs
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Have you thought about importing Tulips,
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for your garden? If you send me your order
before July 1st, I can import just what you
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of September. My plan gives you better
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what my customers require, and theretore
have no losses on unsold bulbs,

Special Discount of 10% on all
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but I cannot guarantee such high quality bulbs.
Send for my Bulb Book and learn about my
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you may be sure of receiving Holland’s finest
bulbs for your garden.

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643 D Penn Street, Reading, Pa.

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“Cream Quality” Bulbs
for American Gardens

For years past most of the choice Hyacinth, tulip
and Narcissus bulbs have gone to England—we Americans
got what were left and thought we were getting the best.
For a number of years I have been able to import these
extra choice bulbs by placing my order not later than
June 25th.

Hunt’s “Cream Quality” Bulbs

—will be a revelation to American gardeners; they are
carefully selected, sound and solid. I know the varieties
are of the highest quality, for most of them are in bloom
in my trial grounds.

My book “The Cream of Holland” tells what varieties
I import. Send for a copy today, and make your
selection af once—for my orders must be sent to Holland
not later than June 25th.

“Daffodils de Luxe” describes the latest novelties in
these magnificent flowers—send for a copy if you are
interested in them.

CHESTER JAY HUNT
Box 123 Montclair, New Jersey

JUNE, 1912

are still in pots. Give them plenty of water and
give it to them often.

For fall and winter celery sow seed at once.

Do not neglect the strawberry and asparagus
beds; keep them clean.

Sow cucumber seed now for pickles.

Egg plants should be watched every day; potato
bugs multiply rapidly and can destroy the plants
in a very short time.

Melons, will begin to ripen toward the last of the
month. Keep all bruised and wilted watermelons
picked off; the vines will fruit longer and the good
melons will be larger.

The same may be said of the whole fruit gar-
den; do not allow any fruit to rot on the trees or

’ in the orchard. It will forma breeding place for

all sorts of insects and diseases.
Georgia. THomas J. STEED.

An Earlv-blooming White
Shrub

I THINK the most striking of all the early white-
flowering shrubs is Spirea arguta. Its long
sprays of delicate, single, small flowers, of dazzling
whiteness, extend to the tips of the branches, and
give the shrub a light, feathery appearance which
is lacking in the more popular Van Houttei. The
flowers, coming on the bare branches, remain for
three weeks or more, and then are succeeded by a
graceful foliage which makes the bush attractive
throughout the summer. Spirea arguta is a hybrid
of S. Thunbergiit and S. multiflora and its merits
do not seem to be adequately recognized.

In Northern Illinois S. arguta blooms three weeks
earlier than Van Houttei, and is fading when the
latter opens. This fact enables those seeking for
white effects to secure six weeks of flowers by plant-
ing the two in combination.

But it is as a foil for other early blooming shrubs
that Spirea arguta proves most effective. Planted
with Forsythia intermedia, which blooms at the
same time, or with F. suspensa which begins to

Sptraea arguta is one of the most striking of all the
early white-flowering shrubs

bloom a little earlier, it serves to subdue the too
striking effect given by the forsythia alone, and,
since it does not grow so tall, is useful for blending
the forsythia with the ground. Plant arguta under
the American red bud (Cercis Canadensis), in this
locality a low-growing, shrub-like tree, for an ex-
cellent contrast, the lavender of the red bud being
intensified by the white of the spirea.

Arguta does not give its finest blooms until two
or three years after transplanting, and it does best
when the bushes are not closer together than three
feet. Once established, it thrives wonderfully
even when surrounded by sod, and requires little or
no pruning.

It will bloom well in moderate shade, but, like
other spireas, does best in full sunlight. Because of
its erect, graceful form of growth and its light
foliage, arguta does not appear at its best when used
as a specimen plant, but should be planted in
groups.

Illinois. Frep HAxTon.

JUNE, 1912

Save Your Vegetables
From Insects

Important to Vegetable and
Truck Gardeners

Don’t let deadly insects destroy your crops!
Don't permit Potato Bugs, Tobacco, Cabbage Cur-
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Get rid of them!

PIERCE’S
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Destroys Leaf- Eating Insects

Tt has been in use for 24 years—it is used by
most of the successful growers in the country. It is
simply dusted on—very easy to use, and it positively
kills all leaf-eating insects. Very economical—low in
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JUNE, 1912

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If you would have a bigger,
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Necessary Garden Tools

aj He really necessary equipment of tools for
the home garden is not an item of much ex-
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most people. In order to take any pleasure in
gardening and to derive any profitable results from
one’s labors, we must have the right tools for the
work.

The thorough plowing and harrowing which
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horse plow and a harrow, but since these are used
but once during the season, they may be hired.
Otherwise use a spade.

Get tools that are strongly made and of the best
material. A cheap article is simply a waste of
money, for it will not last any length of time. Have
the tool house convenient to the garden, and be
sure to put the tools away when they are not in use.

The following, while not all tools, ave necessities.
The prices are approximate; there may, of course,
be some change from year to year:

Steel toothed rake of 12 or 15 teeth oe vs, ee ta pie OO)
; yy Tad eae cemeS Oe -45
Spas ofibest'stecl = Aenea ie ee oe 1.50
Shovel . Sle ce Sk SP eet eee Ae ee 1.50
Steel manure fork cee he Snes: ; Bs to 1.25
Trowel, 6-inch. . ee .50
Pruning shears for grape \ vines, etc : I.50
Tin can, with rigid handle and perforated bottom, for
dry insecticides ene oe -40
Wheelbarrow. “Be 50 to 5.00
Small-handled basket for gathering vegetables A i2
Scoop for applying, fertilizer... Saas .10
wines ie PE errs oe sen Sead .10

To this may be added from time to time such con-
veniences as
Broad-tined fork for digging about trees . $1.00

Hoe with blade turning back (like a double plow share)
for furrowing and covering seeds z

cl 75
Double wheel hoe. with various attachments 5 7.35
Moletrap) ats, ticccepiey ace eerie i Re 1.50
Reel : toh yee ee ym 2.85
Rubber hose, 3in., krooht aus I5.00
Knapsack sprayer for trees and plants, with copper

tank and brass pump attachment. . I4.00

This knapsack sprayer is carried upon the back,
the agitator being operated by one hand and the
nozzle by the other. The brass and copper portions
resist the corroding nature of the fungicide.

Never expose the garden hose to the very hot
sun. Put it under shelter when it is not in use.

New Jersey. M. Roserts CoNoveR.

My Home-made Garden Roller

eS SOUTHERN California, when a garden
roller is needed, it is wanted quickly. If it
is necessary to send away for it, the chances are
that the rainy season may be over before it comes,
and in the dry season it is about as useful as a
feather duster.

Recently, I was in the predicament of wanting a
garden roller, and did not know from where I
could buy, beg, bag, borrow, or steal one. So I
decided to make one.

I told the grocery boy to bring me the biggest
cylindrical can he could find, impressing upon him
that it must be cylindrical. The next day he
produced a fifty-pound lard-pail, and apologized
for the handles. As a matter of fact, the latter
served a useful purpose before they were removed.

I cut a piece of five-eighths, round bar-iron five
inches longer than the height of the lard pail;
made a five-eighths-inch hole in the exact centre of
the bottom and another in the centre of the lid

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of the pail; rested the pail on a couple of blocks or
wood, and put the iron bar through the bottom
of it, leaving two and a half inches of the bar
sticking out to hold
oo the framework. Then
. I made a mixture of
; two parts of coarse
sand and one of ce-
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cient water to make
it fairly sloppy. Some
of this was put in the
pail, then some stones
that had been thor-
oughly washed, then
more cement mortar,
taking care that the
interstices between the
stones were thoroughly
filled by ramming, and
so on, until the pail
was full. A little more
cement mortar was
then added, a few
holes punched in the
lid of the can with a
nail, and the lid put
onthecan. A piece of
rope was then tied
over the lid from handle to handle, and wooden
wedges driven between the lid and the rope. This
forced the surplus water out through the nail
holes in the lid, and made the mixture within
the pail compact. The pail was allowed to remain
for a couple of days, when the lid was soldered in
place, the rope removed, and the handles taken
from the can by filing the rivets.

For a frame, two-by-four studding was used.
The cross pieces were let half an inch into the side
pieces, to give rigidity. Five-inch nails were used
in putting the frame together. To keep the roller
from rubbing against the frame, three five-eighths-
inch washers were placed on the spindle on either
side of the roller.

Though with no pretentions to ornamentality,
the roller has proved a great success.

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Tree and Garden Labels

AE HE question of labels for trees and plants
has ever been a vexatious one. I feel that
I have solved the problem for
myself simply, cheaply, and oth-_ -
erwise satisfactorily.

There are to be found in most
towns and villages machines
which, by dropping a penny in the
slot, will print on a strip of alum-
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In labeling trees it is best to
print the name as faras possible to
one end of the strip and nail the
label to the tree at the blank end.
It will be many years before the
tree will need relabeling. As the
tree grows the bark will slowly
close over the nail head and blank
end of the label. In making labels
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years without rotting. Cedar will
be found a fair substitute, but This label
pine or other soft woods will not has lasted for
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July 4th and the Gardener

NDEPENDENCE DAY is rightly

named, for it is just about the date
that brings freedom from the depredations
of the rose chafer. Don’t let up on him,
however, just because he disappears in
July. Every bug you kill in the freshness
of its youth means several hundred less
eggs to hatch next year.

Speaking of freedom, no one can better
appreciate its meaning than the owner of
a successful garden. He is independent
of the supplies of the grocery store and the
peddler of fresh (?) vegetables (with plenty
of “greens” on hand, even the meat bill
can be greatly cut down); he is inde-
pendent of the doctor, for the man who
tends a garden rarely lacks appetite and
suffers few pangs but the almost enjoyable
ache of healthful weariness; he is inde-
pendent of the need of excitement and
expensive amusements, for the care of
flowers and vegetables is a fascinating
entertainment in itself —for children as
well as grown folks. It takes a garden to
transform a house into a home. And in
July every garden should be at its best.
Is yours?

Are you getting plenty of color and cut
flowers every week?

Are you getting vegetables enough in
proportion to the space occupied and the
time and money expended?

Are the color combinations in border
and edging harmonious? Are the peren-
nials correctly placed as to height and
mass?

Are you keeping all the land busy all
the time by means of succession, inter-
cropping and transplanting?

How easy is it for you (or someone else)
to find weeds in your garden?

Your answers depend largely upon how
your garden was planned and executed.
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ence will certainly help many a fellow
gardener.

The Midsummer Routine

|ROS the sake of the daily results keep

up the watering and the cultivating.
Notice the methods of thunder showers
and in using the hose imitate them.
In other words, when you see that the
ground needs water, soak it thoroughly.
A light sprinkling is about as useful as
a glass of salt water for a thirsty man.

If your rows are long and straight —
as they should be — your best cultivating
tool is the wheel hoe or hand cultivator.
But a pretty close second, in my estimation,
is the English type of scuffle hoe. For
shallow soil loosening close to the tomatoes,
cabbage and other individual plants it
cannot be excelled.

All this for present day needs. For
future returns plant and transplant all
the time. The mid-season celery should
be set in its permanent rows without delay;
the late crop may now be sown in a seed-
bed.

Start cucumbers for late pickles where-
ever there is extra space and let the plants
set all the fruit they will. By pinching
back the terminal buds you can get earlier
fruits but not so many of them.

String beans, radishes, beets, corn and
kohlrabi may be planted at two-week
intervals.

Lettuce should go in every week or ten
days but it will not stand much hot sun-
light. Better sow it in a bed where it can
be shaded with a cloth sash. Cover
transplanted heads with old paper pots,
berry boxes or newspapers until they are
well recovered from the shock.

Sow the winter varieties of turnip and
radish. The latter are still somewhat of
a novelty in this country, but they are not
nearly as strong as their size would indicate.

Early potatoes are about ready. After
digging, rake up and destroy the tops,
work over and level the soil and hustle in
some one of the crops mentioned above
Use a variety that your seedsman recom-
mends for late season planting.

The fruits need some attention. Pinch
back the young raspberry and blackberry
canes to two and a half and three feet
respectively, and their laterals in propor

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tion. This gives you a low, stocky, strong
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Currants are liable to attacks by worms.
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preparations at this time.

Some paper or mosquito-netting bags
on bunches of grapes and clusters of cur-
rants will insure just that much early
fruit of the best quality.

Begin a preliminary thinning of the
larger fruits.

The cucurbits or gourd family of vege-
tables are especially liable to injury by
squash bugs and blight. Slaked lime and
tobacco dust for the former and Bordeaux
mixture for the latter are standard defen-
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The majority of H. P. roses will soon
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spring growth and high class blooms.

Send in your orders for all autumn
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As the muskmelons swell slip a piece of
shingle under each fruit to keep it clean
and to prevent the development of rot. A
melon is not ripe till it parts from the stem
at the slightest touch. Don’t try to pick
them until then.

To reward the asparagus bed for what it
has already done, work in a dressing of
salt — five pounds to one hundred square
feet.

Nitrate of soda is the necessary stimu-
lant to overcome the lassitude of the hot
weather. Scatter it thinly along the rows
of all crops in which a good growth of vine
or foliage is desired.

The one time when chickens may be ad-
mitted to the garden is when there are
asparagus beetles to be destroyed. In
the same way the services of a few ducks
should be obtained to eliminate potato
bugs.

In tying up cauliflower heads be sure
there is no moisture in the centre, or the
head will certainly rot.

By cutting cabbage instead of pulling
it, you stimulate a growth of small shoots
that are deliciously tender and mild.

Plants grown to stake and pruned to only three stems will bear more and better fruits than untrained plants

Ideal Tomatoes for the Home Garden—By Adolph Kruhm, om

TEN VARIETIES THAT ARE REALLY WORTH WHILE, HAVING REGARD TO EARLINESS, YIELD,
QUALITY, AND TABLE USE—WHY THE STANDARDS FOR HOME USE AND MARKET DIFFER

[Eprtors’ Note— This is the second vegetable article in Mr. Kruhm’s series of critical analysis of varieties from the standpoint of the home garden.
Nothing of so searching a nature has yet been published. The author takes you into his confidence and tells you exactly how he measures your needs, and helps you
to determine just what type or variety will best suit your individual requirements.|

EARLY five hundred _ differently

named sorts of tomatoes may be
counted by gardeners interested in Ameri-
can seed catalogues. Making due allow-
ance for renamed sorts, strains offered in
different parts of the country under dii-
ferent names, and slight variations pro-
duced in the strains under the influence of
Cifferent ciimes and soils, this vast number
can be sifted down to about sixty. De-
ducting from this about a dozen odd and

Magnus,

A favorite for the South. Note the heavy
foliage

small fruited sorts which are not considered
in this article, leaves about fifty distinct
standard sorts worthy of serious study in
connection with our gardening problems.
Many years of intensive observation
have made the analysis :of these fifty
comparatively easy. There are pink, or
purple sorts, bright red or scarlet sorts,
and yellow or golden sorts among the large
fruited tomatoes. Add to these promi-
nent characteristics the latest achievement
— the evolving of a perfectly round tomato,
and we have four distinct classes requiring
consideration. Yellow or golden tomatoes
are comparatively little grown. To pick
out from among the red and the purple
sorts those ten that would make an ideal
home garden collection for many parts of
the country, seems well worth while.
Tomatoes differ in merit (quality and
productiveness) according to the soil and
climate which produce them, the purpose
for which they are grown, and the use for
which they are intended. Some sorts
thrive well in light, sandy soils; while
others require loam or clay for good de-
velopment. Some sorts are good for market
purposes, while others are good for the
home garden only, because their skins are
too tender to permit shipping. The shape
of some tomatoes makes their economical
handling and packing impossible. Modern
tendencies stamp waste as acrime. Con-
sumers are learning to look for tomatoes
of improved shape (deep through from stem
to blossom end) because their use is an
economy. A well-shaped tomato of moder-

diameter, offers less problems in prepara-
tion for use than a large, overgrown speci-
men of which half is usually unfit for use
on account of indenture at stem end, green
core or rough skin. Very large fruits are
unwieldy in use, but some growers like
the satisfaction of immensity. For all
such there are the giant fruited Ponderosa
and Beefsteak, good in flavor, productive-
ness and solidity.

The foregoing factors, together with some
reasons of minor importance, will be con-

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sidered in connection with the various
sorts described hereafter. Their most pro-
nounced characteristic is their adaptabil-
ity to climatic conditions existing in nearly
all parts of the United States. This list
is not arbitrary. Many sorts do well in
sections where some or all named here
may prove deficient. But their usefulness
is limited to small areas, and for this reason
they could not be recommended along the
broader lines which this article attempts
to cover.

After forming theories on this subject
for years, the elect few varieties have stood
the final test during the last few years in
the home garden. No one variety received
more coaxing or attention than the others.
All were planted in the same fashion,
cultivated, staked and pruned according
to common methods and results were
carefully noted from day to day. The
facts and truth about each are set forth
in an unbiased way. The few cultural
kints and pruning directions at the end
of this article should help other
planters to secure equally satis-
factory results.

THE FIVE SCARLET SORTS

SPARK’S EaRLIANA is with-
out question the earliest scar-
let tomato. The truth of this
statement is proven by the
fact that growers are giving
increased attention to it every
year and one tries to eclipse
the other by making selections
for earliness. In southern New
Jersey, the home of this sort,
plants set out early in May bear
fruits soon after the middle of
June, when they reach the import-
ant eastern markets and command
fancy prices. Considering the short
period required for the development of
its fruits, Sparks’ Earliana is of good size,
has a strong skin and thick outer walls of
meat, all of which make it an ideal market
tomato. Flesh is solid, of good color and
of decided acid flavor — a quality esteemed
by many.

