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House & Garden 
The “Old Glory” 
Gladiolus Garden 
A selection from choice named 
varieties and color sections. The 
bulbs are grown in our fields, selected 
from our regular stock, and we are 
sure the “Old Glory” will give you 
a wonderfully beautiful display this 
summer. 
One Hundred Select Bulbs; $ O 
Delivered to Your Door ^ 
All the new varieties of Gladioli; 
Dahlias, Gloxinias, Bedding Plants, 
Roses, Shrubs, Fruit and Shade 
Trees, Garden and Flower Seeds are 
presented in our 
1917 Seed and Plant Annual 
a book of nearly 200 pages. It points the safe 
way to a garden that will give the greatest plea¬ 
sure and profit to the planter. Send your name 
and address for a copy. 
The Storrs & Harrison Co. 
Box 411 Painesville, Ohio 
Three Rarely Beautiful Roses 
In this trio of superb Climbing Roses is a whole June- 
ful of joy for the rose-lover. They are widely different 
in color and form of flower, but are united in beauty and 
loveliness. The three were originated and introduced by 
the West Chester Nurseries—which vouches for the value 
of this new trio. 
Climbing American Beauty. Huge flowers, 4 inches across: 
handsome rosy crimson; fragrant. Plants are strong growers, 
covered with flowers. 
Christine Wright. A wonderful clear pink Rose usually 
4 inches in diameter. Beautiful in bud and flower. 
Purity. Pronounced by experts the most beautiful climbing 
Rose. The broad petals are ivory white, with stamens of 
bright golden yellow. The flowers are large and borne abun¬ 
dantly on strong plants. Purity is sold in this collection only. 
3 Plants, One of ^ 
Each, Delivered 'P -d 
“Hoopes’ Specialties” 
Shows Climbing American l^eauty, Christine Wright 
and Purity in their marvelous natural colors. The 
booklet is a real aid to rose-growers and lovers of 
beauty on the home grounds. Send your name 
and address for a complimentary copy. 
Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas 
46 Maple Ave., WEST CHESTER, PA. 
Wistaria clambers over the old stone spring-house tvhich has 
been converted from its original purpose into a studio. The 
garden is to the left of the picture 
Tulip Time in the Garden 
(Continued from page 64) 
green and connected by drooping 
chains. Every other length between 
posts now has its grape: Caco—the 
fine new cross between Catawba and 
Concord—for a reddish sort, and 
Niagara for the greenish color. 
Grape leaves are allowed to grow 
only scantily on these low vines, as 
too many leaves would obscure the 
effect of line and form. 
To the north of this walk, through¬ 
out its length, grows a line of Thun- 
herg’s barberry, and sometime I in¬ 
tend to replace these by Wilson's or 
some one of the new cotoneasters. 
These take a space, brick edged on 
the sides and ends away from the 
walk, of about 6' x 60', whereas the 
space of open ground under the 
grapes across the walk is only 2' 
wide, with grass at its southernmost 
boundary. Below both grapes and 
barberries the ground is entirely 
covered, or destined to be, with Vin¬ 
ca minor, the common green myrtle, 
a delight in both summer and winter. 
Crocuses .vnd Afterward 
Through this covering of rich 
green arose last April a host of 
lovely crocuses, planted in the fol¬ 
lowing order: Pallas, Tilly Koenen, 
Julia Culp, Mikado, Pallas again, 
Ovidins, and one touch of the so- 
called Largest Golden Yellow, mak¬ 
ing an effect of lovely lavender vio¬ 
let and white with the yellow to give 
a strong and sudden contrast. Across 
from it, and just as crocus colors 
were fading and their delightful 
leaves making their presence felt, as 
if unexpectedly sprang into flower 
long, loose groups of narcissus Sir 
Watkin, tulip White Hawk, tulip 
Fred Moore, and the beautiful dou¬ 
ble early tulip Safrano, leading up to 
some fair-sized groups of mahonia 
below the walls of the house. Be¬ 
fore and among these shining leaved 
shrubs rose quantities of the daffo¬ 
dil I now prefer to all others, A^«r- 
cissus Leedsii or White Lady. Its 
beauty is nothing short of regal; and 
to use a slang phrase of our English 
confreres, it is a “good doer.” 
Following the crocus bloom here 
came a gay, loose-flung line of blow¬ 
ing flowers in colors ranging from 
tawny orange tlirongli deep and pale 
yellow to ivory white—flowers dou¬ 
ble, flowers single, flowers tall, slen¬ 
der, graceful, flowers round and 
heavy headed. Little art is required 
to gain such effects. The most care¬ 
less planting of these particular vari¬ 
eties of bulbs must result beautiful¬ 
ly. A little thought for the progres¬ 
sion of color, a little watchfulness as 
to over-crowding or setting too far 
apart—that is all. 
Blit I am in danger of being led 
astray by the beauty of individual 
flowers, and must return to the bor¬ 
der planting of the walk long enough 
to say that when the flowers last 
named have finished blooming, when 
tlieir leaves in turn carpet the ground 
in patterns of blue-greens and j^el- 
low-greens, then we begin to see for ; 
the first time the spires of buds on : 
the rounded and symmetrical Can- | 
terlniry Bells on either side of the I 
walk. These are 3' apart, and as | 
their buds develop we see that they | 
are white upon the south side of the | 
walk and light purple on the north; ‘ 
and a third even row to the north : 
of the barberries is all of that good i 
pink tone which is to me the very: 
best in these flowers. From cro- : 
crises to Canterbury Bells is a long , 
way in spring and early summer, j 
Yet one must remember that if there | 
happened to be a green moment be¬ 
tween flowering periods it was in ! 
itself a thing to revel in, and so en- 1 
grossing that the opening of the next i 
arrangement of flowers took place i 
with an unexpected promptness 
which gave that surprise which is 
perhaps the dearest gift his ground 
can give the gardener. 
Does any word other than “wel¬ 
come” better describe one’s feelings' 
as to the spring? The flowers of; 
this enchanting time keep the ex- ' 
pression almost hourly in mind; and 
is it an undue use of the imagination 
to fancy that the reason for. the spe¬ 
cial charm of spring flowers about | 
the house door is that they speak; 
that precious word to those about toi 
enter? How marv£lous that by the 
heavenly means of color and fra¬ 
grance we may send forth the very' 
spirit of our houses even beyond i 
their gates. i 
