The Busy Woman s Garden Book 



It is all straight ahead work, and the first early 

 crop of weeds is completely eliminated, grass 

 eradicated and all is in order for the reception of 

 the plants which may have been started in flats 

 in the house or in a hotbed or cold frame or, in the 

 case of such annuals as do not take kindly to 

 transplanting, in the open ground. 



Nor is it necessary in the case of annuals that 

 there should be a regular, formally laid out gar- 

 den or permanent beds. A border about the 

 base of the house along the fence or walks, will 

 give room for several kinds of flowers, flowers 

 that will be a mass of bloom from early summer 

 until late frost. 



A very satisfactory place for annuals I have 

 found is down through the vegetable garden. I 

 like their company while I am at work among the 

 useful but less ornamental vegetables, so always 

 plan to have a row of something mid-way of the 

 garden; usually the row takes the form of tea 

 roses which never do so well for me as in this 

 homely situation. The culture is more thorough 

 than can be given to plants in beds, there is less 



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