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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1911 



suckle, slender-stalked honeysuckle, Ramanas 

 rose, wayfaring tree, cranberry bushes. 



STREET TREES 



The longest-lived trees and the cheapest to 

 maintain are the sugar, red and Norway maples 

 and the pin and red oaks. Elm seems doomed. 

 Box elder, silver maple and poplars are short- 

 lived. Horse chestnut and catalpa make too 

 much litter. 



TEA HOUSE FOR CHILDREN 



The Camperdown elm, formerly trained for this 

 purpose, is now subject to many insect troubles. 

 Weeping mulberry will doubtless live longer and 

 needs no spraying. 



TREES WITH TRIPLE ATTRACTIONS 



The following are attractive in flower, fruit, 

 and foliage: Flowering dogwood, cockspur thorn, 



Washington thorn, European bird cherry, choke- 

 cherry, wild black cherry, garland crab, Japanese 

 crab, Siberian crab, swamp bay, large-leaved 

 magnolia, umbrella tree, cucumber tree, mountain 

 ash. 



TROPICAL EFFECTS 



The costliest to maintain and least appropriate 

 are tender plants, e. g., cannas, coleus, castor oil. 

 The long-lived and appropriate plants are the hardy 

 members of tropical families, e. g., hardy bamboos, 

 Aralia, honey locust, redbud, Siberian pea tree, 

 Cassia, wistaria. 



VINES FOR YEAR ROUND BEAUTY 



See Pergola. For winter attractions use English 

 ivy, climbing euonymus, native and Japanese 

 bittersweet. Hall's honeysuckle holds its leaves 

 through November. 



' WET PLACES 



The wrong thing is to fill them. The right thing 

 is to make a water garden or peat garden, and plant 

 flowers that will grow nowhere else, e. g., lady- 

 slippers and other hardy orchids; pitcher plants 

 and other insect-eating flowers; Shortia and other 

 exquisite members of the heath family; and bog- 

 loving lilies, e. g., Lilium superbum and Canadense. 



WINDBREAKS ALWAYS NECESSARY 



Few people realize the necessity of windbreaks. 

 They may save coal, make the kitchen garden 

 yield one or two months longer, make winter 

 playgrounds, and incidentally hide unsightly 

 objects. Why not save ten or twenty years by 

 transplanting large evergreens now? 



Red pine will last longer than Scotch or Austrian. 

 White spruce will last longer than Norway. Per- 

 haps tall cedars and small hemlocks will be best. 



Ready-Made Planting Tables for Any Garden-By E. L. D. Seymour, ss 



TELLING YOU EXACTLY WHAT, WHEN, WHERE AND HOW TO PLANT YOUR VEGETABLE GARDEN TO GET THE GREATEST 

 EFFICIENCY ACCORDING TO THE SPACE AVAILABLE — PRINCIPLES OF PLANNING TO HELP YOU FIT YOUR OWN PLOT 



or 



A GOOD many so-called "vegetable" 

 -*""*■ "kitchen-gardens," would be better 

 described as small plots, on each of which 

 is grown a little of a few kinds of vege- 

 tables "because they are easiest." A 



few hills of potatoes use up much of the 

 ground most of the season and then yield 

 enough for perhaps a score of meals. The 

 rest of the space may produce some beans, 

 turnips and corn, in varying amounts, 



but probably all in one crop, so that after 

 several feasts, the supply of that vege- 

 table ceases till the next year. 



Potatoes, corn and cabbage are actually 

 field crops and not suited to the very small 



The vegetable garden of a business man. from which nearly thirty dollars was saved last year. (See page 170) 



