Part 33

=DESIRABLE ANNUAL VINES=

+--------------------------------+---------------------+-----------------+ | =Common and Botanical | =Color, Height and |=Kind of Soil and| | Name; Hints on | Time in Bloom= | Light Required= | | Cultivation= | | | +--------------------------------+---------------------+-----------------+ |=Hyacinth Bean= (_Dolichos |Purple; 15 feet; 4 |Rich, light; sun.| |Lablab_).--Sensitive to frost. |weeks. | | |Makes good screen. Plant one | | | |foot apart. | | | | | | | |=Cup and Saucer Vine= (_Cobæa |Purplish, white; 15 |Rich, light; sun.| |scandens_).--Rapid climber. Set |feet; 6 weeks. | | |plants six inches apart. | | | | | | | |=Allegheny Vine= (_Adlumia |Pinkish; 10 feet; 3 |Moist, rich; | |cirrhosa_).--For covering |weeks. |shade. | |bushes. Set eight inches apart. | | | | | | | |=Ivy-Leaved Gourd= (_Coccinea |White; 10 feet; 4 |Light, rich; sun.| |cordifolia_).--_Coccinea Indica_|weeks. | | |is grown for its scarlet fruit. | | | | | | | |=Canary-Bird Vine= (_Tropæolum |Canary yellow; 15 |Light, rich; sun.| |Canariense_).--Not showy, but |feet; 3 weeks. | | |quick growing. Set eight inches | | | |apart. | | | | | | | |=Balloon Vine= (_Cardiospermum |White; 10 feet; 3 |Light, rich; sun.| |Halicabum_).--Seed vessels like |weeks. | | |balloons. Set plants ten inches | | | |apart. | | | | | | | |=Balsam Pear= (_Momordica |Yellow; 10 feet; 3 |Light, rich; sun.| |Charantia_).--Plant seeds |weeks. | | |outdoors after last frost, else | | | |under glass earlier. | | | | | | | |=Climbing Nasturtium= |Yellow or red; 10 |Light, rich; sun.| |(_Tropæolum majus_).--For close |feet; 8 weeks. | | |screen plant ten inches apart. | | | | | | | |=Cypress Vine= (_Ipomœa |Scarlet; 15 feet; 3 |Light, rich; sun.| |Quamoclit_).--Star-shaped |weeks. | | |flowers. Finely cut leaves. | | | | | | | |=Scarlet Runner Bean= |Red, white; 18 feet; |Light, rich; sun.| |(_Phaseolus multiflorus_).-- |4 weeks. | | |Tender perennial with tuberous | | | |roots. | | | | | | | |=Maurandia= (_Maurandia |White, blue; 10 feet;|Light, rich; sun.| |Barclaina_).--Showy leaves and |2 weeks. | | |trumpet-shaped flowers. | | | +--------------------------------+---------------------+-----------------+

