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Burpee's Annual 
The Leading American Seed Catalog 
Burpee’s Annual is the catalog that tells the 
plain truth about The Best Seeds That Grow. 
It describes the Burpee Quality Seeds. 
Burpee’s Annual is a complete guide to the 
vegetable and flower garden. It is a handsome 
book of 1 88 pages with more than a hundred of 
the finest vegetables and flowers illustrated in 
the colors of nature. 
If you are interested in gardening, Burpee’s 
Annual will be mailed to you free. Write for 
your “Annual” today. Just tear off the coupon 
and fill in your name and address below. 
- --TEAR HERE = — 
W. ATLEE BURPEE CO. 
Seed Growers Philadelphia. 
Please send me a free copy of Burpee’s Annual. 
9—2 
Name 
R. D. or Street 
State 
A Garden Between Walls 
(Continued from page 136) 
bushes would come from, but I had 
“faith” and I believed that if only 
part of the potential 400 arrived in 
time for planting this fall the remainder 
would come in the spring, and if not 
in the spring then in the early fall 
and the following spring. I began 
making rose beds and a skilled inmate 
artisan began fashioning a fountain 
to ornament the center of it. Then 
came a jolt—I had exhausted the supply 
of manure at the prison stables. That 
night I awoke with a remembering 
thought of having read not long ago 
that a wealthy man who owns a large 
estate near here has large herds of 
blooded cattle, and I could hardly 
wait for my cell to be unlocked that 
I might write him a letter and tell 
him of my problem. The following 
morning a messenger called at the 
prison to say that I might have as much 
manure as I needed. I got four truck- 
loads and every ounce of it went into 
the beds where the 400 “dream” roses 
are to grow. Last week the first con¬ 
tribution unexpectedly arrived, a gift 
from the “Rose King” of Tarrytown, 
100 of Mr. Pierson’s choicest varieties. 
The entire collection was painstakingly 
planted within a few hours, for we 
make it a rule to never put off plant¬ 
ing until tomorrow if it can possibly 
be avoided. I have assurance that 
another contribution will reach here 
before the ground freezes, and now I 
am wondering if I may not safely raise 
the 400 limit to—well, one can plant 
manv rose bushes in a plot that is 
69 x' 157. 
TOE GREENHOUSE 
Can you imagine how happy I am 
over the fact that our Warden is hav¬ 
ing a greenhouse built for my exclusive 
use in a secluded spot where no con¬ 
vict foot is permitted to intrude. I 
expect to spend most of my working 
hours in it during the winter. It will 
be ready in a few days and Mr. Pierson, 
is coming over with a contribution of 
plants to help me dedicate it. A 
woman who has recently sold her 
country home and has taken a kindly 
interest in our garden, last week emptied 
her conservatory and sent all of her 
fine plants to adorn the new green¬ 
house, such a collection that I never 
hoped to possess. 
ON HOUSE & GARDEN 
I am delighted with the suggestion 
in your letter that you will try to run 
up and visit me. Please do. I would 
be highly honored to receive a visit 
from the editor of what good Doctor 
Pangloss would have appraised the 
“best of all possible magazines.” I 
prize it above ad other literature. You 
cannot imagine how impatient I got 
because the Novemberissue was delayed 
and how surprised I was to see our 
garden mentioned among your edito¬ 
rials. In the beginning of my garden¬ 
ing activities my only text book on the 
cultivation of flowers was an antiquated 
and badly mutilated seed catalogue. 
I am now acquiring a library that any 
gardener might be proud to possess. 
Loren Palmer, editor of “Collier’s 
Weekly”, presented me with a com¬ 
plete set of Luther Burbank’s fascinat¬ 
ing books, Glen Frank, editor of “Cen¬ 
tury Magazine” sent me Taylor’s “The 
Complete Garden”, which I find very 
valuable, and I have several other 
books, besides a number of instructive 
pamphlets issued by the Department of 
Agriculture at Washington. Of the five 
books you sent I like most your own 
“Book of Gardens.” As you say, it 
is both practical and inspirational. I 
wish I could have had it four months 
ago, when I began making The Garden 
of My Dreams. Yes, do visit me, but 
come in the springtime, when the 6,000 
spring flowering bulbs are in bloom. 
You need have n,o fear that our keepers 
will not let you out. Only very bad 
men are detained. 
I didn't mean to bore you with so 
long a letter. I have almost broken 
my pledge never to write another book. 
Please forgive my offending, freshly 
oiled typewriter, which has almost gone 
on a spree after the long rest it has 
had. Note that my typewriter is an, 
“it”. 
With every good wish, and with 
sincere appreciation, 
(signed) Charles Chapin 69690 
PERENNIALS for SOUTHERN GARDENS 
W HEN the gardens of other sec¬ 
tions are covered with February 
snows, in the favored South the early 
perennials are beginning to bloom, to¬ 
gether with the wealth of spring blos¬ 
soming bulbs and shrubs. The flesh- 
pink, orchid, and snow white of the 
evergreen candytuft, Iberis semper- 
virens and hybrids, will be among the 
first flowers to show. In sheltered situ¬ 
ations where there is sun they always 
begin to bloom in February. Protected 
from the north winds sometimes they 
flower as early as the New Year, but if 
planted in open spaces they do not 
bloom until later on in March and 
April. Whenever an evergreen carDet 
is needed, or an edging for a border, 
or broad low evergreen masses with an 
early flowering season, plant this candy¬ 
tuft. Get plants, however, for the seed 
is hard to germinate and the plants 
difficult to establish, while the larger 
plants transplant easily. 
Golden Coreopsis, with the blue gray 
of the African daisies, make a charming, 
dependable combination for early bloom, 
long season and easy cultivation. Where 
there is room and sun there is nothing 
finer than these two plants with Es- 
choltzia californica, the California pop¬ 
pies, with their masses of tawny orange 
and bright yellow in the foreground. 
The latter are annuals but sow them¬ 
selves so freely that once established 
they need only to be thinned out oc¬ 
casionally to keep them from covering 
the earth. In that too often neglected 
space where the lawn ends and the 
shrubbery begins, as well as in the 
perennial borders, the poppies make 
sheets of clear golden sunshine in the 
grass for many weeks. Try them— 
but if you want them to come up the 
second season do not break up the soil 
where they were planted after the 
middle of October—but watch for 
the feathery gray-green leaflets. 
Some one has said and many be¬ 
lieve that those most wonderful of all 
our perennials, Paeonia Sinensis, will 
not grow and flourish in the South. At 
the Hermitage, Andrew Jackson’s old 
homestead near Nashville there are 
clumps of the old-fashioned peonies 
which have been growing undisturbed 
for uncounted years, while near by 
are clusters of iris and Madonna lilies 
of which the same can be said. In 
North Carolina peonies of all colors 
are also a part of the garden history 
of other days as well as of the present. 
In the lower, warmer sections it is only 
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