1897 
THE RURAI 
NEW-YORKER. 
779 
Herbaceous Plants for Edging Border. 
K. P., Passaic County, N. .A—What low-grow¬ 
ing, hardy plants may he used for edging a her¬ 
baceous border, flowering plants preferred ? 
Ans —There are plenty of plants suit¬ 
able for such purpose, though their 
height varies somewhat under different 
circumstances. Lamb’s toes, Lotus cor- 
niculatus, spreads flat upon the ground, 
growing freely and producing small, 
pea-shaped red and yellow flowers in 
great profusion. The blooming period 
extends over about two months. Alyssum 
saxatile forms a close mat of yellow 
flowers in spring. Several of our pros¬ 
trate native Phloxes, such as P. subulata 
and its varieties, are excellent for early 
flowering. Old-fashioned garden pinks 
make cushions of glaucous green, at¬ 
tractive at all seasons, and charming 
when in bloom. Several of the low- 
growing Catchflies (Silenes) would be 
useful, such as S. acaulis, with pretty 
pink flowers produced during June, July 
and August; S. Schafta, a late bloomer, 
and S. alpestris, with white flowers, 
which begins to bloom in May. The 
Alpine forget-me-not is a pretty dwarf 
with blue flowers, but to induce it to 
bloom freely all summer, it should be 
divided each year into small clumps. 
Hepaticas make pretty little bordering 
plants for early spring flowers; they 
must not be divided or disturbed. A 
more formal border for a hardy bed is 
obtained by using the Golden-netted 
honeysuckle, keeping it sheared within 
bounds, but this is, perhaps, better 
suited to a rose border than to her¬ 
baceous beds. 
A Book About Birds. 
Bird Neighbors is the title of a book 
designed to give an introductory ac¬ 
quaintance with 150 birds, commonly 
found in the woods, fields and gardens 
about our homes. Through the Audubon 
Society, the American Ornithologists’ 
Union is endeavoring to interest people 
in our native birds, with the view of 
preserving them from destruction, and 
increasing the numbers of beneficent 
types. It is surprising how very little 
is known about our commonest birds, 
even by dwellers in the country. The 
Blue jay, the early robin, the Catbird 
and the chippies are often the only 
birds a fairly intelligent person can 
point out by name. Color is often the 
only distinguishing trait noted by ordi¬ 
nary observers. In Bird Neighbors, 
this point is dwelt upon, the birds being 
grouped according to color, while a 
second classification arranges them ac¬ 
cording to season. This simplifies the 
identification, while 50 beautiful col¬ 
ored plates make it impossible to con¬ 
fuse the birds figured. This is, we be¬ 
lieve, the first use of colored plates in 
any ornithological work of moderate 
price, and these illustrations add in¬ 
finitely to its value. The descriptions 
are clearly written in plain, untechnical 
language. Most birds are really friends 
to the gardener, in spite of the bad name 
we give to a few of them, and a knowl¬ 
edge of the common varieties and their 
MOTHERS. —Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
habits is very necessary. The author 
of this book is Neltje Blanchan, and 
the veteran John Burroughs writes a 
charming introduction. The price of 
the book is $2. 
Seasonable Notes. 
Among leading prize-winners in cut 
flowers at the Chrysanthemum shows 
this year, were Mrs. Henry Robinson, 
white ; Major Bonnaffon, yellow ; Vivi- 
and-Morel, pink; Cullingfordii, crim¬ 
son. None of these is a new sort, Mrs. 
Robinson, introduced in 1895, being the 
most recent. Viviand-Morel has been a 
leading prize-winner among pink sorts 
for four or five years, and in spite of the 
multiplicity of new yellows, Major Bon¬ 
naffon still holds as high a position as 
when it was first exhibited at the World’s 
Fair Chrysanthemum show in 1893. 
Department stores are now offering 
palms for house decoration at 10 and 25 
cents each. A number of these stores 
now compete with the regular florists, 
both in plants and cut flowers. 
The violet, Lady Hume Campbell, is 
growing in favor with buyers of cut 
flowers. The violets are several shades 
lighter in color and more fragrant than 
Marie Louise, the variety ordinarily 
grown and, so far, Lady Campbell has 
shown no trace of the -dreaded disease 
which has caused so much damage to 
violets under glass. 
It will be necessary, as soon as the 
ground is frozen, to see about some pro¬ 
tection for the more tender roses. The 
object is not so much to protect them 
from frost as from sunscald and the 
alternate freezing and thawing they 
would begin to suffer later in the winter. 
One of the best plans is to bend them 
over and cover them with earth. On 
first bending over, a sod may be laid on 
the tips of the branches, to keep them 
in place ; then dry earth put over all to 
the depth of about three inches. If the 
main stem is very stiff, so that it cannot 
be bent down flat, it will be wise to make 
a little mound of earth close against it, 
upon which it may be bent over, so that 
there will be no risk of breaking it. 
Most of the Hybrid Remontants—what 
are popularly known as June roses— 
may be trusted without protection in 
this latitude, though, during very severe 
winters, worked plants are occasionally 
winterkilled down to the stock. For this 
reason, it is wiser to buy roses upon 
their own roots wherever the winters 
are severe. Small, tender, deciduous 
shrubs may be laid down and covered 
with earth like the roses. Fig bushes 
are often treated in this way. 
Evergreen shrubs cannot, of course, 
be covered with earth like the deciduous 
ones. For^them, when tender or greatly 
exposed, some other protection must be 
devised. Some of the fine Conifers, 
while perfectly hardy, suffer in their 
foliage from the searing effect of cut¬ 
ting winds, and for them, a simple wind¬ 
break at the exposed side will be effec¬ 
tual. A fence, or a grouping of other 
trees and shrubs, will often be quite 
sufficient, or temporary hurdles may be 
put up. Gardeners often take the tops 
of the tall ornamental grasses and reeds 
—Eulalias, Erianthus and Arundo— 
when cut over in the fall, and make these 
into temporary screens for the shrubs. 
Some of the delicate shrubs suffer in 
foliage every winter, though not in an 
exposed position, and these may be pro¬ 
tected by putting a box or barrel over 
them, loosely filling this with dry leaves. 
This will be a satisfactory mode in 
which to protect Rhododendrons of 
doubtful hardiness. The tender Rho¬ 
dodendrons must, of course, be taken up 
and put in a pit or some such place. 
The house plants are now growing 
fast, and some of them will soon need 
more food. If there is reason to suspect 
the presence of earthworms in any of 
the pots, they may be driven to the sur¬ 
face, and then removed, by giving the 
soil an occasional watering with clear 
lime water or weak tobacco water. 
These worms do not do any actual harm 
to the roots, but they ruin the mechani¬ 
cal condition of the soil, making it 
soapy and pasty. 
Macbeth makes half the 
lamp-chimneys ; and half the 
dealers won’t sell ’em, be¬ 
cause they don’t break. 
Get the Index—free. 
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Cotton Exposition, New Orleans, 1884. 
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Rochester Radiator Company, 
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FOR SALE—AT A BARGAIN. 
One of the best farms in South Dakota. Two miles 
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80 under cultivation. Two-story frame house, large 
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