Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-11-01
AN OLD FASHIONED
GARDEN THIS FALL
BY f. +. ROCKWELL
Horticultural Editor Farm and
ETroGida

There is a peaceful charm in the
Did fashioned garden that can be
found in no other type of planting.
The old fashioned garden imme-
diately suggests what a garden
should be-not a passing show, glor-
ious with blossoms and scent merely
for a single summer. but a garden
that has grown gradually lovelier and
lovelier, year by year., as the home
has grown along with it. The MEM
cries of joy and sorrow that must ne
cessarily be a part of the home, nave
buried themselves in the hearts Oh
those blossoms. No wonder the old
garden was dear to the heart of
grandmother.
Such a garden as this is the gar
den planted with p%erennials such as
digetalis, phlox, forget-me-not, lark
spur columbine, and all the rest
of those charmingly unpretentious
delicate stemmed flowers that used
to nod and dance to the breeze N
grandmother's posy beds. Flowers
in the garden were chosen for their
permanency as everything else was
chosen in the good old days before
apartment houses and divorces. The
flower garden fiourished and grew
along with the place and could be
handed down with the trees ana
shrubbery and house and barns from
mother to daughter. The perennial
garden proclaims the home that is
owned and loved not a temporary
rented residence" that never can
be a real home"
Why Not Start Such a Garden NOW:
You may purchase the very nnest
transplanted into your garden
plants already grown to perfection
sturdy and healthy. Thrifty, wei
grown little plants of any variety
O may desire all ready and eager
to help you start the good work in
YOUR fall garden. The expense Oh
starting such a garden is compare
lively slight, when you stop to con-
slider that the plant thus purchased
| will multiply itself many times ana
| the one plant produce in time q
mass of other plants for your FUTURE
pleasure.
All the trouble connected with the
making of this modern old fashioned
garden, if it can really be caIIe0
troubles, comes at the start. There.
after it almost cares Tor ltse41 dEu
after all it is to contribute Joy Lol
not a single season. but 1or many
l many SSdSOIS " UNIV"
Choose the spot for your old fasn-
toned garden, if possible, where II
will be partly in sunshine and parity
in shadow. Where it is chosen IN
this way, the special flowers may De
grown in Just the exact spot oes'
adanted to its successful growth.
SPADE up the bed about two fee'
deep. Sods and top soil should pe
thrown in one pile-stones, grave,
and sub-soil in another. II the sou
beneath the excavation is hard, break
it up with a pick.
How to Prepare the BEDS
A perennial garden must hrst VI
all. to be a complete success nave
carefully prepared drainage. When
YOU I'LL up the bed again, put in mrs
a layer of clinkers, coarse grave
broken brick, crushed stone or SONS
similar material to provide tins
drainage. Then put in a layer OF 500
with grass side down, or leaves OF
strawy The purpose OF TINS
second layer is to prevent the earn
from washing down through tht
drainage layer. The third layer mus
provide the feeding ground for tint
roots of the pe%rennials for the futurt
wears. For this layer, mix with TN
best of the soil some sod cnoppee
IN in small pieces (if the soil lack:
h1mus) and one-half to one-tnlrC
as much manure or rich compost
Good COW manure is good in thu
mixture. Also mix in a generou!
supply of coarse bone, I'LL the pet
with this mixture to six inches o
the top. lamp it down slisht!y
then cover the top with good gardei
loan, mixed with high grade Ter
tilizer or fine bone.
Now the home IS well prepare
and ready for the little plants ant
they should be planted just as 0
as possible after their arrival.
some Good Things to Start with
There has been such a wide a
ietv of perennial plants from whici
to choose that quite probably yo'
have experienced some dithcuity II
making your choice. We VIII a
least hope that your order las IN
cluded some hollyhocks, blue lark
spur, fox glove (~digitalis) for tn
high growing plants in your garden
white phlox, to produce a thici
abundant mass of bloom; columbin'
(aguilegia) and Baby's Breath (gys'
ophilia) to contribute airy graceful
ness; and lavender for fragrance
charm and old English memories
And we will hope that you have
not omitted the sweetest one OF them
all. the Lily-of-the-Valley to grow
and spread over that shady end, OIL
the chrysanthemums and Michalmas
| daisies to cheer the dreary autumn