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HOUSE & GARDEN 
fc§s the Garden the Essential Touch 
_ T \e Sun-dial, tlxat old Friend of tlxe Past.will find 
-."congenial Refuge in your Garden Some favorite Spot 
n be ejxlivened by the twittering, of Bi rds splashing in the 
rd-'Foni • El owe r Pofs and Boxes, Vases, Benches. Gaz~ 
j Gldhgs. Hermes and other interesting Pieces will re- 
U the Charm of the Old World Gardens 
Our Catalogue of Garden Pottery.whichxVilli 
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Houses in all 
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The Mid-Season Garden of Abundance 
(Continued from page 72) 
Personally, I grow only one sort 
of sweet corn in my garden and that 
is Golden Bantam. Moreover, I 
know at least fifty neighbors who 
do the same thing. But in an abso¬ 
lutely unbiased discussion of this 
kind, it is only fair to state that 
there are other sorts of merit in dif¬ 
ferent seasons. The earliest of all 
real sweet corns is, I believe, Peep 
o’ Day. It perfects handsome, 
pearly white, short but reasonably 
sweet ears in seventy to seventy-five 
days from date of planting, thus 
being a week to ten days earlier than 
Golden Bantam. Golden Bantam 
averages only 6" long, has only eight 
rows of kernels if you have a true 
strain, but it has more real sweet 
corn flavor than mankind so far has 
been able to put anywhere else. 
Kendel’s Early Giant may be 
styled a dependable standby for mid¬ 
season (middle to end of August) 
use, while White Evergreen is the 
finest strain of the popular Stowell’s 
Evergreen yet evolved. With us in 
Pennsylvania it yields handsome, 10" 
ears early in September from seeds 
sown the end of May. No doubt, 
this can be beaten further south, but 
we find New White Evergreen to be 
as late as we dare to plant. Country 
Gentleman gets nipped by frost four 
years out of five. 
It pays to raise some onions from 
seed_ for winter use, if your garden 
consists of sandy loam or soil of a 
mucky nature. Sow your seeds in 
rows 18" to 24" apart and thin out 
seedlings as soon as they are 3" to 4" 
tall. Let them stand 4" apart in the 
row. Apply wood ashes or a com¬ 
plete fertilizer several times in the 
course of the season and hoe, and 
hoe again. The middle of August, 
from seeds sown early in April, you 
should harvest your first crop of 
Prizetakers, handsome, straw yel¬ 
low, globe-shaped bulbs 3y 2 " to 4" 
in diameter and very mild if grown 
cpiickly on light soil. Use them first, 
say up to New Year’s, and for win¬ 
terkeeping grow the Southport Globe 
onions, either red, white or yellow. 
All are late, requiring from 145 to 
160 days from seed to maturity, but 
all keep well. The white ones are 
the mildest, the yellow the most pop¬ 
ular and the red ones the strongest 
hut by far the best keepers. 
Quick Action Plants for Shade and Screens 
( Continued, from page 17) 
of these. The small white flowers 
borne in racimes, have a mignonette¬ 
like odor, and the great heart-shaped 
leaves have great covering capacity. 
The “cinnamon” vine- is somewhat 
similar, although flowers and frag¬ 
rance are quite distinct. These may 
he bought for a few cents each; 
planted a few feet apart, they will 
quickly cover the entire surface of 
a building, trellis, summer-house, 
high fence, or anything of that kind. 
Another tuberous rooted vine, less 
well known hut particularly valuable 
for use on pergolas, summer-houses, 
or in other positions where a sub¬ 
stitute for the beautiful Chinese wis¬ 
taria is wanted, is the so-called 
“tuberous rooted wistaria" ( Atios 
tuberosa). Except that it is much 
smaller in size, foliage and flower 
clusters, it bears a striking resem¬ 
blance to the popular wistaria. The 
vine reaches a height of about 10’, 
and to get the best effect, several 
should be planted near together. As 
the bulbs cost but from 50 cents to 
a dollar a dozen, they can be used 
generously. The flowers are a deep 
purple in color and have a decided 
violet fragrance. 
The “emerald vine,” another mem¬ 
ber of this same class, is newer than 
any of the preceding and not so well 
known. The floxvers are borne more 
freely and are more conspicuous 
than those of the cinnamon vine to 
which it is related, but it is entirely 
different in that the leaves are cut 
and the vines are smaller and give 
a more dense growth. 
Annual Climbers from Seed 
There are a number of good an¬ 
nual vines which can be grown from 
seeds. To get the quickest results 
from any of them, the following sim¬ 
ple method should be used. Secure 
a number of paper pots (if they are 
not available, a dozen or two can be 
quickly made by cutting up stiff pa¬ 
per or cardboard into strips about 
4" wide and 20" long, and folding 
these into 4" squares), pack these 
closely into flats, and fill with a rich 
compost. In each start three or 
four seeds, placing the flat in a hot¬ 
bed, cold frame or the warmest, most 
sheltered place available. At the 
same time, prepare the place for the 
vines and enrich it thoroughly, as 
described in a later paragraph. The 
seed will start even more quickly, 
if it is soaked from twenty-four to 
thirty-six hours in luke-warm water 
before being placed in the paper 
pots. By the time the little plants 
are 3" or 4" high, they may be 
placed outdoors. Do not attempt to 
remove them from the paper pots, 
but simply cut the latter so that the 
roots can get through to the soil. 
The various morning glories are 
probably the best known of all an¬ 
nual climbers. Anyone who has 
never tried the Imperial Japanese 
types, however, has a revelation in 
store. While the vines of this strain 
are not quite so vigorous in growth, 
the flowers are much larger, and the 
foliage, which is beautifully mottled 
with silver and yellow, white, grey 
and light and dark green, is infin¬ 
itely more attractive than the old 
Convolvus major type. While morn¬ 
ing glory seed is usually planted in 
mixtures, a much more striking ef¬ 
fect can he had with single varieties. 
“Juno,” for instance, has beautiful 
sky blue flowers on a background of 
golden colored leaves. There are 
many other good named varieties. 
The Brazilian morning glory is 
one of the most beautiful of all an¬ 
nuals, and is particularly valuable 
for very quickly covering a large 
surface, and to make a very dense 
shade. The leaves are large, nearly 
1' in diameter, and are borne so 
profusely that they form a thatch 
like ivy leaves; the flowers, of a 
pleasing rose color, are borne in 
large clusters and are followed by 
conspicuous seed-pods, which are 
very ornamental. 
Two other vines which are good 
for very quick work are the wild 
cucumber and the plebeian scarlet 
runner bean, the first a tenacious 
climber particularly useful for cov¬ 
ering old trees, a rank unattractive 
growth of brush, etc. It grows 
quickly and to a tremendous height 
and distance. The leaves somewhat 
resemble those of the garden cucum¬ 
ber, but the small white flowers are 
borne in panacles and followed by 
(Continued on page 76) 
