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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



J A N U A K T , 19 12 



The use of good prepared 



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longer than cheap mixtures or 



hand-mixed lead and oil. 



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Plant the quality grape 



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The grape for everp&o</j? everywhere 

 A cross between the Catawba and the 

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Box 125 Little Silver, N. J 



the edge of a slightly shaded hardy border, or by 

 shrubbery, the most favorable soil being a light 

 fibrous loam, with leaf mold and sand. It is a 

 rapid grower and if left undisturbed will soon cover 

 the ground. Seed planted indoors will produce 

 blossoms the first year. The blossoms, which 

 are at their best late in September, are white, 

 spotted thickly with purple and are curious enough 

 to warrant close study. 

 New York. E. H. Dale. 



A Hardy White Azalea 



I OFTEN wonder why the hardy white azalea 

 (which I am told is not A. Indica, var. alba. 

 but a form of A. rosmarinijolia) does not enter 

 more frequently into the home and broader, 

 landscape effects. There is no end of the orange, 

 yellow, salmon and solferino kinds but I rarely 

 come across the peace-making white. Nowhere 

 have I found it in abundance excepting in Green- 

 wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, where, for many 



A hardy white azalea which is a relief from the 

 glaringly colored, hardy azaleas 



years, it has withstood the rigors of winter in 

 rather exposed locations. Some of the larger 

 specimens there are of noble proportions and a 

 refreshing sight when completely clothed with 

 white. It breaks up the sometimes too glaring 

 array of tones of the colored hardy azaleas better 

 than anything else and is quite as welcome to the 

 eye in front of rose or magenta rhododendrons 

 of taller growth. W. H. Rowland. 



A Superb Lychnis 



RED perennials are not so many that we are 

 not all on the lookout for more. Summer 

 before last I had some seedlings of Lychnis Haagcana 

 and I am so pleased with the plant that I want to 

 spread its praises abroad. Its rich range of 

 cardinal, scarlet and vermilion, coupled with the 

 large blossoms, makes it especially desirable for 

 any part of the border where a bit of bright color 

 is needed. Seeds planted indoors will give good 

 bloom the first year, but better the second. Self- 

 sown seed also will produce first year results. In 

 a lot of seedlings some are pretty sure to turn out 

 salmon or white, but the most of them will be such 

 dazzling reds as the garden does not often see in 

 perennials. The only objection to the plant is 

 that it is inclined to be weak at the base of the 

 stems and get sprawling. My plants have not 

 yet had time to see their third summer, but some 

 of them look as if they had made up their minds 

 to be biennials. Robinson says that seedlings 

 of Lychnis Haageana "may almost be treated as 

 annuals or biennials, especially in heavy soils, 

 where the hopes of their living through severe 

 winter in northern counties will be limited indeed," 

 and, in view of the ease of raising it, I am inclined 

 to think that if used for bedding it may as well be 

 treated as a biennial blooming the first year from 

 seed. So far as hardiness is concerned, however, 

 I have had no trouble whatever in wintering it in 





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Newest, daintiest and loveliest of the ostrich plumed 

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