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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
The Cloche Co’s., 
March Bulletin 
To the plan-ahead home gardener, 
March offers the long awaited op- 
portunity to start actual planting 
operations — indoors. Secure some 
good soil from your florist, order 
Cloche Company’s Paper Pots, as shown 
below, at once, and sow seeds of “long 
season” vegetables. These pots are sub- 
stantially made from stiff manila board 
and are guaranteed to do the work w T ell. 
For Tomatoes and other small seeded 
vegetables size 3x3 will prove just right. 
Sow 2 or 3 seeds in each pot. For Sweet 
Peas, size 4x2x2 is just right. For 
smaller flower seeds, the size 2x2x2 pots 
will serve nicely. 
Prepare NOW for 
Early Corn and Beans 
As soon as your seeds reach you — cer- 
tainly not later than March 15th — open 
the packages, select the plumpest kernels 
of your corn and beans and sow 4 in each 
3"x4" pot, as shown to extreme right. 
At $1.50 per hundred, these pots will ad- 
vance the season of maturity by at least 
two weeks — enough to save you ten dol- 
lars on extra early vegetables. Two other 
sizes of pots are available. Send for cir- 
cular and free samples of any pots that 
interest you. 
Miniature Greenhouses 
75c. Each 
The model of “Groquick” Forcer, 
shown below, is the latest step in devel- 
opment of these handy helps to home gar- 
deners. Three wires and four pieces of 
glass completely enclose a space eleven inches wide 
at base and seven inches high. Just the thing to 
ward off late frosts from the melon or cucumber 
patch! Ideal for gathering additional heat on sunny 
days to hasten the crop. Price 75c. each, complete 
with wire and glass. $8 per doz. 
Other Useful Accessories 
of value to home gardeners everywhere are fully 
described and pictured in a neat little folder for 
which please send. We carry the latest and best in 
Cultivators, Lawn Sprinklers, Bloom Protectors, 
Celery Bleachers, Lawn Trimmers, besides a full 
line of “Grow-Quick” plant forcers for 
every purpose and at all prices. We try to 
serve Garden Magazine readers in the capacity of 
a National Department Store of New Garden Ac- 
cessories. Please think of us as such and write to- 
day — “lest you forget.” 
The Cloche Co., 
131 Hudson Street, New York 
Phone, 5220 Franklin 
March, 1917 
Roses for Washington Conditions 
TT WOULD be well nigh impossible for any 
one person to choose the best Rose for any 
given locality, for no one person is likely to 
have thoroughly tried out all varieties; and 
moreover, each individual has his or her own 
preference in regard to color, form, habit, 
etc. I do not, therefore, attempt to say what 
variety is best for Eastern Washington and 
the Inland Empire. From my own experi- 
ence, however, and from my observations in 
the gardens of others, I can state what I 
believe to be the finest Roses for general gar- 
den culture in this locality. 
The standard varieties which I, myself, 
have planted and thoroughly tried out, are 
Madame Caroline Testout, La France, Paul 
Neyron, Lyon, Betty, White Maman Cochet, 
Frau Karl Druschki, Hugh Dickson, Gruss 
an Teplitz, Madame Segond Weber, Killarney, 
and Marechal Niel. I do not include any 
of the Ramblers, nor so-called June Roses 
which do well as a rule. 
Of those mentioned, and they are all good, 
I should unqualifiedly pronounce Madame 
Caroline Testout the best in every way. It 
is a sturdy, vigorous grower, and is equally 
good as a specimen plant as in a hedge. The 
stems are long, the blossoms full, and every 
petal of a surpassingly rich, though delicate 
shade of pink and exceptionally free from 
discoloration or other blemishes. It lasts well 
after cutting and even in midsummer a vase 
of Caroline Testout should last nearly a week. 
Like most Hybrid Teas, it is a free and per- 
petual bloomer producing flowers in abun- 
dance from June until mid-October. 
Next to Caroline Testout, I should place 
Paul Neyron. Although not nearly so free 
a bloomer as my first choice, the size and 
beauty of the flowers, often five and six 
inches in diameter and the unusually long 
stems (I have cut them over four feet long), 
make it a striking and valuable Rose for cut- 
ting or for exhibit. Of the white Roses, Frau 
Karl Druschki is the best though not quite so 
free a bloomer as might be desired. It does 
better, however, than most H. P s. 
La France, one of the finest of the Hybrid 
Teas in some localities and a well known 
favorite, is seemingly not suited to this dry 
atmosphere. The petals are very delicate 
and easily discolored by hot winds or dust. 
In the early autumn days, La France im- 
proves, but in the summer time I am sel- 
dom able to find flowers suitable for ex- 
hibition. Marechal Neil (Noisette'' is also 
unsatisfactory, as it is too tender. 
Of the red Roses, Hugh Dickson (H. P.) 
seems to be the most satisfactory. It has the 
most delicate perfume of any variety. 
Washington. II. F. Waterbury. 
Managing the Roses 
'TTO TRY to raise many Roses without 
A frequent spraying would be to court dis- 
aster, for insect and bacterial enemies are 
persistent and destructive. The best sprayer 
is one of the compressed air type, having an 
automatic nozzle that can be controlled by 
one hand, leaving the other free to turn back 
the bushes so that the under sides of the 
leaves can be sprayed. For the green fly or 
aphis a paper of strong smoking tobacco 
steeped in a gallon of water makes a cheap 
and efficient spray where commercial nicotine 
sprays cannot be procured. Whale oil soap 
solution is also good for exterminating plant 
lice, or they may be driven off the plants by 
frequent use of the hose, using a fine spray 
nozzle. As these insects suck the juices from 
the tender tips of the plants and do not eat 
the leaves, poisons are useless, the best remedy 
being something that will kill them by con- 
tact, and nothing excels tobacco either in 
solution or dry powder. 
A combined arsenate of lead and bordeaux 
mixture spray, procurable from dealers in 
spraying materials, will both kill all leaf 
eating larvae and prevent mildew and other 
fungi if applied regularly every two weeks 
throughout the season. If mildew appears, 
dry flowers of sulphur should be applied im- 
mediately to the affected leaves. Potassium 
sulphide (liver of sulphur), one-half ounce 
in a gallon of soft water, dissolved fresh each 
time, should be sprayed every few days as 
long as the mildew persists. This is a posi- 
tive remedy. As mildew is the most destruc- 
tive pest, as well as the hardest enemy of 
the Rose to combat, the importance of early 
application of sprays and persistence in the 
use of effective measures of eradication cannot 
be over estimated. 
Aphids are easily destroyed by gently 
stripping the infested tender tips with the 
thumb and forefinger, their bodies being easily 
crushed by the process. The presence of 
various green worms, the larvae of many 
species of insects, is usually detected by the 
curled leaves in which they hide. If these 
are watched for carefully and crushed by the 
fingers as soon as they appear there may be 
no need of using poisonous sprays or dusting 
with hellebore. My own experience with hel- 
lebore is quite disappointing, and I find that 
nothing is quite so effectual as hand crushing. 
The common rose beetle, that reprehensible 
bug that eats the very heart out of the choicest 
Roses, can only be controlled by hand pick- 
ing and as he prefers white blooms to 
colored ones it is well to have an occasional 
bush of some free flowering white variety, 
such as Clotilde Soupert, for his allurement. 
Pennsylvania. H. G. Reading. 
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