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Let Them Have a Garden! 
(Continued from page 56) 
taller plants—say pink and white 
geraniums, with a few ferns. An¬ 
other pretty box could be made by 
putting Wandering Jew, or “inch 
plant," along the edge for the droop¬ 
ing vine, then the seed of the blue 
ageratum for your edging, with next 
a row of the lovely pink begonias. 
As it takes a number of weeks for 
any seeds to grow and come to flower, 
you had better save your candy pen¬ 
nies and buy a few blooming plants 
from the spring peddler. They will 
gladden your heart while waiting. 
All kinds of green add to the ap¬ 
pearance of these little boxes, and 
all the white flowers soften and help 
to blend the bright colors. The China 
asters, white, pink and lavender, look 
very well in a window box, and if 
started in shallow trays or old pots 
in the early spring, can be trans¬ 
planted later. Then when your first 
crop has seen its best days, you can 
take it out, put in your asters, and 
they will be lovely all fall. 
Name 
Color 
Blooms 
Height 
Baby’s Breath 
White 
Iune, July 
2' to 3' 
Blanket flower 
Red, yellow 
July to October 
3' to 5' 
Bleeding Heart 
Pink 
May 
18" 
Candvtuft 
White, purple, rose 
Tune 
6" to 8" 
Chrysanthemum 
No blue 
Sept, to November 
2' to 3' 
Columbine 
White, purplish, red 
May 
2' 
Coreopsis 
Yellow with brown 
August to frost 
1' to 2' 
Forget-me-not 
Blues 
May, June 
6"to 18" 
Golden Glow 
Yellow 
August 
6' to 8' 
Hollyhock 
All shades (abiennial) 
July 
4' to 6' 
Iris 
No reds 
May, June 
3' 
Lily-oi-the- Valley 
White 
May 
6" to 8" 
Larkspur 
Blue, white 
June, July 
2' to 5' 
Peony 
White to crimson 
May, Tune 
3' 
Phlox 
No yellow or blue 
August, September 
3' to 4' 
Pink, Chinese 
Pink, lilac, white 
1 une 
1' 
Sunflower 
Yellow 
Late summer 
4' to 8' 
Sweet William 
Red, pink, white 
July, August 
1' 
A short list of the old favorite perennials 
Growing the Modern Gladiolus 
(Continued from page 26) 
Pure whites are not as plentiful 
as one might expect, but there are 
several excellent ones obtainable. Of 
these Europa is perhaps the best, and 
mention may also be made of White 
Excelsior, Glory of Holland, Lily 
Lehman and Rochester White. Good 
so-called whites are Augusta and 
Chicago White, the latter being 
slightly yellowish with long spike 
and well opened flowers. Augusta 
sometimes has a strong lavender tint 
unless opened in the house. 
Of the blues, Cerulea and Baron 
Hulot are low-priced, Viola and 
Heliotrope of medium cost, and 
Badenia and Blue Jay quite expen¬ 
sive. In the yellows, Canary Bird, 
Klondyke and Isaac Buchanan are 
low-priced, Golden King, Golden 
West and Niagara more expensive, 
and Golden Measure sells as high 
as fifteen dollars a bulb. Schwaben 
and Mongolia are other fine yellows. 
Childsii are among the best to 
plant if large flowers of good sub¬ 
stance are wanted. They are invari¬ 
ably sturdy growers, and the ma¬ 
jority are branching. They will of¬ 
ten give three good spikes of bloom 
below the main spike. Their flowers 
are more like lilies than gladiolus 
blooms, and an August sun that will 
make a Gandavensis droop has no 
effect on the Childsii. 
The Lemoine race give us earlier 
bloom, and some most beautifully 
blotched and marked. They are not 
widely-opened flowers. They are said 
to be hardy, and 1 have had small 
bulbs of Praecox which I did not 
dig live through the winter safely 
and come up early in the spring. 
The Primulinus type is very inter¬ 
esting, and the Kunderd ruffled 
strain is to the gladiolus enthusiast 
what the Spencer pea was to the 
sweet pea enthusiast. And the Bur¬ 
bank hybrids are simply gorgeous. 
If one likes to watch things grow 
in the garden he may buy bulblets 
by the peck or the thousand from 
some of the growers and make his 
start in that manner. And the grow¬ 
er of gladioli no longer has to do his 
growing by guesswork, or by such 
information as he is able to glean 
from odd sources. We have a maga¬ 
zine devoted to this beautiful flower 
of so many possibilities, of so oblig¬ 
ing a nature and of such wide use. 
The little bulblet offshoots from gladiolus 
conns may be used for separate planting 
