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diff --git a/29951.txt b/29951.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5d49253 --- /dev/null +++ b/29951.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3010 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mayflower, January, 1905, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Mayflower, January, 1905 + +Author: Various + +Editor: John Lewis Childs + +Release Date: September 10, 2009 [EBook #29951] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MAYFLOWER, JANUARY, 1905 *** + + + + +Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + January Contents + + PAGE + + Editorial Notes 5 + + + =THE ASTER= + + _By Lora S. La Mance_ + + History of the Aster 6 + + The Modern Aster 6 + + General Culture of the Aster 7-11 + + About Seed, 7--Time to Start Asters, + 8--Preparing an Aster Bed, 8--Mulching + and Watering, 8--Insect Foes of Asters, + 9--Other Cultural Rules, 11 + + The Aster as a Cut Flower 11 + + Leading Varieties of Asters 12, 13 + + The Winter Woods (Poem) 13 + + The Live Oak (Poem) 13 + + Information Box 14, 15 + + Communications 16, 30 + + + +ISSUED BY THE =MAYFLOWER PUBLISHING CO.= FLORAL PARK, N.Y. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration] + + Childs' Giant Cyclamen. + + Our new strain of Cyclamen is the finest in the world. + Enormous flowers, delicate colors, superb foliage. Each + bulb produces scores of flowers at once, and each flower + keeps perfect about two months before fading. As easily + grown in a window as a Geranium. + + Colors range from dark red to white, delicate blush and + pink shades prevailing. 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No. 1 + +THE MAYFLOWER, + +PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT FLORAL PARK, N. Y., + +----BY---- + +The Mayflower Publishing Co. + +JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, President. + +_Subscription Price, 50 Cents for 3 years_. + +Foreign subscribers must send two shillings extra for postage. + +Devoted to the cultivation of Flowers and Plants, Gardening and Home +Adornment in general. + +_Copyrighted 1904 by the Mayflower Publishing Company_ + +Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at Floral Park P. O., N. Y. + +_The principal subject of this issue is The Aster, by Lora S. La Mance. +Read it and preserve the copy. It is worth keeping and you are quite +likely to need it for future reference._ + +Complete volume of THE MAYFLOWER for 1904, now ready, price 25c. +postpaid. Any volume from 1894 to 1904, inclusive, 25 cts. each. + + +Editorial Notes + +=Our Attractive Offer for 1905= + +We would refer our readers to one of the foregoing pages for complete +information regarding our club premiums for 1905. As usual, we offer a +good premium, (one that is well worth working for,) to the club raiser +for every subscriber he or she sends us. Here is a chance for all our +readers to add materially to their collection of floral treasures, as it +is the simplest thing in the world to go out among one's friends and +neighbors and get subscribers to THE MAYFLOWER. So good a floral +magazine, at only 25c. for 3 years, together with 10 beautiful summer +blooming bulbs for only 5c. extra, is a proposition that people are +likely to accept, when it is brought to their attention, especially if +they are the least bit interested in flowers or gardening. + + +=The Warbler= + +If you are in the least interested in the scientific study of birds and +bird protection, you surely need THE WARBLER magazine, which we publish +at $1.00 per year, and which is advertised elsewhere in our columns. + + +=Imitation Gardenias= + +The gardenia flowers now so much favored for wearing are expensive. All +the dames beautiful enough to deserve them in profusion, do not receive +them, perhaps. Clever imitations of the sprays are sometimes made up of +the large shining leaves of the Japan Euonymus and the flowers of the +Double Poet's Narcissus, N. alba plena odorata. Unfortunately, the +difference in odor does not lend itself to the illusion. + + +=Two Favorite Bedding Pansies= + +These are Emperor William and Lord Beaconsfield. One is light blue and +the other yellow, so that, en masse, they are effective at a distance. +The rich, dark, velvety Pansies are really more beautiful to look at, +but we must stand close by them or hold them in the hand in order to +enjoy them. In photographs the flowers of dark varieties hardly show at +all. A good example of the handling of Pansies for effectiveness is +shown in the planting of the six solid beds usually devoted to them in +the grounds of Girard College, Philadelphia. The beds chosen for them +are those that have been planted with Tulips the autumn beforehand. From +seed sown in August grow thrifty young plants that are wintered in a +cold-frame. As soon as the Tulips show leaves above ground young Pansy +plants are set between them. When the Tulip flowers begin to fade the +Pansies are opening their buds, and when the faded bulb-stems are cut +away, lo! Pansy beds in full bloom! + + * * * * * + +THE ASTER + +BY LORA S. LA MANCE, MO. + +_History of the Aster--The Modern Aster--General Culture of the +Aster--About Seed--Time to Start Asters--Preparing an Aster +Bed--Mulching and Watering--Insect Foes of Asters--Other Cultural +Rules--The Aster as a Cut Flower--Leading Varieties of Asters._ + + +HISTORY OF THE ASTER + +Starworts or Aster-like flowers of the Compositae family are found in +many parts of the world. In far-off China a flower-loving Catholic +missionary noted a showy flower of late summer and early autumn. That +was nearly two hundred years ago. The flower was what is botanically +known as Callistephus, a Greek term meaning beautiful crown. From a +scientific standpoint it was not an Aster at all, though closely related +to that family. This wild Daisy-like Callistephus bore many graceful +single flowers about the size of our largest wild Asters. The flowers +consisted of a single row of light bluish-purple ray petals surrounding +a golden disk-like center. In 1731 the Jesuit missionary sent seeds of +it to France. It was liked from the first, and its early French +cultivators politely named it _Reine Marguerite_--Queen Daisy. + +In due time the plant reached England. Here it was re-named. In allusion +to its origin and to the star-like spread of its bluish petals, they +called it China Aster, =i.e.= China Star. Even in our mother's day it was +still called the China Aster. It became popular, especially as it soon +sported into different colors. Otherwise there was little change in it +until a little after 1840, when the first double flowers were produced. + +From that time its development was something marvelous. French, English, +German and American hybridizers have vied with each other in bringing +out new forms. It must be considered now as one of the few flowers that +has all but reached perfection. There are three or four marked types of +flowers, and it would seem impossible in any of these types to add to +their beauty of form or to improve their colors, unless it would be to +add a really deep yellow to the list of shades. Nor is anything lacking +in size or doubleness of bloom. + + +THE MODERN ASTER + +Our Asters of to-day range in size from the dwarfs, 6 to 12 inches high, +to half dwarfs, 15 to 18 inches tall, and tall sorts, 20 inches to 2 +feet in height. There are three leading types of flowers. (1) +Rose-flowered, shaped and imbricated like a blooded rose, the outer +petals reflexed or rolled back, and the inner ones slightly recurved. +This type of flower is much prized by those who like regularity of +petals. They are as perfect as though moulded and shaped out of wax. (2) +Peony-flowered, large blossoms with incurved petals, making a +globe-shaped flower. (3) Chrysanthemum-flowered, with closely arranged, +informal petals, sometimes curled and feathered to a high degree. Beside +there are quilled, ball, and tassel Asters, etc., modifications or +sports of the types mentioned. + +The Aster is a showy flower, and grows well for those who treat it well, +in any climate or country. They come into bloom in late midsummer and +last until frost, one of the scarcest times in the year for really good +flowers. It is fine for exhibition at flower shows, and is useful as a +cut flower. For all of these reasons the Aster would be a standard +flower. Their great popularity is based, however, on two qualifications +not mentioned above, and both of which they possess in a superlative +degree. These qualities are great beauty of flower and a wonderful +diversity and perfection of coloring. + +A well grown Aster is simply magnificent. The Chrysanthemum is +acknowledged to be the queen of autumn. Nevertheless more than one +unscrupulous florist has palmed off great fluffy white blooms of Asters +as those of Queen Chrysanthemum herself. Size, form, color and substance +go to make up a superbly beautiful flower without a trace of coarseness +or gaudiness about it. In poetical language their flowers symbolize both +bounty and cheerfulness in old age. + +No one but an artist should attempt to describe an Aster's colors. There +are nearly thirty shades in Truffaut's Peony-flowered Asters. Victoria +Asters can be purchased under twenty-four separate colors. Other +sections show still other shades, to say nothing of those with white +crowns and colored borders, and those with striped and silver-tipped +flowers. + +[Illustration: A BED OF MIXED VARIETIES OF ASTERS] + +Only the drifted snow can compare with the purity of a white Aster. It +has those spotless flowers that bring thoughts of heaven. Asters have +many blue and lavender tints. None of them are muddy, or metallic, or +dingy, as are too many blues and lavenders. They show the