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gardens Delphiniums are always staked. With certain individ- 
uals this is quite necessary. 
Against the blight, which is much more likely to attack the 
older plants, such preventive sprays as bordeaux should be 
used. 
The most common mistake in growing Delphiniums lies in 
the failure to give the plants sufficient room. A full grown Del- 
phinium is a large plant and can easily occupy a space three to 
four feet across. Other later blooming plants, as Hardy Asters, 
may be planted near enough to partly fill this space when the 
Delphinium is cut back after blooming. 
To the gardener interested in beautiful grouping and color 
arrangement in respect to his growing plants, the Delphinium 
seems absolutely indispensable. There is nothing 1 know of 
that could quite fill its place. The most exquisite arrangements 
yet worked out in this connection are probably those where Del- 
phinium is used in conjunction with early white Phlox and 
Madonna Lilies. This combination, however, is becoming so 
usual that the time seems ripe for some daring spirit to try some- 
thing else. Gaillardias; Peach-bells; pink, white, and yellow 
Climbing Roses; and the old Tawny Lily are a few of the things 
usually in bloom at the same time. These would seem to offer 
unrevealed possibilities for new and different, and perhaps quite 
as effective, groupings. 
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LOST GARDENS 
LOUISE 
1. If once you loved a garden 
That’s not your garden now — 
Yellow crocus in the grass 
And budding lilac bough! — 
April’s a remembering time, 
You will always know 
Green splashed gold of daffodils 
Where they used to grow. 
DRISCOLL 
2. April’s a remembering time, 
Days of garden grace. 
Lift the covering of straw 
And find a pansy face! 
If you have loved a garden. 
Its ways will call you yet, 
Nothing else that life may bring 
Will help you to forget. 
3. If once you love a garden 
That love will stay with you. 
In April there’s a morning 
When violets are blue. 
You come upon them suddenly, 
And suddenly you see 
A green white mist has fallen 
On the old pear tree. 
4. Once I loved a garden 
That’s not my garden now. 
In April 1 remember 
The smell of earth and how 
Like folded hands in prayer 
Holding a scented heart, 
The hyacinth comes pushing 
The loose, brown soil apart. 
5. You can’t forget a garden 
Where you have planted seed, 
Where you have watched the weather 
And known the rose’s need. 
When you go away from it, 
However long or far, 
You’ll leave your heart behind you 
Where roots and tendrils are. 
