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formed the bed it is an ideal place for your house plants, and 

 if you sow sweet peas back of them so much prettier the pic- 

 ture. Five cents invested in morning glories will give you 

 more pleasure than many times that amount paid for many 

 other seeds ; the Japanese morning glory is wonderful in fash- 

 ion and form and is the onl}^ picture that I know of having a 

 perfect grey bloom ; the blossom looks like a beautiful piece of 

 grey satin. If you ha\e a board fence cover it as quickly as 

 you can, for instance with a Dorothy Perkins rose, with iris 

 at the base. The wire fence, so much used for inclosing 

 chickens, is an ideal place for sun flowers, and as that flower is 

 a portion of the feed for chickens, you can combine beauty and 

 utility ; it enhances the beauty of the picture .if you plant golden 

 rod at the base. The castor oil bean makes a good hedge. If 

 you have a vegetable garden use this bean to divide it from the 

 flower garden. If you have a low spot just put in some of the 

 marsh grasses and some moss, and if there is water, plant some 

 of the exquisite pond lily. For those of you who have not a 

 farm but just a little city garden, and you have a space for a 

 tree, don't forget the fruit, and don't forget your nuts and don't 

 forget the shade trees. 



"The wistaria is a beautiful flowering vine but not adapted 

 for porches, I think. Let it grow on an old tree and you will 

 be surprised at its beauty. Perhaps some of you don't know 

 that it can be made to bloom twice in a season, if the runners 

 are cut back after the first blooming. 



"The Persian Lilac probably grows the tallest of any tree 

 used for a hedge, and will become tremendous in size. I have 

 seen one single spray of blossoms that measured 18 inches 

 long". This lilac is most desirable and I would a(l\"ise you to 

 try it. 



"When vou plant vour garden try and have the flowers 

 run from the earliest blossom rigiit through the season — no 

 matter how few they are — let each month bring its blossoms. — 

 the first to come will be, of course, the crocus, the jonquil or 

 the tulip. Don't fail to sow plenty of poppy seeds; they are 

 prolific bloomers and the blossoms are intensely delicate and 

 the beds are ablaze with color from morning until night, and 

 each morning- brings a new lot. It is not neces.sarv for lue to 



