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lovely shade of pink. This variety blooms late so one could not count 
on its blossoming every year in this locality, for frost seldom holds off 
so long as it did last season. We used double Gypsophila paniculata 
with it in arranging bouquets and no combination could be lovelier. 
The Baby’s Breath had been dried, as its blooming period was past when 
the Cosmos began, but it answered surprisingly well. — Mary Rutner, 
Traverse City, Mich. 
— This delightful flower is apparently not well “fixed” as yet and a 
good percentage of plants will not come double. — Ed. 
A Remarkable Twin Tree 
To the Editor of The Garden Magazine: 
W HAT may be called the “Siamese twins” of the tree world 
is found on an island in the middle of the Mississippi River at 
Rock Island, Illinois. The island in question, which embraces some 
two hundred acres, is occupied by the United States Arsenal. It is 
covered with a luxuriant forest of Oak, Elm and other species of trees, 
but the twin tree is the only one of its kind on the island. Evidently the 
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STRANGE UNION OF TWO UNLIKE TREES 
treeswhensaplings were growingside byside, and in somecurious manner 
they merged into a single bole to a height of seven or eight feet. At this 
height the individual trunks separate, each bearing its own peculiar bark 
formation and foliage, whereas the joint trunk, seems to be a blend of 
both Oak and Elm bark. It is estimated that the twin tree is over a 
hundred years old, and it is possible that the Indians who once camped 
on the island may have had something to do, either by accident or 
design, with its peculiar formation. — Robert H. Moulton, III. 
A Word About Cut or Other Worms 
To the Editor of The Garden Magazine: 
j ONCE had a peculiar experience with my Nasturtiums, and hoping 
1 it may help some one else, I give it. My Nasturtiums grew and flour- 
ished in a most gratifying way for a time, but suddenly began to droop. 
I searched for the cause but failed to find it. I loosened the soil and 
looked for cut-worms but they did not seem to be there. The plants 
continued to droop, and the other members of my family consoled me 
with remarks to the effect that my Nasturtium bed was doomed. At 
last, in desperation, I made a strong soap suds and, in the early morning, 
went and watered the bed with it and watched the result. In just a 
few minutes about a dozen big cut-worms came hustling to the surface. 
The soap seemed to render them helpless, and it was easy to dispatch 
them. A few more applications, each bringing up a smaller number, 
finished them, and the Nasturtium bed was a complete success. — Flora 
Swetnam, IVhitesburg, Ga. 
— Wonder! Was it cut-worms or earth-worms? — Ed. 
Pruning St. Regis Raspberries 
To the Editor of The Garden Magazine: 
A S I always come to The Garden Magazine when in trouble, I am 
making a similar appeal again. 1 really don’t know what 1 would 
do were it not for the monthly visits of this magazine; 1 am still so 
ignorant about so much in gardening. We have a dozen or so St. 
Regis Raspberry bushes, “everbearing” so-called. The last two 
years the first crop (July) has not been as large as it should be, 
and the berries have often been wormy; that is, a tiny white worm 
would be inside the cup, the fruit seeming quite perfect after that was 
removed. This condition, of course, necessitated very careful picking 
over and washing. 1 usually looked at each berry as I picked it from 
the canes. The fall crop these last two years has been very full, the 
berries growing large and luscious, and being entirely free from the 
wormy condition of the first, and supposedly larger crop. Can you 
give any suggestions to remedy this? Not the good fall crop, but the 
poor first crop. This has been our treatment after the last of the 
berries have been gathered in July: We cut out all the old canes 
down to the roots, then there are left standing quite a goodly supply of 
new branches and about all seem to have borne in profusion. In the 
fall, before snow flies, we cut all the bushes down to about two and one- 
half feet as is usual with the ordinary Raspberry, I think. Here is 
where 1 think we do wrong, but how? This year I thought we would 
cut out all the old canes just as we do in July, but it seems as if there is 
nothing left standing but a very few short young branches. One 
neighbor, who knows no more than I, says the fruit will be borne on the 
old canes and to leave them standing. This I am sure is wrong as they 
look all played out after 'their strenuous life of the last eight weeks of 
bearing and are very long and lopped over. Another friend suggests 
that all the bushes be cut down to the ground, and although he knows 
nothing of the St. Regis kind, 1 imagine his advice is better. — Mary 
Edna Thomson, Ridgewood, N. J. 
— 1 1 is advisable to remove entirely in early spring those canes that have 
fruited late the previous summer or the previous fall. Leave the current 
year’s wood, which produces fruit the following June. As for the maggots 
on the inside of the berries, there is little help by spraying as the 
fluid will not reach them. Clean culture and the removal of the foliage 
after same has fallen in early winter will prevent the pest from being 
carried over from one season to another. Has any one any further 
suggestions to offer? — Ed. 
Novel Way to Treat Begonia 
To the Editor of The Garden Magazine: 
I THINK the most satisfactory thing we did in theplant line last spring 
was in the handling of a Begonia. The preceding fall a friend gave us a 
vigorous and bushy plant in a pot. Not having a very good place for 
it only a few flowers appeared, but it was in pretty good condition when 
warm weather came, so we took off all the ends, some two inches in 
length, and placed them in water in a warm, sunny place. In a few 
days the slips were rooted and they had begun to grow and show 
blossom buds. On setting them in the ground, two inches or so each 
way, the bed began to show an increase of color at once and all summer 
that was the brightest spot in all the garden and it remained so 
till frost. These plants could be transplanted at any time without 
checking their growth and as many as needed were taken up for 
wintering in the house. The Begonia was of the ordinary pink Vernon 
class. — John W. Chamberlin, Buffalo, N. Y. 
Tigridia Bulbs Cannot Be Had 
To the many interested inquirers who, stimulated by the para- 
graph on page 264 of the January issue of The Garden Magazine, 
have sought to purchase Tigridia bulbs, we take this means of 
stating that this is one of the things arbitrarily excluded by 
Quarantine Order No. 37 and that extended inquiry has failed to 
discover any available stock in existence. 
