HOUSE AND GARDEN 
October, 1912 
Your Orchard 
Have Us Inspect It This Month 
H AVE it done this October, because guided by the quality and quantity of 
the recent crop yield we can the better locate any obscure troubles 
that have materially affected the yield. 
Oftimes the start of a highly destructive trouble can be located in this way 
and given timely treatment. There is likewise, no better time to do pruning, 
chain supporting of the limbs, or treating and repairing cavities. 
But whether you conclude to have us do any work at any time or not, our 
inspection will have informed you of the true condition of your trees, which is 
what you certainly want to be informed on. With this end in view, send for 
our booklet — “Trees—the Care They Should Have,” and let us arrange for one 
of our inspections at an early date. 
Farr’s Phloxes Are the 
Flowers for the Beginner 
From early July to late August tile 
Phloxes will make your garden a spot of 
wondrous beauty — for. next to the glori¬ 
ous Peonies and the orchid-like Irises, I 
think the Phloxes are the most lovable of 
all our hardy plants, and when planted 
in masses, or with shrubs, are among 
the best of the hardy garden flowers. 
MY BOOK ' FARR'S HARDY PLANTS" 
gives a list of the Phloxes at Wyomis- 
sing, as well as Peonies, Delphiniums, 
Poppies and Irises. I will send you a 
copy if- you are interested in these hardy 
plants, or in Roses and Shrubs. 
BERTRAND H. FARR, 
Wyomissing Nurseries, 
643 F Penn St., Reading, Pa. 
AIM65 ftbroop 
37 Cast 6 otb Street, new Vork 
Interior Decorations 
The furnishing of either simple or 
elaborate houses or separate rooms 
planned with care and distinction in 
any desired period. 
WALL PAPERS DRAPERIES 
RUGS FURNITURE 
Perennials That Can Weather the 
Winter 
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ized on ravine banks.) 
Monardia didyma. Oswego tea. 
Orobus superb a. Bitter vetch. 
Ornithogalum pyr'amidalis. 
Ornithogalum umbellatum. Star of Beth¬ 
lehem. 
Pyrethemn uliginosum. Giant daisy. 
Pyrethrum roseum. 
Platycodons in var. 
Physostegia virginica. False dragon head. 
Primula veris superba. Primrose. 
Pmmonaria saccharata macnlata. 
Pa paver orientalis. Oriental poppy. 
Peonies. 
Polygonum cuspidatum. Giant knotweed. 
Ranuclus acris. Bachelor's button. 
Rudbeckia nitida and triloba. 
Spiraea aruneus. Goat's beard. 
Spiraea fillip endnla. Drop wort. 
Spiraea palmata. 
Spiraea venusta. 
Statice latifolia. Great sea lavender. 
Statice Gmelini. 
Stylophorum diphyllum. Calandine poppy. 
Saponaria ocymoides. Soapwort. 
Sedum spectabilis. Live-for-ever. 
Tricyrtis herta. Toad flax. 
Thalictrum in var. Meadow rue. 
Valeriana officinalis. Garden heliotrope. 
The large flowered hybrids of the Jack- 
mam clematis, the Coccinea hybrids, Integ- 
rifolia, and its hybrids Crispa and Viorna, 
and quite a number of the bush forms 
came through safely. C. paniculata were 
killed in some situations. C. Virginiam, 
C. dammula, and C. coccinea were killed 
roots and all. 
The garden phlox (hybrids of P. 
paniculata) and the German iris, were on 
my place in good condition where the 
plants had been established for a year or 
so, but last fall planted stock rotted. At a 
nursery near here they lost large blocks of 
both the phlox and iris and at Lake Forest, 
five miles away, a patch of two hundred 
phlox in the garden was killed. Holly¬ 
hocks, Shasta daisies and Epilobium also 
succumbed. 
Many weigelas, forsythias, privets, al- 
theas, deutzias were entirely killed, but 
Deutzia lemonii proved hardy even to the 
tips, and in exposed situations. In fact, 
this is the only one of the species that is 
reliable here. Weigela Eva Rathke 
proved the hardiest of its class. Rosa 
rugosa, of course, stood it all right, as did 
the hybrids of the Russiani form of rugosa 
and General Jacqueminot; but the hybrids 
possessing “tea” blood, including Conrad 
F. Meyer, were killed to the ground. Even 
our native R. setigera was badly injured. 
All climbing roses not properly protected 
went to the roots, as did Lord Penzances 
hybrid sweet briers. 
The small, short-tailed, mole-like field 
mouse did unusual damage. They com¬ 
pletely gutted twenty-two coldframes for 
me, leaving about fifty forget-me-nots as 
a consolation. Two frames of the poison¬ 
ous digitalis were eaten roots and all. 
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