CHALK’s EARLy JEWEL is well named.
First fruits mature about ten days later
than those of Earliana, but are larger
and of better quality. This is the ideal
scarlet sort for the home garden as well
as for market. Its season is the longest
of any that I know because the crops
usually require four pickings in field cul-
ure against two or three of other sorts.
While in size it is almost equal to Stone,
the flesh is not quite so solid, hence the
difference in weight. Fine for slicing pur-
poses and a ready seller on account of its
beautiful, smooth skin. Milder than
Earliana.

STONE has for many years been the lead-
ing scarlet main crop sort and will be, until
Coreless (described next) becomes better
known. Its name is indicative of its lead-
ing characteristic, the extraordinary weight
of the average fruit. Solid flesh explains
why Stone is so heavy. The small seed

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cavities; the fruits deeper through from stem
to blossom end than most standard sorts and
the superior quality of the flesh combine to
make it the ideal late sort for many purposes
in all sections having long enough seasons to
mature a full crop. It is a safe estimate
that more Stone tomatoes are grown
throughout the country than of any other
half dozen sorts combined. Largely used
by canners too.

CorELEsS. Two characteristics put this
variety in a class by itself. It will succeed
admirably in shady places and the fruits
are perfectly round. Fruits of Coreless
will furnish five slices against three slices

This solid type of flesh is economical. Coreless

of a Stone tomato of same weight. No
waste at stem or blossom-end, smooth
skin and solid meat make Coreless
tomatoes the delight of the housewife.
In season about the same as Stone, in
quality somewhat more acid than that
old standard. It is an almost rank grower
and should be pruned severely to do its

- best.

DwarFr STONE is included in this col-
lection for two reasons. It is the best
“fixed” dwarf sort with fruits of good
size and it is the ideal tomato for gar-
deners whose space is limited. By “fixed”
is meant that the leading characteristics
of plant and fruit invariably prove true
to the ideal of the grower. Plants are
of compact growth, not exceeding 33 feet
in height on fair soil. They may be
planted 24 inches apart in the row and
will not crowd each other —at least the
productiveness of the plant is not influenced
by close planting. Dwarf Stone succeeds
nearly everywhere in this country (where
tomatoes are grown), and will set fruits
under a high temperature which causes
many other sorts to shed the blossoms.

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Heavy foliage and drouth resistance must
be responsible for this characteristic. Skin,
flesh and quality are beyond criticism.

THE FIVE PURPLE VARIETIES

June Pink is the purple brother to
Spark’s Earliana. It is, perhaps, a little
deeper through from stem to blossom end,
but otherwise the characteristics of these
two are very similar. It rules the early
markets where purple tomatoes are pre-
ferred, and has many followers who prefer
its milder quality to the decidedly acid
flavor of Spark’s Earliana. Character-
istics common to both these extra early
sorts are the finely laciniated foliage and
the open, spreading growth of plants.
These, as much as any other reasons, are
responsible, for the earliness of these two
kinds. The sun has full and easy access
to the fruits, which color evenly and
quickly.

Beauty is the standard second early
purple sort in all sections of the country.
One of the handsomest tomatoes ever
evolved, with fruits free of blemish and
meat of superb, mild quality. It seems

permissible to compare this with Chalk’s

Jewel among the scarlets. If there

were only two tomatoes to which
gardeners throughout the country
were to be limited, I would advise
that those two be Beauty and
Chalk’s Jewel. Beauty is al-
ways of good size, has a long
season of bearing and yields
handsomely. It is dependable
under all circumstances and
makes you wish that all toma-
toes were Beauties.

GLOBE goes Beauty one better
in just one instance. It is _per-
fectly round and will furnish four
slices against Beauty’s three. In the
short period of five years Globe has
captured the Southern planters who grow
it now almost exclusively for Northern
markets. It is a safe estimate that
75 per cent. of all the tomatoes reach-
ing us during the winter months are’
Globe. Reasons for this are plentiful.
Globe plants are as nearly blight-proof as
years of effort on the part of the breeder
has been able to make a tomato plant.
Fruits may be picked quite green (which
is necessary for shipping) and will ripen up
uniformly to reach the market in tip top
condition for top notch prices. Skin and
outer walls of fruit are firm and thick, so
the fruits carry well and stand considerable
handling without injury. The flesh is

very solid and of mild, delicate flavor.

Macnvsis absolutely unique in character
of plant. Foliage is not cut like the
ordinary tomato vine, but the leaves are
solid, thick and bluish green. You always
know a Magnus tomato plant after you
once see it. Just why this does not
have the general cultivation which it
deserves, is a puzzle to me. In season
almost like Beauty, it bears slightly larger
fruits and just as many as any other good
standard sort. For training to stakes,

Typical fruit of Stone. Greatest diameter in cross
section

which is now so much in vogue, it is abso-
lutely unsurpassed. Fruits are borne in
clusters, are handsome, of good quality,
with solid meat of fine flavor. Magnus
is a great favorite with Southern planters
because the heavy foliage resists insect
attacks and protects blossoms and fruits
from the scalding sun. However, it does
equally well in other parts of the country
and really deserves more attention. The
plant shown in the illustration was trimmed
of its foliage on one side to display the
fruit.

TRUCKER’S FAVORITE may be called the
purple “Stone.” While neither so large
nor so heavy, it is the purple main crop
tomato in many parts of the country, but

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especially in the East. Fruits are very
attractive, always smooth, of good market
size and have a quality which makes the
man who uses them once, ask for more.
Vines are thrifty and resist disease splen-
didly. Fruits are uniform in size, smooth;
meat solid and of fine mild flavor.

TRIAL CONDITIONS

In connection with the comparative
schedule following, bear in mind that the
average is considered in each and every
instance. Every gardener knows that
neither the first nor the last fruits a plant
will bear are representative specimens of
the variety tried. In order to get the
correct average weight, two dozen fruits
from the beginning to end of season were
weighed in the case of each variety. The
total weight divided by twelve furnished
the average mentioned in table. The dates
mentioned apply to central Ohio and
territories of the same latitude. The plants
producing the results given were uniformly
twelve inches high when set into the garden.
Space devoted to each plant was 2 x 23 ft.
Clay soil enriched by a small shovelful
of chicken manure per hill nourished the
plants.

When 23 feet tall, the plants were thinned
to three of the strongest branches and
tied to 4 foot stakes with raffia. Every
side shoot, superfluous branch or young
plant starting between joints was conscien-
tiously removed as the plants developed.
Going over the plants once a week is

JuLuy, 1912

Typical fruit of Globe. Greatest diameter in long

section

sufficient to accomplish this. When plants
were four feet tall, the tops were clipped.
On an average, three clusters of three fruits
each had set on each of the three branches.
Not all developed to become fit for use.
Some sorts showed more blossom end rot
than others, a disease fostered by pro-
longed dry weather. Three dozen plants
handled in this manner will furnish all
the fruits a family of four will ordinarily
use for daily meals and for canning.

More exact information on pruning will
be found elsewhere in this issue.

Relative Size, Earliness and Quality of Tomatoes

DIAMETER

(INCHES) | WwW See Average
Date Date First weer el Solidi é Number 4 ~~ Sai
Names of Sorts Seeds Plants Fruit a e= | Fr =e “Ch ity} Season of Bearing Fruits Remarks about Quality and Individual Characteristics
Sown Set Ripened ng ee te Class per
out Se om Ounces Plant
Red or Scarlet te : ; ! fstem end
Spark’s Earliana 4-1 5-25 7-12 23 2 6 D Short, 2 pickings 15 Decidedly acid. Inclined to be rough around
Chalk’s Early Jewel | 4-1 5-25 7-20 Br 24 7 B Long, 4 pickings 19 Mild and excellent
Stone 4-1 5-25 7-28 33 2k of A Late, 3 pickings 20 Semi-acid. Sure cropper. <
Coreless 4-1 5-25 8=5 Br 3 Oz A Late, 3 pickings 15 Acid. Nearly round. Fine slicer
Dwarf Stone 4-1 5-25 7-25 22 2i 6 (e Late, 3 pickings 12 Semi-acid. Best “fixed” dwarf
Pink or Purple
June Biles 4-1 5-25 7-10 24 24 6 D Short, 2 pickings 15 Mild and handsome
Beauty 4-1 5-25 7-20 B 2t 7 B Early, 3 pickings 16 Mild, fine ‘slicer a
Globe 4-1 5-25 7-26 3 23 7% A Early, 4 pickings 18 Round, mild, blight resisting
Magnus 4-1 5-25 8-4 os 25 7 B 3 pickings 20 Semi-acid, fine for tropics
Trucker’s Favorite 4-1 5-25 7-28 3 at 63 B-C | Late, 3 pickings 16 Mild, handsome eastern market sort

Notre—Skin and color of flesh vary so greatly on different soils in one and the same locality that no attempt has been made to classify these characteristics.

Class OC Class D

Class B

Class A

Showing the four grades of solidity as indicated in the above table

Perennial Phloxes Worth Growing—by Elizabeth Herrick, "%i«

AN ATTEMPT TO HELP THE AMATEUR TO A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE MERIT OF
SOME OF THE MORE RECENT INTRODUCTIONS— PURE COLOR EFFECTS AND THEIR HARMONIES

HE great multiplicity of named var-

ieties of perennial phlox is one great
cause of most of us knowing so little about
what are really the best varieties. The
phlox impels attention because it is the
most showy of our hardy perennials during
its season (July to November), and it is so
easy to grow that it may almost be said to
thrive under neglect! It may be planted
at almost any time of the year and old
roots may be taken up and “divided,” i. e.,
cut into pieces with the spade and reset to
grow with greater vigor. I have tried to
select the more desirable from this host and
to help other amateurs to an easier task
of selection for their own needs. The ste-
reotyped catalogue description is dreadfully
inadequate — there are usually just two
words for” word descriptions, the orig-
inator’s and the introducer’s — pinks

re ee ~——-

Coquelicot is a bright scarlet phlox.
however are rather small

Its flowers

masquerading as mauves, salmon-scarlets
as pure orange, magentas as crimson, to
the bewilderment of the purchaser and the
general upset of the garden. Another
cause of confusion is the fact that, even
when catalogue descriptions of a variety
tally, as they seldom do, the lay-under-
standing of color differs widely from that
of the professional nurseryman and florist.
In my collection, Selma and Gruppen-
k6nigin, both listed, in most catalogues that
I have seen, as delicate rose-mauve, prove
an exquisite light pink. I am sorry to
think how many possible purchasers of
these beautiful varieties may have been
frightened away by the fatal “mauve” of the
color-terrorists. The gardener may, to be
sure, rely upon some florist or nurseryman

to send him what he ought to have; but
florists and nurserymen are not, unhappily,
always the artists their occupation would
suggest them to be, and in nine cases out of
ten the unfortunate buyer by proxy will
get just what he oughtn’t to have. The
best way to select varieties for your
garden is to visit a good nursery, but often
there is no local nursery, or, when there is,
it carries only a few of the older varieties.
So, in the end, the beginner is driven back
to the catalogue.

HOW TO SELECT

The first step in selection is to consider
carefully the projected location of the
phloxes. If in a new garden, there is
wider scope of choice, as one does not have
to avoid color-clashes with other plants;
if in a border already started, be careful to
select only those colors that will harmon-
ize with what August-to-November- bloom-
ing perennials are already possessed.

The best of the early blooming phloxes
is the white Miss Lingard, happy in any
color combination.

If the grounds are extensive enough to
permit, a very pretty and satisfactory
arrangement of phloxes is to alternate
groups of two or three of a color with
clumps of delphiniums and the white
plume poppy (Bocconia cordata), in the
background of a wide herbaceous border.
The grouping of white and blue at inter-
vals between the more brilliant and daring
shades of the phloxes contributes to a
harmonious blending of colors that side
by side would be inadmissible. Even with
this arrangement the pinks and reds should
be separated as widely as possible and the
salmon-scarlets and orange-scarlets con-
trasted with the pure whites.

Of the whites, the largest-flowered var-
leties to date, are Von Lassburg, medium
tall (2-23 ft.), and rather late, Frau Antoine
Buchner and Helena Vacaresco, dwarf
(under 2 ft.). Probably the best tall (3 ft.)
white is Mrs. Jenkins, with immense pan-
icles of good-sized blooms; Purity and the
late Jeanne d’Arc are older but excellent.
A deservedly popular white and by many
reckoned the best white phlox in existence,
is the already mentioned _ suffructicosa
Miss Lingard, which kindly begins flower-
ing in June, fully a month earlier than the
decussata phloxes and gives of itself again
generously in September. Miss Lingard
has a second point of superiority in its
foliage of dark, glossy green, happily
immune from attacks of the red spider.

Of the salmon-scarlet phloxes, General
Von Heutz and Athis, the latter the tallest
growing phlox except the new Goliath,
are the most desirable. A phlox sold as
Brilliant and described as_ blood-red,
proved, with me, to belong to this color-
class. It is of medium height, with very

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large individual flowers, having, however, a
trifle more orange in composition than
either of the others. The effect is un-
deniably “brilliant.”

The best bright scarlet is the tall-grow-
ing and immense-flowered Geo. H. Stroh-
lein, an improvement on the popular
Coquelicot, of the same color but of poorer
habit and small-flowered. Baron Van
Dedem, a new red, and Vesuvius are
similar in shade to Coquelicot but have
larger trusses and individual flowers.

Of the so-called crimsons, the hand-
somest is Comte Von Hochberg. Another
good crimson, though described as “ruby-
red,” is Captain Wilhelmy, a very bright
and pleasing phlox, though small-flowered.
Champs Elysées and Rosenberg, although
usually classed as crimson, have a decided
carmine-magenta tinge. Rosenberg, how-
ever, is a truly magnificent variety, having
immense flowers and really symmetrical
form.

The best pale pink phlox that I have
grown is the variety catalogued as Beranger
and described very briefly as “white,
suffused pink, crimson eye,’”’ an accurate
description enough, so far as it goes, but it
doesn’t go far enough. In my garden this
phlox has proved itself worthy of more
enthusiastic notice. On first opening the
blossoms appear, in warm weather, to be
nearly white, but gradually suffuse until
the whole flower is the most exquisite

P. suffructicosa, var. Miss Lingard flowers generously
from June to September. It has white flowers

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apple-blossom pink
with a rayed white
halo and crimson
centre. Except Ros-
enberg,Frau Antoine
Buchner,and Eclair-
eur, Berangerhas the
largest individual
flowers of any phlox
that I have seen,
though in no cata-
logue have I found
this phenomenal size
noted. Madame Paul
Dutrie comes very
close to Beranger in
color; it is not, how-
ever, quite so clear a
pink, showing a faint
lilachue These two
phloxes associate
charmingly.

Of light
there are several
from which choice
may be made, Selma
and Gruppenkénigin
being among the
best. L’Evenement,
a delicate pink tinted
salmon, and Pink
Beauty are also de-
sirable. A very fine
light salmon pink is
the new large-
flowered Elizabeth
Campbell, first of-
fered in this country, I believe, two years
ago.

For those who prefer brighter shades
the pink varieties, Sunset, Ornament, the
beautiful new Rjinstrom, with blossoms
larger, to borrow catalogue phraseology,
“than a silver dollar,” and the Van der
Schoot hybrids, Millet and Amos Perry,
will be sure to appeal.

From pink to rose is only a step in color
gradation, and in this class are to be found
some of the showiest of all phloxes. Cre-
puscule, a large-flowered rose with crimson
centre is a remarkably beautiful phlox.
Fully as striking is the variety Paul Mar-
tin with its blending of rose and fiery gold.
Not so dazzling but equally beautiful is
Pantheon, closer to a true old rose than
to the carmine-rose, cerise and salmon
respectively of catalogue parlance. Another
soft old rose, with a white eye, is Caran
d’Ache, described, unfortunately, as ger-
anium-red with old rose shadings. No one,
however, who grows this variety will be
disappointed in its beauty. A new variety,
Jules Breton, is said to be “golden rose,
with a centre of pale rose-lilac,” a most
alluring description, as to the accuracy
of which I am unable to bear witness, for
Jules Breton is one of my future (and, I
hope, near future) dreams.

So many phloxes have been described
and sold as blue, to the great weakening
of one’s faith in the veracity of the human
race, that the amateur needs to tread
warily. I have tried many of the “blues”

pinks

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. AND

Clumps of white perennial phlox will give a welcome effect of lightness and coolness in the summer garden

offered, but have not found any of them
really blue, except Le Mahdi, which is
nearly the blue of an English violet
with the all-important proviso, if the flower
is in the shade! In early evening, also,
Le Mahdi exhibits the same phenomenal
hue. When the sun strikes the blossoms,
though they still show a bluish tint, the
predominant color is a carmine-crimson.
Tris, listed as blue-violet and described,
in one foreign catalogue that I have seen, as
the best of all phloxes of this shade, proved
itself, in my garden, at least, a truly
magnificent deep, velvety violet-crimson,
with the crimson predominating. Javan-
aise and Merlin, both Lemoine hybrids,
show a purplish blue tint.

Of the purples, Gypsy and King of the
Purples are noteworthy. Many of the
crimsons border on purple; a pure deep
crimson seeming, in phloxes, a difficult
shade to attain.

