Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1880 — Garden Notes. [ARTICLE]

Garden Notes.

Destroy the eggs of the tent caterpillef which are to be found in small closely fitting rings, or bands, near the ends of the smaller-twigs, and' tnafbe cutaway. Many insects harbor beneath the loose bark of the trees, and by senaping this off and washing the trunk with a 'Solution of so t soap much good may be done. To prevent the ascent of the wingless females of the canker worm, use heavy brown paper bound doddy Around the

tree’s trunk, and then smear with cheap printer’s ink or tar. The bands will have >. to be re-coated at frequent intervals through the season. In a shady rookery English primroses are as vigorous and floriferous as if at home in a Kentish wood or Surrey glade, and beside them in equal thrift arc growing polyanthuses and other single and double garden primroses. The cashmere primrose, a new specie from Asia, is equally hardy and unfolds its globular beads of lilac blossoms while the other sorts are still unresurrected. It is not the csld of winter that dnetrnyi these gems in our gardens, but the summer's heat and drought Moss pinks, whtie, red, pink and crimson, ire solid carpets of flowers and they, luxuriate in open, dry, sunny spots where , little else will grow. They are at home running wiki in the grass or scrambling among stones and are capital things for covering sunny banks. Their evergreen nature renders them cheerful -iu winter and they are very hardy. Other vernal phloxes, like reptans and amceoa, are I showy and profuse and excellent garden plants. A medical correspondent of an English journal says that the advantages of asparagus are not sufficiently appreciated, loose who suffer from rheumatism are cured in a few days by feeding on this I delicious esculent; and more chronic cases I are much relieved, especially if the patient avoids all acids, whether in food or bever age. The Jerusalem artichoke has a similar effect in relieving rheumatism. The European and Asiatic trollius are I handsome garden plants, with yellow and orange flowers, and nearly allied to the

pretty spring Adonis, which is now past its best. The marsh marigolds, single and double, too, are very showy; they like a damp or wet place. A great many varieties of the common dwarf iris are now in bloom; also the pretty I. cristata and a few other species. They will soon be succeeded by larger and more showy kinds. Most of the bulbous irises are past All are accommodating garden plants.