S6 GARDENING BY MYSELF. 



the same bed. Let the beds, if possible, be 

 where they will have the sun the entire 

 day. By following the above directions, 

 one may have a verbena bed that will be a 

 mass of bloom the entire season."* 



" I have two semicircular beds in which I 

 have verbenas," writes " An Old Lady," in 

 " Hearth and Home." ** These beds are 

 covered with bloom from the middle of Juno 

 to the middle of October. 



*' Early in the spring, about the middle 

 of March or first of April, I pull up all the 

 old verbena vines, pile them and all the 

 leaves they have collected round them in 

 the middle of the beds and set fire to them, 

 and when they are burned, rake the ashes 

 well into the soil. A few shovelfuls of rich 

 earth or well rotted manure is a good ad- 

 dition. 



" About the first of May the verbenas be- 

 gin to come up from their self-sown seeds, 

 and when they are two or three inches high, 

 I thin them out until they stand four inches 



* Dexter Snow. 