Some of the foreign trade lists catalogue
the ‘‘wine-reds,”’ Franklin and La Nuit,
and I find one American retail catalogue
offering Mont Rose, but, instead of a
“dark wine-red,”’ Mont Rose opened, to
my disappointment, a beautiful deep rose.
In size of bloom and habit of growth, how-
ever, Mont Rose is notable. It appears
to be one of the most generally admired
phloxes in my garden.

Carmines and “rosy magentas’’ are
difficult shades to harmonize even in the
most careful grouping, but if such colors
could be properly isolated from all others

Juuy, 1912

except white and
certain shades of
lavender, there are
phloxes of these dan-
gerous colors. pos-
sessed of great indi-
vidual beauty. One
of the finest of these
is Eclaireur, prob-
ably (if we except
Rosenberg) the lar-
gest-flowered phlox
existent —a rich
crimson-carmine
with a large rosy-
white, sometimes
pure white star. Ed-
mond Bossier, with
a little more of the
crimson than of the
carmine in its shad-
ing, and a very large
white centre, is also
desirable. Obergart-
ner Wittig, a rosy-
magenta with white
centre and carmine
eye, is deservedly
called one of the
“very best phloxes, ”
but, owing to its
peculiar shade, a bit
difficult to handle
artistically. I have
found that it asso-
clates rather pleas-
antly with a deep
lilac-rose and a very pale rose containing a
hint of mauve. The three shades afford a
really charming color gradation, allowing
this truly beautiful phlox to appear at its
best. A missing label resulted in the
chance placing of a single plant of Ober-
gartner Wittig between Eclaireur and the
pale flesh (almost salmon) pink Gruppen-
konigin! Yet at its worst Obergartner
Wittig was not half so bad as it sounds.

There seems just now to be a strong
interest in variegated and ringed types,
also clear whites with a contrasting centre,
usually carmine or crimson, though violet,
lilac-blue and rose-pink centres are also
seen. These phloxes are brilliantly showy
and many of them exceedingly beautiful.

Of the white varieties with crimson centre,
Belle Alliance, Richard Wallace and Aglae
Adanson are excellent, but by far the best
is the striking Henry Murger, whose
immense white flowers have an exception-
ally large red centre. A white phlox with
a violet eye and a faint shading of porce-
lain blue is Distinction, rare but rather
insignificant, though the decided bluish
tint of the buds somewhat relieves the
washed-out appearance of the flowers.
A smaller-flowered variety of the same
general description, but with deeper flush-
ing and buds, is Wonder. Emerald, a mani-
fest misnomer, from the same source, is
by no means green or even, like Rhein-
gau, green-eyed, but a beautiful French-
white with purple eye and deep lavender
buds.

JVuuy, L9LE

One of the prettiest rose-centred phloxes
is Josephine Gerbereaux, the rose centre
of unusual size toning exquisitely into
the white. A variegated variety of charm-
ing coloring, De Mirbel, has the white
ground color flushed and streaked with
a copper-rose.

The hybridizers, doubtless in their efforts
to produce a true blue phlox, have been
very busy of late with the lavenders.
Consequently we have in this color some
of the most beautiful phloxes. Nearly
every gardener knows Eugene Danzan-
villiers, but a variety equally as handsome
and quite as large-flowered, Esclamonde,
appears to have escaped general notice.
A warm lavender flushed with rose and
arose-violet centre encircled by a large
white halo, distinguish this charming
variety. A plant of fine form, sturdy
growth and beautiful coloring, it deserves
more attention that it has so far re-
ceived.

Antonin Mercie, a pure lavender with
white halo, possesses such slight points of
difference from Eugene Danzanvilliers that,

ADI SHLD,

planted side by side in my garden, the
average visitor fails to distinguish between
them. Grace, shows a light lilac ground,
heavily marbled, and a white centre. The
new introduction Wanadis, recalls this
variety, but is, I should judge, superior
to it in habit and size of flower. It is
further distinguished by a deep reddish-
purple eye.

A light lilac phlox shading to a white
edge is Chateaubriand. Daniel Leseur is a
better variety of deeper coloring and more
distinct border. Duqueslin, reddish-violet,
also has a white border. Unique among
lavender-lilac phloxes is Cross of Honor, a
pretty rose-lilac of medium size, the white
border of the petals defining a Maltese
cross.

Gray shades, though frequently cata-
logued, are not desirable. Neither are the
whites with sulphur eye. A phlox in
my garden showed a curious color-varia-
tion in one half of its growth. As I find
nothing like it catalogued, it seems worthy
of mention. The normal color of this
phlox is deep rose with crimson shadings

facut

color scheme to plant by

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and red eye. The trusses that, if one
may so employ the term, sported, showed
flowers with white eye surrounded by a
clear medium-light blue halo and a narrow
crimson-rose border. The halo appeared
nearly the shade of a blue platycodon but in
very few of the flowers was the circle
symmetrical, on some petals the blue
flaring almost to the outer edges, on others
scarcely appearing. The flowers opening
last showed a more perfect, though slightly
contracted halo, which would seem to
indicate that the plant is overcoming the
tendency to revert to type and that
eventually the “blue blood” of this little
hybrid will tell. As a rule, phloxes exhib-
iting color irregularities are not beautiful
or desirable, except to the hybridizer,
though many such are listed as high-
priced novelties. ‘They seem to me, frank-
ly, like premature introductions of unfixed
types, curious, but unbeautiful, and with-
out real value to the amateur. In phloxes,
as in most other flowers, the pure self-
colors are at once the most effective and
the most artistic.

The perennial phlox in its many varieties is a one stand-by for flower in summer time, and can be used in many combinations, but be sure to have a definite

The Yews in Elizabeth Haddon’s Garden — By Wilhelm Miller, 3%

IP NOT this the largest yew tree in
America?”’ wrote Samuel N. Rhoads,
an antiquarian of Haddonfield, when he
sent a copy of the picture on this page to
Professor Charles Sprague Sargent, Di-
rector of the Arnold Arboretum. “‘It is
about thirty feet high, has a spread of
seventy feet, and the trunk is over four
feet in diameter.”

As a hater of the ephemeral style
of American gardening, which takes no
thought of succeeding generations, and as a
lover of 4,000-year-old yews, such as they
have in England, I determined to see this
noble evergreen tree, which had survived
the wars, fires and neglect of two centuries,
and find out why some enterprising real
estate dealer had not cut it down and re-
placed it by a Lombardy poplar guaran-
teed to last ten years. I tracked Mr.
Rhoads to his lair, in a thick city atmos-
phere of old books on natural history and
gardening and dragged my new-found
friend into the garish light of Market
Street, Philadelphia, whence we took the
ferry to New Jersey, and a train which
brought us in less than half an hour to
the suburban community known as Had-
donfield, N. J.

Even from the station we could glimpse
the fine old country place known as “ Had-

European yews 200 years old at Haddonfield, N. J. They were brought from England by Elizabeth Haddon, the
The trained box bushes are about 10x 10 ft.

don Hall of Haddonfield, N. J.,” which
stands aloof in mute but dignified protest
against the wilderness of “suburban homes”
rising on every side, with all their atro-
cious but typical features, e. g., tinder-
box construction, bad proportion, etc.
Turning our back on these “improve-
ments”’ we took the road to yesterday and
soon saw looming ahead of us a dignified
old brick mansion framed by ancient trees
which command the entire landscape by
reason of the gentle eminence (about ten
feet) on which the house stands. By con-
trast with a typical American suburb, the
house seems all that can be desired for per-
manence, style, and proportion; and it
certainly nestles beautifully among the
venerable native trees which surround it,
instead of standing out in sharp contrast,
like a modern house that is surrounded by
showy cut-leaved, weeping, and variegated
foreign trees. A second look, however,
indicated that the house is of a city, rather
than a country type, since it recalls the
characteristic Philadelphia brick house of
red brick with marble trimmings. It is
no wonder that the Londoner feels at home
in Philadelphia, for he has seen this type of
house before, and when the Philadelphian
goes to London he feels at home, too, be-
cause he finds around Russell Square

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houses that are reminiscent of his own
Independence Hall. But in 1842, when
the present house was built, Americans
knew no better than to build city houses
in the country, as cockneys do to-day.
And Downing was just lifting his voice in
favor of any style of architecture which
blends with a rural landscape, and is

genuinely adapted to country conditions

of labor, life and customs.

The present Haddon Hall marks the
site of the second house built by the original
Elizabeth Haddon in 1713, when, as the
wife of John Estaugh, she became mistress
of the most famous centre of hospitality
in the southern part of New Jersey. Her
original home was a pioneer dwelling a
mile away to which she came in 1700 about
the time of William Penn’s second visit to
America. Her nerve has been the wonder
and delight of every succeeding generation,
for she answered the unmistakable inward
voice of the Quaker by leaving the com-
fortable home of a prosperous London
anchorsmith, crossed the ocean “alone”’
(for she had only two servants with her),
and settled in this forest wilderness. Her
collateral descendants through her sister’s
marriage now form a respectable army of
devoted admirers.

There is no way of hinting at her ro-

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**maiden pioneer’’ of the Quakers, in 1700.

The yew on the left may be the largest in America

Junuy, 1912

mantic courtship without spoiling the tale,
which has been told for all time by Long-
fellow in the poem called ‘ Elizabeth”
which you will find in the “Tales of a
Wayside Inn,” Part Third. But even I,
who have but a spark of poetry, was moved
to get down my Sunday School edition
and read the exquisite story, which has
warmed every ossified heart on which
I have since tried it.

Most Colonial gardens are melancholy
wrecks, but Elizabeth Haddon’s garden
isa joy. There is no trouble in recreating
the eighteenth century atmosphere. The
garden is a rectangle of about an acre
which was bounded on two sides by the old
house and a vanished terrace, and is still
bounded on the other two sides by a brick
wall of a beauty which pierces to one’s
marrow. It is about four feet high and is
capped with wood so that brick wall
harmonizes with brick house and wooden
cap, with wooden roof, and the whole
makes a transition from architecture to
nature. The long wooden boards are
securely fastened to short beams, about
4x4x18 in. laid at intervals of four feet
in the top of the wall. If I read the story
rightly, there was no need of an 8-foot
wall in 1713, for there was privacy enough
in the wilderness. Presumably the func-
tion of a wall was to keep cows out of the
flower beds, but it also satisfied the English-

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man’s instinct to warn the universe that
his home is his castle. Of similar con-
struction is the adjacent brew house, the
only building of Elizabeth Estaugh’s which
has survived. The view over the wall is
doubtless similar to the one Elizabeth
enjoyed, for her house was surrounded by
cultivated fields — the only break in the
forest which stretched everywhere as far
as the eye could see. To-day, of course,
the woods are not so fine, and the view will
be ruined unless some one with a soul
rescues the whole tract.

It is impossible to escape the magic of
the past, for the old boxwood trees in the
garden “breathe the fragrance of eternity.”
Eleven of these stately evergreens line the
terrace walk and the path which pene-
trates the heart of the garden. On one
side of the terrace are the tallest speci-
mens — three trees about twenty-two to
twenty-four feet high. Along the central
walk the boxwoods have been trimmed
to rounded bushes about to x ro ft. These
are almost, if not quite, flawless, and the
lower branches have taken root in an
interesting manner.

But the real heroes of the garden are the
old yews. They are waiting for you just
where you would expect to find them, at
the old trysting place. They brood over
the centre of the garden, like Philemon and
Baucis, and are stationed on either side

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of the main walk. ‘Another picture shows
this path leading straight to the big house
past the trained box bushes and emphasizes
the grandeur of the picturesque yew trunks.
Mr. Rhoads’ picture, here reproduced,
shows the old brew house and gives some
notion of the feathery foliage of the yew
trees, which have a flat spray of short
needles, like that of hemlock. Unfortun-
ately, both trees were badly hurt by the
continental ice storm a few years ago, and
it is doubtful whether they will survive
another century.

There is a third yew which is harder to
explain, for it lacks a mate. It stands in
front of the house, as if designed to help
frame the home picture, and the mind
demands another yew to balance it on the
other side of the walk which leads to the
front door. Whether there was a yew
there originally who can tell? A. tall
deciduous tree is now on the spot. This
odd yew has a trunk about three feet in
diameter, seems twenty-three to twenty-
five feet high, and has a spread of seventeen
paces — about fifty feet.

The flowers have long since disappeared
from Elizabeth Haddon’s garden, but the
charm remains. Some day, let us hope,
the small fruits and quaint old simples
that must have been there two hundred
years ago will be restored. Such a garden
ought to be preserved.

Hardy Shrubs for the Northwest—By C. L. Meller, 2.

A FEW WELL KNOWN SHRUBS OF THE EAST THAT ARE QUITE AT HOME IN THE EXTREME COLD AND
ALSO SOME WORTHY NATIVE MATERIAL THAT SHOULD BE USED IN MAKING GROUPS IN THIS REGION

ORTICULTURALLY, the Northwest
is little beyond the pioneer stage,
while in the matter of landscape garden-
ing it is still in its infancy with school days
yet ahead. The climate of this region,
rigorous in its extremes, but healthy, is so
unlike that of any other section of the
Union or even of foreign parts that ex-
perience can be the only teacher and out
of this inevitable experimenting, results
will come that even the East may copy
with profit. In the matter of shrubs, al-
ready the indications are that the North-
west will develop some material which
the entire country may ultimately demand
in producing certain effects. It is the
winter winds, with late spring and early
autumn frosts that limit the gardener of
the Northwest in what he can grow.
Though the golden bell is hardy, the
winter invariably kills the flower buds; and,
lacking its springtime joy, the shrub serves
no purpose. To take its place as an early
spring bloomer, we have the native goose-
berry with its greenish white flowers, whose
charm consists in their suggestiveness of a
humming bird on the wing, rather than
in any marked beauty they possess.
Hardy and unmindful of neglect, this
gooseberry will thrive in poor soil and deep
shade.- Nothing transplants more readily

and a mature bush may be divided into as
many plants as there are canes, provided
a bit of root be taken with each cane.

Springtime color play that can be
achieved as readily in the Northwest as
in the East is that produced by the white
of Van Houtte’s spirea contrasted with the
pink of the Tartarian honeysuckle when
the former fronts the latter. It is a delicate
combination, the pink among the green
above the pronounced bank of white.

Extravagant as is the wording of the
average nursery catalogue, I can recall no
instance where the description of this
particular spirea exceeds its merits. The
severest winters, the driest summers and
the strongest winds seldom injure it. The
clean and ever healthy foliage assumes in
fall a bronze that adds distinctly to the color
scheme of autumn. Due to its abundant,
compact, and fibrous roots, it transplants
as readily in July and August as in
spring and fall. Though in such locations
somewhat slow of growth and about a
week later in bloom, it will nevertheless
thrive to the north of a wall where but
little sunlight reaches it.

The Tartarian honeysuckle is second to
none in hardihood and delicacy of bloom.
It takes about a year or two for this shrub
to get a good roothold on the soil but

thereafter its permanency is assured. Its
outline is somewhat peculiar among shrubs,
rising from a narrow base to a broad
rounded top. The translucent, red berry
ripens early and adds its color value in
early summer but unhappily drops before
fall. Both the spirea and the honey-
suckle can be used separately as specimen
shrubs, but are prettiest in combination.
Of lilacs we have an abundance and can
carry their bloom into June. Nowhere
does the common lilac thrive better than
on the fat clays of the prairies. It is an
effective screen for through its compact
foliage no light can penetrate. With
this, we can contrast the lighter and more
delicate foliage of the Rouen lilac which is
equally as hardy and fully as abundant in its
bloom but much more refined in general
appearance. This shrub is often wrongly
called the Persian lilac; the true Persian
lilac is altogether unreliable in the North-
west. No small advantage of the common
lilac is its ability to withstand frosts,
remaining green during our delightful
Indian summers when all the trees are bare
and most of the shrubs stand naked. The
Chinese lilac, which is hardy and blooms
fully a month later than the others, can well
be used to extend the season into June.
The snowball thrives, it would appear,

The shrubby native roses and Rosa rugosa are excellent for low hedges and
have fruiting quality toa

even better in the West than in the East;
it is more profuse of bloom, and decidedly
freer from insect attacks, though in nowise
immune. It cannot be relied upon to
bloom every year, but during a favorable
season it is a bank of white, relieved just
enough by the green of its foliage. It
carries, as it were, the virgin white of the
spirea farther into the season.

As an indicator of the soil moisture, the
Philadelphus or mock orange, perfectly
hardy, can be made to serve a rather unique
purpose in the shrubbery group, for with a
lack of moisture its leaves droop. With an
abundance of moisture, a mock orange is
a vigorous grower and a free bloomer, with
its period of bloom, however, all too short,
a week! Some of the varieties whose
orange-like blossoms emit a pleasing odor
are of value in adding fragrance to the
garden. There are some pretty drawfs
among the mock oranges, while the tall
forms often exceed ten feet. They carry
their foliage well down to the ground,
which together with their height and
narrow growth fits them for screen plant-
ing, as also for the shrubbery group
into which they bring height and back-
ground. In outline, they are not very
regular as twigs are apt to thrust them-
selves out from the main body of foliage
almost anywhere.

In the elders we have just the material
wherewith to fill odd corners and to bring
variety into large shrubbery groups. As
specimen shrubs their sprawling habit is
against them, but when used in masses
they are rather effective. The common
elder with its flat, broad clusters of flowers
had best be used sparingly.

The spireas Bumulda and Anthony
Waterer are perfectly hardy all over the
Northwest; but for summer bloom we have
a native spirea that outclasses these rigid
and coarse colored plebeians. Along the
prairie roadsides may be seen blooming
during July and August a willow leaved
spirea which in a way is certain to prove a
disappointment for its airy white spikes

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of bloom promise a fragrance that is sadly
lacking and sorely missed. This spirea is
taller in growth than Bumulda though a
low grower nevertheless. When used in
masses against a taller background it will
bring sheets of feathery white into the
landscape just before the golden rod and the
asters start into bloom.

