SPRING 



Annuals may be sown from April 20th to 

 May 10th, according to the season. Asters 

 for late blooming may be sown up to the 

 end of May. 



In planting, tall-growing things should 

 be set at the back of the bed or border, 

 with the low-growing ones in front. Cata- 

 logues usually give the height, period of 

 blooming and color of flowers, so that, with 

 a little study, even the beginner in garden- 

 ing cannot go astray. The flower gardener 

 must remember that fine effects can only 

 be produced by masses of color, and that a 

 number of each variety of plants should 

 always be set together. Never put one or 

 two lone plants by themselves, with the rest 

 of their family scattered about singly or in 

 couples. Speaking of large clumps reminds 

 me of a plot eighteen feet by forty, entirely 

 filled with tall-growing perennial Larkspur, 

 which is a beautiful sight when blossoming, 

 and with fifty Japanese Anemone Whirl- 

 wind, grown in a mass, which surpasses in 