blue of a June +sky, or the blue of the amethyst, or the color of the lilac of spring, +together with soft lavenders, pale blues and deep indigo. Sulphur and +primrose tints are the nearest yellow, but in reds they run the gamut +from rosy flesh and palest apple-blossom through shell pink, peach, +rose, carmine, scarlet and blood red to deepest crimson. Many of the +pink shades are exquisitely beautiful. Only the pure whites can surpass +them. + + +GENERAL CULTURE OF THE ASTER + +I would like to say that a six-year old child can raise good Asters, and +that they will grow in any kind of ground from a clay bank to a sand +pit, or stand any kind of treatment. I can't truthfully say those +things, however, for my Lady Aster is a fastidious dame. She wants +plenty to eat and plenty to drink, and requires her insect foes kept at +bay. Those who are not willing to do this had better let her alone. +James Vick, that good old seedsman now gone to his reward, was an Aster +enthusiast. His experience concisely summed up amounts to this: + + _Never let them flag from seed-leaf to time of full bloom. Give + deep, rich ground, plenty of sunshine, and mulch with coarse + manure. Stake the tall varieties so as to prevent their blowing + over._ + +That's a good rule for those who want everything in a nutshell. It may +be summed up in another way. The way to have fine Asters is to do these +six things: (1) Get the best seed; (2) start in a seasonable time; (3) +give rich, mellow ground; (4) never allow them to parch; (5) keep +insects down; and (6) stake when necessary. + +[Sidenote: About Seed] + +There are many kinds of seed that may be home grown year after year and +the strain suffer no deterioration. Aster seed is not one of these +kinds. If they were given high culture so as to bloom their best, and +only a few of the very choicest individual flowers allowed to seed, they +would of course come true from seed year after year. The trouble is +that home saving is generally from all the flowers as they run, culls, +off-colored specimens and all. Our best Asters represent very high +breeding indeed. It is well known that highly bred plants quickly run +out unless kept at the same high standard. Therefore never trust to +haphazard seed if you desire first class Asters. Do not depend either +upon cheap seed. Choose a reliable seed house, one that takes a pride in +keeping the choicest strains of all the leading flowers and has too much +regard for its reputation to send out inferior seeds under some +high-sounding title. + +[Illustration: DWARF BOUQUET ASTER] + +[Sidenote: Time to Start Asters] + +A great many people start Aster seed in the house or greenhouse as early +as February. There is not only nothing gained by this--for the Aster is +a late flower and does not come to its best estate before August, start +it when you will--but an actual disadvantage. Like James Vick, I would +emphasize the importance of never letting the plants get a check if the +finest flowers are wanted. Now the Aster is not naturally a hothouse +plant. It needs in its young stage plenty of fresh air. Without it, or +without sufficient light, or in too warm an atmosphere, the young Aster +plants become tall and spindling, or, as florists express it, are drawn. +A drawn Aster invariably makes a weak, sickly plant, and never bears +large or handsome flowers. Sow the seed thinly and cover lightly. They +should germinate in from 5 to 7 days. + +In the middle states the best growers make a practice of sowing the +seeds in boxes about the last of April or first of May. Some make a +couple of later sowings between that date and the first of June, sowing +these in carefully prepared seed-beds in the open ground. This is to +keep up a succession of flowers. So many sowings are scarcely necessary +now that there are both early and late varieties to be chosen in the +first place. The period of first sowing will allow for all, if kinds +that flower at various times are chosen. In the Southern states a June +sowing is recommended. A lath frame will keep the plants from parching. + +Late Asters may be lifted for the house. It is a good plan if one wishes +several of them for pot plants to sow seed of them in July, under a lath +frame where they will be shaded somewhat and protected from drying winds +until up and of some little size. These will come into bloom before the +first Holland bulbs are ready for the window, and will remain in full +beauty for several weeks. An August sowing will give late winter and +early spring flowers. + +Asters are easily transplanted and should never be allowed to become +cramped for room, or to be grown in the shade of other plants. If +carefully done, an Aster in almost full bloom can be taken up and +replanted without injuring it in the least. So there is no excuse for +letting them be crowded in either seed-box or seed-bed. + +[Sidenote: Preparing an Aster Bed] + +There is no use trying to get good Asters from plants in poor ground. +They are gross feeders. They dislike sandy soil the most of all. Clay +ground is better for them than sand, and loamy soil the best of all. If +the soil is sandy, plant Asters so as to leave a little depression +around each plant. The water will thus sink about them and more moisture +be retained. Sour, undrained soils where the water stands should be +raised a little above the level of the lawn, if for Asters, so that +excess of water may drain off. They like moisture but not stagnant +water. Whatever the character of the ground, spade it deep so that it +may be mellow, and make it very rich. If the ground is to be spaded a +foot deep, a 3-inch layer of rotted manure is about right to dig in. +Rotted manure does not mean fresh or lumpy manure. It means that the +fertilizing element shall have been rotted until ready to drop to +pieces. Stable manure is too fiery. Cow manure over a year old is best. +Many expert Aster growers scatter an inch of unleached hardwood ashes +over the bed before it is broken up and spade it in with the manure. +They claim it both suits the Aster and helps to keep off root-lice. + +It is usual to plant tall or half dwarf varieties in the center of the +beds, and use some of the dwarf Asters for an outside row or border. The +tall kinds should stand 10 to 12 inches apart in the row. The dwarf ones +about 8 inches apart. Asters make a sightly bed because of the uniform +height of each class and because of their blooming at the same time. + +[Sidenote: Mulching and Watering] + +Hot dry soil quickly spoils Asters. About July mulch them well. + +Two inches of coarse manure spread out well over their roots is the best +mulch of all, as every rain washes nutrition from it down to the roots +below. Chip dirt, pine needles, or grass clippings will do, or anything +else that is light, yet will let the rains or waterings leach through. +No one who has not actually tried it can know of the help a mulch really +is to Asters. I doubt whether first-class flowers can be obtained in +dry, windy countries, or in hot, sun-scorched valleys without its aid. +Asters love the sun, nevertheless unless their feet are kept cool and +moist they inevitably burn and wilt. A mulch keeps the ground cool, and +it keeps it moist also. + +I know of Asters that gained the prizes at county fairs that were +regularly soaked once a week with the suds from the weekly washing. In +most climates a thorough drenching of the ground once a week will +promote a luxuriant growth of the plants. There is nothing gained by +watering in dry weather unless the ground is mulched. Without this +protection the ground will bake as hard as a brick and the plants suffer +more than if no water had been given. In some sections hot dry winds +prevail through August and September. This is most trying to Asters. If +there is a tank, or system of water works, a good sprinkling, not only +to the roots but of the foliage as well, will revive them wonderfully. +Use the hose about sunset. By morning the plants will be entirely +revived. + +[Sidenote: Insect Foes of Asters] + +The red spider and aphis have no special fondness for the Aster. They +get after it when it comes in their way, as they do anything else. But +the Aster has two implacable enemies that by their ravages have done +more to discourage people from growing these plants than all other +causes combined. These two foes are blister beetles and root lice. + +RED SPIDER bothers in hot dry weather. Water is their foe. When the +familiar thin, half-dying foliage appears, grey on the under-side and +showing a few fine webs underneath, there is no mistaking the signs. It +is the red spider. If a hose is used in the garden, turn the water on +under a full head, directing it to the under-side of the leaves where +the invisible pests have their colonies. Never mind if it does bend the +plants by the force of the stream. They can be straightened afterwards. +Play up and down, under and all around. If well done, and the deed +repeated a couple of days after, they will have been killed. If no hose +is available, use a sprinkler, dashing the water on with all the force +possible. + +APHIS is the common plant louse. Some use tobacco stems as a mulch about +Asters instead of manure. Tobacco factories and dealers in florist's +supplies sell these at low prices, as it is the refuse material left +after manufacturing tobacco for smoking and chewing. Where these can be +obtained it is a sure preventative not only against aphis but almost any +other insect. + +Other remedies for aphis are spraying with a hard stream of water. Two +or three thorough applications will finish them. Kerosene emulsion will +kill them. So will insect powder if it has not become stale, and if used +on a still, calm day when there is no air stirring to revive its +suffocated