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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



July, 1911 



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Make it a pleasant, shady spot where 

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Hardy 

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sown in July and August 

 will be big and sturdy plants 

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Henry A. Dreer 



For the 



What to Do for the Flowers 



AS FAR as this year's flowers are concerned, 

 comparatively little can now be done except 

 to water regularly and well, and take such means 

 as surface cultivation and mulching to keep the 

 water where it will do the most good. Sprinkling 

 is worse than useless, flooding is good but expensive 

 and necessitates after cultivation. Probably for 

 most purposes the slow running of water along 

 shallow temporary ditches made among your 

 plants is best, filling these in again when the water 

 has thoroughly permeated the soil underneath. 

 Some few annuals, such as baby's breath (Gypso- 

 phila elegans) and the dwarf sunflowers (Helian- 

 thus aicumerifolius) , so useful for cutting, may 

 still be sown in the cooler parts of the state and 

 flower quite nicely. Dahlias and chrysanthemums 

 will be improved by a judicious thinning of shoots 

 and removal of surplus buds, and other plants 

 given a longer lease of beauty by keeping the seed 

 pods picked off. 



While one cannot raise quite the same enthusiasm 

 for hardy herbaceous perennials in California as 

 in the East, chiefly because during their dormant 

 season we cannot lose them from sight beneath 

 snow banks but must gaze on their dishevelled 

 remains or the bare spot above their roots, still 

 I, for one, feel that many of them are still very 

 much worth while, though I more often choose to 

 put a large group of some variety in one place rather 

 than attempt the impossible task of making a 

 herbaceous border beautiful for twelve months 

 of the year. Columbines, larkspurs, pyrethrums 

 and polyanthus primroses are all nice if given 

 considerable water through our dry summers, and 

 in the case of the last two some shade does no 

 harm. Oriental poppies are easily grown and 

 the perennial gaillardias and coreopsis, even in 

 the blazing sun, will return you a succession of 

 crops of their bright flowers. All these may be 

 sown now and the young, vigorous plants will 

 flower well next spring and summer. 



The biennials, too, are indispensable for spring 

 gardens and while they have to be raised more often 

 they can be cleared out of the way when over. 

 Try a corner of foxgloves with sweet Williams in 

 front, a border of Canterbury bells, a mass of 

 wallflowers or a carpet of forget-me-nots. The 

 seed of all these should be in by September 1st, 

 and if you start considerably earlier you have 

 the advantage of large plants. 



Except on the coast, where cool fogs abound in 

 summer, pansies only do well during the months 

 from February to June, so it is useless to begin 

 raising plants in spring. August is the month 

 I generally sow my seed, though September is 

 not too late. Don't use cheap seed, as you can 

 easily get a hundred plants from a good twenty-five 

 cent mixture and more satisfaction than from 

 ten times as many low-grade ones. It is just as 

 impossible to raise prize pansies from seed collected 

 from your neighbors' wornout plants as to raise 

 bench show dogs from the mongrels who follow 

 you home. For carpeting the ground underneath 

 bulbs and roses self colors only should be used, 

 making sure that they will harmonize with the 

 other plants, or you will feel hurt every time you 

 see them. 



For pansies, perennials and biennials I prefer 

 to sow seed in boxes, prick out into other boxes 

 after they have a couple of characteristic leaves, 

 and get them nicely into their permanent beds 

 before the heavy rains come in December or 

 January. Of course, nice beds of fine soil in a 

 semi-shady place would be as good as boxes, but 



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