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in labelled envelopes. Every school garden should follow 

 plants from seed to seed for their life history. Every home 

 gardener will find great satisfaction in this work, too, for it is 

 by careful selection that varieties are improved. Moreover, 

 the best double flowers usually produce seeds sparingly, so 

 that good seed is expensive. All the surplus seed of fine 

 quality that one produces will be highly appreciated if dis- 

 tributed to one's flower-loving friends as gifts, or it may 

 serve as a basis of exchange for other seeds or for bulbs and 

 plants with one's neighbors. A school garden may very prop- 

 erly be utilized to supply seeds for the home gardens of its dis- 

 trict. But all this work should be based upon a study of the 

 finest types of flowers, that selection of seed may be intelli- 

 gent. 



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The only way to be rewarded by a beautiful show of blos- 

 soms in early spring in the out-door garden is to plant in 

 autumn the spring flowering bulbs. These are so inexpen- 

 sive and so beautiful that it is not strange that they are be- 

 coming more and more popular every year. And the fact 

 that when once established most sorts continue to develop a 

 new supply of bulbs for future flowering renders them all the 

 more desirable. 



Fortunately, these spring flowering bulbs can be planted 

 to advantage in a great variety of situations. Arranged in 

 the form of beds they commonly make the most striking dis- 

 play to be seen in spring in parks and gardens. Scattered 

 with less formality along the edges of the border garden or 

 beneath the shrubbery, or dotted here and there on the lawn, 

 they often make an even more pleasing show than in the 



