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perennial border near my front doorstep. Around it at intervals 1 
planted big rosy Darwin Tulips and Poet’s-eve Narcissus in groups, 
with a few salmon-pink Clara Butt nearer the border of blue Forget-me- 
nots. Now when it blooms it is a delight to the passer-by with its 
three-foot circle of dainty pink bells and pale green foliage. Down the 
gray cement walk rise pale pink Hyacinths interspersed with white 
L’lnnocence and Wedgewood blue Grand Maitre. 1 ‘hen pink and 
white English Daisies with blue Forget-me-nots spring up around 
-snowy Picotee Tulips that blush into rosy beauty as the bold bees 
gather round them. Why do not more lovers of Forget-me-nots 
grow them? The seed of this year’s plants gives a host of newcomers 
ready for fall transplanting. Since we sowed our first seed, we have 
had all we could use, and they need little protection.—G. A. Gardin, 
., Ridgewood, N. J. 
sharp sand. This was thoroughly mixed and screened, and most of 
the old soil was removed without, however, disturbing the roots unduly. 
After repotting, the plant was given an abundance of water. 
The daily care is simple enough. Give enough water so that the 
soil in the pot will keep moist without ever becoming too wet. The 
feel of the soil is the best guide in this matter. In a window where it 
can have full sunlight at least half the day a Boston Fern will thrive— 
mine stands next a window facing west and has nourished here for the 
last fifteen years and more. The plant should be turned half way 
around occasionally, hardly more than once a week, though the rate 
and manner of its growth will determine that. Do not be worried if a 
frond dies now and then, for that is the nature of its growth, old fronds 
are discarded and ever new ones produced and an interesting way they 
have of uncurling themselves.—C. L. M eller, South Fargo, North Dakota. 
“Highbrow" Squash 
Why Aren't These Roses Included? 
To the Editors of The Garden Magazine: 
A MAN once told me he had growing on his place the most peculiar 
Squashes that he had ever seen. Because of their habits he 
named them “Highbrow.” This was because instead ol working out 
their struggle for existence against the bugs, flies, and fungus on the 
ground like anv respectable Squash they climbed neighboring trees and 
made short-sighted people swear they had seen apples as big as pump¬ 
kins. The story, and fruit, was too much for my credulity but my 
EVEN VEGETABLES 
HAVE THEIR AMBI¬ 
TIONS 
“Both feet on the 
ground" need not handi¬ 
cap man’s achievement 
if a Squash can manage 
to leave its roots so far 
behind! And incredibly 
enough, this particular 
specimen has climbed so 
high that in order to 
reach it the little lady 
had to get a step-ladder 
camera verified the suspicious tale. (See 
above.)—L. J. Doogue, Dorchester, Mass. 
A Twenty-Year-Old Boston Fern 
To the Editors of The Garden Magazine: 
W HEN we consider its decorative value, 
its simple cultural requirements, and 
the fact that it is a truly long-lived plant we 
need have no hesitancy in recommending the 
Boston Fern as one of the best of available 
house plants. The Fern shown in the accom¬ 
panying photograph is about twenty years 
• old and has been under my care for the last 
fifteen years. During this period the plant has 
been repotted in the spring every third year, 
being shifted each time into a pot about two 
inches larger than the one occupied until on 
the last occasion a special wooden tub had to 
■ be made for it. The soil used is a mixture 
•of equal parts of well-rotted manure, the equiv¬ 
alent of leaf mould, good garden soil, and clean 
To the Editors of The Garden Magazine: 
MpHE Rose Referendum in the March number of The Garden 
*■ Magazine was most interesting, but as so often happens I looked 
in vain for some of mv favorites and wondered that their merits, which 
make such an appeal to me should fail to attract others. One of these 
is Mrs. Alfred Carriere. It was included in the list for the Western 
states, but it is hard to understand why it is not more generally known 
and admired. It is an old Rose, a Noisette, and sometimes is said to be 
not quite hardy in the North, but 1 know of plants in the vicinity of New 
York City which, unprotected, have survived the most severe winters 
and have flourished and grown in beauty for many years. It is a large, 
creamy white, double Rose, with loose petals, very fragrant, blooming 
in June and occasionally in the autumn. If one could make use of the 
term in reference to a flower, I would say that it was a lovable Rose, 
and in my own mind when thinking of my favorite Roses it invariably 
has first place. , 
Another climbing Rose, which is not even mentioned, is Roserie, 
called, I believe, the Pink Tausenschoen. The flowers are larger than 
Tausenschoen and of the most wonderful shade. It is difficult to de¬ 
scribe the color; a rich, clear, deep pink. It does not make a very ram¬ 
pant growth and as a Pillar Rose the blossoms literally cover the plant 
from head to foot. One of its greatest 
merits is that the color does not fade. 
Whether on the plant or in the house 
it never assumes that blue tint so 
often seen in the full blown pink or 
red Rose. Its one demerit is lack of 
fragrance, but Frau Karl Druschki 
is conspicuously lacking in a Rose’s 
greatest charm and yet it was second 
on the list of favorite Roses. When 
one sees all the beautiful bright cups 
of Roserie held up to the sunshine 
and the dew, one forgets the lack in 
admiration of its present glory. 
Why is it that with all the demand 
for a yellow Rose, Emily Gray is not 
included in any one of the lists? Won¬ 
derful shining foliage, beautiful even 
without flowers, long, deep yellow 
buds and later the full flower paler 
than the bud but still a soft buff, 
much richer than Gardenia. Bess 
Lovett, one of Doctor Van Fleet’s 
best creations; bright crimson, large, 
double and fragrant is also conspic¬ 
uously absent from the lists. 
I would like to know why the Roses 
mentioned are not more generally 
known, or more generally written of 
and admired.—S. T. H., New York. 
Where You Can Get Corydalis 
Seed? 
To the Editors of The Garden Maga¬ 
zine: 
1 AM mucn interested in Mrs. 
Wilder’s article about Corydalis in 
the April, 1924, Garden Magazine. 
I wonder if she, or any subscriber. 
A BOSTON FERN THAT IS NEARLY “OF AGE” 
With many people the Boston Fern is a favorite house plant 
and it is heartening to learn that with very simple care it 
readily lives to a ripe and robust age (see accompanying note) 
