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THE FLOWER GARDEN 



THE making of a successful flower garden is not a 

 matter to be left to chance, and perhaps it is one 

 of man's inconsistencies that he is willing to dig and 

 delve for a vegetable, while, more often than not, he 

 begrudges the care he should give a Verbena, as though 

 the satisfaction of a sense of the beautiful should not 

 have half a chance with one's appetite. Now there 

 is scarcely anyone who does not care for flowers, al- 

 though it must be admitted there are many who give 

 them little enough thought. 



With the first breath of every spring and the return 

 of the birds from their winter holiday, one begins to 

 feel an enthusiasm for making just as good resolutions 

 as every New Year's day brings forth. Among them 

 no one is more fitting to the happiness of living than 

 a resolve to have a flower garden. The joy of it 

 will always repay the trouble of it a thousand times 

 over. 



In the preceding pages the garden beginner will 

 have learned about garden soils and their preparation, 

 seeds, transplanting, and the care of mature plants, as 



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