HOUSE AND GARDEN 
August, 1910 
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greenhouses, if you can: if not, get a few 
sash, at least. Don’t put it off till next 
spring; do it now! You can, for instance, 
plant lettuce now, and have a crop in your 
frames for Thanksgiving and Christmas. 
Next month we will take up the hand¬ 
ling of vegetables and flowers in the small 
greenhouse. But don’t be content to 
read about it. It’s the pleasantest kind 
of ivork — try it yourself! 
Some Experiences With Wild 
Flowers 
(Continued from page 99.) 
As a ground cover the best plant that 
I have taken from its native haunts is the 
Foam-flower ( Tiarella cordifolia). I 
have it from both the White Mountains 
and the Adirondacks, and under an old 
apple tree, with some of my Lilies, it 
gives the turn of a border a sort of a 
woodsy touch. Dutchman’s Breeches 
( Dicentra cucullaria) is quite as graceful 
a ground cover, but loses its foliage. 
Some of both I have placed under shrub¬ 
bery, where I have also installed of late 
the Fringed Polygala ( P. paucifolia), the 
Bloodroot ( Sanguinaria Canadensis) , the 
Rue Anemone ( A. thalictroides) , the 
Rattlesnake plantain {Goodyera repens), 
and the Bunchberry ( cornus Cana¬ 
densis) . 
Of all the wild flowers that I have 
brought home, the Cranesbill {Geranium 
maculatum ) alone has stood by me 
through the thirty years or so that I have 
been doing this sort of thing. Where I 
planted it in my first wild garden—a sort 
of rock-edged border—it still persists, 
though it is now fourteen years since I 
have given it any personal attention, the 
place being rented to others. Perhaps it 
was from that loyal colony that one day, 
some years ago, was carried to the angle 
of the piazza, near my present garden, a 
single seed that sprouted in the driest of 
soil and each year has sent out its little 
quota of lilac blossoms. That one Cranes¬ 
bill, which has always looked too pretty 
to transplant to a more favorable location! 
and a vine of the Rutland Beauty {Caly- 
stegia sepium), were the only wild flow¬ 
ers that ever came to my garden of their 
own accord, thus earning additional affec¬ 
tion. That Rutland Beauty, always 
known to us as Wild Morning-glory, was 
a wonder. A big, old-fashioned, round 
lightning rod ran up from my original 
wild garden, and some years after the 
border was first stocked, this vine made 
its appearance. Whether because of the 
unusual opportunity at hand, or to get 
the best of a sun that smiled on it only a 
very short time in the morning, I do not 
know; at any rate, summer after sum¬ 
mer, it emulated Jack’s beanstalk by run¬ 
ning up thirty feet of lightning-rod and 
looking southward over the peak of the 
roof of the house. With its beautiful 
leaves and shell-pink flowers, the vine was 
a strikingly picturesque upward continua¬ 
tion of the wild garden. Ashes eventual- 
To be within arm’s reach of distant 
cities it is only necessary to be within 
arm’s reach of a Bell Telephone. It 
annihilates space and provides instanta¬ 
neous communication, both near and far. 
There can be no boundaries to a tele¬ 
phone system as it is now understood 
and demanded. Every community is 
a center from which people desire com¬ 
munication in every direction, always 
with contiguous territory, often with 
distant points. Each individual user 
may at any moment need the long 
distance lines which radiate from his 
local center. 
An exchange which is purely locai 
has a certain value. If, in addition to 
its local connections, it has connections 
with other contiguous localities, it has 
a largely increased value. 
If it is universal in its connections and 
inter-communications, it is indispens¬ 
able to all those whose social or business 
relations are more than purely local. 
A telephone system which under¬ 
takes to meet the full requirements of 
the public must cover with its ex¬ 
changes and connecting links the whole 
country. 
The Bell Telephone System annihilates space for 
the business man to-day. It brings him and any of 
his far-away social or business interests together. 
American Telephone and Telegraph Company 
And Associated Companies 
One Policy, 
One System, 
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