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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



September, 1914 



Hardy English Walnut Orchards? 



No longer an experiment 

 In Zero Climates 



Plant an English Walnut orchard this Fall. Make a beginning 

 and add to it each season. No bank failures, business depres- 

 sions, nor trust investigations can interfere with this source of 

 pleasure and income, for its rock foundation is the development of a 

 natural resource. Start "with rugged, acclimated trees, grown 

 under severe climatic conditions, with temperature far below 

 zero at times. Conditions that breed iron-clad vigor and 

 vitality; and that produce trees so hardy, they may 

 be planted in cold climates with the same assurance 

 of successful fruiting as Peach trees. 



We believe this is the only northern locality, where commer- 

 cial orchards of English Walnuts may be seen, some of them 

 containing hundreds of trees which have been bearing regu- 

 larly for more than twenty years. 



For the lawn or driveway, English Walnut is exquisitely beau- 

 tiful with its smooth light gray bark, luxuriant dark 

 green foliage, lofty, symmetrical growth. A home- 

 ful tree to plant about the home. Rochester parks 

 and public streets contain many beautiful bearing 

 trees, apparently as hardy as the Maples and Elms. At 

 least, thriving under the same conditions, and pro- 

 ducing annually delicious nuts as well as shade. 

 Truly a most delightful combination. 



We have unlimited faith in trees bred and grown under 

 these conditions, and are sure that those who plant 

 our hardy strains of English Walnuts will be well 

 pleased. 



The picture shows a Mayo English Walnut tree planted in 1907, began 

 bearing in 1911. Superior quality, extreme hardiness, early 

 bearer, safe to plant. 



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Lil. Candidum 



(Madonna Lily) 



Must be planted late August to 

 end of September to assure good 

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 white HARDY GARDEN LILIES. 



Wherever planted, singly, in 

 groups or in rows, they are beauti- 

 ful. The glistening snowwhite 

 flowers adorned in the depth of 

 their chalices with golden anthers 

 are matchless. The perfume they 

 exhale is delightful. Plant blue 

 Larkspur together with them, the 

 color effect is superb. They bloom 

 at the same time. 



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Stained luith Cabots' Shingle Stains 

 Da-vis, McGrath Cr Shipard, Architects, N. Y. 



Summer Camps and Bungalows 



can be stained at half the cost of painting — and the 

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give soft, rich coloring effects that harmonize perfectly 

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 doesn't fit, and besides being much more artistic and 

 one-half cheaper, they preserve the wood far better 

 than paint, because they are made of Creosote, " the 

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Planting the Small Hardy Border 



THERE is not much opportunity for elaborate 

 floral display on a small place, nor much 

 occasion for it; the garden is generally confined to 

 a border, reenforced, perhaps, by several smaller 

 borders or beds, but supplying with its color most 

 that is cheerful in the garden design. It is neces- 

 sary, then, that great care be taken in the 

 selection and arrangement of the plants, as the 

 colors will be brought into close relation to the 

 house and will influence the occupants almost as 

 much as the decorations of the rooms. Consider 

 the garden as an apartment, treat it as such, and 

 give the same consideration to the materials for its 

 adornment as you would to the decorations for the 

 interior of your home. 



Nowadays small houses are usually of simple de- 

 sign, and I mean by small houses those costing 

 from five to ten thousand dollars and occupying 

 plots of from half an acre to an acre and a half. 

 The gardens, or yards, of these houses should be in 

 keeping. 



If one is limited to a border there is no reason 

 why some of the beauty and effect of a garden can- 

 not be achieved in a small space. A border will be 

 more impressive if it has the support of a stone or 

 brick wall, a hedge, a picket fence or even a bank 

 of turf, for flowers are much happier with a back- 

 ground that will bring out their form and color, 

 and the perpendicular lines of the tall plants will 

 gain in value by repetition. A border should not 

 be simply a garnishment for a path; the temptation 

 to repeat, in the planting, the usually straight lines 

 of the right-of-way is subconsciously compelling 

 and dismal in its results. If the hedge or wall is 

 so situated that it forms, or even suggests the out- 

 lines of a forecourt the border will gain in effective- 

 ness, for then it will truly be a part of the house. 



On a small place it is better to avoid a "one color 

 scheme," for the plants upon which one has to de- 

 pend for midsummer effect in this climate are not 

 too reliable in the way of tones. And in a small 

 enclosure a border of pink, or mauve, or lilac 

 would soon become deadly monotonous because 

 there would be no escape from it; it would dog the 

 eye and the mind whenever one came out of the 

 house or looked from a window; it would end in a 

 delirium tremens of color before the season was 

 half over. To have the border interesting one should 

 avoid monotony. 



In studying the English gardens and borders, 

 than which there are none more colorful and dig- 

 nified, one is impressed by the simple planting 

 which does not depend for its success upon a great 

 variety of flowers, but rather upon the perfection 

 of the individual specimens and the composition of 

 the groups. In every garden there are a few, and 

 generally only a few, plants that thrive and do well; 

 one soon discovers which flowers are happiest in the 

 setting that has been provided, and it would be 

 wise to devote one's attention to these. In one 

 English garden hollyhocks may be the dominant 

 feature, the borders being skillfully planted up to 

 them with forms and colors that will intensify 

 their beauty. In another garden larkspur may be 

 the keynote, or campanula, or pyrethrum, or strik- 

 ing combinations of these old favorites. 



As the success of the border depends largely upon 

 the continuity of its bloom, much thought should 

 be given to the plan of planting. The temptation 

 to which most gardeners succumb is ambition, the 

 endeavor to produce in a space of fifty by eighty 

 feet the effects of elaborate plantings that could 

 scarcely be crowded into a garden ten times the size. 

 Would it not be better to have the flowers open a 

 little late, even toward the middle of June, and 

 reach their maximum in August, than to sacrifice 

 the finished effect for a little evaner cent color earlier 

 in the season? For this reason I have omitted from 

 the accompanying plan such plants as peonies and 

 irises, for although they are beautiful when in 

 flower, when the bloom has passed their shabby and 

 bedraggled foliage is an eyesore and difficult to 

 hide. It is necessary to plan in the beginning to 

 hold the color after the climax has been reached, 

 to make the planting interesting until fall. When 

 the plants are growing and the flowers unfolding, 

 they are attractive in themselves; the freshness of 

 their leaves, their life and movement stimulate the 

 imagination and the many different tones of blues 

 and greens aftd grays are satisfying to the eye. The 



