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G a r dei 
25 Aristocrats of 
Rose Garden 
T HE very best and most dependable of the old 
and the new—all tried and proven. These 25 
varieties have given joy to countless rose enthusi¬ 
asts, and will afford a pleasing contrast of color and 
form and a profusion of choice blooms from June to 
November. 
We have set aside 5000 of these unusually strong 
field grown plants for Spring delivery while they 
last. Offered only in two collections, as follows: 
No. 1 — 25 Assorted (one of each variety).$25.00 
No. 2—12 Assorted (our own selection). 12.50 
The 25 Varieties in 
Mrs. Arthur R. Waddell —apricot 
Ophelia —flesh pink suffused sal¬ 
mon 
Pharisaer —rosy white suffused 
salmon 
Premier —dark pink 
Red Radiance —deep red 
Mrs. Ed. Herriot —coral red 
shaded yellow 
Etoile de France —velvety crimson 
La Tosca —silver pink 
Laurent Carl —deep crimson 
Dean Hole —bright carmine 
Mrs. W. C. Miller —blush, shaded 
salmon 
Mrs. Jules Bouche —white shaded 
primrose 
Betty —coppery rose 
Columbia —beautiful pink 
Duchess of Wellington —saffron 
yellow 
General MacArthur —velvety scar¬ 
let 
Gruss an Teplitz —crimson scarlet 
Jonkheer Mock —cherry-red, re¬ 
verse of petals pink 
Killarney Queen —clear pink 
Lady Alice Stanley —coral rose 
Lady Ashton —pale carmine pink 
Lady Ursula —flesh pink 
Mme. Carline Testout —satiny 
rose 
Mme. Leon Pain —salmon pink 
Mrs. Aaron Ward —Indian yellow 
No. 3 Collection of Standard or Tree Roses, 4 dis¬ 
tinct varieties in assorted colors (strong field-grown 
plants) .$ 10.00 
No. 4 Collection of Climbing Roses, 6 of tile choicest 
in assortment, cf 3 colors (strong field-grown 
plants) .$5.00 
These assortments guaranteed on all orders received before 
March 15 th. Prices on larger quantities gladly quoted on ap¬ 
plication. 
Our Spring Catalogue describes an unusual assortment of 
ornamental nursery stock, and will be of help to you in plan¬ 
ning your 1923 garden. Write for it. 
Outpost Nurseries 
y Road Ridgefield, Conn. 
A Garden Between Walls 
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untutored and inexperienced in the art growers all the way from Maine to 
of cultivation of the Creator's loveliest California, until a border 4o9 feet in 
gifts to mankind. length was filled and another border 
When I came to Sing Sing, nearly in a remote section of the prison 
four years ago, 1 was dismayed by grounds had to be created to take care 
the squalid appearance of the place of the overflow. 
where I am to spend the remainder On the day I began my fifth year 
of my life. The yard was covered behind prison walls I planted the first 
with crushed boulders, heaps of scrap Blue Spruce and was so proud of it 
iron, and almost every description of that I would come into the garden at 
litter. There was but a small patch 5 o’clock in the morning to admire 
of grass and but a single bed of its beautiful foliage. A friend came to 
flowers. Because of the suspension visit me and shared my admiration to 
of our prison paper, ‘‘The Sing Sing the extent of buying me five more 
Bulletin”, of which I was editor, like it, and when another friend, a few 
Warden Lawes granted me the privilege weeks later, asked why I didn’t continue 
of doing what I could to make the in- the planting to the end of the cell 
terior grounds more attractive and I block and was told “there is but one 
set to work in earnest, believing that reason”, he guessed what it was and 
flowers, and trees, and shrubs, and suggested that they be ordered and 
lawns would aid our progressive, high the bill sent to him. The trees had 
minded Warden in his efforts to make begun a life sentence in Sing Sing be- 
better men out of bad ones. My fore the final whistle blew the following 
greatest handicap was lack of planting day. 