victims. + +THE BLISTER BEETLE or aster beetle comes along when the plants are in +bloom or in bud. They are half to three-quarters of an inch long, black +with grey stripes down their back. Oh! how they devour all before them! +Out of the unknown they come, hordes of them. They tarry but two or +three days, and leave but bare stalks behind them, every bed, every +flower, and every leaf eaten off. + +The remedy is to fight them. + +When the lytta, _alias_ blister beetle, arrives, prepare to give a warm +welcome to him and all of his kind. There are several methods of doing +this. Any of them must be repeated two or three times a day, for there +seem to be successive waves of the beetles. In a few days the danger is +past. + +My own method is to get a helper, and, taking one plant at a time, knock +the beetles off and kill them with a stick. It is a joy to look upon the +heaps of slain when all is done. Whenever the plant upon which it is is +jarred in the slightest, this beetle falls to the ground exactly as +though it were dead. Only for a second, however, then it runs for dear +life. That is why it takes more than one person, for it's no child's +play to kill a score of scampering bugs in a quarter of a minute. + +[Illustration: QUILLED GERMAN ASTER] + +My other half's way is to get a fresh supply of insect powder +(Dalmation, Persian, Bubach, etc., whatever name it may be sold under) +and squirt it thickly over the bugs by the use of one of those 10-cent +powder guns that all druggists keep. It is effective if the insect +powder is fresh. + +[Illustration] + +Other remedies are to put netting over the bed; to spray the plants with +poisoned water, made by stirring 1 teaspoonful of Paris green into 2 +gallons of water; and to use kerosene emulsion. The last is made after +this formula: 1 tablespoonful of kerosene beaten up with half a cupful +of milk. Dilute with 2 gallons of water. + +Do not forget that any remedy must be used two or three times a day +while the raid is on. + +ROOT-LICE, BLUE APHIS, etc., is one of the most common enemies of the +Aster. When the plants are almost at their best the tops turn a peculiar +sickly green, or they wilt, or become brown. They die quickly unless +something is at once done. Pull one up and the roots are found alive +with a little insect that looks like a plant louse. Insecticides poured +on the soil rarely kill the pests. A bed that has been ashed, or had a +mulching of tobacco stems, as has already been advised, will have +escaped. + +Where the root lice have already commenced, Rexford recommends drawing +the dirt away until the roots are exposed, then sifting tobacco dust +thickly over them replacing the soil afterwards. Others recommend +flooding the bed with kerosene emulsion in the same way. While some have +success, others claim failure by either of these methods. Here is a way +of dealing with root lice, however, that is always sure. + +Heat a lot of water. Then pull up every affected plant, shake the dirt +off their roots, and dip them quickly into scalding water. Leave them in +but a second, but dip their roots two or three times to make sure every +bug gets its dose. Pour boiling water into the ground where the Asters +had been. That settles the fate of every root-louse in the ground. As +soon as the ground has cooled a little, plant the Asters back, stake +them so as to hold them up, and shade lightly for a day or two. + +Will it not kill the plants? No, it will not injure them. Of course the +plants should have been taken up very carefully so as not to break off +the roots. The Aster will stand more in the way of lifting than any +other plant I know. Mature plants may be washed out by the roots in a +severe storm, but if promptly planted again will be all right in a day +or two after. I know a lady who had to move some distance in August. She +had a fine bed of Asters. She made the ground soaking wet, then took +them every one up, putting them as close as they would stand in ordinary +soap boxes. They never minded the transfer in the least, and bloomed so +handsomely in their boxes as to call forth many compliments. I give +these instances to convince doubting Thomases that pulling up Asters +and scalding the root-lice on them is not so desperate a remedy as it +sounds. And it is a sure remedy. + +[Sidenote: Other Cultural Rules] + +Until it is time to mulch Asters, stir the ground, or hoe the bed once a +week. In some climates, particularly in warm ones, tall Asters sometimes +take on a tall, thin growth. These leggy plants are not beautiful, nor +do they bear many flowers. Whenever plants show a disposition to run up +this way, pinch out the tops. Repeat the pinching two or three times if +necessary, until a disposition to branch shows itself. + +The tall sorts are the better for a support. Otherwise hard winds uproot +them. Stakes should be used that when driven will be about two-thirds +the height of the plants. Tie with soft string, with a sort of a +slip-knot so that a half dozen of the main branches have a band +supporting them, yet are not drawn up so hard and tight as to cut into +the branch. + +If a display of Asters are wanted for a flower show make the ground as +wet as mud. Then lift each plant with a spade or mattock slowly and +skillfully. The roots, dirt and all, will come up in a solid mass. Pot +at once, before any of the earth is shaken off. They will not wither in +the least if kept out of direct sunshine for a few days. If enormous +blooms are wanted, disbud, leaving but one bud to each tip. Trim off the +small side branches also, to throw the strength of the plant into these +chosen blooms. Most people prefer more flowers and less size. + +There are generally a few promising late Asters that are not yet in +bloom when frosts come. Lift these in the same careful manner for the +house. They do not do well in hot rooms. In cool rooms, not above 60 to +65 degrees by day, they thrive. They like some sunshine, but will get +along with little of it if they have good light beside. They do finely +in halls and bedrooms where the temperature is almost to the frost line +at night, and no fire heat at all during the day. An Aster will not +bloom all winter. Its period of bloom is quite long enough, however, to +make it a welcome guest in the plant window, and when through blooming +it can be thrown away. + + +THE ASTER AS A CUT FLOWER + +An Aster is at its very best as a cut flower, and remains in good +condition for two weeks. It comes in the late summer season before +Chrysanthemums are ready and after Lilies are gone. It is a time of +dearth of really fine flowers. Florists are growing it more and more for +their sales, and to use in decorations for August and September weddings +and parties. White Asters are much used for funeral wreaths also. + +Amateurs cannot make up elaborate floral pieces like florists, and it is +not wise to attempt it. But it is well enough for us all to remember +that a simple spray of white Asters in a setting of green Ferns, or of +lace-like Asparagus plumosus, is a gift of remembrance that no loving +hand need be ashamed of placing on the coffin of a friend. A loose, +careless nosegay of Asters, bright with its pretty pinks and blues, and +a deep crimson one or two to bear its white companions company, will +cheer up a sick friend. Always remember the touch of color in flowers +for the sick. They need cheer and brightness, and sunny flowers give +them both. + +[Illustration: NEW ROSE ASTER] + +The taller Asters are fine to cut for vases and for pulpit bouquets, if +the longest stems are chosen. Use plenty of pretty greenery, and arrange +the flowers so that each stands out airily by itself, not wedged +between its neighbors. Asters can be over-crowded in a bouquet until +heavy and clumsy looking. It is the one fault to avoid. The remedy is to +use more foliage with them, and to put fewer flowers in the bouquet. +Enough is better than a surplus in arranging cut-flowers. + +[Illustration: ASTER AS A POT PLANT] + + +LEADING VARIETIES OF ASTERS + +NEW ROSE. This has been a standard sort for many years. Nearly or quite +2 feet in height. Handsome flowers of regular form, imbricated like a +rose. Many shades. + +TRUFFAUT'S PAEONY-FLOWERED. For more than a generation this has been a +standard. It is sometimes shown at exhibitions in a fourth of a hundred +distinct shades. It is tall, with a profusion of very large globular +flowers. An old but showy variety. + +VICTORIA. Esteemed by many the very best Asters in existence. Fine for +pots, bedding or flower shows. Flowers are three or four inches across, +or even larger, and these are perfection as to form. There are over a +score of shades, among them colors as rare and as lovely as the cloud +tints of sunrise. + +[Illustration: ASTER SHAKESPEARE] + +COCARDEAU OR CROWN is another old but not superseded sort. The center of +the flower is of small quilled petals, pure white in color. This center +is surrounded by a wide ring of flat ray petals of bright color. 18 +inches tall. Pretty, odd and showy, but by no means as superb a flower +as some of the others. + +QUILLED GERMAN. Another oddity, of about equal value with the Crown +Asters. 2 feet high and branching. The flowers are quilled like those of +some Dahlias. + +DWARF BOUQUET. One of the smallest of all. Only 6 to 8 inches tall, very +uniform, each a pyramid of pretty flowers. About a dozen colors are in +this strain. Used for edging. + +SHAKESPEARE. A fine sort for borders. About 6 inches tall, a solid mass +of large globular flowers from top to bottom. There are several colors. + +SNOWBALL. 