The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-03-25
1920 Models
in Flowers

Old fashioned ANIMALS, ancient ia
vorites in our grandmothers' garden,
are having their day after period Of
retirement before the Juror for peren-
malls. The marigold, the snapdragon,
the lupin, and others now find luxuri-
Gus homes not only in the garden, but
on the greenhouse benches. Snap
dragons and pot marigolds adorn the
florists windows the year around where
few years ago they found little place.
They bloom, that is the secret. Neg
lect doesn't stop them. The better
their care the larger and more lavish
their display, but they will always
bloom. Graduated from the little patch
of posies wherever grandmother found
a patch for them, they now hobnob
with the tea roses and other floral
aristocrats.
A garden of blooms in two months
time with ANIMALS is always an easy
task. 1t is only matter of selection.
Think of the royal astors we now have,
rivals of the chrysanthemum in size
of bloom and stateliness of growth.
Now is the time to get ready for a
sheet of color outdoors and full vases
in the house. Get ready for castor
beans the size of small tree if you
like this stately exotic. Five cents
will bring the makings of a stately
screen of the Zanzibar castor bean
with its great umbrella leaves.
A lew hedge of four o'clocks along
the walk or driveway to brighten the
dusk with their sheets of bloom can
be started in kitchen window. They
can be started outdoors, but why lose
month or so if there is a place for
them.
Gorgeous golden African marigolds
with their velvety brown, crimson and
mahogany French cousins make the
garden gorgeous for the later months.
They can be started early and brought
into bloom earlier. 1t is only ques-
ton of selection a favorite to take
advantage of the season. Mourning
Brides, larger and finer than our
grandmothers ever knew, give a wealth
of long-stemmed flowers for cutting
and bloom until frost cuts them down
and they stand lot Of cold.
Huge zinnias, rivals Of the dahlias,
and not half the trouble, will furnish
sheaves of bloom. The florist has
achieved triumph in the new colossal
varieties in size, form and color. And
they bloom and bloom.
Salvias, the old-fashioned scarlet
sage, growing tall or growing short,
as may be desired, with long stems or
with short stems, the most brilliant
annual, needs shelter from the cold
when it starts.
Golden daisies, rivals of anything
the florist turns out, can be had in
the annual chrysanthemums.
Double balsams growing into minia-
ture trees of bloom when transplanted
and pinched back are popular again.
They are now appreciated as pot plants
for summer table decorations. Pinks
in myriad shades grow as easily as
weeds. Annual peoples in delicate
silken shades as we'll as Haunting
scarlets are ready to furnish their
bloom once their tiny seeds are scat
tered, but they are an annual that does
not bear transplanting well. They
should be sown in the open ground.
The hardy ANIMALS offer the quick
est return of any garden material.
The one fault usually found and which
should be guuarded against is planting
them too thickly and losing half their
development, Four o'clocks, for in
stance, need nearly two feet between
them and they will meet. African mar
igolds make big bushes if given the
room. So do the zinnias. Some of
the smaller growing ANIMALS need more
room than they are usually given.
Migonette needs six-inch radius to
develop it's perfume, but it seldom gets
il,