A WOMAN\S HARDY GARDEN 



fifty large field -grown plants; at the end 

 of three years separate them, and you have 

 a hundred and fifty. They present a picture 

 of progression much surer than the tale of 

 the eggs that were to do so much. 



Many of the individual blossoms of my 

 Phloxes are larger than a fifty -cent piece; 

 a number of them larger by measurement 

 than a silver dollar, and the heads also are 

 very large. Always erect, neat and smiling, 

 never needing to be staked (such a task in a 

 large garden), when once grown they must 

 always be dear to a gardener's heart. By 

 breaking off the heads of Phlox immediately 

 after blooming, a second crop of flowers 

 will appear in about three weeks. The heads 

 will not be so large as the first, but they 

 will amply repay the slight trouble. 



Every owner of a garden has certain favor- 

 ites; it really cannot be helped, although 

 the knowledge that it is so makes it seem 

 almost as unfair as for a mother to have 

 a favorite child. 



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