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Quick Action Plants for Shade and Screens 
(Continued from page 74) 
attractive burrs or hairy fruit pods 
which hang on until very late. The 
scarlet bean is a twiner and will 
grow upon a string; it is very vig¬ 
orous and healthy, and its scarlet 
blossoms are most attractive. The 
beans, which are the shape and size 
of small limas, are of excellent qual¬ 
ity for table use, either green or dry. 
One of the prettiest of decorative 
vines, where shade is not so essen¬ 
tial, is the cypress vine ; it grows to 
a medium height, about 15', and the 
finely laciniated foliage gives a very 
feathery appearance which, studded 
with the profusely borne flowers of 
bright scarlet or pure white, is most 
attractive. Mina sanguinea is an¬ 
other splendid vine adapted to the 
same purposes, but making a growth 
of 25' to 30'. The blood-red flow¬ 
ers are borne in clusters, and very 
profusely; the individual blossoms 
are about 1" across. The hyacinth 
bean ( Dolichos ) is another old fav¬ 
orite, but the newer Japanese varie¬ 
ties, Darkness and Daylight, are 
great improvements and should be 
tried where a quickly grown, dense 
screen of medium height, not over 
10', is wanted. This blooms quickly 
from seed, and the flowers—reddish, 
violet or pure white—are borne in 
large stiff racimes against the back¬ 
ground of massy green foliage; the 
pods, which succeed the flowers, are 
very ornamental. 
The various ornamental gourds, 
of which there are a baker’s dozen, 
are very rapid growers and are al¬ 
ways favorites with the children. 
Even if sown in mixture, the fruits 
will retain their individuality for the 
first season. 
Plants for Sub-Tropical Effects 
and Screens 
The quick growing annuals, which 
are suitable for screening, sub-trop¬ 
ical effects and individual specimens 
on the lawn or about the border, are 
relatively limited, considering the 
great number of annuals available 
for general gardening purposes. As 
with the vines, the quickest effects 
may he had with those brought from 
the florist’s already growing in pots. 
For general purposes, where a com¬ 
bination of tropical effect and effi¬ 
cient screening is desired, nothing is 
superior to the well-known Ricinus 
or Castor-oil plant. There are sev¬ 
eral varieties, having various shades 
of green or brown leaves, hut for 
most purposes the Zansibarcnsis type 
is most satisfactory: this makes 
enormous plants, in good soil often 
12' to 14' high. 
Where a still more tropical effect 
is wanted in a group, or as individ¬ 
ual plants, use the Abyssinian ba¬ 
nana, Musa ensete. Small plants 
started from seed this spring will 
grow several feet high during the 
summer, or the plants may be 
bought for 50 cents to five dollars. 
A single specimen used about the 
grounds will be the most conspicu¬ 
ous note in the entire planting. For 
a rich effect about the base of the 
veranda or in any other situation, 
which requires plants but a few feet 
high, the bedding caladiums are the 
most effective plant to use in shady 
or semi-shady positions; the bulbs 
cost but from 20 to 50 cents each. 
Where a more conspicuous plant is 
wanted for individual plantings on 
the lawn or in groups, Caladium 
escalation (Elephant’s Ear), is the 
most effective thing to use. This 
grows to a height of 8' or more, and 
has enormous light-green leaves. 
Three excellent plants for low 
screens or hedges to mark the boun¬ 
daries of lawns, cut off the vegetable 
garden or any similar purpose are 
Burbank’s new Rainbow corn, the 
summer cypress ( Kochia ), and the 
old-fashioned foliage cannas or In¬ 
dian Shot; the corn will he more 
brilliantly colored if the soil is not 
too rich ; it is very attractive at all 
stages of growth. Kochia is the best 
thing to use where a rather formal 
effect is desired: the symmetrically 
shaped, tree-like little plants are 
pretty during the summer, and as 
soon as cold weather comes, turn to 
a very attractive crimson and make 
the most pleasing note in the au¬ 
tumn gardenscape. The large foli¬ 
age cannas grow very luxuriantly 
and present a semi-tropical appear¬ 
ance ; the leaves can he had in either 
light or dark green or bronze. 
Where screening and flowers are 
both desired, the best things to use 
are sunflowers, cosmos, and the taller 
varieties of celosia; the sunflowers 
are particularly effective against a 
tall fence, the side of a building or 
anything similar to serve as a back¬ 
ground. The new early flowering 
strains of cosmos will flower freely 
from seed before frost, hut the taller, 
late varieties, should be started early 
under glass. 
In planting any of these things, 
quick growth is desired, therefore 
the soil should not only be well en¬ 
riched, but prepared as far in ad¬ 
vance of the planting as possible. 
Old, well-rotted manure, fine ground 
hone and guano or tankage should 
be thoroughly mixed with the soil 
in generous quantities, and, as soon 
as the plants begin to make growth, 
two or three applications of nitrate 
of soda a week or so apart, should 
be given. Where the soil is defi¬ 
cient in lnimus, as it often is near 
buildings, foundations, and trees, 
this deficiency can he easily supplied 
by free use of a commercial humus. 
All Hound and a Foot High 
(Continued from page 39) 
bent. First of all he is a hunter, and 
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turkeys may be extinct or nearly so, 
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hear, moose and elk may have left 
for freer and wilder parts of the 
country, hut the little brown bunny 
lives on under the bramble bush, al¬ 
ways ready to afford a good day’s 
sport for the beagler. 
You will find game for the little 
hounds almost off the back doorstep, 
and, if you must go a few miles in 
train or motor, the dogs can he easily 
stowed away under foot. The happy 
hunting grounds are the uninviting 
looking bramble thickets or along the 
ragged edge of an old swamp. Here 
the hounds are almost sure to start a 
cottontail. 
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His sweet, melodious hunting song 
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to his, and in a second “Buster” 
chimes in. What a trio! That wild 
music of the chase sends little shivers 
dancing up your sportman’s spine and 
clutches at your throat. You know 
now why the old sporting writers 
called them the singing beagles. 
(Continued on page 78) 
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