February, 1907 



AMERI 



CAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



XIX 



plants find nourishing surroundings and keep 

 on growing. After they have taken root, a 

 little nitrate of soda, purchaseable at any seed 

 store, spread around the stem of the plant and 

 hoed in will work wonders. It is a quick- 

 acting fertilizer, easily dissolved, and will show 

 its enriching qualities by pushing the growth 

 of the plant forward. Frequent hoeing and 

 keeping the weeds out will be necessary if an 

 early crop is looked for. Vegetables started 

 this way will be ready for the table from three 

 to four weeks earlier than if sown in the open. 



THE OLD-FASHIONED HARDY 

 GARDEN AND HOW 

 TO PLANT IT 



By Ida D. Bennett 



LET us leave the gorgeous geranium and 

 . the ubiquitous canna and hie us back 

 to the gardens of other days — our grand- 

 mother's garden, and evolve an old time sweet- 

 ness of the things of the past, redolent with 

 the sweetness of clove, pink and valerian and 

 all the dear, old fashioned things that grew and 

 bloomed when the world and love were young. 



The sweet old gardens with their rows of 

 tall, single hollyhocks and stately lilies ; do 

 we doubt that they were beautiful? then let 

 us put on canvas, if we can, the gardens of 

 yesterday and to-day and who would hesitate 

 to choose between their gracious sweetness 

 and the tawdry splendor of our beds of formal 

 bedding plants, or what artist would care to 

 paint them as a background for even a modern 

 beauty? 



Let us have our bedding roses and gerani- 

 ums, but somewhere, in some sequestered nook, 

 let us have our sweet, informal gardens of 

 old fashioned flowers. 



The old fashioned hardy garden should be 

 generous, for it is of a day when all things 

 were on a generous scale, and land was not 

 purchased by the square foot, but in generous 

 slices of mother earth. Let it have its high, 

 protecting wall or hedge, for we want to make 

 this much of our gardens a part of our daily 

 life, to be lived in and worked in free from 

 the prying eye of the passing stranger. Or, if 

 neither wall or hedge are available let there 

 be a screen of vine-covered netting. 



The garden — where there is ample space, 

 should be planned from some central point, 

 which should give tone to it ; this may be an 

 open bit of grassy lawn, or even a bit of lawn 

 surrounding a wide spreading tree, that may, 

 if ample enough, contain a tree house or seat or 

 at least have its trunk surrounded with seats. 

 Where there is no tree of sufficient beauty to 

 excuse its presence, the open space may be 

 provided with a garden table and seats, or 

 even with a simple sun dial — something that 

 will dominate the garden and make a central 

 point from which the beds and paths may 

 radiate. 



And the old-fashioned garden calls for 

 paths of ample width, for was not the old- 

 fashioned garden of the days of the crinoline 

 and pannier of wide graveled paths along 

 whose trim-kept edges the sweet smelling 

 cinnamon pinks or the formal box was 

 trained ? There is a certain charm in this use 

 of the box as edging that appeals to one, but 

 wherever used it should be kept primly trim- 

 med and not allowed to grow beyond a certain 

 fixed height. Perhaps the pinks will appeal to 

 one's love of perfume and color more and 

 they are certainly very charming when in their 

 full florescence, but, unfortunately, this is a 

 period of but a few weeks at most and during 

 the remainder of the season the plants have 

 only their bluish green foliage to recommend 



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