The Garden Magazine, July, 1924 
365 
ful writings I find “Re¬ 
gal Lily is good with 
Heliotrope, or lavender 
Phlox with Thalictrum 
adiantifolium to mask 
its stems. Phlox W. C. 
Egan to plant in front 
of L. regale with Phlox 
Rhinelander to follow on 
practically the same 
spot.’’ Outside of learn¬ 
ing by years of practical 
experience, what is the 
secret of planting things 
“on practically the same 
spot,” and can it be re¬ 
duced to inches and dem¬ 
onstrated before our 
eyes by some great¬ 
hearted exhibitor at the 
next flower show?—- 
Alberta Hill Smith, 
Staten Island, N. Y. 
— I was glad to see, in your report of the Flower Show held in New 
York City, a criticism of the labeling of the various exhibits. 
The primary object of these exhibits is educational—to help the 
amateur gardener select plants for his own use by aiding him in visualiz¬ 
ing the effect created by the use of the combination of plants, accessories 
and colors. I have attended many shows and have become interested 
in a particular plant, but the labels have been so small that it was 
impossible to make a note of it, especially in the event of a particular 
plant placed in the background. I believe it would help consideraby 
if plants were to be labeled in bold letters or provided with conspicuous 
numbers and a list or schedule were displayed near the exhibit, giving 
the correct name against the particular number.— Leon A. Malkiel, 
New York City. 
Planting Where Winters Are Fifty Below Zero 
To the Editors of The Garden Magazine: 
ERY few people at present realize the horticultural possibilities of 
the great prairies in the States and Canada and therefore I thought 
that the accompanying photographs showing the development of the 
grounds at our Nursery Station, situated on the bare prairies of 
Saskatchewan, might be of interest to some of your readers who live in 
districts where condi¬ 
tions of climate are 
somewhat similar. 
We have been taking 
The Garden Magazine 
regularly for about fifteen 
years, and we have been 
able to secure many val¬ 
uable ideas and sugges¬ 
tions; more particularly 
from the splendid illus¬ 
trations showing land¬ 
scape and planting 
arrangements, which 
have been of very great 
assistance in developing 
our ornamental plant¬ 
ings. The season here is 
very short, even at this 
date (May 5th) the Lilac 
buds are just swelling, 
and killing frosts usually 
occur towards the end 
of August. The rainfall averages perhaps 17 inches and winter tem¬ 
peratures often fall to 45 to 50 degrees below zero. In spite of these 
adverse conditions it is wonderful the results that can be secured in the 
course of a very few years when proper methods of culture are employed 
and use is made of hardy varieties. We have no irrigation and but 
a very small water supply, which can be used only sparingly for annual 
flowers.— Norman M. Ross, Chief of Tree-Planting Division, 
Forest Nursery Station, Saskatchewan, Canada. 
Old-Fashioned Flowers for the Colonial Home 
To the Editors of The Garden Magazine: 
NE July I was idly pulling withered stalks from a clump of 
Bleeding-heart, and among the faded leaves was about six inches 
of white stalk. I wondered if it could form roots and mounded the 
earth around it after a good watering. The season was rather damp, 
and a little fernlike shoot appeared in a couple of weeks, survived the 
winter underground and greeted me with several clusters of lovely 
rosy bells last spring. Needless to say, I am repeating my experiment. 
I inherited the original plant with my present dwelling and the 
quaint flowers are most suited to its Colonial style. But I rescued it 
from an obscure niche looking south, and placed it as the center of the 
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR GARDEN NEIGHBORS ON THE PRAIRIES OF THE 
GREAT NORTHWEST 
Three views of the Forest Nursery Station at Saskatchewan, Canada, showing the 
development of trees, shrubs, and flowers between 1905 (picture just above) and 
1922 (two upper photographs), revealing the possibilities of plant material for the 
Northwestern prairie region with its scant rainfall and 50 below zero temperature 
