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March, 1911 



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hardiness of this fine old hydrangea — it was 

 introduced to western cultivation in 1790 — is on 

 the grounds of Mr. Neils Poulson's place on the 

 Shore Road, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. There a 

 sturdy hedge of the plant is used to define the 

 easterly boundary line, and it does so very beauti- 

 fully. This hedge was planted eighteen or twenty 

 years ago and has endured the winters without 

 any special care being given to it, and with no 

 protection whatever. 



In another part of outlying Brooklyn I have 

 seen an enormous plant that has lived out- 

 of-doors years beyond memory, and this within 

 a stone's throw of salt water. Two more are 

 thriving in ordinary city back yards, and they 

 not only have no protection but are grossly 

 neglected. 



Originally the Poulson hydrangeas were pink, 

 but the color has changed to blue and the tones seem 

 to get deeper each year. Last summer it was the 

 darkest blue that I have ever seen on the hydrangea 

 and the line of hedge was a glorious sight. Al- 

 though Mr. Poulson is in the iron business, he has 

 not fed the hedge with that mineral, nor has he 

 used alum — the only other way I know of chang- 

 ing a pink hydrangea to blue. There is a great 

 deal of iron in the construction of the house, 



Hydrangea hortensis is hardy as far north as New 

 York and will live through the winter without 

 protection 



however, and no doubt the natural drainage has 

 carried it to the hedge in solution. Such presence 

 of iron in the soil explains the intense blue color 

 of the hydrangeas that grow in profusion in the 

 vale of Furnas, in the hot spring region of San 

 Miguel, Azores. 



The best tubbed specimens of the newer Otaksa 

 type that I have run across are nearly ten years 

 old, and have grown so cumbersome that they are 

 to be discarded very soon. They are made to 

 produce blue flowers by the use of iron filings in 

 the soil. Their wintering is in a cool shed cellar, 

 where they have nothing over them but are not 

 allowed to freeze. So far as I know, this type 

 has not the hardiness of the older one. B. G. 



A New Use for Burlap 



BE CAREFUL when watering seeds in flats. 

 Although I used a sprinkler with a very 

 fine rose, I found that I washed to the edges the 

 seeds in several flats of foxgloves, leaving the- 

 centre bare, while at the edges the plants were too 

 thick. After that I escaped further trouble by 

 soaking burlap in water and laying it on flats. 

 After the seedlings are up the danger of washing 

 them out is small. 



Burlap, by the way, is one of the handiest gar- 

 dening "tools." I use it to shade flats of seedlings, 

 placing it over sticks, a couple of feet long, nailed 

 to each corner of the box, shade transplanted 

 plants with it, and in the fall protect from frost 

 the best of the dahlias. With the present prices 

 of lumber, it is more economical to use over seed- 

 beds than the orthodox lath screen, and appears 

 to give just as good results. 



Iowa. R. P. J. 



