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Jose scale and other noxious spreading 

 pests, and in all cases these certificates 

 have been given unhesitatingly. 



A SCREEN (page 501 for Washington, 

 D. C— You want one 19 feet long and 12 

 feet thick as a protection against north- 

 west winds. Your space is too small for 

 a variety of things, restrict yourself to 

 one thing and confine it to narrow limits, 

 and get the good of the rest of your land 

 for your other flowers. Try the "Califor- 

 nia" privet, and keep it well cut in. Were 

 it not for the bark scale we would recom- 

 mend Euonymus japonicus, but it now is 

 too uncertain. The Chinese privet be- 

 haves so well with you if you like it bet- 

 ter, use it instead of the Califorhian; or 

 better still, get the Amoor privet. Of 

 this last named I don't know if you can 

 get it nearer than from Berckmans, of 

 Augusta, Georgia; in fact we are getting 

 a lot of it from there ourselves. It is a 

 fine hedge plant. 



The Garden in November. — It is No- 

 vember 9, and we have had a long drouth, 

 a little frost, and now a little rain, but 

 altogether the season has been mild. In 

 the open garden we have calendula mari- 

 golds, sweet scatios, Drummond phlox, 

 annual coreopsis (C. tinctoria), one or 

 two pansies, a good many sweet violets 

 (a creeping form of V. odorata), lots of 

 mignonette, some sweet alyssum, and cos- 

 mos and several bold spikes of tritoma or 

 torch lily all in bloom. By remembering 

 this and preparing for it in time nextyear, 

 out of doors needn't look so dreary be- 

 tween Hallowe'en and Thanksgiving. In 

 the woods and meadow belts the witch 

 hazel is arrayed in its yellow glory, and 

 although not showy it is very striking, 

 being alone in bloom. 



Plant berry-bearing trees and 

 bushes in your gardens and grounds for 

 the double purpose of ornament and use. 

 The fruits of many of our shrubs are as 

 attractive as are their flowers and last 

 long on the plants, and some of them 

 serve as food for the song birds we all 

 should endeavor to coax to stay in our 

 gardens. 



Dr. Howard's garden, page 53. — 

 Bravo, Doctor! That's tre sort of gar- 

 den to have; that's the kind that brings 

 joy to the hearts of every one of us, 

 brightness and beauty in our homes and 

 gladness to our friends. An old-fashioned 

 garden like that teeming with blossoms 

 on every hand and every day ol the sum- 

 mer, — grandmother's garden if you care 

 to call it, — where you can cut a bunch 

 or basketful of posies every day from 

 April till November, gives more real pleas- 

 ure to its owner and the people at large 

 than prim painted acres of coleus and 

 houseleeks. 



An Old-fashioned Garden. — We tried 

 it in Schenley Park this year. We needed 

 a handy dumping ground and hit on the 

 head of a deep ravine between two woods; 

 into it we dumped hundreds upon hun- 

 dreds of wagon loads of rock and clay, 

 filling it near to the top, then surfaced it 

 with good soil. Here we planted some 

 shrubs and broadcast among them set 

 out scarlet poppies, eschscholtzias, dwarf 

 nasturtiums, snapdragons, pansies. mar- 

 igolds, and all manner of hardy herbace- 

 ous plants, having enough of each sort to 

 make a mass of its kind and color, and 

 the effect was fine. In the middle was a 

 plantation of hundreds of clumps of Japan 

 and German irises interplanted, thence 

 succeeded by thousands of gladioli, and 

 banded with montbretias, from which we 

 had flowers till frost. The steep face of 

 this hill was graded a little and a series 

 of winding stone steps set into it making 

 the descent into the hollow quite easy; 



the stones were the rough uneven slabs 

 secured in blasting the rocks when grad- 

 ing in other parts of the park, and both 

 outer edges of the steps and along the 

 sides of the upper walk a wide belt of 

 moss pink was planted. And the banks 

 all about were planted with shrubs, 

 vines, wild roses, columbines and other 

 plants. More cameras and kodaks were 

 levelled by visitors at this piece of gar- 

 dening than at any other spot in the 

 park, and still we had acres of painted 

 summer beds. 



Do Rhododendrons need peat? — Let 

 me answer by giving you a very marked 

 fact: Three years ago a gentleman in this 

 city imported a large lot of seedling 

 hybrid rhododendrons and planted them 

 out in nursery rows in a field, and a few 

 months later transferred the land and all 

 on it to a real estate agent who of course 

 let everything grow up wild. The soil 

 was fair clay-loam mixed with shale 

 rock. In summer the weeds were several 

 feet higher than the rhododendrons. Last 

 spring we got the rhododendrons and 

 they had grown to be stocky handsome 

 plants with a deep healthy green color. 

