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GARDENING. 



CLERODENDRON FCETIDDM 



good lor the land and much relished by 

 plants. 



"In making a lawn should you advise 

 using commercial fertilizer so as to avoid 

 weed seeds which are so apt to come in 

 manure?" 



Ans. While we would use well rotted 

 manure freely in the ground when the 

 land is being got ready for the lawn, alter 

 that, annual dressings of wood ashes, a 

 little nitrate of soda, and some complete 

 fertilizer, would be better and cleaner 

 than stable manure. 



Shrubs dp close to house.— "What 

 shrub or shrubs would you suggest, to 

 make a planting along the base of a 

 piazza? The exposure is southeast; it is 

 four feet and a half to the top of railing; 

 some vines have been started, clematis 

 and Japanese ivy to grow over this. The 

 bed is twenty-three feet by four. I had 

 thought of Rosa rugosa, would it look too 

 straggly for such a position? 



Ans. Rosa rugosa would do there well 

 enough. Rhododendrons interplanted 

 with lilies and carpeted with lily of the 

 valley or Hypericum Moserianum would 

 also look well, but they would need 

 water. 



Rosa rugosa. "Are any of the hybrids, 

 of rugosa (of those which retain the 

 characteristic leaf) as desirable as the 

 original?" 



Ans. As a compact shrub with beauti- 

 ful clean, healthy foliage, we know of 

 nothing to equal, let alone surpass, the 



typical rugosa both red and white. We 

 say this after having seen and grown 

 many of these new hybrids and improved 

 varieties. 



GRATAEGUS SLUGS-APHIS (?) 

 What ails my Crataegus? We planted 

 C. grandiflora and C. rubra splendens 

 last fall, they came through the winter 

 nicely, and we have had the most favor- 

 able summer for plant life, nevertheless 

 these two shrubs are most woebegone 

 in appearance. Some queer pest not un- 

 like a very small black slug, ate the under 

 side of the leaves, as slugs destroy rose 

 leaves, and now the few new leaves are 

 curled up and covered with the tiniest 

 aphis. What must one do, to remedy 

 such a condition of things. F. N. B. 



Indiana. 



Your Crataegus insects were, no doubt, 

 the larva of a saw fly, and are generally- 

 termed slugs. They are particularly par- 

 tial to plum, wild cherry and Crataegus 

 leaves. They are nasty-looking gummy 

 bodied pests, and fortunately easily gotten 

 ridofby dustingsomedrydust overthem. 

 We used to dust fresh tobacco powder 

 over them and found it perfectly effectual, 

 so was fresh air s'acked lime, and in fact 

 so was dry clay dust. Of course slugshot, 

 plaster with a little London purple or 

 Paris green in it dusted over them would 



be speedy death to them. Thetinv 'aphis" 

 you refer to we believe is red spider. There 

 is no cure for it now, but if vou gather 

 the most infested and fallen leaves there 

 will be less chance of it to get ahead next 

 year. 



GLERODENDKON FOETIDUM. 

 Or as we know it better in gardens, 

 Clerodendron Bungei. is a striking plant! 

 As you will see by the illustration (en- 

 graved from a photograph taken at 

 Dosoris last year) it has verv large mi- 

 tallic green foliage and the shoots are 

 terminated with a very large corymb of 

 rose lilac flowers, that "appear in Augcst 

 and September. The wilting seen in the 

 leaves is not peculiar to them; where the 

 plants were growing was so crowded 

 about with other shrubs that we could 

 not get a good picture of it in that posi- 

 tion, so we cut some branches and stuck 

 them into the ground in an open spot to 

 have their picture taken; they wilted very 

 quick and that's the cause of their droop- 

 ing appearance in the picture. The species 

 i« a native of China and barelv hardv as 

 far north as New York. At Dosoris in a 

 warm sheltered spot and in moist good 

 ground it got cut to the ground everv 

 winter, but next spring sprouts shot up 

 all around where the old stump stood, 

 and every strong shoot of these would 

 bear a head of flowers in late summer. 

 But, except for novelty or variety it isn't 

 a verv desirable plant; while its' flowers 

 are pleasantly enough scented, its leaves 

 have a most disagieeable Jimson-weed 

 odor. 



Aquatics. 



PLANTING FOND LILIES IN THE FALL. 



I have a large lily pond about finished 

 at Oak Park, III , and am in a quandary as 

 to whether if I plant hardy lilies and lot- 

 uses in it this fall they will' go fairly well 

 through the winter. The pond is about 

 30x50 feet, with a brick wall around it, 

 and is in a sheltered spot on the south 

 side of my palm house. 1 am very anx- 

 ious to plant this fall as I may be absent 

 next spring. The bottom will be 6 inches 

 of heavy clay loam with old manure 

 forked in, also ground raw bone, then 1 

 foot of black decayed sod a litt'e sandv, 

 and a couple of inches of clean sharp sarid 

 on top. All of the authorities, including 

 foreign, seem to be against fall planting, 

 or rather are in favor of spring planting, 

 but from experience with dry land plants 

 and after reading "Sharp Eyes," by Wm. 

 Hamilton Gibson I am inclined to differ 

 with them. Will vou kindlv give me 



your opinion: 



N. M. F. 



Pond lilies planted in fall remain dor- 

 mant all winter and start into growth 

 the next spring; there is nothing gained 

 by fall planting except getting the work 

 done. If the roots were injured in lifting 

 or moving they may rot before spring, 

 and if you have got musk rats in your 

 pond they will eat the lotus roots; alto- 

 gether there are more chances of failure in 

 the case of fall planting than in spring 

 planting. But, candidly, if our pond were 

 ready for the lilies, and we had the lilies 

 on hanrt.and wanted to plant them now, 

 we would plant them now and rest per- 

 fectly contented as regards the result. If 

 all wintered well it would be a good gain, 

 but if some of them failed to live the ex- 

 pense of replacing them would be very 

 slight. 



