PLANNING A GARDEN ON PAPER 



to pay for many plants, and your next summer's lawn will be 

 worth while. The crimson clover, by the way, should be 

 mowed after blossoming, before it seeds. 



What to Plant and Where to Plant It 



Against the house use annual vines, and plenty of them — 

 tall nasturtiums, Cobsea, Maurandya, the wild cucumber 

 (Echinocystis lobatd) — and you will be sure of something; 

 especially lovely are the Ipomoeas, which may be had in a 

 wide variety of colors (the seeds of the great white moonflower, 

 by the way, are very hard, and to hasten germination it is 

 well to file a notch in the seed before planting — some Ipomoeas 

 need to be soaked in hot water before planting). 



If your lot is directly against your neighbor's, with not 

 even a fence between, screen it by planting rows of corn with 

 the taU and rather coarse white of the tobacco-plant (Nicotiana) 

 in front of it, and deep-blue corn-flowers; this would give you 

 a pleasing combination. Rows of tall sunflowers with dwarfer 

 varieties in front to keep them from looking ungainly would 

 do as well; castor-beans would also be an effective screen, if 

 you like them. None of these screens would cost more than 

 thirty cents. Or put up a fence of chicken-wire, and on this 

 grow vines — wild cucumber, Ipomoea, Cobsea, or scarlet or 

 maroon nasturtiums. With only dark-red nasturtiums and 

 the greensward the plot would look very well. 



If the grass is not good, which is probably the case, have 

 against your fence no striking color, only the green of the wild 

 cucumber and the green and white of the balloon- vine, and 

 make the rest of your garden frankly a picking-garden with 

 flowers in rows that a cultivator may run between — ^have 

 China asters in abundance, stocks, corn-flowers, poppies, 

 dahlias, marigolds, coreopsis, mourning-bride. 



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