 We never handled rhododendrons that 

 lif.ed with such big balls of earth and roots 

 as these did; we transplanted hundreds of 

 them into the park and they all bloomed, 

 and not one of them has shown the least 

 sign of debility or check. If anybody 

 tells you that you cannot grow rhodo- 

 dendrons without a peaty soil, give no 

 heed to such advice, "facts are chiels that 

 winna ding." 



Forcing hardy siirlbs for Easter. — 

 While almost all early-blooming shrubs 

 may be had in bloom at Easter some are 

 a good deal better behaved than others. 

 Among the best and most reliable we find 

 are weigelias, Spiraea Thunbergii and S. 

 Van Houttei, common snowball, double- 

 flowered dwarf prunuses, and Deutzia 

 gracilis. We force these things in hun- 

 dreds. 



Feed your water lilies. — Never before 

 did we see a more painful example of 

 starvation than we did in Tennesseesome 

 weeks ago. There was a fine assortment 

 of water lilies but they had very little leal 

 growth and very little bloom. What was 

 the matter? They were in medium sized 

 pots, when they should have been in tubs 

 or big boxes. Get healthy strong plants 

 to begin with, then give them root room 

 and lots to cat, % loam and ! 3 cow ma- 

 nure, and a sunny place in the pond, and 

 you will be sure to get growth and flow- 

 ers too. Wm. Falconer. 



Cold Frames. 



AM AMATEUR'S COLD FRAME. 



My cold. frame is, after all, very like all 

 other cold frames, but my wav of proceed- 

 ing may be interesting to people who have 

 to do without experienced help. It is about 

 7x3 feet and is set into the ground about 

 6 inches. It is filled with good, rich 

 earth and made ready in the fall. I make 

 all possible arrangements in the fall, be- 

 cause here the spring is often late and 

 cold and the ground is hard and frozen. 

 It is then covered with boards and left 

 for the winter. About the middle of April 

 the boards are taken oft' and the sash put 



on. Iu my case this happens to be a large 

 double window belonging to the kitchen, 

 which is taken off about this time, and 

 therefore can do double duty. 



In a few days the earth is very warm 

 and ready for the seeds. I give it a good 

 watering through the rose of the water- 

 ing pot, and in an hour or two I begin to 

 plant. I wait for an hour or two so that 

 the upper layer of earth may be a little 

 dried off. I make long furrows from the 

 back to the front, closer together than a 

 good gardener would approve. There is 

 not much more than an inch between the 

 rows, but I have a good deal to do in a 

 very small space. Some of the rows are 

 divided in two. In these I put the most 

 delicate things, like columbines, lobelias, 

 Swan River daisies, etc., but I give whole 

 rows to asters, snapdragons, balsams 

 and the like. When all the seeds are 

 planted and very carefully marked I put 

 the sash in place and keep it shut for sev- 

 eral days. The marking should be done 

 by labels clearly and deeply written on, 

 and I always buy mine by the hundred, 

 because I have never yet found the boy 

 who could be coerced into making more 

 than a dozen. Mine are 6 inches longand 

 cost fifteen cents a hundred and can be 

 bought at Farquhar's or Henderson's, or 

 any place where florists' supplies are 

 kept. 



In a few days I begin to see the pretty 

 light green rows of tiny plants that are 

 going to make my garden a blaze of 

 color. Some germinate much faster 

 than others, but they all come up at 

 last. I raise the sash ( by a brick at the 

 front corners generally) and keep it open 

 all day, closing it carefully at night. As 

 the plants grow larger I raise it about 

 two feet on two sticks; it would be well 

 to have one of the nice notched sticks 

 used by gardeners, but two ordinary- 

 sticks at each front corner will do. I thin 

 the rows, but, I fear, not as much as I 

 ought to; if the plants look sturdy I leave 

 a good many, but if they seem to suffer I 

 give them more room. One must watch 

 the little plants and love them, and use 

 one's intelligence and one's experience. 

 When they look dry I water them always 

 with a fine rose. It is fatal to dash wa- 

 ter from a height. The seeds or plants 

 are driven hopelessly into the ground, and 

 it is also a very stupid thing to do. It is 

 with gardening as with everything else — 

 it should be mixed with brains. 



About the middle of May or a little 

 later I begin to transplant. A lot of 

 things are four or five inches high, and 

 very stocky and good, with bunches of 

 fine roots. I water the cold frame well, 

 and arrange where the things are to go in 

 the beds. I plant everything in mud — in 

 very wet mud — and cautiously draw- 

 about them the dry earth, making them 

 as firm as I can. Often they not droop at 

 all, and never for more than a few hours. 

 If the plant is very succulent I cover it for 

 a day with a berry basket which lets in 

 air and keeps out sun. This is all I do, 



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