THE G A R D E N M A G A Z I N E 
April. 1915 
18-2 
Enchanted 
Homes 
Transformed by 
BILLIARDS 
This grand old game was once the 
sport of royalty alone. Yet these are days 
when Carom or Pocket Billiards reign 
supreme in mansion and cottage alike. 
Each evening in the billiard room a §j 
round of gaiety ensues. Men’s cares are jj 
lost amid the thrilling rivalry. 
Here girls develop gracefulness and gj 
charm. And billiards keeps boys home, j 
quickens their wits and makes them H 
great, big-hearted little men! 
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And you are privileged to try any table 20 
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\ C. II. STEPHENSON, Mfr. 
40 Farrar St. Lynn, Mass. 
digest that the dasheen is highly prized as food for 
children and invalids. 
It was my West Indian cook who advised me to 
keep my largest corms for planting and to cook the 
smaller ones, since they are more easily “popped 
out. ” She cut the blunt end off a hot boiled dasheen, 
squeezed the corm slightly, whereupon the corm 
“popped out” leaving its jacket behind it. A dish 
of hot corms thus peeled, she salted a little more and 
placed in the oven only long enough to melt over the 
contents a generous dressing of butter. The medium 
sized dasheens she sometimes baked like a potato, 
and they were excellent. 
The vegetable is one easily grown in any garden; 
in fact, it can be grown anywhere, indeed, where it 
can get adequate fertility and moisture, for. like any 
other plant, it thrives best for the cultivator who 
best understands its nature and its needs. 
Long Island. Gertrude C. Davenport. 
The Best Pink, White, and Red 
Peonies 
W HAT are the best varieties of early, medium, 
and late peonies in pure pink, white and. red 
—no lilacs or mauves? — F. W. H., Virginia. 
There are very few peonies of one color. Most 
whites open more or less creamy or more or less 
flesh colored, and fade white in the sun. Thus 
the so-called white sorts merge, on one hand, into 
cream colored ones (when fresh) and on the other 
into flesh color. A combination of flesh and cream 
is not uncommon, and gives us some of our loveliest 
sorts. Then we begin on the shades of pink from 
the lightest flesh color into pure rose pink (the 
color, say, of Baroness Rothschild rose). Many 
of these have a tinge of lilac in the pink, but I give 
none in the appended list in which the slight lilac 
tone impairs the beauty of color. In the deeper 
shades of pink we come into the poorest range of 
color in peonies, and it is always largely represented 
in an old-fashioned collection; very often there is 
nothing else. These are the magenta pinks, the 
color of a Paul Neyron rose a day or two old. Such 
plants should always be relegated to the dump heap 
by any one who cares for the beauty of his garden. 
They should not even be given away! These 
bluish reds in the darker shades give us some flowers 
that are brilliant and desirable, such as Felix Crousse; 
but I have included none of them in my list below, 
which includes almost nothing between pure rose 
pink and deep crimson and garnet red, such as we 
have in M. Martin Cahuzac and Volcan. I have 
put nothing into this list that is not of the finest 
quality as to color, though I have left out some 
fine kinds in which there is more than a noticeable 
shade of mauve. 
White. Early: Grandiflora Nivea Plena, Festiva 
maxima, Candidissima (very fragrant). 
Midseason: Marie Jacquin, Duchesse de Ne- 
mours (Calot), Alba sulfurea, Monsieur Du- 
pont, Albatre, La Rosiere, Le Cygne (one of 
the grandest of recent sorts), Mont Blanc 
(Lemoine), Primevere (white and yellow 
when fresh), Baroness Schroeder, James Kel- 
way. 
Late: Couronne d’or, Duke of Wellington, 
Marie Lemoine. 
Pale pink and cream. Early and midseason : Carnea 
elegans (Calot), Docteur Bretonneau (Guerin), 
Jeanne d’Arc, Marie Stuart, Golden Harvest, 
Madame de Vatry, Philomele (pink and yellow). 
Pure pink. Early: Asa Gray, M. Jules Elie (rose 
pink), Therese. 
Midseason: Delicatissima (rose pink), Gloire 
de Charles Gombault (one of the best in a 
color darker than rose pink), Eugene Verdier 
(flesh), Triomphe de l’Exposition de Lille, 
James Blanc (full bright pink, almost a china 
pink, but a poor flower), Madame Emile 
Galle (beautiful pale flesh tinted mauve), 
Marie Crousse (salmon flesh), Mile. Leonie 
Calot, Venus (clear flesh), Albert Crousse. 
Late: Madame Loise mere (very late), Mad- 
ame de Galhau, Maud L. Richardson (extra 
late and very tall), Grandiflora (Richardson), 
Norfolk (Richardson). 
Deep red. Early and midseason: Edouard Andre, 
Adolphe Rousseau, M. Martin Cahuzac, Volcan, 
Raphael (garnet). 
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