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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Mat, 1912 



German iris will flower year after year with ever so 

 little encouragement 



Plant Shirley poppies in mixture for light colors. 

 They are not easily transplanted 



Adam's needle (Yucca) thrives on dry. hot soils. 

 It is essentially a desert plant 



plants is a good way to have poppies with 

 no bare spaces afterward; or the pink and 

 white ones can be grown with blue corn- 

 flowers (bachelor's buttons). The corn- 

 flowers go on blooming until cold weather. 

 Sow poppies and cornflowers as thinly as 

 possible, just as early as the ground can be 

 worked. 



Among annual vines for poor soil, morn- 

 ing glories and wild cucumber (Echinocystis 

 lobata) are the best. They will grow any- 

 where, anyhow, and furnish shade or a 

 pretty screen by the Fourth of July. Both 

 do better if sown in the fall. 



In front of poppies sow godetias. They 

 are of poppy-like bloom, satiny of texture, 

 in reds, pinks and whites. They make 

 bushy little plants about a foot high and 

 do best in poor soil, beginning in July to 

 bloom all summer. Beside these, annual 

 pinks are really charming things to grow; 

 so generous ' of bloom. Sown in April or 

 May, they bloom from early July till snow 

 and often live over winter. 



Portulaca is the ground cover to bloom 

 from July till frost and one of the best 



annuals for garden color. Refusing to 

 grow in rich soil, it will riot over the hottest, 

 driest, sandiest spot in a blaze of yellow, 

 white, red and pink; its single and double 

 rose-like flowers closing their petals at 

 night but laughing open again to meet the 

 sun. Portulaca should be sown late in 

 May when the ground is thoroughly warm, 

 where it is to bloom as it does not like 

 transplanting. Early sowing in cold ground 

 only wastes the seed. 



Of perennial plants for this month, hardy 

 coreopsis should be grown behind perennial 

 gaillardias. Both are open yellow flowers 

 on the daisy order, the gaillardias marked 

 with maroon. The petals are broad and 

 notched and the flowers very showy. Both 

 are hardy foragers, content with little. 

 The gaillardias will go on blooming till snow. 



July brings the yucca's bloom to the 

 sterile garden and no more stately thing 

 blooms anywhere. Its spiky, tropical, 

 evergreen leaves are decorative the year 

 round and its four-foot candelabra-stalks of 

 waxy creamy bells like miniature magnolia 

 blooms are magically beautiful. 



Pardanthus, called blackberry lily be- 

 cause its seeds look like blackberries, is 

 showy in July and August. Like most of 

 the plants mentioned here, it can be easily 

 raised from seed which can be sown as soon 

 as ripe or in early spring. 



August will find pinks, portulaca, ar- 

 meria, California poppies, gaillardias, nas- 

 turtiums and godetias at their best in the 

 garden of not-much-riches, and will add 

 annual chrysanthemums. 



Hardy asters bloom lavishly in Sep- 

 tember and October, growing from eighteen 

 inches to six feet high, according to kind. 

 They succeed in any soil. White, all 

 shades of lavender and purple and many 

 blues are represented in named varieties 

 and it cannot be denied that very late 

 flowers are as much treasured as very early 

 ones. 



Hardy asters are best planted with 

 goldenrod against fences or buildings at 

 the very back of a border. If set thickly, 

 they make an October show that surprises 

 every one and furnishes flowers for decora- 

 tions by the armful. 



A New Way of Beautifying Large Buildings— By Wilhelm Miller, s 



PLANT SHRUBBERY NEAR THE WALL, NOT AGAINST IT— EASIER TO HANDLE COAL, PAINTING, WIN- 

 DOWS, AND SNOW, GIVES LIGHT TO THE BASEMENT, PREVENTS DAMPNESS, AND LOOKS BETTER 



TTIE old way of beautifying large 

 ■1 buildings, such as schools and fac- 

 tories, is to plant shrubbery against the 

 walls. The up-to-date method is to plant 

 the shrubs away from the walls. The new 

 idea was worked out by Mr. Harlan P. 

 Kelsey, landscape architect, for a state 

 normal school at Salem, Mass. 



The practical advantages claimed for the 

 new plan are that coal, painting, windows, 

 and snow are easier to handle, the base- 

 ment gets more light and air, dampness 



is prevented; and areas are more easily 

 kept clean and sanitary. 



It is important to be able to get close to 

 large buildings with wagons, and the new 

 method provides a wide space, shown in 

 Fig. i, which may save the expense of 

 bringing in coal by hand. Driveways are 

 usually eyesores, yet one like this can be 

 hidden almost completely from the side- 

 walk. Piping and conduits entering and 

 leaving the building are usually difficult 

 to locate when overgrown with plants 



and even more difficult to open and re- 

 pair properly. Everyone who uses a gar- 

 den hose will appreciate what it means to 

 be able to reach the sill-cocks with ease 

 and do the watering from the inside. 



In the case of wooden buildings the new 

 method has decided advantages, for wood 

 has to be repainted at frequent intervals, 

 and expense is reduced if the painters do 

 not have to clamber over and around 

 bushes. Moreover, shrubs planted directly 

 against a frame building tend to make a 



