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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, iqio 
Y e will make a planting plan of your place, selecting 
trees, shrubs, etc., suitable to soil and situation 
and give you the exact cost of planting the 
same. Write for Catalog D and Instruc- 
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Est. 1848 —Inc. 1903 
PHIL New Canaan, Conn. 
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An 
Old-Fashioned 
Garden 
The attractive garden in 
the foreground was the site 
of an old cow barn two 
years ago. 
Will iend a charm and individuality to your home that can be secured by 
no other means. Our nurseries offer the finest selection in America for 
lawn and garden planting, and our plan of co-operation makes possible 
beautiful and permanent effects from the beginning. 
You Need Not Wait Years For Your Garden to Grow 
Pioneers in the MOVING OF LARGE TREES and SHRUBBERY, 
we have been doing this work successfully for years, and can show many 
extensive plantings or send you photographs if you are at a distance. 
More Than 600 Acres oi Choicest Nursery Produce 
Ornamental, Deciduous, Shade and Weeping Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Bar¬ 
berry, Privet, Evergreens, Conifers, Hardy Trailing Vines, Climbers and 
everything for the Home Garden, including Fruit Trees, Berry Bushes, etc. 
Locks that are trustworthy. 
Designs that are decorative. 
An assortment to/isuit all needs 
at prices that are low* for the 
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that will aid you in selection. 
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( Continued, from page 314) 
largely of such well-known plants as mign¬ 
onette, candytuft, sweet alyssum, sweet 
peas, sweet sultan, ten-weeks stock, snap¬ 
dragon, pot marigold, common parsley, 
annual or rocket larkspur, and corn and 
opium poppies. To these may be added 
also the equally hardy Arctotis grandis, 
crimson flax, perennial flax, blue lupine, 
annual phlox, Mexican evening primrose, 
California poppy, and the gaillardias, the 
last six of which are indigenous to the 
Southwest. Along with these should be 
planted for spring and early summer 
flowering the biennial foxglove, Canter¬ 
bury bells, and the ever-present and hardy 
hollyhock. 
Seeds of the above plants may be 
sown any time in September or early Oc¬ 
tober in ordinary, well-prepared garden 
soil. When sown in September the young 
plants grow to some size by late fall, and 
are less subject to injury from birds and 
grasshoppers. The plants require only 
moderate irrigation during much of their 
growing season by virtue of moderate tem¬ 
peratures, and of the winter rainfall which 
at times is sufficient to supplement a con¬ 
siderable part of the watering. With a few 
exceptions including the biennial species, 
the growth of these varieties is at an end 
by the middle of May when the hot 
weather sets in, after which most of us 
have little inclination to look after beds 
of flowers, while still others seek cooler 
climates. These winter and spring grow¬ 
ing plants are accordingly well suited to 
our country and with the perennial species 
to be noted next should come to be widely 
grown. It is to them that we must look 
for cut flowers and diversity of color dur¬ 
ing our festive winter seasons when the 
landscapes in other countries are bleak and 
sere. 
In addition to Canterbury bells, fox¬ 
gloves, hollyhocks, and gaillardias, certain 
of the annuals, as phlox and larkspur, will 
continue, with cultivation and frequent 
watering, to blossom well into the summer 
season. No other of our winter growing 
plants supply so many flowers for cutting, 
nor so wide a range of color as the sweet 
pea. They should be given deep, rich soil 
and moderate irrigation, the latter in par¬ 
ticular, after the first flower buds appear. 
Excellent results follow planting them in 
trenches a few inches below the level of 
the ground, and gradually filling these in 
with soil and rotted material as the plants 
attain some size. This insures deep root¬ 
ing during the dry spring, with the result 
that the flowers continue of good quality 
for a much longer time. 
There are a few perennial species blos¬ 
soming in winter and early spring that 
should be planted at the same time as the 
annual flowers just noted. Of these the 
well known sweet or English violet is one 
of the most satisfactory. Besides blossom¬ 
ing freely during the winter, with mod¬ 
erate watering it remains green through¬ 
out the year, and even if allowed to go un¬ 
irrigated two or three months in the sum- 
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