PLANTING 



The box, Buxus sempervirens, generally used as 

 an edging plant for formal gardens, is apt to give 

 the best and quickest results if planted in the spring. 

 This is good news to those starting a garden where 

 much depends on getting the outlines of the beds and 

 borders well defined, a purpose for which this evergreen 

 plant is without a rival. 



When the thought of building a garden in the spring 

 is presented, the mind naturally turns first to the seeds 

 that should then be sown. The spring seems to be the 

 natural time to sow seeds, as the autumn is the time to 

 reap their produce. 



The amateur gardener is often surprised at the 

 amount of time consumed by spring-sown, annual 

 seeds in germinating and developing their flowers. A 

 young lady who sowed sweet peas ardently during the 

 last week in March was more than amazed and even 

 piqued on learning that it would be near the last of 

 June before she could gather bouquets from the vines. 

 She had sown in early spring and she wished for a 

 spring result. 



It is because of the length of time it necessarily 

 takes for annual seeds to grow and to bloom, and also 

 because of the long time most perennials require to 

 come into flower, that it is so essential to have the 

 garden made gay in early spring with bulbous plants 

 that have been set in the ground the preceding autumn. 



Many hardy annuals are particularly useful to 

 garden builders. They require merely to be sown in 

 late April or May, according to the season, and when 

 there is no longer any doubt that the frost has left 



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