AMONG OU 
NEIGH 
N O ONE will take exception to the little maxim which 
adorns our title just above; but how many, agree- 
ing therewith fully and completely, will still fail 
to see how inseparable are the garden and the home, 
not only in the abstract concept but in the actual 
fact? Why is it that there is still so much ugliness all about us, 
even in those places where a sincere desire for the beautiful burns 
in the hearts of men, and great effort has been made to do some- 
thing toward creating beauty? Why do so few places, big and 
little, convey straight into the heart of the one who beholds 
them that happy satisfaction which beauty harmonious and 
complete, however simple and humble, does convey? 
Is it not because this unity is unrecognized? Houses are 
built as individual propositions, and painted and moved into. 
Then a driveway perhaps is laid down, with such allowance for 
reaching the garage as may be possible under the circumstances. 
After this someone thinks of flowers, another of vegetables, a 
third of an apple tree, a fourth of a pool or an arbor, a fifth of 
chickens — and these things are provided or provided for. Then 
comes along summer, and summer’s heat and glare, and the 
domestic life moves out of doors as far as may be; and there 
must be chairs and tables and other things for convenience and 
comfort — and these things are accumulated, one way or another. 
And protection from the sun is hastily added. And is it any 
wonder the Home and Garden are together a Hodge-podge? 
Every home means definite relation, in every part and detail, 
with its garden and the outdoors. This is what we have yet to 
learn and to be governed by — that the house reacts in ap- 
pearance, and in effect too, upon the garden; and the garden 
likewise cannot be dissociated from the house and other build- 
ings. They are all members of one body: and they must bear 
everywhere evidences of this close relationship and inter- 
relationship. Especially must these evidences be developed 
where indoors and outdoors come together, as in porches, 
galleries, loggias, on terraces, and at wall openings whether 
these are for windows or for doors. Which is why awnings, and 
curtains at windows, and furnishings of the porch are of such 
tremendous importance in the ensemble. They are details to 
be sure. But who does not know that attention to details is the 
thing that distinguishes between the commonplace and the 
fine and finished? 
S O THE garden comes, step by step, indoors; and not only 
in porches and entrances is its influence supreme, but in 
those rooms having garden frontage, where wall papers and 
hangings serve to embody its suggestions. Indeed it is im- 
possible to escape it, turn where we will; and just as the house 
must, in the very nature of things, be a large influence in the 
outdoor development, so the garden must be equally an in- 
fluence within. Even paint and varnish, primarily used as pre- 
servatives, are to-day recognized elements in perfecting the 
whole, since the color of the buildings and of their roofs is so 
important to the general color effects in the gardens. 
W HEREVER there is ground available the opportunity of 
planting vegetables for real food supplies in late summer 
and through the winter should not be let slip for a single mo- 
ment. It is not necessary to emphasize the scarcity of vege- 
table produce in the market. Farmers through shortage of 
labor as well as increased costs have generally planted far, far 
less than the average for years past. The war garden which 
served its purpose last year and the year before has not been 
maintained this year. The necessity of real food production 
stares us in the face. Freight embargoes have prevented the 
transport of seed potatoes until too late. The situation is serious. 
It is surely not necessary further to urge the case upon the 
readers of this magazine than to direct attention to the article 
appearing on page 235 of this issue. 
THE OPEE^C olum: K j 
Readers’ Interchange of Experience and Comment 
Raising 
Cucumbers 
A S I have derived a great deal of help from 
Garden Magazine readers through the 
Open Column I thought possibly I might 
repay in a slight wav with this suggestion: 
When I first began gardening 1 had great difficulty in raising cucumbers. 
The vines were eaten up by bugs. An old gardener told me to plant a 
Nasturtium seed in every hill and since then 1 have had no trouble in 
raising them and have had big crops — Mrs. R. E. McCabe, Charles- 
ton, IV. Va. 
The Purple- 
Flowering 
Raspberry 
T HIS beautiful plant (Rubus odoratus) 
mentioned by Mrs. Wilder in the October 
Garden Magazine can be easily transplanted 
from its native habitat and seems to thrive 
even in altogether different surroundings. A few years ago I gathered 
some roots from the top of Great North Mountain, Virginia, in the 
Blue Ridge nearly 2,500 feet above the sea, where the plants were 
growing in an open situation, with scarcely any shade, and brought 
them down to my Washington garden, only 240 feet above the sea, 
under the shade of centurv-old Oak trees, where the soil is so acid that 
Laurel, wild Azalea, and Arbutus find a congenial home. Although 
this was late in June and some of the plants in the group from which 
1 got my roots were showing buds, they immediately accommodated 
themselves to their new situation and have grown vigorously ever since 
— 1 have had to cut them back pretty severely to prevent them from 
smothering the Azaleas and Hepaticas. The only precautions neces- 
sary in transplanting seem to be those usually needed in moving wild 
plants — to break the roots as little as possible and keep them moist 
and to cut back the tops. My two 8-inch pencil sticks have in four 
years increased to a clump 2 or 3 feet in diameter and would have filled 
a much larger space. I have found the Flowering Raspberry at other 
places in the Blue Ridge, up to altitudes of about 4,000 feet, but not 
around Washington. The recently published "Flora of the District 
of Golumbia” says it is "rare.” Evidently, however, it can be success- 
fully introduced here and doubtless in many other places where the 
conditions may seem far different from those in which it grows naturally. 
Mrs. Wilder’s statement that the color of the flowers is magenta should 
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