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roses would injure the latter. Xot if the 

 soil is made rich enough to supply the 

 needs of both plants. The roses would be 

 more likely to injure the verbenas by shad- 

 ing them too much. 



Plants for Shady Windows. — "Please 

 tell me of several plants which will grow 

 well in windows which get no sunshine/' 

 — H. B. L. 



Boston ferns, Selaginellas, Chinese 

 primroses. Primula obconicas, ficuses, 

 palms, araucarias, and many of the be- 

 gonias. 



Trouble With V/indotv Plants. — (Mrs. 

 E. B. W.) The leaves sent show that 

 yo-ir ])lants are suffering from a bacterial 

 disease. There is but one remedy that 1 

 have any knowledge of, and that is Bor- 

 deaux mixture, or its substitute, Copper- 

 dine. 



Araucaria Cuttings. — "What part of 

 the araucaria should be taken for cut- 

 tings?" — Miss S. 



Half-ripened branches. Start with bot- 

 tom heat, if possible. Success seldom fol- 

 lows the employment of any other method. 



Scale. — (Mrs. X. D.) Your plants have 

 scale. Scrub them with Ivory soapsuds — 

 half a pound to tub of water, using a 

 rather stiff brush. Apply enough force 

 to loosen every scale, after having gone 

 over the plant with the soap infusion. 



Grafting Lemons. — "Must lemon-trees 

 be grafted before they will fruit ?" — F. P. 



It is not absolutely necessary to graft 

 seedling plants, as most of them will bear 

 fruit in time, but grafted plants are likely 

 to do so at an earlier date. 



Quassia. — "\\Tiat are quassia chips? 

 Where can I get them?'' 



Quassia is a tree, the wood of which is 

 extremely bitter. Any druggist can sup- 

 ply the "chips." 



Scale on 2?05e.— (Mrs. S. E. B.) The 



sample of stalk sent shows the dreaded 

 San Jose scale. I would cut the bush off 

 close to the ground, and burn it, to pre- 

 vent injury to other plants in its vicinity. 



PERPLEXITIES FROM THE SOUTH 



Answered by Mrs. G. T. Drennan 



[All questions regarding floriculture, from 

 the Ohio and Potomac Elvers to the Gulf of 

 Mexico — which are the limits of Southern gar- 

 dens — will receive careful attention and prompt 

 responses.] 



Roses. — Both Marechal Xiel and Clo- 

 thilde Soupert should be cut back to within 

 a foot of the roots. This in reply to Mrs. 

 E. B., Brusly lianding, Louisiana. The 

 new growth will bloom freely in spring. 

 Reset the roses in winter when the roots 

 are dormant. December and January are 

 the only months of the year in which roses 

 are not in active growth in Louisiana. 



Golden Arbor Vitae, if injured, may 

 safely be pruned. (Mrs. M. L. S., Xash- 

 ville, X. C.) Cutting away the injured 

 branches of an arbor vita? is all the prun- 

 ing it requires. As a class, the growth is 

 shapelv, symmetrical, and in some speci- 

 mens naturally pyramidal. Prune in 

 winter. Arl^or vitaes are all hardy ever- 

 greens in southern gardens. 



Protect Tea Roses.— (F. J. T., Rich- 

 mond, Ya.) The Bride is a hardy tea, but, 

 in the latitude of Richmond it should be 

 heavily mulched, and grown in some part 

 of the garden protected from northern ex- 

 posure. Light, latticed frames of port- 

 able form or construction may be neat and 

 comely for winter protection of tea roses. 

 Painted green they make very nice ap- 

 pearance, and afford sufficient protection. 



Oleanders will not grow in your lati- 

 tude. (G-. G. S., Richmond, Va.) Crow 

 in tubs and winter them in the green- 

 house. 



''Painted Cup'' is a native Texas 

 flower. (Miss M. M., Dallas Texas.) 

 The petunia is also a native of the Texas 

 prairies. 



Sweet Olive is hardly as far up as 33 

 degrees. (Miss R. B., Holly Springs, 

 Miss.) It is one of the earliest flowers 

 to bloom in the spring. In Xew Orleans 

 it blooms freely in February. It is 

 strictly an evergreen. In latitudes where 

 the foliage would drop off in winter the 

 sweet olive would not live. 



