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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



October, 1910 



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Oxide of Zinc is unalterable even 

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We do not grind Oxide of Zinc in oil. 



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Elliott once said: "One of the prettiest floral 

 pictures we have ever seen was a great mass of 

 this in one of the meadows of Franklin Park, 

 Boston. It completely covered the ground and 

 had piled itself up in a pleasing tangled mass of 

 green foliage and white and pink bloom." I can 

 well believe it, for that is precisely what it is de- 

 termined to do in my garden. It is only two years 

 since a kind-hearted metropolitan gardener gave 

 me a few scraggly pieces of it with such a paucity 

 of roots that I fea,red they would not grow; but, 

 although I have taken off some for at least thirty 

 friends, I am already up against the problem of 

 how to have some of it without having too much. 

 I rather guess crown vetch was not built for a well- 

 conducted garden. I once saw it running wild 

 on a low bank by a roadside, and I fancy such a 

 place or the top of a wall that is even with the 

 ground on one side is a wiser choice of site. Cer- 

 tainly it is a beautiful plant, not well enough known 

 by half. 



And there are other flowers for a ten-acre lot 

 that cause one to doubt whether the "open door" 

 is an unmixed blessing for the garden, no matter 

 how interesting the experiment may be. For 

 instance, there is the Jerusalem artichoke {Heli- 

 anthus tuherosa) — its roots good to eat, but never 

 seen around our way excepting as an "escape." 

 I just naturally thought that a little of it would 

 look fine in a hardy border come September, when 



Giant knot weed (rear) and crown vetch (fore- 

 ground) making themselves too much at home In a 

 border, 



its handsome yellow blossoms should appear on 

 the garden sky-line. A little did look fine, but 

 never since has there been a little, and this year I 

 actually have had to grub it out with all the industry 

 of a hog — who is as fond of the tuberosa part as 

 I am of the helianthus. Iris, peony, and phlox 

 clumps held it in close embrace, and for every tuber 

 broken in the ground half a dozen shoots sprang 

 up. I made the same mistake in giving border 

 room to some of the native asters. Laevis, Novje 

 Anglias, and a few others are all that is admirable 

 in point of behavior as well as autumnal beauty, 

 but there are a couple of the common white asters 

 that, much as I admire their fleecy clouds of bloom, 

 I have had to banish to our hedgerow because they 

 persist in making an underground route to every 

 choicer herbaceous plant within a radius of a yard 

 or more, as well as cropping up all over the inter- 

 vening spaces. The much finer cultivated white 

 aster, "Snowflake," has the same bad habit, and a 

 single plant a year old is even now altogether too 

 thoroughly imbued with the doctrine of territorial 

 expansion. My obedient plant {Physoste^ia Vir- 

 ginica) and my helianthus "Soleil d'Or," set out 

 at the same time, are almost as bad, while two 

 seasons of the "California rose" {Convolvulus 

 Japonica) have given me enough stock to reestablish 

 it in the town whence it had departed save for one 

 garden. 



These are the worst of the plants that mistake a 

 border for a ten-acre lot, for the reason that they 



