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middle of May. They need to be tied up and kept in symmetrical 

 shape. White candytuft is pretty among them ; keep the soil 

 well worked and loose about the stalks. 



Bed No. 11 — Stocks, or gilly flowers. The principal colors of 

 the stocks are crimson, white, purple, pink and straw. They are 

 handsome for ribbon beds. I would add a group of gladioli for 

 the centre of the bed. Start stocks in house for early blooming and 

 transplant to border when the plants are four inches high if the 

 ground is sufiSciently warm. Pot plants for house before early 

 frosts ; keep in conservatory or cellar. Sweet allysum, a fragrant 

 dwarf plant, will look well in this bed. Set stocks one foot apart, 

 with plants of sweet allysum between them. 



Bed No. 12. Phlox Drummondii in all colors. Start in house, 

 or plant in the bed, as the seeds are hardy. Set in masses, or it 

 would be more pleasing to see the colors in ribbon style. Set 

 one foot apart ; plant seeds one quarter of an inch deep. They 

 need a rich soil to do well. 



No. 13 — Fragrant honeysuckle, trained over an arbor forming 

 an entrance to the garden. 



No. 14 — Rose John Hopper; May pink or violets. 



No. 15 — Yucca filamentosa, or palm lily; purple and white 

 candytuft. 



No. 16 — Dicentra spectabilis. 



No. lY — Clump of London Pride. 



No. 18 — Purple dahlia. 



No. 19 — Buffer straw colored dahlia. 



No. 20 — Group of salvias. They are very ornamental ; buy or 

 start in house. Transplant when the weather gets pretty warm, 

 say about the tenth of June. 



No. 21 — Rose colored peony. 



Nos. 22 and 23 — Climbing roses ; Queen of the Prairie, on 

 trellis. - 



No. 24 — White peony. 



No. 25 — Group of gladiolus. 



No. 26 — Double poppies, white fringed and scarlet, in masses. 



No. 27 — Dwarf hollyhocks. 



No. 28 — Crimson dahlia. 



No. 29— White dahlia. 



No. 30 — Rose, General Jacqueminot. 



No. 31 — Climbing rose, Baltimore Belle ; trained to trellis. 

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