August, 1914 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



should now be ready for jelly making and must not be allowed 

 to become too ripe for this purpose. 



HpHIS is the time to get new lawns ready for sowing, prepare your 

 ■*■ soil well and take advantage of any wet weather by sowing then. 

 Save your own seed of Pennisetum Ruppellii, you can get 

 any quantity now. 



Cut down all the dead flowering stalks of the 

 perennials just as soon as you can, they not only 

 spoil the appearance of a garden, but are quite 

 a drag on the root system which is entirely unnecessary. 



It is still not too late to sow perennials for wintering in a cold- 

 frame, any of the kinds mentioned in last month's Garden Maga- 



Among the 

 Perennials 



zine can be used. Early this month foxglove and cup-and-saucer 

 campanula can be sown in quantities for wintering in the cold- 

 frames, these plants can be flowered in the frame in spring or 

 planted out very early. 



"THE month of August is an excellent time for moving any 

 evergreens. Do the work just as the plants start to make 

 their late root growth and success is sure. Later planting of 

 evergreens is not easy, unless it is done in actual winter. Another 

 p, .. advantage of doing the work now is that it re- 



„ ' lieves the pressure on September planting of 



perennials, and later comes the planting of de- 

 ciduous trees and shrubs that simply cannot be moved now. 



WEIGHED IN THE BALANCE 



The Newer Tulips and Daffodils 



JOSEPH JACOB WRITES OF THE KINDS "THAT I KNOW AND CAN RECOM- 

 MEND AND WHICH I FEEL SURE AMERICAN READERS WILL LIKE TO TRY" 



[Editor's Note. — The Rev. Joseph Jacob is recognized as an international authority on the &i-i..v:-.';^:-: i //l ; .l>..3 

 tulip and daffodil and has published two books — one on each bulb. He writes as an amateur 

 for the amateur and we are gratified at being able to present to American readers the appraisals of so eminent an authority at this season when 

 there is yet time for the placing of bulb orders for fall planting. Not by any means the least valuable characteristic of Mr. Jacob's ap- 

 praisals is the fact that he recognizes actual intrinsic merit quite apart from the questions of novelty and rarity which usually flavor so strong Iv 

 the garden judgments of European authorities and minimizes their value to the American amateur who looks for intrinsic merit first and last.] 



ONE thing about The Garden 

 Magazine that I like very much 

 is the way in which it revives 

 the spirit of the title pages of our 

 old British gardening books. One knows 

 before one starts reading an article exactly 

 what to expect. Hence, the title of this 

 article. I want the readers of this maga- 

 zine to do a little more than just read; I 

 want them to put an emphasis in two places. 

 Firstly on "I know" and secondly on "like 

 to try." Emphasis makes a lot of difference 

 as the customer found when he 

 asked for his drinks after being 

 shaved. "Oh," said the barber, 

 "you have read my notice wrong. 

 It should go like this. ' Look here ! 

 What! Do you think I'll shave 

 you for nothing and give you a 

 drink?'" 



I write, then, from personal 

 knowledge of what are "good 

 things" and "good growers" in 

 my own country and which I think 

 it will be worth while dwellers in 

 those states, where my letter- 

 writing-ally, Mrs. Francis King, 

 can be taken as guide, philosopher 

 and friend in gardening matters, to 

 try and test for themselves. I am 

 not going to talk about daffodils 

 that cost tens of dollars, or about 

 tulips that are so scarce that for 

 practical purposes they are unob- 

 tainable, but rather of certain well 

 tried kinds that I believe are ready 

 to step into the shoes of those good 

 old favorites, such as Mrs. Lang- 

 try, Emperor, Empress, Ornatus, 

 Autocrat, John Bain, and such like 

 among the narcissus; and Artus, 

 Keizerskroon, Cottage Maid, Gol- 

 den Crown, Parisian Yellow, 



Double La Candeur, Bartigon, Margaret, 

 Donders, and similar old timers among the 

 tulips. 



Not that I must be taken to imply that 

 they will all be superseded. Emperor 

 never will, nor will Keizerskroon, until 

 like Zomerschoon (well described by Mrs. 

 King in the May .number of The Garden 

 Magazine as that "too costly tulip of un- 

 forgettable beauty") they begin to suffer 

 as we all of us must do from "Anno Do- 

 mini." Maddocks, a celebrated florist of 



Tulips are 



in constantly increasing demand and yet many excellent sorts may 

 be had at low prices 



Walworth, London, published a bulb list 

 in 1798. Zomerschoon is there and I have 

 every reason to suppose it to be the identical 

 variety that we have to-day. Even a 

 tulip can't be as vigorous at a hundred and 

 twenty as when it is only ten ! 



To begin with the daffodils. The last 

 ten years have made an immense difference 

 both in what we show and what we grow. 

 Madame de Graaff has quite ousted the 

 more or less "miffy" or poor doing white 

 trumpets from our gardens. The bicolors, 

 Empress and Horsfieldii are giv- 

 ing place to such fine plants as 

 Duke of Bedford and Glory of 

 Noordwijk. Old Emperor will 

 have serious rivals in all-yellow 

 trumpets in Olympia and, in mild 

 damp climates, the famous King 

 Alfred. Among those that Park- 

 inson, the Adam of daffodil en- 

 thusiasts, called the "peerless," 

 but which we label Incomparabilis 

 and Barrii, or large and small cups, 

 we have wonderful new creations 

 in Lady Margaret Boscawen (bi- 

 color incomparabilis) ; Blackwell 

 (early, long red cup with yellow 

 perianth) ; Bernardino (large deli- 

 cate apricot-red cup and ivory 

 perianth); Seagull (the vigorous 

 white and pale yellow centred 

 Barrii); Albatross (its red edged 

 twin — both came from the same 

 seed pod) ; Firebrand (small vivid 

 red cup and primrose perianth); 

 Red Chief (red cup, white peri- 

 anth) ; and Lucifer (red cup, which 

 does not burn, and white perianth). 

 In the Leedsiis there are a large 

 number of very fine things indeed 

 of the White Queen type coming 

 along. This splendid variety was 



