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Your July Garden Notes 
These two columns have been reserved for your own garden record for the month. Make 
notes on what should be done next year at this time; new plants added this month and 
many other reminders that will be of value in your gardening operations. The SATER’S 
GARDEN MAGAZINE is designed to be useful next year as well as this and copies will 
be valuable for future references. Indexes will be provided in later issues so that a 
puick reference can be made to items of interest, especially descriptions and culture. 
Some Garden Notes 
In our gardens, the Iris took first place 
at the beginning of the month on account 
of the numbers. We really should have 
had notes on the varieties but one point 
seems to be foremost and that is the import- 
ance of gardeners buying the more reason- 
ably priced Iris; it is true that some of the 
new introductions are outstanding but most 
of the older varieties are still at the head 
of the list and should always be purchased 
before attempting the high priced vyarieties 
which often are not as good as they are at 
first claimed. 
The Peony follows the Iris, and there is 
one point I noticed in particular this year 
and that is the value of Peonies. as a cut 
flower. The blooms on the plants out doors 
had long been a thing of the past while the 
flowers that were in the house were still 
nice a week later. 
We should have more garden notes on the 
many Dianthus in the garden but again work 
interfered but we just have transplanted out 
hundreds of Dianthus plumosus especially, 
and we look forward to their blooming, for 
they are all selections. ; 
In passing the Iris today (June 24th) the 
Iris Clarkii is especially pretty on account 
of their seed pods; in a large Iris planting 
these should be used in groups near the 
walks to give some change after the flowers 
have all gone. 
There are a few Penstemons in flower now 
that are so pretty that one wonders why 
they are so little planted in borders. P. 
grandiflorus is especially pretty; we have 
some crosses between this and P. Murryan- 
us that are especially pretty. The color 
range is large and in bright colors; anyone 
interested in hybridizing is missing an oppor- 
tunity here. P. Cobaea is another beaut- 
iful plant and again here there is great 
possibilities, the color range seems to be 
fairly large. P. barbatus is showy in beds 
with its showy flowers held high aboye the 
foliage. All these species seem to grow 
easily with us. 
Another very pretty flower just now in 
bloom is Erigeron glabellus. If planted 
about 10-12 inches apart in a group of 15-20 
plants it would make an attractive showing. 
It is about 15 inches high and the single 
daisy-like flowers with violet or blue petals 
are set off by the orange eye; we have some 
selections where the color of the petals are 
of a deeper color. < 
When Alyssum is mentioned one thinks 
of either the annual sorts or A. saxatile but 
A. murale grows about 18 inches and just 
a mass of yellow; there are several species 
similiar and all seem about alike. 
The Tall Meadowrue is just starting to 
flower and for a fresh green color, topped, 
with its showy white flowers, is hard to beat. 
It grows to 8 feet high and in groups of six 
or more it really make a show. 
Much can be said in favor of making 
plantings in ebds rather than in borlers, 
especially where space is at a premium, as 
is the case with many. Formal beds require 
special treatment and where a certain plant 
will do, many others will not be proper. 
Much of our plantings are in long beds, 
plantings’ in beds rather than in borders, 
can set any type of plant in any vacant 
space and still have an interesting lay-out. 
One of the difficulties in the small garden: 
is to find a suitable place for different plants 
but in the bed-type garden it is always an 
easy matter for one can just about plant 
where there is a vacant space and the garden 
is always more like a treasure chest, always 
interesting. 
