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salmon pink, one of the best ; Elizalicth Campbell, 3 feet, pale 

 salmon pink, this is an exquisite variety in every respect; Selma, 



3 feet, pink with a crimson eye, laryc flowers on a huge panicle; 

 SherilY Ivorv, 3 feet, light rose, with a deeii crimson eye. compact 

 growth and late flowering; Iris. 3 feet, bluish violet, blue centre; 

 Eclairenr, 4 feet, carmine, large blooms, early flowering; Etna, 



4 feet, orange scarlet : Europa, 3 feet, snow white, with carmine 

 centre; Baron Von Dedem, 3 feet, rich scarlet; Marconi, 2 feet, 

 pink, crimson bars and deeper eye; Thora, 3 feet, salmon, free 

 branching habit ; Le Mahdi. 2 feet blue, excellent ; Aeger, 3 feet, 

 crimson scarlet, late ; Antoiue Mercier, 2 feet, lilac when openmg, 

 increasing in tint with age ; Hanny Pfleiderer, 3 feet, compact 

 habit, creamy white, with salmon eye; Asia, 3 feet, huge spikes, 

 lilac rose ; Mons. Kind, 3 feet, brilliant rosy orange ; Steuben, 3 

 feet, rich cerise crimson, brilliant color; Reich Graaf Von Hock- 

 ling, 4 feet, dark blue ; Thynistroom, 3 feet, rose, with lighter 

 eye,' very eft'ective ; General Pan, 3 feet, bright orange red, com- 

 pact flower heads. 



Of white flowered varieties there are a number to choose frorn. 

 In my opinion the best is Fran Von Lansberg, 3 feet, stifif habit 

 of growth, needing no support, good foliage, large panicles of 

 pure white huge blossoms. Tapis Blanc, 1 foot 6 inches; Sylphide, 

 3 feet; F. A. Buchner, 3 feet; Virgo Marie, 4 feet, is the best 

 late flowering variety, very free, with small panicles, most useful 

 for cutting. — The Garden. 



The copious rains have come just in time for the Phloxes, 

 which were beginning to show signs of their dislike to the 

 drought, for no plants are so quickly affected, especially if they 

 are on a light, dry soil. Where one has to grow them under such 

 conditions it is advisable to make special provision in the way 

 of removing a portion of the natural soil and rtlling up with a 

 mixture of loam and chopped cow-manure in the proportion of 

 three to one. Given this and a mulch in hot, dry weather one 

 is fairly certain of a good, long-sustained flowering season and 

 some tine heads of bloom, A partially shaded position is the 

 best for them, especially the highly-colored selfs, like Coqnellicot 

 in the scarlets and Le Mahdi and William Ramsay in the purples, 

 as these are apt to scorch under the influence of a powerful sun. 

 The lighter shades are not so easily affected, but a strong point 

 in favor of partial shade is tlie considerably extended flowering 

 season. 



All varieties are valued for cutting for large vases, special 

 favorites being the very delicate shades, of which Eugenie Dan- 

 zanvilliers may be taken as an example, and all the newer types 

 stand as well cut as in the border if decaying pips are promptly 

 removed. 



When stools are allowed to remain in the same place for several 

 seasons (and there is no reason why they should not do so 

 if the ground is well prepared at the outset ) it is advisable to 

 thin out the growths, leaving about five of the strongest, as 

 bigger heads and individual pips are thereby obtained. Although 

 quite at home with other things in the hardy plant border, I 

 think the Phloxes are seen to best advantage alone in large beds, 

 when the colors can be arranged to give a pleasing and efifective 

 display. I wrote "alone." but if planted thinly, which is ad- 

 visable, so that each variety is seen clearly and distinctly, inter- 

 vening spaces may be filled with Tufted Pansies or some very 

 dwarf, long-flowering annuals. — Gardening Illustrated. 



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Correction. Acknowledgment is cheerfully made of a cour- 

 teous letter from Captain George C. Thomas. Jr., objecting to 

 certain items in last month's review of his Practical Book of 

 Outdoor Rose Growing. Regarding the fact that he apparently 

 bases his estimate of roses only upon observations made in his 

 own gardens he cites an account of explorations and of con- 

 ferences with other eminent rosarians. all over the country and 

 even extending up into Canada, that are astounding in extent 

 and thoroughness. It is to be hoped that he may soon publisli 

 the narrative, for it would certainly be interesting and in- 

 structive. It was not due to lack of oliservation in others' gar- 

 dens that climbing Bess Lovett and Alida Lovett were omitted 

 by him. He has not found them hardy in spite of their thriving 

 at Washington. Yet growers in New Jersey, near New York 

 City, have them forming blooms upon wood of the preceding 

 year. Evidently, then, the matter of hardiness is often a diffi- 

 cult one to handle. Engelman's spruce, for example, which 

 luxuriates under the buffeting of tremendous storms high up 

 among the Rocky Mountains, does not find con,gcnial the dry 

 cold of the northern prairies. The writer has always found that 

 the rose Gruss an Teplitz, several times referred to by Mr. 



