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Making a Garden Out of a Sand Heap 
(Continued from page 46) 
planting gave very successful results in 
the spring and summer. 
The roots put in were perennials, my 
intention being to have the garden ulti¬ 
mately about two-thirds perennials and 
the rest annuals. Having no more spare 
time than my evenings and holidays I 
felt that this was best, for to replant 
a garden every spring is a big under¬ 
taking. As the summer went along I 
worked continuously on the soil, keep¬ 
ing it cultivated week by week, the top 
surface never being allowed to rest. As 
time went on my garden flourished, so 
I felt encouraged in the autumn to re¬ 
place some of the plants by better ones 
of the same kinds. 
From the start I had kept close watch 
of the best seedsmen’s catalogs, at¬ 
tended specialty shows, and little by 
little had made the acquaintance of 
nurserymen who limit themselves to 
special lines. This all proved of value, 
for when one settles down to garden¬ 
ing as an amateur, one finds that the 
best nurserymen not only are in busi¬ 
ness for a living, but are quite willing 
to give a helping hand to the man who 
is really an enthusiastic horticulturist. 
The specialists charge only a fair price 
for their roots, and you know what you 
are getting; you run no more than the 
average risk of weather, etc., if you 
take care in the planting. 
My little plot ran east and west longi¬ 
tudinally, giving me a full southern ex¬ 
posure on the left and a half shaded 
border on the right. This half shaded 
border proves no detriment to a garden, 
for in it one has space for such plants 
as aquilegia, dielytra, digitalis, aconitum, 
Spircea aruncus, Sweet William, primula 
and pansies. These all do better for the 
lack of full sun. Then, too, much of 
this border can be used to intersperse 
your annuals, for by the time such 
young stock is due for planting out the 
ground has been warmed up by the 
higher sun of May. 
In the full sun border I planted the 
peonies, iris, delphinium, phlox and 
chrysanthemums, the latter that they 
might have the full benefit of the late 
autumn sun. What was left of this bed 
was used for zinnias, cosmos, antirrhinum 
and other late flowering annuals, to fol¬ 
low the peonies and iris. When plant¬ 
ing a garden it is well to provide for 
succession, that you may never lack 
color from the narcissus in April to the 
chrysanthemum in November. It is a 
simple matter to do this, if you study 
the flowering period and habits of the 
plants. 
Another matter to be considered is so 
to arrange your planting that the bed 
is well graded, the taller plants going to 
the back of a border, or in the center 
of a flower bed, so that nothing is lost 
to view. My center beds were made 
oblong, half of the lower one being 
given over to the strawberries, for I 
was convinced that my sandy founda¬ 
tion would prove about right for them. 
Nor was I disappointed, for this little 
bed, not more than 6' x lO', provided 
every other night during the fruiting 
season enough berries for a family of 
four. 
The Vegetable Section 
The other half of this bed comprised 
my little vegetable garden. Here I raise 
each spring a few radishes and lettuce, 
and follow them by tomatoes for the 
autumn. Growing vegetables other than 
these is not worth while in so small a 
city lot; it isn’t large enough for a 
vegetable garden even if you take it 
all, to the exclusion of flowers. One 
half of the upper center bed is used for 
roses, the other half for narcissus and 
tulips in the spring and annuals such as 
asters later in the season. In the bed 
at the end of the garden I planted four 
Lombardy poplars to provide an artistic 
curtain between myself and my back 
neighbor, who I knew would eventually 
come, and in front of the poplars I put 
in a row of Spiraea van Houttei. As a 
shrub for the small garden nothing is 
more ornamental than this or a dwarf 
variety of the deutzia. I selected the 
former, because in its flowering season, 
early June, it is a beautiful mass of 
small white flowers and during the re¬ 
mainder of the summer, and in the au¬ 
tumn, its small, dark green foliage gives 
a pleasing effect. 
The reason for laying out my beds as 
I did was to give the advantage of 
working the ground almost entirely 
from the paths, without being obliged 
to walk on the soil. One' little thing 
to remember is that a garden, like a 
bank account, can’t be continually 
drawn upon without making some de¬ 
posits, so don’t neglect your small load 
of stable manure each autumn. It 
serves its covering purpose for the win¬ 
ter, and provides strengthening force in 
the spring. 
Some Good Varieties 
In the selection of some of the peren¬ 
nials there is a large field open to you. 
Particularly is this the case in peonies 
and iris, each of which run into the 
hundreds; in fact, I know of one spe¬ 
cialist who lists over five hundred 
peonies. Those which I have found the 
most pleasing for the small garden are: 
in whites, Festivia maxima and Duchess 
de Nemours; reds. Rubra triumphans; 
pinks. Madam Emile Galle, Madam 
Coste, and Mathilde de Rosenech; of 
the vari-colored, Philomele and Alexan¬ 
der Dumas, both rose and cream. Of 
the irises, Mrs. H. Darwin, Madam 
Chereau, Hector, Idion, and Honorablis. 
In phlox, Europa, Jeanne d’Arc, Eliza¬ 
beth Campbell and Argon. Among 
chrysanthemums, Kenneth and Grace in 
whites; Triomphe d’Or, yellow; Lillian 
Doty, one of the finest pinks; Julia 
Lagravere, crimson; and Dupon de I’Ere, 
amber and bronze. Of roses there are 
colors and shades almost beyond num¬ 
ber, for in hybrid teas alone there are 
over five hundred varieties, besides the 
hardy perpetuals and climbers. How¬ 
ever, Ulrich Brunner, Hugh Dickson, 
Mrs. Aaron Ward, Mrs. R. G. Sharman 
Crawford, and Frau Karl Druschki have 
all stood the test with no more than 
ordinary care. In delphiniums, both 
light and dark varieties should find a 
place; of the former Amos Perry and 
Lize 'Van Veen, and King of Delphiniums 
and Mrs. Creighton in the latter. These 
with a few Oriental poppies, campanula, 
digitalis, hollyhock, gaillardia, coreopsis, 
dahlias, aquilegia, dielytra, Astilbe arend- 
si, lupines. Sweet William and the clove 
pinks, will help make up an old-fash¬ 
ioned garden, when accompanied for va¬ 
riety by annuals such as zinnia, asters, 
scabiosa, and antirrhinum. The last is 
yearly becoming more popular. It is 
one of the most pleasing flowers of the 
late season, starting to bloom in August 
and continuing steadily until frost; it 
comes in many beautiful shades of solid 
and broken colors. There is a divided 
opinion as to whether antirrhinum is 
annual or perennial, but my experience 
has been that with care it can be carried 
through an average winter, with the re¬ 
sult that it flowers much earlier the 
following season. 
Many wild flowers take kindly to 
cultivation, and are worthy of a little 
space. As an example, in my garden 
stands a specimen of wild aster (Michael¬ 
mas daisy) which was gathered from 
the roadside as a baby, bloomed well 
the first season after transplanting, and 
now after three years of care has de¬ 
veloped into one of the most beautiful 
plants, covered in early October with a 
mass of pale violet flowers with orange 
and scarlet centers. 
