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« Selected Notes and Extracts. 
Judicious Grouping of Trees and Shrubs. 
The degree of competency in a land- 
scape gardener shows out in many ways, 
one of which is in his arrangement of 
trees and shrubs, individually and collec- 
tively, both for immediate and permanent 
effect. My advice to anyone who antici- 
pates entering largely into landscape work, 
even though it be confined to moderate- 
sized local residential places, would be to 
make close observations of the habits and 
character of growth of various things, no- 
ting their effect on the surroundings, and 
also comparing the thrift of certain trees 
in various locations. If a man thoroughly 
knows what he is about, his services are 
always in demand. On visits, occasionally, 
to large estates, I am frequently surprised 
at the lack of judgment in arrangement of 
groups. For instance, I recall a bed, of 
magnificent proportions, of hardy grasses. 
In the centre was a splendid clump of 
Arundo donax variegata, around it was 
Eulalia japonica zebrina, followed by Eu- 
lalia var. variegata univittata. To me, the 
bed was a failure because it lacked suffi- 
cient green, which a circle of Eulalia var. 
gracillima univittata would have supplied 
between the second and third named. On 
the same lawn was abed composed of pur- 
ple-leaved shrubs, principally, and each 
plant, individually attractive, was ren- 
dered valueless by lack of harmony of 
color. On another place I saw a group of 
three Japanese maples. They were planted 
about six feet apart, the intention being 
to form a good-sized mass of foliage at that 
spot. The intention was good, but the ef- 
fect bad because of the use of three kinds 
having a disparity of growth; they were the 
common green-leaved type, its blood- 
leaved variety and the golden-leaved. 
The combined color effect may be all 
right, but the mis shapen mass was not. 
Had they been set fifteen feet apart, and 
the weaker-growing golden variety put 
forward, the effect would be different. 
Right here, it may be well to note that 
variegation in leaves is a sign of weakness. 
Not necessarily an unhealthy weakness, 
but a plant inheriting this character must 
be counted on as comparatively dwarfed, 
and always kept to the front in groups. — 
S. Mendelson Meehan in Florist's Ex- 
change. 
Hop-Covered Archways. 
Few things have a more elegant appear- 
ance as a covering for garden archways 
than the common Hop. A capital tem- 
porary arch may be made over a grass or 
gravel walk by planting on each side a 
stool of Hop roots, then taking about eight 
long limp Ash rods, sharpening the stout 
ends, and inserting them securely into the 
soil, four on each side, bending them over 
until they meet, then tying them together, 
fixing a few cross pieces of wood to hold 
the poles in position. The Hop growth 
quickly covers them. The arch can be 
taken down for the winter as soon as the 
haulm dies down. Wire arches are often 
met with partly covered with roses and 
other things. These when bare of foliage 
during winter are anything but ornamen- 
tal even in a Kitchen garden. — J. C. in 
The Garden. 
A Troublesome Weed, 
Among weeds increasingly complained 
of is the field bindweed or small flowered 
morning glory. This is mentioned in the 
Ohio experiment station Weed Manual 
as a somewhat recently imported pest of 
the most serious sort from Europe. Its 
small flowers, an inch or less in diameter 
at the top, are certain characters of recog- 
nition. It grows with stems several feet 
in length, twining about themselves or 
about any other plants which may happen 
to be near. Underground it has extensive 
stems, any piece of which may start a 
new plant, and by this means it spreads 
year by year or is scattered by cultivating 
through the infested patches. 
The eradication of the field bindweed is 
a very difficult task, yet as with Canada 
thistle nothing short of eradication when 
found in small areas will serve the pur- 
pose of the landowner. A liberal use of 
hoe and salt would seem the best means 
of destroying it. True, other vegetation 
will chiefly be destroyed, but this may be 
endured for a time if the bindweed is also 
exterminated. The work should begin on 
the outer fringes of the patches and let 
nothing escape there. The infested spots 
should not be cultivated with the sur- 
rounding land because of dragging the 
roots on the plow and tools. — Michigan 
Fruit Grower. 
Care of Climbing Roses. 
In the case of climbing or running or 
pillar roses the end desired is as great an 
amount of bloom as the plants are capable 
of bearing. Such plants are, as a rule, 
strong growers, and if the soil fertility is 
kept up they are capable of producing an 
immense number of good blooms. Per- 
fection of form and large size of bloom is 
not a direct object, as in the case of hy- 
brid perpetuals, hybrid teas and tea roses, 
where close pruning is resorted to to attain 
such results. Knowing the plant to be of 
a vigorous variety, and in good condition, 
as shown by the growth of wood of the 
previous year, it is safe to assume that it 
will be able to carry nearly as much bloom 
as can set on the strong canes and shoots 
of the last year’s growth. It is always to 
be understood that the soil fertility is 
maintained in the highest condition by 
the use of stable manure or artificial fer- 
tilizers. The essential pruning, there- 
fore, of climbing roses, in the condition 
mentioned, consists in shortening in the 
long canes by removing some of the 
smaller growth at their tips, which was 
made late in the season, and also shorten - 
ing in the last year’s growth from the 
older canes, allowing as many buds to 
each shoot as, in the judgment of the 
pruner, may be well developed the com- 
ing season. — New England Farmer. 
Making Cement Pipes in Situ. 
A novel sort of pipe for water or drain- 
age purposes, recently invented by a 
Frenchman, is noteworthy. A trench is 
dug in the ground where the pipe is re- 
quired to be laid, and is partly filled in 
with good cement. Upon this soft sub- 
stratum is laid a rubber tube covered with 
canvas, and tightly inflated with air. The 
trench is now filled up with cement, so 
that the tube is completely covered with 
an inch or more of the plastic material. 
As soon as the cement sets the air is let 
out of the t.ube, and it is easily extracted 
from the pipe, of which it for a time 
formed the core. The tube can then be 
again inflated to serve for a fresh section 
of the pipe, which can be as much as six 
inches in diameter if required. It is said 
that a cement pipe of this thickness has 
been successfully laid by the new method 
at a cost of about one shilling per yard. — 
Journal of the R. 1. B. A. 
Night-Blooming Cactus. 
The only true night-blooming cactus, 
especially so-called, is the cereus giandi- 
florus. This last long specific name im- 
plies its beauty and grandeur. It is one of 
the most delightfully scented of all the 
cactus family, blooming, as noted, at 
night. A large plant, covered with blos- 
soms, is a sight of beauty once seen that 
is never to be forgotten. The round stems 
have numerous small angles on them and 
are covered with delicate spines. These 
stems are usually about as thick as one’s 
finger. Of late years another member of 
the cactus family has usurped the name 
of night-blooming. This is phyllocactus 
latifrons. It is one of the broad, flat- 
leaved kinds, and is so readily' propagated 
that it has now become common. It has 
a long tube to the flower, which curves 
downward like a siphon. It does bloom 
at night, and in one sense is night-bloom- 
ing: but it bears no comparison in any re- 
spect with the original night-blooming 
cactus. — Meehan's Monthly. 
