Flower Gardens of Walkerville 



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W. H. 



THE beauty of a town or city is 

 determined not so much by the 

 gardens of the rich who employ 

 professional gardeners as it is by the 

 gardens of the working people, the men 

 and women who cultivate and watch 

 with loving care the plants they them- 



Smith, Secretary Walkerville Horticultural 



eus, fuchsia, geraniums, and small cala- 

 dium, the whole making one solid bank 

 to the windows. 



The back yard is one mass of bloom, 

 there being annuals and bulbs, borders 

 of sweet alyssum, zinnias, nicotina, as- 

 ters, dahlias, sweet peas, phlox drum- 



The Front Garden of Mr. Humble'* Retidence. No. 1 



selves have planted and who thereby 

 gain pleasure and recreation. If this 

 article, therefore, encourages others to 

 make their surroundings more pleasant, 

 it will have achieved the obejct for which 

 it was written. 



The selection of gardens to be photo- 

 graphed for this article was a hard task. 

 There are so many flower gardens in this 

 town it was hard to pick out the ones 

 considered the best. 



Gardening in Walkerville is encour- 

 aged by Messrs. Hiram Walker & Sons, 

 Limited, who issue their own prize list. 

 They offer prizes for owners, and prizes 

 for tenants, and contribute about four 

 hundred dollars in prizes for general ap- 

 pearance, shrubs, blooming plants, 

 roses, climbing vines, and other similar 

 classes. The Walkerville Horticultural 

 Society is also doing its share by giving 

 a liberal premium list and encouraging 

 citizens to keep their boulevards graded 

 and mown. 



A KIOT OP BLOOM 



Illustrations one and two show the front 

 and back gardens of Mr. Humble, Lincoln 

 Road. There is a riot of color in the 

 border of geraniums, begonias, coleus, 

 salvia, and lilies. The window boxes, 

 vieing with the border, contain vincas, 

 Blick-eyed Susans, dusty millers, col- 



•J.ist when goinp to press it wa« found neces^ 

 sary. owing to la<-,k of itoace, to Uavo out the 

 descriptions and illiurtrationB of a oouplo of frar- 

 18. These will be published later.— Editor. 



mondi, gladiolus, and morning glories 

 trailing from the shed. Can you picture 

 to yourself the wondrous beauty of the 

 many blossoms? This garden should be 

 of interest to many, because the gentle- 



Society 



man who cultivates it was a novice at 

 gardening two years ago, and it shows 

 what can be accomplished when once you 

 are interested. 



A BIVAIj gaedbn 

 Figure three shows the garden of 

 Mr. Montrose, a next door neighbor of 

 Mr. Humble. There is a friendly rival- 

 ry between them ; of hanging baskets, 

 tubs of boxwood, tripods with their bas- 

 kets, clematis (Jackmanii), and border 

 of coleus, geraniums, salvia, petunia, 

 balsams, and begonias, all edged with 

 lobelia. 



THE AUTHOR'S GARDEN 



The residence of the secretary of the 

 Walkerville Horticultural Society is 

 shown in illustration number four. The 

 border aI^ound the verandah contains 

 mixed annuals, bulbs and plants— a med- 

 ley of plants, balsams, geraniums (the 

 Nutt and Mme. Barney in the majority), 

 petunia in striped effect, canans (the 

 King Humbolt), and a liberal scattering 

 of gladioli, some caladium nodding their 

 large ears on the corners, while celosia, 

 the Castle Gould, lend gracefulness with 

 their plumes of orange, pink, and red — 

 the whole thing being edged with ager- 

 atum, cobaea scandens climbing around 

 the pillars and openings of the verandah, 

 while swinging from the openings are 

 hanging baskets containing the usual 

 trailers, vinca, thunbergia, lobelia, ger- 

 aniums, petunias, fuchsias, and others. 



The back garden, of which a glimpse 

 is shown, is bordered with English pri- 

 vet three feet high and two and a half 

 feet in width, trimmed flat, the top Ije- 

 ing level from one end to the other. 



The Garden in the Rear of Mr. Humble'* Residence. No. 2 



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