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attacked until May, I just ignored them and went ahead. As the good 

 lady had specified vegetables before flowers, I had to get the vegetable 

 plot into shape first and it was well into May before I could settle on a 

 Rose plot. The only available spot was a four-foot strip bordering on 

 a bank — a horrible place for Roses, likely to be dry and wind swept, 

 and no manure beyond a little from the chicken house. 



I smile to think of it, for the eighteen experimental Rose bushes were 

 not received until the end of May and after I had pruned them, were 

 mere sticks. Suffice it to say they bloomed nevertheless before June 

 was out and the last flower was not culled until late October, by which 

 time Frau K. Druschki was 4 ft. tall and Mme. Butterfly, Columbia, 

 and the rest were all more or less pleasing to my eyes. Some of the 

 flowers gathered in August were equal to any produced under glass in 

 winter. Several doses of superphosphate of lime and plenty of water 

 with occasional spraying was all they received. Very few bugs worried 

 them, and these met the fate that all insect pests merit. 



And let me say, well done, Wm. Currie! If you had listened to the 

 orthodox and the "scare offs," you would never have had those big 

 "Mums."— T. A. W., New Jersey. 



Red Raspberries Need Protection in Colorado 



To the Editors of The Garden Magazine: 



THE article on Raspberries and Blackberries in April by Mr. John 

 L. Doan surprises me — not by what he wrote (for all he did say was 

 very good so far as I know) but by what he left out! If any Colorado 



readers should be induced to plant Red Raspberries and follow his di- 

 rections to the letter and no farther, they would never get a berry if they 

 lived to be a hundred. I have been in Colorado twenty-five or thirty 

 years and have been interested in gardens more or less all that time 

 and have never yet seen a Red Raspberry bear that was not thoroughly 

 covered every winter. You cannot even lay them down and cover 

 with straw or brush, they must be covered with earth. Any quantity 

 of them grow wild in the mountains and they never bear any higher 

 than they are covered with snow during the winter. I am living 

 right now in probably one of the best raspberry sections of the state, 

 or in the West, and no one ever attempts to raise them without covering. 

 In my own garden I have intentionally left a plant or two uncovered, 

 and never got a berry. I have seen rows not fifty feet apart, the covered 

 one literally red with berries, the other without a single berry. Of 

 course, the article in question is all right for the East but as your cir- 

 culation is for the whole country, your articles should be adapted to the 

 whole country or they are misleading. — A. W. Lamm, Loveland, Col. 

 —I am well acquainted with the practice of covering the brambles 

 with earth for winter protection in climates where the temperatures 

 are severe or the air very dry. This method of protection is practised 

 very extensively in some sections, notably about Sparta, Wis. Because 

 of the limitations to the length of a magazine article, it was necessary 

 to omit some of the phases of the subject treated and a'certain amount 

 of local interpretation is vital with any gardening writing. It would 

 have been well to have mentioned the subject of winter protection, 

 though space would have forbidden discussing it. — John L. Doan. 



GIRLS AND BOYS vs. WEEDS 



{HE great annual contest between six hundred boys and 

 girls of the neighboring tenements and an unlimited 

 number of potential weeds is now going on at the Ave- 

 nue A Gardens in New York. The battleground has 

 been cleared and cultivated, the young humans have planted 

 the seeds, and now begins the world-old struggle between 

 having the things wanted and the things not wanted. The 

 youngsters are getting a graphic illustration of the parable of 

 the Wheat and the Tares and learning a lot of other whole- 

 some things they would never acquire in their tenement homes 

 or in the course of the street play on which they would be spend- 

 ing their time and energy if they were not at work in the Avenue 

 A Gardens. The interest is not confined to the lucky six hun- 



dred kiddies, but extends to the members of their families and 

 a wide circle of neighbors. Every one of the 5 x 10-ft. gardens is 

 a potent argument for the outdoor life to a number of persons 

 who otherwise would know nothing of its joys and benefits. 



Thanks to the generous readers of The Garden Magazine 

 and others who recognize that the improvement of the chil- 

 dren of to-day is a vital thing for the America of to-morrow, the 

 ten dollars required for the necessities of each garden, and the 

 supervision and instruction of the children, has been provided 

 for about half of them. The Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild 

 which supervises the work has started the full number with 

 faith that the undertaking will not be permitted to stop for 

 lack of funds. 



SINCE the May issue of The Garden 

 Magazine the required amount of ten 

 dollars to maintain each garden has been re- 

 ceived from the following: 



Mrs. Henry A. Griffin, New York City, for 



The William & Bruton Strange Garden 

 Dr. Henry A. Griffin, New York City, for 



The Helen De F. Cotton Garden 

 Mrs. Herbert Erdman, New York City, for 



a garden not yet named. 

 Mr. Julian Myrick, New York City, for 



The William Washburn Myrick Garden 

 Horace Mann Elementary School, New York City, for 



The Horace Mann Elementary School Garden. 

 Norristown Garden Club, Norristown, Pa., for 



The Norristown Garden Club Garden. 

 Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee, New York City, for 



The Eleanor Satterlee Garden (Large enough to be culti- 

 vated by a family) 

 Junior Emergency Relief Society, New York City, for 



The Junior Emergency Relief Society Gardens (5 plots). 

 Mrs. P. B. La Roche, New York City, for 



The Philip B. La Roche, Jr., Garden 

 Mrs. Stephen Bonsal, Washington, D. C, for 



The Hope Davis Garden. 



Mrs. Elizabeth Porter, Evanston, III., for 



The Molly Garden. 

 Mrs. A. H. Storrs, Scranton, Pa., for 



A garden not yet named. 



Checks for ten dollars, or multiples of that 

 amount, may be sent payable to the order of 

 Avenue A Gardens Fund, The Garden 

 Magazine, Garden City, N. Y., and will be 

 acknowledged in an early issue going to press 

 after receipt. 



Each contribution of ten dollars entitles the 

 donor to name a garden. 



The following names will be borne by gar- 

 dens provided for by anonymous donors at 

 the New York Flower Show: 



The Woodrow Wilson 

 The League of Nations 

 The Flower Show 

 The Victory Plot 

 The Junior League 



The Lucky 



The Laura S. Stewart 



The James S. Metcalfe 



The Burgesser 



The Farmington School 



The Spence School 

 The Bennett School 

 The Benjamin T. Gaunt 

 The Maxie 

 The Louise 

 The Crowd 

 The Joan Hamilton 

 The Julia Hamilton 

 The Joan Bennett 

 The Nancy Gwyn 

 The M. R. B. 

 The Dug-out 

 The F. R. Newbold 

 The John Young 

 The Juliet Dawes 

 The Garden Club of 



America 

 The St. Agatha School 

 The New Rochelle 

 The Mother 

 The Daddy 

 The Miss Nightingale's 



School 

 The Rebekah 

 The Frederick Gade 

 The Mrs. W. R. Pitt 

 The Broadview 

 The Barbara 

 The Gilbert 

 The Orson Lowell 



The Fan-Tom 



The Helen Massey 



The Go-to-it 



The Frank 



The Olga 



The Tom, Dick and Harry 



The Attractive 



The Elise 



The Helen 



The Lydia 



The Sunshine 



The Edward 



The Orin 



The Blanche Elise 



The Brownie 



The Bishop Manning 



The Blow-me-down 



The John Walker 



The Ellingwood 



The Seth and Alida 



The G. W. P. 



The Up-a-way 



The Adele 



The Brearley School 



The Three Pals 



The Alice Mooney 



The Madison Square 



The Fan-Elise 



The Yorkville 



The Mrs. Seth M. Milliken 



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