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How to Make a Flower Garden 



and with them, also, the very busy 



man should be content. All of us 



can grow bulbs. We can lift the 



roots of petunias and alyssum from 



the garden when the frost comes. 



We can start the seeds of many annuals in 



late summer. We can make cuttings of 



begonias and coleus and a score of common 



things. Here and there we can pick up 



something new. Gradually we add to our 



store ; and in three years' time our winter 



garden, small or large, becomes a unique 



collection of old-time friends and of new- 



tnne rarities. 



II. The Fun of Having a Greenhouse 



By Ai 



G. MiNSHALL 



It is pleasant to grow one' 

 carnations 



.4 physician who takes time for a greenhouse gives some 

 use Jul warnings 



To ANY lover of the garden the frost brings 

 a feeling that the world in which he lives has lost 

 half its beauty for him, and he anxiously awaits 

 the time when the leaves once more begin to 

 show their loveliness of green in the spring. If, 

 however, he is the lucky possessor of "a small bit 

 of glass," he has discounted the effect of the shock, 

 and can continue to worship his favourite goddess 

 in a small private shrine which is always con- 

 veniently at hand, and whose selected treasures 

 seem much nearer and dearer than the lavish 

 plenties of the summer garden. In this "winter 

 garden" he can have a constant change of scene 

 by shifting the various parts, and by bringing in 

 the sleeping roots and bulbs to brighten the field 

 whenever variety may be desired; and if he 



