March, rg1I 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS XV 
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Garden Work About the Home 
(Continued from page xiii) 
garden, would it be possible to have tulips 
or bulbs planted at all this year? 
“T shall consider it a great favor if you 
will explain these things to me, and [ in- 
tend following your plan for the formal 
garden as exactly as I can. 
“My place is in the country, sixty miles 
up the James River from here, and I have 
every reason to believe I can raise all the 
plants you have listed, as this climate is 
very mild,” writes M. M., Richmond, Va. 
The garden is 84x134 feet. The num- 
bers refer in some cases to the tulips, in 
other cases to the plants shown in the same: 
bed. The tulips are, of course, planted in 
the fall and the other plants in the spring, 
after the tulips have flowered. The dahlias 
are planted after the early tulip bulbs are 
taken up, as the early tulips give a satis- 
factory bloom only once. The late tulips, 
which often improve from year to year, 
can be left in the ground, and the snap- 
dragons and other things can be planted 
between them. 
There is no doubt that you can grow 
all these plants on the James River, and 
you can probably do better, as the plan 
was designed for a cold hill in Northern 
Connecticut. 
I am sorry that you are going to copy 
the plan, as it is very seldom that a gar- 
den designed for one situation can be built 
in another, because the conditions of sit- 
uation and surroundings are so unlikely to 
be the same. A garden is always designed 
to fit its environment, and it is doing vio- 
lence to the scheme to attempt to use it in 
dissimilar surroundings. 
All that one can ever do is to adapt the 
broad outlines and perhaps some of the 
details to a new site, but one is seldom 
tempted in that way because the new site 
always suggests new schemes that fit bet- 
ter than any such adaptation could pos- 
sibly fit. 
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hope you will be successful in your adapta- 
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T HAS hitherto been supposed that ma- 
rine animals derive their food from 
each others’ bodies and, in the last 
analysis, from plants, says Prometheus. A 
few years ago, however, Puettner discovered 
that the sea contains dissolved food ma- 
terials, upon which some marine animals, 
notably sponges, appear to live exclusively. 
A given volume of sea water contains in 
dissolved condition 24,000 times more car- 
bon than it contains in the form of organ- 
isms. Puettner proved that one species of 
sponge, if it were compelled to exist upon 
ready formed food, could obtain in one hour 
only 1/2300 of the quantity of carbon 
which it consumes in that time; and in 
order to obtain even this small quantity, 
it would have to fish over twenty times the 
volume of sea water which would suffice to 
supply it with all the carbon it requires in 
the form of dissovled complex carbon com- 
pounds. Very interesting in this connec- 
tion is the observed fact that comparatively 
small quantities of ready formed food are 
found in the digestive cavities of the lower 
marine animals. Hence sea water is, for 
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the cells of animal tissues absorb food 
from the bodily fluids, animal parasites 
from the media in which they live, and all 
plants from their environment. The sea is 
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