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July, 1907 



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from each stool. In the case of older and 

 well established clumps this treatment might 

 not prove successful. I experimented only 

 with plants easily reached and handled In 

 the case of the dahlia, gladiolus and perennial 

 phlox it will be interesting to note how this 

 treatment affects the future life of the roots. 



For early spring blooming the Holland 

 bulbs do well in my eastern border as the 

 foliage of the hedge does not come out in 

 time to shade them. After the bulbs are 

 done blooming and while the foliage is ripen- 

 ing, forget-me-not, English daisy, pansy and 

 columbine, all of which can be moved in 

 full bloom, fill out the time till the Canter- 

 bury bells come on, and all along throughout 

 the season, potted lilies, tuberoses and similar 

 plants are sunk in the border when ready 

 to bloom, having been grown to that point 

 in the full sun. In this way I enjoy a con- 

 tinual round of ever-changing flowers in the 

 obdurate eastern border. The forget-me- 

 not, English daisy and columbine can be 

 taken back to the open garden after flowering 

 to gain strength and vigor for next year's 

 work. That will be the best time, also, for 

 division of the roots, of course, saving only 

 the best strains of each variety. One inci- 

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In the July, 1906, number of The Garden 

 Magazine I find this: "Cosmos always 

 wants to grow too high and bloom too late. 

 It may be twenty years yet before we shall 

 have dwarf, July-blooming varieties." In 

 view of this it may be well to relate how I 

 came by June-blooming cosmos of three 

 feet and less in height. I had grown cosmos 

 since its first introduction and would barely 

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 white or faded-out pink before the snows 

 smothered the plants. The previous fall I 

 saw a beautiful bunch of cosmos, each 

 blossom about four inches across, of a very 

 lively tint of primrose pink. I secured the 

 address of the grower, a lady who knew 

 nothing about the plant but that it had been 

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 depth April 5 th; they were set in the open 

 ground May 30th, the plants being then 

 about two feet tall. They bloomed June 

 12 th but the blossoms were not as large as 

 those of the parent plants, probably because 

 these were exhausted from blooming before 

 my seed was saved. I had noticed last year 

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 one recommendation. It would — contrary 

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 some plants during the hottest weather of 

 last August, and two days later found them 

 still alive though lying in the sun with 

 exposed roots. For an experiment I planted 

 them again and they went on growing as 

 if nothing had happened. It was this experi- 

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