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your 
Proper equipment 
for easier gardening 
L ight tools for 
/tender flower 
beds; heavy tools for 
vegetable rows; weed- 
ers, sprinklers, grass 
hooks — in fact every 
practical need for plant¬ 
ing, cultivating and har¬ 
vesting the garden 
patch around your home 
may be obtained at 
Lewis & Conger’s. 
HAND TOOLS 
Garden tools of sturdy En¬ 
glish steel ivith securely at¬ 
tached handles. Hand trowel 
60 c, daisy grubber 75c, and 
spading fork 60 c. 
WATERING CANS 
Dainty hand painted 
watering c dm s for 
flower gardens. 2 
quart size $2.38. 8 
quart galvanized iron 
cans $2.63. 
GARDEN BASKET 
Contains tools for trim¬ 
ming and nursing the 
early flowers of your 
garden. Includes scis¬ 
sors, pruning shears, 
spool of wire, wire 
clippers, twine, and 
pliers $18.25 complete 
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KNEELING MAT 
You can kneel on this mat and 
take the strain out of garden 
work. Made of woven straw 
with waterproof bottom $1.50. 
garden Sets 
Four durable tools comprise 
these sets. The rake and fork 
have strong, sharp teeth. The 
hoe and spade have good cut¬ 
ting edges. $10. 
DE LUXE BASKET 
Finely finished, con¬ 
taining trowels, fork, 
hammer, flower scis¬ 
sors, weed hook, dib- 
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shears, wire and 
twine, all of excep¬ 
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ity. Price $27.00 
Without tools $17.50. 
S HOULD a visit here be inconvenient, your 
orders by mail will be given the same 
prompt and careful service that patrons invariably 
receive when they come to Lewis & Conger’s. 
[ewis&Qinger 
9 Floors of Home Equipment 
45th Street & 6th Avenue, New York 
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My Garden In Midsummer 
( Continued, from page 67) 
where ramblers like fruit blossoms are sulphur yellow with outer petals spread 
always seen at their loveliest. But the well back. The' newly opened roses 
teaching here is that the rambler rose have an enchanting pale copper hue 
calls for a background of green and which sets this rose apart; and the half 
of smooth dark green if possible, clipped opened buds show the deep colored cen- 
aborvitae, clipped spruce or other rich- ter where petals are still folded, the 
hued non-deciduous tree or hedge. In outer ones of the light copper again. 
England it is, of course, the yew that The foliage is of a medium light green, 
encircles the loveliest rose gardens; it is leaves more slender perhaps than on the 
against that wall of green that the ropes average rambler, flowers averaging eight 
and festoons of gay pink roses swing and ten to the cluster, 
and smile. Against low clipped privet, delphini- 
“It is delightful,” says Lady Eden in urns, taller than ever before, raise their 
“A Garden- in Venice,” “to pick one’s blue spires. In places Annchen Mueller 
strawberries and cut one’s tea roses or Ellen Poulsen dwarf ramblers send 
from the same bed.” This delight is forth sprays of glowing pink blooms, 
not reserved for Italy but is our own these melting into the pale rose-colored 
experience in Michigan. Eighteen fine masses of Canterbury Bells beside them, 
bushes of rose Los Angeles skirt our the two most excellent near each other, 
four rows of that luscious strawberry, As for heucheras (the only color blot 
John H. Cook, than which, incidentally, on my garden this season, but so lovely, 
a finer berry never grew to the propor- flaming delicately about the darkest red 
tions of a youthful tomato, or reddened Sweet Williams, that I simply have to 
to the color of one. The combination* leave them in the garden beds), they 
of the gathering and plucking of seeds, have flowered in a manner truly im- 
flowers and fruit is irresistible. pressive. I must conclude that they 
too love space and air. There has 
The Lilies seemed to be no check at all from a 
recent replanting; in fact, everything 
To look on lilies in the garden’s green we moved has prospered under the 
spaces, and as one looks to hear the process. Even the one precious plant 
sound of falling water, is an ecstacy of Delphinium Moerheimi which we di¬ 
