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The Garden Magazine, September, 1920 
Interested in Gladioli? 
If so, we invite you to call at our grounds and inspect what is probably the 
largest planting of fine Gladioli in America. 
We are located at Good Hold Farm, stop 52, C. P. & E. Interurban, on the 
main Chicago-BufFalo pavement, in West Mentor, Ohio, 20 miles east of 
Cleveland. 
1 he flowers should be at their best throughout August and early September 
and we would be glad to have you call any day during that time. 
THE RALPH E. HUNTINGTON CO., Mentor, Ohio 
Hardy Phlox 
Can be used everywhere. Unlike other 
plants, require little care and give bountiful 
returns in flowers during the season. They 
have a delightful odor, scenting the whole 
garden. 
I am anxious to send you my list. Write for it 
now, 300 varieties. 
W. F. SCHMEISKE 
Slate Hospital Station Box 11 Binghamton, N. Y. 
1 grow but few kinds of Plants 
But Grow Them Well! 
Pachysandra terminalis, field-grown, $2.00 per dozen, 
$15.00 per hundred. 
Euonymus radicans, three years, $2.50 per dozen, 
$15.00 per hundred. 
Euonymus Vegetus, two years. $3.00 per dozen, $20.00 
per hundred. 
Euonymus Carrieri, two years, $3.00 per dozen, $20.00 
per hundred. 
James Wheeler, Plantsman 
Worcester Street Natick, Mass. 
Bush Box. 2^-3 ft, high x 2^-3 ft. 
spread, specimen. 
Bush Box. 2-2^ ft. high x 1-2\ ft. 
spread, specimen. 
Fruit Trees and Fruit Plants in 
variety for Fall planting. 
Write for price 
MORRIS NURSERY CO. 
St. James Building 1133 Broadway, New York City 
The World’s Choicest 
PEONIES 
Including all the New and Rare Varieties 
Le Cygne, Solange, Therese, La France, 
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Barrett Browning, Longfellow, M. M. Cahuzac, 
Loveliness, Enchanteresse, Jubilee, etc. 
Send for catalogue 
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The Gilson Way of Gardening provides the proper 
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WILD FLOWERS 
Not only do we furnish any kind that grows, 
but we give advice on plantings. Have you 
trouble in getting a natural planting? We might 
help you with advice or take your planting 
contract. 
BOTANICAL NURSERY CO. Lapeer, Mich. 
Can Spare Several Clumps of these Brand Peonies 
Chestine Gowdy. Ruth Brand. Frances Willard. Florence Nightingale, 
Martha Bullock. Archie Brand, etc. 
Other good varieties available are 
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Festiva Maxima " “ 20 white I Baroness Shroeder 
Louis Van Houtte 1st " " red | Therese 
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Catalogue. Elizabeth Leighton Lee, Director. 
FLOWERS IN THE ARTISTIC 
HOME 
DVERY real home, nowadays, has its bouquet 
of flowers to lend cheer or charm. And to 
many of us, the opportunity to arrange flowers 
artistically by experimenting with this and that 
color combination of the background, holders or 
the beautiful blossoms themselves, is a constant 
pleasure. Every time we have a bouquet to 
arrange there is the possibility of "discovering” 
some charming new color effect. The same 
flowers in different rooms, holders, or even lights, 
will often give us a delightful surprise. 
Dark red Carnations, for instance, rather somber 
on the dining table, compared with gay pink or 
bright red Carnations, are richly cheerful in a 
cream or white room in a position where the sun 
strikes them. 
Green Mignonette, usually a filler for more 
colorful blooms has a delicate beauty all its own, 
if thrifty stalks of it are placed in one of the popu- 
lar shallow bowls that is a shade of mottled green 
suggestive of sunshine. This study in soft 
greens with the hint of yellow is charming in a 
room of pastel neutrality. 
Green, which is Nature’s own background 
for flowers, is very pleasing when used in the 
form of Wild Oats. Many of the cultivated 
garden flowers will take on a picturesque field 
atmosphere when combined with half a dozen 
sprays of this outcast or with other of the 
decorative field grasses. 
Pink and yellow, a rather hard color combina- 
tion to arrange successfully becomes artistic at 
once, if a few blue flowers, in almost any shade, 
can be found to add to the bouquet. Cornflowers 
are, of course, lovely. 
Several shades of yellow makes a fascinating 
color scheme — but not frequently arranged. 
Yellow Cannas of several shades are a rich possi- 
bility. Jonquils, Broom, and Gladiolus are all 
spring blossoms in yellow that will give beauty 
to a dull gray room. Marigolds, Eschscholtzias, 
Zinnias, and Dahlias are all flowers that bloom 
in several shades of yellow, and when several 
shades of the same flower are used the bouquet 
has much more variety than if one tone only 
is used. 
With the revival of the Victorian in period 
furnishings, the quaint nosegay of many colors 
will be an appropriate touch in rooms done in this 
stiff, prim style. Indeed, exclusive florists 
to-day are featuring all sorts of original combina- 
tions in mixed bouquets. Scotch Heather form- 
ing a background for small dainty flowers in 
pink, blue, and yellow is a favorite arrangement. 
A multi-colored bouquet made up of only one 
or two blossoms of a kind, shows up to the 
utmost advantage in the brilliant black enamel 
ware. 
There are indeed, such a variety of colors and 
shapes in flower holders, nowadays, that nearly 
any color scheme can be arranged. Both the dull 
and glazed potteries in blue, lavender, green, and 
yellow, are in high favor. 
The new pink glaze ware in a rich raspberry 
tone offers possibilities for a study in pink, with 
such blossoms as Begonias, Oleanders, Azaleas, 
Camellias, Althaeas, Snapdragon, Larkspur, 
Foxglove, Sweet-peas, Apple and Peach blos- 
soms, Stocks, Weigela, Hawthorn, and Roses 
— any pink flowers in fact. 
Marion Brownfield, Los Angeles, Cal. 
