the entire labor of roguing and cleaning the crops, which often could 
not be done at the right time. 
This curtailment of labor, both in quality and quantity, will of 
necessity be felt in the quality of the seeds produced, both as to 
trueness and germination, neither of which is apt to be up to the 
ante-war standards. Every European seed house will be affected by 
these conditions, and since American seedsman are to a very large 
extent dependent for their supplies on European growers, consumers 
should bear these facts in mind when the qualities are not up to 
expectation. 
Some California growers have specialized in flower seeds for 
several years, and will probably be able to supply many kinds as soon 
as enough efficient help can be educated. That California can pro- 
duce good flower seeds is proven by the extensive culture of Sweet 
Peas. It is safe to say that that state produces close to 80 per cent 
of the world's supply of that flower. 
The wise gardener will sow many more seeds than usual this 
autumn and next spring, and keep reserve plants in nursery rows. 
Then when colors clash and seedlings melt away, there will be 
others to fall back upon. 
A Successful Planting 
It has been found difficult to secure any satisfactory account of a 
successful planting from any member of the Garden Club. It can 
hardly mean that there has been no successful planting this year, but 
rather that no planting, however, successful, ever attains that ideal 
beauty and perfection dreamed of when the color scheme was planned 
in the Spring. On the contrary, however, several assurances have 
been given that examples of unsuccessful planting could have been 
found without difficulty — chiefly in neighbor's gardens. Herbaceous 
borders run wild, for instance, with orange Lilies, Magenta Phlox, 
Balm and pink Mallows, in one irreconcilable argument, or — a 
particularly irritating example, — a vigorous bed of Rhododendrons 
in full bloom clashing with its border of orange and yellow Azalias. 
The banner bed of this type, once seen and never forgotten, was 
one of red Geraniums surrounded by Petunias, though as it adorned 
a rural cemetery, it may have been planted less for beauty than 
with some benevolent intention of raising the dead. 
After all, is not the best success in grouping and combination 
of colors only a holding, as 'twere, a mirror up to nature, imitating 
as much as possible the invariable simplicity and harmony of Nature's 
