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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Autumn In the Garden. 
It is to be hoped that the good old cus¬ 
tom of giving and exchanging plants and 
cuttings is not destined to go wholly out 
of vogue. There seems to be a good deal 
less of such friendly exchange than was 
common a generation ago, when our 
mothers and everybody's mother had 
nearly identical beds of low Irises, May 
pinks, striped grass, double buttercups and 
bleeding hearts. Early Autumn is the 
season when such dear, homely, hardy 
things are best transplanted, so suppose 
we go over our floral possessions to see 
what there is to give away. Any neglect¬ 
ed clumps of daffodils will be benefited 
by resetting. Now, while the bulbs are 
at rest is the time to turn them out and 
reset in fresh rows. A double line of 
bulbs six inches apart, in alternating suc¬ 
cession, makes a pretty border alongside 
taller growing plants which will cover the 
ground with spreading foliage after the 
daffodils’ Spring time glory is past. Ex¬ 
perience has li^J me to think that it is 
not always the very largest bulbs that are 
surest in bloom, the fresh, medium-sized 
ones being more likely to give flowers 
the following Spring. Colonies of small 
bulbs set in all sorts of places have come 
into bloom in a few years, and have made 
us rich in golden handfuls to give away. 
Daffodils keep their freshness so well, and 
there is no city friend but joys in having 
a sheaf of them with plenty of their own 
slender foliage. We have the old doublc- 
vellow, the single of the same shade, and 
a straw colored and orange sort; also two 
kinds of white Narcissus. In the cata¬ 
logues they are listed as Van Sion, Etoile 
d’Or, Double Incomparable, Poeticus and 
Albus Plenus Odoratus. All are per¬ 
fectly hardy and faithfully persistent, so 
that a few bulbs may be reckoned a per¬ 
manent investment. Though my acquaint¬ 
ance with double white and Poeticus dates 
back a good many seasons, it has to be 
owned that all my experimenting in 
changes of soil and situation has never 
yet brought an every-year success. Some 
seasons we have plenty of double white 
blossoms and all the Poeticus blooms 
blast in their brown husks when appar¬ 
ently just ready to open. Again, Poeticus 
is glorious and all the double whites per¬ 
ish unseen. Partial shade, wind-breaks, 
improvised shelters, have all been tried, 
til! now we merely thank the season for 
whatever it proves favorable to, and are 
content that our supply of bulbs increases 
teadily. One more Narcissus should be 
included among hardy standbys, the little 
fragrant yellow jonquil or Polyanthus 
which bears several blossoms on each 
stalk. It is proving hardy and sufficiently 
persistent to be useful to busy people not 
expert gardeners. 
If one can give a carefully prepared, 
well-drained bed there’s nothing sure to 
yield richer returns than a collection of 
hardy lilies. Our first Auratum was the 
pride of our hearts for days; everyone 
knows the beautiful Speciosums as Japan 
lilies, brth the pure white and the Rub- 
rum ; double tiger is interesting; the dear 
old Candidum a joy forever, and every 
sort in the dealer’s list worthy of patient 
cultivation. Our first venture in lily cul¬ 
ture was made on an open part of the 
lawn, the earth excavated and a cartload 
of stones buried beneath to insure thor¬ 
ough drainage, then good soil atop and 
as much love and care as was ever lav¬ 
ished on a flower bed; the lilies responded 
well, and were a delight till the roots of 
elm trees found the comfortable feeding 
ground, and the hed had to be abandoned. 
One of the Hemerocallis or Day lilies 
seen recently in a friend’s garden appeals 
to me as one of the must-haves. The 
catalogues call it Kwanso, double-flow¬ 
ered folia variegata. It has the soft col¬ 
oring of what we call “old house lilies,” 
and foliage prettily striped with white. 
No one can afford to be without a clump 
or two of Funkia, and this is a plant of 
which one can always spare a root for a 
friend’s garden, for the plants grow un¬ 
wieldy in size if left too long undisturbed. 
When you find just the right place for the 
low variegated sort there's nothing pret¬ 
tier than the contrast of its striped foli¬ 
age. The old-fashioned, slender blue (it 
is really lavender) sort is one of the 
hardiest of perennials, and a handful of 
its blossoms surrounded with their leaves 
and sprays of feathery white Clematis 
paniculata makes a charming bouquet, 
whatever fashion may say of only one sort 
of flower in a vase. The large white flow¬ 
ered Funkia (always called “Day lily’ in 
my locality, despite books and botanists) 
gains much if seen against a background 
of dark green, or if growing close to scar¬ 
let Salvia. It likes a deep rich soil and 
can scarcely receive too much water in 
Summer. prudence primrose. 
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