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May, 1911 



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Nasturtiums as a Screen 



I ONCE heard a man say that his wife wanted a 

 lot of nasturtiums right against the front of 

 their house where it was sunny, but that he was 

 unable to gratify her wish because of the fact that 

 there was not enough loam there to hold any seeds. 

 I suggested that he use boxes to hold the loam but 

 he disapproved. Shortly afterward I visited his 

 home. There was a lattice in the front of the 

 house that rose from the granolithic pavement to 

 the flooring of the veranda. This would be an 

 ideal place for the vines but there was no loam. 

 Then came the happy thought: Why not plant 

 the seeds underneath the veranda and lead the 

 tendrils through the lattice to be strung on chicken 



These nasturtiums, by the end of summer, had 

 completely covered this lattice 



netting in front of the lattice? Success was still 

 doubtful, for the space under the veranda was 

 found piled high wich boards and when these were 

 removed the loam looked anything but healthy. 

 But we dug it over and were delighted to find 

 enough good loam there to answer our purpose. 

 Manure was applied before the seeds were sown 

 in wooden boxes. When they were about three 

 or four inches high they were transplanted to just 

 behind the lattice under the veranda and left to 

 themselves. The plants grew rapidly; the pro- 

 tected spot where they were put served as a sort 

 of hotbed as it had a southerly exposure. The 

 vines pushed through the lattice and quickly 

 attached themselves to the wires. 



Before the end of the summer the front of that 

 porch was a mass of green. 



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Anemones — A Note From 

 England 



AFTER reading Mr. Wilhelm Miller's article 

 on anemones in the January, 191 1, Garden 

 Magazine, Mr. William Robinson of London, 

 England, the author of "The English Flower 

 Garden" writes us as follows: 



"There seems to me no reason in stating that the 

 blue wood anemone is an American variety. I 

 first saw it at the base of a wall in the Oxford 

 Botanic Gardens many years ago. The curator 

 gave me some roots of it and told me that he had 

 gotten it from a friend in Ireland. It has now 

 spread to almost everywhere that hardy flowers are 

 thought of. I have noticed that in Irish woods, 

 with gritty and free soil, the wood anemone varies 

 a good deal and one may see several forms of it 

 in one piece of woodland. This form, I think, 

 arose in the same way. Hereabouts in our weal- 

 den soil the wood anemone keeps to one pale form. 

 There are various forms of blue and purple wood 

 anemone in our country, but none of the clear 

 color of Robinsoniana." 



