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Ruralisms 
PERENNIALS FROM SEED. 
Pabt I. 
No more beautiful flowers are there 
than the glorious perennials. The list 
is so long, embracing practically every 
known color and type, of all sizes and 
and seasons, that every taste can be 
gratified, every day of Spring, Summer 
and Fall brightened and made an inspira¬ 
tion by the wealth of color harmony that 
can be produced so easily by planting lib¬ 
erally of perennials and shrubs. The 
price of plants is prohibitive in many 
homes of using any quantity of hardy 
plants and shrubs where the cash must 
be paid for one or two-year-old stock. 
Some of the choicest sorts, however, can 
be obtained in no other way, as few 
perennials come true from seed. After 
buying a few good plants most of them 
can be readily increased by division of 
the roots or by rooting cuttings of the 
terminal parts of the plant. It is com¬ 
paratively easy to have these beautiful 
plants in unlimited quantities from seed. 
Even though they may not come true to 
type and color markings, there will be 
an abundance just as good as what you 
expected, perhaps some better, and the 
worthless ones can be destroyed. It is a 
source of never-ending pleasure to me to 
watch for new kinds from seed. Par¬ 
ticularly is this true of my hardy 
Phloxes, Dahlias, pansies and Gladioli. 
The stately hollyhocks and the good 
old Sweet Williams are both perennials, 
but the quality of bloom is so much bet¬ 
ter the first year from seed that it is 
well worth the trouble to grow new 
Plants every year. This article will 
reach you in time to make plantings of 
nearly everything in the list, but May 
and July is a better time. From now 
on seed should be sown very thickly and 
not moved to permanent quarters until 
Spring, as with most sorts but little 
growth will be made yet this year. A 
light covering of straw will winter safely 
most hardy plants, even though they have 
but two or three small leaves, but the 
covering must not be removed in the 
Spring till freezing and thawing stop. 
Hardy Phlox brings many, surprising 
new sorts from seed, together with some 
worthless ones. For this reason the 
plants should be set the first year in a 
garden row where they can be sorted at 
blooming time. Seed should be purchased 
i'om some seedsman making a specialty 
of Phlox and from whom you are satis¬ 
fied you can get good seed. It must be 
planted in the Fall, best in a rather 
shallow box, putting seed one-half inch 
under and setting the box on the north 
side of the house. In the Spring prac¬ 
tically every seed will come up, and 
should be moved to a garden row as 
soon as possible. All will flower the first 
year. Rows of one color make the best 
•‘fleet, so to increase desired sorts the 
following Spring, when the shoots come 
out of the ground and are about three 
inches high, they can be cut off and root¬ 
ed in a bed of clean sand kept moist, 
warm and shaded. I do this by putting 
the sand about three inches deep in a 
box, water well, put in the cuttings to a 
depth of an inch and a half, cover box 
with a lath frame shade, having the lath 
one inch apart, and over this a sash to 
obtain as much heat as possible. Always 
put the sash above the lath instead of 
sash first, as the latter way would shut 
off the air and rot the cuttings. It will 
take about a month for these cuttings 
to root. They can then be planted in 
permanent quarters and will bloom the 
same year. Desirable sorts can also be 
propagated by division of the roots in 
•September. Remember, seed must be plant¬ 
ed in the Fall only, about November 1. 
Foxglove seed is very fine. A 10-cent 
packet will give a thousand plants if 
» 1 eat care is taken not to lose the tiny 
seedlings. I sow this in July in a box 
i tame with slatted bottom to keep the 
moles out. Put the seed in little fur¬ 
rows about one-half inch wide, barely 
eyering the seed. You can sow them 
1 uck. I have 5,000 plants now in a 
w 10 feet long. Move these in a 
couple of months to another frame that 
can be covered with glass for the Win- 
ter " y° u have planted thinly they can 
«tay in the seed bed till Spring. " July 
antings can go into permanent quar¬ 
ters by Fall. P . L w 
igan. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
THE USEFUL ROSE OF SHARON. 
After early Summer there is a scarcity 
of blossoming shrubs, for the lilacs, mock 
oranges, Spiraeas, etc., are all over, and 
most of them are quite commonplace in 
foliage. Here the Rose of Sharon (Hi¬ 
biscus Syriacus) fills a useful place by 
giving abundant bloom in August and 
September. The dark green foliage is 
handsome and the shrub always free in 
growth. 
The old type of Rose of Sharon was a 
single cup-shaped flower, like a holly¬ 
hock, either white or magenta pink. 
Great variations have been produced by 
plant breeders, French growers especially 
interesting themselves in this plant, and 
a number of beautiful forms are now 
grown. To my mind, one of the most 
beautiful of all is Jeanne d’Arc, with 
pure white double flowers, a strong 
grower. Boule de Feu, with large 
double violet red flowers, is also very 
handsome. The variety Purpurea, with 
single reddish purple flowers, and Totus 
albus, single, pure white, are both ex¬ 
cellent. Pmoniflora is recommended as 
a dwarf grower with rosy purple flowers. 
All these are of easy culture, thriving 
in any good garden soil. In the North, 
early Spring planting of dormant speci¬ 
mens is preferred. This Hibiscus is eas¬ 
ily propagated by seeds, by Fall cuttings 
of ripened wood, and by grafting. Named 
varieties are propagated by grafting on 
common seedling stock. A well-grov, _ 
tall hedge of this Rose of Sharou ,s, 
apart from the difference in color, quite 
as showy as the hedges of scarlet-flowered 
Chinese Hibiscus that are a vivid land¬ 
scape feature in the Hawaiian Islands 
and the West Indies. e. t. r. 
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I notice article on “papaw juice and 
fire.” It grows wild in Porto Rico. It is 
the Carica Papaya. I never tried the 
fire stimt, but I think I would as soon 
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