A Woman's Hardy Garden

e easiest to grow and are most desirable. For me a flower must have mer

down to read it, expecting enjoyment and profit from every page; b

provide flowers to be cut for the decoration of rooms. But I hold that a flower

no further

never allow more than two colours in the same room. I have a yellow room, where only yellow and white flowers, or white and blue, are permitted

ies, must be sown where they are to grow. Mig

h Hydrangeas; Rudbec

twent

ia with their sunny petals. Sow in great numbers wherever they are wanted, here and there in the borders wherever there is space.

Germany,-scarlet, with black blotches at the base of the petals. Last to bloom are the tall, fringed double and single Poppies,-white, pink and scarlet, growing on strong stems three feet high

Sweet Alyssum and Candytuft. All of these make good edgings for

the tall Giant Sunflowers, are fin

uals Should be So

Twentieth

hey will bloom from August until late autumn. The same is true of the German Ten

nt, Comet, Ostrich Plume and the late-flowering branching kind. Of these last, "Purity" (snow-white) and "Daybreak" (shell-pink) are the best, often bearing thirty flowers on a plant and lasting, in wa

plant o

mber

pears upon the Asters and eats the flowers, is to have them picked off mornin

n favorable soil Cosmos grows luxuriantly, and resembles a small tree six or eight feet high. This plant should be staked, or it is likely to be blown down. It is very

yellow from deep orange to pale ivory, is one of the

f not permitted to go to seed, they will bloom plentifully for several months. On the dinner-table with

e a pricking of the conscience, for during the summer, when there are plenty of othe

igh, and comes in many colours. It makes beautiful

kscomb. The new variet

growin

fourt

and a salmon-pink. They are not only lovely when growing, but m

ground, so that they may become deeply rooted before dry weather. Make a trench about a foot deep and a foot wide. Have a good layer of manure in the bottom of the trench, over which put a couple of inches of earth, and over this earth put a good layer of wood-ashes, again a sprinkling of earth. Th

netting. A trench should be made on either side of the netting, so that a double row of Peas may be sown. The quantity sown depends on the length of the trellis; three pounds will sow a double row one hundred and twent

plants. I did not allow these to blossom, but picked off the buds, and, after the Rose beds had been given a plentiful top-dressing of manure carefully stirred in with a large trowel, I transplanted my Pansy plants. Of course, they had to be covered over with the Roses the last of November, and often during the winter I wondered whether the dears would be smothered. On the twenty-eighth of March the beds were uncovered, and, imagine it! there were Pansies in bloom. From April tenth until late in August these beds were simply a car

without. All of them are easy to raise, and blossom abundantly. I do

l of

er twen

ngs, and by following it the tiny plants never wither or are set back, and in fact do not seem to know that they have been moved. Take a tin box, such as biscuits come in, half fill it with water, then lift into it from the seed-bed about o

may have grown taken out. It is particularly necessary, for a few weeks in the spring, to keep well ahead of the weeds. I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the

th Height, Colour a

s; one to two feet

rs; six inches; blooms all summ

e pink, dark red, white; two t

all shades of yellow; mid-

th red or brown center; two feet;

white the best, fine for edging; six inches;

hades of blue; three feet; bl

carlet; two to three fee

ee to five feet; from the fifteen

ow Poppies; one foo

son, white; one foo

one to two and one-half feet;

t one foot; blooms all su

; dwarf, nine inches; climbing, five feet

hes; from early spring until

kind to raise; white, crimson and pink;

ne foot; blooms July, August and

hree feet. If several varieties are planted can be had

ite and yellow, pure white; one a

red, purple; one and one-half feet; mi

ll varieties, single and double

rown on bush or trellis; end of June u

, yellow; one and one-half

and one-half to two feet;

; Rudbeckias in

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