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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1910 



Here Is This Little Greenhouse Again 



We have already shown it to you, but somehow it seems like 

 just the thing for a good many of you readers. 

 It is twenty-five feet long and has a center and two side benches. 

 The proportionate cost of a small house may seem high, if you 

 figure the potting room in, but if you already have a suitable 

 building to which the greenhouse may be attached, you are that 

 much better off. You see this greenhouse is of the curved eave, 

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Muak Melon, Hungarian Pineapple — Finest flavored, sweetest 

 and most aromatic of all musk melons. Flesh deep red, very 

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Klondike Cucumber — 6 to 7 inches long, extremely early, very 

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 Hew Coreless Tomato— Large size, globe shaped, bright red. 

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 Average weight 12 ounces. Regular price 1 0c. 



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The NEW ENGLAND NURSERIES, INC., Bedford, Mass. 



three varieties; Bignonia crucigera, cross vine; 

 and Decumarea barbara, have become thoroughly 

 established in the three years since planting. Last 

 April and May these were supplemented by Tecoma 

 grandiflora, T. Thunbergii, T. "Mad. Galen," 

 Actinidia arguta, Akebia quinata, Aristolochia 

 macrophylla, Gelsemium sempervirens, Trachelo- 

 spermum difforme, Vitis Coignetias, V. .Henry, 

 Ampelopsis heterophylla, A. Lowi, A. Veitchii 

 (tricuspidata) and its variety robusta purpurea, 

 Polygonum Baldschuanicum and P. multiflorum. 

 Most of these are of course hardy there; in fact the 

 Gelsemium is the only one which may reasonably 

 be considered doubtful. Among the trees and 

 large shrubs I have planted Magnolia grandiflora, 

 Lagerstroemia indica, and Laurocerasus Schipk- 

 aensis. Next year I want to plant Albizzia, Citrus 

 trifoliata, and quite a number of other things in the 

 same class as to hardiness. 



None of the plants above mentioned have ever 

 been tested in that particular part of the country 

 so far as I know; but I am judging of the possibilities 



The cross vine and Cherokee rose growing in the 

 outskirts of Washington, D. O. 



by an intimate knowledge of the indigenous flora, 

 which (locally) includes the cross vine, Aristolo- 

 chia tomentosa, Cocculus Carolinus, Ampelopsis 

 cordata and bipinnata, mistletoe, cane (Arundinaria 

 tectd), cypress (Taxodium), water locust {Gleditschia 

 aquatica), Ilex decidua, Crataegus cordata, TJlmus 

 alata, Quercus lyrata, pagodazjolia and Michauxii, 

 Forestiera acuminata, and a whole lot more dis- 

 tinctively southern species. Not all of these, it is 

 true, grow naturally in the vicinity of my place, but 

 they are characteristic components of the flora 

 along the Wabash River a few miles to the eastward, 

 where the climate conditions are precisely the same, 

 only the soil and other purely local conditions being 

 different. In the town nearest my place (two and 

 a half miles distant) are two of the finest specimens 

 of Magnolia glauca I have ever seen anywhere, 

 each being at least twenty feet high and finely 

 developed in every way. 



The Constance Elliott passion-flower is also 

 perfectly hardy here. A neighbor in Brookland 

 had a vine completely covering a summer-kitchen 

 extension to his dwelling. 



I have gone thus into detail in order to show 

 you why I think many southern trees, shrubs and 

 vines are likely to prove hardy much farther north 

 than the limits usually assigned them. I really 

 believe that there is reason, in fact need, for much 

 experimenting along the debatable line. As to 

 my own experiments there may be some disap- 

 pointments in store for me — indeed I expect some, 

 for my selections will include some very doubtful 

 things — but there is nothing like actual demon- 

 stration and the experiments are worth trying. 



Washington, D. C. Robert Ridgway. 



