IT’S TIME FOR... 
Shade! 
July is the time of year one begins to use his 
shady areas for living, so let's take a look at your 
shade gardens. There must be room for more color 
overhead, so how about another couple of hanging 
Fuchsia baskets? We have about twenty named 
varieties of Fuchsias full grown and in full bloom 
in four-inch baskets, some streaming with blue 
Lobelia, some just Fuchsias, priced as low as you 
could make them up and grow and train them. 
Further splendid subjects for hanging pots or 
baskets are Sedum morganianum (Donkey’'s tail] 
which is handsome the year around; Sedum sieboldi .. 
with gray succulent foliage and soft pink flowers; 
delicate glacier Ivy in dark green and white; Lotus 
Bertholetti, with needle-like gray foliage and dark 
red bird's-bill blossoms, for sun or shade (don't 
keep it too wet); and Begonia scharffiana with great 
red velvet leaves and rosy-red flowers. 
Tuberous Begonias in pots, a group of three or 
more, are a gay solution to a shady end of the 
terrace. And what is more showy on starlight eve- 
nings than a whole bed of white Impatiens backed 
with white Hydrangea? Don't forget Streptocarpus, 
too, for setting in the now fading early summer 
shade bed—blue, violet, raspberry, pink and white. 
It's perennial, resembles Gloxinia but is much easier. 
Mass bedding from flats this month gives you two 
more blue subjects, Browallia and Torenia, the lat- 
ter perennial. Then there are water Mimulus, like 
low Calceolarias, in bronze and golden tones. 
Something different in shrubbery for the shade 
might include, among endless others, Ficus ben- 
jamina; Ruscus aculeatus; Schefflera digitata (often 
confused with Brassaia); variegated Bamburanta; 
Viburnum cinnamonifolium (slow, but increasingly 
magnificent with the years); or Itea illicifola, to 
menton an old one far too little seen. A fine ever- 
green shade vine which we recommend unreservedly 
is Semele androgyna. Ask us to show you these 
materials. 
Back out in the sun for a quick roundup of the 
month's musts, this is the time to set out new and 
divide old Iris clumps. Set out blooming perennials 
—we have a fine selection of Dianthus, Achilleas, 
Salvias (don't forget Salvia pitcheri for tall late 
true-blue,) and Michelmas Daisies. There is still time 
for great beds of Zinnias, Asters, Cosmos, and 
Marigolds. Cut back your Chrysanthemums for the 
last time in July, then let them grow with lots of 
Gro-rite and water. A limited supply of extra 
late-flowering Chrysanthemums, Kramer strains, are 
available in plant bands now until August 15, 
20 cents each, all colors except yellow. These 
bloom Thanksgiving until January! Keep the whole 
garden well watered and don't forget to spray. 
Hugh Cvans 
Permanence and longevity in 
plants are surely sterling virtues, 
for we naturally feel a strong at- 
tachment for the plants which 
have companioned us down the 
passing years, and the death of a 
tree we have admired and cher- 
ished affects us like the loss of an 
old friend. 
The late Sir Herbert Maxwell, 
the eminent authority on gardens, 
who wrote with such charm, high 
knowledge and distinction, and 
with whom, a good many years 
ago, | used to exchange letters 
and seeds, relates in this connec- 
tion, how in old English gardens, 
vigorous clumps of scarlet Lychnis 
and fragrant Dittany (coeval with 
mighty oaks in the Park outside) 
are still in full health and vigor; 
and that a girl may still gather 
flowers from the self-same tuft on 
which another of her kin had 
dropped tears as she thought of 
husband or lover killed with Falk- 
land at Newbury, or Rupert at 
Marston moor, three hundred years 
before. 
In these uneasy and turbulent 
times, our gardens are a haven of 
peace where we can ward off the 
thought of all those forces which 
would destroy peace and beauty, 
and shut the gates of mercy on 
mankind. 
Monkey-Hand Tree 
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rapidly and grows at a great rate, 
becoming a tree of considerable 
proportions in a short time. Prob- 
ably local specimens have not 
reached full growth for in their na- 
tive lana Monkey-Hand trees ex- 
ceed the 25 foot height and I5 
foot spread observed hereabouts. 
The slight distribution of the 
Monkey-Hand tree in California 
is due in part to the difficulty in 
obtaining seed in its native habi- 
tat, where a weevil attacks the 
seed. However, Evans and Reeves 
has finally achieved seed here and 
is able to offer these exotic and 
rewarding trees in one and five 
gallon containers at $2.50 and 
$7.50. 
