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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1910 



SPRAY 



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The garden fence makes an excellent support for 

 ornamental gourds 



Sow seed of late garden and sweet peas early in 

 March. 



Sow seed now of nasturtiums in boxes or in hot- 

 beds. They will be ready for transplanting to 

 open ground about the first of April. Take up 

 some of the soil with the roots so that transplanting 

 will not check their growth. The new variegated 

 leaf sorts are well worth a trial, but do not plant 

 them in rich, nitrogenous soil, as it tends to increase 

 the green foliage at the expense of the variegated 

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 Volume VIII, page 15. 



Georgia. Thomas J. Steed. 



Southern Vines in Northern Climes 



IT IS not at all necessary, here in Washington 

 (or even in the somewhat more trying climate 

 of Southern Illinois in the same latitude) to build 

 a stone or brick wall in order to grow, out-of-doors, 

 the cross vine, Cherokee rose, or Carolina jasmine. 

 I have had all three growing on my place in the 

 outskirts of Washington, wholly unprotected, even 

 by mulching, for the past nineteen years; they have 

 never been injured by our coldest winters, even 

 during the severe one of 1898, when the ther- 

 mometer in our suburb reached twenty degrees 

 below zero (the Weather Bureau minimum in the 

 city being at the same time fifteen degrees below). 

 With the cross vine and Cherokee rose the only 

 difficulty was to keep them under control. They 

 both bloom early in May. 



The Gelsemium has not done so well, because 

 it was moved two or three years after its first plant- 

 ing from a sunny, somewhat protected position, in 

 loose and deep soil, to a porch terrace composed 

 of impervious clay (from well and cellar) and 

 directly exposed to the strongest and coldest north- 

 west winds. There it has maintained itself, never 

 killing back any, but growing very slowly, and it 

 has never bloomed since transplanting, more than 

 fifteen years ago. (It bloomed profusely during the 

 two or three years prior to its transplanting.) 



A small Cherokee rose (a cutting from my Brook- 

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 injury at my country place in Richland County, 111., 

 without any other protection than a slight mulching 

 of dead leaves; but I came near losing it (and many 

 other things) from the severe and prolonged drought 

 of last year. And this prompts the observation 

 that, while I do not remember to have ever lost 

 any tree or shrub from cold, I have lost many from 

 drought, and that in my experience the latter is by 

 far the more serious contingency in this climate. 



On my country place in Illinois I am experiment- 

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 with the view to testing their hardiness. Hedera 

 Helix, in its several varieties; Enonymus radicans, 



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