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pansy, most colors, very varied. salvia, scarlet 



petunia, crimson, pink, white snapdragon, white, yellow, the 



(seed expensive, but buy the reds 



best) stock, white, yellow, pink, red 



Drummond phlox, white, red, sunflowers, yellow 



yellow sweet peas, all colors 



poppy, yellow, pink, red, white zinnia, strong yellows and reds 



This list is chosen from among a bewildering number. 

 You will have neighbors who can tell you of favorites which 

 are not here, and which probably are more difficult to grow. 

 Yet for a small garden even this list is too large. For such 

 a case the following are suggested, as being both easy to 

 grow and worth growing. For the edging, sweet alyssum. 

 For the bed, summer cosmos, marigold, mignonette, nastur- 

 tium, Shirley poppy, sweet pea, zinnia. The sweet pea 

 gives very beautiful flowers for picking, but the plant is not 

 beautiful. It must be grown on a trellis of some kind. 

 Dwarf sweet peas do not always do well. More lovely than 

 any in this list is the aster, but it needs care. The list, with 

 or without the aster, will give plenty of flowers after the end 

 of June, if only the faded blossoms are daily picked. 



The making of a flower-garden plan is, even at the simplest, 

 a rather difficult thing. Success depends not only upon 

 knowledge, but also upon taste, which few of us stop to 

 study. Therefore in planning, carefully consider colors 

 and heights. If you intend to buy your seeds of a seedsman, 

 study his catalogue to know what varieties you intend to 

 buy, and use these in planning. The plan, as made upon the 

 squared paper, will show the edgings and groups in irregular 

 outlines. In the centers of these mark lines or dots, to show 

 where the seed is to go. If this is done with care, the real 

 garden will be like the plan. 



A vegetable garden is an entirely different thing. It is 



