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THE GA.RDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 1906 



ONE 



OF THE SECRETS OF 



SWEET PEA 



GROWING IS TO HAVE 



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SWEET PEAS 



"THE ORCHID OP THE GARDEN" 



The following varieties of Sweet Peas are recog- 

 nized by the leading florists and growers of cut 

 flowers for market as the best in their respective 

 color and productiveness: 



COLOR NAME 



WHITE .... White Wonder . 



YELLOW .... Primrose . . 



LAVENDER . . . Lady Grisel Hamilton 



PINK Royal Rose . . . 



PINK AND WHITE Apple Blossom . . 



MAROON .... Duke of Clarence . 



BLUE Captain of the Blues 



SCARLET .... Firefly .... 



STRIPED .... Golden Rose . . 

 Boddington's Quality Mixture — all colors mixed 



THE ROYAL COLLECTION 



OF ENGLISH NOVELTY SWEET PEAS 



distributed for the first time in America 

 EVELYN BYATT JOHN INGRAM 



PHYLLIS UNWIN BLACK MICHAEL 



HELEN LEWIS ROMOLO PIOZZANI 



HELEN PIERCE DAVID R. WILLIAMSON 



For full description see page 8 my catalogue. 

 Per packet, 35c. 

 The collection of eight varieties, $2.50 



The above collections of Sweet Peas in packets 

 or ounces mailed free to any part of the United 

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 nearly 100 full-page and other illustrations, and 

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ARTHUR T. BODDINGTON, Seedsman 

 342 W. 14th St., New York City 



PLANTS TOR SHADY PLACES 



Q. Can you give me the names of some tall- 

 growing plants which can be planted along 

 the fence in front of my house which faces 

 northeast? The fence is thirty feet from 

 the house and there is a row of trees outside 

 the fence which gives a partial shade to the 

 border. It does not have sufficient sunlight 

 for geraniums or nasturtiums. What can be 

 grown in boxes on a partially shaded ver- 

 andah? Will fuchsias do, and is there any- 

 thing that would look well with them ? 



Connecticut. H. S. 



A . You do not give the name of the trees 

 which cause the shade in your garden, and 

 the difficulty you have may be due to the 

 exhaustion of the soil by the trees referred to. 

 For instance, if they are spruces, the con- 

 tinuous shade will render it almost impossible 

 for anything else to grow. If they are elms, 

 they will take so much water out of the 

 ground that the cultural problem is very 

 much complicated. 



We would suggest, however, that you try 

 a hedge of the Diervilla florida (usually 

 spoken of by the nurserymen as Weigelia 

 rosea). Other plants which might do well 

 are the wild ferns, foxgloves, Canterbury 

 bells (Campanulas) and the tarweed (Madia 

 elegans). This last has the perculiar habit 

 of opening only in morning or evening or in 

 the shade. It always closes in the sunshine. 



For the verandah boxes, petunias might 

 answer, but, of course, they would hardly 

 harmonize with fuchsias. The moneywort 

 (Lysimachia nummidaria) would make a 

 pretty trailing edge to the box, and would 

 harmonize with anything. Some of the 

 prettier geraniums might be used, but cer- 

 tainly the fuchsias are the best-flowering 

 plants for shade and if you are handling 

 them at all, why not transplant each season 

 in front of the hedge? 



Of course, if you will take tender plants, 

 the shady position you describe would be 

 ideal for tuberous-rooted begonias. Have 

 you ever tried them? 



New York. H. M. B. 



WHERE TO GET TREE NAMES 



Q. Our town has many trees on its common 

 and along it roads for which we desire names. 

 Where can we secure the names and how 

 will we go about it ? 



Massachusetts. Tree Warden. 



A. The Bureau of Forestry of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture has extended the 

 use of its facilities, for determining plant 

 names, to any town or city needing assistance. 



There are two ways in which the names 

 can be had : First, if there are a large num- 

 ber of trees to be named, a representative 

 will visit the town or city giving the names 

 on the spot; and, second, gather specimens 

 of the various trees and send them to the 

 Bureau which will return you names for them. 



These specimens should be about ten to 

 twelve inches long and should contain not 

 only leaves but the flowers or the fruit (seeds) . 

 The fruit specimens are more important 

 than the flowers because with some kinds of 

 trees a botanist can only tell them apart by 

 the fruits. In collecting these specimens, 



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