152 Growing Flowers 



drawn to scale. It should show just what space 

 is to be allotted to flowers, to shrubs, and what 

 will remain merely a grass plot. The trees to be 

 planted should be carefully considered and the loca- 

 tion for planting marked on the plan. 



In planning a garden on paper, quadruled paper 

 should be procured. Draftsmen use a paper ruled 

 in quarter-inch squares, and in using this, each 

 quarter-inch square should represent a foot of 

 ground. 



Unless plants are given sufficient room for full 

 development the flowers which they produce will be 

 inferior in size, form, and color. While it is advan- 

 tageous to sow the seed thickly at planting time 

 in order to make sure that some will germinate, it 

 is equally desirable to have the plants thinned so 

 as to provide ample space for the development of 

 each individual plant. 



When flowers are grown for the purpose of cutting 

 the blossoms the most satisfactory and economical 

 plan is to plant them in rows instead of clumps or 

 jotted around here and there. 



For a large amount of flowers in midsummer and 

 for the early beautification of a new place annual 



