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June, 1909 



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Paint Talks-No. 5 



Painting Cement and 

 Concrete 



Cement and concrete are bidding for popular 

 favor as building materials. The only bar to their 

 immediate favor is their liability to discolor and 

 streak. 



Paint is their only salvation. But paint — even 

 the best — so often softens and becomes sticky, 

 bleaches or scales off cement. What's to be done ? 



The whole trouble lies in the moisture and 

 alkali in the cement. Let it stand a year or 

 eighteen months and there is no trouble. To 

 artificially age it, two methods are effective: 

 (1) Wash the surface with zinc sulphate dissolved 

 in water. (2) Wash it with carbonic acid water. 



When dry, paint with pure white lead and lin- 

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Do not use sulphuric or mnriatic acids as a 

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 with a substitute for linseed oil. Kill the "alkali as 

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 linseed oil paint. 



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Garden Notes and News 



Think of a whole grove of flowering dogwood! 

 Mr. James Wood at Mt. Kisco, N. Y. has one. 

 Dogwood happened to be dominant, so he cut out 

 everything else. The effect is glorious. 



What is the noblest combination of forest trees in 

 America? Some say oak and pine. People often 

 remark that "oak and pine love to touch elbows." 

 It is said that the bluejays help to perpetuate this 

 partnership by hiding acorns in pine stumps. 



When Mr. William C. Whitney bought about a 

 thousand acres of farm and wood land for a country 

 home Charles Eliot erected a temporary tower to 

 show his client where to locate the house and 

 roads, where vistas should be cut, etc. 



There is an enormous "Italian garden" on Long 

 Island built to imitate a ruined villa. It has arti- 

 ficial ruins, endless terraces, diagonal vistas, brick 

 water courses without water, statuary galore, figs 

 grown against a brick wall and many other wonders. 



The most beautiful woods in England are beech 

 woods, because of poetic atmosphere, the smooth 

 bark of the beech, etc. We can get this effect by 

 thinning beech woods. Beech will branch out 

 quicker and better than oak under such treatment. 



Mr. E. D. Morgan has planted a hillside with little 

 pines at his summer home, near Westbury, L. I. 

 The Austrians make the best show now and will for 

 twenty years. At thirty they will begin to fail, 

 while the white pines will catch up and last one 

 hundred and fifty years. 



Have you ever seen a whole city that was planned 

 by one architect and planted by one landscape 

 gardener? Woodmere, Long Island, is such a 

 place and the older part of it is mature enough to 

 show some very beautiful effects. 



It does not pay to go to the woods for big trees. 

 They are too slow to branch out and are liable 

 to be killed by the "sudden increase of light. It is 

 better to move big trees from the fields, but you must 

 root-prune them and then wait several months. 

 Root pruning can be done at any time but is most 

 economical when labor is plentiful. 



Have you heard about the new disease of the white 

 pine ? The needles get shorter and all turn yellow. 

 The tree may die without affecting the next one. 

 There is a good deal of this trouble on a famous 

 estate at Englewood, N. J. A Government path- 

 ologist is working on it. It is a serious matter. 

 No remedy known. 



Twenty thousand dead chestnut trees have been 

 cut down on a single estate near Roslyn, L. I. They 

 made a ghastly landscape. It they had been cut 

 and sold before the disease came, the proceeds would 

 have paid all the cost of transforming these dull, 

 featureless woods into an enchanting grove, filled 

 with noble rhododendrons, banks of laurel, great 

 colonies of wood lily, carpets of partridge berry, etc. 



The art or craft of caring for old trees has made 

 enormous advances the last two or three years. 

 People are realizing more and more what is the 

 worth of a tree that has taken a generation or two 

 to develop and are willing to spend money on 

 keeping it alive and well. And some of the 

 leading practitioners recently organized an associ- 

 ation for the better cooperation of the "landscape 

 foresters" and the "commercial entomologists." 



Can we ever attain charm in a formal garden by 

 using baytrees in tubs? Why not have something 

 of the same shape and size that will grow in the open 

 the year round? It would add winter beauty and 

 save watering. Are you aware that red cedars are 

 now trained like bays? A twenty-foot cedar can 

 be cut down and made into a bay^formed tree twelve 

 feet high. But why should not American holly be 

 the finest plant for the purpose ? It has red berries 

 all winter. 



Everybody who covets English yew will be glad 

 to hear about Taxus Canadensis, var. macrophylla, 

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