Tliomas as remarkable for its hardiness, kills back nearly to the 

 ground in north-central Ohio. Premier and Madame Butter- 

 fly for Mr. Thomas have not succeeded. Of them, accordingly, 

 it might be asked if they may not yet adapt themselves so as 

 to earn the change of opinion to the better attained by Climbing 

 Gruss an Teplitz. which, according to page 127 of the book, "has 

 not been successful, as during the second year, on two plants, 

 less than a dozen blooms appeared during the season," but of 

 which one reads, on pages 222 and 223, "One rose stands out as 

 fulfilling the conditions of an ever-blooming hardy climber. . . . 

 It takes time to become established; and if it does not bloom 

 well after its second year, it should be root pruned or moved 

 to insure blooming wood. Its habit is most vigorous and hardy 

 and when well grown it blooms most prolifically from Spring 

 until frost." Obviously then one is to take into account that 

 the present edition of this splendid book is the edition of 1916 

 with only a new chapter, Rose Development From 1917 to 1920, 

 appended, and interesting and valuable chapter to which, by the 

 way. attention ought to be directed by the Table of Contents. 



As to providing in the Score Card' for a place to set forth 

 in detail the habit of the plant and its appearance in the garden 

 the reviewer must admit that this can be attended to under 

 growth. Is not this a point deserving of much more attention 

 than is ordinarily given to it in the selecting of roses for out- 

 doors? As to roses for certain sites a second reading shows 

 that very many points, perhaps enough for almost every planter, 

 are treated here and there in the book, points which it would be 

 hard to tabulate. The use of species for "wild" planting is a 

 subject that would hardly come within the scope of a book of 

 this nature. It is an exceptionally excellent and inestimably 

 valuable hook of remarkable accuracy. Who could write a book 

 that every one would find flawless? 



The .Adventl-res of a N.vture Guide, by Enos A. Mills; cloth, 

 X\T+271 pages, 8vo., with iZ full-page illustrations. Double- 

 day. Page & Co.. Garden City, New York. 



It may be questioned whether the person who confines himself 

 to a garden made with hands does not miss much. Man's original 

 progenitor was "put into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to 

 keep it." Some persons garden from necessity and others be- 

 cause of a realization of advantages to be obtained, while in the 

 case of still others it is a hobby or a pastime. But gardening, 

 like other pursuits, may become constraining or absorbing. A 

 person in such a case is too apt in his love of Nature, not to" 

 "hold communion with her visible forms" and to him she hardly 

 "speaks a varied language." She should not be a mother im- 

 posing drudgery upon her children. On the contrary, declares 

 Mr. Mills, "irresistible is Nature's call to play. The call comes in 

 a thousand alluring forms. . . . She pictures alluring scenes 

 in which to rest and play ; in mysterious ways she sends us 

 eagerly forth for unsealed heights and fairylands." "It is seri- 

 ously splendid to iJlay with wild w'inds. There is no greater joy 

 than wrestling nakedhanded with the elements. Life in the wild 

 places is not all struggle, not all hunger, fright and fasting. All 

 wild animals find time to rest, and all. from time to time, give 

 themselves up to play." 



The author leads one, in a most fascinating manner, with elo- 

 quent words, into the wild places ; but he shows us that the 

 wilderness is one of the safest and most interesting places on 

 earth. In fact, he records more dangerous encounters with 

 human beings, a stockman and prospectors, to whom his ways of 

 examining trees, in the Rocky Mountain National Park, were 

 mysterious, incomprehensilile and suspicions. From the elements, 

 however, he did once suffer most critically. Snowblinded for two 

 days he wandered, at an altitude of 12,000 feet above sealevel, 

 along the edges of precipices, with feet nearly frozen and once 

 knocked down by the onrush or concussion of air as, with terrific 

 crash and roar, a snowslide swept into the canyon a short dis- 

 tance in front of him. 



The book is strikingly different from all others, thoroughly 

 original and thrilling and throbbing with the heartbeats of Nature 

 pulsating poetry in a manly man who. through his "winged 

 words." not inappropriately to borrow an expression from Homer, 

 guides the reader's thoughts to Nature, as he has sympathetically 

 conducted in reality willing children who have learned from 

 this Nature Guide. 



With hand on the spade and heart in the sky 



Dress the ground and till it ; 

 Turn in the liltle seed, brown and dry. 



Turn out the golden millet. 

 Work, and your house shall he duly 



Work, and rest shall be won ; 

 I hold that a man had better be dead 



Than alive when his work is done. 



-Alice 



fed ; 



Cary. 



