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The Garden Magazine, June, J923 
Fall Days Favor the Pot Marigold 
To the Editors of The Garden Magazine : 
NE of the many annuals which do not thrive very well during the 
hot summer months is Calendula or Pot Marigold. 1 planted 
part of my seed the first week of April when the ground and weather 
conditions were quite favorable. While the plants raised from this early 
sowing were of good size, the flowers did not measure more than 2 in. 
across. A later sowing made at the end of June produced plants with 
less foliage but the cool temperature of the fall months surely helped to 
form some fine flowers! Blooms measuring 3 inches in diameter were 
the average and all were of as regular and perfect form as I have ever 
seen. They included some rich golden yellow, deep orange and at¬ 
tractive variegated varieties. Arranged with a little Asparagus 
foliage they were delightful in a vase.— Edith M. Boyd. 
The Moonflower as a Porch Vine 
To the Editors of The Garden Magazine: 
T IS my conviction that the Moonflower (Ipomoea Bona-nox) is too 
little appreciated. In a town of about two thousand houses (I 
don’t mean homes, for few of them were that!) mine were the only plants 
so far as I know that were grown during the two years I resided there. 
1 like this vine mainly for two reasons: 1, it rapidly grows from a small 
pot plant to the eaves of a porch (in my case twelve feet from the ground) 
and forms a dense mass of foliage between the heights of say five and 
twelve feet; and 2, it opens its buds so rapidly that the whole move¬ 
ment can be watched. With my plants the development from closed 
bud to full blown flower occupied less than sixty seconds. When the 
vines are placed on the north or west sides of the house the flowers open 
later in the evening and remain open later the next morning than when 
placed on the east or south sides. The only variety I have grown so 
far is the white, but there is a blue kind which I shall try.—M. G. 
Kains. 
Some Superlative Yellow Climbers 
To the Editors of The Garden Magazine: 
N THE Open Column for March, Amelia H. Botsford speaksof missing 
the blooming period of yellow climbing Rose Prof. C. S. Sargent. 
In my opinion this is the best hardy yellow Climber that I have tried 
out. Among a collection of 63 varieties of Climbers, including all the 
varieties mentioned in the article, I have ten yellow kinds, beside some 
that I have tried and lost because of a lack of hardiness, as: Emily 
Grey, Alberic Barbier, Wm. Allen Richardson. I should think all 
these would grow in Delaware. My list consists of the following 
varieties: Goldfinch; Oriole; Aviateur Bleriot; Electra (this is an Eng¬ 
lish variety which I imported before the war, have only one left, and 
don’t think there is another plant in U. S.); Gardenia; Source d’Or, 
large flowers in clusters very double, second early, a little soft for ex¬ 
hibiting; Jersey Beauty; Robert Craig; Edwin Lonsdale; Prof. C. S. 
Sargent. These last three were produced by Hoopes Bros. & Thomas 
who brought out later Purity, Climbing American Beauty, and Chris¬ 
tine Wright. 
As 1 grow exclusively for exhibiting, the Roses must bloom early, and 
be able to stand for two days at least. Prof. Sargent is one of the best 
for that purpose, the (lower being built like Gloire de Dijon, very 
double with a lot of small petals, and lasting a whole week after full 
blown, either picked or on the bush. The new growth of the foliage is 
blood red; the blooms are not in clusters, but are one on a stem, good 
size, and hold color better than any other yellow climber, some flow¬ 
ers being strong apricot color, some of them bright yellow, very rarely 
turning to white. I know of only one grower, Conard & Jones Co., 
who now lists this Rose.—A. J. Fish, New Bedford, Mass. 
Surmounting Difficulties in a Montana Garden 
To the Editors of The Garden Magazine: 
HAVE been searching through various garden magazines and books 
on gardening, but I do not find anything about plants and shrubbery 
suitable and guaranteed to grow in Montana or Wyoming (my native 
state). It seems to me they all leave us out in the cold! 1 do think it 
would help a lot of struggling gardeners like myself, if we just had some 
one’s else experience and advice to go by, for we have such long cold 
winters, and dry summers. 
