ucdea
of Paris WHEN AND HOW TO PRUNE
The pruning of one-year-old trees takes place
, 5 in the spring after they begin to grow — not earlier
Who because of the sufferings of his workmen from the use of — for trees prematurely cut back sometimes sprout
old-style paints, introduced out below the bud. and no shoots will appear above
it. Cut above the last bud (or wherever necessary
OXIDE OF ZINC
if the first bud is too low) to about fifteen inches,
and leave about four or five branches three inches
as a house-painting material. AA monument in his honor stands
in length to each tree. If there happen to be only
two limbs, cut off one close to the trunk and the
: ; other at the height at which you want the tree
in the Square des Epinettes. headed, so as to prevent the formation of a fork that
Ce eeee : eee : will later prove ruinous.
LeClaire’s invention made house-painting healthful to painters. During the second year (thelmese tenet
It also transformed painting from hap-hazard to certainty. pruning peach trees) the tree must have enough
1: nee Ff : interior wood removed to give it a bundle shape,
Durability, economy, beauty and convenience in paint came and the limbs cut back as evenly deemed
with Oxide of Zinc. always above a bud that will force the new growth
outward and not inward toward the axis of the
tree.
Saw or cut off the branches close to the limbs or
trunk of the tree in order to prevent a snag which
The New Jersey Zinc Co. will not heal over until the tree grows around its
Oxide of Zinc is unalterable even base, during which time the snag is decaying. A
under the blow pipe
Does your paint contain zinc?
National City Bank Building defect in the limb is thereby produced which may
55 WALL ST. NEW YORK cause it to break when subsequently loaded with
fruit or sleet.
: ‘ : : : The same pruning system is kept up during the
We do not grind zinc in oil. A list of manufacturers of Oxide of Zinc Paints mailed on request. ‘aifindl aval eae nee nui ol cone decd on
injured limbs are removed at any time.
= = CUITING BACK THE TOP
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versible to throw the soil either toor from the plant. It is espe- wood so that new wood must be produced eac
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; : : sufficient strength to again force fruiting wood.
No. O, 1 horse with two gangs of 5 14 inch disks each. 5 3
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Wild Flowers Worth Improving
Ill. THe PERENNIAL GENTIANS
HILE the perennial gentians do not, as a rule,
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top of the highest hills, usually 1,000 feet or more
above sea-level, and always in very dry, sandy
soil. It is, however, quite abundant on the south-
eastern shores of Lake Huron, in the province of
Ontario, but in soil of precisely the same character.
It is usually found in very thin woods, but likes also.
the full sunshine.
The giant among our native gentians is the
soapwort gentian (G. Saponaria) which often grows.
three feet high and is rather coarse and rank. The
flowers, however, are sometimes two inches long
and are borne in dense clusters often five or six
inches across and open quite widely. The color
is of a light reddish or purplish blue, rarely white.
It grows in wet or dry, usually sandy soil.
account of its large size, it should be grown in the
centre or background of a group of gentians, or
else in isolated clumps.
On
Blue is the dominant color among our American
gentians, and we can hardly expect to get a very
wide range of color among them. White forms.
of most
pure white forms of the larger fringed gentian
and the closed blue gentian are both beautiful
flowers.
native species, however, occur; the
Perhaps the nearest approach to yellow we can
expect to find is the yellowish gentian (G. flavida),
‘which excels even the closed gentian in beauty,
the flowers being much larger, about two inches
long, and wide open.
greenish-white to yellowish-white.
of flowers also average larger than those of the
closed gentian, while the light shining green of the
foliage is very pleasing, contrasting finely with the
darker foliage of other perennial species.
species also likes dry, sandy soil.
The color ranges from
The clusters.
This.
The perennial gentians I have hitherto noticed
are as a rule rather coarse plants, yet showy and
useful as ornamentals.
species of perennial gentians that are very slender
and graceful plants —the narrow-leaved gentian
(G. linearis), which ranges from six inches to two
feet high according to soil, with many narrow
leaves and clusters of rather slender open blue
flowers from one inch to nearly two inches long;
and the red-stemmed gentian (G. rubricaulis), one
to two feet high, with much broader leaves and
larger greenish-blue to bright blue flowers.
prefer wet soil, but like other gentians it Is probable
that they could be made to grow on almost any
soil.
foreground of coarser species.
There are, however, two
Both
In cultivation they should be planted in the
The flowers of
either species are fully as long, if not longer, than
those of the closed gentian, but more slender,
and besides are open.
Michigan.
W. A. BROTHERTON.
Getting Money’s Worth in Tools
Re IS no use expecting to do first-class work in
a garden without adequate tools. So much
irritation can be saved by using the one tool that
easily fits, that I wonder constantly that so few
people, comparatively, seem to have a proper out-
fit. I have tried practically every tool that seemed
to be in any way adapted to garden use, and I know
that I would not undertake to keep up a garden
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without the tools named below.
The following list is composed of only such
tools as are absolutely necessary to really cover
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garden fifty feet square or larger.
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APRIL, 1909
THE GARDEN
29
MAGAZINE
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1909 Tubular “A”
Common ‘‘disc’’ or “bucket bowl’’ separators
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course, many other tools on the market but they
can hardly be considered as essential.
To be fully equipped for quick and thorough
work the gardener should have at least two weeding
hoes, one 8-inch blade and one 6-inch blade (one
with a 4 or 5 inch blade will also be found very
useful in the flower beds), a Warren hoe with a
6 or 7 inch blade, one 8 inch Hilton-hoe (a new
form of scuffle-hoe), a full bow garden rake — the
16-inch size for garden raking and leveling, but
if he can afford two, one rc-inch and one 16-inch
—a four-tine spading fork, and a planting bar.
A planting spade will also be found very useful.
To this I would add a double wheel-hoe, which
will cultivate between rows in one-tenth the time
necessary for hand hoeing, but it will not be use-
ful for thinning, weeding, and hoeing between
closely set plants in the row.
It is no more trouble to select two or three tools
from a collection of twenty-five, use them, clean
them, and put them away, than it would be if you
had only three tools which you used constantly.
My tools are all stored in a closet two feet eight
inches by three feet ten inches, which is lighted by a
small window. The small tools and wheel-hoe
attachments are kept in two small baskets; the
hoes, rakes, etc., hang flat against the wall, being
suspended from hooks screwed into the ceiling and
walls; the wheel-hoe rests on the floor.
For general cultivation I first take the wheel-
hoe and do all the work possible with it; it is then
cleaned and put away. If I then have sufficient
time to complete the whole job, I take out a 6 and
8 inch weeding-hoe and a Hilton-hoe. With these
three tools I complete the work of stirring the
soil in every part of the garden, including the grape
and berry border and flower beds.
The prices quoted are those which the tools are
selling for at the present time:
Pointing trowel j j : : : $.25
Planting trowel, 7-inch_ . : : 2 55
Dibber (brass 6oe. Jy iron . 4 : : 85
Lang weeder . ; 5 : : “25
Hand weeder 2 : : : : 225
Onion weeder : 4 6 25
Hoe for making weeding Roce : : -60
Warren hoe . : : -65
Lightning scuffle, or a Hilton, hoe . 0 65
Full bow garden take (16- ee ° : ofS
Spading fork . 5 : : 85
Planting spade ° : : 85
Planting bar, pipe and cap : 6 : -35
Blacksmith fee for pointing bar . -50
Double wheel hoe with one pair leaf lifters,
one set four cultivator teeth, one pair
6-inch hoes, one pair plows : 6.50
One pair of extra weeder attachments for
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Path cleaner, 8-inch 75¢, T24inch : 5 LO
Hill and drill seeders . $8.50 to $12.00
Hill and drill seeders combined with
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Kitchen-garden drill 0 2 5 : I.00
Corn planter . . 2.00
For complete discussions of the best forms of
the above tools see THE GARDEN MAGAZINE for
April, May, June and July, 1908.
Pennsylvania. J. LUKENS KAYAN.
Success in Transplanting
Tomatoes
| Oe of ripe tomatoes can be had without
any trouble if hardwood ashes are used as
a fertilizer and are also sifted on the leaves to keep
off the little black flies.
Do not set out the plants in the open ground
until all danger of frost is past. Dig large holes
a foot deep, place a pint of ashes in each hole,
and coyer them with at least two inches of dirt,
on which set the plants. The best time to do this
is at twilight or on a cloudy day.
Protect each newly set plant with a paper bag
(the bottom having been cut out) of sufficient size
to slip around the plant easily. Three or four
stakes driven into the ground hold these in place.
Last year I did not lose a plant, while a neigh-
bor lost over half. He did not use the “paper houses,”’
and a south wind switched the plants to death.
Vermont. LENA W. RIcE.
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE
APRIL, 1909
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URING the recent anti-tuberculosis show at
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cow under the average pasture conditions is con-
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is plentiful this quantity will amount to perhaps
fourteen units and to less than four food units
in the late fall. At the latter season the deficiency
must be supplied by other foods.
One pound of any of the concentrated feeds,
such as cereals, mill refuse, oily meals, etc., is
considered one food unit, and may be calculated
as equivalent to three pounds of good meadow hay,
four pounds of poor hay, ten pounds of rutabagas,
twelve pounds of turnips, four pounds of potatoes,
ten pounds of green fodder, six pounds of butter-
milk, six pounds of skim-milk and twelve pounds of
whey. Any of these ingredients will be equivalent
to one pound of new milk.
The following table is often used by dairymen
as a basis for estimating the ration value of different
stock foods. It is estimated that one hundred
pounds of good hay will possess the same feeding
value as:
Wheat 444 pounds
Corn ; 3 pitt Ge 624 *
Clover, red, green j ‘ > B78 *
Beets . 0 0 4 9 . 669 i
Beans . . . ° 0 Sees “°
Barley > 0 : 3 > 6&8 A
Carrots é . : 5 0 Baye
Oil cake, linseed. : 3 ne43 ig
Buckwheat . 5 F 0 5 M7 Sea ee
Oatsmanne : ; 4 s So) fe
Rye : 5 : i ‘ ASR Sicy SS na
Potatoes 5 2 0 : Beciere) re
‘Peas, dry : : : ; Pain ace
Oat straw ; : : i 5 ney s
Clover, red, dry 0 on BS sf
Turnips - ; ; : é . 469 ‘
Carrot leaves (tops) F : a LAG: *
Rye straw : : 420 Sf
New Jersey. Joun HARRISON.
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HE Advantages of Growing
DWARF FRUIT TREES
Do you know that dwarf fruit trees bear bigger, better fruit, bear several years earlier, and i
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The low broad heads are within reach, so that apples or pears can be easily picked. The pests
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ground for other purposes.
Standard trees require ten years to come into full bearing; with dwarfs some varieties will bear
the first year, all will produce a considerable crop the second year,
and bear fully the fourth.
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PLANTS FOR AN UNFAVORABLE
SITUATION
Q.— Between our house and the next is a dark
passageway about three feet wide. All the light
there is comes from an east and west exposure, and
a little filters down between the houses. No sun-
shine ever gets to the ground. Is there anything
that could be made to grow in such a place?
Pennsylvania. K. McM.
A.— In a passageway such as you describe there
would possibly be serious problems of air drainage
—it may be that plants would not grow there
because of the air becoming stagnant. If the
ground is moist, however, and the space is
ventilated, rhododendrons and royal ferns
should thrive. For flowering plants, use begonias
and fuchsias.
STARTING GLOXINIAS
Q.— For gloxinia culture do you advise placing
the tuber at once into a 6-inch flowering pot, after
starting, or working up to that size?
New York. RCs:
A.— Start the gloxinias first in a flat, in sphag-
num moss or leaf soil and sand. Pot up in small
pots as soon as they commence to make roots, using
a light compost of leafy soil and sand. When the
first pots (3 or 3% inch) are full of roots, repot into
larger flowering size, using a soil considerably
stronger, with a small quantity of good fertilizer,
suchas bonemeal. They want a light, free soil at all
times, but will require lots of liquid feeding as soon
as the flowering pots are filled with roots. Grow
on in a temperature of 60 or 65 degrees. J. T. S.
PLANTING SWEET POTATOES
Q.— Please tell me how much sweet potato seed
is required to plant an acre of ground
New York. IP, IK, Qs
A.— Sweet potatoes are not cut into sections and
dropped like Irish potatoes, but are started as young
plants. They are prepared for field planting by
bedding in sand or soil in either a specially prepared
frame where artificial heat can be supplied, or in a
greenhouse; or sometimes even on a sunny slope
where the young plants would not be affected by
frost. The farm price of sweet potatoes for seed
purposes is usually about $1.00 a bushel, always
varying with the market and local conditions.
Two bushels of sweet potatoes are required to start
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APRIL, 1909
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MUSKMELONS AND SQUASHES
Q.— Should melons be planted in the cucumber
and squash patch, or will they mix and injure the
flavor of the melons?
Washington, D. C. jJa SS. 1B.
A.— According to the best authorities, and con-
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can be planted in the same part of the garden
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quality of the fruits is not injured if these crops.
are planted together. The melons grown from
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will be no danger the first year.
VEGETABLES IN THE ORCHARD
Q.— Why should the space between rows of
orchard trees be left vacant after three years?
Would it not be better to plant the trees farther
apart in the first place, and to use the land between
them for vegetables in rotation?
New York. M. A.
A.— Tf the trees in the orchard are planted close
together they will be so large in about three years’
time that vegetables or other crops planted between
the rows would not do well because of shading.
Vegetables would, moreover, prevent the thorough
intertillage of the orchard trees. By removal of
moisture and in other ways, the growth of veget-
ables in the orchard for a period of more than two.
or three years would be liable to cause more harm
than could possibly be offset by the value of the
vegetables. With a thinner planting of the trees the:
vegetable crop could be raised for a longer time.
ZINNIAS INSTEAD OF MARIGOLDS
Q.— Can you recommend any plant that will take
the place of African marigolds in bulb and spring
flower beds adjoining the house, which will be of
the same height as the marigold, as indifferent to sun
or shade and to south, north, and east exposures,
and with the same period of bloom? The mari-
golds are satisfactory except for the disagreeable
odor of the leaves and blossoms.
Illinois. W. F. O.
A.— Try zinnias, which resemble the marigolds.
in having the same height and spread, and which
bloom continuously all summer until cut down by
late frosts. They even endure the first light touches
of frost which would kill the marigold. Zinnias
can be had in selected colors or in mixtures. The
most satisfactory way would be to buy a good selec-
tion of the colors that are desired, and select still
further toward your own ideal. The objection to
zinnias is a tendency to a certain crudity in color, but
this has been separated from the best strains. They
will grow wherever, the marigold will, doing equally
well in both sun and shade. As a foreground to a
zinnia bed grow the annual phlox, which will give
bloom while the zinnias are attaining size. L. B.
APPLYING NITRATE OF SODA
Q.— How much nitrate of soda can be applied
without danger to each bush and shrub in a border
as a foliage stimulant? I put one-quarter tea-
spoonful to each of my tomato plants (in 2-inch
pots) and killed them all.
Pennsylvania. W.W.K.
A.— Nitrate of soda must be applied to potted
plants in solution, not dry. If one ounce is dis-
solved in a gallon of water and used once a week in
giving an ordinary watering — nothing excessive—
the plants will receive as much stimulant as they
can reasonably stand. It is not entirely a question
of quantity, either, that causes injury when dry salt
is applied. The salt must be dissolved, and if the
soil is appreciably dry the solution will be brought
about by the extraction of water from the roots of
the plants, thus causing a shock from which the
tops never recover. ‘The best measure for the appli-
cation of dry salt to field crops and shrubbery would
be two ounces to the square yard, which could be
scattered on the surface and raked in. It is a safe
principle not to fertilize very young plants, but to
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ae Success in Growing Roses
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form. 75c each.
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FRAU KARL DRUSCHKE (WHITE AMERICAN BEAUTY)
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*ARCHDUCHESS ELIZABETH OF AUSTRIA.
BARON DE BONSTETTIN. Superb dark red.
BLACK PRINCE. Deep crimson, almost black.
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CAPTAIN CHRISTY. Rosy crimson.
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*COUNTESS OF ROSEBERY Bright pink
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*FRANCOIS LEVET Superb, full, double, cherry- pink shaded
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*GLORY OF THE EXPOSITION OF BRUSSELS. Deep amar-
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*MAD. ALFRED CARRIERE. Creamy whife, tinted yellow.
MAD. CHARLES WOOD. Scarlet, shaded maroon.
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MAD. MASSON. Bright rose.
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YORK AND LANCASTER. Red and white, sometimes
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Dingee Miscellaneous Own-Root Roses.
A Collection of the best and hardiest Ever-blooming Hybrid
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*CRIMSON BABY RAMBLER. Always in bloom. Grows but
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LA FRANCE. Beautiful silvery pink.
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MAD. FRANCISCA KRUGER. Coppery yellow.
MARIE GUILLOT. Pure white
MARIE PAVIE, Excellenf creamy whife.
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KEYSTONE. The only yellow, everblooming, hardy climbing
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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE
APRIL, 1909
PROPAGATING HONEYSUCKLE AND
ARBORVITZ
M. J. R., Penna. — Upright species of honeysuckle are
propagated from layers and also from cuttings of dormant
wood. The creeping varieties are propagated from cut-
tings of dormant wood. Arborvite will not grow in shaded
situations. The best time to plant the latter is in May or
August; the honeysuckle in the fall or spring, as conye-
nient. Arborvite makes the best hedge, but balsam fir
Is quicker-growing.
PEONIES FOR CUT FLOWERS
C. A. G., Mich. — Some of the best pink and white
varieties of peony for cut flowers are: White — Festiva
Maxima, Madame de Verneville, Avalanche, Grandi-
flora nivea plena, Monsieur Duperet and Duchesse de
Nemours; light pink and pink and white — Achille, Dor-
chester, Sarah Bernhardt, Mme. Calot, and Venus; deep
pink — Madame Ducel, M. Jules Elie, Comte de Paris,
Delicatissima and Lady Leonora Bramwell. ‘These are all
early or second early varieties. A. H.F.
STARTING IN BUSINESS
F. A. W., N. Y. —If you are an amateur starting in the
florists’ business, confine your efforts at first to subjects
that are easily handled, such as carnations, violets, sweet
peas, and bulbs, i. e., narcissus of various sorts and Roman
hyacinths. Grow smilax, asparagus and small ferns for
greens. Raise for sale, and for your own use, bedding
plants and early vegetables, e. g., cabbage, lettuce, tomatoes,
egg plants, celery, peppers, etc. Lettuce and tomatoes
could be raised in the greenhouse in winter, but flowers will
undoubtedly pay better. :
VARIEGATED SHRUBS WORTH
GROWING
G. S. J., New York.— Some of the best variegated shrubs
for general planting which can be obtained anywhere are
as follows: Golden and silver leaved weigela (Diervilla
floribunda, var. versicolor and D. florida, var. nana varie-
gata), the variegated rose of Sharon (Hibiscus Syriacus,
var. variegatus), Cornelian cherry (Cornus Mas), Siberian
dogwood (Cornus alba, var. argenteo-marginata), silver
margined kerria (Kerria Faponica, var. argenteo-variegata),
yellow margined California privet (Ligustrum ovalifolium,
var. aureo-marginatum), and the golden-leaved mock
orange. For more rank growth there is the golden-leaved
elder. Jo Ws Ss
EVERGREENS FOR THE NORTH
J. D. F., New York. — Some hardy coniferous ever-
greens which you will undoubtedly find satisfactory about
your grounds in the Adirondack region are: Nootka .
Sound cypress (Chamecyparis Nutkensis, known in the
trade as Cupressus Nutkensis); Reeve’s Chinese juniper
(Funiperus Chinensis, var. mascula, known in the trade
as var. Reevesi); Swedish juniper (Funiperus communis,
var. Suecica); prostrate juniper (Funiperus Sabina, var.
prostrata, known in the trade as 7. prostrata); dwarf Mugho
pine (Pinus Montana, var. Mughus, known in the trade as
P. Mughus); Swiss stone pine (Pinus Cembra); Japanese
yew (Taxus cuspidata); and Siberian arborvite (Thuya
occidentalis, var. Wareana, known im the trade as var.
Sihirica). Among the broad-leaved evergreens there is the
great laurel (Rhododendron maximum), and the mountain
laurel (Kalmia latifolia).
PLANTING NEW STRAWBERRY BEDS
C. R. W., New York. — The general practice in straw-
berry culture is to set plants in the spring and prevent
fruiting the first year by picking out the buds as they appear.
Cut off all runnersinthe early fall in order to throw the
utmost vigor into the plants for the next season’s crop.
At the same time allow one or two runners to root from each
plant, if you wish to work on the renewal system for the
bed; that is, allow just sufficient runners to root to fill up a
row between the rows that are now planted and which
will fruit next year. After fruiting, the old plants are then
plowed or dug under and the new ones kept for fruiting the
following season. Generally speaking, however, it is
better to make a new bed in a new place, for that purpose
allowing as many runners as may be necessary from the
old bed which is then fruited for two years instead of one.
The careful gardener can plant in the fall, even as late as
October, if the ground is thoroughly enriched and properly
mellowed. The best garden.practice, however, is to set |
out pot-grown plants in August for fruiting next year.
Such plants are to be bought from the dealers.
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for every hundred miles of latitude.]
Act Before May Ist
‘| as best time to plant hardy deciduous
trees, shrubs, vines, perennials,
fruit trees, and berry bushes is while the
plants are dormant. If they have already
started to grow in your locality, you can
still plant safely by ordering from nursery-
men in the northern tier of states, or by
getting pot-grown plants.
The best time to plant evergreens is
during the short period when the frost
gets out of the ground and before buds
begin to open.
If nursery stock arrives before you can
plant it, put it in the coolest place you
have. The later you plant, the more you
should prune.
Plant half-hardy bulbs. The most impor-
tant are gladioli, torch lily, cinnamon vine,
Madeira vine, and summer hyacinths.
Less common, but altogether lovely, are
the Mexican star flower (Milla biflora),
coral drops (Bessera elegans), rain lily, and
evening star (Cooperia pedunculata and
Drummondii), the zephyr flowers (Zep/iyr-
anthes, especially Z. Atamasco), and the
Peruvian lilies or alstromerias. Mont-
bretias are also interesting.
Don’t let your flower beds look like mud
pies until May r5th. It is not safe to put
out tender plants before that, but you can
buy pansies, English daisies, and forget-
me-nots on April 15th from your local
florist, and have a month of bloom before
most people plant cannas.
Beginners who have to start a garden
after the fifteenth of April will find the
double, spring-planting April number of
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE a good guide.
Divide the perennials in your hardy
border, and share the increase with neigh-
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May ist to May 15th
BEFORE all danger of frost in your
locality is past it will be safe to do
these things:
Sow outdoors seeds of tender vegetables,
but do not set out any plants. The ten-
der vegetables are beans, corn, tomatoes,
eggplants, peppers, cucumbers, pumpkin,
squash, okra, sweet potato, and martynia.
Be prepared for the frost that is almost
sure to°come the second week in May,
after the thousands of too-eager persons
have set out tomato plants. Get boxes
and newspapers all ready to cover plants.
If plants are frosted, shade them from
the sun, and if possible spray them with
the coldest water so that they will thaw out
very slowly.
“Harden off” tender vegetables and
flowers by moving them from hotbeds to
coldframes.
Finish the first thinning and_ trans-
planting of all the hardy vegetables and
flowers in your garden.
Cultivate strawberries for the last time,
and just before they bloom mulch them
so as to keep sand and grit out of the fruit.
You ought to have home-grown aspara-
gus practically every day in May until
peas are ready to eat. Have you surplus
asparagus to can? Don’t plant two-year-
old roots. One-year-old will do better
and cost less.
Need any bean poles, tomato stakes, vine
or peony supporters? Chicken wire?
Bamboo stakes? Iron rods?
Sow outdoors seeds of half hardy flowers,
but not tender ones. For example, sow
flowering tobacco, salpiglossis, schizanthus,
Swan River daisy, crimson flax, sweet wood-
ruff, datura, and night-scented stock; but
not nasturtiums or rose moss.
Sow some of the best half-hardy vines,
For the porch choose canary-bird vine or
convolyulus. Let the children plant near
the back fence balloon vine, squirting
cucumber, balsam apple, balsam pear, and
the following gourds — dishcloth, hedgehog,
gooseberry, and snake cucumber.
Buy bedding plants from the local florist
so as to be sure to get just the right color
of geranium, petunia, verbena, or phlox.
Bring them home or let him hold them
until it is safe to set them out. Otherwise
you may get only riffraff.
Plant tea roses from pots.
Dig dandelions out of the lawn and use
them for greens, or else use a weed killer
-that will kill all the large-leaved weeds
without hurting the grass.
May 15th to 31st
FTER all danger of frost in your
locality 1s past, set out tender plants.
Transplant to the open ground all ten-
der vegetables and flowers in coldframes
or flats.
Buy vegetable plants from seedsmen
of national reputation one or two days
distant by mail. Don’t buy nameless
tomato plants from the corner grocery.
Finish second thinning of vegetables
and annuals. The more room you give
plants, the larger and better will be the
product.
Plant tender bulbs and roots. The most
important are cannas, dahlias, the caladium,
and the tuberose. The peacock flower, or
tigridia, has a great range of color. Crin-
lums are gorgeous lily-like plants. Spider
lilies and the sea daffodil are charming,
and so is the exquisite white flower which
gardeners call Ismene. Two summer-
blooming species of oxalis are said to make
very dainty edgings.
Sow tender annuals, give them extra food,
water, and care, and you may beat neigh-
bors who started them early indoors. Among
the tenderest are sensitive plant, celosia,
cotton, touch-me-not, everlastings, ice
plant, and other mesembryanthemums, wish-
bone flower, or torenia, and the musk plant.
Sow seeds of tender vines, especially
nasturtiums, Japanese hop, moonvine, and
all gourds. Let the children grow the
egg, apple, pear, bottle, dipper, mock
orange, and sugar trough gourds, also the
wax cucumber.
Prune only shrubs that have finished
blooming, e.g., golden bells, or forsythia.
Don’t trim to balls, but cut out the old-
est branches right down to the ground,
so as to have new wood always coming
on. Shrubs produce most of their flowers
on young wood.
Give roses liquid manure once a week
from the time the flower buds can be seen
until the color shows — then stop.
The only way to keep ahead of weeds in
the critical month of May is to have the
best tools. Send for an illustrated tool
catalogue.
Window boxes cost more and do less
than vines. If your house or office lacks
vines, provide for them first. Every impor-
tant kind of vine can now be planted from
pots any month right through the summer.
If you cannot get them locally, ask the
Readers’ Service Department.
A bed of Philadelphus Lemoine, showing the arching grace and stems covered
nearly their whole length with flowers. We now have a dozen low shrubs with
the same faultless habit
The “‘ continuous-blooming effect’? — hardy hydrangeas. Others that will
bloom two or three months are Baby Rambler rose, gaillardias, the Napoleon
III. pink, Miss Lingard phlox, etc.
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iE THERE is any one thing on which
we Americans pride ourselves it is on
being ‘‘up-to-date,” or at least progressive,
yet the style of flower bedding we commonly
affect belongs to the same period as ‘“‘hoop
skirts, hair-cloth sofas, corkscrew curls,
infant damnation, and b’iled dinners.” I[
refer to that “‘aberration of the human mind,”
carpet bedding, of which William Morris
said he ‘‘could not think, even when quite
alone, without a blush of shame.”
For it is a shame to shear plants
unnecessarily, thus sacrificing all their
natural beauty of form. It is a shame to
banish or minimize flowers. It is a shame
to consider the most complicated designs
the most elegant. And it is a shame to
get color in such a crude and gaudy way
when we can have material that will har-
monize with our climate and environment.
Or, in practical language, tender plants cost
more than hardy ones, and carpet beds are
empty and unsightly for at least seven-
twelfths of the year, from the first frost of
autumn to the last one of spring.
William Robinson has changed the face
of England by inducing people to sweep
away most of this false art and restore
hardy plants on a new and better basis.
We have never had in America any such
revolution in gardening because we have
only begun to have gardens. But every
foot of England was, broadly speaking,
cultivated to the utmost then, as now, so
that the land was filled with old and precious
gardens. This beauty was suddenly de-
faced when the bedding mania swept prac-
tically all hardy flowers out of gardens and
Still more
The elegant foliage of Munkia ovata.
refined is the white day lily. Funkias need no
edging or supplementary plants, but cannot stand
full sunshine
transformed England into one gigantic
crazy quilt. It is only faint echoes of all
this that come to us in books. I used to
think such talk merely “‘literary.” But
everywhere in England last summer [
heard about “‘the real thing” from old men,
who were refused admission to flower shows
for their larkspurs, peonies, irises, and other
hardy flowers. And on many fine estates
I heard of great sums wasted in trying and
discarding the bedding system.
Yet there was really some sense in the
bedding system in the early forties. China
and Japan had not been opened to the
world and, therefore, about one-half of the
best hardy plants now cultivated were then
unknown. Moreover, hardy plants, as a
rule, bloom only two weeks, whereas gera-
niums, verbenas, and annual phlox will bloom
for three months. It is no wonder that the
gardeners tired of the hardy flowers then
known, because many of them were un-
sightly, or at least commonplace in foliage.
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For instance, the foliage becomes shabby
in forget-me-nots, columbines, and sweet
Williams after these have bloomed; it is
rather coarse and weedy in foxgloves and
hollyhocks; subject to disease in phlox
and larkspurs; commonplace in asters and
gaillardias; and often disappears after
blooming in the case of Oriental poppies.
Another reason why the old gardeners
sickened of hardy plants is that the ordi-
nary mixed border was not then, and is
not now, artistic. They used to “dot”
and “‘repeat,” 7. e., use the same kind of -
plant singly in all parts of the border, the
effect of which is generally weak and
spotty. Nowadays we understand better
that the only way to get strong, pure effects
is to plan first for a few large masses.
So we cannot blame the old gardeners
for preferring three months of bloom to two
weeks. But the next step they took is hard
to forgive, because tender foliage plants
that have no beauty, save color, are the
most ignoble type of vegetation. I do not
deny that coleus will give more color for
the money than any plant that grows, and
it submits with lamb-like grace to the
shears. But so will billboards give color
—and twelve months, too, instead of five.
A plant without growth, flower, or fruit is
like a man without character. Carpet
bedding becomes insufferably monotonous.
It may be justified in small public parks,
where people would steal flowers, but to
make it the dominant feature of a private
estate is really “‘a case for the blue wagon.”
There are many disciples of William
Robinson who go farther than the master.
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They cry, ‘‘Away with tender plants and
carpet bedding!” and talk as if there were
something high and holy about hardy:
plants per se. I do not believe in going to
extremes in anything, and I defy any
shouter for ‘“‘old fashioned flowers” to
name any hardy plant that will do as much
for the money as the geranium. Here we
have good color, three months of bloom,
beauty of form in leaf and flower, fragrance,
and extraordinary ease of culture. It is
not necessary to use the varieties with
piercing colors and leaves marked like
Joseph’s coat, for even the geranium is
capable of quiet and cool effects.
In other words, tender bedding plants
are not wrong in themselves, as many
writers say; it is only the abuse of the
bedding system that is wrong. Even in a
private garden, a few beds of tender plants
are usually desirable, because every garden
needs at least one spot of color every day
throughout the growing season, and I gladly
acknowledge that tender plants will usually
solve this problem better than hardy ones.
But now that the treasures of the Far
East are lavished upon us we have hardy
plants suitable for practically every purpose
the most exacting gardener can conceive.
And whenever we have any special object
to accomplish we ought to try nine times
to find a hardy plant that will do the work
before falling back on a tender one. And
this for two reasons: First, hardy plants
harmonize better with our climate and en-
vironment than tropical plants. Second,
as a rule, they are cheaper to maintain.
And in the long run, those effects which
grow naturally out of the soil and out of
true economy will be recognized as the
most artistic.
An artistic border, with bold, irregular
outlines and strong mass effects, is better
than any formal arrangement nine times
out of ten, because a border has more
variety throughout the season than a bed.
But granting that you really need beds of
formal shape, do you not prefer the effects
here pictured to any that can be had with ten-
der plants? Do they not harmonize better?
Are they not cheaper inthe end? Are they
not a relief fromthe flatness of carpet beds?
-It would be unfair and childish for me
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Tamarisk (not tamarack), showing the exquisite
harmony between feathery foliage and plumy
flowers, which are a tender pink. Tall tamarisk is
weak and thin; this is kept low and dense
to rhapsodize about the flowers of hardy
perennials, as opposed to mere foliage
plants, because the real question is: “Are
there any hardy plants with beautiful
foliage that are suitable for bedding?”
The answer is, dozens of them — dozens
that will not grow tiresome when seen daily
for five months. There is no need of
getting five months of raw color from plants
with commonplace foliage, like coleus and
alternanthera and acalypha, of which we
use millions in America. A better idea is
to make sure of beautiful foliage for at least
five months, and in addition have exquisite
flowers, even if they only last a fortnight.
THE LONG-BLOOMING EFFECT
We now have at least twenty-five peren-
nials and low shrubs that will bloom as
long as tender bedding plants — say two
months or more, ¢. g., gaillardias, Miss
Lingard phlox, Stokes’s blue aster, the
Napoleon III. pink, the Baby Rambler
rose, two kinds of hydrangea, Eupatorium
celestinum, and certain varieties of Veronica
and ragged robin with names a foot long.
But I place no emphasis on “‘everbloom-
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ing” plants, because they are somewhat like a
thirty-cent dinner with wine — they give
rather too much for the money. It is an
excellent idea to use a bed or two of them,
so as to be sure of color always, but to
make them dominant is to destroy one of
the keenest pleasures, viz., a sense of the
procession of the seasons. I hope the
great majority of hardy plants will always
definitely mark certain months, for the best
thing to live with is not a ‘‘continuous
performance” by flowers. Much better
is a broken series of dramatic floral events.
Therefore, let us turn from these ‘‘harpers
on a single string,” and see how we can
have a variety of flowers at different times.
FOUR CROPS IN EVERY BED
Anybody can have four crops of hardy
flowers in every flower bed, and I think
most of us ought to be satisfied with that,
provided the foliage does not become
shabby. For instance, let the main feature
be peonies. Between these plant bulbs of
Lilium speciosum. Edge the bed with
trailing myrtle. Then under this plant
daffodils. Thus you will get a small
show of daffodils in April, a good display
of peonies in June, scattering flowers
from the myrtle all spring and summer,
and a fair show of lilies in September.
This bed may last ten or even twenty
years without radical change. You avoid
all the expense and ugliness of annual
digging. You have perfect foliage in
peonies and myrtle, and the deficiencies of
any lilies you may plant will be hidden.
For most lilies are thin or stiff in foliage
effect, and are hard to arrange effectively,
but here they have a good background.
Dozens of good combinations like the
one given above can be made from the plants
mentioned in this article, with the help of
these four rules:
1. Try for an early and a late spring,
a summer, and an autumn flower. Simul-
taneous effects are appropriate in the border,
but for a bed, successive effects are better.
2. Select first the centre-piece, prefer-
ably a low shrub or a perennial that grows
two or three feet high.
3. Next choose the filler for the centre-
piece, preferably a bulb.
A forsythia bed carpeted with glory of the snow, which blooms in March,
Ff, viridissimad bas green branches.
Forsythias have golden bells in March.
A bed of Magnolia stellata, showing the white flowers in March, two months
before tender bedding plants are set out. Edged with grape hyacinths
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4. Then select a carpeting plant for the
edging, making sure that it has perfect
foliage. If the centre-piece is bare or
shabby at the base, choose an edger high
enough to screen this fault. You can have
a different kind of bulb under the edging.
THE BEST CENTRE-PIECES
The late or Chinese peonies are the best
for centre-pieces because they are the longest
lived perennials that can be obtained in
many colors. They generally bloom in
early June in the North. I would reject
columbines, European peonies, sweet Will-
iams, foxgloves, larkspurs, poppies, Japan
iris, bee balm, and most varieties of phlox.
The best perennials for the purpose, in
my opinion, are:
Bleeding heart Early May
Peach-leaved bellflower Mid-June
Gas plant . June-July
Japanese balloon flower July-Aug.
Miss Lingard phlox July-Oct.
Swamp rose mallow . August
Japanese anemone September
Subsessile veronica Aug-Sept.
Hardy chrysanthemums Sept.-Nov.
I think we ought to use low shrubs for
bedding, as the English often do. For
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much room. Therefore, bulbs are best, as
a rule. I would reject hyacinths and
early tulips because they are not permanent
enough; also English and Spanish iris.
The best, in my opinion, are:
Crown imperial Early April
Daffodils . . . Late April
Poet’s narcissus 5 0 May
Darwin tulips. . > : May
Madonna lily . 5 5 ° June
Lilium elegans . 0 3 . July
Lilium Henryi . 5 c Aug.
Lilium speciosum . 2 Sept.
THE BEST CARPETING PLANTS
Carpeting plants should do three things:
(1) hide every inch of soil; (2) furnish at-
tractive foliage for seven months; (3) bear
some interesting flowers. It is possible to
carpet the whole of a bed, but there is no
point in doing it if the shrubs or perennials
in the centre would hide them. Conse-
quently, the edge of the bed is all that needs
carpeting. However, it is often a good
plan to fill every inch of a bed with small
bulbs like crocuses, glory of the snow, or
scillas, which bloom in March and April
before the bushes put forth their leaves.
I suspect that tufted pansies or violas
Senecio Clivorum, which has bold foliage and yellow flowers.
These leaves are often two feet across.
Others of this class are the ornamental rhubarbs, Crambe, Senecio Biebersteinii, etc.
(1) they are more permanent than peren-
nials; (2) they are a pleasant change from
the flatness of ordinary bedding; (3) some
of them have brilliant autumn foliage in
addition to their flowers. The best shrubs
for this purpose, in my opinion, are those
with arching stems that meet the grass.
The following are all of this type, and the
dates from September to March mostly
refer to flowers or berries:
Magnolia stellata 0 March
Forsythia suspensa . : - April
Spirea Thunbergu . May,
Spirea Van Houtter . . 5 May
Deulzia gracilis 5 ° 5 May
Philadelphus Lemoinet . a June
Stephanandra flexuosa . ; June
Regel’s privet : June-July
Rhus copallina 6 0 July
Blue spirea . : : : Sept.
Yellowroot - _ Sept.-Oct.
Symphoricarpos racemosus . Sept.-Nov.
Berberis Thunber git Sept.-Mar.
THE BEST FILLERS
For filling in between the most important
plants we must have something that grows
higher than the centre-piece without taking
will become the most popular plants for
covering the ground because they bloom all
spring and summer (except for an enforced
rest of about ten days) and they have a
great range of colors.
There are fully too hardy perennials
suitable for edging and carpeting. Among
them are:
Adonis Amurensis . ° - March
Russian violets . ° ° March
Iris cristata : 5 - April
Iris pumila z 5 . . April
Goldentuft - April-May
Moss pink . ° 0 - April-May
Arabis albida . - 5 : May
Ajuga Genevensis 6 May-June ~
Tufted pansies May-Sept.
