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Mak 16, 1907. 



will usually effect a cure. This should 

 be done while the sun is shining and the 

 atmosphere of the house is dry. Care 

 should be taken not to get the house too 

 hot, or the foliage may suffer. 



The most effective and easily applied 

 of all the mildew remedies, although 

 rather expensive, is Campbell's sulphur 

 vaporizer. With this appliance, if ordi- 

 nary care is exercised in its manipulation, 

 mildew can most surely be kept in sub- 

 jection. 



Young stock now will require careful 

 watching so that they may never be al- 

 lowed to dry out, especially in stock 

 where the pots are well filled with roots. 



In stock houses, after some of ■ the 

 plants have been removed, it is well to 

 keep the sand or ashes upon which they 

 have been standing just as wet as for- 

 merly, in order to keep the atmosphere 

 up to the proper point of humidity. 



These jnatters may appear small and 

 of little importance, but there is nothing 

 in rose growing too minute to be worthy 

 of notice and recording. The attention 

 given these seemingly trivial matters is 

 frequently what constitutes the difference 

 between a success and a failure. 



Every grower should keep a journal in 

 which to note his observations and keep 

 a record of his work, and while record- 

 ing his successes he should also be care- 

 ful to note his failures and, if possible, 

 the causes. By keeping these failures 

 and the causes vividly before his mind 



he will be the more apt to avoid them in 

 future. It is by studying the causes 

 which lead to failure that we ultimately 

 attain success. Kibes. 



BEST THREE NEW ROSES. 



W. S. Nickerson, of Cambridge, Mass., 

 who is a great rose enthusiast and a 

 member of the American Rose Society, 

 as well as the National Rose Society of 

 England, offered, through the latter so- 

 ciety, three prizes which have created an 

 unusual amount of interest among the 

 English growers. His prizes were as fol- 

 lows: 



1. To the raiser of the best hybrid 

 perpetual rose introduced since 1900, £5. 



2. To the raiser of the best hybrid 

 tea rose introduced since 1900, £5. 



3. To the raiser of the best tea rose 

 introduced since 1900, £5. 



The National Rose Society selected 

 sixty judges, men both in professional 

 and amateur ranks, who had to decide 

 on these prizes. 



The result was that prize No. 1 was 

 forwarded to the raiser of Frau Karl 

 Druschki, which received fifty-four out 

 of a total of fifty-five votes. Prize No. 

 2 went to the raiser of Dean Hole, and 

 prize No. 3 to the raiser of Mme. Jules 

 Cravereaux. Such a decision should set- 

 tle for some time the relative standing 

 of the newer roses in Europe and should 

 be received with interest by American 

 rosarians. W. N. C. 



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SUGGESTIONS 



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Pyrethrums. 



Pyrethrums are valuable florists' flow- 

 ers, and, being of easy culture, should 

 be more largely grown. The single forms 

 of P. roseum give a fine variety of colors, 

 including pure white, vivid scarlet, pale 

 flesh, rosy pink and rosy carmine. 

 Propagation is from seed, or divisions of 

 the plants. Seed should be sown in early 

 spring, but it is not yet too late to secure 

 strong plants to bloom in June, 1908. 

 Sow in a frame which is well shaded and 

 prick off when large enough to handle. 

 The plants can be set out during the 

 month of September, where it is intended 

 to flower them. If division of the clumps 

 is decided upon, the work is better done 

 not later than August. This insures the 

 plants becoming well established before 

 winter. A light scattering of straw or 

 leaves is all the winter protection needed. 



Given an early season and a good 

 many single pyrethrums are available for 

 cutting at Memorial day, but during 

 .Tune they are especially useful. Having 

 long, stiff stems, they are excellent for 

 mixed bouquets and a vase of one de- 

 cided color is decidedly effective. The 

 double varieties of P. roseum are popular 

 and succeed well in Europe, but are 

 more uncertain here. They import badly, 

 a large proportion being usually dead on 

 arrival. They are propagated by divi- 

 sion of the clumps and are fully as hardy 

 as the single ones. The double white 



and pink are useful in funeral work, tak- 

 ing the place of asters. 



Pyrethrums need wellj drained ground 

 or the clumps will rot. The well-known, 

 tall-growing P. uliginosum is fine for 

 massing on lawns and in shrubberies and 

 is splendid for cutting. It blooms late, 

 usually not before the middle of August. 

