House Beautiful

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House Beautiful
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Especially is this true with the large-flowered cannas and gladioli; the caladiums, although not — except in rare instances — ^possess- ing the gift of bloom, are so ornamental and easily grown that they should bear an important part in the arrangement of the garden.
Aside from the ease of their culture, the economy of a fine collection of bulbs and tubers is an item of no small impor- tance, as, given safe winter quarters, the increase will in a few years easily stock a large garden. The annua
...l flower-beds must, on the other hand, be constantly renewed, and if one would maintain a high standard of excellence, fresh seeds must be purchased each year. In pur- chasing new bulbs for a garden it is best to make the main purchase of standard and well-tested varieties, adding as many novelties as you feel you can afford.
The advance in all kinds of flowers and ornamental plants is so rapid that one must be constantly on the alert to keep up with the procession. It is seemingly but a few years since the common tall- growing canna was the standard of ex- cellence among ornamental plants; now, so entirely have the French and orchid- flowered section superseded the older plants, they are only used for back- grounds and where a tall-growing plant is needed for a center, and very rarely are they used for entire beds, except in the case of the bark-leaved, tropical- *Now ready: "An American Book of Gardening," bv Ida D.


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