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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



July, 1909 



paint talks—No. 6 

 Making Different Tints 



There are many advantages in using paint 

 mixed by hand at the time of painting. The 

 property-owner who has had painting done 

 understands the most important one, namely: 

 the fact that paint thus made to order, if made 

 of pure white lead and pure linseed oil, is by 

 far the most durable, because it is made to suit 

 the conditions of each particular job. 



Not so many building-owners, however, stop to 

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 of tint which whim or fancy may dictate can be had 

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For interior decoration, especially, this wide range 

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 will not do. She can get it exact in made-to-order 

 white lead paint. 



There is more about color schemes in our Painting 

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Dahlias That Are Really Worth 

 Growing 



AS a dahlia fancier for a good many years 

 past I have read with a great deal of Interest 

 the two recent articles in The Gardex Magazine 

 on my favorite flower. Of course, everyone is 

 entitled to his own opinion as to varieties, and I 

 have mine. After having grown nearly every 

 thing that I could secure, and not merely one or 

 two roots only but giving a thorough, comparative 

 trial in every case, I feel that I am in a position to 

 make some recommendations myself, and to 

 point out some of the reasons why I do not entirely 

 agree with all of the selections and opinions 

 of Mr. Fuld. 



I am glad that the writer is candid in his remarks 

 about Madame Van der Dael. This, to my mind, 

 is the loveliest and best-formed decorative dahlia 

 I have ever grown. Kriemhilde (cactus) is, 

 indeed, a lovely pink bloom, but it has such a 

 short stem that 90 per cent, of my visitors pass it 

 by, preferring others of the same coloring. 



As the best white cactus yet grown I am inclined 

 to name Schwan, although Lawine is preferable 

 for the garden as it is a mass of white bloom, 

 almost covering and hiding its green foliage; the 

 flower, however, is loosely formed. Schwan is 

 perfect in shape and ideal as to length of stem, 

 contour, and petal. Amos Perry, bright scarlet, 

 with me is not so well formed, though the, coloring 

 is so intense as to be really dazzling. 



I agree that Wunderkund is the best type of the 

 "indefinable color" group, although in the old 

 Britannia is a color that has never been equaled. 

 It, however, has a thick, meaty centre, though when 

 specially grown for exhibition purposes it becomes 

 a most beautiful flower. The Lilliputian class is 

 not generally grown, and but little known by even 

 the dahlia growers of this country. 



While Prof. Mansfield is classed as a variegated 

 decorative, it certainly has two distinctive types. 

 I do not approve of calling A. D. Livoni a 

 small bloom, but rather medium size, for if planted 

 in rich soil and disbudded it will make flowers of 

 very good size. All that is said of its commend- 

 able qualities is true. 



Storm King with me seems to ripen up too fast, 

 and gives now and then an impression of "ox-eye" 

 or yellow centre. I have a white that is without 

 exception the strongest in development from start 

 to ripened bud, a very solid and beautiful flower, 

 with a slight cream cast in the base of the petals. 

 It came to me under the name of La Favorite. 



Charles Lanier is comparatively new, having been 

 grown only last season. Vashti I have not only 

 never seen, but fail to find in any catalogue I have. 

 Mr. Glasscock I have discarded after five years' 

 trial — it was a rare thing to find a perfect flower. 

 The blooms were 99 per cent, with false centres, 

 the petals failed to fill out, and the purple 

 color was very dark with no lustre. Edward 

 Lefavour is not yet well enough known to warrant 

 its being placed ahead of a standard tested variety 

 generally approved; although I am led to believe 

 that it will yet warrant all that is claimed for it. 



In the pompons I am confident that there is 

 no white like Snowclad, and I have ever sixty 

 varieties in my collection. 



In single dahlias, the Twentieth Century class 

 takes with all visitors to the garden, and at fairs 

 and shows as well. I have received a new variety 

 grown in England called Mrs. Tait, which I am 

 looking forward to with no little curiosity. 



Maurice Rivoire is indeed a very positive im- 

 provement in the collerettes over some of the 

 older ones, for while the color is not so good, the 

 flower is inclined to give more to the collar and 

 not the main petals of the bloom. I think Eten- 

 dard de Lyon, Gallia, Prince Galitzine and even 

 old President Viger will be just as much in demand 

 as those with immense white collerette petals. 



No one who loves a white flower can gainsay the 

 statement that Kaiserin Augusta Victoria is a 

 regal beauty among the decoratives, but to say so 

 much for Mrs. Roosevelt seems to me to be an 

 error, for it is a heavy bloom and fades or grows 

 velvety in its centre; it does not behave the same 

 way with different growers, and I cannot get it to 

 make good clumps of tubers. I have written to 

 large concerns who deal in wholesale quantities, 



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