October, 1913 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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ily produced fifty dozen flowers at one 
time, not including buds, which are al¬ 
ways coming on. Very large, perfect 
flowers on stems three feet long, the leaves 
of fine proportions, are produced. Let 
this same variety, unfertilized and merely 
sprinkled overhead — would be of spindly, 
stunted growth, with small blooms. After 
several months of strenuous bloom, it is 
well to withhold all water, and cut back 
the tops half way. This will give the 
plants complete rest. After several weeks 
commence watering sparingly — and you 
can count on renewed vigor in the new 
growth—and a fine fall crop of blooms— 
extending into December — and beyond, if 
the season is a mild one. One real sharp 
frost is. likely to set back the plants until 
spring. Nothing in color that I have seen 
compares with the snow white variety — 
though Elliotiana is a very beautiful rich 
golden color—and is well worth growing. 
E. S. A. 
SOUTHERN GARDEN 
DEPARTMENT 
Conducted by JULIA LESTER DILLON. 
The zvriter of this department will gladly 
answer inquiries from Southern readers in 
regard to their garden problems. Please 
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if a prompt personal reply is desired. 
<‘OpHEN, if ever, come perfect days," 
might have been said as truly of 
October on the banks of the Savannah as 
of June on the banks of the Charles. If 
there is a time of the year when the colors 
of the blossoms seem most gorgeous, when 
our gardens are most attractive, it is the 
time of the Harvest Moon. There is a 
charm, a witchery, about a garden in the 
glory of the October moonlight that is to 
be met there at no' other month of the year. 
It must be that the chill of the almost- 
frosty nights, that the seeing of the gar¬ 
den-children droop under the tang of cold 
in the air and watching them fade one 
by one, gives to those that are left a su¬ 
preme wizardry that their more tender 
brothers and sisters did not possess. 
Always the fall roses are richer in color 
and in fragrance, finer in every way, than 
those that queened it in the spring. Never 
does the scarlet sage shine so brightly as 
when on some frosty morning it stands 
alone — sole survivor of an onslaught 
from Jack Frost. The phlox holds up its 
snowy masses to the autumn suns and the 
glory of the regal chrysanthemums is only 
another marvel of an October day. 
The beauties that stand amidst impend¬ 
ing desolation serve to remind us that 
time presses and Christmas gardens must 
be made now. With good soil, an expos¬ 
ure that gives the morning sun, pansy 
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