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For the following practical details I am indebted 

 to Mr. Henry Hicks: Cut pines, spruces and firs 

 at the tips of the new growth in May or June. In 

 the pines many more new buds will form, making 

 a dense cluster of perhaps ten new shoots where 

 there might have been five without the cutting. 

 If cut in August or cut below the foliage, buds are 

 not likely to start. On the spruces and firs, if a 

 half-inch or less of the tip is cut, the side shoots 

 will develop next year and thicken up the tree. 

 With cedars and arborvitaes, junipers, retinisporas 

 and yews, the time of year is not important. Severe 

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Cover Plants for the Iris Bed 



SPANISH and English irises differ from the 

 more common spring-blooming bulbs, such 

 as tulips and narcissus, in that they do not bloom 

 until June, and therefore do not ripen their foliage 

 until well into the summer. The Spanish iris, in 

 particular, is rather insignificant, with its narrow 

 grass-like foliage, and, after blooming, seems to 

 be always in the way. The English iris, while hav- 

 ing more impressive looking foliage, likewise takes 

 up a lot of valuable room without adequate return 

 after its blooming period is finished. 



As these irises must be planted close together 

 to make any kind of a display, it is difficult to find 

 any of the commoner annuals to furnish cover for 

 the space occupied. Mr. Wilhelm Miller, in the 

 July, 1908, Garden Magazine, asks if any of the 

 readers know of a suitable annual to scatter among 

 these bulbous members of the iris tribe. 



Sweet alyssum, kochia, or portulaca may be used 

 with excellent results, but sweet alyssum is almost 

 the ideal. In the first place, it is a perennial annual 

 — that is, it is to all intents and purposes perennial, 

 for it never fails to self sow — and once planted 

 there need be no further bother about it, for it will 

 appear every year, cover the ground and furnish 

 a wealth of its fresh-scented bloom. 



It does not make enough root growth to inter- 

 fere with the iris. It can be pulled up easily when 

 the iris make their fall leaf growth and, last and 

 most important of all, being white, it never can 

 interfere with or disturb the color harmony of 

 a border. 



The last-mentioned is the deciding factor in its 

 favor. Portulaca has an even smaller root system 

 than the alyssum, appears late enough in the season 

 so as never to interfere with the iris, and covers the 

 ground excellently. But its colors give battle to 

 almost anything near by unless the seed is care- 

 fully selected, and even then it cannot be trusted 

 to self-sow, for it will revert to its ugly type colors. 



Kochia scoparia is an excellent self-seeder and 

 fills the requirements nicely. It has a slender, 

 delicate growth when young and is never in the 

 way until the irises are done for the season. But 

 it makes the largest root system of the three and is 

 objectionable on this score, because the iris bulbs 

 may be disturbed when it is pulled in the fall. 

 Its red foliage in the fall might be objectionable 

 too if the iris occupied any particular part of a 

 blue scheme in the border. 



I have used all three of these annuals but find 

 alyssum the most satisfactory. It blossoms until 

 frost stops its growth, so that the iris space is cared 

 for from June until hard frosts. 



Illinois. Sherman R. Duffy. 



