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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[February , 



pots in coal ashes, tan or any other convenient 

 material ; give a good watering when potted, and 

 afterwards water only when necessary. Admit 

 air freely whenever the weather is favorable, 

 while at other times supplying all necessary pro- 

 tection in the way of covering, and by this means 

 your roses may be successfully preserved until 

 it is again time to place them in the open ground. 



Insects. — The rose is liable to attack from vari- 

 ous insect enemies. The rose slug so destruc- 

 tive during the Summer is effectually destroyed 

 by dusting the plants with jjowdered white Hel- 

 lebore and lime, or dissolve a tablespoonful of 

 the Hellebore in two gallons of hot water and 

 apply when cold with the syringe. For red spi- 

 ders keej) the foliage well syringed, being careful 

 to wet the under side of the leaf. Mildew may 

 be remedied by giving the plants a good dusting 

 of sulphur, and for that great pest of the window 

 garden, green fly, nothing is better than tobacco 

 smoke or strong tobacco water. 



I have thus endeavored very imperfectly to 

 consider my subject. My object, however, will 

 have been fully accomplished if any of you have 

 been benefited by my brief remarks this eve- 

 ning on the Cultivation of the Rose. 



to the many advantages they possess. The color 

 of the Purple Beech is only highly appreciated 

 in the spring when its dark purple foliage is in 

 striking contrast to the pale green of that sea- 

 son. It is quite overshadowed in the autumn by 

 the brilliantly colored foliage of other trees. 



BEECH HEDGES. 



BY 3IR. C. II. MILLEIi, FAIimOUNT PAEK, 

 PHILA. 



The European Beech makes an excellent 

 hedge, and is much used for that purpose both 

 in England and on the Continent, where protec- 

 tion from the cold north wind is needed. Mr. 

 Parsons recommends Purple Beech for orna- 

 mental hedges, and no one has a keener percep- 

 tion or a fuller appreciation of the beautiful in 

 trees than he. Like all enthusiasts, however, 

 he has his favorites, and recommends grafted 

 plants only for the purpose, the reason given 

 being that seedlings do not come true to color. 



In taking a practical view of the matter I cer- 

 tainly prefer the seedling, it being much more 

 thrifty, better furnished with branches near the 

 ground, and retaining its foliage later in the sea- 

 son than the grafted plant — very desirable quali- 

 ties in a hedge plant. As to the color, a few 

 in a lot of seedlings would possibly come green, 

 but these need not be selected. That good col- 

 ored varieties do come from seed, we know to 

 be a fact. They do not, perhaps, retain their 

 purple color so late into the autum as the grafted 

 plant, but that is a slight matter in comparison 



THE CLIMBING EUONYMUS. 



BY WM. KILPATRICK, COLLEGEYILLE, PHIL A. 



This hardy climber is of very rapid growth, 

 and attaches itself as the common Ivy does, by 

 sending out roots from the new growth of each 

 year. A small plant will cover a large space of 

 rough wall in a very short time. It propagates 

 easily from the young wood. It retains its foli- 

 age through the severest Winters. I have made 

 a fair test of its good qualities as an evergreen 

 climber during the past tlii'ee years. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



A Curious White Pine Tree. — Somewhere 

 in his European wanderings, the exact place 

 now forgotten, the Editor came on a White 

 Pine tree, the leading shoot of which had been 

 taken out when the plant was four or five feet high 

 and the leader always kept out. 1'he result was 

 a spreading bush of remarkable beauty. Noth- 

 ing was trimmed or touched but these leading- 

 shoots. It did not look in the least unnatural, 

 and we thought it a plan worth imitating now 

 and then. 



Curious Pine Tree ix .Japak. — There is 

 at Osaka, a Pine tree which has been prevented 

 from growing upwards, and is but seven feet 

 high, but the lateral branches have spread so 

 that they are three hundred feet in circumfer- 

 ence. The chief art in Japanese gardening, is 

 to make trees grow in odd forms. 



Training Trees and Shrubs. — There is 

 not much beauty in the ordinary clipped or 

 sheared tree or bush, yet very much might be 

 done to make some take on peculiar, graceful 

 forms, or some shape that even an artist would 

 call beautiful. Xot to distort nature, but to en- 

 corn-age her towards her best efforts is surely a 

 worthy object of the garden art. 



Destruction of Trees in Cities by Gas 

 AT the Boots. — They seem to be suffering 

 from the dereliction of gas companies in Eu- 



