HOUSE AND GARDEN 
3 10 
April, 1913 
Full 
ioli 
for 
Cents 
The GLADIOLUS is prob¬ 
ably one of the most satisfac¬ 
tory flowers grown because it 
blooms continuously when it 
is cut and put in water just as 
well as when in the ground. 
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You can have them in bloom from 
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each month from April to July. 
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The culture of Gladioli is a simple one: 
bulbs may be inserted in the ground with 
a trowel, about four inches deep and one or 
two feet apart, being careful to rake over 
the ground with a small weeder after the 
bulbs have started to grow, so as to keep the ground from becoming hard 
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THE SUN ROOM 
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PORCH IN SUMMER, FOR IT IS COMPLETELY 
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WINDOWS - AND — THEY ARE AMERICAN¬ 
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old neighbors is the porcupine. No mat¬ 
ter where you meet him—peering out from 
his lair in the crevice of the rocks, or look¬ 
ing down at you from the top of a small 
hemlock perhaps, his every look and sound 
and movement seem to say, “You go along 
and mind your own business.” If you at¬ 
tempt to approach him from the front he 
will shuffle rudely off and leave you stand¬ 
ing there, and if you literally corner him, 
he will deliberately turn his back on you, 
grumbling like an irascible old man. 
At night, however, he is very likely to 
come shuffling around the house, looking 
for bits of food left by the domestic 
animals, or to gnaw the wooden handles 
of garden tools or canoe paddles, to enjoy 
the salt which has been absorbed from 
sweating hands. If you hear him and go 
out with a lantern, don’t attempt to be 
too neighborly on short acquaintance. If 
you try to stroke him, he will surely resent 
the liberty and fill your hand full of quills 
which go in much more easily than they 
come out, though they must be extracted 
at once. And on no consideration let the 
dog go near, or you will probably spend 
the rest of the evening pulling quills out 
of his nose and mouth, and you may lose 
the dog after all. 
These are but a few of the wild neigh¬ 
bors who will call on you from time to 
time if you live in the country, and who, 
if you treat them with broad-minded 
charity but without mawkish sentimentali¬ 
ty, will add immeasurably to the joy of 
life. Do not look upon every tuft of 
clover eaten by a rabbit or a woodchuck, 
every fallen apple picked up by a deer in 
the autumn, as a loss ; regard these things 
rather in the light of small payments for 
the pleasure you get (if you are a normal 
person) from living on friendly terms with 
your wild neighbors. 
The Various Uses of Shrubs and 
Shrubbery. 
(Continued from page 275) 
that it is too valuable to be limited to the 
special division of berry bearing shrubs, 
for there are not a great number of spe¬ 
cies of this height and spreading habit 
which are reliably hardy in the northern 
parts of the country. Of the diervilla hy¬ 
brids one may choose according to color 
preference. Eva Rathke is an attractive 
deep rose color, “alba” is white. Person¬ 
ally I prefer the former, as it is more dis¬ 
tinctive at the time it blooms than white. 
As before mentioned, diervillas are also 
arching and spreading shrubs, their 
branches lying sometimes quite horizon¬ 
tal under their weight of blossoms. Thus 
they are quite as suitable for the front of 
a mass as any lower growing species. 
The sweet Daphne Mesereum or Meze- 
rion pink is one of the most fragrant 
flowering shrubs in the world and it has a 
way of blooming a second time late in 
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