Evening star., 1913-07-28
GARDEN VARIETIES
FOR NEXT YEAR

This Season is the time to select the
varieties you will want to grow next
year. whether in the flower or the vege-
table garden. Descriptions are of some
value and photographs of more. but yo,i
really cannot decide whether you par
ticularly like any special flower. fruit OF
vegetable unless you see 1t. or late years
there has been a wonderful development
of varieties. so that now among such
plants as peonies. dahlias. gladioli ana
phlox there are hundreds of different
sorts.
At a recent peony exhibit a single
grower had between two and three hun
dred varieties on the tables. Many OF
the newer sorts are remarkably beautlfui
and most desirable. Yet a catalogue gives
no adequate impression of what they are
like. The way to select the varieties
which you would like to grow in your
garden Is to see them in bloom.
IL the garden maker Will provide a
notebook dedicated to the garden and
carry 1t along to every show or private
display visited. it will he simple matter
to list the varieties OF garden products,
whether designed to please the eve or
the palate. which makes the strongest
appeal to him. In this way it is possible
to make up charming color combinations
and to avoid mistakes which might result
from an experiment with flowers not Well
known.
Suburban and city dwellers often have
the privilege Of attending public horti-
cultural exhibits, at which the finest
products of hundreds of gardens are
shown. People in more remote sections
can visit other gardens In fact. to the
garden lover there are few pleasanter
ways of spending an occasional day off
or even Sunday afternoon than i'll
making an excursion to some well kept
garden on a large estate where new
sorts of flowers and vegetables are tried.
Most garden makers are Hospitality in
clined and extend a cordial welcome even
to strangers who come with an honest
purpose. Often only a request is need
where the gardener will gladly give the
names of plants and varieties which are
not known to the visitors.
| The only way in which to find full
| satisfaction in the flowers one grows
| is to know them by name Then one
comes to have friendly feeling for them
| which was unknown before; an intimacy
is created which doubles the pleasure
of garden making. A rose garden is
always delight but more so than ever
when you can indicate one flower as
caroline Testout. or another as the beau
/ tiful Killarney, or stop to pluck lovely
white Frau Karl Druschki, or discuss in
| telligently the splendid new climbing
| american beauty. II Is Detter to nave
few plants with which you are on speak
ing terms, as 1t were, than a miscel-
laneous collection of what to you are just
| flowers
OF late years interest in the iris has
been greatly stimulated, and visit to an
iris garden will be revelation to those
who know only the common iris or flag
of the old-fashioned garden. One grower
has twelve pages in his catalogue devoted
to listing varieties Of the iris. 1t is
much the same with hardy phlox, one OF
| the very best perennials for the garden
of the amateur. There are hundreds
Of varieties, tall, dwarf, early and late
Care in their selection should be exer-
cised, for they really constitute a long
years when once established and multi
ply rapidly. The right sorts are lasting
satisfaction. Delphiniums, asters, hardy
poppies and chrysanthemums deserve a
place in the same category. To know the
varieties you grow by name is to won
derfully enhance the joy Of growing
| them, and you will serve your own
interests well if you make selection
| from the blossoms themselves.
1t is a common practice to visit the
grounds of gladioli and dahlia growers,
| make a choice of varieties when in bloom,
and leave an order to have the bulbs
or tubers of those varieties delivered
| Knows just what he is getting. To see
any flowers growing is to get a COM
prehensive idea as to the manner in
which they would fit into your garden
scheme. You note the shades of color
ing, the height of the plant, the habit OF
growth. With the facts thus secured
| carefully recorded in your little garden
| guide you will find your garden making
| the next season much and pleasantly
| Simplified.