HARDY FLOWERS 



fall. But you want to plan for them because they 

 will give you flowers long before the other varieties 

 begin to bloom. The Snowdrops come up through 

 the snow ! Even Crocus peeks from a snow blanket ! 

 Then come Hyacinths, Tulips, Daffodils and Nar- 

 cissus, all so gay and fragrant, and best of all living 

 from year to year making more bulbs to give more 

 blossoms. 



Plant the large bulbs quite deep, as deep as your 

 hand is long or even deeper, and the small bulbs 

 (like Snowdrops and Crocus) about as deep as the 

 length of your fingers. My friends who have clay 

 soil gardens should put a little sand at the bottom 

 of the hole before they drop the bulb in; this is to 

 keep too much dampness from the bulb and prevent 

 rot; water goes through the sand, you see, so we 

 call this drainage. 



The greatest happiness in a hardy garden is to 

 have some plant blossom each month, and there is 

 never a time when your garden is flowerless. The 

 Dutch bulbs start the ball in the early spring. Put 

 them in anywhere you like among the hardy flow- 

 ers. They are gone before June and finally die 

 down so that when fall comes it is impossible to 

 tell where they were. 



Let us plant a garden so it will bloom each month. 



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