LESSON FOR THE FARM HOME 



L. H. Bailey, Director 

 Course for the Farm Home, Martha Van Rensselaer, Supervisor 



VOL. II. No. 35 



ITHACA, N. Y. 

 MARCH i, 1 91 3 



GARDEN SERIES No. 2 



THE FLOWER GARDEN 



Introduction by 



L. H. Bailey 



The main planting of any place should be of trees and shrubs. The 

 flowers are then used as decorations. They may be thrown in freely 

 about the borders of the place, not in beds in the center of the lawn. 



Fig. 39. — Rudbeckia. An attractive garden, with the child growing in it 



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 the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. 



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