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Me RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 2, 1922 
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Horticultural Notes 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
The weather has been very kind to us 
poor folks who cannot get any coal. 
Here is a city of 10.000 people, and not 
a ton of coal to be had. Fortunately we 
can get wood, and this will burn after a 
fashion in the coal stoves, but the gen¬ 
eral heating of the house is poor. For¬ 
tunately the days are like May, while 
the nights are simply cool. To date (the 
middle of November) there are ominous 
clouds in the Northwest, and it may be 
that Medicine Hat has started something 
our way. A real cold wave just now 
would be rather uncomfortable. But the 
weather has been truly wonderful. Frost, 
has done little damage in sheltered places. 
On a lawn in the dose-built section I 
saw a bed of Canna fully six feet tall 
showing no signs of frost the middle of 
November. 
I would say to the several friends who 
have written me about getting land and 
locating in this section that I am not iu 
any way in the real estate business and 
know nothing at all about lands for sale. 
No one should buy land like a pig in a 
Here is another “big sunflower." This one 
was grown by a Jerseymnn, Mr. E. I*. 
F.ndres of Bergen County. The stalks 
grew 15 feet high. No use talking, the 
sunflower is a favorite with gardeners 
who like to do big things, and some giants 
are produced. 
bag, but should visit the locality and 
study not only the land, but its surround¬ 
ings. The most reliable real estate dealer 
will tell you all about the advantages of 
the property lie has for sale. You must 
look to find its disadvantages. He is 
chiefly concerned about the sale and his 
percentage, and the buyer must use due 
judgment in buying, no matter how re¬ 
liable the agent. I cannot give any ad¬ 
vice about buying lands, us I have no 
time nor opportunity to get acquainted 
with farms for stile. 
A correspondent asks how to propa¬ 
gate the I.aurocerasus Caroliniana. This 
is a small evergreen tree common in 
Eastern North Carolina, whore they com¬ 
monly call it mock orange, a name 
Usually applied to Philadelphus coron- 
arius in the North. It is barely hardy, 
at Washington in ordinary Winters, and 
certa ; nly not hardy north of there. Still, 
it is a pretty, smooth-leaved evergreen, 
with much smaller lea\es than the Eng¬ 
lish I.aurocerasus. Our correspondent 
can grow them easily from seed. Wash 
the seed from Ihc berries and pack them 
in a box of moist sand and bury it in 
the garden till March. They will seldom 
grow if kept dry all Winter. Sow them 
in March, and at the end of a year the 
following March life them and shorten 
the tap root, cut olT all leaves and trans¬ 
plant in rows for cultivation till large 
enough to give a permanent location. 
They are rather difficult subjects for 
transplanting, and will be apt to die if 
not defoliated whenever moved. Hence 
they should always be transplanted in 
Spring. 
All broad-leaved evergreens are safer 
in transplanting if the leaves are all 
clipped off. The American holly is a 
slow-growing tree, but trees of fairly 
good size can be transplanted from the 
forest if all the leaves are out off. Years 
ago, when the late Mr. Tufts founded 
the Whiter resort Piuehurst, in the sand 
hills of North Carolina, the first hotel 
he built was to be called Holly Inn. He 
wanted a holly on each side of the front 
entrance, and asked my advice. I se¬ 
lected for him two trees about 10 ft. 
bigli and had them stripped of leaves and 
set where he wanted them. Those trees 
have developed finely and are very orna¬ 
mental in Winter, as many others are 
about the place. It is rather strange 
here that so few people grow any of the 
broad-leaved evergreen shrubs. The holly 
is common in the woods, and the dwarf 
smooth-leaved Ilex glabra with black 
berries is common as a wayside shrub. 
The pine forests are full of the wax 
myrtle, also evergreen, and the broad¬ 
leaved English laurel, Lauroeerasus, is 
hardy here, and has leaves as large as 
Magnolia grandi flora. We grow the 
Magnolia tree all right, but there is a 
place for evergreen shrubs. I grew in 
North Carolina Osmanthusi licifolius, 
which makes a rapid-growing evergreen 
shrub, and to the passing observer looks 
like prickly-leaved holly. I believe that 
it is hardy a good way north of North 
Carolina. The Chinese Azalea, the sin¬ 
gle white Alba, is hardy in New York, 
and I think that Chinese Azalea pheeni- 
ceum is also hardy Pittosporum Tobira 
is hardy at. Raleigh, N. C., as well as 
Camellia Japonica. 
In some of the old places here there 
are immense old box bushes, some mounds 
of greeu 20 or more feet. But there are 
other evergreens wild all around us. and 
ignored, not because they lack beauty, 
but simply because they are common. 
There are few shrubs more showy in 
bloom than Kalmia latifolia, and they 
are abundant on sandy ridges all around 
us and would look fine in the garden. 
These, too, can bo moved in Spring by 
taking the leaves off. In fact, there is a 
host of broad-leaved evergreen shrubs 
available which would add a great deal 
of brightness to our Winter grounds. The 
smooth-leaved holly of the Carolina coast 
makes larger and prettier red bunches of 
berries than the common holly. This is 
Ilex Cassine, known as yaupou in the 
Cape Fear section. How far North it 
will be hardy I cannot say, but it stands 
well in Raleigh. 
Some of the bush honeysuckles are 
very desirable, l.onicera fragrans blooms 
in Raleigh, N. C., in February, as also 
does Ixmieera Standisbii. I believe 
these are perfectly hardy. While their 
flowers are inconspicuous, they scatter 
fragrance all around. \v. F. massey. 
Protective Wax for Trees 
Wax for protecting frees from vermin, 
and covering grafts and wounds, is made 
as follows: 20 lbs. rosin, 10 qts. alcohol. 
Cook the rosin until liquid. Remove from 
fire and let stand 20 minutes to half an 
hour, until it will '‘take’' the alcohol. If 
it spits and foams when alcohol is 
dropped in it. it is too hot. lien it 
does net spit, pour the alcohol in and 
stir quickly and thoroughly. When the 
stick is lifted from the mass, it should 
drop dean, like water. If it drops 
stringy, there is not enough alcohol in it. 
For vermin, it is applied with a brush 
about a foot up the tree. In US years’ 
use. no damage to trees has been noted. 
It is suitable for grafting and naintiug 
tree wounds. william Walter, 
Orehardist Seabrook Farms, N. J. 
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