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The Best of Servants 



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Grand Show of Asters— 

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My Aster beds are along the railroad track of 



the Central New England. It has been my 



pleasure to have a grand show. The black 



beetle and the striped bug are very troublesome. 



These pests will skin the whole bunch if we 



let them alone, but we don't let them alone, 



for as soon as the plants are well grown I take 

 Hammond's Slug Shot and a bellows and go over the whole. On a still day 

 dust settles everywhere. Then when the blooms begin to open we give them 

 another dose and we have the flowers. This year we let them go and the bugs or * 0E 



beetles got a start and we started for them, but they did us damage. For many years I have known Slug 

 Shot and used it, and there is no use trying to raise flowers or fruit or vegetables without you watch 

 them, because as sure as the sun shines you will have bugs, lice or beetles which you must get rid of. 

 Now on cucumbers the striped bugs play havoc. You told me once to 



put some Slug Shot in water and sprinkle the rows. When that is done Hammond's 



the cucumbers grow. The cherry trees will curl the leaves with lice; 

 if you can blow Slug Shot over these ends the Slug Shot sticks to 

 the sticky mess which comes where these lice are and they do not 



spread. 



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LUTHER BRUNDAGE. 



Billings, N. Y., October 25, 1908. 



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Practical Ideas from England 



THE finest summer hyacinths I have ever seen 

 were three and a half feet high. They 

 were grown in pots of moss and fibre by Mr. Robert 

 Sydenham, of Birmingham, at whose home I 

 saw these glorious plants in July, 1908. If you 

 want something new for hall or house decoration 

 in summer try a dozen bulbs of Galtonia candicans 

 in a large pot of moss and fibre. 



I saw about three thousand grape hyacinths in 

 bloom under oak trees in Lord Northcliffe's wild 

 garden at Sutton Place in Surrey. Eight years 

 ago a thousand bulbs had been planted there and 

 nothing further had been done. They had bloomed 

 every year and multiplied threefold. It is worth 

 trying, even if you have only one oak tree. 



Are you curing any tulip bulbs in the cellar 

 this summer? Don't let the sun strike them or 

 the skins will crack and split off. A bulb without 

 a skin often sprouts too early. 



What a shame that so superb a flower as Or- 

 nithogalum pyramidale should be married to such 

 worthless foliage! Fancy a perfect pyramid of 

 starry, white flowers, each blossom an inch across 

 and the spike a foot and a half high — one hundred 

 or more flowers on a single stalk! It is a prodigv 

 of bloom and the very perfection of formal beauty. 

 But, alas, the foliage turns yellow and begins to 

 decay just before the floral display begins. This 

 defect can be only partially hidden by setting the 

 bulbs in the middle of a hardy border among 

 plants that will be a foot high by the middle of June. 

 Who can tell us the most effective way of growing 

 those lovely flowers — the English irises ? They 

 bloom in June, too late for spring bedding and 

 seem to be used for dotting in mixed flower beds. 

 Is there any way of massing them without giving 

 up a bed to them for a whole year? Can they 

 be combined with stocks or China asters? 



It is hard to believe that so lovely a flower as 

 Allium Moly belongs to the onion family, and, 

 fortunately, it does not possess enough of the 

 alliaceous odor to be objectionable in a flower 

 garden. It has large umbels of yellow flowers in 

 June, and makes splendid clumps in hardy borders 

 or shrubberies. It is an old European plant 

 sometimes called the "golden garlic." 



Why not naturalize this golden garlic on some 

 American estate as they do in England? What 

 yellow flower of June can you name that has equal 

 beauty and ease of culture? I saw the bulbs 

 offered last fall for only $5 a thousand. What a 

 lovely sight a thousand of these would make in 

 some New York or Pennsylvania meadow, where 

 they would probably hold their own and multiply 

 year after year. If you act on this suggestion 

 won't you take a photograph for The Garden 

 Magazine, or give us a chance to? 



New York W. M. 



A Difficult Anemone to Grow 



LAST summer, in The Garden Magazine, 

 there appeared various reports, mostly dis- 

 couraging, regarding the results from planting 

 Anemone blanda, which had been highly praised 

 the year before. I, however, have had such 

 pleasing success that I would not be afraid to 

 plant them in large numbers. 



In July, 1907, I ordered the roots, about fifty 

 in number, and planted them in September imme- 

 diately upon receipt. They were set about twenty 

 feet from the house, along a path leading toward 

 the gardens. The spot is sheltered from the coldest 

 winds and quite sunny in the early spring, when 

 neighboring trees and shrubs are bare. The 

 soil was sandy and poor, so I dug in a little fine 

 bone. On the approach of winter I covered them 

 with two inches of leaves and a few boards. 



The following spring a large proportion of the 

 plants appeared, sending up flowers of the most 

 beautiful purple. In the fall I again gave slight 

 protection and this spring they bloomed more 

 freely, the bed keeping its beauty for quite three 

 weeks. 



My success I attribute to fresh, sound roots 

 (they do not bear transportation and keeping very 

 well), prompt planting, and a slight covering to 

 protect them from "throwing" in the uncertain, 

 changeable winters we usually have in this section. 



Massachusetts. Thomas L. Sprague. 