Cerastium tomentosum June-July
Achillea tomentosa June-July
Anemone Canadensis . - june-Sept.
Carpathian harebell . ° ; July
Coral bells ¢ 0 a July-Aug.
Hardy leadwort . 5 5 Sept-Oct.
Napoleon III. pink June-Oct.
THE FOURTH CROP
Underneath the carpeting plant it is
perfectly practical to have a crop of bulbs.
Mayr, 1909
Indeed, bulbs never look their best when
growing out of bare earth. They are far
prettier when seen against a background
of foliage that hides the soil entirely. These
carpeting plants are so shallow-rooted that
they do not exhaust the soil. If you have
lilies in the centre of the bed, you can
have an edging of daffodils or tulips. If
you have tulips or daffodils in the centre
you can have spring or autumn crocuses for
an edging.
In this way it is easy to get flowers at
four different seasons. If each one lasts a
fortnight you will have eight weeks of
bloom from hardy flowers. Indeed, I
believe it possible to have three months of
bloom in a hardy bed and attractive foliage
for seven months without the expense of
annual digging and replanting.
GAINING TWO OR THREE MONTHS
Anyone can make a hardy bed look at-
tractive two or three months longer than
the best bed of tender plants in the world.
There are two whole months in spring, or
from March r5th to May 15th, when hardy
plants will bloom while tender ones would
be killed by frost. This one fact is reason
enough why we should try nine times to get
a hardy combination before falling back on
tender plants, because this is time when
there is the greatest heart-hunger for
flowers.
Among March and April bloomers there
are Russian violets, the Japanese Adonis,
the dwarf-crested iris, golden tuft, and moss
pink. Under these we can grow snow-
drops, glory-of-the-snow, and scillas, getting
two crops of flowers before the ordinary
flower beds are even planted, and this, too,
without such extravagant methods as we see
in the Boston Public Gardens, where
everything is potted, forced under glass,
and then set out.
Among the best October-blooming or
frost-resisting flowers are pompon chry-
santhemums, the Napoleon III. pink, gail-
lardias, and nine kinds of hardy asters.
Under the edging plants you can put three
kinds of autumn-blooming crocuses and
maintain a succession from September
almost to Thanksgiving.
POINTS TO REMEMBER
In conclusion, it seems to me that there
are only two positions of the first impor-
tance where formal beds are really needed,
viz., near the house and in the garden.
For the first position the noblest plants are
the broad-leaved evergreens, especially
American holly, mountain laurel, and rho-
dodendrons, because these are attractive
the year round.
In the garden, however, we want more
color, and for that we have hitherto relied
chiefly upon tender plants. The great
lesson that England has to teach us is
that we can now rely chiefly upon hardy
plants which are more harmonious, digni-
fied, and permanent, cost less to main-
tain, remain attractive two months longer,
and save us the ugliness and expense of
annual digging.
——— oe
What Ails Your Plants?—By E. Porter Felt
State Entomologist
New York
A NEW KIND OF TABLE, DESIGNED TO HELP THE AMATEUR TO RECOGNIZE THE CAUSE OF THE
TROUBLE AFFECTING HIS PLANTS, SO THAT HE MAY APPLY THE PROPER REMEDY PROMPTLY
[Ep1tor’s Notr.—Most tables, or spray calendars, assume an acquaintance with the insect or fungus causing the trouble or disease.
remedy is arrived at by working from the known to the unknown.
immediate remedies and general preventive measures.
In the present case the
First of all the plant is given, then the gross apparent character of the trouble, the time of observa-
tion, and the general description of the cause; and from these the name of the insect or disease, as the case may be, is arrived at.
ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS AND VINES
The remaining columns tell of the
A synopsis of up-to-date remedies and their modes of preparation follow the tables.|
PLANT INJURY
Alder 2.4 - Woolly lice on stems... --
LS ISSRLMIS EI Stems thickly scaled..--.
Euonymus..
Wilaces 582,23 Shoots wilting -.....-.--
Rose 2. .-..-.. iBadsweatenee spe sce ciee os
Rose) 2. <5 oe Leaves eaten ..........-
ROSee =o dae Skeletonized leaves......-
White specked or lousy
Rose .......- LEAVE Sta eteretcrste = meoerete conics
Rose... 352.2. White scale on canes....-
Rose e255. Leaves mildewed........
Viburnum or
Snowball. ...| Curled, lousy ieaves .....
Virginia
Creeper = s--- Weavesteatenwee meer
TIME
CAUSE
NAME
Growing season
Summer
Spring and sum-
mer
Summer
Growing season
Summer
Plant lice
Dark bark louse - .
White boring cater-
pillar tessectey ee
Yellowish beetle. . -
Slimy caterpillars. -
Leaf
aphis
hopper or
Woolly alder aphis
Euonymus scale...
TlacEboLeleee eee
Cutworms and cat-
REMEDY OR
PREVENTIVE
REMARKS AND CAUTIONS
enpillanseeee eee
Roses beetlessesea-
Rose slug
Rose-leaf hopper or
apisHe meee
Rose scale .......
Rose mildew......
Viburnum aphis -.
8-spotted forester.
Kerosene emulsion
Kerosene emulsion,
I to 4 parts water
Cut out and destroy
ting
Poison or plaster. -
Soap solution.....
Cut out worst
fested shoots... -.-
Bordeaux
Kerosene emulsion
hand
Poison
picking
or
Force spray through the protective
covering.
Only partially successful, occurs
on lilac and bittersweet.
Common, though not very des-
tructive.
Hand picking is very effective.
Poisons are of comparatively little
service.
Use either when slugs are abun-
dant.
Give repeated sprayings, especi-
ally early.
Occurs on blackberry and rasp-
berry.
Spray on appearance of disease
and ro days later if necessary.
Spray before foliage curls.
Occasionally a pest in cities.
Arborvite is frequently badly injured by bag worm (see shade tree pests); Japanese quince is very subject to injury by scurfy bark louse and San José scale
(see fruit trees).
WHAT BOTHERS THE SMALL FRUITS
PLANT INJURY TIME
Currant (1) .-.| Leaves discolored .....-- Spring and fall.
1G irregularly brown :
Currant .....- eaotte 4 Pace on y, Bit Mie Senne everarstenste
Currant) ---- Leaves stripped....-.-..- Spey Gu Sila
MLCT ype cre
Currant...... Wilting tips -.-..:---..- Yili coassooce
Currant ...... Leaves brown spotted -.. Spnte ee
Grape ....... Tips of shoots webbed...| Summer ......
Grape .....-- Buds destroyed ........- Early spring - - -
Grape ....... Clusters wormy.......-- Summerand fall
Grape es Vines sickly, roots badly| oyimer ......
SCOLEG) apes jere) =2ta =i -far/ho=
Grape ......-. Light specked leaves... .. Summer -....-
Grape ....... Dark spotted shoots ..... SMAI Go5oue
Grape ......- Whitish growth on leaves.| Summer ------
Grape ....... Dark spotted fruit....... Summer ......
Raspberry and he Z 5
Bivcibeny Bila Waltine:tipsye- tae tee Spring ......--
Raspb d i 4
ieuberay Iipleeaves riddled=eem- 2a. Spring ...---.-
Raspberry and Ge eae es
Blackberry __| Stems gray, cracked.....
Raspberry and) Orange-colored spots on
Blackberry..| jeaves
Strawberry...) Newly set plants dying...
Strawberry ...| Dead patches in bed....1
Strawberry ...| Leaves blighted.........
mer
mer
(x) Currant is badly injured by San José scale (see fruit trees).
CAUSE
Wleystt IOWESsonccoe
Reddish or yellow
and black bug ---
Spotted caterpillars
White borers
Fungus
Whitish caterpillar
Green beetle.....-
Small caterpillars. -
Brown beetle and
white grubs...-.-..
Whitish hoppers - -
White maggot ..--
Greenish larve ...-
NAME
REMEDY OR
PREVENTIVE
REMARKS AND CAUTIONS
Currant aphis ....
4-lined plant bug. -
Currant worm....
Currant stem borers
Leaf blight -......
Grape plume moth
Steely flea beetle ..
Grape berry moth.
Grape root worm. .
Leaf hopper---....
Anthracnose......
Downy naTdee: BOE
Black rot
Raspberry
maggot
Blackberry sawfly.
Anthracnose....--.
Redinustae eter
White grub.......
Crown borer......
Leaf blight.......
Kerosene emulsion
Kerosene emulsion
for young
Poison or hellebore
Burn infested tips -
Ammoniacal cop-
per carbonate... .
Crush caterpillars -
Paint buds with
Poison ae sao
Spray with poison
a [UIs oscscoee
Poison foliage in
June
Spray with whale-
Ol GBD. osscsccc
Copper sulph. sol’n
and Bordeaux...
Bordeaux
Bordeaux. Ammo-
niacal cop. carb’te
Poison ineffective .
Poison or hellebore
Copper sulph. sol’n
and Bordeaux ...
Burninfested plants
Dig out and destroy
Destroy _ infested
plants
Apply early before leaves curl.
Burn egg-bearing currant tips.
Use hellebore after fruit is half
grown.
Cut well below affected part of
cane.
Bordeaux after fruit is picked.
Apply poison if pest is abundant.
Spray with poison 10 to 14 days
later.
Keep surroundings clear of brush
and weeds.
Destroy pupz by cultivation.
Collect with
other device.
rst before buds open, 2nd 3 to 4
days later; burn diseased wood.
Spray when leaves are fully ex-
panded.
ist to fully expanded leaves; after fruit sets in 2 to
3 wk. intervals till 34. grown. Then 2d every
7 to 14 days.
Cut and burn infested shoots.
sticky shields or
Apply to expanded leaves and
again 2 to 3 weeks later.
Cut and burn badly infested
canes.
Affection not amenable to treat-
ment.
Avoid setting plants on infested
land.
Put new fields in another location.
Apply when growth begins, when
fruit sets, and after fruiting.
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THE WorsT PESTS OF OUR ORCHARD TREES
TIME
Late summer
anal vigil 5 .- 5.
Summer
early fall.....
Early spring...
Early spring...
Early spring...
Early spring...
Spring and fall.
Summer and
early fall... ..
Summer and
Bales oceh eer es
Early spring and
summer......
Spring to fall. .
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PLANT INJURY
*Apple (r)....| Wormy fruit............
Irregular, hard or rotting
SNINC 3 po oce (HAUS ia WWI oss coc ace
Young leaves and blossoms
Apple -..-..- destrovediaeee eeeeenee
Young leaves and blossoms
ANPIE oe anao: Gesirowedl -scecsancsous
Stripped branches with
AYO gubose: ANGE EMIS. ccsacsceccec
Young leaves eaten or
Apple ......- lpROw Neds ete emery secre
opie Terminal leaves eaten,
Da eae S twigs withsmall, firm webs
Aonile Leaves brown and loosely
IgE PociOce we bled! as cyaevetnceenerce
Leaves stripped from
Apple ....... branchesr eae seca see
Appleee eee Curled, sticky leaves... .-
Dead limbs, red-spotted
IID sec 083e ES lea me ts eee
INJNO so5s55e Poor growth, limbs scaly.
Apple seen. Poor growth, limbs scurfy
Apples sears Poor growth, sickly foliage
Apple ....... Boring at base of tree... -
Ronle Leaves with thickened
bi a a brown spots:..........-
LNIVE sooasce Brown spots onleaf......
INV sococeac Dead spots on bark....--
Cherry. eee Curled, sticky leaves... --
Citrus fruits,
(orange,lemon,ete.)
Citrus fruits_.
‘Citrus fruits.
‘Citrus fruits...
Citrus fruits. _
*Peach (2) ...
Scaly fruit and limbs ....
Scaly fruit and limbs ..--
Scale on leaves and twigs.
Blackened, sticky foliage.
Yellow streaks on leaves.
Boreditminksysee errs
Buds destroyed ........-
Shot holes in bark.....--
Curled@leaveseeeeseeeree
Sickly, yellowish trees. . - -
RG THAI. oo soeesess
Young fruit gnarly, mag-
BOY sencssssoce5eeoo0n
Leaves sticky, black ..-...
Brown foliage on dying
branches sees sert eer
Crescent-shaped cuts in
Ao closocseaateoshod a
Brown scales on limbs ...-
Rothinesiniiteeesss eee
Spring and fall.
Spring to fall . .
Spring to fall...
Spring and fall.
Summer
Summer 222.
Growing season
Early summer. .
Growing season
Growing season
Growing season
Growing season
Growing season
Fall and spring
Early spring...
Spring and sum-
MET satya
Summer
Spring and sum-
Menee~ecmect
Fall and spring
Summer
Gnarly growths on limb ..-
Summer
CAUSE
Whitish caterpillar.
Small maggot.....
Caterpillars in cases
Brown caterpillar. -
Bluish caterpillar. .
Looping caterpillars
Hairy caterpillars. -
Hairy, yellowish cat-
expllarsee eee eer
Yellow orred marked
caterpillars ......
Plant-lice
lousee a see ee
Brown scale insect.
Whitish scale insect
A white,woolly plant
IOWSS Goscesocaee
White legless grub.
Minute mite
Black plant louse. -
Circular scale.....
Long scale insect. .
Black scale insect -
Small suckinginsect
Minute mite......
White caterpillars. -
Small caterpillar. - -
Small, black beetles
Plant disease....--
Plant disease..-..-
Plant disease......
Yellowish maggot |
Slimy caterpillar -.
Jumping louse... -
Bacterial disease - .
Small weevil....--
Brown, oval scale. .
Plant disease .....
winter .......
(1) Apple: This tree is very badly injured by gypsy moth (see shade tree insects).
(2) Peach and plum are both badly injured by San José scale (see under apple).
(3) The pear suffers from codling moth, canker worm, brown tail moth, San José scale, and blister mite (see under apple).
May, 1909
NAME
REMEDY OR
PREVENTIVE
Codling moth.....
Railroad worm... .
Casebearers ......
Tent caterpillar -- .
Canker worms ...-
Brown-tail moth --
Fall web-worm....
Yellow-necked and
red-humped worms
Apple plant lice...
San José scale ....
Apple bark louse. -
Scurfy bark louse. .
Woolly aphis.....-
Round-headed ap-
plesboren=e ee eeer
Blister mite.......
Leaf spot and scab
Canker or blight. - -
Cherry aphis.....-
iRediscalewaenmeeee
Purple or long scale
Black scale......-.
White fly.........
Red spider ...--.-
Peach borer ...--.-
Peach twig borer. -
Fruit tree bark
beetle’ acc. sete
Peach leaf curl...
Peach yellows. ....
Brown rot.......-
Peammidgele eee
Pearisitgereeeeeer
Pear psylla....-..-
Pear blight ......-.
Plum curculio.....
Plum scale.......-
Brown rot .......
Black knot .......
Poison, preferably
arsenate of lead. -
Destroy _ infested
ALUitS sate eee
Kerosene emulsion.
Lime-sulphur wash,
miscible oil.....-.
Kerosene emulsion.
Kerosene emulsion.
Kerosene emulsion
or whale-oil soap.
Tar paper bands. .
Lime-sulphur wash
or miscible oil... .
Bordeaux mixture.
Burn infested parts
Kerosene emulsion.
Hydrocyanic acid
GAS Acer pre ee
Fumigation......-.
Kerosene emulsion.
Dig out borers ....
Lime-sulph. washor
kerosene emulsion
Burn the infested
branches seer
Lime-sulphur wash
or Bordeaux. ....
Cut and burn.....
Lime-sulph. washor
cop.sulph. solution
Destroy infested
PEWIL Mya scrsvepeterorsrore re
Poison or dust ...-
Lime-sulphur wash
Cut and burn.....
Poison or collect ..
Kerosene emulsion.
Cop. sulph. solution
and Bordeaux ..
Cut and burn.....
REMARKS AND CAUTIONS
Put in blossom end of apples
within a week after bloom falls.
Use early sweet varieties as traps
and destroy promptly.
Spray tips of young leaves in
badly infested orchards.
Treatment as above.
Remove and crush caterpillars
when in nest.
Poison is preferable to the use of
sticky bands.
Collect and burn winter nests.
Remove nests and crush cater-
pillars.
Crush clustered caterpillars.
Spray early before leaves curl.
Spray before buds open in spring.
Apply in early June when young
are crawling. ©
Apply as above.
Force insecticide through woolly
covering.
Band from May to July, cut out
borers.
Spray before buds open.
Spray swelling buds; 2 weeks before blossoms
open; after they drop, and a week later.
Cut well below infection to avoid
carrying disease.
Spray at 2 or 3 day intervals if
necessary.
Fumigate at night, more effective
than resin wash.
Treat as above.
Treat as above.
Treat as above.
More injurious in dry seasons.
Mound or band base of trees from
June to September.
Spray before the buds open.
Do this in winter or early spring.
Apply before buds burst.
Keep infected trees from contact
with healthy trees.
Apply before buds open.
Use Lawrence pears as trap.
Apply when slugs are abundant.
Apply as for San José scale.
Cut 6 to ro inches below affected
part.
Jar daily or every few days for 2
to 3 weeks after fruit sets.
Spray after leaves fall and repeat
before buds open.
Apply 1st before buds swell; 2nd weak and re-
peatedly; ammoniacal cop. carb. after fruit sets.
Apply Bordeaux in early spring.
*General treatment for orchard fruits: Apply lime-sulphur wash just before buds swell (for fungus, scale insects and blister mite); poisoned Bordeaux when
young leaves appear (for bad infestations of casebearers, bud moth and early leaf feeders); repeat the latter within a week or ten days after the bloom falls
(for codling moth, leaf feeders and fungus); give another application a week or 10 days later to insure thorough work. The same general directions apply to
peach, pear, plum, and quince, the curculio affecting the latter being controlled in the same way as the plum curculio.
The last two are very sensitive to arsenic.
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May, 1909 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 223
How THE SHADE TREES SUFFER
PLANT INJURY TIME CAUSE NAME eee ee REMARKS AND CAUTIONS
1D bri ene ee Skeletonized leaves...... SEupeandsuin: maa yellowish Elm leaf bectle....| Arsenate of lead. ..| Put poison on under sideof leaves.
P Spring and sum- Black, spiny cater-| Spiny elm caterpil-| Cut off and crush} Spray with poison; feeds on wil-
Elm ......--- Branches shaped pee ese Wie Losuseoss Pullaneeee ese lap Sse: GIWSIGS cescadece low and poplar.
Elm ......--- peel Go aie Soi) Early summer -]} Whitish bark louse] Elm bark louse ...] Kerosene emulsion erie oae from hydrant if
Elm and other| Tips of branches white- Summer ....-- Hairy caterpillars -| Fall webworm ...-| Cut and burn nests] Spray infested limbs with poison.
MTEES = oe esc webped@peer eee sancas. ‘ r
pare aoe othet| | caves eaten .....--.--- porns and sum- Caterpillars incases| Bagworm -....---- POGOMN.S cescenecue Collect and burn bags in winter.
LCCSMe | Mee a a ee EBEL soe ps cecs
Paes and other) Trees defoliated ........ Late spring....| Hairy caterpillars .| Gipsy moth......- Arsenate of lead. ..| Apply poison early; creosote eggs.
NCS eee .
Horsechestnut| Leaves eaten ........-.. Early summer .} Tufted caterpillars ee puss Spray with poisons oe and burn white egg
Bivens, Weal: fe SR | | ; reer ;
Horsechestnut| Leaves mostly brown, dry| Summer ...... Plant disease ..... Weateblicht=sseeee Bordeaux .......- nee ae eulee oe after leaves
Hickory ...... Inner bark badly tunneled| All seasons ..-./ Small beetles ...-- Hickory bark borer eee HOLeEe Te ee aes infested Heve!
Maple ......- oie Cag i oe SErIRe and fall.| Large,’white grub.| Sugar maple borer| Cut out borers ....| Protect wounds with paint or tar.
Maple ......- Weavesieatenten= = sae Spring al Caterpillars .....-. ae we eae IHOWOMN. ceseosccoe Spray at inception of attack.
: : Plant-lice, severa]| Kerosene emulsion} Spray before leayes are badl
iViaple ee] Leaves sticky, black. ....| Summer ...... Ap hidsieee eee Sele eae Sh eee a ey are badly
Waplet == -- Brown scale on limbs....| Summer ...... iBarkslousel= eee Black-banded scale es SaLISOE URE crawling young in mid-
Cottony masses on limbs Cottony maple} Kerosene emulsion] Spray crawling young with ro to
Maple .....-- OLileavesee neo Summer -...-- Bark louse --....- scale, efc.-.....- OF SOD coscsocce 12% kerosene.
Maple and Oak| Cut limbs dropping -.--- September ..--| White grub...-.-..- Oak twig pruner.. Coe pies ; Peete Occasionally quite injurious.
as peace Limbs bored, broken ....| All seasons....| White caterpillars .| Leopard moth ....| Cut out borers.... ee attacks a large variety
Young trees and branches : 2 Mottled poplar| Cut out and destroy] Apply Paris green, kerosene, and
Poplar ....... Fete ke win hes Sk Spring and fall.| White grubs....-- (eRe oe fee tree Ore reeeees Seeder ifigae WGA GO amen.
ae ; Repeated applications; practical
Sycamore _...} Leaves brown and drop..| Spring ........ UMS osascccses Weateblight=esseer= iBordealixes= pe aeee onily don omalll izes.
FOR THE VEGETABLE GARDEN
: REMEDY OR 2 e
PLANT INJURY TIME CAUSE | NAME eter Pa REMARKS AND CAUTIONS
Asparagus ...| Shoots eaten....--..---- pee god ee | Beetle and grub..-| Asparagus beetle..| Poison grubs... -..- tees oe arsenate of
Asparagus ...| Shoots rusted.........-- Summerne see IRUSteee ees ee ee Asparagus rust... -- eoapgee Yay era plants ougmuiuiested
Beanie cys Leaves eaten.......-.--- SUMMET =] e1-/- Grubyspeeeretee: Bean beetle: ------ pelenoe ee vee a ae oF Tends On eer
Bean .......- Stored beans wormy....-- All seasons ....| Black weevil...... Bean weevil .....- Carbon bisulphide. Hie ate 24 hours in a tight
Beansassecs Leaves and pods spotted .| Summer ....-- Plant disease ..... Anthracnose .-..-- iBordeatixa=e eee pee ee covered with first ap-
: When 4 or 5 leaves have opened,
Beet........- Leaves spotted.........- Summer .....- Plant disease - -- -- Leaf spot.-------- Bordeaux ----.-.- then 3 times at ro day intervals.
‘ ; Kerosene emulsion| Spray when pests are numerous,
Cabbage ..... Leaves lousy ...-.-.---- Summer ...... Plant-lice ........ Cabbaseaphise=r=|siqe pale oil soap.| repeating if necessary.
; Helleb ferabl
Cabbage ..... Holes eaten in leaves ....| Summer ...... Green caterpillars -| Cabbage worm... - Poanionhellshore So e after
Cabbage .._.- Stems eaten off -......-- Springeeeeee || Naked caterpillars-| Cutworms.-.--..--- re nen Sims Wilh Use poisoned bait.
Cabbage ..... Wilting leaves -.....-..-- Summers Red and black bug pee cabbage | Hand picking... -- Som Manerard cay ene kill bugs
$24 Sos cas C60C S 5
; Paper collars or] Expose base of roots to dryin
Cabbage ..... Roots destroyed......-.- Earlysummer.-) White maggot... .- Cabbage maggot. - dilute carbolic acid ae for some hours. tae
Cabbage ..... peceulay black spots on) guinmer ...-.. Baciewail disease ..| Biladk wt.....---- Grow in clean soil.}| Avoid infected soil if possible.
Celetyi=2 ee Yellowish spotted leaves -| Summer ...--- TBWAEUS = ocaceuede Celery blight .-.-. BRordeatixee == eee poe ape soil ox in) shady,
Cucumber ..-.| Gnawed leaves........-.. Summer .....- Black and yellow Striped cucumber} poisoned Bordeaux Dust foliage with land plaster or
eal. ote eseeede beetles san She ashes.
Cucumber ...| Mildewed leaves ......-- Summeneeras: iunpuses2 ss 5225: Downy mildew... -. Bordeatixiere sere Apply every 10 days.
Onion eee \iiihatae toys cob boooseec Summereeses= White maggot ...-| Onion maggot ....| Carbolic soap wash aS pear ACt fee toes
Spri d - Poison or hand : :
Potato ....... Leaves eaten -.--.----.. toate, oe parte Beetles and grubs -| Potato beetle .-..- picking : “ Pe a ay Arsenate of lead is most effective.
Potato. ...... Wilting stalks .......... Summeneseeer Brown caterpillar .| Stalk borer....... De pee Rarely very injurious.
Potato....... Blacksleavessemeeeee eee Summer see = Plant disease...-.- Potato blight...... Bordeaux ....-..-- apy SEEN ERNICY Sriele sie
Corrosive sublimate| Use 14 oz. to 8 gals. water; plant
Potato .-....- SE WOES occ aaa Hall = Plant disease. ..... Potato scab......- soluHOn Ieee in uninfected ae E
224 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE May, 1909
FOR THE VEGETABLE GARDEN — Continued
j E i REMEDY OR
PLANT INJURY TIME CAUSE NAME SRV ERE REMARKS AND CAUTIONS
ae 5 : Slit stem and kill ;
Squash _____. Wilting rumners.....---- SWIMM os c55 5 Boring caterpillar. .| Squash borer ..... ee Plant early trap vines.
Squash _.__.. Vili ealeayes ieee eee SHeuaMTAMET? soca se Black bug..--.-.- Squash bug.....-.- Hand picking. .... Trap under shingles.
Sweet potato.| Leaves eaten. -.......-- Sune essere Small beetle .....- se aad foriolse Arsenate of lead... Dp yobs Plants in poison before
Buleeesdaodacs setting.
Tomato...... Yellow-specked leaves -..| Summer ...-... Small beetle ...-.. pe ea Poisoned Bordeaux] Feeds on a variety of plants.
Large, green cater- Hand picking or| The latter is rarely necessary in
Tomato._.... Leaves devoured .......-. Summer -....- Dillane. ae Tomato worm .... RONSON oo ne mses the North.
INSECTS AND DISEASES OF THE FLOWER GARDEN
REMEDY OR ‘
PLANT INJURY TIME CAUSE NAME Gere REMARKS AND CAUTIONS
/NSIOS coancode Flower petals eaten....-- Late summer..| Black beetle..---- Black blister beetle Collect inwalcr aiid) - Dove ico e ic amis
IKGWOSONE oo oca0e -| three days if necessary.
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that is very heavily laden in May may carry but
a thin crop in June after the drop. Some varie-
ties drop more than others; the Italian prune is a
noted example of a “‘self-thinning” variety. Much
will be gained if it can be done safely before the
pit or seeds begin to harden, when a considerable
drain is made upon the vital forces of the tree.
Peaches, apricots, nectarines and plums are
commonly thinned when the fruits are one-half
to three-quarters of an inch in diameter, or about
the size of a hickory nut. Thin so that the distance
between the fruits, when ripe, will be from two to
three times their diameter. This means that
peaches are usually thinned to five or six inches
apart, and plums to four or five inches apart at
the time of thinning.
PREVENTING ‘‘OFF YEARS”’
When thinning fruits that bear on spurs, remove
all the fruits from some spurs, and if necessary,
thin the fruits on the other spurs to one. The
object of this is to give half of the spurs a chance
to make fruit buds for next year’s crop, which they
may not be able to do if supporting one or more
fruits. The only way to prevent “off years” is
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themselves by over-bearing. But certain varieties
of some fruits, especially the apple, have gotten
into the habit of bearing alternate years, and it
is difficult to overcome the tendency.
Remove weak, diseased, and wormy fruits
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or bury them. All thinning should be done by
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with poles, but by the time the thinning is done
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little, as it is better to have the branches bear
alternate years than to have the whole tree barren
every other year. Much can be done to conserve
the strength of the trees of some varieties by
successive pickings. [Early varieties of early
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of the fruit gathered when nearly mature, leaving
the remainder on the trees. The early gathered
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may be picked when little over two-thirds grown,
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1895 Rockford, Ill., F. C. Oltrogge, Tripoli, lowa 5 : : Score 98.
1896 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Thomas Milton, St. Paul, Minn. : Score 97.82
1897 Owatonna, Minn. H.N. Miller, Randall, lowa 6 5 Score 98.5
1898 Topeka, Kan., Samuel Haugdahl, New Sweden, Minn. . 5 Score 98.
1899 Sioux Falls, South Dakota, A. W. McCall, Creston, lowa, 5 Score 97.
1900 Lincoln, Neb., H. T. Sondergaard, Litchfield, Minn. q Z Score 98.
1901 St. Paul, Minn., E. O. Quenvold, Owatonna, Minn. 4 : Score 97.
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1906 Chicago, Ill., A. Carlson, Rush City Minn. : 2 Score 97.
1907 Chicago, Ill., A. Lindblad, North Branch, Minn. Score 97.5
1908 J.C. Post, Hector, Minn. 4 F 5 A 6 Score 98.
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near to two feet as may be safe. Then stretch
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be and dig a trench, keeping the line as a guide.
The depth should be sufficient to allow the plants
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About the end of June or early in July trim hedges
of California privet
in the soil. If the roots are all on one side the
stems of the plants may be placed hard against
one side of the trench and the soil shoveled in and
firmed with the hands and feet; if the roots proceed
from both sides of the plants set them in the
middle of the trench.
The most popular and in all probability the most
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feet high, which can be bought for about fifteen
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Smaller and cheaper plants will grow so rapidly
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May, 1909
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The Busy Time Commences
eRe the early spring-flowering bulbs have
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the plants twelve inches apart each way, unless
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sixteen inches apart each way.
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them and gnawing off their main roots. If you
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plenty of water, firming the soil thoroughly about
each plant.
I consider the following the most satisfactory
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equal parts of corn meal and rat poison and place
it in the runs. Keep chickens and cats away from
where the poison is.
Early in the month plant peanuts in soil which
has been well prepared and fertilized. The best
fertilizer is one that contains a high percentage
of potash and phosphoric acid with but very
little nitrogen. The Spanish peanut has been
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years on account of its being so free from pops.
The one great drawback to it, however, is that
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upright growth as the Spanish, but the pods
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Nitrate of soda may be applied to peppers and
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and foliage. Allow from a teaspoonful to a
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or three inches from the plants. Nitrate of soda
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close to them it will kill them.
Place house plants out of doors where they can
get only part of the morning sun. It gets too
warm during this month for suck plants to get the
sun all day.
If fruit is too thickly set on the peach trees
thin it out so as to get larger and finer peaches,
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A New Classification of Dahlias
of Bea New England Dahlia Society has adopted
the following new classification of dahlias
in order to accommodate the recent developments
of newer types of the decoratives, etc. The most
important change that the old-time dahlia fancier
will notice is the amalgamation of the show and
fancy, which seems perfectly reasonable, the pres-
ent classification being based entirely on the form
of the flower. The official ruling on the disputed
classification of the few varieties listed at the end
should also prove valuable to exhibitors.
SINGLES
1. COMMON SINGLES. One row of flat ray
florets, eight in number, of any color, flowers
stellate in form or nearly so and not less than
two inches in diameter.
TyprEs: Polly Eccles, Rosebank, Cardinal.
2. GIANT SINGLE. Ray florets! eight in number,
the whole forming a solid flower circular in out-
line; in size not less than four inches in diameter.
Types: Twentieth Century, and kindred varie-
ties.
3. SINGLE Cactus. Ray florets eight in number,
at least twice as long as they are broad, with edges
rolled backward for not less than one half their
length, tips incurving or twisted; flowers not less
than three inches in diameter.
Typrs: Ivanhoe and Queen Mary.
4. COLLERETTE. Single or semi-double with a
row of petaloids inside the ray florets.
Types: President Viger and M. Joseph Goujon.
SEMI-DOUBLE
5. SEMI-DOUBLE or PEONY-FLOWERED. Two
or more rows of broad loosely arranged florets,
often pointed and sometimes twisted, flowers not
less than five inches and showing disc. Stems not
less than twelve inches.
TyprEs: Queen Emma, Queen Wilhelmina.
DOUBLES
6. SHow. Florets cupped and quilled, globular
in form, and not less than three inches in diameter.
Types: Frank Smith, A. D. Livoni, Dr.
Keynes and Gracchus.
7. Cactus. Florets at least twice as long as
broad, with edges rolled backward for not less
than one-half their length, tips incurving or twisted,
flowers not less than three inches in diameter.
Typrs: (a) Long narrow florets: Fairy and
Aurora; (6) Straight regular florets: Countess of
Lonsdale, Marguerite Bouchon; (c) Floret tips
split, forked or fringed: Lady Fair, Mr. Seagrave
and Progenitor; (d) Large flowers and heavy
florets: Mrs. Chas. Turner, Goliath and Duc
d@’Orleans.
8. DECORATIVE. Florets broad and flat and
intermediate between the Show and Cactus types
with margins either slightly incurved or reflexed.
Flower not less than three inches across.
Typrs: Jeanne Charmet, Souvenir de Gustave
Doazon, Nymphza, Catherine Duer, Kaiserin
Augusta Victoria.
9. ANEMONE-FLOWERED. At least two rows of
flat guard florets surrounding the crown of tubular
_ florets of which the flower is composed.
Typre: Gloria.
POMPON
10. SHOw Typr. Florets or petals cupped or
quilled, any color, flower globular in form and
not exceeding two inches in diameter.
Types: Belle of Springfield, Darkest of All.
rz. CActus Typr. Florets or petals at least
twice as long as they are broad with edges rolled
backward for not less than one-half their length
with tips incurving or twisted.
TyprEs: Hobbies’ Pet, Edelweiss.
(Signed) Ww. F. TurNrER, Chairman.
JAMES ROBERTSON,
ALEXANDER MCLELLAN,
Committee.
Norrt.—The varieties named below have been
definitely placed in the following classes:
Mrs. Chas. Turner, Cactus; Mrs. Roosevelt
Show; W. W. Rawson, Show; Grand Duke Alexis,
Show; La Colosse, Show; Le Siam, Show; Le
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Decorative.
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May, 1909
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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE
May, 1909
Shirley Poppies with Candytuft
AS EFFECT of Shirley poppies and giant
white candytuft mixed was what caught
the eye oftenest in our garden last summer. The
bed ran along the south and east sides of the
living room, beginning at the front hall entrance
on the south and extending around the corner of
the house toward the dining-room porch on the
rear east —a stretch of about thirty-five feet in
length and from two to three feet in width.
While the early tulips were still in blossom,
poppy seed was sown among them in rows and
small groups, the object being to make a solid-
looking bed as the poppies came up and the old
tulip tops decayed and were taken out. A mixture
of candytuft seed with a little of the yellow Cali-
fornia poppy was then sown for a wide border
along the outer edge. The plants soon appeared
and were subsequently thinned out wherever
necessary.
The poppies were kept in flower until frost by
cutting away the seed-pods as soon as they formed.
At noonday, in very warm weather, the blossoms
looked rather warm against the gray-pebbled
background, but at ail other times the color scheme
was very good. The white of the candytuft
strengthened the poppy colors, and its dainty
flower proved to be of the right character to offset
the graceful, nodding flowers of the poppy.
Illinois. M. M.
More ‘ABs Toads
N Tue Garpen Macazine for March, 1909,
L. C. Porter, of Wisconsin, suggests that Mr.
Howard Earl should introduce toads into his
garden in order that he may rid himself of the
insects which ruin his nasturtium vines.
May I say that we, too, have had our vines
ruined by these small black insects, and that
within a foot of the vines is a large colony of
toads?
There are big toads, little toads, and middle-
sized toads, and every other size that one can
imagine. They come out in the day-time from
under the edge of a large flat stone, and sit blinking
in the sun. Toward evening they hop around the
garden seeking food. We protect them and treat
them with great consideration, and, although the
large number of toads is quite out of proportion
to the small row of vines, they do mot rid us of these
pests. Are there toads and toads, and does
L. C. Porter know of any particular kind of toad
that we should have?
New Jersey. H. C. ANDERSON.
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Fertilizer Advice for Amateurs
O ONE can write a fertilizer article of any
pretensions without using a lot of big
words that most people will be forced to skip.
This is no reflection on the intelligence of the
readers either. Investigation of the properties of
fertilizers requires a definite scientific knowledge,
and even then it proves extremely baffling. How
much, then, of this mass of facts and theo-
ries do you and I, with our small garden, need to
know, and how much can we “‘forget.”’
It is pretty hard to say very much that is definite
anyway without indulging in lots of guess work.
Fertilization is not an exact science. We know,
broadly speaking, what happens, but we don’t
know “why” and the man who tries to tell us ““why”’
usually covers up his shortcomings with words
we can’t understand.
Having this in mind, and judging from the
hundreds of questions that are asked every year
by subscribers, as to what are the most troublesome
points, this article will try to show, in a very brief
way, the most vital things concerning fertilizers,
and how to use them intelligently, simply con-
sidering the man with a small place —a lawn,
vegetable garden, flowers and shrubbery, per-
haps.
The books tell us that there are three elements
necessary to plant growth — nitrogen, potassium,
phosphorus, and perhaps a fourth, lime. This is
misleading, to begin with. The point is not that
these four alone form a large part of the structure
of a plant, but that they are the only ones liable
to exhaustion from constant cropping of a soil.
All the other things exist or are supplied in prac-
tically unlimited quantities by soil, air, and
water.
The man with a small garden can simply con-
sider that as far as he is concerned there are only
three kinds of fertilizers —-manures, commercial
fertilizers, and lime—and that soil texture and
weeds and insect pests and diseases, sunshine and
rain, are far more important than supplying
just the right amount of this, that, or the other
chemical to his soil for certain results. Adding
to the fertility of land is not a natural practice,
anyway. A fertile soil requires no doctoring; in
the great farms of the West the practice of fer-
tilizing is practically unknown.
VALUE OF FERTILIZER
When we add manure or fertilizer to ground
we are supplying something in which it is deficient.
In other words, we are doctoring a sick soil with
drugs, and we must try to give the dose in the
right amount or the remedy may be worse than the
disease. A little fertilizer may do a lot of good;
a lot of it (say, ten times as much) would abso-
lutely destroy the plant growth or, as the farmers
say, “burn it up,” but this does not apply as a
rule to stable manure. And here we come to
the most important stumbling block of many gar-
deners who have read “‘not wisely” but too much
about fertilizers. It refers to the use of barnyard
manure. Some people are afraid to use it because
it may not have just the right proportion of nitro-
gen, potash, and phosphorus. Remember just
one thing, even if you lose sight of all the rest of
this article: Plenty of good barnyard manure
will grow almost any crop, and if you are lucky
enough to have plenty of it, use it. If it is well
rotted, so much the better. Don’t be afraid to
use it because some book says that the best fer-
tilizer for this or that crop is so many per cent.
of nitrogen, potash, and phosphoric acid. Don’t
use any fertilizer at all while the manure pile lasts.
