Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 191?-19??, 1915-06-10
LET'S MAKE A
FLOWER GARDEN
and Beauty, Pleasure and Health
In Its AchieYement.

sent us for publication the following
beautiful and persuasive plea for flow
er culture written by friend of hers
its perusa1 by Argus readers will mcve
them every one to make flower gar
den:
One so often hears the remark, 81
would like to have flowers if I knew
when and what to plant" To those
who are really in earnest I wish to be
of some help.
A great lover of flowers has said
"there are some phrases which carry
magic in their sound, magic which
cannot be explained by mere logic, and
the greatest of these phrases is, Lets
make a flower garden" 1t has s'Mer-
ry Christmas, "Hurrah for Fourth of
July tinkle of joy.
With April days of sunshine and
showers, ones mind instinctively turns
to gardening, but the flower catalogues
are bewildering in their descriptions
of beautiful fowers-for all flowers
are beautiful, and in pouring over
them one soon finds that ones mind is
perfect riot of confusion and indie
cision.
There are some people who never
get away from the flower catalogues,
who study and study, and then give up
because they cannot have all the flow
ers described and do not know how
to choose the ones they can afford to
have.
Now, let US make our selections in
a systematic, business-like way:
First of all, what kind Of flowers dG
you like best, or do you need to beau
tify your place?
Is there high fence dividing your
front yard from your back? If so, this
is a good place to make a beginning.
If this is of lattice or wire nothing
could be pretlier- cover it than a
pink Dorothy Perkins rose and nothing
easier to have. The color is beauti-
full clear shell pink, and it blooms in
trusses of from ten to thirty. 1t is a
wonderful climber, but very dainty and
so does not interfere with anything
else you might wish to have. In June
it is a perfect mass of color
This is a splendid rose also in ar
ches, for growing in the tops of u1-
slightly trees, or in covering old
stumps 1t can be had for from fifteen
to sixty cents each. Once get Doro-
thy Perkins and by covering some OF
the branches with dirt and leaving
them until the next year you may have
as many new plants as you want graf
| is
Another pretty vine for covering the
fence is the f1eecy white fragrant Gle
matis paniculata. 1t grows fifteen tC
twenty feet in a season, is insect proof
and perfectly hardy and will adapt it.
self to any situation. AS it does moi
bloom until early fall, it could be
planted On the same fence or ach will
Dorothy Perkins thereby giving a sue
cession of blooms.
In front of the fence one could have
evergreens and shrubs in groups or &
pretty border of bright ANIMALS.
Now if one chooses ANIMALS nothins
could be prettier against such bach
grornd than hollyhoclks. There is al
improved kind called Ever blooming
which is IN annual and comes in til,
most gorgeous colorings imaginable
The seed are fifteen cents a package
1o
sion of plants can be had the entir,
season.
For continuous blooming there is nj
flower more satisfactory than the Min
MIA 1 do not mean the hard buttoi
, variety of our grandmother's garden
but the New Giant Zinnias, the flower
of which are four or five inches across
and resemble dahlias in their soft, vel
vety colorings and form. They are f1t
teen cents package. Plant a row i
front of the hollyhocks, either of mix
ed Zinnias, or all one color.
Petunias, too. make a pretty borde,
and like Zinnias, once they begin t
bloom they coneinue until killed b
IlIOSC. DUH nave b10 Happy faculty I
sowing their own seed, so that ne1
year you will have all the plants yo
want and have some to give to you
neighbors. Plant petunias in front (
Zinnias. This year get the single val
iety at ten cents package. Next yea
lperhaps you will want to try the in
' proved giant ones at twenty-five cent
n To give your house proper settir
y you need to plant flowers round tt
IL porch. The caster bean plants give
very tropical effect They might
!, planted in the corners by the steps
and why not plant coleus? They al
wonderfully handsome foliage plant
and can be had in a variety of colo
3. ings. Although perennials they attai
perfection the first year. The seed al