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There are several annual flowers which may be utilized 

 for this purpose. Among the most satisfactory are the 

 Drummond Phlox, the French Marigold, the China Aster, 

 the Japanese Morning-glories, and the sweet peas. Each 

 of these kinds of plants may thus be started out-doors and 

 transferred to window-boxes with very satisfactory results. 



One thus saves a long period of waiting which is necessary 

 when one does not plant the seeds until October. The plants 

 get a better start out-doors than they do inside, and may be 

 brought into the house in a thrifty, vigorous condition so that 

 they will continue to grow and blossom for a long period. In 

 a somewhat similar way some of the flowering plants which are 

 grown from cuttings may be started out-doors in submerged 

 pots, and then brought inside just before the frosts of autumn. 

 The various kinds of geraniums are notable illustrations of 

 plants that may be so treated. 



In selecting a place to grow these plants for in-door flower- 

 ing, choose some out-of-the-way corner of the garden, prefer- 

 ably one that is shaded part of the day. The young plants 

 will do better in such a situation during the hot, dry weeks of 

 summer, and the transition to in-door conditions will involve 

 less change than in a fully exposed situation. 



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The pansy is universally a favorite with flower lovers. It 

 has been culitivated for many hundreds of years, and in 

 most European countries at least it has been very generally 

 grown by all classes of people. Although the plant is really 

 a perennial, living on from year to year, the best results are 

 obtained by treating it as an annual, and where any attention 

 is given to growing it new plants are started from seed every 



