The Garden Magazine, February, 1922 



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Select the best and sturdiest side growth from the Violets; they will root 

 readilv in bench used for propagating Carnations. When rooted, 

 box up and set in a light position in the violet house until planted 

 outdoors. 



Put old plants of Lemon Verbena into a warm house to make growths 

 which may be rooted readily in a warm propagating bench. 



Take cuttings of double Petunias. 



Stock plants of Salvias need temperature of 55-58 at night to produce 

 material for cuttings; sow in a temperature of 50 . 



Cuttings of Coleus, Achyranthes and all plants needed for bedding 

 purposes to be propagated as material is available. 



Flowers for Easter 



April 1 6th, is Easter Day, and any bulbs wanted for that date should 



be brought in accordingly. 

 Shrubs intended for Easter holiday display should be in a temperature 



of 50°. Start Tuberous Begonias in a temperature of 55°. 

 Lilium formosum intended to be in flower for Easter should have the 



buds well set by the end of the month and will come in nicely in a 

 temperature of 55°. Any that have not arrived at this stage of 

 development may be hurried along with more heat. 

 Roses will take more water now and feeding may be done more liberally 

 as growth is more active. With the sun heat and the fire heat, 

 conditions are favorable to red spider. Don't allow too great a 

 difference between the night and day temperatures. Don't 

 allow the temperature at midday to reach 90° or more and 

 then have it drop to 60° late in the afternoon. Keep 

 up the temperature in the afternoon and maintain 60° throughout 

 the night. 



Catch Up in Supplies 



This is the last chance to get fully caught up with or a little ahead of 

 your work, and anything done now will be a wonderful help dur- 

 ing the rush periods of the next two or three months. Make a 

 list of the various things that apply to your work, and check off 

 as attended to. 



TREES DESTROYED BY ICE IN NEW ENGLAND 



T. D. HATFIELD 



^EVER has there been, 1 believe, a more devastating ice storm 

 than that which swept along the New England coast in 

 November. Most fortunately, the Arnold Arboretum, which 

 was just on the edge of it, escaped; as did Boston and its im- 

 mediate vicinity for about four miles inland. From the Litch- 

 field Hills of Connecticut the storm raged northward along the coast 

 as far as Springfield, Massachusetts. In the northern part of the 

 state bordering New Hampshire its fury spent itself chiefly in snow. 



At Wellesley we scarcely ate or slept from the time it started, Satur- 

 day afternoon, November 26th, until the following Tuesday after- 

 noon when it commenced to abate. It was sickening to see great trees 

 on the Hunnewell estate — the creation of a lifetime — so mutilated 

 and destroyed; many of the older among them without sufficient 

 vitality, I fear, to start anew. 



The photograph here reproduced records a typical example of 

 what happened during those devastating days. A number of other 

 pictures were taken by way of recording the almost unbelievable de- 

 struction, the memory of which will not be effaced in our time. There 

 is no indication, even among the oldest trees, of their having ever suf- 

 fered to any similar extent. 



In previous ice storms with us at Wellesley, the Pines have usually 

 suffered most; and indeed were the only trees that carried the effects 

 through time as broken and sawn-off limbs testify. I have always 

 wondered why Pines suffered most, as being native they might have 

 been looked on as fitted to the climate, and it is likely enough that 

 ice storms have occurred before. When Pines are cultivated in the 

 open, as here, they develop a wide spread not possible in close woods 

 and the open spread apparently renders them unable to carry the weight 

 of snow. Up to this time no deciduous trees growing around here 

 bore any evidence of suffering from previous ice storms; but this 

 recent one broke up even tough-limbed Elms and Oaks, Black Oaks 

 chiefly, with incredible ease. 



The weight of ice gradually bore down the branches of Firs and 

 Spruces, layer on layer freezing together till each resembled a closed 

 umbrella. Rigid as columns they stood, the wind making no im- 

 pression. So it was, to a lesser extent, with the Pines. Japan Cedars 

 (Chamaecyparis) and other evergreens having several leaders, could 

 not bear the strain and so sustained greater injury. 



It has been stated that Japanese deciduous trees came through better 

 than natives — a statement with which my observations here hardly 

 coincide. The Japanese Golden Larch is a wreck; of the Pagoda tree 

 (Sophora japonica) scarcely a stick remains, and the Ginkgo is almost 

 as bad. 



Among the Maples, the Norway stood up better than the Sugar; 

 the Silver Maple was much injured. Walnuts, considered naturally 

 tough, gave way. Our heavy-limbed Honey Locust and the Cu- 



cumber tree were only slightly hurt. Old Apple and Peach orchards 

 were badly broken up, and hardly a deciduous tree in an exposed posi- 

 tion escaped. 



This saddening experience will not prove particularly helpful; one 

 lesson the storm did teach us, however, and that is to keep trees away 

 from buildings. 



SUGAR MAPLE AT WELLESLEY, MASS., AFTER THE DE- 

 STRUCTIVE ICE STORM NOVEMBER 27TH AND 28TH, 1921 



