Le Reve is the queen of all tulips. We feel that now we are really 
authorities on the tulip subject, and that the money was well spent in 
spite of a sadly depleted treasury. 
Interesting The Experimental Garden which the Garden Club of Easthampton 
Experiment started with so much interest this Spring, is making real progress and 
IN Raising is watched with great anticipation by its members. A year ago, Del- 
Delphinium phinium seeds were purchased from several English seedsmen and 
sown in sterilized soil about December first. This Spring when the 
plants were large enough to transplant, a plot 6f ground — 40 by 40 
feet — was fenced off, manured and limed, and some eight or ten 
members of the Club met, armed with spades and watering pots, and 
many dozens of strong little seedlings were set out in rows. It was very 
amusing working together. Once a week small committees of three or 
four kept the little garden thoroughly cultivated and in order. The 
result was that by Fall there were many remarkably sturdy plants of a 
large variety of shades of blue, the lovely EngHsh "Belladonna" 
variety prevailing. This being a little too pale in color, we chose sev- 
eral of our strongest plants with the best foHage and the blue nearest 
to our needs, — these plants have been carefully separated from the 
rest, and another Summer will be cross-fertiHzed and their seeds sown 
in fertilized soil, and the results watched with keenest interest. 
We have also received many more packages of foreign seeds. They 
will be sown as before, and set out in the Spring with the hopes of find- 
ing the perfect blue, not too pale for full sunlight, and which will 
shine in the shade without being too deep in color for all gardens. This 
year's plants have been sold to members of the Club to pay for ex- 
penses incurred while carrying on the experiment. 
Advice to Mrs. Ordway of the Easthampton Garden Club was asked how she 
Raspberry succeeded in raising such quantities of Everbearing Raspberries this 
Growers season. She repHed, "By irrigating the vines between the rows, and 
applying commercial fertilizer in July." The flavor of the berries was 
excellent and continuous until the very last of October. 
Egyptian The garden of Mrs. Samuel Taft, President of the Cincinnati 
Sweet Pea Garden Club, is attracting new interest of gardeners the country over 
because of a small sky-blue blossom — an Egyptian Sweet Pea — given 
to Mrs. Taft last Spring by Miss Eva Keys, who has always been keen- 
ly interested in Egyptology. The Honorary Secretary of the Egyptian 
Exploration Society of Boston gave her the seed, the original of which 
was found in the hand of a mummy. 
The Uttle blossom is a curious but beautiful shade of blue, and in- 
quiries from gardeners all over the country are being received by Mrs. 
Taft. So far as is known, it is the only plant of its kind in the United 
States. 
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