HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September, 1910 
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cool nights, the plants 
may be put out quite 
early in the spring. 
HOW TO KEEP THEM 
If one should get up 
a large number of plants 
there naturally follows 
the necessity of a place 
in which to properly keep 
them after the outdoor 
season is over. With 
greenhouse facilities the 
proposition is a simple 
one, but in the ordinary 
house the plants have to 
be relegated to the back¬ 
ground, for lack of room. 
A cool cellar is all that is 
necessary. They may be Before and after taking cuttings from the stock plant which is kept for that 
. r . c ' ’ ' , j • purpose. Two or three sets of cuttings may be taken in a season 
left in pots, or packed m 
boxes or placed in loam, 
on the floor. If they are watered just enough to keep them from 
going dust dry, they will carry through without trouble or loss. 
Of course, it seems superfluous to say that they should not be 
allowed to freeze hard. The ideal means of carrying plants over 
during the winter is a pit; that is, a place dug in the ground and 
properly protected from the weather in one of many ways. Pits 
are wonderfully useful, 
and the quantity and 
quality of plants that can 
be carried through the 
winter, are surprising. 
Where a pit is possible 
it should be made. It 
will more than repay its 
cost in a short time. 
HOW TO USE THE TENDER 
KINDS 
Tender Hydrangeas 
should be massed to get 
the most satisfactory ef¬ 
fects from their large 
blooms. Dotted about at 
regular intervals in a bed 
adds nothing to the ar¬ 
tistic effect of the bed, 
and robs the plant of its 
beauty and decorative 
possibilities. To make 
them show, mass them, 
They may be placed tem¬ 
porarily in a bed, and, 
after flowering, taken out 
and heeled in in some 
out-of-the-way place, or 
grown in some bed for 
their foliage. Masses in 
tubs are imposing and give 
an abundance of bloom 
not otherwise possible. 
HARDY HYDRANGEAS 
drangeas forms a sea¬ 
son’s show in itself, but 
a combination of the two 
is much to be desired. 
Even to those who do not 
admire the Hardy Hy¬ 
drangeas, they are ac¬ 
cepted as a means to an 
end, for they give a gen¬ 
erous flower display when 
there is no great abund¬ 
ance of other flowers. 
If Tender Hydran¬ 
geas are easy to propa¬ 
gate, the hardy kinds are 
very much easier for 
many reasons, the princi¬ 
pal one of which is that 
they require no house- 
room, and in the winter 
your stock is being mul¬ 
tiplied out-of-doors with¬ 
out any care or attention on your part. Something for nothing 
always appeals to the human mentality, and nothing can be had 
cheaper than Hardy Plydrangea cuttings. 
Late in the fall, in November or December, make cuttings 
from your plants. Make them about ten inches long and tie 
them in bundles. Place these in the ground, deep enough to be 
safe from frost and then 
cover deeply with leaves 
and don’t touch them till 
spring. At that time you 
will find that fully fifty 
per cent, or more will 
have callused, and when 
planted will begin to make 
roots and growth. This is 
all there is to it, and from 
these fall-planted cuttings 
you will get a stock of 
hardy plants. 
This method of prop¬ 
agation can be applied 
to very many shrubs with 
equal success, and by it a 
stock of desired kinds 
may be had. 
PRUNING HYDRANGEAS 
Prune your hardy Hy¬ 
drangeas in the spring. 
Cut them back severely, 
taking out unnecessary 
shoots and aiming to give 
enough growth to form a 
bush that will look well 
furnished but not chok¬ 
ing itself to suffocation. 
If everything is allowed 
to grow, this crowded 
condition will be the 
result. The blooms are 
borne on the season's 
growth of new wood so 
there is no danger of 
over-pruning. 
A mass of either the 
Tender or the Hardy Hy- 
An unusual specimen of the Hardy Hydrangea. Judicious pruning has brought 
it to the size of a not very small tree 