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE
May, 1909
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if you would be economical. As stable manure is
a complete fertilizer, 7. e., one containing the
three elements, any crop will be benefited.
Manures are better than fertilizers, too, because
they improve the texture of the soil. They furnish
humus (vegetable fibre). Heavy clay soils are
made more open and porous, admitting better
circulation of air and preventing baking, and
sandy soils are made more compact, preventing
them from wasting. Besides all this, the effects
of manure are lasting.
Someone writes, ‘‘How much manure shall I
need?” The answer is, “All you have.” From
ten to twenty tons per acre is considered sufficient
for most farm crops—that is, from five to ten
pounds for each ten square feet of garden, but
double and treble may be used. Of course, it
isn’t necessary to weigh it — guess-work is good
enough. A ton of fresh stable manure ordinarily
contains eight pounds of available nitrogen, ten
pounds of available phosphorus, and ten pounds
of potash. Based on what we must pay for these
elements in commercial fertilizers — nitrogen at
sixteen cents, potash at five cents, and phosphorus
at six cents — manure is worth at least $2 a ton.
A question that is constantly asked is whether
it is better to haul manure directly from the stable
or to leave it in the yard or heap. The general
answer is, if you have a good place to keep it, a
covered shed or a clay or concrete pit that will
prevent the leaching effect of rains and the loss
of the liquid part which is very high in fertilizing
qualities, keep it in a heap and spread it when
you can handle it most conveniently. But if it
is wasting away on some side hill or barnyard,
and, because it is not systematically forked over,
if it is burning up and turning white, then get it
on the garden whenever you can. Do not locate
it in small piles, but spread it and spade or plow
it in. The loss in value of manure is enormous
when kept under wasteful conditions. In an ex-
periment conducted at Ithaca, N. Y., 4,000
pounds of stable manure, containing an estimated
value of plant food of $2.30, was left in a compact
pile and exposed to the elements. In less than
five months it had reduced in weight to 1,730
pounds and the plant food value remaining was only
a little over a dollar. The annual value of the
manure in New York State alone is about a hun
dred million dollars and at least a third of it is
wasted. Therefore, if you can’t care for manure
properly, get it out in the fields.
We are repeatedly asked about manures other
than from the stable. The answer is that cow
and pig manure are less constant in composition
and generally less valuable than horse manure.
The two most valuable of all are poultry and
sheep manure. A ton of poultry manure will
contain eighty-two pounds of nitrogen, sixteen
pounds of potassium, and thirty pounds of potash,
and, therefore, pound for pound, is worth about
four times that of horse manure. You can there-
fore pay profitably at the rate of six to eight dollars
a ton for poultry droppings in good condition.
The manure question can be disposed of with the
following brief instructions: If you have manure
use it and read books about it afterward.
The real problem is that most small gardeners
do not have sufficient manure, and therefore have
to help out the supply with some kind of concen-
trated fertilizer. Here is where the trouble begins,
for each crop, according to the books, will require
a different formula. For instance, you read that
corn will require a 2-7-6 mixture; grapes 2—8-11,
radishes 3-7-9, lettuce 5-6-9 and so on. In
order to apply all this, the home garden would
have to be laid out like a checker board and each
square or row given a special mixture that would
require the services of a druggist’s prescription
clerk to apply.
In my own practice, I am unable to get very
much manure, and therefore buy a so-called com-
plete fertilizer at $30 a ton and use it for every-
thing. I will admit that I may be wasting some
fertilizing ingredient that the soil does not need,
and may not be getting maximum crops. But
what of it? I would be wasting still more valu-
able time and money fooling with all these special
mixtures and treatments. Even the scientist will
admit that chemical analysis of a soil does not
show anything, because it doesnot, as a rule,
determine availability or soil texture. Under
May, 1909
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Conifers in America and England
NOTE in Mr. Wilhelm Miller’s remarks on
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KEEPING GERANIUMS AND BEGONIAS
OVER WINTER
Can I keep geranium and begonia plants over
winter, storing them in a dark, cool, dry cellar?
How shall I care for them in the cellar?
Wisconsin. If, 18, IF
—It is possible to store geraniums over winter in
the cellar, and it is very often done. Bring in
the plants just at the approach of frost, and hang
them up by the roots on a nail in the roof-timbers
of the cellar. Begonias (with the exception of
tuberous-rooted varieties) cannot be kept in a
cellar. The bulbs of the tuberous kinds may be
put in dry sand and stored in a dry frost-proof
place, but the fibrous kinds must be stored in the
house in a light place, where they can grow more
or less and be watered if necessary all winter long.
Geraniums will not need any water when they
are hung up in the cellar.
LAWNS IN SHADED PLACES
How can I make grass grow in a shaded place
in my garden?
New York. A.D.
—A lawn in a shaded place has to be built up
gradually — it may take four or five years to estab-
lish satisfactorily. A first-class lawn can be
obtained only by continuous feeding by means
of top dressings, reseeding every spring or fall,
and seeding in all bare patches that occur at any
time of the growing period. A shaded place
grass mixture is composed of 40 per cent. Kentucky
blue grass, 40 per cent. wood meadow grass, 10
per cent. various leaved fescue, and ro per cent.
crested dog’s tail. These percentages refer to
weight, not bulk, and recleaned seed is assumed
in each case. Rake the surface of the lawn in
springtime, using a sharp-toothed steel rake, and
do not be afraid to scratch hard. ‘Then scatter
the seed and roll with as heavy a roller as can be
manipulated. Naturally, the more shaded a place
is the more necessary it is to provide proper under-
drainage. L. B.
GROWING PEACHES AND NECTAR-
INES IN POTS
WHAT are the names of root stocks used in
grafting peaches and nectarines for pot culture?
Kentucky. Bee
—Practically all the peaches and nectarines propa-
gated in European nurseries for growing on walls
and in other dwarf forms, such as in pyramids
and under glass, are worked on plum stock, either
Myrobalan, Black Damas or St. Julian. In this
country the Americana stock seems to give better
result with peaches than either Myrobalan or St.
Julian. When Americana stock is used, budding
should take place in July — earlier in the season
than is usually practiced, which in most localities
is along in August. Sand-cherry stock has also
been used for working peaches and nectarines
on in this country in order to dwarf them. It
makes smaller plants than when worked on plum
stock, but it is a relatively shorter-lived tree in
consequence, as the cion overgrows the stock.
Americana stock may be purchased, or, if the seeds
are sown early in the season and the plants well
cultivated to induce rapid growth, budding may
be done the same year. It can take place as late
as two weeks after the usual budding season,
because these young plants are making a more
| rapid growth and grow longer in the season than
do one-year-old or older plants. 5 Bly 185
Wied, Geeiley IDI ING WILE G ANZ ILIN 18
May, 1909
“A PUFEKLY WOFLES CULUD CHILE”
An old darky woman was brought before the Mag-
istrate for the third or fourth time charged with in-
human treatment of one of her children. The Judge
had decided to punish her severely, but asked her if
she had anything to say before he passed sentence.
The. old darky rose and said: “Say, Jedge, was yo
evah the parunt uf ah pufekly wofles culud chile?”
Some eminent authorities would have you suppose
that “SCALECIDE” is ‘a pufekly wofles culud
chile,” but it is either prejudice or a lack of informa-
tion, for no spray for San Jose Scale on fruit trees has
ever stood a higher test.
The Storrs, Connecticut Bulletin, No. 54, Decem-
ber, 1908 gives “SCALECIDE” (z gallon to 15 gallons
of water) 100% scale killed and peach leaf curl
absolutely controlled.
The Missouri Bulletin No. 18, October, 1908, gives:
Lime-Sulfur (boiled) 15-15-50 07.8% scale killed
Rex Lime-Sul I to Ir :
CAL ECIDES r to 16 ood
Two gallons of “SCALECIDE” spray per tree did
absolutely perfect work, while three gallons of Lime-
Sulfur and three and a fifth gallons of Rex Lime-Sulfur
per tree failed to kill all the scale.
The Idaho Bulletin No. 61, February, 1908, gives:
08 % scale killed
CG “ce
Niagara Lime-Sulfur, r to ro
Rex Lime-Sulfur, I to 10 984%
“SCALECIDE,” I to 15 09 %
Both the Niagara and Rex Lime-Sulfurs failed to con-
trol the leaf curl.
Are these exceptional reports? Did you ever see a
report anywhere that credited Lime-Sulfur, either
home-made or commercial, with 100% scale killed?
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The Necessity of Necessities
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MAKING A LAWN
How can I grow grass in a plot 10x12 feet
in which the soil is light brown, as hard as a rock,
and mixed with asphalt and stone? The bottom
is rock, and is within a foot of the surface in some
places.
Connecticut. In [fe IR.
—For the establishment of a lawn in the soil
mentioned, it must first be made deep, rich, and
mellow. Cart out all the present soil and bring
in new. Sodding would be the quickest way to
obtain results, and it would probably cost about
ten cents a square foot, delivered.
PLANTING DAHLIA ROOTS
Can you tell me whether it is best to plant
dahlia roots in large clumps like peonies, or in single
toes?
New York. 186 Ss Wo Jl
—lIt is largely a matter of convenience as to the
best sized dahlia roots to plant. A moderate-sized
clump of what is known as field roots will, of course,
give a larger mass of growths than single or divided
roots. By dividing a clump into several roots
and allowing one stem only from each root, a much
greater amount of vigor is obtained. But if, on
the other hand, a large mass of growth is desired
so as to get the greatest bunchiness of effect, use
the field roots undivided. Perhaps the ideal
solution for the amateur gardener is half-way
between these two extremes, dividing the clump
so as to have three or four tubers and eyes to a
piece. You should read the article in the April
GARDEN MAGAZINE.
. HOW TO DESTROY ANTS
WHat should be done when ants attack an
apple tree? Some years ago a willow tree was
completely destroyed and a cherry tree almost
killed, but the. ravages of the ants in the latter
case were checked by filling in with fresh earth.
The apple tree seems to have the ants inside the
trunk.
New Jersey. F. B. M.
—It cannot be possible that the ants are the prime
cause of the injuries to the trees — they can only
follow after the damage has been done by some
other insect or disease. The portion of the
apple tree infested by the ants is probably already
dead, and they are simply making use of a con-
venient place for burrowing. However, if the
ants are in the ground around the trees, use bisul-
phide of carbon at the rate of one or two ounces
of the liquid to each tree. Pour it into the runs,
and the fumes will undoubtedly be destructive
to the insects.
PRINCIPLES OF GOOD LAWN
MAKING
Wuart is the best remedy for moss in a lawn
where there is plenty of sunshine? Can hardpan
be less than a foot below the surface? Can
sheep manure be spread on a lawn after it is
reseeded? What is a good lawn mixture?
New York. O.G.
—The presence of moss in a lawn fully exposed
to the sun is probably due to the absence or in-
sufficiency of soil drainage. By that we mean
that the ground water-line is too high, and that
tile drainage, such as is done in an agricultural
field, would improve the condition. Acidity of
the soil may also have a little to do with it. An
insufficient depth of good soil is undoubtedly
responsible for the failure of 50 per cent. of lawns.
Grass will not grow well unless it has good depth
for its roots, and with hardpan only one foot
below the surface, the soil is a shallow one on a
cold, wet bottom. It is not wise to put any fer-
tilizer such as sheep manure on any sort of ground
before the growth is up. Strong fertilizer will
merely kill the seed. Three bushels of Kentucky
blue grass, one bushel fancy red top, one bushel
Rhode Island bent and ten pounds white clover
is a perfectly satisfactory mixture, assuming, of
course, that only thoroughly re-cleaned seed is used.
The only modification that might be worth con-
sidering would be the addition of various-leaf
fescue, and if the soil is inclined to be acid it
might be well to reduce the Kentucky blue slightly,
increasing the bent in proportion, as it is a good
! soil binder. ily, 18)
May. 1909
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FAILURE OF DAFFODILS
Way does the double Van Sion daffodil gener-
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the first season’s blooming? Am I correct in
attributing it to soil conditions?
Georgia. AS Papel
—This problem is a very elusive one. It is
doubtful whether double daffodils will hold their
color in warm climates under any conditions.
Large growers grow the Italian bulbs for a year
or two in Holland and the British Isles so as to
turn the flowers yellow, but as soon as the stock
is again grown in southern climes, the tendency
to green reasserts itself, and is seemingly incurable.
; L. B.
FLOWERS PACKED FOR SHIPPING
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be shipped to large markets to advantage, and
would it be necessary to use ice in packing?
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—When shipping to market, the flowers of
bulbous stock (i. e., narcissus, daffodils, etc.) are
placed in wooden cases, fifty to one hundred bunches.
to a case, twenty-five flowers to a bunch. If the
shipment is to any great distance, a little ice is used,
and in the case of sweet peas the stalks only should
be moistened, It would hardly be necessary to do
this for a one-night’s journey if the packing is care-
fully done. In many cases shipments arrive in
the market in a ruined condition owing to water
having been sprinkled over the flowers.
HOW TO PROPAGATE PRIVET
How can I slip and start a privet hedge? Also,
how shall I cut slips, how deeply plant, how far
apart, and can they be set at once in the place
where they are to grow?
New York. F. N. H.
—Privet can be propagated either by green-wood
cuttings taken at any time during the summer
and inserted in the ground or in an ordinary
cutting bed, or by dormant wood taken in the
winter, heeled in sand, and planted out in
nursery rows in the spring. Nothing is easier to
propagate. The plants to be used for hedges
must be cut down to within three or four inches
of the ground after they are two or three years old,
and induced in every way to throw up suckers-
The trimmings that are cut off with the shears
during the summer can be stuck into the ground
and are almost sure to grow. Merely removing
the lower leaves is the usual way of trimming.
Do not set the plants in the place where they are
to grow, but in nursery rows, nearly two inches
apart, so that they can be more easily cultivated
until well rooted. Having the plants once rooted,
of course you can set them out where the hedge
should be. The plants should be finally set in
the row, or double row, about nine inches apart,
and decidedly deeper than they were growing in the
nursery row.
CRIMSON CLOVER AS A FERTILIZER |
How can I use crimson clover as a fertilizer
ina vegetable garden? Canit be planted at any time
during the summer, and should it be turned under
while young, or allowed to blossom and ripen seed ?
Connecticut. 6 Cs 2D).
—Crimson clover improves the fertility of the
soil in two ways: First, by being turned under as a
green crop, it adds humic matter the same as any
other green fertilizer; second — and this is its chief
value as compared to other plants — it adds nitrogen
to the soil by gathering it directly from the air
through colonies of bacteria which inhabit nodules
or galls on the roots. Most leguminous plants do
this, but the crimson clover has such an extraordin-
arily large root system and commands such a large
number of bacteria colonies that it adds more
nitrogen in proportion than any other plant. Nitro-
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soil when applied in mineral form, and is the basis
of all systems of fertilization. Itis because crimson
clover catches this from the air and adds it to the
soil at practically no cost that it is so highly valued
as a fertilizercrop. Sowtheseed either in drills or
broadcast, and plow under just before the flowers
open. Or another way is to sow the seed late in the
fall, so that the stand may be had all winter, and.
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““THE AMERICAN FLOWER GARDEN ”’
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“THE CYCLOPEDIA OF AGRICULTURE”
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THE GARDEN LIBRARY
“The Vegetable Garden,” by Ida D. Bennett.
“The Flower Garden,” by Ida D. Bennett.
“Orchard and Fruit Garden,” by E. P. Powell.
“Roses and How to Grow Them,” by Many Experts.
“Ferns and How to Grow Them,” by G. A. Woolson.
“Lawns, and How to Make Them,” by Leonard
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“Water-Lilies, and How to Grow Them
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“Soils; How to Handle and Improve Them,” by
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generally taken as a standard. Allow six days’ difference
for every hundred miles of latitude.]
Act Before June rst
Se out tender bedding plants, if you
really want them and danger of frost
is past.
Order water lily plants.
Sow tender annuals outdoors; e. g., nas-
turtiums, Lavatera trimestris, rose moss,
and scarlet sage.
Get a collection of dahlias — say, twelve
cactus dahlias, or twelve show; twelve
pompon, etc.
Have better window boxes than your
neighbors. Don’t depend on the small
local florist. Get one of the big seedsmen
to send you something different, e. g.,
white or blue moonflower, lemon verbena,
Thunbergia alata.
Make or buy some window boxes. Have
you tried the self-watering or sub-irrigating
kind ?
Decide now what you need in the way
of tomato vine supports, bamboo stakes,
galvanized iron rods, etc., for lilies, gladioli,
peonies, dahlias, etc.
Stimulate all backward vegetables with
nitrate of soda or liquid manure.
Spray roses three times with potassium
sulphide to prevent mildew and black spot.
About May 17th, 24th, and grst.
Water strawberries, and stimulate them
with nitrate of soda until crop is ready.
Don’t Miss these Chances
HE sensational flower feature of this
season will be Darwin tulips. Ask the
Readers’ Service Department where you
can see the best collections, and whether
there will be any exhibitions.
See all the May-blooming tulips you
can, because they do not need to be dug up
every year. Inquire where you can see
cottage tulips.
JUNE, 1909
Ask where you can see the wild and run-
wild tulips of Europe. There was a big
sale of 7. sylvestris and Gesneriana last year
because we told how to make them look
like wild flowers here.
Try some alpine flowers. Now is a fine
time to sow the seeds. American cata-
logues offer some of the common kinds.
new and rare kinds can be imported from
England without duty. Ask the Readers’
Service Department for addresses of spe-
cialists in alpine flowers.
Don’t use tender plants for bedding if
hardy ones will do. See if you can’t get
pot-grown plants of kinds that will bloom
two or three months; e. g., Miss Lingard
phlox, Napoleon III. pink, subsessile ver-
onica, Stokes’ blue aster, gaillardias, Eupa-
torium celestinum, everblooming ragged
robin, and Nepeta Mussint.
You can buy almost any kind of vine
and hardy flower now, because the big
nurserymen grow them in pots for summer
delivery. The vacation habit and auto-
mobile are largely responsible for this.
Between June 1st and 15th
BY celery plants now.
Buy plants now of cabbage, cauli-
flower, celeriac, Brussels sprouts, kale, and
kohlrabi.
Save a year on strawberries by plant-
ing pot-grown plants now.
Send for a midsummer catalogue of
vegetable plants and seeds. It will tell you
what to sow in summer in order to have
fresh vegetables all the autumn and winter.
Make an outdoor seedbed for the cab-
bage tribe, if you are raising them for winter
use.
Set out tender water lilies.
Spray roses twice, when in the height of
bloom, with arsenate of lead, or, one of the
special preparations sold under trade names.
What lawn tools do you need? A sweeper,
sprinkler, trimmer, mower? An _ auto-
mobile lawn mower for your golf club ?
Get tree guards for your street trees.
Do you need any other permanent iron
work that will not rust; e. g., flower bed
protectors, garden arches, trellises for roses
and other vines?
Opportunities for Early June
Nie sure that your garden will be
attractive in September and October
by making a second sowing of your favor-
ite annuals; e. g., marigold, phlox, pansy,
nasturtium.
Make your garden more interesting at
night by sowing fragrant white flowers; e. g.,
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-sweet alyssum or stocks, or by started seed-
lings of white tobacco or verbenas. Or buy
pot grown plants of the white day lily.
Study comfort in the garden. See what
your friends have in the way of summer
houses, pergolas, seats, benches, tables,
wall fountains, platforms built into trees,
telescopes for enjoying distant views, sub-
irrigation for gardens, hydraulic rams to
bring plenty of water, etc.
_ Order daffodils by the thousand for wild
- gardening in June, so as to get the best
“varieties and best bulbs.
Also all rare and
costly bulbs. Also the wild and run-wild
tulips for naturalizing. Also bulbs in great
demand, e. g., Darwin tulips.
See the evergreens that are grown in
willow baskets for summer planting. Don’t
you need some to make your summer home
look better?
Visit the best rose gardens in your neigh-
borhood and note the varieties you want.
Read ‘‘Roses and How to Grow Them,”
and you will understand better what you see.
Prune your own shrubs after blooming
by cutting out the old wood instead of let-
ting butchers trim everything into balls in
March.
Take a color photograph of your garden
and let us see it.
After June 15th
BURN every smutty corn stalk before
the black powder is exposed.
Watch for the second visitation of currant
worms.
Pick cherries
bark or fruit buds.
Secure a second crop of roses, by cut-
ting back one-third of the new growth of
hybrid perpetuals. Then apply liquid man-
ure or nitrate of soda.
Save labor in watering house plants that
are put outdoors for the summer, by plung-
ing the pots in the ground or in boxes of
sand or moss.
Cut down the hot, routine work of June
by getting better tools. Look in the back
of your seed catalogue, or send for the special
catalogues of tools. Do you need a wheel
hoe, garden plow, a scuffle hoe. They
will help you do all the work in half the time.
Trim privet hedges now, and twice more
this season. Cut back one-half of the new
wood each time.
carefully. Don’t injure
Opportunities of Late June
Sow Chinese primrose seed now and
raise plants to give friends at Christmas.
Order freesias for July delivery if you
want Christmas bloom.
The Creeping Gypsy Moth, a Serious Shade Tree Menace
By Luke J. DooGur, MaAssACHUSETTS
The female gypsy moth does not fly. The eggs
laid in immense numbers, hatch out during the first
part of April, the caterpillar state lasting for about
ten weeks. The gypsy moth feeds only during this
time. The caterpillars remain on the under sides of
the leaves, and as they attain size develop the night
feeding habit, concealing themselves during the day
in any place affording protection
Gypsy moth pupae. The moth emerges from this
In looking for gypsy moths a
mirror is very handy, as it
makes possible the inspection
of places difficult to get at nests were found
On the stones of this bulk-
head hundreds of nests were
laid; and even on loose stones
Gypsy moth nest on a leaf. A nest like this will
contain about 400 eggs
The natural enemy of the gypsy moth in both lava
and beetle form devouring gypsy caterpillars. This
beetle was brought to this country and cultivated by
the Massachusetts Gypsy Moth Commission, and
many thousands have been distributed to begin
their work of extermination
The gypsy moth female, un-
like the brown tail, does not
fly, but the caterpillar is car-
ried from place to place
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Destroy gypsy moth nests
with creosote, applying it to
each nest with a brush. It pene-
trates and kills the eggs
A few cents distributed among children will bring
tolight many gypsy moth nests. The children will
eagerly do the work of searching
Burlap placed about the trunks of treesis a good
trap to catch gypsies. When large the worms do
their eating during the night and hide from the
light during the day. The burlap is doubled over
and the gypsies will hide under it. Hundreds can
be easily destroyed during the daytime
The gypsy moth is not par-
ticular where she lays her eggs.
A nest may be found on old
clothing, etc.
The Brown Tail Moth, the Worst Flying Pest of Our Trees
Poisoned by the brown tail. The long hairs
shed by the caterpillar pierce the skin and cause
serious irritation which is not easily relieved. Dur-
ing many successive summers the effect of this
poisoning is apt to be felt by anyone who has
been thus afflicted. The children are the greatest
sufferers
Pear and apple trees are much liked and great nests
are made onthem. Pick off every nest.
handy for this
Poles are
By LukE J. DooGuE, MASSACHUSETTS
In this basket there are about 1,500 nests and each
nest contains on an average 400 brown tail cater-
pillars. Good sized nests will hold as many as 1,000
bugs
The female brown tail lays her eggs in the late
summer. The caterpillars, after hatching out, feed
for a short time and then spin their winter webs by
wrapping a number of leaves together with a fine
web. These webs are generally found at the tips of
branches. The brown tail appears with the first
warm days of spring
Light has a great attraction for the moths, and
they may often be seen in thousands crawling up
the electric light posts
The furnace is the proper place to put allnests. If
burned outside there is always great liability of
dropping some
Burning brown tail nests is not easy, as the web is
something like asbestos in composition.
hot fire until the last nest is destroyed
Keep up a very
Expert climbers are necessary on tall
trees. When the nest is cut off some one
must be watching it to pick it up.
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One hundred and sixty-nine fruit trees were stripped
bare by brown tails in one orchard in Georgetown, Mass.
last summer
English Primroses for American City Gardens—By H. C. Anderson,
New
Jersey
CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF THIS DAINTY FLOWER OF SPRING IS MOST EASILY GROWN ALMOST ANY-
WHERE, AND
l OVERS of flowers, to-day, with a won-
~ derful variety of plants within easy
reach, and brought to their attention by at-
tractive flower catalogues, can know very
little of one of the joys dear to the hearts of
our grandmothers, the exchange of favorite
plants, arranged for, no doubt, over the tea
cups, by the gentle ladies of long ago.
Almost all old gardens, fragrant with the
memories which hover round the sweet,
old-fashioned flowers, can boast of at
least one little clump of English primroses
obtained, possibly, in the old-time flower
exchange. Our garden was no exception
to the rule and, for thirty years or more,
a little primrose plant, brought originally
from an older garden, stood in a retired
corner, apparently making no growth what-
ever. Its charmingly dainty flowers, with
creamy white petals and golden eyes,
bloomed very early each spring, and con-
tinued to bloom for at least six weeks. A
desire to have more led us to experiment
with ,he original plant, and, at the end of a
few years, as a result of our experiments,
we now have five hundred plants, and, if
space would allow, could have, this year,
five thousand; and all at the cost of but
a little time and trouble.
Our experience with the English prim-
rose is that the plant is exceedingly hardy
and flourishes in al-
most any exposure.
hie ee ancdenie am
which it grows is
fairly well sheltered,
with houses near, and
a high fence to the
north; but the plants
have been sent to
many other localities,
weven as far west as
‘California, where they
lhave been grown suc-
cessfully, and as far
north as _ Ipswich,
Mass.
The multiplication
of plants was begun
by separating the
original cluster and
placing the single
plants in a border,
and anyone else can
do likewise. The
cluster should be dug
up, the earth shaken
off, and the clump
Saivided= ali ait as
grasped firmly with
both handsand pulled
apart to the centre,
it will be quite easy
to disentangle the
small plants and pull
them off one by one.
MAY BE INCREASED RAPIDLY FOR BORDERS AND TO GIVE A PROFUSION
Showing development of a single plant after
ten months’ growth. Planted November 4th;
photographed September 20th
When a single plant has been allowed to
grow for a year, it may be separated into
five; if left undisturbed for two years it
will furnish twenty or twenty-five plants.
This fourfold increase cannot be relied
upon if the plants become crowded and
matted, as they will if left for four or five
A single plant of the English primrose (Primula vulgaris). The flowers are pale creamy yellow with darker eyes
284
OF FLOWERS
years, although they may then be depended
upon to furnish forty, fifty, or more plants,
each with its cluster of rootlets and its
crown of leaves.
Experience has proven that the trans-
planting may be done at almost any season,
but it has been most successful when done
after the warmest weather is over. Any
time during October will serve, and, if the
season is mild, it may be done even later.
If one wishes a sightly border the first
season, the plants should be put about five
inches apart. The following spring they
will make a continuous border and will bear
a moderate number of flowers.
In the autumn, if another border is
desired, every alternate plant may be taken
up, separated, and replanted in the new
border.
If there are thirty plants in the first bor-
der there will be fifteen to be taken up.
These would furnish seventy or seventy-
five plants, and, in another year, they could
be separated into three hundred and fifty
or three hundred and seventy-five plants;
and it may be easily seen that there is noth-
ing but the lack of space and time to limit
the increase.
The foliage is very pretty in the early
summer, and, if planted in rich soil with
good drainage, the plants will increase
greatly in size dur-
ing June and July. In
August the leaves
may become slightly
yellowish, especially
if other plants are
allowed to over-
shadow or fall over
them. To fellow
amateur gardeners,
who can only occa-
sionally snatch time
to work among the
flowers, it may not be
amiss to suggest that
when the time draws
near for separating
and transplanting the
flowers it is well to
watch the weather
and seize upon a time
when a “rainy spell”
seems imminent. The
canny gardener soon
learns to know the
signs of coming rain,
and can save himself
the daily watering of
the newly set-out
plants. After a few
days of rain the plants
will need no further
attention until the
garden is given its
winter covering.
JUNE, 1909
Primroses flower with the tulips and make a dainty
edging to the border
Although the primrose may be grown
with almost no care, it will quickly respond
to a little attention. If the ground is made
quite rich the growth will be rank and
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rapid, the flowers will develop longer stems,
and in addition to forming attractive borders
will furnish dainty clusters for house deco-
ration or for a table centre piece.
In England the primrose is sought for in
the fields and along the hedges at Easter
time, and it blooms here quite as early.
Some English neighbors come to us (fol-
lowing their custom in the old country) to
gather primroses on Easter Sunday and
rarely fail to find them.
The flowers open the last week in March,
and continue to bloom during the season of
the blood root, hepatica, anemone, violet,
and twin-leaf in the wild-flower bed, and of
the jonquil, hyacinth, and tulip in the more
formal borders.
Our experiments have been carried on
to furnish borders for a limited number
of flower beds, and not to see how many
plants could be grown; but it is safe to say
that a plant which could be separated into
thirty small plants could, in five years, be
made to produce ninety three thousand
plants, allowing seven hundred and fifty
for failures, which is quite too large a number;
as, with ordinary care, very few plants are
lost.
The professional may know to a nicety
just what rate of increase to expect, but
these notes are offered by an amateur to
others of the same cult. The amateur
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As an edging to shrubbery on a wild flower bed
containing hepaticas, violets, anemones, bloodroot,
twin-leaf, the primrose is quite happy
gardener will be well repaid for the
sight expenditure of time and trouble
necessary for the culture of the English
primrose by the wonderful profusion of
lovely flowers which come with the opening
of spring.
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HE space generally surrounding the
house, carpeted with grass and more
or less embellished with annual and peren-
nial flowering plants, vines, shrubs, and
trees, requires constant attention, not only
to keep it in proper order but also to make
the house and grounds in combination present
an attractive and “occupied” appearance.
The grass must be kept free from weeds,
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Lawn mower with grass catcher attached— A 19-
inch knife is the best all-round
and evenly cut, the edges neatly trimmed,
paths clean, vines, shrubs and trees trimmed,
dead branches cut out, etc.
To do this in the best, most effective, and
quickest manner necessitates the use of tools
suited to each purpose; the number and
assortment varying with the size of the place
and the nature of the plantings. When
the plot is small the grass can be kept cut
with a sickle, but a lawn mower will do the
work much more quickly and better, with a
saving of muscular effort. And the same
holds true of all kinds of horticultural work;
tools that will complete the work quickly
are as essential on the lawn as they are in
the kitchen garden.
THE CHOICE OR SELECTION OF TOOLS
All tools that are intended to replace the
hand tools commonly used for any purpose
are subject to limitations and while most
of them will, with less labor, do a given
amount of work in much less time, there are
times and positions in which the hand tools
must still be used. The lawn mower has
replaced the sickle and scythe for grass cut-
ting, but the lawn mower’s work must still
be supplemented by the sickle or grass
shear. These three and the edger are the
tools that must first be purchased. Other
quick-acting trimmers and edgers will prove
themselves labor savers and can be profitably
added to the outfit. The sickle, grass shear,
and edger will always be needed however,
but there will be much less work for them
to do.
What was said in the article on the
possession of first-class tools and their care
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The high-wheel and ball-bearings make operating
easy. The grass catcher is rarely needed
wer
The long handled lawn shears will help greatly in
keeping a tidy appearance
in the July, 1908, number of THr GARDEN
MAGAZINE applies with equal force to
the tools that are here described. The
better wearing qualities, the greater ease
with which most of them work, and the
added satisfaction attending their use, will
more than repay the difference in price
between a poor tool and a good one. And
the purchase of a special tool will often
prove to be a piece of practical wisdom ana
economy on the part of the amateur busy in
other spheres, even when the apparent need
of such an addition to the equipment hardly
seems to warrant the outlay.
GRASS CUTTERS AND TRIMMERS
There is but one tool that will keep the
surface of a lawn in perfect condition, and
that is the modern lawn mower. The use
of this tool is universal and it gives an
evenness of surface that can be obtained in
no other way. When the plot is small,
the grass can be kept cut with a sickle, but
a lawn mower will do the work much quicker
and better. Lawn mowers can be bought in
all sizes from the large steam or horse mower
used on large estates to the small mower
with blades ten inches long. While it is
possible to get a machine that is too large
for one man, the most common mistake is
to buy one too small. Where the lawn is
fairly large, 17-inch blades are small enough,
but the 19-inch knife has proved to be the
best size for all around use. ‘The five inches
difference between the width of the cut of a
rg-inch blade and that of a 14-inch (the size
Only on very small grass plots is it wise to rely on
the sickle. But it is needed for trimming
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commonly bought) means that with the
larger the work can be completed in about
three-quarters of the time required by the
smaller size. Get a five-bladed machine, if
you want the best, but if the difference in
price is an object, buy the one with four
blades.
All except the cheapest makes are so con-
structed that grass catchers can be attached
to them, although the better way is to mow
the lawn often enough so that the clippings
can be allowed to lie where they fall. They
soon shrivel, dry out and settle down between
the grass blades, in no wise detracting from
the neat appearance of the lawn and acting
as a mulch in the very hot weather; and
there is the fact that nothing is being taken
away frdim the soil. If absence or continued
rain should prevent cutting and the grass
should make too much growth to allow the
cuttings to remain on the lawn, the grass
catcher will save the labor and time necessary
for raking up the cuttings.
The lawn mower will not cut grass grow-
ing close against copings, posts, flower beds,
etc., and other tools must be used for that
purpose, although where the edges of flower
beds are but slightly lower than the abutting
sod, the grass may be cut by running one
wheel of the mower in the bed close to the
edge of the sod. ‘This often cuts the grass
so short, however, that it dies, making an
edge of dead grass or bare soil.
The oldest implement used for cutting
grass and grain is the reaping hook, known
as the sickle or grass hook. While yet
used to a small extent for cutting grass, its
principal use now is for trimming edges and
cutting the grass in odd corners. Of the
two patterns the one most extensively used
is commonly called the English, the curve
of the blade varying slightly according to
the notion of the maker. The American or
scythe pattern may be had with a fixed or
adjustable blade. When set straight with
the handle it may be used as a slashing knife.
A thumb-nut clamps the blade in position
and corrugations prevent it from slipping.
There are two distinct forms of con-
struction of the English pattern. In one
the blade is made of a thin piece of steel,
stiffened by welding or riveting a narrow
strip of steel down the back and top of the
blade. The welded reinforcement is nat-
urally the better. The blade can be kept
sharp with the ordinary scythe stone and
will be found sufficiently strong for ordinary
work. The second form is made of steel
heavy enough to stand use without reinforce-
ment, and must be ground occasionally to
keep sharp.
The small grass shears (costing about
twenty-five cents) commonly used for trim-
ming the grass, work stiff and are hard to use
because the blade is too short. Better get a
first-class tool with a blade six to eight
inches long. ‘These shears are designed
for trimming the edges and for clearing out
corners where the regular cutting tool will
not reach. Yet some people try to mow the
lawn with the shears! Border and lawn
shears of improved forms are not so well-
known, but are used for practically the
JUNE, 1909
Trimming and edging tools work where the lawn
mower cannot enter
same purposes and are vastly superior, the
long handles allowing the operator to stand
erect. The border shears with one wheel
(also furnished without a wheel) quickly
shears off the grass overhanging paths or
flower beds and can also be used to trim
around posts, etc. This is a labor-saving
tool and is much used in parks.
The two-wheeled or lawn shear (to the
right of the illustration) is for flat work under
bushes, fences, around posts, etc. It is
also furnished without wheels, but the
wheels are of some service as the blades
operate parallel with the ground and the
wheels raise them slightly. Both shears
are supplied with eight 8 or ro inch blades,
the larger being the more rapid-working.
The grass trimmer and edger shown in the
illustration in the upper right hand corner of
this page are handy tools. The one works on
the same principle as the lawn mower. ‘The
blades are six inches long and the wheel,
being on one side only, permits their use
very close to posts and curbings, along
the edges of flower beds and _ borders
and along walks and drives. There is also
a disk and scraper attachment (which
is bolted to the trimmer and can be easily
removed) which converts it into an edger.
It is only necessary to turn the machine
upside down to bring the edger into use.
For ease of operation, quickness and thor-
oughness of work this tool excels all others
heretofore used for the purpose, and its
cost is not so great as the combined cost of
the two shears just described.
The edging attachment for the wheel hoe is one
more advantage of that tool
June, 1909
RES
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Turf edgers are really needed, and the home-made
concrete path edger, on the right, is a boon
The right hand tool shown in the same
figure is constructed somewhat like an
agricultural mowing machine, having similar
cutting blades. It is operated by a crank
and gears and moves about on two small
wheels. The operator grasps the pistol-
like handle with the left hand and turns
the crank with the right. Thus the knives
cut whether the machine is in motion or
not, and it can be used close up against
copings, under fences, bushes, etc. It
makes a cut seven inches wide. The manner
of operation will be found tiresome, how-
ever, if continued for any length of time.
The first named tool excels in ease of
operation, while the second can be used for
purposes and in situations which could
not be reached otherwise.
EDGING TOOLS
Where the sod of the lawn abuts flower
beds, borders, walks or drives it must be
evenly cut or edged. If the border or path
be straight, this edge must be a true straight
line; if curved, the sweep must be graceful
and regular and not a series of irregular
ragged edges. To maintain this with the
least possible attention and labor, the abut-
ting edges of the sod must be higher than the
flower bed or walk. The rapid spread of
grass depends to a large extent upon a level
surface; the roots first grow horizontally
just beneath the surface and if they meet
with an abrupt break or depression their
growth is checked. Advantage can there-
fore be taken of this natural tendency to so
arrange the surfaces of flower beds and
paths that they will be about one or two
inches below the level of the adjoining sod.
The least difference between levels is possible
where the sod abuts hard gravel or cinder
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paths which are crowned or raised in the
centre to the lawn level to prevent flooding
during heavy rains. Where the sod adjoins
flower beds or borders, particularly where
the soil is loose and mellow, grass will more
quickly pass the obstruction than where it
has to take root in a hard, packed surface.
In some formal gardens as much as three
inches or more between levels is maintained,
but for all practical purposes two inches will
be sufficient. The action of rain and wind
naturally tends to level the two surfaces by
gradually filling in the depression.
A tool must therefore be used that will
trim the edge of the sod (thereby counter-
acting its tendency to slowly pass the
obstruction) and at the same time push back
any soil that may have collected.
All edgers are used by pressing or forcing
them into the sod and thus trimming or
slicing off a small amount and making a
clean sharp edge. In hard soils they are often
used with a chopping motion, which soon
wears the blade out of shape. These tools
merely cut down the sod — a hoe and rake
are generally necessary to complete the work.
The crescent-like shape of the first one
shown in the illustration makes it much less
useful than either of the other two tools; if
the blade of the second one is sharpened all
the way around it may, under some con-
ditions, be used by drawing or pulling.
