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NORTH SHORE BREEZE. | 
KEEPING YOUR GARDEN GAY 
Plant New Varieties of the Old-Time Flowers 
and Mass Them Artistically. 
You probably have grown just a_ bit 
weary of the same old garden grind, the 
same old flowers from year to year, and 
may have asked yourself during the past 
winter, Does it pay? No, I do not 
think it would pay to go on in the same 
old way; neither is it neccessary, says 
Samuel Armstrong Hamilton, in the 
May Desicner. ‘There are those in 
whose gardens there is little or no variety 
from yearto year; they inherited a cer- 
tain garden policy from their mothers, 
or, more likely, their grandmothers, and 
have considered, no doubt, that it was 
the U/tima Thule of gardening. 
But, for all such, my prescription is: 
Have a modern, up-to-date garden; a 
new style garden; a ‘‘gay’’ garden if 
you will, but at least get out of the rut. 
Get the new varieties of peonies and 
phlox. For these, permanent trenches 
should be dug. Excavate to a depth of 
at least two feet, fill in four or five inches 
of broken stone for drainage, and then 
put in the best soil obtainable. This soil 
should have mixed with it a half gallon 
of fine bone-meal to a bushel of soil, and, 
if it needs humus, work in one-third its 
bulk of fine, well-rotted horse-manure. 
In these trenches set the plants, eighteen 
inches apart for the phlox, and three feet 
for the peonies. [he above varieties 
will make a garden a blaze of color, the 
peonies during the early summer, and 
the phlox from June to frost. 
The treatment of this. garden will. in- 
dicate the method to be pursued to bring 
any garden up to the standard of modern 
taste and requirements. It is well to 
grow the ‘‘old-fashioned’’ flowers of 
our grandmothers, but we do not grow 
the same varieties ina modern garden; 
we have better ones. _ There is as much 
relative difference between the peony 
Comte d’Osmont, new, and Grandiflora 
alba, old, as there is between the tallow- 
candle and the Nernst lamp, and who 
would go back to the former? 
Keith's Theatre. 
The week of May 3rd at Keith’s 
Theatre will be notable for two of the 
biggest productions that has probably 
ever been seen in vaudeville. The first 
is ‘“The Top o’ th’ World’’ Dancers 
and the Collie Ballet in ““Kriss Kringle’s 
Dream.’’ This is a beautiful dancing 
and singing spectacle that was put on in 
New York a week ago and made atre- 
mendous hit. The company is a large 
one and the ballet is one of the best seen 
in recent years. [he entire production 
is made up of novelties that are at once 
pretty and entertaining. 
The second big feature will be in the 
dramatic line. It is called ‘““The Van 
Dyck,’’ and will be presented by Har- 
rison Hunter and a capable company. 
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The vaudeville features of the bill will 
be of the same high order, including 
Melville & Higgins in their humorous 
sketch; Will H. Fox; Carroll Johnson; 
O’ Brien Havel & Company in a sketch 
that has been making a great success; 
Monie Mine, Newhold and Carroll and 
others. 
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