IT’S TIME FOR ... 
Reviewing the inevitable musts 
of summer garden maintenance as 
well as calling to attention certain 
fine ornamentals which can be 
added at this time 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS can be 
cut back for the last time toward 
the end of the month — prefer- 
ably to not more than eight inches 
— and fed well, and watered 
copiously from then on. (This does 
not apply of course to the little 
summer-flowering cushion Mums 
which have been blooming since 
May, which are simply sheared 
when flowers fade). Feed with a 
good well-balanced oraanic fer- 
tilizer, liquid or powder, which 
contains high phosphoric acid as 
well as plenty of nitrogen. Add a 
little lrontone if the leaves aren't 
a good dark green. Feed the 
ROSES again, with the same in- 
gredients. And SPRAY THE EN- 
TIRE GARDEN with Malathon or 
Chlordane liquid 25 percent—this 
spraying especially for caterpillars. 
If you have thrip and spider mites 
which syringing and general spray 
don't get, try Vapotone. Watch 
weekly for LAWN MOTH—we 
have remedies for that pest. 
For vacant spaces in the mixed 
flower border add ASTER FRI- 
KARTI (two feet apart) for laven- 
der blue two feet high; MORAEA 
IRIDIOIDES or M. CATENULATA 
for graceful pointed leaves and 
pure white iris-like flowers with 
blue and yellow eyes, the former 
four feet, the latter two feet; SAL- 
VIA PITCHERI for tall very clear 
blue spikes; STOKESIA CYANEA 
for 18 inch high clumps of laven- 
der-blue aster-like blossoms; and 
DWARF DAHLIAS out of quart 
cans so you can select the partic- 
ular color required (two feet 
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PLANTSMAN’S PILGRIMAGE 
DUTCH TREAT ~ 
Phillip Chandler (P.E.C.), salesman extraordinary, 
is currently touring Europe. His comments, horticultural 
and otherwise so interested us, that we are publishing 
excerpts from his communications so that our readers, 
too, may enjoy his impressions of the continent. 
Leaving Brussels for the Netherlands on a cloudy 
June morning one feels the air is so damp he could 
wash his hands by simply rubbing them together. 
At Antwerp the sky and the water merge — the 
River Schelde, the canals, the boats, the umbrellas 
and the streaming passengers. Later the rain slack- 
ens and one watches out the ample windows of 
the spotless electric train the green dripping 
countryside with its high-cut poplars and plane 
trees. Everywhere, around every farmhouse, garden, 
stable, are giant shrubs or small trees of Elderberry 
in full bloom (Sambucus}, and the most floriferous 
Philadelphus imaginable. The blossoms are in 
greater profusion than on our Philadelphus, the 
bushes are larger, and the perfune is stronger. 
Every house however humble has its Philadelphus, 
Sambucus, climbing roses (a pale pink climber called 
New Dawn I've never seen in the States, although 
| was told it is a McFarland rose, is the most beau- 
tiful and fragrant with the flossiest foliage), its 
copper beech trees (Fagus sylvatica atropurpurea) 
are among the most beautiful trees in Europe 
and in Holland they are everywhere, even used 
as clipped hedges, and sometimes combined ef- 
fectively with a silver willow of great delicacy and 
CONMGS tia. ae 
We passed through Rotterdam, the Hague, 
Delft, Leiden, Haarlem, Amsterdam, and east to 
Amersvoort, and northeast to Zwolle. There this 
traveller was met by the owner of the famous 
Royal Moerheim Nurseries of Dedemsvaart which 
is still farther east, only 10 miles from the German 
frontier. This is one of the largest ornamental nur- 
series in Europe, and one day is insufficient to 
cover it. The firm is especially noted for roses, 
ornamental shrubs, rhododendrons and azaleas, and 
hardy perennials and alpines. Among the peren- 
nials one is especially impressed with the nearly 
forty named varieties of delphiniums, the endless 
lupines, both Lupinus polyphyllus and the famous 
Russell hybrids. There were also numerous summer- 
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