HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 1911 
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This is tickseed, the perennial Coreopsis Lavatera or annual mallow, two feet high, You may meet the last blooms of the long- 
Canceolata. Calliopsis is the name given with a pink flower blooming ten weeks spurred columbine (Aquilegia ),which takes 
the annual Corepsis tinctoria kindly to shady places 
plants or seed on the spot for delivery at the proper time in the 
fall or spring planting season. 
Let me assure you that the following out of this scheme will 
save your many a mistake, many a disappointment in your gar¬ 
den-making. By it you will save at least a year or two in the 
attainment of a satisfying measure of success in your home sur¬ 
roundings. There is nothing so discouraging in the gradual ac¬ 
quiring of garden knowledge as to find, after a year or two of 
planting seeds, that the result is not at all what you have been 
led to expect by lurid word-painting in the catalogues or the still 
less dependable choice of flowers on the strength of names alone. 
Here are some of the really good things you will meet in your 
interesting travels. These are taken from those plants and shrubs 
that flower first this month, but there will be other entries in your 
notebook, recording flowers that started to bloom in May or last 
month. It must be borne in blind that any statement regarding 
a time of blooming can be only approximate. A dry season or a 
difference in latitude will change these dates by several weeks. 
The assumption is that we are investigating bloom in the latitude 
of New York. A rough rule is to allow a week earlier or later 
Pick out now the varieties you want to The gaillardia or blanket flower, a perennial You should know the pentstemon or 
plant next spring of the wonderful glad- bearing yellow-rayed flowers on long bearded-tongue, with its long racemes of 
i°lus stems lilac or pale violet flowers 
