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An English Flower Garden 
It seems that so few Americans of late 
years are inclined to create a garden such as 
the one described here. Usually, we hire 
everything done and the result is a standard 
planting just like all the rest along the street, 
with color combinations of house paint 
for the main attraction. A plot of ground 
should provide food, recreation, beauty and 
a place for one to be rather than on the high- 
way killing each other. The garden mention- 
ed here is in Surrey, England and Mrs. 
Deighton writes: A few snaps of our garden. 
It may interest you to know that when my 
husband bought the 5 acres of land about 
30 years ago, it was a bare ploughed field. 
How I longed for a tree and a protecting 
hedge! After the house was built we plann- 
ed the garden and worked hard for several 
years. At first we were pestered with wand- 
ering sheep, hares and rabbits; eventually we 
fenced in the 5 acres and planted beech 
hedges on all sides. What joy there is in 
creating a garden! An orchard was planted, 
then shrubberies, a greenhouse was built 
and the biggest thrill of all a large pond. 
When we had excavated the chalk, we had 
a tremendous mountain of it by the pond. 
A bright idea cocurred to me—with blocks, 
cement, sand and old iron, we started to 
form a rockery and waterfall around the 
mountain of chalk. After two years, it was 
finished and although we liked*the idea from 
the start, the results were far beyond our 
imagination. We built in a water tank 
right at the top of the rockery with pipes 
from the pond to the tank. A pump was 
fixed so that we could pump the pond) 
water up into the tank to set the waterfall 
working. There are steps on the west side 
leading to a seat at the top and further 
steps down the north side. - 
This rockery is ideal for alpines as there 
aré numerous pockets with aspects, north, 
south, east and west. In the pond we 
planted red, yellow and pink water lilies, 
elodea and hornwort. Fish breed well in 
the pond where we have gold fish, shubunk- 
ins, rudd, etc. Two bog beds add charm to 
the picture. 
At the south base of the rockery the child- 
ren have a small netted-in pond and a 
little cemented winter house for terrapins. 
They are so cute and quite tame; they also 
had a gift of slow worms, these increase 
each year and do good work clearing the 
rockery of slugs and other pests. A grass 
snake has made a home on the island; it 
is a mystery where it came from. 
Mrs. Deighton’s Terrace and Rockery —an English Home Garden. 
I have grown many shrubs, trees, herbac- 
eous and rock plants from seed, also rooted 
quantities of cuttings. Before we had a 
greenhouse, I was very successful with my 
jam-jar greenhouse and made cuttings of rose 
shrubs plants and many climbers. The nur- 
sery bed was in a sheltered south part of the 
garden. Over several cuttings, I put a clean 
2-lb glass jam jar; this work was usually 
done in early autumn and the jars were left 
undisturbed untill late spring; the only at- 
tention given was after each frost, if the 
jars had been lifted, they were once again 
pushed firmly back into the soil; the neck of 
the jar should be well down into the soil. 
By Mrs. B. Deighton, England. 
CANTERBURY BELLS AS 
: HOUSE PLANTS 
Those who have not given the Canterbury 
Bells a trial as a winter pot plant should do 
so this year. ' 
In October lift a good young plant into a 
6-inch pot, have a good ball of dirt on the 
plant. 
They will stand the winter in a cool 
house and give a fine display of flowers 
the following spring. F ri 
A good hint on their culture is to pinch 
off the faded flowers promptly and a 
second set will result, a point well worth 
knowing of so beautiful a flower. 
MOVING VIOLAS IN FULL FLOWER 
A point well worth knowing is that Violas 
can be easily and safely moved when in full 
flower, if a good ball ‘of dirt is taken and 
immediately watered after setting. 
Of course, if the day is cloudy or it is 
done towards night, so much the better. 
CLAY POTS 
Clay pots absorb salts from chemical 
fertilizers and if these pots are used fon 
such plants as Begonias, the lower leaves 
can be damaged. ; 
It is adviseable to use new or cleaned 
pots for these soft leaved plants. 
CARAGANA ARBORESCENS 
Pea-tree. Because these do not transplant 
easily the seed should be planted in pots in 
soil 2 parts loam and 1 part sand, planting 
them in the spring. If flats are used, the 
seedlings should be potted up as soon as 
possible, one plant to the pot. 
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Growing Cytisus 
in Oregon State 
By Glen Brown, Oregon. 
A confusing term because it has been 
applied to plants in several genera, such as 
the Genistas of the florists, Ruscus or the 
butcher-broom and Spartium or Spanish’ 
broom, Scotch broom, which, altho Cytisus 
scoparius, has spread over lands of the 
coastal areas of Washington and Oregon 
to the extent that it is classed as a pest. It 
is a shrub 4-9 feet high with bright yellow 
flowers. 2 
They Come in Many Colors 
My experience with the ‘brooms’ concerns 
a group growing from 12-20 feet high and 
a most extensive and beautiful variety of 
colors. Brown, buff, white, purple, many 
different shades of red and orange. Ag 
they belong to the pea family there will be 
a combination of all these colors with wings 
of one color and keel of another. I should 
mention if one wants the pure white, it is 
called Cytisus multiflorus (C. albus) or the 
Portugal broom. : 
Originally, I purchased some mixed seed, 
of perhaps 3 or 4 different kinds but as they 
hybridize so very readily, I now have a great 
many colors that I am sure have not been 
named, altho English gardeners grow many 
named varieties. 
Bui, they are most beautiful shrubs and 
it is intensely interesting to simply save a 
few seed of each and after planting them, 
watch the results! I have one particular 
‘pet’ that resulted from this natural hybrid- 
ization that is of a wine-red color and very 
striking. It is so nearly like the color of 
the wine known as Dubonnet, that I have 
given it that name. 
Are Easily Grown 
They are of easy culture and do well in 
most any type of soil. They are attractive 
in winter; the deep green of the twigs and 
small leaves of some yarieties are striking 
in comparison to the stark bare branches of 
other shrubs and trees. 
There is one thing I have found to be 
absolutely essential in growing them and 
that is they must be sheared or trimmed oft- 
en, beginning when they are small. This 
shearing process on the young plants and 
an annual trimming on the older ones after 
blooming, tends to cause them to grow sturdy 
and compact. Otherwise they may become 
tall and ‘leggy’ and may be uprooted in 
strong winds or broken down under the 
weight of wet snow as the wood is scmewhat 
brittle. 
Grow them as specimens or in the border 
as an evergreen hedge or, in fact, almost 
any place one puts them, they are very des 
sirable 
NOTE: Mr. Brown sent in some colored 
pictures of his. Cytisus, which show the var- . 
ous colors in his garden and whick we would 
have reproduced but good half-tones are 
not made from colors; a glossy print in black. 
and white are necessary. Mr. Brown, by the 
way, is a very interested flower grower and 
grows commercially. 
Mr. Brown also compliments us on our 
Magazine which we appreciate. While we 
try to print only practical and helpful mat- 
erial, one must keep in mind that those 
gardeners who enjoy this sort of reading are 
in the minority; the bulk of the readers want 
popular reading matter. 
NAPHTHALENE and STRATIFICATION 
Many seeds that are stratified or planted 
in the Fall are very likely to be eaten by 
rodents. Sprinkling naphthalene flakes over 
the seed will repel them. It can be purchas- 
ed at any drug store. 
LET NO ONE SAY, AND IT TO YOUR 
SHAME, 
THAT ALL WAS BEAUTY HERE UNTIL 
YOU CAME. 
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