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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
August, 19 ii 
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SAMSON CORDAGE WORKS. BOSTON. HASS 
(panic nl at a) planted where it can grow 
over them. Goldenrod, wild asters, eve¬ 
ning primroses, wild lilies and wild flower¬ 
ing shrubs are being massed along the 
other two sides of this outer path to fur¬ 
ther restrict and frame the garden setting. 
The garden is reclaimed now, and 
from this time on it can receive as many 
and choice varieties of hardy flowering 
plants as my pocketbook can afford. 
Just here let me mention one of the 
chief advantages of growing flowers on a 
hilltop. The frost comes several weeks 
later than it does in the valley. Long after 
the fall flowers in the low gardens are 
dead and gone ours are blooming merrily. 
In the winter the hilltop is several de¬ 
grees warmer than the valley. Last winter 
on the coldest night the Rockgirt thermom¬ 
eter registered only eight below zero, while 
in the village in the valley and even just 
at the foot of our hill the thermometers 
went down to twenty-two degrees below 
zero. Such a difference renders it possi¬ 
ble to winter roses on the hill which can¬ 
not stand the damper cold of the valley, 
and this has been done successfully by a 
hilltop neighbor of ours. Of course, this 
works the other way in spring. The 
flowers in the valley are in bloom first if 
left to themselves, but our garden, being 
sheltered from wind and open to all the 
sunshine, is only about a week later. 
A garden, to me, is a place apart, a 
place where I can go to be alone. It is 
my first necessity after I have a roof to 
cover me ; my next is to have flowers about 
the house, sociable flowers that can make 
merry with my friends. For this purpose 
the sturdy, ever-blooming, more or less 
conventional geraniums always appeal to 
me. Shortly after we took Rockgirt, I in¬ 
vested five dollars in choice varieties of 
ivy and rose geraniums of shades of pink. 
In winter they are kept in the sun-parlor 
and in window nooks. They are slipped 
once a year, the young plants are started 
in sand, repotted and used for outdoor 
decoration in summer. So the stock con¬ 
tinually increases. 
I wanted flower beds close to the house 
walls, but this was found to be impossible 
as the house stands literally on a rock with 
only a few inches of dirt to cover it. When 
a workman digs a hole he uses dynamite. 
This seemed a ludicrous way to plant gera¬ 
niums, so I put them in five large porch 
boxes hung between each post to a plain 
porch railing. With much persuasion and 
top dressing, common woodbine has been 
induced to grow about the porch posts. By 
means of the railing, the boxes and vines, 
a dreary, bare porch that we found at 
Rockgirt has been converted into a cheer¬ 
ful out-of-door living room at little cost. 
Each spring white heliotrope and petunia 
plants are started indoors to put in the 
boxes with the pink geraniums. The white 
and pink flower clusters are charming be¬ 
tween the green hanging vines. In the 
winter evergreens are planted in the boxes 
and form a great shelter from the flying 
snow. 
From the first the woods had received 
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