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HOUSE & GARDEN 
Oeautify the 
Garden 
A N English bench in a seclud¬ 
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OLD STONE GARDEN 
ORNAMENTS 
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Korean 
Stone 
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Date 
1850 
Price 
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Bird B asins, Pagodas 
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plantings and then leave 
the mixtures for those who 
do not know or care for 
fine borders and effects. 
Succession of bloom may 
he secured by making the 
p I a n t i n g s three weeks 
apart, beginning early in 
March. Buy good stock, 
which varies in price from 
$1.50 to $5.00 a hundred. 
The cannas may be used 
for both sunny and shady 
borders where few other 
things will grow. They 
grow and multiply from 
year to year and need only 
to lie thinned out occa¬ 
sionally to keep them from 
covering the earth. Buy 
good roots, and even if 
you have to pay as much 
as 50 or 75 cents for the 
first stock, in a year after¬ 
wards they will have mul¬ 
tiplied so rapidly that you 
will have a dozen to add 
to your borders. 
In pale yellow, primrose 
and almost cream white, 
with deeper yellow and 
orange shade they are ex¬ 
ceedingly effective. Some 
of the scarlet and crimson 
cannas also are very fine 
and give wonderful color 
masses among the deeper 
greens of the evergreen 
shrubberies, and anywhere 
a tall screen, or if the dwarf varie¬ 
ties are used, a low border is needed. 
Many gardens show caladilims for 
shady and tropical effects and for 
summer growth. These, with the 
banana plants, are worth while for 
summer homes, but are not to be 
recommended for permanent feat¬ 
ures in the landscape. Yet they are 
of very easy growth and hide un¬ 
sightly foundation work and some¬ 
times are just the thing needful to 
turn a shady corner into a place of 
beauty. 
Dahlias of all kinds and varieties 
deserve the most prominent situation 
in the half-shaded part of the gar¬ 
den. They are wonderful in all their 
depths and shades and tones of color. 
They do not grow of themselves, 
like the caladilims and cannas, but 
must be watched and pinched, and 
staked and doctored from time to 
time through the year. When plant¬ 
ing they, like all other roots and 
The fragrant Azalea arboreseens is easy to 
cultivate and lovely in bloom 
Smoke trees form a soft and feath¬ 
ery background for the deeper pink 
of the roses 
bulbs, must not be placed in contact 
with fresh manure. If this is done 
the tubers become soft and rot away. 
In the South the dahlias do not like 
nor require full sun. They thrive 
best in a deep, mellow soil and half- 
shaded situation. The best varieties 
cost as much as 5 cents each, but the 
cheaper tubers give excellent results, 
and those that are $1 a dozen may 
be relied on to give beautiful and 
charming effects. 
Montbretias and tigridas with their 
deep scarlet and yellow markings on 
the brilliant scarlet backgrounds are 
rather warm additions to the summer 
garden, hut on account of their hardy 
and reliable qualities they deserve a 
place in most perennial borders—only 
those, however, where these colors do 
not clash with their surroundings. 
They bloom in July and August when 
most of the summer flowers are rest¬ 
ing and for this reason they are quite 
distinctly worth while. 
Gladioli will bloom 
in June and July, the 
cannas from May to 
October, dahlias in 
August, September and 
on into October, the 
montbretias and tigri¬ 
das in July and August, 
so that these few plant¬ 
ings of bulbs, corrns 
and tubers will give 
sufficient variety to 
carry the garden 
through the summer 
and into the fall when 
chrysanthemums and 
asters take the head of 
the list. 
The one industry dis¬ 
rupted by the war that 
has not had wide ex¬ 
ploitation by the manu¬ 
facturers is that of the 
foreign perfume mak¬ 
ers. Why could not the 
South take this up, 
raising a regular har¬ 
vest of violets, oleas¬ 
ters, roses and other 
blossoms which are per¬ 
fectly adaptable to the 
perfume trade of this 
country? 
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When properly laid it lasts longer 
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It lessens work and the cost of 
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It adds charm and neatness to your 
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