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luxurious and wanton, and if a flower were picked 

 her whole scheme might be upset. Imagine a 

 geranium -bed or a coleus-bed, with its wonderful 

 "design," set out into a wood or in a free and 

 open landscape! Even the birds would laugh 

 at it! 



What I want to say is that we should grow 

 flowers when we make a flower-garden. Have 



130. The flower-garden is by itself, and at one side 

 or in the rear of the place. 



enough of them to make it worth the effort. I 

 sympathize with the man who likes sunflowers. 

 There is enough of them to be worth looking at. 

 They fill the eye. Now show this man ten square 

 feet of pinks, or asters, or daisies, all growing 

 free and easy, and he will tell you that he likes 

 them. All this has a particular application to the 

 farmer. He grows potatoes and buckwheat and 



