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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar91912newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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March, 1912 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS XVll to make room for other occupants of the beds. But these are not all the early Spring- bulbs which may be depended upon for early flowers, though of the most de- pendable. Winter aconite is a bright and cheerful herald of the Spring", sending up a whorl of green leaves enclosing a sin- gle buttercup-like flower, about the time of the blooming of the crocus. A few days later the scillas appear, holding their deep blue bells at half mast, rarely look- ing the sun in the face; but so charming are they and so finely do they group with the white of the crocus that they should be combined with them whenever pos- sible. Many of the early Spring bulbs are of use simply as bedders, but the majority are available for cut flowers and are not surpassed by anything the Summer has to offer. Tulips, narcissi, daffodils, coral lilies and candidums have as great deco- rative value indoors as out, and when grown among shrubbery and hardy per- ennials may be more freely used than when grown in solid beds, where any considerable number may not be re- moved without leaving an undesirable vacancy. Then we have the splendid array of Spring blooming shrubs which are both ornamental in the garden and useful as cut flowers. One of the first of the hardy shrubs to bloom is the deutzia gra- cillima, with its feathery-white flowers; this is especially beautiful when planted in close proximity to the pink lychnis, with which it combines exquisitely. The lilacs, syringeas, weigclias, the chionan- thus (which in some sections blooms in late May or early June), the snowballs, and English and German iris, bleeding hearts, and tht creeping phlox subulata, which in May carpets the ground with a sheet of bloom, are all lovely and desir- able denizens of the Spring and early Summer garden, that, once planted, will grow in size and beauty from year to year. Somewhat later in bloom than the fore- going is the Peony, which blossoms about the middle of June and continues in bloom for a long time. With the coming of Fall, the gold and crimson of the maple glows again in the grolden rod and the hardy chrysanthe- mums ; the late asters are imperial in robes of purple and of red. In sheltered nooks the anterrhinums hold aloft spikes of richest velvet-white and crimson and of wine,pinks and spikes of flame,and yel- low fire are defying the frost of Autumn long after September has gone and Octo- ber is waning toward November's chill. The salvias, in sheltered nooks, still are brilliant with color, each branch and twig bursting into fresh bloom, as though the Summer had but just begun, for this flower is a persistent and continuous bloomer and only ceases to bloom when cut by severe frost. The candy-tuft will continue to give an abundance of flowers long after severe frosts have cut most plants to the ground, and in favorable seasons will be found in bloom in November. Physostegias which have had the seed pods removed will give a crop of late Fall flowers, as will also the aconites, delphiniums and lobelias; but it is to the anemones and the hardy chry- santhemums that one must look for the greatest splendor of the Fall garden. The anemones come into bloom in Sep- tember, and if slightly protected on frosty nights may be had in bloom until well into November, as they continue to pro- 1 ■> -*i v \\ \ V *>, V rs % • * \ % *** •*i.
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