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The Garden Magazine, March, 1923 
WORLD’S BEST 
DAHLIAS 
100 acres of them. We are 
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Our Catalogue tells the plain 
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varieties. Beautifully illus¬ 
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Nothing is prettier around a home than 
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Plant them. We are specialists in roses. 
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Alpine Flowers—Hardy Perennials 
Dwarf Evergreens—Choice Shrubs 
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A FLOWER GARDEN 
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3. Absence of lime impairs the firmness and 
keeping qualities of the flowers. It may also 
result in a more single flower in certain varieties 
at least. 
4. There is a marked difference between var¬ 
ieties of roses in their ability to succeed upon 
lime-deficient soil. 
PLANTS FOR A JULY BORDER 
M ANY of us gardeners bewail the fact that 
there is a dearth of flowers in July, the 
month whose heat and humidity without are 
made endurable for many of us only by cool, dark¬ 
ened rooms, fragrant with the delicate, fugitive 
scent of flowers. 
When the pageant of spring and early summer 
has passed, it is often difficult to keep the flower 
bowls and vases filled without spoiling the garden 
picture by too lavish cutting. Even the seeds¬ 
men recognize this, and recommend varieties 
which will bloom in July and August, “when 
flowers are scarce.” Last season I determined to 
end this sad condition in one garden at least, and 
planned a midsummer border, which has been an 
unqualified success. It was a good border to 
look at — a harmonious arrangement of color; and 
it has furnished unlimited bloom for the house. 
The colors are white, several shades of yellow and 
orange, misty blue, and purple-blue. 
At the back stand Madonna Lilies, over, how¬ 
ever, in June and so not counted in the later 
splendor, mingled with unusual Delphinium 
raised from seed and blooming that year for the 
first time. These selected hybrid strains are 
marvels of blue and purple, with individual flow¬ 
ers an inch and a half across. Next come Shasta 
Daisy, Westphalia, Gaillardias, Black-eyed Su¬ 
san, with St. John’s-wort below. Spreading their 
foamlike sprays of delicate white and lavender 
among the coarser, bolder blooms of the Com¬ 
posites are Gypsophila and Statice latifolium. 
Eryngiums add their good, steel-like heads to the 
picture, and Lilium elegans fulgens deepens the 
glow of the Gaillardias. Along the edge Car¬ 
pathian Harebells ring their fairy chimes where, 
earlier, Iceland Poppies swayed. It is all very 
cool, very airy, very satisfying. Nothing heavy, 
no “massive blooms.” What a dreadful term! 
The graceful, long-stemmed flowers sway in 
whatever languid air may stir the garden. 
Daisies and Black-eyed Susans, with a few 
sprays of Delphinium in a bowl of faience, set 
upon an Italian plate of rich blue and cream, are 
an unusual and satisfying centrepiece for the 
dining room. Lilium elegans, with sprays of 
Gypsophila and Lerns, is good in a darkened room 
of sombre coloring. Of course there are endless 
other good things with which to fill a July cutting 
border—blue and white Platycodon, Calimeris, 
Stokesia, Gladiolus, and hosts of annuals. 
If you are tired of dressing the table with flow¬ 
ers and would set upon it a centrepiece to ravish 
the eye and lower the temperature, fill a low 
brown wicker basket with wood treasures of cur¬ 
ious fungus in colors of coral and brown and 
cream, ghostly Indian-pipes, dwarf Ferns, baby 
Tulip Poplars, and Hemlocks scarcely four inches 
high, with Mosses to cover the wood mould in the 
basket. ’Tis a bit of treasure trove you have 
wrested from Nature and tamed to grow in a 
basket.— Helen M. Sharpe, Pennsylvania. 
Bearded Iris 
1923 Supplement to 
our catalogue of 1922 
is ready for distribution. 
We shall be glad to furnish 
it for your file of flower 
catalogues. If you do not 
have the catalogue, ask 
for it, too. 
This catalogue was very 
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on the Culture and Hybrid¬ 
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