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The Garden Magazine, March, 1920 
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|— Farr’s 
Specialties for Early Spring Planting— | 
Year after year the garden increases in charm and value as the shrubs and " 
plants increase in size and blooming power. Early spring is a desirable time 
for setting most plants, and in my collection at Wyomissing may be found 
specimens that are suitable for every phase of gardening. A few are here 
noted— to list all would be impossible: 
Japanese and Asiatic Shrubs — Berberis, Flowering Cherries, Enkian- 
thus, Cotoneasters, Corylopsis and others. 
French Lilacs, Philadelphus and Deutzias — a complete collection of 
Lemoine's new creations. 
Rare Specimen Evergreens for the formal garden, lawn groups and rock 
gardens. 
1 lardy Asters, Phloxes Delphiniums, Chrysanthemums and other peren- 
nials for spring. 
An Emergency Edition of Farr’s Hardy Plant Specialties (issued because 
of the great demand for the sixth edition) will be sent to those who request 
a copy. 
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Wyomissing Nurseries Co. 
Iberis Gibraltarica 
T HE white evergreen hardy Candytuft, 
Iberis sempervirens, is well known and 
decidedly popular. It is not, however, nearly so 
beautiful a subject as the rosy Lilac 1 . gibraltarica 
which is a later but much more persistent bloomer. 
In the rock garden here last summer and fali 
more visitors admired this colored Candytuft 
than almost any other plant we had. It is very 
easily raised from seed and if this is sown during 
the winter the seedlings will many of them bloom 
late the following summer. It is a more rapid 
grower than the white Candytuft and year old 
plants 12-18 in. across are not at all unusual. 
These evergreen Candytufts have come through 
severe winters in good condition although often 
with very little snow protection and great depth of 
frost in the ground. The foliage needs covering 
especially in late winter when frosty winds and 
sunny skies are liable to burn it. For this pur- 
pose a light covering of leaves held in position with 
pine or spruce boughs will be found effective. 
W. N. C., Mass. 
Honeysuckle Hedges 
W E SAW a fine Honeysuckle hedge on a 
neighbor’s place. Nothing would do but 
that we must have one. We had plenty of the 
shoots from which an abundance of plants were 
available. Transplanting was a short job. The 
plants grew finely. A few stout posts and some 
heavy wire formed good supports. The plants 
grew and grew — and kept on growing till they 
threatened to overrun the whole plantation. It 
was a constant fight to keep them within bounds. 
Even the neighbors objected, for the trailing 
shoots were impartial in their direction of 
growth. We hadn’t counted on such redundancy 
as this, so we took the bull by the horns and 
ripped everything out. Had we planted some of 
the upright or Bush Honeysuckles, we wouldn’t 
have had this trouble. Oh, yes! Honeysuckle 
makes a fine looking hedge, but other considera- 
tions must be taken into account, sometimes. 
F. H. V., hi. J. 
Primula Malacoides 
A LTHOUGH not usually classed as one of the 
hardy primroses, European growers have 
found that this most popular and decorative 
greenhouse species withstands a considerable 
amount of cold. To test its hardiness in New 
England I planted out some seedlings in well 
drained pockets in a rockery late one summer. 
These were given a coating of dry leaves after the 
first sharp freeze, over which some hemlock 
boughs were laid. When uncovered early the 
following April all foliage had died away, but new 
leaves and some flower spikes soon started to 
push up. Surely this proves that P. malacoides 
is less tender than many of us had imagined, for 
during the winter in question we had minimum 
temperatures here of 1 5 to 20 degrees below zero 
and several days during January and February 
the thermometer did not reach the zero mark. 
W. N. Craig, Mass. 
Babcock-Lasher Formula 
I T WILL be recalled that great things were 
expected from this formula as a remedy for the 
Rose bug, the combination of fish oil soap and 
crude carbolic acid being said to be particularly 
effective (it might well be repugnant to it). 
Some of our readers have reported its use as un- 
satisfactory; others state it lives up to the claims 
made for it. Have any other readers any further 
report to give? 