10 to 12 inches high, of a symmetrical habit and bearing +exquisitely beautiful flowers of the large Chrysanthemum type. The color +is a pure white. + +[Illustration: TRUFFAUT'S PAEONY-FLOWERED ASTER] + +VICK'S BRANCHING ASTERS. The Vicks have always been famous for their +Asters, and this is the triumph of their skill. These grow the tallest +of all Asters, and require more than ordinary space because of their +wide branching habit. Largely grown by florists. It is a late variety, +and its magnificent, large and informal flowers are often mistaken for +the finest Japanese Chrysanthemums. The flowers are of extraordinary +size and are long-stemmed. It comes in snowy-white, pink, lavender, +crimson, and purple shades. Pure White is esteemed the finest of the +lot, with Daybreak, a lovely sea-shell pink, as a close second. Daybreak +is earlier than the type. + +JAPANESE. Known also as the Ostrich Plume Asters, a name which exactly +describes them. About 15 inches tall. The curled flowers are of enormous +size, 5 to 6 inches across. About 10 colors, some of them most unusual +ones. + +GIANT SILVER-TIPPED. These are of dwarf habit, but have blossoms of the +largest size. These beautiful flowers, whatever their color, are tipped +silvery white. An exceptional good pot variety. + +SEMPLE'S MARVEL. This is another favorite with professional growers. +They are 20 inches to 2 feet tall, and of branching habit. This is +rather a late Aster. The flowers are of much substance, and are perfect +in form and rich in color. + +COMET. The best known of the curly Chrysanthemum-flowered type. There +are two or three strains of this, varying a little as to habit. They +range from 14 inches to 2 feet in height, and bear those large, loose, +feathered flowers that find so many admirers. The broad outer petals are +reflexed. The inner petals are shorter and curve and curl toward the +center. These grand flowers come in several beautiful shades. + +[Illustration: ASTER "DAYBREAK"] + + * * * * * + +THE WINTER WOODS + + How patiently they wait--the bare brown trees + Through winter's sullen gloom, + With arms outspread as if in suppliance + Of vanished leaf and bloom! + + Till Nature's voice shall sound its clarion call + Waking the earth from sleep, + These monarchs shorn of all their treasure stand + In silence long and deep. + + O learn a lesson from the winter woods! + Hope on O troubled heart! + In patience wait! The blessing thou dost need + God will at last impart! + + _Alice Jean Cleator, Ohio._ + + * * * * * + +THE LIVE OAK + +(_In the South_) + + On the gray outside of the year + Fluttered its leaves of cheer; + They reached to my winter window + And I thought that spring was here. + They reached out mistily + When dawn was on the tree, + But through the rainy mornings + How bright they gleamed and clear. + + When other trees are bare + Oak banners glad the air, + And through the Southern summer + Its branches great and fair. + In all their splendid strength, + To all their living length, + Emparadise in shadow + The meadows everywhere. + + _Ethelwyn Witherald, Canada._ + + * * * * * + +THE INFORMATION BOX + +What Our Readers Want to Know + +_In this department Mrs. Lora S. La Mance will answer the inquiries of +those asking information about plants, their culture, etc. The subject +of inquiry will be touched upon in a general way, instead of being made +a personal matter, in order that the information conveyed may be useful +and interesting to the greatest number. We will forward to Mrs. La Mance +for answering such inquiries as our readers may send in.--Editor_ + +NOTICE. Correspondents will please observe these rules: Give with every +letter your name, town and state. They will not be published. If you +wish an immediate or personal answer, enclose stamp for reply. Do not +ask for greenhouse plans. The space cannot be given. In reporting a +failure with anything, tell what treatment you have given it. + +AGAPANTHUS. In early housekeeping days, when as yet I was ignorant of +the A B C's of floriculture. I bought an Agapanthus. No pains were taken +with it, but it grew right along and blossomed freely. I was much +astonished afterwards to learn that the Agapanthus is considered an +obstinate plant that can neither be coaxed nor driven to bloom. Poor +Agapanthus! It has been unjustly censured. Be liberal with it in the way +of providing a rich potting soil, and giving plenty of water while it is +growing. With autumn, let it have a taste of adversity. Put the pot on a +back shelf. Keep the earth in the pot decidedly on the dry side, giving +plenty of water when you do water, but making the intervals between long +enough for the soil to dry out well. The plant can even be placed in the +cellar to winter, provided this absolute rest is not unduly prolonged. +After three months of inaction give light, warmth and moisture. +Agapanthus will at once respond, and flowers usually follow. + +TRAINING A RUBBER PLANT. A tall, straight stemmed Rubber tree finds more +admirers than branched specimens, which are more squat in shape. Those +who like the bush form best can make their Rubber Plants branch at any +desired height by cutting off the end of the stem. The part cut away may +he rooted in heat in damp sand. The best time to cut them is in late +winter, just before the time for spring growth. Branches will soon be +sent out after the top of the main stem has been cut away. + +MOLES. A lady piquantly relates her trials with an army of moles that +she cannot "catch, kill, or drive away," although she has tried +everything she has ever heard of. It is a bad case when mole traps will +not catch, or corn soaked in Fowler's solution of arsenic and dropped +along their runways will not finish them. In this case I can only refer +her to other said-to-be cures that other people have tried and have +faith in. A dozen witnesses testify that the seeds of Ricinus (Castor +Bean,) dropped here and there in their tunnels will make them leave. A +Connecticut lady says a sure remedy is to drop handfuls of salt here and +there in their runways. Others put ball potash or concentrated lye in +their runs but that is cruel, for it burns wherever it touches. Some use +sawdust soaked in tar, or with a stick punch holes here and there along +their tunnels and drop in each hole a small quantity of kerosene (coal +oil). These two last substances will kill choice plants if used close to +their roots, so use caution. An ingenious soul, rightly conceiving that +the mole is highly sensitive to smells made a number of stiff pasteboard +tubes and put in the center of each a stinking moth-ball. Buried in the +runways there was a dearth of moles directly. I heartily approve of the +mole's judgment in leaving moth-ball-scented premises. I have felt like +it myself. + +TROUBLE WITH LILIUM CANDIDUM. Some of our friends have had trouble with +Lilium Candidum. They purchased fine, large bulbs, potted them, and had +only leaves for their pains. That was because they were procured too +late. They are not nearly so tractable as Lilium Harrisii. It is their +natural disposition to start to growing early in autumn. If kept dormant +beyond this period their flower-buds blast. Get them if possible in +August or the first half of September. There is no difficulty in getting +them to blossom then. + +BADLY SHAPED PLANTS. Every little while someone asks what to do with a +one-sided or badly shaped pot plant. Plants, and particularly pot +shrubs, ought never to be allowed to get in bad shape. It is an easy +enough matter to correct a bad or awkward tendency at the first. It is a +difficult matter to remedy it later. When a plant begins to grows +coxcomby, or develops a long, switchy growth, or twists about in an ugly +crook, begin _at once_ to overcome it. One-sidedness is usually arrested +by turning that side away from the light. A crooked, knotted limb can be +straightened by tying to a stout support or trellis, tying it every two +or three inches to take the kinks out. Long, leggy, or whip-like shoots +need the ends pinched off. If done at an early stage no sap will waste. +It is old wood that bleeds when the knife is put into it. I always +hesitate to advise re-shaping an old specimen if it is so contorted that +over half of the old wood must be cut away. It is a great shock to a +growing plant to lose half or more of its wood. It sometimes kills it, +particularly if injudiciously watered. If severe cutting is required do +it while the pot shrubbery is nearest at rest, and a little before +renewed growth may be expected again. Usually this is about the close of +mid-winter. Such shrubs as Rubber Plants, that bleed profusely, should +have grafting wax or paint daubed on the end of cut branches. If nothing +better is at hand paste a jacket of clay over the cut end until the +wound can heal. Water with much moderation until new growth appears. + +SPOTTED CALLA FROM SEED. Spotted Callas are easily grown from seed if it +is sown as soon as ripe. Plant out in garden rows like dwarf peas, and +hoe them and keep weeds down. After frost dig the little tubers up and +keep in dry sand in the cellar. Plant out in the garden the next year. +Some will bloom the second season, the rest will require another year. + +SOIL FOR VARIEGATED SHRUBS. Do not manure the ground for golden or +variegated leaved shrubs. The color is not as clear where fertilizers +are used. Very rich ground means a quick, lush growth. Green is the +normal color of leaf vegetation. Any departure from this rule is an +abnormal one. Whatever imparts vigor to a plant tends to make it throw +off its acquired markings and revert to its original stage. Abundant +plant food supplies more chlorophyll or green coloring matter to the sap +also. + +ABOUT BROAD-LEAVED EVERGREENS IN WINTER. A lady asks, "Is it the summer +sun that is harmful to Rhododendrons, Andromedas and Mahonias, or is it +the winter sun they should be protected from?" It is the winter sun. The +reason broad-leaved evergreens