A WOMAN^S HARDY GARDEN 



could not wait to raise them from seed, but 

 bought three dozen plants to look at the 

 first year. The roots that came to me were 

 miserable little things, and, in spite of every 

 care, half of them died. Those which lived 

 and bloomed were very lovely. They begin 

 to blossom with us about the sixth of June, 

 and last four or five weeks. In colour they 

 are white, pink, purple and blue. 



Canterbury Bells and Foxgloves are bien- 

 nials. They are sown one year and grow 

 for a year, then bloom and die. This seems 

 a great deal of trouble for one season's 

 flowers, but their beauty repays the gardener 

 a hundred fold. They require a slight win- 

 ter protection of leaves or stable litter, but 

 care must be taken that the tops of the 

 plants are not covered. 



THE BEDDING-OUT PLANTS 



And now a little about the only three 

 bedding -out plants that I grow — Dahlias, 

 Cannas and Gladioli. I should have said 



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