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July In the Garden 
HIS is a good time to study up the 
subject of varieties of Dahlias and 
of Peonies, although planting them will 
be a later operation. It is always well to 
have a little foreknowledge of a subject 
handy against the time of having to use 
it. Indeed every lover of plants should 
go about the garden with note-book in 
hand for jotting down memoranda for 
next season’s planting use. There will be 
many lovely varieties new, perhaps, to 
him in his neighbors’ gardens, which he 
will forget all about if he does not have 
recourse to some such method of a per¬ 
manent reminder of what he would like 
to have in his own garden another season. 
\ S soon as some of the very early crops 
—lettuce, radishes and the like are 
out of the way, clear off and fork up the 
soil that bedded them, and lighten it, if 
the earth has become heavy, with leaf- 
mold and sand, covering the new bed with 
Petunias may now be lifted and transplanted 
to fill borders along informal paths 
a two-inch layer of sifted soil. Seeds of 
hardy Poppies and other perennials, and 
biennials may then be sown. As soon as 
the plants reach the early budding stage 
they must be thinned out to give each re¬ 
maining seedling plenty of room for 
growth. Then when frost-time approaches 
the plants may be covered with a mulch 
of coarse stable litter. 
T APxTNESE Hop, Morning Glory, Pop- 
*» pv, Portulaca, Calendula and Nicoti- 
ana are annuals that will resow themselves, 
a fact that should be borne in mind when 
beginning to plan for fall garden opera¬ 
tions. 
One way of keeping moist the soil 
around growing plants during times of 
drought is to spread freshly cut lawn grass 
around the base of each plant. 
As fast as you find suckers forming on 
fruit trees remove them at once. 
If you cut all the faded blossoms from 
your Pansy bed and give the plants liquid 
manure every week they will continue to 
produce lovely flowers all summer. 
Be on the watch for ripening wild- 
flower seeds. They may be planted in 
light, rich loamy earth later. 
Keep Sweet Peas, Marigolds and other 
flowering annuals picked, for their plants 
will soon cease to bloom if allowed to go 
to seed. 
You may have dwarf Asters for late 
bloom in window boxes for the autumn if 
seed of these are sown now. 
Harvest early vegetables and rework 
and replant soil for late crops. 
Plant Artichokes during the middle of 
the month. 
Keep your flowering plants such as 
Chrysanthemums, Cosmos and Dahlias to 
a compact bushy growth by “pinching.” 
Evergreen Porte Cochere Screen 
E have an oval grass bed extending 
directly from the wall of our porte- 
cochere into the driveway. We should like 
some suggestion for shrubbery there. 
L. S. 
Try grouping plants of Thuya occiden- 
talis, var. glohosa around a specimen of 
Retinispora squarrosa in the center. It 
will make an effective permanent setting 
against the outer side of the porte- 
cochere. 
Porch Vines for North Exposure 
I T is sometimes difficult to find vines that 
thrive when planted in a northern ex¬ 
posure to cover porch pillars. Therefore 
the following species are recommended as 
solving the problem of a suitable porch 
plant in such positions: English Ivy 
(Hedera Helix), Hop ( Hamulus Lupu- 
lus). Thorn (Crataegus Lclondi). Honey¬ 
suckle ( Lonicera Japonica var. Halliana, 
and also ( Adlumia ciirhosa), and Clema¬ 
tis, ( Clematis Virginiana). 
A brick stable yard enclosure has been made 
attractive as here shown by wall-gardening 
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