The Tranquillity of te Guage 
RELAXING - - - BEAUTEOUS - - - REWARDING 
Who ever makes a garden not only adds a breath of beauty to the world but does 
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something for himself that he probably never dreamed he could do. Almost it is like 
waving a magic wand — and presto! he is a changed being. What ever may have actuated 
the making of the garden in the first place —a desire for orderliness, perhaps, an 
instinct for display, or merely to do as his friends have done — the result is nearly 
always unexpected. The maker, or in the beginning he is probably only the instigator, 
may expect to get nothing more from his garden than a negative satisfaction, yet almost 
invariably he finds himself in the grip of a new and absorbing interest. And with 
renewed and resensitized senses; with eyes that see for the first time clearly the pale 
young echantment of the spring overcoming winter’s desolation; the rich fulfillment 
of summer, autumn’s wistful beauty; with ears that hear as they have not heard per- 
haps since his boyhood, the songs of birds; with a nose alert for delicious perfumes. 
And with what is worth all of these and more — with a heart unaccountably at peace. 
In short he has opened a window through which he may gaze upon the world from a 
wholly new vantage point. 
To what other of our investments may we look for such richly gratuitous returns? 
Gardening more than any other activity or interest takes us out of ourselves, relieves us 
of petty anxieties, renders us unconscious of the innumerable trifling annoyances that 
mar the days; lifts us bodily out of life’s ordinary routine and brings us instant recrea- 
tion. Disquietude could find no more certain antidote than work in a garden, than the 
thousand and one interests to which it introduces us and the grateful bodily fatigue 
which it brings. 
“There be delights,” says an ancient writer, “that will fetch the day around from 
sun to sun, and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream.” This in quaint language 
and in a very few words tells of the interest and pleasures of a garden and of the instincts 
that are satisfied in its making. 
Contents 
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ACIDANTHERA MURIELAE .................... 37 
Fragrant Abyssinian Sword Flower 
BEGONIAS Recor os aicttacdtuactaresenarsncte ies hi 24 
Naméd Varieties: .ccccitiicseccsssivassssestuanessasare 25 
BULB ODD ac tgs acest ta baasengeeteaiatavnedas 17 
GA BAS LIEIRS Actin. ceasaatentevenes eeeiake 37 
CANNAS ie c3 ch straigugan crete ccag case 39 
CYPELGA=HERBERT: Eh Ste iss cgas cts Ke 
DAHLIAS Large Flowered .............scscssecesseeee 14 
Min Fat neg e os nccsskesase pace aeesacagsbessereeeseucesseesten 18 
POmipan cates valor tasess eoseu ka eect neat 19 
Single Bers xivccascadvene cs nssatiotes westtaccnnts Ganeeed 17 
DELP HUE Me ri Sos ssc pess octane 33 
EUCOMES: BICOLOR. ain; haaeeeninaas 38 
Pineapple Flower 
BERN So caioiccopssapeteaiiaas cob ceeewouapevans nv taieae ots 22 
BUINKYA seni, tia casteieceertco aan aaa ead taeee 37 
Plantain Lily 
GALTONIA*“GANDIGANS | oigichossccesustececencars 38 
Snow White summer flowering Hyacinth 
GEADIOL i ccicicivesvaGnetasaoarteeatetatents a 
Special Collections £5, ec-ssctittenscstesttecsvindoseete 8 
Miniatuites Types Gicses-cketecinessWaocisetdolarapaszess 10 
New, Varieties s:.itcu cu conics 9 
Fragrant Gladioli Gwen ...........ccsscsseesceceeees 9 
Mix tur eS laces tases dtsanap saa conan abe eee 13 
GLORIOSAS Sirs ca eee ear oie 38 
The climbing Lily of South Africa 
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HEMEROGALLIS#-\saccwciekheeeaan 20 
Fragrant Day Lilies 
HIBISCUS! WSS Eee coe ee 38 
IRIS ‘Kaemptfert type. icc: sosvsctctscesssetscinectsteects 33 
Late June-July flowering 
ISMENE ‘GAEAT HINA. .cecstacenianevere 
Peruvian Daffodils — Fragrant 
jE BAN AC Re re aE EO ES SR Me tep Ce i «As, 26 
LIEY: COLLECTIONS =S2-s32een eee cee 32 
LUPINGUS ere ee ihe ieee 39 
Hardy Type 
LYCORIS SQUAMIGERA. ...ccccc.ceccssescereesoees 39 
Amaryllis Halli 
MISCELLANEOUS BULBS PLANTS 
ROO TS aicisetete ncaa a an ne ee 37 
MONTBRETIAS 33vna cae te eee 34 
OXAT IS aia cece ee 39 
SPREKELIA FORMOSISSIMA. ..............00. 40 
Mexican Fire Lily 
TIGRIDIA PAVONIA HYBRIDS ............... . 40 
Mexican Shell flowers 
RTT OMA ae oe eos nie erie faites 40 
Red Hot Poker or Torch Lilies 
“LUBEROSES Bice See hee eee ones 40 
Fragrance for the entire garden 
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WILD: FEO WERS saris cccescqescdsacsteoss tetas 
“The garden mystically ... a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.” 
—JoHun Henry NEWMAN 
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