GARDEN NOTE 



Grow your Japanese Iris through a carpet of ever-blooming 

 hardy Forget-me-nots ('Palustrus Semperflorens}. 



Grow French and Irish Anemones for borders with Violas Cor- 

 nuta; the Anemones will commence to bloom before the Violas 

 Cornuta. 



Clumps of Phlox planted back of masses of German Iris will 

 screen the unattractive base of the phlox after the Iris blooms 

 are gone. 



Three or four pebbles in the seed, sulphur and charcoal dredgers 

 will give "ballast" and prevent the contents of the dredgers from 

 becoming lumpy. 



Make a radiant boundary planting, objective or vista with seven 

 or eleven Norway Spruces, eight feet tall, each with a spread of 

 six feet and more. In the foreground mass the White Azalea In- 

 dica and thousands of Daffodils and Narcissi naturalized all about. 



Remember to nourish your peonies. Give each clump a half- 

 pint of bone-meal and one teaspoonful of Sulphate of Iron well 

 mixed together. Make a ring with this mixture all around the 

 clump, then work it in very thoroughly. "Ring feeding" prevents 

 the tool used in working in the food from injuring any new growth 

 there, but not yet visible. Notice the improvement in size, sub- 

 stance and color of the peonies after this feeding — in fact the 

 whole plant will be greatly benefited. 



Prepared leaf-mould, and a sand pile are two very important 

 garden essentials. 



