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beds, savory makes a good edging. It is useful in 

 cookery. 



SWEET BALM. Melissa officinalis is the botani- 

 cal name. Sweet balm is loved for its fragrance. 

 The yellowish white flowers bloom in June, July, 

 and August. It grows about two feet and loves the 

 sun. Propagate by seed and division. 



SWEET-WILLIAM is a valuable little garden 

 plant, for it blooms profusely in June and July and 

 is vigorous and rapidly spreading. The flowers are 

 in double clusters, pink, white, red, and party- 

 colored, single and double. Propagate by seed in 

 any soil. See Carnations. 



THYME. This aromatic herb is of dense growth 

 with small, pale-lilac flowers in terminal spikes. Its 

 pale, bright-green foliage makes it an attractive 

 creeper for banks. Thyme also grows well in a rock- 

 garden and makes a good border-plant also. Propa- 

 gate by seed and division. The plant grows in any 

 soil. It attains a height of from one to two inches 

 and blossoms in June and July. Every one knows 

 the value of dried thyme for flavoring in cookery. 



VIOLETS prefer shady places. They are at home 

 in the rock-garden, and they are very charming if 

 planted on a little bank. They can be sown on the 

 grassy slope of a terrace. In that case, let them 



