in low, wide jars and just left to themselves until they decide to 
bloom. When they once begin they will keep on all summer and most 
of the winter, too, if you take them inside. 
If you need tall graceful plants for the house try six or eight 
Gladiolus bulbs in a twelve-inch pot. Plant them early and at 
intervals of ten days. Keep them in the cold frame until danger of 
frost is over. They will grow taller and less stiffly than the Gladioli 
planted in the open ground and the color will be softer. Mrs. 
Francis King is excellent for this purpose, but I think that Halley 
is better. Paler colors are not so effective, though I think a mixed 
planting of yeUow, flame color, pale pink and deep purple might 
be lovely. 
Everyone grows Rubrum and Auratum Lilies in pots but have 
you tried Tiger Lilies? They are charming and can be left in the 
same pots year after year. Plant them deep and give them the 
protection of a cold frame during the winter. Feed them up a little 
and give them some wood ashes each spring. Put them in blue 
Japanese jars (the kind with a hole in the bottom), if you can 
get them. 
There are dozens of things such as Clematis, Jasmine, Passion 
' Flowers and other tender vines that can be bought from the nurseries 
and grown in pots for at least a season and will probably survive the 
winter in a cold frame. 
Balsams in separate colors are lovely, and very gay and pretty 
in long boxes about a pool or on a coping are Verbenas, Ellen 
Willmott. These are a clear bright pink but do not come true from 
seed. Ageratum and deep purple Petunias are charming used in the 
same way. 
Those of us who saw the entrancing use of little, conventional 
flower pots in Miss Hawley's and Miss Davison's garden at Glou- 
cester are planning to flatter them by imitation this year. Probably 
we shall not be completely successful, but if you care to take the 
trouble you can grow a dozen pots of any number of different sorts 
of annuals sowed early in the hot beds and late in a shady spot behind 
a woodshed (perhaps) and drop them into bare places when visitors 
are expected (if that's the kind of a gardener you are). They are 
particularly useful late in the season and do not seem quite so "faked " 
as when they are used too early. 
Canterbury Bells and Campanula Pyramidalis are very generally 
used and many other sorts of perennials are charming. I am trying 
white Tree Lupins for the first time this year. There are any number 
of beautiful things hardy in England that should take kindly to this 
method in our more rigorous climate since they can be well protected 
from more trying winter conditions. 
K. L. B. 
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