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GREEN PEAS from June till August! 
More About the Garden Between Walls 
( Continued, from page 172) 
Do You Know This Secret? 
A bountiful succession of this toothsome delicacy 
is yours if you follow these simple directions 
Plant this collection of 6 choice varieties all at once 
this Spring, just as soon as the frost is out of the ground 
—and they will mature in the order named—producing a 
steady procession of big mouth-watering crops from about 
June 20th till late in August. 
The reason for this is evident. Peas must develop their roots 
in cool weather and so are able to supply sufficient moisture to leaf, 
flower and pod, as they rapidly multiply under the summer sun. 
On the other hand late planted peas are almost always a disappoint¬ 
ment, as every experienced gardener has reason to know. 
Here are varieties 
Schling’s Pedigree Extra-Early 
2% feet. The earliest Pea grown; 
large, well-filled pods. 
Gradus, or Prosperity 
3 feet. An early fine wrinkled Pea 
of delicious flavor. 
3. Sutton’s Exeelsior 
IV 2 feet. The most productive of 
dwarf medium-early wrinkled Peas. 
Very sweet. 
Dwarf Champion 
2V 2 feet. An enormous cropper. 
Broad pods, very sweet Peas. 
Improved Telephone 
5 feet. Enormous pods, filled with 
Peas of the finest quality. 
Heroine 
4 feet. Pods are large, deep green, 
somewhat curved; tender Peas of 
finest quality. 
Special 
Offer 
Long Season 
Collection of Peas 
Free delivery 
within 30 0 miles 
L of N. Y.; le- 
r yond, add 5 cents 
per lb. for post¬ 
age. 
Vi lb. each of all 6 varieties 
3 lbs. in all. $1.75 
j 1 lb. each of all six varieties, 
\ 6 lbs. in all.$2.75 
2 lbs. each of all six varieties, 
12 lbs. in all. $5.00 
No garden is too small for peas—insure yourself a real treat by ordering today. 
Schling’s Novelty Collection for 1923 a $6.25 value for $5.00 
Here is something you must have in your flower garden. 
No. 7—New Bedding Petunia Purple Queen. 
Exquisite, rich, clear purple, over¬ 
laid with a velvety sheen. An en¬ 
tirely new color; .pkt. 50c 
No. 8—Cynoglossum Heavenly Blue. A rare 
gem for your blue garden, 18 inches 
high, bushy, just one mass of lovely, 
brilliant blue forget-me-not-like 
flowers from May until frost; pkt. 50c 
No. 9—Clarkia Double Ruby King. Rich 
ruby red flowers resembling apple 
blossoms, thickly studded along the 
stem. Exquisite for cutting and bed¬ 
ding; .pkt. 50c 
No.10—New French Double Marigold 
“Dawn.” Flowers of perfect shape 
resembling the most perfect Double 
Pompom Dahlia; .pkt. 75c 
No.ll—Gazania Splendens Grandiflora. 
Beautiful, daisy-like, 2% inches 
diameter, long stems, loveliest colors, 
cream, terra-cotta, sunset, etc.; 
.pkt. 75c 
No.12 New Lilliput Poppy. A sensation, 
only 12 inches high, constantly in 
bloom. A lovely daybreak pink; 
.pkt. 25c 
No. 1—Schling’s Marvelous new Dahlia 
Zinnias—True aristocrats 6 to 7 
inches across, like huge Decorative 
Dahlias. Marvelous blendings of 
pastel colors, rich mixture pkt. 50c 
No. 2—Schling’s New Viscaria “Loyalty” 
flowers resembling in miniature the 
wild single rose, of a beautiful rich 
cornflower blue, plants 8 in. high, 
bushy and literally covered with 
flowers so dense that the leaves 
cannot be seen; .pkt. 50c 
No. 3—Schling’s New Viscaria “Inno¬ 
cence” pure white, forming a lovely 
contrast with “Loyalty" .pkt. 50c 
No. 4—The Wonderful Blue Lace Flower 
(Queen Anne’s Blue Lace)—Finely 
laced flowers of an exquisite blue 
shade borne on long stems; pkt. 50c 
No. 5—New Single Star Cactus Dahlia 
“Stella” — Remarkably attractive, 
like a starfish in shape, beautiful 
tints, fine long stems; .pkt. 50c 
No. 6—New Bedding Petunia Violet Queen. 
