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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1911 



it loves it for its 

 waxy, saucer-shaped 

 flowers, long, wiry 

 stems good for cut- 

 ting, ability to grow 

 in sun or shade, the 

 jolly big clumps it 

 makes without 

 spreading too much, 

 and the long sea- 

 son of bloom, for it 

 sometimes gives 

 scattering flowers 

 from spring to frost. 

 It is thoroughly 

 satisfactory as far 

 north as Ottawa, 

 where it blooms 

 about May 19th and 

 June 10th. 



Here we have 

 clearly the first sug- 

 gestion of the sum- 

 mer type of wind- 

 flower — the white 

 blossoms that make 

 the dogdays cooler 

 in the garden and 

 lend enchantment 

 to the woods, but 

 from these sylves- 

 tris differs in having 

 only one flower on 

 a stem, sometimes 

 two, while the Penn- 

 sylvania or Cana- 

 dian windflower has 

 several. It differs 

 from the garden 

 anemones in color 

 and in having a 

 creeping rootstock 

 instead of a tuber. 

 The most garden- 

 esque variety of it 

 is Eliza Fellman, a 

 double form, which 

 is said to produce 

 fewer but longer 

 lasting flowers. 



The snowdrop anemone in the garden 

 produces so many offsets in garden culti- 

 vation that these must be removed occa- 

 sionally, or the flower will deteriorate. 

 The loveliest way to use this flower is to 



The poppy anemone (A. coronaria) may be had in many colors either single or double 



colonize it along woodland walks where 

 it will get plenty of diffused light. 

 There is no prettier idea to be gotten 

 from a study of European woods during 

 its season. The roots can be bought in 



the fall from the 

 leading American 

 bulb dealers, and 

 cost about $3.50 

 per hundred. 



ANEMONES FOR 

 COLLECTORS 



On the Pacific 

 Coast there are two 

 representatives of 

 this group, A . Grayi 

 (or Oregana) with 

 blue or purplish 

 flowers, and A. del- 

 toidea with white 

 flowers. Neither 

 is catalogued, and 

 I do not know 

 their season of 

 bloom. 



A . Baicalensis has 

 been tested at Ot- 

 tawa and is consid- 

 ered a variety of syl- 

 vestris. 



The cyclamen- 

 leaved anemone (A. 

 palmata) sounds 

 interesting because 

 it is the only yellow 

 anemone of May 

 and June. Whether 

 it looks too much 

 like a buttercup I 

 cannot say, but Mr. 

 Robinson calls it a 

 "charming plant," 

 and Mr. Perry says 

 it has flowers as big 

 as half a dollar. 

 Though native to 

 Northern Africa, it 

 is hardy in England 

 and is said to in- 

 crease rapidly. 



AboW. twenty-five 

 named varieties of 

 the garden anem- 

 ones can be bought 

 from American and European bulb dealers 

 in the fall. The chrysanthemum-flowered 

 strain is interesting as having the petals 

 regularly overlapping, as in an aster or 

 chrysanthemum. 



A Rank Heresy That Pays-B y h. j. wilder, 



Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



UNUSUAL CROP MANAGEMENT THAT IS MORE PROFITABLE THAN THE ORTHODOX PRACTICE — A ROTATION 

 FOR NEW ENGLAND FARMERS WHO CANNOT COMPETE WITH THE GRAIN PRODUCERS OF THE WHEAT BELT 



THE principal method of crop rotation 

 in the northeastern part of the 

 United States is the time-honored one 

 of corn, followed by oats, then wheat, 

 then grass. This system may still yield 

 a profit, under good management, on 

 farms with medium to heavy soils; that 

 is, heavy loams, silt loams, and clay loams. 

 In the North Central States, also in 



Iowa and in parts of the states which 

 adjoin her in the mid-Mississippi basin, 

 where the great majority of soil areas are 

 of the class mentioned, this standard 

 rotation has paid, and where the valuation 

 of land is not too high this plan of soil 

 management brings fairly good financial 

 returns at the present time. In fact the 

 returns there are so good that farmers in 



New England, New York, New Jersey, 

 and Pennsylvania — states containing a 

 much higher percentage of lighter soils 

 and others that give poor yields of cereals 

 — find it impossible to compete in the 

 production of oats and wheat with the 

 Middle Western States, where soil and 

 other conditions are better adapted to 

 the production of these cereals. 



