Giant Gladiolus 
You have all often read of Giant 
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“Kunderd’s Ruffled Gladiolus” 
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grown to very great size, it is 
nevertheless surprising to what ex- 
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by foil owing certain special 
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What I Did with a City Lot and a 
2-Family House 
A MONG the scores of typical city lot garden 
schemes I have seen I do not recall one 
dealing with a space as small as the one I will 
attempt to describe, having only 25 x 32 feet 
at the rear for lawn (used to dry clothes for two 
families) and garden. The only advantage 
this lot has over some others of same size 
is in it’s being an end lot with southern ex- 
posure and vacant lots to the south, with a 
strong possibility of houses being built facing 
that way which will leave this space to the 
south, although some other person’s yard, open 
for all time. 
There is a Privet hedge from front to rear on 
south side. There is no hedge between the 
house and the one next door on north side, 
there being a ten foot space between, seeded 
with grass and a shrub here and there in a most 
informal manner. 
The space between the two yards is divided 
by a Lilac hedge. In the middle of this space 
is a bird house or rather three houses built with 
threeinvertedflowerpots,with the hole enlarged 
in each and the pots fastened to a cross board at 
the top of a twelve foot pole, which is covered 
with a Honeysuckle vine. There are also nar- 
row cross pieces for the birds to perch on. 
I have growing, in a flourishing manner, on 
this 25 x 32 foot space: 1 peach tree — bearing 
two years; 4 rhubarb plants; i small pear tree; 
3 grape vines — on a trellis, erected on edge of 
lawn and over the path leaning against the 
house — giving shade from the hot afternoon 
western sun. 
Rose garden — on south side with I dozen 
bushes and a border of silver leaf at the edge. 
Bed of annuals at north side, sometimes of 
Zinnias or Asters, with a border of Columbine 
which comes up every' year and Golden Glow 
and Peonies at either end. Same space has 
been used for strawberries one year from which 
about 20 quarts were obtained. 
Under the grape vines, I intend to plant a 
few currant bushes, by training vines to fruit 
high (top of arbor rather than at side). 
Another bed between the path and the house, 
only qx 15, my two small boys have taken 
possession of as their garden. This may have 
too much shade when the grape vines over- 
head are more fully r grown. 
Outside the Privet hedge in the"vacant lot, I 
have growing in great profusion Hollyhocks, 
which come up every year and reach a height 
of 1 2 to 1 4 feet as if bent on being seen from the 
yard. They are a mass of gorgeous color and 
make a beautiful background to the whole. 
This is one way of beautifying vacant land and 
also keeps it from being used as a dumping 
ground. In addition to the three grape vines 
at the rear, by taking advantage of the end lot 
with southern exposure, I have close to the 
hedge about 55 feet from the house three more 
grape vines on an arbor extending up against 
the house and joining with the one at the rear. 
Where the two meet I have made a little sum- 
mer house effect by filling in the side with 
narrow strips of wood making squares about 
4x4 inches. This makes an inviting retreat in 
the heat of the day to while away an hour or 
two with a good book or to do some writing. 
Upon this trellis I have a Climbing Ameri- 
can Beauty^ Rose which is set in the rose 
garden. 
Toward the front of the house I have under 
the bay window, where the grape trellis ends, 
more Hollyhocks, and climbing over the end 
of the front porch (but still at the side) there 
are white and red Rambler Roses intermingled. 
( Continued on page 64 ) 
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