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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May. 1911 



Wagner's Beautiful 

 Box and Bay Trees 



Dignify the entrance to your place 

 with these famous evergreens, plant 

 them in decorative masses on the 

 lawn, use them on the piazzas. Noth- 

 ing is so indispensable to fine plant- 

 ing effects. 



Vigorous, Symmetrical Box- 

 trees. Each in artistic, mis- 

 sion plant-boxes : — 

 '.1 Bush Box, 18 in. high, $1.75 

 ea.; pair, $3.00 

 Bush Box, 24 in. high, $2.50 ea. ; pair, $4.50 



Above are fine, broad oval-shape trees. 



Pyramidal Box, 24 in. high, $3.00ea. ; pair, $5.50 



Pyramidal Box, 30 in. high, $3.50 ea.;pair,$6.SO 



West of Rockies shipped not planted to reduce expense. 



Wagner's Superb Bay Trees from $3 to $29. 



Planted either in tubs or mission plant-boxes. 



Our catalogue ' 'Plants and Plans for Beautiful Stirround- 



ings" shows Wagner' s Box and Bay Trees in all sizes. X/et 



us send you this book. 



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THE HOME CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL 



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Single Chrysanthemums Treated 

 as Annuals 



A GOOD many years ago when I was a small 

 boy, I coveted the big chrysanthemums 

 I saw in October in the florists' windows, and one 

 spring, with the hope and ignorance of youth, I 

 tried to raise these same from a packet of seed 

 labelled: "Double chrysanthemums, Chrysan- 

 themum coronarium fl. pi." It has taken twenty 

 years to obliterate the disappointment I felt 

 when the little yellow and white button blossoms 

 appeared. But it is all gone now, for I am happy 

 in having raised chrysanthemums which will 

 satisfy my soul, raised them in a single summer 

 from seed and had them bloom in my garden 

 as I had planned those others should so many years 

 ago. 



These, however, are not the great fluffy balls, 

 one to a plant, in cold climates raised chiefly by 

 florists under glass, but a race of single daisy-like 

 flowers recently developed from the big Japanese 

 chrysanthemums and blooming outdoors in Septem- 

 ber and October with dozens of flowers on plants 

 never over three feet high. These had been grown 

 for a year or two in England where they had been 

 introduced by their raiser, W. Wells of Merstham, 

 but it was not until last spring that I saw the seed 

 listed in American catalogues and decided to try 

 chrysanthemums from seed again. Sown in 

 nice, fine, open soil in a seed flat, the last day of 

 April, they quickly germinated, grew apace and a 

 month later were put about eighteen inches apart 

 in the garden, where they have since needed no 

 care other than the occasional weeding, watering, 

 and cultivation which all annuals must have to 

 get good results. Briefly what they ask is the 

 treatment given to asters and you will get loads of 

 flowers, coming just as the asters pass out and 

 lasting well into October. Moreover, they seem 

 to be very healthy and resistant, having given 

 flowers in New Jersey after io degrees of frost 

 had visited the garden. This lateness is probably 

 their greatest claim to notice, for our fall gardens 

 sadly need their bright reds and pinks at a time of 

 the year when the blue Michaelmas daisies and 

 yellow perennial sunflowers furnish most of the 

 color. 



Let me describe some of their characteristics. 

 In growth they vary very considerably, some being 

 dwarf and compact, not over a foot high, almost 

 balls of bloom; others taller and more free and 

 graceful, a few almost three feet high and what 

 might be called rangy in habit, and one or two so 

 weedy I pulled them up. I might add here that 

 as they early show their habit of growth, the taller 

 ones can be put where they will look best and the 

 dwarfs used as edging. In form, too, the flowers 

 vary from those having a single row of petals to 

 those having half a dozen rows, the former being 

 the more graceful, the latter lasting better in the 

 hot sun. Here there should and undoubtedly 

 will be considerable improvement in the shape and 

 finish of the individual flowers and in the reduction 

 of the size of the yellow centre. Average flowers 

 are about an inch and a half to three inches in 

 diameter, but let them not be despised for their 

 size, for on an undisbudded plant it is easy to count 

 a hundred open flowers at once besides many 

 buds to come. The color range is remarkable — 

 from pure white through pale lilac and rose pinks 

 to crimson, and from pale yellow through orange 

 and bronze to terracotta, besides many delightful 

 combinations of yellow and pink and yellow and 

 red, and some quite like cinerarias in that the 

 rose-petalled flowers have an aureole of white 



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