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The Garden Magazine, July, 1920 
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Grow Your 
Own! 
It's Lots More Fun! 
E VERYBODY wants Perennials 
—and wants them in generous 
measure, to secure the desired 
effects in color and charm. If you 
delay and finally buy plants, the 
cost mounts high; an attractive 
perennial border may require seve- 
ral hundred dollars worth of plants. 
Exactly the same result can be se- 
cured with $io to S15 worth of 
SEEDS! And aside from the money 
saving you have the fascination of grow- 
ing your own plants, nursing them from 
the beginning, and loving them all the 
more ! Sow your seeds now, in July, and 
the plants will bloom next year. 
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DREER’S 
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contains a complete list of everything 
which may be planted during the Summer 
months. 
You will find listed all that is best for late 
planting in Vegetables, hardy Flower seeds 
for next year’s flowering and Winter and 
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The best varieties of Celery Plants. 
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mention this publication 
Henry A. Dreer 
714-716 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
THE NEED CF A “CLASSIFIED” 
SCORE CARD 
T WONDER if the writer of a recent letter on j 
“Garden Score Cards” had a picture in his N 
mind’s eye of one of our enormous seed cata- I 
logues with the countless varieties all beautifully I 
“score-carded” and classified according to merit? I 
In reading the average catalogue we learn that | 
each variety is more beautiful than the last and 
if any flowering thing by any chance should have 1 1 
a bad trait it wholly escaped the grower’s atten- | 
tion. In the catalogues there seems to be no 
such thing as comparative value. All is super- 
lative. But, laying aside for the moment the I 
humorous situation of a plant catalogue trying 
to draw trade with its “much vaunted” stock all ; 
tagged up with 30 per cent, and 40 per cent., If 
let us try to imagine the result when every one l| 
makes up a score card according to his own good 
conscience? I am heartily in sympathy with the 
idea of having varieties tagged up by some score 
card system because 1 have to order a great deal I 
of material for clients from catalogue descriptions, , 
it being obviously impossible to know all of the 
hundreds of varieties of things like Peonies, Phlox, 
and Iris, for instance. But I am staggered by the I 
enormity of the task ahead of anybody who dares 
to advance a comparative rating for most of the : 
garden stuff in common use. Perhaps some so- 
cieties will consider the feasibility of adopting 
some sort of a standard rating as an experiment. 
There is certainly a need for such a thing. For 
example I find in half a dozen catalogues Peony : 
var. Humei offered eight years after the Cornell 
Experiment Station Bulletin No. 278 printed the ; 
following description of it: 
“ . . . . Weak, low-growing plant, shy 
bloomer, inclined to blight. Inferior bloom, 
poor fragrance and an undesirable bud which is 
likely to waterlog. ...” I do not blame 
nurseries for offering it. It may have especial 
value for its color or lateness or something else. 
But the incident shows the necessity for the ex- 
perimenter and grower to get together on var- 
ieties. Much experimental work is being carried 
on in the way of sorting out and culling out var- 
ieties, and growers are doing a big share of it 
themselves in an earnest endeavor to give the 
customer the best that any type offers. The 
magazines have done wonders in bringing to the 
attention of every one the varieties which have 
showed superiority over others. There still 
remains the crying need of a court of last appeals 
through which every plant must get its rightful 
recognition — namely, the classified score card. 
Why can’t someone who has the time and inclina- 
tion start one as a hobby? Perhaps Mr. Sturte- 
vant will submit a more comprehensive list of 
Irises to test out whether his scheme of making 
absolute ratings will find a stumbling block in the 
ideas of other Iris devotees. 
Stanley White, Boston, Mass. 
THE RUNNER BEAN “PRIZE- 
WINNER” 
T HIS is a very much improved Scarlet Runner 
introduced by Sutton & Sons, Reading, Eng- 
land. The pods which are produced in great 
numbers right through the summer are very 
straight and average 12 inches in length; some are 
even longer. They are of splendid quality for 
string beans, being remarkably bi ittle. The plants 
are most attractive when in flower and worthy of 
a place in every vegetable garden. The Mas- 
sachusetts Horticultural Society and the Gardens’ 
and Florists’ Club of Boston have each made 
awards of merit to this bean. 
W. N. C., Brookline, Mass. 
