AN ISLAND HOME 



ding with tulips in the autumn for the following 

 spring effect. This spring effect can also be 

 accomplished with pansies and daisies, the latter 

 of which is perhaps the more lasting. The plan 

 calls for its most splendid and most dwarf effect 

 in the middle of the garden, where two beds are 

 made of two varieties of the brilliant red achyran- 

 thas. The other beds are arranged as elsewhere 

 with varying contours with castor-oil plants and 

 cannas and red salvias at the highest points. 

 Many of the borders are planted with the low 

 grass-like growth of the brilliant red and yellow 

 alternantheras and at other places taller plants, 

 such as geraniums and centaurias, push out to 

 the very edge. 



These bedding-plants, properly treated, can pre^ 

 sent their full effect by the first of July if planted 

 about the middle of May.- But they are fine 

 from the moment they are set out and they increase 

 in splendor and glow of color until just before 

 a heavy frost strikes them in October, when they 

 seem to surpass themselves in richness of tone. 

 In suggesting a plan involving this showy kind of 

 gardening it was considered that the results 

 would fully justify the expense and trouble, 

 because there was a greenhouse on the place which 

 in any case had to be heated and here the gardener 

 could readily produce the bedding-plants required. 



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