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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1919 



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Kunderd's Wonderful 

 New Ruffled Gladiolus 



are the most beautiful in the world. No 

 others like them, none nearly so beautiful. 



Finely illustrated 52-page catalogue 

 free for the asking. It describes nearly 

 300 varieties, all of our own production and 

 most of them obtainable only from us. It 

 also contains the most complete instruc- 

 tions on the care and culture of Gladiolus 

 ever published. Let us send you a copy. 



Address the originator of the Ruffled Gladiolus. 



A. E. KUNDERD 



GOSHEN, IND., U. S. A. 



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You .should mow your own 

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Hardware" 

 Dealers and 

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HomeJandscapes 



HERE'S a booklet that answers the many ques- 

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 valuable information about planting. It's free. 

 A Memorial Peace Tree 

 The greatest event of the world's history ought 

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Evergreen 

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Euonymus radicans vegetus 



A lovely climber, adaptable to all loca- 

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 walls or stumps. Rich green all the year, 



with crimson berries in winter. Can 



be planted at any time. 



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GRACE STURTEVANT, Prop. 

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Paeony flowered Cactus, Show, and Decorative varieties 

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"B0SES OF NEW CASTLE" 

 you how to make rose growing a success. It is 

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Winter Protection for Roses 



WHEN the ground was well frozen, I spread 

 a six-inch layer of leaves over the entire 

 bed. After Christmas, I bought a wagon load 

 of Christmas trees for twenty-five cents. I laid 

 the longest trees down the long sides of the 

 bed and the rest right across them; in this way, 

 there was not so much weight upon the Rose 

 bushes as to break their branches. These trees 

 served the purpose of protection perfectly. On 

 the one hand, they were heavy enough to 

 break the frost and keep the sun from harming 

 the Rose branches; on the other hand, they 

 were light enough to admit a free circulation 

 of air. Of course, it would not be desirable 

 to have their resinous needles fall into the soil 

 of the Rose bed, but the layer of leaves pre- 

 vents that, and anyway the needles do not 

 begin to fall until nearly time for the trees to 

 be removed. I took the trees off the bed on 

 the 1 6th of March; and a week later I began 

 gradually removing the layer of leaves, leaving 

 the bed clear by the end of the month. I did 

 not lose a single plant; nor did I ever have so 

 little dead wood to prune away. And these 

 were not particularly hardy Roses. Frau 

 Karl Druschki was the only Hybrid Perpetual 

 in the bed. The majority were Hybrid Teas, 

 which are by no means indifferent to zero 

 weather. And I had also two full-blooded 

 Teas, Lady Hillingdon and William R. Smith; 

 we know how little the Teas can stand cold, 

 but these came through as well as any. 

 Huntington, Plainfield, N. J. Agnes Frales. 



Planting out Lilies-of-the-Valley 



NEWLY planted Lily-of-the-valley beds 

 often present a phenomenon which puz- 

 zles their owners. The plants bloom nicely the 

 first year after being set out and it may be three 

 years before the bed blooms freely again. 

 The reason is simple. When Lily-of-the- 

 Valley pips are prepared for the market, 

 the runners are usually removed. The pips 

 themselves have been grown until they 

 reached the blooming age, and will naturally 

 flower in the spring if they are set out in the 

 fall. The pips will have then exhausted 

 themselves, and the runners which start may 

 not develop sufficient strength to produce 

 blooming pips in their turn for several years. 

 If one digs up an old bed and is careful not to 

 break off the runners, the plants will flower 

 from the first year on. It is sometimes 

 supposed that Lilies-of-the-valley once es- 

 tablished will go on blooming freely for an 

 indefinite period. This is not true. If the 

 ground is particularly rich, they will do well 

 for several years. Otherwise after three or 

 four years, the blossoms will begin to diminish 

 in size. Then the bed should be reset. 



If one wants to have flowers of the first 

 quality every season, it is an excellent plan to 

 start a new bed each year, each old bed being 

 taken up when three or four years old. If 

 this is done, there will never be any lack of 

 flowers suitable for cutting. Individual pips 

 are best for forcing, but for planting in the 

 garden better results will be produced when 

 clumps are purchased, although there is no 

 assurance that the same interruption in 

 blooming will not be suffered, when imported 

 clumps are set out. If the flowers are not 

 kept removed, Lilies-of-the-valley will often 

 produce seeds freely in the fall. If this seed 

 is planted, it will produce flowering plants in 

 three or four years. 



Mass. E. I. Farrington. 



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