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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 14, 1924 
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Horticultural Notes 
Shrubs for Cemetery Use 
There are many rural cemeteries scat¬ 
tered around the country that are badly 
neglected, mainly because those interested 
do not know how to put them in shape 
and make beauty spots where now is all 
neglect. Could you give a list of shrubs 
that it would be advisable to plant in the 
average country cemetery; plants that 
are hardy and require little care, and 
would add beauty to the landscape? 
Townville, Pa. c. E. G. 
“There are very few shrubs and ever¬ 
greens that would be undesirable for cem¬ 
etery planting.” This statement was 
made by one of the foremost landscape 
architects in this part of the State upon 
my query as to what would be desirable 
for this especial purpose. Roses, and 
some of the better climbing roses close 
trimmed, would add beauty almost every¬ 
where. Desirable climbers are Excelsa, 
red ; Paul’s Scarlet, beet of all in scarlet 
class; Bess Lovett, deep pink; Alida 
Lovett, beautiful light pink; Mary Lov¬ 
ett, white, are three grand varieties. Dr. 
Van Fleet, Dorothy Perkins and many 
others are desirable. There are easily 
grown perennial flowers that grow and 
bloom for a few years with little atten¬ 
tion ; Polemonium, or Jacob’s ladder, 
Alyssum saxatile, Phlox divaricata, Ar- 
meria, are low-growing early-blooming 
plants of exceptional beauty. Later and 
taller in habit are Dianthus, Anchusa, 
Digitalis, Campanula, and many others. 
There are many evergreens that do not 
grow very rapidly. These trees can he 
kept to any desired height by trimming 
annually. Biota aura nana, Thuja ori- 
entalis compaeta. Thuja orientalis Ell- 
wangerina, Thuja orientalis globosa, 
Thuja orientals Warreana, Roster’s blue 
spruce, Juniperus communis aurea 
(Douglas golden juniper), Juniperus 
prostrata, Juniperus tamariscifolia (low- 
growing trailing habit). Pinus Muglio 
(dwarf pine), Retinispora filifera aurea. 
Retinispora obbuoa Crispii, Azaleas and 
Rhododendrons, would be desirable ever¬ 
green shrubs. Boxwood trimmed to any 
desired shape is a slow-growing beautiful 
shrub. 
Many shrubs are useful and beautiful. 
The dogwoods are beautiful, and can be 
kept low by pruning; Deutzia, Forsythia, 
Hydrangea, Lonicera, Spiraea, lilac, Wei- 
geln, and many others. In cemetery 
planting, as in gardening, there can be no 
hard and fast rule suggested. There are 
go many people of varied tastes, and the 
selection of beautiful plants is so large 
that it is only possible to name a few 
that may be used. Procure a catalogue 
of some reliable nurseryman and study it 
for description and habits of shrubs and 
trees and it will be easy to select what 
will in a short time beautify any loca¬ 
tion. ELMER J. WEAVER. 
Lice on Sweet Peas 
I have been wholly unsuccessful in the 
last few years with sweet peas, owing to 
the ravages of myriads of the sucking in- 
eects, green aphis and their hosts of near 
relatives. 1 have used nicotine solu¬ 
tions, showering the vines faithfully ac¬ 
cording to directions, without establish¬ 
ing control, consequently the vines be¬ 
came devitalized, shrunken, and died. 
This Spring I gave my trees and shrub¬ 
bery around and through the garden a 
thorough spraying with miscible oil m 
the hope of destroying the eggs. I am 
convinced that some planting either in 
my garden or that of my neighbor is act¬ 
ing as host for these insects, and I am 
puzzled to know wherein the guilt lies 
and what the remedy is. Years ago I 
bedded my rose garden with tobacco stems 
and I remember distinctly how little 
trouble I had that year with these insects 
on my roses. I hold to the belief that the 
sap of the rose hushes became saturated 
with, tobacco juice, which stalled the 
aphis. In your judgment, would it be a 
good idea to put tobacco stems or tobacco 
duet along the rows of sweet peas, either 
before or soon after they come through 
the ground? Have you known of any 
success in this direction under similar 
conditions? I have bought my seed in 
several of the principal markets, both 
local and Western, but find no traceable 
difference in the results. Are any of the 
newer insecticides more effective than nic¬ 
otine in handling this problem? 
