April, 1912 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 141 
most anywhere else, bloom- 
ing abundantly in its season. 
The florist’s Lupines form a 
group of hybrids by them- 
selves and are well worth ex- 
perimenting with. 
THE GARDENER’S LIBRARY 
HILE it is true that 
experience is, after all, 
the most reliable source for 
constructive information, it 
is equally true that the ex- 
periences of others carefully 
recorded and authoritatively 
presented must not be dis- 
regarded by the garden- 
maker who would hope to 
achieve the best results in 
the shortest possible time. 
rooms; No. 218, The School 
Garden; No. 220, Toma- 
toes; No. 257, Soil Fertility. 
In addition to the bulletins 
enumerated above, the gar- 
den-maker should add to his 
library a standard work on 
soils, one on fertilizers, a 
comprehensive manual of 
gardening, and other vol- 
umes to which he can turn 
for assistance when he finds 
himself in a quandary, or for 
obtaining a more comprehen- 
sive knowledge of some 
phase of gardening in which 
he happens to become espe- 
cially interested, such as 
Celery culture or Rose grow- 
Intelligence is the only short The value of hardy climbing Roses for planting around the house is here ing. As books on garden- 
cut to anything, and so the 
more we learn about gardening in gen- 
eral and in particular, the better equipped 
we are to find the most direct means of 
accomplishing the results that stand 
ahead of us as an incentive to interest 
ourselves in gardening at all. This 
serves to introduce the suggestion that 
every garden lover, whether he be of a 
bookish turn of mind or not, ought to 
have at least a small collection of books 
on gardens, garden-making and horti- 
culture in general. Aside from the con- 
crete knowledge such volumes by men 
of experience in such subjects contain— 
knowledge one may verify by one’s own 
experiences—works of the sort contain 
suggestive material that will inspire the 
garden-maker to blaze trails for himself 
through the thickets of horticultural 
perplexities. In the March number of 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS the 
editor pointed out the value to every 
garden-worker and home-maker of the 
various State Experiment 
Stations of the U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, and in 
connection with the present 
subject attention may like- 
wise be directed to the great 
usefulness of the various bul- 
letins of the Department— 
bulletins on horticultural and 
agricultural subjects—to be 
obtained gratis upon applica- 
tion to the Department at 
Washington. Among the 
bulletins issued the following 
will prove of especial interest 
to the home garden-maker: 
No. 185, Beautifying the 
Home Grounds; No. 248, 
The Lawn; No. gg, Insect 
Enemies of Shade Trees; 
No. 127, Important Insecti- 
cides; No. 154, the Home 
Fruit Garden; No. 156, The 
Home Vineyard; No. 181, 
Pruning; No. 195, Annual 
Flowering Plants; No. 204, 
The Cultivation of Mush- 
well illustrated 
The sloping triangular corner here shown was walled and brought to a 
level with the lawn back of it, a pergola being added, furnishing a 
delightful outlook. 
ing subjects are apt to have 
constant handling and somewhat hard 
usage (as one will often wish to 
carry them out into the garden itself for 
the purpose of “study upon the spot’’), 
it will be well to have all one’s garden 
books of a practical sort rebound in 
stout bindings that will protect the vol- 
umes against the wear and tear to which 
they will necessarily be always subjected. 
PRUNING FRUIT TREES 
READER of AMERICAN HoMEs 
AND GARDENS writes to ask the 
best time for pruning fruit trees. For 
the Peach, late Spring is the best prun- 
ing time. The pruning should then be 
undertaken just before the beginning of 
the new season’s growth. February and 
March are not, generally speaking, too 
early for Apple and Pear tree pruning, 
while Grapevines should be pruned in 
the late Fall or early Winter months. 
Generally speaking, orchard fruit trees 
should be pruned late in Winter or early 
in Spring. In this connec- 
tion, it will be well for the 
garden beginner to make a 
study of the sorts of buds of 
different fruit trees in order 
that he may learn to distin- 
guish between the varieties 
of fruit trees by this means, 
when the first appearance of 
the budding occurs. 
YELLOW ROSES 
Hardy Yellow Roses will 
interest every garden- 
maker. The following varie- 
ties are especially recom- 
mended for any garden: 
Persian Yellow (the old- 
fashioned Yellow Rose); 
Yellow Banksia (hardy 
climbing) ; Yellow Rambler 
(Aglaia); Blumenschmidt 
(Cochet type); Goldfinch 
(hardy climbing); Maman 
Cochet; Clara Jacquier; 
Harrison’s Yellow; and 
Etoile de Lyon (hardy ever- 
blooming Tea). 
BESS SM See 
