HOUSE AND GARDEN 
1912 
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various colors, and one has only to pick 
and choose what best suits the purpose in 
mind. 
For edgings or low foregrounds, sweet 
alyssum, which blooms on after the frosts 
come, is the best white, and Lobelia crimis 
the finest blue. Verbenas, red, white, pink 
and purple; dwarf nasturtiums, red and 
yellow; Zinnia Haageana, various shades 
of yellow; French marigolds, yellow and 
maroon; calendula, various yellows; 
China pinks, red, white and pink; Phlox 
Drummondii, white, pink, red and pale 
yellow; globe amaranth, white and ma¬ 
genta ; dwarf China asters, white, pink and 
blue, and dwarf petunias, pink and white, 
are all steady bloomers and very depend¬ 
able flowers. Stocks, pink, white and 
mauve; China asters, pink, blue and 
white; zinnias, red, yellow and white; 
larkspur, pink, white and blue; poppies, 
red, pink, white, and mauve; Salvia splen- 
dens, scarlet; • scabiosa, white, pink and 
maroon; sweet sultan, yellow, mauve and 
white; African marigold, orange and lem¬ 
on, and Nicotiana alata, pink and white, 
are particularly good for the middle 
ground. Cornflowers, pink, blue and 
mauve; annual hollyhocks, white, pink, red 
and yellow, and cosmos, pink and white, 
give height to a background. 
Broadly speaking, choose the long sea¬ 
son annuals. Poppies and asters are ex¬ 
ceptions, but they are complemenftary; 
when the poppies’ brief glory is over, pull 
them up and plant in their stead asters that 
have been growing elsewhere. Discard 
sweet peas, as they are useless for garden 
picture-making, and vines unless they real¬ 
ly fit in; the grounds may offer some bet¬ 
ter place for climbers. So with annuals 
that you particularly like for cutting, but 
do not need for the garden scheme. Put 
them in rows somewhere; they will not 
mind. 
The Naturalizing of a City Man 
{Continued from page 34) 
be more than you can use from your other 
field. Ground’s too dry, anyway — seed 
won’t come up. What did you put on 
for fertilizer?” 
“Nothing—yet,” confessed Mantell. Fie 
had ordered enough chemicals to mix up 
the formula given him by the State Ex¬ 
periment Station. These were to be 
shipped immediately from Boston, and he 
was assured by the local freight agent 
that they would come through at once, at 
that time of the year. 
When they finally got the field finished 
off on the third, it was too late to plant, 
so that fob was part of their Fourth of 
July celebration! On the fifth, the chemi¬ 
cals came, and on the sixth they mixed 
them, spread them broadcast, and har¬ 
rowed them into the soil, with the Squire’s 
Acme harrow, so that they were well 
mixed with the soil. 
The weather continued dry, but in due 
season the tiny green sprouts pushed up 
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E ach Bell Telephone is the center of 
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requirements, whether ten miles or a 
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radius is another who requires a radius of 
lines stretching still further away. On the 
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covered. There can be no limit to the 
system of which each Bell telephone is the 
center, up to the greatest distance that talk 
can be carried. 
Because these are the fundamental needs 
of a nation of telephone users, the Bell 
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