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farm gardens, on the roads out from the city; and 

 of thinking that these were better than the florist's 

 larger flowers. 



Cosmos is another October joy. In this garden 

 cosmos, like pansies, seems to naturalize by self- 

 seeding, so that there will be hundreds of seedlings 

 of both next year. Each year I sow afresh, how- 

 ever, and this year I am enjoying a combination 

 suggested in one of the garden papers that of 

 asparagus and cosmos. I transplanted the cosmos 

 into the asparagus border, with the result that 

 the fine foliage but sturdy stems of the juicy spring 

 vegetable have protected the cosmos while young, 

 and the two, grown up, mingle into a lovely riot 

 of flower and foliage. Heretofore the staking of the 

 cosmos has been necessary, but this year it has not 

 been required. 



Pansies, as I have written, are practically 

 naturalized now in this garden, and must some- 

 times even be treated as weeds, though that is 

 cruel hard weeding. Each year I sow and grow 

 good "strains" of pansy, and they do exceedingly 

 prosper ! This season there has been a continuous 

 performance for more than five months, the show 

 alternating sometimes and sometimes being simul- 

 taneous between two beds, one planted with pan- 

 sies grown from seed obtained in Portland, Oregon, 



