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Celastnis, Ampelopsis, Humulus lu]nilus. Hedera helix, 

 Akebia. Lonicera. For northern ex|>osures Clematis 

 jackmanni, CI. henryci. Ani])elopsis veitchii, Hedera helix 

 are best adapted. Anii>elopsis eiigelninnni, Dioscorea 

 barbata, Lvcium. I'eriploca do very well when placed 

 towards the east. lUit sunny i)laces should l)e selected for 

 Beg'onia radicans, Clematis paniculata, Lonicera, and the 

 rose. 



Such perennial plants are j>ropag"ated through seeds, 

 shoots, or cuttings as the case may be. Few of them 

 desire a special soil many do well in any fertile soil. 



The beautiful effect of the climbing vines when trailing 

 around the house is well known but of its practical value 

 a division of opinion exists, both in builder and in planter 

 circles. Some believe that vine covered walls do not allow 

 air, sunshine, nor light to reach it, and so, because of the 

 dense foliage, tend to keep and store moisture. Mice also 

 are said to use the thicker branches as a bridge to enter 

 the house. Other people believe that the vines keep the 

 moisture away from the walls since they penetrate, with 

 their aerial roots, the cracks and crannies of the wall and 

 draw all available moisture out. At any rate, this diver- 

 gency of opinion strengthens the fact that regional cli- 

 matic conditions must be studied before it can be said that 

 it is or is not advisable to plant climbing vines. A damj) 

 house will seldom if ever be freed from its moisture when 

 such plants are planted, and so it is impossible for these 

 plants to moisten the walls. 



A little known and unappreciated annual climber is the 

 "Wild Balsam Apple'" (Echinocystis lobata). It is a very 

 rapid grower and produces a dense growth of foliage. 

 This beautiful and decorative climber produces both 

 flowers and fruit at the same time. The tiny short 

 stemmed flowers aiipear in close clusters. The somewhat 

 cucumber-sha])ed fruit are the size of a pigeon egg and 

 are protected with soft spines. These plants occur wild 

 in a heavy type of soil along river banks and bottoms in 

 Xew Englai'id, Pennsylvania, and westward. It climbs 

 into trees to a height of from fifteen to twenty feet. In 

 the garden they require a sunny place, are sown in the 

 Spring at the desired sjxjt, and are watered during the dry 

 parts of the Summer. 



THE LABURNUMS 



T ABURXUMS, small luirojjean trees or large shrubs, 

 •^ sometimes called •'Golden Rain," can furnish gardens 

 in June and July with the handsomest yellow flowered trees 

 which can be growri in this climate. 'l"he best known 

 Laburnum in this country is Laburnum anagyroides, or 

 as it is more often called I^ibumum vulgare. This is a 

 native of central and southern luirope and a shai>ely tree 

 from twenty to thirty feet in height. It is one of the most 

 generally planted and ix)pular exotic ])lants in luigland 

 and probably was brought early to the United States 

 where it has' been more generally planted than the other 

 Laburnums. Although not always ]>erfectly hardy in 

 Massachusetts large plants are occasionally found in the 

 neighborhood of Boston and these are now covered with 

 their droojjing racemes of golden colored flowers. A nmu- 

 ber of varieties of Uiljurnum anagyroides are jjropagated 

 in Ruroi)ean nurseries but these are curiosities and cer- 

 tainly not better as garden plants than the type of the 

 sjjecies. One of the most distinct of the abnormal forms. 

 var. buUatum, with its curiously twisted and contorted 

 leaflets is now in bloom in the Arboretum. The Scotch 

 Laburnum (L. alpinum), ])robably so called because it is 

 a mo.st cultivated and favorite garden ])lant in Scotland, 

 flowers later than L. anagyroides and is a hardier ]ilant 

 in tliis part of the country with longer racemes of flowers. 

 When the plants growing in the Arboretum are covered 

 with their long drooping flower clusters they are objects 



of great iieauty and it is surprising how little this plant is 

 known to .American garden makers. Another L;d)urnum, 

 L. Watereri, a natural hybrid between L. alpinum and L. 

 anagvroides. is intermediate between its parents in 

 botanical characters and in the time of flowering, and is a 

 beautiful small tree better suited to the New England 

 climate than L. anagyroides, and a good plant for the dec- 

 oration of a June garden. L. Watereri appears to be little 

 known in this country. The third species of Laburnum, 

 L. caramanicum, a native of Greece and ,\sia Minor, has 

 been planted in the .\rboretum but has not proved hardy 

 here. — .Iriiold .Irborctiini Bulletin. 



NEW BABY RAMBLER, CHATILLON ROSE 



A NEW baby rambler, C'hatillon Rose, originated by Au- 

 •'*• gust Xonnin, Paris, France, will soon be disseminated 

 in this country by Henry A. Dreer, Inc., Philadelphia. 

 The illustration is of a plant in a six inch jjui. It makes 



The Chalitlon l\t'sc 



a compact, bushv plant, lilcrallv co\-cred with clusters of 

 cerise jjink blossoms, centered wiili l;irL;c white eyes. 

 This rambler should bccouR' (|nik' ;i f;i\'.irilc for decora- 

 tive purposes. 



THINGS AND THOUGHTS OF THE GARDEN 



{ L iiiiliiiKcil jrnui i\ii:,c 17")) 



fur iliere is liltlc doubt but thai this fungus carries over 

 in tilt soil for one or more years just as many other ail- 

 ments of a fimgoid nature do. What can be done to i>re- 

 venl or clu'ck it. I'.ighl parts of su!])hur to two |iaits 

 of lime should be dusted through the plants from the time 

 Ihey are a foot high until they near the flowering stage. 

 This same remedy should Ix; used on Liliiun candidum 

 olten seen so disfigured with disease in the garden. 1). 

 jjelladouna is somewhat less subjirt to disease than D. 

 formosum, but is by no means immune. D. chinensis 

 wliich is less of a true iiercnnial than tlie other two. seems 

 to be practically immune. 



