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array along the fence, it makes a decorative screen, and after 

 the seed is ripe enough to drop, the chickens are quite happy and 

 presently wax fat. Even the new asters, with petals almost as 

 long as a chrysanthemum s, are not too aristocratic to live in a 

 vegetable garden, if necessary, with the ten weeks stock, Chinese 

 pinks, nasturtiums, marigolds and other flowers that one wants 

 to cut from daily. 



Those who have little time to devote to their flowers will grow 

 the annuals that re-sow themselves in out-of-the-way corners that 

 may be safely neglected a while, but not close to the house where 

 no one cares to display untidiness. Certain annuals, calliopsis 

 and gaillardia, for example, will be chosen for sunny places; others, 

 like musk, godetia, pansies and nemophila for shady ones, where 

 so few really fine flowers feel at home; some drought resisters, 

 such as nasturtiums and zinnias, for dry places; others than the 

 annual chrysanthemum and calendula because you have only 

 heavy soil to offer them; still others because they like a cool 

 northern climate which suits perfectly the wallflower, annual 

 phlox, pansy, stock, marigold, cornflower, snapdragon, sweet 

 alyssum and candytuft. These will bloom after frost. Many 

 tender perennials and biennials are treated as annuals in this 

 country. Every one wants mignonette for its fragrance, and sows 

 it as near to the living-room windows as may be. The tobacco 

 plant, that looks rather bedraggled by day, opens its white trumpets 

 at dusk and makes the garden starry at night --but, like the 

 evening primrose, which also resembles a faded ball-room beauty 

 in broad daylight, it is best relegated to the background of the 

 border where the datura may have been placed. Their fragrance 

 will fill the air. Bartonia, sweet William, stock and alyssum, too, 

 perfume the garden, which should be as fragrant as it is beautiful 



