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THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
nish abundance of bloom fox’ most of
the month and the dwarf Irises give
a charming effect where they suc
ceed,
W. T. iMacoun,
Dominion Horticulturist
Good Rate Summer and Autumn
Flowers For the Perennial Border
It is easy to have bloom in the
Perennial Border in spring and the
early summer, but after the delphin
iums are over there seems to be a
lack of flowers in most gardens. At
the Central Experimental Farm, Ot
tawa, we try to have something In
bloom all season. Yellow coreopsis
and brown and yellow paillardia will
bloom all season if the seedheads are
cut off. Dracocephalum has a
purple flower and blooms in August.
Sedum specabile and its varieties are
pinkish and bloom late. -The fol-
Consider the Lilies
(.By W. E. Marshall, New York)
In the world’s Architecture, its
paintings, its literature (both prose
and poetry), the Lily has always
been employed as the symbol of im
maculate beauty and purity.
In countless instances whenever
and wherever men and women have
sought to typify purity, stateliness,
graciousness and other of the fine
flowering attributes and qualities of
the human mind, they have turned
to the Lily for an example.
What is required is a good sandy,
loam, allowing of deep preparation,
with a sandy or gravelly subsoil to
insure proper drainage, for without
suitable drainage we cannot grow
Lilies successfully. I am not con
versant with soil conditions in On
tario but if you should happen to
have a clay condition, it would be
necessary to arrange a suitable place
for the reception of the bulbs. I
would suggest, in this case, that a
hole should be dug to the depth of
thirty inches, broken bricks and
stones may be thrown in the bottom,
then a mixture of your native soil,
leaf mold and sand would be used
and the bulbs may be planted in
groups of three or more. In a broad
and general way, I would say that
a soil that will grow good potatoes
will grow most of our popular and
dependable Lilies. It may grow all
of them because of the presence of
Lime, but contrary to general opin
ion, Lilies will thrive very well in
a lime condition, with probably a
few exceptions, but if you happen to
have a lime condition you may dis
pense with those few as there are a
great many others you may use.
Our next consideration would be
where to plant, location, nearly all
Lilies glory in the sun, but they are
greatly benefited by a ground cover
of low shrubs or some equal vege
tation; this is in order to protect the
top roots from the hot sun and
ing winds. What I mean by top
is this: The great majority of
Lilies have, what is known as a
fold root action, meaning that they
emit a growth of roots from the base
of the bulb and another growth of
roots from the top. of the bulb or
rather from the base of the flower
stem. Naturally such species re
quire protection for their top Toots.
Now, many of you have just this pro
per protection in your old fashioned
herbaceous border. The suitable
plants are really too numerous to
mention, but if one should wish to
plant something as a ground cover,
I would recommend the early flower
ing dwarf Anchusa Myosotidiflora,
with its delightful for-get-me-not
like flowers in early season, after
wards producing broad green foliage
that is maintained in perfect condi
tion throughout the season. This
affords a good cover for some of our
dwarf species. One must be careful
in planting Lilies to avoid having
them close to plants that have a
strong spreading root action, such
as the Double White Achillea or the
Physostegia Virginica, the dragon
flower, as many of you know that if
these plants are left to themselves
would spread all over the garden
and naturally would crowd out the
growths of the young Lilies. Shrubs
may be used for some of the taller
species, also evergreens but you
sunlight
healthy
be, how
must be careful that the planting is
not too dense or sufficient
must penetrate to ensure
growth.
■Our next thought would
to plant. As a rule lily bulbs should
be planted deeply, with a few excep
tions and these are the species- that
have the base roots only, and these
are greatly in the minority, being
confined to Candidum, Testaseum,
IMartagon, Chalcedonicum and a few
others. The old method has been
to plant the bulb three times its own
depth. I will go farther than that
and say plant four times its own
depth and you cannot go wrong. In
some cases, where the bulb has a
loose scale, and all Lily bulbs have
scale,, if not, it .does not belong to
the genus that I am talking about
now, I would advise preparing the
hole where you intend planting these
loose scaled bulbs, with a base of
sharp sand, and then place the bulb
on its side, surround with sand and
then add the soil. This method will
have the tendency to prevent moist
ure from secreting in the loose scales
and thereby rotting the bulb. In time
this bulb will right itself in the pro
per manner. Never use fresh stable
manure in planting Lilies as it may
have a tendency to attract insects
that are injurious to the bulb or may
spread fungus disease that I
to state is prevalent in some
specie. A top dressing of well
manure is desirable.
regret
of the
rotted
The Perennial Border
m
The
The coming flower for many years.
