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Orciering- Your Fresh Stock for 



Spring 5 



Some First Principles of Planning 



a Garden 5 



Some First Principles in Planning 



ning a Garden 6 



Asking Questions 6 



Annuals — Byennials — Perennials . . 7 



Cleaning up the Perennials 8 



Perennials Fasily Grown From 



Seed ^ 



April in the Garden 9 



Plants That Bloom in April 10 



Bleeding Heart H 



Galliardia or Blanket Flower 12 



Boltonia 12 



Campanula Pyramidalis 12 



Colens — The Wonderful Foliage 



Plant 13 



The Cyclamen, or Alpine Violet . . 14 



Cosmos 15 



Canterbury Bells i lo 



Calceolaria 16 



Candytuft 16 



The Columbine 1^ 



Chives and Challots . , 18 



Clivia-Imantophyllum 18 



Forget-Me-Not 19 



Foxglove Digitalis • • 20 



Forsythia SuFpensa (Golden Bell) . . 20 



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Golden Tuft (Alyssum Saxatile) 



Heliotrope 21 



Iris 22 



Lemon Lilies 23 



Sweet Peas 24 



The Calla Lily 24 



Lily-of-the-Valley ^ 2o 



The Bed of the Lily-of-the-Valley. 26 



Lilacs 26 



Larkspur 27 



Love-in-a-Mist 28 



Care of the Lawn 28 



Grading and Seeding 29 



Use the Mower Karly 29 



Lawn Patching 30 



Marigolds 31 



Nicotinia 



Polygonum Cu^pidatum 



Poppies 



Primroses 



Annual Phlox 



The Perennial Phlox 



Getting the iRose Bushes Ready for 

 Winter 



New ^Year's and Lenten Roses .... 



The Tuiberose 



Another Word or Two About the 

 Roses 



Pruning the Roses .... 



Mrs. John Lang 



Paul Neyron 



Winter Protection for Rose Bushes 



Salvia 



Sweet William 



Sweet Scabdous 



Sunfllowers 



Some Princiiples of Winter Pro- 

 tection 



Some Late Blooming Plants 



Seeds to Be Gathered 



Seed Pods 



Decorative Seed Pods 



The Savory Corner 



The Tussock and Other Pests .... 



The Question of Watering 



Water the Garden Beds 



Garden Pests— ^Remedies 



Odds and Ends 



Tie Up All Straggly Branches 



Looking Around 



The Scenited Garden 



Some Garden Tricks 



Taking Stock of Your Garden .... 



Transplanting 



More About Insecticides 



The Violet 



A Few Odds and Ends 



The Wallflower 



Careful Color Combinations and 



Contrasts 



Back Yard Gardens 



Some Daily Tasks — Cultivation 

 and Watering 



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