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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1913 



Have you anything in common with 

 your husband but domestic troubles? 



Miss Ellen Glasgow 



^ Is complete absorption in your chil- 

 dren, to the exclusion of all other inter- 

 ests, the real duty of a married woman? 



*I Will the old ideal of a sheltered life, 

 seclusion from the vital work of the 

 world, and self-sacrifice hold its own 

 against the awakening to larger inter- 

 ests among women of to-day ? 



<J Who is to blame, if, through her in- 

 ability to share one thought with her 

 husband outside of their domestic life, 

 a woman's married life is a failure ? 



C| These are the thoughts which one 

 finds uppermost after reading the 

 powerful new romance 



VIRGINIA 



By ELLEN GLASGOW 



Author of "The Battle-Ground; " "The Voice of the People," etc. 



In Miss Glasgow's new story the heroine is Virginia Pendleton, a Southern girl, the product of 

 that old regime in which a woman's usefulness in the World was bounded by her capacity 

 to love and her willingness to sacrifice herself for her husband and children. So complete is 

 this devotion that little by little Virginia and her husband are leading lives apart, he in his 

 writing, she in her daily abnegations. It is this situation and the tragedy of it, which Miss 

 Glasgow works out in her powerful story. With his first successful play, Oliver faces the fact 

 that his wife is hopelessly cut off from him ; his two girls, products of an age when women 

 everywhere are looking abroad and finding their interests outside their home, are out of 

 sympathy with their mother, whom they regard as out-of-date ; and Virginia stands midway in 

 her life with nothing to look forward to and the deep sense of having outlived her usefulness. 



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This Catalog contains a volume of information regarding 

 Trees and Plants for Rock Gardens, Old-fashioned Gardens, 

 Seashore Planting and Ground Covering under Rhododendrons 

 and Shrubbery. Gives also suggestive planting plans and 

 planting lists for Rose Gardens, Herbaceous Gardens and 

 Suburban Estates. Names and describes desirable Trees and 

 Shrubs with ornamental Fruits, Hedge Plants, Trees for 

 Orchard and Forest Planting, new and old varieties of Roses 

 and Climbing Vines. Copy sent FREE upon request. 



We grow in quantity every hardy Tree or Plant worthy 

 of cultivation. Correspondence invited. 



The New England Nurseries Co. 



Dept. "I" Bedford, Mass. 



soms on a spray of leaves. You will do the plant 

 no injury, for severe pruning is good for them. 



This arrangement of planting parsley and pansies 

 together is especially recommended to produce fall 

 flowers. 



Minnesota. G. E. Wolfe. 



New Leaders to Evergreens 



EVERGREENS, particularly spruce trees, are 

 liable to lose their "leaders." Without them, 

 the trees generaUy become misshapen, and fre- 

 quently grow two tops, making them worthless 

 except for mass planting. Planters have observed 

 that the tip of a spruce is particularly liable to 

 turn brown and die after transplanting, or to cease 

 growth during a drouth; it happens frequently, too, 

 that a specimen evergreen, after being moved, 

 "warps" to a certain extent. This condition, if 

 allowed, would result in spoiling the shape of the 

 tree. 



To form a new leader, tie one of the lateral 

 branches perpendicularly to a stake driven into 

 the ground beside the trunk. The laterals gen- 



A new leader can be trained into place by the use 

 of a stake or a short stout stick 



erally are so pliable that they may be bent upward 

 without injury, but if they are hard raise them 

 gradually and hold in place with raffia. Ever- 

 greens with undamaged leaders are frequently 

 benefited by staking, which prevents the tree from 

 growing out of the perpendicular, and all young 

 spruces are improved if they are grown to stakes. 

 Illinois. Fred Haxton. 



A Brilliant Bedding Shrub 



ONE of the most brilliant bedding effects we 

 have ever seen was a border of Japanese 

 barberry in a public park at Cleveland. What a 

 glow of red in October! That's when we want 

 red — in cold weather. Salvias in August make 

 you feel the heat all the more. Barberries in 

 summer are cold and restful. Shrubs are cheaper 

 in the end than tender bedding plants. 



Last October we saw a European elm which was 

 a bright, green object visible for a long distance 

 when American elms were leafless and after the 

 Norway maple had turned to yellow. They called 

 it a Scotch elm (Ulmus scabra). This late green- 

 ness is a well known trait of the English elm (U. 

 campcslris) and of several other European trees. 



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