SPRING IN 



wide, as the Sweet Pea makes a rampant 

 growth under favorable circumstances. In 

 order to assure a bountiful crop of flowers 

 throughout the season it is absolutely necessary 

 to prevent the formation of seed. Go over the 

 vines daily and remove every flower past its 

 prime. If this advice is followed, we can have 

 fine flowers, and plenty of them, from June to 

 November. 



If the season should happen to be a dry one, 

 grass-clippings from the lawn can be used to 

 advantage about many plants as a mulch. Tea 

 Roses will be benefited greatly by covering the 

 soil about them with three or four inches of it, 

 as it will prevent too-rapid evaporation of 

 moisture from the soil and assist materially in 

 keeping the heat of the intensely hot sunshine 

 of midsummer noonday from injuring the 

 roots near the surface. 



What has been said about the prevention 

 of the development of seed on the Sweet Pea 

 applies with equal pertinence to most annuals. 

 Let seed form, and you will get but few flow- 

 ers from them after that. All the energies of 

 the plant will be devoted to the effort of per- 

 petuating itself. But interfere with the pro- 

 duction and development of seed, and the plant 



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