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Show ; ; . THE OGPEN STANDARD'-':- ! hm : J I 1 m 4m. JTAJV,T I NG" A G APDEN e-- 'a KNOWLEDGE of GARDENING - 1 DESIRABLE for t& MODE PUN GIRX ' I A Long Walk in Which Annuals Arc Used in Enormous Quantities and Irregular Masses, Backed by Perennials. Formality is Furnished by a Repetition of White Alyssum and Blue Lobelia in the Foreground and the Regular Rows of Catalpas. If this cost too much, or if she prefer i lluwers to tli r jlrtln jrrccn, there nro ev cral very low plants thnt make heamiful Imrilors Swoi't nlypsnm is one of the h8t. Its fine Iftee-like white flowers pive n 'c-tiil ofTict with 'any kinl of flnv.vrs udJ if it is cut li;u:k nfteu it hloom nil MJininer. Ober uood phuits I fr honlera aro ngeratum, JuVlin, clove 'pinks, randy tuft nnd Kunnner oxnlias: the latter hns either while, jilnk or lavender Mowers nnd a beautiful lover-liki- leaf. ,lt prows from n bulb. Where the flower boi-ders nre it will b" best In nry them aerordii'ij to whut cnlon-J phuits are to be put in the beds. A while 'border can be used on the whole snrden, but some of the rnlored ones would surely cla.-di ocensioimllj with wluit ihey en- . elosed if only one color won used.. IT there U n centre bed It .concrally looks well to fill or nearly fill il with i bij;h growiii; lants. Some of the most effective are hollyhocks, hirkxpnr, lilies, i yucca, .Tnp.mi'se iris anI summer hyn- cinch. fr the centre bed cna be ;lj-en up ' J entirely to rosps. llose busht's in wlmtever j part of the pnrden they may he placed,! ir.u-it have a bed to themselves. All kinds' of roses limy be in the samu bed, how-ex how-ex er, and in iirranpin them She heat plan to follow U to put the tea roses in I front, for the latter keep on blooming nil summer when other arietiejt havej Mopped, and n rose bush not in bloom is not especially oniaiueulal. Another Mower which rciuires u special place to itself is the sweet pea. Sweet pea vines must be planted in Mraitrbt rows whore they will :ct the full Minlight. I'lenty of fertilizer mu.vt be put in the ; ground before planting them, nnd when the Mowers bej;in they must be picked I every day to keep the plants blooming. This same rule applies to paoio, whic h require conKtnnt picking and they should he cut back after bio.-. ruin','. .Some girls will prefer niavu'rig the dif-fTnt dif-fTnt Mowers and other would like them ibetter in combinations or in a kind of , orderly confusion, like some old fashioned gardens. One flower that can bo used in jn bed by itself, and yi-t give the effect of ililTerrnce in beii;ht is plilox. There (is a variety of tall phlox for the ,a!;-cmun. ,a!;-cmun. that will blnmn all siiinmcr. nuJ of the .iv phlov the most i.oautiful i: a white flower called Mi-s Lincard. I To make soc-d conioi nations f Ihnver taken siuiie experiiMici', nn.I there is alwu.vs soinethini.' new to learn in that line Her-are Her-are sniiie I hat have been found successful success-ful Ijirkspur and madonna lilies ko well together, foxi:hive and sweet William, verbena and Mock, Shirley poppies nnd 'baby's breath, i:ii-H'iionette and phlox. ! bachelor buttons and candytuft. I'.r iiiiuch of the fun ef the jrarden vtill l ,in trying dilTeiont varieties. In ehoosint; th flower for one's pnrdec it is well to iuchnh' a lihernl nuruher- ol autiiinu floer. Many of our lovely ! flowers stop bloomins with the end of t lie 'summer and our pleasure can be prolonged by usinir these later varieties. The chrysanthemums chry-santhemums and asters are the mot popular, popu-lar, but there are also the autumn crocu and cosmos, Japanese anemones, whicfc shad.; from while to Carmine, and rose-ina rose-ina I low. j Another very sood idea i to have bed of (lowers that have a partici V. sweet scent iu the evening, especia' if the Burden is near the house, to oae can eujoy them when sitting on the porch on summer eveniDps. The tobacco plant Las a most delicious perfume at ni?ht. and there are nlso evening primrose, oi;lu-bceutod oi;lu-bceutod stocks, blue verbena and petUDiu. - i Walks Centring at a Sun Dial. Till" girl who has never had n garden of her own has no idea what she is inissinc. Tbe pleasure pleas-ure to be found in managing your own garden is a very great one and grows rapidlv with increased knowledge on all subjeein relating to flowers