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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Februaby, 1912 



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About Your 

 Roses 

 And Our Kind 

 of Perpetual 

 Rose Garden 



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^HAT a pity that 

 your outdoor roses 

 last but one short 

 month. Those you buy 

 in the flower shops 

 somehow fail to give the genu- 

 ine pleasure that those you 

 grow yourself do. You don't 

 have that same delightful friend- 

 liness for them. They seem to 

 lack something. Haven't you 

 often longed for a greenhouse 

 where you could have a perpet- 

 ual rose garden — a garden filled 

 with blooms from September 

 till June ? Have you ever talked 

 it over with us? 



Perhaps you have an altogether wrong idea of 

 their expense. Perhaps you don 't know the 

 wonderful possibilities of one of our indoor gar- 

 dens. Perhaps you think it means the usual vexa- 

 tious building troubles — and disappointments. 

 Perhaps you are wrong on every one of your "per- 

 haps". One of our representatives will come any 

 time you say and gladly talk the "perhaps" over 



with you. Who knows but he may be able to sug- 

 gest the happiest kind of a happy solution. The 

 greenhouse in the illustration is attached to the gar- 

 age. You may be able to do the same with yours. 



Then there's our catalog — you may prefer to 

 see that before you see any of us. Let us know. 



A house ordered now can be completed in time 

 so your plants will be in bloom in the early Fall. 



Lord & Burnham Company 



New York 

 St. James Bldg 



FACTORIES: 



Boston 

 Tremont Bid?. 



Irvington, N. Y. 

 Des Plaines, 111. 



Philadelphia 

 Franklin Bank Bldg. 



Chicago 

 Rookery Bldg. 



Start a Fernery 



Brighten up the deep, shady nooks on your lawn, or that dark 



porch corner — just the places for our hardy wild ferns and wild 



flower collections. We have been growing them for 25 years and 



know what varieties are suited to your conditions. Tell us the 



'{P kind of soil you have — light, sandy, clay — and we will advise you. 



Gillett's Ferns and Flowers 



will give the charm of nature to your yard. These include not only hardy wild 

 ferns, but native orchids, and flowers for wet and swampy spots, rocky hillsides, 

 and dry woods. We also grow such hardy flowers as primroses, campanulas 

 digitalis, violets, hepaticas, miliums, and wild flowers which require open sunlight 

 as well as shade. If you want a bit of an old-time wildwood garden, with flowers 

 iust as nature grows them — send for our new catalogue and let us advise you 

 what to select and how to succeed with them. 



EDWARD GILLETT, Box C, Southwick, Mass. 



If you have not yet sown pansy seed, do so at 

 once, so as to have pansies this spring. 



Sow seed of sage, horehound and other herbs; 

 also in the open seed of cabbage and cauliflower. 



Plant out dahlia roots and prune rose bushes 

 and fruit trees at once, before they begin flowering. 

 If the fruit trees are to be sprayed, do it at once, 

 before the buds begin to swell. 



The fig, one of our most delicious fruits, should 

 have a place in every Southern fruit garden. Plant 

 out the bushes now on a southward slope of a hill 

 or south of a building, so that the trees will be more 

 or less protected during very cold winters. 



Georgia. Thomas J. Steed. 



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The Bronze Birch Borer 



THE bronze birch borer has destroyed many 

 silver birches in the western part of New York 

 State and has begun to be destructive in the east- 

 ern section. A serious difficulty in controlling this 

 insect is that the trees are usually beyond help be- 

 fore any injury is suspected. The borer is a rather 

 stout, olive brown, tapering beetle about half an 

 inch long. The eggs are deposited just under the 

 bark and the borers literally girdle the tree by run- 

 ning numerous interlacing channels through the 

 inner bark and sapwood. Frequently a series of 

 rather well marked annular ridges may be observed 

 on infested limbs. The destructive grubs com- 

 plete their growth in early spring, and the beetles 

 emerge early in June. The best remedy is the 

 rigid cutting out and burning of all infested trees 

 prior to May 15th. E. P. Felt. 



February Work Among theTrees 



Removing the undesirables. In the October, 1911, 

 issue of The Garden Magazine it was suggested 

 that you mark the dead and crowding trees as 

 well as the trees that were badly infested with 

 insects or disease. See, now, that these trees are 

 removed from the premises before the busy spring 

 season and before injury results to the nearby trees. 



Tree planting. The frost will soon commence to 

 leave the ground and you may want to plant some 

 trees. If you have not already procured them, 

 now is the last chance to get your choice in the 

 nursery. Decide where you wish to plant, how 

 many plants you need and what kinds. The fol- 

 lowing lists give the more desirable species to 

 select from: 



Trees for the lawn. American elm, European 

 silver linden, European linden, pin oak, European 

 copper beech, Soulange's magnolia, European white 

 birch (weeping var.), flowering dogwood, ginkgo, 

 Kentucky coffee tree, sweet gum, Oriental spruce, 

 Colorado blue spruce, Austrian pine, Bhotan pine. 



Trees for screening. Hemlock, sassafras, osage 

 orange, mulberry. 



Trees for the street. Oriental sycamore, Norway 

 maple, red oak, ginkgo, European linden, English 

 elm, American elm, pin oak, red maple. 



Trees to be avoided. All poplars, silver maple, 

 sycamore maple. 



Preparing to spray. In the latter part of May, 

 after the caterpillars have made their appearance 

 or after the elm leaf beetle has started perforating 

 the leaves, it is too late to start preparations for 

 combatting them. March is the time to think of 

 your spraying apparatus, material, and labor for 

 doing the spraying. A good barrel pump raised 

 on wooden wheels, with two lengths of 50-foot hose, 

 two bamboo rods and some vermorel nozzles, will 

 complete the outfit. Arsenate of lead containing 



