BOOK OF THE HOME GARDEN 



Sweet Alyssum keeps blooming all the time and 

 sends up so many flower stalks it is like the poppies. 



Forget-Me-Nots have 50 stalks of flowers on a 

 single plant, surely a generous bloomer. 



Verbenas have 15 flower stems on each plant. 



You know, of course, that your plants will not 

 have this number of flowers if you allow seed to 

 form. If you want this number you must pick 

 each flower before it fades. Many of you will have 

 a greater number of flowers than I have given if 

 your garden grows well, and all of you I am sure 

 will have more than a single plant of every variety. 

 So all you have to do is multiply the number of 

 plants you have by the number of blossoms on one 

 plant and you can easily tell what your garden is 

 yielding. Some flowers last only a day or so, but 

 the plant makes many of them, while others pro- 

 duce only a few flowers which remain in bloom a 

 long time. 



Now for the vegetables. This tells us how much 

 our garden will give us to eat. I will tell you how 

 much a good plant will yield and you can multiply 

 it by the number of plants you are growing. I hope 

 each one of you will keep track of just how much 

 you get of each kind of vegetable, because you can 

 plan your gardens so much better next year. 



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