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House & Garden 
The Charm of Perennials 
Garden enthusiasts, who for a while transfer their 
efforts to some other flower groups, always go back 
to a perennial garden with increased appreciation. 
Surely no other flowers in the garden provide so much 
beauty and fragrance. 
Here is a collection just suited for home-grounds of 
average size, at a price which most people will appre¬ 
ciate. 
10 Aquilegia Hybrids (Columbine) 
10 Coreopsis lanceolata (Tickseed) 
10 Shasta Daisy 
10 Digitalis purpurea (Foxglove) 
10 Gaillardia grandiflora (Blanket Flower) 
10 Phlox paniculata (Hardy Phlox) 
10 Delphinium Hybrids (Larkspur) 
10 Papaver orientale (Oriental Poppy) 
10 Veronica spicata (Speedwell) 
10 Dianthus barbatus (Sweet William) 
100 plants (10 of each) $20 
50 plants ( 5 of each) $12 
If a proper selection of varieties is made, perennials will 
provide a continuous floral procession almost from the last 
snow of spring until the first snow in the fall. 
Japanese Iris Iris Kaempferi 
Eighteen strong plants, three each of the six varieties 
named, representing six distinct colors or combinations 
of colors. $5. 
Varieties: 
Mr. Fell Pyramid Crystal 
Orion Chameleon Gold Bound 
All the colors of the rainbow seem to have been gathered 
together in the most fascinating combinations in this group of 
the Iris family. 
German Iris 
Eighteen strong plants, three each of the six varieties 
named, $5. 
Varieties: 
Beauty Pallida dalmatica Bridesmaid 
Gertrude Honorabilis Pres. Thiers 
This group offers the widest range of color from pure white 
to all shades of mauve and from blue to dark purple. 
Illustrated folder describing these and other collections sent 
on request. For general nursery stock, ask for our complete 
catalogue. 
Outpost Nurseries 
DANBURY ROAD, RIDGEFIELD, CONN. 
Notes of the Garden Clubs 
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moving picture houses, some of the 
prize-winning pictures. These show 
that Butte is no longer barren of vege¬ 
tation as in the days of the sulphur 
fumes, before the smelters were moved 
away. The chief accomplishment of 
the garden dub has been filling sixteen 
porch boxes for the Community House 
and the landscaping and planting of the 
grounds of the Butte Tourist Park 
Camp, forty trees being planted, mostly 
on Memorial Day, honoring heroes of 
the World War. The chief plan of the 
club is the further planting on the 
campus of the School of Mines, where 
trees and vines have already been 
placed, with the assistance of Dr. 
Craven and the students, Manager J. 
R. Wharton of the Columbia Gardens 
donating the trees. Among those who 
lectured for the Club were Dr. Kirk¬ 
wood of the University of Montana, 
who told of “Native Trees and Flowers 
of Montana”, Mr. Kitridge of the For¬ 
est Service who used an “Exhibit of 
Trees” to illustrate his talk, Mr. Victor 
Siegel who spoke on “Trees, Parks, and 
Suburban Gardens”, Mr. C. F. Dallman 
who demonstrated “Proper Pruning of 
Trees”, and Mrs. Higgins who lectured 
about “Art in the Garden” and “Plan¬ 
ning the Home Grounds”, using slides 
and photographs. In a talk on the 
"Feasibility of Transplanting Wild 
Country Growth to the City Grounds”, 
Deputy-Forester William Baldwin dis¬ 
cussed numerous trees and shrubs, sug¬ 
gesting that wild roses be used for 
hedges, and for a mixed border hedge 
that a combination of mahogany, 
rabbit-bush, snowberry and sagebrush 
be tried. Members of the garden club 
successful in specialties are Mr. Victor 
Siegal, professional gardener at the 
Columbia Gardens, who grows excep¬ 
tionally fine pansies at the altitude of 
6200', Mr. G. A. Free with a new 
variety of garden pea and a double 
calliopsis, and Miss Ethel Brinck who 
has perfected an “eyeless potato”. 
Giant sweet peas have been grown by 
Mrs. Moroney, Mrs. Harris and Mrs. 
