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The Garden Magazine, April, 1920 



Strawberries De Luxe 



Kevin's Jubilee — The New Black Strawberry 



The last word in Strawberry Hybridization. The wonder 

 Strawberry of the century. Perfect flow- 

 ering variety. The greatest producer 

 known. Pot grown plants. 12 — £2.50, 

 25— $4.50, 50— £8.co, 100— £15.00. Illus- 

 tration one-fourth actual size. 



Beal. Greatest producer under se- 

 vere conditions. The sensation of last 



year. 25 — $3.00, 50 — #5-50, ico — £10.00. 



Standard varieties such as Barrymore, 

 Marshall and Sharpless, ico — $6.00, 

 1,000 — $50.00. Circular on request. 



WILLIAM M. HUNT & COMPANY 

 148 Chambers Street New York, N. Y. 



FAIRFAX ROSES 



The Aristocrat of Rosedom, no garden com- 

 plete without my hardy everblooming roses. 

 Grown under natural conditions. My free 

 1920 guide on "How to grow roses" sent 

 on request. I also have a select grade of 

 GARDEN seeds. 



Box 6 



W. R. GRAY 



OAKTON, VA. 



WHEN MULTIPLICATION IS 

 NOT VEXATION 



THERE isn't anything easier in the world to 

 propagate than Climbing Roses. And here 

 is the easiest way to do it: — after the blossoms 

 fade take the flower stems or side shoots all along 

 the main canes, for cuttings, making them about 

 four to six inches long and cutting them just 

 below a bud at the bottom and above at the 

 top. 



ROSES FROM CUTTINGS 



Set them an inch apart in a box of wet sand, in 

 the sunniest exposure you can find — and keep 

 them wet. And you'll have a nice lot of rooted 

 cuttings in the course of five or six weeks. I 

 started cuttings three years ago, though I didn't 

 know just what I was going to do with them at 

 the time. But the Climbing Rose bug bit me 

 severely and I raised them anyhow; and last 

 fall 1 transplanted forty two-year-old plants 

 that I had allowed to grow along in a tangle until 

 I could decide their fate. They had grown five 

 to eight-foot canes with no attention. And I 

 knew what I wanted of them. Wire fences are 

 specially made for them. A wire fence is no 

 thing of beauty but nearly everybody has one 

 somewhere around the premises. Plant Climb- 

 ing Roses to tie to the wire. This idea has taken 

 a firm hold through northern Ohio and Indiana 

 and while travelling through these states the 

 latter part of last June it was surprising to see 

 the number of cottages with wire fences about 

 them gay with Ramblers. 



ROSES FROM SEED 



Then, too, there is the fun of growing them 

 from seed, which is an easy matter — and perhaps 

 you may raise a fine new Climbing Rose. Again, 

 you may not! But here is the simplest way to 

 try. In the fall when the hips have turned red, 

 break them open, separate the seeds and plant 

 them about half an inch deep in a row, somewhere 

 handy to mark — and leave them to their fate. In 

 the spring some fine day you will be surprised 

 to see baby Roses. They do not germinate uni- 

 formly, so do not disturb the row except to trans- 

 plant them. 1 have a fence planted with ten 

 bushes from seed which ought to bloom this year. 

 If they are worthless they can be thrown away. 

 If they prove to be good ones, there they may 

 remain. 



Of all the Ramblers — a term which seems to 

 belong more strictly to the Wichuraiana types 

 which will ramble along the ground as happily 

 as up in the air — Hiawatha is the most brilliant 

 I have seen, with its great bunches of little Roses, 

 crimson at the tips with a contrasting white 

 centre. Excelsa is another brilliant one, a deep 

 rose color of the Dorothy Perkins type. Thous- 

 sand Beauties (I prefer the English equivalent 

 of Tauscndschoen) is a larger individual flower in 

 various shades of pink from almost white to a 

 deep pink in the aging blooms. Christine Wright 

 is a fine light pink, large flowered and a rampant 

 grower. 



All of them are beautiful in flower and have 

 fine foliage to disguise a chicken yard fence or 

 other unsightly wire barrier if pillars and arches 

 are not available. 



Sherman R. Duffy, Chicago. 



