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China asters last well in water. During 
their culture watch for black beetles. 
Once past that stage, the blossoms are a 
well-won reward 
The first flowers that can be gathered suc¬ 
cessfully for house decoration — narcissus. 
Arrange them in a stand set in water for 
even the stems are beautiful 
1 HAD a garden by the house, 
but I wanted another. Gar¬ 
deners always do! This was to 
he for cut flowers—a place where 
I could try out my experiments 
and have my fun and failures un¬ 
seen. I wanted, moreover, a gay 
garden all summer. 
A corner of the vegetable gar¬ 
den was taken—a plot 64 feet by 
74 feet—-and laid out along the 
lines shown in the plan. The 
beds I dug over two feet deep, 
filled them with a foot of well- 
rotted cow manure and then layers 
of earth and manure, thus raising 
them well above the level to allow 
for -settling. The center beds were 
edged with grass, the borders with 
brick, covered with edging plants 
to save space and labor. 
In the oval center bed I planted 
nine Madame Plantier roses, 
which were large enough to 
hide partly the beds from one 
another. In June they are a 
mass of small white roses. 
There is an added advantage 
in that they never suffer from 
blight and are perfectly hardy. 
On the south and west sides 
of the garden I stretched a 
wire fence and, in order not 
to take any space from my 
beds, planted outside of it 
rambler roses, Dorothy Per¬ 
kins and Northern Light, the 
last a dainty pink-and-white 
rose exceedingly attractive. 
Ramblers give no trouble, re¬ 
quiring only an annual cutting 
away of the dead wood ; more¬ 
over, they grow quickly and 
make a wonderful show in 
June. 
In the two borders by the 
wire fence I planted most of 
Miss Lingard, a white phlox, has two blooming seasons: starting early in 
June and blossoming three or four weeks, and again in July 
Making a Garden for 
Cut Flowers 
THE PROPER USE OF A GARDEN PLAN—CON¬ 
TROLLING THE COLOR SCHEME—THE FLOWERS 
THAT LAST BEST IN WATER-PLANTING 
AGAINST FROST 
Cornelia L. Clarkson 
POPPIES 
BELLIS PERENN1S 
A.OUIEIGIA 
ACHILLEA FLAXINELLA PHLOX PHYSOSTIGIA 
FORGETMENOTS_ VINCIA. PHLOX DIVARICATA 
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By using a plan, space and labor were saved, the kinds were segregated and the 
color scheme more easily plotted and maintained 
mv perennials. They were gen¬ 
erally successful, save the holly¬ 
hocks, which became diseased. As 
there is no remedy for this plant 
sickness, I burnt the plants and 
sprayed the ground with Bordeaux 
Mixture. I will try them again in 
a couple of years. 
From May until frost my bor¬ 
ders are gay, first with tulips, 
arabis and little English daisies, 
Beilis perennis, quickly followed 
by columbines, Aquilegia, pyre- 
thrums, German iris and the old- 
fashioned gas plant, Dictamus 
Fraxinella Alba. The last should 
be better known ; it has a beautiful 
white flower in May and a good 
foliage all summer; a slow grower, 
but when four or five years old it 
branches out and makes a hand¬ 
some bush. The pyrethrums, sin¬ 
gle and double, also last a long 
time. If the lower leaves are 
cut away they will not rot out, 
as often happens when the 
roots are too damp. The 
columbines are always a joy, 
lasting many weeks and being 
of many colors. The long- 
spurred variety generally die 
after a few years, but the 
short-spurred seem to live 
on indefinitely. The latter 
variety sow themselves, and 
many seedlings can be taken 
up in the autumn and given 
away, thus affording one the 
pleasures of helping other 
gardens and gardeners. Ger¬ 
man iris are—or should be— 
in every garden. To make 
them bloom more freely di¬ 
vide the clumps every three 
or four years. 
In June the tall delphiniums 
are at their height of beauty. 
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