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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 1910 



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make an excellent substitute for cranberries. The 

 leaf of the highbush cranberry approximates the 

 maple leaf outline, while the black haw, whose 

 foliage is considerably darker, has leaves that 

 resemble somewhat those of the cherry. The 

 fruit of the black haw, a dark red berry, is not 

 palatable to me and cannot compare with that of the 

 highbush cranberry as an ornament. I have 

 found the black haw much more plentiful in the 

 woodlands than the highbush cranberry. 



Procure a specimen or two of the wild plum, 

 well worth having because of its short, showy, 

 fragrant flowers. Nor let us neglect the choke 

 cherry which likewise is worth while for symmetry 

 of growth and fragrance of flower. Both are small 

 trees whose period of bloom is very short com- 

 pared with the foregoing shrubs, and personally I 

 do not like the wild plum very much because of its 

 irregular habit of growth and suckering propen- 

 sities. The choke cherry, however, can be made 

 to fit well into a shrubbery group. The bloom of 

 both these trees is earlier than that of the viburn- 

 ums. I have found that the black haw and the 

 highbush cranberry transplant readily even as 

 late as the middle of June, but that the wild plum 

 and the choke cherry do not. 



To continue our floral display, and incidentally 

 have an abundance of fragrance, we must go to the 

 rose, not the low growing prairie rose that dies 

 down to the ground each year, but its taller cousin, 

 the woodrose, that flourishes in the forest thickets 

 and along the roadsides that border the woodlands. 

 It is very abundant, and transplants easily, even 

 in June, when all its leaves are out and it is ready to 

 bloom. When it is necessary to move this rose as 

 late as June, and but little earth can be taken with 

 the roots, I have found it a good plan to strip 

 all the leaves and cut the canes back one-half. In 

 this manner nearly all the material transplanted 

 will grow and leaf out that same summer. A 

 well established rose bush attains a height of six 

 feet, carries its foliage well down to the ground and 

 will be literally one mass of bloom for fully two 

 weeks during the latter half of June; extending even 

 into July in the latitude of Fargo, X. D. As far 

 as I have been able to determine the life of an 

 individual flower from bursting bud to the dropping 

 of its petals is about four days. The rose hips in 

 fall also have value as an ornament, though not 

 quite as much as in the rugosa roses. 



For summer bloom we turn to native herbaceous 

 perennials: the heliopsis and the willow-leaved 

 spirea or meadow-sweet. Here in the northwest 

 this spirea is distinctly a summer bloomer, bearing 

 its flowers in July and August. The meadow- 

 sweet is scentless, though you will find yourself 

 bringing the flower to your nose involuntarily, for 

 it does seem as if such a delicate thing must have 

 fragrance. This is practically an herbaceous 

 perennial with us, as the severe winters kill it back 

 to the ground quite frequently. The willow-leaved 

 spirea can be moved successfully even while in 

 bloom, if but a fair amount of soil be taken up 

 with the roots. 



The heliopsis affords excellent planting material 

 because of its clean and abundant herbage, which 

 grows to a height of almost four feet. Its leaves 

 are a trifle coarse perhaps, but by no means ragged 

 in appearance, while its persistent yellow flowers, 

 which often measure two inches across, greatly 

 resemble small sunflowers. The flowers are devoid 

 of fragrance, but long stemmed and are excellent 

 for decorative purposes within doors. All through 

 July and August the plants are one mass of bloom, 

 and the more the flowers are cut the more pro- 

 fusely the plants bloom. 



A pretty little purple aster that grows wild almost 

 everywhere makes quite a brave showing in the 

 fall. Transplant it in fall when in blossom, for by 

 its flowers it is most easily known. It will bloom 

 freely the next fall. Then to close the season 

 fittingly, use the goldenrod. 



A plot of only fifteen feet square will serve for 

 such a garden as we have talked of. I do not call 

 such a planting a "wild" garden, for I would not 

 have it wild, but kept well within restraint, neat 

 and trim as ever a small garden may be. There 

 are many native flowers of which I made no men- 

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 themselves to be best adapted to a small plot of 

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