THE GARDEN WEEK BY WEEK 



March Star Magnolia (Stellata) is a March-flowering shrub of 

 wonderful beauty, the great white flowers standing out 

 boldly from the bare, dark stems. 



We see, then, the dawn of spring, and with the 

 stimulus of the flowers around us we are encouraged 

 to provide for a display that will take up its tale when 

 the winter flowers fade, and carry us on throughout 

 the year. 



March MARCH— First and Second Weeks 



Flowers 



Primarily, we shall see to our hardy plants, which 

 are the backbone of the modern garden. We shall 

 overhaul those that we have, propagate the desirable, 

 curb the rampant, add new elements. And we shall 

 see to the sowing of half-hardy annuals, to the pro- 

 pagation of Dahlias, to the planting of Carnations and 

 Roses, to the development of seedling Begonias, and 

 to the many other pleasant duties that will find their 

 reward in the beauty of the summer garden. Ferns 

 shall be considered. 



Herbaceous Borders. — When the winter is mild, signs 

 of life are abundant in the herbaceous border in March. 

 Early growing plants, like Pyrethrums and Doronicums 

 and Michaelmas Daisies (one of the latest of plants to 

 bloom, the Michaelmas Daisy is one of the first to start 

 growing), will be throwing up shoots, and there will be 

 green buds among the brown stumps of plants that were 

 cut down in autumn or winter. Stay 1 were the dead 

 stems really removed some weeks ago, or are they 

 swaying, drear and melancholy, in the March wind ? 

 There is nothing that looks much more doleful and 

 furtive than a neglected, hardy plant border — not even 



