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Vines offen interfere with repainting a house. By 
means of the iron-frame hinged trellis which may be 
laid flat on the ground, a difficulty is solved 
garden, so it was relegated to the fence to 
serve asa screen. Beyond the square garden 
we put some tomato plants, a few more beans, 
and some cabbage plants which were given 
to us, but the sixteen-cent garden was con- 
fined to the square. 
Painting a House Without Ruin- 
ing the Vines 
L. B. Carpenter, Montclair, N. J. 
ae question of training vines success- 
fully, so that when a house is painted 
they can be laid down and put up again 
without injury, has been solved recently by 
my neighbor. He madea device in the form of 
a screen of wire netting attached top and bot- 
tom to two poles by means of S-hooks and 
it was kept in place by hanging the poles 
on hooks screwed into the top and bottom of 
the piazza. The poles were pieces of 1-inch 
galvanized iron gas pipe eleven feet long. 
At the shop where the pipe was bought, a 
screw thread was cut on the ends of the pipe 
and caps screwed on, so that the poles looked 
neat. The netting was the kind ordinarily 
employed for vines torun on. It was wrapped 
once around each pole and then further 
secured by the S-hooks, about sixteen inches 
distant from each other. Three plain hooks 
one in the middle and one at each end, were 
screwed into both the top and bottom of the 
piazza, for the screen to hang on. All the 
hooks were of galvanized iron. 
The vines are trained up the netting. 
When painting is necessary, the screen can 
be lifted from the fixed screws by the poles 
without danger of coming apart from the 
netting, and vines and all can be laid on the 
grass and protected as seems best, then hung 
up again when the painting is completed. 
The end of the porch pictured is twelve 
feet long, so two lengths of netting five feet 
wide were wired together. 
ChristmasFlowers inT hreeWeeks 
Mrs. F. C. F., Michigan 
UITE late last fall, when the price had 
been reduced to the low figure of ten 
cents a dozen, I invested twenty cents in nar- 
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
cissus (Paper White) bulbs. They were not 
planted until the first of December, when 
some stones were put in the dishes, the 
bulbs set in, and water poured on them. 
Even the usual precaution of starting them 
in the dark was not taken. In just 
three weeks the first blossom burst from the 
stalk of buds, and one single stalk had eleven 
pure white blossoms, almost overpowering 
with their fragrance. Some grew more 
slowly than the others and on January 8th, 
one 6-inch dish having ten bulbs had six 
stalks of expanded blossoms and two other 
yet to open. 
The Chinese lily bulbs which I got at the 
same time had scarcely blossomed. This 
winter I shall start earlier and make several 
plantings, so as to lengthen the enjoyment. 
I think it is the greatest return for the money 
I ever received. 
The Poppy Bed Problem Solved 
Louise SHaw, N. J. 
\ X 7 E LIKE to grow plenty of poppies each 
year, but as their season is so short 
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there is ever the problem of what to do with 
the bed afterwards. 
In the April GARDEN MAGAZINE one prac- 
tical solution was to transplant asters or 
other annuals. My (accidental) scheme 
seems better as the end or even middle of 
July is rather late to transplant annuals. 
For two years we grew portulaca asabor- . & 
der to a garden walk. The third season we 
decided to have Shirley poppies instead, and 
sowed the seed as early in the spring as pos- 
sible. Poppies and self-sown portulaca came 
up together but the poppies so quickly out- 
stripped the portulaca that very soon there 
was nothing to be seen of the latter. For 
six weeks the poppies bordered the walk 
with a blaze of color, until one day late in 
July a heavy rainstorm left them sprawling 
hopelessly across the path. I reluctantly 
set about pulling them up by the roots when 
a happy surprise greeted me—there, under 
the poppy foliage, were the patient portulaca 
seedlings, of rather anemic complexion, 
to be sure, but struggling to bloom. I was 
Christmas blooms in twenty-one days. Paper White 
Narcissus grown in water 
careful not to disturb them as I took the pop- 
pies away, and in two weeks they were as 
thick a mat of wholesome green as if they 
had never been robbed of a day’s sunshine. 
By the middle of August they were in full 
bloom and the garden path had its border of 
color again until frost. Since poppies self- 
sow as readily as portulaca we are in hopes 
that this succession of bloom will repeat it- 
self next year; for in this way we are saved 
not only the trouble of spring sowing but the 
risk of. midsummer transplanting to replace 
the poppies when their season is over. 
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After the poppies ceased flowering they were pulled up, and sclf-sown portulaca from the previous year 
quickly grew up and made a gay succession 
