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T H E G A R D E X M A G A Z I X E 
September, 1916 
from seeding, and filled that bed with Asters. 
\\ e were sorely tempted to use all colors of 
Asters to get the same effect, but decided 
against it and used only lavender and white — 
Lavender Gem and Semples Branching \\ hire 
-\sters which bloom at the same time, and are 
in bloom from the middle of July to the middle 
of September if you keep cutting the flowers as 
they open. In this way, we had flowers all 
summer long in only two flower beds! 
Pennsylvania. C.vmille Hart Irvi.ne. 
Coldframes for Fall and Early Winter 
T AST fall, while visiting a home garden 
lover in one of the cities upstate, I found 
he was greatly delighted over a little experi- 
ment which he had carried out with lettuce. 
He had a row of young lettuce in the garden 
which would have been destroyed by freezing, 
but at the proper time he constructed a small 
box 36 inches wide and 72 inches long oyer 
which he placed a sash. The sash was taken 
offd uring the warm Indian summer days, but 
replaced eyery night. By so doing it was pos- 
sible for him to enjoy lettuce grown under this 
“box-sash” at Thanksgiving time. 
1 he same idea could be utilized by many 
home gardeners and they could thus prolong 
the natural season for produce, not only with 
lettuce but radishes, and many other vege- 
tables can be grown in the sash in the fall. 
Prepare the ground very carefully underneath 
the coldframe and sow radish seeds during the 
middle or last of September. Take off the 
sash during the day when warm, or only 
slightly raise the sash if the da\" s are cool. Re- 
place the sash or lower it on cold nights. 
Careful attention as to watering must be 
given, being careful not to water the plants to- 
ward night, but in the morning onljT The 
rule regarding watering is to do it on a rising 
temperature. Radishes will then be ready to 
consume during November, and could ac- 
company lettuce on thanksgiving Day. 
New York. A. E. Wilkinson. 
A Few Simple Color Combinations 
TN M\ garden which is limited to the 
amount that I can take care of personally, 
there have been in the past year a few effects 
of color that seem to be worth passing on. 
A not oI color in which the dominant note is the blue of 
the Larkspur 
To begin with the earliest; in a corner, with 
a background of old stone wall, there was a 
group of Safrano double Tulips, with pink Rose 
d’Amour and Salvator Rosa Tulips in front — a 
little color picture that made me draw a 
quicker breath every time I passed it. Un- 
luckily the early Torgetmenots, planned for 
the foreground, failed to sur\ ive an unusually 
trying .\Iarch. but I hope they will be there 
next spring, to add their delicate blue to the 
harmony. I know it is the fashion to decry 
double I ulips, but I can never do without 
Safrano, with its exquisite pale yellow flushed 
with rose as it ages. 
1 he most satisfactory planting of late Tu- 
lips that I have tried was a combination of 
deep purples, lavenders, wine reds and browns, 
pale rose and yellow against a background of 
shrubs. For this I used Velvet King, Heloise, 
Godet Parfait, Jaune d’Oeuf, Dream, Ruby, 
Rose Tendre, Melicette, Corydon, and Alice. I 
think Ruby could have been spared, and pos- 
sibly a fewd ulips of a brighter pink could have 
been added effectively; but when looking at 
the group, it was hard to believe that anything 
could be lovelier. Heloise is a most wonderful 
d ulip, in color a curious shade between wine 
red and wine brown — indescribable but ex- 
ceedingly lovely. 
One of the charming happenings of the 
spring was a pink Aquilegia that blossomed 
near a group of pink Lupines, and repeated al- 
most exactly the color of the Lupines. In 
front of the latter was a thick mass of Sutton’s 
Royal Blue Forgetmenots, up through which 
Stachys lanata pushed its velvety gray leaves, 
while one pale pink 'Torgetmenot carried down 
the color of the Lupines. 
One of the loveliest things in my garden last 
year was a new planting of year old Del- 
phinium, unusual!}' fine hybrids, set about two 
and a half feet apart, d'he bed looked so bare 
that I sowed a quantity of seed of the annual 
white Gypsophila and pink Saponaria vaccaria 
between the plants. The young Delphinium 
grew only about two feet high, and the sight of 
their large blossoms in all shades of blue, en- 
veloped, as it were, in a cloud of dainty pink 
and white, was something long to be re- 
membered. 
