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GARDENING. 



July 



Miscellaneous. 



COVERING BARB CLfiy flILLS. 



You speak of having bare hills at Sclien- 

 ley to get covered with green as soon as 

 possible. 1 have seen a good many hilly 

 tields left to nature's care. Nature's pio- 

 neers usually are tlie raspberry, black- 

 berry and elderberry. These with their 

 leaves and roots soon make a coating of 

 humus and a loosened soil. In this shade 

 seeds of the crab apple, thorns, maples, 

 wild cherry, and hickories soon find root 

 and the shade they need to make a suc- 

 cessful start in hfe. At first the land in 

 this process is an eyesore but the final 

 results are good. (Rev. )H. K.,Shaner. 



Butler Co., Pa. 



Thank you for the information, every 

 little helps us. A 11 of the plants you name 

 are excellent for the purpose and we hope 

 to use them extensively. We have just 

 finished the first handling of a steep high 

 hillside, stiff clay and shale rock, sup- 

 ported at the base by a stout stone 

 retaining wall, and how we are handling 

 it may interest some of our readers. We 

 picked that bank all over, removing the 

 large rock that was near the top, and so 

 as to leave a loose surface twelve or more 

 inches deep; but this is nothing except 

 dark red clay and disintegrated rock. As 

 soon as we can get manure enough we 

 shall put a heavy coat of manure on top 

 and pick it in, both for use in fertilizing 

 the soil and in keeping it open, and then 

 we shall plant it. Along the top of the 

 wall we hope to plant Rosa Wichuraiana 

 to drop as a mantle over the wall, also 

 the wild prairie rose, Japanese inultiflora 

 roses, Lord Penzance's roses, sweet briar, 

 and others, with here and there climbing 

 hydrangea, barberry, climbing waxwork, 

 wild clematis, prostrate euonymus, and 

 many others of that nature to clothe the 

 wall^ but so full and diversely as to ap- 

 pear natural. When the plants grow up 

 we can easily thin them to their i)roper 

 places and dimensions. Away up on the 

 bank we shall plant all of the trees and 

 shrubs j'ou mention together with locust, 

 matrimony vine, green ash, burr oak, 

 osage orange and many others, also 

 plant many acorns and other nuts, 

 and for carpeting the surface spread 

 Virginia creeper, Japan honeysuckle, 

 clematis, man-of-the-earth creeper, wild 

 hydrangeas, and so on. Then plant 

 thousands of columbines and foxgloves, 

 moss pinks, coreopsis, and other natural 

 plants, and sow broadcast all over the 

 land with wild poppies, yellow esch- 

 scholtzia, annual coreopsis and the like, 

 being particular that whatever is used 

 shall be good species and not garden 

 varieties. Then hold oft" and wait for the 

 survival of the fittest. Get the ground 

 covered as rapidly as possible to save it 

 from parching sun and wind, hold the 

 rain there when it falls, and prevent 

 washes when heavv rains come. 



"Ice King Primrose."— I noticed in 

 Cakdening some time ago that you want 

 something for some exposed hillsides in 

 your park. I send you by to-day's mail one- 

 half dozen "Ice King Primrose," which I 

 wish you would plant in some sunny spot, 

 protect for a few days and I think they 

 will give you flowers yet this year. We 

 have had them in flower ever since May 

 15 and will continue to bloom till frost. 

 [The plants have been received. They 

 are some kmd of CEnothera or evening 

 ])rimrose, and not a true primrose (Prim- 

 ula) at all —Ed.] E. C. Newbury. 



Mitchell, S. Dakota. 



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