House and Garden 
trunk as far as the branches. Large evergreens 
are usually overlooked as regards feeding. This 
is a mistake because when the ground becomes 
impoverished they lose their lower branches and 
quickly deteriorate. 
Nothing adds so much beauty to the grounds 
as a few choice well-grown evergreens, especially 
in winter. Unfortunately, very few of the broad 
leaved kinds will stand the American sun. The 
rhododendrons are not always to be relied upon 
except when well situated. Philadelphia is the 
extreme northern limit of the Magnolia grandiflora. 
The English and Portuguese laurels are failures 
here so that we have to be contented with the spruce, 
pine, cedar and abor-vit^E types. 
The possibilities for winter effects that may be 
produced with the bark of trees and shrubs is often 
overlooked. The silvery white bark of the paper 
birch is well known, then there is the red twigged 
dogwood, yellow twigged willows, golden barked 
ash, flame colored willows, golden weeping willow, 
Euonymus alatiis with its curiously winged corky 
bark and a number of others that would show up 
finely against a background of hemlock or other 
evergreens and make a very pretty effect that would 
be much appreciated from the window during the 
winter, when the outlook is often so very dreary. 
This month the chrysanthemum is queen. It is 
hard to conceive what we should do without them. 
They come at a time when very few other flowers 
are to be had, and as they are so easily grown they 
are within reach of everyone with a garden and 
the will to try and grow them. It is hardly cred¬ 
ible to the average visitor to the chrysanthemum 
shows that the huge specimen plants with one 
hundred or more flowers on them are grown from 
a single cutting in the one season, yet such is the 
case. While such results can hardly be expected 
unless special facilities and expert care are given, 
there is no class of plants that give such uniformly 
good results, so that plans should be 
laid for a good supply next year. After 
the plants have done blooming, cut 
oft' the stems and set the pots in a 
frame or cool greenhouse, safe from 
the frost. The young shoots that 
come from the roots and around the 
stem will be wanted for cuttings in 
the spring, after that they may be 
thrown away. 
CRAPE MYRTLE IN'TUB 
^ELL grown plants in tubs or 
* ^ vases have great decorative 
qualities. There are certain positions 
around the house, on the terrace or 
veranda, in fact anywhere where the 
artificial lines of the roads or masonry 
are in evidence, such plants can 
hardly be dispensed with. The list 
of plants suitable for growing in this 
manner is not a very extended one. 
The bay tree Laurus nobilis heads 
the list. These are imported 
in large numbers every year 
from Holland to supply the 
demand, and may be had in almost 
any size or shape, standards and 
pyramids being the most popular 
forms. Box bushes are also very good 
hut do not reach such large propor¬ 
tions, the pyramid form being the 
most suitable for this plant. Various 
other kinds of evergreens are occa¬ 
sionally met with but none are quite so 
adaptable for the purpose as the two 
above mentioned- The California 
privet Ligustrum ovahfohum can be 
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