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May 



fl CflEflF, NEAT AND SUBSTflNTIflL TRELLIS. 



In growing twining vines against a 

 house wall, especially those cut to the 

 ground each year, if a strong twine is not 

 used (and I use it a great deal, as when 

 cleaning up time comes in the fall one can 

 take it down so easily and use fresh 

 string the next spring) it becomts neces- 

 sary to use some trellis that is non-ob- 

 trusive to the eye when bare and unoccu- 

 pied. The method so commonly used of 

 taking the proper length of chicken fence 

 wire and slanting it up against the wall 

 to become swayed and distorted by the 

 wind is not in keeping with the neatness 

 that should be characteristic of all homes. 

 I lately put up a trellis that so p'eased 

 me, and lam the one most interested, that 

 I imagined among the many readers of 

 Gardening some one might like to "go 

 and do likewise." My trellis is six feet wide 

 and ten feet high from the water-table, 

 which at this point is two feet above the 

 ground. I used three planed scantlings 

 two by three and one-half inches, cut ten 

 feet long. These were placed upright 

 against the wall three feet apart and rest- 

 ing upon the water-table, and spiked 

 firmly in place, the outer edge standing 

 out from the face of the wall three and 

 one-half inches. On top of these, extend- 

 ing the six feet across, was placed another 

 scantling. You might compare it to a 

 double door frame, with the water-table 

 as a threshold. Galvanized iron staples 

 were driven in one foot apart in all the 

 scantlings and the edge of the water- 

 table Seventy cents' worth of twisted 

 galvanized wire was run through the 

 staples diagonally, forming a one foot 

 meslK The scantlings had been painted 

 the color of the wall, and at a short dis- 

 tance was hardly noticeable. 



ORNAMENTED CLOTHES POLES. 



Mr. J. W. Elliott's picture of a vine on 

 a clothes line post gives us all something 

 to think of. Perhaps that solves the 

 servant-girl question so perplexing to the 

 suburbanite. Ifslie can pick a posy while 

 hanging out the washing it may be an in- 

 centive that will induce her to remain 

 long enough to send for her trunk. The 

 idea of utilizing the posts is a good one, 

 especially if the posts be placed irregu- 

 larly here and there instead of forming a 

 square. I am going to adopt the idea, 

 but will use a short galvanized chain 

 stapled into the post, having a ring at 

 the end. If the vine becomes somewhat 

 bushy at the top the chain can hang out 

 through the vine and be readilv reached. 



Highland Park, 111. W. C. Egan. 



OENISTft-CYTISUS. 



Dear Sir:— Please clear my mind from 

 the muddle it is now in regarding the 

 difference between genista and cytisus. A 

 friend has a plant that he calls cytisus, 

 but which I have always known as 

 genista. ' J. B. G. 



We presume the yellow flowered shrub 

 so abundantly grown by florists for their 

 Easter trade and so freely used at that 

 time for home and church decoration is 

 the plant that prompted your question. 

 Its technical or proper botanical name is 

 Cytisus canariensis, but it is generally 

 known as genista, using this word as an 

 English and not a botanical name for it. 

 The same licence occurs in the case of many 

 other plants, for instance lemon verbena, 

 which generically is not Verliena, Lady 

 Washington geranium, which hotanically 

 is Pelargonium and so on. Your friend 

 uses the true botanical name (Cytisus), 

 and you the accepted English one 

 (genista) which is also the true botanical 

 name for a near of kin genus. 



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