Bell, while Mrs. Higgins’ cosmos are 
V/ 2 " to SW in diameter, and the asters 
of Mr. and Mrs. Norris are sometimes 
5" across. Mrs. Norris, Mrs. Bell and 
Mrs. Higgins have written extensively 
on horticultural and related subjects for 
publication, also have done practical 
garden designing. Mrs. L. P. Keefe 
has made a successful rock garden of 
an unusual type. 
Ellen Palnter Cunningham 
MORE ABOUT THE GARDEN 
BETWEEN WALLS 
I N THE February issue we had the 
pleasure of publishing the letter of 
Charles Chapin, life-termer in Sing 
Sing, regarding the garden he made 
from plants sent him by flower lovers. 
This letter has attracted wide attention. 
Apropos of it, we suggested that in 
long term prisons the lifers be per¬ 
mitted to take care of the grounds and 
raise flowers. On reading this a garden 
club in Florida started working toward 
this end in the local prison. 
Besides making a perennial border 
489' long, Mr. Chapin plans to make 
a rose garden at Sing Sing with the co¬ 
operation of Warden Lawes. Members 
of the American Rose Society have al¬ 
ready contributed sufficient plants to 
fill the quota. One bed was taken 
in the name of the Flushing Garden 
Club of Flushing, L. I. 
Mr Chapin’s first letter read— 
“It seems as if I am always to make 
excuses to those I owe letters to; this 
time it is neuritis, that has so crippled 
my right arm that even typing is painful. 
I have rubbed nearly a gallon of Sloan’s 
into it and put on red hot poultices of 
antiphlogistin and flaxseed, and I have 
read Coue, but medication and repeat¬ 
ing ‘qa passe, Qa passe’ haven't helped. 
It is like toothache, only one can have 
a rebellious tooth extracted, but is timid 
about having his arm cut off. Coue’s 
autosuggestion, like Mother Eddy’s 
‘Science and Health’, will cure when, 
as I once heard a hotel chambermaid 
put it, ‘you ain’t got what you’ve got,’ 
but my neuritis is no imaginary ail¬ 
ment. Some days it pains so that I 
am sorely tempted to try amputation, 
though I so far have been able to 
restrain the impulse to surrender my¬ 
self to our accommodating surgeon. 
Don’t ever get neuritis, Mr. Wright, or 
you’ll lose your angelic disposition. 
“I am cheerfully undergoing torture 
now to express my gratitude for your 
kind words about our prison flower 
garden in February House & Garden, 
although if I had thought that my 
hastily written letter to you was to be 
given such widespread publicity I’d 
have tried to write something more 
worthy of the valuable space you gave 
to it. 
“Your suggestion about getting up 
clubs to supply planting material for 
gardens in other prisons is excellent, as 
is the one about having prisoners under¬ 
going life sentences assigned to the gar¬ 
dening, and it might work out if all 
Wardens were as progressive and broad¬ 
minded as our Major Lawes, but I very 
much doubt if there is another like him. 
I have asked some of my friends who 
have had a more diversified prison ex¬ 
perience than I, if other prisons they 
had ‘done time’ in had flower gardens, 
and what they tell me is not encourag¬ 
ing to your plan. One told of a new 
Warden who tore up flower beds and 
planted them with cabbages, and chop¬ 
ped down all of the shade trees to give 
the cabbage plants more sun. 
“Let me tell you something more 
cheerful, a bit of news that is filling my 
heart with gratitude. Remember my 
telling you in previous letter that I have 
laid out a ratber ambitious rose garden, 
and although I didn’t know w’here the 
bushes to put in the beds were to come 
from, my faith that they would come 
from some source was such that I could 
almost vision the garden gorgeous with 
bloom? Well, letters from Mr. McFar¬ 
land of the American Rose Society give 
assurance that as many plantings as I 
have space for will be sent me early in 
the spring, and what is particularly 
gratifying is that the contribution is a 
spontaneous offering, unsolicited by 
myself or my friends. I am now hop¬ 
ing that my ‘Invisible Helpers’ will 
put me in touch with a philanthropist 
who is overstocked with bone meal. 
“I am looking forward to your 
promised visit, for I am sure that it 
will be a genuine pleasure to meet an 
editor who can write about our prison 
flower garden without rehearsing the 
details of the distressing act that placed 
me here. With all good wishes.” 
To this Mr. Wright replied asking 
how much bone meal was required, and 
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