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southern or western sun. It can be run up upon wire netting 

 and allowed to trail down, forming during the latter part of 

 the season a very beautiful screen. Various other vines can 

 be utilized in the same way. 



Many city homes have no other door yard than the flat 

 roof of the building or of some shed or projection from a 

 lower story. Sometimes these little areas in the air, where 

 clothes are hung to dry, are made very beautiful hanging 

 gardens by surrounding them with boxes and half-barrels of 

 soil where a variety of vines and flowers are grown. Not 

 only annuals, but the hardier perennials may be made at 

 home in these seemingly unfavorable conditions. 



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When the mild weather of spring has had time to warm 

 up the soil somewhat, so that danger from frost is past, it is 

 time to sow out-doors the seed of such tender annuals as one 

 may desire to grow. The results from such planting will be 

 much more satisfactory if one has prepared beforehand a 

 careful garden plan in which the flowers to be grown are 

 arranged with reference to harmony of color and form as 

 well as to the time of blossoming. 



Most of these annual flowering plants may very well be 

 sown in the position in which they are to grow, the seed 

 being scattered rather sparsely in the rows and the seedlings 

 thinned out when they are two or three inches high, so that 

 each one left will have plenty of room to develop. It is 

 often desirable, however, to sow in some seed-bed such of 

 the annuals as may readily be transplanted and then transfer 

 them to their permanent situation. This is the case when 



