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An Intimate Garden 
(Continued from page 148) 
Name 
Color 
Height 
When in .bloom 
Summer house covered 
with clematis and Dorothy 
Perkins 
Salmon pink 
Grow 
rapidly 
June 21st. 
Canterbury bells in cor¬ 
ner of beds 
Pale blues and Violets 
3' to 4' 
June 21st. 
Lilium speciosium album 
beds 
White 
3' to 4' 
August 2nd. 
Lilium speciosium album 
and rubrum 
Pinkish 
3' to 4' 
August 20th. 
Foxgloves 
White and spotted and 
pale lilac 
3' to 4' 
June 13th. 
Sweet william 
Coral pink 
1' to 2' 
Tune 
Phlox 
White and coral 
2' to 4' 
Early in July 
Delphinium 
All shades of blue 3 to 4 
crops 
Vi* 
0 
Vi 
June to Oct. 
Hollyhocks outside edge 
of garden 
Pink double 
4' to 8' 
July to Aug. 
Veronica 
Blue 
2' 
August 
Salvia 
Blue 
3' to 4' 
August 
Roses all varieties 
Pink 
3 ' to 4' 
4' to 5' 
All summer. 
Anchusa 
Blue 
In July 
Zinnia—Dwarf 
Coral pink 
16" to 2' 
End of June 
to frost. 
Peonies 
Pink and deep red 
2' 
June 
enjoy a bit of color? “Won’t you 
come and see my garden?” ask so 
many hostesses, after a much too gen¬ 
erous lunch. And the guest, if she 
dares, says, “Isn’t it too far?” or “Isn’t 
the sun too hot?” or “How about my 
slippers?” 
Consequently, plan an “estimate 
garden”, close to the house. 
The flowers in the garden shown 
here blossom as shown in the plant¬ 
ing list. By comparing this list with 
the plan, one may find many valuable 
suggestions for making an intimate 
garden. 
The garden at the left has a row 
of white phlox in front of which is 
a row of pink roses. The end of the 
garden nearest the house has a row of 
pink peonies; at the left of garden, run¬ 
ning the entire length, a double row of 
blue delphiniums. 
The beds 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 are 
planted with perennials. 
The annuals are many dwarf salmon 
pink zinnia. 
At the end of the garden is a tall 
screen of lilacs, in front of which is 
planted, first the pink sweet william, 
to be followed by the coral phlox. 
Hooked Rugs 
(Continued from page 124) 
the great bulk of the hooked rugs with 
floral, animal and bird designs are un¬ 
questionably of a much later period. 
Moreover, the writer has failed to find 
in any 18th Century book or in any 
18th Century inventory that he has ex¬ 
amined, a reference to a hooked rug, 
I realize that this does not prove that 
hooked rugs were unknown in that 
century. 
The best of the old hooked rugs are 
truly beautiful, both in respect to their 
color and design. Fortunately a goodly 
number of them have come down to 
us, and such stand forth in distinct con,- 
trast to the garish specimens of so much 
later a day, which are as yet, quite un¬ 
softened by the hand of Time. Our 
present interest in strong color in deco¬ 
ration gives a well-designed hooked rug 
even of modern make a place in the 
decoration scheme, just as the present- 
day encouragement of the “quaint” wel¬ 
comes Staffordshire dogs, Whieldon cats, 
Nottingham bears, keramic cottages and 
the like again to the mantel-shelf. In¬ 
deed, the hooked rug finds such great 
favor today that the revival of its mak¬ 
ing has been begun by various enthus¬ 
iastic craftworkers. Even in Nova 
Scotia many interesting hooked rugs are 
being turned out by ingenious and in¬ 
dustrious northland workers, and the 
art is one to be encouraged. 
Finally it may be mentioned that old 
hooked rugs lend themselves admirably 
to cleaning, mending and restoration in 
general, and any old rugs of this genre 
that may be found in pathetic and neg¬ 
lected state will probably fully repay 
anv attempt at a metamorphosis. 
G. T. 
Sunflowers 
(Continued from page 120) 
“Autumn Glory”. Although I cannot 
testify as to the attractiveness of its 
flower, I can say that it grows readily 
from seed and has handsome narrow 
glossy foliage of a beautiful deep green 
color. Mine were sown late and al¬ 
though the plants were full of buds 
they were cut down by the devastating 
frost and snow storm which came in 
the early part of October. Basing my 
conclusion upon this short acquain¬ 
tance and the report of an expert gar¬ 
dener friend I am sure that it will prove 
a valuable addition to the list. 
It would be hardly fair to leave the 
subject without calling attention to the 
fact that the Jerusalem artichoke which 
so many of us remember as growing 
in some corner of a grandfather’s garden 
patch and as furnishing a different 
even if a somewhat tasteless occasional 
dish in early spring when fresh vege¬ 
tables were a rarity, is also a member 
of the sunflower group, known to the 
botanists as Helinathus Tuberosus. 
Jerusalem in this case is merely a cor¬ 
ruption of the Italian word for Sun¬ 
flower, girasole. John L. Rea. 
