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A Bed of Foliage Plants 



AT LAST I have achieved the desired effects 

 with salvias, cannas and the castor oil 

 plant in a bed in the lawn. It seemed as if I 

 couldn't get the right heights; I would get the 

 varieties either too large or too small. The heights 

 of three, five and eight feet make a very effective 

 foliage bed or centrepiece in a lawn. 



The distance apart the plants are put in their 

 permanent place has considerable to do with 

 density. I find it best to give them lots of room. 

 My bed was an oval about sixteen feet in long 

 diameter and I used only three ricinus plants for 

 the centre. Cannas were put about two feet apart 

 in the row. three and a half feet from the ricinus 

 and three feet from the salvias. The salvias were 

 set eighteen inches apart in rows and the same 

 distance from the sod. 



I found it a good idea to stake the ricinus for 

 they grew very rapidly. I have also tried to 

 plant them an inch below the first leaves to insure 

 erect growth, but the stakes are better and soon are 

 hidden by the density of the foliage. 



Sprinkle nitrate of soda around on the soil at 

 intervals during the summer before or shortly 

 after showers. A half pound is enough for a 

 season. Keep it away from the foliage. 



Salvias are started about the middle of March 

 in flats and are more successfully grown in a 

 temperature of 70 degrees. Then pot up in 3-inch 

 pots with a good mixture of leaf mold and sandy 

 loam. The splendens variety of salvia does not 

 have as large spikes of flowers as the dwarf varieties; 

 they are shorter and more compact than either 

 Bonfire or Burning Bush. 



My cannas are about two-inch long pieces, cut 

 from stools that have been kept over the winter 

 in a dry cellar. The end piece of every stool will 

 start to take growth more rapidly than other 

 sections of the same stool. A sandy loam and 

 4-inch pots, placed under glass about April 1st. 

 make nice plants to be set out the first week in 

 June. Cannas, if started early, are most generally 

 true to height. I find that the splendens variety 

 of canna is best for a 3-foot height. I also used 

 Ham- Laing variety which grows about five feet 

 in height, and has flowers of orange and scarlet. 



The red-stalked castor oil bean (Ricinus san- 

 guineus) which grows about eight to nine feet 

 high, has very thick blood red stalks. The leaves 

 do not crack or rip with the first heavy rain storm 

 as does R. Philippinensis which also does not spread 

 as symmetrically nor as uniformly at the top. I 

 start my castor oil beans under glass about April 

 1st in 3-inch pots of very porous soil, as the beans 

 have a tendency to rot if not given sufficient 

 drainage. They generally lose their first two 

 leaves, but new ones come on very rapidly. 



New York. Moe Spiegel. 



Home Grown Rose Plants 



TWO years ago, I planted some rose slips taken 

 from a friend's garden. She gave them to me 

 reluctantly, as they were covered with black spots, 

 and warned me that it might be dangerous for my 

 own roses. So in planting them I cut off all the 

 infected leaves and burned them in the house; then 

 tucked the tiny slips under the preserve jars and 

 left them. 



Last summer, being a year and a half old. they 

 were fine large plants and apparently very healthy. 



On my return from a visit what was my distress 

 to find the new plants covered with black spots, 

 and not only they, but some of my old bushes in 

 their vicinity — Madame Plantier. Coquette des 

 Alpes and two other white roses, which had been 

 given me, and whose names I do not know. The 

 young plants were all Margaret Dickson. It seems 

 apparently to be the white roses which are most 

 easily affected. I have been wondering whether 

 the slips inherited this disease from the parent 

 plant, or whether it was due to the wet weather that 

 we had last summer. 



New York. S. T. HOMANS. 



[The conditions were favorable — and as the 

 disease is not uncommon, even growing on some 

 native wild roses, one can hardly be surprised at it- 

 appcarance. Spray with ammonical copper car- 

 bonate, and burn all affected leaves, etc. — Eds.] 