The common dogwood behaves most
peculiarly out here. The manuals have
it as a spring bloomer, but not so
with us. Here it is intermittent, with
green and ripened fruit, buds and full
blown blossoms on one and the same shrub
in August. Though its small clusters of
flowers are not very conspicuous, still
they refuse to be altogether neglected.

Some of the fruiting shrubs leave little
need for summer bloomers. Almost as
pretty in its bloom as the snowball, the
highbush cranberry has a longer period
of decorative value. As its abundant
clusters of berries ripen, changing in early
summer from green through yellow into a
warm red, their beauty is somewhat akin
to the budding and blooming of a rose.
It is a tall shrub and holds its berries high
among its foliage. In winter they outline
themselves against the clear blue sky —
one must ever look up to see the berries.
It will thrive in any soil short of pure
sand or clay. No wind or winter harms it.

In the native rose we have another shrub
that in its effect is as good as a summer
bloomer and moreover compensates for
the common and Thunberg’s barberry
neither of which fruits with us, the latter
being moreover unreliable in vigor. The
pendant hips are borne in abundance and
ripen in late July and early August. The
healthy and pretty foliage adds its bronze
to the scale of autumn tints, while the hips
which persist into spring, fairly glow against
the glittering snows of winter. There is
hardly any soil in which this rose will not
grow nor extreme of temperature it will not
endure. It is splendid on a hillside where
its suckering habits help it hold the soil
against washing.

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Van Houtte’s spirea makes a bank of pure white that is a welcome feature

in summer

When once the beauty of its small
sessile and glowing red berries standing
out against the gray foliage become
better known, our native buffalo berry
will be a far famed shrub. There is none
other that produces quite the same effect.
It is hardy, healthy and indifferent as to
soil. What need of a summer bloomer
where the glowing red and the distinctive
gray of the buffalo berry fairly sparkle in
the August sun? It is a desirable addition
to the color scheme of any shrubbery group
and moreover its gray is of such a shade
that it can be used in heavy masses without
tiring the eye. Its flowers are a negligible
quantity. The bare gray twigs warm the
snows of winter. It is a pliable material,
growing ten and even fifteen feet high, it
can yet be held within three or four feet
by severe pruning and when so pruned, its
twigs interlace to such an extent as to
present an almost solid mass to the eye.
It must be borne in mind however, when
planting this shrub for the beauty of its
fruit, that it is dioecious. One staminate
shrub is enough for a large group.

The hawthorns flourish in the Northwest
and their miniature apple-like fruits stand-
ing out against the clean glossy foliage add
to the joy of autumn, especially where the
shrubs growing fully ten feet tall are massed
along a road or drive. It also is a shrub
that does away with the need of late summer
bloomers for in early August its berries
begin to ripen. Its rather large white
flowers against the dark green foliage are
no small addition to the bloom of spring.
The foliage never entirely hides the smooth
glossy twigs. They are not as easily trans-
planted as might be, but with care the
loss need be very small. They are, how-
ever, unquestionably hardy.

The sumac furnishes the brightest blaze
of autumn color. The smooth and_ the
staghorn kinds are equally hardy. They
will grow in almost pure clay. They start
readily and though shallow rooted will
live through a summer without a drop of
rain, nor does excessive moisture appear

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The red buffalo berry fairly sparkles in the August
sun. Foliage gray-green

to harm them. The sumacs’ suckering habit
enables them to spread and brings the
foliage down to the ground. They are
shrubs that demand plenty of elbow room
which renders them rather difficult for the
small mixed border, whereas alone or
in alarge group this habit is a distinct
help. Their large foliage, at all times
decorative, is at its best in autumn.

Of shrubs with colored foliage, the
Northwest has almost as wide a selection
as the East. Indeed in the buffalo berry
already referred to we achieve a gray
which the East cannot quite duplicate,
only approach by the use of the Russian
olive which is also hardy in the North-
west. There is a touch of silver that we can
bring into the foliage of our shrubbery
groups by the use of a native known as
silver leaf or badger bush and to botanists
as El@agnus argentea. It will grow any-
where and everywhere. Its bloom, though
inconspicuous, adds a brief week of frag-
rance to the garden. Because of its per-
sistent suckering (which if not attended to
will make it too
numerous among
other shrubs) and
also because of its
color, it cannot be
used too promiscu-
ously. An artistic-
ally placed clump
of silver leaf will
brighten adarkspot.

The Siberian pea-
tree, though hardy,
can scarcely be re-
garded as absolutely
reliable as it is apt
to fail in whole or
in part for no ap-
parent reason. With
the velvet gray of
its new foliage and
its pea-like blossom,
it is, however; a
pleasant addition to
the color scheme of »
any planting. Re-
sisting drought but
indifferently, it is
not to be recom-
mended for the drier

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parts of the prairies. The purple barberry
is hardy and affords us really the only
dark leafed shrub we have. Used in
hedgerows it is hardly as out of place as
its color might lead one to believe. This,
(as also the other barberries) fruits so
sparsely as to make it in this respect a
minus quantity.

One of the best golden leafed plants is the
golden elder. Though many a winter the
bush dies down to the ground still it grows
so vigorously each spring that by the be-
ginning of July such a shrub is from four
to six feet high. It blooms during the
first week of July but seldom fruits. It
will enliven a shrubbery group as noth-
ing else can, though the temptation is to
use it too freely. Also we have a dwarf
philadelphus, seldom growing over four
feet which with its fragrant bloom serves
a twofold purpose. This shrub loses its
golden color in partial shade.

In a manner every species of shrub has a
distinctive foliage, though, while some de-
pend on their bloom or their fruit for their
attractiveness, the ornamental value of
others is contained primarily in the out-
line of their leaves. Of this type are the
following:

The cut-leaf elder is hardy, and more airy
and graceful than the rest of the tribe.
It brings an air of sprightliness into a
group.

Tamarix is perfectly hardy in its roots
though the canes die back almost to the
ground every winter, making, however,
a fair growth every year. It adds a dis-
tinctive charm and brings character into a
group for the feathery grace of its foliage
contrasts effectively with almost every
foliage. Against a background of sumac
it stands out well, while somehow less
effectively though not without beauty, it
outlines itself against the leaves of the

The Tartarian honeysuckle makes a striking specimen shrub because of its inverted appearance

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An added quality of the native rose is the persistent
fruits in winter

native rose. Planting this material by
itself is not to be advised. Tamarix
requires winter protection and is rather
late to start out in spring. The cut-leaf
sumac with its fern-like foliage is very
effective and though lacking the rugged
vigor of the smooth and the staghorn
varieties will nevertheless thrive when once
established which, however, may be a mat-
ter of several trials.

Prickly ash, the Hercules’ club of the
East (Aralia spinosa) which in its leaf
resembles that of the mountain ash can
be planted both for the peculiarity of its
foliage as also for its small bright red aro-
matic berries which are an autumn joy.

Though not a shrub, strictly speaking,
the choke cherry —which can readily be
grown in shrub form—should receive a place
in the large shrubbery group because of its
summer fragrance and dark lustrous fruit.
Though scarcely desirable as shrubs, some
of the willows can be used to achieve
varying effects. For instance: the laurel
leafed willow varies
the green of a shrub-
bery group in a
most pleasing man-
ner. The osier wil-
low droops and plays
in the slightest
breeze in a manner
impossible for any
other shrub to imi-
tate. The Russian
golden willow with
its pronounced yel-
low twigs brings
into the winter and
early spring land-
scape an almost
obtrusive yellow
that can be very
easily overdone.

Thus the West
which even now
lacks not material
for landscape ef-
fects will sooner or
later develop its
own material for
its own distinctive
needs.

The Irises In Our Small Garden—By Florence Spring,

Mass-
achusetts

BEING AN INTRODUCTION TO THE GREAT CHARMS OF THIS RICH FAMILY WHICH CAN BE SO EASILY
ACCOMMODATED IN VERY LITTLE SPACE—OBSERVE THE FLOWERS NOW AND PLACE YOUR ORDER FOR ROOTS

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rather a spe-
cialty of iris in our
garden, and our suc-
cess with the family,
and the pleasure
which its stately
beauty, rainbow-like
colors, and queenly
habit of growth,
gives to us and our
friends, tempts me
to urge those who
have not yet made
the intimate ac-
quaintance of its
various members to
start some _ roots
this coming fall or
spring. I know of
no other plant which
will so richly reward
the flower-lover, while requiring compara-
tively little care and trouble. You can
look at the different varieties as they
flower this season, and selecting what you
like best, plant the roots in September.
All nurseries have some irises, and a few
specialize.

The finest blooms are obtained from old
roots. Therefore, for the time-restricted
amateur, whose duties are many, irises
offer a great advantage over those plants
which require, for their best well-being,
dividing and moving into new quarters
at longer or shorter intervals. It has
always depressed me to read the cheerful
directions in the flower books as to ‘‘moy-
ing and dividing all perennials every few
years”; “all borders should be dug over,
old soil taken out, and replaced with new

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One of the early spring flowers is the baby iris,
I. pumila

By far the most real in their summer beauty, the Japanese irises are worth any little extra trouble

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loam and manure often”; “‘Phloxes, asters,
and all hardy plants must be divided and
reset,” etc., ete.

I have a guilty feeling when I look at
my one perennial border, and secretly
reflect how many years it is since its “old
inhabitants” have been deposed, and their
places filled with ambitious and active
young aspirants for our favor. True the
dear old “‘border” still delights us with
its flowery luxuriance, and also true, that
we are often while digging and delving in
the brown earth at its roots, interrup-
ted by some person who wants to ask the
name of our gorgeous mass of Coquelicot
phlox, which we have cannily placed at the
very end —near the street — to be beheld
of all beholders; or to beg for a root of our
beautiful Madame Chereau, most aris-
tocratic of all the irises — but in spite of
these things we know it is all wrong, and
each season resolve to start our border
afresh “next year!”

It is therefore a comfort to reflect upon
one large family which even the autocratic
flower books say “should remain undis-
turbed,” and, planted with some thought
and care in the beginning, it may be one of
the stand-bys of the garden, permanent in
position, and each year increasing in
beauty and luxuriance.

Iris has the additional advantage, by
means of its many species and varieties,
early and late, of affording a long blooming
season, and with a little careful planning,
one may have iris of some sort in bloom
for many weeks, although the flowering
time of each particular species is short.

As I am writing for the large class of
readers who, like myself, have very limited
garden space, I would say that for such,
one of the best and most satisfactory ways
of utilizing the room which can be allowed
the iris, is to plant a row of mixed colors,

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mostly flowering
about the same time,
but having a few
varieties spaced reg-
ularly that flower
earlier or later, thus
extending the bloom-
ing time.

If expense has to
be considered, plant
a few roots a yard
or so apart, filling in
the first year or two
with annuals, which
can be replaced with
more iris roots when
obtained. I think it
adds greatly to the
pleasure of such a
border, to collect
varieties gradually.
Let this row be of
German iris — the common bearded — the
true “Fleur de luce.” It blossoms the latter
pert of May, and early June; is about
two feet in height, and produces a great
abundance of showy, beautiful flowers,
of every color imaginable. Do not make
the mistake which we did at first, of setting
the row too near the front edge of the
garden. It grows shabby after blossom-
ing is over, and needs to be hidden by some
friendly screen. We now have beds of
low perennials and annuals in front of it,
which do not interfere with its beauty in
blooming time, but later grow tall enough
to screen the yellow and drooping flags.
Give it plenty of room, for it widens from
year to year, and fertilize generously in
the fall, covering it with stable manure
which must be raked off in the spring.

Oriental iris, which comes just after the German
iris in late June

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If one has plenty of room, these rows
may be multiplied as borders. The single
colors massed in this way are enchanting.

I was once driving out into the country,
and came upon a rather neglected looking
old place, whose sole ornament was
two magnificent borders of a pale cream-
yellow iris, in full bloom, leading from
the entrance gate to the front door. It
had evidently had no particular care, but
the location —rather low and moist —
had suited it, and it had flourished
gorgeously. I have always remembered
its beauty. I after-
ward obtained a root
or two, and have
now a great quan-
tity of it in my own
garden.

As the iris flowers
most luxuriantly,the
blossoms may be cut
quite freely, without
interfering with the
beautiful show, and
there is nothing
more effective for
house decoration
than a tall glass vase
holding a few choice
sprays, set among
their own green flags.

The old-fashioned
purple Asiatica and
white Florentina
varieties, bloom first
of all, and to my
mind, no rarer ones
are more beautiful.
The white has very
large _ pearl-white,
showy flowers, with
the falling petals
slightly tinged with
lavender. It does
well in even poor
Soieesow s fans” of
this may be set in
any corner among
the perennials, colonizing them, as it were.
The two or three spikes of perfect bloom
which these single plants afford, are most
effective.

Other varieties for the mixed row of
German iris are Madame Chereau, most
exquisite of these irises, pure white, with
edges of the falling leaves delicately pen-
cilled with sky blue; Queen of May, a
beautiful lavender pink; Pallida Dalma-
tica, also a lovely lavender; King Edward,
light blue; and the aforementioned J. flaves-
cens, a very free bloomer.

To these plain colors should be added
some of the many orchid-like varieties of
striped and pencilled bronze, heliotrope,
browns and yellows to give variety and
contrast: Darius (canary yellow, the falling
petals white striped with crimson), L’Esper-
ance (bronze, falling petals yellow with
crimson veins), Innocenza (ivory white,
gold crest and maroon and white falls) are
all good.

We also set single clumps of iris in our

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perennial border, to supply it with early
bloom: the pale blue ones, with the old-
fashioned yellow day lilies, are an en-
chanting combination; we also pick them
together for the house, and the tall glass
vase which holds them is kept filled
throughout the season. The buds of both
open in water, so we are economical, if
our supply is limited.

All of these above mentioned varieties of
German iris should be set about four inches
deep, and protected in winter by a mulch.

An interesting, although somewhat dis-

Tris laevigata (or I. Kaempferi of the catalogues) is remarkable for the immense flat flowers in July

couraging thing about the iris border, is
the harbor it affords for all sorts of floating
seeds and wandering roots. All kinds of
travelers are constantly appearing in my
borders — poppies, rudbeckias, New Eng-
land asters, etc. I always dislike to pull
them up — but it must be done, or in the
race for the survival of — not the fittest
— but the strongest, some rare iris may be
choked. The insidious witch grass also
“lies low” and sends up innocent looking
tiny blades, which if not watched for
with a lynx eye, will finally gain the
victory. We were obliged last year to
take up and reset a long border, through
carelessness in this respect.

Like many of our garden and wild
flowers, the blossoms of the iris require
bees for cross-fertilization, and a part of
the charm of the beautiful rows or masses
of German iris is the variety of insect life
attracted by them. Busy honey bees buzz
in and out of the purple and golden doors;
heavy, clumsy bumble bees drone lazily

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about them, and dancing yellow and white
butterflies add to the charm. Humming
birds often visit them, and as twilight falls,
mysterious whirring humming moths dart
their long slender tongues into the sweet
honey, and all sorts of mysterious evening
marauders float about, absorbing the sweets
left by the more industrious insects of the
sun.

Sometimes ‘‘sports” appear, as the
result of this cross-fertilization by the bees.
In a clump of white iris in our border,
appeared one spring a single spike of

snowy bloom striped

with broad bands
of purple. These
“sports” may be

moved and petted,
and different varie-
ties secured. I have
never tried to regu-
larly raise seedlings,
but I understand
that it is an interest-
ing experiment in
the home garden.
Following the Ger-
man irises is IJris
orientalis, one of the
beardless kinds, in
habit of growth more
like our common
wild flag, except for
its greater luxuri-
ance. This flowers
late in June and in
July. It is about
eighteen inches high.
The blossoms, only
one or two on a
stalk, are compara-

tively small, with
slender drooping
petals and erect

standards. They are
deep blue in color,
and the buds are
pointed and reddish.
The flowers grow in
a luxuriant mass, surrounded by a great
number of long slender drooping green
leaves. It is very charming, either in
clumps or, if space can be afforded, in rows
or borders.

Its flowering time is short, but it is
gorgeous during that short time. This
iris grows better and more luxuriantly
in deep, moist loam. I have in mind some
plants most carefully tended in a garden,
which never did well, and were finally
taken up, and carelessly set as an experi-
ment, outside the wall, by the roadside,
where the land dipped. They have flour-
ished gorgeously ever since!

Next to appear in our train is the Si-
berian iris, also resembling one of our wild
less known species —the one with the
slender, grass-like stem and leaves: Jris
Virginica. It blooms in late June and
early July. The slender blossom-stalk
grows to a height of three or four feet
bearing three, four, or more flowers. The
leaves are narrow and grass-like, and the

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flowers. Plant in large clumps
delicate slenderness of the whole plant, is
characteristic. The colors are light blueand
white. It grows in large, showy clumps.

