AMERICAN HOMES 



AND GARDENS 



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Volume X 



October 1913 



Number 10 



Fall Planting in the Flower Garden 



By F. F. Rockwell 

 Photographs by Nathan R. Graves 



HE Fall planting season is full of golden 

 opportunities to the wide-awake gardener. It 

 is doubly prized by him because it offers the 

 possibility of accomplishing a great many 

 things which, although as far as the plants 

 themselves are concerned, might be done in 

 the Spring, as a matter of fact generally do not get done 

 because of the rush of other things. Besides this there are 

 some things which must be planted in the Fall if one is to 

 expect results next year — especially if one has no green- 



house in which things can be started in January and Febru- 

 ary; and there are still others which, although they will 

 do with Spring planting, are quite sure to give more satis- 

 factory results if they are planted now. Nor is even the 

 psychological aspect of Fall planting to be passed over with- 

 out a word. The mere fact of having actually made a good 

 start toward next year's garden is worth something, to say 

 nothing of the added interest which adheres to the garden 

 plot when you know that down under the leaves or snow 

 scores of little plants are waiting for the first sign of return- 



The Lily-of-the-Valley, Convallaria Majalis, is easily grown in partially shaded places 



