The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-11
PLANT SUCCESS
What Can be Done in the Garden During
 July.

Successful gardening has often been called T business of anticipation, and certainly proper planning ahead is one of the greatest clements to system atically arranged and beautiful gar den IL may seem little premature to talk Of necessary work at this time in preparation for next years success. but there are many things that must be done if one would have the full enjoy ment of more and better flowers than has been attained in the past The most pressing labor now Is the saw ing the seeds of hardy biennials and perennials for next summers Towering, the cultural directions being very sim- pie. Have the ground we'll dug and leveled, select a partially shaded sit uation, SOW the seeds very thinly with the slightest covering, firm the soil af- ter sowing, and do not water till the young plants are showing above the ground. The future work of transplant ing in the permanent beds will he ex- plained In the proper season, about the end of September.
 Pansies are one of the most popular flowers for present sowing; the new crop of seed should he now ready. Get the very best mixture you can from a reliable grower, and plant in thor oughly shaded place
 Among the old favortes are the Can terhury Let's, Foxglove, Sweet Will liam. Hardy Carnaton, and the old fashioned Hardy Glove Pink These have all been greatly improved during the last few years, and in the choos- ing the supposition that the best is not too good, the future success will amply repay any added expense, There are so many varieties of hardy perennials suited for common garden culture that we will take only a few of the easiest grown The Adiiilegias fColumbne) have now attained such size and di. versity of colorlng that hardly any thing could he more effective, and then the Hardy Topples give the most gor. geous showing conceivable. Try some of the new hybrids and you will be agreeably surprised Hardy Phloxes are readily grown from seed, but to secure the best it is safer to get young plants in the fall of some of the new dwarf varieties they are superb. Tho Hardy Larkspurs (Daphinium) are an- other type that for staieliness and ef- l fectiveness will well recompense any one for the labor expended. To mention others without special description we have the Acontum (Monk's Hood), Hardy Yellow Alyssum, Asperula Sweet Woodruff, Perennial Candy tuft, coreopsis Ianceolata. Hardy Gail | lardias, Gypsophila (Lady's Breath), l Hollyhocks These have been so won 1 derfully improved and diversified in recent years, that choice of sorts must be personal matter, Enothera (Eyening Primrose) Campanulas, in various kinds, Hybrid Pyra thrums i Some of these are very large and bril- liant Rudleckla (cone fower) a very effective genus, and the readiness with which they self SOW, makes the culture very simple.
 Among others that arc not reliably hardy. requiring little covering ir the winter are the Forget Me-,Not, the
 English Daisy. the different types oj
 Hardy Primrose, including the Auri cula, Cowslip, Poyanthus and the true
 yellow English Primrose; also we havf one of the smartest of all flowers tho
 English WallHower, for whatever extra care is required for winter protection
 the recompense will surely come in the exquisite fragrance enjoyed nex' spring. V