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come. Iris, bridal wreath, weigela, peony 

 and others were once again covered with 

 bloom, the foliage of the perennials furnishing 

 an ideal background for such newcomers as 

 the Canterbury bell, and foxglove have no 

 foliage to speak of. The feathery dark 

 green of the cosmos screened the coarse- 

 growing hollyhock with wonderful effect, and 

 could be used to hide the shortcomings of 

 the sweet pea vines but I have cut mine down 

 to about eighteen inches of the ground to 

 induce new growth for fall flowering. 



The Canterbury bell bloomed in the eastern 

 border till August ioth; foxglove and Shasta 

 daisy till July 20th; and the cosmos after 

 blooming profusely till August 15 th is out 

 of bloom at this writing, August 24th, but 

 is covered with fresh buds ready for fall duty. 

 As the foxglove and Canterbury bells are true 

 biennials, blooming but once, I pulled them 

 up leaving the ground free for further experi- 

 ments with other plants coming into bloom 

 at that time. The Shasta daisies were taken 

 up, divided and replaced in the back garden 

 to gain strength and vigor for next year's 

 work. They commenced bearing their second 

 crop of flowers on August 17th, one plant 

 that happened to be left in the border bloom- 

 ing on the same day with those that had been 

 taken back to the original bed. With the 

 above-named flowers the experiment has 

 gone far enough to prove that the method 

 of transplanting in full bloom is a complete 

 success. As regards the following plants 

 more time must be allowed before deciding 

 fully. As they came into bloom I began 

 experimenting with the pentstemon, vinca, 

 aster, dahlia and gladiolus. Of these the 

 aster — and the commonest type at that — 

 suffered most. It was the only plant that 

 needed shading from the sun which is at its 

 hottest for the hour or more each day it 

 visits this particular border. Pentstemon, 

 a little-known flower like a glorified snap- 

 dragon in aspect, and Vinca rosea, and its 

 variety alba, from seed planted in shallow 

 cigar boxes in the house February 17th, 

 transplanted to open ground May 19th, 

 bloomed August 1st. 



The penstemons moved while in full 

 bloom have done better than those left 

 undisturbed and have not suffered from a 

 tiny white worm that preys on the tender 

 shoots. I scattered wood ashes over those 

 not moved which seems to check the depre- 

 dations of the worm somewhat. 



The dahlia drooped for a day or two then 

 raised its head and went on perfecting its 

 blossoms and sending out fresh buds. It 

 requires more care than anything else I have 

 moved on account of the heavy, brittle 

 stalks but the roots seem to stand any amount 

 of abuse. One dahlia that I had discarded 

 after lifting, I found, a few days later, alive 

 and so evidently determined to keep on living 

 that I set it up with half its tubers exposed 

 to light and air yet it goes on blooming with 

 the best of them. 



The last flower I experimented with is the 

 perennial phlox, which stands removal in 

 full bloom with just as good grace as the first 

 four I tried. The phlox were young plants 

 that I bought last fall and divided so that 

 there were one, two or three heads of bloom 



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