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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



July, 1910 



Does This Tint Suit? 



•J A tint considered separately has a cer- 

 tain definite beauty, but place together 

 several tints which do not harmonize 

 and the individual beauty of each is lost. 

 <J On exactly the same principle, tints 

 which do harmonize enhance the 

 beauty of one another and of the 

 group. Only by securing each tint in 

 its precise harmonious relationship to 

 the whole can the most pleasing artistic 

 effect be obtained — and only by mixing 

 paint to order can exact tints be made. 

 •I For all painting, exterior or interior, 

 specify pure white lead ("Dutch Boy 

 Painter" trade mark). Have it mixed 

 fresh with pure linseed oil. Then 

 your painter can get harmonious tints 

 — and these tints will be durable. 



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Notes and News 



WOULD you give $5 for a yellow peony? 

 There is a new one said to produce flowers 

 sometimes eight inches across! It is a hybrid of 

 Pcronia lutea, called L'Esperance, which was sent 

 out in 1909 by the famous hybridizer, Lemoine. 

 It is said to be a primrose yellow, with scarlet 

 stamens and carmine rose spots at the base of the 

 petals. It blooms at Nancy, France, from June 

 5th to 15th. 



Does your house ever get filled with the odor 

 of boiling cabbage or onions? Not the slightest 

 need of it. Add salt and simmer in a covered pot. 

 There will be less steam and little of it will escape. 

 The odor is borne off by the steam. The color of 

 the vegetables will be more attractive. Of course, 

 the food value is diminished somewhat, because the 

 salt helps to dissolve some of the elements. But 

 who cares ? If one ate nothing else the loss might 

 be serious. If you want the scientific proof of 

 all this, see the ' work of Miss M. N. Watson of 

 the Ontario Agricultural College as abstracted in 

 Farmer's Bulletin 342. 



Whew! A net profit of $2,000 an acre from 

 Montreal melons! No wonder the Canadian grow- 

 ers have been keeping things quiet when they were 

 getting $8 to $15 a dozen wholesale, and the demand 

 greater than the supply. It is a very risky crop, 

 requires infinite care, and can probably be grown 

 only in the states bordering on Canada. Professor 

 Stuart tells about this interesting industry in Bul- 

 letin 136 of the Vermont Experiment Station, 

 published at Burlington. If you write, please men- 

 tion The Garden Magazine, and if you can't get 

 the bulletin, ask the United States Department of 

 Agriculture at Washington, D. O, for Farmer's 

 Bulletin 342. 



There seems to be a small-sized craze for import- 

 ing collections of perennial larkspurs from Eng- 

 land — say fifty named varieties at a time. We 

 should like to hear from anyone who has had 

 such a collection for four years or more. Are 

 the varieties true to name? Do they come up to 

 your expectations? Has the larkspur disease killed 

 most of the varieties? Can you keep your collec- 

 tion reasonably free from the bacterial spot by 

 taking cuttings instead of propagating by division? 

 Mr. Erwin F. Smith, of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, has named the delphinium 

 disease bacterial spot of larkspur and says it is 

 caused by Bacillus delphini. 



How some nurserymen do murder plant names! 

 Good nurserymen, too, who ought to know better. 

 There is a famous collector of rare plants near San 

 Francisco, whose catalogue contains literally hun- 

 dreds of errors. We have before us an attrac- 

 tive catalogue from Illinois from a man who has 

 maintained a good reputation for half a century. 

 Yet on the front cover we find: "Berberris Thurn- 

 burgis," and on the back cover "Wiegelia rosea." 

 Is there any excuse for this sort of thing? We 

 think not. Anyone who is intelligent enough to run 

 a large and decent business ought to have brains 

 enough to hire a college student for $25 to standard- 

 ize his catalogue names with Bailey's Cyclopedia of 

 American Horticulture. 



There is nothing sublime about cabbage. 

 Few people take the subject seriously. Of 

 course, market gardeners do, for their living may 

 depend on it. But even the market gardeners lose 

 thousands of dollars a year by not taking cabbage 

 a little more seriously. For instance, they seem 

 to think that Jersey Wakefield is Jersey Wakefield. 

 Bless me, it means twenty-five different things! 

 Mr. C. E. Myers tested twenty-five strains of Jersey 

 Wakefield cabbage and found that while they were 

 all true to name, they varied altogether too much. 

 The profit in this crop depends largely upon (1) 

 earliness; (2) yield; (3) form of head, and (4) solidity 

 of head. The biggest heads weighed 2 lbs. 5 ozs., 

 and came from a Minnesota seedsman. The small- 

 est weighed 1 lb. 4 ozs., and came from a Kentucky 

 seedsman. The earliest crop came from Detroit 

 seed, 94 per cent, maturing the eleventh week. 

 The slowest crop came from Illinois seed, which 

 never matured a head! Moral for market gardeners: 

 You might save hundreds of dollars by reading 

 Bulletin 96 of the Pennsylvania Experiment 

 Station. Moral for seedsmen: Brace up! 



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