ten] among the flowers 



sulpho-tobacco soap. This is a cheap, effective, 

 and harmless insecticide, and is as good on plants 

 out of doors as indoors. It is a first-rate insect 

 exterminator. 



Before closing this chapter, I must not overlook 

 a few suggestions and general hints. Arrange your 

 annuals so as to keep up a continuance of bloom 

 in all parts of your garden. Just at present one of 

 my arrangements is to grow my sweet williams in 

 rows, and far enough apart to allow rows of asters 

 between. The asters will begin to blossom after 

 the sweet williams are out of bloom. I assure you 

 that we have few things finer than such a bed. 

 Pansies will do a lot of nice work along the borders 

 of beds, and that is the place also for mignonette 

 and sweet alyssum. Nasturtiums I alternate with 

 hollyhocks, besides thrusting the big seeds in al- 

 most anywhere that there is likely to be a lack of 

 blossoms. When the hollyhocks are through blos- 

 soming, cut off the stalks, or the forming of seeds 

 will use up vitality and kill the plants. Soon your 

 nasturtiums will spread a carpet of glorious color 

 and sweetness, and hide the stumps. My chief bed 

 of nasturtiums is always on a spot that is least 

 manured, and naturally barren. On poor soil 



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