Spring Garden Suggestions 
These two columns have been reserved for your own garden record for the month. Make 
notes on what should be done next year at this time; new plants added this month and 
many other reminders that will be of value in your gardening operations. The SAIER’S 
GARDEN MAGAZINE is designed to be useful next year as well as this and copies will 
be valuable for future references. Indexes will be provided in later issues so that a 
quick reference can be made to items of interest, especially descriptions and culture. 
Campanula Hybrids 
Just some notes on various Crosses. 
C. Wockeri: produces no seed. 
C. haylodgensis semi-plena: 5 inch flowers; 
a cross between C. cochlearifolia and C. tub- 
inata; wide open violet flowers, semi-double. 
this also does not seed. 
C. warleyensis: does not form seed; try col- 
chicene to change chromosomes for seed. 
C. Weckeri x waldsteiniana x tommasiniana, 
a delightful little plant with a shower of 
wide open bells on 4” stems. 
C. pulloides: pulla x turbinata: less than 
4” high; flowers drooping light purple; pre- 
fers partly shaded positions. 
C. stansfieldii; (?) carpatica x tommasiniana; 
stems rising from graceful mats of foliage, 
each stem with a single drooping wide mouth 
violet bell; produces few seed. 
C. pseudo-raineri: turbinata x raineri; wide 
silver shaped flowers on short stems over 
tufts of pretty hairy leaves 3” tall; few seed. 
ever formed. 
C. kewensis: excisa x arvatica; strong con- 
stitution; tiny plant, less than 4”; medium 
sized funnel-shaped bluish purple flowers. 
C. warleyensis: masses of semi-double wide 
mouth flowers. 
C. halli: pure white; 3” high; (?) cochlear- 
ifolia x portenschlagiana); has under ground 
Tunners and best as crevice or rock walk 
plant, like its parents. 
C. rotarvatica; rotundifolia x arvatica; 3”; 
smothered with broadly funnel-shaped some- 
what lavender colored flowers. 
We would like to have some plants of this 
hybrid. 
COBAEA—an EASY CLIMBER. 
A popular and easily grown climber for 
the greenhouse is Cobaea scandens. It is 
remarkable for the change in color of the 
flowers, starting as green and then showing 
white, pink and finally a rosy purple and 
when in full bloom, all colors are displayed 
at the same time. 
It is adapted for the cool house and if giv- 
en ample space for proper growth, its flowers 
will hang in beautiful festoons. 
Sow seeds in February or March, in a 
warm house. It must be kept growing and 
pot as required (when roots are well formed 
in the pot); when thus grown it begins 
blooming in August. 
A soil made of a good loam with some 
leaf mould and sand, is best. Water freely 
during the summer. 
There is a variegated variety with pretty 
spotted foliage; this must be increased by 
cuttings taken in July or August. Firm 
young side shoots should be placed in a 
close propagating frame till they are rooted. 
Old plants can be pruned back hard, in Feb- 
ruary and then given fresh soil. 
CYTISUS ADAMI. 
The origin of this hybrid is of interest. 
It was the result of a graft, made by a Mr. 
Adam, between Cytisus purpureus upon 
Laburnum yulgare. It bore pink, yellow 
and purple flowers. The pink was the hy- 
brid color. The wood of the purple flower 
was the same as C. purpureus and that of 
the yellow, L. vulgare. The outer tissue of 
the pink hybrid was C. purpureus and the 
inner tissues those of L. vulgare. This hy- 
brid graft was propagated and now known 
as Cytisus Adami. 
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helveticus: (hel-VET-ik-us) Swiss or from 
Switzerland. 
