Your Own YO YOU SHOULD KNOW V INO TH THE ARIAS Many of the are native to o tl this country countr where they are known mown by various local names such sucha as ne a mission bells bels chocolate lilies lies red bells yellow bells bels and so 50 on One sort is i called caled the tho checkered ly lily descriptive of its is appear appearance nce and another Is the guinea guine hen flower fower But whatever name be applied to them th they y are universally desirable and very lovely and must be planted plant plant- ed at this time of year They grow from bulbs bulbs and are of fairly airly easy culture some culture some of them being eing very easily grown indeed For Tor the rock garden they are arc ideal because you can cn give them just the sort of soil soil they like in one of th the little rooms between the rock walls They are charming too if you have a small smal bit of woodland or among shrubs where they may be left to grow wild wId Usually these bulbs do best when they are placed in a a. a light porous soil soi with plenty of leaf lea mold in ints its it ts composition If I your soil is clay- clay like ike it will wi be an easy matter mater to mix a small smal area with wih sand arid and leaf mold or orr peat moss moss to give the laras just what they like and it will wi well wel repay you From bulbs planted this month or ne next t you will wi find tind slender stems rising next spring leafy stems about one or or two feet high crowned cro with drooping nodding bells bels singly or or in pairs The flowers fowers are in a great variety of colors although these hese colors colors coloss colos's col col- col- col ors oss are arB never striking and sho showy y they may be mottled gr green en and brown deep purple-brown purple orange scarlet greenish yellow white white feathered leathered scarlet brownish yellow sand land so on Quite Quie different in size and habit from these thes ar arc the lana larla Impe aTs or yn cro crown lilies These Thes These are re str strong ng tall tail tal growers without with with- wih- wih out the shy delicacy of the woodland as T They ey shou should d be grown among shrubbery or in the perennial perennial peren peren- nial border where their showy eren red orange scarlet or golden fowers flowers will wi show sho shoto to excellent advantage against a background of shrubs or dark evergreens This group of grows three feet tall tl with thick stems of extreme leafiness and th the flowers seven or eight app appear r in a cluster at the the tip tp always nodding never upright A further furter group of leaves rises above the heads of oC th fowers resembling nothing so much in my opinion as a green feather duster There is a charming legend about this which I must re reto rew e eto to you It IL I was said sid that it greW greW the Garden of Eden and was a s S white flower fower with wih ere erectly to lii blooms One day the Maker of tl ii U garden passed b by and every ever now flow bowed its head in reverence the proud That Tat Is l w wl wI for tor punishment the flower is Is' l' l f fever fi fe ever compelled to bow Its It h b he i while it blushes red with shame The bulbs should be planted four lour inches deep and five or ori ort Inches apart apart Of course they always best when grown in gr grinstead go instead of ot isol isolated specimens Queries j Mrs L. L A. A Q Q Salt Lake writes Can Cnn you tell tel me W Wj Jou causes this appearance on the al gli olus bloom I 1 ji Ans This Ans-This This is caused by the gl gle olus a dreadful pest wh has been prevalent among l to bOi glads lately I have the follow instructions from David Sote Soffe p p. P president of the Utah Gladiolus i j jety ety clety and a well wen known glado gladio fancier Ho He says that the te bulbs hoi be dug as usual this fall fal and stO over winter Next February p p the bulbs and then soak them J nino nine hours in a solution n made It fri frione one of concentrated lye Jye to gallons c of water or a sm sma proportion The bulbs bulb must be lii w died with rubber gloves glove when b be betaken taken from this bath Mr Sa S states A slippery coating will wi left on them but dont don't think J Jef bulbs bulbs' are are spoiled because they i inot not be I I hope this cures the tb p p. S S. Salt Lake City wr Would you please give me I ml In mation maton as n to lo the suitability 0 o tree peony to this locality where may same be purchased Ans The The tree peony Is i m tender than the herbaceous peo we usually grow I have two In 1 i garden but I have only had hadt tg the past two winters and both bot W WI fairly mild mid as a you know Howe I see see no reason reason why they could by means of 0 01 be protected mean b turned boxes with piles pies of ot le lei lea etc etc They are certainly w worthy because they trouble In growing tey so so 6 gorgeous I recommend you to write to president of the American P Fe society or to the te well veIl wel known h hi cultural writer J. J a C. C W WU WI avenue Germantown Pa a. a in your search for tree tee peon which arc quite quie scarce 1