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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1913 



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Housewives swelter over hot 

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 When winter comes, they bring 

 out those same jars. How often 

 do they find the contents moldy 

 or spoiled? 

 If women would use 



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 They really PRESERVE. Most grocers sell 

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A New Help in Border Planting 



HE WHO sets out to make a bit of ground 

 beautiful and call it a garden usually enter- 

 tains one of two wrong notions; either he wants his 

 place too stiff and park-like, laid out with a chalk 

 line, straight with the world, or, having read much 

 of "masses" and "drifts," he sows and plants with 

 reckless disregard of plan or propriety, trying for 

 grace and freedom of effect. 



Now, a mass without reason or restraint is a mess, 

 yet a yard-stick bed is an abomination. The plans 

 made with curly-cue drawings to represent dif- 

 ferent plants are easy on paper; but when one tries 

 to plant accordingly some plants are found too big 

 and others too small for the alloted spaces. Borders 

 that have grown for years, only being thinned or 

 having new treasures added now and then, acquire 

 this orderly freedom of mass so much to be desired 

 — but we can't all inherit twenty-year borders! 



Do this and see if it doesn't help: Draw the 

 boundaries of your border on paper, half an inch 

 to the foot. Run dotted lines through its length 

 to show where plants of different heights will go. 

 For instance in a border six feet wide, allow one 

 foot in front for the shortest plants, two feet for 

 the next higher and three for the tallest . 



Cut from pasteboard a diamond, its shortest 

 distance from point to point being the width of 

 your border. On your border plan lay the paste- 

 board form lengthwise and mark around it. At 

 the end of this diamond lay the form the other way, 

 its point at the point of the first diamond, and mark 

 around it. The ends of this second diamond will be 

 missing. Now lay the form with one edge even with 

 the bottom of the border, another edge touching 

 the last diamond's outer point, and mark around it, 

 and through it lengthwise. This is enough to give 

 you the idea of how to use the diamond form, which 

 can be turned to make endless combinations of 

 odd-shaped spaces, all of the same general form. 



Now make a list of your plants, graded as to 

 height and blooming season, and write their names 

 in the spaces. No space for plants of one height is 

 too large to be filled with one kind, yet there are 

 many smaller spaces. To decide about the bloom- 

 ing time, place small pieces of colored paper on all 

 the spaces whose tenants will be blossoming in any 

 given month. If not satisfactory rearrange until 

 the bloom is right for that month and test for an- 

 other. The dotted lines will keep you from straying 

 as to height. 



When you get ready to plant your border make a 

 triangular frame of very light strips, its base fitting 

 evenly across your border, as the pasteboard form 

 fitted across your plan. The frame will be only 

 half a diamond, to be sure, but the plan can be 

 followed with it and it will be more easily handled 

 than a whole diamond. 



If your eye is not to be trusted, stretched lines 

 can correspond to the dotted lines on the plan. 

 Slip the frame into place at one end of your pre- 

 pared border and plant in and around it according 

 to your plan, moving it to form new angles as fast as 

 the planting is done. Using plants of different 

 sorts and heights breaks up the geometric look of 

 the plan and saves the work from any nightmare 

 suggestion of carpet bedding, even as planting 

 with a frame of definite dimensions saves one from 

 the nightmare of indecision, confusion and utter 

 failure to realize the effect he had in mind ! 



Michigan. 



Gladys Hyatt Sinclair. 



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