THE PRACTICAL FLOWER GARDEN 



should be three inches apart, not only in 

 order to develop and produce more flowers, 

 but that they may continue in bloom for a 

 longer period. Sown in large masses in all 

 the many varieties, poppies make a wonder- 

 ful show for three weeks. When the last 

 petals have fallen, if the soil be enriched and 

 cultivated, the poppy bed can again be made 

 beautiful by transplanting into it young aster 

 plants either of all shades of pink with white 

 in the many varieties, or of purple and lav- 

 ender shading through the delicate tones to 

 white. The poppy bed in my garden is fifty 

 feet long and eighteen feet wide, giving oppor- 

 tunity for a fine mass of color. 



Asters, in the catalogues of annuals, are 

 what phlox and larkspur are in the perennial 

 family. Early in September, when the asters 

 were really wonderful in my garden, and 

 there seemed to be no end to them, I asked 

 one of the gardeners how many had been 

 transplanted. His reply was, " about ten 

 thousand." As I rather doubted this state- 



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