are such a hard class to bring through +the winter in good condition is because the sun shines upon their +foliage while it is frozen, blistering, and searing it. It is not the +winter's cold but the winter's sun that does the mischief. Plant all +such evergreens on a north slope, or at the north side of a building +where they are protected from a glare of sunshine on their frozen wood +and leaves. + +SNAILS AND SLUGS. Where they are numerous enough to do injury, get after +them. I believe a hand to hand killing is the best remedy for all such +pests. They are sluggish and cannot run away from one. They usually take +a siesta during the heat of the day under Pansies or similar low matted +plants. Some trap them by placing slices of cabbage or raw potato about. +Others kill all the slugs in a bed, then make a ring of salt all about +it to keep them out. Lime dust powdered over the plants helps to keep +them away. + +WORMS BORING INTO PLANTS. A couple of cases are reported of worms boring +into the stalks of Asters, Dianthus and Carnations. Of course the tops +die, and the damage is great. There is no insecticide that can be used +against these canny worms which snugly hide themselves in the plant +stalks where not a drop of liquor can reach them. The only remedy is to +keep a sharp outlook for affected plants, cutting away each +worm-infested top and burning it. This kills the worm and cuts off +future crops of worms. It seems a hard method of ridding the plants of +their enemies. However, the plants branch out again and develop a later +crop of flowers. + +HOW ANNUALS RUN OUT. "Last year I purchased the very best grade of +seeds, and my flowers were lovely. I saved from these flowers, expecting +a similar treat this year. But my Pansies, Carnations and Petunias are +nothing near as large or as finely marked as they were last year, and +the last two flowers are all single, not a double one in the lot. What +is the cause of this?" + +Deterioration in the quality of bloom is what our mothers used to call +the "running out" of plants. There is no mystery about it. It is +confined to those favorite flowers that have been highly bred and +hybridized. Everyone knows highly bred stock, be it animal or vegetable, +will not stand roughing it. If the flower grower would use the nerve of +the seed-grower and pull up every inferior plant or poor flowered one; +if she would keep the ground as clean as a market garden; if she would +allow only the finest flowers to go to seed, cutting the others off as +they fade, she would have good seed for next year's flowers. Petunias +are artificially hybridized to get a double strain of seed, and this the +amateur cannot well do. It pays most of us better to buy Pansy, Petunia, +Carnation and Ten Weeks Stocks seed than to try to save it ourselves. + +FAILURE OF PEONIES TO BLOOM. Everyone says the Peony will endure +anything, heat, cold, rain or dry weather or any kind of soil. It is +true the plant is tenacious of life. It is just as true that it knows +when it is not well treated. It evens up matters many times by refusing +to bloom. Any one of the following reasons may cause it to be barren of +bloom. (1) Poor, hard ground. (2) Deep shade, as when grown under +evergreens or behind thick shrubbery. (3) Spring planting in hot +climates, or (4) clumps allowed to get too dry in droughty summers. + +BRUGMANSIA. I admire this plant when in bloom. Its magnificent ivory +trumpets are a grand sight. It is a fine thing for piazza decoration +during summer, and may be grown in a greenhouse or warm plant room in +winter. It is not, however, suitable for ordinary window culture. It +needs good care and freedom from dust, and moreover chills easily. If +placed in the cellar in November it will winter there safely. Bring up +as early as possible in the spring, water with moderation until new +shoots start from the root, then give abundance of water. + +EUCHARIS. This is a beautiful flower worth taking a little pains to +grow. It is more often seen in greenhouse than in a window, as it is +easier in the former to secure a warm, moist, even temperature. Shortly +after New Year Eucharis grow very fast. Keep them warm and moist until +through flowering when they can be kept ten to fifteen degrees cooler +and watered less freely. This gives them the needed semi-rest to enable +them to get ready for bloom again. In summer they need plenty of water +again. When fall comes keep them pretty dry for the next three months, +supplying only enough water to keep them from losing their leaves. Pot +them in loam and sand, with a small quantity of old crumbled manure and +leaf loam. + +A PLAGUE OF ANTS. A correspondent has suffered for years from annual +raids of ants that literally swarm over everything and everywhere. "Last +year," says this lady, "they killed ever so many plants, from Pansies to +trees. All of our outdoor flowers were almost ruined by them. I have +tried molasses and Paris green, but they only increase in numbers. They +are everywhere, but I cannot find their holes or nest." + +There is no use trying to depend on killing all these ants after they +have taken possession. A bushel of pyrethrum powder would not pepper +them all or a hogshead of kerosene emulsion last long enough to get them +all. They must be killed at the fountain head, in their nesting places. +A few years ago a certain set of our pear trees had their blossoms +ruined year after year by hordes of ants. We could not kill them off, +for there were always new ones to take their places. One day we found +their nest, a very large one, but entirely underground. A speedy and +therefore merciful death was decreed for them. Big pot, little pot, +kettle and boiler were filled with water which was brought to the +boiling point. We used it, _every day_, on that ant nest. That was 15 +years ago, and there has been no recurrence of the trouble. + +HOLY THISTLE. Some one asks about a curious plant of which no one knows +the name. It blooms quickly from seed, making a plant several feet tall. +It has long and wide leaves, waved along the margins, and very spiny. +Along each vein is a wide milk-white band or mottling. The flowers are +like a purple thistle. Strange how the wheels of time go round. This new +(?) plant is so very old that hundreds of years ago it was a common +garden ornament. It is Carduus Maritima, a near relative of the common +thistle. Everyone notices it because of its odd milky splashes, and it +every now and then enjoys a brief popularity again. Our superstitious +forefathers believed that a drop of the Virgin Mary's milk fell on its +leaves, which ever after bore milk-white markings because of it. The old +names for it were Milk Thistle and Holy Thistle. The peasantry used to +eat its tops as greens, and cook the roots in stews. Like all thistles +this will become a weed if not kept down with a firm hand. + +AN IMPOSSIBILITY. A lady asks us to give a list of the six best Roses. +"I acknowledged to stand at the head of the Rose kind." It can't be done +as long as the old adage holds true of + + "Many men of many kinds, + Many men of many minds." + +A correspondent wants a companion Rose to a Crimson Rambler, which she +enthusiastically declares is the grandest Rose in the world. Side by +side with her letter is one from an artist. "I don't like Ramblers," +writes he. "An artistic Rose to my mind is like a jewel in a right +setting. Too many jewels denote vulgarity." Every class of Rose has its +enthusiastic devotees. The best Hybrid Teas come nearer combining all +merits of a Rose, and nearer pleasing all standards of taste than any +other; yet any florist will tell you that they are by no means the Roses +most freely purchased. In other words, no one Rose suits all. + + _Lora S. La Mance, Mo._ + + * * * * * + +CORRESPONDENCE + +QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS + +This department is open to any of our subscribers who may have anything +to say that will be of general interest and usefulness. Questions may be +asked or answered + + +ARKANSAS + +_Editor Mayflower:_ + +I must tell you of an experience I had in transplanting a Dahlia, which +was in bloom, the last day of July. Driving out one warm morning I saw a +family moving out of a house. Seeing a clump of beautiful Dahlias I +asked for one. The lady said she did not think I could do anything with +it, but I knew I could try. She took it up with an old tuber attached +and two young ones. I put it in a well protected place where it was cool +and kept it well watered. It grew and continued to bloom. When taken up +in the fall there were three tubers. That was two years ago. I still +have some of it now.