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GARDENING. 



VINES FOR A NORTH-PACING PIAZZA. 



on the same ground two years in suc- 

 cession. As soon as they come up in 

 spring put stout long stakes or a six-feet 

 wide chicken-wire lictting trellis to them, 

 and spread a mulching of old hay, straw, 

 or rank litter on the ground on both sides 

 of the staking or trellising. In dry 

 weather water copiously, not a little and 

 often, but a thorough soaking at a time 

 and not frequent. The "nipped heads" 

 you refer to is a very common disease in 

 sweet peas and is especially noticeable 

 late in the summer and the afternoon of 

 or morning succeeding a ver^^ hot day. 

 There is no help for it but to shade the 

 vines from hot sunshine, and this is im- 

 practicable. The ill condition of the 

 vines near the root is very common too, 

 and due to some unfavorable condition of 

 the soil, or situation, or cultivation. II 

 possible shade the root ends from hot 

 sunshine; this may be done by growing a 

 row of edible peas or other tall crop on 

 the sunny side but a ieet awa^- from the 

 sweet peas. 



VINES FOR fl NORTH FACING FIflZZfl 



In the enclosed photograph you will sec 

 a piazza with vines everywhere but 

 where most needed, that is over the iron 

 railing. This is a north exposure and 

 we have not succeeded in making amp^- 

 lopsis thrive there. Can you suggest 

 some quick growing ornamental vine for 

 the place? We do not care to have more 

 .iristolochia. L. S. E. 



Rochester, N. V. 



.\ny vines you may use will interfere 

 with the little flower border along the 

 base of the wall by shading the plants 

 ther^, also by driing and impoverishing 

 the soil in it. But this by a liberal help 

 ol rotted manure in winter or spring and 

 extra wateringin summer j'oucan largely 

 overcome. Before planting any vines 

 there be sure the soil is right; if it isn't 

 real good, and deep, and wide remove it 

 and replace with good soil. The fillingin 

 around the walls of houses is generally 

 the sand or gravel that had been dug out 

 of the cellar, with a thin coat of loam 

 over it. If that is the case in this instance 

 don't waste energy ;nul ]jaticnce trying 



to fertilize it; simply remove it and fdl up 

 with good soil. 



We believe Hall's Japan honeysuckle 

 would do well there. It would have to 

 be supported by two or three wires rtin 

 lengthwise along the wall but a few 

 inches out from it till it got up to the iron 

 railing. It would be permanent. The 

 cinnamon vine (Dioscorea Batatas) 

 should also do well there; but it would 

 die down to the ground every fall and 

 come up again in spring. It is fast grow- 

 ing and clean. Clematis patiiculata would 

 look well there. It is a rapid growing 

 vine, looking fresh and green all summer, 

 and lovelj' when in bloom in fall. To 

 keep it neat and clean it maybe cut down 

 to the ground in winter as one would a 

 phlox or delphinium; it will come up with 

 increased vigor in spring and blossom of 

 a certainty. But if you want something 

 dainty and uncommon get a dozen strong 

 tubers of Ipomcca paniculata and plant 

 them there the first half of May. They 

 grow fast, bloom from midsunmier till 

 frost, and the pretty rose purple or "emi- 

 nence" colored blossoms are very at- 

 tractive. While this is a tender plant it 

 is exceedingly easy to grow and keep; all 

 one has to do is cut over the stems at the 

 ground, after frost has nipped them, and 

 dig up the tubers and store these in a 

 frost proof cellar as we would dahlias, 

 taking no more notice of them till plant- 

 ing out time the next spring. 



\ very fast growing annual vine would 

 be the variegated Japanese hop. Sow 

 the seed in the border there. Its variega- 

 tion is exceedingly clear and the whole 

 vine thrifty. Although it self-sows itsell 

 extravagantly we never had any trouble 

 m keeping it in check. No variegated 

 leaved hardy vine is soeflective in its way 

 as is this hop. 



OlD-FflSfllONED FLOWERS. 



B. S. P., Torega, Va., writes: "I have 

 just purchased an old place in Virginia. 

 I want to have next year a flower garden 

 filled with old-fashioned flowers — plants 

 not difficult to grow. Please give me a 

 list of bright, sweet flowers." 



