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MRS NORTON 



IS FRONT DOOR. FACING NORTH. 



different than during former years, but it 

 has cast off the scales, or some insect has 

 destroyed them. They may. however, 

 appear again; if so I will use the emulsion. 

 [I'nfortunately they haven't disappeared 

 from Dosoris. — Ed.] 

 Ridgewood, N. J. k. S. Fuller. 



RflODODENDRONS-KfllMlflS. 



A. D. M., Mass., asks about "Remov- 

 ing large rhododendrons, when is the 

 l)cst time to do it?" 



.4ns. In spring as fresh root growth is 

 beginning to start. 



2. "A Shelter of Kalmias.— Will 

 they make a good windbreak for rhodo- 

 dendrons?" 



Ans. No, not as they grow here. 

 Kalmias abound in the woods hereabout, 

 being in many the principal under shrub, 

 but we find them more difficult to estab- 

 lish in our gardens than are rhododen- 

 drons, besides the latter grow faster than 

 the kalmias. 



The Flower Garden. 



MY GARDEN IN NORTHERN INDIflNfl. 



I enclose a photogr;iph of my front 



facing north, so onl 



part of the day. Please name me a ten- 

 der vine, not too rampant a grower, 

 something out of the common, to run up 

 the balustrade behind the white oleander, 

 whose bo.\ seems to be crooked (for it 

 never is). Shall want to keep the pot in 

 a furnace heated cellar in winter. Can't 

 an allamanda be found to fit this spot? 



[Yes, Allamanda Scottii or. 1 Williamsi 

 will do well there in summer but would 

 bloom better on the sunny side. Stigma- 

 phyllon ciliatum, a slender vine with yel- 

 low orchid-like blossoms will also do well 

 but there isn't much filling up to it. 

 Manettia corditolia, if good plants are 

 had to start with should make a pretty 

 show there, still it too takes considerable 

 time to fill up the space allotted to it. We 

 have two blue-flowered solanums, viz. S. 

 Wendlandtii and S. Seafortliiana that 

 would do fairly well there. But two of 

 the best would be passifJora Imperatrice 

 Eugenie or Pfordti, and Aristolochia 

 elegans. The trouble with these plants 

 is that while they all will grow well at 

 the north door porch where they get part 

 of the afternoon sun, they would 

 grow much better on the south side; 

 further the summer is pretty well ad- 

 vanced before they fill up the space 

 allotted to them. But if you like thecolor 

 (reddish purple) of theflowersof /poraic.T 

 paniciilata it would be a capital vine for 

 your purpose, growing freely and bloom- 



ing all summer. And when fall co'mcsyou 

 can dig up the tuber and store it dry in a 

 frost proof cellar as you would a dahlia, 

 leaving it there dry and uncared for till 

 Ijlanting out time next May. — Ed.] 



I have always been thoroughly devoted 

 to vines, twenty years ago my garden 

 possessed forty varieties which of course 

 included the annuals, which are now dis- 

 carded. My favorite hardy vine is the 

 clematis. C. S/ebo/c//;, white, 4 to 5 inches 

 across, bloomed all through May, regard- 

 less of summer heat and frosts, it is in a 

 very sheltered corner. C. Viticella has 

 bloomed since the first of June and is far 

 from gone, it is on the back porch and is 

 fully 10 feet high and thrifty, but also 

 delicate and graceful and nottoo massive; 

 one can see all its beauties It is really 

 the most artistic vine I know of. As 

 usually grown, it is bunched on a trellis, 

 but it can only show itself on wires with 

 a chance for development upward. On 

 the derrick is another purple clematis 

 with less blue in it that opens flat; it has 

 been in bloom some three weeks. This 

 was given to me years ago(by a daughter 

 of Solon Robinson of New York Tribune 

 fame. He was the first settler of our 

 county — Lake — and his original log house 

 still stands, though covered by clap- 

 boards—opposite our court house scjuare 

 — which he gave the town) asa Jackman- 

 nii but it is smaller in foliage and flower 

 than Jackraannii and perfectly hardy. C. 

 Flawmula is well budded and the one 

 against the house is in much better con- 

 dition than on- on the lawn, which isnot 

 a normal condition of things. Possibly a 

 tile drain thi'ough the lawn is the trouble. 

 By the time Flammula is gone C. Vitalha 

 on the derrick will be in bloom, and 

 C paniciilata finishes the season, so 

 I am never without comforting clematis. 

 After many struggles two fairly good 

 lilants of C. Henrvi remain, but Jack- 

 man's are all gone. Thei'e is a fine plant 

 of C. crispa on the northeast corner of 

 the bam, often attaining a height of eight 

 feet, and a fine harbor it is for grass hop- 

 pers and blister beetles. Coccinea cannot 

 be very hardy with us, it has winterkilled 

 [It is strictly herbaceous, dying down to 

 the ground every winter. — Ed.] 



The refractory vine is the honeysuckle. 

 I get along nicely with the red, but Hall's 

 and the Belgian, especially the latter 

 refuse to live. If year old plants were ob- 

 tainable, one might succeed for one fine 

 Belgian has been in this town though it 

 is now dead. * * of whom 1 usually 

 purchase plants, is apt to send out too 

 old and large plants of everything, it is 

 not always a virtue to do so, I mean that 

 my experience teaches me that year old 

 stock transplants most successfully. 



As to perennials. The feature of my 

 place is long beds of hardy plants on the 

 outskirts of the lawn, and for this reason, 

 I have only owned the premises 7 years, 

 the old house was to be moved ofT and a 

 new one built and this has been accom- 

 plished — but you know what an upheaval 

 follows building. The perennial b ds are 

 crowded fall of everything. Each plant 

 is ajoy to me and could not be dispensed 

 with. I am gradually selecting favorites 

 for groups and meantime laboring for a 

 good lawn under the discouragements 

 incident upon three dry summers, and 

 improving the trees and shrubs already 

 on the premises (the change in them is 

 wonderful) as well as planting new ones, 

 and always hampered by ill health. 

 Perhaps the iris is ray especial favorite. 

 Our soil is not quite san \y enough for 

 them, but the German irises are very 

 satisfactory. In what else do we find such 

 purit}' of color? The Koempfer's are to be 



