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It is safe to transplant immediately after flowering. A good way 

 to cover the ground left bare after the dying down of perennial 

 poppies is to fill in with scarlet salvias for fall flowering. This 

 plan works out very cleverly in preserving the color scheme of the 

 garden, as the color of the poppies is too strong for almost anything 

 else to go with it, although some salmon colored new varieties of 

 oriental poppies are now coming on. 



In reply to a question why he did not recommend hardy chry- 

 santhemums he said he had wondered why they were not grown 

 more, but in his experience they were crippled up with the cinch 

 bug stinging the stems, and what the bugs left the winters usually 

 killed. He could not grow them outdoors but recommended grow- 

 ing them in pots. 



In reply to an inquiry as to the desirability of covering the hardy 

 garden with leaves in winter Mr. Orpet said that it is never a mis- 

 take to cover anything. The hardy garden should not be dug over 

 except when it became necessary to renew the plants. 



Duncan Finlayson asked Mr. Orpet which he considered the 

 better system, the mixed or the massed borders. 



Mr. Orpet said that on the whole he preferred the mixed borders. 

 In the mass system there is bound to be in time great gaps. He 

 liked the old-fashioned border. He noticed Mr. Bowditch in the 

 audience and he would like to have him express his opinion on this 

 point. 



James H. Bowditch said, in reference to the two systems of hardy 

 planting, mixed or massed, that it was hard to condemn any system 

 without knowing the conditions attending it and the purpose it was 

 designed to serve. There are spring gardens and summer gardens, 

 and even winter gardens, each of which requires its own special 

 treatment. In general terms, however, gardens of small area are 

 usually better treated by the mixed border method, whereas large 

 gardens lend themselves, oftentimes, most admirably to the mass 

 system. 



J. Woodward Manning said that he considered Amaryllis Hallii 

 one of the most beautiful of our hardy plants but he had found 

 Lycorus squamigem, which was supposed to be the same thing, not 

 hardy. He thought these two plants might have some horticul- 



