6 TEN OAKS NURSERY AND GARDENS 

back to a normal green, if you have kept them well fed 
and watered. Fungus Diseases—Bordeaux or Cupro- 
cide mixtures at ten-day intervals take care of most of 
the fungus. 
The above notes on azalea pests are very sketchy 
for lack of space. If you have serious troubles, call 
us in to help you. The small fee charged may save 
you many of your beautiful plants. 
AZALEA APPRECIATION—If you pick your aza- 
leas in the nursery according to their mature growth, 
you may have many uses for them. They may be used 
as foundation plantings, naturalistic plantings in light 
woodland areas, bank or hillside plantings in mass, 
hedges or boundary plantings, and footings to ever- 
green or flowering shrub plantings. Planting in mass 
always gives a better effect. H. H. Hume says in his 
latest publication, “While azaleas are exacting in their 
culture requirements, they are not difficult to grow if 
their needs are met. Careful attention to details at 
planting time will make their culture easy in after 
years. They may be transplanted to gardens in any 
size from plants a few inches to several feet in height. 
Their beauty of foliage, flowers, and in many varieties 
their spicy scent sets them aside as superior plants for 
the house. For the same uses branches in flower are 
most desirable, and those who are fortunate can have 
supplies from their own gardens. 
“Under conditions that suit them, azaleas are long- 
lived plants. . .. There are specimens still in fine 
condition that were planted in 1848. They have added 
to their stature and bloomed through the years to make 
each season a scene of great beauty. Many genera- 
tions of plants of other kinds have come and gone in 
other gardens in the century of their growth. Azaleas 
are plants of a human-lifetime span and more. 
“Many commonly used broad-leaved evergreen shrubs 
are valuable mainly because they are evergreen, but in 
addition to holding their foliage throughout the year, 
persistent-leaved azaleas are unsurpassed as flowering 
shrubs. Any garden well designed and furnished with 
azaleas immediately is lifted out of the commonplace. 
There are few uses to which other broad-leaved shrubs 
are adapted that cannot be filled as well by azaleas.” 
Don’t fertilize Azaleas in the Fall. 
