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Wilfrid Wheeler inquired if in Mr. Craig's experience he had 

 found that it made any difference in sweet peas whether the rows 

 were planted running north and south or east and west. 



Mr. Craig replied that rows running north and south do best. 



Mr. Wheeler said that the aster beetle was a disgusting bug to 

 handle and he had tried successfully a weak solution of Paris green 

 and water; one teaspoonful of Paris green to two gallons of water. 

 If this were used often it would not be necessary to pick the beetles. 

 By sterilizing the soil one could get rid of the wilt in the greenhouse. 

 He had got good results in Antirrhinums by wintering them in a 

 cold frame and they did better after being so treated. For nas- 

 turtiums the poorer the soil the better they bloomed. The best lot 

 he ever saw was growing in two inches of soil on rocks at Fal- 

 mouth, Massachusetts, near the shore. They w^ere growing almost 

 on bare rock and it was a beautiful sight. 



Mr. Craig said that he had forgotten to mention Nicotiana 

 Sandercp, which was introduced last year and had jumped into 

 popularity, and then almost as suddenly mto unpopularity. The 

 gardeners around Lenox pronounced it worthless, but in some places 

 it had produced pleasing effects, although the color is rather harsh. 

 It seems to do better in partial shade and some of the more recent 

 introductions are an improvement in colorings. 



Another Nicotiana is sylvestris with large pure white flowers and 

 broad foliage and stands the full svmshine which Sanderce does not. 

 He recommended also N. affinis and its varieties. 



Robert Cameron remarked that the hybrids of Nicotiana affinis 

 were not so good as the parents and in his opinion not as pleasing; 

 they would be better if the fragrance of afpnis could have been put 

 into them. He called attention to the merits as a garden flower of 

 Salvia splendens which was grown best from seed, and recom- 

 mended Gilias as very pretty. He said that Torenia was a most 

 beautiful annual and stocks should not be left out of the list. It 

 was a mistake, hq said, to plant these garden annuals in small 

 patches; they do best in large masses. The pyramidal forms of 

 Celosia were very fine, and the Lcgonia semperfiorens types were 

 desirable. 



Duncan Finlayson stated that he had used Nicotiana Sanderw 

 last year, growing it in partial shade, with a background of green 



