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House & Garden 
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The terra-cotta Alt 
Baba jar with its 
musk-scented ram¬ 
bler roses harmon¬ 
izes with the sim¬ 
plicity of the Surrey 
cottage doorway 
Garden Vases 
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ply of soil for the plants it would 
carry. 
Every time the door is opened and a 
sun-warmed wind creeps through the 
house it passes by that bowl, coming in 
laden with the fragrance of the blooms 
it has met. And so the vase is planted 
from early spring until late in the year 
not only with flowers for their color 
but for perfume, too. 
In the center is a dwarf rambler rose 
of the musk variety, blooming first in 
early June and again in August. The 
illustration will serve to show that the 
vase in its rose-time is a very lovely 
greeting to encounter at a friend’s front 
door, especially when it distills, as this 
does, the heady and languorous scent 
of rose-musk. In spring it is filled, as 
far as the rose will permit, with hya¬ 
cinths; and after they have bloomed 
and passed, with late sowings of night- 
scented stock ( Matthiola bicornis ), or 
white tobacco plant (Nicotiana). 
To anyone who prefers not to be re¬ 
stricted to growing scented flowers the 
field of choice stretches wide and fair— 
a clear note may be struck with myo- 
sotis or arabis and tulips in all their 
wonderful range. There is no limit to 
the chords of color that may be sounded 
in one’s garden vases in springtime by 
using bulbs. They are the ideal medium. 
in fact, for they can be lifted and 
planted away in the garden for the 
foliage to die down, as soon as the 
blossom has passed; and the vases filled 
again by summer-blooming herbaceous 
growths like campanula, hydrangea, 
salvia, asters or geraniums, and latest 
of all by phlox. It is always easy to 
plunge pot plants into garden vases un¬ 
disturbed by removal, if considered ad¬ 
visable, just covering the rim of the pot 
with the soil in the vase so as to dis¬ 
guise its presence; but there is no deny¬ 
ing that in most cases the plants grow 
more freely and gracefully when taken 
out of their pots and planted into the 
greater liberty of the mould in the vase, 
which by-the-way should have perfect 
drainage and be made up of a rich, light 
compost, easily renewable. 
For those who do not happen to 
know of it, if any such there be nowa¬ 
days, the vigorous double-flowered ara¬ 
bis makes a most reliable and joyous 
carpet through which to grow the bulbs 
in spring, and when planted in vases 
has a pleasing habit of “boiling over” 
and hanging great frothy white heads 
of bloom down the sides. The pink 
and white of tulip Cottage Maid, or 
the salmon-gold of Clara Butt tulips 
peering through such a carpet is in¬ 
describably refreshing and naive. 
After the hya¬ 
cinth s have 
passed, their 
places in the 
jar are taken 
by night-scent¬ 
ed stock. The 
rambler rose, 
of course, re¬ 
mains 