--_Mrs. Philetus Wakefield._ + + +CAROLINA, NORTH AND SOUTH + +_Editor Mayflower:_ + +When the world looks as if it were at the mercy of the wind and cold in +winter. Sad indeed would be these hopeless days only we know that +always, and always, it will be spring again. While the flowers are +asleep under their blanket of snow we have a period for rest and +reflection, and by thinking over the mistakes in the past we may +improve. Of all times of the year spring is the season when everything +seems to require attention at the same time. House-cleaning, sewing and +gardening crowd upon us, when the bright days come, and one of the three +is sure to be neglected by the busy women if plans are not made for each +work beforehand. Let me beg all our flower-loving women not to deny +themselves the comfort, rest and happiness that flowers alone will bring +them throughout the long summer days because they feel the time cannot +be spared to attend to the planting in early spring. What if the house +_is_ left a little disordered while one works in the garden? It can be +put to rights after the precious roots and seeds have been placed under +ground to begin their work of beauty. We must all sew I suppose, but let +us wear the last year shirt waists awhile, and take the time to plant +flowers in the garden or window boxes, to cheer us when we are compelled +to run the machine. By leaving off some of the trimmings, or doing + + * * * * * + + "HE THAT WORKS EASILY, WORKS + SUCCESSFULLY." CLEAN HOUSE WITH + + SAPOLIO + + * * * * * + +THE WARBLER + +JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, EDITOR + +With 1905 =The Warbler= begins a new series which will contain many superb +Colored Plates of rare eggs such as Kirtland and Olive Warbler, Carolina +Paroquot, Clark's Crow, Ipswich and Rufous Crowned Sparrow, Yellow and +Black Rail, Calaveras Warbler, etc. Also splendid illustrations of Birds +and Nests, and leading articles by well known authorities. + +Published Quarterly, 32 Pages & Cover + +SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.00 PER YEAR. SINGLE COPIES 30c + +Eggs of Kirtland Warbler will be figured in first issue (Jan. or Feb.) +of the new series. + + ADDRESS + THE WARBLER + FLORAL PARK, N. Y. + +without some things altogether, the money will be forthcoming to +purchase the plants we long for. Are they not worth the +sacrifice?--_Prudence Plain, So. Car._ + + * * * * * + +CONNECTICUT + + _Editor Mayflower:_ + +A friend of mine has a Winter Gem Rose, received as a premium with THE +MAYFLOWER three or four years ago. This is put in the garden in summer, +where it grows and blooms all summer. It is potted, cut back and taken +in the house through the winter. It soon grows new branches and blooms +nicely here. It is a favorite with the whole family. This same friend +has the Bouquet Petunias, also a premium with THE MAYFLOWER. She has +kept the old plant summer and winter, until this last summer it did not +seem to do as well so she took slips. I planted mine in a flower-bed. +They come up each year, some are mixed with some other kinds, but last +summer there were some the same as the original.--_L. N. F._ + + +CALIFORNIA + + _Editor Mayflower:_ + +The Blue Palm is one of the very pretty varieties planted upon the +choicest lawns. Its correct name is Erythea Armata, and it is a native +of Lower California, that part of the country so little known. In the +young plants, the blue "bloom" is very striking, and if the Palm is +grown in the sun in sandy soil the "bloom" will always remain, but a +shaded position and heavy soil destroys that beautiful color. It grows +to about forty feet in its wild state, but does nothing like that in +Southern California. It makes however a beautiful growth and adds to the +beauty of a lawn, whether alone or arranged with other +varieties.--_Georgina S. Townsend, So. Cal._ + + * * * * * + +A Reliable Heart Cure. + +Alice A. 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The smile on his face is due to the fact that he had in his +pocket a check for $25 from THE SATURDAY EVENING POST. + +This $25 is in addition to the regular commission he receives week after +week for selling THE POST. + +Harry is a hustler. The long strip of paper he holds in his hand is +covered with closely written signatures of people who have instructed +him to deliver THE POST for four consecutive weeks. + +He persuaded several prominent business men to sign at the top of the +sheet and their names influenced others to sign until the list became +longer than he is tall. + +This is one of the many ways we have suggested to help boys to sell THE +POST. It makes the work so easy that thousands of boys have taken it up. +Some are making $10 to $15 a week after school hours. + +You can start in this business, at once, without capital. Send us your +name and we will forward 10 free copies, which you can sell at five +cents each. This will supply capital for the next week's order. + +=$300 IN CASH TO BOYS Who Do Good Work EACH MONTH= + +The Curtis Publishing Company, 215 Arch Street, Philadelphia + + * * * * * + +DAKOTA, NORTH AND SOUTH + + _Editor Mayflower:_ + +I believe the main trouble in growing Verbenas is in not getting them +started early enough. They grow very slowly at first and if they are not +good strong plants when set out are almost sure to die. If you get them +started late do not think to hurry them by putting them out with the +others that grow faster. Wait patiently until they are at least an inch +and a half high and their quick growth will surprise you. And I will say +to comfort some one who can not have flowers because the pigs sometimes +get out, that I have never seen a pig touch a Verbena though I have lost +Pinks and other flowers growing beside them. There is another flower +that grows wild here that covered a quarter of our pasture last fail yet +was not touched. The leaves resemble a Verbena some but are wider and +not so thick; the main stalk is about two feet high when full grown and +the branches run like a Verbena. The flowers are red and yellow mixed +and about the size and shape of Rose Moss. They last one day and a +hollow sphere-shaped seedpod takes their place. Can anyone tell me what +the name is?--_Mrs. Nellie Fitzgerald, So. Dak._ + + +FLORIDA + + _Editor Mayflower:_ + +I thought that I would write an account of the curious freaks of +Weigelia Eva Rathke received from Floral Park and transplanted to my +grounds two years ago this winter. On the near approach of spring it +began to grow rapidly, and soon bore its first crop of flowers. And such +flowers as they were it was a rare treat to behold. Their five-petaled +corollas, faultless in form, and each perhaps an inch and a half in +diameter, were of the darkest and most intense red; a color that is +almost unrivaled by any other, and which it retains till the last, is +one of its attractions. About a month later it bloomed again, and kept +up a continuous growth, which did not end till frozen down to the ground +in the following December, after it had attained a height of over two +feet. So I came to the conclusion that being a Northern shrub, and full +of sap, it was undoubtedly killed out, root and branch. The next spring, +when the ground had become well warmed up, I beheld two delicate, tiny +looking sprouts from the root, which I immediately took charge of, +giving them shade and an occasional watering. After awhile their growth +became more vigorous; and after having attained a height of about +eighteen inches they formed their terminal buds in early autumn, and +ceased growing. At present both of them are alive along their entire +length and all their buds are plump and dormant. I shall make a strong +effort to push this shrub when warm weather comes again, as it looks as +though under favorable circumstances it ought to thrive in the South. I +also believe that Weigelia Rosea would likewise be at home here, as it +is a thrifty large growing shrub in the North, and has every appearance +of being an iron-clad.--_Joshua Morris._ + + +GEORGIA + + _Editor Mayflower:_ + +A well-grown Carnation cannot, in my opinion, be surpassed in elegance, +beauty, or odor, by any other flower, yet we scarcely ever see it in +perfection. Our summers here are too dry and hot for the full +development of its beauties, but the young plants sent me from THE +MAYFLOWER headquarters early this spring have so successfully overcome +all difficulties that I cannot refrain from telling your readers that I +think my success was due, first, to healthy young plants, and secondly, +to ordering them _early_ in the season. Many years, for the want of this +knowledge, I waited until the time for setting out tender plants in May +before putting out Carnations, and thus deprived them of a season of six +weeks well adapted to their growth. As Carnation plants are almost +hardy, they may, with safety, be put out in the open ground in any +section of the country as soon as lettuce, cabbage, etc., are planted. +Of the dozen plants I received from THE MAYFLOWER only one has succumbed +to our hot Southern summer, and the greater number are at this writing +(Aug. 7,) growing beautifully. They are planted around the edge of a bed +of Tea Roses, and have received no special attention except an +occasional pinching out of the terminal shoots to produce a stocky +growth. When the roses were mulched with grass clippings at the +beginning of summer a layer was placed around the Carnations, and when +the Roses are sprinkled with the hose every evening the Carnations come +in for their share of the moisture. A single blossom of Gen. Maceo would +amply repay me for all the trouble I have taken, as one flower of this +variety remained fresh and bright for over a week.--_A. M. 