A Woman's Hardy Garden

arly in the seed-bed from about Apri

, white, shading from pink to red a

. I have never been able to get them much over three feet in height, but then I have often a dozen stalks of bloom on a single plant, which is very satisfactory. The first dozen plants were sent to me by a friend from his ga

urs. In order to get the desired colour ef

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t-year stalks are about four feet high; afterwards, if in good soil, they will be from six to eight feet. There were hundreds of this size in my garden last summer, each plant with from three to five towering stalks of bloom. As soon as they have gone to seed, I save what seed I want and the stal

near by, are likely to be crowded out, unless care is taken to cut off the lower leaves, which become enormous. I have this done

of bloom about five inches across, with individual flowers as large as a nickel; they keep well in water and make a beautiful edging for

d, as they blossom after the Canterbury Bells, are valuable in continu

, but purchase many plants. My best results have come from saving the seeds from the first crop of blossoms, drying thoroughly, and then sowing at once. I hav

f Delphinium (Pe

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ur crops of blossoms from some of my Delphiniums last summer, so that, from the end of June until the middle of October, there were always some of them in blossom. Some varieties of tall English Delphiniums are very beautiful. Among them is one, C?lestinum, of the lo

he plant dying. I have found that keeping the soil around the plant well covered with coal ashes is a preventiv

by continual cutting, will give abundant bloom for three months

edge of shrubbery. The plants are quite hardy, grow four feet high, and ma

ich have come from a single one that a colored woman gave me a few years ago. She is a nice comfortable old "mammy," black as the ace of spades, with a great love fo

he has not. So we are both equally benefited. In this way I was once given a plant of Valerian, which has a tall, beautiful white flower with a most delicious odour like vanilla. It blooms for three weeks in late May and early June. From this one plant there are now in th

ring Chrysanthemums," and have only succeeded in making them blossom by the middle of October, by planting them on the south side of a building, in richest soil, giving abundance of water, and covering on all cold nights. But I have beautiful plants of perfectly hardy, good-sized blossoms of yellow, whi

the new shoots should be pinched back until then, to make the plants strong and bushy. I do not envy any one who has only the great, solemn, stiff flowers of the prize-show variety. An armful of the hardy garden ones, with their delicious odour, is worth a green-house full of the unnatura

ere the annuals were raised can be used now for the purpose. This is particularly necessary for Larkspur, Columbines, Monkshood, Platycodon, Coreopsis, Hibiscus and Pinks. If, when tra

ks should also be sown i

s a tea plate borne on strong stems, make a gran

only for their delicious, spicy odor. Th

not be moved from the time they are sown

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protection in winter, no fertilizer, no water in dry weather. In my garden, at least, they have not been attacked by insects and have grown placidly on, needing absolutely no care but to have the stalks cut down when they have finished blossoming. They are most effective when grown in clumps, but look very well along a fence with Hollyhocks at the back. The plants are so inexpensive that I

e planted in masses, and in full sun. They must be well covered with leaves or sta

. The plants are covered with long-stemmed, yellow flowers wit

in long spikes. Veronica remains in bloom during the month of Augu

nning with the German Iris, flowering the end of May, they can be had in bloom until the Japanese Iris finishes blossoming the middle of July

ful, and the Spanish Iris, in all its varieties, are not hardy. But with careful winter covering, about equal to that given to the everblooming Roses, they will gene

y and late varieties, their period of bloom can be continued for a month. The old, dark crimson variety is the first to bloom; the old-fash

are truly wonderful; the only care needed is a little fertilizer in the autumn and a slight winter covering. They are best grown in front of the shrubbery. They blossom before

they should be manured in the fall, or the

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undred herbaceous Phloxes, growing together in one corner of my garden, the very tall varieties over four feet high. About the fifteenth of July, every year, this corner is a superb sight. Most of these plants are over fifteen years old. They have be

th white and purple, the beautiful pure white, and the white with the scarlet eye. Of all the varieties, my favorites are the snowy white, and the salmon-pink with the dark red eye. Buy fifty larg

ys erect, neat and smiling, never needing to be staked (such a task in a large garden), when once grown they must always be dear to a gardener's heart. By breaking off the heads of P

ot be helped, although the knowledge that it is so makes it s

thousands of a most hideous, small, purplish crimson Rose. The other plant is Scabiosia Caucasica. Beware of the same. The description of it in a catalogue caused me to feel that without it the garden was nothing. A dozen were ordered and set out in a border, in two clumps. They grew and waxed strong, and fairly clambered over everything within several feet of them, seeming to be like gig

which has blossoms of so brilliant a scarlet as Lychnis, or London Pride, growing ta

ome from the resemblance each individual blossom bears to the capuchin of a monk. These plants should be grown under tall trees, for they can

en after a time, as I have said before, dividing them. For instance, take a fine large plant of Phlox of some choice variety, divide all the roots and s

ten down by the rain. Each plant will bear quantities of long-stemmed double yellow blossoms, which resemble a double Dahlia. These will keep nearly a

y it is even more remunerative than the Phlox. I started with fift

nnials, with Heigh

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rs; one to two and one-half feet;

t blue; three feet; end of Sep

e; three to four feet; July; l

William), red, pink, whit

eding Heart), red and whi

; two feet; July, August and S

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hardy double Sunflower; yellow;

; four to five feet;

ble, four to eight feet; tenth of July to mid

white; four feet; last

rs; two to three feet; en

e), scarlet; two and

also pink; three feet; en

; two to two and one-half fee

lours; three feet;

ly July until killed by frost, if the hea

, blue; one and on

ronalis), white and

to eight feet; middle of July to Sep

-scarlet; three to four feet; Septemb

e; three feet;

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three to five feet; seco

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