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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 1910 



Stop the Caterpillars with Strokum 

 Bind It Around Your Trees 



DO IT NOW, don't wait 

 'till they have crawled 

 up and spun their webs 

 in the trees, and hatched out 

 by the thousands. It is easier 

 to prevent their going up than 

 it is to burn them out after 

 they are up. 



Don't wait until they are 

 dropping down by their silken 

 threads, to spin their cocoons 

 for another crop — stop the 

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Anyone can put Strokum 

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Caterpillars or tussockmoths 

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 Does not disfigure the tree. 

 Does not dry up and stick to 

 bark as do the smeared-on 

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 and tree experts. 



Send $3.00 at once for a 

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Continuous Bloom for the Mid- 

 dle West from Native Plants 



THOSE who live in that vast area west of the 

 great lakes and east of the Missouri can 

 obtain continuous bloom throughout the season 

 with the following native material, which in most 

 instances will be found surprisingly near at hand. 

 This is not the description of a mere possibility, 

 but the result of actual experience; knowledge 

 gained a-kneeling on the forest floor with hands 

 in the leaf-mould. 



Begin in spring — irrespective of date — when 

 that vague desire to dig in the dirt bestirs you and 

 go afield to see what you can find there. Like as 

 not the first flower you meet is the bloodroot a-laugh- 

 ing at you from the fence corners or the sunny 

 spots in the woodland. You may readily recognize 

 it by its bleeding root of the thickness of your 

 little finger. Its large, broad solitary leaf, growing 

 close to the ground, is about the size of your 

 palm and will never be forgotten after once you 

 learn to know it. Dig up this little plant 

 whenever you find it, whether in flower or not. 

 To carry a long distance it is best to remove 

 some dirt with the root, though I have never 

 found this necessary. In your garden place it to 

 the fore of your flower border or shrubbery group. 



Another easily domesticated wild flower that is 

 more or less plentiful throughout all this region, 

 almost as thick as the dandelions here in the Red 

 River Valley, is the native blue violet. Its blossoms 

 appear just a little before the bloodroot ceases to 

 bloom and continue for fully three weeks. No 

 plant could well bear transplanting better and 

 while it will do well in shade, I have grown it with 

 fair success in sunbaked clay. Personally I do not 

 like the yellow or the white, but the blue violet 

 certainly makes a splendid garden flower. People 

 in passing by a border of these flowers have stopped 

 and asked me where they might obtain such beau- 

 tiful large violets, and would scarcely believe that 

 they came from the fields nearby. It is a grateful 

 plant, responding lavishly with bloom in rich, well- 

 drained soil, but with plenty of moisture. Place 

 these a little to the rear of the bloodroot. You may 

 cut off all the leaves two or three times during the 

 summer and up they will come more vigorously 

 than ever. To the side of the violet I would have 

 the columbine, for it carries the flower display 

 a little farther into the season. It is considerably 

 higher than the violet, defective for garden pur- 

 poses in one particular whereof the violet and the 

 bloodroot are free: its herbage after the plant is 

 out of bloom becomes somewhat of an eyesore. 



Our next flowers will be provided by a number 

 of woodland shrubs, among which the viburnums 

 are preeminent for the home grounds. The com- 

 mon name for the two that concern us are the black 

 haw and the highbush cranberry. The latter has 

 a little the advantage over the former and is a 

 shrub as ornamental as any that are listed in the 

 catalogues. It resembles the garden snowball, in 

 its leaf, though its habit is less compact. When 

 once established it is a profuse bloomer, its flowers 

 being borne in flat beads. The bush grows to an 

 average height of ten to fifteen feet and though in 

 the forest thicket it is compelled to carry its leaves 

 on the outermost tips of its branches, in the garden, 

 where it finds plenty of room, it throws up shoots 

 freely and carries its foliage well down to the ground. 

 But not only are its flowers ornamental, the large 

 clusters of bright red berries make a brave showing 

 as well, and hold on throughout the winter. They 



