Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-16
A FAD THIS SEASON
Taste Returned for Old ash
toned Garden.
THE PLANTS AND BEDS
THE HARDY AND THE ANIMALS
SUGGESTED.
These Should Be Busy Days if Summer
Flowers Are to Fol-
THE PLANTS AND BEDS


| smart girl this year. 1t is delightfully."-
| healthful and early English and all that,
| you know, and 1 suppose has come in with
| the Victorian frocks, poke bonnets and fur
| bellows of our grandmothers. Whatever the
| cause thereof, the past few months have
| seen the fair sex porting over gardening
| books, reading and inwardly digesting the
| whims and peculiarities of the floral world.
| Under happy auspices my lady will Gull her
| June roses from trim, old-fashioned gar
| den, prim and stately, with its box-lined
| walks, and boasting, perhaps, quaint sun
| DIAL surrounded by a wealth of sweet will
liams and fragrant pungent pinks.
| She will plant her favorite flowers with
| silver-handled trowel under the direction
| of an autocratic old gardener who is moth
| ing If not monarch of all he surveys
But this posing and toying with the gen.
| tie art of gardening is not the attitude of
| the serious worker who will practically
carry out her whimS and fancies of f1oricul-
| ture in her own sweet way. The late April
and early May days will be full of work in
| the garden, and after a long, dreary winter
this exercise in the balmy spring air will
| be delightful.
THE season brings the flowers again and
| brings the firstlings to the flock So sings
our great poet of spring, and upon the eff
forts OF the next two months will depend
the nrstllngs of our summer blossoms and
the beauty of the entire season of flowers
Flower beds should be put in thorough
order now, hoed and raked and made ready
FOR a well-considered scheme of planting
| for the season. Where the earth is to be
made ready for new garden the soil best
| to use as foundation bed is what is known
as sandy loan, not less than ten inches
deep, everything SubSoil of sand or gravel
says an authority upon this interesting SUBJ
iect.
A Wet Days Work.
Do not wait until you are ready to plant
before making a plan for the disposal Of
all your posies. On some wet day when
work outdoors is suspended and you have
lots of leisure map out all available garden
space and the materials with which it is
to be provided. Make list of the plants
or seeds to be bought and note carefully
the color scheme. Sites for all these should
be marked out with sticks on your bed
space, and the intermiXing for succession
Of flowers we'll as for one-color ar
rangements should be regarded
For instance, suppose you begin with
mound of daffodils, 1.-The flower of the
| poets which, are in the front rank Of
popularity for the spring garden, appearing
az they do just after the bleak winter and
turning the garden into gorgeous mass of
color and a fragrance that is enchanting.
Then the double tulips in shaded varieties
are lovely.
To get the best reward single and double
tulips should be planted together, for when
planted in this way the thine of the tulip
usually come up in the spring from bulbs
planted in the fall.
Candytuft Borders.
Candytuft is nice for border adornment,
and cosmos, which comes into bloom in
July and continues a mass of airy, fragile
flowers until cut down by the severe frost,
more than repays the trouble of raising.
NaSturtiumS are always favorites, and a
pretty new treatment is to fill a tall vase
with the plants and let them trail in grace
full profusion around the base and wind in
long tendrilS over a hoop placed from side
to side of the urn.
Since everything japanese is especially APP
preciated these days. the imperial Japanese
morning glory will appeal to lovers of the
Land of the Rising Sun. 1t has flowers OF
immense size, some Of which are brilliant
red and rich blue, while others are equally
brilliant with broad margins of clear white.
popularity of this climber is that the
foliage is as varied as the blossoms and is
yellow or yellowish green. moro the tones
of the melancholy days of fall when nature
dons the scar and yellow leaf. This unusual
feature is the Imperial morning glory
greatest charm
Lovely Sweet Peas.
Nothing is lovelier than the sweet pea, be-
loved Of Keats. ION tiptoe for flight.
There is no excuse for a gardener however
humble, to ignore this most exquisite of our
garden favorites. Sweet peas must be sown
now and at intervals of about two weeks up
to June and planted deep; otherwise they
are not successful. There are ten varieties
of these attractive blossoms, including deli
ga te rose mauve, sky blue. white and so on
down the rainbow of colors. Fave you
ever seen hedge of sweet peas OF the giant
six -foot-high class? This is sight not to
be forgotten, and, given ordinary conditions,
a hedge of these sweet peas will be a thing
of beauty and a joy for three months by
cutting freely as the blooms appear. never
allowing them to run to seed. The dwarf
sweet peas are delightful for ribbon borders.
as they only grow to a height Of eight
inches
In the old-world garden Of flowers are
the larkspur, sweet william. phloH, princes
feather, sun1ower, foxgiove canterbury
bell, ,columbine and. to my mind. the queen
Of pirks. the salmon variety on long stems,
Is the most perfect of flowers Who doos
not love lavender, with its association OF
chests Of old linen and pricelesa lace ana
brocades? And rosemary. which recain