The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-03-26
THE GARDEN

BY Ferdinand Wiener

Most Ginning vines are not only
ornamental but useful in many
ways. Used correctly, beautiful eff
fects can be obtained by the anna
teur or skilled gardener, when they
are used with taste. Good archi-
lecture may be enhanced and un-
slightly buildings made less so.
Fences may be covered, screens to
provide privacy, or to shut out
spots not so slightly, porches pro-
vided with shade, and arbors COW
cred. Even bare spots on the
ground that are difficult to cover
otherwise may be covered with
vines.
Engleman Ivy is used a great
deal to cover stone buildings with.
1t is vigorous grower. hardy, and
climbs with but little help. 1t pro-
badly is one of the most popular
climbers.
There are a number of honey
suckles, and the Scarlet Trumpet
Honeysuckle is probably best
known. 1t is a very snowy and
hardy climber. OF vigorous growth,
it bears many bright scarlet, trum-
pet shaped flowers in spring and
summer.
Another climber of much value is
the Trumpet Flower, also called
Temcoma, Bignonia, and probably
a few other names. This is a vine
of luxuriant growth, the stem be-
coming from twenty or more feet
long. One expert declares that it
will make eighty feet under favor
able conditions. 1t climbs by means
of roofing tendrils, and is an excel
lent vine for porches, trellises, sum-
mer houses, etc. The leaves are of
large pinnate form, and for sever
al weeks in summer, great numbers
of large, handsome, trumpet-shap-
ed flowers are borne. These are
rich scarlet in color. 1t is hardy
anywheres, and may also be plant
ed as shrub, which form it will
take and can be maintained with a
little attention and pruning.
All climbing vines, no matter how
hardy they are, are benefited by
some mulch at the base of the
plants, both winter and summer.
Drought is the greatest enemy of
most vines, and a mulch is there
fore appreciated by the plants.
The Trumpet Flower or Bignon-
la is also occasionally used in win
dow boxes with quite satisfactory
results.
Answer to last weeks question.
According to French writer by
the name Of Joaquin, the canta-
loupe is supposed to have received
it's name from Cantalouppi, a villa
belonging to the pope near Rome.
The cantaloupc was brought here
for the first time to Europe by mis-
sionaries working in Armenia, and
it's cultivation begun. The canta-
loupe is the oldest and best variety
Of mushmelons. The mushmelon
was cultivated at a very early date,
said to be a native of central Asia,
coming from Persia to Europe.
There Is no certain data on its
first European culture, but is
thought to have been brought into
Italy during the early part Of the
first century, If not before, as men,
toned by Pliny, who died from
suffocation caused by the great
eruption Of Mt. Vesuvius in A. d.
70. In his works, he described the
culture of melons, so as to be OBJ
tanned by the Emperor Tiberius at
all times of the year.
The Nutmeg and Citron varieties
which are more common in our
markets, are supposed to be the
African or Egyptian melons Of the
early writers.
What common garden vegetable
was so highly priced by the ancient
Greeks that they offered 1t In OBJ
lation to Apollo In vessels Of beaten
gold? See answer next week.