A rare gem! A real deep velvety 
violet blue, blooms as freely as 
"Rosy Morn"—Blooms throughout the 
summer; ..pkt. 50c 
26 West 59th St. 
New York City 
Our “Book for Garden Lovers” Free with any order or 25c. separately 
offering to have his associates on House 
& Garden send it. Mr. Chapin's reply 
to this offer comes as an assurance of 
his good faith. 
“Your offer to send me some bone 
meal was a stab in the conscience that 
has set me to wondering if mv en¬ 
thusiasm for garden making isn’t turn¬ 
ing me into a ‘Panhandle Pete’. Truth¬ 
fully, though, nothing was more remote 
from my thoughts, when in my previous 
letter I wrote that I’d ask my ‘Invisible 
Helpers’ to put me in touch with a 
philanthropist who was overstocked 
with bone meal. I know that all of 
those roses that are soon to be here will 
have to he generously fed, and having 
exhausted all of the rotted cow manure 
in the neighborhood I am rather up 
against the problem of a substitute fer¬ 
tilizer. A near-by rose specialist tells 
me that he considers bone meal the best 
of all fertilizers for roses and so I am 
puzzling my brains as to how I am to 
get it. Never having so much as heard 
of bone meal until I took up gardening 
a few months ago, I am unacquainted 
with any of the magnates who either 
manufacture or deal in the commodity. 
I know it is frightfully expensive, for 
the few bags of it I purchased last sum¬ 
mer cost me twice as much as my 
sugar did and put such a dent in my 
funds that I almost feared that I 
would have to abandon my much 
beloved pipe, or perhaps be driven to 
smoking alfalfa or dried mullen leaf. 
Did you smoke mullen leaf about the 
time your school days began? I did, 
and the taste of the horrid stuff lingers 
reminiscently with me to this day. No, 
please don’t you go to the trouble of 
sending bone meal. I have such im¬ 
plicit faith in the ‘Invisible Helpers’ I 
have mentioned that I am almost con¬ 
fident that the fertilizer I am in need 
of will get here ahead of the roses. 
“I wonder if you love roses as much 
as I do. I have some very lovely ones 
blooming in the greenhouse, varieties 
that were not known to me until a few 
months ago—‘Priscilla’ and ‘Pilgrim’ 
among them. Being somewhat old- 
fashioned and recalling the favorite in 
my mother’s garden, I wanted American 
Beauties, but what Mr. Pierson told me 
a few days ago about that highly prized 
rose checked my ambition to specialize 
with it. He was speaking of his in¬ 
ability to grow sufficient roses in the 
dull winter months to fill his orders and 
astounded me with the statement, born 
of long years of experience, that out 
of 50,000 American Beauty bushes he 
would think himself lucky if he could 
cut, in January and February, fifty 
roses a day. One rose, the daily 
harvest from a thousand bushes! Now 
I understand why I once had to pay 
as high as $50 a dozen for American 
Beauties at Christmas time. Mr. Pier¬ 
son also told me that every American 
Beauty he is cutting now cost him 
$3 to raise. I have since read of other 
varieties that in the summer time yield 
a hundred roses at a time, and I am 
thinking it is such that will make our 
rose garden look like the one in my 
dreams. A rose bush with a hundred 
blooms on it would look like a million 
dollars to my famished, rose hungry 
eyes. But a thousand bushes and a 
single rose a day, oh, oh! 