 Flowers are pure white, with yellow cen- 

 ters. The plant grows four to six feet 

 in height* and is a notable object when in 

 flower. It is propagated by division of 

 the roots and increases rapidly in size. 



Perennial Phlox. 



Perhaps the most useful of all flow- 

 ering herbaceous perennials is the phlox. 

 No commercial grower can well afford to 

 be without a row of phloxes. Their cul- 

 tivation is simple and their propagation 

 of the easiest. Soft wood cuttings root 

 readily and may still be placed in sand 

 and make oice little plants before fall. 

 Treat the same as you would chrysanthe- 

 mums or carnations and few will fail. 

 During a damp, cloudy spell they can be 

 placed directly outdoors from the propa- 

 gating bed. Phloxes are easily raised 

 from seed and the clumps may be 

 chopped in pieces with a sharp spade. 

 Young plants, however, give the finest 

 heads of bloom. By making a judicious 

 selection of varieties a continuity of 

 bloom may be had from early June until 

 freezing weather. 



Some varieties of P. suffruticosa are 



valuable and flower earlier than the vari- 

 ous forms of P. decussata (paniculata). 

 The best of this class is Miss Lingard, 

 almost pure white, with a faint pink eye. 

 Other good varieties are: Nettie Stuart, 

 white shaded pink; White Swan, pure 

 white, and Rosy Gem, clear rose. A few 

 specially good forms of P. decussata are : 

 Independence, Le Cygne, Albatre, Jeanne 

 D'Arc, all pure white; Le Soleil, rose; 

 Coquelicot, orange scarlet; General 

 Chanzy, scarlet pink; R. P. Struthers, 

 salmon pink; L'Esperance, lavender 

 pink ; Mme. P. Langier, geranium red ; 

 Lumineaux, rose tinted carmine; Richard 

 Wallace, white, rose center; Eclaireur, 

 crimson; Boule de Feu, cherry red, and 

 LejMahdi, violet blue. There are many 

 other good ones. 



Perennial phloxes last very well as cut 

 flowers. They should be cut early iu 

 the morning and placed for a few hours 

 in cold water in a cool chamber before 

 being placed in a warm room. The white 

 and pink sorts come in useful in summer 

 for making up design work. 



The early dwarf phloxes are splendid 

 for early spring bedding, also being at 

 home in the alpine or rock garden. P. 

 divaricata makes a pretty pot plant. 



Incarvillea Delavayi. 



Few perennials have jumped into such 

 instantaneous popularity as Incarvillea 

 Delavayi. The flowers, which are glox- 

 inia-like in form, are carried in erect 

 clusters, being large, trumpet-shaped, of 

 rosy-pink color, and last remarkably well. 

 Incarvillea Delavayi is not reliably 

 hardy. In well drained locations near 

 the sea, and on sandy soils inland, it win- 

 ters with a mulcliing of sea weed or 

 leaves. It is sater, however, to lift th^ 

 roots in November and store them like 

 dahlias, in dry soil, and plant out again 

 in the spring. For mass effects, or even 

 for individual plantings in mixed bor- 

 ders, this is one of the most beautiful 

 perennials introduced for many years. 

 Like some other plants from northern 

 China, it is less reliably hardy than 

 phloxes, peonies and some other peren- 

 nials. 



Funkias* 



The funkias, or plantain lilies, are de- 

 sirable hardy perennials and perfectly 

 hardy. F. subcordata grandiflora, com- 

 monly called the giant day lily, witli 

 broad, pale-green leaves and handsome 

 spikes of pure white, fragrant flowers, 

 is a beautiful subject for the edges of 

 shrubberies, preferring a little shade. We 

 have used the flowers in design work to 

 good advantage, F. ovata has handsome, 

 glossy foliage and large spikes of trum- 

 pet-shaped, lilac-colored flowers. F. lan- 

 cifolia, flowering in August, has deep 

 green, lanceolate leaves and pale-lilac 

 flowers. F. undulata media variegata, 

 with green leaves, margined and edged 

 with white, is fine for borders and edg- 

 ings and, being thoroughly hardy, should 

 be especially valuable commercially. All 

 the funkias are easily increased by di- 

 viding, which can be done either in Sep- 

 tember or April. 



Anemone Japonica. 



The Japanese anemones are the most 

 charming and useful of all late-blooming 

 perennials. Their flowering period is 

 from the end of August until cut down 

 by frost. While perfectly hardy in many 

 places, in well-drained land when well 

 mulched, there are other locations where 



