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The Garden Magazine, May, 1920 > 
Possibilities 
That’s all you can get from this picture, but it shows 
you how splendid a Tulip display may be, if it is prop- 
erly planned. This border of Darwin and Breeder Tulips 
can be easily duplicated upon your grounds; you can 
find all the information you need in 
The Blue Book of Bulbs — 1920 
Many of my patrons are kind enough to say that it is the only 
bulb book; I can assure you that it is the only one of its kind. You 
can get your copy if you write to me. 
CHESTER JAY HUNT, Inc. 
Mayfair 
Dept. A LITTLE FALLS, NEW JERSEY 
RANDOM OBSERVATION IN 
THE FLOWER GARDEN 
nro FIND a plant which can be propagated 
* bv simply cutting off a growing tuft and 
inserting it in sandy soil, where it never by a 
drooping leaf or a withering tip intimates that it 
has been severed from the parent stem, is an 
experience of unusual novelty. But this is abso- 
lutely the case with the Heuchera, or Alum-root. 
The variety is Pluie de Feu, and I shall soon be 
able to edge whole borders with the lovely 
coral bells, as each parent plant presents four or 
five tufts of dark green leaves which root in just 
the manner I have described. 
VARIED USES FOR VINES 
Vines are of so many sorts and serve such 
various ends, that with a little experience one 
may find a vine for almost every out-door need. 
The delicate close-clinging vines are excellent for 
white stucco backgrounds and to plant around the 
architectural garden features, such as the wall 
fountain where the fine tracery of tiny leaves 
picks out the gorgon’s or the satyr’s head, with 
telling contrast. For this the English Ivy or the 
Ampelopsis or the Kenilworth Ivy are desirable. 
Vines trained to simulate a low edging for formal 
beds can be made to produce almost as good an 
effect as the beloved Box. Vines used to cover 
arbors and pergolas where we love to sit should 
have bloom and fragrance, as the Wisteria and 
the newer climbing Roses which have reached 
such perfection of form in Dr. Van Fleet and 
Silver Moon, and such fragrance in Gardenia. 
Then there are the vines which bear winter 
fruits and delight us with their color indoors. 
For this there is nothing so good as the Bitter- 
sweet which, placed in a bit of Venetian glass, 
gathers a new charm from the smoky amber. 
Vines lose their form and elegance, however, 
when they become dense and overgrown, and 
need the most persistent and judicious thinning 
and tying into place. And as for the Crimson 
Rambler, it and its tribe should be exterminated 
root and branch. The finer Roses of the garden 
1 am convinced become infected with the in- 
herent tendency to mildew which characterizes 
the florid rambler. The Crimson Rambler 
and its white sister have neither form nor comeli- 
ness that we should desire them. 
STEPPING STONES ADOWN THE GRASSY WALKS 
BEAUTIFY YOUR GROUNDS 
Plant ornamental water plants, wild flowers and ferns. 
Attract fish and wild game to your waters. Increase 
the pleasure you take in your property and also its value. 
W rite for descriptive booklet ^4 Q 
TERRELL, Naturalist 
Room FF-211 Oshkosh, 
LANDSCAPE SEKVICE 
WILLIAM E. ALLEN 
Landscape Architect 
PLANS. ESTIMATES, DESIGNS. FOR. PRIVATE 
ESTATES. PAP.KS, INSTITUTIONAL GROUNDS 
5915 WELLESLEY AVENUE PITTSBURGH. PA. 
W HEN you plant RO-TEST-SEED, you no longer guess — you 
know. RO-TEST-SEED means in all seeds, the elimination 
of doubt. This year plant RO-TEST-SEED — the product of the 
RO-TEST-SEED LABORATORIES. 
Full information on request. 
S. A. ROGERS COMPANY 
453 Broad Street Newark, N. J. 
They bring visions of ringlets and hoop-skirts, 
yes! — and of pantalettes and strap slippers 
delicately threading their way through wet 
grass. Very good flat stones may often be 
obtained for slight cost in towns where the older 
brick sidewalks are being removed to give way 
to the ugly but useful concrete and the great 
flat curbstones are being discarded. These are 
usually sent to the stone crusher, but can be 
rescued and set adown some “faire pleasance,” 
as in the little photograph reproduced in the 
September 1919 Garden Magazine. A most 
delightful old fashion may be revived too by 
paving the ground under Rose arbors and pergolas 
with irregular stones made into a pattern with 
grass growing in the joints. The woolly-leaved 
Thyme (Thymus lanuginosus) will make a soft 
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