Hundreds of varieties, also Groff’s
Seedlings
(Canadian production)
Gladiolus, especially fine cut
flower varieties, Dahlias, Peonies,
and all kinds of perennials.
Campbell Bros. Estate
SIMCOE, ONTARIO
Maple Ave. Gardens
satisfactory as the other.
The Agnes rose is a paler yellow
than the Harrison, and has a buft
tint in it at times. It is a cross be
tween the Rosa rugosa and the Per
sian Yellow, and is very hardy.
iage is bluish green and quite at-1 While the blooming; season is short,
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suitable for the front of the border.
A useful pink flower is Lavater^a,
kashmeriana (L. thuringiaca Siber
ian form is similiar). It grows 5
to 6 feet and blooms all Jluly. Sid-
alcea also has pink flowers and a
long season of bloom. There are
several varieties and all are useful.
(Monarda didyma, “Oswego 'Tea” is
frequently seen. Its variety Cam
bridge Scarlet is also worth grow
ing,
are all useful late summer bloom
ing plants.
and shaped like a hood. The foliage
is dark glossy green. Boccomia,
Plume Poppy and Cimicifuga are tall
handsome plants suitable for the
back of large borders. They have a
creamy, white flower. Perennial
phlox is one of the most useful fall
blooming flowers and it can be ob
tained in a great number of colours
ranging from white to deep red and
purple. To grow well they need
good soil and plenty of moisture
during the growing season. They
soon exhaust the soil and should be
dug and divided every few years.
This rule also applies to perennial
asters or Michaelmas daisies as they
are sometimes
three different
which should be
ter melius, such
Queen Mary, grow about 2 feet and
bloom in July and August. Asater
Novae angliae, the New England As-
ter is very hardy and showy and
blooms in September. Good varieties
are Lil Fardell, deep rose and Rye
croft Purple. In the Novibelgi sec
tion there are a great number of
beautiful varieties in shades of
mauve, pink and white. In districts
where the season is mild Anemone
japonica both the white and pink
varieties are very attractive.
Isabelle Preston,
Central Experimental Farm
Ottawa
The .Monkshoods (Aconitum)
The flowers are blue
called. There are
sections of these
in every border. As
as King George and
Some of the Hardiest
and Most Easily Grown
Roses
Japanese hy-ing shrubs such as the
drangea are pruned in the spring,
thinning out some of
it strong growth has
and leaving about one-half of the
growth cut back to strong buds. This
like all late-flowering shrubs, pro
duces bloom on the current season’s
growth, and the fewer the shoots the
larger are the trusses of bloom, pro
duced
the branches
been made,
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The perennial border may be quite
attractive in the month of IMay if a
sufficient number rtf plants ,of a
compaytively few kinds of flowers
have been planted. At the Central
Experimental Farm, Ottawa, it has
been found that the most satisfac
tory method for general effect for
small borders is planting, a large
number of small clumps of each sort.
Daffodils and tulips are very effec-
ive in many small clumps between
the other plants. The Daffodils and
early tulips will be in bloom the
early part of May while the Darwin
and Cottage tulips will give the gen
eral effect during the latter part of
the month. One of the perennials
which can be -grown readily in large
numbers from seed is the Iceland
Poppy and this charming plant scat
tered throughout the border will
bloom throughout the month. Other
good perennials that bloom in May
ar.e the Virginia Cowslip, (Mertensia
virginica); Globe Flower, (Trollius)
Trilliums, of several species, of which
the most satisfactory is Trillium
grandiflorum which has done par
ticularly well under cultivation at
the Experimental Farm, Ottawa.
The Primulas, while beginning to
bloom in April extend their bloom
ing seasen well into May, the many
varieties of the Polyanthus being
particularly showy.
There are several special of Epi
medium or Barrenwort which are
very good. The most satisfactory
one is that known in the trade as E.
rubrum.
For the front of the border such
low growing plants as the (Moss Pink
(Phlox subulata) and its many var
ieties, and the Doube White flower
ed Rock Cress or Arabis will fur-
large single pink or white flow-
and it has a long blooming sea-
It becomes, a large bush six
or' more in height.
There are many people in Canada
who are fond of roses, but who hesi
tate to plan them as they know how
much trouble some of their friends
have in wintering them and in keep
ing them free from diseases and in
sects. Yet there are some roses
that are very hardy and are com
paratively free from these troubles,
and the following are among the
best tested at the .Central Experimen
tal Farm, Ottawa:
The Japanese rose, Rosa rugosa,
is an outstanding instance. It is
hardy, has glossy attractive foliage,
and
ers,
son.
feet
There are a number of good var
ieties and hybrids of the Japanese
rose, perhaps the most satisfactory
being the F. J. Grootendorst, which
bear's clusters of small rosy flowers,
and; has a -long blooming season.
