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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar00newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York, Munn and Co
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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February, 1906 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 12 the following: Aster, calliopsis, phlox Drum- mondii, petunia, sweet pea, ten week stock, balsam, scabiosa, morning glory, verbena, poppy and marigold. The above list includes the very best of our annuals, for the following reasons: They bloom freely, ami with comparative eonstam\ are most of them useful for cutting, are all exceedingly attractive in color and habit, and are none of them sorts which require anything but ordinary treatment. Any amateur who properly prepares the soil for them ami keep the weeds from encroaching on their territory can grow them to perfection. If a greater variety is desired, the following could be added to the list: Mignonette, candy- tuft, sweet alyssum, ageratum, celosia, portulaca, antirrhinum and nasturtium. I would not be understood as saying that the list, as extended, includes all desirable kinds. By no means. Hut it does include all I would advise a beginner in gardening to experiment with, and if half a dozen kinds from the list are selected for the first year the chances of success will be greatly increased. Concentrate your efforts, and set out with the intention of growing only a few at first, but growing these as well as they can be grown. Quality should always be considered as more important than quantity. What florist shall I patronize? I am often asked. There are so many, and all claim to sell the best of everything, that the amateur is puzzled to decide between them. Patronize always a firm that has back of it a reputation for honorable dealing. Such a firm is not given to "blow its own horn" to any great extent. It does not need to do so. Its reputation makes this unnecessary. It will sell you the best seeds on the market because it handles nothing else, and it will sell them to you at reasonable prices. What it says about a plant you can depend on, for it never indulges in misrep- resentation. The dealers whose seeds are like- liest to disappoint are those who use adjec- tives in the superlative degree only, and whose pictures of plants you have supposed yourself to be tolerably familiar with are startlingly unlike any you have ever seen, and who lay great stress on "novelties." Don't waste your time, labor and money on these. Not one in fifty proves worth cultivation. If they have any merit it will be found out, and after that merit is proved you can add them to your list, if you desire to do so. But let some one else experiment with them. In selecting seeds I would advise getting packages in which each color is by itself. This is very important if you desire to carry out any particular scheme of color. "Mixed" seed makes such work impossible. Of course the former will cost you a little more, and you will probably get more seed than you have any use for, but you can very easily club with your neighbor, thus reducing ex- pense and preventing any waste. For the benefit of those who are not familiar enough with flowers to feel quite equal to the task of planning out combinations of them for next summer's garden or arranging color schemes I will mention a few that can easilv be made, and will prove very satisfactory. One of the prettiest is composed wholly of phlox Drummondii, in a circular bed. Plant the center with pink. Surround it with pale yellow. Then have a row of pink, and edge the bed with pure white. The effect will be delightful, as the colors will be in perfect har- mony, and there will be brilliance without am suggestion of coarseness. _ Or fill the center of the bed with calliop- sis. The effect of its rich yellow and orange flowers in combination with the pink and JJmno ADVANTAGES OF PATENTED ORIGINALITY
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thinkers—whether artists, writers or are all imitated. The Angelus Piano- Playing Attachment of 1895, the Angelus Port- able Cabinet of 1897, the Complete Angelus Piano of to-day have been and are widely imitated. Patent laws protect the original in- ventors, so that imita- tors, while copying styles and forms, can- not use the basic prin- ciples of mechanical construction.

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