the yellow and white daisy-like ones. With the 

 fringy larger ones and the exquisite little button va- 

 rieties of white, yellow, old gold and maroon, we 

 surely do not need to regret the impossibility of suc- 

 cessfully growing in our Northern gardens the large 

 show and Japanese varieties. When the branches 

 have grown to over a foot in height pinch out the 

 centre of each crown; these will then send out three 

 or four branches, giving many more flower tips in 

 the autumn. After the frost has blackened them, 

 cut down to the ground and mulch with old manure. 



Plan so that no part of your garden is without 

 bloom for nine months in the year. This is easily 

 managed by taking a little forethought. 



In one of our vaudeville beds, leading out to the 

 rose garden, the regular head-liners are snowdrops, 

 tulips, hyacinths, bluebells of Scotland, oriental 

 poppy dancers, then several midsummer performing 

 annuals Shirley poppies, marigold and ten-weeks 

 stocks, followed by those autumn artists, the Japan- 

 ese anemones, cosmos and hardy chrysanthemums. 

 Take another spot; spring opens with scillas and 

 narcissi, continues with columbines, which are tagged 

 by foxgloves ; then iris, Shasta daisies and larkspur 

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