LITTLE GARDENS 



alone that draws us to It, but Its variety and grace 

 of form. It Is simple as we find It In the fields, 

 a little red cup with rounded edges; and we 

 hardly know for Its relative that mass of white 

 or pink or purple plume, lifted walst-high above 

 the earth, and so full of life and light that we 

 can not associate with It any property of sleep. 

 Nor do we at once recognize as a member of 

 the family the escholzia, a common variety In 

 California, with delicate, finely divided leaves 

 and low-growing flowers of yellow, singularly 

 creamy, pure and tender. The escholzia will 

 grow from seed planted in the fall, if It is well 

 mulched, but the showy varieties come from 

 seed committed to the earth at the end of win- 

 ter. Such oddities as the horned poppy and the 

 thistle-like poppy of Mexico do not please us in 

 like measure with the splendid heads of the snow- 

 drift, the cardinal and the fairy blush. 



Sweet peas ought to be among our earliest 

 considerlngs, both for their own sake and for 

 their help in covering the fences. They must 

 have strong cord, or wire, or strips of wire net to 

 cHmb upon. The custom is to buy mixed seed 

 and let them come up anyhow : white, pink, red, 

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