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SHOWING THE BENEFIT OF A LONG FREEZE 



This Blueberry plant was kept throughout the winter inside a green- 

 house where temperature was maintained at 70 degrees. About the 

 middle of February, when the plant had shed its leaves and become 

 dormant, the branches on the right were let out through a small 

 opening carefully plugged to protect the rest of the plant from any 

 chill outside air. These branches, after being exposed to the rigors 

 of winter, showed this vigorous leafage on May 20th, whereas the 

 branch (on left) which had been kept warm and undisturbed within 

 the greenhouse during the same period still remained dormant 



of them will be found to accomplish this act in the same way 

 as our long dormant greenhouse plants, by the weakening of 

 their cell membranes. This is in effect substantially identical 

 with chilling. 



MARCH'S FLOWER SHOW 



THE horticulturist's Mecca this spring will be Cleveland, 

 Ohio, where the National Flower Show opens March 25th 

 and continues to April 1st. At the time this is written (in 

 January) it is not possible to give any particulars, but the dates 

 can be noted and plans made accordingly. The local associations 

 and the Garden Club of America lend their cooperation in mak- 

 ing this gathering as fully representative as is possible. 



The annual New York Show is fixed for March 13th to 19th, 

 and, as it has become firmly established as the great annual gath- 

 ering of the East, it invites attention from gardeners everywhere. 



The child gardeners of New York's East Side will be repre- 

 sented at the Flower Show to be held at the Grand Central 

 Palace March 13th to 19th by a sample garden of the same size 

 as those alloted to each child at the Avenue A Gardens referred 

 to in our January issue. This and other exhibits from the same 

 source will give the public a graphic idea of the physical and 

 mental benefit to children wrought by this very practical charity, 

 which is not all charity, and which will be more fully described 

 in the next issue of The Garden Magazine. 



The Garden Magazine, February, 1922 



THE OPE^C COLUMO^ 



Readers' Interchange of Experience and Comment 



Echoes from the Pacific Coast 



To the Editor of The Garden Magazine: 



"yOLJR p ac if IC Coast Annual for 1921 is splendid — esthetically, 

 * artistically, and culturally. I am delighted to see, in our periodi- 

 cal marts, in our public conveyances, and, best of all, in our homes 

 such striking evidence of the popularity of your publication in Califor- 

 nia. — E. J. Wickson (Professor Emeritus of Horticulture), University of 

 California. 



It Came at Christmas, Too ! 



To the Editor of The Garden Magazine: 



IN RENEWING my subscription I would particularly like to begin 

 * with the December number. I am an old subscriber and for some 

 years yours has been a constant and a favorite magazine in my home. 

 For a little time, however, enforced moving about prevented my seeing 

 it regularly; now I am settled in my parents' home and am again taking 

 up the old favorites. This week a friend sent me the June number 

 devoted to Iris and as I have 180 varieties of Iris, you will see it was a 

 treat to me! From now on I hope to read and enjoy your best of all 

 garden magazines. — (Mrs.) Jennie Farmer, Salem, III. 



Some Perennial Questions 



To the Editor of The Garden Magazine: 



THE red spider has for three years ruined my once so beautiful per- 

 ennial Phlox. Can some one tell me a remedy or will these plants 

 always be so troubled? Don't say "spray" — I've no time for that. 



Also will some one give me names of perennials that bloom in July? 

 Dreer names several such, but with me they bloom in June and I have 

 almost nothing for July. — Cora Jewell, Darlington, hid. 

 — The ever old, ever new, perennial question, and answered perennially, 

 too, the most recent occasion being The Garden Magazine, Septem- 

 ber, 1 92 1, page 48. It crops up each year and because in spring the 

 garden is planted with thoughts of spring — a fruitful, futile philosophy 

 alas! — Ed. 



The Spirit and the Letter 



To the Editor of The Garden Magazine: 



I WANT to express the appreciation that such a "humanly" written 

 article as "When Plants are Brought Indoors" (November, 1921, 

 page 1 57) is bound to inspire. The theme throughout sounds a respon- 

 sive note in the spirit of the reader, not only 'leaving one more thor- 

 oughly familiar with the working habits of the plants, but with an 

 axiomatically heightened interest in the plant life around them. Theo- 

 dore Roosevelt said: "Personally the books by which I have profited 

 infinitely more than by any others have been those in which profit was 

 a by-product of the pleasure; that is, I read them because I enjoyed 

 them, because I liked reading them and the profit came in as a part of 

 the enjoyment." — L. Vinton Richard, N. Y. 



From Rome to Texas 



To the Editor of The Garden Magazine: 



ON PAGE 104 of the October number is a letter from a Texas reader 

 asking for suggestions. Perhaps some things which do well in 

 Rome would help her, for while our winters are colder, our summers are 

 long and dry, with hot winds, and anything like Pansies or Delphiniums 

 die in June. I have found Roses best of all. If one plants them well, 

 and above all firmly — stamping the earth on the roots with both feet — 

 then looks out for them the first summer with occasional deep waterings, 

 they generally stand heat and wind. Some years may be so bad that 

 October first finds all their leaves off, but they recover in the autumn 

 rains. The Tea Roses, the Pernetianas, the Noisettes, the lovely 

 single Roses, and the Hybrid Chinas all do especially well. After 

 Roses come Iris; the beautiful I. pallida family grow and spread, white 

 I. Susiana and the newer Regelio-Cyclus hybrids (which are so difficult 

 to grow in England and moist climates) flourish like weeds. For an- 

 nuals, Zinnias stand a great deal of drought, and if one buys the seed 

 carefully, avoiding the orange and red and magenta tones, they can be 

 very handsome. Antirrhinums are perhaps the best of all, and flower 

 some eight or nine months of the year — here, too, picked colors are 

 best. Valerian, both white and red, is lovely; and, if watered, Petunias 

 are very heat-defying. The Christmas flowering Sweet-peas, if planted 

 in the autumn, are generally able to flower in the spring before heat 



