HOUSE AND GARDEN 
C 
296 
April, 1911 
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The 
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14 acres adjoining an estate of 300 acres; over¬ 
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Catalog 
Purposes 
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Paris Early — each year. If it is sown 
under glass in April there will be abund¬ 
ant summer and autumn bloom. 
The common zinnia is a very trying in¬ 
dividual in the garden excepting in a few 
really fine shades. Much more amiable is 
the dwarf Mexican zinnia (Z. Haageana 
H. pi.), which furnishes such a good note 
of yellow without taking up much room 
that it ought to be used widely. I am in¬ 
clined to think that this zinnia is offered 
under more than one name. It is distinct, 
however, from the ordinary dwarf zinnia. 
Neither Tlmnberqia alata nor mau- 
randia finds its way into the northern 
garden very often ; both are seen less than 
once was the case. They should be 
brought out of their neglect, being invalu¬ 
able for light vines that do not run up 
above six or eight feet. The Thunbergia 
comes in white and two shades of yellow, 
and the maurandia in white, blue, rose and 
lavender. In the South they are classed 
as perennials, but here they may be treated 
as annuals, sowing the seed under glass. 
With me the maurandia stands a good bit 
of frost. 
These are by no means all of the rarely 
invited; but they are numerous enough to 
emphasize the fact that there are a goodly 
number of easy, as well as beautiful, an¬ 
nuals that, through no fault of their own, 
are comparatively unfamiliar garden 
names. 
A Fast Growing Vine 
\\7 HILE waiting for honeysuckle and 
’ * wisteria to decide whether they 
would or they wouldn't, we sowed a few 
seeds of wild cucumber to produce a cov¬ 
ering over an ugly house-angle and a long 
stretch of siding, and since then have not 
felt bound to the stereotyped climbers. 
The vine is known as Echinocystis Lobata. 
It is grateful for a helpful netting or a bit 
of string, but these lacking, the thousands 
of wiry tendrils will attach themselves 
alertly to anything clingable, even the most 
unresponsive splinter. Late in August 
countless dainty blossoms come; these are 
like the white lilac, but more feathery, and 
give forth, especially after sundown, a 
heavy honied odor. The effect of the vine 
over a wall or pergola in the moonlight is 
exquisite.. 
The seed pods form in September, and 
are exactly like a round cucumber, whence 
comes the name. The seeds, ripening in 
October, will, if allowed to drop, sprout 
next spring; and the vine will be well 
toward the eaves by the time the regular 
April sown seeds are waking up. This can 
be done by hand, too, and by sowing light¬ 
ly, and warmly covering seeds any time in 
the fall while the ground is open, they will 
send up two large leaves just after the 
frost goes when it would seem much too 
early for any green things to be abroad. 
The wild cucumber has but one fault — and 
we have given it many tests, using it as a 
canopy over too sunny chicken and duck 
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