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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 19 18 



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The owner of an "Old-Fashioned" garden of hardy 

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 With the first warm days of spring come the odd flowers of the Irises, 

 closely followed by the dainty Columbines. 



About Decoration Day and during early June the wonder- 

 ful Peonies claim our admiration. The golden yellow flowers of Coreopsis 

 next appear. Phlox, Larkspurs, and Day Lilies begin blooming now to stay with 

 us until summer's end, when the Asters come to wind up the season's bloom. 



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TN MANY California cities the space 

 ■*- between the sidewalk and the curb is too 

 narrow to be used for grass. An excellent way 

 to treat this is to carpet it with one of the 

 trailing flowering plants such as Verbena, 

 Portulaca, and Abronia. If the border is 

 four feet or wider, an attractive treatment is 

 to use one color in the centre and another 

 color on either side for edgings. 



For example: Use the rose flowering 

 Abronia for the centre and the white Verbena 

 as the edging. Or use the white Verbena in 

 the centre and the red Verbena as the edging. 

 A third plan would be to use the yellow 

 Portulaca for the centre and the pink Portu- 

 laca for the edging. 



The average bed about an ordinary medium- 

 sized home is rectangular. The follow- 

 ing suggestions for planting lists, then, will 

 be varied to meet your own conditions, mainly 

 in the size of the bed. The names of varieties 

 in each case are given in order of size. 

 The first one mentioned is the tallest of the 

 group. 



For a house border use a blue Delphinium, 

 a white Candytuft, a carmine Candytuft with 

 a row of Coleus for the edging. . 



For a shrubbery border use a white Cam- 

 panula, a semi-dwarf pink Snapdragon (space 

 must be left for this now for the seeds must 

 be sown in the hotbed and the plants trans- 

 planted when they are about six inches 

 high), blue Forget-me-not, and white Sweet 

 Alyssum. 



For a driveway b'order use red Tritoma 

 (Kniphofia), or yellow Golden Rod (Solidago 

 canadensis), yellow Calendula, white Sweet 

 William, and crimson Lantana. 



For a screen use pink Hollyhocks, pink 

 Balsam, blue Salvia, and white Lobelia. 



For a bed in which a single variety is grown 

 for its own beauty or for cutting, use Violets 

 or Nasturtiums. Both may be grown in a 

 rather shaded place. Seeds should be planted 

 in February. 



For filling in between shrubs, use Amaran- 

 thus, Cosmos, or Poppy (Papaver). The 

 Cosmos is a rank grower and is not to be 

 preferred in a position that is too prominent. 

 The new varieties of Shirley and Oriental 

 Poppies are especially desirable in prominent 

 locations. The Shirley Poppies are to be had 

 in the most delicate shades. The Oriental 

 Poppy is a bright scarlet and should not 

 be used too liberally. Its brightness has a 

 use, however, for every planting should have 

 something a little startling in it to add zest. 



An unsightly fence or outbuilding may be 

 made attractive by covering it with a Cypress 

 Vine, one of the Morning Glories (Ipomoea), 

 or with some of the vigorous growing Sweet 

 Peas. If you.planted Sweet Peas last October, 

 you should have some blooming now, but it 

 is worth while planting more for summer 

 flowering. A good selection for February 

 planting is: Blanche Ferry Spencer, a 

 beautiful pink and white with wavy standards; 

 Flora Norton Spencer, a beautiful blue; 

 Frank Dolby, the largest of the lavender 

 Sweet Peas; and Gladys Unwyn, a clear light 

 pink. 



Santa Rosa, Cal. John Y. Beaty. 



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