FLOWERS IN THEIR SEASON 



The main thing In our garden-making, is not 

 the shape of the beds, nor even the arrangement 

 of what is put into them : it is the plants and flow- 

 ers we grow there, not forgetting the grass. And 

 in respect of flowers, one has a wide and dehght- 

 ful choice. There is an almost irresistible temp- 

 tation, on the part of beginners in yard garden- 

 ing, to overdo the matter and to put more plants 

 into the ground than the ground will feed, and 

 more than suffices for appearance. The canny 

 seedsmen understand this w^illingness to be 

 tempted; they feed it and reap an exceeding great 

 reward. They realize that every catalogue they 

 publish, with its gaudy colored plates of cannas, 

 such as never grew for any human coaxing, and 

 verbenas that stand up with military conse- 

 quence, putting up massive heads of gorgeous 

 blues and crimsons. Instead of straggling help- 

 lessly over the bed, looking for a place to lie 

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