Shasta daisies — a Burbank creation — make an effective border 
Buy plants ot hollyhocks so as to get the desired colors 
placed together in the ground, in the spring, the flowers The Japanese Iris is one of the most desirable of peren- 
bloom continually from June until the severe frosts come, nials, with a character so different from all the rest. Once 
furnishing huge bouquets during the whole summer. installed in the garden, it is there to stay, provided that it is 
Hollyhocks, of course, must not be 
forgotten. If well selected as to color, 
they are showy in the extreme. Al¬ 
though one may plant seed as late as 
October, and have blooming plants the 
following year, it is far more satisfac¬ 
tory to buy plants of the colors desired 
and have them bloom the first year. 
Pink, white, rose, crimson, maroon, and 
yellow make a very rich combination. 
They show to better advantage when 
planted in a cluster, a foot and a half 
apart, rather than in a border as one 
usually sees them. Although considered 
a hardy perennial, hollyhocks require a 
good mulch in the northern climates. 
Numerous brilliant yellow blooms of 
Golden Glow may be seen in almost 
every well regulated garden in August 
and September. The plant is one of the 
most effective of the taller perennials 
for bloom at that time of the year. 
Like roses, however, it needs continual 
watching to guard against the insects 
that infest it. It is very hardy and will 
live anywhere with slight protection. 
Coreopsis blooms from June until frost 
given a rich, moist soil. It resembles the 
orchids in their rich colorings, and 
blooms from about the middle of June 
for five or six weeks. Among the tried 
varieties, are Yomo-No-Umi, white, the 
finest six-petaled double; Uchiu, a 
bright purple double, with crimson 
sheen and few white veins; Kagaribi, a 
white double, beautifully traced and 
marbled with ultramarine blue. 
A well regulated garden of perennial 
flowers would hardly be complete with¬ 
out the familiar coreopsis, whose small, 
golden-yellow flowers begin blooming 
early in June and continue until frost. 
The Shasta Daisy will doubtless be¬ 
come increasingly popular as it becomes 
better known in the East. The young 
plants do not bloom until late the first 
season, but the second summer they 
bloom profusely throughout the sum¬ 
mer. 
The hardy Larkspur must not be 
omitted from this list, because of its 
stately habit of growth and varieties of 
colorings. 
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