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GARDENING BY MYSELF. 



soapsuds. Though this is not very safe for 

 very tender plants. 



If there is an oleander in your collection, 

 you may find the scale insect on some of the 

 stems. It is ugly, but not very harmful, — 

 hand-picking and washing the stems with 

 soapsuds are the best cure. 



Meantime, with all this house care, do not 

 forget your sweet peas out-of-doors. Plant 

 them as soon as the ground will work. 

 Frost in the air won't hurt them. It is a 

 good way to set whatever support they are 

 to have, before planting. Make sure that 

 the stick or trellis is in firm and upright ; 

 then plant your peas, pretty thick, and not 

 a bit less than four inches deep. Never 

 fear, they'll come up ; and their roots will 

 be beyond the reach of summer heats. 



Some other things should be sown as ear- 

 ly as possible in the open ground, — cand}^- 

 tuft, larkspur, poppies, mignonnette, lupins, 

 sweet alyssum, clarkia, and such hardy an- 

 nuals. Directions say, put them at once 

 where they are to remain, as most of these 



