December, 1907 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



237 



Every rubbish barrel in the land ought to be hidden, yet easily accessible 



The cheapest solution. Cost — one vine. It moves aside liKe a gate 



on a level, which you see everywhere in the 

 South where farmers are prosperous. Every 

 fruit grower who lives in a stony country 

 can prevent this disastrous washing by 

 making simple stone terraces around his 

 trees as this man has done. 



Of course, this doesn't entirely prevent 

 washing, but it controls it. The soil that is 

 washed down is the top soil and therefore the 

 very best. If you can catch it and hold it 

 where you want it, you can fertilize your 

 trees for nothing — except the cost of gather- 

 ing and piling the stones. 



The Rubbish Problem Solved 



H. T., Rhode Island 



EVERY rubbish barrel should be hidden 

 from sight and yet be easily accessible. 

 The following plan avoids the cost and delay 

 of evergreens, and requires a minimum of 

 space. It needs only one vine and this can 

 be lifted aside just like a gate whenever it is 

 necessary to remove and empty the barrel. 

 Set two posts firmly in the ground, one on 

 each side of the barrel and close to the fence. 

 Let their tops be slightly higher than the top 

 of the barrel. Make the soil at the base of 

 one of these posts deep and rich. With 

 the barrel in place between the posts, fasten 



some common galvanized poultry netting, 

 whose width is equal to the height of the bar- 

 rel, to one post. When securely fastened 

 bend the netting around the front of the 

 barrel until the second post is reached and 

 cut off the surplus netting at this point. 



In the second post screw three or four hooks 

 and over these loop the meshes of the netting. 



At the base of the first post set a good plant 

 of Hall's honeysuckle. Within a season 

 the barrel can be completely screened by 

 training the strongest shoots horizontally 

 on the netting. The screening can be 

 readily removed at any time by simply un- 

 looping the netting from the hooks and 

 pulling it back toward you. It is just as 

 easily replaced when desired. 



Hall's honeysuckle is fast growing, pro- 

 duces a wealth of fragrant flowers and its 

 foliage is retained until after New Year's, 

 during ordinary winters, in the latitude of 

 southern Rhode Island. 



Put three bricks at regular intervals on 

 the ground, and rest the barrel on these in 

 order to save its bottom, and bore a hole 

 about two inches from the bottom to keep the 

 barrel free from water and from injury by 

 freezing in winter. In summer cork the hole 

 and allow sufficient water to collect to prevent 

 the barrel from drying and falling to pieces. 



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A wooden or fly-screen cover will keep out 

 flies and mosquitoes, or a cupful of kerosene 

 poured into the barrel two or three times 

 during the summer will keep mosquitoes 

 from breeding. 



If a stiffer netting with coarser mesh is 

 desired American fence wire will be found 

 suitable. 



A New Kind of Clothes Post 



B. M. Strain, New York 



THE accompanying picture is sent in 

 reply to your question in the July 

 number — " Are your lawns disfigured by 

 clothes posts?" — It also shows a some- 

 what unconventional treatment of a small 

 suburban garden: the lot is 45 x 105 ft. 

 When we decided to lay out our garden, 

 the clothes posts were an eyesore. They 

 were in the centre of the lawn — four of 

 them — ■ and crooked too. Two were re- 

 moved entirely, and strong, but incon- 

 spicuous hooks were placed conveniently 

 on the back of the house. The remain- 

 ing two posts were taken to the back of the 

 yard and set in concrete, five feet from the 

 corners. The man of the house knew some- 

 thing about concrete — so moulds were made 

 of wood, and a jacket of concrete mixture 



One of two Japanese la 

 on 



nterns that serve as clothes posts 

 Mondays. 



A simple way ol training obstinate or brittle 

 vines flat against a wall. Page 234 



The flower of an artichoke, See "Gaining a Year 

 on Artichokes." Page 238 