There is a pink, which is also very
pleasing. Others of the rugosa ty
pe are: Mme. Georges Bruant, Rose
a perfum del’Hay, Mrs. Anhony Wat-
erer, Anges Emily Carman. Conrad
F. Meyer is good, but kills back con
siderably, though blooming on the
new wood.
The Harrison Yellow Rose is a
very hardy variety, and one of the
earliest to bloom. The flowers are
semi-double, and golden and is very
effective when in -bloom, though its
season is rather short. The Persian
Yellow is somewhat like the Harris
on Yellow, but is not so generally
Dr. Wood’s Dry, Hacking Cough
Nearly Choked Her
I
Norway
Pine
Syrup
Mrs. O. C. Scheie, Duhamel, Alta., writes:—“I had
a terrible dry, hacking cough which would nearly
choke me.
I tried all kinds of medicine to get rid of it, but
they never helped me and my cough still hung on.
I then got a bottle of Dr. Wood’s Norway Pine Syrup
and in a few days my cough was all gone, thanks to
tlus valuable medicine, Now I always keep a bottle
of ‘Dr. Wood’s’ on hand,”
Price, 35C a bottle; large family size, 65c, at all
drug and general stores; put up only by The T. Mil
burn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont,
because of its extreme earliness and
beauty it is a very desirable rose.
A hardy attractive white rose is
the one known as Madame Plantier.
This is a very free bloomer, produc
ing many medium-sized double white
flowers, and, if another white one is
desired, the Old Provence rose is a
good one.
The Moss' roses are not as popu
lar as they once were, but they are
among the hardiest roses, and have a
delightful perfume. The Crested
Moss and Old Pink are two of the
best varieties. The Cabbage rose
is an old-fashioned sweet-scented
rose, which is very hardy, and well
worth having in a rose garden. It
needs little care and blooms profdse-
iy.
A hardy and very striking rose is
the Austrian Briar, The flowers are
single and of a bright reddish cop
per while the M
tals is of gold,
is very short,
while not quite
hugonis, which
colour.
Then there are the many charm
ing single varieties of the Scotch
rose, Rosa spinosissima, which are
quite hardy, and need little atten
tion. Two hardy Damask roses are
Lady White and Red Damask. The
flowers of these are semi-double. A
Canadian variety known as Betty
Blan is a charming double pink, of
which the wild rose, Rosa blanda, is
one of the parents. The Redleaf
rose, rosa rubrifolia, is a very strik
ing species with purplish red fol
iage and small single red flowers. It
grows six to eight feet in height,
and makes a fine background for
other roses or ornamenal shrubs. It
is very hardy.
It will thus be seen that there is
quite
roses
care.
underside of the pe
lts season of bloom
Another single rose,
> as hardy, is Rosa
is sulphur yellow in
a variety of attractive harclY
which can be grown with little
W. T. Macoun,
Dominion Horticulturist
Prunning Shrubs
The early-fil-owering s,hrub}s( ’ a|re
pruned soon after they are through
flowering, for the purpose of keep
ing them to the size desired, and in
a natural bush form, with branches
to the ground. This is to be pre
ferred to an individual or group with
the lower branches more or less
sparse, and a heavy top growth. The
pruning of these shrubs- consists of
thinning out and removing some of
the older wood thus (giving; the sprout
growth, which has started or will
start up from along or at the base
of these branches, a chance to get
air and light and form new, vigor-
our, flowering shoots for another
year. It is necessary that this prun
ing be done gradually, a little each
year, and in such a manner that the
natural features of the growth in the
specimen or group be not spoilt. If
the thinning of the growth is delay
ed until the specimens become fill
ed with old wood it will be found
that the starting up of new growth
at the base of the older wood is
more difficult than it would be on
younger growth. The removal of
full branches right to the ground is
often possible and in fact it is ne
cessary in old specimens required to
be reduced in size or height. Cutting
off the top’of the branches is usual
ly not satisfactory, and gives an un
natural or trimmed look. The thin
ning out of certain branches each
year- will enable a gradual reduction
of the shrub to be made,, without
destroying its character.
The flowering clusters of lilacs
should be removed soon after flower
ing, and' usually little thinning of
branches is necessary. Late-flower-
A Lovesome Thing
A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot;
-Rose plot,
Fringed pool,
Ferned grot,
The veriest school of peace, and yet the fool
Contends that God is not,
Not God in gardens, when the eve is cool7
Nay, but I have a sign;
-’Tis very sure God walks in mine.
