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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1913 



"Hardy Garden Flowers" 

 Has HO Illustrations 

 All Made to Help You 



ABOVE is one of them. All were made from photographs taken 

 especially for Biltmore Nursery. They show the charm of 

 hardy perennials, new and old, grown as they should be grown. 

 The book has 64 large pages. It describes all the perennial plants 

 that are used to produce the pleasing landscape effects illustrated, and 

 gives concisely and accurately the characteristics and cultural re- 

 quirements of many others. It breathes the spirit of the charm of 

 hardy gardens. It depicts the beauties of the modest Pink, the bril- 

 liance of the Poppies, the charm of the Peonies, the stately grace of 

 Foxgloves and Larkspur, and the striking effect obtained by masses 

 of Hollyhocks and other plants. 



How you may get this book 

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"Hardy Garden Flowers" is too expensive 

 for promiscuous distribution, since each copy 

 costs 30 cents and requires 3 cents postage. 

 If you have a garden of perennials, or contem- 

 plate planting one soon, and want to know how 

 to select the most beautiful kinds and use them 

 to the best advantage, we will be glad to send 

 you a copy by return post. 



Other Biltmore books that will 

 show you how to plant 



" Flowering Trees and Shrubs," a valuable 

 companion to " Hardy Garden Flowers," similar 

 in style and helpfulness. " The Iris Catalog," 

 showing magnificent flowers in natural colors. 

 "Biltmore Nursery Catalog," a guide to the 

 cultivated plants of North America, most 

 valuable to those who have large estates. 



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during the early and middle stages of the plants' 

 growth, when worms and aphids are troublesome. 



There is another method of overcoming cabbage 

 pests of all sorts which is worth remembering. It 

 consists in the application of nitrate of soda — 

 about half a teaspoonful at ten-day intervals 

 — around the roots of each plant. This wilf 

 stimulate such rapid growth that minor troubles 

 are overcome by the increased vitality of the plant. 

 It is good to use in conjunction with spraying, but 

 the soda should not be applied when the heads are 

 large and solid, if they are at all inclined to crack. 



With kale, gray aphids have given me more 

 trouble than cabbage worms. The kale plants 

 usually are vigorous enough to. withstand the 

 ravages of the worms, but the nauseous masses of 

 gray lice seem to discourage them. Quite often 

 the infected plants can be picked out from a dis- 

 tance by their rather wilted appearance, although 

 when the bugs are bad it is better to go carefully 

 over the whole patch. 



Washington. Paul E. Triem. 



A Run-wild Hedge 



I LIVE in the city and my back yard, facing 

 south, measures only 81 feet front by 120 

 in depth. I can go back into my 81-foot demesne 

 and see naught beyond but the attic stories and 

 roofs of the surrounding houses and the sky over 

 all. I am as shut in as if standing in a forest 

 clearing! And this is why — 



A tall, thick wall of green fringes three sides — 

 east, north and west — a mixed hedge such as 

 might grow in any fence corner. So natural and 

 without apparent plan or design does this hedge 

 seem that it is always compared to the wild tangle 

 on the banks of a river. 



It originally consisted of a line of soft maples, 

 which attained their growth and began to die. 

 But no invalid ever received more careful attention 

 than did those old trunks, and fortunately I have 

 a few left whose upper branches are able to support 

 heavy festoons of wild grape and Virginia creeper. 

 All along the line grow sturdy young maples, elms 

 and boxelders, nearly all volunteers from stray 

 seeds, kept back in growth as they are principally 

 needed as supports for the vines. These young 

 trees are kept in bourids by careful pruning every 

 summer. When in full leaf each branch is closely 

 studied and, if not needed for screening some 

 unsightly vista, is cut away as I want all the Sun- 

 light and air obtainable for my hedge. This 

 seemingly wild growth receives as much careful 

 attention and planning as the most formal hedge. 

 The highest branches, fifteen feet and upward, occur 

 only at intervals, just breaking some undesirable 

 view. 



Here and there are quite open spaces in 

 the height to permit of a view of my neighbor's 

 apple tree in bloom, or a gap where the setting 

 sun shows through. In one opening a pair of 

 Lombardy poplars, a mile distant — just as near 

 as I want poplars — forms one of the pretty pic- 

 tures in the hedge gallery. In places where a 

 screen is needed and no branch available I bridged 

 the chasm with dead branches after the manner 

 of brushing peas, and these are soon covered with 

 the stout woody vines and form a permanent 

 fixture. 



The base of my hedge is studded with clumps of 

 wild rose and eupatorium, and other flotsam from 

 the wayside. The rose bushes were seized with a 

 firm grip and pulled up by the roots in April 

 when the ground was moist and soft, and the eupa- 

 toriums secured after the same heroic fashion in 

 fall, in full bloom. They have grown and thriven 

 in spite of the brutal method of transplantation. 

 I exercise more care with ferns and other delicate 

 wood dwellers but I have never succeeded so well 

 as in the case of the roses and eupatorium. The 

 common morning glory, of course, goes in here 

 and there in the whole extent of the hedge, from 

 seeds planted in the house in March. 



The dead leaves, grass mowings and other refuse 

 can be deposited in spaces back of the hedge out 

 of sight till needed. A real necessity in any 

 garden is such a spot to receive valuable refuse for 

 future use. The whole space inside the hedge 

 is sodded, with long, narrow flower beds cut into 

 the grass and level with it. 

 Minnesota. Mary Madigan. 



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