The dwarf, ever-blooming roses are charming to edge rose beds Border 
with, or for the front of a sunny border. George Elger is a coppery Roses 
yellow, and Mrs. Cutbush is a dainty peach pink. The best bloomer 
is perhaps Annchen Muller, but it is such a deep cherry that it has to 
be carefully used. 
Anna Oilman Hill 
The Garden Club's List of Nurserymen 
Additional 
A. H. Fewkes 
1485 Center Street 
Newton Highlands, Mass. 
A. F. Clark 
Netcong, New Jersey 
(Has taken over all Mrs. Stout's 
Dahlias) 
Mrs. C. S. McKinney 
Madison, New Jersey 
I think it is vines and ground-cover that make the greatest differ- Plant 
ence in the picturesqueness of the cultivated landscape as one goes from Material 
place to place. We of the Middle West are very poor in both, and I 
am trying to persuade myself that it is only because we have so recent- 
ly become aware of our lack that we are so poor, and not from any 
dearth of material. 
With us English Ivy is not dependably hardy, even as a ground- English 
cover. I know of one rather large planting that has lived for years, Ivy 
but the gardener takes elaborate precautions each year to keep it from 
winter-killing. Short but very bushy brush is stuck firmly in the 
groimd at intervals of a foot, just before the ground freezes, and loose 
dry leaves are scattered thickly among the brush, then sometime 
during the winter a fence of two foot chicken-wire is put around 
the whole planting. As the ground begins to thaw the gardener 
loosens the leaves as much as possible, and adds dry ones until the 
wire fence is full. These stay on for a week or two, then the fence is 
removed, and the leaves raked off, but not too clean, for they act as 
a mulch during our dry summers. All the growth is shortened about 
half, because if you don't cut drastically the old plants grow too woody, 
then much good fertihzer is applied. No further fertilizer is.giveii for 
a year, because if there is any question of the hardiness of a plant it 
must not be stimulated to make a growth that cannot be thoroughly 
matured before frost. 
I am not at all fond of Pachysandra terminalis. Only occasionally 
have I seen a planting that was really a beautiful carpet of green, arid 
when it is not thriving, it is distinctly unbeautiful. I much prefer 
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