“Mr. Pierson has sent another book 
for my gardening library—Fritz Bahr’s 
‘Commercial Floriculture.’ A splendid 
text book even for an amateur, don't 
you think? I wonder how one human 
brain can ever contain so much infor¬ 
mation. I am devoting all of the time 
that I can to studying the contents of 
the book, but I calculate that I will 
have to live at least a thousand years 
to thoroughly learn a very small part 
of what Mr. Bahr knows about the 
cultivation of flowers. 
“I hope you will enjoy your trip to 
the land of azaleas and Bull Durham 
and that you will not find the inquisi¬ 
tive women of the garden clubs as em¬ 
barrassing as you anticipate. I agree 
with you that women know a powerful 
lot about gardening. I’d almost give 
my most treasured possession, Don, my 
pet canary and pal, to possess the knowl¬ 
edge of flowers that women like Mrs. 
King and Mrs. Ely so entertainingly 
put in their books, and the mention of 
gardening books reminds me to tell you 
that your own book is one of the very 
best I have yet seen. Remember the 
article in it that tells of an invisible 
presence in a flower garden? I often 
have ‘felt’ that presence both in the 
garden and in the greenhouse. A devout 
Catholic friend of mine would say it is 
a visitation of Saint Therese, ‘The 
Little Flower’. I haven’t attempted to 
explain it, even to myself. 
“The best of everything to you, Mr. 
Wright, and to your fine magazine. You 
are doing a great work.” 
After receiving this letter Mr. Wright 
accepted .the suggestion of J. Horace 
McFarland, of the American Rose 
Society, to act as “switchboard” for 
rose contributions. His letter to Mr. 
Chapin brought the following reply: 
“Splendid idea that of Mr. McFar¬ 
land, you acting in the capacity of 
clearing house for the contributions of 
American Rose Society members to our 
rose garden, and splendid of yo-u to 
consent to burden yourself with the 
work it will involve. In the same mail 
I received an inquiry from Frederick 
L. Atkins, of Bobbink & Atkins, Ruther¬ 
ford, N. J., asking how many bushes 
are needed to complete our garden. I 
hardly know how to reply to him, or to 
you, for the liberality of American 
horticulturists in contributing more than 
6,000 spring flowering bulbs has ren¬ 
dered my mind incapable of even think¬ 
ing in dozens. 
“When I read a description of a very 
beautiful rose garden in your magazine 
that had 400, I thought what a magnifi¬ 
cent. showing 400 bushes would make, 
but in the development of the plot War¬ 
den Lawes assigned to me, I found that 
I could easily plant more than twice 
that number—if I could obtain the 
hushes. In my layout there are ten beds 
for hybrid teas, eight beds with space 
for 48 bushes each and two beds with 
space for about 80 bushes each. The 
beds designed for hybrid perpetuals will 
hold about 100, and I could plant to 
good advantage several hundred Poly- 
anthas as edgings for the rose beds, at 
least 50 Climbers, and probably 50 
Rugosas. 
“This must read to you like the mad 
raving of an opium using enthusiast, and 
it will bring a doubt in your mind as to 
whether it is possible for convict gar¬ 
deners to properly care for the large 
number of roses that my ambitious 
dreams inspire, but please remember 
that I am personally at work in the 
garden or greenhouse every day, Sun¬ 
day included, from 5 a. m. until 
10 p. m., that I devote my entire time 
with unflagging energy to the work, and 
that our warden assigns as many in¬ 
mate helpers as there is need of. Be¬ 
sides a regular staff of helpers, carefully 
chosen, I can have twenty or thirty 
extra diggers and weeders at almost a 
moment's notice. We have what is 
called a Reception Company, which is 
composed of new recruits and who are 
isolated from other inmates for two 
weeks after their entrance into prison. 
Ordinarily these men would be kept 
locked in their cells for the two weeks 
they are undergoing observation and 
classification, so you can imagine what 
( Continued, on page 176) 