When one approaches the subject of
Japanese iris, Iris levigata or I. Kaemp-
feri of the catalogues, one may well be
timid, so absolutely impossible would it
be to even remotely describe their magnifi-
cence, both in color and size. Their regal
flowers often measure ten, and sometimes
twelve inches in diameter, and their rich
and varied coloring easily surpasses that
of all other types; one does not wonder
that they were formerly held sacred in
their native country. They bloom after
the German iris has gone, and are some-
times referred to as “summer iris.” The
characteristics of this species are the plate-
like flatness of the flowers — as opposed to
the drooping three petals so characteristic
of the family — the breadth of the petals
and the gorgeous shades of color and bold
and varied markings. They require a
rich and moist soil, and are somewhat more
difficult to raise abundantly, than their
earlier sisters. But we must have them, in
even a small garden, where even a few plants
will be a joy. Any of the varieties are
enchanting, so one can hardly go astray.
I think none of the more gorgeous ones are
more beautiful than the pure white, banded
with gold.

If one has a large garden, having a pool,
or swampy or moist place in its confines,
the oriental and Japan and _ Siberian
irises are most lovely in such a setting
and flourish luxuriantly. The Japan iris
is particularly adapted to this sort of
culture. It and the ostrich fern are charm-
ing neighbors, and resemble each other
in their royal attributes. “The Fleur-de-
luce, the flower of chivalry” says Ruskin,
“has a sword for its leaf, and a lily for its

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Siberian iris follows the oriental with gayly colored English iris, which is much like the Spanish, is German iris, the best known of all, can be had

bulbous. Valuable as cut fiowers
heart,” and we always think of it as the
flower of royalty.

The Japanese irises may also be used in
borders, and are very effective grown in
this way. They do not bloom as abun-
dantly as the German irises, but the
individual blossoms are so large and showy,
that they are nearly as effective. I know
of no more exquisite surprise in my garden
than the appearance of the single perfect
first flowers of this iris, where, the day or
even hour before, were only the green leaves.

The varieties of iris of which we have
been speaking have all been of the her-
baceous kinds which increase by roots and
stocks, forming large clumps. We now
come to the bulbous division; the Spanish
iris, Iris Ziphium, and the English, Iris
Ziphioides. These have an entirely dif-
ferent habit of growth. The plants spring
from small bulbs, which must be set singly,
about four inches apart. They are easy
of culture but must be protected during
the winter by a slight mulch.

The Spanish iris flowers in June. It
thrives best in full sunlight, in a light soil,
and grows about one and one half feet
high. Its blossoms are about the size
and shape of our common wild iris, and
blossoms, stem, and leaves are much
smaller and more slender than the German
iris, and there are two or three leaves only,
on each stalk. The flowers are enchant-
ing, of delicate shape, and beautiful clear
colors; pure white, light blue, lemon,
orange, and many orchid-like variations.
They are easily forced for winter growth,
either in pans, or boxes for cutting.

My first experience with Spanish iris
was rather amusing. To begin with, I,
having been both enchanted and impressed
by my first acquaintance with it in the
florist’s windows, in royal bunches of its

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in an immense variety of colors

delicate perfect blossoms arranged in
masses of the separate colors, thought it
an unattainable luxury.

Therefore, when asked by a friend if I
would like to add to her Holland order, I
refused. Then, tempted by the fascinat-
ing memory, I hesitatingly asked the price,
and to my amazement was told that the
bulbs were twenty-five cents a hundred!
It did not take me long to reverse my
decision!

When the bulbs came, my surprise was
great to find that a package four or five
inches square held my “hundred.” It
was my first experience with the bulbous
iris, and I had expected a package some-
what proportionate to the size of my own
familiar iris root stocks! Expecting that
the tiny bulbs would multiply and “spread”
I planted them a foot or so apart, and as
each bulb produced only a slender spike
springing from between two grass-like
leaves, and bearing one or two blossoms,
my ‘‘row” which I had fondly imagined
would impress all beholders, was invisible
a few feet away! To add to the complica-
tion I had also intended it for a “screen”
for some shabby plants just beyond!
However, our pride was great, as the
beautiful slender blossoms appeared, of
every variety of enchanting color. And
as none of our neighbors’ gardens boasted
any iris, save the old-fashioned kinds, every
horticultural acquaintance was brought
out to admire and envy.

We did not then know that the bulbs
should be partially protected in the
winter, and the second spring, we looked
anxiously for the expected multiplication;
but alas! Winter frost, and early cut-
worms had done their worst, and about
one iris in ten appeared.

However, we learn by experience, and now

Juny, 1912

we plant more closely, give the bulbs a
light mulch in the winter, put Paris green
and bran, mixed with molasses, near
them to tempt the energetic and greedy
cutworm, and call our Spanish iris one of
the successes of our garden. I should
also say that we found they were also
inexpensive at home, where good mixed
varieties may be bought for fifty cents a
hundred.

The English iris, or Iris Ziphioides is
much like the Spanish, only with some-
what larger flowers, and an even greater
range of coloring, including many beautiful
mottled varieties, besides the plain colors.
It blossoms later than the Spanish — in
late June and July, and therefore must be
included in our continual blooming scheme.
It is very easy of culture, somewhat more
hardy than the Spanish, and also valuable
for forcing.

Both the Spanish and the English send

The Climbing Lilies — By Parker T. Barnes,

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up only one or two stalks of bloom, and
increase but slowly, and therefore take but
little room in the garden. A row of them
may be sandwiched in almost anywhere
among plants which will fill in, later in the
season. The English iris grows to a height
of about two feet.

I must include in my list of “‘must haves”
for the small garden, the tiny dwarf spring
iris, 7. pumila, sometimes called baby iris,
one of the earliest flowers to bloom. It
makes a charming border, set closely, but
in separate plants, and is easily kept in
bounds. There is an old-fashioned garden
in Old Concord, where all the beds are
edged in this way, and the slender thread
of dark purple bloom outlining the paths
in spring is most charming.

We have two or three “patches” of it
at the street end of our perennial border,
and when the “gardener” takes the re-
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the garden before starting for his city law-
office, these patches are the first places to
visit in the early warm days.

Here, some morning, when the snow has
hardly all vanished from the cold corners,
there will be found purple instead of
brown, and in spite of our daily inspection
it is always a surprise.

There are several varieties of color, but
I think none is more lovely than the com-
mon purple. Of a beautiful rich, dark,
royal shade, its tiny flowers unfold when
just above the ground, and in their setting
of minute sword-like leaves, are always a
revelation and a delight. Evanescent and
fleeting, they are hardly more than a
promise of the joys to come, but in their
glowing beauty are fitting, although di-
minutive, heralds of that regal train which
shall soon follow, and which shall not have
wholly passed before the summer begins
to wane.

Pennsyl-
vania

AN ENGAGING LITTLE GROUP OF UNUSUAL SUMMER FLOWERS FOR THE GREENHOUSE, AND QUITE EASY TO GROW

Lo: gloriosas are odd,
but handsome, plants
which deserve to be better
known and more generally
cultivated. The blooming
period extends from early
summer through the fall,
according to the species
and time of starting into
growth, and well grown
specimens will have an
abundance of flowers, one
being produced in the
axil of each leaf. They
differ from most odd plants
in that they are attractive
and their interest is not
for the specialist alone. In
appearance the flowers
greatly resemble some of
the liliums, but the six
segments of the perianth
(petals) are reflexed like
the cyclamen. The plants
differ from the lilies in
having a climbing habit.
They make a weak growth
and the long narrow leaves
have tendril-like prolonga-
tions with which they
cling for support. The
flowers are borne singly
in the axils of the leaves,
on stems several inches
long, are red or yellow in
color, and vary in size
from four to eight inches
across, according to the
species. Thebest flowers |
are produced when the |
plants are grown in a
bright, sunny place.

If you have a greenhouse try this climbing lily, Gloriosa superba, The flowers are red, shaded

yellow towards the centre

The oldest and_ best
known is Gloriosa superba.
It will grow five feet or
more in height. The seg-
ments of the flowers are
three to four inches long,
much reflexed, and the
edges of the segments un-
dulated or crinkled. When
the flowers first open the
lower half of the segment
is yellow, the balance
bright red with yellow
margins; with age the yel-
low merges into red. It
flowers in the fall.

Although not as attrac-
tive as superba, Gloriosa
simplex (also known as G.
virescens, and G. Plantii)
is worth growing because
it flowers in early summer.
The flowers open yellow,
but with exposure to the
sun, turn to a deep yel-
low-red. The edges of the
petals are less undulated,
and the entire flower is
smaller, while the plant
grows at least four feet
high.

There is a variety of
this species, G. simplex,
var. grandiflora, with flow-
ers much larger than the
type (eight inches across).
This variety is frequently
sold as G. superba, or
G. simplex, according to
whether or not the seg-
ments are much crinkled.

The latest introduction

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and the most beautiful of all is G. Rothsch-
ildiana, rich ruby-crimson and gently un-
dulated. When the flowers first open they
are considerably reflexed, but with age
broaden out becoming horizontal or de-
curved. The only specimen I have ever seen
of this species was about four feet in height,
and the flowersabout fourinches in diameter.

Among the more recent importations
there have been many bulbs of Rothschil-
diana which vary from the type. They
have more or less yellow marked flowers.
Some have varied sufficiently to warrant
the botanists’ naming them var. citrina.
The flowers of this variety open a clear
citron yellow with a feather-like band of
deep claret color up the middle of the seg-
ment. As the flowers age, the yellow color
suffuses into the claret color until the whole
segment becomes tinted. This citron-
yellow is very distinct from the more or
less buff tinted yellow of superba and other
species. Rothschildiana and its varieties
will succeed in a somewhat lower tem-
perature than the other gloriosas and would
likely make an excellent plant for the win-
dow garden.

Similar to the last, but not nearly so
handsome, is G. Carsoni, about six feet
high with flowers four inches across of a
brownish red color, each segment having a
narrow margin of golden yellow.

The climbing lilies are easy to grow.

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They require a warm place —a night
temperature of 65 or 75 degrees. The
tubers are planted in the early part of the
year — January to March. When starting
the bulbs plant them in small pots; use
ample drainage. Ample drainage in both
pot and soil is important. Use a good
sandy fibrous loam; one made of one part
sand, three parts fibrous compost, and a
little charcoal will give good results. Over
the drainage put some of the coarser part
of the compost, then put in the tuber sur-
rounding it with a little sand, and finish
by filling the pot with soil, leaving sufficient
space at the top for watering.

Place the newly potted tubers in a warm
or stove house and water sparingly with
tepid water until growth shows above the
ground. Growth once having commenced
water copiously, preferably with tepid
water. When the plants have filled the
pots with roots they must be shifted to the
pots in which they will flower; a six- or
seven-inch pot is ample for one bulb the
first year. Use the same kind of soil as
they were started in. Be very careful not
to injure the roots when making the shift,
for they are brittle and resent injury. For
this reason some growers prefer to pot the
tubers at the time of starting in the pots
in which they are to flower. When the
plants have filled the pots with roots give
them a watering once a week with a weak

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solution of liquid fertilizer — cow manure
is best.

Once the plants have commenced to
make growth supports must be provided.
Bamboo, or other light stakes will do, or
if the plants are where strings can be used,
they will serve just as well.

The growth of the plants must not be
checked at any time, for if anything
happens to the stem, it will be fatal to
the current year’s success.

After the plants are through blooming,
grow them with the same care that has
been given previously, because the health
of the plant from that time on will de-
termine next year’s success. When the
leaves begin to show that growth is complete
— by turning yellow — and the tubers are
commencing to ripen, gradually withold the
water until they have been dried off.

During the winter keep them in a warm
dry place (60 degrees), and where cold
draughts do not strike.

When the plants are started into growth
again the soil can be shaken out from among
the tubers and the tubers re-potted in such
soil. One grower contents himself with
taking off the surface soil in each pot and
replacing it with fresh compost.

Seed is freely produced and the seeds
are easy to grow. Sow thinly in pots and
plunge the pots in a propagating bench
where they can have a little bottom heat.

The Annuals Best for Bedding—By Adolph Kruhm, os

A DOZEN POPULAR AND EASILY GROWN KINDS THAT BEST FULFIL THE

NEEDS

OF A BEDDING PLANT. NOW IS THE TIME FOR YOU TO MAKE COMPARISONS

Ee us understand clearly at the start
what is meant by “Annuals for
Bedding.” Flower beds are of two dis-
tinct types — the tall, massive kind and
the low growing “carpet” bed. In either
case, the object is to produce a picture with
flowers or contrasting foliage.

Those flowers, which are by their nature,
adapted to the forming of either kind of bed,
must necessarily possess certain character-
istics In common.

Every flower bed must be built accord-
ing to the laws of design or it is not
harmonious. The same _ principle that
underlies the building of a landscape, is
found in every pleasing flower bed and the
reason why some flower beds are more
pleasing than others is that the builder
used plants, the growth of which con-
formed with the laws of design.

These facts make it necessary to study
the flowers intimately. Not only should
the planter know all about their habit of
growth and the colors of their flowers;
but the length of their blooming season and
its well defined limits deserve serious study.
In order of their importance I like to put
down the following points, which are cs-
sential in every flower suitable for bedding:
(1) Symmetry of growth; (2) Harmoniously
blending colors; (3) Length of bloom-

ing season; (4) Well-defined blooming
season; (5) Good assortment of colors in
the same class; (6) Different types, as to
height, in the same class; (7) Ease of trans-
planting after the flowers show color.

It is surprising to find, after the “sifting
down” process, how few among hundreds of
annuals really possess all these character-
istics in a greater or lesser degree. Indeed,
it would be difficult to pick out from
among the easily grown flowers, another

Dwarf French marigold or tagetes, is very satisfactory
for edging when yellow is available

dozen sorts that would create the same
degree of satisfaction in the amateur’s
work. The one great feature in connec-
tion with all the annuals named below is
that they actually grow easier than grass
seed. All (except Ageratum and Petunia)
have a coarse seed; all have a strong
vitality, inducing quick and even ger-
mination; and all are so rugged that
frequently weeds born among them have
a slim chance for existence. These annuals
will grow in any soil, even the poorest,
and by actual test, some, like Alyssum,
Phlox and Portulaca, will bloom more
freely on thin soil than on rich soil.

It will be noted that the number of “tall”
annuals, suitable for centre of beds, is
sadly deficient. There are good reasons for
this. Short lived plants, like annuals,
cannot be expected to grow very tall.
Those that do, are, by their nature of
growth, unfit for bedding. Most {tall
annuals are so on account of their flower
stems; and the bare stems, extending above
the low foliage, do not look well in the
formation of beds. On the other hand,
balsams, which grow very symmetrically
and “bushy,” so completely hide their
colors under an abundance of foliage that
they really can only be considered where
green foliage effect is desired.

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A (3 in doe

Zinnias are most easily grown almost anywhere.
Come in very many colors

AGERATUM is the most easily grown, blue
dwarf bedding flower in cultivation. It is
nearly ideal, as all the points mentioned
above are found in it. It contains sorts of
various heights, all of which are of soft,
harmonious colors that “blend” well with
nearly all colors. A. Mexicanum is the
parent type, growing about a foot tall. It
comes in lavender, blue and white. Blue
Perfection grows not over nine inches tall
and its deep blue, tassel-shaped flowers are
borne in semi-round clusters, which trans-
form the plants into symmetrical half
globes. Little Blue Star averages five inches
tall and is ideal for edging and for very
dwarf borders. Combine it with Alyssum
Benthami, var. procumbens, Carpet of
Snow —and you have a beautiful, low
carpet bed that will find much favorable
attention.

ALYSSUM is in a class of its own in con-
nection with bedding. In addition to all
the essential points, it will stand trimming
and if toward the end of the first blooming
period, you will cut off the flower spikes,
it will make a new growth and bear another
crop of bloom. Nor is that all. Seeds
form at the lower end of the spikes while
the tips are still in full bloom. These
seeds drop, promptly start to grow and give
a rapid succession of seedlings which
furnish sweet alyssum flowers until hard
frost. Alyssum maritimum is the common
form that everybody knows. It self sows
freely, the seeds are very hardy, and it will
thrive on the same spot for years without
any attention. Height, nine inches.
Alyssum compactum, var. Little Gem grows
about six inches tall and is of decidedly
compact growth. When you plan a bed
within well defined limits, this is the one
to use. Carpet of Snow is a little beauty.
Not over four inches tall, the plants spread
considerably, each “‘carpeting” in time, a
square foot. All alyssums are most de-
pendable and faithful bedding annuals.

ASTERS are principally grown for cutting.

THE

However some of the dwarfer kinds make
excellent bedding plants. Foremost among
these are the Queen of the Market
types, which are of compact growth, not
over eight inches tall, and so free-flowering
that each plant is transformed into a
miniature pillar of color. Dwarf Pyra-
midal Bouquet, Shakespeare, Waldersee
and the dwarf types of Comet aster are
all ideal bedding plants according to the
definitions offered above. No other annuals
equal these for the massive effect obtained
with even a limited number of plants and
they bloom faithfully during their season.
Asters are the exception to the statement
made in the introduction as to the soil.
They must have rich soil to do their best
and great care should be exercised to grow
them without permitting their growth to
be checked at any time. Read Mr. G.
W. Kerr’s article in April GARDEN MaGa-
ZINE. It cannot be improved upon.

CANDYTUFT is not unlike sweet alyssum
in its character of growth and may there-
fore be used in the same manner. It
goes alyssum one better in having an
assortment of colors. Dwarf Hybrids,
six inches tall, and the common type,
eight to twelve inches tall put at the
planter’s disposal a good choice of height.
However, candytuft has one drawback
which should be emphasized with fairness
to the planter —It must always have
sufficient moisture, either a natural supply
or by irrigation or by the middle of July
the plants will be a disappointment. No
other annual I have ever studied ‘‘burns
up” as easily and its dry stalks present a
sad sight in the flower garden. Successive
sowings and abundant irrigation will over-
come this deficiency, however. Candytuft
comes in some unique carmine, purple, and
lilac shades, not possessed by other plants
of like character.

