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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



September, 1914 



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The Kind of Fence 

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WHEN you secure our catalog you will find that 

 it shows either iron or wire fences and gate- 

 ways for practically "every place and pur- 

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But — if there seems to be nothing in the catalog 

 that quite meets your requirements or taste, then we 

 will gladly make up for you a special design based on 

 either your ideas or our suggestions, or a combina- 

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One thing certain, if you want a fence of highest 

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border may be made cheerful in early spring with 

 scillas, narcissus and cottage tulips, for they may 

 be so placed as not to interfere with the permanent 

 planting and their foliage will wither and disappear 

 in a short time. Pansies used along the edging 

 will be spent before their room is required. 



When planting a border I am always tempted to 

 provide a liberal supply of white flowers for August, 

 the effect is so cool and refreshing, and it is easy to 

 accomplish with phlox, mallow, funkia, Michaelmas 

 daisy, dahlia, lilies and petunia, the latter flower 

 especially developing a charming wild abandon as 

 the season advances. I would not have the border 

 entirely white, but just enough to suggest a sprink- 

 ling of snow over the sun-parched greens. 



FoUowing is the key to the plan of a border some 

 forty feet long. The motive may be repeated or 

 varied to suit the ideas of the owner, the clumps en- 

 larged or contracted, but if the suggestions are fol- 

 lowed in a general way there will be plenty of color 

 for several months. The path in front of the border 

 might be of turf, and quite wide, fully as wide as the 

 border. A path of tanbark is good; the color is 

 soft and harmonizes with the flowers and it is always 

 clean and dry to walk upon. But unless there is a 

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NUMBER NAME 



i, 15 Rosa rugosa. 



2 Yucca filamenlosa. 



3 White phlox. 

 4, 19 Hollyhocks. 



5 Japanese anemone. 



6 Coreopsis in variety. 



7, 21 Delphinium Belladonna. 

 8 Brilliant phlox. 

 9, 20 Fringed white petunias. 

 10 Dahlia Geisha. 



NUMBER NAME 



11 Lilium umbellatum, erec- 



ium, grandijlorum.specio- 

 sum, and vars. album, 

 rubrum. 



12 Phlox, pink shades. 



13 Aster Nova Anglo?. 



14 Half-dwarf antirrhinum, 



17 Dahlia Perle de Lyon. 



18 Brilliant phlox. 



21 Delphinium formosum. 



Rosa rugosa is desirable on account of it substance 

 and the perpetual freshness of its foliage. If it is 

 slightly pruned it will bear many flowers through 

 the summer, and the white hybrid, Blanc Double de 

 Coubert, will bloom again profusely in August. 



The groups of hoUyhocks should be composed of 

 plants of different stages of development. To those 

 that are already established in the border should 

 be added some of last summer's seedlings that have 

 been wintered in the coldframe and some from the 

 open seed bed, together with a few self-sown plants 

 and annuals. By using growths of different heights 

 and degrees of robustness the composition of the 

 clump will be improved. 



It is better to mass Delphinium Belladonna near 

 the light colored hollyhocks than to mix the light 

 and dark blues indiscriminately. When the flowers 

 begin to fade they should be cut back to bloom 

 again, and some of the seedlings that were started 

 under glass in the early spring should be planted in 

 the clump, for these will be late to mature and will 

 prolong the freshness of the undergrowth. 



The fringed petunias and antirrhinums will 

 flower through the season with a little care. They 

 should be allowed plenty of freedom, even to over- 

 flowing on to the path and kept well cleaned of faded 

 blooms. Many of the phloxes should be pinched 

 back and some of the flower heads plucked before 

 they are full blown so as to keep the clump in color 

 until frost. As some of the whites and desirable 

 pinks are quite late, the different timed varieties 

 should be well mixed in the planting. 



Lilium umbellatum, gratidifloriim and erectum 

 are most effective near larkspur and easy to grow, 

 but as the bulbs increase rapidly they should be 

 separated and replanted every three or four years. 

 The season of this lily is rather early, so it would be 

 well to combine Lilium speciosum with it to pre- 

 serve the balance of the border in August and 

 September. On the wall I would train Clematis 

 panictdata, var. grandiflora at intervals of ten feet, 

 with the large leaved euonymus between. The 

 great masses of white overhanging the border in 

 late summer are very acceptable, and the glaucous 

 green of euonymus is a delight to the eye. 



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