in midsummer which is new, for these vided into four, with some hesitation, 
are not ordinary lilies. These are not is sending up three white flowered 
the lovely candidum, or the gracefully stems. Phlox Arendsii in its varying 
hanging Nankeen lily, though both are soft colors .of pinkish lavender and of 
in bloom now in my garden in scattered white, is now, July first, in full bloom, 
groups. No, this is that glory of a and back of its rounded groups are 
lily, whose noble adjective is Regale, whitening the buds of the madonna lily 
and I have it this year in profusion. I held high on their tall stems. Shasta 
do not envy even the charming writer daisies are opening below, budding sea 
of “A Garden in Venice” as she de- holly and some of those luscious violet 
scribes her Madonna lilies, often with petunias, known as Karlsruhe Balcony, 
eight to twenty flowers on one stalk and are opening in secluded spots as if to 
the stalk five feet high. These virgin prove their August and September 
lilies have their own pure pale beauty, worth. Delphinium blight, which 
and that beauty none will deny. The seemed to hover seriously over this 
Nankeen lily has a quaint charm of garden last year, has been gotten well 
form, habit and color too; so has in hand now, thanks to the lime and 
L. Henryu, a vivid and graceful flower; tobacco treatment recommended by 
so has L. elegans, that fiery upstanding Miss McGregor of Springfield, Ohio, 
bloom; but Regale surpasses them all. 
That glowing trumpet, that slender rosy Dwarf Ramblers 
bud, those rich white pointed petals, J 
and to crown all, that incomparable It is seldom that I find myself with 
fragrance—not heavy like L. auratum’s, two opinions about a flower; but two 
but as fresh and delicate as that of I hold concerning the dwarf crimson 
heliotrope. So soon as the sun drops rambler rose. That harsh crimson, almost 
in the West, before even twilight has as difficult to place as the over-bright 
come on, this matchless perfume rises hue of Azalea amoena in spring, and so 
on the evening air in the “dewey light”, painful to contemplate as its clusters 
and all the garden seems of an un- take on the purplish hue which fore- 
earthly sweetness. I like these lilies tells their end—that same crimson when 
planted above low subjects at the op- set near the violet Salvia virgata nemo- 
posite ends of narrow beds; while in rosa, becomes a crowning beauty on the 
bloom they serve as accents, their garden’s brow. No finer perennial plant 
slightly bending stems and handsome for late June in our latitude can there 
flowers clear cut then against green- be than this purple salvia. Entirely 
sward. The play of light and shade hardy, its inflorescence a multitude of 
upon* such flowers is one of the most upright spikes of small violet flowers, 
lovely minor sights to be seen in July, it has the effect of violet velvet in 
Occasionally four flowers .open on the certain lights. Its glory however reaches 
top of one stem—more often two or a great height when the dwarf crimson 
three. I am so lucky as to have about rambler neighbors it. These plants, like 
one hundred L. Regale in bloom this happy lovers, seem made for each other, 
year; and neveri have I seen these The rose and the salvia’coincide in time 
squares of green turf so admirably of bloom. There is an agreeable con- 
flanked by perfect flowers as at this trast in the form of leaf and flower 
moment. masses and no sumptuous velvet cloak 
The elegance and charm of a little new of a Venetian Doge could show a, 
Rambler Ghiselaine de Feligonde are prouder splendor of color than is 
beyond putting into words. The flame brought forth by this coupling of 
colored bud opens well in water and flower groups above green turf. I there- 
the variety of tones of color is re- fore recommend to owners of dwarf 
markable in a cluster of say six roses, crimson ramblers the securing of this 
a few half open buds and two or three superb perennial salvia- to give meaning 
small ones still tight, but showing color, and beauty to what is otherwise a 
Three of the open flowers are pale troublesome possession in plants. 