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I +ask no money. My treatment method is one that is so simple it can be +used in your own home. You can investigate fully, absolutely free and +you pay for it only after you are thoroughly convinced that it will cure +you, as it has others. It seems to make no difference with this +marvelous new method how long you have been deaf nor what caused your +deafness, this new treatment will restore your hearing quickly and +permanently. No matter how many remedies have failed you--no matter how +many doctors have pronounced your case hopeless, this new magic method +of treatment will cure you. I prove this to your entire satisfaction +before you pay a cent for it. Write to-day and I will send you full +information absolutely free by return mail. Address Dr. Guy Clifford +Powell, 1592 Auditorium Building, Peoria, Ill. Remember, send no +money--simply your name and address. You will receive an immediate +answer and full information by return mail. + + * * * * * + +IOWA + + _Editor Mayflower:_ + +My Cineraria did no good except to keep alive until I removed the top +soil and put in a mixture of garden soil, one-fourth well rotted manure, +and one-fourth sand. It is now doing extremely well. I put my Tuberose +in water and it remained there for six or eight hours, then I planted it +in earth mixed like that for the Cineraria. I planted my Cyclamen in the +same kind of soil. Both are doing nicely. I lost a number of Begonia +slips by keeping the earth too wet. I now keep the earth moist and I +have the plants in a cool place, which seems to be better for them. It +takes a long time for a new growth to appeal. My neighbor asked me to +care for five of her large Begonias. The flies and the dust had almost +destroyed them. She told me not to give them a shower bath as that would +'cook' the leaves. I did it, however, and the Begonias were doing nicely +when she took them home again. I was invited to visit an old fashioned +flower garden a few days ago. I did so and found it old, old fashioned +indeed. The flower beds were arranged here and there in the vegetable +garden. Phlox seemingly four feet high, Hibiscus that would certainly +measure ten feet around the largest part of the bush, and a few other +plants of the same order. All the bloom was very scattering and very +small and quite inferior to what up-to-date flower beds should +be.--_Ursula._ + + +ILLINOIS + + _Editor Mayflower:_ + +So many advise if but one Begonia is kept to let it be a Rubra. Well, a +well grown Rubra in full bloom is a gorgeous sight, but the President +Carnot is more beautiful, is a more robust and more rapid grower. The +foliage is beautiful, showing a sheen like changeable silk. Ours is now +in a three-gallon pail, has four stems, one 27 inches high from top of +bucket, has five large panicles of bloom, as large as man's hand, and +has not been without bloom since the 20th of June. One bunch of bloom +will hang on in fine condition for six weeks, if the plant is not +disturbed. It is the admiration of all who see it. This specimen was 12 +inches high when we placed it in the Begonia bed the 22nd, of May. There +it grew and grew, until the first of September when it was placed in a +pail, and since then it has grown and blossomed almost like the famous +gourd. The soil is old swamp dirt, with one-fourth wood soot. No insects +have ever bothered it. We spray the leaves with warm water to cleanse +the lovely foliage and water the plant with very warm water. Try this +Begonia, it is a fine one.--_E. Clearwaters._ + + +KANSAS + + _Editor Mayflower:_ + +Seldom you see anything written about the good old fashioned Zinnias. +How our grandmothers prided themselves on their summer flowers as they +called them. Then why should we push them off for something new because +they have been cultivated so many years. They should be held up as the +old songs of long ago are being sung to-day. Zinnias are easily grown. +Make a bed of good rich soil and the last of April or the first of May +plant your seed, then keep the weeds out, water in the dry season, and +you will have a nice bed of flowers until frost. They are among the +hardiest annual plants raised and any flower lover can raise them with +but little care.--_Sunflower._ + + * * * * * + + Cancer of the Breast--How Mrs. Elizabeth + Worley's Life Was + Saved. + + Warnock, O., April 28, 1904. + + Dr. D. M. Bye Co., Indianapolis, Ind. + +DEAR DOCTORS--I will write you again to let you know I am well and doing +my own work. There is no sign of the cancer coming back. You have cured +me of a cancer that four other cancer doctors told me I never could be +cured of. May God bless you in your good work. If I never meet you on +this earth I hope to meet you in Heaven. + + Respectfully, + + ELIZABETH WORLEY. + +All forms of cancer or tumor, internal or external, cured by soothing, +balmy oil, and without pain or disfigurement. No experiment, but +successfully used ten years. Write to the home office of the originator +for free book.--DR. D. M. BYE Co., Drawer 505, Dept, 82, Indianapolis, +Ind. + + * * * * * + +KENTUCKY + + _Editor Mayflower:_ + +There are few who think to take up plants for winter garnishing, yet if +one has a pit, conservatory or greenhouse enough can be raised for any +amount of entertaining, without missing either the time or space. There +are two plants suitable for this purpose, the Parsley and Lettuce, but +the Parsley will be found most valuable and will be much more easily +grown than the Lettuce. The Parsley is as pretty as it is useful, and a +few sprays of this dropped on a meat platter or on salad dishes adds +much to the attractiveness of the table. There are florists who grow +this profitably as a greenery for cut flowers, and when grown in partial +shade is quite dainty and pretty enough for this purpose. The Curled +Lettuce is best for this purpose, but if kept damp is almost sure to +rot.--_Laura Jones._ + + +LOUISIANA + + _Editor Mayflower:_ + +Last winter a lady gave me some cuttings, among them a piece of green +and white striped "Wandering Jew." I put this cutting in a pot with some +hardy plant, and when the freeze came it was forgotten, and of course it +froze. I dug it up and found one joint green, so planted it. It soon put +out two shoots and it was transplanted to a two-gallon pan of well +rotted manure and leaf mold, given an abundance of water, and how it did +grow! It has covered the pan and hangs down, many of the vines being +over a yard long,--one is 57 inches long. But when it first began to +grow some of the shoots were perfectly green, and all branches from +those shoots are green. Many other shoots were beautifully striped, and +some nearly white. I also have a fine box full of purple striped +Wandering Jew, but I prefer the green and white, for it hangs so much +more gracefully. These common plants, if grown at their best, are lovely +for small stands, hanging baskets, or any place where a trailing plant +is desirable, I have grown delicate vines in pots very little, but a +Kenilworth Ivy I have has encouraged me to add others to my gallery +garden, and I expect to take great pleasure in training them.--_Mrs. L. +B. R._ + + +MAINE + + _Editor Mayflower:_ + +If any of your readers want something odd and interesting in the way of +plants let them try one of your Little Monarch Fern Balls. I have had +rather hard luck with mine. I received the Fern Ball about a year ago, +and every member of the family except myself condemned it at once as +being "no good," but I kept it watered and in a few weeks it began to +show signs of life and had several little fronds on it in April when we +decided to move, and the Fern Ball was left with my other plants for a +friend to care for. She kept them all well watered except that, and when +I next saw it in May it looked a few degrees deader than it did in the +first place (if possible), but it came to life again and then it got +chilled in the fall so it died again apparently; but now it is starting +to grow all over and if nothing new happens to it it will soon be very +pretty. I think it has more lives than a cat.--_Mrs. F. M. Young._ + + +MONTANA + + _Editor Mayflower:_ + +While visiting the florist's near home this spring I watched him at his +work repotting Boston Ferns and learned something new. They say there's +a trick for every trade and I now believe it, for I found him putting +three and four Ferns of the same variety into the same pot, making them +all appear as one plant. If professional florists can do so why isn't it +good enough to pass along to ambitious amateurs? I have always wanted +some Ferns, but as we can't always regulate the heat at night and I find +it necessary to be away from home sometimes in winter, I have decided to +wait until I have a home in a more congenial clime than this,--not that +Montana is not all right, but our home, at present, is high up in the +mountains and winter is both long and severe. However, when I do buy +Ferns I shall try and purchase at least three of every kind I decide on +and pot them together, and then if in after years they are too crowded I +can easily repot and divide them at the same time.--_Laurel._ + + +MARYLAND + + _Editor Mayflower:_ + +Outside all is snow and ice, the wind howls and rattles at doors and +windows and I feel very sure Jack Frost is trying to get in to nip my +few pretty, thrifty window plants, but I do not think he will succeed, +for when I shut them up at night in tight boxes, and cover the tops, I +do not believe he could reach them though a blizzard raged. I have been +looking out at a bed where there are two dozen glass jars showing, or +rather their tops are just sticking out, for they are well banked with +old well rotted cowpen manure and coarse litter thrown over that--and +all now covered over with snow, making little white mounds all over the +bed. But I know that underneath these mounds are two dozen little Rose +slips--some very choice varieties--and every chance I get to peep at +them, which is every chance I get to go outside, they look fresh and +green and bid fair promise of much pleasure in the spring and summer +when, if they grow as those I raised a year ago under glass jars did, it +will be a marvel to watch them. I think it a far more satisfactory way +to raise Roses than to buy small rooted plants from a florist; at least, +such has been my experience.--_Sister Belle._ + + +MISSISSIPPI + + _Editor Mayflower:_ + +Anyone who has never seen the Giant Browallia in bloom can never realize +how very pretty and bright it is. Last summer I saw a lovely stand of +Geraniums of various shades and among them was a pot of Browallia in +full bloom. The contrast was fine. I think the shade is very much like +that of the hardy Plumbago Lady Lapente, though I've never seen the two +together. It is a lovely shade of deep blue. With me it has only one +rival among blue flowers and that is Plumbago Capense. The latter is a +lovely delicate blue while the former is a deep dark blue. I am +unbounded in my admiration of both plants. The plants are cheap. I have +never seen it only as a pot plant yet I believe it would make a most +excellent bedding plant.