Rock Garden and Pool to bo Ejected
to His Memory
In immediate response to the pro
posal of the Canadian Horticultural
Council to erect a rock garden and
pool as a memorial to the late Dr.
Macoun, one of Canada’s most emi
nent horticulturists, the Dominion
Minister of Agriculture at once ar
ranged for a site at the Dominion
Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa.
The work on the memorial will be
proceeded with at once and will be
carried out with funds raised by po
pular subscription under the super
vision of the Canadian Horticultural
Council.
In recognition of the great work
done by the late Dr. Macoun, the fol
lowing resolution, which reflects the
esteem in which he was held1 at large
by the peoplte of Canada, was unan
imously passed by the Canadian Hor
ticultural Council: “Whereas it is
recognized that the late Dr Mocoun
was one of the most outstanding
horticulturists of his time and one
of our noblest and best beloved cit
izens; whereas his (ife efforts were
devoted to making our country more
beautiful and fruitful; whereas
other organizations, institutions and
countries have from time to time ap
propriately and justly honoured him
whereas lie was particularly inter
ested in the propogation and dissem
ination of ornamental trees andi
plants and their propel” design;
whereas at the time of his death he
was preparing a
garden and pool
wou!,'d be erected
perimental Farm,
the Canadian Horticultural Council,
of which the late Dr. Macoun was an
honored member since its inception,
enthusiastically sponsor the erection
of such a garden to his memory ana
that the necessary funds be raised by
popular subscription under the sup
ervision of our Plant Registration
and Ornamental Horticulture Com
mittee in order that his many friends
may have an opportunity to partici
pate.’’
Representative provincial commit
tees- are being appointed to carry
out tjie work in connection with the
subscription so that the Dr. Macoun
memorial will be truly an all-Cana-
da tribute to one of her most illus
trious sons.
design for a rock
which he hoped
at the Central Ex-
be it resolved that
Canadian Strawberries
'Strawberries are produced com
mercially in British Columbia, Nova
Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario and
Quebec. Each area has established
distribution in fresh-fruit markets,
and there is a good demand for can
ning and jam purposes. Consumer
iSL
demand in April, May and June,
when this fruit is available from the
United States in advance of local
supplies, results if the importation of
a considerable amount, approaching
3,000,00'0 quarts. Exports from
Canada, mainly of late strawberries
from New Brunswick and Nova Sco
tia, total -50'0,000 to 600,00'0 quarts
annually.
Hensall Public School Report
The following is the report for
Miss Ellis’s room in the Hensall
Public School for the months of
January and February. Asterisk
means those that have missed exam
inations.
Jr. IIIA)—'Audrey Twitchell 74;
Shirley Twitchell 65; *Herman
Wolff 5i5; Roy Foster 70; Laird
Hudson 64; *Cecial Kipfer 4!5.
Jr. HIB—.Harold Koehler 86; R.
Parker 80; Mary Gooawin 77; Nor
ris McEwen 7 6; June Saundercock,
72; Howard Love 71; Jack Shep
herd 65; Madeline Vanlandeghem
62; Preston Lemmon 56; Margaret
Bell 46; Carl Daters 43.
2nd class—Marion Drummond 88
Donald Joynt 85; Robert Cameron
81; Emily Hoskins 81; Margaret
Sangster 80; Robert Hess 75; Robert
Sangster 73; Lois McLaren 60; Re-
ta Bell 60; Ross Green 51.
Chamber of Commerce
A meeting- of the Chamber of
Commerce was held in the town
hall on Tuesday evening with about
sixty members present. Mr. J. D.
Buchanan, of London, president of
the London Chamber of Commerce
and a son of Mr. Alex Buchanan of
Hensall* was present. He was accom
panied by Mayor W H. Wood, secre
tary of the London Chamber of
Commerce and both gentlemen gave
splendid addresses. A quartette com
posed of Rev. Mr. Young, W. A. Mc
Laren, W. O. Goodwin and1 Sam Ren
nie gave several numbers. Dr. Smil-
lie accompanied on the piano. Dur
ing the business session a number
of subjects were discussed for the
betterment of business conditions in
the village. It was decided1 to
change the name from the Hensall*
Board of Trade to the Hensall Cham
ber of Commerce. A minstrel show
will be put on about the last of April
and a big celebration for the 24th
of May. It was decided to hold the
regular meeting on the 3rd Friday
of each month.
The Exeter Horticultural Society
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