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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



October, 1911 



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protective effect. Paint only forms a covering 

 which may peel in course of time and which will 

 later protrude from the cut, thus forming between 

 the paint and the wood a suitable place for the 

 development of insects and fungi. 



Preserve the fallen leaves. Now that the leaves 

 are commencing to fall, do not destroy them. 

 Select some pit in a sequestered part of your place 

 and throw all the leaves there. Pour some water 

 on them occasionally and let them decompose into 

 a natural humus. This will prove valuable material 

 for mulching and fertilizing your trees and shrubs 

 later in the fall. 



Mark the trees to be removed in winter. Now is 

 also the time to look for dead and crowding trees 

 and mark them for removal in winter. A dead 

 tree badly infested with fungus or with destructive 

 insects, such as the hickory bark borer, should 

 be removed and burnt immediately. But many 

 dead trees are not so infested and their removal 

 can better be postponed till the winter. 



Destroy insect eggs, cocoons and larva. The tus- 

 sock moth, one of the most common leaf-eating 

 insects, for instance, can now be seen in its egg 

 state. Where these are present, they are discern- 

 ible as white masses on the bark of trees with two 

 to four hundred minute individual eggs to each 

 cluster. In case of other insects, you might find 



Cynthia moths. 



The fall is time to do your 

 cleaning" 



'tree 



bags hanging from the twigs or cocoons adhering to 

 the bark. All these can now be removed and 

 destroyed. If your sugar maples are subject to 

 the maple Phenacoccus, a cottony white scale 

 occurring on the underside of their leaves, you will 

 now find the insect in woolly white masses on the 

 trunk of the tree. Now is the time to attack the 

 insect while it is in this advantageous position on 

 the bark of the tree. Wash the affected parts of 

 the bark with kerosene emulsion, using one part of 

 the standard solution to ten parts of water. 



Prepare for spring planting. You might be 

 contemplating tree planting. Plant in early spring, 

 but select your material in the nursery now. You 

 have a wider choice of desirable specimens at this 

 season and you will probably pay less by coming 

 in so early. You need not take your plants now. 

 You can seal your mark on them and have them 

 kept undisturbed in the nursery until you are ready 

 to plant in the spring. 



New York. J. J. Levison. 



Transplanting Bleeding Heart 



ONE of my neighbors has lifted bleeding heart 

 {Dielytra spectabilis) from the ground in 

 winter and brought it indoors for forcing. She has 

 had it in the window at Easter. This plant comes 

 into flower quickly and remains in bloom a long 

 time. After blooming, when the leaves have turned 

 yellow, the clump may be divided. Each piece of 

 root that has a bud will make a plant. Save all 

 the odd pieces of root, cut them in three-inch 

 lengths and plant them in boxes of moist soil; 

 some of them will take root. — T. B. E. 



Hyacinths, Darwin and other 

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 Spanish and Japan Iris. Free- 

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Varieties: Duchess of Oldepburg, yellow, striped red; Winter 

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