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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



September, 1910 



From the greatest 

 stars of grand opera 

 clear through to 

 "Bones" and "Tambo" 

 of the minstrel show — 

 on the Victor. 



In between there's charming 

 vaudeville sketches, band and 

 orchestra music, symphonies, spe- 

 cial dance music, comic songs, bal- 

 lads, sacred selections — everything 

 that the heart may desire. 



And all played and sung in the 

 world's best way, as the Victor alone 

 can play them. 



The proof is in the hearing. Any Victor dealer 

 will gladly play any Victor music you want to hear. 



And there's a Victor as low as $10. Others up 

 to $250. Victor Records, 60 cents to $7. Easy terms 

 can be arranged with your dealer, if desired. 



The Victor Record catalog lists more than 3000 

 selections — both single- and double-faced records. 

 Same high quality — only difference is in price. Buy 

 double-faced if the combination suits you. 



And be sure to hear 

 the Victor- Victrola 



Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N. J., U. S. A. 



Berliner Grainoplione Co., Montreal, Canadian Distributors. 



To get best results, use only Victor Needles on Victor Records. 



SHIS MASTERS VOIC 



New Victor Records are on sale at all dealers on the 28th of each month 



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measure by clean culture, supplemented, in the 

 case of necessity, by the use of poisoned baits. 

 These latter are simply clover or lettuce leaves 

 dipped in strong Paris green water or a similar 

 mixture of arsenate of lead and put in the vicinity 

 of the plants. This bait is of most value in the 

 case of cutworm injury, but of less service if green 

 fruit worms are responsible for the damage, since 

 the latter do not retire to the soil nightly. The 

 keeping down of weeds simply makes die sur- 

 roundings less attractive to the parent moths and 

 there is less danger, on that account, of infestation. 



Garden Gossip 



CAN any one tell us where crocuses have been 

 naturalized for a long time on a splendid 

 scale, increasing by thousands yearly without care ? 

 What a magnificent colored photograph could be 

 made from such a scene. At Whitehouse, Scotland, 

 there is a big patch of crocuses that may possibly 

 date back to the time of James V. Rabbits destroy 

 crocuses in Great Britain unless the ground is 

 enclosed, and even then mice and moles make 

 trouble. As field mice are supposed to do 

 $3,000,000 worth of damage every year in America 

 it is unlikely that we shall see hillsides covered 

 with crocuses. But daffodils are practical. 



Ever hear of the "petroleum plant?" British 

 peasants sometimes transpose " Tropseolurn " into 

 "petroleum." "Nasturtium" ought to be a good 

 enough name for common use, but we all like to 

 imitate our betters. 



Our best evergreen tree of columnar habit is 

 the red cedar, which is invaluable for formal gar- 

 dens. If you buy any nursery-grown specimens be 

 sure to specify plants grown from seed — not from 

 cuttings. The latter are cheaper, but Sir Herbert 

 Maxwell says "gradually they assume the appear- 

 ance of branches stuck in the ground, or they send 

 up a crowd of sticks instead of one straight 

 leader." 



Perhaps we were too enthusiastic about our 

 native red pine {Pinus resinosa) as a substitute for 

 the Scotch (P. sylvestris). Mr. John Boddy, 

 formerly city forester of Cleveland, says the wood- 

 peckers make holes in it, gum oozes out, and then 

 the trunk becomes rough and warty. 



Mr. T. G. Phillips, the landscape gardener of 

 Detroit, Mich., says that perennial flowers are 

 unsuitable for shrubbery beds in a public park 

 because, after blooming, they die down or look 

 shabby. 



A mile of snowdrops! Sir Herbert Maxwell says 

 he saw acres of snowdrops — snowdrops by the 

 million — in woods sloping toward the Firth of 

 Clyde at Ardgowan. One often sees pictures of 

 snowdrops by the 10,000 in English magazines. 

 There is no reason why we cannot have that sort 

 of thing here. Snowdrops multiply for years with- 

 out care, and they are cheap, only $8 for 1,000 

 bulbs — less than a cent apiece. Fortunately, 

 wild animals do not eat the bulbs. No one knows 

 exactly why, but even rabbits will not touch them. 



Myriads of winter aconites! Well, that is "going 

 some," too. They are naturalized on this scale 

 at Stocken Hall, Lincolnshire, blooming in January 

 and February, golden cups in a setting of English 

 ivy and evergreen grass. Crocuses will open 

 only in full sunshine, but Eranthis hyemalis opens 

 in spite of cold and storm. We have the most 

 perplexing accounts of it in America. Some nice 

 old ladies have been able to grow it vdthout care. 

 On a Tuxedo estate 500 tubers failed to yield a 

 single bloom. Perhaps this is the secret. Sir 

 Herbert Maxwell says "they simply rot if they are 

 set out in close turf. The proper way to naturalize 

 them is to grow them for a season in rows in rather 

 a sandy border; in the following spring, when the 

 bloom is fading, take them up carefully with as 

 much soil as wiU stick to them, and plant them 

 where you would have them grow permanently." 

 Fortunately rabbits will not touch them. Have 

 you a good big patch that is increasing ? 



The English value our native scarlet ' trumpet 

 honeysuckle so highly that they sometimes grow 

 it in greenhouses, and the great horticulturist 

 Nicholson pronounced it the most beautiful of all 

 honeysuckles. In spite of its name (Lonicera 

 sempervirens) it is not evergreen in the North, 

 though it is hardy as far north as Long Island. 



