A Woman's Hardy Garden

s, which no garden should be without, are: Digitalis

June and July for more than a month, a

ts will bloom the following year. It is true that they will bloom when sown in the autumn, but unle

s or lettuce. Have the ground spaded finely, and make shallow trenches, perhaps six inches deep, in which put a good layer of manure and cover this with earth, then set the plants about six inches apart. Keep them well watered when the weather is dry, and the earth thoroughly stirred. By the twentieth of September

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s. In the spring I have the little plants, seeded in this way from the year before, taken fro

th Peonies. They blossom at the same time, and the pinks or reds of Sweet Williams or Peonies, with here and there a mass of white, and the tall, g

d not know these flowers before going to Oxford, and after seeing them could not wait to raise them from seed, but bought three dozen plants to look at the first year. The roots that came to me were miserable little things, a

s a great deal of trouble for one season's flowers, but their beauty repays the gardener a hundred fold. They require a

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arlet Salvia (the Bonfire variety is the best), whose brilliant colour and sturdy growth cannot be spared. They begin to blossom in July. By driving a tall stake in the center, a

ey should be planted eight inches deep and three feet apart, and kept well staked. The soil should not be too rich, or they will all grow to stalk and leaf, and blossom but little. All the varieties are love

in beds by themselves or in clumps in the borders, so that the b

se of the Dahlias, increase so that there is almost double the quantity to plant the next spring. It is well to have the Cannas started i

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