DimorPHOTHECA or Golden Orange Daisy
is apt to earn me the title of a repeater
(See April issue). But any one familiar
with the merits of this unique annual will
agree with me that it is one of the finest
“bedders” in cultivation to-day. Its com-
pact growing plants average a foot high
by a foot across. The unique light yellow-
ish green foliage contrasts handsomely
with the brilliant orange flowers and for
duration of bloom, even under trying con-
ditions, it is in a class of its own. Try
two dozen plants (from a ten cent packet),
surrounded bya single rowof sweet alyssum,
in a round bed with full exposure to the
sun.

EscuscuorziA or California poppy is the
brightest yellow annual in the collection.
Plants are of compact, symmetrical growth,
not over twelve inches tall. The delicate
feathery bluish-green foliage contrasts
handsomely with the bright yellow or
orange flowers which do not extend very
high above the foliage. It is one of those
flowers that never tires the eye and its
faithfulness in blooming should cause it
to be a great deal more popular than it is
at present. Burbank’s New Crimson is of
unique color and comes true, which cannot

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Drummond phlox grows rapidly and flowers freely.
Keep in masses

be said of the latest introductions in this
class.

MarIGOLps contain extremely tall and
very dwarf types. The best of the tall
types are found among the African mari-
golds, in Lemon Queen, Orange Prince,

Eldorado, etc. The dwarfer sorts are
mostly French Marigolds (also called
Tagetes). A most pleasing combination

is suggested in a solid bed of Orange Prince
marigold, surrounded by a border of
Legion of Honor or Little Brownie tagetes.
Here we have an ideal combination in
color, season of blooming, relation of heights
and uniform length of blooming season.
Little Brownie is an ideal little border
plant in connection with any plants, the
colors of which blend well with yellow and
dark red. Become acquainted with this
little 6-inch annual; it is adapted to many
uses in the garden.

PETUNIAS would be better appreciated
and more extensively grown if nature
had provided coarser seeds. It seems that
this feature is responsible for the fact that
these otherwise ideal annual plants are not
found in more gardens. The almost dust-
like seeds should be sown on the top of
the ground and covered very sparingly.
Water carefully and, after your seedling
plants are transplanted, they will thrive
and bloom like weeds. For bedding, the
single sorts are my preference, because of
their luxuriant foliage and freedom of
bloom. Howard Star, Baby Blue, Countess
of Ellesmere and sorts of a like character
are easily grown and are ideal for informal
beds. Do not attempt to curb the growth
of petunias or to restrict them to certain
limits. For best results let them make a
rampant growth and do not mix them with
other flowers.

DrumMonp Putiox is the one annual
next to sweet peas and nasturtiums that
everybody should know and grow. Only
one feature is lacking to make it an ideal
all-round flower — it is devoid of fragrance.
But nobody cares particularly for this in a
bedding flower and as such, phloxes have
no rivals. From the small 4-inch Cecily

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phlox to the 12-inch Drummondi grandi-
flora we find a multitude of good points,
such as few other flowers can boast.
Easily started in any soil, rapidly growing
and free blooming. Sown in masses, or
in ribbon beds, phlox is equally showy,
and if water is supplied during dry seasons,
it blooms a long time. There is a splendid
assortment of firmly fixed colors on hand.
From pure white and delicate mauve to
bright rose and vivid crimson, we have
in phlox a collection of colors found in few
annuals. Three distinct types furnish
plants for nearly all bedding purposes —
carpet bedding, semi-dwarf borders and
foot-tall beds. Dwarf Cecily phlox grows
four inches tall. Next come the dwarf
grandiflora types, six to eight inches high,
with nearly as complete an assortment of
firmly fixed colors as the Drummondi
grandiflora which averages a foot tall.
Let phloxes grow in a solid row — don’t
thin them out and don’t transplant
them.

PorTULACA is included in this assortment
for two reasons —it is invaluable for dry
sandy soils where few other flowers will
thrive and they will furnish a fine under-
growth for taller growing plants, covering
the soil with a carpet-like mass of glossy
bluish green foliage. For rock gardens
with poor soil, for sunny slopes or hot
exposed situations, it is one of the most
appreciative flowers | know. Plants spread
considerably, growing as large as three feet
across, but never more than six inches high.
The many dazzling colors in both single
and double varieties will create a cheerful
spot in even the dreariest situations.

VERBENAS are so easily grown from seeds
and adaptable to so many purposes that
it is a wonder more people don’t grow them

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Verbenas are better from seeds than from cuttings.
The dark green foliage makes a rich green carpet

Perhaps the florists are to blame for this
because as soon as florists handle plants of
of a certain type, the good public believes
them “‘hard to grow.” Nothing is more
erroneous than this in connection with
verbenas. The facts are that they are
not only grown more easily than many
vegetables, but the plants you raise from
seeds will bloom more freely and longer than
those propagated by florists from cuttings.
Each plant, in time, will carpet a space

Juty, 1912

three to four feet square. The beautiful
dark green foliage will completely hide the
soil, displaying to best advantage the mag-
nificent flower umbels which average three
inches across. Mayflower is a particularly
fine sort with delicate fragrance. A dozen
or more kinds of Verbena Hybrida offer
a complete assortment of colors.

ZINNIAS are considered rather “coarse”
flowers by many. But zinnias have a
mission — they grow nearly anywhere for
anybody. When you begin to study the
sturdy plants, their substantial foliage
and strong symmetrical growth, you will
begin to like them — more for their de-
pendability and faithfulness than for any
other reason. The newer sorts show splen-
didly contrasting colors which are well
fixed. Some of them have unique curled
petals, not unlike a cactus dahlia, zinnias
also are procurable in three heights — like
marigolds. The Dwarf Miniature averages
four inches tall; the Compacta varieties
twelve inches — the tall sorts as high as
three feet on good garden soil.

Here are a few practical combinations
for flower beds of annuals:

Tall crimson zinnias for centre of round
bed or background of ribbon bed, rows 18
inches apart, 12 inches between plants,
surrounded with row of Eschscholzias and
bordered with Empress candytuft.

Orange Prince marigolds for centre or
background, surrounded by row of com-
pact white zinnias, bordered with Dimor-
photheca. All rows 12 to 18 inches apart,
8 to 12 inches between the plants.

Verbenas in solid color for dwarf ribbon
bed, plants 12 inches apart each way. When
well established, border bed with mixed
Phlox Drummondi, var. compacta. Water
frequently.

Twelve Annuals Best for Bedding

HEIGHT
DEPTH OF

COMMON NAME TRANSPLANT INCHES
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BLOOM-

BLOOMING

SEASON SOWN CHARACTER OF

SIZE OF BLOOM

COLOR SUGGESTIONS FOR PRACTICAL USE

White, blue, rose, | Use for carpeting

lavender
White Ideal border plant
Complete collec- | Use in solid beds and border
tion with contrasting colors.

Good assortment | Border plant

Orange and light | Use in solid beds

hybrids

Yellow, white, and} Ribbon beds or broadcast
several shades
of red

Good assortment | Dwarf for borders; tall for
in yellow beds

White, blue, | Informal beds
striped

Complete collec- | Ribbon beds and borders
tion

Good assortment | Rock gardens and beds

Complete collec- | Informal beds
tion :
All colors Dwarf for borders; tall for

SEEDS a ING oe PLANT (p
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(INCHES)
Ageratum °F 6 5-18 | July tofrost | Upright and | 1-2; umbels
compact
Alyssum q Grow in solid 3-12 | Endof June | Spreading 2-3; trusses
TOW to frost
Aster, dwarf = 6-8 6-12 | Aug. to frost | Upright and | 2-3; flowers
compact
Candytuft z Grow in solid 6-12 | End of June | Spreading 3-5; trusses
TOW to frost
Orange daisy a IO-12 July to frost | Spreading foli- | 2-25 diameter
age; flowers
upright
Eschscholzia a 6 July to frost | Spreading 2 diameter
Marigold 5 According to | 6-36 | July to frost | Upright 13-4; flowers
var. 4-18 }
Petunia eae 12 10-18 | Aug. to frost | Creeping 2-3 diameter
Phlox (Drummond) ri Grow in solid | 4-12 | End of June | Spreading > flowers on
row to end of 3’ umbels
August
Portulaca ie 6 Aug. to frost | Creeping 1-13; flowers
Verbena = 10-12 8-10 | Aug. to frost | Creeping 3; umbels
Zinnia z According to | 4-36 | Aug. to frost | Upright 13-3; flowers
var. 4-24

beds

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CoNDUCTED BY ELLEN Eppy SHAW

A Boy’s Garden Experience

I BEGAN work for my garden by sowing
tomato seed in window boxes the
eighteenth of April, transplanting them
twice in the house. The third time I set
them out-of-doors in a coldframe. I had
nine dozen at the time of setting out, so
I thinned out all the weakly ones each
time I transplanted. Later on I sold
seven dozen at fifteen cents a dozen. Al-
though my plants were smaller than usual
they were very thick and stocky. I moved
one dozen to my home vegetable garden
and the other dozen I left in the coldframe
My regular home garden is 40 feet wide and
65 feetlong. Ihave another strip 15 x 81 ft.,
which I have not had good success with so
far. The land is poor and partly shaded.
The first year — 1909 — the earth was full
of cutworms. In setting out one tomato
plant I dug up 300 and then gave up the
count, but not for lack of worms. My
early peas were all that amounted to
anything. Last year I laid that garden
down to oats. This year my father
helped me plow it and I planted the upper
end as follows, rows running the width of
my garden: Peas, 6 rows; beets, 4 rows;
lettuce, 4 rows; radishes, 2 rows.

Everything was very late in coming up.
But the peas blossomed as early as any in
town and the beets came up evenly. The
lettuce I had to water. When the dry
weather came on everything burned brown.
I was sorry to lose the early peas and beet
greens. But I plowed again and laid down
to Hungarian grass. It came up thicker
and taller in the upper end of garden
where I had put phosphate for the vege-
tables, I mowed it by hand and got it in.
I think of seeding that garden dowh and
not planting it again.

My father helped me plow my home
garden and furrow it out. He also set
most of the bean poles as mine were on
too much of a slant. He put in one row
of peas, and later, part of the beans.

I put in 50 hills of pole beans, 4 rows of
peas, 13 rows lima beans, 40 hills of blue

THE

sweet corn, 13 hills Squantum sweet corn.
Set out one dozen tomato plants and in a
vacant space I planted parsnip seed but
that is the last I saw of it. I had a good
crop of weeds in that spot while waiting
for the parsnips to come up.

Seeds from a hard shell winter Hubbard
squash by mistake came up too thickly,
and as my peas had gone by my mother
suggested setting those young squash
plants along the row. We transplanted
all but three of them when they had but
two leaves. Those transplanted soon
caught up with the others and went way
ahead of them. The squash bugs did not
appear until quite late, but they made
things lively for me when they did come.
I found the surest way was hand picking
and cutting out pieces from the leaves
which showed signs of eggs.

The garden is just at the rear of the house,
and when the hot July weather came I
tapped the water pipe which entered the
kitchen up one story and ran three sections
of iron pipe out to my garden on a wooden
support. _Every few days I would hitch
on the garden hose and sprinkle for about
an hour very often my father would water
while I would work around the house. I
helped with the plowing and planting of my
father’s mill garden. I had twenty bushels
of corn. The Southern corn went up 12
feet but the ears did not get ripe. I
weeded and hoed some after school but
most of it was done by my father and the
mill help at dull times. When the hot
wave struck us, they gave up the garden
and I went in to see what I could do at
irrigation. While the mill was running I
could have all the water I wanted pro-
viding I could get it to the garden, so with
my father’s help I ran a couple of lengths
of 3-inch iron pipe from the fire pump under
the mill to the back and so out to the garden,
then two lengths of 2-inch pipe which
reached to the upper end of garden. To
this end I fastened a T which gave me two
outlets for an inch and a quarter pipe.
One led to middle of garden, the other to
middle of upper end. I would start the
water and as fast as one furrow filled, I
would bank the end and turn it in the next,
and so down the length of the garden.
Another year I hope to rig up something a
little better. PRrovoost THOMPSON.

West Groton, Mass.

The Garden in July

ie EARLY July make plantings of beans,
carrots, lettuce, and radish. Keep in
mind that Black Seeded Simpson is a very
good kind of lettuce for mid-summer
sowings.

If the garden plants become infested
with black aphis, spray the plants with
some one of the special remedies offered
in the stores—they all have tobacco
juice as the base.

Transplant into the wild flower garden
butter-and-eggs, tall bellflower, loosestrife,
and black-eyed Susan. ;

Keep constantly stirring the soil. The

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367

loose coating of dust thus formed prevents
the escape of moisture from the soil.

Begin to make up your records for THE
GARDEN MAGAZINE contest. We would
like to know just how much your garden
cost. Keep a careful record of each
item. If your garden cost forty cents,
what have you received from the garden
for that forty cents? Estimate the worth
of the garden. Get the regular market
prices and it is easy then to do the sum.
Write us a little story on what one can get
out of the soil for a certain sum. Take
some really good pictures of your garden.
The pictures should show some definite
thing. A picture should tell a story — we
don’t want pictures of yourself and your
relatives, but pictures of the things you
have grown.

Make cuttings of heliotrope and ver-
bena. Always break off all leaves except
the two or three terminal ones. Save
work for the young plants in this way.

An experiment worth trying is to see if
you can successfully transplant evergreens,
Evergreens are very hard to take from their
surroundings and put into new ones. Take
a piece of sacking into the woods with you.
Select the little tree you wish to move and
thoroughly moisten the soil about the tree
before commencing to dig. Dig it up with
great care, keeping a good ball of earth
around the roots. Tie the roots and ball
of earth in the piece of burlap. Get home
as fast as possible and set the tree in its
new quarters. If you measure the hole
from which the tree came you will then
know the exact size of the new quarters.
For tree roots must not be cramped.
Water the hole in which the tree is to go.
Put the tree in the hole carefully, without
disturbing the roots or the “ball.” Put
some very rich soil all about and over the
roots. Pack this in with your hands to
be sure you have made good contact be-
tween soil and roots. Fill in the hole with
soil and water freely. Do not let the
little tree get dried out during its first
days in strange quarters.

Begin now to make cuttings of geran-
iums. Take a geranium which has many
branches. From the tip of a branch
measure down about six inches. Make
a slantwise cut through or just be-
low a node (where the leaf joizs the
branch).

After the cut is made take the new geran-
ium plant-to-be in your hand and pick
off from it all but its two terminal leaves.
Now the cutting is ready to plant. Make
a little sandy cutting-bed in a sheltered
spot and plant the geranium cuttings
there. Keep the bed quite moist. After
the cuttings have taken root pot them
into three-inch pots. If you notice any
color in the terminal bud between those
two leaves you left on, then pinch the bud
right off. Do not let the little cutting
waste its energy blossoming too soon. It
should be busily at work making roots.
Later in the winter it will blossom as it
should. Why not pot up some extra ones
for the school?

368

Won’t You Write To Us?

E HAVE received the following letter from

one of our friends, which we believe will
interest every rose grower, and even those gar-
deners who have but just started their garden and
are not yet in the “‘rose-growing class.”’ For some
time we have been contemplating the possibility
of a department in THE GARDEN MaGazINeE where
rose lovers might relate their experiences, and this
letter encourages us to hope that this summer we
may hear from many of our friends who have been
either successful or unsuccessful with their roses.
Tell us about the behavior of varieties, etc.—
Tue Epitors.

To THE EpITor:

Cannot you let us have, in an early number of THE GARDEN
MaGaZIneE, a2 “symposium” of some kind contributed to by
rose growers and owners of rose gardens? Inasmuch as many
people do not receive all the catalogues and keep themselves
posted on the qualities of the new roses, do you not think it
would be interesting and valuable to collect from the different
sections of the country the opinions of many growers and the
rose lists of what they consider their choicest varieties, and why?
For instance, a list could be requested of say the six best roses
for cutting and the six best roses for garden decoration, given
in order of excellence or choice, each to be followed by the
reason or by a brief summary of its points of excellence. Pos-
sibly the kinds ought to be divided, asking for a list of the best
six or twelve Hybrid Perpetuals, Hybrid Teas and Teas, but
as the Hybrid Tea class is now becoming so large and popular
it might need a larger proportion of the whole, and the Tea class
is now so small that it might not need as many as the others.

When I first began raising roses I had to find out by experi-
ence just what to do. I did not know that pruning should not
be attempted without knowing first the requirements of each
particular variety; I pruned a Soliel D’Or down close and got
no flowers at all that season. I have learned, from reading,
that the La France rose does not do well in rich soil, should
not be pruned hard, and that by moving it into poor soil and
neglecting it, one will get exhibition blooms. On the other
hand, Prince Camille de Rohan, Belle Siebrecht, and some others
require very hard pruning and very rich soil. Of course, many
people plant roses without labeling them or keeping any record
of where the different varieties are planted, but there are others
who do keep tab on their roses and would appreciate any in-
formation given. Nearly everybody who prunes roses at all
goes through the lot pruning them all alike, and as a conse-
quence get no roses from many of the bushes. Cannot you do
something to stir up THE GARDEN MAGAZINE readers and get
them to write of their rose experiences?

Pennsylvania. HACoR:

Beginning A Rose Garden

N EXPERT knowledge I was a novice when I

set for myself the task of making a rose garden

at my new home in the suburbs of New York.

But in my love for roses I was an old hand — which
may be the reason I have succeeded rather well.