The long, sweeping curve of the latter
makes it very easy working. I consider
this the best of the three, as it gives a greater
range of angle in using it; the shaping
and finish of the blade is better, being thin
along the cutting edge and tapering to the
heavier connection at the shank; it is fur-
nished with socket handle connection only
and with 8 or ro inch blade. The blades
of the first two are from seven to eight inches
wide, of nearly the same thickness all over
and are furnished with either socket or
shank connection. ‘There are several modi-
fications of these shapes, most of which are
made of sheet steel and are of poorer quality.
Where sod adjoins concrete or asphalt
walks, the tendency of the grass to grow out
over them is often checked by maintaining
a narrow V or U shaped channel or gutter
between the sod and the walk. This may be
done with the edgers just described, or the
disk may be used. In either case the strip
of sod cut away is afterward removed. The
right hand tool in the illustration will both
make it and keep it open. Draw it along
the edge of the path, walking backward,
and by cutting a few inches at a time, the
machine can be used to lift out the sod that
is cut away, as it will cling together. Run it
along the walk occasionally and then sweep
out the channel with a broom. This tool is
home made and while constructed slightly
different from the one on sale by dealers, does
the work about as well. The U-shaped
cutter is made of 14-gauge steel and sets at
an angle of about 45 degrees to the handle, to
which both the blade and an old castor wheel
are bolted. ‘Vhis handle is four and one-half
feet long and 1 x 14 in. in cross section.
The disk edger attachment for the machine
trimmer is a very useful addition for the
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users of that tool. Anyone owning a wheel
hoe may increase its utility for a very small
outlay. The disk-edger is strongly con-
structed to withstand hard usage. When
an edging tool is to cut tough hard soil, it
requires considerable weight or pressure
to hold it down, and here the wheel hoe
frame is valuable because a weight may be
clamped to it by a bolt. When using this
edger operate it the same as the wheel hoe,
taking steady strokes. When edging gravel
or cinder paths that are hard and dry, if it
fails to go deep enough the first time draw
it back and repeat the stroke.
The disk is six inches in diameter and the
scraper five and one-half inches long. They
may be used together and adjusted to suit
the work, or either disk or scraper can be
used separately.
Do not forget the use of the wheel hoe itself
for edging, as illustrated and described in THE
GARDEN MaGaZInE for May, 1908. The peat
land hoe (which has extra high fenders) is
the best edging tool for flower borders, al-
though it will not produce as perpendicular
a face on the sod edge as can be obtained
by the use of the edging tool or disk edger.
LAWN WEEDERS
The stretches of soil between the rows in
the vegetable garden allow free use of cutting
and tearing tools which loosen and pulverize
For light weeding on lawns
Side views of the weeder shown above
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the soil, and leave the exposed roots of the
displaced weeds to be killed by the sun.
But on a lawn covered with a thick growth
of grass tools must be used that will take
out the weeds individually. These weeds
are generally strong growing and may have
long tap roots which must be cut far below
the surface to prevent them from sprouting
again. Small weeds may often be pulled
by hand after a soaking rain, but if this is
attempted with well established roots, except
when the soil is thoroughly saturated with
moisture, the weeder is apt to break them off
at the crown. They then sprout readily
and in a short time are larger than before.
Such tools are necessarily simple in
construction and the styles are few.
There are practically but two forms of lawn
weeders — the straight bladed, used for
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These machine weeders lessen the labor and prevent
backache
cutting off the plants so that they may be
either pulled by hand or forced out with the
weeder itself, and the forked blade that has
a claw shaped end to clutch the roots, the
handle being used as a lever to force or
pull them out. Both are made in a number
of sizes adapted to various kinds of weeds.
WEEDERS FOR LIGHT WORK
Cutting weeders are shown on page 287,and
the first three are used for both cutting off
and forcing or prying out the weeds. The
simplest form is the small bladed weeder
with the V-shaped cutting end, but any stiff,
narrow-bladed tool, such as the narrow-
bladed, triangular or half-round trowels, will
do this work very satisfactorily.
The asparagus knife of which there are
two forms will be found to be a very good
weeding tool. The one in the illustration
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has a straight ended cutting blade, is of
strong construction and is the better of the
two for lawn weeding, as a small amount of
prying can be done withit. ‘The weeds can
be either cut off and pulled, or cut and then
forced out with the weeder. Beside it is
another, thin bladed and light, the V-shaped
end preventing the possibility of glancing
when cutting a thick root, but it cannot be
used for prying. The thin, keen-ended blade
enters the soil easily and the root once cut, the
weed in most cases is then easily pulled out.
This knife is the best for asparagus cutting.
The last two weeders represent the forked
or claw-bladed pulling class and are not so
well known as those with the cutting blade.
Under favorable conditions this form will
prove a quick working tool for removing
dandelions from the lawn. The claw is
used to clutch the weed below the crown, the
heel or extension just back of the claw acts
as a fulcrum and is generally sufficiently
broad on the face to push back any sod or
soil that may be forced up when the weed is
pulled, the handle acting as a lever for this
purpose. The tool can be used only when
the soil is moist. Even under the most
favorable conditions, not all weeds will pull
clean, but all will be broken off low enough
down to prevent subsequent sprouting if
gripped below the crown when being pulled.
The smaller weeder (known as a dandelion
puller) js a casting, but has proved strong
enough to pull any weed the claw will grip.
It is twelve inches long. The long one is
made of wrought steel. There are different
sizes of this weeder, varying slightly in con-
struction. One that should have admirable
lasting qualities is made with steel claw and
heel, with socket connection to a wood handle.
The long-handled weeders, while differing
somewhat in construction are similar in
operation to the foregoing. ‘The fittings of
the one shown to the left in the figure are
cast iron and are liable to break; the other
one is guaranteed cast malleable and there-
fore will bend before it breaks. ‘The sharp
blade is thrust into the soil a short distance
from the weed, at such an angle that it will be
cut at the proper distance below the surface.
The trigger or lever is then pressed and the
power applied is transmitted through the wire
connection to the curved arm at the lower end.
This is toothed and notched when it grips the
weed to prevent slipping. The weeder is
then lifted, drawing the weed with it.
The third one pictured is a long-handled
dandelion spud, which is effectual for clip-
ping small weeds out of the lawn. If this
tool is used for large weeds they must be
cut too close to the surface to kill them, for
if they are cut deep enough to kill them and
then pried out, the lawn will be disfigured
by pieces of sod that are forced out at the
same time. ‘The blade is slightly curved,
half round in section, double ended, and
bolted to a three and a half foot handle.
Except for small weeds the first two are the
better of this class.
DOCK CUTTERS AND EXTRACTORS
For cutting off and lifting or tearing out
of the soil strong-rooted weeds, one of the
JUNE, 1909
worst of which is dock, specially strong tools.
are necessary. I have pulled roots of this
weed one-half inch in diameter that were
eighteen inches long, and have dug out roots.
over two inches in diameter, which at the
depth of eighteen inches were but slightly
less in diameter than at the surface. The
average lawn is not infested with weeds
having such roots as this, but to the pur-
chaser of property that has been inhabited
by a careless tenant or owner, the tools
shown would be very useful.
The sharp ended blade of the first tool
is forced into the root so as to cut it off far
enough below the surface to prevent sprout-
ing. The cross bar at the top of the blade
allows the foot to force it down, and the
handle is then used as a lever to force out
the portion of the root cut off. The blade
You probably do not need such strong tools, but.
they are really necessary on new ground
(which is also made with an M-shaped cut-
ting end) is from eight to nine inches long
and from two to two and a half inches wide.
All have steel blades and while some makes.
have a cast malleable cross bar, in others
the cross bar is steel welded to the blade.
This tool is also made with both strap and
plain ferrule connection to the handle. The
latter is a very poor method, as a tool of this
kind should be constructed as strong as
possible.
The claw-bladed dock extractor is the
better of the two. The cross bar which
acts as a fulcrum extends four inches back
of the blade, the handle gives sufficient
leverage to pull very large roots when con-
ditions are favorable. This is a very
strong tool, being all steel with the excep-
tion of the cross bar and the handle, which
are of white ash.
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English Effects With Alpine Flowers--By Wilhelm Miller, %
ROCK GARDENING A UNIVERSAL PASSION IN ENGLAND AND WILL BECOME SO HERE— MOST OF THE
SHOWIEST FLOWERS EASY TO GROW EVEN WITHOUT ROCKS—JUNE A GOOD TIME TO START
[Eviror’s Nore — This is the sixth of twelve articles that explain how we waste about $1,000,000 a year in trying to copy English effects literally and how we can get the spirit of
them with long-lived material. Previous articles have dealt with conifers, trees, shrubs, broad-leaved evergreens, and bedding plants, etc. Future articles will deal with perennials,
bulbs, vines, edging plants, etc.]
Recs gardening is a universal passion
in England, and no wonder, for
the alpine flowers are the real “gems” of
the floral world. They are as small as
jewels and have the same purity of color,
and in spite of their diminutive size they
are showy, because they have a genius for
spreading so as to form great sheets of
bloom.
For thirteen years I had been dreaming of
English rock gardens and reading articles
about them in English papers, yet I was
totally unprepared for the immense number
of them and the radiant visions of beauty
which they present. I had seen nearly all
the important rock gardens in America, and
knew there were only two notable ones out-
side of botanical gardens. So I supposed
that rock gardening was merely a hobby
for a few skilled amateurs and collectors.
On the contrary, it seemed as if everyone
had a rock garden, and the mass effects,
while they last, are brilliant beyond anything
we know or can imagine.
At first I touched the stars, as everyone
does who sees a collection of alpines for
the first time. The ground is carpeted with
jewels, such as Ali Baba never saw. Speech
seems a poor thing. You are far above
mere names of plants and botany. You
about, half seeing new forms
and drinking great drafts of ambrosial
color until the mind can hold no more, and
you put your hands over your eyes to
shut out the splendor of this new wonder-
world.
Soon comes a sorrowful reaction. Every-
one says: “‘ You Americans can never repro-
duce these effects on a large scale. Your
summers are too hot and dry. It is the
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The wrong way is to use many large rocks, and expose freshly broken surfaces
cool, moist summer of England that suits
these mountain flowers to perfection.”
I felt, as thousands of Americans before
me have felt, that it was an impossible
proposition, and I tried to renounce all
this beauty, for I was on a practical mission.
But each new rock garden caused a fresh
pang and fresh dejection until I was ready
to quit England in despair.
But one day at Kew I noticed how many
of the most beautiful flowers in that famous
rocky dell were native to America and the
thought came, “if England can grow and
love our mountain flowers, why cannot we?”
Then I began to ask every gardener, ‘“‘ which
flowers can stand the hottest sunshine on
the barest rocks,” and found a goodly num-
ber of them. These two classes of plants
alone seemed to me enough to justify an
American style of rock gardening.
But the biggest fact of all never came
to me until I got back home and had
a chance to study our own books and cata-
logues. Most of the showiest rock-loving
flowers are so easy to cultivate that anyone
In a small range of coldframes like this you can
grow many thousand alpine plants from seed
‘
instead of weathered and mossy ones
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can grow them in an ordinary border without
any rocks at all! And practically all the
difficult kinds which English enthusiasts
grow any American can enjoy if he will
go to the expense ofa really first-class
rockery.
So I say boldly the old pessimistic attitude
is dead wrong! Rock gardening will be-
come a great institution here. Our hot,
dry summer will not prevent rock gardening,
but will give it a beautiful new American
character. I am sure of it for two reasons.
We have the spirit and we have the plants.
We all want the best there is, and certainly
there are no flowers more beautiful than
alpines.
England herself used to be equally pessi-
mistic about her own ability to grow alpines,
and her wonderful enthusiasm of to-day
has come within the memory of the present
generation. English authorities used to
say that alpine flowers cannot be grown in
the lowlands. Certainly the climate of
England is quite unlike that of the Alps.
In Switzerland the flowers are protected
from alternate freezing and thawing by the
snow; in England they are not. Yet there
are few alpine flowers worth having that
are not now grown in England.
We, too, are handicapped by changeable
winters and hot summers, but we can find
plenty of charming alpines that will stand
both. For instance, here are some flowers
that grow wild on the Alps but are so com-
mon in gardens that we never think of
them as alpine plants—the snowdrop,
daffodil, poet’s narcissus, trailing myrtle,
Christmas rose, lily-of-the-valley, Scotch
pink, common columbine, and English
daisy. You may think that these are too
The right way to make an alpine garden is to design a picture, use few rocks
and make them inconspicuous
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The plantain-leaved thrift (Avmeria plantagined) has balls of pink flowers and long, picturesque stems. The
sedum is a new species from Japan, with large yellow flowers, red stems and gray leaves borne in rosettes
gardenesque for alpine effects, and I
heartily agree that improved pinks, colum-
bines and daisies would not be appropriate.
It would be impure design to use big masses
of them on rocks. But the wild forms of
these plants are as dainty as any other
alpine flowers, and it is easy to get the
seed of any wild forms from Geneva,
Switzerland.
This reminds me that the cheapest
and easiest way to start a collection of
alpine flowers is to import the seed from
Europe, because flower seeds can now be
mailed without duty, and without vexa-
tious delays. There are no American
catalogues of alpine plants, but there are
many in England. ‘There is a Swiss cata-
logue that offers 2,500 different kinds of
seeds; and a German that lists about 3,400.
This illustrates the immense range there
is for individual taste and experiment.
However, beginners are appalled by such
big lists, and most Americans want to
know where they can buy plants, because
they are generally in a hurry and do not
mind the extra expense if they can get
results the first year. Unfortunately, there
is no way of buying alpine seeds or plants
in America, except by picking out the
alpine species from general catalogues.
As beginners do not know: which plants
are alpines, I shall be forced, at the risk
of seeming unduly technical, to give lists
of alpine plants and indicate. how they can
be secured. But you would find it much
pleasanter to buy a good book, like Hulme’s
“Familiar Swiss Flowers,”
the colored plates what you want, and then
send your list to one of the specialists in
hardy perennials for an estimate; because
they often have many species which they
do not catalogue.
THE TALLER ALPINE FLOWERS
I will begin with the flowers that actually
grow in the Alps, not because they are
decide from’
any better than those of our own White
Mountains, but because they are more
famous and easier to get. Doubtless you
know most of these already, and think of
them only as border plants, for they will
grow in lowlands without rocks, and you
can buy the plants from any one of a dozen
American nurserymen. In rich soil they
may grow two to four feet high, but in the
rockery they will be smaller and corre-
spondingly prettier. For even coarse weeds
become refined and look like wild flowers
when grown in thin, poor soil, and on rocks.
However, I believe you will agree that there
is nothing coarse in the following list:
Columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris), violet Apr.-June
St. Bernard’s lily (Anthericum Lilias-
UD) WATS 5 AOI
Feathered columbine (Z/halictrum
aquilegifolium), rosy ee June
Bush clematis (Clematis recta), white June
Pale yellow wolfsbane (Aconitum Ly-
coctonum), yellow... June-Sept ,
Yellow foxglove (Digitalis ambigua),
yellow ; - June-July
Jacob’s ladder (Polemonium C@ru-
leum), blue 3 June-July
Spiked speedwell (Veronica spicata),
blues = July-Aug
Swallow-wort gentian (Gentiana ascle-
piadea), blue’. .- July-Aug.
Bee larkspur (Delphinium elatum),
jolg® sg June-July
Meadow sage (Salvia pratensis), plue June-Aug.
Clustered bellflower (Campanula glo-
merata), blue: =. © = = =. Jiuly-Aug.
DWARF ALPINES ANYONE CAN GROW
But the peculiar charm of a rock gar-
den is not in plants that are two feet high
or more. It is in the plants that grow only
a few inches high, for it is a never-ending
delight to see them spread out until they
carpet a space three to ten feet square. Do
not forget that all the plants in the next
list really grow on the Alps, and have the
true alpine charm; yet you can order the
plants right now from any American nur-
seryman for September delivery, so as to
have a good show next spring. As a
of ice.
JUNE, 1909
rule, it is not safe to set out newly bought
alpine plants in autumn, but you need not
be afraid of these.
Hepatica (Hepatica triloba), white,
purple, pink, blue . . March
Spring Adonis (Adonis vernalis), ‘yel-
low kh April
Wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa),
white . . April
Yellow fumitory (Corydalis lutea),
yollony 2 . >» Apr.-Oct
Lungwort (Pulmonaria officinalis),
jolue 5 s April
Pyramidal saxifrage (Saxifraga Coty-
ledon), white . . Apr.-May
Geneva bugle (Ajuga Genevensis),
jolt 5 « May
Common bugle (Ajuga reptans),
purple : May
Snowdrop windflower (Anemone “syl-
vestris), white Zoyee May-July
Fringed pink (Dianthus superbus),
blac.) May-June
Marsh gentian (Gentiana ‘Pnemo-
nanthe), blue . May-July
Cushion pink (Silene acaulis), ‘pink . May-Aug.
Mountain speedwell (Veronica mon-
tana), blue. . . May-June
Woolly yarrow (Achillea tomentosa),
yellow : - June
Alpine aster (A ster alpinus), purple _ Jjume
Cheddar pink (Dzanthus cesius),
rose zoe) Se to Os Se ie
Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia),
blue June-Aug.
Maiden pink (Dianthus deltoides),
pink, white . . : June
Yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), yel-
low : June-July
Bird’s foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus),
yellow . . - June-Aug.
Wall pepper (Sedum acre), ‘yellow. - June-Aug.
Coat flower (Tunica Saxifraga), pink June-Aug.
Alpine soapwort (Saponaria ocymoz-
des), crimson . . Se ee giuibyeAnree
White stonecrop (Sedum album),
white . oe ve phy,
Cobweb _houseleek (Sempervivum
arachnoideum),red . . . . July
ALPINES THAT ARE HARD TO GROW
The way to grow all the difficult alpines
is to have a first class rockery, but I estimate
that only 5 or io per cent. of the really
desirable rock-loving flowers require such
treatment.
the alpine poppy, the pasque flower, the
gentians, the saxifrages, the cyclamen, the
evergreen daphne with its divine odor and
the wonderful soldanella which is said to
force its way right up through a solid block
These world-famous flowers are
so celebrated for their exquisite beauty that
it is only natural that we should bewail
our inability to grow them in an ordinary
garden, whereas the big, cheerful fact is
that anyone can grow go per cent. of the
showiest rock plants without the expense of
a rockery. Even in England they do not
expect to grow the plants just named with-
out rocks and therefore we should rejoice
that we too can grow these treasures in a
good rockery. :
GARDEN EFFECTS WE CAN’T HAVE
As nearly as I can judge the English get
their great and glorious mass effects from
only six or seven groups of rock plants.
I think they depend chiefly on the saxifrages
for white and for lace-like effects; on the
rock roses, or helianthemums, for a wide
Among these are the edelweiss, .
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range of color; on the sun roses or cistuses
for large individual blooms; on gentians for
blues; on primroses for yellows and crim-
sons; on the purple rock cress, or aubrietia,
for big carpets of bloom cheaply raised from
seed; and on the pinks for fragrance.
All of these we can grow on a good rockery,
but I believe it is folly for us to try to get
great landscape or garden effects with any
of these plants, save pinks. I am confident
that we shall get equally gorgeous effects,
but with a different set of plants. And
I know we have done wrong in making a big
fuss about the few plants which we cannot
grow as well as England, instead of trying
to see how we can get just as big effects
that shall be distinctly American.
BIG EFFECTS WE CAN HAVE
One’ way in which we can get immense
carpets of flowers in ordinary gardens
without rocks, as well as on great estates
that have plenty of rocky land, is to concen-
trate on rock plants that are very easily
raised from seed. Here is a list that we
can get from our own seedsmen, and these
kinds are so easy to grow that most of them
will bloom the first year, if started in a
frame in March. Practically all can be had
cheaply by the ounce and I hope that some
of our readers will give them a thorough
trial now for next season’s bloom.
Those marked * are the only ones that
actually grow upon the Alps, so far as I
know, but in the rest of this article I shall
pay no attention to such distinctions, because
the Alps do not have a monopoly of floral
beauty by any means. Indeed, the whole
spirit of Alpine gardening is cosmopolitan.
The rockery is a beautiful device that
enables us to grow plants from Arctic
and Antarctic lowlands, from the highest
mountains of the tropics and from our own
The edging is of white thrift (Armeria). Above
is a hardy geranium. The evergreen plant is a
dwarf spruce
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Appalachian and Rocky Mountains. And
the word “alpine” is now so thoroughly
generalized that people no longer begin it
with a capital, and if you wish to refer speci-
fically to European conditions you must
say ‘“‘the Alps.”
Goldentuft eee saxatile),
yellow . . - April-May
White rock cress (Arabis ‘albida),
white . April-June
Sweet woodruff (Asperula odorata),
wWitite see E May-July
Snow in summer (Cerastium tomento-
sum), white . . “May-July
Garden pinks (Dianthus plumarius),
pink, purple, white May-July
*Alpine forget-me-not (/yosotis alpes-
ES) LC ae Summer
*Kenilworth ivy Cee Cymbalaria),
violet - - All season
*Alpine soapwort (Saponaria ‘ocy-
moides),red-pink . .- . - - Allseason
Sedum Maximowitczi1, yellow - July-Aug.
Veronicas, mixed, blue Eine ea Spring to fall
In fact, the only useful distinction that
can be made among alpine plants is between
those that are easy to grow and those that
are hard to grow. By ‘“‘hard” I mean those
that have to be grown in a rockery, and are,
therefore, only for the few who have money
and enthusiasm. By “easy” I mean. those
that anyone can grow in ordinary garden
soil without rocks, or with such modest
rock work as anyone can afford.
I have already given the names of forty-
six European rock plants which will give us
glorious mass effects in any garden, and
which are commonly kept in stock by Amer-
ican nurserymen. I could easily extend
the list to a hundred real English effects
that we can transport bodily. But that
is of little importance. The great fact
is that many of the rock plants most treasured
in England are really native to America,
and therefore are adapted to our climate
beyond the shadow of a doubt.
No one, so far as I know, has pointed out
to what extent English rock gardens are
indebted to America and I shall therefore
devote the rest of this article to American
wild flowers; for no matter how many for-
eign alpines may feel at home here, it is
obvious that we can never develop an Amer-
ican style unless we use some of our own
wild flowers on a great scale.
FAMOUS AMERICAN ROCK PLANTS
Strictly speaking, the moss pink (Phlox
subulata) is about the only American rock
plant I know which is commonly cultivated
the world over, even in its own country,
which is the supreme test. But, here again,
it is folly to draw any sharp line between
plants that grow wild only on rocks and
those which also grow in other situations.
For instance, bloodroot will grow any-
where, yet it attains its highest beauty,
I think, on rocks. The English think so,
too, and spend no end of money to estab-
lish it in their rock gardens; but it is a
hard plant to export, and we can always
surpass England on mass effects with
bloodroot.
As near as I can tell the most famous
rock-loving perennials that are native to
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The large-flowered catnip (Vepe/a Wussini) has pur-
ple flowers in racemes six or eight inches long. It
blooms steadily for three months
America, and reasonably common even in
our gardens, are the following:
Bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis),
wiaaitie 6 |e April
Crested dwarf iris (Iris cristata), blue. April
Wild pink (Silene Ee)
rose < Apr.-May
Purple poppy mallow (Callirhoc in-
volucrata)
Moss pink (Phlox subulata), crimson
pink . May
* Yellow columbine (Aquilegia chry- 7
Apr.-Aug.
santha), yellow May-Aug.
Wild bleeding heart (Dicentra | ext- *
mia), deep rose May-Sept.
*Fire pink (Silene Virginica), crim-
son é =e May-Sept-
Coral bells (Heuchera sanguinea),
TECU =e June-Sept.
* Mist Hoven (Gonadiniun lest
Dis WSN. 5 se 2 « Sao
Those marked * are the only ones that
grow more than a foot high. I must con-
fess that is it not a very strong list, from
which to pick the big American winners,
for the rose, pink, and crimson kinds are
not of the most popular shades, especially
in the case of the two greatest geniuses in
the list. Moss pink, in its wild state, has
a crude and violent color, and our rich
estate owners have already made the mistake
of painting whole hillsides with it, when
they could just as well have used white,
lavender, and other refined varieties of it.
So, too, the wild bleeding heart is a never-
ending marvel, because of its exquisite
foliage and profuse bloom from May to
September; but every time you look at its
color you sigh and turn away.
However, we need not be discouraged
about the American element in rock gar-
dening for many reasons.
AMERICAN EFFECTS IN THE ROCKERY
In the first place, we have at least a hun-
dred wild flowers that we may have to grow
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on rockeries which are among the world’s
great treasures. Here again, the flowers
are not always native to rocks, yet in every
ease there is some reason why we cannot
expect large, permanent results from them
in ordinary garden conditions. Most of
them you can grow in woods, if you are
fortunate enough to own any; but how
many of us do? A thousand can afford a
rockery for one who can have a bit of woods.
Pyxie (Pyxidanthera barbulata), pink-
ish white - Mar.-May
Shooting star (Dodecatheon Meadia),
pink . Apr.-May
Wild red columbine (A quilegia Cana-
densis), red. Apr.-May
Virginia bluebells (7 ertensia V irgin-
Aa) WWE 5 2 « - May
Shortia (Shortia galacifolia), white May
Indian pink (Spigelia Marilandica),
Scanletueame May-July
Lance-leaved sabbatia (Sabbatia lance-
olata), white . . May-Sep.
Bunchberry (Cornus Canadensis),
white . June
Twin flower (Linnea borealis), pink June-Aug.
Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis),
scarlet . Aug.
Butterfly weed ‘(Asclepias fuberosa),
orange . . Aug.
Fringed gentian (Gentiana crinita),
1 blue seis yy ee OSD
This is certainly a superb list — enough
to inspire anyone to build a rockery where
these treasures may flourish for years.
And please remember that there is no longer
any excuse for robbing nature of these lovely
plants. Everyone of them can now be
secured from nurseries or in the form of seed.
SUMMER EFFECTS ANY ONE CAN HAVE
But to come back to big displays with
rock plants that anyone can have, I believe
that we shall make a great and peculiarly
American success by emphasizing summer
In England, the rock garden is a
True, there are lovely bits
effects.
spring garden.
THE > GAD EIN MUA GAZING
of color in it all summer and autumn,
but the whole thing is a blaze of color only
in spring. In America, summer is the
national play time. Our great annual
exodus to the country does not come until hot
weather, or say June; and our great vaca-
tion month is August. What we seek then
is coolness, comfort, rest.
Now the coolest colors are white, green,
gray,and blue. The hottest are red, orange,
and purples. So I think we should avoid big
masses of scarlet sage, red cannas, cerise
geraniums, and other things that make us
feel the heat, and plan to have broad sheets
of dainty little white flowers like snow in
summer, white tufted pansies, fragrant
pinks, sweet woodruff, white rock cress, and
the common alyssum, which, though annual,
sows its own seed.
The question of greenery on the rocks in
summer is highly important and peculiar.
The great fault of rockeries everywhere is -
that they. show more rocks than vegetation,
and that is why they look hard and hot in
summer. But if there is too much vegetation
the rockery will look coarse and weedy.
Everything in the rock garden must be
daintier than in any other kind of gar-
dening. We want no tall bushes or peren-
nials, because we do not wish luxuriance of
height, but of spread. So I believe we shall
get an important American element in our
rock gardens by using American ferns that
have a talent for spreading among rocks
and give a feeling of coolness in hot weather.
DELICATE FERN EFFECTS
Of course, ferns thrive best in shade and
genuine alpine flowers do not. But we
must do the best we can. Some of us can-
not afford elaborate watering devices and,
therefore, the only way to keep rocks cool is
to shade them. So we must make a special
A bit of Sir Frank Crisp’s famous alpine garden at Henley, modelled after the Matterhorn.
It covers
about three acres, 7,000 tons of rocks were used, and about 1,000 species are grown
JUNE, 1909
study of flowers that demand partial shade,
and have the alpine charm. We must select
ferns that have interesting leaf forms and
spreading growth, instead of the tall, coarse
ferns of commonplace form.
There are fifty-two kinds of native ferns
that can be bought from nurserymen, but
the following seem to me most appropriate
because they answer the above require-—
ments, and are a foot or less in height:
Common polypody (Polypodium vulgare)
Hairy lip fern (Cheilanthes lanosa)
Maidenhair spleenwort (Asplenium Trichomanes)
Walking fern (Camptosorus rhizophyllus)
Purple-stemmed cliff brake (Pellaa atropurpurea)
Moonwort (Botrychium lunaria)
Hart’s tongue fern (Scolopendrium vulgare)
Broad buck fern (Phegopteris hexagonoptera)
Adder’s tongue (Op/ioglossum vulgatum)
Bulblet fern (Cystopteris bulbifera)
Brittle fern (Cystopteris fragilis)
Long beech fern (Phegopteris polypodioides)
Oak fern (Phegopteris Dryopteris)
Rusty woodsia (Woodsia Ilvensis)
The club mosses and selaginellas are
also interesting and refreshing and nearly
a dozen kinds can be had now through
specialists in native plants.
I would not make a fetich of having
rock plants that are less than a foot high.
I would have the maiden hair for its open,
airy grace, the gossamer fern for its hay-
scented foliage and the Christmas fern
because it is attractive as late as Christmas.
FLOWERS FOR SHADY ROCKS
I said that we must make a special study
of wild flowers that not merely endure shade
but actually need shade and which never-
theless have the alpine charm. Our woods
-furnish many such, but they are mostly
April and May bloomers. I will mention
only a few of them, but every one is of
exceptional interest in leaf or habit, par-
ticularly the Solomon’s seal, of which. the
English are very fond.
Hepatica (Hepatica triloba), purple,
blue, pink, white -. . . March
Dutchman’ s breeches (Dicentra C ucul-
laria), white, yellow . . - April
Dwarf early flag (Jris verna), blue April
Selomon’s seal (Polygonatum biflo-
rum), greenish. April-May
Alum root (Heuchera Americana),
white - May-June
Violet wood sorrel ‘(Oxalis violacea),
rose purple . May-June
Wild blue phlox (Phlox: divaricata),
jollme == May
False _ lily-of- the- -valley (i aianthe-
mum Canadense), white . . - May
Wild spikenard (Smilacina racemosa),
white — May-June
Wood sorrel (Oxalis Acetosella), white June
It may seem that I have wandered from my
theme of “ English effects”? by speaking so
much of American rock plants, but I beg to
remind my readers that every wild flower
mentioned in this article is actually grown
in English rock gardens and that every one
is procurable from English seedsmen or
nurserymen —in many cases easier, than
from our own. In conclusion I think we
ought to right about face and show Eng-
land that we can make rock gardens quite
as lovely as hers, and with an American
character too, instead of blindly copying
everything she does,
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Spring-time.
A welcome touch of brightness around the vegetable garden
Summer-time, The foliage makes a perfect screen, and the fruit is easily observed
Think -Now About Dwarf Fruit Trees—By W. C. McCollom, '%
. IF YOU WANT TO SET OUT DWARF FRUITS IN THE FALL, BEGIN NOW TO PREPARE THE PLACE
FOR THEM—HOW THE AMATEUR MAY RAISE HIS OWN TREES; TAHERE’S NO MYSTERY ABOUT IT
OW, when the orchard trees are in
flower, is the time when striking
comparisons can be made between the
regular standard, with its spread of forty
feet, and the compact growing dwarf, hardly
occupying any ground space at all. THE
GARDEN MaGazINE has, on several occa-
sions, told something of the advantages
that are claimed for the dwarf trees, which
are ideal for the small lot owner or for the
occupier of a rented property.
One hardly realizes that by beginning
immediately in thoroughly preparing the
ground so that stock may be planted early
in the coming fall, and thus giving the trees
every cultural advantage, it is possible to.
gather fruit next year. But it can be
done if you buy good sized, established trees;
and in three years, if you start with small
self-grown trees.
The wonderful satisfaction that comes
from the possession of a few dwarf trees is
something that can only be felt and cannot
be told to others. The delight of gathering
your own apples and pears from trees that
have never been affected by disease or insect
pests, and which have been grown from
start to finish without blemish, is worth a
‘great deal of effort. But the beauty of it
is that all this is accomplished without any
undue effort in any way.
The dwarf fruit tree appeals most strongly
to the amateur because it occupies practically
no space and any spraying for prevention of
disease can be accomplished by ordinary
appliances, there being no necessity for the
addition of elaborate machinery and long
extension poles to carry the hose; or the
handling of scaling ladders, in order to do
the necessary pruning.
Where a fence or hedge is desirable, a
wire trellis can be erected and the trees
trained upon it. And at this season of the
year their flowers in large clusters give a
brilliancy to the utilitarian garden that is
usually most noticeable by its absence.
Beyond all this practical advantage,
these trees appeal to the lover of nature for
their intrinsic beauty; and later on, when
these little trees carry their profusion of full
sized fruits, they have an attractiveness that
is almost uncanny.
The dwarf fruit tree is not a fad for
the man who plays at gardening but a
sternly practical solution of the problem
that is presented to every suburban gar-
dener who wants good fruit and wants
it quickly — the best results with a mini-
mum of labor.
The quality of the fruit of the dwarf tree
is superior to that of the tall standard,
primarily because the owner of the dwarf tree
is prima facie an enthusiast and, just be-
cause of this, the trees are actually given more
direct care. And then again, their con-
venient size enables the grower to at all
times keep in close touch with their actual
condition. The thinning of the fruit is
Horizontally trained fruit trees make an efficient
hedge for lining a walk or drive
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properly done on account of its ease, and
somehow or other it always seems so much
more easy to give proper cultivation and
extra feeding to these dwarfs —a detail of
good cultivation that is unfortunately gen-
erally denied to the commoner trees.
MAKING YOUR OWN DWARFS
Very few people offer dwarf fruit trees for
sale, and those that are offered are generally
stock imported from Europe; and as the
supply is not any greater than the demand,
it is necessary for you to make your plans
now if you are going to plant in the fall.
But perhaps you would like to make your
own trees. It is perfectly easy and you
canbe sure of having good sized speci-
mens fruiting abundantly in five years
from now.
Begin by selecting a suitable piece of
ground. If it is quite open and the trees
are not to be grown upon a trellis, buy
young stock that has been headed in and
plant it, allowing ten feet éach way; for
a trellis you need the same kind of tree
and by preference, allow a space of twenty
linear feet of trellis to each tree. It is better
to plant wide at the beginning than to have
to cut away a great deal of the best fruiting
wood after a few years. The ground must
be rich. Trench it, if possible, and turn
in a heavy dressing of manure. The ground
will be ready for planting in the fall if the
trenching and feeding are done any time from
now on, provided it is allowed to settle for at
least a month before planting.
Trees for trellises should be started from
young stock that has not yet branched in any
way, using of course grafted stock in all
cases — apples, on the Paradise or Doucin,
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pears on the quince,
peaches and nectarines on
the plum.
KIND OF TRELLIS
Iron posts and galva-
nized iron wires make the
best trellis because it will
last longer than one made
of wood. It is somewhat
more expensive but will
probably be the cheaper in
the long run. If iron posts
cannot be used, get locust,
stringing the wire by means
of a swivel attachment at
one end of each strand, so
that the slack may be taken
up and the trellis kept
taut. String the wires one
foot apart and make the
entire trellis from four to
six feet high, putting apples
on the higher trellis.
Set the tree close to the
trellis so that it actually
touches the wires. It is
a mistake to set the tree
six Inches away (to allow
for future growth). Such a tree always
has to be pulled over to the trellis and
a sacrifice made of all trimness in the
appearance.
The method of pruning is somewhat
different according to whether the tree is to be
a standard or trained on the trellis. Standards
are pruned much the same as other young
fruit trees by removing all the inside branches
and heading in the leaders. A tree on the
trellis must be cut off entirely three eyes
above the lowest wires on the trellis. Of the
three shoots that develop from the three eyes
above the wires, the lower two are trained
horizontally in opposite directions along the
lowest wire, and the other one is taken: up
and treated similarly next season to form
the branches for the second line of wire.
This is perfectly simple and can be done by
anyone.
The secret of the later development of
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE
One of the greatest advantages of dwarf trees is the ease of gathering, spraying and prun-
ing, without ladders, etc.
the tree is in carefully looking it over when
growth begins in the spring and rubbing off
every bud that is not positively wanted.
The tying down of the young shoots should
be done about the first week in August of
each year, and at the same time any super-
fluous shoots that may have escaped the
rubbing-off process are cut out.
MAKING FRUITING SPURS
Dwarf trees seem to fruit more abundantly
than others but only because they are
encouraged to develop a greater number of
fruiting spurs. After shoots have been
growing horizontally for a few seasons,
the formation of spurs will start normally,
and every care must be taken not to
break any of these in removing the fruit.
From these spurs shoots will of course
start growing, and each season we rub
off two out of every three, and those
JUNE, 1909
that are allowed to develop
_are subsequently pruned
back in the following
spring to about four
inches. In due course
spurs will develop on these
shoots.
THE FRUITING TREE
It is an easy thing to
over-crop these dwarf trees
—a tendency that must
be sternly repressed. A
reasonable crop for a
young apple tree is one
fruit to every square foot
of trellis. Peaches or pears
may carry two fruits to the
same space, and after the
set each year the thinning
must positively be attended
to. When trees are well
developed — eight or ten
years old and thoroughly
healthy and vigorous —
the load can be increased
considerably, the exact
proportion being deter-
mined in each case by
the condition and vigor of the tree.
Winter mulching of well decayed
manure is really a necessary detail in the
management of dwarf trees, not because
of any tenderness, because they are as
hardy as a tall tree of the same kind —
naturally so—but because the roots of
the stocks used for dwarf trees, being
shallow-rooting, are more liable to injury
in severe winters.
As to varieties, any one can be grown, but
there are some slight differences in behavior.
My experience is that among apples the best
are Bismarck, Beauty of Kent and Emperor;
of pears, Howell, Worden Seckel and
Fertility; of peaches, Early Rivers, Lord
Palmerston and Barnard Early. The
Bartlett pear, which for quality is unsur-
passed, can be successfully grown as a
dwarf on a trellis, but it requires more atten-
tion than the others named.
If you want to make your own dwarfs prepare the ground now
There is some satisfaction in having pears like these to pick as you need them
bie.
EVERY CHILD SHOULD HAVE A GARDEN
HE child and the garden belong together; to separate them is to deprive the former of one of his choicest
heritages. Take your five-year-old boy outdoors and let him dig up a corner of the garden and put in some
flower or vegetable seeds: you’ll be surprised at the pleasure for both of you. If you can do no more, have a
window box or some indoor pots for the youngster to grow flowers in. You owe it to him. There is hardly
anything more important in a child’s training, for body and mind and temperament, than this chance to assist
Nature in her daily miracles. While the hands are busy in the use of the trowel, hoe and rake, the eyes are being
trained to see what is happening about him, the green things growing, the insects and birds, all as busy and happy
His ears unconsciously learn to associate the robin with his call notes. Every nerve is stimulated and
While
the elders are guiding the children, their own interest is more deeply roused in the very things they are trying to
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trained to sensitive appreciation of the world full of things that the average person never sees, nor hears.
teach. A wider grasp of the scheme of things in Nature, a broader horizon, opens to child and man, for each is
teacher to the other, without fully realizing it.
