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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



September, 1909 



YV/HAT'S the matter? 

 Why, there's a poor 

 lubricant on the axles, and 

 the wagon drags, the horse 

 pulls hard, and the driver 

 is annoyed. 



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 horse rig. 



It's the lubricant that 

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WINCHESTER 

 HEATER 



Planting Hedges in the Gardens 

 of Hope 



WE BEGAN work at Hope with no knowledge 

 of practical gardening, and with no pre- 

 judices. Our expectations for success were based 

 upon a fertile soil, a congenial climate, and enthusi- 

 asm. The old garden was a jungle of green brier 

 and weeds as high as trees. A half century of neg- 

 lect had obliterated all vestiges of a garden, and as 

 we peered into the thicket all we could see were some 

 ancient box bushes crushed down by vines. These 

 bushes were the Rosetti Stone of the Gardens of 

 Hope, for working from these we hacked and hewed 

 and fought our way step by step down the one-time 

 wonderful garden. What we found in that chaos 

 would take a volume to describe. Day by day 

 shrubs and roses and all manner of sad, unhappy, 

 imprisoned plants came to light, and since then have 

 furnished a wealth of material from which to draw 

 in restoring the garden. The box from which we 

 took the slips for our young hedge plants was easily 

 one hundred years old, and it was this planting which 

 was our initiation into the arts and mysteries of 

 box propagation. 



Besides enthusiasm we had another trait peculiar 

 to the amateur. We bowed reverently before the 

 opinion of the skilled gardener. His word was 

 law and his decree was final. But we had no 

 skilled gardener; our plan had been to hire day 

 labor, to make our own failures and glory in our 

 own triumphs. It has been nearly three years since 

 order was restored to the Hope Gardens and in that 

 time we have only twice diverged from our plan of 

 personal supervision of all plantings. 



These two lapses were occasioned by a desire to 

 grow box slips for a hedge beside the long walk 

 into the garden. He were assured that it was a 

 difficult task to make box slips grow. So, intimi- 

 dated by the concerted opinion of different nursery- 

 men, we engaged a high priced German gardener, 

 who had planted box on the "Eastern Shore" for 

 fifty years. 



This man began work on the ist day of April. 

 Our old servant, Copper, a negro of advanced 

 years, helped the German gardener all that first 

 day. At night I called Copper and said: 



"Well, Copper, are you well started in the box 

 planting?" 



"Yes'um, Mrs. Starrum, we 'se all ready but de 

 cotton." 



"The cotton, Copper, why what 's that for?" 



"I don't know, Mrs. Starrum, only Mr. Riser, 

 he says he must have de cotton." 



"Well, we '11 send for it, Copper; we '11 get him 

 anything he wants," at the same time picturing to 

 myself the herculean task of wrapping the roots of a 

 thousand box slips in cotton batting. The next 

 morning I was out early to see about getting the 

 cotton, when I met the little old German with his 

 arms full of box slips. 



"I haf de box cotton already." 



"Oh! I see. Yes, of course, the cuttings." 



And vet we enjoyed making our own mistakes. 



Mr. Riser continued to plant box cuttings until 

 the first day of May. Then he stopped and no 

 amount of persuasion could induce him to plant one 



These box bushes, fifty years old and from three 

 to five feet in height, were moved -without any loss 



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