FLOWERING SHRUBS 
Keep Your Garden In Bloom All Summer 
The fullest loveliness of your garden, lawn or avenue 
is much dependent on your shrubs and trees. 
Don’t choose those with ragged, insignificant flow¬ 
ers, or those which dazzle during the blooming 
season and then grow shabby and commonplace. 
A succession of color throughout the season may be obtained 
at a reasonable cost by judiciously planting a proper selection 
of flowering shrubs. 
Because many people find it hard to pick out the best selections, 
we offer the following suggestions. 
in early May before the 
Orange: Sweet Syringa. 5 feet. Well 
known and valuable for its sweet- 
scented white flowers in June. 
DEUTZIA Pride of Rochester. Large 
flowering Deutzia. Double; petals 
faintly tinged with rose. 
HYDRANGEA grandifloi 
fro 
e pyr< 
nidal panicles 
August to fro 
jsting, at first 
HIBISCUS (Althea) syrr 
of Sharon. •' 
ous bloom 
they bloom 
be trimmed in winter. Flowers 
purple, red and white, and in 
ing shades; single and double. 
HYDRANGEA grandiflora 
Hills of snow. 4 feet. This nei 
WEIGELA, Eve 
profuse bloc 
feet. than the type, las 
md agai 
Japar 
Upright, bushy growth; 
CERCIS canadensis. Judas Tree. er 
Bears an abundance of rosy pink tt 
EACH, 50c: PER TEN, $4.( 
THE ORIENTAL PLANE TREE- 
So popular for lining avenues, etc., that . , 
can make exceptional prices. It develops spl 
sizes and quantities, $1 each and up. 
800 ACRES—OVER 100 YEARS OF FAITHFUL SERVICE 
WE CAN HELP YOU. SEND FOR CATALOGUE AND ANY ADVICE YOU NEED. 
American Nursery Co. Flushing, n.y. 
: PER 100, $35.00 
DEEP SHADE QUICKLY. 
grow it by the thousand and 
dendidly in ample space. All 
You Need this Handy Sprayer 
Use the Auto-Spray No. 1 to Disinfect 
incubators and brooders and to clean 
out lice and mites in the poultry house. 
Prevent blights and destroy insects in the hot 
house, cold frame, garden and on the lawn. White¬ 
wash the cellar, stables and other outbuildings 
faster and more evenly than with a brush. Wash 
windows, buggies and motor cars quickly and thor¬ 
oughly. There are nearly 40 other styles of Auto- 
Spray—big and little. 
Where Water Lilies Bloom 
Garden Visitors Gather 
A pool of blooming Lilies is th" 
point. Other plants may 
it’s Interest, but the Wa 
dainty blooms never lose tl 
Let me tell you How and 
Where to grow these Beauti¬ 
ful Blooms 
WILLIAM TRICKER 
Box G, Arlington, New Jersey 
I will be glad, to advise you 
how to start, and the varieties 
that are best adapted for gen¬ 
eral planting and free blooming. 
Tell me, please, whether you 
must use a tub or pool; if the 
latter, give size and the source 
of water supply. 
My booklet on “Water Lilies 
and Water Plants’’ 'will be sent 
to those who ask for it; the 
edition is limited, so it may be 
well to write at once. 
Are These Your Problems? 
{Continued from page 84) 
the house and gardens which show all 
the ugliest features. Please note com¬ 
ments on the back of each. 
I am such a novice and have so little 
courage that I’d like to put myself ab¬ 
solutely in your hands. I don’t know 
how and where to begin. I know I 
want seclusion; evergreen trees; fruit 
trees; perennials in rose, pink and blue 
and orange (not yellow); perhaps dark 
red berries and white; a vegetable gar¬ 
den. I want these with the smallest 
outlay of money possible, and as simply 
done as can be, as it is hard to get ade¬ 
quate help. 
Is this an impossible task? At least 
you could, perhaps, give me a working 
plan which I could gradually develop. 
Would you advise putting an inexpen¬ 
sive fence all about and raising quick¬ 
growing vines on it until I could get 
trees and shrubs started? 
Back of the side entrance porch is 
quite a large space where I would like 
effective planting. It is on the north 
side and gets very little sun. I have 
planted lilies of the valley there, but of 
course want something larger. 
If I am not imposing too much upon 
you I would like to know what to do— 
starting now—step by step in develop¬ 
ing the soil, choosing the trees, shrubs 
and flowers and planting and caring for 
them. I want to make my little city lot 
a real House & Garden place. 
