February, 1909 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS v 
Killarney, Richmond, General MacArthur, 
the Cochet roses, the Soupert roses, Balduin, 
Augusta Victoria, and President Carnot. If 
I were in Florida I should let nothing take 
precedence of Marechal Neil, and now in my 
garden there hardly anything surpasses Gains- 
borough and Etoile de France, but in the 
North I do not get from these as good results. 
Where the climate is very severe one must 
select his roses from the hybrid perpetuals and 
the hybrid teas. Out of these select General 
Jacqueminot, Jubilee, Magna Charta, Paul 
Neyron, Mrs. Laing, Clio, Ulrich Brunner. 
Over your porch Climbing Meteor, Mrs. 
Robert Peary, and Clothilde Soupert will be 
enough to start with, and they are all superb. 
Besides a much larger planting of select roses 
I find that I can not get on happily without 
some of the old-fashioned sorts. “These can 
be planted near your fences, or constitute a 
hedge by your currant patch. Get the damask 
and the cabbage and the Scotch at any rate. 
(4) Another plant that you may lay in 
freely is the hardly phlox. It begins to blos- 
som just as the roses are through, and the 
profusion of bloom is as delightful as the fra- 
grance. New seedlings will come up every 
year, and if you will save these, or some of 
them, you will have in a few years hundreds 
of novelties, of great beauty, and all entirely 
hardy. The phlox blossoms all through July 
and August and September. If you will cut 
down the stalks after blooming others will 
come up and blossom still later. It is a royal 
everybody’s flower; it will do its best in rather 
poor soil, only it wants plenty of water; and 
in dry seasons, is not conspicuously beautiful. 
For additional perennials you will find peren- 
nial larkspur very satisfactory. It takes pretty 
good care of itself, does not like too much shade 
and sends up splendid stalks of richest blue, 
from three to five feet high. I am tempted 
to add clove pinks, although these, while 
hardy, are inclined to give out for causes you 
can not discover. But is there anything finer 
than a bunch of clove pinks or clove carnations, 
either in the hand or in the room? If you 
have a brook along which you can grow water- 
cress, sow with it some forget-me-not. ‘This 
darling blue flower has just the right name. 
A little frail plant has persisted in coming up 
in my garden for over half a century. It is 
a bunch of spray with delicate flowers, and 
called fumatory. Get it into your grounds if 
you can. It is the very best basis for a dish 
bouquet I have ever seen. I shall step over 
my limits a little in adding sweet williams, 
for they do make a good deal of trouble if 
grown in beds. But sow the very best seed 
in your lawns under shrubs, and the sweet 
william will become a very persistent sum- 
mer visitor. 
(5) Annuals you cannot bother with at the 
outset, and yet there are a few of them that 
must be included. First of all and fairest 
are the sweet peas. I will tell you how they 
make the least possible trouble and are the 
surest to respond. Plant them very early in 
the spring in trenches five inches deep, in rich 
garden soil, and, as they grow, gradually fill 
up around them with rich compost (not fresh 
manure.) “There are new sorts sent out every 
year, and I advise you to select a half dozen 
of the best new ones to start with, then add 
a few of the very best each year. The easiest 
way that I have found for training sweet peas 
is on wire trellis or chicken wire. Something 
that is five or six feet high at the least. Then 
pick the flowers as fast as they come if you 
want them to keep on coming. Give away 
huge bunches, and thousands more will appear. 
The nasturtium, or tropeolum, is my hobby. 
While most flowers like rich soil this one does 
best on the poorest. If too highly fed it runs 
to vine and not to flower. It is not only one 
of the most floriferous plants in existence, but 
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