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Autumn Exhibition of Plants, Flowers, Fruits, and Vegeta¬ 
bles, November 2, 3, and 4. Lectures Saturday and Sunday on 
“ Fruit Growing” by Dr. J. K. Shaw. 
The exhibitions and lectures are free to all and the lectures 
will be given at three o’clock p.m. on the dates mentioned. 
ENCOURAGING HORTICULTURE IN CANADA 
HE Canadian Horticultural Council announces that a 
medal will be awarded annually to the person doing the 
most valuable work for the advancement of horticulture in 
Canada and that Mr. J. C. Carter of Guelph, Ontario, has 
generously placed at the disposal of the Council the sum of 
$100 a. year for the purchase of this medal. The first recipient of 
this new honor is Prof. W. T. Macoun, Dominion Horticulturist. 
To the believer in gardens such announcements are very heart¬ 
ening as straws showing that the wind is blowing in the right 
direction for the fair future of horticulture, which is steadily 
registering its ever-increasing value on public consciousness so 
that one of these not far distant days such an award as men¬ 
tioned above will confer something of the world-wide distinction 
of the Nobel Prize for high achievement in other fields of en¬ 
deavor. 
A CHANCE FOR DAHLIA LOVERS 
HE Short Hills Garden Club will hold its fifteenth Annual 
Dahlia Show at the Short Hills Club, Short Hills, New 
jersey, on Friday and Saturday, September 28th and 29th. 
All amateurs are Invited to compete, and all lovers of the Dahlia, 
whether amateur or professional, are invited to be guests and 
enjoy the display which every year has attracted large crowds. 
The dates have' been planned to fall directly on the heels of the 
Show of the American Dahlia Society in New York as the trip 
to Short Hills is but half an hour and many from out of town 
can avail themselves of the opportunity to see the two In one 
day. 
THE OPET(^ c oLUM H^ 
Readers’ Interchange of Experience and Comment 
unsigned communications —Will those who have not received personal 
replies to letters and questions please understand that from time to time com¬ 
munications reach us sometimes without an address, sometimes without 
a signature, and that in such cases we are unable to redeem ourselves. 
A letter from “A Southerner, New Orleans, La.” remains unanswered 
because of the reason just given. Another writer asking for a good deal 
of cultural information gives no address and signs his letter with our name 
instead of his own! 
What is the Effect of Pine Shavings? 
To the Editors of The Garden Magazine: 
ANY of the teamsters here use pine shavings for bedding down 
their horses. Some gardeners claim that this manure when dug 
in sours the soil and is apt to develop a fungous growth. Some claim it is 
O. K. I would like to' hear what several experts have to say on the 
matter. Can’t you reach them and publish their reply? It is a ques¬ 
tion that concerns several of your readers here.—W. C. Egan, Egan- 
dale, Highland Park, III. 
■—We shall be glad to hear the testimony—E d. 
Twelve Months of Pinks in Louisiana 
To the Editors of The Garden Magazine: 
RE there no people in the South that would like to know some¬ 
thing about gardening? 
Once in a while your magazine has something about what you call the 
South, that is, the Carolinas, but to us Gulf-Staters, that is decidedly 
northern. One time this summer you had an article on gardening in 
Florida, which was a great help, but your “Timely Reminders for the 
Months” are usually about three months too late for us, and therefore 
do very little good. 
I hough the flowers down here, on the whole, are not exceptional, 
some of my garden experiences would astonish you. Have you ever 
planted garden Pinks in May, and had them bloom without stopping, 
until the following April? That is what mine did, and they are still 
going strong. They did not get a particle of care all summer, and very 
little during any other time, while they are as large as any 1 have ever 
seen in California. 1 have also had German Iris bloom all winter. 
Also my Calla Lilies, which are blooming right now, would put any of 
your hot-house flowers to shame. 
