This beautiful flower has been grown in gardens since the Middle Ages, and known to most every one who raises flowers. From the mountains of the old world, we get a nice collection of the wild type, some suitable for the big rockery, others for wild flower gardens. The species are mostly herbs ceous, having [...]

Lime also keeps worms out of pots and they are a real menace to window plants and are in the pots unsuspected very often. I go into deep woods for all soil for bulbs, then mix this with washed sand and garden soil. They generally grow like mad in such soil. If any of the [...]

I, myself, have found that fertilizer from the hen house contains worms that ruin my lettuce bed and have stopped using it in anyway. I have found that pulverized egg shells are fine for potplants as they furnish lime in just the strength suitable for small areas. How Do You Define Adoptions And Orphans?

Once when I visited a friend of mine living on a farm I saw a small patch of corn that was full six feet in height and some stalks were 12 feet high. Inquiry showed the corn had been planted in an old hog pen thus proving that kind of fertilizer was efficacious for corn, [...]

Do you want the prettiest of borders for your flower beds next spring? Then try the dwarf phlox, Cecily (mixed or in separate colors) and get the surprise of your life as I did. I had always depended on Pyrethrum and alyssum for borders but I tried dwarf phlox on the suggestion of a friend [...]

Each year as seeds ripen on plants in our gardens, we look for something new for our winter bouquets. One of there which was new to me was the Chinese Salad Bean. The plants of these beans are low-growing and do net take up too much room in a small garden. A few plants will [...]

Everyone is acquainted with the hydrangea, but does everyone know how striking it is when massed in a large bed at the side of some building, one side of your home for instance? In Houston a lady has rooted cuttings of different varieties of the hydrangea in a space ten by thirty feet and last [...]

We believe you will get full value for all you invest here. Fresh seeds give best satisfaction, always. For early indoor bloom try some of the Amaryllis. We had some of the largest and most beautiful blooms from here last year that we have ever seen. For good books to study during the time we [...]

Dew on a lack spider web; hoar frost on a mid-fall day. Bittersweet redberried yellow leaved; whirr of quail wings. Autumns gorgeous color harmony; red apples .. sweet cider. Thud of falling nuts and swirling brown leaves Indian Summer. Harvest abundant; moon’s red ball on the night horizon. Frosted ripe pumpkins among the corn tepees. [...]

Tall slim poplar trees swinging and swaying in the summer wind. Pool all still and clear, fishes and lilies everywhere. Swallows circling in the evening sky. Cool shady nook on a hot summer day; a garden beautiful. Clematis silver lace vine pearly gates, All misty and white festooned and draped o’er fence, tree and arbor. [...]