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fruit as for the gorgeous display of colored foliage in 

 October. When well suited, it grows into a good sized 

 compact shrub, good looking all through the season. 



Cornus paniculata or panicled Dogwood. This is a 

 verj- useful shrub for mass planting, of medium growth 

 and very bushy. It makes a very attractive showing in 

 Spring with its numerous clusters of white flowers, and 

 again in early Autumn with the white berries, which are 

 carried on red stems. Its branches are smooth and gray, 

 so that it is a particularly good looking shrub the year 

 round. 



Viburnum cassinoides or \\'ithe-rod. This is perhaps 

 the best of the native viburnums for garden purposes. It 

 is excellent for massing in partially shaded places, under 

 such conditions the growth being somewhat loose. In the 

 open, it makes a compact well-formed bush about six feet 

 high. The flat cymes of creamy white flowers are usually 

 borne in great profusion, but its glory is the ultimate 

 display of fruit which in early Autumn changes from 

 green to bright rose, then to blue black, the transition of 

 colors producing a marvellous effect. 



V. opulus or High-bush Cranberry, is a very handsome 

 species in flower and fruit. The white flower clusters have 

 an outer ring of larger, more showy sterile flowers. Its 

 clusters of large brilliant red berries are especially showy 

 and hang on all Winter, the birds seemingly not caring 

 for them. 



\'. dentatum or Arrow-wood is a slender grower up to 

 ten feet or more. It has good looking foliage and will 

 stand shade. The small heads of cream colored flowers 

 open around the first of June, the resulting berries turn 

 blue black by early Autumn, and are usually cleaned up 

 early by the birds. 



\'. acerifolium or Maple-leaved Arrow-wood is a sturdy 

 dwarf which does well in dry shady places and is well 

 placed along the edge of a plantation. It is particularly 

 attractive in the Autumn when the leaves assume rich 

 tints and the clusters of fruit change from red to dark 

 purple. 



WHAT THE HOME GARDEN SHOULD BE 



(Continued from pai^c 63) 



fruitful theme for painters and poets? A home without 

 a garden is not quite a home. A child whose first im- 

 pressions of the world in which he is destined to live and 

 work are associated with flowers and trees and all that 

 goes with them of pure air, birds and sky, and health, 

 physical, mental and moral, begins his career with a 

 tremendous advantage ; no teachings are purer, no educa- 

 tion more effective, in laying the foundation of future 

 character than familiarity' with these, the best gifts of 

 the Creator to mankind, and he who cultivates a plant for 

 love of it cultivates his own mind and heart at the same 

 time. 



THE. GOURD 



(Continued from pa,!^e 61) 



enough to permit a teaspoon to enter freely. Then remove 

 the seeds and the soft spongy meat and scrai)e off as much 

 as possible of the harder meal When all ])arts of the shell 

 have been perfectly cleaned, the gourd must be dried. 



This can be conveniently and satisfactorily performed 

 in some warm room, although they may be placed with 

 ef|ual success in the warm sun. The intense heat of a 

 stove should be avoided .since the fresh gourds are apt to 

 shrivel when dried too quickly. When dried the gourds 

 retain their shape and are not easily broken. 



The natives of the tropics and subtropics, where these 

 plants are found, protect and cultivate these vines to some 



extent. For, in the first place, these plants give them the 

 material for saucers and bowls, lailles and water bottles. 

 A material fashioned by Mother Nature into all possible 

 shapes and forms, and which, with but little work is ready 

 to be used, as household articles. The natives, whose 

 notion of artistic instinct is more or less vague, adorn these 

 articles in various ways, just as their sense of beauty may 

 dictate. Almost all their gourds show a few parallel 

 decorative lines, while others are adorned with more 

 elaborate designs. 



THE CALANTHE 



(Continued from page 62) 



Calanthes can be propagated to increase one's stock, 

 if desired, by cutting the bulbs transversely and standing 

 them in pans of sand (coarse) which should be placed 

 m strong heat in the propagating frame and kept moist. 

 By this method you will get small but healthy bulbs to 

 increase your stock for the following year. Another 

 method being to pot up some of the strongest of your 

 old bulbs (two years old) which will with ordinary care 

 throw \ou some quite strong young bulbs for you to work 

 up for the next season. To insure success by this method, 

 carefully examine under the base of the bulb for a dor- 

 mant eye or lead, as this is usually where they are found, 

 whereas with a one year old bulb, the growth or lead 

 comes from the side of the bulb base. 



Calanthes are often infested with white and brown 

 scale. These, of course, must be gotten rid of by careful 

 sponging, the leaves being veiy brittle and easily damaged. 

 The worst disease the grower has to contend with is the 

 black-rot or spot, a fungi pest which is fatal to the Calan- 

 tlie. Take my advice, if you ever have the misfortune to 

 get this in your plants, the quickest and best way is to 

 burn the whole lot ;uid get a new stock- as it spreads year 

 after year from the same stock. Tb.e disease is often 

 caused by over watering coupled with low night tem- 

 jx^rature. 



The late B. S. Williams of Paradise Nurseries. London, 

 in one of his works on Orchids quotes an instance of 

 seeing a plant of C. ^'eitch^i in the collection of S. Mendel, 

 Esc|., grown by Mr. Fetch, with bulbs almost eighteen 

 inclK's long which threw a spike six feet high and carried 

 over one hundred and fifty blooms. (\'eitchii is Lima- 

 todes Rosea X Calanthe X'e.stita by Dommy.) 



The Calanthe is one of the easiest of orchids to hybri- 

 dize after a little experience, and they have a great ad- 

 ^'antage over most other orchidaceous plants in this 

 respect, as the seed ri])ens in three or four months from 

 the time of fertilization, and it takes from two to three 

 years from seed-sowing to their flowering .stage. Some 

 difference to most Cattleyas, Laelias and Brasso, 

 etc., which take anywhere from six to ten years from seed- 

 sowing. The seed should be sown on the comix>st pre- 

 viously recommended for potting purposes, and be kept 

 close in a temperature of 80° to 85° till the .seedlings 

 appear. These want very careful handling indeed when 

 very young, but when once established are easily man- 

 aged as long as one has a good steady heat of 70-75° 

 by night with an additional rise of about 10° during the 

 day. I have used the following chemical formula for 

 Calanthes twice a week during their strong growing sea- 

 son with excellent results: 



4 ounces of Potassium Nitrate Salt])etre 

 4 ounces of Ammonium Phosphate 

 Dissolve in four gallons of soft water and use Iwn ounces 

 to each gallon of water. 



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