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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 1915 
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THE KEY 
TO THE LAND 
By 
FREDERICK F. 
ROCKWELL 
Full of practical information, gained by 
actual experience, is this book which recounts 
the “making good” of a city man in the 
country. 
While the healthful life and the pleasures of 
a dweller in the fields and woods are not over¬ 
looked, it is the economic feature which is the 
keynote of the book. The author has made 
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later on, kept closely pinched back to in¬ 
sure bushy, rather than scraggy plants, 
and satisfactory bloom, and are often 
nipped by the frost just at the blossoming 
time. On the other hand, the hardy va¬ 
rieties, of smaller size, both as to plant and 
dower, need only to be planted, in colonies 
of worthy number, and practically left 
alone, for the garden to be dlled for many 
weeks in the late summer and fall with 
the sunshine of the golden yellows, the 
rosiest of pinks, the deepest and richest of 
reds, and whites that rival in purity the 
clouds that sail overhead. 
For weeks these effects charm both as 
cut dowers that lighten up the chilly cor¬ 
ners of the house and wherever they spill 
themselves over the canvas of the garden. 
One of the most beautiful of these hardy 
varieties is that known as the Mar¬ 
guerite, with snowy petals ranged around 
a glowing center of purest yellow. This 
looks much like the hardy asters, Michael¬ 
mas daisies, but is of larger size as to 
dower and of smaller growth as to plant. 
If there is a bare corner of the garden 
that needs filling, use both of these hardy 
plantings for fall blossoms. The chrysan¬ 
themums give one range of color tones, 
and to their effects the asters will bring 
the softest and clearest of blues and dain¬ 
tiest of lavenders, and also the whites and 
pinks. They require much more room 
than the chrysanthemums, but if space 
permits they are glorious — when planted 
in profusion — as they grow along the bor¬ 
ders of our woodlands and sunshiny lanes 
and where the ruthless hand of the de¬ 
stroyer has passed them by and left them 
to dourish and add their share of glory to 
the autumn world. 
If bloom is needed for the summer 
months there is nothing available in the 
way of bedding plants at this late day ex¬ 
cept the salvias, coleus and vincas. The 
two former grow equally well in sun and 
partial shade, and will grow often where 
nothing else will thrive. For this reason 
they are much used to lighten up the dark, 
north fronts of houses in close-crowded 
city streets. They serve this purpose ad¬ 
mirably. 
In a border where the dark leaves of 
oleanders or privets or other broad-leaved 
evergreens form the background the scar¬ 
let . salvias are wonderfully effective. 
Against the rich green of the ivies the color 
is satisfying, whether in the borders or in 
window or porch boxes. Massed in 
groups where there is nothing to break 
the monotony of the fiery tints they are 
crude and tiresome. It is hardly neces¬ 
sary to tell the readers that a bed of sal¬ 
vias, coleus or vincas, in the midst of a 
clean-shaven lawn, has no excuse for be¬ 
ing, and is always a blot on the land¬ 
scape. 
Not often seen, but all the more to be 
desired for this reason, are the blue sal¬ 
vias, the mountain sage, salvia azurea, 
pitched and uliginosa. Colonies of these 
are exquisitely dainty, and when planted 
among flowers of white and yellow tones 
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Among the chapters are: Making the Gar¬ 
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