HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 
1914 
| ^AR into the frosts 
[i of autumn the rich 
golden yellow of the 
Marigold will light up ; 
your garden with glitter¬ 
ing splendor. 
The most popular of our 
gj many Marigolds is the “Pride 
of the Garden, pictured below. 
The plant itself is dwarf 
and compact in habit—but the • 
U flowers are magnificently large 
— and of the very richest 
yellow. 
A full-sized packet of the 
seeds of this unusually brilliant jj 
flower will be mailed you for 
10 cents. 
We will send you at the same time 
a complimentary copy of our splen¬ 
did 1914 catalog—a complete list 
of everything that is best in 
seeds. Also that popular little 
book —‘"A Thorburn Garden for 
a Family of Six.” 
Thorburn's Seeds have 
been renowned for their 
uniform purity and fer¬ 
tility ever since Thomas 
Jefferson was President. 
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53 E Barclay Street, New York 
the Celosia, but it must be remembered it 
is for special uses, and not good in the 
border. A very pretty little flower, and 
one that self-sows freely, is cascalia, or 
Flora’s paint-brush. I suspect this of be¬ 
ing one of the Hawkweed family, and its 
blossom is so small that it is not particu¬ 
larly useful in a color scheme, but it is a 
very good, clear tone, and is the sort of a 
flower that children would love to have in 
their gardens. 
The scarlet nasturtiums are lovely, es¬ 
pecially the dark-leaved kinds usually de¬ 
scribed as crimson, hut they are just a little 
too yellow to be crimson; really they are 
a deep blood-scarlet. The dwarf form of 
this dark-leaved varety flowers very freely, 
and is a good edging plant. The scarlet 
verbena is a beautiful glowing color— 
clear, soft and altogether delightful. 
Of course, the best-known scarlet an¬ 
nual is Salzria Splendens, in all its varie¬ 
ties, and I must confess a sneaking liking 
for it, but not in the mixed border. 1 
will admit that it belongs to the "late Phil¬ 
istine” type of architecture, and that it is 
commonplace to the last degree; a crude 
color, difficult to combine; not at home 
with other plants, distinctly a bedding 
plant and a very stupid and unimaginative 
flower, but if one’s house be gray or white, 
or weathered, I do like a little of it along 
a porch or under a window. 
The best scarlet annual, in my estima¬ 
tion, is the scarlet Zinnia. It comes (as 
do all the Zinnias) in several forms, tall, 
dwarf, etc., and there is no difficulty in get¬ 
ting the true color from seed, as there is 
in the pink and crimson varieties. There 
is a very compact, small-flowered type 
called “Little Red Riding Hood,” which 
is attractive. The color of all these is 
good; they bloom until frost, and, preju¬ 
dice to the contrary notwithstanding, they 
are most satisfactory as cut flowers if 
properly used. The Scarlet Runner bean 
is an attractive fence cover, if you need 
one, for the hack of your scarlet border. 
To sum up the careful use of reds, one 
must bear in mind that crimsons, as a rule, 
must flock by themselves, or with deep 
green or white. Some of them are even 
bad with cream white, because of the re¬ 
sultant “barber-pole” glare. If possible, 
use a very cold blue-white or a gray white 
with these. Crimson combines well, if 
carefully handled, with a rose pink of the 
same tone, shading down to a lighter tint 
of crimson, as it were, and using white in 
the group. On the other hand, strange to 
say, scarlet will not combine with the sal¬ 
mon or flame pinks. The rose tone deep¬ 
ens into crimson, and the crimson lends 
just that quality, depth, to the combina¬ 
tion, hut the salmon pink brightens into 
scarlet, which thereby overpowers and 
kills the softer color. Even the flame 
pinks are overcome by it, or else they 
cheapen the scarlet. A “dash” of scarlet 
can be used in a color scheme, where a 
“dash” of crimson cannot, on the principle 
of the above-mentioned use of the heu- 
chera. Scarlet will combine with any yel- 
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