1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
683 
Moles — Roses—C annas. 
J. T. T., Forest Hill, N. J. —1. How can I get rid 
of moles in the lawn without using traps (which 
have proved useless), or digging and destroying 
the lawn ? 2. What would be the result were I to 
cut Remontant, very rampant growing, roses 
down almost to the ground, after the leaves fall, 
or would it be too severe ? 3. Which is the very 
best yellow dwarf Canna ? 4. Please give a list 
of hardy plants, the flowers of which are desir¬ 
able for cutting. 
Ans.—1. The moles may be poisoned 
though, if properly set, the traps should 
be efficacious. To poison them, make a 
small hole in the runway with a pointed 
stick ; then insert a quill or small tube 
with a funnel at the top, and through 
this drop sugar with which a small quan¬ 
tity of strychnine has been mixed. The 
moles are fond of sugar, and rarely neg¬ 
lect this bait. Grains of wheat soaked 
in syrup to which strychnine has been 
added are efficacious if the moles are not 
too well-fed. Care must be observed 
that none of these poisonous compounds 
is left lying about where birds may eat 
them. In spite of their unsightly run¬ 
ways, which are a nuisance in lawn or 
garden, the moles do very little real 
harm, as they subsist almost entirely 
upon insects. Much of the damage laid 
to moles is really committed by field 
mice, which are very troublesome around 
a garden. 
2. Prune your Remontant roses in early 
spring before growth begins. They may 
receive a little cutting as soon as the 
summer flowering is over, if the growth 
is very rampant, but nothing is gained 
by fall pruning. 
3. Our preference among yellow Can- 
nas of dwarf habit is Eldorado. Sunshine 
makes a fine truss, but can hardly be 
classed as yellow, the color being, when 
first opened, deep orange suffused with 
apricot, but it fades gradually to a 
lighter color. Franz Buchner, a very 
excellent variety, is somewhat similar 
in color to Sunshine, but it appears to 
fade less. 
4. A very lengthy list of hardy flowers 
suitable for cutting may be obtained. 
Among these are Heuchera sanguinea, 
with pretty red flowers ; Irises, German, 
Spanish and Japan ; Py rethrums, double 
and single ; Iceland poppies ; Achillea, 
The Pearl; Geums, both double and 
single, the best variety being G. cocci- 
neum; Larkspur, especially the fine 
varieties of Delphinium formosum ; the 
Chalk flower, Gypsophila paniculata, 
sold by some American nurserymen as 
Baby’s Breath or Bridal Veil ; Clove 
pinks and Sweet Williams; Coreopsis 
lanceolata ; the Everlasting pea, Lathy- 
rus latifolius; the Plantain and Day 
lilies ; Helenium Hoopesii, one of the 
earliest of the sunflower type to bloom ; 
the Double sunflower, Helianthus multi- 
florus fl. pi., and Graceful or Fountain 
sunflower, H. orgyalis; Snake-root,Eupa- 
torium ageratoides ; Lupins, blue, pur¬ 
ple and white; Lychnis semperflorens 
plenissima, L. Viscaria fl. pi., L. vesper- 
tina ; Agrostemma flos-Jovis ; Pentste- 
mons ; Peonies ; Bleeding heart; Japan 
Anemones ; Phlox divaricata, P. decus- 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Beak.— Adv, 
sata, P. paniculata and P. suffruticosa ; 
Anthemis tinctoria ; Spiraaa Aruncus, S. 
lobata, S. Ulmaria fl pi.; Centaurea mon- 
tana ; Astilbe Japonica ; Anthericum 
liliastrum. This does not include any 
hardy bulbs, which are very useful for 
cutting in their season, neither is any 
mention made of shrubs. Spirroas, Vibur¬ 
nums, Diervillas, Lilacs and Mock orange 
give abundant material for cutting dur¬ 
ing their season, without injury to the 
plant. 
Concerning Dahlias. 
Last year, the first show devoted ex¬ 
clusively to Dahlias ever given in the 
United States was held in Philadelphia, 
to be followed by another this year. 
There is now a society devoted ex¬ 
clusively to this flower ; yet, at the re¬ 
cent excellent show made at the Ameri¬ 
can Institute Fair, New York, people 
were heard wishing that they had green¬ 
houses, in which to grow these gor¬ 
geously formal blooms 1 In point of 
fact, there is no garden flower within 
our reach which returns such a showy 
display for so little care as the Dahlia, 
and this at a time when other garden 
flowers begin to look somewhat worn 
out and discouraged. 
While Dahlias like a deep soil, from 
which they can draw abundant moisture, 
if too rich, they tend to produce roots 
and leaves at the expense of flowers. In 
sandy soils, they make fewer roots and 
dwarfer growth, but flower very freely. 
If they receive a heavy supply of nitro¬ 
gen, the growth is coarse and the flowers 
scanty. One of the first requisites is a 
thoroughly well-tilled soil, fine and 
friable, and during growth, the surface 
should be frequently stirred. Each 
plant of the larger sorts should have a 
space of about four square feet to allow 
full development. 
Ordinarily, Dahlias require careful 
staking to prevent the risk of breaking 
in strong winds. But large growers 
cannot do this, on account of the trouble 
it entails, and the plan followed by Mr. 
Peacock, of Atco, N. J., who grows Dah¬ 
lias by the acre, may be followed to 
advantage, even where few are grown. 
This is the single-stem branching 
system. All the shoots are pinched off 
except one, and this is left until two 
pairs of leaves are above ground, with a 
young growth at the top. This unex¬ 
panded growth is pinched out, and as a 
result the young buds in the axils of the 
leaves start out, making a bushy plant 
branching out near the ground. Where 
the plant is left in its natural condition, 
a number of shoots are formed, but in 
growing for exhibition blooms, where 
extra fine flowers are desired, the growth 
is often restricted to one shoot from a 
clump of roots, all the others being re¬ 
moved. Whenever any pinching out of 
shoots is done, it should be attended to 
early in the season. 
While the show, cactus and pompon 
Dahlias are commonly grown from 
tubers, the single sorts may be grown 
readily from seed, flowering earlier in 
the season than most of the doubles. 
They give a great variety of color, from 
pale yellow to deep crimson and maroon, 
including some oddly striped and shaded. 
The cactus Dahlias are less formal in 
shape than what are known as show varie¬ 
ties, while in the pompons, this formal¬ 
ity is rendered oddly attractive by the 
diminutive size of the blooms. The list 
of varieties from which choice may be 
made is very extensive. Some of the 
finest varieties noted at the recent show 
at the American Institute Fair were 
Wm. Agnew, bright red cactus ; Clifford 
W. Bruton, cactus, buff shaded with 
faint coral ; Gloire de Lyon, white ; A. 
D. Livoni, pink ; Golden Ball, yellow ; 
Ruby Queen, ruby red of the show type ; 
Grand Duke Alexis, faint pink beauti¬ 
fully quilled. 
Planting of spring bulbs may still go 
on ; it may even be done in early Novem¬ 
ber if the season be an open one. How¬ 
ever, even if the planting be finished, 
do not mulch the beds, either in the 
case of bulbs or herbaceous plants, until 
the ground has a frozen crust. The com¬ 
monest mulching material is short, 
strawy manure, but this forms a very 
congenial home for field mice if there is 
much straw. Such vermin are less likely 
to be harbored by dry forest leaves, 
which are prevented from blowing away 
by a few evergreen branches laid across 
them. In some private gardens, it is 
the custom to cover all vacant flower 
beds in the autumn, with evergreen 
branches, they being more pleasant to 
look upon than the bare earth. 
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