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House Garden 
NOW-ABOUT THAT GARDEN 
OULD you know they were single peonies? 
They are! And they’re quite the mode, now¬ 
adays. Perhaps you’d like to eopy House & 
Garden’s own planting of a deep maroon variety 
called “The Moor” against a huge clump of white 
Oriental iris, with a cloud of pale hlue anchusa 
for a background? Or mayhe you’d prefer ter¬ 
race after terrace of iris and peonies going straight 
up to the sky—peonies on the flat, iris clinging to 
the hank. Or—hut the Fall Planting Number of 
House & Garden, the very next number, will show 
you a dozen ways in the nick of time. For peonies 
and iris must he planted now, to bloom next 
spring, and you must get to work at once. Va¬ 
rieties, groupings and planting instructions, in 
the next issue. 
down in at dusk—gardens for old people and 
lovers.... It will show you how to take the charm 
of English cottage gardens and give it to their 
transatlantic cousin, the American small house. 
. . . It will teach you how to make a little formal 
garden planted with tulips; a central pool in a ring 
of lawn with a circle of shrubbery; a handker¬ 
chief-size garden for a tiny house that needs a 
splash of color. 
And, most necessary of all, it classifies, codifies and 
prints the whole job of putting the garden to bed 
so that you can’t make a mistake—planting, 
transplanting, mulching, and everything that 
will save you six months of next year’s blooming- 
schedule. 
This issue, too, will show you some new possibili¬ 
ties in phlox. Maybe you never saw a sea of phlox 
subulata dripping over a flight of stone steps? . . . 
It will tell you about fragrant gardens that you sit 
Inside the house: corner cupboards, Persian rugs, 
intra-house telephones, period furniture, house 
planning, and how to make silver rooms and gold 
rooms from Chinese tea-chest papers. 
It isn’t money that makes the garden successful; 
it isn’t even work alone. It’s knowing how. Read 
October House & Garden and you’ll see why this is so. 
After September first, you cannot buy magazines at news stands unless you have 
reserved them in advance. Tell your newsdealer to save you a copy 
of this Fall Planting Number now ; otherwise you will be disappointed. 
35 cents a copy 
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