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flowers, makes the front of the border fine to see. I 

 have cut armful after armful of the great marigold 

 stems for decoration, and yet one can see no lessen- 

 ing of the border's truly golden glow. 



Here is a good example of what may be done 

 with annuals in one year's round. First, the 

 December sowing of forty cents' worth of Shirley 

 poppy seed, with its fine June result as previously 

 detailed in these pages; then the transplanting of 

 the nicotiana plants that had volunteered from 

 last year without cost, and of the marigolds that a 

 ten-cent packet of seed provided; and now we have 

 had two months of the fine fall display. The soon- 

 to-arrive "black frost" will cut down this mass of 

 foliage and flowers in time to have the border 

 cleared, manured and dug, in preparation for next 

 spring's new planting. Fifty cents in money 

 expenditure, a few hours of garden work, and about 

 fifty thousand flowers for parts of a whole season ! 

 The one unpurchasable item, that of thoughtful 

 planning to get this effect, goes with the unsellable 

 satisfaction that the effect was obtained. The 

 latter important item is increased by the pleasure 

 this display has given to very many passers-by; 

 for any garden satisfaction of the eye that is not 

 shared is a poor sort. 



The berry plants are now most pleasing; I mean 