The main crop in gardening is not vegetables and flowers.
If those crops fail the first year, the great crop is health,
gained in the open air, and the fellowship and partnership of children with their parents.
We’ve been trying, ever since this magazine started, to get this great subject properly before our readers. Now
for the first time we feel we have an adequate plan, which we start in this issue, and which will in future be a
regular feature.
Miss Ellen E. Shaw, who has been working out these problems as a teacher in classrooms and _ school
gardens, has prepared a simple and most comprehensive scheme which every parent and teacher should
‘read and act on.
The first article is on the following page, and the series will cover these general lines of work:
t. GARDEN Work GENERALLY.—In which will be
given, from time to time, simple directions for planting
and for planning school grounds and home gardens; it
will also deal with tools and how to
use them; with the qualities and
characters of various soils and their
improvement, with occasional refer-
ences to the most common garden
pests.
2. CHILDREN’S COMPETITIONS.—
This feature will aim to excite a
spirit of emulation among the chil-
dren of THE GARDEN MAGAZINE
family readers by encouraging the
planting of some of the most
easily grown bulbs, flowers, and veg-
etables, with a view to training the
children to judge by results and to
select high-quality types. A system of score cards will
be introduced and suitable prizes may be awarded by
the publishers. By this means, through window garden-
ing indoors, the interest of the children may be main-
tained after the outdoor season closes.
3. GENERAL IMPROVEMENT.— Working through the
individual child, much can be accomplished in making
more beautiful surroundings to homes everywhere. More
planting of flowers in yards, better kept lawns, and gen-
eral brightening up of neglected spots where plants can
be made to grow. This work will be
largely accomplished through direct
advice rendered to individual appli-
cants.
4. CONSTRUCTION AND LABOR-
SAVING Dervicres.—By fostering the
desire of the child to busy himself
with tools and appliances, he may
be encouraged to construct window
boxes, plant stands, frames, to make
envelopes for seeds, plant labels, etc.,
awards being rendered for the most
skilful work.
Re ISTORIC SANDS PE Shen DIC
Herein lies the ultimate goal — the
development of more gardens and the brightening and
beautifying of the lawn spaces that already exist around
so many suburban homes. By a training and develop-
ment of the esthetic sense more perfect color schemes,
better compositions, and greater pictures will be pro-
duced through the medium of the interchange of thought
offered in the columns of this department.
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There is just time (but none to waste) to start a school
garden, and the more workers the better
Sow seeds carefully and not too
thickly. Plants want room
Make the seed bed of fine soil,
and rake off all lumps,
stones, etc., making it quite level too
Children’s Gardens Everywhere
Conducted by HVVEN ED DYSSH AW
SCHOOL GARDENS —HOME GARDENS —COMPETITIVE PLANTING
ENS slit le stad
holds the garden
line. Sodowe. He
has been helping his
brother stake out the
garden. Children’s
gardens are the line
this page holds out.
We hold one end of
it and offer the other
to you.
Our end is to offer
help, showing children
how to make the best
use of whatever spaces they have for planting,
arranging the most pleasing color schemes
for flower gardens, suggesting simple tools
and pieces of apparatus. they may «make,
proposing tests and experiments with soils,,
and showing how to make unsightly, spots
beautiful.
Your end is to tell us of your etele
send us pictures of the. garden work -you
have done and to let us help you if you need
help, to tell us of good pieces. of manual
training work easy to ,construct.
School Gardens: ‘
i YOU have started your savden suppose
you take some pictures showing just what
you have done. Then take some in the fall
showing what was the result of your garden
work. You may like to send your pictures
in to us so that other schools and other chil-
dren may get some help from you. The
November number of this magazine will
publish pictures of school gardens. Yours
may be there.
How have you planned to care for your
school garden this summer? That is a
problem. If you have a good plan thought
out write us about it. If you wish help
write to this department and a way will be
suggested.
Home Gardens
Wy not plant in your own back yard
this year? It is the best place of all
to plant in. A number of boys and girls
have started already. It is not too late
now. If you don’t know the best things to
plant we will help you.
Keep a record of your work like this:
RECORD FOR GARDEN WORK
Nasturtium
June 15th.
Garden soil, clayey
Barnyard dressing
June 25th.
% inch, 1 inch, etc.
August 25th.
September 4th.
(Signed), John Adams
Print this record (which is filled out to show
you how to use it), on a good stiff card.
Fill it in week by week. It will help you
in your planting next year. Then, too,
Name of plant
Date of planting
Condition of soil
Fertilizer used
First appearance of plant
Growth in inches per week
Date of blooming .
Date of fruiting
you might send it in to us with pictures or ~
with specimens of your flowers or vegetables.
The results may be published, or win
prizes; or, better yet, help someone else in
planting.
Try to make your backyard as beautiful
as possible this summer. There was a certain
boy in a city who
made a wretched
back-yard blossom
all the fall with
asters. That was
worth while.
If you have an
ugly fence or an old,
unsightly building,
cover it with vines.
Running nastur-
tiums, morning
glories, and cucum-
ber vines grow
easily and quickly.
Old-fashioned, big
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Plant a few seeds in the yard and have beautiful
flowers when summer comes
sunflowers and hollyhocks stretch them-
selves tall enough to cover much.
Shall we tell one another this year the gar-
den work we do, and what success we have?
Competitive Planting
Fe ALL boys and girls THE GARDEN
MAGAZINE proposes to offer prizes for
best flowers and vegetables grown either in
school or home gardens. Products or pictures
of the same may be sent to the Children’s
Gardens Editor, at the office of the magazine,
any time during the fall. Awards will be made
and the list of competitors and prize-winners
printed in the November issue, if possible.
A Challenge
HE following letter has been received
from one schoolboy gardener, who in
some way had heard of the plans of the
magazine. We hope other children will
- answer.
I challenge any boy or girl in any school
to raise pumpkins with me.
I am going to send a picture of the largest
pumpkin I raise to the GARDEN MAGAZINE
next fall.
Will you do the same?
I am not going to
tell the name of my
seed, but the pump-
kin this seed came
from weighed from
seventy-five to one
hundred pounds.
Can you do as
well as that?
E1ioTT THOMAS,
Grade VI, Train-
ing Department of
the State Normal]
School, New Pally,
N.Y.
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Gladioli for June Planting
ROETONSTELY the gladiolus can be
safely planted until the middle of
June or even the first of July, and since
the bulbs are so cheap it is an excellent plan
to make two plantings of gladioli in May
and two in June in order to secure an un-
broken succession through August and
September.
Another excellent idea is to use June-
planted gladioli in beds of spring-blooming
flowers which would otherwise be unattrac-
tive all summer. For example, after your
larkspurs have bloomed you should cut them
back in order to get the autumn bloom, and
plant gladioli between the larkspurs for
August flowers. Thus your larkspur bed
will have gladiolus flowers in it during the
month of August and the thinness of the
gladiolus foliage will be hidden by the
dense, basal leaves of the larkspurs.
A few enthusiasts will not admit into
the hardy border any plant that is not
entirely hardy, but there can be no objection
to using gladioli in this way in formal gar-
dens and in flower beds.
To avoid staking, plant bulbs six inches
deep in well-prepared soil. This will produce
stems so stout that no staking will be
required.
New Jersey. Tuomas McApam.
Plant gladiolus any time in June for late flowers
during August and September
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Carnations and Roses for Cut
Flowers
ARNATIONS are by far the best
flowers for the beginner in commer-
cial horticulture, because they can usually
be sold at a remunerative figure even if not
strictly first class, whereas roses and chry-
santhemums must be really well grown to
find anything like. a reasonable sale. But
when these last are first-class, they will be
worth much more than carnations.
Then again, the beginner will master the
elements of carnation culture much more
quickly than he will rose growing, and the
plants are practically sure to give a crop of
flowers. A night temperature of from 45
to 55 degrees will be satisfactory for carna-
tions, but roses will need a range of from
55 to 60 degrees. It is better to devote the
entire house to one variety, but the grower
should not restrict himself to one variety as
the demand is always for several colors.
Color has a great deal to do with the
‘selling value of a flower —more than the
uninitiated will imagine —and in the New
York market the demand is chiefly for pink
and white, then crimson, and at the holiday
season, scarlet. Variegated kinds are not in
great demand at any time, although there is
always a slight consumption.
As to varieties, the following are good: In
dark pink, Mrs. Thomas W. Lawson is the
best and does well in a temperature of from
52 to 55 degrees. Enchantress, which suc-
ceeds in a temperature of 48 to 52 degrees,
is by far the best light pink andis always a
ready seller. Of the newer pinks, Winsor
seems to be a favorite, the color being unique
and readily harmonizing with any scheme
of decoration. It is a very productive,
vigorous, and healthy variety.
White Lawson is an excellent variety, as
is also Boston Market, the latter,being very
free and healthy, requiring 48 to 50 degrees
temperature ; but while it will be profitable
to use the flowers for home decoration, for
general display, or for florists’ made-up work,
they do not command the wholesale price that
usually prevails because they are under-sized.
White Inchantress resembles its colored
parent in every respect except color, and will
probably be the standard white carnation
for some time to come. MHarlowarden is
still the best crimson for all purposes and can
be successfully grown at 50 degrees. Victory
is a most popular scarlet for commercial
work, being free, vigorous and an excellent
keeper. A temperature of 50 to 52 degrees
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suits it admirably. In the variegated class,
Mrs. M. A. Patten is still the favorite.
Do not attempt to grow carnations and
roses in the same house unless it is divided
by a partition, so that the warmer end can
be used for roses; but as already stated,
roses require more skilful handling than
carnations. The most profitable varieties
to grow are: In white, Bride and Golden
Gate; in pink, Bridesmaid and Killarney;
in yellow, Perle des Jardins; and in scarlet,
Richmond. These varieties require a night
temperature of from 55 to 58 degrees, ex-
cepting Perle des Jardins, which should
have two or three degrees higher. Plant
it in the warmest bench in the house. There
are many other varieties, such as American
Beauty (red), President Carnot (pink),
and Kaiserin Augusta Victoria (white),
that are grown successfully and profitably
by experienced growers, but they ought not
to be attempted by any mere beginner.
Outdoor roses are usually not at all profit-
able as cut flowers, but if there is any local
demand for such, confine your attention to
the tea and hybrid tea sections, showing such
varieties as Maman Cochet, pink and white;
George Nabonnand, pinkish white; Gruss
an Teplitz, crimson; Hermosa, Killarney,
President Carnot, Belle Siebrecht, pink;
and Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, white.
These varieties bloom more or less during
the entire season.
New York. J. T. Scorr.
Bating the Fire Bean
HE scarlet runner bean, on account of
its gay blossoms and _ decorative
value, has many enthusiastic admirers. I
had grown it solely on this account for a
long time before I realized that it could be
used as a vegetable, and a most delicious
one at that. It is one of the easiest vines to
grow; I have tried itin Washington, Colorado,
New Jersey, and other states, in widely varying
conditions and soils, and have always been
successful in its cultivation. If planted
against a fence it does not require support.
The beans are produced in clusters and
can be gathered without stooping. The
pods are rough to the touch, but cooking
eliminates this’ quality and brings out a
sweetness quite different from, and superior
to, that of the well-known butter bean. The
pods must be gathered when young and
tender, for they will become stringy when
allowed to remain on the vines for too long
a time. The beans mature about the same
time the first crop of string beans finishes,
but the vine keeps on blooming and_ bearing
till frost kills it.
The preparation of this vegetable for the
table is very simple. Remove the ends and
strings, if there are any, and cut up the pod
in small slices. Some cooks split them
lengthwise. Cook in salted boiling water
an hour or two, and before serving dress
with butter, pepper and salt or a cream
sauce. They are equally as good és other
beans in a vegetable salad, and if I can
get them I use them in preference to any
other in mixed mustard pickle.
New Jersey. Laura B. CARPENTER.
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Fumigating with Hydrocyanic Gas
I MAY be mistaken, but I fear that through
generations of fumigating, the ordinary green-
house pests have become habitual smokers! It is
amusing to read some of the directions given at
times for killing the pests of the greenhouse — such
as spraying with ivory soap, kerosene emulsion, etc.
for the destruction of the white fly.
There is one surely effectual remedy, hydro-
cyanic acid gas, but it is a dangerous poison, and
must be handled with all caution. Give an appli-
}
Always pour the sulphuric acid into the water—
never the reverse
cation to a house infested with white fly and in the
morning the soil will look as though snow has fallen.
I use it and nothing else on everything — toma-
toes, lettuce, beans, carnations, roses, chrysanthe-
mums. This method of treatment is very econom-
ical and convenient and all the houses can be fumi-
gated at the same time. It is excellent for use in
chicken houses and other buildings.
It is claimed that hydrocyanic gas will kill any
breathing insect or animal in a fraction of a second,
as it paralyzes a nerve at the back of the neck which
is in direct connection with the brain. The proper
way to use it is to figure up the cubic capacity in
feet of the house to be fumigated, and to every
3,000 cubic feet use 4 ounces water, 2 ounces sul-
phuric acid, and x ounce of cyanide of potassium.
Ascertain the capacity by multiplying the length by
the width and the result by the average height.
For instance, a house 50 feet long, 10 feet wide and
to feet peak would give about 5,000 cubic feet.
When all calculations are made and everything
is ready at hand for the work, see that no one is left
in the house, which must be shut up tight. Close
all ventilators, etc., and as a precaution lock all
doors from the inside, if possible, leaving one open
for your exit. ‘Take the vessel containing the water
to the centre of the house and pour in the acid —
never the reverse. Then, putting the vessel on the
ground, take the cyanide in your hand, and keeping
your face turned away, preferably, drop the cyanide
into the mixture and at once walk briskly from the
house, closing the door tight. It is most important
that you get out of the house promptly. Do not
tarry to look at doors, ventilators, and don’t wait for
Do not drop the cyanide intothe water as shown
here, but keep the face turned away. Then leave
the house immediately
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any visible fumes, as there will be none. Having
locked the door, put the key in your own pocket, and
allow no one to go into the house for at least ten
hours.
The following morning the house can be entered
and the ventilators opened, but an excellent plan is
to arrange one ventilator sash so that it can be
raised from the outside, or else throw open the doors
for about half an hour before entering the house.
Used as directed there will be no injury to the plants
but no living insect will remain.
Long Island. W. C. McCottom.
Ten Bushels of Potatoes From
One of Seed
no a plot of land 48 x 60 feet our returns
last year were ten bushels of potatoes, the
seed for which cost us $1.25. Potatoes had not
been grown in the patch since 1895; the soil was
friable and loamy and had been heavily manured
every season until about four years ago, when it
was allowed to become overgrown with sod.
On May sth, when the patch was plowed
and harrowed (at a cost of $1), the soil was found
to be a rich brown in color, nearly two feet in
depth, with a gravelly subsoil. Furrows were
made two and a half feet apart and the seed was
planted the following day, May 6th. They were
set not over six inches apart.
Instead of hoeing, we used the spading fork
between the rows shortly after the plants had
appeared above the ground, and once again only,
JUNE, 1909
The Pleasures of Having a Fern
Garden
OM often reads of formal gardens, water
gardens, herbaceous gardens, rose gardens,
etc., though rarely of fern gardens; but for a
garden which will return the maximum of pleasure
for the minimum of expense and labor, a fern
garden certainly heads the list, provided, of course,
there is a piece of unused woodland that can
conveniently be used. :
Early spring is the very best time to plant ferns,
just before the fronds begin to appear, but they
may be transplanted in midsummer almost as
easily by simply removing all the large fronds.
This relieves the plants of the strain of keeping
up transpiration until the roots have become estab-
lished in the soil again. When once planted they
require but little care afterward.
The soil should be an ordinary loam to which
some well decomposed stable manure and leaf-
mold has been added. The paths and pockets
are formed with boulders and stones picked up
in the woods and adjoining fields. The cost of
a fern garden is very small, being practically all
in the making, digging up the soil, and adding
the manure.
One would naturally begin by transplanting
to his garden the choicest ferns which grow in the
woods in his immediate neighborhood. On every
trip to a new locality there may be a new fern to
bring home, or the collection may be added to
through correspondence with friends or ex-
This fern garden in the vicinity of Hartford, Conn., is composed entirely of native ferns, which thrive
under the partial shade
to make the plot look even. I found that the
sun did not bake and cake the soil as it
did when the hills were made with a hand or
wheel hoe.
Last season seemed to be a bad one for potatoes
in this section, the drought being severe, and
many farmers complained of dry rot and of the
tops of the plants dying. However, we were
troubled only once with potato beetles; a large
dose of Paris green dissolved in water utterly
destroyed them.
We began to dig tubers for table use about
August 1st. They were of good size. The middle
of September the final digging and sorting were
done and in the whole crop of ten bushels, there
were not over two bushels of small tubers. I
sorted them myself, and there was not one rotted
or scabby potato.
I am going to try growing potatoes again. this
season in an unused chicken yard. I will, how-
ever, plant the seed farther apart.
Connecticut. Junie ADAMS POWELL.
changes with collectors in different parts of
the country.
The picture shows a fern garden in the vicinity
of Hartford, Conn., in which the ferns are all
native. The common, or large growing kinds,
such as the ostrich fern, lady fern, cinnamon fern,
Christmas fern, etc., are planted in masses by
themselves; while the rarer kinds—those of
slender or diminutive growth, or those of which
there are but a single specimen — are planted in
pockets by themselves and labeled.
It is surprising how the pleasure of collecting
grows upon anyone who attempts it, and what
an authority on ferns it is possible to become.
There are some 170 species native to North
America. The new edition of Gray’s Manual
(which covers only the Central and Northwestern
United States and adjacent Canada) enumerates
twenty-four genera, seventy-three species, and
thirty-four varieties and named forms, which do
not include the water ferns.
Massachusetts. EDWARD J. CANNING.
he.
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_ An Experiment in Taming Trollius
. | AS is stated in a well known catalogue, ‘the
globe flower (Trollius) succeeds admirably in
the border in a half shady position in well drained
preferably light soil,” I should like to know what
inducements to offer to make them do so. Judging
from an experience of three seasons, in which I
failed most miserably in two, I should say offhand
that the trollius would flourish more luxuriantly
as a next-door neighbor to its cousin, the marsh
marigold, than as an inhabitant of a light, well-
drained soil.
Having such a soil in my garden, which is de-
voted entirely to perennials and bulbs, and being
| an admirer of yellow posies, the trollius, from its
| description, appeared to be just what I wanted.
_ A reproduction of a photograph of a bed of globe
' flowers, printed in an English magazine, settled
the question, and three years ago I ordered the
plants — five varieties.
Having no exact cultural directions, I planted
them in full sunlight as the photograph I had
admired showed a mass of bloom on an open lawn
—in England, however. They were strong,
thrifty plants and grew splendidly through May,
showing a lot of plump buds. A hot spell set in,
and before I had noticed, the trollius patch was a
wreck. The buds had blasted, the leaves had
turned yellow and only one plant looked as if it
had the courage to prolong. the struggle.
This was moved to a shady corner and watered
| freely, but it refused to grow holding up two pitiful
looking leaves for nearly a month, and then they
disappeared. I marked the place where it was
| planted and the following year one lone trollius
appeared early in the spring, formed a healthy
clump, but gave no blossoms.
Last spring it threw up four flower stalks and
made a fine display of over fifty blossoms, from
which I gathered a goodly supply of seed and
sowed it at once. A severe drought began in
|| July and lasted all summer, our water supply was
if
cut off, and the trollius plant died. The seed did
not germinate; I have since learned that, like
‘many of its relatives, it seldom germinates until
|
the following spring. Therefore, as the seed bed
was undisturbed, I look forward to the appearance
of a fine assortment of seedlings.
We had a wet summer year before last and a
cold, wet spring until well into May last year, so
_ that the inference seems plain that globe flowers
| need a copious supply of water at all times and a
soil which will retain moisture. If the soil is light
and well drained the plants must be watered
| constantly to grow at all.
Three years ago I also arranged a perennial
border in the light of the inspiration obtained
from Mr. William Robinson, J. Wilkinson Elliott,
and other highly esteemed writers on gardening
subjects, who have given us plans for such borders
containing irregular spots marked ‘‘ Helianthus
_rigidus.” “Helianthus Miss Mellish,” ‘“Wolley
Dod,” or any other traveling member of the sun-
flower tribe. In my border harmonious color
schemes, continuous performances during the sea-
son, gradations of height and other essentials were
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duly considered, but those pesky sunflowers upset
all my plans.
A single plant of Helianthus rigidus took entire
possession in two years of over ten square feet,
and overwhelmed and killed a Japanese barberry.
“Miss Mellish” buried some beautiful hollyhocks,
and I am still pursuing sunflowers!
However, there are two single varieties which
are well worth growing —Miss Mellish and
Wolley Dod, whose blossoms have a distinct
beauty and are excellent for cutting. Get two
plants of each, and then muzzle them and nail
them down! Sink a box three feet square around
each variety so that the runners can occupy only
a limited space. Each spring allow ten or twelve
sprouts to grow, but don’t let them roam at large
or they will steal the border.
Maximillian’s sunflower is worth growing in
the garden for its foliage alone. It blossoms in
October and November with pompon chrysanthe-
mums, and does not spread like the other two
varieties. Helianthus rigidus is nothing more
than a pest —it is a dazzling display when in
bloom, but will use up the soil and overwhelm
the entire plantation.
From this experience my advice is to muzzle,
hopple, and bind sunflowers if they are planted in
a border where the space is at all limited.
Illinois. SHERMAN R. DuFFy.
Killing the Weeds
NE of the most effective weed killers is sul-
phuric acid, or oil of vitriol, as it is sometimes
called. It is a corrosive poison, and extreme
care must always be exercised in its application.-
Dilute the commercial acid with four or five
times its bulk of water, and be sure to pour the
acid into the water. Considerable heat is generated
by the mixture of the acid and water, and if the
water were poured into the acid it might spatter
and cause serious burns. If any of the liquid
should come in contact with the flesh or clothing,
use immediately strong ammonia to neutralize it.
Mix in glass vessels or a stone jug, as the acid
corrodes metals. Give the weeds a good wetting
with the solution, and even the roots will be killed.
The same solution, applied with a swab or old
mop to poultry houses, will disinfect the building
and destroy vermin.
Maryland. G.G.S.
Cultivating
ULTIVATION is looked upon by beginners
simply as a means of destroying weeds
but this is only an incidental benefit. Of two
rows of plants in the same soil, the uncultivated
row will not make as good a growth as the culti-
vated one. Cultivation aérates the soil, thus
assisting the chemical action necessary to liberate
plant food. It also provides a dust mulch that
prevents the evaporation of the water necessary
for dissolving this food which acts as a medium
for supplying it. The benefits of good cultivation
are especially noticeable during a drought. ‘The
water pot and garden hose, as commonly used,
merely dampen the surface, so that a crust forms
and the next day’s sunshine takes up more water
than half a dozen sprinklings supply.
Dig or plow deeply in the early spring, pulverize
the soil well and thoroughly mix the fertilizer
with it. Continue the thorough pulverizing of
JUNE, 1909
Keeping the surface ofthe soil always loose does
more than destroy weeds; it aerates the soil and
conserves moisture
the surface throughout the season. A mere
scratching of the surface is not cultivation. After
every rainfall, as soon as the soil has dried suffi-
ciently to work without sticking to polished tools
and when it crumbles readily under their use, go
through the whole garden, loosen and pulverize
it to the depth of at least two inches — three if
possible. Then the water held by the soil will not
be evaporated by the sun, and the weeds which
start afresh after each rain will be disturbed,
displaced and killed. A wheel hoe is the most
rapid working tool that can be used, and will
quickly repay its cost in time saved and work
better done. The next best is a first-class scuffle
hoe.
Do not go through the garden with a hand hoe
and draw earth up to the plants. “Hilling” as
it is called, is a waste of labor. If you must do
it, try a landside plow attached to a wheel hoe,
but frequent, thorough, level cultivation gives
best results with less labor.
Penna.
J: Ke
Using Up the Rose Petals
apse best method of making a rose jar is to
put the petals, which have been taken as
soon as possible after the flowers are fully open,
in a basket or very thin and open cloth sack. Hang
it in the shade in the fresh air so that the petals
will thoroughly dry
Directions for making a rose jar almost always
advise sprinkling the leaves with salt, but this
reduces them to a moist, mussy, and often moldy
mess.
After the leaves have dried beyond the possibility
of molding, to every two quarts of petals add the
following combination: A few sprigs of lavender,
or four drops oil of lavender, one or two drops of
Bergamot, and five drops of attar of rose. Sachet
powder may also be added, heliotrope being found
to give the most satisfactory results. But be sure
to keep whatever combination of perfumes is
added subordinate to the rose odor. In order to
do this the attar of rose must be the most pro-
nounced perfume.
New York. A. G.
Aloes as a Spray
FoR the protection of squash, pumpkin, cu-
cumber, and egg-plant against insect pests,
try spraying with a solution of one-half pound of
aloes to ten quarts of water. It was recommended
to me for use when the plants were very small,
but I also used the preparation later in the season
when the striped beetle was threatening the large
plants. One application was enough to destroy
all traces of the bugs.
Connecticut. S. B.S.
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A Greenhouse With A Story
T was like this: Flowers and golf were the owner’s
hobbies; golf he was willing to take homeopathically, but S SiS)
flowers he wanted when he wanted them, all the year Garden Furniture of Oolitic Stone
’round. ‘There is only one thing for a man to doin :
such a case, and that is have his own greenhouse. This urn, 22 inches in height by 17 inches in diameter, is
offered for $18, freight prepaid to any point east of the
Missouri River. Its ample bowl, capable of growing flowers,
bay trees, palms or ferns, is water-proofed and has an in-
terior drain of iron pipe through the bottom.
Indiana oolitic, as you know, is a white stone, as hard and
almost as close-grained as marble; it grows harder each year
when exposed to the elements.
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So he had a lot of fun planning, and then we were
called in to see if such a house could be practically built.
About six weeks later his house was up, as you see it; 33
feet long, 18 feet wide, with an attractive little work room
at the end, and a seven sash hot bed on the south side.
And now how about you, don’t you want a green-
house? Can’t we get together and talk it over, or send
you some one of our catalogs? Which shall it be?
Wild Flowers Worth Improving
IV. YELLOW AND WHITE ADDER’S TONGUES
HE yellow adder’s tongue or dog’s tooth
violet (Lrythronium Americanum) should
be used to carpet any piece of woods from which
cows and sheep can be excluded. It has the double
beauty of mottled leaves and of yellow flowers in
April. Bulbs of flowering size can be had for only
$15 a thousand, which is probably cheaper than
you can collect them yourself; for the bulbs are
remarkably deep and much intermixed with tree
roots.
People make a great mistake in trying to dig the
bulbs in spring, because they do not ripen until
summer. However, it is best to order them in spring
for August delivery. And if you wish to dig any
from nearby woods, now is the time to mark the
place where they are most plentiful, so that when
the leaves have disappeared you will know where to
dig.
In the course of many years’ experience with the
“fawn lily,” as John Burroughs wishes us to call it,
I have noticed a very remarkable peculiarity in its
manner of growth. The seeds fall upon the ground
and soon germinate, forming small, imperfect bulbs
just below the surface of the ground. ‘These become
dormant in June, but late in August each bulb
sends out one to three or more long stolons, which
grow deep down into the earth, each forming a new
and more nearly perfect bulb. These throw up
large and beautifully spotted leaves, but no flowers.
The leaves die in early summer, and then each
bulb in turn sends still more deeply into the earth
The yellow adders tongue concerning which a
remarkable story isheretold. It takes one to three
years for the bulbs to attain flowering size
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a long, thickish stolon, which forms the perfect
and permanent bulb, which annually increases in
size, until, it becomes nearly or quite one-inch in
diameter.
These large bulbs are as‘a rule very deep in the
ground — often seven to ten or more inches. As
these grow mingled with roots of other plants, includ-
ing trees and shrubs, the digging of the large
flowering bulbs from their native wilds is a very
difficult and expensive process. So if one wishes to
establish a colony of this or the next species it is far
better and cheaper to buy the smaller bulbs which
will bloom in from one to three years after planting,
and which will produce far larger and more hand-
somely variegated leaves. For $60, one can get
10,000 one and two year old bulbs.
The flowers of the yellow erythronium are
not only very handsome, but very interesting.
They are remarkably sensitive to the light,
opening widely only in the full sunshine, and
closing tightly at nightfall. A dark cloud or the
slightest shadow passing over the sun will cause
them to begin to fold together. In case it begins
to rain they close tightly at once. In the full sun-
shine the brilliant yellow flowers, with their seg-
ments rolled widely back displaying the reddish-
brown stamens, are then strikingly handsome.
The white erythronium (Erythronium albidum) is
either an exceedingly variable species, or else several
species are confused. Bailey’s “‘ Cyclopedia of Ameri-
can Horticulture”’ says its leaves are narrow, not mot-
tled, and the flowers white, with a yellow base.
Britton says that the “leaves are similar to those of
the yellow, but sometimes narrower, while the flowers
are white, blue or purple.”
Now our type, found commonly in southeastern
Michigan, agrees with neither of these descriptions.
The leaves are scarcely, if any, smaller than those of
the yellow-flowered species, while the flowers are
rose-color outside and pure white within. Our
Michigan type flowers nicely for me, and is a
pretty sight in my garden. :
Michigan. W. A. BROTHERTON.
Roses in Colorado
HE dry atmosphere and the sudden changes
of temperature present great difficulties
for the rose grower here, but for the past two sum-
mers I have had beautiful roses in bloom con-
tinuously from the first of July through September
— fresh and vigorous looking without the drooping
air so common to flowers in this region.
We built our house in the middle of an alfalfa
field, and had the tenacious alfalfa roots to contend
with. The soil was a rich, heavy clay, fully exposed
to the full blaze of the fierce Colorado sunshine,
but we had plenty of water for irrigating. We
moved in during April and in June I set out a
dollar’s worth of hardy perpetual roses, Liberty
and American Beauties. I purchased them from
a florist who sent them fresh from pots with quan-
tities of rich soil adhering to the roots.
I made the bed on the eastern side of the house,
in an angle between a porch and a corner of the
house. Here the plants got the full morning sun,
but were sheltered from the almost unbearable
afternoon heat. As our nights are cold even in
summer, the plants become chilled if watered too
late in the day, so as soon as the sun is off the bed
I put the hose, with spray attached, in the middle
of it and turn the water on for two hours each
day.
In the early fall I put on a heavy mulch of
manure and about the first of November bent down
JUNE, 1909
the branches, covering them with earth. The
following spring the manure was stirred in
around each plant and a small amount of bonemeal
added.
With us plants start to life with the first warm
days of March and April, only to be killed by a ~
cold snap the end of April or even, sometimes,
the first of May. Our greatest difficulty at that
time of the year is to hold the plants back, but by
protecting the rose bushes at night and watching
the weather closely, this difficulty may be met and
usually successfully overcome.
The second spring I added more roses — two
dollars’ worth — making a total expenditure of
three dollars, with an additional fifty cents for
bone meal.
Colorado. R. J.
A Rose Stunt for Tae
Soe years ago, after having only indifferent
success with rooting rose slips in sand and
then transplanting, I heard of a very simple way —
that of embedding glass jars firmly in the earth
over the slips, heaping the soil about the mouths
of the jars so that they could not be Cisplaced. Never,
under any circumstances, were the jars to be re-
moved until the really warm days of spring had
set in.
Early in June I set out two slips, one of which —
had been properly prepared for the ground, the
other being merely the stem of a rose which had
fallen apart. The end was clipped, some of the
leaves removed, and the stalk was then stuck into ©
the ground. The soil was moist from a recent
rain, and within a few weeks new leaves were |
being thrown out. It seemed as if the hot sun of
August would burn the foliage through the glass,
but the little plants continued to thrive.
I was also curious to ascertain if any success
could be had with slips set in the fall, so in early
September I put under glass jars two slips of a
beautiful pirk climbing rose of which I had! always
been an enthusiastic admirer. These were not
selected with any particular care, but started well;
seemed in good condition the following spring,
and flourished throughout the summer in spite of
two months of drought.
In covering for the winter, I protected the jars
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all. When uncovering in the spring I took off
the jars in the middle of the day at first, replacing
them at night, thus gradually hardening off the
plants. With the exception of the climbing rose
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Sow seed of annuals in June for a second crop
of flowers which will continue to bloom until
frost. Use plenty of seed, as it is much easier to
thin the plants than it is to replant; and it is also
desirable to have the plants all the same size.
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stakes twelve inches deep in the ground and tie the
plants to them.
Every gardener should stake the tomato vines so
as to keep the fruit up from the sand and to prevent
rotting; or else make frames by placing a strong
stake, about seven feet in length, eighteen inches
deep in the soil, by the side of each plant. On
these tack barrel hoops ten or twelve inches apart.
Where one does not have the time nor the material
to make the frames, buy wire ones which will last
a long time.
Do not allow plants intended for house decoration
next winter to flower during the summer. Keep
all flower buds trimmed off.
It is not yet too late to plant out water lilies.
After they are once started, they will require but
very little care.
To keep crows out of the watermelon patch, tie
thick white twine across and around the patch early
in the month, on stakes four or five feet in height.
Cut the runners from the strawberry plants and
keep them well cultivated in order to develop large
healthy plants. The bed should also be given a
light dressing of well decayed compost now.
Plants are often injured by having flowers broken
off; cut them off with a sharp knife or pair of shears.
In order to induce continual bloom, keep all the
blossoms cut off the annuals; don’t let seed form.
Don’t neglect the rhubarb. Keep the beds well
cultivated; a top dressing of manure will help very
much at this time of the year.
Depth to Plant—a Question of
Latitude?
Gy THE April issue of THE GARDEN MAGAZINE,
in my usual “‘reminder” to amateurs in the
South, I made the statement that gladiolus bulbs
should be planted two or three inches deep.
The accuracy of this statement has been questioned
by a grower living in Massachusetts who states:
“The gladiolus bulb reproduces itself by forming
a new bulb on top of the old one. As bulbs are
seldom less than an inch in thickness, it can readily
be seen that the new bulb must come too near the
surface, if planting is two or three inches deep;
and as a result the subsequent growth would be
weak and spindling. Gladiolus bulbs, therefore,
must be planted five or six inches deep.”
It may possibly do to plant gladiolus bulbs at such
a depth in Massachusetts, but it would not be suc-
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rains in the spring which pack the soil, and if the
bulbs were planted so very deep they would rot
before they could push their way through the six
inches of heavy, hard soil. The one great trouble
with all gardeners and farmers in the South is that
they plant all bulbs and seeds too deep.
From experience I have found that three inches
is a sufficient depth for gladiolus bulbs. The late
Mr. E. D. Darlington advised planting from three
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to four inches deep, and leaflets sent out by some of
the largest seedsmen give similar advice. I
sincerely hope that none of my statements will bring
disappointing results to your readers.
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| The Wild Grape as a Porch Vine
|e THE April, 1909, issue of THE GARDEN
MaeGa4zInE I note some excellent suggestions
about the use of wild grape for decorative purposes
around old stumps and dead trees. I have found it
to be the most practical, inexpensive and effective
way of decorating a frame house. The color of
the leaf is brighter than most porch vines.
The vine can be led anywhere over the house by
means of small staples. It does not lift the boards,
and as the leaves fold over each other in such a way
as to exclude moisture, the house remains dry
instead of becoming damp. A year ago I took down
my vine in order to paint the house, and found the
paint under the vine in better condition than else-
where. The only care a wild grape requires is
being cut back and trained whenever the growth
becomes too dense.
On the north side of the house we have a vine
planted near the central window, and another on
the south side, which have been trained forward until
they pass each other at the front of the porch.
Another line runs up and encircles the windows.
The porch is 10 x 30 ft. and this heavy hanging
of green makes it ideally cool during the hot
summer months.
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More About the Groundsel Tree
pee article on the groundsel tree which ap-
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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE, was very interesting to
me. I have seen it cultivated in only one place,
and that was at the Jamestown Exposition, in
1907, when it was used quite extensively on the
grounds. One of the men in charge of the land-
scape gardening there told me that, so far as he
could see, the shrub was identical with one that
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on the sandy land lying between Norfolk and the
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Garden Notes and News
Think of a whole grove of flowering dogwood!
Mr. James Wood at Mt. Kisco, N. Y. has one.
Dogwood happened to be dominant, so he cut out
everything else. ‘The effect is glorious.
What is the noblest combination of forest trees in
America? Some say oak and pine. People often
remark that “oak and pine love to touch elbows.”
It is said that the bluejays help to perpetuate this
partnership by hiding acorns in pine stumps.
When Mr. William C. Whitney bought about a
thousand acres of farm and wood land for a country
home Charles Eliot erected a temporary tower to
show his client where to locate the house and
roads, where vistas should be cut, etc.
There is an enormous “Italian garden” on Long
Island built to imitate a ruined villa. It has arti-
ficial ruins, endless terraces, diagonal vistas, brick
water courses without water, statuary galore, figs
grown against a brick wall and many other wonders.
The most beautiful woods in England are beech
woods, because of poetic atmosphere, the smooth
bark of the beech, ete. We can get this effect by
thinning beech woods. Beech will branch out
quicker and better than oak under such treatment.
Mr. E. D. Morgan has planted a hillside with little
pines at his summer home, near Westbury, L. I.
‘The Austrians make the best show now and will for
twenty years. At thirty they will begin to fail,
while the white pines will catch up and last one
hundred and fifty years.
Have you ever seen a whole city that was planned
by one architect and planted by one landscape
gardener? Woodmere, Long Island, is such a
place and the older part of it is mature enough to
show some very beautiful effects.
It does. not pay to go to the woods for big trees.
They are too slow to branch out and are liable
to be killed by the sudden increase of light. It is
better to move big trees from the fields, but you must
root-prune them and then wait several months.
Root pruning can be done at any time but is most
economical when labor is plentiful.
Have you heard about the new disease of the white
pine? The needles get shorter and all turn yellow.
The tree may die without affecting the next one.
There is a good deal of this trouble on a famous
estate at Englewood, N. J. A Government path-
ologist is working on it. It is a serious matter.
No remedy known.
Twenty thousand dead chestnut trees have been
cut down on a single estate near Roslyn, L.I. They
made a ghastly landscape. It they had been cut
and sold before the disease came, the proceeds would
have paid all the cost of transforming these dull,
featureless woods into an enchanting grove, filled
with noble rhododendrons, banks of laurel, great
colonies of wood lily, carpets of partridge berry, etc.
The art or craft of caring for old trees has made
enormous advances the last two or three years.
People are realizing more and more what is the
worth of a tree that has taken a generation or two
to develop and are willing to spend money on
keeping it alive and well. And some of the
leading practitioners recently organized an associ-
ation for the better codperation of the “landscape
foresters” and the “‘commercial entomologists.”
