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and ripened the best seed I have ever gathered. — Elizabeth Jaques 
Snyder, Tacoma, Wash. 
A Cure for Rose Bugs at Last 
To the Editor of The Garden Magazine: 
M Y FIRST day’s experience with “Rose Bug” in my garden is 
worth telling! On June ist, I went out early, in fact at 7:30, 
watched the flowers covered with the fatal creatures; weather was very 
warm and mild. I waited until 10:30, then filled my Auto Spray with 
one pint of Melrosine and three gallons of water; shook and stirred 
it well; sprayed the plants, and ten minutes later found hundreds of 
dead bugs on the plants and flowers. These I picked off to keep my 
garden looking neat, but the majority of them had fallen to the 
ground. I shall repeat this procedure for several days and can assure 
all lovers of Roses complete success if they will try doing likewise. 1 
have used this preparation also on the Peonies with equal success. 
1 pass this on because I feel sure your thousands of subscribers will 
be interested. I am also spraying Lupin and Larkspur with this 
same spray. — Mrs. Edgar B. Goldstein, White Plains, N. Y. 
Personal Recollections of John Evans 
To the Editor of The Garden Magazine: 
I N THE May number of The Garden Magazine I was delighted to 
find the interesting paper on the Evan’s Arboretum, and to know 
that it is preserved. John Evans and his family were intimate friends 
of my father and mother from 1842 on. From my earliest childhood 
I and up to 1864, when 1 left Bryn Mawr, I was a constant visitor there, 
and familiar with the “Sand Garden,” and the old-fashioned under- 
ground greenhouse, where lovely things from the tropics and tender 
Roses flourished. One deliciously fragrant blossom on what was, I 
think, the shrub from which Bay Rum was distilled, lingers in my 
memory. John Evans was the correspondent of Sir John Hooker, of 
Kew Gardens, London, and made trips to the Catskills to gather Conifer, 
and Laurel, and Rhododendron seeds for him. From the latter, crossed 
with those from the Himalayas, the present superb variety was grown. 
He received the first Gladiolus seen in this country, and gave some to 
my mother, the small old red and yellow sort. He often gave her 
curious and rare plants; and our old-fashioned garden was beautiful. 
The high bush Barberries were among his shrubs. 
John Evans was a Deist, and on the day of his funeral no religious 
rites were used — on the hillside above his house, beside his wife and 
oldest son, he was laid, and a handful of his beloved shrubs and ever- 
greens dropped by a friend into the grave. I was not very big, but it 
made a deep impression, and that June afternoon stands out plainly. 
There were two daughters and three sons; 1 think Mrs. Paxson, the 
youngest, still lives. She visited me in Brooklyn in 1886, and 1 heard 
of her two years ago in Norristown, a very old lady. She was absent 
many years after her marriage but returned to cheer her father’s lonely 
old age and was living in the old home in the early 70’s. 
John Evans was a many sided man. He knew French and after 
middle age studied German. With my father he established the 
Radnor Lyceum, with a small library and Natural History and Miner- 
alogical collection in the upper room of the near-by district school. 
Here in winter lectures were occasionally given. The late Thomas 
Dunn English, I remember, came twice, being a guest at our house. 
The reproduction (May Garden Magazine, page 195) from an old 
daguerreotype pictures John Evans just as I remember him. On a 
visit to relatives in Bryn Mawr in 1919 I saw the old place and was told 
its present owner was preserving it and even expanding its plantings. — 
E. S. Cromwell, Summit, N. J . 
Lychnis in Pale Colors 
To the Editor of The Garden Magazine: 
T HOUGH not all gardens include the sturdy, cheerful Lychnis 
chalcedonica, most gardeners are familiar with its good qualities 
even if they do not care for its rather crude shade of red. Mrs. Wilder 
in her invaluable book, “My Garden,” speaks of it as a plant with a 
difficult color. It may, perhaps, be news to many that there are forms 
with light colored flowers, white, and pale pink. They are very seldom 
catalogued, and only once have I seen seed offered. My own plants 
were rogues (charming ones) in a lot of seedlings raised from seed of the 
type chalcedonica. I was surprised and delighted to discover among 
the scarlets one plant with a pure white flower and one with a flesh pink 
blossom. Both were far more attractive than their parent and grouped 
better with their garden neighbors. I think any gardener would find 
them a real acquisition as they are very hardy, require no staking and 
have a long season of bloom. I f the terminal cluster is picked promptly, 
the plant continues blooming from the side shoots. 
This spring Dreer, of Philadelphia, offers alba and Ralph E. Hunt- 
ington, of Mentor, Ohio, lists Salmon Oueen as a fine novelty. — 
Amelia H. Botsford, Edgemoor, Delaware. 
Success with Small Tulip Bulbs 
To the Editor of The Garden Magazine : 
I AST autumn 1 wrote you to know what I could do with my small 
L* Darwin Tulip bulbs. In answer you told me to plant them 
in the garden like so many Peas and 1 would be surprised to see a 
great many of them in bloom when the blooming season came around. 
1 did so, and from present appearances one half or more of them are 
going to have beautiful blooms. A few are already out and almost 
equal the blooms just nowcoming from theold and large bulbs. This is 
certainly a surprise to me. A portion of these small bulbs are de- 
scendents of the Tulip bulbs which were a few years ago accidentally 
kept out of the ground a whole year. — Dr. A. W. Foreman, White 
Hall, Illinois. 
The Delphinium in California 
To the Editor of The Garden Magazine: 
A N ACCOUNT of Delphinium in a New York garden (The Garden 
Magazine for March) so resembled the growing of a bed of these 
flowers in a Southern California garden known to me, that I cannot 
resist sending the enclosed pictures of the California Delphinium taken 
LARKSPUR IN A CALIFORNIA GARDEN 
These lusty specimens prove the adaptability of the 
Delphinium to varying conditions of climate and 
soil. Garden of Mrs. George E. Waldo, Pasadena 
last June. These, like the ones in New York, were raised from a packet 
of fine seed, and also possessed iridescent tints of azure and rose, seem- 
ing to glow with living colors. Most luxuriant in growth, they stood 
up tall and straight to heights varying from four to seven feet. This 
was all very interesting because there is a wide-spread tradition that 
Delphinium cannot be grown successfully in this climate. 
A few more points, which apply equally well West or East, in regard to 
the raising of Delphinium might not be amiss. First of all, it is of the 
utmost importance for germination that the seed be fresh. Then 
after the usual process of growing and transplanting the small seedlings 
when they finally reach the bed of their destination they need water 
and fertilizer, and then more water and fertilizer. The California 
