HOUSE AND GARDEN 
56 
April, 
1912 
T he most commonsense remark about seeds that we have heard in a good while 
was made by an amateur gardener at Lenox, Mass. He said : “What is the use 
of my sowing anything but prize-winning seeds? — they are superior or they 
wouldn’t win prizes.” 
That’s a good text. On it is based Quality Seeds, and because of it we show 
these Boddington prize-winning vegetables that carried everything before them at the 
Lenox Horticultural Show — a show known all over the country for its high class. For 
three successive years, Mr. Edward Jenkins, Superintendent for Giraud Foster, has carried 
off the laurels. He says in a letter to us: “A large share of my success has been due to 
the Quality Seeds from Boddington’s.” Boddington’s Prise Winning Seeds, then, are 
the seeds for you to plant this year, and all the time. Send for 
BODDINGTON’S 1912 GARDEN GUIDE 
In it, all seeds that are under-ruled have been proven to be the best in their class — the 
prize winners. Follow the rules, and you will outgarden all your previous gardening 
successes. Select and order your seeds early, so you can plant your garden early, and 
have that early garden you have each year talked about having. 
OUR PRIZE WINNING QUALITY VEGETABLE SEED COLLECTIONS 
Quantities and varieties fully described on Page 107 in our Garden Guide. 
Collection A sufficient for a family of five $4.00 mail or express prepaid. 
“ B “ “ “ “ “ eight 7.00 “ “ 
“ C “ “ “ “ “ fourteen 13.00 “ “ “ “ 
Or less than a dollar a head per family. 
Save your green grocer bills and enjoy fresh vegetables daily, all summer. 
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dwarf delphinium, the Belladonna, has in 
addition to great beauty of flower—the 
color of the true Belladonna is an exqui¬ 
site turquoise blue—the merit of being 
almost everblooming. The young seed¬ 
lings begin to flower early and in favor¬ 
able locations bloom continuously until 
hard frost. 
For background effects four very desir¬ 
able perennials are the old-fashioned but 
always beautiful hollyhock, single and 
double; the plume poppy, Bocconia cor- 
data, with splendid foliage and tall spikes 
of creamy white flowers; Boltonia latis- 
quama and asteroides, tall, erect-growing 
plants bearing in September and early 
October innumerable daisy-like flowers 
of pink and white; and the hardy chrysan¬ 
themums, the old pompon varieties and 
the new, extremely beautiful large flow¬ 
ered singles. 
A medium tall and bushy perennial that 
may be had from seed is the pentstemon 
or beard tongue. Pentstemons, with the 
exception of the half-hardy variety Sen¬ 
sation, will seldom flower before the sec¬ 
ond year, but the foliage, being rich and 
heavy, makes a good background, during 
the period of waiting, for plants of 
dwarfer habit. The flowers of the pent¬ 
stemon resemble those of the gloxinia. 
The best varieties are Barhatus Torreyii, 
brilliant scarlet; Heterophyllus, an azure- 
blue, semi-dwarf variety, and the Pidchel- 
liis hybrids, varying from white through 
rose and maroon to purple. 
For background planting in a shady 
border or for naturalizing under trees the 
digitalis, better known under its common 
name of fox or fairy-folks’ glove, is in¬ 
valuable. In New England, unfortunate¬ 
ly, where our winters are severe, it is al¬ 
most a biennial, yet, as it readily propa¬ 
gates itself from seed, no garden once 
beautified by its presence need ever be 
without it. Digitalis blooms the second 
year from seed, throwing above the broad¬ 
leaved foliage tall four to six feet spikes, 
tapering gracefully toward the top and 
densely clothed with funnel-shaped flow¬ 
ers of pink, rose, white and purple, the 
interior white spotted and blotched with 
crimson or purple. Fifty to a hundred 
of these spires lifted between tree trunks 
against a mass-planting of crimson-eye 
hibiscus suggests a piece of transplanted 
woodland. 
The crimson-eye hibiscus is an improved 
form of our marshmallow. Seedsmen 
promise that the plants shall flower the 
second season from seed sowing, but in 
my own and a neighbor's experience, it 
has been the third. However, the flowers 
are well worth waiting for. The plants, 
being shrub-like in character, make a good 
background before their year of flower¬ 
ing. And when the huge silky white 
blooms, with their centers of deep crim¬ 
son, begin to unfurl, the householder has 
something besides the cement and shin¬ 
gles of his house to be proud of. From 
a ten-cent packet of crimson-eye hibiscus 
I grew twenty-four white, two pale 
salmon (evidently sports and very beauti- 
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