CHAPTER XXIV 

 FLOWER YIELDS 



LET us figure a little bit about the amount of 

 food and flowers our gardens will give us ; first we 

 will think about the flowers. 



A Pansy Plant will give us two or three blossoms 

 a day as long as the weather remains cool, and 

 longer than that if we cultivate and water it 

 well. If we have six pansy plants, each giving, say, 

 two flowers a day from the middle of March to the 

 middle of June, that would be 90 days and we 

 could gather at least 1,080 blossoms. 



Sweet Peas give us three or four stalks of blos- 

 soms a day for a month and near the sea coast for 

 two months, so a dozen sweet pea vines would give 

 us over 2,000 blossom stalks through their blossom- 

 ing season. 



Marigolds will have about 15 blossoms on each 

 plant. 



Asters about 10 blossoms each. 



Balsam has its blossoms on a tall spike, a dozen 



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