214 PLANNING AND PLANTING 



deep, and covering the top of the ground with a 

 winter mulch of leaves or straw. 



Your Chrysanthemums should be taken up every 

 spring as soon as growth has fairly started, torn 

 into shreds, and only one single shoot replanted to 

 make the new plant. This should always be done 

 each spring, if you wish the best of hardy Chrys- 

 anthemum bloom the succeeding fall. 



Do not allow Roses, Pansies nor Sweet Peas to 

 fade on the plant. If you fail to remove them the 

 blooming of your plants will be checked. It is 

 worth while to remove fading flowers of all sorts, 

 as so doing will insure a longer period of bloom. 



Even if your home is in a congested district and 

 the house is right up to the pavement, and all you 

 have is a little brick paved court, you can still 

 have and enjoy flowers by making a Barrel Gar- 

 den. Take an ordinary sugar barrel and nicely 

 paint it after having first set it on three casters 

 and having bored holes in the staves, two inches in 

 diameter and six inches apart. Next fill the bar- 

 rel with soil, setting your plants in the holes as 

 you fill the barrel. Water frequently and turn 

 the barrel on its casters from time to time so that 

 all sides can have some sunlight. You can plant 

 the top soil of course, and can use such plants as 

 Nasturtium, Petunias, Verbena, Centurea, and 

 any number of other annuals. 



Annual Poppies are beautiful flowers but unfor- 



