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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Junk, 1909 





W PORTLAND ^ 



ATLAS] 



h>: CEMENT -M 



NONE JUST AS GOOD 



All Portland Cement is not 



ATLAS 



What do you care ? Just this : 

 Concrete is made with Port- 

 land Cement. Concrete is a fire- 

 resisting, durable, adaptable, 

 economical building material. 

 It is a material that all who know 

 and understand it are using for 

 all building purposes. It is the 

 material you will come to use, 

 and its success as a building ma- 

 terial depends upon the quality 

 of cement that goes into it. 



That is why you should know 

 that all Portland Cements are 

 not Atlas and why you should 

 also know that among Portland 

 Cements Atlas is the standard, 

 because it is made by a process 

 that insures purity and absolute- 

 ly uniform quality. 



ATLAS 



PORTLAND 



CEMENT 



is made in but one grade — the 

 best — and the same for every- 

 body. It tosts no more than 

 other cements, yet it is the brand 

 by which the others are meas- 

 ured, the brand the Government 

 has purchased to the extent of 

 4,500,000 barrels for use in 

 building the Panama Canal. 



You should study this subject of con- 

 crete and cement. We have some 

 books that will interest you. They are : 



"Concrete Country Residences" (delivery 



charges 25 cents). 



"Reinforced Concrete in Factory Con- 

 struction" (delivery charges 10 cents). 



"Concrete Cottages" (sent free). 



"Concrete Construction about the Home 

 and on the Farm" (sent free). 



If your dealer cannot supply you with Atlas, write to 



IE ATLAS Portland CEMENT CO. 



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Red Flowers From May to 



November 



A RED border is an interesting stud}', and it 

 usually takes a lot of transplanting to recon- 

 cile the different flower shades of red. I have a 

 border which has been for three years in process 

 of construction, and it could easily have three 

 more years spent upon its improvement before it 

 reaches perfection. Every season all purplish 

 and magenta reds have been removed and bright 

 reds substituted, until now this bed is a bright and 

 glowing flame from end to end. Orange reds 

 merge into deep reds and these into crimsons and 

 maroons. 



In my estimation it is a brighter scarlet, or rather 

 a brighter red, than the very excellent handling of 

 the same sort of border described in the February, 

 1907, Garden Magazine. I claim for my 

 streak of red a longer period of bloom — from 

 May until November — and the inclusion of three 

 of the most beautiful reds obtainable — the new 

 annual sweet Williams, ranging from blood red 

 to deep maroon, Gladiolus princeps, and Oswego 

 tea or mint. I use red gladioli and nasturtiums 

 as fillers in any bare spots that may occur during 

 the summer. 



The border runs north and south. At the back 

 a hedge of perennial peas breaks the force of the 

 scorching afternoon sun, and a small peach tree 

 and an althea give shade. The one-foot wide border 

 in front planted with Dianthns plumarius is a 

 garden by itself in June. After the blooming 

 period is past, the solid mass of gray-green foliage 

 makes an excellent contrast with the bright reds 

 behind it. 



Starting at the south ends I have three colonies 

 of lilies — superbum, Wallacei, Canadensis — which 

 bloom at different periods. As soon as they are 

 well out of the ground nasturtium seeds are tucked 

 among them. They make few roots and furnish 

 a good ground cover for the lilies. Nasturtiums 

 are likewise planted in the strip occupied by 

 Gesneriana and Darwin tulips and Sir Watkin, 

 Emperor, and Golden Spur daffodils. 



At the back of the border is a patch of twenty- 

 five pompon chrysanthemums in shades of brick 

 red and orange. Annual sweet Williams are 

 planted on one side of the chrysanthemums and 

 are scattered among the sweet Williams on the 

 other. By placing an occasional clump of the 

 annuals among the perennial sweet Williams 

 their long stretch of blossom less weeks is tided 

 over. 



Following the chrysanthemums at the back of 

 the border are some twenty-five or thirty Tritoma 

 Pfitzeri. They make a gay display of flaming 

 torches in September and October. 



A big patch of Oriental poppies occupies the 

 whole width of the beds. I have used salvias, 

 portulaca, petunias, verbenas, and marigolds as 

 substitutes for the poppies after they have died 

 down, but my efforts have never been wholly 

 successful. Last year a small corner was planted 

 with gladoli, which had been overlooked at the 

 regular planting season, and they came along so 

 splendidly that this year when the poppies have 

 bloomed gorgeous Gladiolus princeps will take their 

 place. 



A patch of Heuchera sanguinea, with its dainty 

 coral-red bells furnishes a fringe of red in front 

 of the poppies while the next crop is coming on. 



Lychnis Chalcedonica is at the back of the border 

 with a goodly sized colony of the larger flowered 

 but dwarfer Lychnis Haageana in front of it. 

 By keeping the seed pods picked off the latter a 

 succession of bloom may be had nearly all summer. 



At the front of the border a bed of fifteen plants 

 of the Cambridge scarlet mint lights up the August 

 days. The foliage is fragrant and the color 

 beautiful. 



The butterfly flower, Asclepias tuberosa, makes 

 a grand mass effect, but it is better to collect it 

 than to buy it from nurseries, as native plants are 

 usually brighter colored. 



A big bed of gaillardias ends the red border. 

 These useful flowers are used as a transition 

 from the reds to the yellows, combining both colors 

 most effectively. They lead the way to clumps 

 of Rudbeckia speciosa (often called Newmani), 

 coreopsis, and other yellows down the scale. 



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Of course choice is left to us, but it may con- 

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If sent by mail, the Surprise Collection will be 

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Below are two out of many testimonials re- 

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"I received by express yesterday the 'Pleasant Surprise Collec- 

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 12-26-1908 "Sidney J. Dudley, Hampton, Virginia." 



"Surprise collection received by mail was a dandy. I am sorry 1 

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