Can we ever attain charm in a formal garden by
using baytrees in tubs? Why not have something
of the same shape and size that will grow in the open
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JUNE, 1909
The Waratien Problem in School |
Gardening |
ANY teachers have been deterred from
starting school gardens by not being able
to devise a plan that would insure the success of
a garden in vacation time.
At the Whittier Practice School of Hampton
Institute, which contains two hundred beds, each
cared for by two children, the volunteer system
by which the children get the product of their own
labor has been found to work well. The most
important factor in the success of this system is
the production during the summer of sufficient
crops of vegetables and flowers to make the volun-
teer workers feel that it is worth while to spend
some of their play time in the garden.
In order to make this possible, it is necessary to
plan very carefully what crops shall succeed each
other in order to mature at the proper times. This
was done for the Whittier garden and the 150
volunteers who came on Mondays to weed and
cultivate and harvest were able to supply their
families during the entire season with produce
from the school garden, while many of them had
vegetables to sell.
The number of workers decreased from week
to week, not from any lack of interest but because
many of the children were obliged to find remun-
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and worked with pleasure and even enthusiasm.
A school garden in vacation is sure to fail if the
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matter by saying that he hopes these volunteers
will persevere to the end, and that he will see the
garden in good shape when school opens in the
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week, assign them work, and remain with them
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or girls, or even by an interested mother or father
of some of the pupils. It is desirable to have a
little work done in the garden every day because,
since it does not always rain on Sunday, mulches
can not always be made on Monday.
There was a lawn at one end of the Whittier
garden and this had to be kept trimmed. Again, the
weeds grew so fast that a weekly weeding did not
suffice.
Two Hampton Institute boys, students
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Illustrating the necessity of supervision. A paid
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the greatest danger that
of agriculture, were detailed for this daily work.
In a smaller garden it could easily be done by one
of the older schoolboys, who would consider him-
self well paid if he were given an extra share of
the flowers and vegetables raised.
It is necessary that a school garden be fenced
to keep out destructive chickens and other animals.
Will not the vegetables and flowers be stolen?
The answer to this depends upon the success with
which public sentiment in the community is
educated by means of the garden. The Whittier
garden is near a high road and contains a straw-
berry bed in addition to regular ones. It is easily
accessible and yet has never been molested.
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Random Notes in Season
O YOU know any better yellow flower for edg-
ing a border than the woolly yarrow.
(Achillea tomentosa)? It blooms at least six weeks,
beginning in June. By the middle of July only
half the flowers are gone. It grows four to six
inches high.
German iris and chrysanthemums are alternated
along a garden walk in Roslyn, L. I., so as to have
two crops of flowers, and good foliage throughout
the season.
We always think of asters as autumn flowers, but
the blue mountain daisy (Aster alpinus) blooms in
June and we have even seen it in April. The wild
form is purple, but var. swperbus is said to have
bright blue flowers. They are astonishingly large
for an aster.
Spurless columbines are occasionally boomed as
novelties, but they are an old trick of nature’s.
You can see pictures of them in a book published in
1613 — purple, violet and white varieties, every
flower being a perfect rosette one and a half inches
across, and composed of four rows of flat petal-like
bodies. Presumably they are a case of atavism, i. e.,
they go back to the ancient condition when the spurs
had not yet been developed by insect agency. It
seems to us that spurless columbines lack a charac-
teristic beauty. One might as well have Hamlet
without the Prince, corned beef without mustard or
roses without fragrance. But then seedsmen must
have something to blow about!
An English gardener who expected to set America
afire, planned to do it with the purple rock cress and
its rose, carmine, violet and white varieties. So he
planted aubrietias on an enormous scale but they
were a sad failure. Our sun is too hot for most
alpine plants. We must deyelop the flowers of
the Rocky Mountains and the rock-loving plants of
the East such as moss pink, the Virginian saxifrage,
etc.
We should be glad to hear from anyone who is
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Everyone who has a rockery should grow Charle-
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well as the legend that it cured Charlemagne’s army
of the plague. It grows only three to six inches
high and the white flower is enormous for so small a
plant. It is like a daisy, but six inches across.
However, it is not very showy, as the flower barely
rises above the foliage. It blooms in June or July
and again in late fall.
“Balm of Gilead” is a name applied to many
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of the mint
long spikes.
family, having purple flowers in
It is a native of the Canaries and needs
winter protection. C. cana, from Mexico, is hardy
at Elizabeth, N. J. It has purple flowers about an
inch long, which are not very showy or refined, but
anything that blooms from June to October is worth
trying, especially if it has fragrant foliage; the
color is a little dull, but of a distinct shade.
“‘Snow-in-summer” is a good name for a hardy
plant with silvery leaves and white flowers (Ceras-
tium tomentosum). And so is “‘mouse-ear chick-
weed” a good name for its running mate (C. Bieber-
steinit), which has larger leaves and flowers and
blooms earlier. If you want cool effects in your
garden, use these for edging walks, carpeting bulb
beds and all dry, sunny places. They won’t cost
much if you raise them from seed. Snow-in-
summer will bloom the first year, if started indoors
in March. They are fine from May to July.
One of the most distinct types of beauty is that
of the scabious. Most people know the annual kind,
especially the Mourning Bride variety. Cephal-
aria alpina is practically a perennial scabious with
a lemon flower, but it is a striking plant because it
will grow five feet high and bear flowers three inches
across. After the main crop in June the side shoots
continue to flower through July, bearing flowers
about half as large. It is one of the best hardy
flowers introduced since the ‘Cyclopedia of Ameri-
can Horticulture” was written.
Do you want something to carpet the ground in
dense shade where grass will not grow? The bugle
(Ajuga reptans) will do it. A New Jersey nursery-
man claims that it will be bright green the year
round. It has purplish flowersinspring. You can
have the green, purplish or variegated-leaved variety.
The Wallflower Fallacy
AN OLD-FASHIONED perennial, much neg-
lected in this country, is the Cheiranthus,
or wallflower. It is a great favorite in England,
but there seems to be an impression here that
it does well only in cool climates, and that the
seeds must be sown and the young plants wintered
with at least the protection of a coldframe.
This is quite contrary to my experience in grow-
ing the plant in Missouri. I sow the seed in the
open ground in May, and as soon as the plants
are large enough transplant to permanent posi-
tions in the garden. No further attention is given
them except to keep the beds free from weeds.
The seedlings grow where they receive the sun
all day long, with the exception of about three
hours in the afternoon, and are strong and healthy
all summer. They have no protection whatever
during the winter, and early in April begin blooming
most profusely. The colors range from pale
yellow through shades of orange and brown to the
deepest velvety reddish maroons. We prefer the
single varieties to the doubles. One reason,
perhaps, that the wallflower grows so well with
us is that in all our beds special attention is given
to drainage.
The greatest charm of the wallflower, outside
of earliness of bloom, lies in its exquisite fragrance,
which is very heavy in the evening. ‘The yellows
and maroons are particularly clear and good in
color, and the plants are vigorous and bushy,
and exceedingly neat and compact in appearance,
growing about eighteen inches to two feet high.
It is said that the wallflower will strike readily
from cuttings, but this we have never tried, as the
old plants bear quantities of seed and new plants
are thus easily raised.
Missouri. M. Lone SLOAN.
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE
JuNE, 1909
Burlington
Venetian Blinds
Made for both windows and
porches; make a room or ver-
anda so shady and cool that you
find it delightfully comfortable,
even on the hottest day. Shut
out the sun, while admitting the
refreshing breezes.
Adjustable
to any angle, from open to closed,
to suit the angle and direction of
the sun’s rays. 5
Made to order only—any wood,
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© A Paneled Cedar
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which IS a treasure, costing]essthan ONE season’s a .
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delicate furs and fabrics; absolutely proof against Styles and prices.
insects, dustand dampness. Elegant, substantial,
beautiful; made of fragrant Southern Red Cedar, it is an ideal wedding or
birthday gift. Sold at factory prices with privilege of FREE examination
Piedmont Red Cedar Chest Co., Dept.35 Statesville, N. C.
Genuine Panama Hats $ ] 00
JUST THE THING FOR GARDEN USE
Panama Hats more popular than
ever. all the rage this summer.
By importing large quantities
we can sell direct to user for
this surprisingly low price.
These hats are warranted gen-
uine all hand woven; unblocked,
and can be worn in that con-
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and children. Easily blocked
in any shape or style. Just as
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JUNE, 1909 THE GARD EN MA G AZINE Sea about joreign ee 315
Water in the
Here’s something NEW—a gasoline engine
which makes a power pumping plant out of any
common pump in a few minutes. Beats a wind-
mill all hollow. Will pump water from a well of
any depth 500 to 800 gallons per hour, according
to size of pump cylinder. Needs no special
foundation. Any well platform is sufficient.
Needs no belts, jacks or fixings of any kind. Is
ready for instant use when you get it.
Runs out of doors or inside without overheat-
ing or freezing, winter or summer. No smoke,
flame, sparks or odor. This Wonderful
—— Power Pumping
The -Fuller & Johnson LIK Plant costs
FARM less thana
2 TON ath eee
” Mig Oo Ce Ne
Garden Hose That’s Built To Wo
bration. By attaching a piece
PUMP ENGINE | Winds OR gey garden hose wears out from the inside. The least
Is quiet—practically no vi- h ALWAYS
water pressure tends to unwrap it. (You know how
of pipe for extra air chamber, READY ori? . Ol
will “throw ‘9 continuous | for Work its made — wrapped with canvas — like a rag around a
the air or 60 feet on the
level. Fine for washing
wagons and windows and for
FIRE PROTECTION. Has
pulley for running any ma-
chine which can be run by
hand, and is so light it
can be detached and taken
anywhere in no time. It's
built like an automo-
bile—same care, same ma-
terials—so etrong it should
need no repairs for years.
Ask for our big catalog
today and learn all about
this wonderful invention,
Fuller & Johnson Mfg. Co.
213 Adams St., Madison, Wis.
sore finger.) Kinks crack it and then come the leaks.
ELECTRIC GARDEN HOSE
Wears twice as long as ordinary hose. \t will stand a higher water pressure than any
other rubber hose. We guarantee it for 200 lbs. to the square inch. 400 lbs. won't
burst it. It can’t kink. In brief this is Electric building, —a series of woven jackets (in
pol one piece) of high-test cotton fabric alternating with layers of fine grade rubber. The
whole vulcanized into a solid seamless piece. You can buy any length up to 500
feet. Although Electric is the finest hose ever made, it costs only a cent or two
more than common. If you are in the market for hose, no matter how little,
Electric is worth looking for. Electric trade-mark is on the hose. First-class seeds-
The Guide for Seed Growers men and dealers sell it. If yours doesn’t keep it, write to
THE THORBURN CATALOGUE ELECTRIC HOSE AND RUBBER COMPANY
: WILMINGTON, DELAWARE
mailed free on application
J.M. THORBURN & CO.
88 BARCLAY STREET NEW YORK
1000 DOLLARS AN ACRE FROM TOMATOES
is the record made last year in growing tomatoes by the Potter Method. The cut herewith shows the appearance of such a money-making tomato Patch.
The Potter Method isa simple, practical way of growing tomatoes rightand is justas valuable to the home gardeneras it is to the grower of large quantities.
Growing Tomatoes for Quality, Quantity and Earliness
is the name of the best booklet ever issued on the subject of tomato culture. It contains 30 pages and illustrations fully describing the Potter method
of raising tomatoes. By this method you can have bigger and better fruit and weeks earlier than otherwise. It teaches the secret and science of tomato
culture; forcing the fruit by systematiccultivationand pruning. This bookis invaluable to every gardener, whether he grows one dozen or one thousand
vines, The subjectscovered are: History of theTomato; Its Natureand Habit; ‘omato Culture in General; The Potter Method; Plants and Planting;
Home-Grown Plants; Preparing the Ground; Setting the Plants; Cultivation; Pruning and Staking the Vines; Picking the Fruit; Ripe Tomatoes at
Christmas; 40 Tomato Recipes; Kest Tomato Seeds. The information is condensed and to the point—just what every grower wants.
The cut herewith shows one of a large number of vines in my garden this season. Notice that each stalk is loaded with large, perfect fruit
from top to bottom. This is the result of my method. It is easy to raise this kind of fruit when you know how. Just send for my book—price
50C., postage or money order. Your money back if not satisfactory.
FREE SEED.—To everyone ordering my booklet within the next 30 days I will send FREE with each book one package each of the best
varieties of early and late tomatoes. I make this offer so that you will get ready now for your spring gardening. on’t wait until the last
minute when the rush is on. Send for my booklet to-day and I know you will be thankful that you made such a wise investment.
“CELESTIAL LOVE APPLES.” We have just received a very limited quantity of the seed of a wonderful new variety of tomato by the above
Dame. Itisa very perfect and delicious fruit but it is a non-acid tomato and is most desirable for invalids and dyspeptics who ordinarily cannot eat the
tomato. We will send twelve (12) seeds to each one ordering our booklet on tomato growing. If you don’t receive them you will know the supply is out.
T. F. POTTER, Tomato Specialist, Box C, DOWNERS GROVE, =LL.
Rose and Peony Exhibition
Mr. Peterson begs to announce, for early June, an outdoor exhibition of the
above two flowers, which for quality and interest will exceed anything of its kind
in this country, and to which the reader is cordially invited.
Realizing how little is generally known of the surpassing beauty and merit
of the modern Peony, a special effort has been made to show this flower at its
best, including the rarest and choicest gems. Should you contemplate an im-
portant planting of this flower next fall, this exhibition will afford a rare oppor-
tunity to select varieties which most appeal to you. Kindly send word if you
intend to be present, and you will then be notified when flowers are reaching
their best. In a normal season this occurs during the second week of June.
Directions for reaching nurseries will be found in current Rose catalog.
GEORGE H. PETERSON
Rose and Peony Specialist
FAIR LAWN, N. J.
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Keeping Up
Ney the Place
Every owner of a home or farm has the
expense of “upkeep” to contend with.
There are sidewalks, curbs, steps,
clothes posts, horse-blocks, watering
troughs, chicken coops, and the like to
be built, repaired and built again later.
Why not make these improvements
' of concrete and settle this annual ex-
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Concrete is the great, modern build-
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and durable as stone.
We have published a text-book de-
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It tells just how to make these improve-
ments — how to mix the concrete and
how to make the molds.
You can do much of the work your-
self; all of it can be done under your
supervision. ‘The book is called
“Concrete Construction about
the Home and on the Farm”
and will be sent to anyone on request.
Concrete is a mixture of sand, gravel
or broken stone and some kind of Port-
land Cement. The kind is important —
so important that you should know about
LAS
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CEMENT
which, because of its purity and uniform
quality, has become the standard in ce-
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the best —and everybody gets the-same.
Atlas is the brandthe government has pur-
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for use in building the Panama Canal.
Get Atlas for your own use and
specify it for all work you have done.
Other books:
“Concrete Country Residences”
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THE GARDEN
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Japanese Irises on a Hill Top
I HAVE been for many years interested in the
culture of the Japanese iris, and for a long
time had the common idea that it needed bog
conditions. To meet this fancied need I made a
sunken area with appropriate soil and a hydrant
to keep it wet. The flowers I had were but little
to boast of.
Later I placed the plants in ideal soil — moist, but
well drained — and had flowers that I was really
proud of, and my pride was further increased by
having an English gardener of wide experience say
that my irises were the best that he had seen.
At about that time I visited an estate in charge of
a Japanese gardener. His bed of irises was situated
on the top of a hill with the natural soil a thin sticky
clay. The plants stood nearly breast high, with
flower-stalks like small bamboos and flowers such as
I had never dreamed of.
I found that the secret of such success was to
have a clay soil, the heavier the better, working into it
about two inches of well-rotted manure and giving a
liberal dressing of bonemeal or nitrate of soda.
The plants should be placed about two and a half
feet apart in rows and in the rows at least a foot;
and for the very best results, planting should be
done on slight ridges about three inches above the
trough of the row.
When the plants have started to grow put at least
six inches of half rotted stable manure between the
rows but not against the plants. Water liberally
with the hose, washing the manure into the roots.
The flowers will be best the second year; the third
year the plants should be reset. My own experi-
ence is that much finer plants are to be had by divid-
ing to single eyes; when crowded many of the shoots
are weak and do not flower.
The above method is doubtless the best to follow
if one desires flowers for show purposes, but when
planted wild about the banks of ponds or streams
and flowering among wild plants, there is a charm
about Japanese irises that cannot be obtained in
any other way.
California. CarRL PurDY.
Important Jobs to Do Now
HIS is the last month in which dahlias and
gladiolus should be planted. During this
month the main work in the flower garden is that
of general care, watching closely to see that no
plant suffers for lack of water. Plant out the last
lot of chrysanthemums.
The following vegetable plants and seeds may be
planted during June: Beans, late cabbage (seeds
or plants), cauliflower (plants), lettuce, melons
(musk and water), peas, sweet potatoes (plants),
pumpkin, radishes, tomato (plants).
Los Angeles, Cal. ERNEST BRAUNTON.
Chickens in Our Garden
ie ORDER to keep the garden from being
scratched up do not allow the chickens to
run at large during the day for more than an hour
or two before roosting time. When releasing them,
keep the cocks back, for hens will hardly ever do
any damage unless they have chicks, but will really
do good work by quietly picking up. grubs. The
minute the cock gets his liberty, he feels it is his
duty to provide for his family by showing them a
good feeding ground. That spot is sure to be
the garden. He will take only a few glances around
MAGAZINE
JuNE, 1909
ROWE’S
GLOUCESTER
BED HAMMOCK
For Porches, Verandas, Lawns, Tents and
Indoor Use
Combines Hammock,
Couch and Swing Settee
A third of a century’s experi ence shows that Rowe’s
Hammocks can be depended on to give 10 years of
continuous out-of-door service. From the model and
of same weight canvas (white or khaki) as made by us
for years for U.S. Navy. Strong wood frame, thick
mattress. Holds six persons. Ideal for outdoor sleep-
ing. Complete, with lines and hooks ready for hang-
ing, delivery charges prepaid in United States, Ccare-
tully packed.
Write for Descriptive Booklet
about this most comfortable and durable piece of outdoor furniture,
and prices of different styles and sizes
E.L. Rowe& Son, Inc. Sail Makers and Ship Chandlers
466 Wharf St., Gloucester, Mass, °
DUTCH BULBS
Sold by the growers direct to the planter
We are the only dealers in the United States owning
and working nurseries in the Sassenheim district of
Holland.
We are quoting a large assortment of novelties and
species of Darwin and May flowering Tulips.
Orders taken during June will be filled direct from
our nurseries.
SEND FOR OUR DESCRIPTIVE CATALOG.
FRANKEN BROS.
DEERFIELD ILLINOIS
WITH OR _.
WITHOUT
SUN-DIAL
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Chicago, III,
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( booklet.
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Z 103 University Ayenue, - Syracuse, N. Y.
Send 25 cents for sample copy of
PALETTE and BENCH
a mew magazine for Teachers and Stu-
dents of Oil and Water Colors and the
Crafts. Endorsed by the leading art educa-
tors ofthe country. Prospectusfree. Free
sample copy of ‘‘ Keramic Studio” to those
interested in China painting.
Keramic Studio Pub. Co.,
114 Pearl St., Syracuse, N. Y.
It may seem strange that real life can be more absorbing than the amaz-
ing evolutions of the fashion plates in a certain class of modern romantic
fiction. Don’t take our word for it; read
“THE GOOD COMRADE”
by Una L, Silberrad. All bookstores. $1.50
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. NEW YORK
before starting for it on a run, calling for all to
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( a If you wish information about dogs,
June, 1909 Al i i G A R D E N M A G A Z I N ) Hp plnite the Reader? peas 317
ILLOW us to send you
without charge this little
portfolio showing com-
position stone ornaments such
as sun dials, benches, fountains,
vases, etc., suitable for the large
estate or small garden.
It will tell you how to make your garden a delight-
ful outdoor living room and also offer you in the con-
venience of your home a wide selection of garden
accessories. You can select garden accessories from | ppt tie ie oe
this portfolio as confidently and satisfactorily as if you 3% ; °F Hs,
were at the Garden Studio, 647 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. |
We have long made a specialty of the most classic and beautiful accessories for mak-
ing the country place more attractive or the small garden an outdoor living room.
This firm also makes a specialty of interior decoration of churches, libraries,
residences and public buildings. Address Garden Department,
L.HABERSTROH & SON
647 Boylston Street BOSTON, MASS.
TEXA ARE
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FE IG ORCHARD S One Acre Set in Figs and One Town Lot, both for
$230, Payable $10 down and $10 per month,
without interest, no payments when sick ;
clear warranty deed in case of death.
E. Cc: ROBERTSON Local cash market for fruit. Single crop pays for land and lot. Money back
in four years with annual income thereafter for life. Better than banks, bonds,
General Sales Manager or life insurance. If you want to enjoy life in South Texas under your own “‘ vine
501G Ki Bldg., Houston exas and fig tree,’ or make a small, safe, profitable investment, write for full particu-
£2 2 lars. Agents wanted. Will plant oranges if preferred.
THE CARE OF TREES
9 Your mature trees need scientific attention.
ON T EXPERIMENT. Call us in for an inspection or for necessary
work. Dead limbs should be removed, cavities cleaned and repaired; broken and
split limbs bolted; insect pests stamped out and unhealthy trees invigorated by
methods which are recognized as standard—our methods. Write for our FREE BOOK=
LET. It is extremely valuable to owners of estates, orchards and forest lands.
FORESTRY Owners do not realize the possibilities in their woods. By careful
- handling certain amounts can be removed at intervals leaving
the forest in position to produce superior timber. These cuttings are usually not an expense
but give the owner a profit. If you and possibly your neighbors have forest tracts have us
inspect them and report what can be done for their betterment. We make timber estimates
and working plans besides carrying out such plans. Our directors are graduates of the Mass-
achusetts Agricultural College and the Yale Forest School.
PUBLICATIONS. ‘Shade Trees,” by G. H. Allen; “Apple Growing,’’ by George
T. Powell. $1.00 each postpaid.
LECTURES. Village Improvement Societies, Boards of Trade, etc., should se=
cure our stereopticon lecture on the Care of Trees.
MUNSON-WHITAKER CO.
842 Tremont Bldg., Boston. 1102 Flatiron Bldg., New York. 1202 Monadnock Bldg., Chicago.
You can’t be proud of it if it is disfigured with a network of |
clothes lines, clothes poles and miscellaneous family washing.
It certainly isn’t a sight for any self-respecting home to be
proud of, esides the HILL
CLOTHES DRYER
for Lawn, Balcony or Roof has made it unnecessary. The Hill
Dryer is a compact rotary clothesline that holds roo to 150 feet of
line and does away with all clothes posts and clothes poles. You
can hang the sheets on the outside, hiding the articles of intimate
personal appearance from public view.
No tramping up and down the yard through snow or mud or
damp grass—No ruined lawn. 4
When notin use the Dryer folds up like an umbrella and
leaves buta socket beneath the level of the grass.
Hill’s Balcony or Roof Di-yer is one of the modern con-
veniences that distinguish an afartyzent from a tenement. In-
sist on your landlord getting one.
You Should Get Our Folder 39.
We want to send you Free our handsome Folder printed in
colors showing the Hill Dryers in use. Gives full information.
Sent free for postal request. Get zt to-day.
HILL DRYER CO., 359 Park Ave., Worcester, Mass.
BEAUTIFY YOUR GARDEN
for the season with Campanulas in variety,
Dahlias and hardy Pompon
Chrysanthemums.
Send for our new Catalogue.
Shatemuc Nurseries, Barrytown, Dutchess Co., N. Y.
Dutch Bulbs and Roots
Of All Varieties
coun C. G. van Tubergen, Jr.
Haarlem, Holland
Orders for importation only. Catalog free.
C.C. ABEL & CO., Sole Agents, 112 Broad St., New York |
ORCHIDS
Largest importers and growers of
Orcuips in the United States
LAGER & HURRELL
Orchid Growers and Importers SUMMIT, N. J.
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Peters Purserp Co.
Plants ‘Box 325, abet Pte Patrons
MAY and JUNE PLANTING |
Do not postpone any planting you wish to do this spring just
because plants are leafing out,
All through May and June we send out thousands of our big,
healthy, hardy potted plants to all parts of the United States.
You would be amazed at the quick and satisfactory results they
give with less risk than usual.
Send today for our “Potted Bulletin.” It will be mailed to you H
free. In this special booklet are listed |
Japanese Maples Hardy Perennials |
Roses for all purposes Vines, well udv anced in growth
and many other attractive items that will interest you.
THOMAS MEEHAN & SONS, Inc.
Box 17 Germantown, Phila.
318
The Readers’ Service will give you
information about automobiles
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MAGAZINE
YEN A. 1909
RONNIE NN
aS ry
iS PORTLAND! “2
NONE JUSTASGOOD
All Porlana ‘Gemeant is not
ATLAS
What do you care? Just this:
Concrete is made with Port-
land Cement. Concrete is a fire-
resisting, durable, adaptable,
economical building material.
It is a material that all who know
and understand it are using for
all building purposes. It is the
material you will come to use,
and its success as a building ma-
terial depends upon the quality
of cement that goes into it.
That is why you should know
that all Portland Cements are
not Atlas and why you should
also know that among Portland
Cements Atlas is the standard,
because it is made by a process
that insures purity and absolute-
_ ly uniform quality.
PORTLAND
rc EMENT
is made in but one grade— the
best — and the same for every-
body. It costs no more than
other cements, yet it is the brand
by which the others are meas-
ured, the brand the Government
has purchased to the extent of
4,500,000 barrels for use in
building the Panama Canal.
You should study this subject of con-
crete and cement. We have some
books that will interest you. They are:
“Concrete Country Residences” (delivery
charges 25 cents).
“Reinforced Concrete in Factory Con-
struction” (delivery charges 10 cents).
“Concrete Cottages” (sent free).
“Concrete Construction about the Home
and on the Farm” (sent free).
If your dealer cannot supply you with Atlas, write to
THE ATLAS porttann CEMENT CO.
INQUIRY DEPT., 30 BROAD STREET, NEW YORK
LARGEST OUTPUT OF ANY CEMENT COMPANY IN
THE WORLD — OVER 40,000 BARRELS A DAY
Red Flowers From May to
November
A RED border is an interesting study, and it
usually takes a lot of transplanting to recon-
cile the different flower shades of red. I have a
border which has been for three years in process
of construction, and it could easily have three
more years spent upon its improvement before it
reaches perfection. Every season all purplish
and magenta reds have been removed and bright
reds substituted, until now this bed is a bright and
glowing flame from end to end. Orange reds
merge into deep reds and these into crimsons and
maroons.
In my estimation it is a brighter scarlet, or rather
a brighter red, than the very excellent handling of
the same sort of border described in the February,
1907, GARDEN MacazInE. I claim for my
streak of red a longer period of bloom — from
May until November — and the inclusion of three
of the most beautiful reds obtainable — the new
annual sweet Williams, ranging from blood red
to deep maroon, Gladiolus princeps, and Oswego
tea or mint. I use red gladioli and nasturtiums
as fillers in any bare spots that may occur during
the summer.
The border runs north and south. At the back
a hedge of perennial peas breaks the force of the
scorching afternoon sun, and a small peach tree
and an althea give shade. The one-foot wide border
in front planted with Dianthus plumarius is a
garden by itself in June. After the blooming
period is past, the solid mass of gray-green foliage
makes an excellent contrast with the bright reds
behind it.
Starting at the south ends I have three colonies
of lilies—superbum, Wallacei, Canadensis—which
bloom at different periods. As soon as they are
well out of the ground nasturtium seeds are tucked
among them. They make few roots and furnish
a good ground cover for the lilies. Nasturtiums
are likewise planted in the strip occupied by
Gesneriana and Darwin tulips and Sir Watkin,
Emperor, and Golden Spur daffodils.
At the back of the border is a patch of twenty-
five pompon chrysanthemums in shades of brick
red and orange. Annual sweet Williams are
planted on one side of the chrysanthemums and
are scattered among the sweet Williams on the
other. By placing an occasional clump of the
annuals among the perennial sweet Williams
their long stretch of blossomless weeks is tided
over.
Following the chrysanthemums at the back of
the border are some twenty-five or thirty Tritoma
Pfitzeri. They make a gay display of flaming
torches in September and October.
A big patch of Oriental poppies occupies the
whole width of the beds. I have used salvias,
portulaca, petunias, verbenas, and marigolds as
substitutes for the poppies after they have died
down, but my efforts have never been wholly
successful. Last year a small corner was planted
with gladoli, which had been overlooked at the
regular planting season, and they came along so
splendidly that this year when the poppies have
bloomed gorgeous Gladiolus princeps will take their
lace.
4 A patch of Heuchera sanguinea, with its dainty
coral-red bells furnishes a fringe of red in front
of the poppies while the next crop is coming on.
Lychnis Chalcedonica is at the back of the border
with a goodly sized colony of the larger flowered
but dwarfer Lychnis Haageana in front of it.
By keeping the seed pods picked off the latter a
succession of bloom may be had nearly all summer.
At the front of the border a bed of fifteen plants
of the Cambridge scarlet mint lights up the August
days. The foliage is fragrant and the color
beautiful.
The butterfly flower, Asclepias tuberosa, makes
a grand mass effect, but it is better to collect it
than to buy it from nurseries, as native plants are
usually brighter colored.
A big bed of gaillardias ends the red border.
These useful flowers are used as a transition
from the reds to the yellows, combining both colors
most effectively. They lead the way to clumps
of Rudbeckia speciosa (often called Newmanz),
coreupsis, and other yellows down the scale.
Illinois, ANON.
$2.50 or $4 Worth
of Guaranteed Roses for $1.00
Beginning June rst we shall send out our
“Surprise Collections.’’ Orders filled in
rotation—first come, first served.
Of course choice is left to us, but it may con-
sist of all roses, or all cannas or entirely of
flowering plants and bulbs; or if you prefer of
any two or three of these classes combined.
Tf sent by mail, the Surprise Collection will be
worth at least $2.50 at regular prices.
If sent by express, customer to pay express-
age, the regular value will be at least $4.00.
Below are two out of many testimonials re-
ceived from flower lovers who bought the Sur-
prise Collections last year:
“JT received by express yesterday the ‘Pleasant Surprise Collec-
tion,’ and must say that I ain truly delighted with the same.
“T cannot see how you can give so much and such a choice selec-
tion of flowers and bulbs for so little money.
“I have dealt with quite a number of plant and flower growers
but nnhesitatingly say to you that I have always gotten more and
better results for my money from your house than any other.
“Yours very truly
12-26-1908 “Sidney J. ipualesy, Hampton, Virginia.”
“Surprise collection received by mail was a dandy.
did not order two or three.
12-10-1908
Iam sorry I
“Fred Brown, Boise, Idaho.”
The earlier
you order
the choicer
varieties
you will get.
best: GroveP ,
Remember the Star. Box 24-F.
The Perr pictures
Reproductions of
the World's
Great Paintings.
Your Home
Should Have
Them.
each
For 25 or more
Size 5% x8
(6 to 8 times size
of this ‘‘Boats at
Low Tide.)
Send 25 cts. for 25 Art subjects, or 25 Madonnas. Catalogue of 1000 miniature
illustrations, two pictures and a Colored Bird picture for 3 two-cent stamps.
TITE PERRY PICTURES CO., Box 1460, MALDEN, MASS.
HP Stationary"2930 20
Engine
2 % to 8 H. P. Proportionate Prices.
For use on the farm and in the shop.
Runs cream separators, churns, pumps, griat mill, corn shellers,
washing machines, lathes, printing presses, eto. Burns kerosene,
(coal oil) alcohol, gasoline, naphtha, distillate, without change of
equipment, starts without cranking, throttling governor, drop
forged crank shaft, best grade babbitt bearings, free Chad,
tolls how to save half cost ofhired help. Testimonials. 10,000
inuse. All sizesin stook ready to ship.
DETROIT ENGINE WORKS
229 Bellevue Avenue, Detrolt, Michigan
R AT KILLED BY
SCIENCE
By the use of the nioas ney pasteniol sical preparation, dis-
covered and prepared by Dr. Danysz of Pasteur Institute, Paris,
science has at Jast found the allt successful method for exterminat-
ing rats and mice. Used with St success for the past few
yearsin England, Scotland, France, Holl land and Russia.
DANYSZ VIRUS
contains the germs of a disease peculiar to rats and mice only and is
absolutely harmless to birds, human beings and other
animals. The rodents always die in the open, because of feverish
condition. The disease is also contagious to them. The Virus
is easily prepared and applied.
How Much to Use —A small house, one tube. Ordinary
dwelling, three tubes (if rats are numerous, not less than 6 tubes).
One or two dozen for large stable with hay ‘loft and yard. Three to
six tubes per acre in case of open fields, game preserves, etc. Price:
One tube, 75¢.; 3 tubes, $1.75; one dozen, $6.00; delivered.
INDEPENDENT CHEMICAL COMPANY
Dept. V. 25 Old Slip, New York, N. Y.
What is a fair rental for a given
JUNE, 1909 THE GARDEN MAGAZIN E property? Ask the Readers’ Service 31¢
It Used to Be Said
That a small leak would in time sink the largest
ship — that was in the days of the old wooden
sailing vessels—before the air-tight compart-
ments were installed. It used to be said
There Was No Money In Dairying
That was in the days of cream separating by
the slow old gravity method.
Times and methods are eyer changing on
both land and sea. The leaks that would once
sink great ships, and the ancient methods that
once made dairying at a profit impossible, are
now over.
For the past 17 years or since the reliable
U NITED
STATE
CREAM SEPARATOR
Has been on the market you hear less of this
complaint
But why? Because the U.S. saves the last
particle of cream, whereas with any other skim-
ming method a large amount of cream is lost.
These immense savings alone would convince
any dairyman that a U.S. Separator was abso-
lutely necessary, but there are many other great
advantages.
. The bowl is bery simple, small, compact and
complete; easily washed and_ thoroughly
sanitary. The World’s Record winner for
closest skimming.
other advantages as Wwatst lo supply
can, ease of operation, thorough lubrt-
cation, reversible crank, enclosed
gearing, all tend to make the U, S.
Separator the greatest dividend
payer a daityman can invest in.
More particulars are
found in Catalog No.
71. Write for it.
We will send it
anywhere.
A WAY TO FIND OUT ABOUT
THIS GREENHOUSE
P \HE quickest way is to drop us word, saying you are interested in the
greenhouse shown inthe June Issue of Garden Magazine—or something
to that effect. Then the very day your letter comes, we will send in re-
ply some forty-eight or more advance sheets from a very beautiful catalog which i
is not yet entirely printed.
In these advance sheets are shown several splendid houses, starting with the i
very simplest, and least expensive, and so on upto the most pretentious ones. This
particular house is thoroughly described in a very complete and interesting way:
there is another view of it too, and a plan as well.
We shall have a number of these advance sheets all ready for immediate
mailing, anticipating Garden Magazine readers’ requests.
U-BAR GREENHOUSES
PIERSON U-BAR CO.
DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS 1 MADISON AVE..NEW YORK.
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Curved Eave Greenhouse
You will like it—first, because it is
so very attractive; second, being
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light, it will grow more and better
plants and flowers; third, itis reason-
able in price. Combining these
three things, we have just the house
for you, Send us size of house and
No Evergreen has ever attained the
popularity of these beautiful little
trees. They can be shipped at
any season of the year and plant-
ed in the open ground (except in
the extreme North) or in boxes.
Bushy Trees, 18 in. high, $2.00 per pair
oe “ec 20 oe oe 2.50 “oe “ec
sé “a 30 “ec sé 3.50 oc “ce
Pyramid ‘‘ 30“ ‘* 4.00 “* “
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« 36 “ “ 5.00 “« *«
“cc sc 42 «6 “ 6.00 “ “«
Any of the above planted in
Mission Plant Boxes $3.50 per
pair extra. Write for prices in
larger quantities.
Wagner Park Conservatories
Sidney, O.
we will send you estimates.
Hitchings & Company |
1170 Broadway NEW YORK f
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Chickering Pianos
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Chickering & Sons, 627 Tremont St., Fenway Station, Boston, Mass-
THE MT. DESERT NURSERIES
make a specialty of growing at their best the
Finest Old-Fashioned Garden Plants
and Hardy Herbaceous Perennials
Here Is Your Chance
( We have a large overstock of Hardy Roses, Azaleas, Magnolias,
etc., and we need the ground upon which they stand, to plant out
other stock, therefore to make room for the new stock we are dis-
posing of the following at reduced prices.
These prices hold good only until varieties are sold out, for this
reason we advise you to send your order in at once. No charge
made for packing. Delivered F. O. B. express or cars here.
Baby Hambler Rose - - - - 2yearold, field grown, 6 for $1.00; 25 for $3.50
Crimson Rambler - - - - 3 “ « «& Gp 5 for $1.00; 25 for $4.00
Hybrid Perpetual Roses - - 2 “ « be 6 for $1.00; 25 for $3.50
(See April Garpen Macazine Ad. for var.)
Hiawatha, New Pink Rambler, 2 year old, field grown, 3 for $1.00; 10 for $3.00
Ampelopsis Veitchi - - - - 4ft. plants 6 for 75c.; 25 for $2.50
Azalea Mollis - Crowns 18 in. in diameter each 75c.; 6 for $3.75
«© Amoena, ce fi w 6 yr. plants, each $3.50; pair $6.60
Good cultivation and a northern seacoast climate give exceptional
vigor to the Nurseries’ plants and enable them to fill late orders
directly from the ground when others cannot.
t.
Magnolia Soulangeana, 6 ft. ‘trees full of flowers each $2.50; pair $4.50
“ “ te
=m
“ Alexandriana, ‘+ each $2.50; pair $4.50
Send for our special list of mid-summer planting seeds, ready about
q June ist.
F. T. LANGE, Box 47, UNION HILL, N. J.
BAR HARBOR, MAINE
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9 The Readers? Service will give
320 information aboul motor boats
THE GARDEN
Health ana Rest
are the two main objects of a country residence.
The stillness which prevails away from the
bustle and hum of a great city is particularly
beneficial to tired nerves. City people are
careful, therefore, to surround their country
places with an atmosphere of quiet and rest-
fulness. Many of our customers are people
with country homes who have had their nerves
sorely tried by the noisy clanging of a wind-
mill’s wheel (the source of their private water
supply), until, in a spirit of desperation, they
have felt compelled to remove the windmill
The action of this pump being noiseless,
Health and Rest have come back again along
with natural quiet and repose. In this way
the Hot-Air Pump has proved itself a wonder-
ful therapeutic agent, besides being the most
reliable domestic water supply known.
Remember that these pumps are not steam-
engines, but machines of low power which
cannot explode, operated solely by hot air,
automatic in their action, requiring no skilled
attention, so simple that any servant or farm-
ers boy can start and stop the little flame that
MAGAZINE
JUNE, 1909
Grow Better Tomatoes
and make trial of a
Hot-Air Pump
Be sure that the name i a al appears upon the pump
you purchase, ‘This “REECE: RIDER 35 neecO-F RICSSON name protects you
against worthless imitations. When so situated that you cannot personally inspect the pump
before ordering, write to our nearest office (see Jist below) for the name of a reputable dealer
in your locality, who wiil sell you only the genuine pump. Over 40,000 are in use throughout
the world today.
gives them life. The cost of operation is
almost nil, while the delivery of water is
absolutely certain at all times and seasons.
