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(5) What can I set around my bird-bath that will not 
mind constant splashing? Japanese Iris? Japanese 
Anemone? Forget-me-not? Monkshood? What 
others? The soil becomes green in spots around 
the bath, which stands four feet up from the 
ground. 
(6) I planted seeds of Canterbury-bells 
in July 1922, kept them over winter in a 
coldframe, and reset the thrifty plants 
in April 1923. They did not appear at 
all disturbed by being moved, but not 
one of them bloomed and late in the 
summer many of them blighted and j 
died; possibly from too much sprink¬ 
ling? What was the reason for this 
lack of bloom? 
(7) My three-year-old golden Calla 
bulbs, though large and healthy look¬ 
ing, almost refuse to grow, although 
white Callas on the same bench grow 
profusely. Last year each golden 
Calla sent up one enormous, tall leaf 
which remained alone until summer 
when it died and the plants became 
dormant. This year one is sending up 
two rather small leaves, but the other 
seems having great difficulty in producing 
even one leaf. How should 1 treat them? 
I would be glad if your interesting maga¬ 
zine would sometime discuss the raising of vari¬ 
ous kinds of Lilies in the garden.— Gertrude 
F. Richards, Lincoln, Nebraska. 
—On pages 115-118 of April 1923 G. M. will be 
found a comprehensive article on “Lilies From 
June Till September” by Helen M. Fox.— Ed. 
“Benediction in the Little Garden” 
To ihe Editors of The Garden 
WALL FOUNTAIN IN A 
CALIFORNIA GARDEN 
Glimpse of a thirty foot flowerbed bordered 
with Betonv (Stachys lanata) backed by 
pink Phlox in Mrs. Hood’s garden at Sonora 
(see “Benediction in the Little Garden”) 
Magazine: 
■‘"TpHERE is a quaint old town in California where the spirit of the 
1 “days of old, the days of gold, the days of ’49” still lingers—it is 
Sonora, in Tuolumne Co., and the land of Bret Harte and Mark Twain. 
In this old town, “not quite in the busy world, nor yet beyond it,” 
blooms the garden that I love. 
Sonora nestles among pineclad hills and there is very little level 
ground: therefore my garden is in three levels. The first level or 
terrace, is occupied by the house on the south, garage on the north, 
between is the lower garden terrace as shown in circular picture above. 
At the foot of the wall is a flowerbed 3 x 30 ft. filled with hardy Iberis 
and Daffodils, followed by Darwins and Iris and, at the end of the sea¬ 
son, pink Phlox. 1 1 is bordered with Stachys lanata, as are all the beds 
in the garden. A white Memorial Rose drapes it¬ 
self over the wall and wall-fountain. Above 
the wall on the second terrace is a trellis sup¬ 
porting a 75-year-old Grapevine which 
reaches across the lot and down over 
the pergola. Under the Grapevine is 
a narrow 2§ ft. bed filled with bulbs 
and Iris. Roses twine about the 
posts supporting the Grapevine 
trellis. In front is a brick-paved 
path with a place for seats, 
“where the family and friends 
gather under the vine-clad roof 
with the leaf-tiled floor” to en¬ 
joy the garden. 
The second terrace is a rectangle 
also, open lawn, bordered with 
flowers. Then comes the open 
space that you see pictured in 
oval below. The back of this ter¬ 
race is a stone wall 8 ft. high with a 
5 ft. bed the whole length of the gar¬ 
den filled with bulbs, Cannas, Phlox, 
Boxtrees, two Oleanders, Coreopsis, 
Iris, giving a succession of bloom from 
spring until winter. The large Box trees 
are thirty-eight years old while the edgings 
and smaller ones I have raised from cuttings. 
The fourth side of the rectangle is a Rose- 
covered fence 10 ft. high with giant Musaefolia 
Cannas and flowering Cannas in the background 
and hardy perennials, especially Phlox and 
Michaelmas Daisies. 
The third terrace is about 10 ft. wide on top of 
the 8 ft. wall. Street Elms form the background 
with Rose-covered fence. Iris and Roses border 
a narrow path which terminates in a square about 10 x 10 ft. with 
seats and bird-bath, brick paved and ornamented with rock bowls 
hollowed out bv the Indians in grinding corn and acorns. Here wild 
birds find sanctuary. From here one looks down on the two lower 
terraces and into the enclosed garden. 
The whole is just a home-made garden or a series of little gardens 
each complete in itself, for “there is a benediction in the little gar¬ 
den’s grace.” 
I should be glad if these glimpses give pleasure to some reader as the 
glimpse of other gardens gives pleasure to me.— Mrs. Juliette M. 
Hood, Sonora, Tuolumne Co., Cal. 
Who Has Pink Lily-of-the-Valley? 
] T IS a long time now since 1 have seen flowers of the pink Lily-of-the- 
* Valley, that was sometimes offered as Convallaria majalis rubra, and 
I should greatly appreciate any reader who has this plant getting in cor¬ 
respondence with me.— Editor of The Garden Magazine. 
The Indefatigable Rose Chafer 
“A HOME-MADE GARDEN” AT SONORA (CAL.) 
A corner of the second teriace showing Phlox, Cannas, Box, Oleander, etc., and 
described in Mrs. Hood’s letter (see above) which modestly states that “the whole 
is just a home-made garden or series of little gardens each complete in itself” 
To The Editors of The Garden Magazine: 
I S THERE any one among your readers who has gotten 
the better of the rose chafer? If so, will they help 
me? I have tried insect powder, arsenate of lead, Mel- 
rosine, sulphate of iron, tobacco tea, and I seem but to 
have provided a banquet to which they have brought all 
their friends and relatives. 
On two sides of my garden I have cedar trellises about 
one hundred feet long; these support Silver Moon, Dr. 
Van Fleet, Lady Gay, and Dorothy Perkins Roses. Last 
season 1 am sure 1 did not get fifty perfect flowers. When 
one has visioned pale blue bowls filled with lovely Van 
Fleet buds, could any disappointment be greater? Two pa¬ 
tient members of the family picked rose bugs by the hour 
and still they came and came and came! Mr. McFarland has been most 
kind with suggestions, but 1 believe even he thinks I am in a bad fix. 
My soil is a heavy clay loam which they are not supposed to prefer— 
but they do seem to love it. I thought of cutting down the vines this 
year to diminish the food supply, but this seems futile since they do not 
confine their activities to the Roses but last year ruined Peony blooms, 
garden Heliotrope, and Coreopsis as well! 
