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April, 1913 
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Pair off the various worts with the 
respective generic names and note the 
close relationship in some cases — such as 
saponaria (soapwort), plumbago (lead- 
wort) and pulmonaria (lungwort). 
Woundwort ( stachys ) has reference to 
the use of the woolly leaves to stop the 
flow of blood. Some of the other worts 
are more difficult; so are the banes — wolf’s 
(aconitum) , leopard’s ( doronicum ) and 
flea ( erigeron or inula). 
Labels are always a good aid to the 
memory, but should be relied upon less 
and less for species. For varieties they 
will always be necessary to a certain 
degree, as it would be foolish, even if pos¬ 
sible. to burden the mind beyond a reason¬ 
able limit in that direction. Keep all labels 
out of sight wherever the planting is 
decorative; if there is a reserve garden 
use such tags on the memorv there, so far 
as this can be done. Id. S. Adams 
April Leaves from a Southern Gar¬ 
den Book 
E VERY man or woman who makes a 
garden should keep a garden calendar 
or book. Mine is a small blank-book 
about seven by five inches — small enough 
to slip easily into my hand-bag, and thus 
to enable me to make my entries either at 
home or at the office. The records are 
written across each double page, which 
represents the record of a week in garden 
operations. It is really a log-book of my 
journey on the road to garden success, 
and, because the journeying was so rough 
at first, and mistakes were so frequent, the 
first entry on each page is one of encour¬ 
agement — that of the blossoms, then the 
buds, the planting operations, and, lastly, 
notes or remarks. 
When entries of planting are made, 
whether of seeds, or perennials, or shrubs, 
the situation is also noted, and, as all the 
first records are written with ink, a later 
entry in pencil is made if it is necessary to 
note that the work is a failure. At first 
there were many “n. g.’s.” 
The book is a complete record of what 
is planted, when it is done, where it is 
placed, how it grows, and what the ulti¬ 
mate result is. Experiments are noted 
with especial care. Perhaps it would seem 
an arduous task; but, systematized in this 
way, it really has taken only a few min¬ 
utes each week, and has been worth much 
to me. I copy the April leaves cf last 
year that you may see how simple and yet 
how valuable a record it is. The pencil 
notations are put in parentheses: 
April i to 8, 1912 
Bloioming — Tulips, very fine; hyacinths; 
crocuses ; daffodils ; violet; pansies, very 
few; Devoniensis rose; banksia roses, 
east border (shade). 
Azalea Indicas, white and pink. Beau¬ 
tiful. Northern exposure, full shade. 
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No Lawn or Garden should be without it 
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bloom in June and flowering occasionally throughout the 
entire growing season. Roses 3 to 4 inches in diameter on 
single stems: color and appearance like the old American 
Beauty, with the same exquisite fragrance. While the old 
American Beauty is rarely satisfactory in the open ground, 
our new Climbing American Beauty, has proved perfectly 
hardy, stands heat and drought as well as any rose in our 
collection and produces twenty times as many flowers as 
its pollen parent. 
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