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Fragrance in the Garden 
During recent years the use of fra- 
grant plants in the garden has been 
overlooked. Fragrant flowers are es- 
pecially useful near seats, porches, 
terraces and other spots where they 
will add an aroma to the air. Of 
course, they are excellent to per- 
fume bouquets. 
One of the best known of the frag- 
rant flowers is the Nicotiana or 
Flowering Tobacco. They are used 
to perfume gardens and are espe- 
cially fragrant at night. Mignonette 
is grown exclusively for the sweet 
scent as the flowers are not showy. 
It is superb. Stocks and Wallflowers 
are exceedingly sweet scented, and 
Sweet Peas, of course, get their 
name from the odor, All of these are 
fine in the garden or in bouquets. 
Many other flowers are sweet scent- 
ed and when grown in beds or 
masses will perfume quite an area. 
Nasturtiums, Petunias, Candytuft, 
Scabiosa, and Sweet Alyssum are 
among these, Carnations are frag- 
rant but their use as specimens does 
not cause the odor to be noticed 
except in flower arrangements, Pinks 
are strongly spice scented and a 
mass of them produces a pleasing 
aroma for some distance. 
For the intimate spots in your gar- 
den, where you sit down to just 
enjoy it, plan to plant some of these 
fragrant flowers to increase your 
pleasure. 
Flowers for Poor Soil 
Of course, the right answer to poor 
soil conditions is “Improve the 
soil!’ But if you can’t or don’t want 
to do this, you can usually get fairly 
good results in poor soil with these: 
Balsam Nasturtium 
California Poppy Petunia 
Calliopsis Portulaca 
Gaillardia Sweet Susan 
Marigold 
Flowers in Vegetable Garden! 
To have plenty of cut flowers with- 
out disturbing your flower borders, 
plant a few rows of flowers along 
the edge of your vegetable garden. 
Or set them out between rows of 
early lettuce or radishes, where they 
can bloom after the vegetables have 
been used, 
Annuals in the Tulip Bed 
Just after the late tulips finish bloom- 
ing, set out some annuals between 
the tulip plants. If you do this, you 
may safely leave the tulip bulbs in 
the ground for several years, or at 
least until they need separating. 
Fiowers for Trellis or Fence 
Vines for quick cover here are quite 
numerous, For brilliant color effects, 
plant cardinal climber, scarlet run- 
ner bean, cypress vine. Less color- 
ful are the cup-and-saucer, balloon 
vine, and Heavenly Blue morning 
glory. For heavy foliage effects, 
gourds are good, 
For Garage Cover 
Sometimes it is highly desirable to 
screen off the bare walls of the 
back-yard and garage, For quick 
results, the taller annuals, such as 
cosmos, hollyhocks and sunflowers 
are desirable. Any of the vines 
named in the last paragraph abova 
are suitable, too. 
The Drive and Property Line 
This narrow strip is often a very 
nice place for a long flower border. 
A low effect may be had by plant- 
ings of balcony petunia, portulaca, 
and sweet alyssum, Or a hedge-like 
effect is easy to get with kochia, 
four o’clocks, zinnias, or marigolds. 
For Successive Sowings 
Some of the annuals which come 
into bloom quickly keep blooming 
for only a little while. If you want 
them in bloom through the season, 
make several successive sowings at 
two to four week intervals. Flowers 
in this class include: 
Calliopsis Larkspur 
Candytuft Love-in-a-mist 
Cornflower Mignonette 
Forget-me-not Poppy 
Gypsophila 
Easy Annuals to Grow 
We are often asked to recommend 
annuals for growing without much 
care, particularly around summer 
cottages used only on week ends, 
or where the soil is poor. We sug- 
gest Calliopsis, Gaillardia, Mari- 
gold, Petunia, annual Phlox, Sca- 
biosa, Verbena and Zinnia, These 
usually bloom profusely without 
care or extra watering, though 
some water applied when seed is 
sown will often insure germination. 
WHY FOLKS LIKE TO BUY 
GARDEN SUPPLIES HERE 
We don’t have any monopoly on the Garden Sup- 
plies we sell. Quite a few of them can be bought 
in many other stores. 
But good gardeners still prefer to buy here, because 
this is a real garden store. Here every transaction 
is a friendly deal between gardeners. Here we try 
our best to deliver something more than just mer- 
chandise. 
That’s because we’re SEEDSMEN—and proud of it! 
MARIGOLD, Glitters 
LARKSPUR 
Regal Lilac 
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