Jauuary, li)14 



THE GARDEN AND FIELD. 



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siii)i)()rting of moss aroxmd a cen- 

 iral haiulk'. Still later in fashion- 

 able arrauj;~emculs bomiucts and 

 plants were often dressed out and 

 overloaded with ribbons and are 

 still, thoug-h not to the sauie ex- 

 tent. 



— Flower Lo\ers. — 



The Japanese are essentially na- 

 ture lovers, and the use of llowers, 

 plants, and trees is so interwoven 

 with their many social and religi- 

 ous interests that stronger inilu- 

 cnces than beauty pure and simple 

 are apparent in their plant and 

 llower demands. Practically ev^ery 

 household, from the simplest up, 

 will have, throughout the entire 

 year, at least a single jar of llow- 

 ers, or branches, simply and usual- 

 ly most artistically arranged. In 

 the cities and towns this universali 

 use mak'es quite a business for 

 'the plantsman, but the demand is 

 not for roses, carnations, etc., be- 

 ing largely for picturesque, lichen- 

 covered branches of pines, or equal- 

 ly picturesque branches of plum, 

 peach, and cherry, which, placed in 

 water, will expand into the dainty 

 beauty that the Japanese types of 

 these trees are capable of pro'duc- 

 ing. As the season advances, the 

 many lovely garden plants siiitable 

 for cut flowers all find favour, but 

 these are the more dainty and de- 

 corative forms ; the camelia, wis- 

 taria, paeony, iris, and chrysan- 

 themum, of the latter not the larg- 

 est and most double varieties ob- 

 tainable, but those of a looser 

 form, with an airy grace, such as 

 with a deft hand can be so beauti- 

 fully arranged. The funeral of a 

 popular personage marks, a harvest 

 day at the Japanese florist shop, 

 as great quantities of seasonable 

 flowers are used'in making up enor- 

 mous tree-like bouquets, often so 

 large that four men are reqviired 

 to carry them ; and hundreds of 

 such bouquets are not infrequently 

 seen at a single funeral. 



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— Destroying Worms. — 



Those who wish to rid the soil 

 of worms either before ])lanting or 

 after the grass is establislied may 

 do so by means of water strongly 

 impregnated with newly-burned 

 stone lime. Fill a tank with 

 water, holding about 35 to 40 

 gallons, add about a peck of fresh 

 lime to that quantity of water, 

 and stir briskly, then allow the 

 lime to settle. The cleia>r fluid 

 u'.av then be used freely from an 

 ordinary water can. Th© worms 

 will then come up from their bur- 

 rows in hundreds, and it will do 

 th* grass a great deal of good. 

 The worms may then be swept up 

 and destroyed in salt water. 



— Striking Rose Cuttings in 



The number . of subjects that can 

 be rooted from cuttings in water 

 is much larger than is generally 

 supposed. Amongst them are 

 Roses, although they are seldom 

 increased in this way. As a novel, 

 ty it has its interesting features. 

 The mode of striking cutting® is 

 in wide necked bottles, or glass 

 jars of soft water, a plan as sim- 

 ple as it is practicable, inasmuch 

 as cuttings taken off will root in 

 this way in from 5 to 6 weeks, 

 after which they should be potted 

 carefuUv in lig'ht sandy soil, and 

 placed in a cold frame until estab- 

 lished, when they will be ready for 

 planted where wanted. The cut- 

 tings should be cut clean below 

 an eve or joint, and none of the 

 bark bruised. It is a help to make 

 one or two other cuts between the 

 lower eves, but low enough to be 

 under water. The only attention 

 they require is the filling up of the 

 bottle with water as it evaporates. 



— Garden Beauty. — 



One of the chief things when 

 considering the decorative beauty 

 of the garden is to secure well 

 massed colour, and where it can be 

 achieved at some heig'ht from the 

 ground so much greate'r is the ef- 

 fect from the decorative point of 

 view. Few subjects combine these 

 qualities as do well grown flower- 

 ing shrubs and climbers, whether 

 evergreen, or deciduous. Thetre is 

 another reason too, why we 

 should be at pains to grow this 

 class of plant. It is the beautiful 

 massed effect we can secure ' at the 

 minimum of ground space, a mat- 

 ter of the utmost importance when 

 considering small gardens. And 

 again, we have to remember that 

 among them' are certain varieties 

 that produce flowers of large size, 

 a matter of importance in garden 

 effect. 



— Home Made Labels. — 

 Lal)els may be bought very 

 cheaplv now-a-days, but the handy 

 man can nvake his own (says an 

 exchange). The lids of boxes for 

 packing chocolate and other kinds 

 of sweets are just the right thick- 

 ness for labels, and generally they 

 are planed on one side, or they 

 may be smoothed with a sharp 

 knife. If the plane be u.scd the 

 whole iid should be smoothed at 

 once, and the wood sawn to the 

 .size recjuircd afterwards. A 'small 

 quantity of white lead paint must 

 be applied to the smooth surface, 

 and the name written with a pen- 

 cil before it is quite dry. 



— Berberis Japonica. — 



This is one of the finest of the 

 Barberries, and is well worth 

 growing either for its larg'e ever- 

 green leaves or yellow fiowers. It 

 is found in both China and Japan, 

 and forms an open clump of stiff, 

 uprig'ht branches, 5 feet or 6 feet 

 high, terminated with heads of 

 handsome deep green, leathery 

 leaves, made up of seven or nine 

 leaflets, which are large, rounded 

 at the base, and terminated at the 

 apex with a strong spine, several 

 other spines being found on the 

 margins. The stems when broken 

 through are quite yellow in 

 colour. The flowers are yellow, 

 and borne in large, terminal pan- 

 icles, and are followed bv dark pur- 

 ple or black fruits. For grouping 

 on the outskirts of a shrubbery it 

 is an excellent plant, but as it is 

 very impatient of root injury, it 

 should be placed in a permanent 

 position when quite j^oung, and not 

 disturbed afterwards. il, how- 

 ever, it is found necessary to 

 transplant an established specimen 

 ca're should be taken to secure a 

 good ball of soil about the roots. 



— Mice Eating Shrub Stems. — 



The following is recommended as 

 a cure for a sometimes annoying 

 trouble. Get a few pounds of dry 



clay, pound it fine, put it into an 

 old pail, and mix with it as much 

 kerosene as it wiU well absorb. 

 Also add, dissolved in half a gal- 

 lon of boiling water, ilb. of soft 

 soap, then put that into the pail. 

 Still further add an ounce or so of 

 red lead. Mix these ingredients 

 into a paste, then with it coat the 

 stems, using a large painting 

 brush. Keep the solution well 

 stirred while using it. In all cases 

 where the stems are barked all 

 round, no artificial coating can re- 

 place loss of bark. Those it may 

 be wise to cut down below the 

 barked injury. 



