study. There are certain exotically beautiful 

 plants that will grow and bloom quite as well 

 in the open garden as they do under glass and 

 they may be grown successfully with as sim- 

 ple culture as a bed of annuals. No elaborate 

 system of culture is desirable nor is it at all 

 necessary. 



I have often spoken of the Blue Lily of 

 the Nile (Agapanthus) and the Calla Lily 

 (Arum), how easily they may be started in 

 five, six, seven or eight inch pots and plunged 

 in the out of door garden beds, pots and all, 

 simply digging a hole large enough to receive 

 the pot, one inch of the garden soil will cover 

 and hide the pot, so that when the surface is 

 cultivated it has the appearance of a rare and 

 exotic green-house specimen growing in the 

 open as care-free and happy as a pansy or a 

 harebell. Amaryllis (Belladonna Lily), all 

 the Speciosum lilies, the noble yellow Calla, 

 the dwarf ever-blooming Calla, the rarest of 

 things when neighbored with pale blue and 



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