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growing them in the old-fashioned way
keeps back garden advancement. We have
the same flowers our grandmothers raised:
the old kinds have been so improved and
new ons discovered; of lilacs where there
used to be two kinds, white and purple,
there are now over 200 named varieties.
The little "Johnny-jump-up" as been cultured
until the pansys of to-day are sometimes
4 inches across. He does not hear any
one sigh for the good old days of rush
light and tallow candle: who would recall
them and dispensewith Electric light.
Let every one plan for a garden, let it
be modern and filled with modern plants."
Eliza Moore told of some beautiful gardens
and of the Italian formed gardens.
Margaret Magruder read a long season
of green pease "Pease are a cool weather
vegetable. Don't expect them after the middle
of July: give them rich ground and
a new location each season. Trenches, four
inches deep and sow thinly, one quart
to 100 feet and cover with an inch of soil.
As the plants grow fill in the trench till
full, later when it is warmer weather
plant deeper at the start. Make a second
sowing in one or two weeks and plant weekly
till middle of June, Alaska for first planting,
then wrinkled varieties, Nott Excelsior
[Eradus?]. There is a variety with edible pods
which the French like. A.G. Thomas told
of acres of pease in Indiana for canning.
They use Landreths Extra early and pick
daily of uniform size by which plan their