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desire to take up the wtuk would be aeceptable. 

 Many estates have the faciHties, or could readily install 

 them, to house and board the young men. It has been 

 suggested that community houses providing rooms, 

 board, and study quarters, might be established where 

 young gardeners who could not be cared for on the 

 places, could be accommodated. 



There are advantages in employing these young 

 men ; first, from the point of view of economy, for the 

 salary at which such young men could be secured as 

 apprentices, including their board, would be less than 

 is paid to the laborer; second, a group of clean-cut 

 young chaps with a good school training behind them 

 and interested in their chosen vocation, would present 

 a more pleasing adjunct to the surroundings than a 

 gang of ignorant foreign laborers working in the 

 garden, and they certainly should produce more satis- 

 factorv results. It remains with some one to start 

 the movement to interest our young men in gardening 

 as a profession. Who shall it be? 



What is most necessary today to develop better and 

 finer American gardens is a greater spirit of co-opera- 

 tion between garden owners and those men who are 

 earnestly endeavoring to place their profession where 

 it properly belongs, as the oldest of all professions, in 

 the front ranks of the sciences and arts. The question 

 that is still unsolved is what would be the most desira- 

 ble agency to bring about such co-operation. Possibly 

 some member of the Garden Club of America can 

 answer this question. — From Bulletin of the Garden Club 

 of America. 



In the selection of bulbs do not demand from your 

 seedsman the largest bulbs. Some of the best do not 

 produce large bulbs, while the largest bulb is often not a 

 flower producing bulb. The niediiun sized bulb is often 

 the cream of the collection. The essential thing is to get 

 a firm bulb of blooming age. 



The next important point is the planting, and I wish 

 this might be in capital letters. Gladiolus bulbs must be 

 planted at least five inches deep and six to eight is much 

 better. The bulb you plant dies away and the flower 

 producing bulb grows on top of it and miless planted 

 deep, it grows too near the surface. Deep planting gives 

 the roots anchorage enough to support a strong, tall 

 flower spike, against all wind and weather, and does 

 away with unsightly stakes. 



In every Garden of Delight, the Gladiolus should have 

 a place and in every Garden of Utility there should be 

 rows and rows of space given to them, for from these 

 cutting gardens, the glory goes out to the world, to the 

 home, to the church, to the hospitals, in all the dignity 

 and beauty of the ultimate flower. 



THE GLADIOLUS 



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Sunrise and .Sunset, all beautiftil and satisfactory sorts, 

 of varying shades of yellow. But there is a veritable 

 Gold Coast of 3-ellow and butt varieties with the crimson 

 markings on the lower petals, and they are indeed most 

 decorative. There is Golden King and Golden Queen, 

 Golden West, with color of the setting sun. Rough Torch, 

 ^^"illy Wigman and Jean Dieulafoy, all in gold and red. 

 buft and crimson tints. 



Yellow Prince with lavender of Jacinthe or Conspicu- 

 ous, or with the mauve pink of the ever popular America, 

 gives one of the finest blending of colors. 



It is perhaps as a cut flower that the beauty of the 

 Gladiolus is revealed in fullest measure. It matters little 

 whether placed in majestic vases above which tower the 

 four- foot spikes, or in Japanese bowl arrangement, where 

 the bloomed-out tips find their happiest expression. 



The small flowered type, the Primulinus Hybrids, are 

 now (|uite as much in demand for cutting, and especially 

 for forcing, as the large flowering varieties. They are 

 not easily described but their beauty may perhaps be most 

 appropriately called opalescent. Exquisite shades of all 

 colors from terra cotta through bronze, copper, orange, 

 rose, pink, apricot, yellow, buff and cream, with now and 

 then a purple or lavender, and back, yes back to a real 

 pure white one, but only one in a thousand. It is abso- 

 lutely impossible to do them justice in a word picture. 

 Seeing, only, is believing, and then to see is to desire and 

 that not by the bulb but by the thousand. I speak ad- 

 visedly for I have worked with them so intimately that 

 I know their unequalled beauty and their limitless charm. 

 .'\s to the growing end of these garden comforts, suc- 

 cess nearly always rewards fhe amateur who plants the 

 Gladiolus, as they grow well in any good garden soil and 

 res[)ond (piickly to water or fertilizer, but a word of 

 advice may be permissible. 



NATURAL EFFECTS IN LANDSCAPE WORK 



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mention here all the names of plants suited for the rock- 

 garden, they are too numerous, but a few extra good 

 ones might be welcome. 



Daphne eneoruin. evergreen with fragrant pink 

 flowers. Kalinia augustifolia, glauca and latifolia (the 

 Laurels), Ta.nis canadensis, the low creeping Yew, peren- 

 nial Asters, Cactus, hardy varieties, Callirlioe involu- 

 crafa; spreading, Cimicfuga raccmosa, Cornus Canadensis, 

 6 inches high, Dicentra exiniia with purplish flowers and 

 beautiful fine cut leaves — Eupatorium ageratoides (white 

 Snakeroot), Eupliorbia corollata (Spurge), Gcntiana 

 Andrcii'sii, beautiful blue flowering, HemerocalUs va- 

 rieties, Hepatica, Heiichcra Sa.ngttinea (Bellflower), 

 Iris dwarf varieties, native Lilies, Linum pcrcnne, blue 

 flowering, Mertensia zirginica, early purple flowering, 

 Mitchelia repcns (Partridge Berry-) grows well under 

 Pine trees, Myosotis palustris in damp places. Platycodon 

 Maricsi, deep violet, Auricula, Erica (Heather), differ- 

 ent species, Saxifraga, Sedurn high and low growing 

 varieties, Silene alpestris and Shasta, Spirea filipcn- 

 dula /?. pi., beautiful plant, Tradescantia virginica 

 (Spiderwort), Trillium, fine for mass planting in woody 

 parts. Tunica saxifraga, a continuous bloomer, Veronica 

 incana (blue flowers and white leaves), V. repcns, one 

 of the best ground covers, Viola varieties and Yuccas. 

 The latter are very effective to plant singly or in groups 

 in exposed places. 



"lie tliat feels not the Ijeauly and blessedness and 

 peaee of the woods and meado'vs that God hath bedecked 

 zvith Ihmtcrs for him even while he is yet a sinner, hoio 

 shall he learn to enjoy the unfading bteoni of the celes- 

 tial country if he ever become a saint? 



"No, no, sir, he that departelh out of this world ivilh- 

 oul perceiving that it is fair and full of innocent s-a^eet- 

 ness hath done little honor to the every-day miracles of 

 divine benefiecHcc ; and though by mercy he may obtain 

 an entrance to heaven it will he a strange place to him: 

 and though he have studied all that is written in men's 

 boohs of divinity yet because he hath left the book of 

 Nature unturned he 7vill have much to learn and much 

 to forget. Do you think- that to be blind to the beauties 

 of earth prepareth fhe heart to behold the glories of 

 heaven?" —Henry Van Dyke. 



