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STRAWBERRY  PLANTS 
The  three  leaders  for  home  and  commercial  growers 
HOWARD  1 7  or  PREMIER  -  DR.  BURRILL  -  LUPTON 
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never  before  used  for  Strawberries.  State  inspected 
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THE  ONTARIO  RASPBERRY  S31 
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Plants  for  Shaded  Border 
age  as  possible  during  the  season. 
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sirable  for  hollyhocks,  which  need  an 
open,  sunny  place.  There  are  some 
charming  plants  allied  to  Spiraeas,  garden 
varieties  of  Astilbe  Arendsi,  that  prefer 
a  half-shady,  moist  position,  blooming  in 
.Tune  and  July.  They  produce  many- 
branched  heads  of  feathery  flowers,  white, 
flesh  and  rose.  The  foliage  is  attractive 
when  the  plant  is  out  of  flower.  If  the 
soil  is  good,  and  not  sour  and  boggy,  fox¬ 
gloves  and  Canterbury  bells  may  do  well, 
as  they  do  not  mind  partial  shade.  We 
would  suggest  that  you  edge  your  planting 
Here  is  a  farm  dog  from  Summit,  N.  Y. 
This  is  what  they  say  of  him  :  “Our  old 
friend  Tige — he  furnished  the  rabbit  for 
our  Thanksgiving  dinner!” 
with  forget-me-nots,  which  delight  in  a 
moist,  shaded  place.  There  is  a  tall- 
growing  rather  uncommon  hardy  peren¬ 
nial  called  mountain  feather  fleece,  botani- 
cally  Stenanthium  robustum,  which  de¬ 
lights  in  a  moist,  semi-shady  position  ;  it 
produces  panicles  of  fleecy  white  flowers 
in  August  and  September,  growing  four 
to  five  feet  high.  There  are  some  native 
Asters  growing  in  damp  woods  which  you 
might  be  able  to  secure  in  your  own  neigh¬ 
borhood.  A  planting  which  included  sev¬ 
eral  of  these  different  subjects  would.be 
more  desirable  than  one  variety  only,  as 
the  latter  would  limit  the  season  of  bloom. 
Some  of  the  native  ferns,  such  as  Onoclea, 
Lastrea  and  Osmunda,  might  be  added. 
Koster’s  and  Silver  Blue  Spruce 
In  a  forestry  company  catalogue  we  are 
told  :  “Our  silver  blue  spruces  are  grown 
from  seed  of  Rocky  Mountain  trees,  and 
are  not  to  he  confounded  with  the  Ros¬ 
ter’s  blue,  which  obtains  its  blue  tone 
through  grafting;  the  grafting  sacrifices 
the  straight  natural  growth.  Our  silver 
blue  spruces  grow  gloriously  straight  and 
vigorous,  ns  their  ancestors  grew  on  the 
cold,  rare  heights  of  the  Rockies.”  I  had 
supposed  that  Koster’s  blue  spruce  was 
the  best  variety,  f’an  you  explain? 
White  River  Junction,  Vt.  o.  E.  K. 
Koster’s  blue  spruce,  a  strain  of  the 
Colorado  blue  spruce,  aud  ordinarily  prop¬ 
agated  by  grafting,  is  one  of  the  finer  ever¬ 
greens,  and  the  bluest  of  the  spruces.  It 
is  for  this  very  reason  that  it  is  propa¬ 
gated  by  grafting,  for  seed-grown  plants 
would  varv  and  not  be  identical  with  the  • 
variety.  For  the  same  reason  apple  va-  i 
rietieg  are  propagated  by  grafting  instead 
of  by  seed.  Koster’s  blue  spruce  does  not 
obtain”  its  blue  color  by  grafting ;  it  I 
merely  perpetuates  its  color  unchanged  ' 
by  this  method.  Moreover,  it  is  difficult  i 
to  see  how  a  veneer-graft — that  is,  the  I 
type  of  graft  used  in  grafting  spruces — 
“sacrifices  the  straight  natural  growth.” 
To  our  notion,  a  good  Koster’s  blue  spruce  1 
grows  straight  enough  for  anyone,  and  is 
pretty  hard  to  beat.  Nevertheless,  the  sil¬ 
ver  blue  spruce  is  a  very  handsome  tree. 
H.  B.  T. 
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