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bulbs. If the ground is in workable shape we will 

 also sow our sweet peas this month. 



APRIL. Re-seed any bare spots on the lawn 

 or make a new one. Sow sweet peas if this was 

 not done last month. 



This is the best spring month for planting 

 roses, and while they may be planted through a 

 season of ten or more weeks, it is far better to get 

 them in early this month. The same applies to 

 evergreens, hedges and shrubbery of all kinds. 



By the middle of the month you may plant 

 gladioli bulbs, and thereafter every ten days or 

 two weeks for a succession of bloom. 



The soil may be spaded now. It is inadvisable 

 to do this work early, while the soil is wet, for if 

 dug while too moist it will leave hard clods or balls 

 of earth to be a nuisance all through the summer. 



This month, or as early as March, the slower 

 growing annuals may be started in boxes in the 

 window, such sorts as heliotrope, petunia, ver- 

 bena, salvia, phlox drummondii, asters, scabiosa, 

 salpiglosis and others. Begin the mowing of the 

 lawn this month. 



MAY. By the fifteenth the annuals grown in- 

 doors from seeds may be bedded out in their per- 

 manent locations, and the rapid-growing sorts of 

 annuals may be sown directly outdoors and later 

 thinned out or transplanted. Such sorts as sweet 

 alyssum, asters, zinnias, cosmos, dianthus, mari- 



