vows for the coming garden season, and plan to carry on a time- 
ly and offensive war against weeds, insects and Procrastination ! 
The attention of Book Lovers is called to the following note : 
Miss Eleanour Sinclair Rohde. (author of A Garden of Herbs, 
etc.) would be most grateful for any information respecting 
seventeenth century Mss. "Still-room and House-keepers Books" 
in American private libraries. It is known that many of these 
were taken to America during the seventeenth and early eigh- 
teenth centuries, but no bibliography of them has yet been made. 
All information will be gratefully acknowledged. Address Miss 
Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, Cranham Lodge, Reigate, Surrey, 
England. 
The Gardener's Miscellany 
Miss Jay in her delightful Garden Talk, tells us that in the The Need 
Ninth Century every garden of any pretensions whatever had its 0F p ENCES 
Menagerie of Strange Beasts attached! The Garden of Eden 
too, was full of Fauna of the largest size. True to form my 
garden is full of Wild Beasts this spring. A huge Police-dog, 
her five puppies and their maiden aunt have selected my new 
Tulip bed for their recreation center. One pup can account 
for thirteen Darwin Tulips a day, five pups and their dam 
can annihilate sixty-four Narcissus in a post-prandial game. 
Now I have never objected to an occasional bone being buried 
in my fresh seed-bed by an intelligent Scottie, nor the "grand 
tour" of a mole being followed through my Rose bed, but this 
outlandish galumphing of the Canina Policedogiensis in my par- 
adise, reeks of weldt-politik, — a Hund-uber-alles — which I cannot 
brook. I am for fence, wall, hedge or other iriipenetrable bound- 
ary around all gardens. 
Keep an eagle-eye on your nearest Nursery this May and "Wistaria 
watch for especially fine bloom on their plants of Wistaria, tag 
them for fall delivery and remember to manure them heavily 
when transplanted or they will sulk for a year. We have many 
complaints about Wistaria's not flowering well. Fertilizing 
them well in the spring is the usual remedy, and very old vines 
should be root-pruned at the same time. But you cannot expect 
to have the choicest plants unless you pick them out while in 
bloom. Of eleven seedlings which I raised from my own vine, 
only three had the intense color of the parent. 
One of our subscribers writes that she is discouraged over Blue Salvia 
the names of the blue Salvias, and "please, which is the one she 
wants ! ' ' The Miscellany will turn mind-reader and say it is 
probably Salvia farinacea. Bailey lists fifty-two varieties of 
Salvia from splendens — the hired-man's joy — to our kitchen- 
garden Sage. But the loveliest are S. patens, the tender peren- 
nial whose roots can be stored like Dahlias, S. farinacea, 
ulignosum and Horminum, which have to be treated like annuals 
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