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GARDENING. 



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SAW-BUCK. LOG AND SAW OF PLANTS. AT EGANDALB. 



pulled up and cut down but it is still in 

 possession. What can I do to get it out?" 

 Sorrel is one of the worst and mdst per- 

 sistent weeds that infest our lawns, and 

 one of the hardest to eradicate. It grows 

 in poor or rich land, be it moist or dry, 

 and we know of no preparation to spread 

 on the land that will kill the sorrel and 

 spare the grass. Get a long-toothed steel 

 rake, and tear out and rake off every bit 

 of sorrel you can get out of thegriss, 

 then top-dress the lawn with a compost 

 of good loam and well rotted manure 

 spreading it even, now sow some fresh 

 grass seed consisting of one part red top, 

 one part Rhode Island bent, and two 

 parts Kentucky blue grass, with two 

 pounds white clover to the bushel. Rake 

 the ground lightly with a wooden-toothed 

 rake to cover the seed a little, and roll 

 firmly. Do this in earliest spring to give 

 the grass a start over the sorrel. Do 

 what you can in the waj- of surface feed- 

 ing to encourage the grass to grow and 

 in this way suppress the sorrel. Among 

 cultivated crops clean and persistent cul- 

 tivation, and raking oft" and removing 

 the roots after every cultivating will kill 

 it out in time. But it isn't an easv mat- 

 ter. 



HYBRID CLEMATIS FROM SEED. 



L. L. C, Fresno, Cal., writes; "During 

 the past season I spent considerable 

 monej- in the purchase of a large number 

 of fine varieties of hybrid clematis. They 

 all started to grow nicely but after a 

 short period the leaves began to wilt, the 

 result being that I have lost them all. I 

 assume the cause to be the clematis dis- 

 ease which I have seen noticed in Gar- 

 dening. It was suggested to me by the 

 firm from whom I purchased that I ob- 



whom to apply and have thus far been 

 unable to get any such seeds." 



Under the name "Clematis, large flow- 

 ering hybrids" we find them advertised 



by J. M. Thorburn & Co., 15 John street, 

 New York. While seedlings are not ex- 

 tmpt from the disease they are less liable 

 to it than are transplanted named varie- 

 ties. The seeds may take three, six, or 

 twelve months to germinate. The small 

 flowered sorts as Flammula and panicu- 

 lata do not have the disease so far as we 

 have noticed. 



ft GARDEN OF FLOWERS. 



1 have eight parallel beds 14x4- feet, with 

 two feel of path between each, in which I 

 wish to grow flowers for private use only 

 in church and home decoration. The lot 

 is 25x100 with full exposure on the east, 

 north and south, with three story house 

 and the usual board fence on the west. A 

 wire fence gives free access to sun and air. 

 I may not have the use of the lot for more 

 than two or three years, so do not care 

 much for permanent effects. The soil is 

 excellent. The ground slopes slightly to 

 the east, therefore I have made the beds 

 run east and west. I had fairly good 

 success last summerbutmy garden lacked 

 variety and order. Plenty of flowers for 

 cutting with an orderly arrangement 

 helping to that md is what I want. I 

 don't care for display bedding unless it 

 may be had without additional expense 

 or labor. G. F. W. 



Mercer street New York. 



While a four feet wide bed is all right 

 for dwarf plants like China asters, 10- 

 week stocks, pansies, pinks and the like, 

 it isn't roomy enough when it comes to 

 big things like dahlias, salvias, sunflow- 

 ers, or a combination of plants, for them 

 we would prefer six feet wide beds. By 

 your arrangement you can grow a large 

 assortment of plants, and get a supply of 

 cut flowers all summer long, but vou can 

 hardly hope for a permarently tidy gar- 

 den, because as certain plants fade they 

 have got to be removed to make room 

 for others, and this leaves a gap. Tlants 



are of different natures, statures and 

 duration, and order requires a knowledge 

 beforehand of the material to be used, 

 and forethought and decision, but variety 

 can be had easily: First of all, map out 

 your garden and your beds, then make a 

 list of every kind of flower you want to 

 grow and think can be growninthe beds. 

 Now take the list and classify it, group- 

 ing the plants according to their size and 

 habit, time of blooming, color of blos- 

 soms, etc. Along the board fence you 

 could have sweet peas, Lobb's nastur- 

 tiums, flammula and Japanese panicled 

 clematises, with a broad sheet of chicken 

 wire netting in frontof them to hold them 

 up to the fence. Youtould plant an edg- 

 ing around all of the beds of some border- 

 ing plant, for instance pansies, double 

 daisies, forget-me-nots, sea thrift, peren- 

 nial candytuft, thyme,creepingbugle,moss 

 pink, pyrethrums, and the like, or sow 

 sweet alyssum, Drummond phlox, or mig- 

 nonette or a margin of dwarf China asters; 

 in fact mignonette or alyssum could be 

 sown in summer too to replace the early 

 flowers as pansies and daisies. The matter 

 of size comes next. Large plants such as 

 cannas, dahlias, cosmos, and the greater 

 perennials as larkspur, Pyrethrum uligin- 

 suw, hollyhocks, foxgloves, and dwart 

 sunflowers should fill the faraway beds 

 (if they aren't next the street), or else the 

 back ends of all the beds, grading the 

 plants lower as they reach to the other 

 end. It may economise space to edge the 

 tall plant beds with spring flowers as 

 I)ansies or forget-me-nots, they will have 

 lots of time to bloom before the big plants 

 spread out to interfere with them; then 

 the large ones will cover all the bed. 

 While there is no need of keeping every- 

 thing so strictly to itself as is done in a 

 florist's place it is better to group the 

 plants of a kind, for instance the phloxes, 

 jjyrethrums, gaillardias, tritomas, irises 

 and anemones near together; the same 

 with annuals. Verbenas stui-k here and 

 there all through the beds don't look 

 pretty, but a bedorpart of abed carpeted 



