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other object not exactly agreeable to look upon, dig down deep 

 around it and plant a package of seeds, preferably vines. Those 

 seen in Photo 137 are the dwarf Nasturtiums. 



Photo 137, Dwarf Nasturtiums. 



THE CANNA. 



The superb bed of Cannas in Photo 138 was fourteen feet 

 high in the center. These were the old tall-growing, bronze va- 

 riety, Robusta. It was surrounded with the "golden-bedder" 

 Coleus. The "good luck" of this gentleman came from digging 

 the bed (in elliptical form) three feet deep. In the filling, one 

 big two-horse wagon load of cow manure was worked in. As 

 the plants grew they were fed twice a week with nitrate of soda. 



In the last fifteen years special attention has been given to 

 the French flowering Cannas, as they are called. The hybri- 



