March, 1912 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
to make room for other occupants of the 
beds. 
But these are not all the early Spring 
bulbs which may be depended upon for 
early flowers, though of the most de- 
pendable. Winter aconite is a bright and 
cheerful herald of the Spring, sending up 
a whorl of green leaves enclosing a sin- 
gle buttercup-like flower, about the time 
of the blooming of the crocus. A few 
days later the scillas appear, holding their 
deep blue bells at half mast, rarely look- 
ing the sun in the face; but so charming 
are they and so finely do they group with 
the white of the crocus that they should 
be combined with them whenever pos- 
sible. 
Many of the early Spring bulbs are of 
use simply as bedders, but the majority 
are available for cut flowers and are not 
surpassed by anything the Summer has to 
offer. Tulips, narcissi, daffodils, coral 
lilies and candidums have as great deco- 
rative value indoors as out, and when 
grown among shrubbery and hardy per- 
ennials may be more freely used than 
when grown in solid beds, where any 
considerable number may not be re- 
moved without leaving an undesirable 
vacancy. 
Then we have the splendid array of 
Spring blooming shrubs which are both 
ornamental in the garden and useful as 
cut flowers. One of the first of the 
hardy shrubs to bloom is the deutzia gra- 
cillima, with its feathery-white flowers; 
this is especially beautiful when planted 
in close proximity to the pink lychnis, 
with which it combines exquisitely. The 
lilacs, syringeas, weigelias, the chionan- 
thus (which in some sections blooms in 
late May or early June), the snowballs, 
and English and German iris, bleeding 
hearts, and the creeping phlox subulata, 
which in May carpets the ground with a 
sheet of bloom, are all lovely and desir- 
able denizens of the Spring and early 
Summer garden, that, once planted, will 
grow in size and beauty from year to 
year. 
Somewhat later in bloom than the fore- 
going is the Peony, which blossoms about 
the middle of June and continues in bloom 
for a long time. With the coming of Fall, the 
gold and crimson of the maple glows again in 
the golden rod and the hardy chrysanthe- 
mums; the late asters are imperial in 
robes of purple and of red. In sheltered 
nooks the anterrhinums hold aloft spikes 
of richest velvet-white and crimson and 
of wine, pinks and spikes of flame,and yel- 
low fire are defying the frost of Autumn 
long after September has gone and Octo- 
ber is waning toward November’s chill. 
The salvias, in sheltered nooks, still are 
brilliant with color, each branch and twig 
bursting into fresh bloom, as though the 
Summer had but just begun, for this 
flower is a persistent and continuous 
bloomer and only ceases to bloom when 
cut by severe frost. 
The candy-tuft will continue to give 
an abundance of flowers long after severe 
frosts have cut most plants to the ground, 
and in favorable seasons will be found in 
bloom in November. Physostegias which 
have had the seed pods removed will give 
a crop of late Fall flowers, as will also the 
aconites, delphiniums and lobelias; but 
it is to the anemones and the hardy chry- 
santhemums that one must look for the 
greatest splendor of the Fall garden. 
The anemones come into bloom in Sep- 
tember, and if slightly protected on frosty 
nights may be had in bloom until well 
into November, as they continue to pro- 
and thousands of others equally attract- 
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