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cording to height, and using lobeUa or sweet alyssum as a border. 

 The driveway may be made to look hke a road with a bank of 

 flowers on each side. 



I beheve that nearly all the perennials I have mentioned bloom 

 in May and June. 



May 15th the tulips are at their best, being planted in October. 

 Every one should have a bed of tulips, as they are so bright and 

 coming first of all flowers they are very desirable flowers to have. 

 Have them out in front on the lawn where every one can enjoy them. 

 When they are through blooming and the leaves turn yellow, they 

 may be taken up and kept in a dry place until October, when they 

 may be planted again. Some leave them where they are and do 

 not use the bed for anything else, but I always have red geraniums 

 in their place. 



A large, round or oblong bed of cannas graded as to height, 

 with salvia and coleus as a border, makes another pretty spot on the 

 lawn. 



Gladioli and dahlias should be put out by the middle of May. 

 Gladioli should be planted three inches deep and one foot apart. 

 They may be used in a bed or in a row, and they need to be staked. 

 Dahlias are planted six inches deep and four feet apart, if you have 

 room. They are prettiest in the hedge row. Break oft all but three 

 or four shoots. Some say "Grow by the single stem." I tried them 

 both ways this year, but it was a bad year for dahlias, and so I 

 could not say as to the best method. I do know that the flowers 

 are larger when you do not have too many brandhes. 



We should also raise dahlias from the seed. The seedling dahlia 

 should take the same place in the flower garden that the seedling 

 apple does in the orchard, for we often get a gem in this way. 



We now have the auiiuals to dispose of. These are all trahs- 

 planted and have good, strong roots, and are ready to be planted out 

 in the garden, as all danger of frosts, or at least severe ones, is over 

 by the twenty-second of ]May. Some of the flowers were sown as 

 early as January. It is taken for granted that you all have a small 

 hothouse or hotbed for raising plants, and if you have none you 

 should make one, or buy your plants of some one who raises them 

 to sell, as they are so much earlier. 



Some of the annuals are asters, salpiglossis, carnations, dianthus, 

 pinks, everlastings, pansies, coreopsis and snapdragon. Annual 

 phlox, petunias and verbenas certainly are flowers we all must have, 

 as they give the best results for what care they get of all of the 

 annuals. Cosmos, centauria, portulaca and poppies are to be sown 

 out-of-doors. 



