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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1906 



varieties to plant for a succession of crops 

 in the order indicated. 



Certainly they are not the most useful 

 spots in the garden, but they are the prettiest, 

 and merit as much care and planning as the 

 more utilitarian divisions. We must have 

 roses, and there is no other thing in the entire 

 garden that will respond better to good 

 treatment. If the soil is of a light friable 

 nature take away some of it, replacing by 

 several inches of heavy turfy loam and well- 

 decayed manure well mixed; old manure 

 from the cow barn is preferred. Three 

 team loads will be none too much for the rose 



but the variety of peonies and irises is so 

 great and so beautiful, that it is our only 

 excuse. The border will hold three rows, 

 the peonies at the back. They should all be 

 planted two feet apart in the rows. 



Dahlias are becoming more and more 

 popular for late summer and early fall 

 flowers. Give them abundance of water 

 and there will not be another spot in the whole 

 garden during the autumn months that will 

 give such pleasure. Three rows can also 

 be planted in this border, but the plants must 

 be four feet apart in the rows, the middle 

 row alternating with the others. Altogether 



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The area of this garden is approximately one acre, being 200 feet square. It is planned to provide all that 

 a family of six persons can use of fruits, flowers and vegetables. Nothing would have to be bought. Plot 

 No. 1 is in permanent crops; plots Nos. 2, 3 and 4 are for vegetables in rotation. One man can comfortably 

 I00K after such a garden 



border. There is room for one hundred and 

 fifty plants in three rows, with the plants 

 eighteen inches apart in the rows. Some 

 people may think this is too little room, but 

 since there are only three rows and the 

 plants can be conveniently reached it will 

 be ample. The hybrid perpetuals will cost 

 fifty cents each, and the others (except 

 Mildred Grant, which is seventy-five cents) 

 will cost thirty-five. Plant the hybrid per- 

 petuals at the back, Maman Cochet and 

 Gruss an Teplitz in the front row, using the 

 others to fill out the front and middle rows. 

 The border opposite the roses is recommended 

 for peonies and iris. It seems a large space, 



about five dozen plants can be accommo- 

 dated, costing approximately, in small pots 

 in the spring, $3.50 a dozen. 



The border opposite the dahlias may be 

 devoted to gladioli, tuberoses, montbretias 

 and various bulbs; also to stocks, asters, 

 zinnias, marigolds, balsams, celosia, and such 

 things as are raised from seed in the hotbed 

 or in boxes in the window in early spring and 

 planted outdoors about May 20th, when 

 danger from frost is over. These subjects 

 are all useful for cutting and come into 

 flower after the peonies and iris are gone, 

 and before the dahlias are ready to cut. 

 The space allotted will accommodate four 



rows, the plants twelve inches apart in the 

 rows. 



There are two borders devoted to annuals. 

 A row of pansies along the front of each, 

 planted out before Easter, will brighten them 

 until such time as the other occupants are 

 large enough to make a display. Everything 

 else for the border can be sown there directly 

 after May 1st, except sweet peas which can 

 be sown in April in clumps along the back. 

 Nearly all the best kinds can be bought for 

 five cents a packet. 



The variety of flowering plants from which 

 a selection can be made to fill the herbaceous 

 border is so great that an enumeration of the 

 possibilities would be nearly a reproduction 

 of a seed and plant catalogue. Of course 

 there are certain principles that should be 

 followed. It is better to sow thinly in irregu- 

 lar patches rather than in straight or in any 

 evenly spaced design. The taller growing 

 plants will be placed at the back, with a 

 foreground of very low-growing kinds. For 

 five cents a packet everything that is really 

 necessary for the annual border can be 

 purchased, and the total cost for the entire 

 space allotted need not be more than two 

 dollars. 



In the herbaceous borders there is a greater 

 opportunity for individual taste and ex- 

 pression. There is a great deal to be said in 

 favor of the herbaceous border as compared 

 with the annual border, because once planted 

 it is a permanent feature and becomes richer 

 in its effect year by year. The soil should be 

 well prepared and the space allotted will 

 accommodate four rows of plants. Of 

 course these are not to be set in rigid lines 

 but grouped in masses, allowing about four 

 or five plants, according to vigor of growth, 

 from the front to the back of the border. 

 Such plants as phloxes, asters, monk's-hood, 

 larkspur and rudbeckia are desirable here. 

 Next to the back row, one and a half feet 

 from it, the plants alternating and also 

 three feet apart, plant such things as Japanese 

 anemones, chrysanthemums and lilies. Eigh- 

 teen inches in front of this row, two feet apart 

 in the line, plant phloxes, hybrids of maculata 

 and paniculata. There are over fifty varieties 

 of them in use, and they succeed one another 

 in bloom all summer. You can also plant 

 such things as Canterbury bells, coreopsis 

 and foxglove. 



In the front line, six inches from the edging 

 and one foot between the plants, such early 

 flowering bulbs should be used as snowdrops, 

 crocuses, irises and tulips, and the low-grow- 

 ing phloxes. On an average the plants in 

 this border can be purchased for one and a 

 half dollars a dozen. 



On the border running along the southern 

 end of the garden a display of bedding plants 

 can be made, the two sides different. 



In the centre where the roads 'meet a 

 sundial could be placed, or a barrel sunk to 

 the level of the ground would furnish a 

 water-lily garden. 



As to the labor of working this one-acre 

 garden: It could be well kept by one man, 

 who could also do the necessary chores for 

 the house, mow the lawn and look after a 

 horse or cow. 



