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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 1915 
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stringing it with three barbed wires, makes climbing 
over it, either inside or qut. perilous. 
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GOLF 
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By Henry Hughes 
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THE TRUTH ABOUT TWILIGHT SLEEP 
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the effect is very pleasing. Unlike the 
scarlet salvia, the blue varieties are true 
perennials, and come up year after year. 
The white panicles of the hardv plilox, 
the golden clusters of rudbeckia and 
masses of sahna azure a made a corner of 
one of my borders a place of loveliness for 
many, many weeks last summer. All three 
are getting ready to respond to an encore 
for this season. Now is an excellent time 
to make these plantings. If late varieties 
of the phlox are used, satisfaction is as¬ 
sured in the case of all three. The long, 
blue spikes that stand well above the clus¬ 
ters of blue-green leaves, that seem always 
shining and wet with dew, make beautiful 
arrangements for the flower bowls, either 
when used alone or with masses of the 
miniature sunflowers or coreopsis or other 
flowers of golden tints. Plant blue salvia 
for dainty color effects: plant the scarlet 
for bold and vivid color schemes. 
When the time to grow flowers from 
seed has passed, where nothing else will 
grow on account of shade, and where still 
some summer plantings are desired, the 
coleus is to be recommended. The florists 
always have them; they are very inex¬ 
pensive, and the varieties with deep, rich 
leaves of crimson and red give brightness 
and color to dark spots. The yellow¬ 
leaved sorts are also effective. They fill 
in from earlv summer until frost, will 
grow in either sun or shade, and that is all 
that can be said for them. 
The annual vincas, rosea, alba and alba 
pura, can be put out now to fill the bor¬ 
ders and porch boxes in the sun and for 
edgings of walks and driveways. The 
dainty, white flowers and the rich green of 
the leaves will bring light and color to the 
summer garden from month to month. 
The texture of these plants is rather 
heavy, but the flower masses are very 
good, and they are most reliable. 
Tt is too late to plant a garden from 
seed or to put in the early perennials, but 
the few plantings enumerated here will be 
beautiful and satisfactory this summer 
and fall, and will insure a start on the 
road to beauty for another year. Truly it 
is never too late to start a garden. 
Wealth from the Soil. By C. C. Bons- 
field. Forbes & Co. 
Those who will recall his very excellent 
volume, “Making the Farm Pay,” will 
welcome this second volume from the pen 
of Mr. Bonsfield. Written with the view 
to interesting city folk in the advantages 
and profits from farming, it is also a prac¬ 
tical book for the rural community. Emi¬ 
nently practical, abundant with progres¬ 
sive suggestions, and yet sanely written 
with none of that self-deceiving rhapsody 
one often finds in the back-to-the-land 
propaganda, this work should find its way 
into many hands and make a place for it¬ 
self in the farmer’s working library. 
Space forbids quotation, but this must be 
said in passing, that it lacks the theorizing 
of many such books and gets down to 
“brass tacks” in an engaging fashion. 
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