material, the appropriation for upkeep 
of grounds being so small that almost praying for bulbs 
a full quarterly allowance was ex¬ 
hausted in purchasing for my use a Another friend sent $50 to buy some- 
lawn mower and garden hose. After thing tor the garden and I had a hard 
that I must need wait three months struggle trying to decide how my for- 
for funds to become available before tune should be spent. Fifty dollars 
even a small quantity of grass seed is a lot of money to a “lifer”, yet 
could be had. The only alternative when I studied the pages of the florists 
was to dig deep into my tobacco catalogues my heart craved so many 
money and buy the seed myself, beautiful plants described in them that 
When the grass began to grow I dug I felt like a child with a penny to 
deeply again and filled a few beds spend shopping for bonbons at Mail- 
with flowers. The greatest joy I had lard's. I longed for flowering shrubs 
known during the years I had been in an d I longed as longingly for spring 
prison was when I saw the lovely flowering bulbs. There was a choking 
blooms of a few dozen gladiolus bulbs 1 ° m y throat when I wrote an order 
another inmate and myself almost be- f° r shrubs, hut no sooner had the letter 
came bankrupt to acquire. And I §°p e than I spied Father Cashin, our 
know of no more gratifying achieve- prison chaplain. I asked him to offer 
rnent than when I coaxed grass to grow a special prayer for bulbs, and he did, 
in spaces that had been barren for and the ver y next day came a letter 
almost a century, more soul satisfying from a bulb importer on Long Island, 
to me than anything I ever did during saying that he had just heard about 
the forty years I wasted in paper mak- our prison garden and, “although our 
ing. house was robbed last week I am send¬ 
ing you 500 tulip bulbs to help beautify 
SING SING SOIL y° ur prison and hope they will gladden 
the hearts of your associates.” I quoted 
Sing Sing was built on a swamp, the scriptural lines, “Have faith, thou 
the ground filled in with crushed rock shalt be fed,” as I read the letter and 
and blackened cinders, with a few the next letter I opened was from an- 
inches of soil on top. We had to dig other seedsman, saying that he would 
this out and cart it away to make a send a contribution of 400 bulbs as 
flower garden, substituting truckloads soon as his importations arrived from 
of friable soil and fertilizer that our Holland. And now I have planted 
Warden had brought in from outside m ore than 6,000 bulbs. Fifteen 
the prison. For economical reasons he hundred came from one contributor 
could supply no funds to buy planting ai )d 2,000 from another. Perhaps you 
material, but he gave generously splen- W *H draw a lesson in the expansion 
did cooperation in assigning as many an d contraction of the human mind 
helpers as needed to carry on the work, when I tell you that one of the most 
and in bringing in soil and fertilizers. famous flower growers around New 
One day Mr. Pierson, the Tarrytown ^ °rk sent six tulips, six daffodils, and 
“Rose King” sent me a load of plants three hyacinths. Of course, he couldn’t 
and simultaneously came a contribution P°ssibly have known that the Garden 
from the gardens of Mr. Adolph Lewi- My Dreams would make the Gar- 
sohn. Other kind friends sent contri- den of Eden look like a cabbage patch, 
butions and some of them spread word hut I.wrote him a letter of grateful 
of what we are trying to do in our appreciation that was as genuine as 
intramural environment, bringing the *he letter I sent a few days later to 
most liberal response from flower the big minded man who sent 2 , 000 . 
growers I have never heard of, some 
sending a few plants and some by the THE R0SE garden 
hundreds. The first contribution of 
Iris was a dozen, the next day came Perhaps you will be interested in our 
two boxes by express from another rose garden. Two months ago I hoped 
grower, in the boxes 500 of his choicest diat -*■ m ight be able to plant a dozen 
varieties. A peony specialist in Minne- rose bushes, for the rose is one of my 
sota sent a single root by parcel post, best loved flowers. Came the day when 
while another in Massachusetts and one the Warden gave me a much coveted 
in Nebraska sent three dozen each, not ar *d with it came an ambitious 
culled from their gardens, but the best P lan for a rose garden that my wildest 
they had. Other contributions came dreams had not yet contemplated, 
in rapid succession until we had more House & Garden” helped to shape my 
than 150 Peonies planted, digging out dream with a picture of a gorgeous 
rock and gravel three feet square and garden in which 400 rose bushes were 
three feet deep and filling the holes full bloom. Instantly I decided 
with well fertilized soil, for each one that our garden should have 400 bushes, 
of them. Many hundreds of plants f badn t a remote idea of where the 
for the perennial order came from (Continued on page 138) 
