The Garden Magazine, June, 1924 
303 
TAKING COMFORT IN 
THE OUTDOOR LIVING- 
ROOM 
Rather like a fairy tale this 
garden came in to being for in 
the summer of 1921 all this 
sheltering verdure was liter¬ 
ally non-existent and the site 
“just an impossible looking 
piece of waste land facing 
the sea”; so writes Madame 
de Barbae (see accompany¬ 
ing text) of her summer 
home, Villa Mimosa, at Mon¬ 
mouth Beach, New Jersey 
My Little Lily Pool—Thanks to “J. B. Spencer”! 
To the Editors of The Garden Magazine : 
O N PAGE 243 of your June, 1922, issue appears an article 
by J. B. Spencer instructing one how to make a lily 
pond in a little garden. I followed the instructions minutely 
and with what success the accompanying photographs will 
show. I made it in June, 1922, and in August, 1922, I had 
Lilies flowering. The pictures were taken in September, 1923. 
1 built my cottage and laid out the garden in the summer 
of 1921 on what was just an impossible looking piece of waste 
land facing the sea, and you will see by the pictures what I 
THREE MONTHS FROM START TO FINISH 
Inspired by an article in the June G. M., Madame de 
Barbae set to work on a Lily pool for her New Jersey gar¬ 
den (see above text) with the happy result here portrayed 
When Poppies Get in Hot Water 
To the Editors of The Garden Magazine: 
H ANS KOEHLER. and other Poppy enthusiasts just do 
this. Take your vase filled with hot water out with 
you to gather your Poppies. You may gather and keep 
fresh all of them, from Oriental to Iceland. 
Any flower will keep better if the water is lukewarm and if 
the stems, when clipped, are held under water.—G. H. B., 
South Bend, Indiana. 
Does any one know a sure remedy? 1 have always been able to con¬ 
quer other pests and even to get the better of poor seasons, but these 
uglv things rear up and defy me each June and anything that spoils 
June should be exterminated!—E dna Halstead Gould, Locust Vale 
Farm, Towson, Maryland. 
—The rose bug is almost an uncontrollable pest. One way of reducing 
its attacks is to grow red rather than light-colored flowers. One of the 
difficulties in combating the pest is that there may be an 
influx of beetles from surrounding gardens or fields over 
which you cannot possibly have any control. They find, of 
course, the lighter soils but it is not certain that you won’t 
get them in any other place. Possibly there is a plantation 
of Grape vines near you which is a source of supply of the 
beetles. 
Of all the sprays Melrosine seems to be most effective 
provided the spray actually hits the beetle. It is impossi¬ 
ble to attack it by poison baits. It must be killed by a 
contact poison. Apply the spray during the period of at¬ 
tack twice a day.— Ed. 
achieved by following 
and studying your 
magazine, which is a 
never-failing source of 
instruction and infor¬ 
mation to an amateur 
like myself. From April 
until October I have 
constant blooms of 
every description be¬ 
ginning with flowering 
shrubs and bulbs to 
Dahlias, and am the 
envy of my neighbors 
who keep gardeners. 
The Water-lilies are left in the pond all winter. I drain the water 
off, pack straw around the Lily boxes, then cover over the whole of the 
pond with planks coated with shingle paper. Last spring (1923), after 
a very hard winter, when 1 took the covering off in May, everything 
was verdant and thriving, even the rockery plants which I had also 
covered. Your Open Column is an untold boon to all amateurs in gar¬ 
dening.—C. De Barbac, Villa Mimosa, Monmouth Beach, New Jersey. 