ODd their core, if.iny owners of gardens really enjoy dedng all the work themselves If the garden is not a large one. But even when a gardener is kept who does all tbe bard work the owner will have much greiter enjoyment in her flowers if nhe (superintends it all herself nnd decides on what plants she will have and bow she will have them arranged. Individual taste counts for a very great deal in flowers, and there is hucIi enormous enor-mous variety of taste and of ways of planning gardens that the same garden, managed by the same girl, can be quite different in different years, find that in "M)ite of the fact that runny plants are, of jsmc, perennial and, once started, last t inuny years. !Tbe girl who has a country homo, ir lives outside of the city and has not ?et started a garden hud better beglu nt Dnce. The very first thing co do, after settling where the garden is to be placed, Is to plan its shape; that is, how it is to be laid out The beds bhould be rectangular, rect-angular, with their corners, where the paths go around them, a little curved. A round ceitre bed may be" used, if tbe owner likes that shape, but really fancy or fantastic forms ore olwujs a mistake; their effect is most unsatisfactory and. , even if one thinks she likes them at first, she will surely be tired of them very soon and wish she had kept to plainer shapes. When the general outline of the garden has been planned, the next question to take up is the paUis. They should bo three feet wide and slightly arched in tbe middle, about one inch higher there than lit the sides. This adows water to run away easily and prevents Its settling; and ii wet or dump path makes most tia-pleasant tia-pleasant walking. I N the beginning, to make the paths, j the earth should be dug out about a foot or a fool and a half deep, the exenvatiou running to a point in the centre. This (pace should be Oiled iu with stones or ruutfh usbes nnd if some lime is u.d it will help to prevent worms. The best results are obtained by putting rnther large stones at the bottom, somewhat A Hardy Border. Peonies One Year After Planting. Courtesy of Doubleday, Page & Co. rete This border of bricks rises a little above I lie path. The next step in making our garden is to dig up the earth iu the beds, that is, loosen it thoroughly and 'turn it well o'er. Manurc.it thoroughly 'also, and then wc niny say thnt the mechanical me-chanical work is done and everything is I prepared for the Mowers, which ate, of course, the really interesting part of the work. There are so many ways of arranging 'plants iu a garden that it would bo impossible im-possible to say that any one way ii best. 'About the only actual principle of ar-rangetucut ar-rangetucut is to put the tall plants behind be-hind the low ones. This can bo done by ! putting the hii:h ones in the middle of the beds aud have them graduated in size out to the edge. Or, if the garden is enclosed by shrubbery or a hedge, the tall plants will look well placed against the hedge, with the lower ones in front. Whether the garden itself has a hedge around It or not. each separate bed must have Its border of low growing plants-Box plants-Box is generally considered the best border bor-der of all, but hero we come again to the Question of expense, for box is now very scarce ami costly; but if the girl who is planning her garden need not consider the cost nothing is more charming thau to fettle the question of borders by having hav-ing the whole thing of box. smaller ones next and ashes or gravid near the top. When we come to the surface sur-face of the paths we reach a point where there is n wide variety of choice and various va-rious questions nre to bo considered, the most important being thnt of expense. The surface covering may be of gravel, bricks, cinders or the Duest quality of blue-stone. Any one of these will make a good path, hut, if economy is not necessary, the be-st of all will be fine bricks laid in hcrriogbouc style. They arc expensive, but do certainly cer-tainly make init satisfactory paths. A girl who finds that tue bricks will cost so much that she will be obliged to economize ou her plants will perhaps find it better to use one of the other materials. When the paths nre finished each garden gar-den bed fchould be bordered by a row of bricks laid ou edge and bedded in con- |