=FLOWERING SHRUBS AND HEDGE PLANTS=

+-----------------------------+---------+----------+---------------------+ | =Names and Descriptions= | =Height |=Flowering|=Cultivation and Use=| | |in Feet= | Time= | | +-----------------------------+---------+----------+---------------------+ |=Spirea= (_Spiraea Van | 6 | June |Plant in a conspicu- | |Houtter_).--The most showy of| | |ous place with ample | |the spireas; flowers in | | |room. Cut out flower-| |umbels two inches across. | | |ing wood in summer. | |Handsome foliage all summer. | | |Thrives anywhere. | | | | | | |=Spirea= (_Spiraea_, _Anthony| 3 | July |Prune off old flower | |Waterer_).--The only shrub of| | |heads as soon as | |its season. Flowers crimson | | |withered to induce | |red produced successively for| | |good second crop. | |six weeks. Good for edging. | | | | | | | | | |=Mock Orange= (_Philadelphus | 12 | June |Old wood should be | |coronarius_).--Most fragrant | | |cut out from time to | |white large flowered shrub. | | |time, otherwise the | |Valuable for tall screen. | | |tree gets very | |Flowers one and one-half | | |ragged. | |inches across. | | | | | | | | | |=Althea or Rose of Sharon= | 12 | August |Good for hedges and | |(_Hibiscus Syriacus_).--The | | |screens. Must be | |only tall shrub of late | | |planted very early in| |summer. Very hardy; leafs | | |the autumn. | |late. White or rose flowers. | | | | | | | | | |=Hydrangea= (_Hydrangea | 6 to 15 | July- |Prune very completely| |paniculata_, var. | | August |in winter for | |_grandiflora_).--Most showy | | |quantity of flowers | |of all summer shrubs. White | | |next year. | |flowers, shading into pink | | | | |and persisting all winter. | | | | | | | | | |=Golden Bell= (_Forsythia | 5 to 8 | April-May|Plant against a dark | |suspensa_).--The most showy, | | |background, such as | |early-flowering shrub. Yellow| | |evergreens, or a | |flowers before the leaves. | | |hillside to set off | |Branches arch over and root | | |flowers. | |at tips. | | | | | | | | | |=Japan Quince= (_Cydonia | 4 to 8 | May |Very subject to San | |Japonica_).--Earliest bright | | |Jose scale. Don’t | |scarlet flowered shrub. | | |plant near orchards | |Useful also as a hedge. Plant| | |unless systematically| |as specimen. Slow growing. | | |sprayed. Stands close| | | | |pruning. | | | | | | |=Lilac= (_Syringa vulgaris_).| 8 to 15 | May-June |Spray with potassium | |--Very fragrant lilac, white | | |sulphide for mildew | |or purple flowers. Grows | | |in August, September.| |anywhere, even in partial | | |Do not permit suckers| |shade. | | |to develop. Prune for| | | | |form only. | | | | | | |=Japanese Snowball= | 6 to 8 | May-June |Prune as little as | |(_Viburnum plicatum_).-- | | |possible. Should be | |Largest showy white balls of | | |planted on lawn as a | |bloom, better habit than the | | |specimen, or trained | |common snowball and not so | | |on wall of house. | |subject to plant louse. | | | | | | | | | |=Tartarian Honeysuckle= | 8 to 10 | May-June |Plant in shrubbery | |(_Lonicera Tatarica_).--Most | | |where its presence is| |fragrant of all the early | | |made known by the | |summer shrubs, especially at | | |odor. Valuable as a | |dusk. Flowers pink; several | | |low screen on | |varieties red or white. | | |seaside. | | | | | | |=Weigela= (_Diervilla | 6 to 8 | June |Can be planted where | |florida_).--Showiest shrub of| | |other shrubs fail. | |midsummer. Flowers pink, | | |Free from insects and| |white, red. Best flowering | | |disease. Cut out old | |shrub under big trees. | | |wood to the ground. | | | | | | |=Wistaria or Wisteria= (_W. | 8 to 15 |All Summer|Adapted for screen or| |Frutescens_).--Handsome | | |trellis. | |hardy, slow-growing, climbing| | | | |shrub. Flowers in elegant | | | | |lilac-colored racemes, | | | | |slightly scented. | | | | | | | | | |=California Privet= | 6 to 8 | ... |Set six inches deeper| |(_Ligustrum ovalifolium_).-- | | |than in the nursery | |Fastest growing. Stands salt | | |and cut back to six | |spray. Good soil binder. | | |inches or less. | |Stands severest pruning and | | | | |can be trained high or low. | | | | | | | | | |=Regel’s Privet= (_Ligustrum | 2 to 6 | June |Useful as a border | |Ibota_, var. _Regelianum_).--| | |hedge to plantations | |Low growing, denser habit | | |and along roadways. | |with spreading, drooping | | |Should not be planted| |branches clothed with white | | |as a protection. | |tassels. | | | | | | | | | |=Osage Orange= (_Maclura | 3 to 15 | May |Unless regularly | |pomifera_).--Grows in any | | |trimmed, the top | |soil. Makes a dense defensive| | |branches will spread.| |hedge as far north as | | |Will exhaust soil on | |Massachusetts. Flowers white.| | |each side for some | | | | |feet. | | | | | | |=Japanese Barberry= | 4 | June |Does not need | |(_Berberis Thunbergii_).-- | | |pruning. Red berries | |Foliage down to the ground. | | |all winter, and | |Dense compact growth of small| | |foliage red until | |spiny branches making | | |Christmas. Do not | |effective hedge in winter. | | |plant in wheat | | | | |districts. | | | | | | |=Honey Locust= (_Gleditschia | 3 to 15 | May |Plant thickly and | |triacanthos_).--The thorniest| | |prune severely. Mice | |of all. “Bull strong, horse | | |girdle in winter. | |high and pig tight.” | | |Spring trimmings must| |Perfectly hardy. Fast and | | |be burned. Needs | |vigorous grower. Suckers. | | |strict control. | | | | | | |=Buckthorn= (_Rhamnus | 6 to 10 | ... |Spray with kerosene | |cathartica_).--The best | | |emulsion for hop | |strong hedge, as dense and | | |louse. Old hedges | |tight as honey locust but not| | |that are out of | |so high. Thorny. Never | | |condition are easily | |ragged. Moderate grower. | | |recovered by cutting | | | | |back. | | | | | | |=Trifoliate Orange= (_Citrus | ... | ... |Not reliably hardy | |trifoliatus_).--Best medium | | |north of Phila- | |height hedge for the South | | |delphia. White | |where it is evergreen. | | |flowers followed by | |Deciduous in the North. | | |small yellow fruits | |Foliage yellow in fall. | | |make it ornamental | | | | |also. | | | | | | |=Tamarix= (_Tamarix | 5 to 10 | ... |Flowers feathery pink| |Gallica_).--Unexcelled for | | |on old wood; on new | |saline and alkaline soils, | | |wood in var. | |growing on the salt water’s | | |_Narbonnensis_. | |edge where nothing else will.| | |Foliage small. | | | | | | |=Japanese Briar= (_Rosa | 5 to 8 |All Summer|Suited for boundary | |rugosa_).--The only rose | | |or screen. | |suitable for a hedge. White, | | | | |pink and red flowers. | | | | +-----------------------------+---------+----------+---------------------+

=BEST LAWN GRASSES FOR ALL PURPOSES=