1910. 
THE RURAL, 
Ruralisms 
LAWN PLANTING. 
The leading permanent feature of any 
lawn should be a smooth green sward 
and plenty of it. If there is room for 
some clumps of shrubs or flowers, these 
properly placed and cared for will add 
much beauty. In many cases the same 
clump may include both shrubs and 
flowers, annual, biennial or perennial. 
Flowers from bulbs may here get the 
Winter protecion that they need. Single 
planting of shrubs or flowers should gen¬ 
erally be avoided. Very few single 
shrubs or flowers are continuously orna¬ 
mental. A group of either may be made 
interesting during the whole growing 
season. If there is sufficient room ever¬ 
green coniferous trees should be added, 
and these are good for 12 months in 
the year. The traditional straight path 
to the front door, with its row of shrubs 
or flowers or of both, ought not so to 
be. Shrubs, flowers and vines massed in 
front of the house itself may be admiss¬ 
ible where the house is very ugly. A 
spacious open lawn may often be secured 
by grouping the shrubbery at the side 
as shown in cut below. This will give 
characteristics, among which are the 
following: 
The plant should be healthy. If the 
leaves are green to the ends, the bulbs 
will be sound; perhaps not otherwise. 
I he spike should be straight with suffi¬ 
cient thickness to stem to enable it to 
take up plenty of water to sustain the 
open blooms. If deficient in this respect 
but few blooms will be open at a time, 
and they will wilt in a hot, windy day! 
The flowers should face one way, and 
the more there are out at one time the 
better. They should be properly ar¬ 
ranged on the spike—not too far apart, 
and the lower one not too close to the 
foliage. Color is of very great import- 
ance and nearly every shade is found in 
the Gladiolus, and is easily reproduced 
by seed. The petals should be broad 
and of good substance. Each and all 
of these characteristics are reproduced 
by seed, but not in one variety. The 
fact is the Gladiolus will come almost as 
true as the pansy. Even if seed be 
saved from a white variety growing 
a T}° n & 1- ed ones, many of the seedlings 
will be light. However, varieties vary 
greatly in their ability to reproduce 
themselves. 
If I wanted to raise seedlings of a 
gi\cn color, say white, I would procure 
a number of white varieties, giving the 
preference to round or conical bulbs, 
plant them close together and as far 
from other colors as possible. They will 
cross, with each other and seed secured 
in this way will bring many white and 
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SHRUBS AND TREES ON A CANADIAN LAWN. 
much l csult with small space occupied, 
and will conceal line fence and adjacent 
premises generally. Adjoining neighbors 
might unite in planting a screen of this 
kind. In a city, where an extended open 
boulevard on private premises is de¬ 
sired, this plan could not be followed. 
In such cases a group on one side of 
the dwelling could often be arranged. 
The picture shown above was taken on 
Lundy’s Lane, near Niagara Falls, the lo¬ 
cality being a rural one. In this case 
the lawn is about 80 feet away. The 
lour-foot concrete sidewalk in front is 
not often seen in rural localities. The 
reader will note the intermixture of ever¬ 
greens with the shrubs shown in the 
picture. In Summer large Caladiums 
in front of the house are used. A row 
of ferns and similar low semi-wild plants 
would be in place adjacent to the ver¬ 
anda On the rear of the premises pic- 
tilled, giant Crimson Rambler roses are 
trained to their own trellis. Here are 
also groups of shrubs trained in the way 
that they ought to go by the use of 
shears. Just how shrubs ought to go is 
decided differently by different owners. 
Very often the shearing is overdone. 
I he ground care in the case of groups 
of shrubs is a very simple matter. 
Ontario, Canada. e m 
GLADIOLUS FROM SEED. 
Raising the Gladiolus from seed i 
most as easy as raising onion sets 
pound of seed worth three dollars 
produce from 25.000 to 50,000 b 
rU -n m i ng from one -fourth inch up. 3 
u ill bloom the second year, and al 
The beginner 'is quite ap 
think that a large percentage of 
seedlings are fine; but later on whei 
standard is higher, lie will think 
ot those that he once prized. As 
person cannot be altogether suitec 
he selections of another, there i< 
better way for each one who wan 
good collection than to raise or bt 
arge number of seedlings and s 
those that meet his wants. It is we 
have m mind a few generally aeec 
light sorts. If one wants to be more 
exact and cross two particular kinds he 
can do so with more or less certainty. 
1 he Gladiolus comes into bloom in the 
morning, and we remove the anthers 
at that time from those that are to bear 
the seed. Later in the day when the 
pollen is mature and the stigma likely to 
be receptive, the stamens are carried to 
these prepared flowers and the anthers 
are gently rubbed on the stigmas so as 
to leave the pollen on the surface. 
Sow the seed in corn-planting time. 
' he soil should be .rich and fine. Make 
wide, shallow drills, and cover half an 
inch. Some shade will be needed until 
the seedlings appear, which will be in 
three weeks. Then weeding and hoeing 
will be necessary •until September, when 
they are to be taken up, dried and kept 
in the cellar till Spring. 
Ohio. M. CRAWFORD. 
Shade Trees Along Highway. 
II. I.'. A., Westchester, Conn .—For 
alK),l! :l ni 1 I 0 our land borders on the high- 
, J anxious to set out trees, along 
tliis highway, which will become an orna- 
mem to the road and which will furnish 
some food for bees. Will some reader of 
1N ; Y - advise what tree is best to 
u ? e • I he location is almost on the summit 
ot the divide between the Connecticut and 
1 hames rivers in Connecticut. The land 
is a sandy loam, containing more or less 
stone. 
Ans.— The policy of setting out trees 
along the highway may be a good one so 
far as the ornamental feature is con¬ 
cerned, but considering from the agricul¬ 
tural standpoint it is not to be recom¬ 
mended.. 1 his last season a cornfield in 
Connecticut had some beautiful shade 
trees bordering the road, but for one 
hundred feet from that row of trees the 
corn was an absolute failure. The shade 
trees along the highway of a village or 
town may greatly add to its beauty, but 
m a country we should consider this mat¬ 
ter from a standpoint of utility as well as 
from a standpoint of beauty. It would 
be a far wiser plan to grow some field 
crops on which the bees might feed, and 
for these crops 1 would suggest buck¬ 
wheat as being the most valuable. If in 
seeding the land to pasture ’a consider¬ 
able quantity of White clover seed is 
used, the White clover blossoms will 
make a splendid feeding ground for the 
t* ees - L. A. CLINTON. 
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