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flowers is growing. There is a great deal of pleasure in 

 planting, growing, and caring for such comforting and 

 beautiful pets. Every stage of their life is interesting. 



After selecting a suitable site for the flower garden, 

 apply a dressing of horse-manure, and carefully spade it 

 under. The soil must then be raked and fined until 

 smooth and level. The seeds of some plants may be sown 

 directly in the garden, the plants being afterwards thinned 



STARTING ROSE CUTTINGS. 



A school exercise in which each pupil secured a rose cutting and 

 planted it under a. glass jar. 



to give each plenty of room to grow. Others, like the 

 snapdragon, cornflower, coreopsis, and petunia, are best 

 started in indoor pots or in hotbeds, and then hardened 

 to lower temperature by being transplanted to a cold 

 frame before being finally planted in the garden. 



244. The Lawn. Says Waugh in his Landscape Gar- 

 dening: "One would not want the furniture in the par- 

 lor to take up three fourths of the room. Much less 

 would one want the green carpet of the lawn nearly 



