The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-03-22
PLAN YOUR GARDEN NOW
By E. VAN BENTHuYsEN


a hardy garden is the garden for the
busy woman. 1t will last for years
and be Il delight TO you and to your
neighbors with very little care.
Take Il careful survey of your re-
sources and make a study of your own
individual problem "Book-taught'
gardeners may be all right up to a
certain limit but one seasons expert
ment along your own lines will give
You an insight into plant life that
aside from being most fascinating
study will teach you more than years
of reading.
Those who wish to plant roses and
not bother with them more than to
prune and fertilze annually and keep
the ground mellow about the plants
should plant hybrid perpetual roses.
The hybrid perpetuals are the hardest
of roses and will stand more cold
weather than any other species.
The following are desirable speci-
mems: Anne de Diesbach bright car
mines Baroness Rothschild, an eX-
quisite pink, La France blooms all
summer; Frau Karl Druschki, snow
white. has splendid buds, immense
flowers. to inches across and is
delightfully."- fragrant; General JAG
quemtnot, Il popular rose of brilliant
red; Paul Neyron, lovely dark pink;
Gruss an Tepltz. strong vigorous
grower. of richest crimson; Killarney.
both pink and white, are hardy, and
Mrs John Eaing, rose of delicious
fragrance and of rich satiny pink
color
This list could be extended indefin-
itely but these are all tried-and=true
varieties that will give you world of
bloom and be picture worth look
ing at.
\ hardy border that is a triumph of
beauty and his been enjoyed for years
contains, hollyhoclls. phloX, larkspur,
fox glove Iris, Columbines, pinks and
sunfloWers.
Hardy roses require good garden
soil enriched with well-rotted manure.
They must have an open sunny posi-
tian clear of the roots of all trees and
shrubs If is well to prepare the bed
few days before planting to allow
for settling Eyer-blooming roses
should be planted 1S inches apart and
the hybrid perpetuals two feet apart.
Roses should be planted with the roots
dverging and at least nine inches be-
low the surface of the ground. The soil
should be made firm about them and
literally watered. Best results will be
obtained from ever-blooming roses by
severe pruning. The stronger roots
should he cut back to about 10 inches
In height and the hybrids to about Is
inches, while all weak, thin wood
should be removed entirely.
Hollyhoeks succeed best in rich,
wel-drainea soil, and should be light
ly protected during the winter months
with coarse straw or spruce boughs.
Larkspur seed can be sown in the
open ground before the close of April.
1t will produce Towering plants by the
beginning of July, if given this early
start, and will give a continuous sue
cession of bloom from them until
frost. It is excellent for cutting and
very ornamental. 1t produces In a
great variety of forms and colOrs some
of the most beautiful flowers in cult.
vation All varieties are easily Guilt
waited and adaptable to most cond-
tions. but in Il soil deeply dug and we'll
enriched with fine old manure. their
blooms are the finest. Set from one
to one-half to two feet each way
Iris (fieur-de-lis), the national flow
err of France, is another perfectly
hardy plant They grow in any ordi-
nary garden soil luxuriantly and bloom
in June.
Perhaps the most snowy and gor-
geous of the Iris family is the Japan
csc Iris. The flowers are often ten
inches in diameter and bloom in July.
There are many beautiful colors among
both Iris. White family tinged with
lavendar, light bronze, yellow and
bright blue, royal purple, grayish