The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-17

some shade. They are at their best in
May and Jupe. and during the hot months
or summer they give but few flowers and
those rather poor. Again when the cool
days OF September arrive, they give an
other burst of bloom which lasts until
heavy frost.
Sweet alyssum, for beds and borders,
should be planted generously For edg-
1ngs 1t has no rival, needs but little care
and blooms continuously. Fragrant as
honey and no amount Of cutting harms
the plant. Bachelor button is of course In
every garden. The double ones are the
sort to plant; you will get enough single
from the best double seeds. For button
holes we prefer the double blue, or as it is
called, the Kaiser Wilhelm. This variety
is beautiful dark, deep, rich blue.
Balsams have improved so Of late years
that nothing in garden, not even the rose.
can approach the newer, or camellia flow
OF the most exquisite shades of pink, red,
scarlet, purple and blue. Among the
newer and best balsams the Balsam Prince
Bismarck Is perhaps the best.
A bed yellow with the beautiful esch-
scholtzia, or California poppy, is a beau
tiful sight. Pick them all you WISH they
like it. Morning glories we have with us
always, and the wild cucumber, where an
unsightly fence, or a shiftless neighbor's 5
yard is to be hidden.
+ Coboea scandens, is the climber that
perhaps attracts the most attention, "a
climber that blossoms early and late, the
flowers large, bell shaped and of a deep
purple. Time was, when it was hard to
set seeds that would grow, but now almost
any scotsman keeps good seeds of coboea,
as it is fast coming into favor.
The nasturtiums, both dwarf and climb
ing, are about the best thing for window
boxes and beds. New varieties are ap-
pearing each year, but the greatest i'm
provement over old sorts was made in the
introduction of the Madam Gunther's New
Hybrids. If you have never grown this
variety you have never grown nastur-.
tiums.
s Caliiopsis or coreopsis, bright with
blossoms all summer, is never omitted
from well selected flower garden. There
are new dwarf sorts, which, when in
bloom resemble a cineraria, in shape of
plant, in shape Of flower, and in that
the whole crown Of the plant Is at all
times a mass of bloom.
In the hot weather Of July and August,
bed Of portulaca will bloom and not
care how hot it gets. But the double or
rose lowered; they do not produce flow
ers that are all double, but they produce
a greater per cent of double ones as the
season advances. &.
No garden would be complete without
marigolds, and here again has the care
full work of the growers produces great
Improvement in color and size. Later
in, the summer we have the hollyhocks.
A new variety, originating in Pennsylva-
MIA, and called the New Fringed Ale
gheny, is the best yet produced. The
flowers look like punches of beautifully
tinted silk gathered in rosettes. OF
course you cannot grow them to flower
the first season, but you should plant a
few seeds in a corner Of your garden, for
next year.
OF autumn flowers there is nothing finer
than the cosmos. It used to be that we:
in Minnesota could not bring it to flower
before the plants were killed by frost,s but
here also man has done some improving
and early Towering sorts have been pro-.
duced. 81
z "A late flower that has always been
favorite are the stocks: They are now.
beautiful colors. Nothing that we know
Of can equal in delicious fragrance the
evening scented stocks. Dead, they ap-
pear in the daytime but as twilight ap-
proaches they open up and scent the
whole garden. We know of garden at
Lake Minnetonka where they are always
grown, and summer evenings when there
is but little wind we have enjoyed their
perfume while drifting on the lake in our.
boat.
Only a comparatively few of the things
that can be grown, and should be grown,
have been mentioned in this column, only
few, that should be in every garden:
without fail. Do not try too many kinds
until you are sure you can grow them:
Rather few plants well grown than lot.
of them poorly grown. Be chary Of try.
ing every novelty. They are usually the
pioneers of good things to come, but, for
the present, disappointing. On the other
hand, do not always get just the same
seeds each year, try something new, not
necessarily novelty, but something you
have never grown before. It will add an
interest to your gardening that you have
not known in growing always the same
old plants in the same old bed. We know
of a friend who always plants just the
same thing, in just the same bed, no vari-
alton, no attempt at new arrangement
or combination. You can always know
just where everything is in his garden.
There IS no pleasure connected with |
gardening so keen, and no triumph more
perfect than in growing plants from the |
seed. The person who bnys his plants |
half grown, or the person who simply un-
covers lot Of shrubs or perennials never
knows what delight it is to plant seeds, |
watch them germihate and grow into
towering plants. You learn all about !
them, you seem to more nearly live with /
them, and they will do you more good 1
both in mind and body.
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