GE your tomatoes on stakes and get larger,
cleaner and more fruits, and no rot.
Last year I tried an original method of staking
which proved to be a great success. For twelve
plants I used the front border of my garden, a strip
measuring three feet wide by twenty-eight feet long.
I bought three cedar posts ten feet in length and
divided my distance equally, setting the posts so
that they were eight feet out of the ground to the
bottom of the holes I had previously bored to
receive a #-inch gas pipe, which ran the full length
of the posts horizontally. Strips of pine one by
three inches pointed at the bottom end and slotted.
at the top were procured and driven into the
ground, the slotted end being placed against the
gas pipe. Holes were bored in these strips four—
teen inches apart into which were inserted quarter
inch iron rods twenty-eight inches long.
The plants were from twelve to fourteen inches in
height when planted, and were placed to a depth
within half an inch of where the first laterals would
form. They were set diagonally two feet apart
in width and four feet apart in the row. In the
centre of the border I dug a trench quite twelve
inches wide and deep, which I filled with four
barrels of horse manure.
As the vines grew I tied them to the rods, pinch-
ing off all the laterals as they appeared, save the two
4 that were formed just above the ground. These two
ee (gaa Vale ME I let grow until they had attained a length of two
Double and Single GA = feet; then I buried them about four inches deep and.
Meese trained the remainder to grow toward the rack.
The buried portion rooted very quickly and the
roots from the parent plant soon found the mulch
which was always moist (and required no watering)
and proceeded to grow across, so that by the middle
of July the roots from each row extended through
the mulch to the plant opposite. This gave about
fourfold roots to each plant.
The fruits formed in clusters of from two to twelve
which were tied to the iron rods to hold them up-
No matter how hard the wind blew I had no fear as
to the safety of plants or fruits.
During the third week in August the plants were
a foot above the iron pipe. No commercial ferti-
Write for catalogue U, and ask for reduced price-list.
W; S , N York
RIDER-ERICSSON 2) Meriain Siees, Boson
WwW Craig S , M Il; 1P (Qs
ENGINE Co. ad We Cie See MONE O
40 Dearborn Street, Chicago
40 North 7th Street, Philadelphia
(Also builders of the new *“Reeco Electric”? Pump)
After the Garden’s Started
Success is mostly a matter of cultivation. One kind of cultivation will compen-
sate for drouth, Another kind of cultivation will hold the weeds in check between
IRON AGE,
showers.
Implements
permit many different combinations for
different purposes and different crops.
Built light enough for the woman who gar-
dens for pleasure—strong enough for the
man whogardensfor profit. Our New Iron
Age Book describes all. It's free. Write for it,
BATEMAN MFG. C0. Box C, Grenloch, N. J.
You can plant Evergreens
in August-September,
not wait until
next year.
lizer was needed; any ordinary, thrifty-growing
plants will attain the same height
Illinois.
E. T. SARGENT.
You can save I0 to 25 years with our large trees.
Let us send you photographs and estimates from
our stock of over 1,000 Pine, Spruce, Fir, Cedar
and Hemlock, 10 to 30 feet high, in our nursery.
The cheapest way is to order a car load direct
from the collecting fields where we have them
prepared. You pay nothing for the 15 to 25
years time they have been growing, only for the
expense of successful transplanting and freight.
Evergreens of ordinary sizes, 2 to 8 feet, we
offer in excellent quality at moderate prices. You
will save money and have the best success by
selecting these, packed by our methods with
better roots than usual.
Small evergreens at I cent to 25 cents each you should plant in August-September.
probably the best place in the east to get them.
Send for catalogues giving accurate and full information on evergreens.
ISAAC HICKS & SON WESTBURY, L.I., N. Y.
White Pines in our collecting fields;
numbered specimens 10-20 feet.
This js
Tomato plants trait ed on this trellis attained by
August a height of nine feet
“ee
SAVES
BACK ACHE
The Harriman Plant Set-
ter does away with tedious
back-breaking work in set-
ting out or transplanting
vegetable and flower plants.
It is especially desirable for
transplanting young straw-
berry, tomato, cabbage, sweet
potato and tobacco plants,
as well as potatoes, onions
and ‘other tubers. It sets
plants at any desired depth,
weighs less than five pounds,
is substantially constructed
and easy to operate. A great
time and labor saver. Deliv-
ered... by express prepaid
$2.00. Money refunded if
not as represented. For des-
criptive matter and further
information address
THE
Harriman Mfg. Company
106 River Ave., Harriman,Tenn.
20 different Designs
Can ship immédiately in any quantity. Need
“4 No Boathouse. Never Leak, Rust, Check, Crack
y or Rot. Every boat has water tight compartment,
sO cannot sink. Write for FREE Illustrated Catalog
and Special Prices.
MICHIGAN STEEL BOAT CO, 268 Bellevue Ave., Detroit, Mich
Place a sundial in your garden or
on your lawn and it will return an
hundred fold in quiet enjoyment.
Write us for free booklet of
Sundial Information
Chas. G. Blake & Co.
787 Womans Temple, Chicago, Ill.
KILL PLANT BUGS and DOG FLEAS
with Lemon Oil Insecticide, adding 30 parts water. No odor, no
poison—advantages over Fish Oil or Tobacco Products. Used
everywhere. If not sold by your seedsman, write WEATHERBY
BROS., Baltimore, Md., for. full information.
Don’t Be Knocked Over
PD By
Stenches
From
Backyard
Debris
Why not look up The Stephenson Method, seven years on
the market, and if satisfied protect the health of your family
by installing The Stephenson
Underground Garbage Receiver
which removes all objections of the old swill-tub?
The Stephenson Underground Refuse Receiver for Ashes.
The Stephenson Underground Earth Closets for Camps.
The Stephenson Portable Metal House for Above.
The Stephenson Spiral Ribbed Ash Barrel, Outwears Two.
Send for circular on each,
SOLD DIRECT.
C. H. STEPHENSON, Mfr.
20 Farrar Street Lynn, Mass.
| ea picture eee how one woman used
her picket fence to dry the disks from
her “bucket bowl”? cream separator. She
realized the work of thoroughly washing a
half bushel of disks twice a day, but she
did not know that the simple Sharples Dairy
Tubular would save that work and give
better service, or she never would have let
her husband buy a disk machine.
“Bucket bowls” are not modern. Disks
or other contraptions make them unsteady,
complicated, heavy, hard to clean and
short lived.
The only modern bow] is the light, slen-
der, simple Dairy Tubular bowl, hung
below its bearing and fed through the
oe
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The simple, light Sharples
Dairy Tubular bowl is easily
washed clean in 3 minutes.
A few thrusts of the brush
does it. Better than spend-
ing I5 to 30 minutes wash-
ing a “bucket bowl.”
lower end. Our patents prevent imitation, so others still
make “bucket bowls” out of date years ago.
Tubulars are made in the world’s greatest separator
factory. 1908 sales way ahead of 1907—out of sight of most,
if not all, competitors combined. Get catalog No. 215.
Toronto, Can. Portland, Ore.
San Francisco, Cal,
9 The Sharples Separator Co.
West Chester, Penna.
Winnipeg, Can. Chicago, III.
With the big outdoors for his playground? He'll be a healthier,
happier, more manly boy for the physique-building exercise and
\ the fine fun he will get with a Stevens Rifle. He'll fast develop
keen sight, quick thinking, prompt action and self-reliance—the
qualities which make useful men—with a dependable, straight-shoot-
ing Stevens. And he’ll be more of an ‘‘all around” boy if he reads
DAN BEARD’S ‘‘GUNS AND GUNNING”
An interesting and valuable volume on camping, woodcraft, habits of game birds, which
animals are pests and which are not, etc. Beautifully illustrated by Belmore H. Browne.
Sent postpaid on receipt of price. Paper-covered, 20c.; cloth-covered, gilt stamped, 30c.
160-Page Catalogue Free if you will send 6 cents to cover postage. Filled with valuable
information on choice and care of firearms; notes on sights, ammunition, etc.
If you cannot obtain Stevens Rifles, Shotguns or Pistols from your dealer, we ship direct,
express prepaid, on receipt of catalogue price,
J.Stevens Arms & Tool Co., 420 Grove St., Chicopee Falls, Mass.
if
THEY ALL REMEMBERED THE
KODAK
A vacation without a Kodak is a vacation wasted. A Kodak doubles the
value of every journey and adds to the pleasure, present and future, of
every outing. Take a Kodak with you. Kodaks, $5.00 to $100; Brownie
Cameras, (They work like Kodaks), $1.00 to $12.00.
oe ae EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY,
dealers or by mail. ROCHESTER, N. » Car The Kodak City.
THE WORLD’S WORK PRESS, NEW YORK
JULY Arranging Cut Flowers 15c.
su Fragrant Flowers and Foliage Daffodils Worth $250 — g) 09 a Year
pee Nees Children’s Gardens Everywhere Naturalizing Bulbs
COUNTRY LIFE gig DOUBLEDAY. PAGE & CO. THE WORLD'S
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Garden Terra Cotta
Sun- Dials
el Flower Pots
renee neeneny Vases
higher water pressure than any\ \N rubber hose
\\\
on the market. \ el
It is about eight times as strong as \
hose. Twist it. Tie it into a knot. Pull Ni ou
tific p
Benches, etc.
ary wrapped We carry a large
stock and would
call attention at
this time to our
sale of seconds.
The defects are
slight, the prices
low.
N Ma
sharp corners. You simply can’t kink AY
Hose or hurt it in any way.
Electric Garden eee ea)
outwears ordinary hose two toone. It is an utter impossibility for aS
the plies to unwrap. Briefly, it is built thus: A series of eke, Eee
woven in one piece, of high test cotton fabric, alternating with layers
of high grade rubber. The whole vulcanized into a solid
seamless piece. You can buy any length up to 500 feet.
Although Electric is the finest hose ever made, it costs
only a cent or two more than common. If you are in the
market for hose, no matter how little, it will pay you to
_ visit the hardware dealer, or seedsman in your neighbor-
hood who sells Electric Hose.
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practical way for overcoming it. Our
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eae ST DE L AV AL pay you to write us.
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A MESSAGE FROM AFRICA
Readers of our magazines will be interested
we think, to hear of our friend, Mr. A. Rad-
cliffe Dugmore, who, since the first, has been
on our staff, and has made so many marvelous
photographs for our magazines and books.
He went to Africa in December to photograph
big animals, and how well he has succeeded
will be judged by this ietter from the jungle:
On Safari, near Mt. Kenia, ©
March 26th, 1909.
My DEAR COUNTRY LIVERS, GARDENERS AND WORLD’S
WORKERS, TO SAY NOTHING OF OTHER DOUBLEDAY
PAGES:
Just to keep you from forgetting that I am still in
the land of the living, I must scribble a few lines to
you fellows, not forgetting those who are not fellows.
I had just written the date on this letter yesterday when
I was very rudely interrupted. I must explain that
I was sitting all alone in a blind of fragrant boughs
(they were not really fragrant; I put that in to make
it sound well) waiting for unsuspecting animals (if
such a breed exists) to pass and had had the good
luck to get two nice pictures of antelope. As the
morning had nearly passed and things were going very
slowly, I thought I would write a letter or two to kill
time.
I had just finished one and was starting this
when I took a casual glance around at the beautiful
scenery, just to see if anything that needed to have
his picture took was coming my way. Can you imagine
my feelings when I saw two big, ugly tawny faces
staring at me not seventy yards away? ‘Two lions,
one a very large one, were deliberately stalking me.
They stopped when they saw me looking at them.
My first instinct —the result of long service with
C. L. in A. — was to grab the camera. My second
instinct was to save my hide. I had with me a .275
rifle which contained six cartridges. This was all
the ammunition I had, and I only carried the rifle out
of respect for the life insurance companies. In the
excitement I had to put down this letter, unfinished,
and I really hate to leave things unfinished. I let go
at the bigger lion, and was disgusted to see the shot
strike too high. The second shot did the same. That
left me with four cartridges and two lions. Then I
looked at my sights and found that the fool of a gun
bearer, in cleaning the rifle, changed the sights to the
200-yard range. The lions seemed to have no dislike
to being used as sighting targets, and even took a
couple of long, stealthy steps nearer. My next shot
knocked the big one over. I did not notice particu-
larly how much he was damaged, but did see with
satisfaction that he was going slowly the other way
after giving a big growl. One more shot; the second
lion was down with a fatal wound. The noises he
made were horrifying. It seemed a great pity to let
the big lion get away, but I really did n’t dare follow
him, as I had but two more cartridges and did not
know how many more lions might be around. In
“To business that we love we rise betime
And go to ’t with delight.” — Antony and Cleopatra
looking at the tracks afterward, we found he was soon
joined by a mate, so it was just as well I did n’t follow.
Thus ended a most exciting experience. Had I de-
layed looking around for two minutes more, I would
have had absolutely no chance of escape, and the
lions would have wished they had struck a fatter piece
of meat!
Three days ago I was waiting for lions in a thorn
boma with the hopes of getting photos. Two lions
came, and the — flash light would n’t go off. So to
keep those lions from making a too thorough investi-
gation of our boma, I,shot one —a fine male. The
night before I had made two rather nice photos of a
very large male, ten days ago I shot two young lions,
so you seé things are happening. Besides photos of
several antelope I have now got lions, rhino, buffalo,
and zebra, and soon hope to get hippo and some other
things. I find the climate is fine.
A. RADCLYFFE DUGMORE.
There will be a fine book of these adventures
some day. Meanwhile photographs are ap-
pearing in Collier’s Weekly, in America, and
in the Graphic, in London.
THE AMERICAN FLOWER GARDEN
It is not often that the publishers have an
opportunity to say that a book has satisfied
all expectations and receive volunteer expres-
sions of pleasure from the readers. As a rule,
bookmaking suffers from the misfortune char-
acteristic of all things human. The volume,
so the critics say, is too large or too small, too
thick or too thin, poorly illustrated, etc., etc.,
but “The American Flower Garden,” by
Neltje Blanchan, seems to have made almost a
perfect score.
For one thing, the 1,050 copies were all
sold before publication, and no copies were
left to send to reviewers — we may have saved
criticism here, but the number of letters
praising the book has been surprising. We
give ourselves the pleasure of copying a few
paragraphs:
“Tt is not only the most beautiful garden book I
have ever seen, I can learn from every page something
worth knowing. If I could not get another copy, you
could not buy this one for twice what I paid. Could
I retain but one book from my library, this is the book
I would keep.”
“To say that I am delighted with it does not express
my appreciation of the beautiful book, and I desire
if possible, to procure an additional copy to present
to a friend.”
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tents of this book.”
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We have just suffered the shock of declining
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TO THE MOTOR ENTHUSIAST
We issued a few weeks ago a novel by Mr.
and Mrs. C. N. Williamson, (whose book ‘‘The
Lightning Conductor” gave pleasure to so |
many thousands) called ‘‘Set in Silver,” which,
we think is the most interesting and charming
of all the Williamson books.
It is a love story which moves through those
delightful places in England familiar to all
Americans who visit the old country each
year. The story is “compelling”? to the last
page, and, as one reader said: “The only
criticism is that it is not long enough” —a
thorough-going compliment when it is remem-
bered that the novel contains perhaps 120,000
words.
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who they think will be interested to know
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us a list of garden lovers, a garden picture
proof suitable for framing.
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JULENES 09
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In the Vegetable Garden -
hee should be enjoying the harvest of
succulent, fresh vegetables this month.
Do not let them get too old before using
them. If you have never yet realized the
delicacy of extremely young garden vege-
tables, do not let this season pass without
making the trial. Carrots, no longer than
ordinary radishes, potatoes the size of
marbles, and everything just a little bit
smaller than you usually see it, make up
in extreme delicacy of flavor inversely for
what they lack in size.
Do not let the weeds get ahead of you
this month. Keeping the weeds under
means a great deal more than mere neatness
—they are, after all, but blessings in
disguise, for they force cultivation. In
cutting down weeds you stir the soil and
the crop is benefited just that much. The
chances are that but for the growth of
weeds half the gardens would not be nearly
as good as they are, for hard manual labor
in the broiling sun is not the most inviting
of occupations.
There is still work to be done in starting
new crops. If you want muskmelons in
December, plant seed now in frames. Keep
sweet potatoes from rooting at the joints.
Hot weather is the greatest enemy of the
cauliflower, and exposure to sun will ruin
both quality and appearance of the head.
Be very careful to protect from sunshine
all heads as soon as they begin to show.
Break the leaves over the heads by bending
inward and fasten off with a rubber band
or string, or pin them together with a
toothpick.
The herb garden is usually a neglected
corner. Watch it so as to gather young
leaves and sprigs before the plants come
into flower. The essential oils are dissipated
somewhat with the maturing of the flower.
Sow for succession bush beans, making
two sowings during this month. Also make
two sowings of sweet corn, using one of
the earlier varieties for the second sowing,
as well as a main crop kind; sow also peas,
okra, and, of course, lettuce.
Also sow beets, remembering to thin out;
and use the thinnings for boiled greens as
the crop develops.
If you want kale for winter, sow the
seeds in a prepared seed-bed during the
early part of the month, and transplant to
permanent quarters later as room becomes
available. It is a welcome green in winter.
Make the last sowing, of carrots for roots
for winter storage.
Make the first sowing of collards.
Other vegetables for open air sowing are
endive and kohlrabi.
In the Flower Garden
Ae THE early sowings of flowers come
into bloom, provide for their succes-
sion by sowings, during this month, of all
kinds of annuals —hardy, half hardy or
tender. They will give flowers right up
to frost, and this is the only way in which
you can really make your garden look
fresh and cared for when others in your
neighborhood are “‘going to pieces.”
Hardy annuals include wallflower, core-
opsis, marigold, mignonette; among the
half hardies are balloon vine, canary bird
flower, gaillardia, pansy, etc. Pansy seed
sown now gives earliest bloom next year.
Read ‘‘Pansies the Year Round,” by Miss
I. M. Angell, in the April number of THE
GARDEN Macazine, and follow the direc-
tions given.
Among the tender annuals are love-lies-
bleeding, castor beans, gourds, Japanese
hop, ornamental maize, ice plant, etc.
Make first sowings of hardy perennials
in frames, for transplanting for flower next
season.
House plants that have been plunged
outdoors in their pots should be repotted
during this month.
As the taller growing plants in the border
gain height, they are liable to suffer injury
from the effects of wind; therefore, stake
gladioli, dahlias, and herbaceous plants.
For the Greenhouse
ARNATIONS that are growing out-
doors in the field should be kept
well cultivated and pinched back.
Ventilate the house where violets are
growing, giving all the air possible and
watch for any diseased leaves, picking off
immediately.
If you have chrysanthemums, do not
allow them to suffer any check; keep them
growing at all costs.
In the Orchard
F YOU want to set out a new strawberry
bed this fall, layer runners into pots at
any time possible during July.
Thin rigorously all the standard orchard
fruits — apples, pears, peaches, grapes.
Read Professor Fletcher’s article, “Why It
Pays to Thin Fruit,” in the May number
of THE GARDEN Macazine. It takes
some nerve to thin thoroughly, but it
pays well. 7
Look out for scab and blight in the
orchard, and spray whenever noticed.
If you set out any young trees this spring,
mulch them with hay, excelsior, even saw-
dust, or anything in order to make sure
that they take hold during the current
season. Remove all suckers and sprouts
that start anywhere but on the head.
Don’t Neglect the Lawn
| Pee teas any holes in the lawn as _ they
are noticed. Dig out mossy spots
and fill in with good soil, sprinkling seed
immediately.
Keep everlastingly at the lawn during
hot weather, repairing, patching, and re-
seeding wherever bare spots occur.
Coarse weeds are best attacked by
cutting them down to the ground and drop-
ping a crystal of sulphate of iron on the cut
surface. Maintaining a good lawn means
a good deal of work, but the labor can be
immensely lightened by using adequate tools.
Read Mr. Kayan’s article in THE GARDEN
MacazinE for last month.
Advance Fall Orders
O NOT wait until fall arrives to place
your bulb orders. The French grown
stock is due to arrive in August, and remem-
ber it is “first come first served.’? Place
your order now for selected Roman hya-
cinths, giant Paper White narcissus, trumpet
major daffodils, jonquils and Madonna lily.
Remember that the Madonna lily must be
planted in August.
Send your order for Dutch bulbs at the
same time. The seedsman will hold it
and ship as received, if you so specify.
Place your orders with the seedsmen for
cineraria, cyclamen, Chinese primrose seed.
Freesias and Harrisoni lilies will be arriving
during the month, and toward the end
California callas reach the East.
Read the article on naturalizing bulbs
on page 343, and try to produce something
similar in your own garden.
Fragrant Foliage and Flowers— By John Williams, .
MAKE AN INVENTORY NOW OF ALL THE FRAGRANT PLANTS IN YOUR
GARDEN
USED to think that the subtlest charm any
garden could have was the sound of run-
ning water, but now I know it is fragrance.
Moreover, the sense of smell is more potent
than touch, taste, sight or hearing, to bring
back precious memories. Does your g garden
stir the heart? Does it set every one to
dreaming? If it does not, it probably lacks
fragrance.
Ordinarily I write for men, because they
pay the bills for gardens and are the worst
garden sinners. They don’t want to pay
enough, and my ‘‘mission,”’ if I have one, is
to make them ashamed of unworthy gardens
and wish for the best there is. For a garden
is essential to the finest home life, and heaven
knows that the men in America ought to do
more to make home life all it should be.
I don’t mean to say that men are indifferent
to the natural odors of the garden. Indeed
they are often moved to tenderness by the
memories thus aroused, and I even think
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AND DECIDE WHAT TO ADD NOW,
that rough boys might become gentle if
brought up in a fragrant and beautiful
garden. But, however appreciative men
may be, you can’t imagine them deliberately
planning for fragrance and then carrying
out the details. It needs a woman’s taste
and intuition to select the plants and a
woman’s loving care to arrange them.
So I thought the best service I could do
for the ladies who read THE GARDEN Maca-
ZINE would be to collect for them a list of all
the best fragrant plants and flowers and
arrange them in the most helpful way, instead
of putting them in a mere alphabetical list,
which gives no hint as to their value or
culture. I found several ways of grouping
them, a chemical classification, a psycho-
logical one, the order of their commercial
importance, their drug names, their nursery
names and their common names, but none
that seemed to me really helpful to the
gardener. So I have done the best I could
Nicotiana sylvestris, with pendent white flowers which do not close in the morning or on cloudy days, as
do those of W. dlata (or affinis).
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THIS FALL AND NEXT SPRING
with the limited space and here is my sugges-
tion. Make an inventory of the fragrant
plants in your garden and check off on
this list what you wish to add now, this fall
and next spring. It is well to make a list
of the months too and the fragrant plants
you have for each period, so that your garden
will be ever fragrant. If I can be of any
further help write me, enclosing a stamped,
self-addressed envelope.
EVER-FRAGRANT FOLIAGE
Flowers are fragrant only when they
bloom, but foliage is fragrant whenever it is
bruised or brushed against. The following
are all evergreen, except the last four, which
have fragrant bark, buds or branches:
Arborvitee Thuya occidentalis
Balsam fir Abies balsamea
Box Buxus sempervirens
Cedar of Lebanon Cedrus Libani
Frazer’s balsam Abies Fraseri
Red cedar Juniperus Virginiana
White cedar Chamecyparis thuyoides
Wintergreen Gaultheria procumbens
Sassafras Sassafras officinale
Sweet birch Betula lenta
Bayberry Myrica cerifera
Sweet brier Rosa rubiginosa
The following bushes and vines are fra-
grant throughout the growing season, or
from April to October:
Ground ivy
Sweet fern
Fragrant sumach
Nepeta Glechoma
Comptonia asplenifolia
Rhus aromatica
The best herbs for edging paths and for
practical use, as well as fragrance, are the
following — all perennial:
Balm of Gilead
Lavender :
Lavender cotton
Lemon balm
Lemon thyme
Cedronella triphylla
Lavendula vera
Santolina Chamecyparissus
Melissa officinalis
Thymus citriodorus
Lavage Levisticum officinale
Mother of thyme Thymus Serpyllum
Rosemary Rosmarina officinalis
Sage Salvia officinalis
Spearmint Mentha piperita
Thyme Thymus vulgaris
Woodruff Asperula odorata
For the wild garden, sweet cicely (I yrrhis
odorata) is good, either in meadows or woods.
For the waterside the following are
appropriate:
Bee balm Monarda didyma
Musk Mimulus moschatus
Sweet flag Acorus Calamus
TREES WITH FRAGRANT FLOWERS
Those marked * should be planted only
in spring; the others either spring or fall.
Empress tree (Pawlownia imperialis) . . April
*Chinese magnolia (Magnolia Yulan) . . April
*Flowering almond (Prunus Japonica) . April
English hawthorn (Crategus Oxyacantha) May
Siberian crab (Pyrus baccata) . . . May
Yellowwood (Cladrastis tinctoria) . . . June
Honey locust (Gleditschia triacanthos) . . June
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Stocks are available in more colors than any other
fragrant annuals
SHRUBS WITH FRAGRANT FLOWERS
Those marked * must be sheltered from
winter winds and tea roses must be covered
a foot or more in the north in winter. Plant
tea roses and magnolias in spring only.
*Winter sweet (Calycanthus precox) . . . Feb.
*March honeysuckle (Lonicera Tea
S777.) ane March
*Winter jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum) . March
Starry magnolia (Zagnolia stellata) March
Mezereon (Daphne Mezereum) . . - March
King’s garland (Daphne Blagayana) . >) a daNjoyattl
Mountain azalea (Azalea canescens) - April
Flowering currant (Ribes aureum) . . . . April
Lilac (Syringa) . . - May
Carolina allspice (C: alycanthus flor idus) . . May
Roses of many kinds and odors . . . . June
Mock orange (Philadelphus coronarius) . . June
White azalea (Azalea viscosa) . . . June
Goat honeysuckle (Lonicera Ca prifolium) - June
Etruscan honeysuckle (L. Etrusca) . . . June
Italian honeysuckle (L. Jtalica) . . . June
Dwarf horse-chestnut (Aescwlus parviflora) July
Sweet pepper bush ee alnifolia) . . Aug.
*Tea roses July and Sept.
VINES WITH FRAGRANT FLOWERS
The following can be planted either spring
or fall and many even in midsummer because
nurserymen now grow large ones in pots:
Wistaria (Wistaria Simensis) . . 5s 9 Mbyy
Mountain clematis (Clematis montana) >. May
Trumpet honeysuckle (Lonicera semper-
WHEE) 5 so 5 0 6 May to Sept.
Climbing roses (Rosa multiflora, Ques) 6 June
Hall’s honeysuckle (Lonicera Japonica, var.
Flalliana) . . . Hae; June-July
Trumpet creeper (Tecoma ‘radicans) 5 oe. Afllby
Memorial rose (Rosa Wichuratana) . . . July
American virgin’s bower ee Vir-
ginianda) July-Aug.
Chinese trumpet creeper (L ecoma grandi-
WHO) 0 36 5 a ANU:
Fragrant virgin’s bower (Clematis Flam-
mula) : . Aug.-Sep
Japanese virgin’s s bower (Clematis pani-
CNT) 35 6 0 0 © © Aug.-Sept.
PERENNIALS WITH FRAGRANT FLOWERS
Many of these can be bought from nursery-
men even in midsummer in the form of
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potted plants. If you want any kind in
quantity get seed nowy or sow as soon as ripe.
Plant peonies in September; the others in
spring or early September. ‘Those marked
** are also sold by bulb dealers.
Winter heliotrope (Petasites fragrans) Dec.-Feb.
California and Russian violets (V. odorata) March
White rock cress (Avabis albida) . . . . April
Woodruff (Asperula odorata) . . ee) Mav,
*Lily-of-the-valley (Convallaria majalis) . Miay
**Peonies (Festiva maxima and a few oe June
Fraxinella (Dictamnus albus) June
Cat’s valerian (Valeriana officinalis) a ve jfiwume
*Lemon lily (Hemerocallis flava) . . . . June
*D warf orange day lily (1. Dumortierz) . . June
Garden pinks (Dianthus plumarius) . . . June
Fringed pink (Dianthus superbus). . . . July
Sweet rocket (Hesperis matronalis) . . . July
Bee balm (Monarda didyma) July-Aug.
Entire-leaved bush clematis (Clematis inte-
grifolia) : Rare eee sae ta ully,
*August lemon ily (Temerocallis Thun-
bergii) . ; a Aue.
*White day lily (Bagabbhe Sirlivcavrlotion) ‘Aug.- Sept.
BULBS WITH FRAGRANT FLOWERS
All the following are hardy and are planted
in the fall except the tuberose. See also
those in the preceding list marked *.
Hyacinth (Hyacinthus orientalis) . . . . April
Spring snowflake (Leucojum ver aD) : April
Trumpet daffodils (Narcissus Pseudonar-
cissus) . . chop oy Gh 1 zeNipyntl
Jonquils (Narcissus Fonquilla) ees yee Apu
Some tulips (Lulipa Gesneriana) . - . . Apmil
Poet’s narcissus (Narcissus poeticus). . . May
Madonna lily (Liliam candidum) . . . . June
Golden banded lily (Lilimm auratwm) . . Aug,
Lilium speciosum . . 0 Be) Oo UNS eps
Tuberose (Polianthes Piece re Gel er Sep ts
ANNUALS WITH FRAGRANT FLOWERS
These must all be raised from seed every
year. They begin to bloom in July unless
started indoors in March.
Dianthus Sinensis and Jfed-
dewigit
Lathyrus odoratus
Alyssum maritimum
Nicotiana alata or N. affinis
Reseda odorata
Centaurea moschata or suave-
olens
Chinese and Japan-
ese pinks
Sweet pea
Sweet alyssum
White tobacco
Mignonette
Sweet Sultan
Verbena Verbena hybrids
Heliotrope Ffeliotropium Peruvianum
Wallflower Cheiranthus Cheiri
Stocks Matthiola incana
Malcomia maritima
Matthiola bicornis
Virginian stock
Night-scented stock
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Mignonette is about the only plant grown for
fragrance which has little beauty
TENDER PLANTS
Some of these are grown outdoors in the
South or California. Some are famous
house plants. Some are grown in large
tubs for porch decoration. Some are favor-
ite greenhouse plants. Those marked *
have fragrant foliage.
*Poet’s laurel, sweet bay Laurus nobilis
* Myrtle Myrtus communis
*Orange Citrus Aurantiwm
*TLemon Citrus Medica, var. Limon
*Camphor Camphora officinalis
*Japanese anise Illicium anisatum
Climbing tuberose Stephanotis floribunda
*Geranium (apple, fish, rose, etc.)
Persian jessamine Jasminum officinale
Cape jasmine Gardenia jasminoides
Freesia Freesia refracta
Papinac Acacia Farnesiana
*Lemon verbena Aloysia citriodora
Lemon scented gum Eucalyptus citriodora
Margaret carnations, an annual race of fragrant flowers
TWELVE SUGGESTIVE GARDENS
INDIVIDUALITY SHOULD CHARACTERIZE YOUR GARDEN, LET IT STAND FOR SOMETHING DEFINITE AND BE IN PERFECT
HARMONY WITH THE SURROUNDINGS—THE STYLE OF THE HOUSE MAY GIVE THE KEYNOTE TO THE GARDEN SCHEME
Native shrubbery used in a Pittsburg garden to secure seclusion from the Japanese effect at Lansdowne, Pa. Water is anecessity in a scheme of this
street, and a rural atmosphere is procured sort. Do not overdo it
An open lawn bordered by a pergola with climbing plants giving shade in the Exposed seaside sites must usually be protected from winds. This garden
heat ofsummer. A pergola should lead from somewhere to something on Long Island is hedged in completely
An informally formal garden with box edging, at Brookline, Mass. It unites Complete harmony is here seen with the lines of the building, the garden, and
well with the natural woodland beyond their accessories; also abundance of flowers for cutting. Sewickley, Pa.
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A comfortable and informal border effect, giving repose and seclusion.
Perennial flowering plants massed in a foreground of shrubbery
A similar treatment to the one on the left, but on a broader scale. The
border is therefore wider. The effect is less cozy
The simple dignity of a specimen tree can hardly be surpassed. It com-
pletely furnishes this front approach
Flowering shrubs are made the feature here, bordering a gracefully winding
walk. The seasonal changes are always attractive and give plenty of color
A stretch of open lawn with simple border planting makes a dignified setting
to the old Colonial house, which is itself the chief attraction
Evergreens massed on each side of a carriageway give a welcome in win-
ter and are particularly appropriate at entrances where the house is hidden
iP
A picture often makes a better background than a big figured wall paper,
the soft greens and grays and old bronze frame show off all the delicacy
of flower and stem of the apple blossoms
Art in Arrangement of Cut Flowers—By L. B. Carpenter, 3,
The outward spreading boughs of the dogwood suggest a broad arrangement
rather than a tall, narrow one.
The receptacle is attractive, but being whiter
than the flowers, catches the eye first; it should be darker in tone
BIG EFFECTS WITH LITTLE MATERIAL—THE FORM OF THE FLOWER ITSELF AND THE HABIT OF GROWTH ARE
THE KEYNOTES TO THE SUCCESSFUL USE OF CUT FLOWERS, LEAVING PLAY FOR THE FANCY OF EACH INDIVIDUAL
HE longer
flower arrange-
ment is studied the
more convinced one
becomes that the
result should be a
complete picture.
Now, an artist
painting a complete
picture has to con-
form to certain con-
ditions; that is, have
a subject, make it
interesting, compose
it so as to fill his
canvas agreeably,
and have a_back-
ground to har-
monize.
These same con-
ditions obtain with
the flower arranger.
He has a subject for
his picture in his
blossoms and he
clothes it with in-
terest, according as
he chooses special
ones of a kind for
their perfection,
their form, or beauty of line. He fills
his space agreeably according as he composes
these chosen flowers, both as to color and
size, against a background which may
be the corner of a room, a table or a piece
of furniture; and even a picture on the wall
may be brought into the composition.
In accomplishing the harmony with the
background, the flower arranger proceeds
a little differently from the painter, inas-
much as while the latter may choose his
background to fit the picture, the former
generally must fit his flowers to his back-
Thered maple. Note pro-
portion of vase to subject
ground, since wall coverings, partitions, and
furniture in the modern house are fixed
quantities and cannot be changed at will
to suit temporary compositions of flowers.
If, therefore, we put large flowers or branches
into big spaces keeping little delicate ones
in smaller spaces below the level of the eye
when sitting (and working always with
the receptacle in its final position), we will
fill a given space much more successfully.
Two things, however, should be kept in
mind: First, the background whether per-
pendicular or horizontal like a table should
be kept as simple as possible to avoid a
confused mass of ornament. Second, the
relationship of flowers and vase or recep-
tacle is very close. The style of vase to
be used depends on the kind of flower
chosen, the conformation of the background
and the prevailing colors of the room. It
is more pleasing if the shape of the recep-
tacle is suggested by the form of the flower
or by the habit of growth of the plant.
In color the vase should be subordinate
to the blossoms since they are to be shown
off themselves, instead of being a means of
displaying the vase. Green and brown
receptacles, by their color, convey to the
mind the foliage or bark of plants, and so
are more generally adaptable than any
other colors. The use of the decorated vase
is charming, provided the colors in the deco-
ration repeat, In a subdued way, those of
the flowers and background, and provided
also that the design itself is not
too bold. ‘A vase in all-over design in two
colors is always attractive if one color is
the prevailing color of the room, and a vase
in solid tone of the predominant color of a
room will look well in that room even if of a
gay color, though in any other the effect
would be garish and out of place.
Neutral colored vases do not conflict, but
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there is often a distinct loss in the general
picture effect by their use. Glass has the
advantage of showing stems and good
forms in it can be purchased reasonably.
In the modern pottery there are many vases
modeled after flower forms, some of which
are specially suitable for large flowers of
massive form, and they are not necessarily
expensive. For many small flowers nothing
is prettier oftentimes than little baskets
either of straw or made from gourds. Tin
or glass receptacles can easily be fitted
into them.
There are two clearly distinct methods
of arrangement of flowers in the receptacle,
namely, in mass and in line. In the former
color is made the principal attraction, and
is very suitable for small flowers — pansies
and the like. The second style of arrange-
The lines of the iris with its own foliage are al-
ways beautiful in isolation
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The low dish was chosen for daffodils because it
was broad enough to admit of repeating the idea
of the growth of the plants.
ment is carried out on a basis of beautiful
lines suggested by structural growth of each
type of plant. Flowering trees and shrubs
furnish all kinds of suggestions for beautiful
curves and lines which may be used as a
guide in this type. The two main boughs
of the maple tree suggested the arrangement
of maple branches shown in the figure;
the bow-shaped line in a pear tree brought
a thought for another.
Other types of flowers furnish their own
ideas. In hollyhocks and foxgloves, the
line of tall straightness attracts us, some
curve or lean a little way adding grace and.
variety, but, after all, the tall slenderness
is the dominant feature of growth. The
growth lines govern not only the placement
of the stalks but the contour of the spaces
The balancing was done from the tallest branch
held by a glass “ holder’’ in the bottom, The small
branch on the right of the primary is a little weak
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Large flowers usually arrange better in threes or
fives and in unequally sided triangles. Straight,
erect lines are not desirable
among the blooms, for there must be spaces
to see fully the perfection of form.
The shops display several inventions to
aid in keeping flowers in desired positions.
A glass contrivance was used in the grouping
shown on the lower corner of this page.
Perhaps a better one is made of bendable
metal in which the size of the holes and their
positions can be altered. This idea comes
from Germany. The advantage of sand
is well known. A big receptacle can
sometimes have placed within several
weighted smaller ones, which © will
give the necessary support to the stems,
not too large pickle bottles being often a
great help. I like nothing better than
seaside pebbles of varying sizes which can
be shifted at will and which admit of using
more water than sand does.
As a rule, the more massive the flowers,
the fewer needed in an arrangement. It is
the same with branches of shrubs and trees.
Many produce too much interplay and so
confusion results. Art assumes that the
plant springs from the surface of the water
Arrangement of pansies in a gourd basket. Small
flowers may usually be massed together for the
glory of their color without regard to composition
ood
A little too much inter-play and how readily con-
fusion results! The value of the receptacle with
the background and flowers is nice
or within the receptacle. Hence it is essen-
tial to keep a look of vitality there. An
arrangement of flowers demanding height in
a receptacle will look best when the flowers
extend from once and a half to twice the
height of the container.