--_Mrs. P. L. 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The lustrous green +leaves soon began to appear and at the stem of each leaf a bloom-tassel +grew in crimson contrast. I am well pleased with my experience with this +plant.--_Lillian McIntosh._ + + +MINNESOTA + + _Editor Mayflower:_ + +I wonder who first advanced that miserable theory that Begonias should +be watered sparingly, be kept always in the shade and not a drop of +water allowed to touch the leaves. No wonder that Begonias treated in +that way drop their leaves and refuse to grow. I have grown a great many +varieties--I have forgotten how many--and I find that they all like heat +and moisture, and showering or spraying the leaves is a benefit to them +if the sun is not allowed to shine on them while they are wet. While the +rough or hairy leaved varieties will not stand hot sunshine they will do +much better and be more sure to bloom if they stand where the early +morning or late afternoon sun can shine upon them. B. Vernon and two or +three other varieties will stand as much hot sunshine as Portulaca if +given plenty of water at the roots and an overhead showering every day +after the sun is gone, in dry weather. No Begonia will do well here on +the prairie if bedded out, and plunging in pot is worse. I don't like +earthen pots for them any way--the plants do better in wood or tin. I +have a number of pots (?) made from gallon paint kegs; one keg makes +two, which I use for my Tuberous Begonias. I use broken bones for +drainage, a mixture of leaf mold and sand for soil, plant one bulb in a +keg, and after the weather becomes warm I place the kegs on a bench +which stands in an angle of the house, said angle being open to the +north and east and gets the sun till 11 o'clock. I keep the soil moist +and shower the leaves when I think they need it. And those plants do +grow and bloom, the foliage is immense, some of the leaves measuring 8 +by 12 or 14 inches, and the blossoms measure from 2 to 4 inches across. +I have counted fifteen such blossoms on one plant at one time. Do they +do much better than that anywhere? Mine are the finest I have ever +seen.--_H. J. W._ + + +NEW JERSEY + + _Editor Mayflower:_ + +I "assisted" a few days ago at a tree-moving, if assisting means +standing shivering in the snow watching eight men and four horses try to +remove a White Thorn tree (_Crataegus coccinea_) from the frozen ground. +The earth had been dug away about three feet each way from the trunk in +order to preserve the root-ball intact, though truth to tell, one root +went too deep and was ruthlessly cut. By means of skids, a stone-sled, a +jack-chain and much audible exertion, the tree was finally started on +its journey. Owing to bad management, a beautiful Tulip-tree was +sacrificed to open up a road for the royal procession, but the men +thought nothing of that--it was only a tree in the woods. In the yard a +great hole was waiting, with a deep layer of manure in the bottom; and +here, with more exertion, the tree was set, due regard being paid to the +points of the compass. It was a low spreading tree and certainly worth +the moving, and held in its branches a trim little nest. But "there are +no birds in last year's nest"--no little bird to say whether or no this +small tree will take kindly to its transplanting. So it will be watched +with mingled hope and misgiving.--_Mrs. M. H. 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I have six +varieties of Rex Begonias, a magnificent boston fern, and an immense +acacia which, although two years old, has never blossomed, though the +foliage is lovely; can any one tell me why? through the columns of THE +MAYFLOWER, where we find so much help in plant culture.--_Sunie Mar._ + + +NEW YORK + + _Editor Mayflower:_ + +Last spring I planted two bunches of the roots of Rudbeckia or Golden +Glow. although it is what some might call a coarse flower yet its color +is fine and very showy, and i know of no plant that blossoms so +continuously as the Golden Glow, and it is a plant that never tires of +growing and sending out new blossoms from early summer until autumn. +They grow to be six feet high and must be staked otherwise the plant +will topple over. But the glory of my small flower garden was a bed of +Zinnias as they represented every known color, and was one blaze of +color from midsummer until autumn, when Jack Frost closed the +scene.--_Mrs. A. C. 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Graber._ + + +PENNSYLVANIA + + _Editor Mayflower:_ + +I usually keep but one plant of a kind, and in order to keep that one +blooming at its best I have been in the habit of keeping the withered +flowers cut off, and not allowing them to ripen seed, but there are many +possibilities in this way of increasing plants. By exchanges with +friends last fall I received several varieties of Geraniums, that were +new to me. Among them was one named Albert Delarix; the flower is bright +pink, shaded deeper in the centre, and plentifully dotted over with +darker spots; it is very delicate and very beautiful. Another was +Souvenir de Mirande, that reminds one of a cluster of Apple blossoms. +Now one word about two flowers I received from Floral Park in May. +Amaryllis Formosissima was in bloom in one week after I planted the +bulb. It was just like the picture in the catalogue. Ismene Calathena +bloomed in one month after planting. I have never seen any description +of this plant that does it justice. I bought one on the recommendation +that "it was sure to give satisfaction," and I can cheerfully recommend +it where a white Amaryllis is desired. It is a flower not easy to +describe.--_Mrs. M. C. 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It +was very pretty, and behind the green bank I sewed or read, secure from +the public gaze. Behind this screen I placed my afternoon tea table, and +sometimes in the cool of the afternoon enjoyed a social chat. This year +I shall make one of blooming vines, to stay out of doors till buds set. +I have a two year old Empress of China Rose I expect to use the same +way.--_Mrs. W. J. Standlee._ + + +VIRGINIA + + _Editor Mayflower:_ + +What Emma Odell says in the October issue of the Mississippi negro is +equally true of his brother, or rather sister, in Virginia. Poor as this +shiftless class usually is, many a cabin of rude logs nestles amid +dainty trailing vines and bright hued blossoms, well worthy to adorn a +far more pretentious mansion. I never knew any member of the colored +race here to boast a pit or greenhouse.--doubtless because they can +usually beg enough cuttings of tender plants from white neighbors in the +spring to fill their tin cans. Little care they for flower pots; any old +broken pitcher, rusty bucket, water pail or teapot, it matters not, so +it will hold dirt. It is the plant they are after, not a pretty pot to +hold it. Their "luck" with Chrysanthemums amounts almost to magic +sometimes. They can make almost any plant thrive and blossom, though +seemingly in their daily round of toil they have but scant time to work +over their flowers.--_Roe Ann Oke._ + + * * * * * +Free + +Don't Pay $30 + +for a talking machine when you can get one FREE for introducing our +wonderful fast-selling SKALPO, a combination Shampoo, Dandruff, Germ +destroyer and Hair tonic in concentrated powder form, from the formula +of an eminent scalp specialist. We spare no expense to introduce SKALPO +in every home. Send us your name and address TO-DAY and we will mail you +postpaid and TRUST YOU with 30 packets of SKALPO. Sell them at 10c. +each. 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Most of the plants were curled up for their +winter sleep, but a little search brought to light undeveloped Ferns of +some species and others that were still green with last season's growth. +They were carefully taken up and set out, and have been kept in a +northeast window through the winter. Now they are rested and for several +weeks have been waking up. Let me tell you what spring reveals in that +limited space, as some unlooked-for plants were hidden under the moss +and Ferns. Above all the rest rise delicate fronds of the Maiden Hair +and more of the reddish crooks are unfolding. The common Polypodium +shows both the fruited fronds of last year and the lighter green of +recent growth. Rarest of all is the Walking Leaf, also fruited, with its +long feet reaching nearly across the keg. They will find a foothold, and +so form new plants. The tiny Asplenium Trichomanes, which has never +before flourished when transplanted by me, is sending up fresh fronds, +already fruiting. A few fronds each of the Buck Fern and Cystoptiris or +Bladder Fern, with at least three kinds of moss complete the list of +"Flowerless Plants." Three little clumps of Violets are sending out new +leaves. There are a few leaves of Partridge-berry vine, a yellow Oxalis, +an Orchid called Rattlesnake-Plantain, having lovely velvety leaves +veined with white, a few sprigs of Mouse-ear Chickweed, and, last of +all, a leaf of a Jack-in-the-Pulpit plant, the corm of which was +doubtless hidden among the roots of the Ferns. So, while the cold winds +are blowing, snow is yet on the ground, and the thermometer registers +several degrees lower than the freezing point, I have a little bit of +summer where, at my leisure, I may study the development of fifteen +species of plants, at the same time admiring their delicate beauty and +inhaling the odor of the woods.--_M. A. 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