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ARE THESE YOUR PROBLEMS? 
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struction of the walk, besides making 
it more attractive. 
Question: I am very much troubled 
about a large hackberry tree on our 
place, at least 50 years old and want 
to ask your opinion, as I consider 
you an authority on everything about 
flowers, trees, etc. This tree had some 
diseased limbs which my husband had 
sawed off. I have been told by a 
florist here and a tree man who did 
work for him that in about three 
years the places where these limbs were 
sawed off (although they wall put out 
new growth) will begin to rot and 
that the tree will soon die, and that 
nothing can save it. It was much 
against my will that these limbs were 
sawed off. I felt they should have 
been treated and saved. Please advise 
me if there is any way to save the 
tree or if the florist is right. 
Answer: I am glad to reassure you 
that your hackberry tree can be saved. 
It will be necessary, however, to re¬ 
move all the diseased portions from 
the places where the limbs were sawed 
off and give these wounds a thorough 
coating of tar paint. If the scars are 
of such nature that water will be 
likely to collect in them, they should 
be filled with cement. 
ON HOUSE & GARDEN’S BOOKSHELF 
T HE American Rose Annual for 
1923. How to Grow Roses, by 
Robert Pyle. 
If we were asked to choose a five-foot 
shelf of rose books—and any rosarian’s 
library will want a five-foot shelf—we 
would pick the following: 
“The Practical Book of Outdoor Rose 
Growing”, by George C. Thomas, Jr., 
“How To Grow Roses”, by Robert 
Pyle, “The Rose In America”, by J. 
Horace MacFarland, “Roses and How 
To Grow Them”, by Leonard Barron, 
“A Book About Roses”, by Dean Hole, 
j “Roses: Their History, Development 
and Cultivation”, by J. H. Pemberton, 
“The Rose”, by H. B. Ellwanger, The 
publications of the National Rose So¬ 
ciety of England—on the enemies of the 
rose, rose planting, rose pruning, etc., 
and a file of their annuals, “A file of 
the Annuals of the American Rose 
Society”, “Roses for English Gardens”, 
by Gertrude Jekyl and Edward Maley, 
“The Rose Encyclopaedia” by T. G. W. 
Henslow, “The Amateur Gardener’s 
Rose Book”, by Julius Hoffman, “Mak¬ 
ing A Rose Garden”, by H. H. Saylor, 
“The Genus Rosa”, by Ellen A. Will- 
mott, “Nomenclature de tous les noms 
de roses”, by Simon and Cochet, “Roses 
and Rose Gardens”, by Walter P. 
Wright, “La rose dans les sciences, dans 
les pettres et dans les arts”, by Jules 
Gravereaux, “Roseraie de l’Hay”, by 
Jules Gravereaux, “Rose Gardening”, 
by Mary Hampden. 
Some books on this list are by foreign 
authors and meet peculiar problems 
found in growing roses in other coun¬ 
tries, but the majority of the advice 
and counsel in them is equally appli¬ 
cable to the American rose situation. 
Some have been chosen because of their 
historic research value—and certainly 
a rose fan hungers to be thoroughly in¬ 
formed on the history and legend of 
his favorite flower. The first four books 
on the list—those by Barron, Pyle, 
MacFarland and Thomas—represent, in 
our estimation, the necessary quartette 
for the American rosarian’s library; to 
these should be added, of course, the 
files of the American Rose Society, and 
the rosarian will automatically acquire 
these as his membership in the Rose 
Society goes on from year to year. 
The Annual for 1923 represents the 
high water mark in achievement by the 
society. The other seven previous vol¬ 
umes are value for study, for consul¬ 
tation, and for practical use, but in 
this issue there seems to be compacted 
more necessary information than has 
been included in any one single volume 
hitherto. It is information necessary to 
both the amateur and the professional, 
and it has a countrywide appeal in that 
it meets rose problems in all sections 
of this vast land. Captain Thomas con¬ 
tributed a chapter on “Choosing Roses 
Intelligently”, which considers these 
sectional problems. This is followed by 
a report of the referendum on favorite 
roses; 287 bush roses and 118 climbers 
were named in the returns, the favorite 
dozen bush roses being Ophelia, Frau 
Karl Druschki, Radiance, Los Angeles, 
Mrs. Aaron Ward, Gruss an Teplitz, 
Duchess of Wellington, Mme. Edouard 
Herriot, Columbia, Killarney, Kaiserin 
Augusta Victoria; the favorite dozen 
climbers were: Dr. Van Fleet, Silver 
Moon, American Pillar, Dorothy Per¬ 
kins, Paul’s Scarlet Climber, Climbing 
American Beauty, Excelsa, Tausend- 
schon, Gardenia, Christine Wright, 
Hiawatha and Aviateur Bleriot. 
“Beginning With Roses” by the edi¬ 
tor, is a little primer for the neophyte. 
This is followed by a discussion on 
“Phosphoric Acid for Roses,” the “Mem¬ 
bers’ Rose Forum”, a description of Mr. 
Schwab’s rose garden at Loretto, Pa., 
reports on rose success and failure in 
various sections of the country, reports 
from England and Germany, descrip¬ 
tions of 120 roses and finally a series of 
fascinating rose notes. As usual, the 
Annual is excellently printed and bound 
and the illustrations are beautifully 
reproduced. 
Mr. Pyle’s contribution to the five- 
foot shelf is a complete handbook for 
both beginners and professional rose 
growers in that it meets every problem 
which can arise in the rose garden, 
from the selection of the varieties and 
the preparation of the soil to civic and 
historic rose data. The book is also 
equipped with an excellent rose bibliog¬ 
raphy. Here, too, sectional problems 
of choice, cultivation and winter pro¬ 
tection are completely considered so 
that the handbook is useful in all parts 
of the country. With this book on 
one’s shelf there need be no question 
of how to start, how to develop and 
how to maintain the smallest or the 
largest kind of rose garden. It is clear¬ 
ly written and adequately illustrated. 
If having studied Mr. Pyle’s book one 
cannot grow roses, then he doesn’t de¬ 
serve to grow them. 
