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GARDENING. 



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DOUGLAS GOLDEN JUNIPER AT DOSORIS. 



of the supply, and even now it isn't plen- 

 tiful. Our illustration engraved from a 

 photograph of a plant on a lawn at Do- 

 soris, gives one a fair idea of what kind 

 of a plant it is. The habit is dense and 

 spreading, the ends of-the branches rising 

 to a height of 18 or 24, inches above the 

 ground level. In summer the color is 

 bright golden yellow, but as winter ap- 

 proaches, this golden hue gradually 

 merges into a metallic brown color. In 

 summer it is bright and pretty, and in 

 winter its brown tint is quite marked. 

 It is an excellent subject to plant on rocky 

 exposures or in sandy ground, but mark, 

 it doesn't at all do better there than in 

 good soil. The specimen shown you in 

 the picture is about 14 feet across. In 

 another part of the grounds near a fringe 

 and mass of evergreen trees, we planted a 

 large circular bed on a slope back from 

 but in sight of a road running near by 

 there, where the golden mat could be seen 

 in passing the road. The effect is bright, 

 good, and not at all obtrusive, and 

 catches the eye of the passers. Other 

 good points in its favor are that it is 

 quite hardy and easily transplanted. 



The Flower Garden. 



MY GARDEN IN WINTER. 



My garden is situated very near Lake 

 Michigan, and is wind-swept during the 

 winter and early spring months. It there- 

 fore becomes necessary to put our pets 

 snugly to bed before the holidays. About 

 the middle of October all the shrubbery 

 and flower beds are gone over, neatly 

 edged, well weeded, and all tops of the 



perennials cut down and taken away. 

 All labels are carefully examined, and 

 firmly reset in the ground, while those 

 hanging on trees or shrubs are looked 

 after to see if they are not cutting into 

 the limbs. All plants that are tardy in 

 appearing above the ground in spring, 

 such as the funkias and platycodons, have 

 a strong wooden stake put at their sides, 

 while all lilies have cane stakes put to 

 mark them. This is done so that they 

 will not be inadvertedly disturbed next 

 spring. Where constant weeding or 

 other causes have lowered the soil some- 

 what, the bed is refilled and leveled up. 

 Later on all lilies, considered tender such 

 as Krameri and Hansoniand the clematis 

 in the shrubbery beds, have mounds of 

 ashes — wood or coal — placed over them. 

 All clematises around the porch are cut 

 back to within one foot of the ground, 

 laid down and covered with leaves, over 

 which are placed boards to protect 

 them from the melted snow swept from 

 the porch. The early falling leaves are 

 not worth much for covering as they rot 

 too quickly and pack too closely. Oak 

 leaves are the best. 



Alstremerea aurautica has a box in- 

 verted over it filled with leaves and 

 then strawy manure or any coarse 

 litter placed over box and all. All half 

 hardy evergreen plants such as Acanthus 

 latifblius, A.spinuosus and Yucca filamen- 

 tosa, which I find enjoys this treatment, 

 and responds with finer flowers, are well 

 mulched with manure and then have 

 empty barrels or boxes placed over them. 

 These packages should be large enough 

 so that the foliage does not touch the 

 wood, otherwise that part in contact 

 often browns. Magnolias (Japanese 

 dwarf), Wiegelias (altheas) Deutzias and 



Itea Virginia and rose Mad Geo. Bruant 

 are wrapped in straw. 



Rosa wichuriana in a mass twelve feet 

 in diameter has well rotted, finely pulver- 

 ized manure scattered over it, and well 

 worked in, and then covered with Eulalia 

 grdsses or evergreen boughs. Climbing 

 roses grown to posts, such as Prairie 

 Queen, Crimson Rambler, Paul's Carmine 

 Pillar Rose, Empress of China, etc., are 

 unloosened, coiled around the post onthe 

 ground, and covered with grasses or 

 boughs. The Seven Sisters, against the 

 wall, and Ayshiri ramblers on tree stumps 

 have the long canes of the Arundo donax 

 in the one case, and pea vines in the other 

 put over them. 



All trunks of young trees where exposed 

 to the sun have a couple of laths or simi- 

 lar protection placed at their south side 

 to prevent sun scald in winter which so 

 often causes disfiguration of the bark. 

 The golden spreading Juniper and the 

 type also, when growing strongly often 

 burns at the tips in winter. A temporary 

 roof of light boards prevents it. All low 

 growing evergreen perennials, I ke Papa- 

 ver orientals, Heuchera sanguinea and 

 the candidum lilies, are covered with ever- 

 green boughs or anything that will not 

 ma down on them, but before doing so 

 fine manure is worked in among them. 

 The Eulalias are cut down to use in cov 

 ering other plants; where the tops are not 

 wanted, however, it is best to leave them 

 uncut until spring, but I manure heavily 

 in the fall and leave it there in the spring. 

 Tar paper or boards, anything to keep 

 out the water is placed over Arundo 

 donax and hollyhocks and then manure. 

 A piece of sod is put over Lobelia cardi- 

 nalis to check its tendency to heave with 

 the frost. Then a good coating of manure 