Answer —I have been much interested 
in your letter and the photographs 
showing the various parts of your house 
and grounds which you wish improved. 
Perhaps the following suggestions will be 
of assistance to you in working out 
what is going to be a very interesting 
set of problems. 
Taking up your various questions in 
the order in which you ask them, I 
would say in the first place that before 
you can get complete and satisfactory 
results from your grounds it .will be nec¬ 
essary to remove the greater part of the 
bricks and building stones which have 
been left lying about. It is a very diffi¬ 
cult matter to cultivate and plant ground 
successfully as long as any amount of 
rubbish like this remains. 
As to the treatment of the soil itself, 
I would not advise your undertaking at 
the present time any radical improve¬ 
ments, such as the incorporation with 
the clay of lighter loam. Work of this 
sort is very expensive at the present time 
on account of the high cost of labor, 
and I assume from your letter that this 
would be a decided disadvantage. If 
you can arrange to have a few loads of 
good garden soil added to the area in 
which you plan to put your vegetable 
rows, I would by all means advise your 
doing it, but as for the grounds in gen¬ 
eral, I think that you can get fairly sat¬ 
isfactory results without attempting 
wholesale work of this sort. 
You are perfectly right in planning to 
retain most of the old trees which are 
now on the place, and in not wishing to 
interfere in any way with the general 
woodsy effect of the situation as it now 
stands. You have an opportunity to 
make a most attractive arrangement of 
shrubs, etc., and I feel that any attempt 
at formality in the planting would be 
most unwise. 
On the other hand, the large amount 
of shade which these trees cast is going 
to be a decidedly limiting factor in the 
securing of varied effects with flowers 
and shrubs. The great majority of 
plants need plenty of sunlight and good 
air circulation. An effect such as that 
presented by the perennial border and 
pool in the clipping which you enclosed 
would be difficult for you to obtain for 
this reason, if I understand correctly the 
present arrangement of the place. Every¬ 
thing that follows is based on the as¬ 
sumption that there is considerably more 
shade than sunlight over the greater part 
of your grounds. 
The rocks at either side of the drive¬ 
way might be covered with Virginia 
creeper, allowed to scramble over them 
in the natural manner. The use of a 
few hemlocks to shut off the view of the 
rear of the house shown in this picture 
would be advisable. 
In the view showing the corner of the 
house and the two large trees in the 
foreground, it seems to me that hem¬ 
locks and rhododendrons combined offer 
the best possibilities for screening the 
yard. 
The Boston ivy which you have plant¬ 
ed at one side of the house will prob¬ 
ably soon begin to climb the walls sat¬ 
isfactorily. It often happens that this 
vine attains considerable size before it 
will take proper hold of vertical surfaces. 
You might try two or three small fruit 
trees on this side of the house, provided 
they will get a fair amount of sunshine. 
The approach to the garage can be 
marked out definitely with a hedging of 
Japanese barberry, which is one of the 
comparatively few shrubs which ought 
to do well in such a shady location. The 
shrubs with pink flowers and white ber¬ 
ries, to which you refer on one of the 
photographs, are apparently snowber- 
ries. There is no way of forcing these 
bushes to attain a height of more than 
three or four feet, as this represents 
their usual maximum of growth. 
If you decide to put in a vegetable 
garden along the side of the garage, you 
might find it best to use a fence for a 
permanent boundary line around it, in¬ 
asmuch as it is never advisable to bound 
a small vegetable garden with trees or 
shrubs, partly because of their resultant 
shade and partly because their roots will 
take too much nourishment from the 
ground. 
Around the kitchen entrance I would 
use Japanese barberry and Deutzia 
gracilis, as screens for the objectionable 
features. These shrubs should be plant- , 
ed in an informal, irregular mass in 
keeping with the rest of the planting 
scheme. j 
These suggestions may seem to be 
rather detached, but I trust they will 
give you a basis on which to begin your 
work. Inasmuch as yol really need an ' 
almost complete remodeling of your 
place, you will have to go ahead gradu-| 
ally and feel your way, as it were. I 
should first take up the matter of boun-l 
dary planting, as without that well un-' 
der way it would be difficult to decide 
the definite details of the rest of the 
work. 
Please feel perfectly free to write me 
again if I can be of any further assist- 1 
ance to you. J 
