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THE GARDEN AND FIELD. 



October, l9l3 



Bedding. 



'This is most appropriately used 

 in connection with buildings, for- 

 mal drives and parks. 



In connection with statuary tlierei 

 seems to be nothing else so w^ell 

 suited as bedding plants, because 

 they add color to a scene that 

 would otherwise seem dull. 



Those plants afiord opportunitv 

 foT beautiful effects in formal gar- 

 dening, but this is apt to ■ be car- 

 ried to extremes and thus excite 

 the disgust which it merits. 



There is one place where bedding 

 I)lants are most inappropriate, and 

 that is in naturalistic compositions 

 of all sorts. We see nothing so 

 formal in nature pict(ures. The 

 lines and colors in an agreeable 

 landscape should be harmonious, 

 this harmony and blending is 

 generally lost where bedding ])lants 

 are employed. 



Ivet us not overlook the import- 

 ance of harmony in plant color. 

 Remember that colors that would 

 be bad in a carpet, a rug, a wall 

 pai>er o<r a painting, are usually 

 bad when ' combined in plants. 

 Colors are usually stronger in 

 plants, and this is allowable. When 

 1 see a building surrounded bv 

 spacious grounds, and what woidd 

 otherwise be a beautiful lawn, but 

 unfortunately dotted all over with 

 little beds of every shape and 

 color, it reminds me of the defi- 

 nition I once heard of the word 

 weed. 



The old gardener (after acknow- 

 ledging that a weed was an unde- 

 sirable plant) illustrated still far- 

 ther by saying, that if a 'lettuce 



plant were to coma up. in the lawn, 

 the lettuce would be the weed, 

 and that if the grass were to be- 

 come established in the lettuce bed, 

 the grass w"ould be the weed. Per- 

 haps it isn't right to call these 

 plants, in these out-of-place beds, 

 weeds, but one thing is sure, they 

 are undesirable. 



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Poppies that are cut in bud ex- 

 pan perfectly in water. 



A very thin boiled starch is a 

 very good way of cleaning palms 

 and other house plants 'of scale, 

 bprav gently or rub lightl)' over 

 with a sponge. When the starch 

 dries it will bring away the scale 

 with it. 



There are several forms of the 

 beautiful Ladder-Fern, and all are 

 lovely. Of course, the better the 

 conditions under which they are 

 kept the sooner they make speci- 

 men plants, but when overcrowd- 

 ed they should be divided, and this 

 should be done when they re-start 

 into active growth after being 

 rested, as at this time the roots 

 more readily take a hold upon the 

 new soil. Many amateurs seem to 

 err in the matter of compost used 

 for potting Ferns, leaf mould only 

 being very, often utilised. For 

 young plants or seedlings, a mix- 

 ture of leaf mould or peat, is quite 

 the correct thing, but large plants 

 like something niore substantial, 

 and some good sound turfy loam, 

 with about one-third fil)rous peat 

 -and silver sand, will keep them in 

 good condition for a eonsiderajble 

 time. 



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 per day. 

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 CLlOilENTS TONIC CURED J.IE (Adc- 

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