Here where I live now it sometimes, though seldom, gets as cold as 
45 0 below zero—other parts of the state are colder—and we generally 
have from 2 to 4 feet of snow, or else we don’t have any, so I’ve found 
that gardening doesn’t turn out the way I’d like it to. So many 
perennials winter-kill; and Roses don’t always live over either, though 
mine have survived the last two winters, as I learned to hill the earth up 
around them about 7 inches, and they bloomed beautifully for me last 
year. I have learned to winter Larkspurs, Columbine, Sweet Williams, 
Sweet Rocket, Golden Glow, and Hollyhocks—these last three seem to 
survive without much care. My Peonies grow—but have not bloomed 
well either year since being planted, but that is probably due to the hail¬ 
storms we’ve had in June the last two years. 
As for shrubbery, the Lilacs, Tartarian Honeysuckle, and Spirea are 
dependable—but I’ve longed to have some others that are described so 
beautifully in catalogues and magazines. As those I have tried in years 
past have failed to live, I am now transplanting our native shrubs into 
my yard and they grow and bloom quite satisfactorily. We have 
Yellow Flowering Currant, Choke Cherries, Service-berries, Plums, 
red and black Haws, wild Roses, and red-branched Dogwood; and of 
trees, Ash, Box-elder, Cottonwoods, Willows, Cedars, and Pines, and 
Quaking Aspen—with these one ought to be able to make quite a pleas¬ 
ing landscape. 
1 have to depend on irrigation, and when they are irrigating the 
Alfalfa fields there is a scarcity of water, or when the beavers dam the 
ditches as fast as we tear them out, then everything suffers from lack 
of water. However, I do have oceans of California Poppies, Calendulas, 
and Bachelor’s Buttons, and they’re just as good as perennials, as they 
self-sow and come up like weeds and sometimes are almost as bad. 
Perhaps others in Montana have been more successful with their gar¬ 
dens than I and can tell me of other plants and shrubs that will flourish. 
—Jessamine Spear Johnson, Kirby, Montana. 
—May we hope to hear from others in this region?—E d. 
For Your Window Garden 
To the Editors of The Garden Magazine: 
N CONSIDERING plants for the home window garden, 1 should like 
to say a word for Plumbago coccinea. As I have seen it in my win¬ 
dow, the foliage is not beautiful nor the shape and habit of growth grace¬ 
ful, but its flowers are exquisite. It begins to bloom about a month after 
it is placed in the window garden, sending up half a dozen or more very 
slender racemes which continue to elongate for months and bear eight 
to ten open flowers at a time. This winter mine started to bloom the 
middle of November and through January continued blooming freely 
with many new buds appearing at the tips of the racemes. The individ¬ 
ual blooms measure about an inch across, and the color is the most beau¬ 
tiful and unusual deep pink, almost a coral. 1 have never had a house 
plant easier to manage nor more dependable.— Amelia S. Calvert, 
Penn. 
What Will Awe the Troublesome Squirrel? 
To the Editors of The Garden Magazine: 
C ^AN any one tell me how to keep squirrels away—short of using a 
shotgun? We keep corn and sunflower seeds out all the time for 
the birds which come in flocks, but the gray squirrels like the food too 
and eat the greater part of it. No amount of “shooing” will drive 
them farther than a near-by tree and they return to gorge themselves. 
In the summer they are equally troublesome in the garden. Red 
pepper on the garbage pail cover has kept the dogs away. Can any 
one suggest as effective and simple a cure for the bad manners of the 
squirrels?— Deborah H. Horrub, Taunton, Mass. 
Mr. Truax, Take Notice! 
To the Editors of The Garden Magazine: 
N REPLY to A. L. Truax of North Dakota, page 109, the October 
number, regarding the soil and exposure for Lupinus polyphyllus, 
would like to say that my experience with the Lupin in the vicinity of 
New York City is that it is fairly indifferent to either and is really one 
of the easy perennials. I have a bed of Lupins which is about ten 
years old. It is a section of a perennial border which runs north and 
south. In the beginning the bed was dug and filled according to ap¬ 
proved methods and the soil was good and rich. Since then, despite 
much neglect and with only a little digging in of leaf mould in the 
spring, as surely as the summertime arrives the Lupin strives to 
emulate the blue of the sky and the white of the passing cloud. Lupins 
seem free from disease and they sow themselves very generally, so that 
here and there in all exposures I find the babies which grow to a glad 
fruition in sun and shade alike. Sometime ago 1 came across the sug¬ 
gestion that Lupins do not like lime but, although I try to avoid 
putting lime in direct contact, I use it freely in the neighborhood 
