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John D. Rockefeller, Pocantico Hills, 
N. Y.; P. S. du Pont, Wilmington, Del.; Chas. M. 
Schwab, Loretto, Pa.; James J. Hill Estate, Lake Geneva, 
Wis.; Henry Ford, Dearborn, Mich.; and others who de¬ 
mand the world’s best. 
The La France Red Raspberry is perfectly hardy. It 
has been carefully tested for years, to absolutely prove 
its merit. 
Fruits early in July, the first sea¬ 
son planted, and continues in fruit 
until frozen. Free 
from insects and 
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It is the best for home gardens 
and a great money maker for 
marketing. 
Awarded medals and certifi¬ 
cates by leading Agricultural and 
Horticultural Societies, including 
the Massachusetts Horticultural 
Society, Horticultural Society of 
New York, The American Insti¬ 
tute of New York, etc., etc. It 
pays to buy the best. 
Strong, field grown, bearing 
plants $1.50 each, $16.00 per 
dozen, by prepaid parcel post. 
Safe delivery guaranteed in proper 
time for planting if ordered now. Cir¬ 
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Simple Surgery in the Orchard 
(Continued from page 68) 
of connection of the scion with trunk 
and limb. Also cover the wounds of 
the limb where it split from the parent 
tree. Grafting wax should be used free¬ 
ly so that all moisture may be kept out 
of the crotch of the tree. If the scions 
are now left exposed to the weather, 
they frequently dry out. Therefore it 
is advisable to wrap burlap or some 
other material around them to protect 
them from the direct rays of the sun 
and the drying winds. It is to the ad¬ 
vantage of the tree to leave this pro¬ 
tective covering on for at least a year. 
The tree should be wrapped with great 
care and stakes driven around it so that 
the scions will not be disturbed. 
The following spring the scions will 
have made the proper connections and 
the covering may be removed. In a few 
years the scions expand and not only 
supply the necessary sap to the broken 
limb, but completely heal the wound. 
All fruit should be kept from the broken 
limb for at least two years so that there 
will be no undue strain on these living 
bridges. 
Often the lower limbs of a tree are 
sickly or weak. In this case, suckers 
may be used as scions. If suckers do 
not develop at the base of the tree— 
and they should not if the tree is planted 
properly—one may remove from 2" 
to 4" of soil from the base of the tree 
so that the air and light can reach the 
wild stock into which the desired va¬ 
riety has been grafted. In this way 
suckers frequently appear. After one or 
two years’ growth, cut out all buds and 
cut the tips of the suckersfivedge-shaped. 
Insert these tips into incisions made in 
the sickly or weak limbs and cover the 
wounds with wax. Frequently the 
suckers are bound with tape to hold 
them in position. This operation should 
be performed early in the spring, about 
one week before the buds start. The 
suckers will grow vigorously and supply 
an extra supply of sap to the sickly 
limbs as well as form natural braces. 
Some Gardens at Bar Harbor 
(Continued from page 25) 
gardener can secure his delight. The 
white of meadow rue, the red and the 
blue of other flowers make their most 
eloquent gestures against the evergreens. 
Nothing of effect is lost when such a 
screen stands behind the flowers. 
Best of all, the wall has exquisite 
texture of its own. Upon the spruces 
and cedars around the Murray Young 
garden, for example, the light falls in 
dark or in light masses where twig tipis 
spread it in silver gleams or recesses 
of branches dye it black. The wall 
thus is significantly beautiful itself. 
This general character of the natural 
setting has deeply affected the style of 
the gardens. One who stands on any 
of the mountain peaks and sweeps the 
surface of the island with his eye sees 
at once how shaggy, how romantic, how 
wild it is. Thus the view of the Sat- 
terlee bungalow and its surrounding 
forest. 
Though some gardens are here wholly 
formal, and others have sections of 
formal planting and architecture, the 
general tenor is informal. As a famous 
gardener has remarked, it is impossible 
to make this northern island look like 
Italy though one spent a million dollars 
a year. It simply won’t be made into 
what it is not. When one spies the ex¬ 
quisite spring house of the Sieur de 
Mont’s Spring, in the Lafayette National 
Park, near Bar Harbor, for a moment 
there sweeps over him the delusion that 
here is Italy, but he is quickly recalled 
to his northern surroundings. The ef¬ 
fect is more truly that of the Scottish 
coast. The gardeners have therefore 
obeyed, most often, the demands of a 
strong landscape, and have conformed. 
Some of the gardens, being on the 
edge of the rocky seashore, make no 
attempt to wrench the coastline into 
new forms, but adapt their own to what 
they find. In the same way the gar¬ 
dens do not contend with the walls of 
trees which are ready to make the frame, 
but conform to the winding edges that 
the trees allow. By so doing they often 
gain in winning charm. The fine free¬ 
dom when plants creep snugly into all 
the little recesses among the trees but 
give way for the thrusting growth 
wherever it serves, makes a perfect 
transition from garden to natural 
growth and unites the whole landscape 
into a complete composition. 
To the gardener’s aid in this finely 
informal work comes the chance for 
paths and stone work from the granite 
that the island so richly holds. A step 
from the porch leads into the lawn. 
The eye catches the light from the gpay 
(Continued on page 72) 
The garden path must invite the feet if it is to be a 
real success. Along this path of stepping stones in the 
Farrand garden the landscape designer and the stroller 
alike realize their dreams 
