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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



August, 19 13 



THE GARDEN IN AUGUST 



HO, this first of the Autumn months, on 

 contemplating the full August beauty of the 

 garden he has planned and planted, can fail 

 to have his soul stirred with the thought of 

 Nature's marvellous works in the recollec- 

 tion that his own hand was so willingly 

 lent to those human tasks that seldom fail in such rewards 

 as that of the spiritual satisfaction one derives on the 

 memorable occasion which these vines, crowning gardens 

 with their full glory, should be. How grateful we are 

 for the nodding Anemones with their white or rose-colored 



to receive seeds of Perennials. Planting Perennials now 

 in cold frames will preclude the possibility of late rains 

 from washing away seeds planted later in open gardens 

 in wet localities. The careful gardener will bring carna- 

 tions indoors this month if he has had them growing in 

 the open garden through July. August is the proper 

 month for potting Easter Lilies to be forced. In order 

 that the bulbs may become thoroughly rooted, they should 

 be kept in a dark, cool place until this start is made. 



BEFORE the month is out the September issue of Amer- 

 ican Homes and Gardens will be in the hands of 

 readers. This will contain an authoritative article by one 

 of the foremost practical gardeners in America on the 



blossoms, for Dicentra, for the Evening Primrose still with subject of "Evergreens for the Home Grounds," beautifully 



us, for the gorgeous golden Helianthus, the pale Moon- 

 flower, Mignonette, the Pinks which claim August for their 

 own, and old Snapdragon, ingenious and entertaining. 

 Then there is lovely Veronica in royal purple, and Madame 

 Zinnia, with more colors in her attractive raiment than ever 

 futurists have dreamed of 

 mixing on their palettes. 



BUT one must not forget 

 the Vegetables! Beans 

 and things may appear pro- 

 saic and poets may have 

 neglected them in conse- 

 quence, but the delight to be 

 derived from a well-planted 

 vegetable garden that has 

 thriven and has become lux- 

 uriantly productive is not 

 alone a mundane one. It is 

 not because this is a turnip 

 or that is a beet that one's 

 heart gives a little bound on 

 beholding these things grow- 

 ing in his garden; it is be- 

 cause they remind him that 

 vegetable-growing depends 

 upon more than dropping a 

 chance seed in a hole in the 

 ground, that the successful 

 vegetable garden is only pos- 

 sible through the careful 

 attention one gives to it and 

 his interest in it. 



HE various small fruit 

 bushes should be ex- 

 amined this month. Old 

 canes should be cut from the 

 berry bushes. The cold 

 frames which have been kept 

 in order should now be ready 



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An attractive treatment of a garden wall 



illustrated by reproduction from photographs of various 

 Evergreens, singly and in their relation to the lawn-land- 

 scape. Therefore the garden maker should begin to ask 

 himself whether or not his plot of ground, whatever size 

 it may be, would become more interesting and attractive by 



the planting of one or more 

 Evergreens. There is, of 

 course, quite as often, a ten- 

 dency to overplant as there 

 is to under-plant, although 

 our garden makers are over- 

 coming this fault more and 

 more, and are now appre- 

 ciative of the fact that a 

 lawn should not be choked 

 with shrubs, even though the 

 individual specimens are 

 very beautiful in themselves, 

 but should be adorned with 

 discrimination and judgment 

 by placing a shrub just where 

 it is needed and only where 

 it is needed to produce as 

 perfect an effect as possible. 

 We are also getting away 

 from the "lonesome pine" 

 effects in Evergreen planting, 

 and are now well versed in 

 the more cheerful arrange- 

 ments followed by the mod- 

 ern landscape architects. 

 THE cutworm is of the 

 most troublesome of 

 garden pests. Plants should 

 be watched caiefully and 

 all cutworms removed by 

 hand. Spraying with an 

 arsenite solution is useful, 

 but not for table plants. 