The Japanese, so successful in flower
compositions, follow this rule. They also
say that water flowers, small flowers, and
vines are governed in arrangement by the
width of the receptacle rather than the
altitude. But we have many plants whose
growth, to my mind, conveys a suggestion
of a broad, rather than high, arrangement,
and the choice of vase to be made accord-
ingly. Some flowers seem -to grow so that
a few look well arranged according to
height, while more need an arrangement
according to width, making them eminently
suitable for dinner table decoration. The
daffodil is a case in point.
Branches of apple blossoms as picked from tree.
Compare with them arrangements shown on op-
posite corner and top of preceding page
Naturalizing the Star of Bethlehem — By Henry Maxwell, <.,
A STARRY WHITE FLOWER OF JUNE WHICH ESCAPES FROM OLD GARDENS AND MAKES BEAUTI-
FUL PICTURES IN WOODS, MEADOWS AND ORCHARDS—NOW IS THE TIME TO DIG THE BULBS
VEN I moved to my present home in
May, 1907, I was surprised and
delighted to find hundreds of plants in my
back yard which looked like clumps of
crocuses after flowering. I could hardly
believe my eyes, for it was evident that the
previous tenant had not cared about garden-
ing, yet these clumps of foliage would seem
to indicate that crocuses had been multiply-
ing here for many years.
We had many a lively discussion in
the home circle as to whether the plants
were really crocuses or not. I soon took
the negative, but could give no reason for
my faith. As I worked beside them day
after day I found them most companionable,
until one day I exclaimed: ‘Well, whatever
this weed may be, it’s a perfect plant, even
if it never produces a flower.”
But it did produce flowers and charming
ones too. For in late May my little girl
came running in with a starry white flower
she had found in the grass. Then I knew
it for my own—the dainty little star of
Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum).
In early June we had a bowlful of these
modest but lovely flowers on the table every
day, and wherever we walked in the garden
during that period we saw these bits of star-
dust strewn in the grass. The whole plant
grows only four to six inches high and the
leaves, being narrow, harmonize beautifully
with rather long grass.
The flowers are only an inch or so across,
but there may be half a dozen in a cluster.
They have six petals, or perianth segments,
like all members of the lily family, and one of
the prettiest features is the green stripe on
the back of each petal, reminding one of the
exquisite green and white of the snowdrop
and snowflake. The green color adds
greatly to the delicate beauty of the cut
flowers, but is not visible as you look down
upon the blossoms in the grass.
Ever since this discovery I have been
seeing the star of Bethlehem everywhere.
It is a European flower which has escaped
from gardens and occasionally one sees
splendid colonies by the roadside near
abandoned homes. On the Pratt estate
at Glen Cove, Long Island, it makes a fine
effect in woods, carpeting the ground with
a continuous sheet of flowers.
Like many another good plant the star
of Bethlehem has the “defects of its vir-
tues.” It multiplies too fast, and though
the bulbils help to make fine chimps of
foliage, they are provokingly slow in reaching
blooming size, unless detached and grown
separately, which means a good deal of work.
Thus it is a little too free for the garden, but
this very exuberance of propagation is
what we want in wild gardening. “The
star of Bethlehem might run out the grass.
from a lawn,” says Neltje Blanchan in
“The American Flower Garden,” “and
should never be planted in one. It spreads.
prodigiously.” But in long grass that is.
mowed only once a year it is a joy, pro-
ducing sheets of bloom.
The best time to dig the bulbs is in July,
when the foliage begins to die. I have
moved dozens of clumps in spring and
should not be afraid to transplant them
at any time, but this is the logical season.
They can be bought of bulb dealers in the
fall and cost about $15 a thousand bulbs.
Whether or not these are only the large
bulbs sure to bloom next spring, I do not
know. But I think the cheapest way to
get them would be to go scouting about the
country now, until you find a colony that is.
running wild in some farmer’s woodlot or
meadow. Offer the farmer a dollar or two
for the privilege of digging a wagon load and.
for $5 you can get what might cost you
otherwise from $30 to $50.
Would n’t you like sheets of starry white flowers in your meadow, woods or tall grass in June? The star of Bethlehem has pretty crocus-like foliage. The
bulbs can be had almost for the cost of digging and hauling.
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Daffodils Worth $75 to $250 a Bulb—By Thomas McAdam,
New
Jersey
WHY THESE SUMS ARE SO LARGE FROM ONE POINT OF VIEW AND SMALL FROM ANOTHER — BREEDING
DAFFODILS A FASCINATING PURSUIT FOR AMATEURS—WHAT MAKES QUALITY
AST fall I noticed in the leading daf-
fodil catalogue of the world thirteen
varieties that were offered at $75 a bulb
or more. A beginner is puzzled to know
why anyone should be willing to pay as much
as $250 for a single bulb of a new variety.
The explanation is simple.
These are new varieties
which are believed to be
better than any other vari-
eties in at least one important
respect. Sometimes only one
bulb is in existence.
Who buys such varieties ?
First, the very keenest
nurserymen who plan to get
the whole stock, multiply ~
the bulbs and sell them
when they can get enough
to offer to the public at a
comparatively low price.
Second, plant breeders,
especially amateurs, who see
a chance of producing still
better daffodils by using these
in crossing.
Sometimes it is easy to tell
simply from a catalogue that
a new variety is worth $250,
especially if the whole stock
consists of one bulb.
A WHITE DAFFODIL WORTH
$250
For instance let us take
the all-white trumpet daf-
fodils and try to see why
Peter Barr should be worth
$250 a bulb in 1907, whereas
moschatus is worth only
$4 a hundred.
There are about fifty of
these all-white, large trumpet
varieties, and they are all
supposed to be derived
from Narcissus moschatus
and WN. pallidus-precox,
which are still the best for
naturalizing in the grass,
largely because they are the
cheapest.
But all these white varieties
possess In varying degrees
three limitations.
First, they are of weak con-
stitution and therefore must
be grown in well drained soil.
(The best soil is a gritty
loam containing a good deal of leafmold).
Second, the substance, or texture, of the
flowers is poor and therefore the flowers last
only a few days unless grown in partial shade.
Third, not one of them is pure white when
it opens, but all of them have more or less of a
yellow tinge which fades as the flower unfolds.
The English papers say that Peter Barr is
flower with an orange-scarlet cup. Belongs to the giant
The flower, measuring four inches across is shown in actual size
the nearest approach to a pure white yet se-
cured and this variety is popularly supposed
to represent the greatest advance in constitu-
tion. In other words, the best chance of get-
ting a race of all-white daffodils that will
produce as many flowers and as large ones as
Bedouin, a daffodil worth $150 a bulb when first offered in 1898 ,
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Economical Grape Juice
Ge juice is one of the most delight-
fully refreshing drinks, and it is not
particularly expensive or difficult to make.
Although we buy our grapes the beverage
does not cost us more than ten cents a quart,
which is about one-fifth of what it costs ins
the stores, and we have the satisfaction of
knowing exactly how it was prepared. One
year we made twelve quarts from four vari-
eties of grapes that cost us about $1.27, and
another year three twenty-five cent baskets.
of Concords made eight quarts of liquid.
Concords are generally used, but the
juice is dark in color and the flavor is very
strong. The juice of Niagaras alone is
colorless, while the Delaware juice has a
muddy look. Out of fifteen variations, the
following combinations were most to our
liking: Catawba and Niagara; Catawba
and Delaware; Catawba, Niagara and Con-
cord; Catawba, Niagara, Concord, and
Delaware; Delaware and Niagara; Dela-
ware and Concord; Delaware, Concord and
Niagara. Catawba alone was also good.
Pick the grapes from the stems, and to
three quarts of fruit add one quart of water.
Cook until the grapes are broken, then strain
through cheesecloth and again through
flannel. Add sugar (about one to two
teacups of sugar to two gallons of juice),
and boil. Be careful not to get it too sweet-
Bottle the juice while it is hot and seal.
Store in a dark place.
We very often make a first and second
grade, using for the former the juice which
runs through the straining cloth easily. To
the remainder we add another quart of water
and boil, and this we strain through the
cheesecloth only. This juice will not keep
for any length of time.
New York. R. W.
A graceful arrangement of coreopsis and wistaria leaves in berry baskets. The foliage hides the
baskets from sight
Suggestions for Cooking Peas
and Beans
pes ought not to be kept for more than five
or six hours from the time they are picked
until they are eaten. In case it is necessary to
keep them over night spread them on a cloth on
the floor of a cool cellar; or if they are so far gone
as to be stale or wilted, put them in cold water for
an hour after shelling, and add a little sugar to
the water while they are boiling. In order to have
them retain their sweetness and color while cooking
allow plenty of slightly salted water, cook only
until they are tender and drain immediately.
French cooks prepare peas in a double boiler
with lettuce leaves to provide the juice and a very
young onion to give flavor. They also cook them
with bits of bacon.
The following are some ways of using peas so
as to provide variety:
In omelet.—Cook one pint of peas in salted
water, drain and keep hot. Make an omelet of
four beaten eggs, four tablespoons of the water
in which the peas were cooked, butter, salt and
pepper. Sprinkle some of the peas on the omelet
and fold; butter the remainder of the peas and
place around the omelet in the dish.
Griddle cakes.—One cupful of mashed and
seasoned peas, a half cup of milk, one beaten egg,
one-half teaspoonful of baking powder and one-
quarter cup of flour.
COOKING DRIED PEAS AND LIMAS
One of the best ways of disposing of a surplus
of garden peas is to dry them when they have
reached full size but are still green and have a
good flavor. Canning is a troublesome process
in the heat of summer, and there is the added
disadvantage of a much larger bulk to be stored
for winter use than when the peas are dried, and
there is also the expense for the jars.
As soon as the height of the season is past, we
pull up the vines and strip off the pods. After the
vegetables are shelled and picked over, we spread
them very thinly on mosquito netting laid on a
wire screen, the latter being raised a few inches
from the table. A covering of mosquito netting
is placed over the vegetables and they are dried
in an airy room; in less than a weck they will be
sufficiently dry to rattle. As a further precau-
tion against storing them for the winter with any
moisture left in or on them, collect the peas and
keep them in bowls in a warm, dry closet for some
time. Make sure of a free circulation of air while
drying so as to prevent the possibility of molding
and keep away flies and otherinsects. After they
are dried we sort them into grades—green, ripe,
and medium.
A unique way of preserving green peas for winter
use is recommended by an Australian seed cata-
logue. Shell and put into a wide-mouthed bottle.
Shake well to make as compact as possible, then
cork closely and seal. Bury in the driest part of
the garden and dig up as wanted.
Before cooking soak the dried peas in cold
water over night; parboil in water with a pinch
of baking soda, then change the water and cook
till tender, season with butter, salt and pepper.
A most delicious soup is made of one pint of
the dried peas to a quart of cold water, with an
onion, a carrot, a bay leaf and a small quantity
each of celery and parsley, a speck of thyme and
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clovers, a thin slice of salt pork (and a ham bone
if liked). Set over a good fire and when it has
reached the boiling point, place it on the stove
where it will cook slowly. When done, strain.
With bacon.—Boil dried or old peas with a piece
of bacon until done. Put the peas into a baking
pan, slice the bacon, place on top of the peas, and
set in the oven for a half hour.
Limas may also be dried in the pods, and are
fully as good as when the beans are dried sepa-
rately. Spread singly on netting screens in the
garret, and leave until perfectly dry. They should
be soaked over night before being cooked, covering
with fresh water in the morning. Two hours, or
less, before meal time put them on the stove in
boiling water and cook for thirty minutes; then
drain and cover with fresh boiling water containing
one-eighth teaspoon of baking soda. Cook until
tender, and add salt, pepper and butter.
New York. I. M. ANGELL.
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Why Not Have a Rockery?
THINK that rock gardening must always be
costlier here than in England. True, English-
men may have to pay as much for rocks as we,
but skilled labor costs more here and we must take
artificial means to cool the atmosphere. A first-
class rockery is a complicated structure because
it must provide every kind of exposure, many
kinds of soil, a perfect water supply, and perfect
drainage. But a good one is worth all it costs.
The great drawback to the rockery is the difh-
culty of cooling the rocks and atmosphere. The
obvious way is to shade the rock garden by means
of overhanging trees. Unfortunately, shade is fatal
to the finest alpine flowers. Our only hope, I
believe, is to use water freely. This is costly, I
admit, but there is no use in doing things by halves.
We must have plenty of water anyhow, for seven-
tenths of the art of rock gardening is to give the
plants a never-failing supply of moving — not
stationary — water. There is an immense amount
of talk in English books and papers about lime-
lovers and lime-haters, but if we can only get a
perfect water supply I believe we can cut out
nearly all that pottering with special soils. Witness
the best alpine garden in America (Mrs. Higgin-
son’s at Manchester, Mass.) where the gardener
A rockery effect with ferns which seem to be
growing directly out of the rocks
JuLY, 1909
told me he never put a bit of lime into any compost.
An idea got at the Cambridge Botanical Garden
filled me with great hope. The scholarly and
ingenious curator, Mr. R. Irwin Lynch, was
making a rockery in which the central feature was
a well. The paths all lead naturally to this moist,
cool spot where a person could get a drink of
fresh, cold water and admire the flowers on all
sides and above him. The rocks, soil and air
were all pleasantly cool and moist —not damp
or sour. The moisture is expected to rise by
capillarity through all the stones to the very top,
without interfering at all with the quicker down-
ward drainage through the soil.
I am well aware that Mr. William Robinson
frowns upon connecting water features with rock
gardening and I must confess that most of the
lakelets, cascades, etc., which I saw in England
in connection with rock gardens were unpleasing
or even ludicrous. Yet Mr. Lynch’s idea seems
to me adapted to our life in three ways. It has
the practical advantage of quenching thirst. It
has the cultural advantage of keeping the rocks
cool instead of hot. It has the esthetic advantage
of supplying a dramatic conclusion to the whole
effort. A well at the lowest point seems natural,
and since the highest walls surround it, there is
sure to be grateful shade in the heat of the day —
a point we Americans appreciate. The heated
period of the English day is only three hours or
so; with us it is nearer eight.
New York. WILHELM MILLER.
Transplanting in Hot Weather
iD es hot weather people are often deterred
from filling gaps in the flower beds and
borders by the fear that if plants are moved they
will die from the heat before they have had a
chance to become established. Of course, one
can wait for a rainy day, but I have hit upon a
plan whereby plants may be moved at any time
during the hot weather.
Every spring I save all rakings of grass and
leaves, and put them in a pile to form leafmold.
When transplanting I make the hole for the
plant about two inches deeper than is really
necessary, in which T place a layer of about an
inch and a half of the partly decomposed leaves,
having first wet them thoroughly with water. I
then fill in the hole with soil, and when setting
the plant use a dibble to make the hole for the
roots.
The wet leaves put the moisture just where the
plant most needs it —at the roots. The ground
does not become caked around the roots, as is
often the case when water is poured into the hole,
but the moisture from the leaves is drawn to the
surface by capillary attraction and the soil remains
loose and moist around the plant for several days.
When lifting be sure to get as many of the roots
of the plant as possible, and be especially careful
not to expose them to the wind or sun while out of
the soil.
Minnesota. M.1.D.
Jury, 1909
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Wild Flowers Worth Improving
V.—THE BROWN-EYED SUSAN
[2 is strange that no plant-breeder, professional
or amateur, has undertaken the culture of
the Rudbeckia (which includes the brown-eyed
Susan) and its allied genera, Echinacea and Lepa-
chys, for Burbank’s profitable experience with
Shasta daisies has shown the extraordinary possi-
bilities possessed by flowers which are so common
that we usually think about them as weeds.
There are ten species of Rudbeckia which can
be secured from American nurserymen, but the
only famous one is the Golden Glow, a double
variety of R. laciniata, which took the world by
storm about ten years ago. This variety was
not at all the production of hybridization. It
was merely a chance product of Nature which some
one was shrewd enough to save and sell.
Perhaps the commonest species in the wild is the
brown-eyed Susan, or yellow daisy (R. hirta) which
is illustrated herewith. To indicate its possibilities
for improvement let me say that I found, in one
hour nineteen variations that were highly dis-
tinctive and full of promise to the plant-breeder.
These were all found in a suburban lot, and I trans-
planted them to my garden in flower; but, unfor-
tunately, I was not able to save the seeds of any
of them, as my family had to go away from home
during the critical period when the seeds should
have been saved. None of the seeds germinated
the next year, and as the species is either annual or
biennial, all these variations were lost. But that
is of no matter, as our readers will doubtless be
able to duplicate them by searching.
The largest flower I found was 3} inches across,
which is an inch larger than the average size.
The smallest flower was only an inch and three-
quarters across, and the
plant bore such a profusion
of these dainty flowers that
I thought a miniature flow-
ered type might be worth
developing. There was
little evidence of double-
ness. I found many flow-
ers that had two rows of
petals (strictly speaking,
“rays”’), but they did not
give even a semi-double
effect. The largest num-
ber of petals I found on
any one plant was from
seventeen to twenty.
The most interesting
color variation was a rich,
pure brown, as fine as any
you ever see in the annual
Coreopsis. This clearly
suggested an important
line of plant-breeding, and
correspondents have writ-
ten me of brown-eyed
Susans in which one-half
the petals are brown and
the other half yellow, as
is exactly the case in the
corresponding variety of
coreopsis. I have also
found a lemon-colored va-
riety and an orange and
yellow variety, in which
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the orange was down the centre of the petal with
yellow at either side.
As to the form of head, I found three distinct
types which I called for convenience, “cup-shaped,”
“stellate,” and “shooting star,’’ according as the
petals pointed upward, horizontally, or down-
ward. My observations were not extended enough
to determine whether these forms were constant
or merely represented different stages of develop-
ment in the same flower, but I found one plant in
which the cup-shaped condition seemed to be fixed.
As to form of petal, I found four exceedingly
interesting types. One resembled the single cactus
dahlia by reason of the margins of the petals being
revolute, and more or less twisted, thus producing a
flower of spirited appearance. Another was
laciniate, but not particularly pretty.
The most exciting flower of all, however, was a
tubular flower in which the entire petal was rolled
up into a tight tube, producing exactly the same
effect we get in quilled asters and chrysanthemums.
Of this type I found three examples, of which one
plant bore flowers three and three-eighths inches
across, while another was only one and three-
quarters inches across.
The rudbeckias all have yellow petals and the disk,
or central portion, may be yellow, greenish, brown
or dark purple. Some of these disks are flat and
some make a rather high cone. The only impor-
tant color variation that can be hoped for in the
genus is brown and red.
The beauty of the genus Echinacea is that it —
supplies flesh color, pink, rose-purple, and crimson,
also a singularly beautiful form of flower by reason
of the downward-pointing petals.
The beauty of Lepachys is that it has a still
higher cone which, combined with the downward-
pointing petals, gives it a very animated appear-
ance, like the cyclamen or shooting-star. The
colors are yellow and pink.
Connecticut.
The Best Cup-shaped Lily
pee the most useful hardy lily for
garden juse,” says Professor Waugh in his
monograph on lilies in the “Cyclopedia of Amer-
ican Horticulture,” “is Lilium elegans.”
This is the species to which I have ventured to
give the name Japanese erect lily because of its
cup-shaped flower. It is a dwarf, large-flowered
lily with red, yellow, or orange flowers. It is
normally only a foot or two high, and bears from
one to five flowers on a stem, each flower being
five or six inches across. It blooms about the first
of July.
The strong points of this lily are its vivid colors
JABEZ TOMPKINS.
Lilium elegans blooms about the lst of July. The flowers, of vivid color, measure five or six
inches across and are borne in clusters
Juty, 1909
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The brown-eyed Susan, or yellow daisy (ludbeckia
hirtd), which blooms from June to August
and ease of culture. Most lilies have to be care-
fully planted in light soil to which plenty of leaf-
mold has been added, but the Japanese erect lily
thrives in the ordinary border, and I have seen it
multiply at a wonderful rate.
The best idea connected with lilies that has
come to us in recent years is to plant them in
beds of rhododendrons or other members of the
heath family, because all these plants require the
same sort of soil and winter mulch, also a cool
soil in summer which will not dry out easily.
Lilies, as a rule, have rather insignificant foliage,
and are so uncompromisingly stiff in their habit
that it is rather difficult to group them nicely with
other plants. In the rhododendron bed, their
defects of habit and foliage are more or less hidden.
Lilies are, therefore, a natural complement of the
heath family, and enable us to have life and color
in these shrubbery beds
throughout the summer
and autumn, when other-
wise they would be devoid
of flowers.
While the Japanese erect
lily is commonly planted
in rhododendron beds
because of its cheapness, I
would urge readers of THE
GARDEN MAGAZINE to
plant it in any ordinary
garden soil, and when
they have worked up
sufficiently, start to mass
them amongst the shrub-
bery.
There are about a dozen
varieties, ranging in color
from pale yellow through
apricot and orange to
bright red. So far as I
know, the names wmbel-
latum and Thunbergianum
are exactly synonymous.
Lilium Batemannieé is a
variety with apricot
flowers, which grows
about four feet high,
and has rather narrower
perianth segments than
the type.
THomas McApaAm.
New Jersey.
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Protecting Roses in the Northwest
13 IS perfectly possible to carry roses through
the winter in the Northwest —that is, the
Dakotas, Montana, Nebraska, northern Muinne-
sota, and northern Wisconsin — where the tem-
perature may fall to 40 degrees below zero and
the wind cut like a whip. I have carried roses
through the winter so that scarcely the tips of
shoots four feet in length were injured.
If the fall has been a dry one give the rose bed
a thorough drenching when you are certain that
all growth has ceased. Then after the ground
has dried somewhat bank about six inches of the
surface dirt around the base of the rose bushes.
Wait until a slight crust of frost has formed over
the ground, after which bury the entire rose bed
to the top of the bushes in dry leaves, which, of
course, should have been procured beforehand,
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ash leaves altogether, as they soon crumble to dust.
However, on our northwestern prairies we do not
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also serve the purpose. Climbers and roses with
bushes over three feet high will have to be bent
over and tied down — not necessarily down to
the ground, but just enough so that, with three
to four feet of leaves, they will be nicely covered.
In bending the bushes be careful to produce a long
arch, never making a sharp bend that might break
the canes.
After the leaves are in place cover them with
boards arranged so that they will shed water;
likewise support them in such a manner that their
weight will not rest upon the leaves. Over this,
like a roof to cover the entire rose bed, even the
sides, spread an even layer of horse manure from
six inches to a foot thick. Take all possible
precaution so that the leaves underneath may
remain dry all winter.
I am well aware of the fact that this method
involves much laborious detail, but without work
you cannot have roses, especially in this climate.
Furthermore, it is best to place all your roses in
one bed, or at least to mass them as much as is
consistent with your scheme of planting, for this
greatly facilitates winter protection on which rose
culture in the Northwest depends.
North Dakota. €. L. MELIER.
Bees and Fresh Flowers
HAT bees have a decided influence on the
keeping qualities of flowers is a fact that is
very easily demonstrated. It is simply a question
of pollination. The ultimate object of the flower
is, of course, seed production, and as soon as fer-
tilization has been effected the mission of the
flower has been accomplished and the energies of
the plant are then immediately turned to the de-
velopment and perfection of the seed. Commercial
florists have adopted a practice which to my mind
is much more important than they know.
Practically all growers of the Easter lily remove
the anthers from the blossoms at an early stage
of their development, preventing the pollen from
maturing and falling upon the petals, and thus
disfiguring and injuring the flowers. The golden
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE
grains of pollen scattered upon the white petals
are a disadvantage to the commercial quality of.
the flower, but aside from all this the emasculation
of the flowers in this way has a very decided in-
fluence upon their keeping qualities. If the
flowers are allowed to become pollinated their
usefulness as cut flowers or ornamental plants is
very greatly decreased by the shortened life which
they possess. ;
This was brought to my attention very emphati-
cally as much as twelve years ago by some studies
which were being conducted with Easter lilies and
Hibiscus. It was found that flowers which were
pollinated, either purposely or accidentally, lost
their beauty and usefulness very much more
quickly than those emasculated or prevented
{from becoming pollinated, so that from the stand-
point of the florist the exclusion of bees, or any
means which contributes to the pollination of
the flower, is a very important matter.
Washington, D. C. L. C. CorBeErt.
A Bamboo Seventy Feet High
OSSIBLY
grows in Arcadia, Florida, and is about sev-
enty feet high. The clump has a spread of fifty
feet, and the diameter at the ground is twelve
the tallest bamboo in America,
feet. The specimen is only eight years old.
This is the common bamboo of India (Bambusa
vulgaris). I believe it was brought to South
Florida from the West Indies. In Jamaica it has
become naturalized, and is popularly supposed to
be indigenous.
This bamboo makes an astonishing growth dur-
ing our rainy season, the canes often attaining
their full height in six weeks, after which they
begin to put out leaves. The canes are from
four to five inches in diameter at their base.
Unfortunately, this species cannot stand low
temperatures, and the specimen in Arcadia has
frequently been damaged by cold.
It is the largest of the bamboo family that is
grown to any extent in Florida.
In propagating any of the large bamboos, I cut
the canes in four to six foot lengths, and plant .
them in a trench about six inches deep. They
root readily, and send up two or three small shoots,
six to ten feet long, the first season.
Arcadia, Florida. C. S. BUSHNELL.
Do Yow Knows thisy Plant
ITI—A Vivip Marie
CER GINNALA is a maple found in Man-
churia, China and Japan. It is a shrub
or small tree, seldom growing to a height of more
than eighteen or twenty feet. In habit it is grace-
ful, particularly during its earlier years.
The leaves are three-lobed and from one and
one-half to three inches long. In summer the
foliage is thoroughly good, and in autumn, when it
assumes its customary splendor, it is most charming.
It turns earlier in the season than do the other
maples, with the exception of the red maple, and
keeps in good appearance for a long time.
The flowers are borne in early June in panicles,
which are about three inches long. The individual
flowers are yellowish green and fragrant, an
occurrence uncommon among the maples. Thus
it depends for its value chiefly upon its neatness
of habit and charm of autumnal coloring. It is
perfectly hardy and vigorous.
As to use it is desirable for planting when a
JuLry 1909
Foliage of Acer Ginndld turns bright red in autumn
and keeps in good condition for a long time
small short-lived tree is desired in the background
of a large shrubbery, and perhaps it might be
useful as a nurse plant.
Massachusetts. DANIEL A. CLARKE.
A Plant to Grow on Stone Walls
Cee accompanying photograph shows a stone
wall on which the wall pepper (Sedum acre)
is growing. This plant is also known as stonecrop
and love entangled, and is one of the commonest
of all sedums in cultivation. It is often used in
edging flower beds and also as a carpeting plant
for bare spots. The variety auwrewm is cultivated
for spring bedding, the bright yellow tips of the
new shoots furnishing a dash of color in an other-
wise dull season.
The flower stems of Sedwm acre are about two
or three inches high, and the flowers about one-
half inch across. The leaves are very smal] —
less than one-quarter of an inch long — and are
crowded together. They are thick and have an
acrid taste.- This plant thrives even in poor soil
and usually blooms from June to July.
Connecticut. G. S. Jones.
The wall pepper (Sedum acre) is one of the com-
monest sedums in cultivation
This Month’s Cover
HE lily shown on this month’s cover is the
white form of the Japanese spotted lily
(L. speciosum, var. alba), and is probably the best
white lily for general cultivation, being very thrifty
although not so rugged as the red colored form,
commonly known in gardens as Jiliwm rubrwn.
The habit of the plant is very free and informal,
and it makes a splendid subject in the mixed hardy
border and in shrubberies. It is not only valued
as a garden plant, however, but is extensively
grown for cut flowers by florists. Specialists in
lilies offer several named varieties of the speciosum
lily, the best known being Melpomene and Kret-
zeri, in both of which the coloring is very intense.
:
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Dahlias That Are Really Worth
Growing
ANS a dahlia fancier for a good many years
past I have read with a great deal of interest
the two recent articles in THE GARDEN MAGAZINE
on my favorite flower. Of course, everyone is
entitled to his own opinion as to varieties, and I
have mine. After having grown nearly every
thing that I could secure, and not merely one or
two roots only but giving a thorough, comparative
trial in every case, I feel that I am in a position to
make some recommendations myself, and to
point out some of the reasons why I do not entirely
agree with all of the selections and opinions
of Mr. Fuld.
I am glad that the writer is candid in his remarks
about Madame Van der Dael. This, to my mind,
is the loveliest and best-formed decorative dahlia
I have ever grown. Kriemhilde (cactus) is,
indeed, a lovely pink bloom, but it has such a
short stem that 90 per cent. of my visitors pass it
by, preferring others of the same coloring.
As the best white cactus yet grown I am inclined
to name Schwan, although Lawine is preferable
for the garden as it is a mass of white bloom,
almost covering and hiding its green foliage; the
flower, however, is loosely formed. Schwan is
perfect in shape and ideal as to length of stem,
contour, and petal. Amos Perry, bright scarlet,
with me is not so well formed, though the coloring
is so intense as to be really dazzling.
I agree that Wunderkund is the best type of the
“indefinable color” group, although in the oid
Britannia is a color that has never been equaled.
It, however, has a thick, meaty centre, though when
specially grown for exhibition purposes it becomes
a most beautiful flower. The Lilliputian class is
not generally grown, and but little known by even
the dahlia growers of this country.
While Prof. Mansfield is classed as a variegated
decorative, it certainly has two distinctive types.
I do not approve of calling A. D. Livoni a
small bloom, but rather medium size, for if planted
in rich soil and disbudded it will make flowers of
very good size. All that is said of its commend-
able qualities is true.
Storm King with me seems to ripen up too fast,
and gives now and then an impression of “‘ox-eye”
or yellow centre. I have a white that is without
exception the strongest in development from start
to ripened bud, a very solid and beautiful flower,
with a slight cream cast in the base of the petals.
It came to me under the name of La Favorite.
Charles Lanier is comparatively new, having been
grown only last season. Vashti 1 have not only
never seen, but fail to find in any catalogue I have.
Mr. Glasscock I have discarded aiter five years’
trial — it was a rare thing to find a perfect flower.
The blooms were gg per cent. with false centres,
the petals failed to fill out, and the purple
color was very dark with no lustre. Edward
Lefavour is not yet well enough known to warrant
its being placed ahead of a standard tested variety
generally approved; although I am led to believe
that it will yet warrant all that is claimed for it.
In the pompons I am confident that there is
no white like Snowclad, and I have cover sixty
varieties In my collection.
In single dahlias, the Twentieth Century class
takes with all visitors to the garden, and at fairs
and shows as well. I have received a new variety
grown in England called Mrs. Tait, which I am
looking forward to with no little curiosity.
Maurice Rivoire is indeed a very positive im-
provement in the collerettes over some of the
older ones, for while the color is not so good, the
flower is inclined to give more to the collar and
not the main petals of the bloom. I think Eten-
dard de Lyon, Gallia, Prince Galitzine and even
old President Viger will be just as much in demand
as those with immense white collerette petals.
No one who loves a white flower can gainsay the
statement that Kaiserin Augusta Victoria is a
regal beauty among the decoratives, but to say so
much for Mrs. Roosevelt seems to me to be an
error, for it is a heavy bloom and fades or grows
velvety in its centre; it does not behave the same
way with different growers, and I cannot get it to
make good clumps of tubers. I have written to
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and they have informed me to get sufficient stock
one has to depend upon slips or cuttings and
started plants. When cut for bouquet work it
will not compare for beauty or keeping quality
with Madame Van der Dael. It has a tendency
to run out and is subject to a disease which will
not allow it to develop into a strong bush.
W. W. Rawson is indeed a lovely bloom, but
comparatively new and not yet tried by many
outside of the professional growers. Delice is a
beautiful shade of pink and I hope to soon be able
to speak of its behavior.
I am sorry that the writer did not mention
Lord Lyndhurst (decorative), which is a fiery scarlet
just as good as the standby, Wm. Agnew, is of its
color, scarlet. crimson. Both are marvelously
grand in border, shrubbery or field, and in bouquet
work it is hard to find their equal.
Jack Rose I am inclined to think has a tenden-.
cy to over-bloom and so give flowers much
reduced in size. Jumbo has been a _ very
strong favorite with me, but it has too many
flowers which drop down and hide their faces
either in the bush or on the ground. Minos is
one of the best dark maroons ever grown — tall,
with long stems, and strong. Papa Charmet is a
fit companion to it. I prefer either Siegfried or
Henry Patrick to Flora, but believe that Mrs.
Winters is better still.
The stem of Perle de la Téte d’Or is so rigid
and hard that it does not lend itself to cutting or
even to grace on the bush itself, as a rule, and the
flower is stiffly flattened. A few blooms now and
then are better than the average, but they are
hardly to be considered normal.
Long Island, N. Y. E. STANLEY BROWN.
Improve the Soil
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Practical Ideas from England
oe finest summer hyacinths I have ever seen
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in a large pot of moss and fibre.
I saw about three thousand grape hyacinths in
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every year and multiplied threefold. It is worth
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Are you curing any tulip bulbs in the cellar
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But, alas, the foliage turns yellow and begins to
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Who can tell us the most effective way of growing
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A Difficult Anemone to Grow
AST summer, in THE GARDEN MAGAZINE, *
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Juny, 1909
Garden Notes and News
ALF a mile of roses! There is such a sight at
the Payne Whitney estate, Manhasset, L. I.
It is composed mostly of single wild roses, like the
Carolina and prairie rose, and is, therefore, attrac-
tive in winter, as well as summer, by reason of the
red stems and “hips.”
What is duller than an alleged “grove” of trees
with nothing but grass underneath? Answer:
The same thing forty years later, when the trees all
take on “‘stag-horn” shape and have no branches
below. Both kinds can be seen side by side near
Westbury, L. I., on an estate where the mania for
neatness prevails and there is no conception of
“Tandscape forestry.”
People have begun to buy holly since TaE GARDEN
Macazinr has declared that it is the most desirable
of all broad-leaved evergreens. Letters come to us
asking if collectors and nurserymen have done well
to strip off all the leaves at planting time. Yes.
And it will pay you to wrap the stems with straw
to retard evaporation until new feeding roots are
formed.
Every collector of alpine plants should be eager
to get a copy of Rydberg’s “Flora of Colorado.”
There are no descriptions but every species is dis-
tinguished by means of keys and some day the
flowers of the Rocky Mountains are going to be a
fad in the East. The “Flora” is published as a
bulletin of the Colorado Experiment Station and
contains 446 pages of pretty stiff botany — too stiff
for amateur gardeners without special skill.
Is there any hardy white flower to compare with
The Pearl achillea for cutting? It produces an
enormous number of “‘buttons” and will bloom
from June through August. It is too sprawly for
garden effect, but plant it in the vegetable garden in
straight beds four feet wide and the plants will then
hold one another up without the bother or expense
of staking or pegging down. This idea is practised
at the Breese estate, Southampton, L. I.
Everyone ought to “interlace” shrubbery instead
of planting each kind in a solid block, which pro-
duces an absurd effect, like carpet bedding. To
interlace groups, let a few individuals stray out from
the “home colony” into neighboring groups. This
is now a recognized principle of landscape garden-
ing and if you have employed some one who has done
otherwise, you may be sure that he is not a finished
artist at planting.
Potting Soils for Amateurs
OOD soil is an absolute necessity to success
with plants, and there is only one way to
get it —by mixing. A workable potting soil can
be made from loam, sand, and manure, but it will
be much better if it has an addition of leafmold,
peat, or well weathered muck.
PASTURE LOAM FOR COMPOST
Where it is impracticable to make a compost
heap, any good garden loam can be used, and it
is not necessary to prepare it any length of time
beforehand,
The best loam to use in a potting soil is well
decayed sod taken from a pasture. The best
time to secure it is in the fall after the grass has
been killed by hard frosts; it can, however, be
secured in the spring before the grass starts to grow.
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Poultry, Kennel and Live Stock Directory
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NO MATTER HOW LARGE \
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Cut the sod three or four inches thick, and place
it in a pile the grass side down. For convenience
make the pile about four feet wide and high, and
as. long as necessary, and have the top hollowed
out a little so that it will catch the rains and so
keep the pile moist. Many people when making
up the sod pile compost manure with it. If you
prefer to do it this way add one part fresh cow
manure to each three parts of sod, if done in the
fall.
ADDING MANURE
When the compost is made in the spring the
manure must be well rotted, and horse manure
is preferable to cow manure. The compost pile
must be thoroughly mixed two or three times by
chopping it down with a spade and throwing up
into a new pile.
A spring made compost heap will be ready to
use in the fall, but the soil is apt to be rather coarse.
The fall-made compost is sure to give much better
satisfaction.
In my practice I have always found well-decayed
horse manure better than cow manure; the latter
can be used, however, but it tends to make the
soil cold and clammy. Well decayed horse manure
may usually be purchased in the suburbs and
smaller towns from the livery and other stables.
If you cannot purchase rotted horse manure, and
if you have a convenient place in any out-of-the-
way corner in the backyard where fresh droppings
can be stored, well and good. They will require
several months to rot properly. Protect from
the rain and turn over frequently to prevent
burning. If the manure gets too dry sprinkle it
with water when turning.
Sheep, hen, pigeon, and other manures may
be used in mixing potting soils, but very sparingly,
for they are so strong that if a large amount is
used the roots of the plants will be burned.
LEAFMOLD, PEAT, AND MUCK
Adding to the potting soil either leafmold, peat
or muck makes it much more friable, increases its
water-holding capacity, eases the circulation of
air through it, and induces a better growth of roots.
In no case is there actual fertilizing value. In
raising from seed such plants as cyclamens, ciner-
arias, Chinese primroses, and begonias, leafmold
is a necessity. Where manure is not attainable
one of these three forms of vegetable mold must be
used to supply the necessary humus, the plant
food can thus be added in the form of a complete
fertilizer which can be bought from any seedsman.
Peat is very scarce in this country andso is quite
expensive, but it can be bought from nearly all
the dealers in seeds or bulbs.
Leafmold and muck are much easier to obtain
and usually cost nothing outside of the labor
necessary to collect them. When the foliage is
falling, late in September or in October, is the best
time to lay in a stock of next year’s leafmold.
If there is no hardwood timber land nearby,
where you can get clean leaves, then rake up the
leaves which have fallen in the street. Maple
leaves are best, but those of the elm and the oak
will do. Sometimes an arrangement can be made
with the city employees to dump in the backyard
all the leaves they gather in cleaning the streets.
In this way and at no cost an abundant supply
of leafmold can be had in suburban districts.
HANDLING LEAVES
In the winter, the leaves can be used for banking
coldframes and pits, to keep out the frost or for
mulching the bulb beds. In the spring, when the
pits are empty, throw all the leaves into a pit,
wet them thoroughly, and allow them to rot. By
fall they are in good condition to use. If this
way of rotting them is followed, you will probably
need to wet them several times during the summer.
Another good way to handle the leaves is to dig
as large a hole in the ground as you can fill with
leaves. Pack in the leaves as tightly as possible,
wetting them as they are being thrown in. A
good time to do this is on a rainy day for then it
saves the necessity of hauling water. If you have
a hose you can do the work at any time.
If neither of these ways can be followed, the
leaves can be put in a heap on the ground, thor-
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treated thus, it will be necessary to water them
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