May, I911 
The next important point is in preparing the soil, and 
here it is that the well-to-do man has his greatest advan- 
tage. For some sort of soil you must have loam to mix 
with your sand, and give body to it, or your garden will 
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201 
worth of nitrate of soda is enough for a garden of ordinary 
size, but it must be applied very sparingly, and only after 
the plants have gotten well above ground. A thin pow- 
dering over a bed, taking care that it does not lodge 
not do itself and 
your aims justice. 
The poorest, scanti- 
est loam, or woods 
or earth will work 
wonders; rotted kelp 
z Coon ay 
and various sea- | |¢ 3 aes 
weeds are also good, Ret a 
but must be used ae “us ; 
more __ sparingly. Se es ED 2 
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your beds, or the MA, rey A f eae oR 
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all over to your Pelee Wh SEE ‘ 
neighbor’s grounds. a Ae Vd 
A few barrels of Deo) 
poor loam, will be FG IOAS RE 
sufficient for a very 
successful garden. sae) es 
After having farce 3 i 
prepared your soil aed Me 
and staked or | Bewerosy 
marked out your ‘ 
flower-beds, the next 
point in order is to 
select your flowers. 
Birkee tiere are 
three points to 
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plants as your cata- 
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imperialis flore 
“Snowball” for double flowers, Heddewiggii “‘The Bride” for single 
Avoid mixed colors. 
Sow together. 
Sow together. 
All do well, and the range of color is 
All are good. 
Shirley mixed in front. 
For tall-growing kinds the following are good: ‘“‘Admiral,’ red and white; ‘The Bride,’ pure Wats 
voi 
They are a display of parti-colored mush most of the time. 
It is the most successful in sandy soil, 
various colors.—Buy one mixed packet of the old-fashioned ‘Painted Daisies.” 
Especially success- 
Any mixture bought from a reliable 
G G A. Annual pinks, mixed colors.—-Buy one package of punctatus, or laciniatus, for singles; 
well in full sunlight, pleno, or laciniatus flore pleno, for doubles. 
. aa. White annual pink for border.—Buy 
ae better, that Oe flowers. Double much to be preferred. 
yourself can vouch 3. Calliopsis; golden yellow.—Buy variety ‘‘Cloth of Gold” for a good pure yellow. 
: bb. Asperula azurea setosa; azure blue, fragrant.—Easily grown, and makes a beautiful combination with 
for from experl- the yellow. Should be well watered. 
ence. 2—Choose C. Candytuft, mixed colors—Buy one package mixed colors and one of the tall white. 
cc. Dwarf white candytuft; fragrant.—Very successful, and makes a fine edging. 
only Pp ] a uL ts of D. Bachelor's Buttons; mixed.—Buy one package of mixed colors, and one of deep blue. 
medium height Or dd. Eschscholtzia, pink and white-—Buy variety “Dainty Queen” and Rose Cardinal. 
] h E. Eschscholtzia, shades of yellow.—Buy varieties Californica, alba, and Golden West. 
Ow growt % 3 ee. Ageratum, blue-—Buy dwarf blue. Easily grown, and blooms profusely. 
Select your colors 1 Nearer yellow and brown.—Any varieties may be selected. 
2 good. 
carefully. ff. Dwarf Morning Glory, mixed colors.—Little known plants, but exceedingly good for bordering, and easy 
M t f th to grow. Flowers remain open all day. 
Os 4 O € G. Drummond Phlox, mixed colors.—Buy mixed, or select colors, according to individual taste. 
plants, with a Very 8g. Dwarf phlox, or star phlox.—Buy one packet each of pink and white, for edging. 
few exceptions that H. Annual poppies, mixed colors.—Sow selected taller-growing kinds at the rear. 
5) 
Z : “Virginia” and ‘‘Miss Sherwood,” pink and white; ‘‘Fire-dragon,” scarlet, black and white. 
are listed as doing double poppies at the seashore. 
well in full sun- bh. Sweet Alyssum, white, fragrant—Buy common Sweet Alyssum. 
s and most fragrant. 
shine, can be grown I. Petunias, pink and white.—It is unsafe to trust to the mixed seeds, as so many magenta shades are in- 
d cluded. Select one package each of pink and white, or safer still, stick to white alone. 
fo a vantage at the ii. Dwarf Petunias, white-—Buy only the white variety for edging. 
i 1 J. Annual Chrysanthemum, 
seaside. Salt aly Splendid for the table and last a long time in water. 
and mist seem to jj. Godetia, mixed colors.—A little-known annual of beautiful coloring and easy culture. 
h h f 1] f ful in a seaside garden. Is worthy of a whole bed to itself. 
ave the facu ty O K. Peas EM ois dire aay yA peti her to ced description. 
2 = tm cannot be improved upon in blend of coloring. 
bringing out more kk. Sweet Alyssum, white.—Described above. 
beautiful and vivid 
coloring than con- 
ditions inland. 
The care of such 
a garden, once 
planted, is no more 
dificult than that 
of any garden of annuals; in fact it has the advantage of 
producing fewer weeds to be laboriously grubbed up. 
seasons of prolonged dryness it should be mulched with 
old sea-weed and watered every evening. 
As to fertilizers, I have found that twenty-five cents’ 
ful annual kinds will not succeed at the shore. 
For flowering vines for covering fences, or arches, the following can all be recommended. Many beauti- 
The following have all been tested and will give satisfaction. 
But all must be kept well watered and mulched or they will become stunted. Common Morning Glory—Avoid 
newer and fancy hybrids. 
seed-vessels. 
Balloon Vine—White flowers, curious 
Is apt to Pros, brittle in windy situations. F 
ight” a pure white, is the best variety. Gourds in variety—All succeed 
Hyacinth Bean—‘‘Day 
well, and are both curious and ornamental. 
colors very good effects can be produced by its use alone. 
Of these vines the first two are the most certain to give good results. 
A trailing plant that always succeeds is the Portulaca. Now that seed of it may be bought in separate 
The mixed seeds contain magenta shades. This 
plant is especially good to trail over rough banks, and can hardly be placed in too sunny and hot a situation. 
an estimate. 
In 
year. 
explains the plan. 
on the foliage, ap- 
plied just before a 
rain, will work 
wonders. 
If your seashore 
cottage is in a set- 
tled community, it is 
a good plan to com- 
mission some fisher- 
man, or his wife, to 
sow your seeds for 
you in the spring. 
For if, as is the case 
with so many, your 
vacation is limited 
to a portion of the 
summer, you are 
likely to find your 
garden just begin- 
ning to bloom when 
you depart, if you 
wait until your ar- 
rival before the 
seeds are sown. If 
you do make use of 
an ally, be sure that 
he or she has some 
Witt tlie moras diem 
‘‘sense,”’ or you may 
find your seeds 
buried six feet un- 
der ground. 
A plan is fur- 
nished in this article 
of a seaside garden 
that has proved to 
be successful. The 
whole garden occu- 
ples a space only 
thirty feet square, 
and is easily cared 
for. The plants have 
Deen CMOSem Wer 
beauty, for color and 
for fitness in trying 
conditions. There 
are many others, of 
course, that would 
do equally well. 
The whole price of 
seeds for this gar- 
den does not exceed 
threes dollars. a It 
can be planted fora 
smaller sum_ by 
using less care in 
selecting colors. 
The cost of prepar- 
ing the garden 
varies so in differ- 
ent localities that it 
is impossible to give 
Of course, such a garden, once prepared, will 
last for many years, with the addition of fertilizers each 
The accompanying key, with notes on the plants used, 