I would suggest that if Asters are grown in 
beds by themselves, as I grow the greater part 
of mine, it adds wonderfully to the effect if a 
row of Schizanthus is put in front of them. 
In our cool New Hampshire climate the 
Schizanthus has a very long season; mine was 
continuously in flower from July nth to Sep- 
tember 30th. 
One more suggestion to those who grow iris 
by itself. If the latest flowering Darwin 
I ulips, in shades of pink and crimson, are 
scattered between the Ins, the color effect is 
greatly enhanced. I use the pale yellow 
Tulip, Miss Wilmott, also in the Iris beds. Of 
course one must be sure to choose the Tulips 
that flower latest, or they will be gone before 
the Iris blooms. 
New Hampshire. A.meli.a McIntosh Meyer. 
A Five Dollar Pergola! 
^ I ''HE Boss-man’s pride in life lies in his six- 
teen varieties of Oleanders, his fifteen- 
foot-high trellis of Plumbago capensis, the 
Allamandas, the glowing Hibiscus, and the 
dancing, colorful annuals of his city-lot'garden; 
and many a time he fain would have rested 
from his labors therein, and feasted his eyes, 
had there been something upon which to have 
eased his bones! 
But the garden space was too precious to 
allow for the orthodox pergola, so the problem 
was to find such a combination as should 
prove an asset and not a liability upon the 
place. Much chewing of the pro\ erbial “rag” 
and a pencil brought forth the eye and body- 
satisfying garden seat shown in the picture. 
This pergola was placed just where the 
abrupt drop (15 ft.) between the front and back 
gardens begins. A winding brick walk — laid 
herring-bone fashion — leads from the street 
to the pergola, the pergola itself being floored 
with brick. Eight persons can be seated com- 
fortably. The space between the seats is 
ample for a portable tea table or tea wagon. 
A resting place, in the midst of a small garden, for the 
gardener’s tired bones! 
The vines upon the pergola are of coral Honey- 
suckle or \\ oodbine, as we Southerners know 
it, and instead of being twined about the up- 
rights, rise directly from the ground to the top 
of the cross beams about the middle of the 
backs of the seats. 
The cost of this pergola was under five dol- 
lars. The lumber was ordered cut to measure 
and came to four dollars. Paint, nails, and 
“angle irons” (to give solidity to the structure) 
made the rest. Labor is not included as the 
Boss-man has a hand with tools and made the 
whole thing, plus one coat of paint, in a day — 
the second coat went on later. The brick we 
had on hand. The material and measure- 
ments were as follows: 
2 pieces lumber 4 x 4 in. x 6 ft. 8 in. used as 
sills and buried level with the ground, to 
anchor the four uprights upon. 
4 uprights 4 X 4 in. .X 6 ft. 6 in. 
2 beams 4 x 2 in. x 9 ft. 8 in., ends beveled 
back 8 in. 
7 beams 4x2 in. X 7 ft. 6 in. long, ends 
be\ eled 8 in. 
For the seat part, we used: 
4 posts 4x4 in. X 4 ft. 6 in. These are 
sunk in the ground to allow for backs of seats 
34 inches high. 
16 slats 25 X 2 in. x6 ft., set in. apart 
they form back and seat of bench. Back of 
bench is slanted to comfortable angle. 1 he 
height of seat from floor is 17 in.; height of 
seat back is 145 in. and depth of seat 14 in. 
We also had 2 angle irons for steadying the 
uprights to the sills and used i| qts. of white 
outside paint and 78 bricks for floor of pergola. 
The labor was done in one day. 
Florida. Mrs. M. M. Lauder. 
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Darwin Tulips for Forcing 
' I 'HE following DaiAvin Tulips have been 
recommended, by a specialist in Tulips, 
for forcing into successional bloom. 1 hey may 
be planted at the same time: Wm. Copeland, 
lilac rose; Erguste, violet; Bartigon, red; Prof. 
Rauwenhauf, cherry rose; Pride of Haarlem, 
rosy carmine; Wm. Pitt, dark crimson; Mr. 
Farncombe Sanders, scarlet. 
