THE PRACTICAL FLOWER GARDEN 



the largest garden has not space for every 

 flower that can be grown. 



Enough cannot be said upon the advan- 

 tages of close planting, which produces not 

 only a more even effect of color, but also 

 an appearance of greater luxuriance. The 

 flowers really do better when closely set, as 

 the ground is thus shaded by the foliage, 

 and does not become so dry as where the 

 planting is sparse. 



We should also practice intensive garden- 

 ing, which provides successive crops of flow- 

 ers in the same bed or border, and better 

 utilizes every inch of space, arranging so 

 that one flower will promptly follow an- 

 other in the same place. The asters should 

 be fine plants ready to take the places of the 

 Canterbury bells; gladioli should be planted 

 to bloom where the foxgloves stood; cosmos 

 should be raised to spread its feathery 

 branches where the tall hollyhocks have 

 been cut down; tuberous-rooted begonias 

 should be planted to fill later the places in 



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