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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



October, 1911 



II 



Twenty- 

 Three 

 New 

 Kipling 

 Poems 



A HISTORY 

 of ENGLAND 



By RUDYARD KIPLING 

 and C. R. L. FLETCHER 



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About Cottage Tulips 



I HAVE made such slow progress in rescuing 

 cottage tulips from old New England gardens 

 that I was particularly gratified to receive last fall, 

 a baker's dozen of the varieties gathered by a 

 friendly bulb specialist in Ireland, from British 

 borders. Neither the fact that the gift comprised 

 thirteen bulbs nor that the arrival from Ireland 

 was so late that planting was delayed until Novem- 

 ber nineteenth worked to my disadvantage, and 

 in just six months I had a perfect bloom of each 

 variety. 



All of these named sorts proved so good that I 

 should like to pass the word along. I was especi- 

 ally delighted with Ard Cairn — an indescribable 

 soft shade of silvery pink, with a yellow base. 

 Two others of similar softness of hue were Emerald 

 Gem, a fine salmon color, and Orion, a rich pinkish 

 yellow. In the group also were six excellent 

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 Garden, which has an intense, deep color and a 

 very black base. So far as I can see it is identical 

 with my choicest find in New England. Golconda, 

 Mars, Crimson Globe and Courant's Fulgens 

 turned out good reds with a bluish base and The 

 Lancer, which has a white base, a fine tone that 

 changed to crimson. Finally there were four strik- 

 ing striped varieties. The Zebra, cream striped 

 with maroon, and Trafalgar, yellow with the edges 

 of the petals feathered with red, were the wonder 

 of the many visitors who saw my little double row 

 of Irish cottage tulips — which, for convenience, 

 I planted in my nursery. Kaleidoscope, rose with 

 a few stripes of red and a bluish centre, and Corona 

 Lutea, pale lemon striped with red, complete the 

 fist. 



These few bulbs, even more than my New Eng- 

 land finds, have made me a thorough convert to 

 the cottage tulip. The truth is I like it better 

 than the much vaunted Darwin tulip, though I 

 know that there are enthusiasts who will look on 

 me with pity for saying so. My hope is that the 

 cottage tulips that long ago were established in 

 American gardens have not disappeared so gener- 

 ally as conditions in our part of New England indi- 

 cate and that there will be some important rescu- 

 ing yet. So far I have run across only four kinds 

 — dark red with black base, pure white with blue 

 base, pinkish red edged with yellow and yellow 

 striped with red. Some of these have stood where 

 they are as long as I can remember. 



New York. H. S. Adams. 



Picking and Keeping the Crop 



I BEGIN to pick medium early varieties of 

 grapes like Worden, Delaware, Moore's 

 Diamond, and Campbell, early the last week in 

 September, here in Southeastern New York. 

 Concord and Niagara follow very closely. If 

 there is a heavy load of fruit on a vine, pick a part 

 of the grapes as soon as they can be used for 

 grape juice and culinary purposes, and allow the 

 remainder to fully ripen, so they are sweet and 

 good. Picking part of the crop before it is ripe 

 enables the vine to mature and ripen the re- 

 mainder. Grapes ripen but very little after 

 they are picked, so leave them on the vines until 

 they are ripe enough to have the natural flavor, 

 if there is no indication of severe freezing. The 

 September and early October frosts in Delaware 

 County, N. Y., do not often injure grapes, although 

 the foliage is destroyed. I like the io-pound baskets 



