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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
October, 1916 
Clara Butt, Suzon, Massachusetts. Light 
and deep rose shades: Baroonne de la Tonnaye, 
May Queen, Mme. Krelage, Pride of Haarlem, 
Prof. RawenhofF, Psyche, Sieraad von Flora. 
Cerise and salmon scarlets: Europe, F arnscombe 
Sanders, Flambeau, Nauticus. Glowing scar- 
lets, vermilions and crimson scarlets: Bartigon, 
Glow, Isis, Ring Harold, Ouida, Esato, 
Princess Juliana, Spring Beauty. Maroons 
and maroon blacks: Sultan, William Pitt, 
Zanzibar, Andre Doria. Purples and violet 
blacks: Leonardo da Vinci, Zulu. Lavender 
and lilacs: Dream, Rev. Ewbank. 
Breeders. Buff, apricot, and light brown 
shades: Bronze Queen, Gen. Ney, Wilber- 
force. Golden Bronze, and Yellow Perfection. 
Yellow and purple shadings: Jaune d’Oeuf, 
Turenne. Brown and mahogany: Apricot, 
Dom Pedro, Heloise. Orange and bright red: 
Lucifer, Prince of Orange. Rose and rose 
purple shades: Rose Des Dames, Mme. 
Lethierr>% Purple, lilac and brown shadings: 
Cardinal Manning, Moody. Deep Purple: 
V elvet Ring. 
Cottage Varieties. JPhite and very pale 
shades: Picotee, Sweet Nancy, Primrose 
Beauty, Vitellina. Pale yellow: Leghorn 
Bonnet, Mrs. Reightley, Ellen Willmott, 
Moonlight. Canary and golden yellows: Mrs. 
Moon, Ixiodes, Gesneriana lutea. Yellow 
with red markings: Golden Spire, Columbus or 
Gala Beauty. Orange and orange scarlets: 
“Great Unknown,” La Merveille. Scarlet 
and crimson shades: Gesneriana spathulata 
major. Glare of the Garden, Sunlight, macro- 
spila. Pink shades: Inglescombe Pink, The 
Fawn. Heliotrope, lilac and yellow: Fairy 
Queen, John Ruskin. 
With these classifications as to color, the 
planting plan was drawn and the colors washed 
in as nearly as could be approximated, the 
colors of the Tulips being utterly impossible 
of reproduction with a brush. The designer’s 
idea was that, in planning the colors, they 
should be so arranged that looked at from any 
angle they presented a pleasing and harmoni- 
ous combination. He succeeded admirably. 
In general the planting started %vith the darker 
shades relieved with dots and small groups 
of lighter shades and finished with the lighter 
shades enhanced by dots and small groups of 
the darker shades. As an example, a single 
Baronne de la Tonnaye in the midst of a 
group of Leonardo da Vinci, lightened the 
whole group. Tonnaye is a bright rose with 
a lighter margin. Vinci is a beautiful shining 
violet black. Likewise, the glowing rosy 
scarlet of Farnscombe Sanders in a group of the 
creamy white Vitellina excited much admiring 
comment. 
It will be noted by referring to the plan 
that color colonies are repeated. This was 
necessary in order to furnish an harmonious 
effect looking across the bed from different 
directions and to knit the various color colonies 
together. 
Although greatly tempted, I have sternly 
suppressed a strong inclination to rave about 
this particular Tulip planting because it was 
so much finer and more gorgeous than any I 
have ever before succeeded in growing. And 
having gloated over it for the three weeks it 
was in full beauty, it is now time to contem- 
plate the departed glory, and tell just what 
were the mistakes in it and wherein it might 
be improved. 
In the first place, I planted it wirh wild 
enthusiasm and little thought for the morrow. 
My main ambition was to get the bulbs into 
the ground according to the painted color 
plan. This was successfully done; too suc- 
cessfully, for I neglected to consider the ways 
and means of getting the bulbs up once I had 
them in. And once more let me repeat, the 
only way to keep a fine stock of tulip bulbs is 
annual lifting. In its native habitat, the 
Tulip has a dust dry rest during the summer. 
Growth does not start until late and bulbs will 
deteriorate or disappear if left in the ground 
in this climate. 
The colonies are planted in irregular groups, 
much the finest way I think for the color 
effect; but — I spent one day of hard labor 
sticking labels alongside every bulb so that 
they might be classified when dug. They shall 
go in reasonably straight lines next fall and 
with a distance of at least a foot between 
groups! 
