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To enjoy them together in your own garden next season 
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D arwins and Cottage, single and double, early and late,— 
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memories:— 
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very first qualit}'. 
Schling’s Special Border Collection 
Of gorgeous Darwin and Cottage Tulips 
{as pictured above in order from right to left) 
Per 100 Per 1.000 
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Picotee —White cottage petals edged with pink. 4.50 40.00 
Pride of Haarlem —Darwin American Beauty color. 5.00 45.00 
Dream —Charming lavender Darwin. 5.50 50.00 
Bronze Queen —Buff tinged with golden bronze. .. . s.oo 45.00 
Zulu —Enormous size Darwin of deep velvety purple. 5.50 50.00 
Golden Beauty —Glorious golden yellow cottage. .. S-OO 45.00 
25 Bulbs at 100 rate; 250 Bulbs at 1,000 rate 
Very Special 
too Bulbs each of 7 varieties above (700 in all). S32.00 
1,000 Bulbs each of 7 varieties above (7,000 in all) . 290.00 
5% Discount—if cash accompanies order 
Ten Splendid Get-Acquainted** Offers 
Each a wonderful value— at present prices 
too Single Early Tulips in 10 named varieties. S4.00 
too Double Early Tulips in 10 named varieties. 4.50 
100 Darwin Tulips in 10 named varieties. 4.50 
too Cottage Tulips in 10 named varieties. 4.50 
too Breeder or Art Tulips in $ rare named varieties. Wonderful 
shades of Bronze, Buff, Orange and Apricot. 5.00 
too Parrot or Orchid Tulips in 4 named varieties. 5.00 
too Narcissi or Daffodils for naturalizing and lawn planting. Airy 
Trumpets, Medium Trumpets shortcupped and the lovely 
Poet’s varieties. 4.50 
100 Bedding Hyacinths in 4colors. 6.00 
100 Named Hyacinths, 2nd size. 4 varieties. 8.00 
100 Named Hyacinths exhibition or top size in to named varieties 
for pots and glasses. 16.00 
5% Discount—if cash accompanies order 
Extraordinary Offer 
100 Darwin Tulips Only $3.50 
Choicest, fir.st-size bulbs, sure to bloom. Schling’s 
Special Mixture made up especially for us from ten of 
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A $5.00 value for only $.^.50, or, if you prefer, 
50 Bulbs for $2.00 
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li THE GARDEN IN THE TWILIGHT 
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very dense, but its heavy perfume when 
in flower is objectionable to many people. 
A hedge of sweet briar will retain its 
charm throughout the season when the 
twilight garden is most in demand. A 
thatched and trellis-sided arbor may be 
lightly roofed, preferably with oak 
weather-boarding as a further shelter. 
The planting of the borders will be ruled 
by the knowledge that the twilight garden 
does not come into its own until May, and 
must reveal its most alluring charms when 
the long, hot nights succeed the sultry 
days of July and August. A very few of 
the night-scented flowers, tobacco, stock, 
jasmine and honeysuckle, will fiU the air 
with their presence, almost oppressive in 
its sweetness. With them we may have 
the crisp freshness of mignonette, the 
powdery scent of pansies, the wholesome 
pungency of lavender, rosemary, and all 
the smaller herbs, and, perhaps the tall 
feathery red incense plant, humea, but 
only a very little. 
Most of the night flowers are white or 
pale colored, and gleam like beacons to 
attract the nectar-seeking moths. Many 
colors brilliant by day, blues, purples, 
crimsons, and scarlets, become dull and 
drab, or almost invisible as the light fades. 
But some, and these must be eagerly 
watched for, undergo a mysterious 
change, and become brighter as the twi¬ 
light deepens. Among them is the 
scented noisette rose Fellenberg, rosy 
crimson by day, but intensified at dusk. 
Scent and color are, perhaps, of first 
importance, but many flowers wiU find a 
place in the twilight garden for the sake 
of their beautiful outline in silhouette. 
There wiU be many irises to choose from: 
the fragrant yellow Florentine iris. Iris 
jlavescens and graminca, faintly sweet; 
early peonies, especially the white scented 
albiflora simplex, and many lilies; foam 
like spireas, tall sentinel hollyhocks, and 
the strange burning bush, the fraxinella, 
giving off an inflammable gas; from these 
and many others it will be easier to choose 
a hundred favorites than to reject others 
equally beloved when our garden space is 
lindted. 
LITTLE FRENCH GARDENS 
T he art of cultivating flowers is by no the French. French art in all its branches 
means the same thing as the art of tends to abide by tradition, and French 
!|j making a garden. A man may know gardening is no exception to the rule. The 
I everything there is to be known about standard for good gardening was set in 
1 flowers, trees, grass, and shrubs, and yet France at the same time as the standard 
I'l be quite incapable of combining these ele- for good literature—in the reign of the 
jl ments of a garden into a pleasing composi- Grand Monarque. Racine and Corneille 
I tion. For a garden is like a picture; it were forging the tradition of French 
I must be composed and arranged so as to poetry while Le Notre, in the gardens he 
!i! be taken in as a whole. A miscellaneous laid out for Louis XIV at Versailles, was 
ji collection of painted details, however creating the standard French garden. 
I brilliant and charming in themselves, And it is to Le Notre’s standard, with 
I does not make a picture; and, similarly, a brief moments of infidelity in the later 
il miscellaneous collection of flowers and 18 th Centurj" to “natural” or “English” 
trees, however well cultivated, does not gardening, that French gardens have nnore 
|| make a garden. Composition must make or less completely conformed ever since. 
I order out of chaotic detail. Le Ndtre’s gardens at Versailles were 
i There is no sovereign rule for pictorial enormous and lavishly expensive; the 
I composition. The composition of a Japa- gardens of today are small and modest. 
nese picture is different from that of an But the fundamental characteristics of 
jl Italian primitive, and that in its turn is the French garden are always the same, 
jl entirely unlike the composition of a late Formality combined with the greatest 
jl Renaissance work. It is the same with possible economy of space, elegance com- 
1 gardens. There are many different for- bined with an almost theatrical effective- 
,1 mulas for garden composition. The ness—these are the qualities which make 
Dutch, the Italians, the Chinese, the the French garden what it is. No garden- 
English—all these peoples have devised ers make so much of the space at their dis- 
styles of their own; styles which have posal as do the French. Nothing is 
widely varied at different periods and wasted. These being the qualities of the 
which may be divided at any given mo- French garden, it is obvious that for 
ment into numerous sub-styles. houses with a limited space at their dis- 
One of the most interesting of these posal a garden designed in the French 
ill national styles of garden composition is manner is eminently suitable. 
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