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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1913 



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FAVOURITE FLOWEE 



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KELWAY'S famous Hardy 

 Herbaceous Plants are modern 

 developments of the old English 

 favourites. The cottage "Piny 

 Rose " has become the Paeony, 

 incomparable in form, colour and fra- 

 grance. The old-fashioned Larkspur 

 has developed into the stately blooms of 

 the Delphiniums ; Gaillar- 

 dias, Pyrethrums and the 

 rest, all serve to bring back 

 the charm of the old-world 

 English garden. Special 

 care is taken in packing 

 plants to arrive in America 

 %*\ in good order, and they can 

 - j**M. ( ^y be relied upon to thrive with 

 ^ r\A a minimum of attention. 



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 tions given in the Kelway 

 Manual of Horticulture 

 mailed free on request to 



KELWAY & SON 



141-145 West 36th St., N. Y. City 



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American Gardens 



Direct from 



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Pandanus Indoors 



ASK any expert for a list of plants that ought to 

 be raised readily in the house and he will at 

 once begin with the long-suffering aspidistra and 

 stop after mentioning half a dozen more. It is 

 anything but a satisfactory variety, no matter how 

 desirable the plants themselves may be. The mere 

 fact that a certain sort of plant does not like'house 

 culture is not always enough to condemn the species. 

 Some individual plants will often succeed, if they 

 can be found. This is, I think, more the case with 

 ferns, palms and some other hard-stemmed plants 

 than with such as are more succulent. 



When I was a boy I used to gaze in astonishment 

 at some petunias in a box, raised by an old woman 

 who lived near the school house, which were a mass 

 of pink-purple bloom all winter. I have never 

 been able to do anything of the sort in my day. 



Once we bought two pots of heliotrope. One of 

 them acted just as they usually do in the house. 

 It went out of blossom after the buds already formed 

 had opened, and was soon in a feeble condition 

 from which it did not recover. The other steadily 

 developed vigor, kept on blossoming and grew into 



This Pandanus utilis is over two feet high and has 

 more than fifty leaves 



a sturdy plant. We kept it for years and it graced 

 the front parlor window till its caretaker somehow 

 forgot it and it became very dry, a condition that 

 is usually fatal to such water-loving plants. It 

 soon died. I have not been able to duplicate it. 

 The two plants were identical in appearance and 

 apparent vigor at the start. One had the faculty of 

 adapting itself to the conditions, the other did not. 



We had had plants of Pandanus ulilis in the 

 house several times, but none succeeded. About 

 five years ago we bought a small ordinary-looking 

 plant at a florists' convention. It was set in a 

 north window, away from the sun and given good 

 care. It stood the change from the florists' hand- 

 ling and grew steadily, till it is now more than two 

 feet high and two feet spread, with more than fifty 

 leaves, all as perfect as they are ever seen. 



About a year and a half ago I obtained a com- 

 panion to this plant, a Pandanus Vcitchii, of about 

 the same size. It gave some promise of flourishing, 

 but after a month or two began to drop its lowre 

 leaves. A florist kept it till quite recovered. 



New York John W. Chamberlin. 



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