To begin with, I sent for a catalogue of the
Southern nursery which my mother used to regard
as the source and inspiration of all floral lore.
With no thought of caution and little discrimina-
tion, I seized at every bargain bait offered in those
pages. Sixteen for a dollar; I ordered recklessly!
It did not occur to me, until the little rose bushes
arrived a week later, that I had spent $26.

Having known only the roses thriving in the
South, I made many mistakes; only a few of the
varieties from the nursery were suitable for the
Northern climate. Maréchal Niel, Catherine
Mermet, My Maryland, Safrano, Isabella Sprunt,
Maman Cochet, Etoile de France, and the fragrant
tea roses were set out in the spring and blossomed
part of the summer, but faded in the autumn and
died before winter was half begun. The others
— Cloth of Gold, Cherokee, The Bride, and the
Bridesmaid — did not bloom at all; their leaves

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were green and fresh-looking until late fall, but
then they, too, went into a decline.

I knew enough to realize my initial mistakes,
and the autumn was not far gone before I started
to plan for hardy roses that would flourish in spite

ofthecold. I proceeded slowly, asking questions of
the experts roundabout, and having bought Holland
stock, I planted. While my springtime setting-
out had been haphazard, I now ranged the rows
(I had altogether 127 bushes) with mathematical
precision. And the holes into which I plunged
them were dug toa depth of eighteen inches or more.
The locally bought bushes were on wild stock,
whereas the southern nursery roses had been on
their own roots. Strong stock is the secret of
carrying a rose bush through the winter, but one
must be careful to dig holes deep enough to cover
up the wild stems; otherwise they will send out
suckers and the roses will in time become as wild
as the root bases.

After my strong bushes were all in the ground, I
kept them well watered until the last of the warm
days were past. Then I heaped fertilizer and hay
and leaves around each bush, until only the top
showed and they went through the winter — once
the mercury dropped to eleven degrees below the
zero mark — without mishap.

In my garden I now have Frau Karl Druschki,
white; Mrs. John Lang, deep pink; Carolin
Testout, silvery pink; Clio, flesh pink; Gloire de
Dijon, creamy yellow, the tea rose Souvenir de
Pierre Notting; American Beauty; crimson Hugh
Dickson; and, daintiest of them all, the pink
Killarney. I am wondering if, after all, my older
and less-hardened friends from the South could
possibly have been any more beautiful than these.

New Jersey. Francis M. GRAVEs.

Labels for Rose Bushes

REMEMBER reading, some time ago, a sug-

gestion for an imperishable label for rose b::shes.
The author stated that he procured from a linotype
operator cast lines of metal type containing the
names of his roses, and after drilling holes in one
end, wired them on. But as these would be rather
hard to read, owing to the fact that the letters are
reversed, I think the idea of a friend of mine still
better. He makes his labels with an addressing
machine, using the metal plates that feed into the
machine and make the dies for addressing envelopes.
As these letters are indented they are more easily
read than if reversed; and as three lines may be
printed on each plate, other information may be
recorded, such as when the bushes were planted,

How much easier to read is the upper label made of
aluminum with cut-in letters

MAGAZINE

JULY, 1912

from whom purchased, whether own root or budded,
pruning directions, etc. This label has another
advantage over the cast line of type in being thinner,
so that the hole for inserting the wire is easily made.

But better than any other so-called imperishable
label that I have ever seen is one that I make for
labeling my own rose bushes. I get sheet aluminum
cut into narrow strips and shortened to suitable
lengths, and cut the names into the soft metal with
a set of steel letters such as are used by mechanics
to mark their tools. The work is exacting and
somewhat tedious, as each letter has to be ham-
mered separately, but these labels are well worth
the pains to make them; the aluminum always
stays bright. and when the sunken letters fill with
dirt the label becomes the easier to read because
of the contrast.

Pennsylvania. H. G. READING.

Mildew on Roses

Rss mildew is a fungus that grows on the
outside of the rose leaves. There are usually
two periods of infection —soon after the spring
growth of the bushes, usually a very light attack,
and the spring rains wash many of the fungus spores
to the ground where they die in a few days. But
the second and principal attack is usually in the
latter part of June, succeeding the June bloom,
and in July and August. The vitality of the rose
bushes is then comparatively °

weak and the disease makes
great headway.

Ii there is any evidence of
mildew being present in the gar-
den, spray the
bushes at least
every four days.
If it rains and the
spray is washed
from the leaves,
repeat the spray- °
ing immediately. Probably
the best spray for the purpose
is liver of sulphur (potassium
sulphide). Early in the season use
one ounce of liver of sulphur to
three or four gallons of water.
Later on, when the leaves are more
developed, use one ounce to two
gallons of water. Add a small
quantity of liquid
glue or else the
whites of two
eggs to the spray
sothatit willstick
to the leaves.

Another rem-
edy is two parts
of flowers of sul-
phur mixed with
one part of pow-
dered slacked lime. Have the sulphur and lime as
fine as possible; place them in a cheesecloth bag
and shake the powder over the mildewed leaves
early in the morning.

If you have only a small number of rose bushes,
rub the affected leaves between the finger and
thumb, thus crushing the mildew germs inside the
leaf. This crushing should, of course, be done
gently so as not to destroy the tissue of the leaves.

In the fall, gather and burn all refuse in the rose
garden so as to destroy any mildew spores which
may have dropped to the ground. In midwinter
and before any of the leaves are formed, every
bush which was affected with mildew the previous
summer should be sprayed with a solution of one
ounce of sulphate of copper, commonly known as
blue vitriol, dissolved in one gallon of water, or
with bordeaux mixture. Bordeaux gives a whitish
appearance to the bush, and if used after the bush
starts to grow it will damage the young leaves.
Also spray the ground and cut off all wood showing
any trace of the mildew fungus.

While all varieties are not equally subject to
mildew, some are particularly susceptible toit. The
Crimson Rambler, for instance, the old rose, Giant
of Battles — of a very beautiful shade of red but
discarded on account of its tendency to mildew —
Her Majesty, and Killarney.

Oregon. FREDERICK V. HOLMAN.

What a Massachusetts corres-
pondent, L. J. Doogue, has to
say about standard roses.

Tony, 19)

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How Transplanting Improves a
Plant

[t HAD long been a common practice among plant
growers to prick out young seedlings into flats
when they were from two to three weeks old and
possibly again about three weeks later before they
were set in the field. Some of the gardeners about
the city, who made it a business of growing cabbage,
tomato and celery plants for sale, claimed that
those plants which
had been _ trans-
planted once or
twice before setting
were much better
plants and, asit took
more labor to handle
them in this way.
they demanded $2
to $3 per thousand
for them. Other
gardeners claimed
that there was noth-
ing in it and grew
their young plants
entirely where the
seed was sown and
so were able to re-
alize a good profit
by selling at from $z
to $1.50 per thou-
sand. Transplanted twice; yield, 9.89

This caused a con- tons an acre
siderable amount of ass
discussion. Neither side had any actual data to
prove its beliefs in regard to the matter and, since it
was of far more importance to the growers of these
various crops, I decided last season to carry out a
test to determine the effect of each of these
methods of starting young tomato plants upon the
earliness of bearing and the yielding powers. The
variety grown was Greater Baltimore.

The plants were started in a hotbed and handled
as indicated in the following table:

SOWED IN

PLOT NO. HOTBED TRANSPLANTED SET IN FIELD
I March 25 : May 21
2 “ce a“ April 8 ae “
3 Ww us April 8 to 29 a

Those in plot No. r were left in the hotbed where
they were sown :

until they were
set in the field.
Those in plots
2 and 3 were
transplanted
into gardeners’
flats and placed
back in the bed
for a week and
then put in
coldframes.
Here they were
hardened off
thoroughly be-
fore setting in
the field by en-
tirely removing
the sash. The
condition of
these! plants
started in the
three ways at Transplanted once; yield, 8.38 tons
the time they an acre

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“Ten thousand saw I at a glance
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.”’

The Readers’ Service will give
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Save Money on Your
Fall Bulbs by Ordering Now
All orders for Fall Bulbs placed with us before

July 30th, we will boo

You will surely want some of
the charming Narcissi poeticus
(Pheasant’s Eye, or Poet’s Nar-
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k at import prices.

Special advance order import
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Narcissus are as follows:

100 for 75c. 250 for $1.75

500 for $3.00 1,000 for $5.75

It’s quite the most popular and
beautiful variety for naturalizing
in the woodlands and borders of
the wild garden. They are very
hardy, and multiply rapidly.

5,000 for $27.50 10,000 for $50.00
Other fall bulb prices in pro-
portion. Write us your list of
wants and we will give you com-
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Be sure your name is on our list for the fall Garden Guide.
It will be mailed to you free, the middle of August.

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CHERRIES, 2 yr. old at $7.00 per 100
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For information regarding railroad and steam-
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MOTHS OF THE
LIMBERLOST

Pese is no portion of the country which has been made more familiar to hundreds
of thousands of readers than the Limberlost Swamp, that woodland and marsh
which has been the setting of Mrs. Porter’s wonderful novels, ‘‘Freckles,” “A Girl of the
Limberlost,” and “The Harvester.”

It is about this very bit of Indiana that Mrs. Porter has written her new book, “Moths
of the Limberlost,”’ and it is the mest unusual and interesting nature book ever imagined.
It is a story of the “Moths” of the Limberlost which every reader of “A Girl of the
Limberlost” will remember. Mrs. Porter pictures and describes the moths hunted by Elnora, and
in many of the chapters there specimens. Fully half the book is
are the landscapes over which she of birds, flowers and the out-doors,
hunted, much of the swamp, and described and pictured as only the
the very bridge under which she author knows how.
was working to cut loose a cocoon One feature is notable. Almost
when Philip came up the stream, all books on these subjects are
fishing. There is also the log z ‘ illustrated by reproductions of
cabin in which Elnora lived. The : pinned, shrivelled, unnaturally
text is just scientific enough to ; placed dead moths. Every repro-
give the name and description duction in this book is from living
of each moth, cocoon and cater- moths, posed naturally, in their
pillar; the remainder is a fascina- proper environment, and colored
ting record of personal expe- from life.
riences in finding or raising the 24 beautifully colored illustrations

from original and rare photographs,
and more than 100 in black and
white by the author Net, $2.50.

By Gene Stratton-Porter

By the Same Author

The Harvester

For Six Months among the “Six Best Sellers,’ it led the list
in April (8 months after publication) by more than 100 Points

Now in its Sixth Large Printing
More than 200,000 Copies in Seven Months

In a remarkable review a page and a half long in The Independent, Corra Harris, Author of
“The Circuit Rider’s Wife’ and “The Recording Angel,” thus defines the extraordinary charm of
Mrs. Porter’s book:

“There is not a financier in Wall Street, not an artisan, nor grocerman, nor clerk in any city who reads this
story who will not discover in himself some dim relationship, buried beneath the dry and dead leaves of commer-
cialism, to this medicine man, who lived with his dog in a cabin in the green shade upon the banks of its singing
water. A vacation likeness to be sure, for few men of to-day are sufficiently hardy in mind or body to endure such
an existence longer than three weeks. But that is the fault of our kind of civilization, not of the life portrayed
in ‘‘The Harvester.”

Illustrated in colors. Net, $1.35.

“Freckles” and “A Girl of the Limberlost,” the other mem-
bers of this delightful trio, are selling better to-day than when
they were published six and three years ago, respectively.

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY New York

Garden City

Have You Plenty of Water

In Your House In Your Stable
For Your Lawn In Your Factory ?

In Your Garden

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Juty, 1912

| were set in the field is shown in the illustra-
tions.
At the end of the season we checked up our results
and found them to be as follows:

PLOT NO. METHOD OF HANDLING YIELD PER ACRE
I Transplanted twice
2 Transplanted once
3 Not transplanted

The crop was sold to a
canning factory for $10 per
ton which made the value
of the fruit from the above
test plots respectively
$98.90, $83.80 and $59.50.
‘The plants were set on each
of these plots at a distance
of 5 by 5 feet which made
1742 tothe acre. The cost
of transplanting the plants
was $1 per thousand or
$1.74 extra expense per
acre for those that were
transplanted once, and
$3.48 for those that were
transplanted twice. After
deducting each of these
items from the value of
the crops secured from the
corresponding plots we had
the following figures which
represented the results by
actual test secured from the
plants started and handled _ wot transplanted
in the three different ways: yield, 5.95 tons an acre

Plants hotbed grown, transplanted twice be-

foreysetting. . . 9 0ge) Sees oser cmperssS
Plants hotbed grown, transplanted once be-

for setting’. <3) 2 Sea 82.06 per A.
Plants hotbed grown, not transplanted be-

for setting . CL Ee ek ae 59.50 per A,

The season was rather dry, which probably made
the differences somewhat greater than they would
have been in a wet season. However, the point at
stake was settled quite definitely and we will be
looking for transplanted plants in the future
and will be willing to pay a much higher price

for them.
Indiana. J. S. Boyte.

Staking and Pruning Tomatoes

HE biggest returns are realized from tomato
plants that have been staked and pruned.
Plants so treated throughout the season will excel
in yield any other tomato plants you have ever had.
On an average, each branch will set three clusters
of four large fruits each. We have had thirty-six
fruits of eight ounces each, or eighteen pounds of
fruit, as the average per plant. After you have
learned how to thin out poorly-shaped specimens
early in their development, you may even beat this
record.
This treatment will likewise enable you to set
the plants 2x 2} ft. apart another year, instead

If not, write to our nearest office and let us tell you the cost* of a water supply ready for use. We have had seventy
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Remove all side shoots that develop at the base of the
plants and along the three main stalks

RIDER-ERICSSON ENGINE CO.

Jory, 1912

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convenience.

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$1.50 at your dealer’s

or from us, delivery prepaid.
Worth ten times more than the common
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DOUBLE CLAW HAMMER co.

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“You select the color—we’ll make
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and striking. Original, ‘individual,
artistic, diguified. Pure wool or
camel’s hair, expertly woven at
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Order through your furnisher.

Thread & Thrum Workshop
Auburn, New York

DUTCH BULBS and ROOTS
Direct from Holland: Catalog full of vital facts FREE.
Write to-day to

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American Branch House 140 N. 13th vee: Philadelphia

a
Many Styles LAWW and F- ARM FENCE Low Prices

Cheaper than wood, lasts longer and more ornamental. We sell direct to
users at manufacturers’ prices. Write today for catalog.
The Brown Fence and Wire Co., Dept. 95, Cleveland, Ohio

Fly-Proof

Keep your garbage tightly
shut in—stamp out the worst
breeding place for flies by using

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made of corrugated steel. Close
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hree sizes of each. Look
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the use?

Why bother
to raise so many ‘“ good
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—unless you save them. Your wife can “put
up’ many kinds of fruit. But it isn’t so easy
to “can” vegetables.

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necked, tin-topped, screw-capped jars, that take
in only small fruit. This year find out the
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Don’t allow good garden stuff or fruit “to go to
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Please note—in order to secure free jar this coupon must
be presented to your dealer before Sept. 1st, 1912, with
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of 3 x 3, without detriment to either plant or yield.

| You can grow fifty tomato plants where you

formerly grew thirty, and these fifty will produce
more and better fruits, plant for plant, than the
thirty ever did, grown in the old, easy fashion.

Here is what should be done early in July:

Plants set out the last week in May will be about
two to two and a hali feet tall and will nearly cover
the space between rows ii they are set two and a
half to three feet apart each way. Secure a number
of strong 5-foot stakes (any lumber yard will
furnish fifty oak stakes 5 feet tall and two
inches square, for about $4). Drive one stake
to each plant, setting it eight to ten inches
deep and about four inches away from the base
of the plant.

Get your pocket knife and reduce the number
of branches on each plant to three of the strongest,
cutting away all the rest to within one inch of their
base. Tie the remaining three to the stake with
rafiia or strips of rags. Place the first cord about
six inches above the suriace of the soil, the second
eight inches above that, and so on.

Go over the patch on an average of once a week
and prune and trim. The plant, feeling its growth
curbed in certain directions, attempts to make
up for this by sending out numerous side-shoots
from the main stalk and suckers from the branches.
Trim regularly all shoots that are produced at base
of plant so as to send all the strength of the plant

Cut out all suckers that develop along the branches,
usually at the leaf joints

into the vines and flowers above. Trim all suckers
that develop between leaf-joints on the branches
because they usually thrive at the expense of some
cluster just beyond them.

By August first, the plants, or rather the three
branches, will have reached the tops of the poles.
Then cut out the crown of each branch and throw
all the strength of the plant into the fruits already
set and the clusters in process of forming. After
September first, cut off all flower clusters, for you
cannot possibly hope to get reasonably good-sized
fruits from flowers set after that period. In the
meantime, don’t forget to go over your patch
occasionally and trim all shoots and suckers close
to their base.

With the approach of cool nights, when the days
are getting shorter, it pays to trim the foliage from
around large clusters so as to give the sun a chance
to help color the fruits. Ii you desire to raise
some extra choice clusters for exhibition purposes,
it will pay you to slip some paper bags over them
when they are about half grown. The same
method is employed by grape growers to keep
insects from injuring the fruit.

A few tablespoonsful of nitrate of soda, dissolved
in a bucket of water, will hasten maturity of fruits
later in the season. A quart applied to each plant
at intervals of a week will make a perceptible
difference in the quickness of ripening.

Ohio. ADOLPH KRUHM.

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If your dealer hasn’t them, send for
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The Readers’ Service will give you
suggestions for the care of live-stock

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The Readers’ Service will give you
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JuLny, 1912

seOX IDE of ZINC Paints

THE COUNTRY HOUSE

to justify its owner's pride, must be
properly painted.

