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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
July, 1917 
climbers, and to 
and phlegmatic 
Caroline Test 
Laing, etc., for 
er does one see 
beautiful new 
Laurette Messi 
rarely any of 
as (unless Mine, 
riot), and all 
nating Single 
Irish Fireflame, 
of the ne 
brilliantly 
a few stout 
Roses like 
out, Mrs. John 
dwarfs? Nev- 
mentionedthe 
Chinas (Mme. 
ney, etc.) and 
the Pernetian- 
Edouard Her- 
those fasci- 
Roses like 
not to speak 
_ wer and 
colored 
A rock garden surrounding a well. The stones are moss-covered and sunk almost to the grass level 
hill of vines. As the disturbed bugs would 
come swarming out through a small crack at 
the pan’s edge (left for this purpose) the 
blow-torch is applied; and gets every one. 
When the striped bugs first appear I go over 
the squash and other vines every morning for a 
week, every third day is sufficient for their con- 
trol during the next two weeks; after which the 
plants are safe. I have also used this torch 
to good purpose in killing these striped bugs in 
the fall, when they sometimes swarm on to un- 
gathered squash in the field. And also on other 
garden and orchard insects, including the de- 
stroying of the nests of the tent caterpillar 
on small trees or low- 
down limbs. — N. Olds, 
Maryland. 
Edgings for Rocker- 
ies. — The article on 
“Rockery Edges” in 
your May number re- 
minds me that a cor- 
respondent in March 
asked if any one had 
tried rock plants for 
bordering perennial beds. The photograph be- 
low showing an Iris border edged with alpines 
was taken last year in June. The second photo- 
graph is of a well surrounded with a rock gar- 
den, the mossy stones in this case being sunk 
more or less flush with the grass. Mrs. \\ llder 
whose delightful book “My Garden” I have 
just been enjoying, gives a list of rock plants in- 
cluding a number of species of Dianthus. As I 
gather from her book that she has not yet 
succeeded with D. alpinus I am including a 
photograph showing it in full bloom, I shall be 
glad to know from Mrs. Wilder where she ob- 
tains her seed as she lists a number of plants 
which I would be glad to add to my collection. 
Perhaps this autumn, you would care to hear 
something further of my experience with a 
rock garden which I can illustrate from snaps 
taken on the spot.— E. Cleveland Morgan, 
Montreal. [Certainly, let’s hear more. — Ed\ 
An Italian View of our Rose Craft. — 
The Garden Magazine for February has 
reached me, and I see various requests from 
readers, so may I make bold to ask for more 
articles about Roses? It always seems as if 
they were somewhat neglected in American 
garden papers, and yet they are perhaps the 
most reliable flowers for a garden. Where I 
live — some ten miles outside of Rome toward 
the Alban Hills — they are almost the only 
flowers which successfully resist four months 
of scorching summer wind, with sometimes no 
rain from May till the end of September, and 
yet bloom long and well, and I am sure would 
suit may dry parts of the United States. 
Again, why do the American writers almost 
invariably confine themselves to the Wichur- 
aiana Hybrids and Multiflora Ramblers for 
Iris border edged with alpines 
Teas and H. T’s. I think many people unduly 
fear tenderness in summer. I live in the moun- 
tains, a climate like central Vermont, where 
snow often begins in October, and lasts until 
April— yet I have all these Roses there, and 
Bardou Job on a wall, and three yellow Bank- 
sias prospered and grew since they were put in 
four years ago. The usual American article 
would give one little idea of the variety and 
beauty of the Rose world. And, lest certain 
objections be raised, may I hasten to say that 
they require less trouble. My gardener is fight- 
ing, and I know whereof I speak. 
Once I subscribed to five American garden- 
ing papers, but have deserted all but yours 
One wants to know about plants — as you 
admirable articles by Mr. Wilson, which one 
hopes will be published separately, and not 
merely how to make Japanese tea gardens! — - 
An Italian Reader. 
[There are in fact several “climates ” in 
America and one cannot generalize for the 
entire country. The Wichuraiana Hybrids 
and other Ramblers find most congenial 
conditions in those parts of the country where 
gardening is mostly popular — that is the 
older, more thickly populated sections. 1 rue, 
much more might be done for Roses, and 
indeed more is being accomplished in fact than 
just at present appears on the surface. The 
American Rose Society has a great field be- 
fore it, and the official test and demonstration 
gardens now established in the larger centres 
of interest will be effective centres from which 
interest must spread. Until lately we have 
been entirely dependent on European types 
of Rose, only some of which are ideally fitted 
to our climate; but we are now developing our 
own varieties that fit. Part of the American 
Rose gardening trouble lies in the trying late 
winter conditions, when we get clear, bright, 
dry days with no moisture in the air. 1 he 
Single Roses do not last long enough for most 
people, and what color they have bleaches 
out badly. The Pernetiana varieties have a 
decided tendency to drop their foliage (as well 
as bleach) except on pure clay soils, which are 
not universal in America. 1 he series of articles 
by Mr. E. H. Wilson has been quite recently 
republished in book form under the title of 
“Aristocrats of the Garden,” price, $5 net.— 
L. B.\ 
Double Glass and Other Things — I think 
everybody is pleased with the new de- 
partment, “Garden Neighbors,” and the prom- 
inent place it is given. Since I began to 
contribute* to it I have increased my flower 
acquaintance considerably. One letter re- 
ceived asked for more information, another 
offered some, a third invited me to join a 
flower society, etc. Let the good work go on! 
I am too far from Garden City for the pro- 
posed lawn party, but shall be interested just 
the same and might join a club if one grows out 
of the situation. 
My recent experience with double glass is in- 
spiring. A little bed of Beilis Daisies was bright 
at the close of last season, so I put a wooden 
frame and glass around 
it. 1 hen I gathered 
a bank of leaves and 
dead plant stems, 
brought it up a few 
inches above the edge 
of the glass and then 
laid another glass over 
it. 1 his left a good air 
space and all I had to 
do after that was to 
raise the bank a little 
higher and then put on a few pieces of brush to 
keep everything in place. Deep snow covered 
the bed most of the winter and when it was 
gone the plants were as bright as when the 
glasses were put on and one plant was in blos- 
som. I think I shall in summer try to improve 
on this primitive protection by setting the 
glasses in a bottomless box, the upper one prob- 
ably tilted a few inches, like a hot-bed glass. 
Then if the weather turns too sunny I can turn 
the box north to south and shade the plants by 
the high back of the box during the middle of 
the day. In winter the banking of leaves could 
be put on so that quite tender plants could be 
wintered safely. They tell us that tender 
plants will freeze through a single glass at a 
temperature of about 29 degrees, so the double 
pane will be valuable in summer as in winter. 
By its help I hope to winter Sna^ragons and 
make sure of Pansies . — John IF. Chamberlin, 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
Sowing for Second Crop. — I am, with 
many others of your large family of readers, 
a garden enthusiast. With much interest 
I read, from time to time, about sowing for 
second crop. But my first attempts were dire 
failures. Each time I acquired fresh knowledge 
until, the last season, I was successful. About 
July 20th, after the early peas were cleared 
away, I sowed two kinds of lettuce — Big Bos- 
ton and Mignonette, both head varieties. 
1 he seed was sown near the last of a pro- 
longed drouth and therefore laid in the ground 
before growing, about four weeks — until rain 
fell. I' returned from my vacation near 
The Alpine Pink (Dianthus alpinus) plant, l inches high; 
flowers dark rose with darker ring at eye 
