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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1911 



How to Protect 

 the Garden and 

 Crops-from the 

 Ravages of 

 Insects and 



Plant Diseases 



SPRAYING is the best insurance 

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shrubbery, in all of which places it may be left 

 to ramble at its own sweet will, since it never 

 looks so well as when absolutely untrained. As 

 to culture, it takes care of itself, if let alone. I 

 have had no trouble transplanting it, aside from 

 the length of the roots; but, unless it is absolutely 

 necessary, it is better not to disturb it. The pink 

 shades are hardier, but scarcely so beautiful as 

 the white, and comparatively uncommon, kind. 



The everlasting pea. an old-time vine worth plant- 

 ing. Hardy and vigorous 



The White Pearl is a new variety of the latter 

 with very large flowers. Both are as fine for 

 cutting as the sweet pea, though they lack its 

 fragrance. The blooming period is throughout 

 the summer and into the early fall. Barring a 

 pod or two for propagation, it is better not to 

 allow seed to form. The everlasting pea grows 

 freely from seed, but is ''slow as all get-out" about 

 coming up; it will wait a whole year if it pleases. 

 Propagation by division is accomplished most 

 easily by digging carefully at the side of the plant 

 in spring and working off one or more of the roots, 

 taking care not to break the brittle shoots. Good 

 bloom, in such a case, should not be looked for 

 until the second summer. Cuttings may be taken 

 also — in the fall, at the end of the blooming 

 period. H. S. A. 



The Hardiness of the Common 



Hydrangea 



THERE seems to be a pretty general misap- 

 prehension as to the hardiness of Hydrangea 

 hortensis. the only common species in this country 

 before the introduction of H. panic-idata from Japan 

 in 1874. The "Cyclopedia of American Horticul- 

 ture" refers to it as "Hydrangea hortensis, which 

 cannot withstand much more than 10 degrees 

 of frost" and says further; "In warmer climates 

 . . sometimes used for ornamental hedges, 

 but it is not hardy in the north." It is hardy so 

 far north as New York City, however, as I know 

 from personal observation in at least four places. 

 And I have no doubt that the only reason why 

 it has not proved hardy in the part of Connecticut 

 with which I am most familiar is because the 

 experiment never has been tried; it was a tub 

 plant when my grandmother was a girl and a tub 

 plant it is now, with the cellar as its fixed winter 

 home. 

 The most striking New York example of the 



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