for Jdiiiiury, 192(1 



417 



6 inches high, uitli blue llowers in May. 

 Iris Florcnlina, 2 feet high, has white flow- 

 ers in May. Arabis Alpina. white. May 

 flowering; Achillea. "The Pearl," white, 

 June and July: Ibcris Scmpcrvircns, May; 

 .Istcr Alfiinus. V'ar. Fairchild, white, and 

 blooming in Angust. and Linuin pcrciiiic, in 

 blue and white flowering in May, will make 

 for a season of continuous bloom. — H. G. 



Here and There 



From Day to Day 



Out in the Fields with God 



The little cares that fretted me, 



I lost them yesterday. 

 Among the fields, above the sea. 



Among the winds at play ; 

 Among the lowing of the herds. 



The rustling of the trees, 

 Among the singing of the birds. 



The humming of the bees. 



The foolish fears of what may hap, 



I cast them all away 

 Among the clover-scented grass. 



Among the new-mow-n hay ; 

 Among the rustling of the corn. 



Where drowsy poppies nod. 

 Where ill thoughts die and good are born 



tint in the fields with God. 



— Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 



AMERICAN HOMES 

 GARDENS. 



AND 



\\ e in America have chosen with lavish 

 hand such types of architecture and land- 

 scape gardening design from every land as 

 best suit our individual tastes ^nd condi- 

 tions, and are surely developing a type of 

 landscape gardening which may be termed 

 distinctly American ; it is subtly, yet as 

 clearly marked as our other gradually crys- 

 tallizing national characteristics. Its dom- 

 inant note is in common with all our other 

 activities, characterized by a freedom in our 

 choice of the best that the world has to 

 offer; it is an appreciation of the necessity 

 "f the furnishing of the grounds and gar- 

 lens immediately about the house, with 

 lastc commensurate with the indoor fur- 

 nishings of our homes, for our outdoor life 

 must needs be as pleasant as the hours 

 spent within doors. 



Setting our "out-of-doors living-room" — 

 our gardens, a bit apart for our own en- 

 joyment and that of our friends, we clioose 

 to separate them from the outside world 

 by a park-like treatment of borders and 

 boniidarv plantings of trees and shrubs, 

 rather than the h-gh walls of brick or stone 

 behind which our friends in other lands 

 maini-^in their privacy. These living walls 

 of trees and shrubs on border and boundarv 

 serve better to screen objectionj'ble views, 

 and presenting vistas across shaded lawn 

 or ineadow — form the most pleasant and 

 agreeable setting for the house and gar- 

 dens. This type of .American landscape 

 gardening is well defined in its essentials, 

 the details of appropriate trees a"d shrubs 

 and plants for the setting of the house and 

 gardens, the proper types of trees for lawn 

 and screen, or other situation vary slightly 

 in each case. Results in the planting of our 

 grounds must he quickly obtaitted, for we 

 are_ not satisfied to wait for tedious years 

 while tiny plants and trees grow^ to such 

 size as will make a fitting setting for the 

 pome of grand-children — we prefer to live 

 in the atmosphere of beautiful surroundings 

 ourselves.— .-J iirfurra Xiirxrrics' Book-lcl. 



It's High Time 



You Wrote for That 



Ten-Ten Catalog 



When I said that very same thing to a gardener 

 yesterday, he replied: "What do I want of another 

 seed catalog 'f Already have a pile as high as 

 your head. Heaven knows. I'll never have time 

 to wade through them, let alone even looking 

 through yours. 



"Besides, what's all that Ten-Ten bunk, anyway? 

 Who ever heard of a catalog being called Ten- 

 Ten.^ Sounds like the naine of a gambling game." 



"Vou have struck the nail plumb bob on the 

 head," says I. "Of course you haven't time to 

 go through all those calatogs. That's why we 

 made one that you could. Made it the Ten-Ten 

 waj'. The way a lot of your gardeners said you 

 wanted it made. 



Describing the Ten-Ten in a nutshell — everything 

 is grouped in tens. The ten best of everything 

 that's best, whether it be seeds, hardy plants, 

 roses or evergreens. 



.Send for it, and if you don't go through it care- 

 lully. from cover to cover, and thank us for mak- 

 ing the kind of catalog you gardeners would 

 make, instead of the kind printers want to make — 

 then you just let me know, and I'll send yon one 

 of the Ten-Ten group of roses with my com- 

 pliments. 



"uliuS* T^eKr5* Ccr 



Ai Tho Sifo of The Trge 

 Box 20 Rutk»rford N.J. 



ECONOMIC BOTANY. 



It is difticuli to understand why the study 

 of botany is so repcllant to the average 

 person. It is rarely one meets with a stu- 

 dent who takes up this study out of love 

 for it. and when the college or high school 

 course is done, what they do learn is 

 promptly forgotten. I'"veu among our own 

 profession wdiere you woidd think a good 

 knowledge of botany was almost essential, 

 very few are interested in it. In fact, the 

 practical grower seems to think that a 

 knowledge of it would be detrimental to 

 him. It is quite true that he can get along 

 without it, as it does not seem to be an 

 essential part of the growing of plants. 



This, however, is an e.\tremely superficial 

 view of horticulture. When we stop to 

 realize that directly or indirecllv a very 

 jarge proportion of the wealth of the world 

 is derived from the vegetable kingdom, such 

 as food, clothing, building material, medi- 

 cines, rubber, oil, dyes, resin, etc.. it is a 

 wonder that more students do not follow 

 the study. 



It may be there is not much direct profit 

 in studying systematic botany or the classi- 

 fication and nomenclature of jilants. or in 

 geographical botany which relates to their 

 distribution, but with the economic botanv 

 which confines itself to the sttidy of the 

 values and uses of plants to mankind, there 



