October, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
247 
The Garden Club 
(Continued from page 225) 
eight-inch pots with two inches of drain¬ 
age at the bottom. These are to be the 
permanent apartments, unless they grow 
all to roots. They must not get pot bound, 
for this checks them; and they must never 
dry out, for this checks them. Indeed, 
they are exacting, it would seem — and 
sulk easily! But she said not really; it is 
simply a question of catering to what 
are not after all very reprehensible whims. 
Snapdragons that have been flowering 
all summer in the borders are perfectly 
good snapdragons for indoors in the win¬ 
ter, if one wants them. Cut them down, 
said she, to stumps two or three inches 
high, when they are lifted and potted; put 
each plant into an eight-inch pot, or a ten- 
inch if they are large, with the usual drain¬ 
age at the "bottom. Give them a little bit of 
bone meal, water and tend them as every¬ 
thing else — and that is all there is to it. 
Stocks are something the same; the late 
sown plants of summer give, of course, the 
earliest bloom in winter. And then it is 
a question simply of starting more seeds 
in small pots, to prolong this bloom 
throughout the season—although new 
plants are not always necessary, for many 
times the old ones will continue to blossom 
right along till spring. 
These are all annuals — all, that is, ex¬ 
cept the rose and the heliotrope, and this 
last is only annual if we leave it out in 
our winters — but there are as many good 
“garden echoes” that are perennial, it 
seems, as there are of these more ephe¬ 
meral forms. The chimney bellflower is 
one — a great, tall, graceful plant that I 
have enjoyed this year for the first time, 
from my own sowing of seed last summer. 
This pots well and thrives in the house, its 
folk-name, indeed, indicating its usual 
position indoors, she said. (This I have 
my doubts about, for it always seemed to 
me to refer to its height and shape — but, 
of course, I did not dispute the lady.) It 
must be cut down at time of lifting, the 
same as everything else. Then the new 
shoots will make haste to grow and pro¬ 
duce blossoms. 
The Chinese Hibiscus — Hibiscus Sinen¬ 
sis — is an evergreen shrub that may be 
planted out in the summer, in contradis¬ 
tinction to a garden plant that may be 
brought in in the winter! There are sev¬ 
eral colors and kinds, in shades ranging 
from scarlet to peach-blow pink; her rec¬ 
ommendation was Miniatus serni-plenus, 
which is brilliant scarlet and double — and 
four inches across its blossoms. I shall 
leave this alone until I see how I like it 
in Mrs. Addicks’ greenhouse — for she is 
so enchanted at the description that she 
has sent for a dozen plants. If I get any 
at all, I think I shall choose the pink one 
— although such a red would be rather nice 
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