May, 1911 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



237 



Gomphrena globosa, Globe amaranth: 



White, red and yellow varieties. 

 Lantana: Craigi, Ultima. 

 Nicoliana affinis, Flowering tobacco 

 Nicoliana Sanderae. 

 Nierembergia frutescens, Cup flower 

 Petunia hybrida: Single varieties 

 Phlox Drummondi: White, pink, and dark red 



varieties. 

 Portulaca grandiflora, Rose moss or Sunplant 

 Salvia splendens, Scarlet sage: Bonfire, Zurich. 

 Tagetes erecta, African marigold 

 Torenia Fournieri, Wishbone plant 

 Tropceolum minus, Dwarf nasturtium 

 Verbena hybrida, Various colors, separate 

 Verbena erinoides. 

 Vinca alba, and var. rosea 

 Zinnia elegans, Youth and old age: various colors, 



separate. 



FOLIAGE PLANTS 



Abutilon: Savitzi, Souv. de Bonn, Thompsoni 



Acalypha tricolor 



Achyranthes. See Iresine 



Alternanthera paronychioides. Also vars. aurea 



nana, rosea nana, and brilliantissima 

 Amaranthus tricolor, Joseph's Coat 

 Caladium marmoratum 

 Centaurea gymnocarpa, Dusty Miller 

 Coleus: Golden Bedder, Verschaffelti 

 Colocasia antiquorum 



(Caladium esculentem, Elephant's ear) 

 Croton: Many forms, bunched 

 Echeveria secunda, var. glauca 

 Eranthemutn albo-marginatum, atropurpureum and 



tricolor 

 Iresine (Achyranthes) Lindeni, var. brilliantissima 



Lindeni, Emersoni, Borbonica 

 Oxalis corniculata, var. atropurpurea 

 Peristrophe angustifolia, var. aurea variegata 

 Piqueria serrata, var. variegata (Stevia). 

 Santolina Chamcecyparissus , Lavender cotton 

 Sedum acre and Kamtschaticum, var. variegatum. 

 Stevia. See Piqueria 

 Talinum patens, var. variegata 



ACCORDING TO HEIGHT 



The plants used for carpet bedding, 

 strictly speaking, are in the first group: 



4 to 8 in. — Achyranthes, Alternanthera, Echeveria, 

 Oxalis, Peristrophe, Santolina, Sedum. 



8 to 12 in. — Ageratum, Alyssum, Begonia, Cuphea, 

 Lantana, Nierembergia, Phlox, Torenia, Ver- 

 bena. 



i to 2 ft. — Antirrhinum, Celosia cristala, Eschschol- 

 zia, Geranium, Gomphrena, Petunia, Salvia, 

 Tagetes, Tropsolum, Vinca, Zinnia, Abutilon 

 Savitzi, Caladium marmoratum, Coleus, Eran- 

 themum, Iresine, Piqueria, Talinum. 



2 to s ft. — For subtropical effects the following are 

 used: Canna, Croton, Caladium esculentum, 

 Musa and Pandanus. 



SOW THESE OUTDOORS 



Seeds of the following can be planted 

 directly in the beds, and as the plants 

 grow they should be thinned. If, how- 

 ever, they are wanted very early, or the 

 beds are filled with spring flowers, they 

 must be started indoors: 



Amaranthus Antirrhinum 



Eschscholzia Gomphrena 



Phlox Portulaca 



Tropaeolum 



START THESE UNDER GLASS 



The following are invariably started 

 under glass and handled once or twice to 

 two or three inch pots before setting out: 



Ageratum 



Alyssum 



Begonia 



Celosia 



Cosmos 



Nierembergia 



Nicotiana 



Petunia 



Salvia 



Tagetes 



Torenia 



Verbena 



Vinca 



Zinnia 



WHEN TO SOW 



The season for sowing seeds of plants to 

 be set out as early as the weather permits 

 is about as follows at St. Louis: 



Feb. i to 15. — Begonia. 



Feb. 15 to 28. — Alyssum, Salvia, Ageratum, Esch- 

 scholzia, Verbena, Antirrhinum, Petunia, 

 Phlox. 



March 1 to 15. — Cosmos, Torenia, Vinca, Gom- 

 phrena, Tropa»olum, Nierembergia. 



March 15 to 31. — Celosia, Portulaca, Zinnia, Ama- 

 ranthus, Tagetes, Nicotiana. 



