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The Garden Magazine, October, 1921 



The Season's 

 Final Chance 



To have or not to have — 

 Peonies in 1922 — that is the 

 question you'll have to de- 

 cide this month! I trust that 

 my last three messages have 

 acquainted you with the 

 work of a Peony Pioneer to 

 the extent that you will 

 want Hollis Peonies to speak 

 for themselves in your own 

 garden. I have much faith 

 in their ability to please 

 that I am willing to abide 

 by your judgment as to 

 whether you want more 

 another season. Right now 

 I assure you satisfaction 

 from 



This Famous Trio of HOLLIS Peonies 



ATTRACTION. One of the very finest of the Japanese 

 type, termed "Wonderful Glowing Suns." Guards are 

 clear tyrian-rose, center same color as guards, tipped with 

 yellow. Pleasant fragrance. $2.00 each. 



GEORGE WASHINGTON. Of semi-rose type One of 

 the biggest dark crimson. Stamens intermingled with petals. 

 Mid-season, $2.00 each. 



L. W. ATWOOD. 



Center cream-white. 



White, with occasional crimson fleck. 

 Mid-season. $3.00 each. 



Special Offer: I will mail one strong root 

 of each of above three for $5.00 postpaid. 



My Fall Catalogue Describes Many Others 



All told I can now offer thirty distinct Hollis Peonies of merit, with a 

 promise of more to come. Besides, there are scores of the best standard 

 Peonies, Irises, Phloxes, Lilies, as well as Tulips, Daffodils and Hyacinths. 

 In short, you'll find my Fall Catalogue a reliable index to material for present 

 planting, bulbs, roots, plants and shrubs that will help you to the earliest 

 gardens of spring. If your copy has not reached you as yet, a -postcard re- 

 quest will bring it by return mail. 



J. K. ALEXANDER, Zii s %£ 27-29 Central St., East Bridgewater, Mass. - .. 



RHODODENDRONS 



KALMIAS, Hollies, Leucothoes, Azaleas 



Plant Now! Six for $1.00. Well-rooted. 

 8-12 in. plants, postpaid to nearby zones, as 

 an introductory offer. Address 



HARDY EVERGREEN GARDENS Route 1 OLD FORT, N. C. 



TULIPS. Wedding Veil, Mixed Late-flowering, $2.00 

 per 100. Clara Butt, Mixed Darwins, $2.40. 



NARCISSI. Ten varieties in mixture, 100 bulbs, $2.40. 



PEONIES. 20 standard varieties at 40c, others at 

 75c, $1 .00, and up. Send for list, or let me select. 



All prices include delivery by mail or express. 

 ORONOGO FLOWER GARDENS Carterville, Mo. 



What "Potgrown" Perennials 

 Will Do For You - - 



They come to you, ready to grow! For months prior to their being 

 shipped they have formed a perfect root system. The roots, growing into 

 a solid mass, firmly hold the soil. Our method of individ- 

 ually wrapping each plant's root ball further insures an un- 

 disturbed plant base. Such plants will thrive most anywhere, 

 with little care, after setting out. Sedum reflexus alongside 

 is a typical pot-grown specimen. 



Sedum or Stone Crop — 



The Flower Crop for Poorest Soils 



The stoniest backyards, the poorest soils, the most impossible 

 situations, will grow a crop of Sedums. Some are quite useful 

 as ground covers, others are very ornamental for lining paths. 

 The following distinct kinds 



Will Appeal to any Garden Hobbyist — 

 Sedum acre (Wall Pepper) Of 



creeping habit. Dainty, fleshy, 



light green foliage; yellow flow. 



ers in masses. 

 S. reflexus (Stone Orpine) shown 



alongside. Great for rockery. 



Yellow flowers. 

 £. Sieboldi Individual leaves of 



foliage have pink edges. Rose 



pink flowers in clusters. 

 Price, any ot above Sedums, pot-grown plants, 25c ea.; $2.25 a doz. 



Special Offer: We will supply one each of above Sedums 

 forSi.oo; 3 each, 15 plants in all, for $2.50, postpaid East of 

 Mississippi. West please add 25c for postage. 



Please ask for complete List of Hardy Plants for all purposes 

 — gladly mailed free. 



PALISADES NURSERIES, Sparkill, N. Y. 



8. 8peetablIe(/*Wz'a Variegata) 

 Great for lining- paths. The 

 showiest of them all, growing 18 

 to 24 inches tall. Rose flowers 

 and variegated green and white 

 foliage. 



8. stoloniferum coeef neum 



A fine, trailing plant, forming 

 great ground- covers. 



A SCOUNDREL IN STRIPES 



F^vlLL pickles are scarce. The school girl 

 *-J will solace herself with olives, while the 

 dirty-faced street urchin who would buy a large 

 dill pickle from the push-cart, must satisfy his 

 taste with a green tomato or pepper. All this 

 trouble is due to a strange and deadly disease 

 which has attacked the Cucumber vines; a dis- 

 ease known to the farmers as "white pickle," 

 and to the scientists as "cucumber mosaic." 

 It is only within a few years that this has become 

 widespread and deadly, but now it has reached 

 such a point that it seems likely to make an end 

 of raising cucumbers for pickle in many sections 

 where they have been a leading crop. 



VICTIMS OF "CUCUMBER MOSAIC" 



Cucumbers afflicted with this baleful dis- 

 ease develop slowly, become warty and 

 distorted, and the leaves blotch unhealthily 



The usual time of the appearance of the dis- 

 ease is about when the first fruits are picked. 

 The affected cucumbers develop slowly and are 

 very much distorted in shape; a large portion of 

 the green surface being replaced by white. Warts 

 or lumps appear, many of which are green-tipped. 

 In the leaves also the coloring matter becomes 

 irregular and develops patches of light and dark 

 green. Dead areas which resemble spray injury 

 appear usually as V-shaped patches, leaving the 

 centre of the leaf alive. 



After struggling along for a week or two, the 

 vine dies out, having given less than one quarter 

 of a crop. Sometimes the tips survive and put 

 forth new leaves which bear a few deformed 

 cucumbers, but the effort is a weak one and the 

 new tips soon die. 



As the cost of raising an acre of Cucumbers 

 is upward of S300 and the vines are killed at the 

 very start of the bearing season, the loss is a par- 

 ticularly hard one to bear. 



Much study has been devoted to this disease 

 by the United States Department of Agriculture, 

 with the result that we know how the disease is 

 spread, although we do not know the organism 

 which causes it. The wild Cucumber is often 

 raised as an ornamental vine to cover unsightly 

 buildings. Its seeds carry the "mosaic" through 

 the winter and in the spring the vine shows the 

 leaf-mottling which indicates a diseased condition. 



Striped cucumber beetles feed upon these vines 

 and later go to the fields just when the plants 

 there are coming up. This striped scoundrel has 

 been proven guilty of carrying the disease from 

 the wild Cucumber to the cultivated plant and 

 later spreading it from one part of the field to 

 the other. It is also spread by the hands of the 

 pickers, and possibly by the cultivators which 

 rub the vines as they pass along. 



There is no treatment of spraying which will 

 control "cucumber mosaic" or benefit the dis- 



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