The paint that is lasting in sub-
stance and color is

OXIDE OF ZINC PAINT

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A Cultural Color Note on the
Oriental Poppy

N THE latitude of Boston the fresh pale-green
tufts of the Oriental poppy may be discovered
in early April, a heartening and lovely sight as the
last snows of winter vanish before the spring sun.
These have formed in the previous autumn, but
so strong is the constitution of this remarkable
perennial that it is safe even in such a winter as
that of this year.

Here is a flower which does well in any good
garden soil; sunlight is its prime necessity.
Equally vital to its well doing is its transplanting
only in August or September; therefore, will you,
whose eye may light upon this page, take advantage

“of the months which are now almost upon us, if

you consider revelling in the sight of this magnificent
flower next June. Until last year, when two or
three of the varieties of the Oriental poppy of recent
introduction were revealed to me, I was ignorant
of the development of this flower.

“Then felt I as some watcher of the skies
When some new planet swims into his ken.”

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who enjoys the delicate suggestion of thin flame
should stand before this flower transported with
delight. And now the list of one of our leading
plantsmen gives us no less than thirty varieties of
Oriental poppy, in only five of which the word
“scarlet”? enters into the color descriptions. All
the rest verge upon the salmon, apricot, amaranth,
and deep mulberry shades. The lighter colors of these
newer poppies are, as has been suggested to me, very
like those of the Shirley poppy, and how remarkable
to find in the larger, stronger, and more enduring
flowers the charming color characteristics of that
poppy whose one defect is its ephemeral quality.

From a color plate in the list of the plantsman
just mentioned a very beautiful combination of color
should be got by using the rich amaranth Mahony,
described as “deep mahogany maroon,” but which
I should call a blackish mulberry, with Rose Queen,
a fine satiny rose-pink. The revolution in color
in these poppies transforms them at once into
subjects of the greatest interest for the formal gar-
den, the garden which precludes the use of scarlet,
orange or any deep yellow. The rich darkness of
Mahony would be a heavenly sight with the
Dropmore anchusa rising back of it. These two
should be used alone for a real nobility of effect.

Some plants are dull in their beginnings; not
so with this, for from the first leaflet the lovely
form and curve of each leaf is apparent, aside from
the rarely good tone of green of the leaf-group.
To fill the wide spaces of earth which should occur
between plants destined for so rapid and so large
a growth, tulips are suggested; to follow the poppy
bloom and act again as a ground cover, seed of
salpiglossis sown early, or of tall marigold, whose
foliage and bloom will seem to be in August and
early September the only inhabitants of this part of
the border or the garden. If the objection be raised
that the poppy leaves will shade such seeds in May
and June, I reply that it is easy to so stake aside a
leaf or two of the poppy in many places as to allow
the sun full access to the little seedlings of annuals.

Michigan. Mrs. FRANcis KInc.

A Possible Salad Plant

ROBABLY the most common weed in all
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left them upside downin the full sun, and returned
a day or so later to find the roots bending over
and entering the soil and preparing to take up their
work where it was left off. When the tender
stems are freshly gathered and boiled like spinach,
they make a vegetable that to my taste 1s superior
to either spinach or dandelion greens. The flavor
is more delicate and bears just a hint of sourness -
faintly suggesting vinegar.
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DEAR GARDENING FOLK:

“) ie bright summer days are here at last, and
vacation time is here too. I can close my eyes
and fancy I see dozens of boys and girls out in the
sunshine working in their gardens, training the
soft, green tendrils of the climbing vines and
watching eagerly for every bud and blossom.

It is delightful to wake up early before old Sol
has crept over the hills and run out to listen to the
early morning conversation of our garden friends.
And the first buds! How you watch for them to
swell into full bloom. You wait and watch and
some warm noon-day, you peep to see if the plants
have blossomed, and there, bowing to you, are the
loveliest, most fragrant flowers — and that is what
it means tobea gardener! Do you wonder I want
every boy and girl to join our Garden Club?

LETTERS FROM MEMBERS

My desk is piled high with letters from boys and
girls and their mothers who have joined our Club,
telling me how much good our plan for helping
gardening is doing. I feel very happy about it
and I hope you will spread the good news among
your friends so that no one who wishes to have a
garden will be left out of our Club.

I am going to let you read some of the letters
which I have received. They will tell you how
our members are enjoying their vacation time
gardening:

Dear Lapy GREENSLEEVES:

When I invited my Sunday school class to join your dehght-
ful Garden Club, the children were so eager to begin a garden
at once that I had to hurry my spring sewing so as to help them.
There are sixteen of us and the boys and girls have worked
hard to earn the money to buy the seed and plants. Each
afternoon we repair to a vacant lot near the church and work
like elves. Our garden is beginning to look delightfully in-

viting. The children call you theic garden fairy.
Mrs. G. P.

My seed that I bought

Dear Lapy GREENSLEEVES:

I have the best sort of news for you.
and planted in April is growing fine. I have just set out some
scarlet sage for mother near the front steps. I bought the
plants with the money I made last week. You are all right
to help us fellows make money. It was easy, too, just as you
said it would be. I mean to keep on until I earn enough to
make mother’s garden the nicest one in Springfield.

ANDREW B.
Dear LADY GREENSLEEVES:

Our school will soon be over and we girls are counting
the hoursnow. We spendall our spare time working in our
garden. Four of us have a plot together and we are going to
try to win a prize this year. The lovely book you sent us
arrived to-day and thank you so much. We have earned $6
already and spent it all on our garden. We hope lots of girls
will join and have as much fun as we do.

Your GARDENING GIRLS.
Dear Lapy GREENSLEEVES:

I have only a very small backyard, but there is a large apple
tree right in one corner and mamma has given me permission
to plant anything I like and Mary has promised to keep the
grocery bov from trampling on my flowers. The book you sent
me is lovely. I read it every day up in the apple tree. I
enjoy my garden so much.

Frances H.

YOU ARE INVITED, TOO

You are invited to join us, no matter where you
may live — whether in a big city, a little town,
or the country. I will gladly help you earn the
money to make your garden nice, too, and would
like to have you share our good times.

All boys, girls, and grownups, too, who are
interested in growing things are welcome to our
Club. Membership is free.

Yours for a jolly summer,
Lapy GREENSLEEVES.

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Next month (August) is the time to transplant these
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Juny, 1912

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380 in planning your vacation vip }«©='THE GARDEN MAGAZINE Juuy, 1912

Se ote miber r Pla nting :
EXT spring when every available man has twice as much sa
work as he can do, and everybody is fretting because they
can’t get men to do it—then is the time you will be heartily

glad you planted your Hicks’ Evergreens in August or September.

Study out what you need now and order your evergreens,

If some of the trees of your grounds need moving, have us do it.
Don't think trees must either be cut down or stay in the one

place. We have solved the tree moving problem to a certainty. ; i 7 The Hard Work Continues

How about some holly like the tree at the left> We have
some particularly choice trees just now.

HE interest in garden work in the South be-
gins to slacken now, but the actual work is

If you can arrange to come to our nursery and make your Mee “Fan a just as strenuous as ever.
selection, try and do It. If not, send for catalogs and write | - | Tf some of the flowers and vegetables need pro- |
your order. We will give it prompt attention. pF. “) 2% | tection from the hot sun. spread § strips of old sack-

* | ing or cloth a foot or two wide along the rows two
| feet or more above the plants, and ‘also mulch all
| plants that seem to need it.

If possible irrigate the garden. Irrigating
systems are used on several farms here in Georgia
and the crops, especially corn, sugar cane, and
potatoes, are greatly increased.

Continue to sow rutabaga seed until August,
then begin sowing turnips. Spanish peanuts will

also make a good crop in the Middle South if they
are planted before the 15th, but it is safe to sow
them up to the first of August in the Lower South.

Continue the sowing of annuals. Keep the soil
moist and the plants partly shaded.

Cabbage and collard seed may be sown now for
’ setting out in September. You want stocky

- = rm a AL - plants with a dark color; therefore, be sure that
Te saac i ic k. s & Son they are kept vel peare wh moisture. This alse

3 applies toannuals. Becareful not to give too mu
Westbury, SORE Island : shade or allow the plants to grow too close together.
i ; Take heed: This is the last month that melon
seed can be sown. Soak the seed in water before -
using. It is also the les call for pumpkins, winter
squashes and cucumbers. Early summer squash,

a ee eee Sink | however, can be planted as late as the 15th of
practical arrangement? Greenhouse August in the Middle and Lower South.
x0 7 po and eruey Poe eee The corn needs frequent and shallow cultivation.
GES EaEscanWboudlenved edlanneethe If you want to plant any early field corn it must be
long dreary winter months with such done before the next two weeks, except in the Lower
a peautital EES enclosed garden. South, where it can be planted all through August.
plete Badly fie ence ein CE RSEa During July the soil should be prepared for the
not an unsightly sash house but my bulbs of the beautiful Madonna lily, that have to be
Baten Cine Save om bene ane | planted in late August or September.
SE aeLige aE nee ceeae ees Do not neglect the chrysanthemums and asters
of glass that we erect in all parts of that are to flower during the next two months.
the country. Send for Catalogue .G Begin pruning, disbudding, and watering with

Tale thea: snd. iothere smelt both pure water and liquid manure.

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very important to firm the soil over them so as to
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new lawns or putting new life into the old one nothing equals & - y . .
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eae ae =a began blooming the year after they were planted,
and have continued the good work for ten seasons.
J. H. Hale, the “Peach King,” writes: “THe Dousre Action ‘Curaway’ is a splendid tool. I use After a few years their brinches became interlaced,

u an seen ae a creaee eer ae ates 4 eee ae i ee handle it all right.” 4 | but this only added to their beauty. The branches
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with the branches. The double levers give the driver full control of tool at all times. For regular farm work brought into the livi ing room, W. here the blossoms

paeas ae Se SN open to perfection. But this, of course, ae not
be done if the trees were being grown for fruit alone.

“U 4 AW A D O U B S = A Le T i oO N Early Richmond is, perhaps, the best variety for
ORCHARD HA RROW landscape work, as it seldom grows high, is perfectly

Every orchardist and fruit grower should have one or more of these labor savers and fruit makers. They hardy, and withstands insect pests. The trees

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Thorough cultivation makes large crops. Stirring the soil lets in the air, sunshine and new life, and kills should be two or three years old when set out; these

foul vegetation. The ‘(Curaway’’ disk slices, stirs, lifts, twists and aerates the soil. CLARK’S “CUTAWAY” cost about fifty cents apiece. Tf care is taken to
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Jury, 1912 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE ‘in pinning sour vacation ip 381

Now is the Time To

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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Juuy, 1912

LETTERS

We wonder if so many interesting letters
come to men in other sorts of business? Per-
haps publishers are especially favored by
the confidences of people whom they have
never seen?

It has very often been said that almost any-
body can edit a periodical better than the
editor, and make a fire better than the
fire-maker. That this is a true statement is
proved by thousands of letters which come
to us intimating ‘that the writer is better
able to judge of the literary value of some
things than Doubleday, Page and Company.

For instance;

TI see that you are publishing with success a novel
by . . . which you say is in a new field of fiction,
etceaetc: All this indicates how narrow is
your viewpoint. Simply because this author has be-
come one of the “‘inner circle’? she could write the
poorest stuff and you would publish it with avidity and
throw away dozens of other books in every way its
superior. I am sending to you by express the
manuscript of a book which some people in our town
have told me is in every way vastly superior to any
book written by whose praise you sing so
long and loud.

The question is will you be able to recognize ability
when you see it or are you blind to the merit of an author
just because he is unknown?

This form of letter is duplicated a hundred
times, and we could stand it better were it
not for the fact that with them come manu-
scripts of sometimes a 1000 pages and an
average, we should say, of from 400 to 500
pages of typewriting, representing months
and often years of work on the part of their
authors.

Of book manuscripts alone, Doubleday,
Page & Company return from ten to a dozen a
day representing for the most part, we regret
to say, a pathetic spectacle of time wasted.

Here is a manuscript reader’s letter to show
the other side of this difficult question:

I have been thinking, and referring again to my
report on No. a novel by which I
faint-heartedly recommended for acceptance; and
which recommendation I now wish to withdraw. De-
liberate reflection has caused me to realize that no real
good can come from publishing this book, and
Tam frank to admit that I recommended it because in

execution it is better than hundreds I have been so
laboriously reading. This deadly average of medioc-

“THE: TALK: OF THE - OFFICE: |

“To business that we love we rise betime
And go to ’t with delight.”’—A ntony and Cleopatra

rity Iam convinced has almost upset my judgment
as to the standard which I am perfectly aware should
be moderately high. Not so high that a newcomer
should be held up to an impossible standard but not
so low that a book should not show in some way — in
sincerity, imagination or literary power — that it may
take some part in the world’s affairs if published. The
Mss. No. . is simply commonplace; only a little
less commonplace than the general run, and that is all
that can truthfully be said of it.

This office memorandum is printed here not
because it is in itself of interest but to show
how the first instinct is toward acceptance until
most publishing houses accept more books
than they can properly and effectively handle.

To complete the circle of this correspondence
concerning manuscripts and book publishing
we add two paragraphs from a bookseller’s
letter:

IT understand from a talk I had with one of your
travelers — that you propose to publish a fewer number
of books and push more vigorously those that you do
issue. Your new resolution pleases me because all
publishers in the last ten years have increased the
number of books — especially mediocre fiction — ex-
traordinarily, apparently in the hope of getting a “‘best
seller.”’ Do you realize that this has gone on to such a
degree that even salesmen often tell us that they cannot
be sure of such and such a volume and show no enthus-
iasm in selling it?

In my opinion publishers should not accept any
book which they cannot earnestly and honestly back
as worth while; poor books when sold injure the buying
activities of readers — you “‘kill the goose,” etc. You
will make enough mistakes even when you feel confident
that you have the real thing and I hope you’ll stick
to your guns and bring up the quality.

But all letters are not pessimistic. As we
write we have before us a sheaf of twenty-three
letters which have accumulated in a few days;
all of them about Mrs. Corra Harris’s book
“The Recording Angel.”’

Three of these refer to George Eliot.

For instance:

Not since the days of George Eliot has there been any-
thing so good. Perhaps you recall the words she puts
into the mouth of one of her radical speakers in Felix
Holt. After all, though, does it not go to prove that
if we are to have preaching, that preachers should be
removed from their present status of dependents and
made economically free of their environment?

Here is another:

I have just finished reading “‘The Recording
Angel,” and I cannot resist the temptation to write

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Me ae ES

you how much I enjoyed it, as well as your other stories.
No doubt you wish that I were gifted with a will strong
enough to say, “‘Get thee behind me,” to a temptation
fraught with such terrible consequences to an unfor-
tunate and helpless victim.

Now that the preliminary apologies are out of the
way, let me say what immense pleasure I have obtained
from all your work, from “‘The Circuit Rider’s Wife”
down to (or up to?) ‘The Recording Angel.” The
stories themselves have been interesting, vastly so!
But it is your “‘asides,”’ your observations upon human,
and Divine, nature, and things in general that have
delighted me most. ‘The very audacity of some of these,
the originality of all of them, leave me almost gasping
with surprise and pleasure.

A dozen pages of this magazine could be
filled by letters about Mrs. Gene Stratton-
Porter’s books whose fame extends in an ever
widening circle. In the month of May we
printed and sold over 100,000 of the new
edition of “The Girl of the Limberlost,”’ and
that these books touch the hearts of a great
multitude, brightening and helping, is made
clear by the dozens of letters which come like
this one:

It is difficult tospeak of the work of Gene Stratton-
Porter and not to call upon all the superlatives of
praise in the language. ‘‘The Girl of the Limberlost”
is a delightful book: the kind of book that brings a
pleasant mistiness to your eyes and a lump in your
throat which makes you feel deliciously sobby while
you are laughing; and if you don’t know and value that
sensation you miss much

“Freckles,” by the way, has gone on the
stage, and will get into the big cities this fall.

Another class of letters come to the service
department which answers, after close study,
letters about ‘How to buy a farm,” “How to
select investments,” and the thousand and
one queries about the “Garden.” We hope
these answers do some good in the world. The
letters are carefully read, and information
sought by experts, but often they ask questions
bevond us, like this one:

I am about to get into trouble and I am going to
ask you to help me out. Some of my neighbors differ
in the time to plant and how to plant. They say the
time to plant potatoes is in the “dark of the moon,”
when the beginning is; some say in “‘arms’’; some in
““feet’’; some one place and some another. And other
garden seeds the same — also setting out trees? Some

say the ‘dark of the moon” from the new to the full; so
please give me your ideas in regard to the moon and
its signs and what effect it has on | planting.

TA
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Any greenhouse you buy will unques-
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: ~\ This new pattern combines the dignity of the older craftsmanship with the beauty

“A that is the result of modern skill and improved methods. The pierced handles

and the unusual finish—grey, with bowls, tines and bevel edges of the handles
bnght—are distinctive features.

I847 ROGERS BROS.

| “Silver Plate that Wears”

2 Rca ]
\ . J, is the only brand of silver plate with an unqualified guarantee that is backed by the actual test
a ee of 65 years. It is not only the heaviest grade of silver plate, but our finishing process makes it
; Be the most durable. Sold by leading dealers. Send for illustrated catalogue ““U 32°

INTERNATIONAL SILVER CO., MERIDEN, CONN.
Successor to Meriden Britannia Co.
New York Chicago San Francisco Hamilton, Canada

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THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.

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