1912. 
THE RURAL NEW-VORKER 
833 
Ruralisms 
A FINE NIAGARA GRAPEVINE. 
The Niagara grapevine shown in Fig. 
352 is on the premises of J. Collins, in 
Niagara Co., N. Y. It is about 60 feet 
long, and yields about four bushels of 
grapes each year. It also covers an old 
building each Summer with its beauti¬ 
ful foliage. To do this it must be prop¬ 
erly trimmed every Winter, its new 
growth back to one or two buds. The 
picture was taken in Spring; before Fall 
it will cover the entire side of building. 
The decorative beauty of the grape¬ 
vine is often overlooked, but we may 
well consider ornament as well as utility 
in planting it. Among varieties recom¬ 
mended for beauty of growth are 
Poughkeepsie Red, Naomi, Gazelle, Cro¬ 
ton, Monticola and Isabella, the latter 
gaining its best quality of fruit when 
trained against a building. Catawba 
and Delaware both make beautiful or¬ 
namental vines; on a porch with a 
southern exposure they often do well in 
a locality where the fruit is not ripened 
well in the open garden or vineyard. 
A DOZEN HARDY PERENNIALS. 
A friend who wished to start a border 
of hardy perennial plants asked us for 
a dozen sorts that could be depended 
upon to do their duty in a farm garden, 
without extraordinary care. Now, it is 
very hard for any real flower lover to 
confine his selection to a dozen sorts, 
and we spoke up for some early Spring 
bulbs, and a few Chrysanthemums for 
late Fall; furthermore, any herbaceous 
border must be re-enforced by annuals, 
such as Asters, marigolds, Zinnias, Petu¬ 
nias, etc., or it will look bare at times. 
However, here is our choice, limited 
to 12, of hardy perennials. 
Bleeding heart, Dielytra spectabilis, 
blooms in May; its pink flowers and 
fern-like foliage are too familiar for 
description. 
Larkspur, Delphinium formosum, long 
and elegant spikes of rich blue flowers. 
It blooms in June, with a second flower¬ 
ing period in August. 
Scarlet lamp-flower, Lychnis Chalce- 
donica. This has vivid scarlet flowers, 
in bloom about the Fourth of July; it 
is an old plant, but a worthy and strik¬ 
ing one. 
Madonna lily, Lilium candidum, pure 
white, blooming about the middle of 
June. The bulbs should be planted in 
August; the other plants mentioned are 
planted in early Spring. We would ad¬ 
vise a gradual increase in the number 
of lilies; the native sorts are very hand¬ 
some, and if they grow in the locality 
plants may be marked when in flower, 
and then the bulbs dug and reset in the 
Fall. The Wood lily, Lilium Philadel- 
phicum, the Meadow lily, L. Canadense, 
and the Turk’s-cap lily, L. superbum, 
are all beautiful and hardy. Once em¬ 
barked on lily growing one is likely to 
increase the list extensively, tempted by 
the beauty of the Asiatic varieties, but 
this is wandering far beyond our list 
of a dozen hardy plants. 
Oriental poppy, Papaver orientale. 
This is the superb scarlet poppy, tall 
and robust, which flowers in June; it 
should be in every collection of hardy 
plants, but it is not always easily estab¬ 
lished. We would like to add to our 
list the early-flowering Iceland poppy, 
Papaver nudicaule, and some of the an¬ 
nual Shirley poppies to fill vacant 'Spaces 
among the perennials. Where they grow 
freely the Shirley poppies self-sow, and 
come up year after year, only where 
they are freely self-sown the pink and 
white varieties run out, and in the 
course of time we get red flowers only. 
Baby’s Breath, Gypsophila paniculata, 
Graceful panicles of small white flowers, 
excellent for cutting, from June on 
through the Summer. 
Hollyhocks. These old-fashioned flow¬ 
ers are now rather a lottery, because 
of an exasperating disease which is very 
likely to be bought with the plants. 
Local seed or plants in a place where 
the disease has not appeared are best; 
in some isolated country neighborhoods 
one often sees fine old varieties as 
flourishing as though disease had never 
been heard of. 
Columbines, varieties of Aquilegia 
glandulosa and A. chrysantha, the 
golden Rocky Mountain variety. The 
common wild red and yellow columbine, 
often miscalled honeysuckle, is very at¬ 
tractive for early flowers; the others, 
blue, white, pink and crimson, extend 
through a later period. 
Achillea Ptarmica The Pearl; double 
button-like pure white flowers, borne 
very profusely all Summer. 
Shasta daisy; large flowers with 
golden disk and white ray florets, flow¬ 
ering from June to September. 
Day lily, Hemerocallis. The old 
Tawny day lily, H. fulva, is a weed in 
many places, but it is well worth grow¬ 
ing. It flowers in July, while the fra¬ 
grant yellow variety, H. fiava, flowers 
in June, and the fragant lemon-yellow 
H. Tlninbergii blooms in August and 
September. 
Twelfth on the list of essentials is 
bee balm or Oswego tea, also called 
horsemint, Monarda didyma, entirely 
covered in July with vivid crimsois 
flowers. Its striking appearance and 
fresh pungent odor makes it one of the 
most desirable hardy plants. This list 
takes no account of Irises, of which 
there are at least six distinct classes 
which no garden should be without— 
Crimean, Siberian, German, Chinese, 
Japanese and Spanish, but they would 
demand a lengthy chapter to themselves. 
E. T. R. 
Remedv for Black Squash Bug. —On 
page 761 S. S: S. wants a remedy for the 
black squash bug. In this locality we put 
a shingle or similar piece of wood near 
the roots of the plant. Every morning we 
kill the bugs that have taken refuge on the 
under side of the shingle, and in that way 
get rid of them. They gather on the under 
side of the shingle during the night. 
Haverhill, Mass. d. j. s. 
Smothering Quack Grass.— I noticed 
recently suggestions to smother quack 
grass with paper. Would it be practicable 
so to treat spots in grass land or hoed 
crops? My experience is that no matter 
how carefully you hoe enough is left to re¬ 
stock the field on seeding. I have a friend 
who cleared his garden by mulching with 
eel grass, of which he had plenty close by. 
If it struggled up through the mulch he 
would lift the mulch with a fork and leave 
the grass under. My idea is to lay out a 
lot of heavy paper boxes and weight them 
down. e. l. s. 
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