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House & Garden 
This shows what happens shortly 
after weeding by hand. The weeds 
have been only temporarily 
checked and soon grow again 
Just one application of Atlas and 
all those weeds would disappear 
permanently—for the whole year. 
Here is a place where the weeds have taken 
complete possession and routed out every ele¬ 
ment of good appearance. Of course, few homes 
permit weeds to get as far as that—some of them 
weed by hand a great many times during the 
year.—One application of Atlas will clean up 
and keep clean for the whole year. 
KILL the WEEDS 
Now is the time. Weeds mar the 
appearance of drive-ways, paths, walks, 
gutters, tennis courts—everywhere. 
Hand-weeding is costly and must be 
done over and over again. Besides, 
labor should be put to more productive 
work. 
The answer is Atlas Chemical Weed 
Killer. It comes in highly concen¬ 
trated liquid form. You mix it with 
20 parts water and apply in sprinkling 
can. Atlas enters the plant at the sur¬ 
face and soaks down to the deepest root. 
Weeds die in a few days and the ground 
round about is sterilized for all season. 
One gallon of Atlas Weed Killer 
keeps 600 sq. ft. clean for the whole 
year. 
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Making 
An Old-Fashioned Garden 
(Continued from page 43) 
scope for the imagination and indi¬ 
viduality of the owner and satisfy 
the requirements of the present while 
retaining the atmosphere of the past. 
The first, on page 43, is in three 
parts and represents the more orna¬ 
mental or Cavalier type, consisting 
of a formal parterre of boxwood, a 
large rambling flower garden, and a 
long border of simple flowers. Any 
one of these can be used separately, 
though combined they form a har¬ 
monious whole. 
The Parterre 
The parterre, coming next to the 
house terrace as it does, has a de¬ 
cidedly formal spirit. It should be 
very well kept, the box large and 
thrifty, in a simple pattern suggestive 
of the best of the Elizabethan gar¬ 
dens instead of the over-elaborated 
later ones. The beds are to be filled 
with flowers in clear tones of yellow, 
blue and white, in large, effective 
masses of as few kinds as are con¬ 
sistent with a constant succession of 
bloom throughout the season. 
In April the filmy yellow sprays of 
Cornus mas sway outside the dark 
green hedge, while double white 
flowering cherry trees, gay with 
bloom, are regularly spaced on the 
inside. Under them is a medley of 
snowdrops, yellow winter aconite, 
crocus and arching sprays of bleed¬ 
ing-heart, tinted with the tender blue 
and gray-green of Virginia cowslip. 
Stately yellow crown imperials are 
grouped around the slender white 
sundial, while the remainder of the 
oval is tessellated with sky blue 
grape hyacinths and white fritil- 
laries. The circular beds surround¬ 
ing this are filled with flat masses of 
porcelain blue hyacinths and the 
outer circle is accentuated by fra¬ 
grant yellow jonquils. 
In May, slender yellow tulips and 
flower-de-luce of straw color and 
gold predominate. Under the trees 
are massed wallflowers, primroses, 
violets, forget-me-nots and the pretty 
English daisies. 
Against the hedge in June are 
roses of yellow and white, white 
valerian, and larkspur in varying 
tones of blue. Blue and white bell¬ 
flowers are in place of the hyacinths, 
and early orange lilies now accentu¬ 
ate the sundial. These in turn will 
be succeeded by orange calendulas, 
tiny brown and yellow marigolds 
will fill over the smaller bulbs, and 
tall ones will replace the bell-flowers. 
During the month of August the 
garden appears filled with early and 
late white phlox, large orange tiger 
lilies and monkshood, which, with 
the annuals, provide bloom up to the 
time when the brown button chrys¬ 
anthemums end the year. 
The Larger Garden 
The larger flower garden has a 
freer, more informal spirit. I would 
not have it too carefully kept. Tall 
old shrubs are scattered hit or miss 
in the beds and the long paths ram¬ 
ble through encroaching tangles of 
flowers. Massive old boxwood forms 
the outer boundary, while the round¬ 
ed specimens and dwarf edging box 
which define the center path are 
allowed to straggle a bit. The moss 
is encouraged to grow on the earthen 
surfaces of the side paths, and over 
their board edges low flowers creep 
irregularly. The predominating col¬ 
or effect is of pink, lavender, dull 
purplish blue and white, the broken 
and mixed tones seen in some of the 
Sweet William, foxgloves or phlox, 
with enough of orange, deep blue 
and purple to redeem it from a sense 
of monotony. The whole effect sug¬ 
gests the printed fabrics worn by 
our grandmothers. 
In earliest spring picture yourself 
looking down the central path be¬ 
tween great clumps of hyacinths— 
rose, dull purple, pale pink and lav¬ 
ender-scattered through the beds 
(Continued on page 56) 
Dealer 
The dull purples and pinks of the fox¬ 
gloves combine well with the mottled and 
streaked Sweet Williams of lower growth 
