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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1912 



Some of the characters in 



DANNY'S OWN STORY 



Danny 



Autobiographically, Danny says: 

 "There wasn't nothin' perdicted of me, 

 and I done like it was perdicted. If they 

 was devilment anywhere about that 

 town they all says: 'Danny, he done it. 

 And like as not I has. So I gets to be 

 what you might call an outcast." 



Old HankWalters and 



Doc Kirby 



"Look at me," and he swells his 

 chest up. "You behold before you the 

 discoverer, manufacturer and proprietor 

 of Siwash Indian Sagraw. You don't 

 know what disease you may have." 



Mis' Rogers 



Who comes to share in a neighborly 

 way the grief at Hank's sudden death 

 in the cistern. 



"All of a sudden, a live fish come 

 a whirling out of that hole and it lands 

 kerplump into Mis' Rogers's lap." 



George 



leg." 



''A bareheaded old nigger with a game 



"I'se mos' ingin'lly notice a thing 

 do settle hitse'f arter a while." 



Dr. Julius Jackson 



Th 



e man 



with 



"The glorious, humanitarian idea 

 of taking the kinks and curls out of the 

 hair of the Afro-American brother at 

 so much per kink." 



"The most delight- 

 ful bit of humor 

 in many months." 



By Don Marquis 



H Danny enters upon 

 the scene nameless, a 

 baby in a basket aban- 

 doned before the door 

 of Hank Walters, the 

 blacksmith. From that 

 very minute the fun be- 

 gins — such real, de- 

 licious, irresistible fun as 

 only Mark Twain and 

 O. Henry have hitherto 

 furnished the world. 



If The boy runs away 

 presently with a peri- 

 patetic "Doctor," whose 

 mission is to make 

 known the wonderful 

 powers of "Siwash In- 

 dian Sagraw'; and he 

 plunges into the kalei- 

 doscopic life of the 

 patent-medicine fakir, 

 small circus shows, and 

 so on, with a zest in life 

 and a human philoso- 

 phy in his side-split- 

 ting humor that are 

 quite amazing. 



Illustrated irresistibly by 

 E. W. Kemble 



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PLANTING TABLE — Continued 



SPECIES 



PREFERRED VARIETIES 



DISTANCE 

 APART 



Zinnias 



Tall Double Varieties 

 Scarlet 

 Carmine 

 Rose 

 White 



18 in. 





Dwarf Double 



12 or is m. 





Lilliput Scarlet Gem 







(white) 





Marigold 



Eldorado 

 Lemon Queen 

 French Tall Dark 

 Brown 



18 in. 



Snapdragon 



Coral Red 



Fairy- Queen (white and 

 and gold) 



Delilah (white and Car- 

 mine) 



15 in. 



Amaranthus 



Caudatus (Love-lies 



bleeding) 

 Tricolor (Joseph's 



Coat) 



24 in. 



For Fall Back- 







- ground Masses 







and Corners 







Ricinus (castor oil 



Mixed Varieties 



36 in. 



plants) 







Cosmos 



Lady Lenox (shell pink) 



18 in., in sunny 





Klondyke (orange 



location 





colored) 







Mammoth Perfection 







Varieties 







Conchita (crimson) 







Erlinda (white) 







Rosita (pink) 



10 or 12 in. 



Salvia splendens 







(scarlet) 







Sunflower (Helian- 



Double Chrysanthe- 



36 to 48 in. 



thus) 



mum 

 Flowered 





Low Bedding 







Effects 







Verbenas 



Mammoth Rose 



10 or 15 in. each 





Queen 



way 





Defiance (scarlet) 





Clarkia 



Double Rose 



12 in. May be 





Double white 



grown in par- 

 tial shade 



Phlox Drummondi 



Grandiflora alba 

 Grandiflora Chamois- 

 Rose 

 Crimson 



Isabellina (yellow) 

 Single bedding varie- 

 ties 



12 in. 



Petunias 



Countess of Ellesmere 

 Howard's Star 

 White 



12 in. 



VINES 







For Urns and 







Vases 







Climbing Nastur- 



Queen Wilhelmina. 





tium 



(rosy scarlet) 



Crown Prince of Prus- 

 sia (blood red) 



Lucifer (dark scarlet) 



Golden Queen 





Erinus Lobelia 



Gracilis (blue) 

 Lindleyana (rose) 

 Kermesina (crimson) 

 Alba 





Walls, Trellis, or 







Arbor 







Cypress vine 





Plant in open 

 ground in 

 warm spring 

 weather 10 or 

 12 in. apart 



Morning Glory 



C o c c i n e a (scarlet 



Plant 2 feet 





flowers) 



apart 





Heavenly Blue 







White 







Japanese Morning 







Glories 





Sweet Peas (trellis 



Spencer Varieties 



Thin to 2 or 3 



only) 





inches apart 



A satisfj'ing mass which fills in well along hedge 

 lines or which may be used along fences or to lend 

 interest to a winding path is formed by planting 

 summer cypress (Korhia) in rows, four rows deep, 

 spacing the plants about twenty-four inches apart. 

 A border of dust)- miller or of sweet alyssum makes 

 a fine contrast. The cypress foliage turns from 

 light green to fiery red as the season advances. 



ANNUALS FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES 



Portulaca is very satisfactory if planted over a 

 broad area in a dry location near a path. The 

 seed should be sown quite thickly when the ground 

 is warm in spring. 



The following combinations of annuals are very 

 pleasing in the given locations: 



A bed below a terrace in a formal garden : Crim- 

 son snapdragon surrounded by sweet alyssum 

 (Little Gem). 



Long narrow beds (3 feet wide) above a sodded 



