ABOUT MAKING GARDENS 97 



on my nine acres, but not one tulip bed. I simply 

 thrust my tulip bulbs down through into the soil 

 of my strawberry beds, between the plants. They 

 come up and blossom as if they owned the soil, but 

 the flowers are gone and the stalks are dried before 

 the strawberries have got out of bloom. When we 

 are picking our berries there is nothing to show that 

 six weeks earlier this was a tulip garden. 



Lilies can be grown much in the same way, but 

 the best I have seen were blossoming in the vine- 

 yard right along through the grape rows. The 

 easiest sorts for common country folk to grow are 

 the tall White Candidum, a magnificent lily for 

 July, and the Japan Lancifoliums for August. The 

 Auratum, or Gold-banded, will do equally well, if 

 planted nine inches deep instead of five. Our field 

 lilies also do admirably under similar conditions. 



Nasturtiums ask only for a hard, barren bank. 

 You simply must not feed them, but you may give 

 all the food you can to the pansies that grow just 

 beside them. Now beyond these flowers make a 

 specialty of daffodils and iris in the spring, almost 

 anywhere that you can press them down along by the 

 hedges or the grape rows. Phloxes alone remain 

 as my hobby, and I will find room for this superb 

 flower, because it is so profuse in bearing, and, if you 

 please, you may cut it down for fall blooming. If 

 you secure a few of the choicer sorts you will have 

 no difficulty in raising seedlings that are improved 



