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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1916 





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ten hours. Easy work and better results. 



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A First Class 

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Calceolaria "Cotswold Hybrid" 



Described by the English Garden- 

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 the floral gains for the coming year" 



Lovers of Calceolarias will welcome this new- 

 comer as gladly as they have done C. Clibrani and 

 others of like character. C. Cotswold Hybrid was 

 raised by crossing C. Clibrani with a herbaceous 

 variety, and the result of this cross is a race bear- 

 ing flowers considerably larger than those of C. 

 Clibrani, but of rounded rather than elongated 

 shape, and with a colour range running through a 

 series of delightful shades from creamy-white, 

 clear lemon, yellow, and pure gold, to light and 

 deep bronze and brown, while in many cases the 

 elegant flowers are beautifully and lightly spotted 

 with rich colours, as in the herbaceous varieties. 



In habit the new hybrid is similar to C. Clibrani, 

 and the plants are about 2% ft.' high. Continuity 

 of flowering is a great point in favour of the 

 hybrid, and if fading flowers are regularly re- 

 moved, the flowering period may be extended quite 

 easily from April to September, and during that 

 period the new spikes that arise regularly from 

 the base will keep the specimens fully furnished 

 with effective flowers. — Gardeners' Magazine. 



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dition, the use of white lead seems to be a detriment. 

 In one young orchard I visited it actually caused 

 the trees to be bark-bound, and I advised the owner 

 to scratch the bark a little with a penknife so as to 

 give them a chance to grow. 



In older orchards, the rodents do not, as a rule, 

 do as much damage, the bark being tougher and more 

 stringent, but to insure protection against them, if 

 the pruning is done early — in December or early 

 January — and the prunings left on the ground 

 where they fall, the bark from the young twigs will 

 be eaten in preference to that of the tougher bark 

 on the trunks. I have been in orchards where this 

 method had been pursued and found that by spring 

 the bark on the twigs and smaller limbs was com- 

 pletely stripped off, and yet not a single trunk in the 

 orchard had been damaged. 



An effective preventive against mice is to tramp 

 the snow down hard about each tree. The mice 

 burrow along the top of the ground under the snow 

 and this tramping packs it too hard for them to 

 tunnel through. 



Penna. Harold Clarke. 



The Guava — A Substitute for 

 Gooseberries in Florida 



WE CANNOT grow three of the smaller fruits in 

 this climate and soil. I have tried a large 

 number of the currants, every red raspberry that I 

 grew when living in New York State, and many of 

 the gooseberries. Not one of these can be humored 

 into doing anything worth while. If you get a bay- 

 head, which is well shaded and supplied with running 

 water, allj these plants will struggle along, among 

 the blueberries and Azaleas, while imported sorts 

 occasionally do a little better; but one may as well 

 give it up. So far not one of the hardiest or tender- 

 est sorts is a thrifty plant in Florida. Some of the 

 blackberries will do much better, although I am dis- 

 appointed in the dewberries. Lucretia, occasionally 

 gives a berry; but we have wild blackberries, and of 

 the cultivated sorts, Robinson and two or three 

 more that are good bearers. They lack that deli- 

 cious flavor, however, which one secures in Maine 

 and Minnesota and as far down as Arkansas. Some 

 of the strawberries, also, are well adapted to our 

 bayhead growing. 



I like to consider, however, that Nature has given 

 us substitutes for every enjoyable thing that we have 

 to give up. In my Northern gooseberry garden I 

 found a peculiar pleasure in sitting down by a bush 

 of Columbus, or some of my seedlings, and eating 

 my liberal fill before meal time. It is delicious food, 

 and a delightful way of taking it. Blackberries 

 were made for pies, raspberries for jelly and jam, 

 and strawberries for shortcake; but gooseberries 

 should be taken between thumb and finger and 

 moved with reasonable speed mouthward. 



Florida is not without its small fruits, and the 

 substitute for the gooseberry I find is theguava. I was 

 surprised when I found that the most common of 

 the guavas grew on bushes. The bushes, as we gen- 

 erally find them, are round and absolutely covered 

 with fruit half an inch to an inch in diameter. This 

 sort of guava is quite hardy, enduring the frosts 

 which we have nearly every winter. Another guava 

 is about two or three times larger, both in the bush 

 and in the fruit. The flavor is not to me as agree- 

 able for eating out of hand as the hardier sorts, but 

 both sorts make splendid jam, marmalades and jel- 

 lies. The jelly is generally found in our Northern 

 markets and has a reputation of high standing. 



The Government has imported, with its other 



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