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best place for your garden, and finding out the kind of fl

gues, and look over the garden books at your Public Library. Then if you do not quickly find yourself suffering from a violent attack of Garden

one writer, and you want to make yours expressive of yourself. So before taking another step, study your grounds, large and

he careless passerby. Choose a more secluded spot where, if you wish, you can train a vine

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the spaces for your chosen plants. You might draw half a dozen plans, and then choose

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e. Plants live on the tonic salts they draw out of the soil through their roots, as much as they do on the carbonic acid gas which they take out of the air through their leaves. S

awn is as satisfying to the eye as flowers, so never spoil one by cutting it up with beds.

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The irregular border surrounding this bit of lawn is a mass of flowers from earliest spring until black frost,-from March until December,-and deli

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do the least damage. Make a list of the flowers that like such conditions,-and most of them do,-and then pick out those you prefer, writing after each name the time that it

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s and jonquil groups, with the tulips,-all of which must be set out in the fall for bloom in April and May: then the iris in May and June. Sweet alyssum, nasturtiums, corn flowers, Shirley poppies and cosmos (all annuals),

rn their green tops under the ground, first to allow the sap to run back into the bulb (the storehouse for next year), and next to decay

s, like the Mrs. John Laing and all of the hybrid teas, will flower nearly as late. In fact, in the famous rose gar

d occasionally work into the soil some bone-meal for fertilizer. Water in dry weather. This does n

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e at the back of the bed, at the extreme end, and although late in flowering, formed a beautiful green background for the rest all summer. The first irregular section was given up

nderest flowers; and black frost, which is of intense enough cold to freeze the sap within the plant cells, so that when the sun's heat melts this frozen sap the plant-leaf and stalk-w

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ts. Pansies set along the outer edge will blossom until mid-summer if you keep them picked and watered every day; and verbenas, which have the

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s at intervals of several weeks. The combinations of red and blue is very pretty, too. Sweet alyssum, with red or pink geraniums, would be lovely all season. For an all yellow bed, plant California poppies to bloom early in the borde

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sturtiums along the edge for a hanging vine. Inside of that plant a row of the blue lobelia, or set in a few pansies already in bloom. Then you would have room for still another row of taller plants,-say pink and white geraniums, with a fern or two. Another pretty box could be made by putting Wandering Jew or "inch plant"

hite, pink, and lavender, are lovely in a window box, and if started in shallow trays or old pots early in the spring, can be transpla