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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 1913 



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The DREAM GIRL 



By ETHEL GERTRUDE HART 



'"PHIS is as charming a love story 

 as you'll find in a whole shelf 

 of books. 



"The Dream Girl" wrote the most intimate, delightful, fanciful letters that 

 ever beguiled an invalid's weary hours. Max, to whom the letters were directed, 

 needed comforting just then. He hated people and he hated violets. Why, 

 you will have to read the book to find out. 



"I have just been out," the Dream Girl wrote, "into the garden in the wind 

 and rain to pluck two of my special violets for you. I don't think the gale 

 of yesterday has beaten all the perfume out of them. I shall put them in this 

 letter, and burn them if you dare!" 

 He didn't burn them. 



And when he gets voluminous letters about "Winsome," and "The Man- 

 from-Malee," and returns in kind letters about "Polly," and Herr Lindt, who 

 plays Rubinstein's "Melody in F" on his 'cello, he commences to want very 

 much to know this girl who interprets his moods so absolutely. She writes 

 that her garden is a great deal more of a dream than she is herself. But just 

 the same he wants to see her "little Dresden china" grandmother, and their 

 house up in the hills. 



One day, when Max was well on the road to recovery, this letter came: 

 " Do you know the summer is trying even up here among the mountains. And 

 I cannot think of another word to write. Shall this be the last of your Dream 

 Girl? She has gone far enough along the road of life with you and wants a long 

 rest. Imagine her vanishing in the mists, and the purple distance. D. G." 



That day, and the next and the next came, and still no letters from "The Dream 

 Girl." Finally Max set out to find her. She wasn't really a dream; but [she was 

 a great surprise to Max — and she will be to every reader, too. 



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For a Satisfactory Garden 



BEGIN cultivation now; frequent cultivation 

 keeps down weeds and grass as well as keeping 

 the soil loose. The richer the soil the oftener it 

 should be cultivated. Cabbage that is heading 

 should not be cultivated as loosening the soil now 

 will prevent hard heads from forming. Pull the 

 weeds out by hand. And remember that tomatoes, 

 pepper and eggplants should not be cultivated 

 deep. 



Make a second sowing of the edible cow peas, the 

 white seeded sorts being the best for table. They 

 can be planted between hills or between rows of 

 sweet corn; if the corn has been up for three or four 

 weeks the corn stalks will serve as supports for the 

 vines if the running sorts are sown. Use plenty of 

 seed early in the season in order to get a good start, 

 and thin out when the seedlings have four leaves. 

 Use a rich potash fertilizer for the best results. 



Continue to plant corn for main crop. Collard 

 seed may now be sown too. Use the improved 

 white heading sort, even though the seed may cost 

 a little more. 



Pumpkins may be sown now. Some farmers 

 plant them in the corn field but I always prefer 

 having them in a separate patch. 



When onions are nearly grown take the soil from 

 around the bulbs to hasten maturity. 



Remember to plant okra if you have not already 

 done so. 



Make supports for running beans and tomatoes. 

 Small oak bushes will be found excellent for the 

 former. 



IN THE FLOWER GARDEN 



Continue to plant gladiolus. The largest bulbs 

 produce the best flowers. 



Sow sunflower seed; the double sort is probably 

 the most beautiful, but the large single headed sort 

 is the most useful if the seed is wanted for the poul- 

 try. 



Cosmos grows like a weed and flowers freely here 

 in the South even on loose soil. Sow the seed at 

 any time during the month. It is also not too late 

 to plant tuberose bulbs. 



Put out chrysanthemum plants. Remember 

 that they blossom at a time when other flowers are 

 scarce. 



Sow a few seeds of cypress vine and cultivate the 

 same as morning glories. The fern-like foliage 

 and small trumpet-like flowers are very pretty. 



Continue to sow seed of asters and daisy. Use 

 good varieties and give them sufficient attention. 



Georgia Thomas J. Steed. 



Getting Down to One's Own 

 Region 



IF YOU feel you really must have some formal 

 planting in your garden and do not care to use 

 Eastern material which you know has failed, try 

 the native plants — say four Spanish dagger plants 

 ( Yucca aloifolia) in the centre, bordering these with 

 century plants (Magna or Agave) in their varied 

 forms from white and yellow to olive green; then 

 have another circle of hardy native spineless cactus 

 {Opunlia Bcucheri). Be sure to get the native 

 plants, as many imported ones have failed in our 

 changeable climate. These interspersed with the 

 coral blossomed Hesperaloe and Sutol will grow on 

 a dry exposed spot in the bright Texas sunshine 

 where tender eastern plants are impossible. And 

 these have real "local color," as the artists say. 

 Texas. H. B. Bfxk. 



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