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In Southern Gardens 
(Continued from page 60) 
fulva. The campanulas, carpatica and largely a matter of individual taste 
pyramidalis, the Chimney bellflower, The early-branching varieties. 
with the cup and saucer of the Can¬ 
terbury bells, give another set of blue 
values in the garden color scale. 
These may also be planted in rose 
and white. 
The foxgloves, Digitalis gloxiniae- 
flora, are wonderful when they can 
be successfully grown. They must 
have a cool start for seed germina- 
white, the mid-season in pink, and 
the late-branching in lavender give 
the three best colors. For a pink 
garden, the three varieties are easy 
to find. They come in single and 
double, in quilled and curled, and in 
large and small. All are good, ex¬ 
cept the muddy rose-reds and the 
violet-blues that so many gardeners 
tion, shade through the summer plant in close proximity, 
months and sheltered position for the 
winter. This done, they begin to 
bloom in February and for six weeks 
are glorious anywhere. Planted 
Baby Rambler Roses 
among the broad-leaved evergreens 
For a planting that promises the 
minimum of work and the maximum 
of results, both for cut flowers in the 
so generally used in the South they house and for blossoms in the bor- 
are more effective than when seen in ders, there is nothing that will equal 
the gardens of other sections, per- the many kinds of baby rambler 
haps because to see them blooming so roses. Many people confuse these 
early is such a surprise. In these, with the Wichuraiana hybrids and 
my favorite colors are the rose and the rambler roses, and pass them by 
white, although in the catalogs 
Mil 
the purple is 
good in some 
combina¬ 
tions. Being bi¬ 
ennials the fox¬ 
gloves must be 
planted each 
year. 
I n February 
also the flower 
stalks of the 
perennial d e 1 - 
phiniums begin 
to lift themselves 
above the cleanly 
cut leaves. In 
mid-March the 
flower buds un¬ 
fold and the blue 
of the sky is a 
part of the gar¬ 
den glory. No 
flower shows so 
clear a cerulean 
blue, so heavenly 
an azure as does 
the Delphinium 
belladonna. A 
clump of these 
delphini¬ 
ums planted in the foreground of the 
shrubbery border, or in a border of 
perennials framed in grass walks, 
with the clear sun shining,through 
the petals of the lifted flower stalks 
that rise at lehst 2' above the ground, 
is achievement enough to satisfy the 
heart of a gardener through many 
weary days. 
Other perennials of easier growth 
and more widely known than those 
just enumerated are the candytuft, 
Ibcris scmpcrvircns, the golden Core 
opsis lanceolata, for all 
bloom, the hollyhocks, in many shades 
and varieties, and the Physostegia 
virginica, the false dragon-head. 
This begins to bloom very late in 
August, and continues steadily until 
December. The colors are pink and 
white and a soft lavender. 
Plant one package of each of the 
seeds just given, follow carefully the 
without reading 
about them. 
The rambler 
roses in the 
South are most 
prone to mil¬ 
dew and are 
avoided for 
that reastrn. 
The baby 
ramblers are 
the cleanest, 
sweetest, and 
loveliest roses 
ever planted. 
They give nine 
solid months of 
bloom. Last 
year in March 
I planted 250 of 
these roses in a 
border - 2' wide 
to separate a 
grass walk 
from a center 
lawn, and there 
was not a sin¬ 
gle day from 
mid - April to 
Christmas that 
those little bushes were not masses 
of soft pink clusters of the baby 
Dorothy Perkins roses. The catalog 
name is Anchen Muller. 
The Catherine Zeimet is the white 
of this rose. Louise Walter is the 
softest of flesh pinks, with a cup¬ 
like individual bloom, and the outer 
edge of the petals lined with a 
deeper touch of pink. The full clus¬ 
ters look like the bunches of baby 
roses that we put on the hats of the 
tiny little girls. They are also clean 
summer and fragrant and absolutely ever- 
blooming. 
Of the reds, the Erna Teshendorff 
is the reddest, while Madame de Her¬ 
bert Levavasseur is the color of the 
crimson rambler. All of them are 
good. Cecile Brunner is a dainty, 
fairv-like rose of not quite so robust 
a habit as the other varieties men¬ 
tioned. The color is a soft saffron, 
The blossoms of daffodils help 
to make April the most beau¬ 
tiful month, of the whole 
Southern year 
directions, and for each dime that like the Tausendschon without the 
you invest in seed you may count on 
having a harvest of at least one-hun¬ 
dredfold of joy, beauty and frag¬ 
rance in your garden. 
Annuals for Summer Bloom 
It is not yet too late to plant the 
annuals needed for the summer, and 
this is the best month to plant the 
aster seed. Best results are found to 
be obtained if the seeds are planted 
rose tints. George Eiger is a poly- 
antha like the Cecile Brunner, but 
gives the yellow note in these plant¬ 
ings. The Etoile d’Or is another yel¬ 
low polyantha that promises good re¬ 
sults. The price of all these roses is 
$30 and $40 a hundred. Smaller 
quantities will, of course, be a little 
more proportionately, but they are 
the most satisfactory of all plantings 
for sunny situations and spring, sum- 
in the garden, the plants thinned out mer, fall and winter bloom. 
as they grow larger and left, in most 
cases, where they were first planted. 
Yes, be sure you do not overlook 
the roses. Your Southern garden 
From the bewildering collections of can be beautiful without them but it 
asters offered by the seedsmen it is cannot he the very best. And perfec- 
very hard to make a selection. It is tion, of course, is what you want! 
