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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1911 



Time To Think 



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 VASES BENCHES PEDESTALS 



Grow this Beautiful Rose 

 in Your Garden. 



The Climbing American Beauty Rose was originated by 

 us — a cross between the American Beauty and a seedling 

 of one of our hardy climbing roses. It will thrive and bloom 

 wherever a climbing or pillar 

 rose will. It has the same ex- 

 quisitely fra- 

 grant, rosy-crim- 

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 inches in diameter— 

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 occasional ly 

 throughout the 

 season. The 

 leaves of our 



Climbing 



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Beauty 



are large, bright, 

 glossy green and the 

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 _ and attractive 

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 part of a photograph of one Climbing American Beauty in bloom. 

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ground. There will be far better plants if the 

 early spring is not abnormally warm. The article 

 on sweet peas published in the August, 1910, 

 Garden Magazine explains fully how to be 

 successful with fall-planting. 



Almost all city gardens are provided with run- 

 ning water and hose, which means insurance against 

 drought and does away with the necessity of pro- 

 viding mulches in hot weather. For sweet peas 

 in city gardens wire trellises are commonly used, 

 but they are troublesome to put up and take down, 

 and the sweet peas burn on them. Brush is very 

 good, but is hard to obtain; a horizontal string 

 trellis is much the best thing for the city garden. 



To make such a trellis, get from a lumber yard 

 or planing mill some strips of soft wood one inch 

 thick and two inches wide. Usually these come 

 in 16-foot lengths, and one such length can be 

 sawed into two or three parts, each eight feet or 

 five and one-third feet long. For sunny situations 

 the shorter pieces will be long enough to form the 

 posts of the sweet pea trellis, if driven so as to 

 stand four feet out of the ground. Where there is 

 shade the vines grow taller and the 8-foot lengths 

 are better. Sweet peas do better if they get a little 

 shade in the hottest days of summer, but too much 

 makes a vigorous growth of vines with few 

 flowers. Asters do best in full sunshine. 



The 1 -inch by 2-inch posts of the trellis should 

 be painted or stained, if you desire a neat appear- 

 ance, green being the most pleasing color. Each 

 post should be sharpened at the lower end for 

 driving into the soil and should have galvanized 

 wire staples, about three-eighths of an inch wide 

 and one and a half inches long, driven into it at 

 intervals of four inches, from a point one inch 

 below the top of the post to the ground line, two 

 feet from the pointed end in the case of 8-foot 

 posts. These staples are to hold the horizontal 

 strings that support the vines. Each string is 

 passed through a staple on each post, drawn 

 tightly, and tied around each end post. At one 

 end the strings are tied in a half bow knot, so 

 that they can be untied easily and the slack of 

 the strings taken up from time to time. Manila 

 twine, about one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter, 

 is satisfactory. Use new twine each season. At the 

 end of the blooming of the sweet peas run a knife 

 along each end post, severing the strings, which 

 can easily be pulled out. One advantage of hori- 

 zontal strings is that they need be used no higher 

 than the vines grow, and they can be put up one 

 or two at a time, as needed. 



In loose soil the posts can be driven quickly 

 to the right depth with the flat of a hatchet, hand 

 axe or heavy hammer; in hard soil make a hole 

 for each post with an iron bar. Set the two end 

 posts of each row first, making the tops the same 

 distance above ground. Then stretch lines be- 

 tween the tops and bottoms of these posts. The 

 bottom line will be a guide to setting the inter- 

 mediate posts and the top line will enable them to 

 be made of uniform height. Space the posts five to 

 eight feet apart. Diagonal braces between each 

 end post and the post next to it, made of the same 

 1x2 in. stuff, should be used, or brace the end 

 posts by means of tie lines, for the pull of the 

 strings is considerable and comes wholly on the 

 end posts. 



The asters are set out, when four or five inches 

 high, along each side of the sweet pea rows, being 

 raised from seed sown in the open ground in May. 

 The rows of asters should be eight or nine inches 

 from the sweet peas and the plants set eight to 

 twelve inches apart. If the sweet pea rows are 

 three feet apart, the aster rows will be uniformly 

 eighteen inches apart. Set the asters nine inches 

 from the sweet peas. Three feet will do in a small 

 city garden, but three and a half or four feet is 

 better, for it gives more working room and a better 

 chance for the development of the flowers. 



To put up or take down the posts of the hori- 

 zontal string trellis is the work of about an hour 

 for each one hundred feet of row. As soon as the 

 sweet peas are out of the way the posts should be 

 pulled up and stored. I have used the same posts 

 six years and they probably are good for two or 

 three years more The posts cost me about 

 one cent a lineal foot, delivered. The 'finest new 

 Spencers require much skill and care in their 

 cultivation, but they are worth it. 



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