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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



D ECEMBER, 1912 



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with water as the fibre is so light (like dark brown 

 dust) that it immediately floats to the surface and 

 floats off, if one is not careful; also this cautious 

 gardener put half a charcoal tablet in each bowl, 

 to ensure a healthful life, not having any of the 

 common charcoal at hand. The pills did quite as 

 well. 



A warning! Do not, unless you have a very 

 cool house plant Chinese lilies; the flowers almost 

 always blast, whereas the Paper White never fails. 

 Neither heat nor cold affects these most satisfactory 

 friends. One morning three were frozen fast in 

 their little bowls; but brought to the tropical 

 temperature of another room, they thawed and 

 went on growing cheerfully. 



Pennsylvania. F. E. Mel. 



In a Connecticut Garden 



TN the course of a walk through a neighboring 

 1 park in the latter part of July, 1907, I came 

 across an elderly workman busy with his pruning 

 shears. He had filled his wheelbarrow with trim- 

 mings of old wed and stems of faded roses from 

 a number of Dorothy Perkins arches, and I asked 

 him for a small portion of his load to use for cut- 

 tings. He assured me, with much earnestness, 

 that these roses must be layered to increase stock, 

 but, after comparing experiences, he ended by say- 

 ing, "O, you may have them all, but you can't 

 make 'em grow." 



I took one branch and made several cuttings 

 from it, using the short two or three inch twigs 

 (blind wood) of that season's growth. I put them 

 in a coldframe on the shady side, giving just 

 enough water to keep the soil damp. The following 

 spring three grew and were set out in the garden. 

 One of them I trained around and over a 10-foot 

 cedar post. 



The soil in my garden is a heavy loam from ten 

 to twelve inches deep with a solid subsoil that 

 positively refuses to carry off surplus water. 

 Repeated failures with auratum lilies led me to try 

 trenching a bed for them. This was done, I 

 suppose, in the usual way — two feet of dirt being 

 thrown out, the subsoil at the bottom was forked 

 up and mixed as thoroughly as possible with about 

 six inches of well-decayed barn-yard manure. This 

 was trodden down, covered with three or four 

 inches of medium quality soil; then six or eight 

 inches of manure was added, trodden down and 

 all the top soil was filled in. 



By the time I had received the three Lilium 

 auratum bulbs the surface of the bed was about 

 three inches above the walk. The planting was 

 made at a depth of eight inches and although no 

 manure was mixed with the top soil, a handful 

 of sand was put under and around each bulb. 

 There being nothing further for me to do, I promptly 

 forgot all about them until, in the following spring, 

 1010, I beheaded one with an inquisitive trowel. 

 Thereupon I rested from further digging till the 

 growth of bulbs and plants appeared above the 

 surface. The two remaining lilies made a satis- 

 factory showing, but were not remarkable. This 

 year, however, the tallest of the four stalks reached 

 a height of seven feet nine inches and bore fourteen 

 magnificent flowers. 



Nearly every one who writes on lilies considers 

 leaf-mold or peat essential to their well-being. 

 In this case none was used. Plenty of water was 

 given all summer and as soon as it was observed 

 that the auratums had aspirations a weekly feeding 

 of manure water was supplied. 



Six candidum lilies set out the last of August, 

 1910, bore from eight to twelve blossoms each. 

 So, of course, for lilies I am thoroughly in favor of 

 trenching heavy soil. 



The row of Japanese irises bordering the lawn 

 contains eighty clumps and more than thirty 

 varieties. The plants were raised from seed, part 

 of which was sown in March in flats occupying a 

 sunny south window, and part in early May in 

 a seed-bed out of doors. The flats were covered 

 with a pane of glass till the seeds germinated, while 

 those sown in the seed-bed were left to their own 

 devices. The window-grown seedlings were trans- 

 planted once before being set out in the permanent 

 bed. When the plants grown out of doors were 

 larger enough to handle, all were set out eight 

 inches apart in a bed by themselves. Here they 



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