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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



September, 191: 



Laddie 



— a true blue story 

 By Gene Stratton - Porter 



Author of "FRECKLES," "THE HARVESTER," 

 "A GIRL OF THE LlMBERLOST," etc. 



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 It is a tale of Indiana — a picture straight from life, showing 

 the home circle of the Stantons and telling the love story of 

 Laddie, the big brother of the Stanton family, and Pamela 

 Pryor, an English girl. The book is full of poetry and of 

 that love of nature that goes hand in hand with the author's 

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 Cries out: "Here indeed is a true story !" 



Few will forget the charm of the home wedding when Shelley Stanton 

 was married, or the delicious moment when Leon, facing the congregation 

 in the little Methodist Church, recited his thirteen texts, addressing each 

 one to a member of the church for whom he had selected it with diabolical 

 care. 



Here again, as in "Freckles," "A Girl of the Limberlost," and "The 

 Harvester," one has that sense of being very close to the heart of nature 

 in flower and bird; and very close to the heart of man, in the purest 

 and best emotions of life. 



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A Second Crop of Bloom 



SOME flowers, like all hens, are determined that 

 the race shall not die out through lack of 

 effort on their part. Take away their first fruits 

 and they are right back on the job again. 



Preventing flowers from "setting" is by no 

 means the common practice that it should be. If 

 carried out systematically, it is astonishing how 

 varied the second crop of bloom may be, and how 

 much clearer the color notes remain after the 

 blossoming prime is passed. t 



The possibilities of the Canterbury bell in this 

 respect rarely occur to growers of that beautiful 

 flower. Its season is short at best and there is a 

 blot on its beauty the moment the first bell turns 

 brown. Unless there are more Canterbury bells 

 than most are able to boast of, it takes little time 

 to snip off the discolored blossoms with a pair of 

 scissors, letting them he where they fall. The plant 

 looks well until the end — when, in the axils, a 

 second crop of flower buds will be found to be de- 

 veloping. I use this treatment for Campanula per- 

 sicifolia and platycodon with about the same result. 



Other blossoms that are passed may be snipped in 

 the same way to advantage, even if it does make 







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This hollyhock has good new growth and will live 

 another year if not allowed to mature seed 



you feel like a giant Lord High Executioner in 

 Liliput. The anthemis, the "ragged sailor" and 

 Coreopsis lanceolata, for example, are three plants 

 that are relieved from early scraggliness by such 

 timely decapitation. These three, in fact, are really 

 transformed by such an operation. Others in the 

 "snip" class are Stokesia cyanea, Lychnis Haagcana, 

 zinnia, pansy, calendula, Veronica spicata and 

 grass pink, to name only a few. Pansies, in partial 

 shade, will bloom well all through the summer if 

 not allowed to go to seed. 



Then, among plants that must be cut rather than 

 snipped, there are first of all, the hardy larkspurs. 

 If the stalks are cut to the ground, before going to 

 seed, there will surely be a second crop of bloom and 

 the Chinese larkspur will do better, keeping up the 

 game even after the frosts come. Foxgloves fre- 

 quently, and hollyhocks infrequently, give a sparse 

 second bloom in like circumstances. In any case 

 it is best to cut down foxgloves and hollyhocks after 

 blooming both in the interest of neatness, and that 

 there may not be overmuch progeny all over the 

 place. Furthermore, the strength that does not 

 go into seed will occasionally cause a new growth 

 that will carry a plant of either through another 

 season. Various veronicas, Lychnis Chalcedonica, 

 Phlox paniculata,Fentstemon barbalus, var. Torre.yii, 

 Monarda didyma and dropwort are some of the 

 other flowers that will make a second attempt to 

 bloom. 



New York. H. S. Adams. 



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