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les and other hardy climbers at small cost. For out-houses and back- 

 porches, the hop vine is both useful and beautiful. By all means have 

 an Ampelopsis vine, their autumn foliage is simply perfect. If you have 

 any unsightly rubbish heap, or back buildings, don't fail to plant freely 

 about them the Convolvus Major — the dear old Morning Glory, and 

 the tall Nasturtuim. You cannot do without their radiant blossoms. If 

 you happen to find an old decayed stump, and can get it torn up and 

 conveyed to your kitchen yard, by all means appropriate it, fill the 

 crown with rich soil, and plant Dwarf Morning Glories and aSTasturtuims 

 therein. It will be a "thing of beauty" all summer. Gather up all the 

 rocks and broken crockery, and any defiant knots which resist any- 

 thing short of dynamite, pile them up neatly, fill with soil, and on these 

 plant any of the many pretty trailers, ground ivy is pretty and "last- 

 ing," and among its roots, drop a few seeds of pretty, bright flowers. 



After all this is done, get a few annuals — the hardest and free- 

 blooming. Petunias, Phloxes, Verbenas, Asters, Sweet Williams,^ 

 Stocks, Portulaccas, Balsams and Chinese Pinks, Poppies, Zinnias and 

 Marigolds, Some of these will bloom the second year. Don't neglect 

 the Chrysanthemums ane Hollyhocks, Gladiolas and many other bul- 

 bous plants are perfectly hardy, and will gladly grow for the asking. If 

 you have no other place to plant them, and are too busy to give them 

 separate culture, slip the seed into the vegetable rows — among the let- 

 tuce and onions, and the bean bushes and the beats. Flowers are as 

 pretty as weeds and will grow as well; Asters, Zinnias and Poppies 

 and Marigolds are all taller than the cucumber vines or the tomatoe 

 bushes. Edge the vegetable beds with Pinks, Petunias, Larkspur and 

 Phloxes. Coreopis grows well with carrots, and Primroses, Carnations 

 and Balsams take kindly to the late potatoes. There are many ways 

 if you will have flowers, and I would, if I were you. If you have an 

 objectionable outlook from your kitchen door, or window, sow hemp 

 seeds between, and don't forget to drop a Sunflower seed or two 

 among the hemp. It will become quite a grove, and the chickens will 

 like the ripened seeds in the fall. 



In so many ways, and with so little means can you beautify your 

 homes without ; but there is a within, and in no way can you exercise 

 taste so thoroughly as here. This is mother's province, and if she have 

 daughters, or beauty-loving sons, here is their chance as well. 



Above all things, " let there be light." Don't shut away the sun- 

 shine. Bare floors and white washedwalls are not the worst things in 

 the world, and there is so much the more room for the exercise of taste. 

 Pretty home-made rugs, pictures framed by home hands, brackets and 



