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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1912 



The Ultima Thule in Roses ! 



To the Rose Lovers of America we offer two unusual specials. 

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 Irish Melody. The new Dickson yellow. Killarney blood. A splendid variety. 

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bloomer that it is sometimes said to be, though 

 I am sure it would do much better if I knew how 

 to manage it. 



My plants stand at the foot of an old oak tree 

 in the back garden, not a very good place, but 

 the tree is practically dead and does not injure the 

 plants more than merely to shade them. Two 

 years ago the plants bloomed at their best, the 

 pure white petals, appearing much like overgrown 

 mandrake flowers, making a great show. The 

 next fall, though, the weather seemed not to be 

 favorable, for while the plants had grown well 

 through the summer most of the buds blasted. 



The Christmas rose, which commences to bloom 

 when other plants are asleep for the winter 



Last fall the flower stems came up fairly well and 

 produced a dozen fine flowers. The flower stems 

 seemed to enjoy the worst fall weather when it 

 was not too cold and grew the fastest just after a 

 cold rain, but it is a mistake to suppose that they 

 are to any degree frost proof. 



The plant is stemless, but evergreen, the old 

 leaves disappearing in the spring when the new 

 ones come on, much as in case of the hepatica. 

 The scapes are from one to three flowered. The 

 photograph was taken on the ioth of November, 

 before severe freezing weather had come on, but 

 on the night of the 13th a cold wave arrived, the 

 temperature going down to 18 degrees. While 

 this did not kill the flowers it took all the white 

 out of the petals, as I have observed that it did in 

 former seasons, leaving them a greenish yellow, in 

 which condition they remain till they disappear 

 in the spring with the old leaves. 



If the flowers do not open before heavy freezing, 

 they will not open at all. One season I enclosed 

 a bunch in a box with a glass top, but it did not 

 save the late buds. If I had a coldframe sash 

 with double glass, or with single glass, banking 

 the plants with leaves, perhaps covering them in 

 entirely on very cold nights, I think I could save 

 them well into winter. It is a great sight when 

 they begin to open in November, when all other 

 plants are leafless and dormant. 



New York. John W. Chamberlin. 



Solid-color Irises 



NO GARDEN matter is more neglected by 

 growers, advertisers and catalogue-writers 

 than solid-color German irises. The two-color 

 varieties are beautiful sometimes, curious always; 

 but for outdoor charm, the self-colored sorts are 

 ten times as valuable. The German iris comes in 

 a week of few other flowers, a time of great scarcity; 

 no other plant makes any spread of color in the 

 garden; and yet how many people will buy five 

 new sorts of iris for every five new sorts of tulips 

 in a season? Either is a sure investment; the 

 iris is green ten months of the year, but the tulip 

 is a solid color, and the buyer can foresee it with 

 a sort of knowledge. "I don't like irises; they 



