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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 1913 
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microscopic holes to 
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* I - * 1I1S Catalog contains a volume of information regarding 
Trees and Plants for Rock Gardens, Old-Fashioned Gar¬ 
dens, Seashore Planting and Ground Covering under Rho¬ 
dodendrons and Shrubbery. Gives also suggestive planting 
plans and planting lists for Rose Gardens, Herbaceous Gardens 
and Suburban Estates. Names and describes desirable Trees 
and Shrubs with Ornamental Fruits, Hedge Plants, Trees for 
Orchard and Forest Planting, new and old varieties of Roses 
and Climbing Vines. Copy sent Free upon request. 
We grow in quantity every hardy Tree or Plant worthy of 
cultivation. Correspondence Invited. 
The New England Nurseries Co., Dept. K 
BEDFORD, MASS. 
stems close to the ground or break front 
the crowns. 
Secondly, spray the plants thoroughly as- 
soon as the stems come up and again 
when buds begin to show; make a third 
spraying just before the buds begin to- 
open and a fourth after blossoming, to 
protect the leaves. These sprayings- 
should be made ahead of rain periods and 
should be thorough. The best fungicide 
to be used is yet to be determined. One- 
naturally thinks of Bordeaux. This, how¬ 
ever, stains the plants and gives them an 
unsightly appearance. 
The Garden for the English Type 
of House 
(Continued from page 383 ) 
border of white phlox back of the sweet 
old day lily that pours out such a stream 
of fragrance at night especially, will 
thrive in almost any garden in our climate, 
whereas many of the plants for which 
English gardens are most famous, would 
not do well enough to make them worth 
the planting. 
It is not therefore what is planted; it is 
the manner in which those things that will 
grow and thrive are planted, that counts 
in making the garden about a house of 
the English type. Of flowers we may al¬ 
most say there can never be too many 
every nook and cranny should be filled, 
just as these pictures show. Vines and 
roses and fruits should climb the walls; 
walks should be direct, and the material 
of which they are laid should be in itself 
interesting and beautiful- — or so handled 
that beauty becomes an attribute of it, in 
its relation with the earth and the grass;, 
boundaries must be real and decided— 
either walls, fences or hedges, neatly kept 
and business-like; and exquisite neatness 
must reign, without a hint of that puri¬ 
tanical stiffness which some confuse with 
neatness. This last is of all the directions- 
perhaps the least easy to follow. Without 
trying to go into it too explicitly, I think 
I may say that the stiffness will not ap¬ 
pear if just ordinary care is given the 
garden. It is when the gardener under¬ 
takes to make of it a place that shall ac¬ 
cord for spotlessness with the indoors- 
that it grows unendurablv prim. All that 
is ugly or unattractive should be kept out 
of it—such as faded flower heads and 
dead leaves or branches; but the charac¬ 
ter of the flowers must not be interfered' 
with. This is one of those subtleties which 
it seems so hard to put into words. The 
English garden is never stiff because the 
gardener knows flowers and loves them— 
and knows to what extent he is justified 
in restraining them, or helping them to 
stand up in their tracks. He stops short 
of prim repression, just as an inspired 
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