Putnam's 

 Garden Handbook 



THE ART OF GROWING FLOWERS 



No country in the world is quite so well adapted 

 to the culture of flowers as America. Even in 

 the crowded city, flowers are possible. The 

 conditions of growing them are more trying but 

 still they can be grown, and in the city the efforts 

 required to produce them will receive far more 

 appreciation than in the country or suburbs. 

 Then why should not Americans have gardening 

 for their art? We have unlimited space; we have 

 a wonderful variety of climatic and soil condi- 

 tions, suitable for a wide variety of flowers, and 

 somewhere in this country flowers of every known 

 species can be grown. 



Every flower is worthy of cultivation. Few 

 flowers there are which will not give marvelous 

 results if carefully tended, and some of the com- 



