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vored as you do more of the favorite; a dozen Foxgloves, for 

 instance, to four Day Lilies, or ten Phlox to six Ins. 



What the Market Offers 



AT THIS season of the year herbaceous material is of- 

 fered in pot-grown roots or specimens which furnish 

 strong and sturdy beginnings for next summer s flowers; and 

 where it is possible to use this 

 sort of thing there are advan- 

 tages, even though the piece 

 seems to be less than a corres- 

 ponding unit (or clump) of 

 field-grown material. Actually 



Some Suggested Herbaceous Perennial Combinations 



Furnishing the Most Spectacular Effects 



COMMON .NAME 



Bellflower 



Foxglove 



Hollyhock 



Iris 



Larkspur 



BOTANICAL NAME 



Campanula 



Digitalis 



Althaea 



Iris 



Delphinium 



Sunflower (small) Helianthus 



Furnishing All Summer Bloom for Various Conditions 



For a General Mixed Border 



COMMON NAME 



Bellflower 

 Chrysanthemum 



Columbine 

 Coral-bells 

 Feverfew 



COMMON NAME 

 Babv's-breath 

 Butterfly-weed 



BOTANICAL NAME 



Campanula 

 Chrysanthemum- 

 garden varieties 

 Aquilegia 

 Heuchera 

 Pyrethrum 



For a Dry and Barren Situation 



BOTANICAL NAME 



Gypsophila paniculata 



Asclepias tuberosa 



DUILUIIJ >"-\.m •- r 



Evening Primrose Oenothera 

 p) ax Linum perenne 



Lupine Lupinus 



For a Shady Situation 



COMMON NAME BOTANICAL NAME 



Bleeding-heart Dicentra 

 Day-lily Hemerocams 



False Goat's-beard Astilbe 

 Foam-flower Tiarella 



Foxglove Digitalis 



this is only seeming, since the 

 root system is, as a matter of 

 fact, more dense and has the 

 added advantage of being prac- 

 tically undisturbed in the hand- 

 ling. Field-grown plants are 

 larger and more spreading both 

 at top and under ground, but 

 they lack the resistance of the 

 more compact and definite pot- 

 grown specimens; and they do 

 suffer a slight set-back, inevita- 

 bly, in the handling. Pot-grown 

 material may be shifted into 

 the ground without ever know- 

 ing it has been moved. 



Of course the greatest advan- 

 tage lies with the seedlings 



grown in the garden's seedbed, i , . . 



properly transplanted as they . , 



come along and finally set out in their permanent places 

 early enough to become established before winter arrive. 

 But there are many things that cannot be raised unless there 

 are special facilities for handling them; and it is for many too 

 troublesome an undertaking anyhow So the pot-grown 

 material may be regarded as the real standb y genen ly 

 speaking. These are listed usually at from $1.50 to J2 50 

 per dozen, or $12 to $15 per hundred, and are sold at the 

 dozen rate from six up, or at the hundred rate from twenty- 

 five up. 



Fall Planting and Protection 

 TT IS of the utmost importance that ground protection be 

 given all fall planted material, whether it is herbaceous 

 or woody. Unless it is protected the work might about as 

 well not be done-and the plants as well be left unplanted 

 For under the action of alternate freezing and thawing which 

 winter brings in practically all parts of the country, every- 

 thing that is not securely anchored by roots that have grown 

 into the soil will be forced up and out, sometimes completely. 

 The winter mulch overcomes this by holding the ground frost- 

 locked once it is frozen; and this mulch is put in place 

 therefore after freezing, by some planters. Since the ground 

 wi 11 gradually freeze however even with the blanket of leaves 

 or straw in place, 1 like having it put on when the leaves fall 

 and the general cleaning up of autumn is being done. 1 he 

 Point to be borne in mind about the mulch is that its purpose 

 is not to supply heat, but to keep things on an even keel. 



COMMON NAME 



Lily 



Marshmallow 

 Peony 

 Phlox 



BOTANICAL NAME 



Lilium 

 Hibiscus 

 Paeonia 

 Phlox 



The Garden Magazine, September, 1919 



Labels and Names— a Puzzle 



AFTER each plant is set, put its label close beside it— or 

 set the group label in the middle of each group. Even 

 for those whose enthusiasm has not yet reached the plane of 

 wanting to know their garden neighbors by name this is 

 the ri-ht way; for when they do reach this stage the intro- 

 tne rigm w y, ductions will be waiting for 



them, whereas if these are 

 overlooked now, they can 

 never be made. Label with 

 the common or folk name if 

 you will; but put the botanical 

 appellation alongside or un- 

 derneath. For only the latter 

 is fixed and undeviating; folk- 

 names vary and mean different 

 things in different places. 



And finally, when all the rest 

 is done, have the stakes that 

 will be needed early next sum- 

 mer, made ready for use so that 

 none of the tall things that 

 require staking will have to 

 wait a day for it. Nothing 

 is much worse than allowing a 

 feeble growth to twist itself 

 out of shape for want of sup- 

 port, and then attempting to 

 straighten it forcibly by be- 

 lated staking. It does not 

 work; and it is painful to the 

 observer. 



COMMON NAME 



Iceland Poppy 



Iris 



Larkspur 



Phlox 



Speedwell 



BOTANICAL NAME 



Papaver nudicaule 



Iris 



Delphinium 



Phlox 



Veronica 



COMMON NAME 'BOTANICAL NAME 



Michaelmas Daisy Aster grandiflorus 



~ . miT_n r^-illii-Viriia invn mr.r 



Poppy Mallow 



Rock Mad wort 



Starwort 



Tickseed 



Callirhoe involucra- 

 ta, var. lineariloba 

 Alyssum saxatile 

 Aster novi-belgii 

 Coreopsis lanceolata 



BOTANICAL NAME 

 Polemonium 



COMMON NAME 



Jacob's ladder 



Japanese Bellflower Platycodon 

 Monkshood Acomtum 



Primrose Polyanthus 



Shooting Star Dodecatheon 



In many of the kinds here listed there are fine horticultural 

 varieties obtainable, and improvements are continually being 

 offered. 1 make no attempt to name these however inasmuch 

 as they are less significant than the species-but I would sug- 

 gest that they be obtained, rather than the simple type from 

 which they spring. 



Planting, Dividing, and Replanting 

 TUST a word finally about the actual work of planting, 

 J whether it is separating old plants or setting out new ones 

 it is a matter of everlasting wonder to me that no one eve 

 digs a hole for anything with a convex bottom instead of 

 concave, inasmuch as everything that grows is hollow under- 

 neath instead of bulging! True enough, in the very nature 

 of dirt and its tendency to run back down the sides of any 

 hole that is dug, a hole is bound to be dished out and deeper 

 fn the middle than at the edges when just the digging is 

 completed. But it would not seem to be a superhuman con- 

 cept to meet the natural form of a root system by filing a 

 little mound of earth— good earth too, since it is put in atter 

 h dicing ; i finished-in the bottom of the aforementioned 

 excava'tion! to form a cushion on which the p ant may i "es. 

 More plants perish I believe through being hung ins ad 

 of planted, than through any other one fault of handling 

 And a plant is bound to be hung when its roots are lowered 

 into a hollow opening and earth piled on top o [^ 



Always mound some loose, fine top soil on the bottom of 

 the hole for every clump of roots to rest on; then turn the 