Such a state of affairs down here is, I regret to say, very rare, as there 
are no good garden books or magazines referring to this part of the 
country, while the professional “gardeners” here are a joke. They know 
as little about gardens as they do about Mars, or less! 
1 don’t know what you would term this letter—a complaint,most 
probably, against the fact that so few people realize that Louisiana, 
and the rest of the Gulf States are on the map of the United States.-— 
A. Southerner, New Orleans, La. 
—We always gladly hear from our friends of the South, and shall be 
pleased to give space to constructive notes of personal experience.— Ed. 
Wintering Hybrid-tea Roses in Maine 
To the Editors of The Garden Magazine: 
N early November of 1921 I dug up thirty-seven Hybrid-tea Roses 
and put them into a cold pit which had been prepared by 8 or 10 
inches of drainage at the bottom and 6 inches of dirt packed on top of 
it, the final depth before putting in the Roses being i\ feet. They were 
packed closely together, with dirt firmed carefully about the roots, 
and the stems were also covered 12 to 15 inches deep. At Christmas 
I filled the pit with fir and spruce branches, up to ground level, put 
some boards over, leaving wide cracks for ventilation, and a few more 
heavy branches on top of the boards. 
Planted out in the garden again about May 15th, thirty of these Roses 
came through in splendid condition, flowering abundantly all the sea¬ 
son. Among them were Sunburst, White Killarney, Mme. Edouard 
Herriot, Gen. McArthur, Alice Stanley, Hoosier Beauty, Los Angeles. 
Our temperature (on the coast near the Canadian line) was as low as 20 
degrees below zero at times during the winter.— Frank A. Brown, 
Machiasport, Maine. 
Being Ready for the Bare Spots 
To the Editors of The Garden Magazine: 
HAVE found a very satisfactory way of filling the bare spots left b> 
the early blooming annuals, such as Cornflower and Larkspur. 
When my Calendulas or Pot-marigolds, as they were called in Shakes¬ 
peare’s time, have their first true leaves, I transplant several dozen 
to small pots, at the same time transplanting a similar number of 
Snapdragons, a tall rosy-pink variety; water well and plunge the pots 
into the earth in some out-of-the-way place where the plants will keep 
growing. 
When the early bloomers are past their glory and looking unsightly 
I pull them up, spade up the bed adding a bit of fertilizer, and water it 
well. At the same time I give the potted plants a good soaking. 
The next day, after digging holes in the prepared bed about a foot apart 
each way, I carefully remove each plant from its pot with the ball of 
earth unbroken, set in the holes (Snapdragons to the back) and firm the 
earth gently around the plants, raking a bit of dry soil over the top to 
conserve the moisture. The next day 1 give very shallow cultivation 
and the plants go on growing without a check even though they are in 
bud. The combination is beautiful and will furnish an abundance of 
cut flowers until heavy frost.— Mrs. E. L. A., Kansas City, Mo. 
For That Stubborn Shaded Comer 
To the Editors of The Garden Magazine: 
F MRS. G. H. O’L (see April issue, page 136) will try Ajuga it may 
solve her problem. It is recommended for shade and moisture, but 
it grows for me in any situation. It covers ground rapidly and plenti¬ 
fully.—M. Emerson Main, Westerly, R. I. 
—For the benefit of Mrs. G. H. O’L., York, S. C., who has an S. O. S. 
call in the April number of The Garden Magazine I wish to say that 
the best thing I have ever found for covering the kind of shady spot 
she describes is the blue Periwinkle or Trailing Myrtle (Vinca minor). 
1 his plant is an evergreen and in the spring is covered with the loveliest 
blue flowers. Mine is in full bloom now. It is listed in Henry A. 
Dreer’s catalogue, but if Mrs. H. O’L. will send me her address, I will 
be glad to send her a boxful of Periwinkle plants. It grows so rapidly 
that I have to throw away a peck every year. 1 don’t know what the 
climate and soil conditions are in York, S. C., but I believe this 
