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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1910 



SPECIAL SEED OFFER 



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 Send us this amount either in two cent stamps or 

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Beet, Improved Blood Turnip; Lettuce, May King; 

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 are budded on very hardy stems about 4 to 5 feet 

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and gooseberry belong. They are just 

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 bush form grows. These little trees are 

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 the garden. The berries are much larger and 

 sweeter and so much easier to pick than when 

 raised on a bush. The trees we otTer are all 

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degrees in February, in the teeth of a southwest 

 blizzard, with the thermometer outside at zero. 

 Ordinarily the temperature at night was about 58. 

 On bright, sunny days, even when the weather is 

 cold, the temperature runs into the 8o's in a sur- 

 prising way, and ventilation is given by raising 

 the lid. Danger from high temperature is lessened 

 by having the frame open into the cellar, which 

 permits the excessive heat to escape and generally 

 modifies the temperature to fairly safe degrees, 

 just as it helps to keep the frame warm when the 

 weather is cold. 



Last spring plants for the family garden were suc- 

 cessfully started here, including beets, cabbage, 

 cauliflower, chard, kohlrabi, and lettuce; and later, 

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 dow and start your early seedlings in it. Remove 

 the window sash, and the plants can be cared for, 

 in all kinds of -weather, from inside 



frame, good plants of tomatoes, egg plants, peppers, 

 cucumbers, muskmelon and English marrow were 

 successfully forwarded. Of course, in so small 

 a space not many plants of each kind can be raised, 

 and a good deal of management is required in the 

 way of getting the hardier plants started first and 

 getting them out of the way for the tenderer ones 

 when the weather grows milder. This sort of 

 frame is a great help in advancing the kitchen gar- 

 den, and it is just as effective with flowers. 

 Indiana. Wood Levette Wilson. 



The Grandest Bog Lilies 



THE most gorgeous lily we have east of the 

 Rockies is the one that has been well named 

 Lilium superbum. It has flowers about four inches 

 across, orange, spotted with dark purple, and of 

 the Turk's cap type, i. e. the flowers are drooping 

 and the petals rolled far back. It blooms in August. 

 In sunny meadows or in garden conditions this lily 

 may grow only three feet high and bear four to ten 

 flowers, but in American bog gardens it towers to 

 a height of eight or ten feet, each stem being crowned 

 with a great pyramid of bloom, often containing 

 twenty and sometimes thirty flowers. The species 

 nearest like it on the Pacific Coast are Humboldt's 

 lily and the leopard lily, both of which do better in 

 England than L. superbum. 



Second to superbum among practicable lilies for 

 the bog garden I should rank the Canadian wood- 

 lily {Lilium Canadense), which bears red or yellow 

 bells in July. The European dealers take pains 

 to separate these two varieties and they even have 

 a third color, viz., orange. I saw all three at Iver 

 Heath, and it was a pleasure to see them doing better 

 in an artificial bog garden than I had ever seen 

 them in nature. 



It is customary to speak of "bog lilies," but I 

 hope that no one will imagine that the bulbs them- 

 selves like constant dampness. I would have no 

 stagnant moisture in a bog garden, for it breeds 

 sourness and scum and very few plants worth grow- 

 ing can stand it. The ideal is moving moisture — 

 an unfailing water supply combined with perfect 

 drainage. The bulbs of bog lilies should be a few 

 inches above the line of constant moisture. 



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