Through some mishap, my entire stock of 
Tulips was emptied into a single bin a few 
years ago, early and late, double and single 
and parrots, and it took me three years to 
unscramble them. In fact, I haven’t yet 
completed the task and in taking up this color 
bed, it will be a difficult task to avoid a certain 
amount of scrambling where I interlocked 
colonies. Warning is hereby given to con- 
sider that the bulbs have to come up, and it is 
necessary to know exactly what they are when 
they go into the ground again. Unscrambling 
Tulips is no child’s play. 
One mistake was in using bybloems and 
bizarres as dot and group plantings even 
though the colors harmonized. Somehow or 
other they do not seem to fit in. Beautiful 
though they are, they must flock by them- 
selves. 
The one element lacking is in the series of 
lilacs, mauves, and lavenders. There are 
only two small colonies and they lend them- 
selves to one of the most beautiful arrange- 
ments it seems to me possible to make. 
Baronne de la Tonnaye and Dream, with 
the buff Bronze Queen, is exquisite. This 
combination could be varied with other 
varieties of these same series of shades. Many 
of the rose and pink shades of the Darwins 
are so much alike when planted together that 
their individuality is lost to a great extent. 
Associated with the lavender and buffs, the 
difference is quite apparent. 
{Concluded on page io6) 
Flowers From Frost To Frost From Fall Planting 
CAMILLE HART IRVINE, .T.'”' 
[Author’s Note. — My little fall planted garden, now in its twelfth year, has been such a joy, and is kept in such good order by my one man who 
acts as general factotum, that dozens of people have asked me about it, and I have, therefore, written it in this form, hoping it may serve as a guide or 
inspiration to others.] 
E VERYBODY’ would like to have 
flowers for the entire summer if it 
were not .so much trouble and ex- 
pense. In a yard twenty feet square 
there is a garden that is always in bloom and 
which takes so little care that any one can 
duplicate it without a gardener after it is once 
laid out, and with no expense after the first 
year, except for an annual dressing of manure 
and straw. Early in the spring there are 
wonderful Tulips in reds and yellows followed 
by Pansies and many annuals which seed 
themselves and come up year after year, so 
that the bulbs need not be moved nor the beds 
sown for eight or ten years. 
Straight around the three sides of the garden 
next to the fence there are perennial beds four 
feet wide about which we are not now con- 
cerned, however. In the centre there is a 
circle with eighteen beds, separated by paths 
of sod two feet wide. 1 hese green paths are 
just the width of a lawn mower so that they 
are easily kept in order and make a beautiful 
green frame for the flowers. 
The beds must be made up in the fall and 
dug deep, with plenty of manure spaded in. 
and a little sand, if the loam is too heavy. 
In the six centre beds put Chrysolora Tulips 
(rich golden yellow), 125 in each bed at $9.00 
per thousand. In the second row of six beds 
put Belle Alliance, a lovely scarlet Tulip, also 
125 in each bed at ^12.75 per thousand, and 
in the last row of six beds put Raiserkroon 
Tulips of flaming red and yellow mixed, with 
150 in each bed at ^15.75 per thousand; mak- 
ing an outlay of ^^37. 50 in all. 
1 hese Tulips have long stems, beautiful 
foliage and bloom at the same time very early 
in the spring, ^’ou can hardly conceive of the 
riot of beauty and color these beds will give 
just when you are hungry for flowers. 
Place the bulbs six to ten inches apart and 
about three inches deep. Be careful not to let 
the bulbs touch any fresh manure spaded into 
the bed. Put a bit of sand in each hole and 
place the bulb in that and cover firmly with 
the earth. 
Next plant each bed with seeds of annuals 
that will sow themselves from year to year 
so that those beds need not be disturbed for 
eight or ten years. It makes a beautiful 
effect and gives greater variety of flowers to 
treat the three vertical beds in a row with the 
same color, but not the same flower. Have 
a pink row then a white, then blue and yellow 
and red and finish with a white row which 
will come next to the pink. .All of these 
flowers can be sown the latter part of October 
or first of November and will reproduce them- 
selves from year to year. 
Put a line of fine woods earth in the rows in 
which the seeds are to be planted and cover 
the seeds with a thin layer of very fine woods 
earth and then press them in firmly by laying 
a board over them and standing on it to be 
sure the seeds are pressed into the earth and 
the covering of earth pressed firmly over them. 
Put the low growing flowers in the centre beds 
as per list and the taller varieties in the 
outside beds as they help to hide the fence. 
Here are some groupings: 
(1) *Pink Verbenas; pink Poppies (Virginia 
or Miss Sherwood); pink annual Mallows. 
(2) *\Vhite Sweet Alyssum (must be cut to 
keep blooming); *white Petunias; white annual 
Larkspurs. 
• The flowers marked with a star will bloom all summer if not 
allowed to go to seed. 