.Ins. Bv old-fashioned we ])rcsume vou 

 mean the kind of plants cultivated in"ol(l 



gardens in the country, and what wer ^ 

 grown by our forefathers generations 

 ago. For instance, pasonies, irises, lark- 

 spur, Oswego tea, candytuft, day lilies, 

 other lilies, and the like. Indeed these are 

 all indispensable to-day, only we have im- 

 IJroved some of them and added to the 

 list. A proper selection should include 

 vines, as clematis and honeysuckle, peren- 

 nials, as fraxinella and columbine; bien- 

 nials, for example hollyhocks and sweet 

 Williams; annuals, as sweet peas and 

 candytuft; bulbous plants, like snow- 

 drops and tulips; and water plants like 

 nymphiea and lotus. But we will answer 

 you briefly and in a general way. 



Vines.— Hall's and Belgian honey- 

 suckles; Flammula and paniculata cle- 

 matis; capreolata bignonia, Ipomoea 

 pandurata, and everlasting pea as peren- 

 nials. Among annuals include nastur- 

 tiums, sweet peas, mountain fringe, 

 common and Japanese morning glories, 

 and the like. 



Peren.nials.- — Snowdrops, crocuses, 

 Siberian squills, chionodoxa, dog's tooth 

 violets, narcissi of many kinds, bulbous 

 corydalis, spring, German and Kcempfer's 

 irises, hepaticas, Russian violets, white 

 rock cress, golden alyssum, spring adonis, 

 bloodroot, bleeding heart, evergreen 

 candytuft, doronicum, lily of the valley, 

 creeping phlo.x, moss pink, Virginia lung- 

 wort, large white trillium, coreopsis, 

 especially granditlora and lanceolata, 

 Oriental and Iceland poppies, long-spurred 

 columbines, blue, red and yellow; herbace- 

 ous paeonies of many sorts and tree ones 

 too; hybrid larkspurs, fraxinella, sea 

 thrift, bell flowers including campanult 

 and platycodon, day lily (Hewerocallis) 

 early yellow, Dumortier's, tawny, 

 Kwanso, and Thunberg's; spiraeas of 

 several sorts, upright white clematis, 

 gaillardias, monarda, double and single 

 pyrethrums, and in late summer P. uligi- 

 nosuw; pinks, lupins, monkshood, globe 

 flower, pearl achillea,cat valerian, double 

 flowered Lychnis Viscaria, the Pearl 

 achillea, summer and autumn phloxes, 

 plantain lilies (Fiinkia), the red heuchera 

 [H. sanguinea), tritomas (hardy under a 

 mulch) Hypericum Moserianum, butterfly 

 weed [Asclepias tuberosa), the neater 

 sunflowers, lilies such as tenuifolium, 

 Hansoni, elegans, auratum superbum, 

 tiger, and speciosiim; panicled gypsophi- 

 las, several speedwells, yucca, hibiscuses 

 of sorts, asters and boltonia, Sedum 

 spectabile and S. Sieboldii, tricyrtis, mist 

 flowers, Japan anemone. Pitchers salvia, 

 and many others. 



BiENNL\Ls or plants usuallj' treated as 

 such— Foxgloves, hollyhocks, sweet Wil- 

 liams, pansies, forget-me-nots, centran- 

 thus, poppies (sown in fall), etc. 



.\.NNu.\LS. — Mignonette Chinese pinks, 

 candytuft, nasturtiums, sweet peas, 

 Drummond phlox, various poppies, 

 balsams, stocks, China asters, verbenas, 

 sweet scabios, sweet sultan, evening 

 primrose, marigold, scarlet salvia, etc. 



BITS OF EXPERIENCE. 



Kici.M's, or castor bean, that stood last 

 year seven feet high, self sowed, and 

 stands this year over 15 feet. Several 

 plants came up this spring where they 

 stood last year. 



P.vrrot's FEATHER came through the 

 winter in a diminutive pond drained dry 

 and covered with boards and litter. 



Mv Zanzibar water lilies, contrary 

 to statements of some of our prominent 

 seedsmen, form tubers identical in ap- 

 pearance with those of Xympbwa Devon- 

 iensis, and growing more vigorously than 

 seedlings. 



A TEKSlMMo.s TREE Set out in Novera- 



