THE JOYOUS ART OF GARDENING 



Canadian Bell/lower Lily. A June-blossoming lily which grows 

 wild throughout New England and is strikingly decorative. The 

 clusters of nodding, bell-shaped flowers, yellow spotted with black, 

 are borne in spikes two to three feet high. Plant in a sunny location 

 in clumps of four or five. There is also a red variety; both are ex- 

 cellent for naturalization in a wild garden. 



Madonna Lily (Lilium candidum). This is the pure white lily 

 of exquisite form which the early Italian painters often introduced 

 into their pictures of the Annunciation. The fragrant flowers are 

 clustered on spikes two to three feet high. It flowers in June, at the 

 same time as the larkspurs, with which it makes a very lovely com- 

 bination. One of the secrets of growing this lily is to set out the bulbs 

 in August. 



THE BEDDING-OUT PLANTS 



These are those tender plants which may only be summer 

 visitors in the garden, since they are born and raised in the 

 tropical climate of conservatory or greenhouse, only leaving it 

 in June to return to it in early October, unless they are aban- 

 doned to their fate and left out to die. Their chief end is to 

 be "effective" during their brief visit. 



Much has been written against the "bedding-out" garden, 

 and with reason. It is usually more of a "show-garden" rather 

 than that of a flower-lover. In the North it means vacant 

 spaces of brown earth from October to July. Its chief sin is 

 that here a flower "degenerates into a colored ornament." 

 Plants are treated merely as an assemblage of colors a bat- 

 talion in which, if a single member falters, the ranks must 

 instantly close. 



That people misuse them is not the fault of the plants, and 

 if in June one's gardening is not begun, the "bedding-out" 

 plants in their character of summer visitors or "accommo- 

 dators" (as the pleasing Boston phrase characterizes women 

 competent to fill any and all deficiencies who come in when 

 the household service has gone wrong or vanished) are a very 



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