GROW THESE FROM CUTTINGS 



These plants are grown from cuttings 

 made from stock plants brought in the 

 fall before: 



Cuphaa, Alyssum (double), Geranium, Lan- 

 tana and most of the foliage plants. Salvia is 

 usually treated in this way. Verbena and Portulaca, 

 to be sure of desired colors, are grown from cuttings 

 of the seedlings. 



STORE THESE BULBS 



Cannas, Caladium marmoratum and 

 Colocasias are stored under benches with 

 some soil and in February and March are 

 divided, potted and started into growth 

 on greenhouse benches. 



WHEN TO SET OUT PLANTS 



Some of the collection can be set out 

 in the beds very early even when all 

 danger of frost is not past, others are 

 very sensitive even to cold nights and 

 must not be set out until summer weather 

 prevails and the ground is warm, or about 

 June 1. 



Early. — Alyssum, Antirrhinum, Centaurea, 

 Eschscholzia, Nierembergia, Oxalis, Petunia, 

 Phlox, Santolina, Sedum, Verbena. 



Second group. — Cuphsa, Nicotiana, Portulaca, 

 Tagetes, Torenia, Tropaeolum, Vinca, Zinnia. 



Late. — Ageratum, Begonia, Canna, Celosia, Ger- 

 anium, Gomphrena, Lantana, Salvia, and the 

 foliage plants not mentioned before. 



Why Not GrOW NutS? By Robert T. Morris, 



Connec- 

 ticut 



THE AWAKENING INTEREST IN A BIG POSSIBILITY — VALUABLE FOOD CROPS THAT CAN BE GROWN 

 EASILY IN ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY— WHAT WE OUGHT TO DO TO GET PROPERLY STARTED 



[Editor's Note. — The author of this article, Dr. Robert T. Morris, devotes his leisure moments to the development of nut culture, and if an active factor in 

 promoting the present-day interest. At his country home he has been collecting and growing various nuts for years past, and he writes with authority] 



\\7"E> IMPORT into the United States 

 * ^ every year several million dollars' 

 worth of nuts and nut products which 

 could be furnished at home as well as not. 

 We might raise in fact very large quanti- 

 ties of nuts for shipment abroad. North 

 America is particularly well supplied with 

 indigenous species and varieties of ' nut 

 trees, and most of the species and varieties 

 from all parts of the world may be grown 

 on various soils in our climates, latitudes, 

 and altitudes corresponding to those from 

 which foreign trees are brought. In some 

 parts of the world nuts of various kinds 

 furnish the staple supply of food for the 

 people, practically taking the place of 

 the potato, but in North America as yet 

 nuts are grouped rather among the luxuries. 

 Within a comparatively short time large 

 nut orchards have been developed in this 

 country, chiefly in the Gulf States and on 

 the Pacific Coast, where the pecan, the 



walnut, and almond bring a very respect- 

 able revenue, which is increasing with 

 rapidity, thousands of acres each year 

 being set out to orchards of grafted nut 

 trees of desirable kinds. Farther north, 

 chestnut orchards have been established, 

 and large annual incomes are derived from 

 a few such orchards. 



The work of nut culture is rapidly 

 becoming organized, and several books and 

 periodicals are devoted wholly or large- 

 ly to the subject. The National Nut 

 Growers' Association, with its annual meet- 

 ings, bulletins, and committee work, takes 

 charge of the subject as a whole, and 

 the Northern Nut Growers' Association, 

 recently established, has for its aim the 

 development of nut growing as a profit- 

 able industry in the more northern parts 

 of the country. Dr. F. C. Wilson, of 

 Poulan, Ga., Secretary of the National 

 Nut Growers' Association, and Dr. W. C. 



Deming, of Westchester, New York City, 

 Secretary of the Northern Nut Growers' 

 Association, are engaged in disseminating 

 information to all applicants who are 

 interested in the subject. 



The walnut (Juglans regia), which is 

 hardy as far north as southern Ontario 

 in Canada, and which thrives on properly 

 selected grounds, is perhaps the most 

 widely distributed of the nut trees now 

 being grown in the world. Coming from 

 Persia originally, this species of tree has 

 been carried to practically all parts of the 

 temperate world in both hemispheres, and 

 through selection of types has been made 

 to adapt itself in a very cosmopolitan way, 

 although much work remains to be done 

 in breeding the walnut for development 

 of desirable types for cultivation in North 

 America. We have several indigenous 

 walnuts, the common black walnut, the 

 butternut, the California black walnut, 



