HOUSE AND GARDEN 
46 
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A Pink Garden of Individuality 
(Continued from page 31 ) 
distinctive feature is its long buds and the 
freedom with which they are borne. My 
Maryland has not proved a success here, 
but that is not saying anything against 
this famous rose. The much-lauded Lyon 
rose has also proved disappointing. A new 
rose in this garden which has been entirely 
satisfactory is the Farbedkonigen, the 
name meaning Queen of Colors, which 
is a delightful imperial pink. Dean Hole 
is always satisfactory. The only fault one 
can find with their immense, deep flowers 
is that there are never enough to satisfy 
us. However, they are well worth waiting 
for. When one considers that the hybrid 
tea roses are as fine as can be grown, that 
they begin blooming almost as soon as 
a cutting is rooted, that they keep up the 
show till after heavy frost and are hardy 
enough to withstand our severe winters, 
why are they not more generally grown? 
Annuals and biennials are largely used 
as fillers, and as one of the characteristics 
of this young gardener is to raise all the 
plants she uses from seed, in late winter 
and early spring the windows of her home 
are filled with boxes of seedlings in vari¬ 
ous stages of development. 
One of the new things being tried this 
year is perennial pentstemon. So far as 
I know this has never been grown in our 
vicinity and thoughts of the wonderful 
possibilities wrapped up in those lusty 
clumps of pentstemon will shorten many 
a bleak winter’s day. Canterbury bells are 
featured here, and are set in single clumps 
and masses wherever there is space. By 
removing the blossoms as soon as faded 
they are kept in bloom all summer. The 
variety used is always the same—single 
pink and white, Campanula medium. 
Snapdragons treated as annuals share 
the honors with the Canterbury bells. And 
how lovely they are, how clear the color, 
how enduring and self-reliant! What a 
garden picture they do make, even after 
the hardy chrysanthemums are frozen! 
I thought I was familiar with snapdra¬ 
gons, but when I saw the large rosy spikes 
of one swaying several inches above a six- 
foot vine trellis I thought I knew but little 
about them, after all. 
Conspicuous among the annuals is the 
petunia, which has been greatly improved 
within the past few years. It is one of 
the hardiest and most easily grown of all 
our border plants. It will endure scorch¬ 
ing summer sun and early frosts with 
equal cheerfulness. The variety used here 
was raised from seed of the California 
Giant, which is remarkable for its size and 
the profusion with which its richly per¬ 
fumed flowers are borne, many of them 
having beautifully ruffled edges and 
throats of gold. The possibilities of 
perennial phlox are fully appreciated here. 
Phlox means a flame, and a veritable flame 
it is in some gardens, but not here, as 
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