The Garden Magazine, May, 1920 
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be utilized to the best advantage. The scheme is possible but not 
probable or practical to carry out and for these reasons: (A), From an 
architectural point of view: The floor arrangement is impractical. 
The approach to the old-fashioned garden is apparently only through 
the servants’ quarters. The contours that the roof of such a house 
would assume would be anything but pleasing. (B), From a landscape 
architectural point of view: The entrance drive is most impossible if it 
is to be built as designed. The fundamental principles of design have 
been eliminated. Let us consider the view from the tile loggia over 
the out-of-proportion pool and sundial, and having as a background a 
drive and a stone wall. The design has a somewhat formal aspect. 
It is without an axis line and other strong features which would tie it 
in to the house. Therefore the garden does not make for a harmonious 
whole with the rest of the property as a design of good merit would 
have it do. The flower garden has not been related to the house in any 
way. One path has a dead end with the west wall. (C), From a 
horticultural point of view: The plan shows a lack of knowledge of 
plant material and its arrangement. Flower beds planted against the 
base of the house and under the eaves, from a growing point of view 
alone, have never been successful. It is on account of my devotion to 
my profession and deep interest in bringing before the public wholesome 
and well thought out examples of landscape architecture that I write 
you these lines. — Ralph M. Weinrichter, Fellow American Society 
of Landscape Architects, Rochester, N. Y. 
A Greenhouse 
Heating 
Problem 
( HAVE for several years experimented with 
kerosene burners in cook stoves, and have 
finally found one that works to my entire 
satisfaction. It gives a good, clear flame, and 
in a large stove or range it gives from five to seven hours of service per 
gallon of oil. 1 am just now erecting a greenhouse and will use two 
double burners in boiler, but am satisfied that in this climate one burner 
will suffice after water has been heated. The' burner in question is 
known as the Cochran Superior Coal-Oil Burner and is manufactured 
by the Cochran Manufacturing Co., 96 Flarriet St., San Francisco, Cal. 
A number of these burners are in successful use in hot air furnaces. — 
J. P. Jefferson, California. 
tt j HP HE rare and old-fashioned flowers are 
Double ^ most desirable in the gardens for the rea- 
Buttercuos son tbat ^ey are admired by most garden 
folks. In my garden I have a bed — 10 by 20 
feet — of the old time yellow Hardy Double Buttercups. An elderly 
lady gave me a few plants from her bed of Buttercups which was more 
than fifty years old. The flowers are yellow and double and resemble 
somewhat the Matricaria except in color. The petals look and feel like 
culluloid and the foliage, too, is very pretty — in shape much like a 
Geranium leaf. It is dark and glossy and looks as though it were varn- 
ished. The plants grow about a foot high and spread rapidly. The 
Buttercup bed in my garden is a beautiful sight indeed when in bloom 
(which lasts about 6 weeks) being a solid mass of bright yellow flowers 
with a dark green blanket of solid leaves just beneath the flowers. We 
pick the flowers bv the half-bushel basket. One of the nicest things 
about this little plant is the endurance of the flower in water. They 
make an attractive display when placed in a black vase 1 have, 
the yellow and black being such a contrast. — F. Sanksweirt, Norwood, 
Ohio. 
Fighting LJAVING read so much about crown rot, 
Crown that * iate< ^ affliction of the Flag Iris, I have 
dreaded to find it attacking my collection some 
day. And at last it came with cold, wet, 
dull weather that favored it and its spread. 1 was provoked! — and I 
began to snatch off the tips of the blighted stalks angrily. Every 
time one showed a yellow color-tone amongst the thrifty greens, I went 
for it mercilessly — and 1 found that that is how to fight crown rot. — - 
Up with them and burn! No matter how much it hurts to do it, pull 
and incinerate. And when in doubt as what to do next, do that some 
more. By pursuing this method, I am able to stand up when the 
danger period for this year seems ended and say: “Well, that peril 
has been conquered for this year, at least.” Primitive? Well — 
that’s what most successful methods of fighting — and winning a fight — 
are! — N. B. The above was written at the close of my 1918 fight and the 
sheet laid away, that I might be able to check up at the end of 1919 on 
the actual outcome. During this year of 1919 not a speck of crown 
rot appeared in my Iris; so 1 think I may fairly claim to have won. 
Estelle M. Gilbert, Binghamton, N. Y. 
When the 
Garden Club 
Meets 
A S 1 have received so many little hints for 
our garden club from your magazine, 
perhaps others may glean an idea or two from 
the subjects we used last season. Our little 
club meets weekly, usually at my home, and these were the subjects 
1 offered for discussion: “Different Means of Plant Propagation,” 
“A Perennial Garden,” “Plan a Blue Garden,” “Plan a Garden to 
Bloom This Year,” "Shrubbery and Its Uses,” “The Orchard and 
Fruit Garden,” “The Dahlia,” “A Bulb Garden,” “Garden Planning.” 
One meeting was given over to a talk on birds, for who that loves 
gardens, does not also love birds? We also studied the wild flowers 
and offered a prize for the member finding and classifying the greatest 
number. I would be glad to give names of text books and authors from 
which we read during the season. I n addition to our local memberships 
we have several non-resident members from Lake Forest and Lake 
Geneva, 111., New York, and Lenox.-^REBECCA W. Gibbs, Richmond, 
Mass. 
An Annual VA/HERE the ve § etable 8 arden > s P art 
Border for the " ’ of a formal design a border adds greatly 
Vegetable Garden to the a PP earance - Low hedges of shrub 
would be in most cases undesirable, casting too 
much shade and interfering with cultivation. On the country place of 
Mr. Robert Allerton at Monticello, 111 ., I saw a very attractive border 
made by Carrots. As the leaf stalks grow too tall and fall over, the 
leaves may be trimmed like a hedge. New leaves are put out very 
quickly so that the miniature hedge is always fresh and green. It 
has a very soft, airy appearance. It may be trimmed several times 
during summer and remains green until frost. The cost is inconsider- 
ble. — A. G. Eldredge, 111 . 
AN EDGING OF CARROTS IN THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 
And Red Cedars marking the corners, which reminds 
of the long-ago fashion of using Boxwood for punctua- 
tion marks and herbs trimmed to neat, small hedges 