As an illustration of the degree of in¬ 
festation in my garden. I will say that 
two standard roGe trees which I keep in 
cold storage through the Winter, devel¬ 
oped, from March 1, lots of tender white 
leaf sprouts, and just as the weather be¬ 
came suitable to place them out of doors 
we found them literally plastered with 
aphis. This goes to show that these rose 
trees were infested with the eggs of thiG 
plant lice last Fall before they were 
taken from my garden and put into their 
Winter quartero, a brand-new cold stor¬ 
age cellar, constructed in June, into 
which nothing had ever been previously 
stored. I feel sure these plant lice, in 
some form or other, went into the cold 
storage with the rose trees. My garden 
is surrounded by a hedge of Japanese 
Rugosa and Spirsea Van Houttei, and on 
the side hill, back of it, there are consid¬ 
erable quantities of black cherry, growing 
wild, with a heavy undergrowth of ferns, 
a few red oaks, jack pines and hickory 
trees. e. p. m. 
Lexington, MasG. 
The large green plant louse so destruc¬ 
tive to culinary and sweet peas is the 
clover aphis. The lice come to the peas 
from clover. They Gpend the Winter as 
tiny black eggs on clover, and the first 
generations live on clover, but winged 
individuals appear as the season ad¬ 
vances, and they migrate to the peas. 
Later in the season they return to the 
clover. Tobacco extract, such as Black 
Leaf 40, or 5 per cent kerosene emulsion, 
sprayed hard against the plants, will 
control the insects. In commercial plant¬ 
ings of culinary peaG the lice are brushed 
from the vines and killed by following 
with a cultivator between the rows, when 
the soil is very warm and dry from the 
hot sun. It would seem probable that 
there are clover fields in the vicinity 
which furnish an infestation of this par¬ 
ticular aphis. We have not heard of to¬ 
bacco dust or stems being placed on the 
ground to repel this insect, and as it is 
the winged form which migrates we hard¬ 
ly think tobacco on the ground would be 
helpful, but it would do no harm, and 
does repel Gome insects. We have no 
reason to believe that the sap of rose 
bushes would carry any tobacco from 
material placed on the ground, hut such 
tobacco would be very obnoxious to any 
aphids which hibernated in trash lying on 
the ground. We think it would be de¬ 
sirable to give your standard roses a good 
spraying with tobacco or soap before 
storing them away, to destroy insects 
that might hibernate with them. The com¬ 
mon green aphis, which uGually attacks 
roses, seems to be controlled more read¬ 
ily than the pea or clover aphis. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, JUNE 14, 1924 
FARM TOPICS 
Sound Advice to a Back-to-the-Lander. 881, 882 
Soy Beans and Corn Silage . 883 
How Farmers Invest Surplus Money . 883 
Thirteen Years on a Farm . 886 
Hope Farm Notes .890 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Feeding Fat Into Milk . 883 
Proposed Milk Plan ... 893 
Management of Brood Sows . 896 
Certified Milk Production . 896 
THE HENYARD 
What Is the Object of a Hen’s Comb? .... 882 
Psychology of a Goose .. 882 
Blood Clots in Eggs; Feeding Chicks; 
Sprouting Oats . 898 
Trouble From Spoiled Food . 898 
Roup and Chicken Pox .898 
Catarrh of Crop ... 898 
Fireless Brooders . 900 
Suspected Cholera . 900 
Connecticut Egg-laying Contest . 900 
HORTICULTURE 
June Drop of Peaches . 882 
New England Notes . 885 
The Apple Maggot . 887 
WOMAN AND HOME 
The Delicious Health-giving Spinach . 891 
From Day to Day ... 894 
The Rural Patterns . 894 
Short Notice Fried Chicken .894 
An Adjustable House Dress . 895 
Storing Butter for Home Use . 895 
Keeping Juice in Fruit Pies . 895 
Honey for Fly Traps . 895 
A Country Book Club .895 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Some Figures About American Institutions 882 
The Doings of an Auto Hog . 882 
A Kennel License for Dogs . 882 
Countrywide Produce Situation ... 887 
Payment for Movie Rights . 889 
The Stranger Within Our Gates . 889 
Taxation Value of Hens . 889 
A Canadian on the Tariff .... 889 
Conditions in State of Washington . 889 
A Chicago Automobile Expert . 889 
A "Cure” for Diabetes . 900 
My Experience as a Rural Teacher . 890 
Hay Fever and Its Treatment . 891 
Publisher’s Desk . 903 
