Fair's Superb Lilacs 



TILAC-TIME is spring-time at its best, and one can scarcely conceive 

 | j of a garden without the plants "loved by Washington and set by 

 him in the garden at Mt. Vernon/' For more than a century the 

 Lilacs planted on Bussey Hill (at the Arnold Arboretum) have bloomed 

 every year, filling the air with fragrance, and proving their worth as 

 permanent features of the garden. 



Among the beautiful Lilacs growing at Wyomissing Nurseries are Ellen 

 jH JJ illmott, snowy white, with a truss nearly a foot long; Leon Gambette, 



a giant-flowering variety, with blooms almost as large as tuberoses; Belle 

 de Nancy, soft lilac-pink. These are only a few of the Lilacs I grow at 

 Wyomissing; there are varieties early and varieties late, new colors and 

 glorified forms, with individual flowers and trusses more than doubled in 

 size. All my Lilacs are grown on their own roots, the only safe way to 

 produce good plants. 



Farr's Hardy Plant Specialties 



(Sixth edition, 1918) describes all of these new Lilacs, and other gems 

 for fall planting, including Deutzias, Philadelphus, Evergreens, Rock- 

 Plants, Japanese and German Irises, and over 500 varieties of Peonies. 

 If you do not have a copy of this sixth edition send for it to-day. 



I BERTRAND H. FARR 



Wyomissing Nurseries Co. 



104 Garfield Ave. Wyomissing, Penna. 



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Cover Design: Bittersweet - - Herbert Brown 



PAGE 



'An Ivied Cloister of the Muses ----- 87 



Photograph by C. F. Ray 



A Hardy Mixed Border ---88 



Photograph by J. Horace McFarland 



Where Water Runs Down Hill ----- 89 



Photograph by Mary H. Northend 



The Romance of the Trees Ernest H. Wilson 90 

 "Cosmos, the Beautiful" - - Harriet W. Uhl 96 



Drawing by E. D. Monetti 



"Pompey's Garden" - Mary Harrod Northend 97 

 Photographs by the author 



The Garden Collector's Cabinet T. Sheward 100 



Diagrams by the author 

 Some Counsel About Bulbs - - Grace Tabor 10 1 

 A Succession Thought for the Bulb Beds 102 



Photograph by Mary H. Northend 

 Through the Garden Gate Louise B. Wilder 104 

 Texture in the Garden - - Theodora Kimball 106 



Photographs by Leonard Barron.'Arthur Eldredge, Pren- 

 tiss French, E. J. Wallis and Henry Troth 



Among Our Garden Neighbors ------ 1 10 



The Open Column - -in 



Fall Planted Elms — When Is a Plant Biennial? — Gar- 

 den Pictures from Washington and Texas — Good Color 

 Combinations — Kerosene Emulsion and Snowballs — 

 What is a Suitable Peace Tree? — Verhascum Olympi- 

 cum from Seed — Experience With a Soy Bean — New 

 Lamps for Old — It Pays to Buy Good Bulbs. 

 Photographs by C. E. Foster, W. R. Mudge and S. L. 

 Bastin 



The Month's Reminder --------113 



More About Aphids - - - - - S. D. Conner 117 



Alpines and Rock Plants as Edgings 



Louise B. Wilder 120 



A New Method of Treating an Old Friend 



L. J. Doogue 120 



Senecio Clivorum __.,'_- W.N. Craig 122 



White Violets ----- Nellie D. Merrill 122 



Leonard Barron, Editor 



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