CHAPTER TEN 



AMONG THE FLOWERS 



1 HERE is no possible floral display like an orchard 

 of apples, pears, plums, and cherries — and peaches 

 if you can grow them. Yet it is an easy matter in 

 the country to have a shrubbery and a flower gar- 

 den. I say easy because you must not lay out for 

 so much work and care that you will get weary of 

 your best things. Fifty years ago vegetable gar- 

 dens were worked with a spade, and flower gar- 

 dens our mothers dug with a knife — digging forks 

 and trowels were unknown. Sunflowers, nastur- 

 tiums and hollyhocks grew in the vegetable gar- 

 den, but the pinks, cinnamon roses, and annuals 

 came with the most terrible backache. I shall try 

 to tell you what flowers will be most satisfactory, 

 and at the same time most easily grown. 



Waste very little time on inferior things, for in the 

 country you will have enough to do to fully and en- 

 joyably occupy every hour. Be prompt to throw 



