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The Garden Magazine, March, 1920 
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How to Treat the Hardy Alyssum 
O N THE edge and in a well-drained location I 
have a four year old root of hardy Alyssum 
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Gold. Last spring when it was in bloom it was 
a beautiful sight, but when through blossoming 
quite the opposite, for its long naked arms reached 
out on all sides crowding over nearby neighbors 
until they seemed lost, and also almost obstructing 
the grassy pathway. I thought 1 would experi- 
ment a bit on the plant as I had several of the 
kind to secure seeds from should this one be lost. 
These long arms I immediately cut back one-half, 
at least quite enough out of the way of the neigh- 
bors, so the new growth if it came, would fill the 
gaps. In a very short time the stub ends sent 
out new tufts along the body of the arms left so 
that in July it was a mass of fresh gray green 
leaves, and the plant does honor to its location 
again. Grass Pinks may be treated in the same 
way, only very early in the spring — first part of 
April. 
K. K. Perrigo, III. 
Snapdragons where Cotton Grows 
P RIOR to last year Snapdragons were an im- 
possibility in my garden; try as I would 1 
could not make them bloom satisfactorily. I al- 
ways sowed the seeds in spring at cotton planting 
time and never had any trouble getting the plants 
up promptly. They would make a fair growth, 
too, until hot July came when they turned yellow. 
If the plants did not die outright, such poor 
growth was made as to produce only inferior 
spikes of bloom. Last Autumn I decided to 
change mv method of culture. Near the middle 
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nurseryman. A few days later the collection 
including the following varieties arrived: Nelrose, 
an intermediate soft rose sort; Firebrand, a brilli- 
ant half-dwarf kind similar in color to the Presi- 
dent Sweet Pea; Purple King, a self color of 
the tall type; Golden Queen, a bold, cheese- 
colored flower. I set half of the plants in a frame 
with some early tulips. The others I planted 
along a shady border. They were watered and 
shaded for a few days afterward and soon showed 
by their vigor and freshness that they were estab- 
lished. The ones in the frame were in bloom by 
May first the next year, and the border was 
brightened a week later by flashes of sunset color 
from Firebrand. Hundreds of spikes were cut 
from the clumps in the old tulip bed during the 
summer; even the heat of midsummer did not 
check their production. The flowers in the 
border lasted until frost, and were the most satis- 
factory plants in the entire lot of perennials. 
In July when sowing seeds of Delphinium, 
Veronica, Aquilegia, and Pansy for next year’s 
bloom, I procured a few seeds of a choice strain 
of Antirrhinum which 1 planted in a protected 
part of my garden. The seeds germinated well, 
and I am going to transplant the seedlings as soon 
as the season is a little more advanced. I am 
sure that I can grow Snapdragons in my garden 
quite as well as anybody, since changing the 
method of their growing. 
Buford Reid, Arkansas. 
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