This cue led us to the need and aim of this department. If we can 
save you some steps and correspondence by telling you where some 
particular plant can be found, we shall not have lived in vain ! 
We hope also to notify you in these columns just when to visit 
certain Amateur and Commercial Collections. 
Why not make pilgrimages to Riverton, Rutherford, Wyomissing 
at Iris and Paeony time or to Rochester for the Lilacs, as the Japanese 
do to the Cherry Gardens, Wistaria Arbors or Iris Fields? A visit to 
Westbury, L. I., at shrub blooming time and a walk through the nur- 
series with Mr. Hicks; or a talk with Mr. Earle in the perennial de- 
partment at Bobbink & Atkins will not only make a red-letter day 
for you but be a tremendous help to your garden. 
To know a good nursery thoroughly, know it month by month, 
is the supreme help for an Amateur. It is like having your palette 
well set up with paints. Mark the actual plants that you need with a 
baggage tag taken for that purpose (name and address written in in- 
delible pencil) and keep your own note of it too, for you may forget 
that it is to be sent to you at the proper time. 
Indeed, if the distance is not great from nursery to garden, any 
time is the proper time, for with careful shading and watering for the 
first week you can transplant your Iris, Phlox, Delphinium or almost 
any perennial in full bloom, remembering to cut off the bloom 
promptly after it is over. Thus you have got just the right 
shade of color or plant mass in just the right place and have 
saved six months. 
This year we were able to get the following varieties satis- 
factorily at the following places, and though we have no doubt 
that they are obtainable elsewhere these notes may save you a 
weary search. 
Seed 
Named Delphinium seed. (Most of our Nursery men list these as 
"Kelway's Hybrids" or "Gold Medal Hybrids.") 
Queen Wilhelmina, pale blue and mauve, 7 feet. King of Delphin- 
iums. JuUus Roehrs, Rutherford, N. J. 
Monarch of All; Dusky Monarch; Langport Glory. Kelway & 
Sons, Langport, Somerset, England. 
Didiscus Coerulus; Salvia Hormium. Max Schling, 24 West 59, 
N. Y. 
Pale Primrose Annual Chrysanthemum. (C. Coronarium 60390); 
Matricaria FL. PL.; Examina; Ellen Wilmott Pink Verbena. Thor- 
bum & Co., 53 Barclay St., N. Y. 
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