eside the giants.

There is one point in my garden that is vivid throughout the summer.
First comes the orange lilium elegans, then scarlet lychnis and later,
tiger lilies. Another bit is gorgeous from the first of August until
frost; it is made up of blue and white campanula pyramidalis, that grow
quite five feet high, and Mrs. Francis King gladioli.

An important thing to think of is the line of vision from each point of
vantage of the house--the endwise view of a multicolored bed of fairy
columbines against a light green willow from the sewing room window,
from the library the blue of a Juniata iris swaying four feet up in the
air in front of a sweet briar, from the front porch pale yellow
Flavescens iris through a mist of purple sweet rockets.

The garden is in its glory during the iris season. At a conservative
estimate we have about twenty-five hundred of them in our little garden,
ranging through all the colors of the rainbow and blooming from April
until late June. They may easily make such an increase that it is
baffling to cope with, but they are so beautiful and so amenable to the
experimenting of an amateur that we feel as though we couldn't get
enough of them. Last summer a wonderful effect was achieved by putting
dark blue and mahogany-colored pansies beside Jacquesiana and Othello
iris, this repeating the color and texture in different plants.

[Illustration: Rocky Mountain columbine against the willow hedge, with
perennial candytuft as edging.]

We leave the garden through a wooden arch. Climbing over one side of
this is a Thousandschon rose, and on the other side a Dr. Van Fleet
grows rank. A wild clematis is planted beside each rose and fills the
top of the arch. I am rather dubious about the combination, for I fear
the clematis may grow so heavy that it will choke out the roses, but
this summer at least it was beautiful, and another summer will come to
try other combinations.

Truck Crop and Garden Insects.

AN EXERCISE LED BY PROF. WM. MOORE, ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY
FARM, ST. PAUL.

There is one insect that probably all those who are in the market garden
business are very much interested in, and that is the cabbage maggot. As
you all know, in the spring of the year, after cabbages are put out,
frequently you will find the cabbages slowly dying, one dying one day
and two or three the next day, and so on until sometimes fifty per cent
or more of the cabbages die. At first