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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



October, 191 



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MICHELL'S 



FALL CATALOG 

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Helpful Hints for Fall Planting 



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FALL PLANTING 



To Grow Hardy Perennials and 

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They should be planted in September. October and November 

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Converted to Fall Planting 



IN RESPONSE to the frequent and insistent 

 urging of The Garden Magazine to "plant 

 in the fall," I began my garden work for the spring 

 of 1013 in September, 1912. New flower beds were 

 made after the modern regulation method — dug 

 down from eighteen to twenty-four inches in depth, 

 the bottom soil removed altogether to be replaced 

 by fresh, strawy manure, the top soil mixed with 

 fine manure, wood ashes, and screened coal ashes 

 filled in, and the beds were ready for planting. The 

 planting was to consist only of herbaceous roots; 

 if shrubs were to be used the digging should go 

 down at least a foot deeper. 1 he beautiful, invalu- 

 able white phlox, Miss Ungard, was my first care. . 



This phlox, which I find is little known, blooms 

 with the Canterbury bell, foxglove and sweet Wil- 

 liam in late June and early July, in that interregnum 

 which might be named Epoch II in the floral calen- 

 dar, when the flowering of the spring shrubs and 

 bulbs (Epoch I) is over, and the summer flowers 

 (Epoch III) — hollyhock, annuals, gladiolus, etc. — 

 have not yet come on. Gardens not provided with 

 the above named biennials are bare indeed at that 

 season. I realized this fact in all its significance 

 the past summer when I made flying trips to several 

 gardens of renown and found that, in the absence 

 of the biennials, there was "nothing doing" in the 

 way of flowers in late June. 



The Miss Lingard phlox, in addition to its mani- 

 fold good qualities as a flower, multiplies more 

 readily and bounteously than any phlox I know. 

 I divided three clumps, young stands only a year 

 old, into seventeen pieces each with good roots 

 attached. These I set- at irregular intervals in the 

 new beds. Next came white foxgloves in threes 

 and fours; then single white Canterbury bell, best 

 of all white flowers if we except the Madonna lily; 

 a few roots of gypsophila were set in, and then, 

 to color this groundwork of white, the double pink 

 Canterbury bell, with its cascades of bloom like 

 half-opened June roses, was used in profusion. I 

 cannot use the single pink Canterbury bell because 

 its shade of pink does not harmonize with the pre- 

 vailing salmon pinks and vivid flame reds in my 

 small garden of eighty-one feet across, and all in 

 view at once. One long bed was devoted wholly 

 to the Newport sweet William mixed with white 

 sweet William. One year I grew the Newport by 

 itself and I found it really needed the white to 

 show off the color. The sweet William grows so 

 evenly that it shows to better advantage when 

 grown by itself without admixture of other flowers. 

 It is simply invaluable in a garden since the new 

 shades have been developed, a wonderful trans- 

 formation from the old time rag carpet sweet Wil- 

 liam. They are practically annuals, as the seed 

 that ripens one year can be immediately planted to 

 bloom the next year. They stand our winters 

 without protection and many of the plaMts last 

 from year to year though they are classed as 

 biennials. During its season it blooms int« a solid 

 sheet of color. 



The evolution of the salmon pinks and flame reds 

 in flowers constitutes the greatest achievement 

 of the present age in floriculture. Consider what 

 has been done for the phlox! What a change from 

 the old, sad, faded, gloomy purples! Take R. P. 

 Struthers, for example. So much has been said 

 in praise of this phlox that it need get no further 

 mention here except to say that it divides with 

 almost as good grace as Miss Lingard. It was set 

 about the new beds, with the shy, white chimney 

 bellflower, which blooms for me only after three 

 years' growth from seed, the beautiful white physost- 

 egia, young hollyhocks, and Dropmore anchusa, 

 where the last would not interfere with the reds. 



These plantings went on during all the fall 

 months, the last work being the digging and en- 

 riching of the old beds as far as was possible without 

 injury to the permanent roots; the preparation of 

 the sweet pea trench according to the formula for 

 the new beds; the iris roots all taken up and set 

 into one of the new beds by themselves. On 

 November 23d, very late for us, all planting and 

 winter covering was finished. "Everything in 

 splendid shape for winter and spring" is the last 

 entry for 1912 in my garden book. 



Now for the proof of the pudding. Last spring 

 opened very inauspiciously for my garden. All 



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