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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1913 



Gardening With Modern Tools 



We know that you believe in modern gardens or 

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edge. Under cultivation, white violets increase 

 wonderfully in size and they grow even better in 

 full sunlight than in partial shade. My garden is 

 exposed to the blaze of the sun in midsummer until 

 about three o'clock. 



A few years ago, eight little plants were given 

 me from a friend's yard where they were growing 

 in the grass. These increased so rapidly by self- 

 sowing and had so many good points that I decided 

 to try them as a permanent edging. They proved 

 such a success that I now have four hundred feet 

 of this beautiful bordering. The plants are set 

 eight inches apart. 



In the middle of March when clearing up the 

 border, the violet leaves are found still green under 

 last year's old stems. The plants are soon a mass 

 of new leaves and during the last week of April 

 the large creamy white blossoms literally cover the 

 plants which continue to bloom profusely for 

 weeks. I have had them in flower by the 19th 

 of April, in a border sheltered by a stone wall, 

 and have picked them as late as July 9th. 



Quantities of seeds ripen, and self-sow, so there 

 is a constant supply of new plants. These young 

 seedlings may be transplanted at any time and 

 will bloom in the fall, when the older plants again 

 give a scattering crop of blossoms. 



The plant is of branching habit and not at all 

 stiff. The flower stalks are long and spring from 

 the axils of the leaves. When in bloom the effect 

 is that of a white and green ribbon enclosing the 

 garden and acting as a delightful foil to the blue 

 of columbines or the yellow of daffodils, while 

 in one corner it tones down most effectually the 

 too vivid coloring of a large clump of bleeding 

 heart. 



In one border white violets make a delightful 

 combination with spiderwort and German iris. 

 At the other end of this same border the color 

 combination is repeated, in a mass of pale blue 

 forget-me-nots with a violet edging and back of the 

 forget-me-nots are the feathery flowers of white 

 valerian. A charming effect is obtained with groups 

 of pinkish columbine surrounded by an edging 

 of white violets. 



New York. L. Pettit. 



Japanese Iris From Seed 



WHEN I first began gardening years ago, I 

 bought scarcely any but mixed varieties. 

 It was owing to this crude idea of planting that 

 I now have some very fine clumps of iris. 



For ten cents I bought a packet of mixed un- 

 named Japanese iris seed. This was sowed in a 

 carefully prepared drill and soon a row of tiny 

 grass-like spears were pushing their way through 

 the earth. Every seed seemed to germinate. 

 They were watered and cultivated weekly, and 

 by fall the plants were strong and sturdy. The 

 ground where they grew was well drained, and 

 plenty of old manure and leafmold had been 

 plowed into the soil. In November a fight mulch 

 of litter was placed along the row. 



The following April the young iris plants were 

 given more room in which to develop. I had been 

 told none would bloom until the second season, so 

 I was much surprised when in July of that first 

 year a few of the plants showed buds. 



The first to unfold was a glistening white-petalled 

 sort with a crest of soft yellow on its falls. Another 

 was a very deep purple, almost black. 



The second year all bloomed and among them were 

 several unattractive in coloring — muddy purples 

 and faded lavenders. These were weeded out, 

 leaving only those of clear well defined colors, 

 some beautifully veined and feathered, others self- 

 colored. All were given permanent places specially 

 prepared for them in the border, for they thrive 

 best in rich, mellow loam well underdrained so that 

 no water stands around their roots in winter, 

 although during the growing and budding season 

 they require a good deal of moisture. 



The lovely nameless white and gold flower that 

 was and is still the first to bloom, is easily the 

 first in point of beauty as well. Except that it is 

 single, it is similar to the white variety Tokyo and 

 indeed they may be seedlings of a common ancestor 

 in Japan. Another, which I have placed near this, 

 is a white delicately suffused with lavender. 



Connecticut. Mary B. Paret. 



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