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Myosotis dissitiflora or Arabis albida for spring 

 bloom or with violas (tufted pansies) for summer 

 flowers. All of these plants can be set out in 

 October and with the exception of the candytuft 

 any of them are suitable for places between the 

 bulbs, which they follow immediately in bloom 

 when the period is not coincident; the arabis and 

 myosotis are especially good with early tulips, or 

 late ones if care is taken as to the color that goes 

 with the myosotis. 



Late in May, when the bulb foliage is turning 

 brown, remove any other plants that are not used 

 for edging and set annuals in all the available 

 spaces. Or the bulbs may be taken up, dried off 

 and reset in the autumn. If this is done through- 

 out, or here and there, the garden may be given 

 a riot of autumn color by massings of hardy chry- 

 santhemums. It is not necessary that the chrysan- 

 themums should be potted ones; they may be plants 

 from cuttings rooted in the spring and grown on 

 in rows, as they will bear moving even when in 

 bloom. 



Start the annuals, other than poppies, eschscholt- 

 zia and sweet alyssum, early by sowing seed in a 

 coldframe soon after the first of May. Keep the 

 plants under glass until the end of the month, or 

 later if the garden is not ready for them. Do not 

 let them get spindling; this is the objection to 

 starting the seeds in the house in boxes in April. 

 If started still earlier in a greenhouse, in March, 

 they can be potted and put in the garden as good- 



