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aragus Sprengeri does well in the shade and can be used in boxes as 

 ell as in baskets. 



EVERGREENS FOR WINDOW BOXES 



Here, as with all else, you have to get after your prospective 

 ustomers early in order to land an order for the filling of the frozen 

 indow boxes with evergreens for Winter effect. 



During the past few years one thing that has put a sort of 

 amper on the taking of such orders has been the sharp advance in 

 le price of such stock. But even more important, to my mind, 

 as been the fact that we don't push hard enough, for there are 

 Iways plenty of people who wouldn't mind the cost if they were 

 nly reminded at the right time, that is, when the boxes should 

 e filled. Another thing, we notice but comparatively few florists 

 ho make an attempt to show their customers what can be ac- 

 omplished, by having an attractive display of such boxes at the 

 ntrance of their places of business. 



People with means are usually willing to spend a few dollars 

 or evergreens or conifers rather than look at bare or empty window 

 oxes until the following Spring; but one has to go after them if 

 e is anxious to land an order. Among the many desirable plants 

 ne can make use of for the filling of such boxes we might mention 

 rborvitae, Abies, Juniper, Pines, Retinispora, Yew, Cedar and 

 pruce. All of these are discussed in Part II as well as on pages 

 04 to 206. 



BEDDING STOCK 



TNDER bedding plants we class such stock as is used for the 

 *^ planting of flower beds and borders during the late Spring months, 

 ^ears ago, planting used to be confined almost entirely to formal 

 eds. It usually meant an open lawn and in the center a round 

 ed filled with red Geraniums and a border of yellow Coleus; or a 

 arrow border running parallel to the walk or graveled drive with 

 ed Geraniums down the center and Dusty Miller or Salleroi 

 Geraniums along the edge. With the more extensive use of shrubs 

 nd perennials, however, the round bed gradually made way for 

 tie irregular border. The border along the porch which formerly 

 ad Cannas and Salvias in it, is now filled with Spiraea Vanhouttei 

 r Thunberg's Barberry, the open sweep of lawn is no longer cut 

 p with beds, but a planting of evergreens and flowering and 

 rnamental shrubs marks the lines of the lot with maybe a border 

 iext to the lawn of Iris, Peonies, Phloxes and Larkspurs. The 

 ittle beds filled with Vincas or Verbenas disappeared, and for a 

 while it almost seemed as if whenever the modern landscape gardener 

 lad the laying out of new grounds, there wasn't a spot left anywhere 



