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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1912 



NEW and RARE SHRUBS, VINES and 



s BULBS from CHINA 



CLEMATIS MONTANA, rubens. See illus- 

 tration. New pink, summer-blooming climber. 

 Plants from 3^ in. pots, each 75 cents; doz. 

 .00. Plants from 2^ in. pots, each 50 

 cents; doz. #5.00. 



AMPELOPSIS THOMSONII. Beautiful tri- 

 color Woodbine, changing in the autumn 

 to rich red. Plants from 3^ in. pots, 

 each 75 cents; doz. $8.00. Plants from 2^ 

 in. pots each 50 cents; doz. $5.00. 

 LILIUM MYRIOPHYLLUM. Blooms in 

 July; flowers white suffused with pink, 

 canary-yellow throat. Delightfully fra- 

 grant. Bulbs each $1.50; doz. #15.00. 

 LILIUM SARGENTIAE. Blooms in Aug- 

 ust. Enormous flowers, white shaded 

 purple, fragrant. Bulbs each #1.50; 

 doz. #15.00. 



Do not fail to procure our Spring Catalogue 

 which contains many new plants offered for 

 the first time. 



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California's Trees Famous the World Over 



Tou will never forget the distinctive "character 1 * of California's trees and shrubs, 

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 We grow the above, and many rare evergreens, etc., so well that they will transplant 

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273 Main St. Marysville. O. 



look so monkey! " one amateur gardener exclaimed 

 in my hearing. 



As a matter of fact, there are beautiful varieties 

 in self-tones. Florentina, and the old black- purple 

 which flowers a day earlier than the orris; a pale 

 skyblue slightly touched gray, also early; May 

 Queen, pink; Astrate or Garibaldi, both lilac- 

 pinks; the old tall straw color, scentless, which is 

 sold as Canary Bird or flavescens and probably is 

 neither; Celeste, skyblue; a rare tall Yale blue 

 with orange beard, for which I know no name; 

 and the tall blue or white forms of Orientalis, tall 

 and later than the Germanicas proper. Of Yel- 

 lows, Californica, Aurea of the Germanica section, 

 Mrs. Neubronner, and San Souci, give practically 

 solid colors although darker veinings on yellow 

 seem to be the rule with these plants. (There is 

 an Aurea of English catalogues five feet tall and 

 flowering in late June or July which should not be 

 confused with the German flag.) 



The iris is by nature a meadow plant; and it 

 is prettiest to look at from a slight elevation, 

 two feet or so above the level of the beds for a 

 path, or three and a half feet for a garden bench. 

 The "falls" of many sorts do not droop until late 

 evening or not even then; and the charming ranks 

 of bloom, seen from above, assume a quaint regu- 

 larity of arrangement, like roof-tiles of old Nurem- 

 burg gables viewed from an attic window. If 

 the iris can be grown in a sort of regulated con- 

 fusion in a tiny meadow of their own, ten to twenty 

 sorts in great splashes of color each, running into 

 each other without noticeable paths and demarca- 

 tions, they make the prettiest kind of a sunken 

 garden to view from a porch or summer house. 

 But for such use varieties that "look monkey" 

 are very wrong; only solid tints are to be trusted 

 in this sort of ground-painting. 



Pennsylvania. E. S. J. 



Three Late Faithfuls 



I TOOK a turn through my garden on the nth 

 of last November to see what there might be 

 left. Somehow one flower at that time of year, 

 like the one sheep which was more prized than the 

 ninety and nine, gives more satisfaction than 

 many of the wholesale displays of midsummer. 

 It is nothing to have roses in June; but it gives 

 one a glow of gratitude, when autumn has struck 

 nearly everything down, to see one or two faith- 

 fuls still displaying their brave bits of color. 



And by the law of the survival of the fittest, 

 what I saw seemed to me to be a lesson in what 

 ought to be planted. And the three things I saw 

 were things which for some reason are almost 

 never seen in the average suburban garden. 



One was a stalk of larkspur — an exquisite dash 

 of blue in the brown of the withered border. The 

 second was a California poppy — bright yellow 

 against its foliage of silver gray. The third was a 

 clump of Gruss an Teplitz rose-bushes, still laden 

 with abundant blossoms — a brilliant red. 



Larkspur in my garden sows itself and demands 

 little coddling. Under the eaves of the house 

 there is some that grows six feet high. The sky- 

 blue kind is a poem. Everybody likes larkspur, 

 and the wonder is that more people don't plant it. 

 The cannas and the salvias, which are seen in 

 nearly every yard — but not in mine; a narrow 

 prejudice, no doubt, but one I cannot get over — 

 had long ago surrendered their flaming tints and 

 laid down their leaves in ashen, frost-bitten death. 



California poppy is another flower that sows 

 itself. The one that bloomed in my garden last 

 November was part of next spring's crop. I 

 have a patch of it in the yellow end of the garden, 

 and I grow light blue things behind it. 



People are learning about the Gruss an Teplitz 

 rose little by little. It is unquestionably a wonder- 

 ful rose. We brought bowlfuls of the buds into 

 the house all through the fall. Kaiserin Augusta 

 Victoria, Mme. Caroline Testout, and several 

 of the other modern beauties kept along until the 

 last of October. Teplitz seems to have no feelings; 

 and the cold-grown blossoms were much fuller and 

 more exquisite, even if somewhat smaller. Bring 

 a dozen of them in and arrange them loosely in a 

 fish-bowl. Have them on the Thanksgiving table 

 and see your company's eyes stick out at the idea 

 of roses from outdoors on such a day! 



New Jersey. J. D. Whitney. 



