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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1914 



This is the Flower Garden From Which 

 Wyomissing Nurseries Had Their Start 



I love this picture because it links together my dearest possessions — family, friends and flowers. 

 In my book I call it "A quiet afternoon — the world within sheltered from the world without." Wy- 

 omissing Nurseries have grown from the flower garden which this picture shows as it was last summer. 



It is good to feel, as I am about to enter on the Xew Year, that plants from Wyomissing Nurseries 

 afford others something of the pleasure they give me. There's a kindly '"kinship" between my big 

 gardens at Wyomissing and the other gardens that my plants have gone to join. The letters I re- 

 ceive from my customer-friends are a great pleasure to me — one women struck the key when she wrote. 



"You do Things in a Different Way 

 - as Though You Love Your Plants" 



She had had experience with the plants of Wyomissing, and wrote from a conviction that mine is 

 no common nursety — as; indeed it is not. It is a business that has developed from my love for grow- 

 ing things, and my desire to produce certain plants unusually well. From the modest groups of 

 plants and shrubs that I tended with loving interest in my spare moments, this business enterprise 

 has grown, year by year, until I have come to know hundreds of people who love the royal group of 

 hardy plants that I grow, and whose demands have literally forced me to increase my gardens again 

 and again, and abandon other interests to give this particular "hobby" the proper care. That is the 

 "why" of Wyomissing Xurseries. 



I Cordially Invite You to Write For 

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if you have a hardy garden or plan to make one. I have prepared a complete new book describing the gems of Wyomissing Xurser- 

 ies, and my friends pronounce it one of the handsomest they have ever seen. The whole book breathes the spirit of Wyomissing 

 Nurseries and my very earnest wish is to be of help to you in establishing a garden that will be the pleasure to you that mine 

 is to me. It tells of Irises. Peonies, Delphiniums. Phloxes. Oriental Poppies. Aquilegias. and a host of other grand Hardy 

 Plants, in a way that will make you love and want them. too. Don't merely say "Please send me your book" but tell me 

 about your garden, what you have done, and what you want to do. If I can help you with your garden, I want to do it. 



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Yellow Roses for the West 



I HAVE six bushes of Lyon Rose, which I 

 obtained the year it was introduced. Xone of 

 these bushes is over two feet and a half high. 

 Although I have treated them in all the ways I 

 know how to get growth and profusion of bloom, 

 I have failed. 



One year I budded three standards on the 

 Rosa canina. and obtained a very satisfactory 

 growth and good flowers. I have already put 

 buds on bushes of the Manetti. and as soon as I 

 can get satisfactory buds from Lyon Rose. I 

 shall bud some more half standards on the Rosa 

 canina. The largest and best Lyon Rose I ob- 

 tained last season was from one of the buds on the 

 Rosa canina. 



As to yellow roses: Harry Kirk grows well, 

 and is a fine color the morning it blooms, but by 

 night practically all the yellow has faded out of 

 it, even when I protect it from the sun with a. 

 Japanese umbrella. 



I find Franz Deegen. although not a large flower, 

 a very satisfactory rose. The best yellow Tea. or 

 Hybrid Tea, to maintain its yellow is Georges 

 Schwartz. It is classed a tea. I find Monsieur 

 Joseph Hill the best of all yellow Hybrid Teas. It 

 has fine foliage, and is practically free from fungoid 

 diseases. I have ten bushes of it. I have had a 

 number of roses this year which measured approx- 

 imately not less than six inches in diameter. 



JIme. Melanie Soupert is one of the most magni- 

 ficent roses to bloom at Portland; of course, it is 

 only good as an opening bud, or as a partly opened 

 flower. I have had some specimens this year 

 which were approximately seven inches in diameter. 

 The color fades out easily while M. Joseph Hill 

 seems to get a more intense yellow as the flower 

 opens. 



From the habit of growth, the color and form of 

 the leaves, and a certain similarity in the color of 

 these two it is easy to see that Pernet-Ducher origi- 

 nated these roses from the same character of 

 hybridization. 



I have tried several of the roses introduced in 

 icjio. Those which have bloomed the most satis- 

 factorily are Mrs. Foley-Hobbs, Lady Pirrie, Ethel 

 Malcolm and Mrs. Maynard Sinton. I am some- 

 what disappointed in the Marchioness of Water- 

 ford; it has made a fine growth, and I have had 

 blooms from several bushes. So far as I am able 

 to judge, it is a rose very similar to Madame Caro- 

 line Testout. Mrs. E. J. Holland has bloomed 

 merely as a pink rose, without any special character- 

 istics. My bushes of Alice de Rothschild have 

 made fairly good growth, but have not had any 

 very satisfactory blooms up to this time. 



Oregon. Frederick V. Holman. 



My Hotbed 



THE illustration shows a view of my hotbed 

 taken about two years ago while it was 

 being cleaned before being stocked with the winter 

 crop of celery. 



I always have a depth of five feet eight inches 

 of manure from the bottom of the pit to the sash 

 or glass at its greatest depth, which should be on 



the north side. The hotbed shown in the illus- 

 tration is made of concrete blocks and cemented 

 bottom, a kind of construction necessary to the 

 maintenance of heat. The last two years I man- 

 aged to keep a temperature of seventy during the 

 months of March. April and May. 



New York. Moe Spiegel. 



