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planted. You will be surprised to see how very 

 large a quantity of plants a space apparently so 

 small can hold, if you do what is requisite to 

 make each one of your boxes present constantly, 

 from spring to autumn, a full bouquet, rich in 

 its variety of colors and of perfumes. As re- 

 gards perfume, sow mignionette every where. It 

 thrives in the shade of the other plants, takes up 

 but little room, and keeps out of sight, its per- 

 fume only disclosing its presence ; and provided 

 that you take care not to let it exhaust itself in 

 producing too many seeds, the production of 

 seeds being the business of your garden, it will 

 continue to bloom until the end of October, hold- 

 ing on till after the first serious freeze. The pre- 

 vious white frosts will then have already kiHed 

 first the balsams and the Queen Margarets, then 

 the tagetes and the ageratums of Mexico, after- 

 wards the petunias ; the chrysanthemums alone 

 will remain. Then it is that you will congratu- 

 late yourself for having sowed a great deal of 

 mignionette. So long as it continues to bloom 

 it will contribute largely now in a far larger 

 proportion than before to the pleasantness of 



