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Show Interesting Pointers on Gardening Garden-ing for the City Man or Suburbanite. WHAT TO PLANT AND WHEN Advice by an Expert on Agricultural Matters Walks and Driveways Blossoms for Fall Preparing Prepar-ing for Next Year. By PROF. JOHN WILLARD EOLTE. Where the householder is merely seeking a means of getting from his house to some outside point, without wetting the sole of his shoe in damp weather, there is no substitute for a cement walk. It is clean, dry, smooth and practically imperishable, but it is not artistic, no, not even pretty. And lots of U3 prefer to be artistic even If It is damper. Cement sidewalks do not harmonize with formal gardens. They are too modem. Neither do they fit into the beautiful or picturesque landscape, because be-cause in both they are too regular and mechanical. In fact the best pavement pave-ment known to man has a hard time pleasing the doctors of curve and perspective. per-spective. They tell us that there is little sense in going to a lot of trouble to get the lawn, flower beds, garden, shrubs and trees, all parts of a harmonious picture, and then ruin the entire effect by drawing a white chalk mark across the beautiful canvas, can-vas, in the form of a straight cement walk. Of course these sentiments would not apply to walks which are much traveled, but where some effort is made to have the home and its surroundings sur-roundings both beautiful and in har- moily, the character and course of the private walks and driveways ' is of great importance, because it is by them that we approach or leave the house, and along these approaches the eye most frequently travels. If we must have cement walks, let them be modest in their demeanor, their tint a gray, or, best of all, a pale green. The edges snugly joined to the turf, bordered, if you will, by beds of perennials, with clumps of shrubs in the bends, so as to hide the successive views until the full effect is made instantly, in-stantly, upon rounding each bent. This rule applies to roadways as well as walks. Do not curve a road or walk without with-out some apparent reason. A curve without any excuse is merely a wiggle ar.d it's worse than a straight line far worse. This does not mean that long lines may not properly be curved, because they should be, but If there is no natural object to curve them around, plant something there, a flower bed, a tree or a clump of bushes. Nature may abhor a vacuum, but she abhors a straight line, too, and all of her curves have some reason. A brick, tile or flag walk Is permissible per-missible in a formal garden or landscape, land-scape, because it is ancient in usage, not because it is natural. In beautiful or picturesque scenes the very best taste in walks is close-cut greensward, green-sward, high enough to dry off rapidly. Next in good order, and certainly the most popular natural walk, is gravel, round gravel from some old water course or beach. Gravel is also the best material for the private drive, with the possible exception of-crushed limestone. Make the foundation of your gravel walk or driveway firm, with a good crest in the center. Make the first two inches coarse and the next two liner, binding all with a liberal top coating of sand, cinders or Fine cwshed stone. Koll it with a heavy roller and keep vehicles off when wet. Rake the surface smooth after each rain and keep the weeds out. A good way to kill weeds is to soak them with a solution of one pound arsenate of soda to three gallons gal-lons of water. Blossoms for Fall. The spring brings its sweet, dainty little flowers, synonymous with love and. hope, the summer blazes with brilliant garish colors, and the fall has its own softer tones wiih which to decorate the pleasant harvest time Gold, brown, deep red, purple, and yellow have long been the standard fall lines, but there are many other shades that can be enjoyed in the autumn garden. While they bring a breath of sadness sad-ness with them, still the time of the golden rod ar.d the purple aster and the black-eyed Susan is perhaps the dearest of all to those who dwell amidst natural scenes. Why not have the same beautiful wild wood colors in our fail gardens? Why not bring the harvest spirit into your own life by growing the harvest flowers about your home. In the early autumn days, after the riotous summer blooms have gone, we can fill their places with cosmos, salvias sal-vias and dahlias. Asters with their shades of blue and purple, great blotches of warm colored marigolds calendulas in a great many shades and forms, annual pinks, breathing oi colonial days, and the wonderfui hardy chrysanthemums. Many others might be mentioned, as the fall list is very respectably long, but these feu will do well under almost any conditions condi-tions and should be very widely grown. The scarlet Salvia is an ideal flower for edging, long rows, etc. It blossoms blos-soms continually until frost cuts it down, the long spike like blossoms having tile most brilliant red color of any of the fall flowers, except the California poppy. Salvias can be grown from seed, but the easier way is to buy the pot ted plants from a florist and set them out in beds. The Bonfire variety is one of the newer ones and it is more compact and showy than the old reliable re-liable Salvia Splendens. Put the Sal-' Sal-' vias in the tulip beds about corn planting time. The Dahlia offers the flower lover more variety than any of the others, possibly, and we know one man down In Rhode Island who claims to have over 2,500 distinct varieties of Dahlias Dah-lias In bis garden. It is hard to recommend the best in such a vast wealth of material and we will not attempt it. Here are some of the good ones: White Pius X. and Rie--sen Edelweiss. Pink Kriemhilde and Countess of Lonsdale. Scarlet Standard Stan-dard Bearer and Geisha. Dark Red-Roland Red-Roland von Berlin and J. H. Jackson. Take the dahlia roots up late in the fall and winter them In the cellar. cel-lar. Separate the clumps and plant, three feet apart, in rich, well drained earth the next spring. Do not fail to separate the clumps and leave only three or four shoots on each clump. Stake the plants up as soon as necessary, neces-sary, as they blow down easily. Be sure that the soil Is well drained, above all else. The double Cosmos blooms In late summer and may .letter be started indoors or secured from a florist. Lady Lenox is a wonderful new sort. In the Asters, plant Comet, Ostrich Feather and Semple's Late Branching, Branch-ing, for excellent results. |