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HOUSE & GARDEN 
The Beginner’s Rose Garden 
(Continued from page 60) 
White scale: spray with one pound 
of soft soap in four gallons of water; 
cut off and burn badly infested 
shoots. Slug: powdered white helle¬ 
bore dusted on the foliage, or whale 
oil soap solution, five ounces in one 
gallon of water. Rose caterpillar: 
finger and thumb pressed tightly to¬ 
gether. Rose-bug : shake the beast 
into a pan of kerosene; he won’t 
swim long. Aphis or green fly: 6,- 
000,000,000 descendants of one in five 
generations; spray with four ounces 
tobacco stems boiled for ten minutes 
in one gallon of water. Rose tlirip : 
whale oil soap, five ounces in one 
gallon of water, applied as a spray. 
Pruning and Winter Protection 
Pruning, also, is a necessary rose 
garden activity which is often im¬ 
perfectly understood. It should be¬ 
gin when the plants are first set out, 
all of them being cut back severely. 
About one-half the length of the 
canes should be taken off at this time 
in the case of two-year-old plants. 
The second season, prune the hybrid 
perpetuals in March and the teas and 
hybrid teas a little later. If you want 
a few extra large flowers, take off all 
the weaker shoots and leave the 
strong ones. Suckers sprouting from 
the stock root should never be al¬ 
lowed to grow to any size. 
Finally, a few words about winter 
protection. In autumn the wise rose 
grower in the Middle and Northern 
States will cover the ground about his 
plants with rough manure, and, if the 
weather is apt to be very severe, he 
will take the further precaution of 
tying up the above-ground portions 
in bundles of straw. Another way is 
to take up the bushes and winter 
them in soil contained in boxes placed 
in a cool cellar, but this is hardly 
necessary except in the case of espe¬ 
cially tender varieties. 
Developing A City Garden 
(Continued from page 43) 
season we put in a number of gray 
birches 6' high, one or two beeches 
and some flowering dogwood to 
thicken the planting and give it more 
height. Colonies of ferns, poet’s nar¬ 
cissus, big yellow flags and blue Phlox 
divaricata, blue Virginia cowslips, 
wintergreen, trailing myrtle and pink 
creeping phlox were placed in front 
of the shrubs, and for masses of 
snowy white August bloom we had 
the hedge of altheas around the gar¬ 
den. 
It was the Chief’s suggestion (he 
really is getting to be a regular head 
gardener in spirit) that the bank by 
he street, outside the fence, should 
be planted with lilacs, viburnums, red- 
twigged dogwood and Japanese 
honeysuckle. It has proved to be a 
happy inspiration, and when we added 
the tamarisk by the gate the effect 
grew even more attractive. 
Placing the Flowers 
It was in the planting of the flower 
garden, though, that we really let 
ourselves go, flapped the wings of our 
combined enthusiasms and soared into 
the seventh heaven of horticultural 
bliss. Let me try and tell you how it 
really worked out. 
Last year was the first season, and 
knowing that there would not be 
much bloom then from the peonies, 
iris, larkspur and hollyhocks, we 
sowed seeds of such annuals as ager- 
atum, candytuft, mignonette and nico- 
tiana to reinforce the flower showing. 
The soil was new and the growth as¬ 
tonishing. The violas and primroses 
were in bloom when they came, and 
hard on their heels arrived the gift 
of a wheelbarrow load of pansies, 
English daisies and forget-me-nots 
which gave flowers at once. 
The outside beds were soon a veri¬ 
table frame of white foxgloves 
which frequent cutting induced to 
bloom all summer. Touches of yel¬ 
low came from Oenothera Youngii, 
anthemis and coreopsis. The gypso- 
phila and galium gave fluffy masses 
of white, good for combining with 
other cut flowers. Shirley poppies 
sown down the central path delighted 
us most of the summer, but for some 
strange reason they met an unfort¬ 
unate end. This year coral pink 
Sweet Williams succeeded by ver¬ 
benas have taken their place. 
We put in the bulbs late in the fall, 
a rite accomplished not without much 
weighty consideration. Down the 
center were twenty-four early pink 
tulips, Cottage Maid, with twelve of 
the yellow Chrysolora as a climax at 
the end of the walk. The same effect 
was repeated with the later flowering 
Darwins, Clara Butt, the very best 
pink, and Mrs. Moon, yellow. A 
hundred and fifty narcissi formed 
groups in the outside beds, fifty of 
them being Stella and the rest Barri 
conspicuous. The corners of the little 
walks were touched with purple and 
yellow crocus, grape hyacinths and 
snowdrops we massed at the entrance 
steps, and 100 Spanish iris made a 
brave array as a border for the little 
cross walk nearest the house. With 
the first warmth of the spring sun 
200 yellow crocuses and half as many 
blue scillas blossomed in the grass at 
the south side of the terrace, while 
100 poet’s narcissus, naturalized under 
the trees at the back of the lawn, 
added their share to the beauty of 
the whole. 
The Garden Month by Month 
And now, to sum up, let me inflict 
upon you our flower effects, month 
bv month, exactly as we saw them 
and hope to see them many times: 
In April there were crocus, scillas, 
snowdrops, magnolias and forsythia. 
Early May brought pink Azalea 
vaseyi, flowering almond, early tulips 
and daffodils flanked by many minor 
beauties such as bleeding heart, white 
arabis, pansies, violas, primroses, 
English daisies, forget-me-nots, Ice- 
(Continued on page 66) 
