HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 
1914 
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Popular Perennials 
—the flowers of our grandparents, 
brought to a perfection of which they 
never dreamed — are helpfully des¬ 
cribed in our 1914 Specialty Plant 
Book. 
Meehans* New June Phlox —a distinctive 
drought-resisting type of our own introduc¬ 
tion. 
Primula Polyantha — commonly called 
Cowslips in England; — are too little used 
in America. Their varied colors, their masses 
of bloom from April to June, make them ideal 
for that shaded border. (See cut.) 
Wistaria, in Standard or Tree-form; 
Althaea for hedges; Roses for all purposes; 
and Shrubs and Perennials of all sorts, are 
listed separately and also in special collections 
with proper combinations and planting plans 
worked out for you. 
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finely as possible. Cultivation helps the 
soil fertility as well before the crops are 
planted as after. (There are several types 
of harrow to suit various conditions of 
soil, but the important thing is, that which¬ 
ever type is used, it should be used 
enough.) The earth should be cut up and 
fined, not only upon the surface, but sev¬ 
eral inches below it. Where the harrow 
cannot be used, the hoe and the broad¬ 
ened fork will have to take its place. 
Thoroughly pulverized soil is a vital factor 
toward the successful garden or a fine 
flower bed. 
Drainage — Soil that is slow or wet, and 
consequently “late” in the spring, should 
be thoroughly underdrained. By all means 
drain if your soil requires it. Draining a 
half-acre garden will cost from twenty- 
five to fifty dollars. The most satisfactory 
method is to use two and one-half-inch 
round drain tile with collars. The deeper 
you place them, the more effective they 
will be; at three feet deep, the lines should 
be from twenty to thirty feet apart, ac¬ 
cording to the soil and the slope; if you 
can put them four feet deep, thirty to fifty 
feet apart will do. You can do the work 
yourself or with a digger to help you, but 
you must take great care that the fall of the 
pipes is continuous from the highest point 
of land to the lowest, where the outlet 
should, of course, be. It is well to put a 
small fiat stone under each joint, to prevent 
the possibility of sagging, and a piece of in¬ 
verted sod over it to keep any fine dirt 
from getting inside of it until after the 
ground has a chance to settle permanently. 
A “level” is, of course, used in laying the 
tiles to see that the proper fall is main¬ 
tained throughout. 
Sowing and Planting 
T HE first step in making the garden, 
after the ground is prepared, 
whether it be a geranium bed, a strip of 
the home vegetable garden or a ten-acre 
potato field, is to get a smooth, even sur¬ 
face. The purpose in doing this, aside 
from neatness and convenience in planting, 
is to conserve the soil moisture, so that the 
surface soil will dry rapidly on top and will 
form a dust mulch, which prevents the 
moisture from the soil below from escap¬ 
ing into the air, as it does rapidly when a 
hard crust forms. The smoother and finer 
the surface is made, the more perfect the 
dust mulch is. 
The implement to do this job with is a 
steel-toothed rake. Go over the soil care¬ 
fully, removing all stones or sods that 
might be in the way later, and use the rake 
with a backward and forward leveling-off 
motion so that just as little trash as pos¬ 
sible will be dug up. It is best usually to 
rake at right angles to the way you expect 
to plant, as the marks left by the rake teeth 
will then not be confused with your plant¬ 
ing marks. 
Drills, Rows, Hills— In drills, the 
plants are grown in a continuous row, 
usually quite close together as onions, beets 
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