HOUSE AND GARDEN 
39 
June, 1912 
Cannas, with their luxuriant foliage, are espe¬ 
cially desirable for mass effects in borders 
The various quick growing vines lessen the 
bare appearance of a porch 
they are set out. A 
few plants, if not a 
whole bed, of h.elio- 
trope will certainly 
be wanted, lioth for 
its beauty and its 
fragrance. Another 
splendid flower, too 
seldom seen, is the 
a n t i r r h i n u ni , 
or snapdragon, with 
its long, graceful 
spikes of flowers of 
various intense col¬ 
ors and attractive 
combinations. It is 
especially valuable 
for cutting, and a 
very profuse 
A bed of stocks, if you can get the 
plants, will furnish a wonderful amount of 
cut flowers, and lie a brilliant sight itself. 
For an exposed or a difficult location, as 
along an unsightly fence, a row of petu¬ 
nias will furnish a continual blaze of color, 
rhey grow very ((uickly, and even if you 
should have to send away and get very 
small plants, or take them to your vaca¬ 
tion home with you. they will make a 
quick sliowing and a gorgeous one. For 
a brilliant carpet of coloring where some 
low-growing plant must be used, nothing 
excels the verbena in the new large flow¬ 
ering and robust growing sorts. Plants 
may be obtained of the local florist or 
safely ordered from a distance. Zinnias 
and balsams are not so readily procured at tins season of tbe year, 
Imt make good plants, the former for a blaze of color in any 
exposed position, the latter along the veranda, or some walk, 
where their beauty may be observed at short range. 
Whth the above, of course, may be used to great advantage 
the old-fashioned but ever attractive edging plants, alyssum. 
ageratum, Alme. Salleroi geranium. 
Altbough tbe majority of vacationists go back to the city early 
in the autumn, just, in fact, as the best of tbe season is reaching 
the height of its glory, there are some cases where late-blooming 
flowers are desired. A number of those mentioned above will 
continue to bloom until frost, but in addition to these, and espe¬ 
cially valuable for the late garden, are several more. Among 
these none is more graceful or beautiful than that green of the 
autumn garden cosmos. It is a plant, too. of which you are 
likelv to find a few. on your belated call at the florist’s. Putting 
them in late, it will be necessary to have good sized plants. 
Asters set out late will also be in their glory in the latter part 
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the year every day's delay usually means that the soil is getting 
that much more thoroughly dried out, and also a percei)tible 
shortening of the limited time which you have to enjoy 
gardening in. 
The material available for use in the late garden may be con¬ 
sidered in five groups, each especially suited for a different pur¬ 
pose. They are: ‘‘bedding" plants that will produce immediate 
effects or flower through mid-summer; plants that will flower in 
the late summer or autumn ; seeds that can be sown late, and that 
will produce quick results ; plants good for tropical or decorative 
eff'ects; and the quick growing annual vines. 
Of the first group, none is better than the good old standard 
geranium. But let us get out of the habit of thinking that while 
we have extra choice varieties of some flowers, there is nothing 
to the selection of our geraniums except 
to get them in one or more of two or 
three common colors. As much care 
should be exercised in selecting geraniums 
as in picking out prize strains of any other 
flowers, for they have been brought up to 
a high standard of perfection with many 
beautiful and distinct sorts. S. A. Xutt, 
the popular dark scarlet; Alme. Recamier, 
pure white; lleau de Poitevine, salmon 
pink; Alphonse Ricard, bright vermilion; 
Marquise de Castellane, a beautiful soft 
red and especially good for cutting, are 
among the best of the standard double 
sorts, and well worth any extra effort 
which may be required to secure them. 
Tuberous begonias also are very near 
the head of the list of flowers good for 
vacation gardens, and should be at the 
height of their glory during the vacation 
months. They may be bad started in four- 
inch pots, and blooming freely by the time 
Tuberous begonias should be at their best 
during the vacation months 
bloomer besides. 
For brilliant 
masses of color, such 
as many vacation 
places need, salvias 
are ideal summer 
flowering ji 1 a n t s , 
which make a show 
at once. The red 
varieties, especially 
the new dwarf types, 
are the most useful, 
but the several other 
colors are all good. 
