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House & Garden 
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Above is shown the 
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fashioned after an original 
made by America’s greatest 
designer early in the nine¬ 
teenth century. 
You can choose from 
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Sonoras and seven capti¬ 
vating upright models. 
Sonora won highest score 
for tone at the Panama 
Pacific Exposition and 
plays all makes of disc 
records perfectly without 
extra attachments. 
For important features 
Sonora is unequalled. 
Prices: $75 to $1800. 
Random Notes in My Garden 
( Continued, from page 62) 
where on the landscape—those mists of 
carmine on the swamp dogwoods, that 
“mealy redness” of the elm blossom, 
the willow’s golden clouds, all backed 
by distances of smoky blue and canopied 
by a clear blue sky? It is not when we 
are wrapped around by warmth that 
such pictures exist. They come into 
being through that force which only the 
spring knows. They compensate one 
for the cold winds and chilly airs of our 
April, which as Horace Walpole said of 
May in England, comes in “with its 
usual severity”. 
Well wrapped against the weather, 
April has its peculiar pleasures. Here 
snowdrops and the earliest species cro¬ 
cuses have been gathered long since, 
and now we search the borders and not 
in vain. It is the eighth of May; the 
first green leaf of the year is every¬ 
where; do all gardeners rejoice as I do 
over the look of the garden as it is 
now? Not a flower in it, but grass 
edges have been trimmed, sod added 
where those edges were overwhelmed 
last year by the spilling over of laven¬ 
der, Nepeta, Ageratum and other things 
which do their creeping-out so softly 
and surely. The grass is mowed, the 
beds of the garden cultivated—by hand 
where lilies are supposed to be. Tufts 
and mounds of all shades of green 
appear above the fine, smoothly tiled 
earth. These are the first growths of 
all the beauties of early and midsum¬ 
mer in perennial flowers. 
All is in low relief, but in perfect or¬ 
der, an order which is enchanting be¬ 
cause a living plan is spread out before 
one—drawn in dazzling green and rich 
purplish brown—with the surrounding 
hedges, shrubs and trees picked out in 
their own first greens, from Norway 
maples’ wondrous light yellow green to 
the silvery leaves of shadbush. On the 
old apple trees there are but pin pricks 
of that sweetest of all greens, their leaf- 
buds. Puschkinias and crocuses are 
faint now, fading, and in unexpected 
places, under delicately leaved shrubs. 
Daffodils come into their own, a golden 
flood. 
In one such spot today, I found a 
colony of Narcissus Ariadne in full 
bloom over a group of little mertensias 
of a much darker blue than M. virginica. 
This must be, I think, Mertensia lanceo- 
lata —very early; in the shadow, below 
shrubs, the flower, almost like sapphires. 
An interesting flower this, about eight 
inches high, with a deep rose colored 
bud, the whole panicle of bloom made 
richer in color and effect than the com¬ 
monly used lungwort of Pennsylvania, 
Delaware and Virginia. 
But over the garden picture in late 
afternoon come the long rays of a 
brilliant spring sun; then the pattern 
stands out as almost too dazzling; then 
beyond the garden the blue-greens of 
bush honeysuckles against the black- 
greens of pine and hemlock in the 
shadow, show the beholder one of the 
glorious moments of this lovely month 
of May. 
SIMPLE SURGERY in the ORCHARD 
HUGH FINDLAY 
H AND in hand with the growing 
interest in gardening which recent 
years have witnessed has come a 
greater appreciation of the possibilities 
of the home orchard. Even though the 
planting consists of but a few trees, we 
have learned to look upon each limb as 
a source of visual pleasure as well as a 
producer of fruit. The saving of broken 
branches and the rejuvenation of sickly 
ones arouses in the owner of a few trees 
an interest which the orchardist who 
works on a large commercial scale often 
does not feel. 
There are a number of causes for the 
breaking down of large limbs, the most 
common one being an over-production 
of fruit. This often takes the form of 
breakage at the crotch which might 
have been prevented if the tree had been 
started right with alternate instead of 
opposite limbs. It might also have been 
prevented in many cases by thinning the 
apples when they are about the size of 
a quarter, or shortly after the June 
drop. Usually only one apple is left 
to develop on a spur and the apples 
are spaced on the limbs about 6" apart. 
Where the limbs are alternate and the 
tree is heavily fed, thinning may not be 
advisable. 
Another cause of breakage is the 
weather. I have seen apparently strong 
limbs split at a crotch after a wet fall 
of snow followed by severe freezing 
weather and high winds. There may 
be other causes such as the brushing 
against a weak limb while cultivating, 
the action of fungus and insects in the 
(Continued on page 66) 
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A bad crotch plus wind was the 
cause of the damage. The bark 
of trunk and limb has not been 
entirely severed 
The limb in place, the wound 
sealed with grafting wax, and the 
scions which will serve as braces 
inserted 
