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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1913 



Poppies 

 Asters 

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PART of the fun of the home garden is the 

 trying-out of new plants, and each year we 

 make new ventures. During the winter months 

 there is the thrilling search through catalogues and 

 nursery lists to add interest to the last moments 

 of busy days when one is too tired for anything 

 else, and needs the discovery of new lands of hope 

 and expectation to offset the influences of a frozen 

 world. And where but in a plant catalogue does 

 hope so eternally spring? When all of the alluring 

 descriptions have been repeatedly gone over, and 

 the buying list narrowed down to reasonable and 

 possible proportions, and the new plants and seeds 

 ordered, then there comes the exciting period of 

 waiting and fulfillment. It is a "gamble," of 

 course, but a relatively inexpensive one. And 

 when expectations are realized, as sometimes they 

 really are, then how great the content! 



Every year sees some sad failures, plants that 

 we never again want in our garden; but to make 

 up for these disappointments, every year does add 

 something of worth, that having once seen we 

 cannot do without. Many of the best things of 

 our garden came in this way — as the result of 

 gambling with the unknown: Dropmore anchusa, 

 various eryngiums, limonium, double gypsophila, 

 especial varieties of Darwin tulips, phlox, trollius, 

 zinnias, cactus dahlias, iris, and many others — 

 the very choicest of our garden inhabitants have 

 been drawn in this lottery. 



One of the new things of last summer to be 

 retained permanently is Artemesia lactiflora. It 

 was planted in a bed containing Eryngium ante- 

 thystinum and pink phlox, with an edging of hardy 

 pinks. This combination was most successful. 

 The artemesia sent up a dozen erect stalks of bright 

 dark green foliage crowned by loose waving panicles 

 of small creamy-white buds, giving a graceful spray 

 effect, increasing in beauty for more than a month. 

 About the last week of August the tiny buds 

 slowly expanded into minute, brush-like flowers 

 of a slightly deeper cream. By the middle of 

 September the sprays were brown, but new, smaller- 

 flowering stalks were sent up from the roots until 

 the last week in October. 



We liked the plant best in its budding state 

 through the month of August. At dusk the mass 

 of cloudy white sprays stood out with the same 

 purity of color as the Madonna lilies in the July 

 evenings. It adds a creamy white to the garden 

 during August, of a character quite different from 

 the white of the phloxes, and combines especially 

 well with pinks and blues. In a year notorious 

 for parasites of all kinds the artemesia showed 

 absolutely none, and its foliage during the last week 

 of October was still beautifully green. It is one 

 of the plants that we have taken for "keeps," as 

 it has a distinct place in the general garden picture. 



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The "Doctors" Again 



To the Editors: 



I regret to observe, on page 256, of The Garden 

 Magazine for January, 191 3, that Mr. Adolph 

 Kruhm again takes occasion to condemn one-year- 

 old trees. In this condemnation — particularly if his 

 reference is chiefly to apple trees, which I assume to 

 be the case — expert fruit-growers throughout the 

 country would decidedly refuse to join. Commer- 

 cial orchardists, as well as skillful amateurs, are 

 preferring these trees more and more, realizing 

 that only with a one-year-old can the head and 

 the future shape of the tree be under the absolute 

 control of the grower. Mr. Kruhm's articles have 

 been interesting and instructive, but his views on 

 this point are not the views of a large number of 

 intelligent and progressive growers in the United 

 States. 



He further says that "The reason for one-year 

 old trees gaining in popularity is because the public 

 is looking for bargains and cheap trees, and (in 

 the October, 191 2, Garden Magazine) that "A one- 

 year-old tree has too weak and light a root system 

 to stand ordinary transplanting methods." These 

 statements are both wide of the mark, and little 

 short of absurd. Mr. Kruhm should not expect 

 them to go unchallenged. 



Madisonville, O. Wilbur Dubois. 



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