April, 1912 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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serve to hide the asters from view until 

 they are ready to bloom, when the calli- 

 opsis can be removed. 



The borders are about thirty inches 

 wide and have a board inserted at the 

 edge. A row of parsley is sown about 

 the end of March close to the board edge 



and makes a most beautiful border of 

 green all summer, being both useful and 

 ornamental. The border on the east has 

 roses, paeonies and hydrangeas of the 

 shorter varieties. The verandah which 

 faces the south is covered with cfematis, 

 Dorothy Perkins rose and Prairie Belle. 



Flowers and Vegetables Together 



A. J. Elliott, 



IT appears to have been the determina- 

 tion of man since all time that flowers 

 and vegetables should be kept strictly 

 separate, as though the one would in 

 some way counteract the usefulness of 

 the other. How often do we see in hor- 

 ticultural papers illustrations of hedges, 

 arches, perystyles and so forth, show- 

 ing where Mr. So-and-So's vegetable 

 garden Ijegins. No one expects to see 

 the plebeian potato, carrot, and so forth, 

 in the magnificent grounds that are open 

 to the public in Canada, the United 

 .States, lingland, and the continent of 

 Europe, and while they are grand and 

 aristocratic as regards lay-out, taste, 

 and expense, still I have thought, while 

 looking at them ,that our own Ontario 

 flowers, individually, are fuller of sun- 

 shine than most of them. But we are 

 apt to be prejudiced. These grand re- 

 sorts, so ably described by Miss Black- 

 lock and Mr. Collins in The Canadian 



Ayltner Ont. 



HoRTicuLTiRiST in past numbers have a 

 two-fold effect. Either they spur one on 

 to greater exertion, and consequently 

 success, or else they depress with the 

 thought that it is impossible for a novice 

 to succeed. 



Most of us have more moderate lands, 

 and we have to cut our coat according to 

 the cloth. Owing to a row of maples 

 annexing all the sunlight in my front, 

 I had to figure out how this old idea of 

 man could be repudiated and leave 

 something acceptable in i/ts place. A 

 certain system vvas evolved, and so far 

 my friends and I seem to be satisfied 

 with the result. 



I believe it is the right plan for the 

 smaller gardens, and I was pleasantly 

 surprised to see, when in England, the 

 idea was quite common. It is surpris- 

 ing what can be made to grow on a 

 small piece of land adopting the system 

 here shown. This is purely ,as can be 



seen, a mixed garden. Everything that 

 we like in the vegetable line is raised, 

 ;except melons. It will be perceived 

 that there are flower borders around all 

 but the south side, and that the jumbled 

 condition of the two centre ones and the 

 left-hand plot is due to the fact that there 

 is a double crop there all the time- 

 .Suffice it to say that the tulips, jonquils, 

 hyacinths, and so forth are through and 

 out of the way before the other things 

 come on. Try this idea and mark the 

 surprise of your friends who in early 

 spring visit you and find the bulbs out, 

 when they come later will find the same 

 Land carrying splendid crops of vege- 

 tables. Do not forget, however, that 

 there must be rotation of all. 



The wedge-shaped bed driven into the 

 lawn was very pretty this year. About 

 ten feet back is an asparagus bed, which 

 is allowed to run up after we are tired of 

 it. Then follow, according to size, four 

 o'clocks, zinnias, gladioli, branching 

 asters, phlox Drummondi, and rose of 

 .Sharon, the shortest. When all were in 

 bloom a glorious bank of flowers was 

 the result. Still, it could be made bet- 

 ter by the elimination of the two rows of 

 asters from the fact that all the others 

 were in bloom long before and after the 

 asters blossomed. This year their places 

 will be filled with, say, balsams and 

 stocks. Then, I think, it will be about 

 perfect. 



The Plan of Mr. Elliott'* Flower and Vegetable Garden. 



Plants for Shady Places 



Wm. Hunt, O.A.C., Guelph, Ont. 



{Concliidrd from March isKue) 

 The following lists of perennial and an- 

 nual decorative plants will possibly help 

 to some extent in the matter of the se- 

 lection of plants that are benefited by be- 

 ing given some degree of protection from 

 the heat of the sun. The following is a 

 list of hardy border plants: 



Aegopodium podograria variegatum 

 (Gout \\'eed), a running rooted plant 

 with silvery white and green foliage, 

 suitable for planting under trees ; .'\coni- 

 tum (Monk's Hood or Wolf's Bane); 

 Acorus (Sweet Flag) ; Ajuga (Bugle 

 Plant), low growing, mostly .creeping 

 plants that like shade and moisture; Al- 

 lum Moly, most of the varieties of dec- 

 orative Alliums like partial shade; An- 

 thericum Liliago (St. Bernard's I-ily), 

 there are .several hardy varieties of the 

 .'\nthoricums suitable for planting in bor- 

 ders ; .\stilbe Japonica (.Spirea Japonica), 

 in the more southern sections of Ontario 

 the several varieties of the Astilbes are 

 very u.seful for planting in moist, shady 

 positions ; Caltha palustris flore pleno 

 (Marsh marigold) ; Convallaria majalis 

 (Lily of the Valley); Camassia csculenta ; 

 Dahlia, partial shade during the heat of 

 the day, a short distance from the north 

 side of a building desirable ; Diccntra 

 (Dielytra or Bleeding Heart), D. specta- 



