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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



July, 1 9 13 



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THE GARDEN IN JULY 



OW the gardens of our happy anticipations 

 are unfolding their myriad beauties. We 

 look around the garden plot with satisfac- 

 tion. Even though here and there we find 

 something that is disappointing it should 

 only inspire us to continued effort if our 

 enthusiasm is from the heart. Gardens come and go in 

 one sense, but in another and their truer sense they are ours 

 forever. Perhaps July finds us regretting some planting 

 mistake, some neglect, or some forgetfulness, but we who 

 love our gardens will promise ourselves to profit by our 

 mistakes and as the seasons follow one another and are 

 multiplied by the years we shall find a certain satisfaction 

 in knowing that when, at last, we have attained the mastery 

 of garden-craft all our little failures in the past have helped 

 us the better to acquire a sure knowledge of garden-making 

 in all its diversities. 



JULY will find Aquilegia still blossoming and Achillea, 

 Bachelor's Button, Globe Amaranth, Heliopsis, Lava- 



tera, will be claiming the month as their own, sharing it with 

 Balsam, the Bellflower, Coreopsis, the Evening Primrose, 

 Larkspur, Love-lies-bleeding, Morning Glory, the Nastur- 

 tium and many other old time favorites, not the least of 

 which is the Petunia which is again to be in fashion. Many 

 of the herbacious plants such as the Dahlia and Gladiolus 

 and also Roses should be staked if this has not already 

 been done. Perhaps no phase of the flower-garden care is 

 more apt to be overlooked by the garden beginner than the 

 attention of this sort which should be given early in the 

 season to all those plants which will come to require some 

 support other than their own stalks. 



THERE will be pruning to attend to this month. Roses 

 (the hybrid perpetuals) should be cut back some five 

 or six inches after the June blossoming is over. After this 

 with watchful care and proper fertilizing you may succeed 

 in inducing the appearance of a second blossoming this 

 same season. Such flowering plants as Cosmos, the Dahlia 

 and Chrysanthemums should be by forced "pinching" to con- 

 form to a more compact, bushy and more decorative growth 

 than they would if left to their own development. The 



A garden should not only be attractive but it should be comfortable as well 



